there in his golf clubs. we re watching as some of the folks come off of the former president s plane. the former president said in no uncertain terms that he s innocent and he stands by that and he is returning for the 3:00 p.m. appearance tomorrow for the indictment. we do you know from friday, this is unsealed now. so the pages have already become part of the public record. you can see the president s attorneys no doubt getting off the plane. a lot of questions about who the team will be. there s been some changes in the team as of friday, a lot of guys with large briefcases getting off this plane right now. bret baier watching this with us this afternoon. good to have you with us, bret. i know you re in boston for an event, a senate-related event that we ll talk about. first to chad pergram to set the stage for us here this afternoon as this unfolds live. hi, chad. martha, good afternoon. republicans are drilling down on what they see as two tiers of justice. the gop
the moment he heard the first shots. i had a bad feeling from the time that the young man got on the bus, you know what i m saying? an eerie feeling that i can t explain. griff: charles watson is tracking all the details. charles, what s the latest on this? good morning, griff and julie. the shocking shooting happened on a charlotte area transit system bus earlier this month. take a look at the video. it is absolutely wild. on it you see the driver, david, appear to open fire on the passenger to his right who looks like he already has a gun in his hand before the two men begin shooting at each other while the bus is still moving. this all started because the passenger identified as 22-year-old allegedly got agitated because the driver denied his request to let him off the bus before the next stop. he began to provoke the driver and hit him. as the two argue the 22-year-old pulls out a gun moments before both men start shooting within close range of one another as bullet
before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with the most important sales pitch in washington this week selling the deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the call that was scheduled for two hours ago has not happened yet. a default could be disastrous to the u.s. and that threat still looms ominously. up on capitol hill there are lawmakers from both parties grumbling. passage is not guaranteed at this point. let s go to priscilla alvarez. what is there to make of this biden/mccarthy phone call. do we think that s going to happen any time now? any update on that? reporter: there s every expectation that this call will happen. it hasn t happened yet according to a source i spoke with half an hour ago. president biden when he arrived at the white house earlier this afternoon did say that the intent of this call was to, quote, dot the is and cross the ts. when asked weahether there were any sticking point, he said none. throughout the day, w
[ laughing ] democrats are taking rude, crude, and shouty congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s calls for decorum in the house as seriously as the republicans seem to be taking the threat to our economy with their manufactured debt ceiling crisis. but i m guessing our veterans and social security recipients are not laughing. plus, the longest january 6th sentence so far as oath keepers leader stewart rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy. and later, ron desantis disastrous campaign rollout leads to speculation that pudding may have been clogging up the twitter tubes. yuck. but we begin with the republican lie that could plunge our nation off of an economic cliff. with just seven days until the united states could default on our debt, talks between republicans and white house representatives have yet to resolve the issue. but today, president biden made a very important point. it s time for congress to act now. i want to be clear. the negotiations we re havin