headlines. heat. florida governor ron desantis is now set to officially announce that he is running for president. cnn learned that the florida governor is going to make the announcement tonight during an interview with elon musk on twitter. his wife, casey desantis released this video of him getting ready to walk on a stage as a dramatic voiceover speaks in the background. do i have the courage? it is worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it. every single time. desantis has widely been seen as former donald trump s leading challenger for the republican nomination. there are questions on what this launch will look like. the poll numbers have been slipping after shaky performances leading up to this launch. trump has been relentlessly attacking him for months now. and we re now learning that trump and his allies have been preparing for this moment with a coordinated plan to try to up end desantis campaign launch. there is a social media blitz and appearing in
former vice president mike pence is fueling speculation that he could run for president in 2024 with his stop here today and new hampshire earlier in the week. but he told me in an exclusive interview he is only focused on the midterms. i asked if he agrees with the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell s sentiment that it could be difficult to win back the senate because of the quality of republican candidates. the american people long for a return to the policies that they saw the trump pence administration advance for a stronger and securer america. i believe that red wave is coming and i believe it s going to come at our candidates every level across the country. i will take all the time i have in the next 81 days to support the team. i also pressed pence about a statement from former president trump s legal team in response to the raid at mar-a-lago. the legal team said there was a standing order to declassify documents that trump took out of the oval office. whil
as dangerous as nuclear weapons. that is the grew made by democratic congressman molten, a marine veteran with four tours of experience in iraq. this is what he writes, a.i. at its worst could usher in warfare more dangerous than anything we have seen before, not just for america but humanity ourselves. he sees an upside to it. he joins me now. good morning. good morning. you begin good to see you. you open this op-ed, congressman, talking about a little boy and the image that you will never forget in 2003 seeing him perish as you were on the battlefield. you talk about your concern with a.i., but also the fact that a.i. could maybe have saved that boy and his family s life. what do you want to see? he was a civilian casualty in the early stages of the iraq war. at its best, a.i. will help prevent civilian casualties like that. maybe an a.i.-enabled weapon
same? they look at hunter biden and donald trump and say were they treated the same? here is another one that really troubles me. we know there were leaders of the fbi who lied to the fisa court. that s just not disputable any longer. they lied to congress, among other things, six years later. their cases are still under review. they haven t been disciplined. and the american people look at that and they say well, are they being treated the same? and, it is a crisis of leadership for director wray. and we want to have an effective fbi. but they have got to recognize that many people view them as being unfair and they just have to address that in any way they can. they have to try to eliminate that perception. all right. congressman molten, quickly, last word. bret, let me start where we agree. we all want to see the fbi always held to the highest standards. i think here s the point. if you want to question whether trump was right to take classified information or that was legal to
broad bipartisan support for that idea. i m going to add one other thing i think we respect and we have broad agreement own the united states military. those brave men and women who seth was one of them and i had the great for fortunate of being one of them as well and we have the greatest military in the world has ever seen. we want to protect that military. we want to use them wisely and judiciously. i think we agree on that as well. bret: congressman molten, do you think that china is on the brink of making a move against taiwan and, i guess, what would the u.s. do if that happened? well, we have made it very clear and the president has made it very clear that our plan is to defend taiwan and china needs to know that. i don t think they are on the brink but i think that they are lying it very carefully. i think as china s economy starts to falter, which i expect to happen more and more in the next few years. especially in the wake of their