the president makes it official. he s running for re-election. we made a lot of progress. let s finish the job. most voters think he s still better than the alternative. plus historic testimony. this is an astonishing moment in our legal and political history. like pence testified before a grand jury investigating trump s efforts to overturn the election. are prosecutors moving closer to indicting the former president? and desantis versus disney. the days of putting one company on a pedestal are over. the would-be presidential candidate may have picked a fight he can t win. so why doesn t he just let it go, let it go welcome to inside politics, i m manu raju in for abby phillip. this morning president biden wakes up marking the end of his very first week as an official 2024 candidate. biden launched his re-election bid on tuesday setting up a battle which he must convince voters that he deserves to remain in the white house for another four years. now
they had their squabbles, the sibling squabbles. and yet we watched them whether tragedy after tragedy. i admired the queen so much for her resilience, for her fate, for her integrity, her grace. i am christian. christiane idiot today needs the grace of the queen that she had. that is how she lived her life. the british parliament is still meeting in a rare saturday session as elected officials pay tribute to the queen, after swearing allegiance to the newly declared king. prince edward and princess and we re seeing greeting well wishes at balmoral in scotland. lindsey joins us now. lindsey, this is a ten-day, a highly choreographed period that has been in the planning now for decades. we re just getting some confirmation about what we will see and when we will see it in the coming days. we also just heard from the very news prince of wales-hyder. as i ve just heard in my ear, lindsay, the funeral for queen elizabeth the second will be held a week from monday. that s
Pushing back against folks like haley because the alternatives, the haleys of the world, and the scotts, they re looking at desantis as vulnerable. and desantis is clearly and his allies are clearly taking steps for him to run. look the number of bills they re trying to pass here if the final days of the this legislative session in florida. dealing with shielding essentially public records. that people could dig up. opposition researchers could dig up. they re clearly concerned about possible dirt being used against him. things such as deshielding official travel and from visitors logs and things could be off limits and gearing up something about the dirt. yeah, i mean, they looked at does he have to resign or not to run. it is interesting, the state legislature is really at his will with this republican supermajority which i think he thinks will help him in the primary as we ve noted but how does it help him in the general. but i want to say this disney thing has become such a dis
Final stop on the big overseas tour where he is carefully making his foreign policy case. over the weekend he was in israel. he left a prayer at the western wall there. that leg of his trip was intended to fort fy his ties to israel but also jewish and evangelical voters back home. he also hosted a big campaign fundraiser there that s the first time a candidate for president has done that in israel. he also met with israeli president benjamin netanyahu who he has known for years. he did not directly attack president obama s former policy stances but he tried to draw a contrast to tough talk on iran. my message to the people of israel and leaders of iran is one in the same. we will not look away nor will my country ever look away. iran s pursuit of ann arboring layer weapons capable presents an incredible threat to israel to america and the world. president obama largely took