got to be some sort of video component to this. i guess a part of the drama of the announcement, no one knows what this thing is going to look like or sound like. we will be interviewing ron desantis and he quite an announcement to make. it will be the first time that something like this is happening on social media and with real time questions and answers. not scripted. jesse: not scripted. okay. this is obviously a nontraditional way to announce. usually candidates have a big rally with a huge crowd behind them holding up signs, clapping. you capture the raw energy of supporters live and then it s distributed everywhere. it s possible desantis didn t want to compete with the trump rally phenomenon. you don t want to get into a crowd measuring contest with the former president. trump also isn t on twitter he is on his own social media deal truth social so that could be a factor here. we are wondering how the event is going to be editing and distributed throughout the med
washington with more. good morning. alexandria: good morning, the financials are different and desantis campaign is hoping record-breaking influx of cash they received will signal growing strength to voters on the campaign trail. in the 24 hours following his announcement, ron desantis raised 8.2 million. this historic fundraising shows grassroots republicans are reuniting behind governor desantis comeback. he sets off to key primary states to kickoff this campaign in des moines, iowa, on the 30th and president trump will arrive in des moines the following day and desantis will travel to new hampshire and south carolina. desantis has work to do. former president trump holds 3-1 advantage with 62% of americans signalling they would pick the former president as their nominee. similar margin, different implication on the other side. latest cnn poll shows 20% of primary voters opted for robert f. kennedy over biden. here is kennedy. we are living at a time when americans feel
you. we have got a lot more coming, up everybody. you are watching msnbc, or second hour starts right now. starts right now hey everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian. if you re just joining, us welcome. if you are sticking with, us we are so thankful for that. collision course, the president in the air right now, flying back to washington and right into a debt ceiling showdown with speaker mccarthy. the two men sit to meet tomorrow sometime, to try to resolve the gulf of differences between them as they face a deadline. it could lead to the unimaginable default by the united states of america. my assessment is that the odds of reaching june 15th will be unable to pay all of our bills. it s quite low. based on what i ve offered, i would be blameless. on the politics of, it no one would be blameless. it seems as though he wants to default more than he wants a deal. speaker mccarthy is allowing himself in the entire nation to be held hostage by the biden republicans. just by
unanimously that former president donald trump had sexually abused e. jean carroll, and when he disparaged her, he was ordered to pay e. jean carroll $5 million in damages both for what he did and what he said about it. but if you watched the show last week and you saw that interview i did e. jean carroll and her attorney, you might remember that, you know, in addition to sort of reflecting on the fact they had won that case, one of the things they were newly contending with in the wake of that jury verdict is that even though trump had just been ordered to pay out millions of dollars because of his attacks on e. jean carroll, his lies about her, even though he d been ordered to pay millions of dollars within a day of that jury verdict ordered to pay all that money, he was out there saying all the same things again. you did force accountability and then you did it again, the defamation, the calling you a liar, the exact same things the jury held him liable for he did again
here last week. in the immediate wake of that remarkable court ruling. and which a jury held unanimously that former president, donald trump, had sexually abused e. jean carroll. and that when he denied that and disparaged her, and come her a liar. he was the one who was lying. and he was defaming miss carroll and he was going to have to pay for it. in that case that jury ordered donald trump to pay e. jean carroll $5 million in damages. both for what he did, and what he said about her. but if you watch the show last week, and you saw the interview that i did with e. jean carroll and her attorney. you might remember that in addition to reflecting to the fact that they had won that case, one of the things that they were newly contending with in the wake of that jury verdict, was that even though trump had just been ordered to pay out millions of dollars, because of his attacks on e. jean carroll, because of his lies on her, even though he had just been ordered to pay millions