biden. alexandria hoff is live with more. good morning. alexandria: good morning. the financials are different. fox news have been speaking with desantis donors, waiting on the sidelines to infuse this campaign with cash. in the 24 hours following desantis announcement, the presidential candidate raised 8.2 million. desantis campaign manager said this historic fundraising hall shows grassroots republicans are united behienemy governor desantis s vision for our great america. it will be a near miss with former president trump who arrives in des moines the following day and will head to new hampshire and south carolina. in iowa then desantis will travel and make up for lost time, while in iowa, desantis has to do work, former president trump holds 3-1 advantage with republicans signalling they would pick the former president as the party nominee. similar margin on the other side of this cnn poll showing whopping majority opted for kennedy over president biden. here is kennedy
speed bump. on the republican side, new skepticism over next week s default deadline. and a day of raw grief and remembrance in uvalde, texas, where almost one year to the moment a gunman walked into robb elementary school and killed 19 students and two teachers, forever changing the community and the nation. we ll hear from one mother who lost her daughter, lexi, and is now demanding change. i m hoping that seeing her face, hearing her story encourages other moms and dads to join us in this fight. and we begin this hour with florida governor ron desantis set to jump into the presidential race in just about seven hours. nbc news was first to report he plans to launch it on twitter, during a talk with billionaire twitter owner elon musk on the social media platform. casey desantis, the governor s wife, released this teaser video. our best days lay ahead of us. but is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it, every si
are investors starting to act on their doubts about a deal? and campaign endorsements and super pacs, they re great. but do they matter if you can t throw a punch? that s the question hanging over ron desantis and mike pence as they try to figure out how to take on donald trump. but we start with new developments surrounding a pair of mass shootings in texas and new mexico, carried out nine days and nearly a thousand miles apart, but sharing a critical heart breaking detail. both targeting people doing absolutely nothing out of the ordinary turning what should have been a normal day into a nightmare. in new mexico, three people are dead, along with a teenage suspect, after police say he opened fire on a residential street yesterday. apparently just shooting at random. it was the 225th mass shooting of the year in this country. roughly one every 15 hours. and in just about one hour in texas, we re expecting an update on surviving victims of the shooting at an outlet mall.
children killed in a deadly mass shootings. one of the parents spoke to reporters after her son was murdered and spoke about the need for lessons at this moment in time. care and concern is so important and we saw what happens when there is a lot of that. i hope that everyone who is reading these articles and choose love with your kids because you can, that means being present in the moment with them. looking into their eyes, giving them a hug and just moving from there. just every moment realize that you have a choice and your choice is love. that s good advice and they are brave words from a mother who lost who was most precious to her. the judge in this trial could reduce today s figure due to a texas law that will not, though, mark the end of alex jones legal troubles. two more lawsuits ahead brought by more parents of those killed at sandy hook and the fate of records of his private conversations now sought by the january 6th committee. let s begin tonight with drew
and ultimately leading to the mar-a-lago search warrant. nbc news has reached out to the doj, fbi, white house and former president trump spokesperson. we have not received responses yet. here is how jared kushner, the former president s son-in-law and white house advisor reacted. i m not familiar with what exactly the contents were. i think you have to be very careful with what you read and wait for the facts to develop. late yesterday in a move seemingly as political as legal, donald trump s attorneys filed a motion to block the doj from, quote, further review of seized materials until a special master is appointed. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. nbc s mark caputo, kim wehle, former associate independent counsel in the white water investigation. glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor and now an msnbc legal analyst. ken, i believe you have new reporting confirming what was reported by the new york times. walk us thro