headlines catches lots of attention. one republican group says the florida governor is dabbling in outright homophobia. plus mike pence pleads innocent in the court of public opinion. the former vice president denies he was part of a newly revealed pressure campaign to get arizona s governor to overturn the 2020 election. and repairs required. the treasury secretary heads to china this week with tense moments between taiwan and beijing. i m dana bash. let s go inn inside politics. up first, is this the conversation the desantis campaign really wanted to have? today they re stuck trying to explain what his campaign s intent really was when his warroom tweeted out a video, a one-minute-plus collage of headlines that begins with slamming donald trump for his past support of lgbtq rights. i will do everything in my power to protect our lgbtq citizens. if caitlyn jenner were to walk into trump tower and want to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathro
charges. we made it 234 years is a country without a single president or former president fa criminal indictment. this year, 2023, donald j trump broke that record. not just once, he was charged in four separate criminal charges this year. trump is 91 federal indictments are far in a way the biggest story of 2023. as the year draws to a close, it s worth considering the magnitude of each of these charges. it s also worth reminding ourselves how big the story is. how big this moment says. it s historic. how very not normal everything about trump world has been. donald trump s disregard for social norms, common courtesy, and the rule of law was shocking at first, but, like any of these campaigns, it can be exhausting to think about, to talk about, to live through each and every day, day after day, year after year. today, with his last day of the first year that a former president was criminally indicted, i want to underscore just how imperative it is that we is a country, as an
biden s $400 billion student loan handout. that is not right. that fair, and that is what we are fighting as well. door dash. i don t take responsibility if any of this is inaccurate. i understand. texas road house luckiest rolls made it. i m on a diet right now. and that was in question. let s dance the last dance let s dance the last dance let s dance the last dance tonight. ainsley: last dance for lori lightfoot. if you are just waking up she lost, there is a runoff in chicago between two different candidates. she came in third. therefore, she can t be the mayor. lawrence: that s right. ainsley: run off on april 4th. lawrence: brian, i slept well last night. i got the alert. ainsley: doesn t she deserve to be mayor? ains. lawrence: she is a terrible cancer also, ainsley. the only people dance not guilty street is chicago because finally change is come to the city for all these years. brian: you hope. we are going to go over that. we mi
with more. happening right now in missouri search and rescue efforts are happening as a massive tornado ripped through the state. plus, what you need to know about what s being calleded the most consequential election in the year liberals have a won of the supreme court in a major battleground state that could shape the 2024 race. and in chicago a win for progressives in the highly watched mayoral race and just hours from now a high profile meeting between house speaker mccarthy and the president of taiwan despite warnings from beijing. how the chinese government is responding coming up this morning former president donald trump is plotting his next legal steps one day after becoming the first american president ever to appear in court as a criminal defendant. trump is accused of falsifying business records as part of what prosecutors say is an illegal conspiracy to undermine the 2016 election manhattan district attorney alvin bragg says hush money payments were made to
historic inflation. the decision will likely produce ripple effects on your personal finances and the economy in the months to come. cnn s matthew gin et joins us. we ve been awaiting this decision, what has the fed said? 75 basis points, the fed just delivered another massive interest rate hike, designed to put this inflation fire out. that means higher borrowing costs. this is the fourth straight interest rate hikes. this is historic. we ve never seen drastic actions like this under janet yellen. we never saw this from ben bernanke, or even alan greenspan. you have to go back to the early 80s under paul volcker. i think this says how stubborn the inflation has been. the fed s statement, which is watched very closely, is basically identical to last month, except for one key part. the fed reiterated that ongoing interest rate hikes are likely to be appropriate, but they added that this is going to be the case in order to get policy restrictive enough to get inflation down