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
Witness just like any other. that is a big deal. and we lose sight of the moments given we have so many of them day after day it seems. on the other hand, the grand jury is about as mundane a process a any legal one. there is not a lot of pomp and circumstance. it is literally like going to the dmv and it happens every single day in courtrooms or clouss across the country. and we can t forget that. he s still at the end of the day just a witness. now, one with very important job and with a lot of proximity to someone who is being investigated by the justice department. but he s still just a witness providing testimony just like anybody else, just like an eyewitness or a guy cleaning mar-a-lago or anything else, testifying about the things that they saw or heard. and he has sort of downplayed his what he s known and his discussions with donald trump. this is how mike pence has discussed his his interactions with the former president. i obviously have nothing to hide. i ve been s