pounding in key races coast to coast, yet he somehow sees this as the right moment to start the next campaign. let s find out why, kristen holmes live for us in west palm beach. what is the rationale behind now? reporter: well, that s a good question, john. we talk about the right moment. many of his aides and advisers believe this certainly was not the right moment. they said that he didn t have the momentum after those lackluster midterm results and they were urging him to wait until at least after the georgia runoff saying that if herschel walker loses trump would be blamed and indicates if he jumped in, warnock s fund-raising numbers, the democratic opponent, would go up immediately. however, that being said, donald trump, we are told by aides, is all in. he is going to announce this third presidential run, and he is entering this period on the defensive. it s not just the midterm results. we ve also heard from a number of other republicans in the last several days who have said
but when you talk to those around donald trump, they say that he is pointing to 2015 and 2016. time where he says he was largely written off by other republicans and the mainstream media and yet was able to take the white house in 2016. one thing to point out here is i talked to a number of allies across the country who are concerned that trump doesn t have that same magnetism he had in 2015, 2016 that carried him to the white house, particularly given his focus on election denialism, which largely fizzled during tuesday s midterms. so that s one thing to note here. the other thing i want to point out. there s another reason that he is announcing now. that is to clear the field. it is becoming more apparent this is going to be likely a big republican field in 2024. he wants to get out there, kind of suck some of that oxygen out of there and secure down his voters before some of those other big gop heavy hitters get involved. john. kristen holmes live for us in west palm beach. big ni
later today he s likely to become the gop nominee for speaker. that is because he only needs a simple majority of his own party. the real test is going to come in january. that s when he needs a majority of the entire house or 218 floor votes. as we first reported on cnn, congressman andy bigs, a trump acolyte is preparing to challenge mccarthy not because he s a serious candidate or a assessor contender but because he wants to represent the anti-mccarthy vote. the hope is they want to show mccarthy how vulnerable he is, how he doesn t have the 218 votes and force him to the negotiating table. so far kevin mccarthy has been really resistant to make any promises or give in to those demands, but this is a numbers game, john. ultimately if they do take the house with a razor thin majority, these members are going to have leverage. those members know that, ken mccarthy knows that, and so i suspect in the next few weeks, you re going to see kevin mccarthy hunkering down, trying to cut deals
another day for president biden in ball i, indonesia. the war in ukraine one of the big focuses behind the scenes. leaders there said to be considering a draft resolution that condemns russia s war. russian president vladimir putin notably absent at the g20. cnn s mj lee joins us live from bali. missile strikes across the krngts m.j., as the president and others try to work on a resolution. what are you hearing? reporter: yeah, john, we are seeing this vivid split screen today of these missile strikes across ukraine on the same day that global leaders kicked off the g20 sum nmit to discuss in large part the war in ukraine, both the destruction that we ve seen across the country throughout the year, but also the global economic and political and humanitarian impact that it has had across
presence or is he just sitting and listening? reporter: yeah, you know, vladimir putin ended up sort of being the elephant min the room except just not physically here. there was a lot of speculation leading up to the g20 summit on whether he would come, and whether he would not, and ultimately he did end up sending sergey lavrov instead, but even until yesterday, there was a lot of speculation and senior administration officials on the u.s. side were being asked questions about what would happen if he showed up virtually, for example, would there be a boycott. what kind of reaction would president biden have. and officials were basically saying that s a hypothetical we can t engage in. ultimately what we saw was president biden and other leaders discussing putin and the very war that he started without him being actually here. john. mj lee live for us on the ground at the g20 in bali. president biden praising a new report back here in washington that shows inflation shows signs