Good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin this busy hour with a 2024 race for the white house, with both candidates hitting the trail after tuesdays critical debate. Today, former President Trump is out west at his Golf Course in Los Angeles County to fundraise before hosting a rally in Las Vegas tonight. Hes also set to hold what his campaign is calling a Press Conference in the next hour. The Harris Walz Campaign is also stepping up its Ground Game with the Vice President back in Battleground Pennsylvania today. Her running mate, governor tim walz is making stops in michigan and wisconsin. It marks a major push by both campaigns after this Weeks Showdown on the Debate Stage. Vice president is already calling for another debate, while trump appears less inclined. I believe we owe it to another debate. Right . We owe it to the voters. Because heres the thing, in this election, whats at stake could not be more important. So because we have
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his information. there s not the votes for it. what we dough know is in seven of the last ten negotiations on the debt limit, there s been budget dairy reforms. so 70% of the time, the debt limit gets lifted. there s been a discussion, conversation around and a negotiation about budgetary and policy reforms. that s what needs to happen this time. that s supported by the american people. 65% of the american people believe that you shouldn t raise the debt limit without doing something about the debt. that s what the american people are. cleary that s where we are. i hope that in the next few days hopefully by the time when this meeting happens on may 9 we can see serious and real progress or else the administration will be the first administration ever to have to deal with a default on the debt. a clean debt limit is not going to happen. i think they need to understand that. get serious about sitting down at the table. if the x day is june 1, that brings an additional sense of
administration. kentucky, the kentucky legislature overrode the governor s veto, a bill that restricts aspects of trans youth, gender affirming care and the use of bathrooms. i know the white house released a proclamation for trans day on visibility. there s a march happening tomorrow to commemorate this day, also to protest these types of bills that are continuing to be passed in advanced in legislatures across the country. what is the white house s message to these lawmakers that are passing these bills and those taking to the streets to protest them. we support peaceful protest. we think it s important for americans and people just across the country to make their voices heard just as long as its faceful. we ve been very clear about these anti-lgbtq bills in legislatures across the country, the anti-trans bills as they attack trans kids, attack trans parents. it s shameful. it s unacceptable. as you mentioned, tomorrow s trans visibility day on a day that we should be
on today s program, amidst the utter political and economic chaos in the united kingdom, liz truss resigns, becoming the shortest tenured prime minister in that country s history. i m resigning as leader of the conservative party. what happens now? i ll ask the economist quest editor in chief. then, next week, benjamin netanyahu might get a third stint as israel s prime minister. today, you ll hear from him about iran s nuclear program, israel s relations with its neighbors, his own relations with vladamir putin. i wouldn t call it a love affair, but i would call it a question of interest. and more. also the protests in iran have now been going on for more than a month. and show no signs of slowing. i ll get the big picture from robin wright of the new yorker, who calls this the world s first women-led counterrevolution. but first, here s my take. in late 1992, i started my first full-time job as managing editor of foreign affairs. i remember sorting through