race? what his staffers are saying about his political future. so we have a lot going on and a lot more music to introduce. lucas tomlinson introduces live from washington without any music for you. just give us the facts, lucas. you got it, brian. good morning, after months of anticipation trips to iowa, new hampshire and abroad, it s now official. governor ron desantis will enter the presidential race tonight. florida s first lady teasing the announcement in this 30 second video. d do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. elon musk offered a preview of the highly expected announcement take place tonight at 6:00 p.m. we ll be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and we ll be it will be the first time something like this is happening on social media. and with real time questions and answers. not scripted. president trump s super pac responding to the announcement this is one of th
breaking tonight americans dreaming of a white christmas and one former president dreaming of a white house and his new pole numbers show path back to 1600 is wider. mr. trump leading a wall street journal pole he is never lead. and hillary clinton is back on the trail for joe biden. another democrat might also jump in the race. the senior national core sponldant is live with the latest on particular 2024 and things are getting interesting. i love this stuff am i know you do, too. when you thought you never hear more from hillary clinton relate to presidential politics. you see she is going to hit the campaign trail for president biden as a 2024 campaign heats up whether that helps or hurts depends. one thing is for certain he could use help. the late poling shows his support is mrs. and i had party it is not have a plan. any measure he could use help that is evidenced by the wall street journal survey asks whom people vote were the election held today. former president
the white house tomorrow, as president biden intensifies his plea to congress for more aid to the war-torn country. new pressure this morning for two top university presidents to resign after their controversial testimony to congress about anti-semitism on campus. and why former president trump abruptly changed his mind about testifying today at his $250 million civil fraud trial. we begin this morning with the cleanup after the deadly weather ravaged part of our country. this morning nearly 20,000 people in tennessee remain without power after a series of tornados ripped through the state over the weekend killing at least six people including a 2-year-old and injuring more than 80 others. this highway camera captured a twister tearing through the sky before destroying homes and entire neighborhoods leaving some residents with absolutely nothing. one woman says a tornado split her home apart while her family was inside. i just remember opening the closet door and just t
shannon: candidates have been there for months there are no questions about whether there could be some late entrance into the race people who have not spent the time here. xes reporting big gop donors are pushing for a trump alternative. it s a virginia governor and georgia governor brian kemper getting secret overtures from establishment republicans and have not ruled out running. so would it be too late question rick would iowans be open to someone who s missed the fair who has missed the events? we have a great field right now would probably don t need more would probably need less that s what we do without a caucus our role is not to protect the winter but to start to narrow the field. these candidates have put in a lot of time we had a great field of candidates. and i think probably we don t need more at this point. shannon: had commanding reelection when much like desantis 19 port margins were not without your critics here. i want to talk with some issues going on here in iowa
here is elon musk. he said he would like somebody with the keys to air force one who is normal. i m not at this time going to endorse any particular candidate. but i am interested in, you know, proximate result twitter being a town square where more and more organizations host content and big announcements on twitter. i think the preference of most americans is really to have someone fairly normal in office. [laughter] i think we would all be quite happy with that, actually. you know, i think someone that is representative of the moderate views that i think most the country holds in reality. brian: i think there is going to be other people jumping in, too. real clear average trump 56%. desantis 19. pence with 5.6.