hey, hey, everybody. it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. the battle for the white house will welcome a long-awaited newcomer today, ron desantis, after months of speculation and campaign style events, the florida governor will make it official tonight on twitter with none other than elon musk. will the unusual rollout help or hurt the soon to be candidate? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. and then what about the other elephant in the room, donald trump, the former president already telling desantis to get a, quote, personality trait as he puts it. plus, south carolina, set to become the latest state to ban abortion after six weeks making it virtually impossible to get an abortion across a huge portion of the south. and later on, new details on the 19-year-old who drove a u-haul truck into a white house barrier. more on his interviews with police as he s set to make a court
reporting on turmoil inside the trump legal team that s representing the former president in the classified documents investigation. meanwhile, another republican senator is saying that the former president cannot win the 2024 election. we will have those comments and what they mean. it comes as the republican field in the race for the white house is about to add another name. plus, the naacp calls out florida governor ron desantis, we will have more on the organization s warning. also ahead, we will recap president biden s trip to japan for the g7 summit which included a meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. and preview his meeting today at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy as both sides are trying to find a compromise that would avoid a default on the country s debt. with us we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us, also with us
at all. what i am doing is very serious. it s very important work. nope, not a game. that was fulton county d.a. fani willis last summer talking about her probe of trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and there are new indications tonight of precisely when any indictments will be coming this summer. also tonight, ron desantis gets set to formally launch his presidential campaign with the baggage of a four-plus year record of attacking the personal freedoms of the people and businesses in his own state. including his economically destructive fight with disney. plus, my conversation with chasten buttigieg who has a message for young people amid the growing threats to lgbtq youth. but we begin tonight with seven battle ground states that president biden won in 20202020. arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. not only will these all be states to watch in next year s presidential election, but all part of the failed plot by donald trump and his
news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, a $3 billion accounting error by the pentagon could mean more military equipment for ukraine. how exactly that happened, next. there are mounting concerns in washington about the health of california senator dianne feinstein as we learn about new details about her rocky road to recovery following multiple health challenges. how her colleagues on both sides of the aisle are responding now. plus, 2024 presidential candidate nikki haley drawing a hard line in the sand with her former boss donald trump over january 6th, pushing back on the former president s claim that it was, quote, a beautiful day, saying that rioters who broke the law should pay the price. and do your jobs, a new poll from the ap could be a wake-up call for congress and the president, with 66% of americans saying they are extremely or very concerned about what happens if leaders in washing
and professor steve h hanke from johns hopkins university. he served on president reagan s council of economic advisers. we will bring you up to date in the case of the first american journalist to face espionage charges in russia since the soviet era. evan gershkovich has had an appeal against his pre trial detention rejected. and we will look at why encrypted messaging services like whatsapp are urging the uk government to make changes to the online safety bill. but first, our top story on the programme, the dominion versus fox trial. it s been variously described as explosive a bombshell trial, and today it got under way in the us. a company that makes voting machines dominion suing the conservative fox news network for defamation. and in the last few minutes, we have heard it has settled. you will remember that it was due to start yesterday. there were delays for 2h hours. the case had got under way, but we understand it has now settled. our correspondent michelle f