brink of default. we re going to come together. because there is no alternative. everybody is working hard. the president ends his overseas trip with no deal in sight. is there still time to avoid economical amity. plus it is go time. i think in florida we showed what it takes to not just win, win big and then deliver big. desantis is finally set to announce his 2024 run but does he have what it takes to topple the front-runner. and hbo election nightmare. with 100,000 milwaukee absentee missing, every vote must be counted. the question succession viewers are asking, could it happen in real life? welcome to inside politics and i m abby phillip. with this morning, with as few as 11 days to go until a possible default, the full faith and credit of the united states till hanging very much in the balance. earlier this morning, during a news conference wrapping his trip to the g7 summit in japan, president biden called once again for republicans to move
good thursday morning i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. we are following breaking news this morning out of michigan. cnn learning disturbing details about a plot aimed at killing jewish elected officials in the state. among those targeted the michigan attorney general. we ll break down the details of that plot. coming up. plus today a pennsylvania man is expected in court after investigators say he hid explosives inside his luggage headed for orlando. investigators arrested him after he fled the airport. the latest on that case and the growing skcrutiny facing the aviation industry. and meeting with sergey lavrov for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. we ll bring that conversation to you. we want to begin with the breaking news out of michigan. the state s attorney general confirming she was one of the targets in a plot to kill jewish elected officials in that state. polo sandoval and john miller joining us now. polo, first tell us the details of the plot as
presidential nomination. but as i argue in the piece, whether or not he ever gets there, he s already changed the face of american politics. you know, his redrawing of the congressional map in florida, single-handedly won the house for the republicans this past november. he s really transformed the state of florida, but he s also been a trend setter who has in i argue in operationalizing the culture war set an example for governors all over the country and effected millions of lives beyond the borders of florida. so the question is, i think people would say it is naive to think that policy gets you anywhere in american politics these days. so to have a governing record that said i m effective, i ve enacting this sweeping agenda, florida has had republican governors for 25 years but none of them have done what ron desantis has done in transforming the face of the state. so does that get him anywhere? as an obstacle to trump? is he just a speed bump as so
poll proving event for the brightest talent of the future. as we showed the list of folks going. you have one announced gop candidate, nikki haley, two i should say, trump as well, and also one expected in mike pompeo. you wrote about how similar the moment is to 2016 when you have a lot of republicans saying they don t want trump to be the nominee. of course in 2016, he ended up being the nominee and then became the president. what evidence is there that there s a fundamental change here, right? there are a lot of commonalities. the private hesitation, et cetera, but folks not willing to go public with the criticisms. could we end up in the same place? the glaring one is trump has a governing record. we know what he would be like as president. but beyond that, there is an interest in other candidates that there wasn t in 2016 or there wasn t in 2016. look at ron desantis, there s a
look, this problem is not going away. we can t talk about measures that we ve tried before and have failed. we need to really press this. because once they deliver, or once they have a deliverable weapon, there is going to be a great deal of difficulty in dealing with him. so i think we really need get chinese attention including by saying everything is on the table. even though everything we have on the table isn t such a great option. that s all the time i have here. if you love this conversation, we spaenlt good 30 minutes going deep on the korea conversation. get wherever you get your podcast. thank you, sir. thank you. up next, why i m obsessed with a governing record that keeps getting longer. (man vo) it was may, when dad forgot