the whole campaign and not have to answer tough questions, well, then we may be in danger of seeing a democrat sweep in 2024. steve: all right. good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city and we start this wednesday morning with the race for the white house. the republican presidential primary heating up with former president donald trump expected to arrive in iowa today. ainsley: yeah. that s right. his visit to the hawkeye state comes just a day after florida s governor ron desantis kicked off his great american comeback tour. brian: right. here we go. lucas tomlinson joins us now to set the table. lucas? good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. first visit to iowa as a presidential candidate. florida governor ron desantis vowed to fix the border once and for all. i m frustrated on things like the border because i have been listening to these politicians talk about securing the border for years and years and years. i could tell you if i m president, th
this deal fails completely. this is a career defining vote for every republican. this group will oppose it. we will continue to fight it today, tomorrow and no matter what happens, there s going to be a reckoning. while you were celebrating memorial day, all of our men and women that gave their lives for this great nation and you spent time with your family and friends, this town was cutting another crap deal that will put you more in debt with no real changes whatsoever. that was byron donalds. he s here in moment. first to chad pergram that just spoke with speaker mccarthy. chad? good afternoon. kevin mccarthy believes he will have the votes. but some republicans are skeptical. he is struggling to sell this plan to some members of the gop. the idea that we fought so hard to get those work requirements and welfare reform, or the idea that you can make the president, if he wants to add a new regulation, that now he has to offset that, we haven t had that before. s
american comeback. we know the country s on the wrong track. we see it with our eyes. we feel tonight our bones. what i will do is help restore normalcy to our communities, integrity to our institutions, and sanity to our society. we need to win again as republicans. we ve got to dispense with this culture of losing. and if you nominate me, i pledge to you that on january 20, 2025, at high noon, that i ll be the guy on the west side of the capitol with the left hand on the bible and the right hand in the air taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the united states. why now? i think it s because the country s going in the wrong direction. we have another four years of the biden administration, i think some of the damage is going to be irreversible. sean: that was governor desantis right here on fox just moments ago. earlier today his live twitter announcement with elon musk, that did not go well after twitter had one technical glitch after another, but ron desant
delaying desantis s big announcement and driving away most of the audience before he could get a word out. todd: doug luzader live in washington. doug: this is a first, live on twitter space platform, delayed for 20 minutes, as the host, including twitter ceo elon musk, had to vamp. i m pleased to introduce to individuals who have done more to all right, sorry about that, we ve got so many people here that i think we are melting the twitter verse, which is a good sign. let s see. we on? yeah, i think so. doug: the biden campaign mocked the rollout and former president trump called it a disaster. but desantis thought it was demonstration of the governor s popularity and later appearing on fox news, desantis tried to turn the focus back to president biden. we know the country is on the wrong track and we have a president who is listless vessel, not energetic and not dealing with key challenges facing our country. this does not have to be this way, our decline is n
and plus, preparing for the surge. title 42 is going to end this week, and leaders are warning of the chaos that could follow. we will look at what is being done a ed hd of the phone shall influx. we are following these major developing stories and more coming into cnn news central. devastation once again, and now a desperate search for answers, some answers in texas after 33-year-old gunman attacked innocent people saturday at a mall. he killed eight, wounded at least seven, and today, we are learning more about the perpetrator. he was armed with a ar-15 and carried several magazines is and wore a patch linked to right wing extremism, and now we know that he lasted three months in the army before he was terminated due to mental health concerns. cnn s josh campbell goinging to join us from allen, texas. you have new details about two of the victims? that is right, jim. this is obviously never gets easy talking about these massacres. we are now learning that two of the v