Cnn newsroom. Im Paula Reid In Washington tonight in russia, president Vladimir Putin is proclaiming Russian Unity after polls closed in a three today president ial election, with no genuine Opponent Running against him. Putin is expected to win, keeping him in office until 2030 and continuing as russias longestserving leader since soviet dictator Joseph Stalin cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow matthew, what else did putin have to say tonight well, it was a, an extraordinary post election sort of makeshift Press Conference, Ad Hoc Press Conference that he gave two members of the press, the local press the Foreign Press as well. There were members, theyre asking various questions. He just finished giving his thank you speech to volunteers and to supporters in the auditorium, saying that the election victory, that the final results hasnt come in yet, but the election victory a represented essentially, and im paraphrasing him here. A mandate for his continued work in the country, which we
breaking news this hour on the 2024 race. the gop field is about to get more crowded. florida governor ron desantis set to announce his candidacy. we have new details on exactly how he plans to do it and with whom. plus a teenager now charged with threatening to kill or harm a president. the suspect set to make his first appearance in front of a judge. we ll take you live outside the courthouse. and texas lawmakers scheduled to vote today on a bill that would require the ten commandments be posted in every classroom in the state. it s all part of a national effort to insert religion into public life. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. well, the race to become the next republican presidential nominee is about to get more crowded, heated, and interesting. after months of speculation, we now know that florida governor ron desantis will announce his 2024 white house campaign on twitter with elon musk
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. shaky or sound? first republic bank collapses, a weekend deal to buy it bales out uber wealthy depositors but stirs worries about the strength of the economy. plus the head of the republican national committee delivers a blunt warning to republican candidates coast to coast, ignore the abortion issue at your own expense. and entire lives packed into a single suitcase, cnn captures the desperation on the dock in port sudan. thousands hoping to leave a nation at war with itself. up first for us, first republic goes bust, the company s 84 branches are open but under a new banner, that after regulators seized it and then broke it in an emergency weekend deal to sell it off. jpmorgan chase takes over nearly all of first republic s assets. the government says all depositors are protected and that the 92 billion in first republic deposits are safe. their failure is the
momentous wednesday night from nashville. this is a live look where soon president biden will try to convince the american people that his meeting today with communist dictator xi jinping is the beginning of something really beautiful. now think about it. president xi rules over what, 1.3 billion chinese through a relentless campaign of fear and oppr oppression. but we re supposed to believe he is someone we can trust as america gradually gives up their leverage. he is someone we can do business with. now after spending glorious moments with joe biden, hes that he s going to pull all that back. what a guy. well, we know big business is going to go for all this nonsense, but will america? joining me is trace gallagher, host of fox news at night, what are we learning tonight? we ll get to those items in a minute. the meeting lasted four hours between president biden and president xi. we know the four-hour point, they took a walk in the garden outside of the venue in woodsid