florida governor ron desantis announcing his 2024 white house bid tonight on twitter, in a conversation with twitter owner elaine musk. but they did have some technical glitches and crashes the forehand and sara fischer is covering this story for us. sara fischer, i joke before in the last hour that elon musk has had easier rocket launches than this launch of governor desantis s presidential announcement. what went wrong, what happened, to derail this? i think you had huge volume. they have had twitter spaces before, alisyn, that had a lot of listeners. the one that he did with bbc i think it had up to 3 million people listening up at the same time okay. but the problem is, they had so many people coming in at the same time, in part and we were just talking about this because folks like elon musk that have massive followers he has over 100 million people that follow him when they tweeted out the link, it exposed this event to so many more people then typ
st the far enough away that between here and washington, d.c. they stop to refuel in alaska. and so it s going to be a while until he gets back with home. a big part of the reason they came to hiroshima, the leader of the world s seven is largest economies, is to figure out what to do about a rising china, especially in this region. and the president got a question about chinese military actions, particularly the lack of contact there has been between general lloyd austin and his counterpart now that a hotline has been down, and the president had a fascinating answer where he explained why he thinks that things are so cool wean the u.s. and they that right now. we should have an open9 hotline. at the bali conference, that s what president xi and i agreed we were going to do and be with on k. and hen this silly balloon that was carrying two freight cars worth of spying equipment was flying over the united states, and it got shot down and everything changed. in terms of talki
government will crush you and your family. the fbi has not and will not retaliate against whistleblower disclosures. fireworks flew throughout as jim jordan was accused of withholding a whistleblower prior testimony. i m not aware you are able to withhold information from the minority we would need to use to prepare when it comes to whistleblower, we are not. i would remind the gentlemen from new york with the information we had. when you were part of the investigation with anonymous whistleblower. that just one of many tense moments, earlier this morning, kat cammack had this reaction with you guys. i think the most shocking thing was the revelation these whistleblowers gave us and how they had come forward, they had expresed dismay and concern about the tactics and directives of the fbi against american citizens and they were subsequently suspended without pay, their clearance revoked and left to languish. one you can hear more about are claims the fbi scooped
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. ukraine s president says his country is still waiting for more arms before it launches its counter offensive against russian forces. volodymyr zelensky warned the army still needed the promised supplies, including armoured vehicles, that are only arriving in batches . mr zelensky was speaking to the bbc s hugo bachega in kyiv, who was conducting the interview on behalf of the eurovision news group of public service broadcasters. everybody is waiting for this counteroffensive, and i think what is interesting is that president zelensky also acknowledged that some people may be tired of the war, but he also said he believed in victory, he believed in success, obviously, this is the job of the president, to keep the country united, to keep morale high. i think there is a clear understanding that this much anticipated counteroffensive is likely to be crucial for ukraine, not only because what happens on the
post a picture of himself in a taco bowl. budget before that biden made a announcement that on everyone i washington including me and his staff. we ve got a lot of work to do. and i m doing a major press conference this afternoon, so i love you all, but i like to ask you to leave so we can get down to business. it was breaking news, y all. that was joe biden announcing h was giving a major press conference tonight. now joe biden s handlers know he is in keep full of holding a major press conference. he can barely answer questions on the white house lawn. so the white house quickly work to cover up guidance fake announcement. they said the president misspoke. by now biden s own staff have come to expect this gaffe. but they didn t expect them fro the vice president kamala ha harris. she was supposed to be, you k know, the insurance policy. they didn t know what they were getting. officials in the by demonstration where probably hoping biden secure the church when porch whe