blitzer in the situation room. happening now, a judge in manhattan just scheduled donald trump s criminal trial for next year right in the middle of the republican primary season. we ll share all the latest details from the former president s court appearance earlier this afternoon. also tonight, governor ron desantis is about to official. the florida republican is poised to launch his white house campaign tomorrow during a conversation with elon musk on twitter. we have new details on the announcement and how his gop rivals plan to respond. plus, we re learning new information right now about the driver who slammed a u haul truck into a white house barricade, what a court filing is revealing about the threats he allegedly made about president biden and his praise for adolph hitler. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. . let s get straight to the news on former president trump s criminal trial
now that his presidential twitter launch did not launch so much, what does ron desantis do now? one of the best sourced florida reporters on earth tells us what a desantis campaign win means for them. a florida boy is recovering at home after he was shot by a police officer, but he is the one who called 911 for help. the family is now calling for the officer to be fired and charged. and could the pill form of diabetes and weight loss drugs like ozempic work just as well as the shot? ahead, the day that researchers are calling good news. we are following the major developing stories and much more right here on cnn news central. new reaction to the ron desantis glitch heard around the world or not really heard well for 25 minutes as the case may be. one of the challengers asa hutchinson struck a sympathetic tone this morning. i did feel for governor desantis. he is trailing donald trump in the polls, but he is clearly one of the top two candidates in the gop, but he
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this businbusy news day with us. the president called the latest debt ceil ing meeting productiv and a sign of good progress. but kevin mccarthy s morning after update is rather bleak. nowhere near a deal. this as the treasury begins checking how long agencies can pay their bills. plus legal quick sand for donald trump. his words at a cnn town hall push e. jean carroll to seek more damages and his instructions about how to handle classified documents end up in the hands of the special counsel. and swing voters dread the idea of a biden/trump rematch, but their focus group on what happened if there is one is quite revealing. the biden team arriving last yhour. they are now with the team behind closed doors. both sides say there s mgood faith, yet both sides also say there is little progress. this morning the speaker telling fellow house republicans the two sides are nowhere near agr agreement,
russia launches another air strike into ukraine, this one hitting a hospital. the damage therine is significa. our team in dnipro getting a firsthand look at the destruction and the victims. why the death toll could have been even worse. and an investigation into the death of a navy seal following hell week leads to calls for an overhaul to the training program. we have stunning findings to share with you. a particularly busy 24 hours in ukraine. the latest reports are of explosions in the russian-occupied city of mariupol. city officials saying in a social media post that there were strikes on the occupied steel plant there. this comes after russian strikes inside ukraine on a psychiatric hospital in dnipro earlier today. that attack killed at least two, injured 31 others. you can see video from the scene showing the fire, but also the rubble of that medical facility following the strike. ukraine s president zelenskyy has called it an attack by terrorists. sam kail
florida governor ron desantis will soon make his presidential bid official and a you this cnn poll is giving us the latest snapshot of the republican race. one key takeaway, desantis is going to be facing some challenges. and a critical moment in the mar-a-lago documents case. the special counsel closing in on a decision on whether to charge former president trump. his lawyers are requesting a meeting with the attorney general. ahead, what this could signal. and target is taking some of its products celebrating pride month off store shelves. why? they cite confrontational behavior and threats toward store workers over its pride collection. we are following these developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. the race for the republican presidential nomination is about to get much more competitive. just a few hours from now florida governor ron desantis will officially launch his 2024 white house run in an unconventional way. he s announcing i