and new overnight, it appears writers on the picket lines are about to get some reinforcements as failed negotiations set the stage for another strike in the entertainment industry. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 13th. i m ali vitali in washington along with jonathan lemire who has another location change, this time in helsinki, finland, where he s still covering the president s trip overseas. lemere, i hope you re drinking coffee and all this travel doesn t have you too jet lagged. but once again set the scene where you are this morning on this next leg of the president s trip. reporter: well, it s not way too early here. it s actually noon. a pretty easy time to do this show, ali. yes, today is the final day of the president s trip to europe, and we re going to get into it. yesterday in many ways was the center piece. he met with president zelenskyy who had been so upset ukraine was not going to be given an immediate entry into nato.
over $6 million in q2. they re sitting on more than $21 million cash on hand for this coming campaign stretch. meanwhile with his poll numbers lagging, a growing number of ron desantis donors are worried once again the florida governor may not be able to take on donald trump in 2024. this comes as the owners of fox news, the murdoch family have reportedly beginning to sour. according to cnbc desantis fund raisers are privately pushing back on donor concerns noting the races are still early. they argued national polling doesn t mean anything when it comes to state primaries and now they say the campaign is focused on new orleans, new hampshire, and south carolina. all that with early polling suggests desantis is trailing trump in those states as well. joining us to talk about it the politics reporter for semafor, shelby talcot.
and new overnight, it appears writers on the picket lines are about to get some reinforcements as failed negotiations set the stage for another strike in the entertainment industry. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 13th. i m ali vitali in washington along with jonathan lemire who has another location change, this time in helsinki, finland, where he s still covering the president s trip overseas. lemere, i hope you re drinking coffee and all this travel doesn t have you too jet lagged. but once again set the scene where you are this morning on this next leg of the president s trip. reporter: well, it s not way too early here. it s actually noon. a pretty easy time to do this show, ali. yes, today is the final day of the president s trip to europe, and we re going to get into it. yesterday in many ways was the