the president makes it official. he s running for re-election. we made a lot of progress. let s finish the job. most voters think he s still better than the alternative. plus historic testimony. this is an astonishing moment in our legal and political history. like pence testified before a grand jury investigating trump s efforts to overturn the election. are prosecutors moving closer to indicting the former president? and desantis versus disney. the days of putting one company on a pedestal are over. the would-be presidential candidate may have picked a fight he can t win. so why doesn t he just let it go, let it go welcome to inside politics, i m manu raju in for abby phillip. this morning president biden wakes up marking the end of his very first week as an official 2024 candidate. biden launched his re-election bid on tuesday setting up a battle which he must convince voters that he deserves to remain in the white house for another four years. now
Raise the debt ceiling and then we will have funding discussions if you want. but we won t do them at the same time. think i question on the hill is how tenable is this position. we re getting closer to this x day. it could be in june or july or in a week or two we should hear more from treasury and know when that date is. but if you look at mccarthy, did he pass this, you re right. but he to reopen it at the last minute after vowing woe not to get the votes. and this is the easiest thing that he will do in this process. it is loaded up with republican goodies. so i think you look at this and if your mccarthy, you know that this is not what is going to be passed into law. this is not the final bill. but you re think, okay, i used a lot to get this across the finish line and how do i maneuver from here. and the white house said no negotiations over the debt limit. and the question is how long will that position be tenable? a number of moderate democrats like jarmd goaden of maine told