donald trump is not willing to show up on the debate stage. chaos follows him and we can t have a country this disarray. taking their shot, ron desantis and nikki haley trying to take down the frontrunner donald trump on live tv. and plus phoning it in, trump warns iowa supporters not to sit back next week over speaker phone. and joe biden heads to battleground pennsylvania today to set the tone for his 2024 re-election bid. good morning, happy friday. we made it. it is 5:00 a.m. in washington and 4:00 a.m. in des moines where ron desantis and nikki haley each made their case that they are the better choice to face president biden in the fall. the democrats want trump to be the candidate. they are going to talk about all the legal tough, january 6, that will be what the election will be about. you don t want to be a infrastructure on trufrnl and the past. you want to be a referendum on booi biden s failures and our positive vision. and you need somebody that can ser
against russia this weekend. they are expected to hear in person from president zelenskyy after his appearance today at the arab league summit. we do have truth on our side. we are pushing the occupiers out of our land. the president is monitoring debt ceiling negotiations back home. the white house tries to ward off defections from progressive lawmakers angry about potential cuts in entitlement programs. this hour, disney striking back against ron desantis just days before his expected presidential campaign announcement. they scrapped plans to relocate 2,000 jobs to florida for a billion dollar new development. desantis is expected to announce next week. he told major donors, trump cannot beat biden as he makes a push to post a large campaign war chest the day he announces. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. republican debt ceiling negotiators say they are pressing pause on the talks at a critical stage in the process. in the last hour, a lead neg
troops to the border with mexico, the goal to free up resources so they can cope with the expiration of the trump policy. it allowed authorities to quickly expel certain migrants using the covid pandemic as a reason. clearly there s a problem. what there isn t or hasn t been for decades a comprehensive solution. the administration tried to send a immigration reform bill to congress on day one. went nowhere. instead, he s taken far smaller steps and tried to paint them in the best possible light. when does selling a policy veer into overselling it. this exchange yesterday. how to address this challenge. a lot of people come here, is this one of the issues that is job not done, not finished? he has asked congress to take action, republicans to take action and work on this in a bipartisan way. he s going to continue to do that. in the meantime he s put forth he has tools he s used to make sure that we do this. we actually deal with the immigration system in a humane way th
lawsuit against desantis at his handpicked oversight board to nullify dizzy special taxing district. disney alleges, quote, a targeted campaign of government retaliation, orchestrated at every step by governor ron desantis as punishment for disney s protected speech now threatens disease business operations, jeopardizes its future in the region, and violates its constitutional rights. vanessa yurkevich is on this story. so, vanessa, this is a plot twist. because up until now it has been desantis against disney but now disneyfiring back let see what happens next. this is round 25 between disney and desantis. and really, this is going to be a long, drawn out, battle between essentially desantis and the state of florida and disney. disney is suing desantis and the newly appointed board members after he ousted the old board members that were basically talking to disney about how they would continue to work with this huge corporations. but what we are seeing now is this fight pl
guards will throw them out. i m the president. [ bleep ] you. i m challenging all of it and the judges we re going to are judges i appointed [ bleep ] you. you re not stealing the election. why was he so sure trump was going to lose? and here s roger stone after january 6th on plans for a pardon for himself and for others who were involved in plotting to overturn the election. talk b about how many i think 132 congressmen voted with trump. that s 132 right there. big or small as you want. it s a way of saying this is so you can t run your switch on two. i m going to deal with movie poster, witch hunt 2 with a big picture of merrick garland. has it been pitched to the president? yes, it has. i believe the president s for it. the obstacles are these lily livered, weak kneed bureaucrats in the white house counsel s office and now they must be crushed because they told the president something that s not true. lily livered, weak kneed. in a statement, stone says he t