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a superstar for the ages, and we reflect in a moment on one of the biggest voices and losses in music history. but first, we begin tonight with the breaking development in the 2024 presidential race. the man who is viewed by many pundits as the biggest threat to donald trump to the republican nomination. he just made it official in a post on trump s old turf, twitter. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. and commons s can no longer be an uncommon virtue. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i am ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american come back. but ron desantis s big announcement tonight went a little bit south from there. a very rocky start to his formal bid, with major glitches plaguing his planned conversation with twitter spaces ceo elon musk, an audio form that had some major technical difficulties, and the moderator blamed heavy traffic. the florida governor s ....
trump for the gop presidential nomination? think about it. he s a former president, essentially a gop incumbent, who is consistently polling around 50% of the gop vote in the polls. and we learned in 2016 that give continue hard core support that trump enjoys from some, he s the beneficiary of a large field. remember, in that cycle there were so many running that debates, they had a kids table. this time trump announced first and then nikki haley, and then vivek ramaswamy, larry elder, asa hutchinson, tim scott, and now ron desantis, who, by the way, is only 44 years old. by biden/trump standards, he s got three more decades to run for president. so why run now? why get into the steel cage with a wrestler who always carries a foreign object? mike pence said he ll soon make a decision. chris christie sounds like a candidate. even glenn younk gkin is taking second look. what s going on? maybe they don t think they ll have to beat trump. that will be done by a combination ....
biden expected to arrive in japan this hour for the g7 summit. we re live in hiroshima with a look at why this is a shortened overseas trip for the president. looking at live pictures there in fact. plus, new evidence in the special counsel s criminal investigation of donald trump s handling of classified documents. details on cnn s exclusive new reporting. and we are learning more about the paparazzi chase of harry and meghan in new york. we re live in london on what the royal couple s team is calling near catastrophic. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. u.s. president joe biden is in japan this hour ahead of a summit of the world s leading democracies. we re just waiting for him to land at this moment. this is a live picture. g7 leaders are expected to discuss the war in ukraine and how to counter china s growing influence around the world. but mr. biden has canceled visits to australia and pap ....
hopefuls, and potential candidates that say that trump should never step foot in the oval office again. that is where former or concern governor asa hutchinson, former new jersey governor chris christie, and new hampshire governor chris sununu land. more candidates with less name recognition are also jumping in with various platforms. for his part, desantis travels to another early nominating state. that s tomorrow, when he visits new hampshire. here now, with his take on the road to 2024, michael starr connick, host of smerconish, here on cnn and of the michael smerconish program on sirius xm. michael, governor desantis has said all of these things, saying the donald trump can t win, but he and joe biden might. do you buy it? hi, sarah, first of all. thank you for having me. ron desantis would seemingly have a very strong hand, right? florida governor, he s going to be very well funded. he s got organizational support and a lot of endorsements. maybe we ve seen this ....
liable for sexual abuse. desantis is driving home his record of turning culture war issues into laws. then there s nikki haley and senator tim scott, calling for a return to true conservatism, without directly attacking donald trump. former vice president mike pence worked in the trump presidency but also became a target of it, said he too wants to return back to the party s original roots. and there are those presidential hopefuls and potential candidates who said trump should never step foot in the oval office again. that is where asa hutchinson, former new jersey governor chris christie, and new jersey governor chris sununu land. more candidates, with less name recognition, are also jumping in with various platforms. for his part, desantis travels to another early nominating state tomorrow when he visits new hampshire. here now, with his take on the road to 2024, michael smerconish, host of smir connish here on cnn and of the michael smerconish program. desantis ....