today on inside politics, red, white, and blue political theater. republicans pound the pavement, put on their best every man polos, and look for votes between burgers, dogs, and fireworks. fourth of july provides a 2024 test, one donald trump bets he s fine just skipping. plus, a first amendment victory or a green light to conspiracy theorists? a judge calls a biden effort to stop disinformation from running wild orwellian while telling top biden officials to cut off contact with social media companies. and just in, cocaine at the white house. a positive lab test prompts an obvious question for the secret service, whose was it? i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, a white house crime scene. a source just confirmed to cnn that cocaine was discovered inside the west wing. i want to go straight to the white house and cnn s priscilla alvarez. what are you hearing from your sources on this? reporter: dane, a source familiar tells
this, but if you don t sign this certification. if you do sign the certification you will never be getting the audit that you are present for. that was a reporter from the detroit knows speaking about an audio recording he said he heard which a reporter had captured donald trump telling michigan officials not to sort of the 2020 election results. we re gonna dig into the explosive new reporting. plus, as trump continues to double down on his anti immigrant rhetoric, a recent poll shows republican voters saying that his racist language makes him more likely to vote for him. also ahead? america s mayor is broke. rudy giuliani filed for bankruptcy just days after being ordered to pay 100 and $46 million in his defamation case. and, regrets. he has had a few. what s presidential candidate, ron desantis is saying is the one thing that he wishes he could change about the gop primary. here is a hint. it is not anything that he did. good morning, welcome to morning joe. i am jonath
win over unthuziastic democrats and taking digs at his former and potentially future opponent donald trump. a rape allegation lawsuit against trump goes to trial with opening statements in new york. we will have the latest on e. jean carroll s civil case against the former president and trump s defense. and in war-torn sudan, americans are a part of an urgent race to flee the country as bursts of violence mara fragile u.s. ceasefire. this amid fierce of a biological nightmare after paramilitary forces seize a public health lab. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the 2024 race for the white house is taking shape in a big way tonight with president biden s official campaign launch. his announcement video driving home team biden s strategy, if an historic rematch with donald trump actually becomes a reality. let s begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent phil mattingl
home team biden s strategy, if an historic rematch with donald trump actually becomes a reality. let s begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. phil, the president facing headwinds as he jumps into this presidential race. how is he making the case voters? four years to the day after president biden s 2020 announcement, a race he went on to win defeating incumbent and then president donald trump announcing he has more work to do and he will seek re-election. and in his announcement video much like he did in 2019, laying out his theory of the case, connecting the line from that campaign announcement campaign in his first two plus years in office to what he wants to do in the years ahead, but also the stakes. the stakes of this moment. a moment where he made clear that his initial line and initial campaign promise, the battle of the soul of the nation, was something that was still ongoing. and because of that fact, he
of top voter concerns with the economy. post poll says in accepted case voters favored mcauliffe by 33 points, now glenn youngkin leads that by 9. that subject dominated mcauliffe s conversation this morning on meet the press. he says he wants to day one all masks come off and no teachers get vaccinated. that s life threatening. we have 1,142 children who have been in the hospital in virginia, two 11-year-olds died the other day from covid. he doesn t have an education plan. reporter: mcauliffe has been campaigning with national democrats this week, house majority whip jim clyburn, senator tim cane, vice president kamala harris and president biden. the democratic governor s association sent out a last minute fund raising e-mail recently that was picked up by some news outlets, warning of disaster if mcauliffe loses this race. now, democrats and republicans typically send out these types of fund raising e-mails.