lindsey reiser in for ana cabrera. this morning new pressure on ron desantis after a stumble at the starting line. the florida governor looking to reframe the narrative today after his 2024 rollout on twitter was marred by tech issues. the desantis team spinning it as a victory. we had a huge audience. it did it was the biggest they d ever had. it did break the twitter space, and so we re really excited with the enthusiasm. his critics had a different take, trump jr. calling it a de-saster. president biden sending out a fund-raising tweet with the caption, this link works. the question today, how does desantis rebound? plus, a warning of financial armageddon, a top agency putting the u.s. credit rating on watch for a possible downgrade with debt ceiling talks coming down to the wire. how an actual downgrade could impact everything from home buying to credit cards even as members of congress prepare to leave town for a long weekend. sentencing for stewart rhodes, the
president biden s support is slipping and it s at least in part because of his handling of the israel hamas wa that is according to new polling from the new york times and the college. registered voters were asked if the election were held told, who would you vote for? biden or trump. trump wins by just two points but amongst likely voters, biden leads by two points. t both by the way are within the margin of error. that is just part of the story though. there are still 11 months until the election with no official republican candidate declared. nothing is set in stone. but there s something even bigger in this polling. the biden camp should be zeroing in on. are they losing support amongst young voters? amongst registered voters 18-29, the former president has a six-point lead. that could be the biggest hurdle for the president s re-election bid over the next year, but there s time. so what are those young voters saying? shaq brewster has more. voted for biden and i told
come. those were then-candidate joe biden s words to asylum seekers in 2019 as he slammed his opponent donald trump s immigration policies. today thousands of migrants waiting for their chance to cross the border are trying to heed that call. in the hours since title 42 was lifted we have seen an orderly processing mostly despite warning from the white house that the first few days could get chaotic. we are live in el paso and in san diego where many who have been in limbo waiting for months have now finally gotten through. the question is next where do they go now, and while the numbers so far seem manageable the white house is still facing legal pushback from both the aclu and some states. late last night a judge in florida sided with governor ron desantis and blocked the administration from carrying out key parts of its new immigration plan, which could lead to overcrowding. we re going to explain what will happen in a moment because capacity is very much an issue, even be
are investors starting to act on their doubts about a deal? and campaign endorsements and super pacs, they re great. but do they matter if you can t throw a punch? that s the question hanging over ron desantis and mike pence as they try to figure out how to take on donald trump. but we start with new developments surrounding a pair of mass shootings in texas and new mexico, carried out nine days and nearly a thousand miles apart, but sharing a critical heart breaking detail. both targeting people doing absolutely nothing out of the ordinary turning what should have been a normal day into a nightmare. in new mexico, three people are dead, along with a teenage suspect, after police say he opened fire on a residential street yesterday. apparently just shooting at random. it was the 225th mass shooting of the year in this country. roughly one every 15 hours. and in just about one hour in texas, we re expecting an update on surviving victims of the shooting at an outlet mall.
of defense and their briefing expected to start any minute now. plus, texas governor greg abbott s plan to handle the impending crisis, promising to keep bussing migrants to democratic cities. we re following the latest developments here. let s bring in julia ainsley who is following this story closely now with the white house confirming the biden administration will be sending active duty troops to the southern border. what do we know from the administration? well, lindsey, we know this plan has hardened up quickly. they were weighing it over the weekend and just now, we know there s about to be an announcement. they ll be sending 1500 active duty troops in addition to the 2500 men and women from the national guard already stationed at the border. that will bring them to 4,000 which is still lower than the more than 5500 active duty troops the trump administration sent to the border. these troops will not be interacting with migrants one-on-one. they won t be arresting