states and all around the world. i m paula newton, and ahead here on cnn newsroom. ron desantis s big announcement. yes, the glitchy beginning to a campaign that has donald trump in team biden trolling. but is there a pathway to the presidency for florida s governor? the u.s. territory of guam, clobbered by a cat four typhoon. live on the island where power is out, water has been cut and there is still assessing the damage. plus the queen of rock and roll tina turner dead at the age of 83. we will discuss the impact that she had on music, pop culture and curl power. with one of the industry s top writers. we begin with the 2024 race for the white house and it has a new candidate, florida governor ron desantis, the 44-year-old republican posted this announcement on twitter just a few minutes before a live chat with the platforms owner elon musk. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. in common sense can no longer be an u
we begin with breaking news, florida governor ron desantis announcing on twitter that he is running for president. but the live stream events with elon musk do not go according to plan. it was plagued with technical problems and delayed for nearly 30 minutes. if you tuned in when it was supposed to start you would ve heard silence, and then after about 12 minutes of that, you would have heard this. so, let s see. keeps crashing, ha? i think we ve got a massive number of people online. so services are straining. that was elon musk saying that the servers are straining somewhat. then there was silence again. the former president is already mocking the governor s debut. still a statesman thing i m comparable silences, glitches, a complete failure to launch, and that s just the candidate. jessica dean joins us now from miami. last night of the program we talked about how a live event on twitter with elon musk could either be compelling or a train wreck. it certainly start
it s 4:00 in washington d.c. a hail mary move by the disgraced ex-president that serves as an indication that special counsel jack smith may well be close to making a decision on whether or not to indict donald trump. we re at donald trump s dear attorney general, the special counsel is being mean to me phase. make no mistake we have been here before. late yesterday lawyers for the ex-president asked for a meeting with merrick garland. the letter itself was brief, filled with the usual trump rhetoric about being persecuted despite the fact that the ex-president is the one who has resisted handing over some of the nation s most sensitive intelligence secrets. documents he kept just one lock, one door away from hundreds of people at his pay for membership club to the government who rightfully owned the documents and asked for them back. the new york times says the letter asserts that trump is treated unfairly in the investigations led by jack smith. the washington post is r
shooting in texas. # is simply the best, better than all the rest. and tributes to the queen of rock and roll, tina turner, who has died at the age of 83. if great to have you with us. we begin with the us presidential race. ron desantis has launched a bid for the 2024 presidential nomination and the chance to challengejoe biden. he is widely seen as donald trump s maine republican rival in the race for the white house. the former president remains the dominant force in the republican party. his announcement wasn t a surprise, but the way he made it was unorthodox, a conversation on twitter spaces with elon musk. i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american comeback. we know our country is going on the one direction, we see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones, our southern border has collapsed, drugs pouring into the country, city is hollowed out by spike in crime, the federal government making it harderfor the average family to make end
miami. the debt ceiling showdown and what we have just learned tonight about the talks today, no deal. house members will go home for the memorial day weekend. rachel scott is live. memorial day weather, we are tracking storms across several states in the south side of the system in florida set to move up the coast. we ll time this out through the holiday. rob marciano is here. tonight the remarkable medical breakthrough when it comes to spinal cord injuries. groundbreaking technology helping a paralyzed man walk again for the first time in more than a decade. implants in the brain and the spinal cord, using the power of thought now to walk again, to climb stairs. will reeve on what this could mean. the nation-state marking one year since the horrific school shooting into uvalde texas. what played out today in that community. and then the moment of silence at the white house. the young poet amanda gorman tonight pushing back. why a school in florida is now banning the poem sh