the president makes it official. he s running for re-election. we made a lot of progress. let s finish the job. most voters think he s still better than the alternative. plus historic testimony. this is an astonishing moment in our legal and political history. like pence testified before a grand jury investigating trump s efforts to overturn the election. are prosecutors moving closer to indicting the former president? and desantis versus disney. the days of putting one company on a pedestal are over. the would-be presidential candidate may have picked a fight he can t win. so why doesn t he just let it go, let it go welcome to inside politics, i m manu raju in for abby phillip. this morning president biden wakes up marking the end of his very first week as an official 2024 candidate. biden launched his re-election bid on tuesday setting up a battle which he must convince voters that he deserves to remain in the white house for another four years. now
during the height of the pandemic. we ll go live to the white house with the latest. and also ahead the republican primary race in pennsylvania is still too close to call. and we may not know the results until june. but until then, former president trump is urging his candidate to declare victory right now. before all of the votes have been counted. will dr. oz bend to trump s demands. we ll have steve kornacki at the big board on where the race stands exactly. plus trouble on wall street. as the biggest loss in nearly two years and the futures are pointing toward another rocky day ahead. we ll take a look at all of that. willie? also this hour, the prime minister of sweden and the president of finland are set to arrive at white house at any moment as they press forward in their bids to join nato. they will meet with president biden after the president issued a statement supporting the bids of those two nordic nations. prooish stated that the u.s. will provide defense sup
Me he needs to negotiate and people like mitt romney calling saying they ll stick with the house republican position and demand this negotiation. can the white house sustain that level of pressure? that is the key question around this. i think we see an increasing amount of that moderate slice of democrats trying to bring the white house to the negotiating table but that is not the party at large. they re trying to allow prooish president biden to maintain that position and as the default gets closer an the fear that democrats will be blamed for any type of financial economic downturn, that would put an increased set of pressure on the white house to come to the negotiating table. but i think when we look from the election side, where i sit, this all kind of adds up to the brinksmanship feeling that people feel about dysfunction in washington and that is part of the thing that biden said he would try to solve. exactly. there is a political pressure on him to make washington work
Prooish stated that the u.s. will provide defense support to both countries while applications will be processed including navy war ships into the baltic sea and air force bombers over scandinavian and training with swedish troops helping to thwart against possible russian cyberattacks. and the u.s. now is officially reopening the embassy in kyiv. operations are limit sod far. only a small group of about 100 employees will return for the time being. american diplomats to ukraine currently are working from poland but have made day trips to ukraine in recent weeks. at same time here at home, the senate voted unanimously to confirm bridget brink. she will be the first diplomat to fill the post in ukraine since 2019. when former president trump ordered the removal of then