a superstar for the ages, and we reflect in a moment on one of the biggest voices and losses in music history. but first, we begin tonight with the breaking development in the 2024 presidential race. the man who is viewed by many pundits as the biggest threat to donald trump to the republican nomination. he just made it official in a post on trump s old turf, twitter. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. and commons s can no longer be an uncommon virtue. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i am ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american come back. but ron desantis s big announcement tonight went a little bit south from there. a very rocky start to his formal bid, with major glitches plaguing his planned conversation with twitter spaces ceo elon musk, an audio form that had some major technical difficulties, and the moderator blamed heavy traffic. the florida governor s campai
see the crime scene for themselves. we ll have a live report from the courthouse in south carolina coming up. at least a dozen people hospitalized, but no deaths reported after tornadoes tear apart businesses and homes in central oklahoma. we ll have the latest on the storms that made million z miserable over the last 24 hours and the problems they left behind. first, the challenges to donald trump. ideologically, financially and organizationally, all ramping up. case in point, ron desantis is gathering for more than 150 donors, a huge event over the weekend held less than a ten-minute drive from former president trump s back yard. the event was described as, quote, part of desantis increasingly open encroachments into the former president s long-term support base and ideological turf. that s just the tip of the iceberg with the florida governor set to extend his campaign with a national book tour that launches tomorrow. we should be clear. right nou desantis is still a
today marks the midterms going into high gear. the unofficial sprint towards election day as president biden touts his domestic recording with including those late summer break throughs while also arguing that democracy and believe it or not in a very real sense, trumpism are on this ballot. if you re counting, election day is just about nine weeks out. the maga republicans don t just threaten our personal rites and economic security, they re a threat to our very democracy. i do think anyone who calls for the use of violence who fails to condemn violence when it s used, refuses to acknowledge when an election has been won, that is a threat to democracy. i will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. the trump-fueled effort to take over once independent election offices is clearly up for a test in these midterms. about half of americans, roughly, will choose their leaders from a ballot with at least one
this election. frankly, we did win this election. reporter: donald trump s false claim that he won the election before all the votes were counted, a lie he continues to peddle but one the january 6th committee didn t believe, like his attorney general. he had become attached from reality if he really believes this stuff. reporter: his campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily i remember tell being him i didn t believe the dominion allegations. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. the theory was also completely nuts. reporter: trump s assertion that he won the election is at the core of the committee s argument that he purposely and criminally worked to prevent the i told him that the claims of fraud wiere bullshit. bill stepien was supposed to testify live but when his went into labor, he bowed out. did anybody who was a part of that conversation disagree with your message? yes. who was that? the president disagr
that is how trump insiders describe the former president election lies to the january 6th committee. it was all part of today s public hearing. cnn s ryan nobles has the highlights right now. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. reporter: donald trump s false claim that he won the 2020 election before all the votes were counted. a lie he continues to peddle, but one that some of his closest advisers told the january 6th committee they did not believe. like his attorney general. he s become detached from reality if he really believes the stuff. reporter: s campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily honest or professional. reporter: and several top campaign lawyers. i remember telling him, that, i didn t believe the dominion allegations, but they put were proposing, i thought was nuts. theory was also that s. reporter: trump s insistence that he won the election despite a wide range of evidence t