baseball diamond to make it to gail, university where he capped into the baseball team. and while at yale he signed up for the navy, serving in uniform and a number of capacities and stayed in the military until shortly after he was governor of florida. and as governor, he led florida through the pandemic earning praise from the rights and derision from the left. and the people of florida seem to like his first term, he was reelected in welcome numbers last fall and today he announced his candidacy to be an ex-president of the united states and he joins us now for his first television interview since that announcement. and we will keep him longer than most guests so that we can ask him about his plans for the country as well as how he will address the issues confronting our culture and our country. i can t promise you that i won t crash, but fox news will not crash during this interview. governor desantis, if you broke twitter, my daughter and the kardashians are going to be
breaking news, a fire has brown out at russia s defense ministry in moscow. u.s. intelligence tonight is pointing to ukraine meantime as the likely culprit behind that drone attack on the creme line. we re live on the ground tonight. and she was simply the best. tonight, the legendary tina turner has died. singer s bryan adams and ruth pointer of the pointer sisters will join me to remember their friend and a true musical icon. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, he s in, the florida governor ron desantis officially kicking off his bid for the white house, and he did it on twitter. there is no substitute for victory. we must end the culture of losing that has infected the republican party in recent years. the tired dogmas of the past are inadequate for a vibrant future. we must look forward, not backwards. now, during his appearance on twitter, desantis went on to talk about his policies in florida to brag about the ones that targ
word that you and senator mccaskill had to say because i m sitting here kind of delighted so far on what is being reported in the new york times because on tuesday night here, i got to the point where no one had any idea what was happening behind closed doors in the debt ceiling negotiations. so i offered a wild guest, because that s all anyone was doing. and it is turning out to be pretty much based on pure guesswork and i came up with tuesday night and so i m hoping this thing kind of stays in this direction you say it s pure guesswork, but that s also someone who is a veteran of capitol hill and has seen negotiations and knows what they look like and also understand the stakes. that s the most important thing. here not just the political stakes, but what it would mean for the u.s. economy if we were to default. so we have congressman jim mcgovern, former chairman of the house rules committee, y all important house rules committee, now the top democrat on the committe
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
beautiful pink that goes with yesterday. dana: desantis making it official after months of speculation. the announcement coming in the form of a twitter livestream with elon musk. bill: many see him as possibly the biggest threat to the frontrunner former president donald trump. dana: the two have gone to friends to competitors. the former president is slamming desantis for months. you can expect a lot more of that moving forward. bill: desantis hoping his resume will cut through his attacks. accomplishments in florida. six week abortion ban. state s early reopening from covid back in 2020. dana: he joined trey gowdy for his first interview as a candidate. he made the case that he is the one who can deliver for conservatives. why now? i think it s because the country is going in the wrong direction. if we have another four years of the biden administration, i think some of the damage is going to be irreversible. i think we have an opportunity now like the late 197