blitzer in the situation room. happening now, a judge in manhattan just scheduled donald trump s criminal trial for next year right in the middle of the republican primary season. we ll share all the latest details from the former president s court appearance earlier this afternoon. also tonight, governor ron desantis is about to official. the florida republican is poised to launch his white house campaign tomorrow during a conversation with elon musk on twitter. we have new details on the announcement and how his gop rivals plan to respond. plus, we re learning new information right now about the driver who slammed a u haul truck into a white house barricade, what a court filing is revealing about the threats he allegedly made about president biden and his praise for adolph hitler. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. . let s get straight to the news on former president trump s criminal trial
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this businbusy news day with us. the president called the latest debt ceil ing meeting productiv and a sign of good progress. but kevin mccarthy s morning after update is rather bleak. nowhere near a deal. this as the treasury begins checking how long agencies can pay their bills. plus legal quick sand for donald trump. his words at a cnn town hall push e. jean carroll to seek more damages and his instructions about how to handle classified documents end up in the hands of the special counsel. and swing voters dread the idea of a biden/trump rematch, but their focus group on what happened if there is one is quite revealing. the biden team arriving last yhour. they are now with the team behind closed doors. both sides say there s mgood faith, yet both sides also say there is little progress. this morning the speaker telling fellow house republicans the two sides are nowhere near agr agreement,
breaking news this hour on the 2024 race. the gop field is about to get more crowded. florida governor ron desantis set to announce his candidacy. we have new details on exactly how he plans to do it and with whom. plus a teenager now charged with threatening to kill or harm a president. the suspect set to make his first appearance in front of a judge. we ll take you live outside the courthouse. and texas lawmakers scheduled to vote today on a bill that would require the ten commandments be posted in every classroom in the state. it s all part of a national effort to insert religion into public life. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. well, the race to become the next republican presidential nominee is about to get more crowded, heated, and interesting. after months of speculation, we now know that florida governor ron desantis will announce his 2024 white house campaign on twitter with elon musk
to know about this negotiation. are they going to cut more folks out of the border patrol? what are they going to do? so i know what i m going to be dealing with. neil: get ready to get swamped. you re looking at a live border drone shot over brownsville, texas where the crowds are building and building fast as title 42 prepares to expire 32 hours from now. this as a massive wave of migrants from all over are converging on both sides of the border. how this sorts out is anyone s guess. welcome, everybody. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with bill melugin in brownsville on what they re looking at now. and could be different 32 hours from now. bill? neil, it will look different tomorrow night when title 42 drops. what we re starting to see is the state of texas taking a much more proactive approach to enforcement down here. i want to show you this video we just shot. take a look. a quick reaction force of texas national guard soldiers in riot gear showed
too often in this country at another mass shooting in allen, it. just outside of dallas. eight people were killed and 7 were injured. the gunman was shot and killed by a police officer who was at the mall on unrelated call. a witness described the horrific scene. i never imagined in a hundred years i would be thurst into the position of being the first responders on site to be taken care of. the first person was clutched down covering her head in the bushes an i felt for a pulse and pulled her shead to the side an she had no face. no one could not bees effected it. it is just unfathomable to see the carnage. the morning after we are waiting for more information from authorities. but here is more from the mayor of allen, texas, last night. allen is a proud and safe city which makes today s senseless act of violence even more shocking. however i want to commend or police and fire department for their response. their training not the to hesitate to move toward the threat l