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
this week on speaker kevin mccarthy s plan to raise the debt ceiling also ahead, the state department pulls u.s. personnel out of the embassy in sudan amid fierce fighting in the country we ll have the latest on the deadly conflict and what s next for thousands of americans who are still over there plus, we ll dig into new reporting on a possible spring counteroffensive from ukraine. looks like the russians are actually retreating or starting to evacuate people from areas around kherson, which suggests a retreat is coming up for the russians. ukraine, again, is trying to regain land controlled by russian forces, and that will ultimately, in the end, whenever that is, it s going to involve some very, very deep negotiations as it pertains to land they took. yeah. now opposed to crimea. good morning welcome to morning joe. it is monday, april 24th there s our good morning. good morning. happy monday with us, the host of way too early, bureau chief at q poli
about why they wanted to stop those kind of maga attacks on trump democracy and the loss after the insurrection. but we have the receipts from those you see on your screen today, including senator graham, a loyal trump supporter then criticized what trump was leading on the insurrection on the night of january 6th. but now as he faces legal pressure to testify in georgia for his own role in helping a trump effort that he claimed was over when he gave his famous enough is enough speech after trump fans stormed the capitol, clambering to kill mike pence. i hope he runs again. if you think trump is bad for the party, i disagree with you. i think president trump is good for the party. [ cheers and applause ] all i can say is count me out. enough is enough. it is over. i ve travelled the world with joe. i hoped he lost. i d pray he would lose. he won. he s the legitimate president of the united states. some of this is pretty simple even though people would wish it otherwise.
Trip to israel this week. the idea that somehow being probusiness means giving companies their own governments, that is not what a-free market is all about. last i checked their upset because they re having to live by the same rules as everybody else. they don t want to have to pay the same taxes as everybody else. i don t think the suit has merit. i think it is political. this is not going to be an easy fight for disney. first of all, they have significant rear sources. their market value is $187 billion. their a company that is of course known to so many americans as the soft spot when someone children and families. and look at a poll from the reuters ipsos poll agreeing with desantis on disney, the question overall just 36% of voters, 64% of republicans and 33% of independents, is this a fight that desantis could win politically or legally? well governor desantis sort of thrives on these cultural
Churchill s rhetoric, we will make war on woke in the universities, war on woke in the corporations we will never surrender to woke. i mean, he delivers in a wooden way, and he doesn t come across as remotely relatable at a human being. then there s also, of course, the indictment the new york indictment of trump, where desantis sort of backed trump it was an opportunity for him to really differentiate himself and to condemn lawlessness and promise trumpism without trump, without the incompetence and the criminality of trump, and he didn t if you hesitate before killing the king, you re going to lose all kinds of potency i think that s what s happening now. but, yeah, that headline, it s not one that s checked by my colleagues at the financial times. slightly hyperbole