that florida governor ron desantis will challenge donald trump for the republican presidential nomination. it comes on a day the company he has targeted, disney, decided to hit him with a billion dollar blow. i ll have more on what disney just announced shortly. but on desantis run, sources are telling cnn he ll be filing the paperwork next week. he had a call late today with donors and supporters, and a new york times reporter listened in. i m going to read a quote from that new york times story which begins with something desantis said on the call. you basically have three people credible in this whole thing, mr. desantis said on the call, organized by the superpac supporting him, biden, trump and me. of the two, two have a chance to be elected, biden and me. the times said he is basing that on swing state data which he describes as not great for the former president, quote, and probably insurmountable because people aren t going to change their view of him. which is
solidarity with other industries. while this incident came about spontaneously, they did find that organizers from amazon and starbucks unions showed up to help them and vice versa. sneets. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka witfield. president biden will be meeting with president zelenskyy at the g7 summit in japan. ukraine already scored a key victory after the u.s. has signalled it will now permit allies to send f-16 fighter jets to the war-torn nation. other g7 leaders issued a statement of support, saying, quote, we reaffirm our unwavering support for ukraine for as long as it takes. high on the agenda, western leaders are also weighing in on how to confront china s increasing military power. phil mattingly is in hiroshima, japan. what can we expect from this highly anticipated meeting between biden and zelenskyy? reporter: you know, the symbolism is obvious. we ve seen it not just here in hiroshima, but also over the course of the last ten days with pr
the republican nomination. it comes on a day the company he has targeted, disney, decided to hit him with a billion dollar blow. we will have more on what disney just naturally. but on desantis s run sources of telling cnn he will file paperwork next week. medical today were donors and supporters. a new york times report or listened in. i m going to read you a quote from that new york times story. it begins with something ron desantis said on the call. quote, you have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing, mr. desantis told donors on the call, organized by the super pac supporting him, never back down. quote, biden, trump and me. and i think of those three, to have a chance to get elected president. biden and me. now, according to the times he went on to say that he s basing that on swing state data which he described as not great for the former president, quote, and probably insurmountable, because people are not going to change their vie
trans? because it breaks down the family unit and traditional conservative values and it changes the way that people think, the way that people handle politics. reporter: of course, there s no evidence of a coordinated plot to make kids trans. when i hear those thoughts about some sort of concerted effort to make people gay, does it sound like a conspiracy theory to you? it
attribute something you don t think, but to me it sounds like you re saying there is some kind of high-level coordinated effort to make more children trans and gay. yep. reporter: well, who is directing that? teachers unions and our president and a lot of funding sources, and teachers unions are also heavily backing the curriculum that we re bringing into coschools. reporter: why would they want more kids to be gay and trans? because it breaks down the family unit which breaks down traditional conservative values. it breaks down a lot of things in the country. it changes the way that people think. it changes the way people handle politics. reporter: of course there is no evidence of a coordinated plot to make kids trans. when i hear those thoughts about like some sort of concerted effort to make people gay, does it sound like a conspiracy theory to you? it s not a conspiracy theory that this state, whether you re talking about colorado or the federal government is taking