hey, hey, everybody. it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. the battle for the white house will welcome a long-awaited newcomer today, ron desantis, after months of speculation and campaign style events, the florida governor will make it official tonight on twitter with none other than elon musk. will the unusual rollout help or hurt the soon to be candidate? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. and then what about the other elephant in the room, donald trump, the former president already telling desantis to get a, quote, personality trait as he puts it. plus, south carolina, set to become the latest state to ban abortion after six weeks making it virtually impossible to get an abortion across a huge portion of the south. and later on, new details on the 19-year-old who drove a u-haul truck into a white house barrier. more on his interviews with police as he s set to make a court
at this hour, you might remember this image of the man behind me, kicking his feet up on then house speaker nancy pelosi s desk during the capitol riots so how many years will he be spending behind bars for his actions on january 6th. that s next. and the horrific words the suspect said at the scene after deliberately crashing into the white house barrier monday night allegedly telling authorities he admired nazis and wanted to quote kill the president. plus, speed bump, with just eight days left before a potential default, one official tells nbc news that house speaker kevin mccarthy and his team refuse to negotiate with the white house, and then another meeting gets scheduled there. so where do things stand right now? we ve got a live report. also, the potential real world fallout if a deal is not reached by june 1st. what one veteran s group says is their primary concern. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right the
speed bump. on the republican side, new skepticism over next week s default deadline. and a day of raw grief and remembrance in uvalde, texas, where almost one year to the moment a gunman walked into robb elementary school and killed 19 students and two teachers, forever changing the community and the nation. we ll hear from one mother who lost her daughter, lexi, and is now demanding change. i m hoping that seeing her face, hearing her story encourages other moms and dads to join us in this fight. and we begin this hour with florida governor ron desantis set to jump into the presidential race in just about seven hours. nbc news was first to report he plans to launch it on twitter, during a talk with billionaire twitter owner elon musk on the social media platform. casey desantis, the governor s wife, released this teaser video. our best days lay ahead of us. but is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it, every si
come. those were then-candidate joe biden s words to asylum seekers in 2019 as he slammed his opponent donald trump s immigration policies. today thousands of migrants waiting for their chance to cross the border are trying to heed that call. in the hours since title 42 was lifted we have seen an orderly processing mostly despite warning from the white house that the first few days could get chaotic. we are live in el paso and in san diego where many who have been in limbo waiting for months have now finally gotten through. the question is next where do they go now, and while the numbers so far seem manageable the white house is still facing legal pushback from both the aclu and some states. late last night a judge in florida sided with governor ron desantis and blocked the administration from carrying out key parts of its new immigration plan, which could lead to overcrowding. we re going to explain what will happen in a moment because capacity is very much an issue, even be
revelations about the gunman who killed eight people at a texas mall, including three young children. the neo-nazi sympathizer appearing to post hateful rants on a social media site and pictures of the mall where he carried out that attack. the victims include a 3-year-old boy and his parents, leaving his 6-year-old brother, the family s sole survivor. a mall security guard who is emotionally remembered by an eyewitness to the shooting. he always walked by our store and just he would wave to us. if we didn t wave back, he wouldn t go away. we had to wave at him. he was such a loving guy, such a caring guy. and in the other texas tragedy, the driver who slammed his car into a group of migrants now facing eight counts of manslaughter. it is a tense time along the border with the covid era restriction known as title 42 set to end on thursday. and in just the last 72 hours alone, there have been more than 26,000 illegal crossings. we have live reports from texas and mexico.