welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. joe biden maiks his argument. he enters the 2024 campaign. his video makes clear he expects to stair down trump in a rematch. the president s election now mirrors his message back then. when i ran for president four years ago, i said we re in a battle for the soul of america. and we still are. plus nikki haley tries to change the conversation about abortion her message calls for more compassion. where she delivered that speech highlights the states that decides the electoral map. and today donald trump on trial. jury selection conducts off on whether the former president defamed a writer who awe accuses had him of rape. the president s four more years bet. this morning joe biden making formal another run at the oval office. the method, 6:00 a.m. video release. flashes of violence from one of the darkest days. that announcement video calls back to his 2020 campaign launched
win over unthuziastic democrats and taking digs at his former and potentially future opponent donald trump. a rape allegation lawsuit against trump goes to trial with opening statements in new york. we will have the latest on e. jean carroll s civil case against the former president and trump s defense. and in war-torn sudan, americans are a part of an urgent race to flee the country as bursts of violence mara fragile u.s. ceasefire. this amid fierce of a biological nightmare after paramilitary forces seize a public health lab. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the 2024 race for the white house is taking shape in a big way tonight with president biden s official campaign launch. his announcement video driving home team biden s strategy, if an historic rematch with donald trump actually becomes a reality. let s begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent phil mattingl
because of the pandemic, when factories shutdown in asia they had no idea they were supplying essential materials to us, shutdown around the world. these small computer chips, the size of your finger tip, they affect nearly everything in our lives. our cell phones. automobiles, refrigerators, weapons systems, everything. america invented these chips we made them smaller, faster and more powerful. but over time we went from producing 40% of the world s chips down to just 10% of them despite leading the world in research and design. you saw what happened during the pandemic when the global economy came to a halt overseas factories that made the chips shutdown driving up the costs for everyone around the world, particularly american families every new car built needs as many as 3,000 of these chips during the pandemic, that s the reason car prices skyrocketed. and in some cases new car production shutdown because the chips were in short supply but now the private sector at home
we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. right now more potential legal trouble for former president donald trump what the fulton county d.a. is saying about charging decisions and her investigation into efforts to overturn the last election plus, new details in the sweet 16 birthday party shooting that left four in alabama dead we hear from a teenager survivor who s still recovering in the hospital also, what former president trump says is inconceivable about president biden s new election bid we ve got new reaction from inside trump world and we just heard from the president for the first time since he made his run for re-election official his central message and what to expect from candidate biden this go-around. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments we begin with president biden kicking off his 2024 campaign at a union event and with a request to let him finish the job. kayla tausche is cnbc s senior white house cor
shocking video showing a migrant squeezing himself through a border fence into the u.s. and you can ask yourself whether or not this is just a preview of things to come real soon 13 days and counting. new hour starts now. dana has the day off. i m bill hemmer. shannon, you are back with us. shannon: always my pleasure to be with hemmer time. thank you so much. for dana today. officials expect upwards of 10,000 migrants to cross into our country daily, every day when title 42 ends. it is coming up on may 11. chaos is already beginning to unfold in el paso where migrants packed the city streets in high speed car chases take place on a nearly daily basis. this situation is no better on the mexican side of the border where thousands of migrants have set up camps waiting to cross as biden administration officials finally lay out a new asylum plan. bill: making migration more safe, orderly, humane. the whole model is to reach the people where they are to cut the smugglers out