of news and good conversation. thank you so much for joining us. cnn tonight with alison camerata starts right now. i alison. pam, we ll keep that going. thank you very much. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight . sources tell cnn that joe biden will formally announce that he s running for a second term next week team. biden will reportedly put out a video on tuesday. which happens to be the four year anniversary of his 2020 campaign launch. his announcement will come a week after a spate of young people getting shot for innocent mistakes. today it s a basketball rolling into the wrong yard. they got a six year old and her parents shot in north carolina in the past week, there s been a 16 year old shot for ringing the wrong doorbell. a 20 year old shot and killed for pulling into the wrong driveway and two cheerleaders shot for opening the wrong car door. is this uncontrolled anger or widespread fear, author and presidential candidate marianne w
was. does he wait to get into the race? because there is, i think a benefit to focusing on his agenda and also staying above the fray when it comes to a lot of the republican politics that are playing out. but at the same time, and i think the reason they re trying to announce as early as next week is because they want to get this fundraising operation underway and they really want to start energizing voters around him, especially those who are skeptical about his age and also whether he s progressive enough to continue in the white house. that was going to be one of my questions, which is what changes on tuesday. like what will change for all of us? how will we see we see something different? you know, it s a great question. i think that his his team is trying to figure out how to change president biden and the man in the white house and to campaign biden. i know that the dnc is very involved in trying to make sure that his image is as great as it can be, and also to try and
of reporters to share their scoops here here with me tonight . we have harry antin, elena train athena jones and brynn gingras. great to have all of you. okay so plans are officially underway for president joe biden to formally announced his bid for a second term. elena is following this story for us, elena. how will this unfold next week? right so i think the big question that everyone has been asking now for months is will president biden run again and the answer is yes, he is, and it s going to be announced as early as next week. we re hearing tuesday that will be rolling out a campaign video . it s also i mean in classic biden fashion he s going to be, you know, he s very fond of anniversaries. fond of being sentimental, and it s going to be potentially on tuesday. like i said on the four year anniversary of when he launched his 2020 campaign, so, um that s what we re all paying attention to, and i think it s really interesting. there s been a lot of debate behind the scenes about