you. thank you. thank you, andrea. and thank you very much. that s it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. chris jansing starts right now. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. ron desantis and his decidedly unconventional campaign launch trying to income off the most unconventional presidential candidate in modern history, donald trump. we ll have the latest on the florida governor as he heads to the twitter verse with the world s second richest man for the big announcement now just hours away. how do you solve an impending economic crisis if some people don t believe a crisis exists. a war of words between treasury secretary janet yellen and conservatives questioning whether the u.s. is really on the verge of default. breaking this morning, nearly two dozen new charges filed against convicted double murderer alex murdaugh, carrying penalties of nearly 500 years in jail. details on the multimillion dollar fraud scheme he s
undermine his attempts to convince voters that he is the most viable alternative to donald trump. and trump not wasting any time going on the attack today, insisting desantis can t win the general election. he also argues that desantis needs, in trump s words a personality transplant. i want to bring in nbc s dasha burns who broke the news about desantis s announcement, robert gibbs served as white house press secretary under president obama. he s an msnbc political analyst. and host of the big technology podcast. good to have all of you here. what more can you tell us about what we should expect from this announcement tonight? reporter: well, chris, look, i think we should probably expect the unexpected. elon musk is a man that is fairly unpredictable. and this is, like you said a departure from a traditional type announcement. that is sort of the point. this is a soon to be candidate who has looked for ways to