before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my
all in starts right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. today, donald trump appeared in manhattan in court virtually for the first time since his arraignment on 34 criminal courts of falsifying business records. and judge judge juan merchan announces related to the hush money payments to stormy daniels will go to trial in march of next year. that means that if all of this holds, donald trump will be on trial smackdown of in the middle of the presidential primary. this afternoon, he presented himself as if he were still in the white house, sitting with his attorney in front of a customary wall of american flags. the ex presidents life yet from florida was projected on several screens throughout the courtroom, packed with reporters, and a team of no less than nine prosecutors industry attorney alvin bragg s office. the main purpose of that hearing today was for the judge to officially advise trump about the protective order in the case. the order, typically a r
new information about how trump will respond today. a typhoon packing wind gusts over 100 miles per hour and it is battering the island, a look at the devastation and the danger as the worst of it hits at this hour. a brain decoder or mind reader? a scientific breakthrough that is remarkable. scientists in texas on the brink of training artificial intelligence to read your mind. this is cnn news central. ron desantis is running for president. not a news flash, exactly. everything he s been doing the last weeks and months have helped position for that. his announcement with elon musk on twitter tonight will be a culmination of that. what is new is information about what the florida governor will say and how he intends to run against donald trump. also new, how his opponents are positioning themselves. this is a video commercial. out just moments ago from former south carolina governor nikki haley. in it, she paints desantis as an echo of trump. whatever i want he
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these times. we are grateful. the beat with jason johnson in for ari starts now. welcome to the beat. i m jason johnson in for ari melber. we start with breaking news. legal heat engulfing donald trump. donald trump is in some real trouble in the classified documents probe as more legal vets predict a indictment is coming, even jail time. new bombshell reporting from the new york post. mar-a-lago workers moving a mar-a-lago box one day before the doj came for the documents and allegedly carried out a dress rehearsal for moving sensitive paper even before his subpoena. this showing calculated moves by the trump team undercuts trump s claim he didn t think he was doing anything wrong. he told sean hannity he declassified the documents with his mind. i did declassify, yes. is there a process? what was your process? there doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. different people say different things, be
good evening, alex. we have beto are joining us tonight on the one year mark since the mass murder in uvalde and andrew weissmann has pulled off a miracle. he s found a way to join us from somewhere across the sea. i don t even know where. you don t need nowhere, all you need to know, if this is gonna be there. so more a lot of time zones from, here in need a passport to be there. but this letter that donald trump s lawyers sent to the attorney general, it andrew can t contain him self. he s good he s gonna get a word in here. about. as he should, i m eager to hear what ginger westman thinks of this letter. thank you, alex. have a good, show. thank you. when your job is making decisions, in the decision to have to make the most important decisions made in the united states of america and you have been making those decisions for a teen years, it seems like the most difficult question you could ever be asked is, what is the hardest decision you ve ever had to ma