were so many running that debates, they had a kids table. this time trump announced first and then nikki haley and then vivak, larry elder, asa hutchinson, tim scott, and now ron desantis, who by the way is only 44 years old. by biden/trump standards, he s got three more decades to run for president. so why run now? why get into the steel cage with a wrestler who always carries a foreign object? mike pence said he ll soon make a decision. chris christie sure sounds like a candidate. sununu might get in. even glenn youngkin is taking a second look. so what s going on? maybe that they don t think they ll have to beat trump. that that work will be done by a combination of alvin bragg, fani willis, jack smith and merrick garland. this week trump appeared remotely in a manhattan courtroom in connection with the stormy daniels case. the judge told the parties not to make any plans around the scheduled start of trial, march 25, 2024. trump reportedly reacted by shaking his head. the
musk. desantis making light of last night s rocky rollout. we had a huge audience. it did it was the biggest they had had ever had. it did break the twitter space. so we re really excited about the enthusiasm but ultimately about the future of our country. lawrence: okay former president trump campaigned saying, quote: ron desantis botched campaign announcement is another example of why he is just not ready for the job. the stakes are too high in the fight to save america is too critical to gamble on first timer who is clearly not ready readyfor prime time. his re-election donation page with the caption this link works. the king of fumbles is making fun of desantis. i find that interesting. ainsley: good point. he made the announcement last night on this platform that most people don t use a lot. we were all talking about live on air. and lawrence is texting us saying it s basically a conference call. brian: trying to help us on the show yesterday. ainsley: basi
round-the-clock negotiations are on in washington as america faces the very real chance of a potentially catastrophic debt default. house speaker kevin mccarthy saying today he sees progress, but there are still major sticking points that need to be ironed out on everything from spending caps to work requirements. one top republican negotiator warning a deal could be reached as soon as today or they could collapse completely. meanwhile, the national deficit is growing every second, and with no deal in place the u.s. could run out of money to pay its bills, which could have a disastrous impact on the economy. the treasury secretary now saying that could happen in just eight days. cnn s covering all of the angles. what are the obstacles reaching lawmakers from reaching a deal? negotiators were in the capitol until 2:30 a.m. this morning and now they re back in house speaker kevin mccarthy s office meeting virtually with the white house as they continue to try and hash out the
florida governor ron desantis announcing his 2024 white house bid tonight on twitter, in a conversation with twitter owner elaine musk. but they did have some technical glitches and crashes the forehand and sara fischer is covering this story for us. sara fischer, i joke before in the last hour that elon musk has had easier rocket launches than this launch of governor desantis s presidential announcement. what went wrong, what happened, to derail this? i think you had huge volume. they have had twitter spaces before, alisyn, that had a lot of listeners. the one that he did with bbc i think it had up to 3 million people listening up at the same time okay. but the problem is, they had so many people coming in at the same time, in part and we were just talking about this because folks like elon musk that have massive followers he has over 100 million people that follow him when they tweeted out the link, it exposed this event to so many more people then typ
we start this hour with a shocking incident at our southern border. look right there in that highlighted area. because a human smuggler is dropping a 4-year-old child over that very tall wall to american soil below. pete: this comes nearly two weeks after the expiration of title 42 and highlights the surgent need to stop those cartels and human smugglers. we have been watching, do you see the baby actually fall the 4-year-old. right there they say the child is okay. griff jenkins is live at the white house with the latest for us, griff? good morning, ainsley, pete and steve, these videos are far too common, yesterday the border patrol chief raúl ortiz tweeting that video out. it s hard to watch. it s heart breaking. you see the smuggler dropping the 4-year-old toddler near san diego. near the san ysidro port of entry. he drops. fortunately he was okay. border patrol agents and emsz quickly responded to begin rendering care and first aid to the child who fortunately was