[crowd chanting u.s.a.] all right, we got to do a show. all right. we re broadcasting live from beautiful west palm beach in the free state of florida, and in just 12 days, you ll decide the future of our great republic. tonight in just a moment we ll be joined by governor ron desantis, florida s first la lady, casey desantis will be with us. any marco rubio fans in the house? marco rubio will be here. senator rick scott will be here. rick scott fans here? all right. both desantis and rubio are poised for massive election day. governor desantis is up by a whopping 14 points in a university of north florida poll. the same poll shows senator rubio up by seven points over democrat/radical/socialist/lef tist leftist. tonight, momentum is absolutely for the republicans. we start with a lot of good news tonight. it s not unique to florida. new poll by rasmussen out today, yesterday, hershel walker was up by two points. as of today, rasmussen has herschel up by five. in north caro
as a progressive place. then there s the future of democracy itself today, with the republican party, in some places like arizona, deciding through its voters tonight whether the party s nominees for top jobs are backers of the big lie of baseless election fraud claims, of attacks on the way we do nonpartisan democracy in this country, with trump encoursed candidates currently viewed as front-runners, including a maga governor candidate who s pushing claims of fraud, kari lake. those who do stand up to trump, including three who threatened to voted to impeach president trump. there s more at stake than a typical primary night, and a lot more issues. as the political guru s de la soul put it, issues close like an elevator door but open once we get to the next floor. as the stakes is high, you know the stakes is high. fact check, true. the stakes is high. it is primary election day in missouri, and several high profile races could help bring voter out to the polls. histor
there are the military costs, the billions of dollars spent, the cities destroyed and the territories seized. the military, the lives lost, the refugees forced from their homes, the disruption to daily lives for ukrainians living in the shadow of putin s war, not to mention the spike in food and and energy costs beyond the theater of war, and these costs all continue to mount. this week, the u.s. pledged nearly $3 billion in additional security aid to ukraine. this comes as putin decreed in the size of the military as well. after half a year of war, what would it bring to bring this conflict to a close? i want to speak to john kirby now. admiral kirby, thank you for taking the time to be with us this morning. great to be with you, jim. first let s begin with the state of the war a half year in. the u.s. has given its biggest military package so far, and you increasingly hear from ukrainians not just about defending ground or defending territory, but we re seeing them atta
request to represent trump. that should be interesting. we have a report on how top republican ron desantis lost a free speech case. by the end of the hour, the beat will go full happy days. henry winkler, our special guest tonight on fallback friday. our top story is the escalation in the probe in georgia where rudy giuliani is being questioned. a judge is telling graham comply. ordering testimony, which the d.a. says will be crucial because of what graham knows. he will not be allowed to delay the revelation of relevant witnesses. georgia is something of an epicenter of more than one of the plots we have been covering for you that you see here. on the left you have some of the plots technically legal like filing lawsuits or the beginning of the electors scandal which turned into something that might be illegal. georgia has several of those red arrows, overthrowing votes, trying to install fraudulent electors. it s eyeing witnesses, lawyers who might not be as well-known
were missed. and the shooter should have been stopped. but, in the back drop of all of this, joe biden, the candidate, ran on uniting the country and bringing us out of a funk but that s not what s happened. record high gas prices and inflation have shattered the country s confidence and pocketbooks. a crime wave it and an open border are among our top concerns and now a baby formula shortage has pushed this president s approval rating into the 30 s. tonight, he has an opportunity to strike a different note and seize the moment. peter doocy is at the white house now. what can we expect, peter? pete: it s interesting ahead of this address, jesse. white house officials were boasting that president biden has beaten the gun lobby before when he was in congress. but, as it turns out, he is not sharing any of this insight that he gained battling the gun lobby in congress with the lawmakers he is now counting on to pass some sort of legislation. if people are dying every day.