investigation and the response to lawmakers in just a moment. plus, president joe biden defends his division to send troupes to the southern border as the covid restrictions are set to end this week and the polls are sinking. and now on the wrong side of a potential rematch with donald trump in 2024. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we begin this morning with a second deadliest mass shooting in the united states this year. eight people were killed and several others injured on saturday when a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in allen, texas, which is a suburb of dallas. we want to warn viewers that some of the footage you re about to see is disturbing. dash cam video, which police confirm is authentic, shows the moment the alleged gunman got out of his car and began firing. police have identified him as a 33-year-old suspected neo-nazi sympathizer. he was wearing
this, i don t know what the gunman s problem was, his motive, but it country mental health that killed these people. it was an automatic rifle with bullets. i m a gun owner, i have guns. former police officer, army officer, but these ar-15s, they have to get off the streets or this is going to keep happening. condolences and prayers won t bring these people back. we need action at the federal and state level for better gun control. i m saying that as somebody who loves guns. what texas is doing in a big-time way, we are working to address that anger and violence by going to its root cause, which is addressing the mental health problems behind it. we know that texas had been lagging in addressing mental health for years, and that s why, over the past three sessions, we ve added almost $25 billion to address mental health. we re in the waning days of a session right now where we will be adding even more funding. yeah. it s just really, right now, there are law enforceme
viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, president biden finalizing his 2024 campaign plans, hours ahead of his expected announcement. this has new polling shows most americn him or donald trump to run again. shakeup at fox news with legal troubles counting and troubles with the truth. tucker carlson is shown the door. both warring factions in sudan agree to a cease-fire. concerns exist how long it will hold and how to get american expats out. thanks for joining us. all eyes are on the white house today, with president joe biden expects to announce his bid to run for a second term in 2024. mr. biden has teased and dropped hints at the announcement for quite some time. sources close to the president confirmed that he s picked a campaign manager and decided where the headquarters will be. with a formal announcement just hours away, there s more questions what the 2024 race will look like. cnn s
primary and this upcoming presidential election. he has been working on his own potential media empire to launch well before we get to november 2024. there s also been some leaks of footage, behind the scenes footage in recent days. the carlson camp is blaming fox for that. this is detail from the axios report, tucker carlson met with elon musk about potentially working together. elon musk, who wanted to be a political independent and centrist to twitter, wants to meet with tucker carlson. alex thompson, thank you so much for joining us this morning. it ll be a very busy week in washington. title 42, the pandemic-era immigration restriction ends. the debt ceiling deadline approaches. president meets with leaders of congress tomorrow at the white house. and, of course, reaction to the latest poll. it s a busy, busy week. thanks for starting with us this morning on way too early on a monday. morning joe starts right now. i work around people who have mental health issues.
desantis is shooting himself in the foot. he said that ukraine was a territorial dispute. he is fighting disney in his own state. and people are making jokes about you can t handle mickey mouse, how are you doing to handle putin? desantis has gotten off to a horrible start. he may be considering whether he wants to run or not. he can bow out now and say i ll do it in four years. it looked like my moment, maybe it s not. deta desantis has to make tough positions. donald trump is in and in 100% until the end. donald trump will plow ahead. there s no one in the republican party that seems capable of challenging him and giveliing ha good race. the debt ceiling deadline approaches. house speaker kevin mccarthy facing his biggest test so far this week.