reelection bid as soon as next week. for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that would actually happen, and it seems like now we have some sense of a timeline that to some degree has taken a lot longer than people expected. the president is planning and may go forward with the decision to launch his reelection campaign as soon as tuesday of next week. now that date is important because it was. it will be the four year anniversary of the day he launched his 2020 campaign, a campaign that he framed as the battle of the soul of that for the soul of the nation and campaign where he eventually defeated then president donald trump somebody who may be his general election opponent again in 2024. now advisors
starship inaugural test flight indigenous 2.5 minutes after takeoff. the rocket had no crew members onboard tumbled out of control what spacex called a rapid, unplanned disassembly. spacex also said it learned a tremendous amount from the test and called it quite a show. the effort comes after years of explosive tests regulatory hurdles in public hyping from musk. news continues. let s hand it over to pamela brown and cnn prime time. pamela anderson. thank you so much tonight the race for the white house getting clear on one end and more dramatic on the other sources say president biden is ready to formally announced his reelection bid as soon as next week for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that wo
work hard for them and deliver and so far, i think 24 is gonna be a dog fight. no matter what happens in the republican primary, i think we ll see that in the for the white house. i think we re going to see that for the u. s house. um it s going to be tough for all of us. but, you know, people are gonna be paying attention through the summer. even i mean, we ll know all the candidates by june, most likely, but people are going to be on summer vacation with their kids. kids will not be in school. really the race is not going to shape up until after labor day, there was a long time between now and labor day. okay with that. i actually don t want to get there that soon. yeah in the media because it s exhausting. all right, everyone standby. we have much more to discuss your coming back to discuss some key issues of the day. a new tonight. we re learning about the motive for the bank shooting and louisville, kentucky after extensive notes from the gunmen are discovered. plus a new intervie
been so vocal on women s issues. i want to hear our republican candidates talk about what they re going to do to support women and families and those kinds of issues because i come from a very purple district, a swing district, a bellwether other district, but right now we only have two candidates and more may follow, so to be determined to of announcers, others we expect one being, of course, ron desantis right, as you were alluding to. i mean, that s that s where a lot of the focuses this week right on trump and ron desantis, and it s the fate the headwinds that ron desantis has been facing and you look at the endorsements here. i mean, trump has the backing of nine florida lawmakers so far, while desantis only has one. you see it here on the screen. do you think congresswoman that desantis has any chance of defeating trump for the nomination? what do you think? what s the sense you get among republicans? as you said earlier. you know, in these races, candidates will rise and fall an
and i want to get your take on this because last year you voted against raising the age limit for a or 15 from 18 to 21. that s exactly what these parents want. they say that their loved ones would still be alive. if that was the case, because, as we know, and your body the shooter bought a gun, bought the rifle right after his 18th birthday. do they have a point? well i ve been working on these on gun violence issues since before i ever came to congress as a as a state lawmaker, and in fact i was sworn into office right before parkland, florida and that really is a mom to see when you re dropping kids off at school. whether or not they may not come home. that fear is there is a real fear in every mother and father s lives when they do, right. and so when it comes to this issue, looking at the information data research on why these things happen in my home state of south carolina, the vast majority of firearm crimes or crimes committed with firearms shootings, etcetera, or illegal poss