good evening. tomorrow, the man who many expected to give the former president s toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida s governor, ron desantis, getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching the campaign in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. his opponent s former favorite megaphone. which he used in 2016, of course, to pummel the rest of the republican field, including former florida senator, marco rubio, and floor jeb bush, who you turn first into a verbal punching bag, then a campaign punchline, and finally, a political footnote. in a moment randi kaye looks ahead to whether governor desantis will do any better against those kind of tactics. first, the kind of political waters he is about to jump into. in one way, they may appear promising for a republican candidate. the current president s job approval, now stands at 40%. a new cnn polling out late today. and with the debt ceiling crisis coming to a head, that same p
viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world! i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, plenty of new twist in the 2024 race for the white house. rhonda santas has chosen an interesting way to announce his candidacy while donald trump will likely be facing a criminal trial right in the middle of a critical primary month. a monster storm is fouling down on guam right now. the island is bracing for 200 rain, life-threatening storm surge and 165 mile an hour winds from typhoon mama. plus, grandma joys road trip, we will speak to the 93 year old woman who just visited all 63 national parks, the oldest living person ever to do so and the grandson who went with her on this wild adventure. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church! thanks for being with us. florida governor ron desantis will launch his long expected to run for the white house later today in an unconventional way. he will make the announcement duri
attempt to divide the west and help russia rewrite ending to the cold war. that meeting could be a precursor as summit with president xi jinping. wall street journal reporting that will happen in the coming months as china considers sending weapons and ammoto russia for the war in ukraine. john kirby on what is at stake. we are already concerned about the fact china hasn t condemned the invasion, they haven t enforced sanctions against mr. putin, we made it clear concern that we have seen indications that they might be considering some sort of lethal assistance. a burgeoning and deepening defense relationship between the two countries while mr. putin is prosecuting war in ukraine, that would have very bad ramifications. peter doocy is in warsaw, our morning, your afternoon, hi, peter. dana, president biden on the way into the round table meeting made his first comment about today s china and russia meeting in moscow and it is clear it is complicated. mr. president
can you imagine, without crucial answers to critical questions on law enforcement s extremely delayed response just last tuesday. the department of public safety is apparently no longer issuing a preliminary report that was expected to be released today, but there is some new information, and it s trickling out, pertaining not only to what went wrong, but also what happened inside of robb elementary school. and i m sad to say that it only compounds the agony. the texas state senator roland gutierrez told cnn that he d been briefed that the uvalde school s police chief, pete arredondo, he turned into an incident commander, remember, he didn t have a radio on him when he arrived on the scene. i have been told that this person did not have this person being the incident commander did not have radio communication. and i don t know as to why. don t know as to why. it s a great question because if it s true, the incident commander on the scene of this mass shooting would no
Alexander and news capitol hill correspondent luke russert. Pete, lets start with you. What are you hearing from 1600 pennsylvania avenue . Does the president fully expect these congressional leaders will show up at 3 00 with a deal in their hands . Reporter well, craig, hes hoping that is the case obviously during his visit a short time ago to a local food pantry where he visited with the volunteers there. Among them federal Government Employees that have been furloughed, trying to reemphasize the impact that the shutdown is having on real merpz americans. If the republicans dont come to some sort of compromise, theres real serious potential for the u. S. To default. Theres a lot of countdowns going on. And then another countdown to wednesday at midnight before we head into the october 17th deadline. Obviously so crucial because thats when the u. S. Government according to the treasury secretary jack lew only has 30 billion in cash on hand in addition to whatever revenues he takes in.