the nation s special, pride to be seen. time magazine for their article on pediatricians who serve trans youth facing increasing harassment. in the daily beast article, alabama trying to raise the legal driving age for trans people to 19. president and ceo glad sarah kate ellis took some time to address the increase in laws against the community. watch this. there is one thing that extremist politicians and activists can never ban, and that is our joy. we are not going to let them anyone tell our stories or villainize who we are. when the truth is, everyone deserves to live a life happily ever after. yes, so raise your voices [applause] so raise your voices, take action with glaad, get loud, and stay proud. and we are loud and proud to have the glaad awards take us off the air tonight. on that note, i wish a very good night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, state thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tonight on al
desantis in the white house? new evidence that the governor s willing to test that theory as he gears up to announce his presidential run. if you re not worried about the potential for a catastrophic debt default two weeks from now, the white house has a message for you. right now vice president kamala harris is trying to make their case to the public with the goal of pressuring republicans into making a deal. the latest on that, plus a live report from japan and the latest remarks from top administration officials on where the talks go from here. plus, why a house vote to punish admitted liar and federal fraud suspect george santos may ultimately help the new york republican s chances of staying in office. we ll explain that coming up. but we start in florida as nbc news learns that governor ron desantis will officially announce that he s running for president next week as we watch him try to super charge his campaign by harnessing the powers of the culture wars incl
the most dangerous terrorist in the homeland is white supremacy. the president makes the case again and the backlash from the rioters ferocious. it s absurd. it s really disgusting, it s divisive. tonight, new reporting on a potential connection between white supremacists and the office of a sitting republican congressman. then, what we know after two were hospitalized during a violent attack at the office of democratic congressman gerry connolly. plus, the desantis campaign overhaul that includes shaking hands and looking people in the ice. i m not a candidate, so we will see if and when that changes. senator on ed markey his renewed plan to fix a broken supreme court by adding four new justices. when all in starts right now. good evening. from washington, d.c., i m mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. over the weekend, president biden delivered the commencement address at one of the nation s leading historically black universities. he warned the graduates
on the other side of that is a guy named joe saunders, a political director of equity florida. here s what he had to say about these bills. he called them an attack on freedom. desantis doesn t see freedom as a value worth defending. he sees it as a campaign slogan. the nation should be on high alert. we are all floridians as desantis seeks to export this blueprint of authoritarianism to the rest of the country. this is the exact opposite of the freedom he talks about when, you know, he says things about, you know, your kids being themselves, what does that mean? obviously it means something very different to him. where do you see this? i have to agree with joe on the question of freedom. let s think about my family. i ve got a 5-year-old. she s got two gay dads. what about our freedom, her freedom to be able to talk about her family, for her friends to be able to ask teachers about what it s like to have why does she have two gay dads.
interest. he s a mercenary who fundamentally does not believe in freedom. he sees that as a campaign slogan, not a value worth defending. i think america needs to understand in very crystal clear terms of the threat he poses to freedom. you have to take desantis at his word, that what he has done in florida is the prototype of his vision for america. he is going to wage war on your academic freedom, mandating what majors you can choose and what career paths you can be on. he s going to wage war on your medical freedom, but in politicians in your doctor s office when you are making decisions about your body and trying to access care for your kids. he s going to ban books about your families, to deputize your neighbors to monitor you in the bathroom. yes, he s going to punish a business. if you so much as whisper your opposition into your pillow at night. that is the future that ron desantis wants for you and your family. it s not because he is convicted about it, it s not his core value