a lot of people are afraid of him. i ve been doing it for 22 years. i m not the least bit afraid of him. chris christie sure seems to be dropping more hits about a possible presidential campaign as he continues to criticize donald trump we ll have more of those comments straight ahead. and weeks after the first lady said he s running again, president joe biden finally appears ready to make it official, we think plus, the fight for endorsements in florida is not going well for ron desantis, his cool touch to republicans hadn t paid any dividends yet we re going have to have new reporting on trump s personal efforts to connect with lawmakers. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 21st i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with this news. president joe biden is preparing to formally announce he is running for re-election next week the president s team is plning to launch his 2024 campaign soon potentially as early a
zero public consequences until today, when he was asked about it publicly. representative scotty campbell handed in his resignatio today. that does it for us, we ll see you again tomorrow now it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell, goo evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, i learn something today about what w call the wild west the old wil west that there was way more contro in the wild west, in those towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo a federal courts o appeals has agreed to hear attorney alvin bragg s appeal. a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary committee in accordance with a subpoena issued by the chairman republican, jim jordan we report on that case her last night, the appeals cour has given alvin bragg unti tomorrow to file his appeals briefing
The mission of the government proliferated to such a degree the government couldnt accomplish all it had to do. We ask it to do it with a lot of restrictions on management, people, money, contracts, that make it almost impossible to get the job done so if you find someone who is getting something done in government, that is a true talent. It is also true as your boss said, the only thing we have close to eternal life on earth is a government program. Once in place, it is very difficult to repeal or eliminate the program. Davids work, rachels work document evaluated programs and though i wouldnt say the logical conclusion is eliminate everything, it is true when subjected to rigorous evaluation methodology, programs not having intended impact, enormous room for improvement. Every president until the 80s had the authority to organize the government and it is high time we reempower administrations with that authority because it is so hard to do it otherwise. Congress at least from the Ove
Rep. Justin Jones, a Black lawmaker in Tennessee, successfully defends his candidacy for the 2024 election after a Republican opponent s challenge to his signatures is rejected by election officials.