Jesse fox news alert, we are less than an hour away from the president state of the Union Address. Any moment joe biden will be leaving 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the present in the president ial limo making his way to the Capitol Building where we are told hes planning a feisty economic reset. Reset necessary as the president struggles to convince the country that its working. In an Election Year where he stuck with historically low Approval Ratings and losing to former president donald trump. The oldest president in American History joe biden also wears another belt spare could probably the worst order occupying the modern white house in modern times. Hes been unable to effectively use the bully pulpit to persuade voters or even thrust himself into a better political position. Most of the country including large swaths of Democrats Fear Biden is not physically or mentally key physically or much elite capable of serving other term. Which is why nights like tonight , with tens of a m
that florida governor ron desantis will challenge donald trump for the republican presidential nomination. it comes on a day the company he has targeted, disney, decided to hit him with a billion dollar blow. i ll have more on what disney just announced shortly. but on desantis run, sources are telling cnn he ll be filing the paperwork next week. he had a call late today with donors and supporters, and a new york times reporter listened in. i m going to read a quote from that new york times story which begins with something desantis said on the call. you basically have three people credible in this whole thing, mr. desantis said on the call, organized by the superpac supporting him, biden, trump and me. of the two, two have a chance to be elected, biden and me. the times said he is basing that on swing state data which he describes as not great for the former president, quote, and probably insurmountable because people aren t going to change their view of him. which is
washington where things stand with our chad pergram. hi, chad. neil, good afternoon. the house freedom caucus just took a formal position in the debt ceiling debate. it endorses the bill passed by the house in april. the caucus says there should be no further discussion until the senate passes the legislation. the house bill, we passed it. that is the mechanism right now sitting there that there s 11 democrats in the senate and the democratic president of the united states that stand between that bill and it becoming law. it was thought that house speaker kevin mccarthy would lose a good chunk of republicans who could not accept anything less than the house passed bill. the question is can mccarthy get just enough gop members on board and can democrats provide the rest. speaker mccarthy has limited capacity to really negotiate. he s handcuffed and in leg irons from that 15 votes that it took to get them elected. if he is able to negotiate something, once he tries to
fbi agents stripped of their security clearances now the star witnesses for republicans on capitol hill, and this is in connection to january 6th, but republicans say it is the weaponization of government. 2024 gop field could soon have a new candidate, and we are told it is florida governor ron desantis is ready to enter the race, and when he plans to make it official. and now, the governor of montana is trying to ban tiktok on all devices throughout the state. can he do that? this is cnn news central. all right. this morning two fbi agents who were stripped of their security clearances have been testifying on capitol hill. they took a break, and now they are back into the room again ready to keep on with the proceedings. the agents are the star witnesses in this republican-led hearings and they are there to prove how the fbi and justice department are working against conservatives, and the republicans called this the weaponization of government, and remember, they
exception in the rules of congress. we have the whistleblower testimony, the whistleblower does not wish that to be made. john: fireworks on capitol hill, barbs at the house weaponization subcommittee hearing. fbi under a microscope after several whistleblowers accuse the agency of unfair treatment. sandra: employees had security clearances revoked against the politicized rot. republicans accuse the bureau of a partisan agenda. we ll take it up with katie pavlich and ben coming up. john: first, the supreme court granting a huge win for big tech and a pair of liability cases as the fight to protect free speech continues on capitol hill. i m john roberts in washington, great to have you here today. sandra: great to be here again, john. good to be with you. this is america reports. nation s highest court has now determined that twitter was not responsible when third party content was posted on its platform by the terror group isis. john: and side stepping on a case