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
a date has been set for the trial involving donald trump s alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels, the trail will begin march 25th, 2024. that news revealed as trump appeared in court via video for a hearing in the case. i want to bring in lisa rubin who watched this whole thing and was reporting on this for us all day yesterday as well. let s talk first about the order for the former president and also his demeanor throughout yesterday s hearing. i would say he started the hearing dour and then he grew progressively more animated and a little bit angry, particularly when the judge set that march 25th trial date because he told the parties you can t enter any commitments, personal, professional or otherwise that would prevent you from starting a trial on march 25th and seeing it through to its completion, and at that point donald trump looked at his lawyer and went like this, meaning that s a no-go for me. i m supposed to be campaigning for president. the judge made it clear t