leader, the first time biden will take questions from reporters since launching his reelection campaign. he took questions last month alongside justin trudea, hasn t held a news conference in six months. questions mount about the president s age and ability to perform the duties of the job and whether vice president harris is the best choice to succeed him, should biden not be able to complete his term. just yesterday karine jean-pierre refused to say if biden planned to serve all eight years. does the president plan to serve all eight years? i m just not going to get ahead of the president, that is something for him to decide. i will not get ahead of it. there is a 2024 campaign and anything related to that, i refr you to that. kayleigh: didn t take long for the clean-up on aisle five, tweeting less than an hour later, we take the law seriously, i wanted to be sure i didn t go into 2024 more than appropriate under the law. if re-elected, president biden would serve all
thousands of people cut off from the mainland 6789 the only way to get there, air, helicopter or boat. you see semitrucks bringing supplies, we re moving as fast as we can, we are here to support as long as needed. carley: alexandria hoff joins us live from fort myers beach. what an experience. the pictures look like a bomb went off. what did you learn? alex: how complicated it has been to get to people in need, those in barrier islands that have been completely cut off. recovery operation or the operation to get to some form of state of recovery, 24 hours ongoing and quite impressive. latest numbers, 430,000 floridians still without power, down from 2.6 million and hardest hit places, though, they could be in the dark for weeks and months, some are anticipating. as number of those without power comes down, ian s death toll is rising. report of 78 deaths, 71 in florida, even survival plagued by trauma. a resident put it, it is the most horrible thing in the world really
deadly insurrection and that threatens to unravel our democracy, well, it s on the ballot in several states today in gop primaries that are just as much a measure of the trumpification of the republican party as they are a test of the disgraced ex-president s political power. in georgia, governor brian kemp and secretary of state brad raffensperger are facing primary challengers entirely because of their refusal to overturn the results of the 2020 election there. trump s conduct in georgia is notably under criminal investigation now. a pair of trump-backed candidates, that would be former senator david perdue and congressman jody hice are hoping to unseat republicans kemp and raffensperger. new york times reports this, quote, along with representative jody hice, david perdue is running a campaign that s almost single mindedly focused on trump s baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and in true trump style, perdue is ending a campaign that is staked
here is a question that you don t normally hear a candidate get asked that one of his final campaign stops before a presidential debate. are you worried about going to jail? no. are you worried about going to jail? that s a fair question. after all, the debate is on thursday and trump sentencing is exactly two weeks after that. let s hear the answer. no i m not worried at all we have a corrupt group of people. it is really working out. we just got the highest poll numbers we ever had. they cheat so much 10 points is not enough. we need to get more. if we don t win the country is finished. allow me to translate. if we don t win then i m worried about going to prison. he should be worried. as serious as the trump convictions are the more serious are still hanging out there. for all of this talk about a corrupt system he s getting a lot of help for now. take a look at exhibit a. after judge aileen canon was assigned to the classified documents case, two of her more ex
a hard truths about misinformation that even after it costed them in court, right wing outlets remain willing to do trumps bidding. remember the separation of church and state? we are going to louisiana for the worst of the week. the vast majority of americans say they believe lgbtq plus americans deserve equal rights. so why thpride month are we seeing and up taken hate? an uptick in hate? we begin this hour by taking you back to november 3, 2020. that was election night. donald trump was enjoying his lead in the swing states against joe biden. the mood was triumphant at the white house and at the fox headquarters in new york. then at 11 1:20 pm, all broke loose. what is this happening here? why is arizona blue? did we just call it? did we make the call in arizona? there s a checkmark did the decision desk make it? yes we can confirm. it was fox accurately calling arizona for joe biden which changed everything. they called the entire election for biden. angry vie