swamp california roads in a storm not seen since the 1990s. plus, president biden s mission to maui. the consoler in chief tries to bring comfort to a community all but wiped out in a wildfire. and a consequential week for donald trump. the former president set to surrender in charges to georgia and skip the first gop debate in wisconsin. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m danny freeman. we begin this morning with something southern california hasn t experienced in decades but people there are facing it right now. torrential record rain and strong winds from tropical storm hillary. overnight hillary has been bringing down power lines and trees, flooding streets and triggering mudslides. in fact, one mudslide forced firefighters to take fast action in san bernardino county when it came barrelling towards their fire house. trees are going. just incredible images right there. rescuers have had to pull several people from flood waters an
tomorrow thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. so today was the big day. the day the man who was widely seen as the strongest potential competitor to former president trump in the 2024 republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the biggest day of florida governor ron desantis s political career so far. the biggest state, certainly, since he first stepped out into the national stage in 2018 as a candidate for florida governor. everyone knows my husband ron desantis is endorsed by president trump. but he is also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kids. build the wall. he read stories. that mr. trump said, you are fired. i love that part. he s teaching madison to talk. make america great again. people say ron is all about trump, but he is so much more. fake lead. so good. that ad was from way back in 2018 when desantis was positioning himself as a trump understudy. someone who knew all the lyrics, who had studied all
course today, and then the shock, the parallel world in which the republicans in the legislature live, doing what they were doing in the midnight hours. of the closing section of that legislature, which doesn t need to get rid until 2025. they are out. yeah. two years. they are. out two years. thanks, chris. out > thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. so today was the big day. the day the man who was widely seen as the strongest potential competitor to former president trump in the 2024 republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the biggest day of florida governor ron desantis s political career so far. the biggest state, certainly, since he first stepped out into the national stage in 2018 as a candidate for florida governor. everyone knows my husband ron desantis is endorsed by president trump. but he is also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kids. build the wall. he read stories. that mr. trump said, you are fired
executive producer casey dolan, and not to be left out here with me in our d.c. studio is none other than jason neil, jason, the camera over here, son of our executive producer jasper, jasper i used your daddy s name and i am so sorry. this is jasper neil, son of michelle perry neil and jason neil jasper is bilingual in english and spanish, an ace math student, and he s going to be taking over the show one way or another in about 20 years. so thanks to all of you, jasper, eleanor, and daphne, and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow the show online, on facebook, and on twitter @mitchellreports chris jansing reports starts right now. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. ron desantis is halfway around the world but still feeling the heat back home, from donors, supporters, and of course donald trump. is it enough to get him to finally commit to launching a presidential campaign? our new reporting that he s r
americans 70 percent do notin think biden should run again, with nearl y half of those citing his age as a major reason why. reme biden will turn 82 shortly after the election, and even biden s own aides are g raising the alarm about his diminished energy level,o schedu telling axios it s difficultn th to schedule events ineekend the morning, in the evening ors. on the weekends. and there s renewed concern yet about his age after biden suffered through yet another bizarre, gaffe filled week. takkne a lookow at this. we know that there s no there s no such there s so much more to finish the job. s the speaker, the former president and the magnetic, forr streamers were cut from a different cloth. they treat these folks. they treat these folks and they think they re a threat. lks,they think that somehow we e going to go back with regard to age. i can t even say, i guess, old how old i am. i can t even say no, it doesn t it doesn t register with me. so doe i m trying to think