there s more to do, so let s finish the job president joe biden makes his 2024 re-election bid official, vowing to finish the job we ll take a look at how his campaign has already hit the ground running plus, the former fox news producer who s now suing the network weighs in on tucker carlson s ouster what she had to say about the hostile work environment that she faced at fox and during closing arguments in their seditious conspiracy trial yesterday, attorneys for members of the proud boys put the blame for the january 6th capitol attack squarely on donald trump we ll have the latest from the courtroom ahead of jury deliberations. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning in washington where just hours after announcing his re-election bid president joe biden gave his first campaign speech yesterday and was greeted with this warm reception. four more y
get gas, like, everything s just more expensive. neil: americans speaking out and freaking out over prices still rising as their 401(k)s keep plummeting and now a new report warning that inflation may be staying and may be much longer than expected. a new fox poll that shows more voters are blaming the guy in the white house. before you run for cover, just know we ve got you covered with lucas tomlinson at the white house as president biden says it s not inevitable we ll have a recession. susan li on the markets indicating we already might be in one. first to susan li, taking stock of stocks just, well, taking a hit and a big hit at that. horrible week. yeah. well, you saw it, neil, the worst week for the stork market in two years stock market and that s after a historic rate hike by the federal reserve, the single sharpest move in 28 years by the central bank, and they re trying to move quickly. as a result, money fast in the markets, the dow jones falling below 30,000
base political discourse joining us now national reporter for politico natalie allison what happened yesterday is long what s been expected president biden is in, never faced any sort of intraparty challenge. how are the democrats you talk to each and every day how are they feeling about the rollout do they like what they re hearing so far from the president, vice president, and the team they ve accepted president biden is going to be their nominee for all his flaws despite the fact a majority of americans according to polling don t want to see him run again. that includes democrats. they have accepted he s going to be the nominee and going to be the one whichever republican that may get the nomination and as of today looks like it very well could be donald trump so natalie, talk to us about how republicans are reacting initially. former president trump weighed in a bit on trump s truth social we ll get to him more in a
want to go to francesca chambers. this idea of an intraparty challenge for the president, it used to seem kind of pie in the sky talk, but the fact that i hear so many other people including many i ve interviewed this week talking about it means it may be because of the economy, maybe the inflation thing, maybe just the frustration thing, that is the one parallel to the 70s we can draw to jimmy carter, that it s open for that. do you sense that it could be open to that? well, president joe biden is certainly a student of history, and in the interview that he did with the associated press, he pointed to the fact that in his office is a painting of fdr that came the oval office. so he is certainly looking to past presidents as he considers his own situation facing, you know, the economic conditions and inflation that he s trying to deal with, neil. he says that he is seeking a second term. the white house has consistently
let s bring in corbin trent, staffer for alexandria ocasio-cortez and the founder of the no excuses pact. and joint by jim o green, founder of truth.org. great to have you with us today. corbin, those are strong words. what is behind them? well, one thing polling is behind that. we re seeing with my version of the mid-term outcome is not just my version. we re seeing that the polls show the republicans have a slight edge. that may be getting worse. we see biden s approval ratings going down and moving in the wrong direction. what we re seeing right now is a democratic party that has done a lot for the american people and has largely been unable to articulate what its doing and what it s done. that is a real challenge. martha: and who would you expect those primary challengers