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good evening. tomorrow, the man who many expected to give the former president s toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida s governor, ron desantis, getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching the campaign in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. his opponent s former favorite megaphone. which he used in 2016, of course, to pummel the rest of the republican field, including former florida senator, marco rubio, and floor jeb bush, who you turn first into a verbal punching bag, then a campaign punchline, and finally, a political footnote. in a moment randi kaye looks ahead to whether governor desantis will do any better against those kind of tactics. first, the kind of political waters he is about to jump into. in one way, they may appear promising for a republican candidate. the current president s job approval, now stands at 40%. a new cnn polling out late today. and with the debt ceiling crisis coming to a head, that ....
of francisco oropeza, or oropeza, armed and dangerous, it reads, deported four times after entering the country illegally, federal sources tell cnn. and there at the bottom, the number to dial if you have any information on his whereabouts. one-800-call-fbi. there s also a web address, tips. fbi. gov, and an 80,000 dollar reward. this for the man authorities say shot five people to death at a neighbor s home outside houston friday night. shortly after, the neighbor, wilson garcia, asked oropeza to stop firing his gun so his baby could sleep. minutes later, mr. garcia s wife, his nine-year-old son, and three others were shot dead. cnn s ed lavandera joins us now with the very latest. ed, what are you hearing tonight? john, tonight, friends and neighbors are gathered outside of the crime scene, where five people were shot and killed friday night. and family members, and the people who survived this bloody rampage have described in the last day the frantic 9-1-1 calls th ....
now we expect that they are going to meet on tuesday, next week, to make a decision about how to go forward. hold on a second. next tuesday? why are you meeting seven days from now? the fact is that the house is on recess right now and kevin mccarthy, the house speaker, is a broad. so as soon that they are going to be able to get together and have this conversation is next tuesday. that is exactly right. a lot of lawmakers, including mitt romney today argued why are we waiting so long? this is an emergency, we know congress takes time to figure these things out, we need to be on the sooner. hadn t president biden said he was not going to meet? i don t know if he ever stated that, but the feeling was that he was not going to meet with mccarthy because he didn t feel that the republicans were negotiating with good faith. what had been the holdup until now? one of the arguments the white house had made was that they were not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling ....
of staff mark meadows testified that he knew the mob he was about to incite and send marching to the capital was armed. i was in the vicinity where i heard a conversation and the president said something to the effect of, i don t care that they have weapons. cassidy hutchinson testifying under oath about that. she testified to the president s eagerness to join the mob at the capitol. also, his counsel s horror at the prospect and his fears being charged with, according to her, every crime imaginable. hard to imagine what happens next. in a moment, stephanie murphy will be handling some of the questions. first, new reporting on what to expect tomorrow and also an item on what the former white house counsel was asked about in testimony on friday. we are joined now. what have you learned about patsy pallone s testimony? everybody wants to know what he told the committee during his lengthy deposition. he was with the committee for more than seven hours, i should say. ....
floats. then it just opened up, that familiar, you know, semi gunfire. just a rain of shots. nbc s rehema ellis has been monitoring this. rehema, what do we know right now? reporter: not much more than what you talked about, steve, because this is unfolding as we speak. you pointed out the police are looking for a suspect. this event happened, this mass shooting happened just a short while after the fireworks, the fourth of july festivities, were getting under way. as you reported, there are reports of several people who were shot. we do not at this point have an exact number of how many people were shot or if any people were killed in this incident. as one person was saying there that we just heard from, people were enjoying a fourth of july festivity, a parade, in highland park. this is a community about 25 miles north of chicago. when they heard these sounds ring out. the guy was saying there, you heard a pop, pop, pop, and he said it was like a rain of shots tha ....