the white house says president biden is in touch with former president jimmy carter. carter is receiving hospice care. the president tweeted this afternoon, quote, jill and i are with you in prayer and sending our love. carter, 98, announced yesterday that after a series of hospital stays he want to spend his remaining days at home with his family. michigan state university resumes classes tomorrow. that s one week after a gunman killed three people and injured five others on campus. hundreds celebrated the lives of victims brian frazier, alexandria verner at two separate for mineral services yesterday morning. the motive still being investigated. the 43-year-old suspect was found dead hours after by suicide. low search and rescue efforts in turkey were halted today after that 7.8 magnitude her the talk that struck february 6th. the death toll in turkey and syria now standing at more 44,000. it is expected to still climate
from there i toured the amazing moment of only, we will talk details in the future. ivan went on late night. the late show stephen colbert and argued about this. he s trying to use the race wedge so baby trump that you called desantis s chinese black history month to go and run for president. some of us are saying that our history is too important to us let that happen. we cannot allow the history of blacks or others, because others will be threatened if it s not stopped here to become some political prop for ambitious politicians that want to make the race card to advance their appealing to a base that donald trump wanted to build an embellish.
has gone to ukraine. now going into a second here in here at home the earliest electoral challenge in our materializing. on the republican side, former republican south carolina governor nikki haley has joined donald trump in pursuit of the gop nomination in 2024. and 2020 democratic contender marianne williamson is expected to make her own announcement that she is running for the white house again. she would be the first democrat to challenge president biden thus far. the country is wrestling with the news that our 39th president jimmy carter has decided to receive hospice care at home this weekend at the age of 98. president biden has been briefed on carter s hat. biden hasn t been one of the senate s earlier supporters of carter s campaign for
that we have with the federal government, that s why the strong relationships that we have with the white house is so important to maryland and for this to beat marlins decade, it means we are and we will continue to move in partnership with the biden administration in order to make that happen. let s turn now to a former governor who has entered the 2024 presidential race. nikki haley has become the first major challenger to her former boss donald trump on the republican side. what qualities do governors present that would make them a good president? i know you are focused on being governor now. you and i have talked for a long time. running for president in the cards, is that for you some time, governor lewis? i love being the governor of maryland. governors have an ability to get real things done very quickly. i think about in this first, in the first three and a half weeks that i ve been the
first weeks what that looks like and actually have a balanced budget to reinforce it. that s what people are looking for. from their governors. i think here in the state of maryland, we are able to deliver on that and deliver on that quickly. you answered why governors may have a distinct way of running for president. you totally avoiding me whether it was in the cards for you. i just want to stipulate that. i want to switch gears to the executive order you signed this week were crying state is used to report data concerning maryland s minority business enterprise program in an effort to increase participation for state government contracts. in 2013, the states set a 29% goal. it has never reached that level. how do you plan to attack this goal differently than what has been tried and passed? i actually being intentional.