ashley: i m ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. it is going down with elon musk on twitter. todd: what does this all mean? the republican primary bench keeps getting deeper and deeper. the governor is the latest candidate to turn his hat in the ring, on the heels of south carolina s tim scott. ashley: lucas tomlinson has more. lucas: president biden approval ratings continue to suffer, the highly anticipated official announcement from florida governor ron desantis coming tonight on twitter. here is elon musk with a preview. i ll be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and for the first time something like this is happening on social media and with realtime questions and answers, not scripted. lucas: florida s first lady showing a reminiscent of the movie the greatest showman. you can see brighter future, our best days lay ahead of us. is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been
high stakes debt talks. just moments ago we learned that president biden has agreed to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy tomorrow in the nation s capital. and staff level talks between the two sides will resume in a few hours. the two men agreeing to a one-on-one meeting after what mccarthy called a productive phone call today with the president as he threw home from the g7 aboard air force one. and before departing japan, biden painted a grim picture telling reporters that he cannot guarantee the u.s. will not default in 11 years when the u.s. government runs out of money and is unable to pay its bills. we ve got team coverage of these new developments. phil mattingly is in japan at the g7. but let s begin with melmelanien capitol hill. reporter: and speaker mccarthy is signaling this could be a much needed reset for these talks after a weekend of stalled negotiations and rejected offers. they connected on the phone today. and speaker mccarthy said that they talked ab
following questions yesterday. what is the white house reaction to special counsel durham s report on how the fbi handled the trump-russia probe. i would leave it to the department of justice to speak to. does he agree with special counsel durham that there needs to be wholesale changes at the fbi. again that s with the department of justice and not something i am going to speak from the podium. as you just stated we believe in an independent department of justice that s what the president said when he was running and what the president said last year. thank you very much see new japan. not exactly shooting down the quote. aid to adam schiff. one of the house permanent select committee on intelligence staffers d.c. speak for the intel committee. their boss adam would soon take over leadership to of the committee. the researcher took the comment as a mild threat. kevin mccarthy questioned schiff s suitability for public office. it really raises the question about a
hello. happy mother s day to all the moms out there. thank you for joining us today. we begin with the votes being counted in turkey s presidential election. the race could have global repercussions by reshaping the country s domestic and foreign relationships. president erdjon is leading. he and his opposition claim to be leading. let s check in at istanbul. reporter: very preliminary results are beginning to trickle out. vote counting is continuing and we expect in the coming hours to get the preliminary results of this presidential vote. the whole is anxiously awaiting the results. we ll find out what the turks decided to vote for today. did they decide to vote for more of the same, for the promise that the president will continue on the same path for this country, or are they did they decide to go for the opposition that promised change to reverse the past two years and they say a return to real democracy, or is this divided, polarized nation headed towards a run-off?
this morning a fresh look at the southern border. this was el paso, and you can see it right there. wow. i mean, relatively sparse, really sparse, very calm. this is what the white house had hoped for. especially when there were scenes like this just one week ago. migrants lining up before the expiration of title 42, and the homeland security alejandro mayorkas warns that it is too early to know if the migrant surge has peaked. and that is after wrangling maneuvers of the governor of texas sending a busload of migrants to the vice president of the united states. so we have teams at the border and the white house. we begin at the white house as arlette seanez is there, and what are you hearing from the people in the building behind you, arlette, of what they are seeing? president biden is saying that the situation at the border is going better than expected after he, himself, had predicted a chaotic few days of the lifting of title 42. now, the biden administration has been