washington with more. good morning. alexandria: good morning, the financials are different and desantis campaign is hoping record-breaking influx of cash they received will signal growing strength to voters on the campaign trail. in the 24 hours following his announcement, ron desantis raised 8.2 million. this historic fundraising shows grassroots republicans are reuniting behind governor desantis comeback. he sets off to key primary states to kickoff this campaign in des moines, iowa, on the 30th and president trump will arrive in des moines the following day and desantis will travel to new hampshire and south carolina. desantis has work to do. former president trump holds 3-1 advantage with 62% of americans signalling they would pick the former president as their nominee. similar margin, different implication on the other side. latest cnn poll shows 20% of primary voters opted for robert f. kennedy over biden. here is kennedy. we are living at a time when americans feel
exclusive interview with president biden. with under four weeks until the midterm elections. a brand new cnn poll shows that president biden s approval rating is improving. 44% of people say they approve now of the way he is handling his job as president. 56% disapprove. this is up from a low of 48% this summer. now it s higher than bill clinton and donald trump. higher than their ratings at their stage of their presidencies, but below barack obama and others. the poll shows major economic warning signs just 22% rate economic conditions of the country as good with 41% calling conditions somewhat poor, 27% saying very poor. i should note the conditions are improving. just 32% of the public approve of his handling of inflation. 36% of his handling of the economy as a whole, up from 30% this summer. half of americans say biden s policies have worsened economic conditions. 36% that they improved economic conditions. that s a slight improvement from april and may. and a majority
president biden: no. todd: griff jenkins is in washington with the latest from the president s trip. griff. griff: good morning, carley and todd. joe biden s first trip to asia ends just moments from now. you are looking live at air force one, waiting to get wheels up from tokyo, just after 6 p.m. there. caps swing through south korea and japan intended to highlight a new economic pact. as you saw, the president leaves major questions looming over the u.s. policy toward taiwan, which the white house was forced to walk back in a statement and defense secretary austin tried to clean up yesterday. our one china policy has not changed. he reiterated that policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait. griff: not the first time the white house has had to clarify for the president, drawing harsh criticism from china s leaders and earlier this morning in one of the president s last public events, biden was hammered with questions over whether he
a little girl named abigail, turned 4 years old. she spent her birthday, that birthday and at least 50 days before that, held hostage by hamas. today she s free, and jill and i together with so many americans are praying for the fact that a she is going to be all right. mike: president biden speaking about the 4-year-old israeli-american girl that was own colluded in the recent group of included in the recent group of hostages for transport through the rafah crossing, alabama bail den abigail edan, one of the 17 hostages released today. i m mike emmanuel. mr. biden adding he would like a longer pause in order to get more hostages released from gaza. alex hogan is live in jerusalem with the latest developments. reporter: hi, mike. we just saw three thai hostages and one israeli-russian hostage move through the rafah crossing, and all the other hostages have just arrived at the or air base, but one of them was airlifted to the hospital because of serious medical concerns.