reelection bid as soon as next week. for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that would actually happen, and it seems like now we have some sense of a timeline that to some degree has taken a lot longer than people expected. the president is planning and may go forward with the decision to launch his reelection campaign as soon as tuesday of next week. now that date is important because it was. it will be the four year anniversary of the day he launched his 2020 campaign, a campaign that he framed as the battle of the soul of that for the soul of the nation and campaign where he eventually defeated then president donald trump somebody who may be his general election opponent again in 2024. now advisors
starship inaugural test flight indigenous 2.5 minutes after takeoff. the rocket had no crew members onboard tumbled out of control what spacex called a rapid, unplanned disassembly. spacex also said it learned a tremendous amount from the test and called it quite a show. the effort comes after years of explosive tests regulatory hurdles in public hyping from musk. news continues. let s hand it over to pamela brown and cnn prime time. pamela anderson. thank you so much tonight the race for the white house getting clear on one end and more dramatic on the other sources say president biden is ready to formally announced his reelection bid as soon as next week for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that wo
last testament out there and make him a more significant mass shooter than he was. we have mental health problems in this country that can be tackled that would help with homelessness and mass shooting that don t require some of the things that are just politically impossible. but does this feel like the same discussion you have at a circle table like this? almost every time there s a shooting, which means someone bring is up the fact that there should be something done because they deal with urban crime in their district. someone from a purple rural district says well, no, no, no. we can t take away guns, lots of his own guns. and then someone jumps in and says, well, it s mental health. and then there is silence because i have never seen ever other year is that 80% of nothing ever happens after that weapon, say yes. people may have mental health issues, but it s pervasive over the reasons why would we not decry gun violence by not prosecuting guns will use guns when i was dragged doe
like when i hear this guy, leaving a note, saying, i wanted to demonstrate how easy it is for mentally ill person to get a gun. i think it s tragic that that s getting. um and i understand the news value of it. but at the same time, one of the things we know about the psychology, psychological profile mass shooters as they are desperate for attention. they re desperate to be remembered and talked about afterwards. and this was a very clever hack. because we ve stopped naming these people. we ve stopped giving air to their manifestos. but now because this thing feeds into a gun control narrative, it s a great way to sort of get his his last testament out there and make him a more significant mass shooter than he was. we have mental health problems in this country that can be tackled that would help with homelessness and mass shooting that don t require some of the things that are just politically impossible. but does this feel like the same discussion you have at a circle table like thi