are at 4. the desantis campaign has just released a video making his formal announcement. let s take a look. the federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet. and the president flounders. but decline is a choice. success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for. writing the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. normalcy to our communities, and integrity to our institutions. truth must be our foundation. and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. in florida, we prove that it can be done. we chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. we held the line when freedom hung in the balance. we showed that we can and must revitalize america. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i m ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. bret: more on that in a bit. governor desantis now becomes the main challenger to former president trum
bank making it the second largest bank failure in u.s. history. third mid size bank to go under in less than two months in the u.s. the president insists taxpayers are not going to be footing the bill for this. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. tax day played a big role here. the treasury secretary is saying that they looked at recent federal tax receipts and realized that the u.s. is not going to have as much have enough money to pay its bills possibly as soon as june 1st. so, president biden did phone the big 4 congressional leaders they are requesting to have a meeting about this a week from tomorrow as the white house separately attempts to stabilize a shaky banking system. today s actions ensure the continued resilience of the banking system. the president had to update a script at a small business event to reassure markets about the fdic taking over first republic
tonight about immigrants at the border. the governor of texas is now launching a new tackle force there point fingers and do little else. jacqui heinrich at the white house with the president s slumping approval data and the latest on the expiration of title 42 we begin with correspondent bill melugin along the border in brownsville, texas. good night good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. texas governor greg abbott made a major announcement today saying is he going to be deploying several hundred elite texas soldiers down here to the southern border equipped with riot gear in an effort to block any mass migrant crossings into his state. is as we are now just three days away from the end of title # 2 and, already, we are seeing record high illegal crossings. president biden s open border policies is going to cause a catastrophic disaster. bill: today, texas governor greg abbott announced the formation of a new elite border response force made up of hundr
serious foreign policy challenges from china to russia to ukraine and a sputtering economy here at home. his poll numbers are not good. even a majority of democrats tell pollsters he should not run for a second term. but the campaign is launched. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. the president hasn t yet commented on his own re-election bid. reporters weren t allowed close enough today to ask. and officials wouldn t weigh in on what factored into his decision-making citing the hatch act. but the white house calculus seems to be that biden can win voter support in 2024 the same way did he in 2020. with a campaign that happens mostly online. >it s time to finish the job. finish the job. the president s first audience since announcing re-election bid giving a warm election. [chanting four more years] but this campaign isn t shaping up to be about what biden has but
bret: but breaking tonight, a pair of journalists who were permitted to see through sources internal communications at twitter testified today before a house committee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. republicans who control that committee are trying to show a link between censorship of conservatives, the biden administration, and the fbi. democrats today tried to pushback in a fiery hearing. correspondent david spunt takes a look tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. good evening to you. today s hearing delivered on a promise from house republicans to expose what was going on at twitter behind the scenes leading up to and after the 2020 election and, as we expected today, things got tense. can discuss. no one has yielded the gentle lady is out of order. and she is out of order because he interrupted. gentle lady is not recognized. you are not recognized. he has not said that. the new house subcommittee on the w