being old. do that on television, ok? i said to see you do it on television. i don t want to dislike you. i can t help it. sandra: begin with the media writing off ron desantis s bid for the governor even before he joins the primary field. i m sandra smith in new york. a lot of puns off the top alert there, but we do have a hot show coming up. john: yes, no question about that. all right. let s get cooking here. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. after months of speculation, and several visits to early primary states, ron desantis will make it official not with the usual campaign kick-off rally but in a live audio only interview with the ceo of twitter, elon musk. sandra: we are just hours away from that. marc thiessen standing by whether desantis s entry will shake up the race and peter doocy with the naacp growing war with desantis. how will desantis s rollout play out tonight? what are we and anticipating? from hot and humid miami, a bit of a
encouraged the investment through the chips and science act and now we have enormous investment in the united states. over $200 billion in long-term investment in semiconductors. and rebuilding the economy of the united states with those semiconductors. it s not designed to hurt china. the only thing i did say with regard to china, there are certain extremely sophisticated semiconductors that we have built that are useful for nuclear and/or other weapon systems. those we are not selling, we are not exporting to china or anyone else. and so that s the context in which this has all occurred. in the meantime, creating thousands of jobs and bringing back a sense of pride and dignity to so many towns in the country where all of a sudden over the last three decades we found out that factory had 600 people shut down. and the soul of the community was lost and so i made sure when the semiconductors were coming back that they were not just going to go to the coast, they would be all
meanwhile, a court hearing is scheduled for today on the request to unseal the affidavit used to search donald trump s mar-a-lago home. we ll have new reporting on where that investigation stands. plus, new polling in the fight to control the senate from a tight race in ohio to the democrat in wisconsin expanding his lead over republican ron johnson. we ll have the latest numbers for you this morning. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 18th. joe, looking ahead to a big hearing today. yup. a lot of political waves beginning to sort of form out of this. they are. i m curious, what did you think of mike pence s speech? it feels it feels like he s looking for a lane. i believe his speech, willie, if i m not correct, was in new hampshire, was it not? it was. yes, it was. that would be kind of the, i think, real story there. what is he doing there? there s obviously maybe a long game being played here. i don t want to get ahead of anyth
they just flop right out. i couldn t believe it. i had big hoop earrings. laura: i love those on your, those are great. all right, we will pick it up where you leave off. one of those nights. i m laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle, and we are delighted you are with us tonight. the hunting of donald trump, that s the focus of tonight angle. i remember when anti-trump used to think that the doj should operate independently. this is abuse of power that the president is again trying to manipulate several law enforcement to surface political interests. this may be the most serious from inappropriate doj meddling since the firing of comey. is trump using his government to punish his foes and help out his friends? jim barr was happy, happy, to put doj into service as donald trump s not just political shield, but political weapon. laura: of course he did nothing of the sort. if that was all a lie. but what a difference a few years make in democrats views of righ
reporter: i m in kharkiv, the area of ukraine where those american soldiers were last seen before they were captured. cordes: travel trouble. thousands of airline passengers this weekend face flight disruptions again. reporter: i m lilia luciano in los angeles where delays and cancellations are keeping a lot of frustrated flyers grounded. cordes: and later, celebrating juneteenth, with the 95 year old woman who helped to make it a federal holiday. i want to know that the little old lady dreamed and they can dream too. ty this is the cbs weekend news, from new york with jericka duncan. news, from new yor cordes: good evening, everyone, jericka is off tonight. i m nancy cordes.jerick well, it s the news many parents have been waiting to hear since the start of the covid pandemic more than two years ago. the first covid shots for children ages five and under are heading out the door a day after the director of the c.d.c. signed off on two vaccines. here s the new c