never not dealing with it. what if it were easier for you to deal with pets than with people ? i can t imagine living without dogs. and what if you went from endurance athletes to wheelchair bound in just six months? you realize oh, this isn t going the way this is my life, you know? how would you cope? tonight we ll meet three people who overcame their odds by doing something that you might think is a joke. we re setting out on a strange trip. but stick with us. it s all about to make sense. think back on your childhood for a moment. do you remember the first time you saw mickey? how excited you were on your face? do you remember watching cartoons as a kid and the happiness that brought you entire industries have been built on this. on having kids experienced this magic. but what if you never grew out of that feeling? there are people whose affinity for animal characters never went away. people like lindsey. you okay? you sure? yes the first thing i notice about her is that
leader, the first time biden will take questions from reporters since launching his reelection campaign. he took questions last month alongside justin trudea, hasn t held a news conference in six months. questions mount about the president s age and ability to perform the duties of the job and whether vice president harris is the best choice to succeed him, should biden not be able to complete his term. just yesterday karine jean-pierre refused to say if biden planned to serve all eight years. does the president plan to serve all eight years? i m just not going to get ahead of the president, that is something for him to decide. i will not get ahead of it. there is a 2024 campaign and anything related to that, i refr you to that. kayleigh: didn t take long for the clean-up on aisle five, tweeting less than an hour later, we take the law seriously, i wanted to be sure i didn t go into 2024 more than appropriate under the law. if re-elected, president biden would serve all
time announcing he is running for a second term and mark his first formal news conference in more than a month. this one to be two questions per side. sandra: all comes amid reports biden s advisers tend to shield him for his re-election campaign, to avoid unscripted comments that they have had to walk back. nikki haley is joining us exclusively on america reports. john: marc thiessen is standing by and peter, no surprise, the president once again running behind schedule. only about an hour, as far as these things go with the visiting head of state and dignitaries and press that travel with them, it s not so bad, but targeting 1:30 or so start for the rose garden press conference and the white house defense of the lack of press conferences from president biden has been well, he often entertains shouted questions. the reason this event this afternoon is significant is because people are not going to have to shout, somebody from the white house will bring a microphone u
sometimes bad things happen to really good people. i just saw a flash of guns and two men in masks blasted through the front door won t go away had no place to process what had happened. i was panicking about dying. across america, rates of depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder are hitting epidemic levels. individual suffering multiplied times millions. that s a lot of suffering. for so many mainstream medicines are the solution tried a minimum of 16 different antidepressants on me, and none of them work. but something can answer to our psychic pain has been within reach all along. or non tune in and dropped. i ve always known that psychedelic drugs were driving force behind the counter culture. but now even mainstream research hubs like new york university and the johns hopkins center for psychedelic research are exploring their healing power. what we re talking about is a new field of medicine called psychedelic psychotherapy , mdm, a psilocybin ketamine. t
win over unthuziastic democrats and taking digs at his former and potentially future opponent donald trump. a rape allegation lawsuit against trump goes to trial with opening statements in new york. we will have the latest on e. jean carroll s civil case against the former president and trump s defense. and in war-torn sudan, americans are a part of an urgent race to flee the country as bursts of violence mara fragile u.s. ceasefire. this amid fierce of a biological nightmare after paramilitary forces seize a public health lab. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the 2024 race for the white house is taking shape in a big way tonight with president biden s official campaign launch. his announcement video driving home team biden s strategy, if an historic rematch with donald trump actually becomes a reality. let s begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent phil mattingl