john: speculation is finally over. president biden kicking off his 2024 re-election bid at the age of 80. we are just moments away from the first white house briefing since the president s announcement. sandra: vice president kamala harris is not going anywhere either, staying at the president s side as they team up to run for another term. john: but if they were expecting big excitement over their decision to try for four more years, the polls of voters, even democrat, could show they are in for a disappointment. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. sandra: i guess sandra: and a lot of news is expected. could be setting up a possible trump rematch but this time around, president biden will have to defend his record as americans are struggling to make ends meet. our economic plan is working. we now have to finish the job and there s more to do. i ran for president to rebuild the backbone of american, the midd
financial markets are in freefall as 500 regional banks have shuttered their doors. overrun by a surge of 80,000 illegals yesterday evening. closed the city of san francisco citing escalating crime and fentanyl crisis. biden just spoke at a jobs event but reporters did not get close enough to ask any questions, that is par for the course with this white house recently, kind of under fire for side stepping traditional news conferences, little chance for scrutiny, including about his age, which he last addressed in february. it s legitimate for people to raise issues about my age, totally legitimate to do that and the only thing i can say is watch me. notably there are no big campaign announcement events today. we are told that s because the white house, the president, campaign rather wants to see wants to let voters see the president being the president, that is their strategy for now and able to do that because
will translate into people giving donations to this and this is really going to make his stockpile big. whereas the democrats are having to divide that amongst like 20 candidates. it s going to also help in two ways with the reelection. neil: one of the things i ve seen, the white house having this jobs event to focus on it and pay living little attention 24 hours later to whatever happens at the hearings yesterday. maybe it s registering because i ve been seeing more democrats pushing impeachment today. are they dismissing it? it definitely wasn t the knockout democrats hoped. the message on the economy is good news for the president, whatever his poll numbers go up, you d expect them to be significantly higher but as the fox news poll shows the president gets in his way on immigration, on attacking alexandria ocasio-cortez. the poll show 63% of voters think he went too far in attacking them.
the room was the state department and later who had long years of experience, apparently, doing the kind of work. there are a lot of people that say let s bring her in front of congress and testify. we are taking you back to the jobs event at the white house. you see there in the ornate east room, there is the president having been introduced by his daughter a vodka. his several members out there on the dais who have been invited to this jobs event. what is obviously on everybody s mind as questions about what happened in helsinki as we were just talking about with a.b. stoddard from real clear politics. the president wanders off script and he may do so now pick let s listen in. as mike that is a very good group i will tell you. i see them undercover of all the magazines every week. every month. high fred. on my fred. that is great. thank you monica for your incredible
here to give us an insider s take on his stop and what else is ahead in the week, senior editor for politics telling us what to watch for. the president going to new hampshire. ivanka is going where and why is that significant? she s going to iowa. they re both going out on the same day. trump is going to talk about opioids in new hampshire, a place he s referred to in the past as a drug infested den. it s where he really got his first victory in the 2016 primary. ivanka will be in iowa doing a jobs event. what s significant is both states, they re the number one states, first primary in new hampshire, first caucus is in iowa. why is this political fire power going out now? that s what i m watching for. whether the two of them will make any explicit discussions of 2020, of the president s politics and his 2020 election bid, we know he s planning to