desantis upcoming announcement. what are we expecting from this audio event on twitter with elon musk? reporter: well, jake, ron desantis has already filed the paperwork to run for president this afternoon. so all that s left for him to do is to say the words i m running for president and we expect him to do that tonight at this virtual town hall with elon musk. it will start in about an hour. during that time, he ll take questions and give a statement, and he will finally enter this race. he s spent months and months in this slow rollout. he s been on the road, a book tour, he s done international travel. now it becomes official. his campaign has been hype thing moment for the last couple of days, including posting this video to twitter on his wife s account. do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it, every single time. reporter: now, he also took care of a bit of housekeeping today. he officially signed a bill that makes clear he d
all the oxygen. in this case, they want to turn the narrative around, get the media attention away from ron desantis and this announcement. that includes releasing videos around the announcement and a social media blitz. they are going to be relying heavily on these big, conservative high profile social media stars, new media stars to get messaging out. they plan on hitting ron desantis on a number of issues. we have seen trump go after ron desantis on entitlements, and he s going to go after him on a range of policy issues, including trade policies, china, his covid-19 response when he was the governor of florida. i want to touch on one thing that you said. you mentioned at the top of your show whether or not donald trump would get back on twitter tonight. that is something his aides have been urging him to do, to get back on twitter. they believe it s easier for him to take control of the narrative in this gop primary if he s back on twitter. three months ago, a trump adviser floated
would save us money on entitlements and they had to withdraw that on friday because the democrats weren t willing to do it. now, again you disagree? yes, he proposed chained cpi last year as part of a grand bargain. republicans said no way. you had members of congress campaigning against chain cpi, they did. now you have obama saying i m not going to fall for this again. and the republicans are screaming about chain cpi. before we put the viewers to sleep by debating chain cpi, which is so you can explain it well. you understand it. it s something we used to do in a club before the police came. very different. and you didn t debate it. everyone was in agreement it was fun. isn t the larger story that we re talking about chain cpi? that is taking one bucket off the titanic and it s somehow going to work? that s true. if i were a democrat right now, i would be phoning up the white house screaming at them for doing these military cuts. they already have to defend
would save us money on entitlements and they had to withdraw that on friday because the democrats weren t willing to do it. now, again you disagree? yes, he proposed chained cpi last year as part of a grand bargain. republicans said no way. you had members of congress campaigning against chain cpi, they did. now you have obama saying i m not going to fall for this again. and the republicans are screaming about chain cpi. before we put the viewers to sleep by debating chain cpi, which is so you can explain it well. you understand it. it s something we used to do in a club before the police came. very different. and you didn t debate it. everyone was in agreement it was fun. isn t the larger story that we re talking about chain cpi? that is taking one bucket off the titanic and it s somehow going to work? that s true. if i were a democrat right now, i would be phoning up the white house screaming at them for doing these military cuts. they already have to defend
there has been no serious discussion by the white house on entitlements, medicare and medicaid. the president says he is still confident that a deal can be reached before christmas. and of course, the cliff is december 31st. exactly. i mean pressure is on here. the closer we get to the holidays, you know, the harder this thing becomes. i think one of the houses of congress goes on break december 14th. so i think the house. if you really look at the calendar here. deadline is tight and the president is trying to drum up public support here. now he is encouraging in the age of social media, twitter, folks get on twitter, use hash tag #my2k, the average family would spend $2,200 more in taxes. public campaign. plus negotiations today as well. so bated breath, everybody, we will see. well, the west coast is under assault for the second