florida governor ron desantis announcing his 2024 white house bid tonight on twitter, in a conversation with twitter owner elaine musk. but they did have some technical glitches and crashes the forehand and sara fischer is covering this story for us. sara fischer, i joke before in the last hour that elon musk has had easier rocket launches than this launch of governor desantis s presidential announcement. what went wrong, what happened, to derail this? i think you had huge volume. they have had twitter spaces before, alisyn, that had a lot of listeners. the one that he did with bbc i think it had up to 3 million people listening up at the same time okay. but the problem is, they had so many people coming in at the same time, in part and we were just talking about this because folks like elon musk that have massive followers he has over 100 million people that follow him when they tweeted out the link, it exposed this event to so many more people then typ
clock to january 20, 2025, at high noon because on the west side of the u.s. capitol i will be taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the united states. no excuses, i will get the job done. well, that was one of the few moments where in you could actually hear ron desantis as he attempted to announce his presidential campaign last night on twitter spaces. we ll have much more from the glitch filled launch. also ahead there s still no deal on the debt ceiling, but a republican leader in the house told lawmakers they can go ahead and leave for memorial day even as the clock ticks. plus, he proudly put his feet up on a desk in nancy pelosi s office on january 6th, and now he s going to spend years in prison for his actions that day. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 25th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. ron desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race, but what should have been a historic mo
i m amara walker. i m boris sanchez. thank you for starting your week and spending part of your morning with us. there is plenty to get to this sunday. here is what we re watching. i think this is an effort that s ongoing never ending to destroy donald trump, everything around donald trump. politicians on both sides of the aisle reacting to the news that former president trump could be indicted this week. how trump s team and new york officials are preparing for that possibility and potential fallout. also, russian president vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to the russian occupied city of mariupol days ahead of a high stakes meeting with president xi jinping. ivan watson is standing by in ukraine with more. what would you say the weight of the job is? you hold people s lives in your hands. following a series of close calls at the nation s airports, cnn is getting an up close look how the next generation of air traffic controllers are training to keep us safe
hello everyone, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we continue to follow major new developments involving former president trump. trump now saying he expects to be arrested on tuesday and is calling for protests. he made the announcement today in a social media post lashing out at the manhattan district attorney s office, which has invited him to testify before a grand jury. the arrest would be part of their investigation into alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels during the 2016 election. in the post, trump called for protests over his pending arrest to, quote, take a nation back. this development comes as sources tell cnn that law enforcement agencies in new york are also now preparing for the possible indictment of trump. cnn s polo sandoval is outside the manhattan criminal courthouse for us. to katelyn first. what do we know about the possible arrest the former president has been posting on social media about? he
calling on people to protest. he expects to be indicted on tuesday on his truth social page today the former president urged supporters to, quote, take back our nation, ahead of what he says is his expected arrest days from now. he went on to say, they re killing our nation as we sit back and watch. we must save america and protest. but he appears to be speculating. the prosecutors are wrapping up the investigation into hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels. we have learned there is at least one witness still expected to testify on monday. sources tell my colleague kristin holmes and i that trump s legal team has gotten no word from the manhattan da s office of any timing of a poe tpgsal indictment. if he is indicted the trumped team would be notified and likely negotiate any surrender and court appearance. the former president has been pushing his team to get the base riled up over the idea of a possible indictment because he believes it would help him politic