what could only be described as a wild day for the 2024 presidential campaign. what was once a pretty crowded republican field, only a couple of months ago, is now down to a two-person race. as of today. after florida governor ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump, immediately, basically, just hours ago. now this was a rocky road for desantis from the very beginning, i think it was fair to say. because remember back in the spring when he kicked off his campaign with a glitchy twitter live stream, we all kind of remember that, it turns out things never went up from. there i know it may be hard to picture, especially tonight, before he entered the race, desantis was thought about as the next great hope of the republican party. he was the big story of the 2022 election on the republican side. and he was thought of as donald trump s biggest threat. but from messaging mistakes to money issues, his campaign quickly, and i mean, quite quickly fell apart. he was a bit of
right now on andrea mitchell reports, president biden taking his state of the union message on the road after pitching unity and compromise to the new house majority. when republicans engaged in unprecedented heckling, he did not hesitate to take them on. nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone, the last one. they are the facts. check it out. check it out. with tyre nichols parents in the chamber, the president reaching out to black americans on police brutality by acknowledging what black parents know so well, how they have to teach their children how to interact with police, what s known as the talk. my children, i never had to have the talk with them. i never had to tell them if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away, don t reach for your license, keep your hands on the steering wheel. imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got
that well because we have people like mitch mcconnell and others that didn t allow them to do well but nobody wants to mention it, so you know what i say if nobody s going to mention it, mention it yourself. because if nobody else is going to toot your horn, toot your own horn and let it out there. that s pretty good, right? 233 out of donald trump in iowa last night praising his impact on the 2022 elections we ll provide a fact check as for the presidential race in 2024, trump had a lot to say about florida governor ron desantis we ll have those comments in just a moment. meanwhile trump s former fixer testifies before a grand jury in manhattan calling for accountability in the hush money case tied to stormy daniels. and we ll have the very latest on the silicon valley bank collapse as the white house and the fed try to ease fears about the u.s. banking system. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 14th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for start
remember the wheelchair over the cliff? democrats used it. the wheelchair over the cliff commercial, very effective that was about him ryan, paul ryan is a bit reason mitt romney i m not a big fan of mitt romney lost his election to be honest with you, ron reminds me a lot of mitt romney. so i don t think you re going to be doing so well here, but we re going to find out. but those are the facts. oh, if ron only reminded us of mitt romney, i think a lot of people would be less worried there s donald trump doing what democrats love to see donald trump doing. shredding the republican party attacking the republican party tearing to pieces the republican party. it s not enough that he led to their te defeats in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 now, he s determined to do it in 2024 going after republicans and creating a civil war that was just part of donald trump s rant about ron desantis last night in iowa the former president had a lot to say yesterday about the florida
very good week for president biden with some major victories in congress while republicans were doing the usual, like voting against veterans and american technology. plus, the republican embrace of christian nationalism proves they do not know their history. we ve seen this story before and it doesn t end well. and trump is playing host to the big saudi golf tournament this weekend insulting 9/11 families in the process. trump actually defended the saudis saying, quote, nobody s gotten to the bottom of 9/11. seriously. we begin tonight with a major development in the duelling january 6th investigations. the house select committee has agreed to a formal path to share evidence and witness transcripts with the justice department as it escalates its own investigation. first reported by politico chairman bennie thompson confirmed the agreement on a template for evidence and witness transcript sharing. it is a major step at the extent of the justice department s investigation