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that florida governor ron desantis will challenge donald trump for the republican presidential nomination. it comes on a day the company he has targeted, disney, decided to hit him with a billion dollar blow. i ll have more on what disney just announced shortly. but on desantis run, sources are telling cnn he ll be filing the paperwork next week. he had a call late today with donors and supporters, and a new york times reporter listened in. i m going to read a quote from that new york times story which begins with something desantis said on the call. you basically have three people credible in this whole thing, mr. desantis said on the call, organized by the superpac supporting him, biden, trump and me. of the two, two have a chance to be elected, biden and me. the times said he is basing that on swing state data which he describes as not great for the former president, quote, and probably insurmountable because people aren t going to change their view of him. wh ....
saying about why it s pulling this project? reporter: well, jake, i received a memo from a disney spokesperson today written by the disney chairman of parks experiences and products, josh demaro, not naming desantis. but i do want to read you part of that statement because they give this reason. given the considerable changes that have occurred since the announcement of this project including new leadership and changing business conditions, we have decided not to move forward with the construction of the campus. this was not an easy decision to make but i believe it is the right one. so there were already some of these 2,000 people who already started to move to florida. they said that they would work individually case by case for their options including the option of moving back here to southern california, where those employees will remain in burbank in the los angeles area. you used the word mousetrap. that is actually also the terminology used by the trump campa ....
it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. thank you so much for joining us. we are following breaking news this morning, a surprise guest heading to the g-7 summit in japan. ukraine s president zelenskyy expected to appear in person eans for the battle as the group considers even harsher sanctions on russia. we are live from both ukraine and japan. anyone who defends his land from invaders, every such word is on the path of justice. the sunshine state turns stormy as the feud between disney and desantis escalates, the media giant pulling the plug on a plan that would have brought thousands of jobs to florida. new political fallout this morning with the battle between ron and don reaching new heights. and the suspected intel leaker due in court today for a detention hearing. prosecutors trying to keep him behind bars. this as a new washington post video emerges showing jack teixeira using racial slurs before firing a rifle. we ll have all the ....
he s leading us to a depression. trump asked supporters on wednesday to name one thing that has gotten better under biden and, i don t know, there s a lot, i can think of a lot, but i think maybe number one is we re drinking less bleach. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is friday, december 15th. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling the bluff, he has hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid which includes critical funder for ukraine. also ahead, how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. plus, rudy giuliani s defense team takes a very odd strategy in closing arguments in his defamation case. i will tell you about their pitch to the jurors. with us this morning we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, member of the new york times editorial board mara gay, host of the podcast unbrand with donny deutsch, and the co-founder of punchbowl news don bresn ....
and new hope in saving off the debt default. and disney now scrapping plans for a new billion dollar campus in florida. did the war with ron desantis have anything to do with it. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday. i m christine romans. we begin with president biden and other world leaders unveiling tough new sanctions against russia at the g7 summit in japan. and they will be joined by president zelenskyy making a surprise trip halfway around the world to speak at the g7 in person kevin liptak is live on the ground. what more do we know? reporter: a source telling me that the ukrainian president zelenskyy will be making his way here. and i ve been told that that will be on sunday that he is meeting face-to-face with these other world leaders. and certainly he wouldn t be making this dramatic visit if he didn t think that there was something real to be gained in meeting these leaders face-to-face. certainly he will be ma ....