simply the best. the lead starts right now. what s love got to do got to do with it remembering an entertainment legend. tina turner dead at the age of 83. plus, ron desantis bucking the trend. less than two hours to go before the florida republican using twitter and elon musk to launch his campaign for president. coming up, how donald trump, the front-runner, is responding to desantis unconventional approach. and we re not going to default. we re going to solve this problem. oh, really? how s that fwgoing to happen. only eight days until the u.s. possible default. negotiators on both sides go back to the drawing board to try to avoid economic catastrophe. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with sad news in our pop culture lead. music legend, tina turner, has died at the sage of 83. a post on her verified facebook account says today we saw good-bye to a dear friend who leaves us her greatest work. her music. tina, we will miss you dearly. you re
killed eight people at a texas mall was obsessed with nazis and mass shootings. he also appears to have scoped out that mall before the massacre and then waited for the biggest crowds. a witness who was there during the gunfire is outfront tonight. we have new video into outfront tonight. this from a ukrainian sniper that we have spoken to several times. he s on the front lines tonight and is sharing dramatic new images of the brutal battles he s seeing there with you. and the migrant surge, up as much as 400% already in some areas along the u.s. southern border. we re going to take you there live tonight. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news, obsessed with nazis, guns, and mass shooters. these are the new chilling details that we are learning tonight about the 33-year-old gunman who killed eight people and injured seven more at a texas outlet mall. according to social media posts believed to have been made by mauricio
reminder if you or someone you know is facing a crisis, you can call the national suicide prevention crisis lifeline at 988, that s 24/7. the news continues. errol burnett out front starts now. a special edition of out front next, president biden ready to announce he s ready to run again. why it has everything to do with ron desantis. plus, why a special election that flipped control of the pennsylvania house of representatives is giving democrats across the country a reason to celebrate, something you should be watching. and biden going after the chinese president xi jinping by name, china responding tonight. we re going to go live to beijing. let s go out front. good evening and welcome to a special edition of out front. i m erin burnett. it s biden versus desantis. the president is heading to florida tomorrow and he has his sights set in large part of the state s governor. this is new reporting from phil mattingly, and it comes as biden is expected to announce his own
morning joe starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorney s office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 2016 election, to keep her silent about an affair she claims the two had a decade earlier according to the star witness in the case, trump s own former lawyer, michael cohen, the trump organization tried to cover up the payment, falsely claiming it was a legal expense. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, march 31st along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too ea early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire the host of politics nation, presid
today the sheriff is taking on some of the liberal idea blaming guns for the murders. here s what he had to say. i m just a simple man. i look at things simplistic as possible. i don t believe since and being politically correct or holding back. people think we, like myself are hard. we have heart. i have kids and i understand in these scenarios but the fact is, as we dance around the real issues, we want to focus on one thing that has no capability. i m here to tell you the gun didn t knock on the door, walk in the room and say look, let s go kill somebody today. they made a conscious decision and the failure here is the fact that we do not get to the root cause. family, our schools and even ourselves out here in society. we are enabling everything in which they do just because we don t hold them accountable. joey, it s so refreshing to hear someone speak the truth like that. a 12-year-old, a 6-year-old and 17-year-old are involved in these murders. shouldn t we be tryin