is putting it kindly while the competition kicks into high gear. it s been a little over one month since the president officially launched president campaign with a video announcement and biden hasn t had any campaign rallies were launch events since, not even from his basement. meanwhile florida governor ron desantis only announced 2024 ambitions last week. he is already on the road making multiple stops in the key swing state of iowa with a kickoff event in des moines. desantis will not be alone in the hawkeye state. former president trump and senator ted scott looking to get an edge with iowa voters. set to hold rallies there this week. but the contenders grow tighter by the day but it appears president biden isn t focused on his bonus. i could never keep up with it. you know, i m not being facetious. i m being very serious. a lot of competent candidates. so we will see. kayleigh: he said he doesn t focus on it that much. kellyanne, one time he didn t focus on the poll
Jen psaki said they would approach without labeling, so psaki and other others rushed to say there was no crisis, but some journalists kept pressing the point. 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. Thats a record. That sounds to most folks like a crisis. Well, look, its way down now. Weve now gotten control. Howard and now with the president sending another 1500 troops to the border and pan pandemic era restrictions being lifted this thursday, the expected surge of Illegal Migrants is suddenly drawing far mored media attention, and there are still arguments about basic numbers. When it comes to illegal migration, youve seen it come down by more than 90 , and thats because of the actions that this president has taken. Howard after the pundits pounced, Karine Jeanpierre clarified that that she was talking about one parole program. At this point, i dont care what you call the border situation, but it sure looks like a crisis to me. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz.
decide whether or not our democracy will survive. that s not hyperbolic. and the battle for the ballot, at least for a, now i will the colorado lawsuit. removing trump from the primary ballot in that state and the legal precedent it could set for other state challenges. and rushing to defend, why the republicans who are actually running against donald trump now defending him in the wake of the colorado ruling? i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. this week, something remarkable unfolded in our nation s capital. president biden publicly addressed a group of people who are set to have an extraordinary impact on the upcoming 2024 presidential elections. the nine justices who sit on the united states supreme court. on tuesday, president biden delivered a eulogy at the funeral of the first female justice, sandra day o connor, and in his remarks, the president hailed o connor as an american pioneer, noting her commitment to the court in the rule of law. to her, the su
that elected us. and thes bing i can say or that i think can be said about the current deal on the debt ceiling is that it could have been much worse. that was republican senator mike lee and then independent senator bernie sanders sharing their pretty negative opinions on that debt ceiling deal, which is now headed to their chamber. we ll go through the tight time line the senate now has to get this bill to president biden s desk ahead of default. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis is ramping up up his criticism of donald trump after taking heat from the former president for months, and that comes as two more prominent republicans are ready to jump into the 2024 race. we ll look at the impact chris christie and mike pence may have on the growing field. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 1st. we are in june. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a big deal on capitol hill. the house
that s right. it s an important public service announcement. i encourage everybody to watch at 8:00 and 9:00. this is usually ari s hour. who can do it like ari? i wish you a happy holiday. you made it through two hours of a holiday rock block. did it. i m sorry we re not in the same studio. have a great, restful, well-deserved holiday. enjoy your rock block. i will. thank you all at home for joining me this hour. i m not ari. i m alex wagner. this is the beginning of a two-hour rock block thick with news. we begin here. it s a moment that you are forgiven if you don t remember it or if you missed it at the time. a lot happened on this day. at his speech before the insurrection on january 6, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i m not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much. you know why? because the story is, i haven t spoken to any of them, any o