before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my
michael cohen s cell phone, if you look sad and he can t copy, and he can t transcribed notes. they re really trying to minimize how much of this can leak into the public ahead of the trial. and we all remember that donald trump does pose things on his social media, particularly when he is displeased with an investigation. so how do we get here to the point where the judge felt the need to do this? so this was all from the prosecutors. if you remember at the arraignment they brought up trump s post, because all leading up to the charges he was criticizing the district attorney alvin bragg. he was putting out some pretty inflammatory posts. and even then he was criticizing the judge in this case. so the prosecutor said look, you keep saying all the stuff on social media, can we reign this cnn? the judge was very even-handed. he said i ve been telling both sides prosecution you control your witnesses, defense you control your client, don t put anything on social media that
president biden holds his first aevent since announcing he s all in for 2024. he says he s ready to finish the job and take republicans head on, but how are those in his own party feeling ability his bid? a key hearing set to take place in russia interest key opposition leader alexei navalny as we learn more about his deteriorating health inside what he calls a hellish prison. his daughter will join us live. plus five members of the proud boys on trial accused of assembling and leading the mob on january 6th. closing arguments are happening right now, so what will the jury decide? we re following these major development stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. moments ago president biden gave his first public remarks since he announced that he is running for re-election and the crowd of union workers made it clear they heard him. president biden made his 2024 bid official in a three-minute video this morning. it started with images of the januar
headquarters in new york city. could a political battle that s splitting the republican party also influence the outcome of the actual war some republican lawmakers obviously think so, slamming ron desantis for arguing the u.s. should stop helping ukraine. what it could mean for the congress, the country and the kremlin. plus, the hugely consequential hearing on abortion happening right now in texas. how the opinion of a single judge could impact the lives and health of millions of women across the country and wall street under pressure again, with the dow falling from the opening bell, now down about 700 points, at least close to it. the new bank that investors scrutinizing and what it means for your money coming up. bus we start with the clash over america s role in ukraine, shaping up to be an early defining moment in the republican race for president. it pits ron desantis who has now aligned himself with donald trump by calling the war a territorial dispute, that th
Plans to remember that event today. On this anniversary, a debate about gun violence and what to do about it. Were interested in hearing from you. How to best reduce acts of gun violence. If you are a gun owner. If you do not own a gun, 2027488001. If you want to put your thoughts on how the best way to reduce gun violence can occur, you can put those thoughts on facebook and twitter. Patch talks about the remembrances that will take place in sandy hook today. It has been for years since the gunman took the lives of those 20 innocent children. Four years. Today, the town will hold a somber, silent reminder for 15 minutes, the time the shootings took place. The superintendent said that the will bees of silence for Department Staff and the schools themselves. Abc news looks at the efforts made by the Obama Administration since that shooting at sandy hook. Mr. Obama has made little federal progress towards what he repeatedly described as common law. The outgoing president has knowledge on