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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 trumps maine republican rival in the race for the white house. the former president remains the dominant force in the republican...

and democratic strategist david. gentlemen, welcome to the show. i want to start off with the border. david, i will start with you, you know, immigration is a big problem for the president right now. if you can pop up the poll. 61% according to fox news poll disapprove the job the president is doing and hes getting incoming from all different sides that are very frustrated that this administration was not quite prepared for the end of title 42. some confusing messaging on that and, of ...

participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pac with the u.s. insisting the u.s. is set on destroying russia. peter doocy reports from warsaw, poland. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret. here in warsaw, president biden did not publicly pressure chinas president xi to stay out of ukraine. kept focus where it has been for most of the last year on vladimir putin. auto democrats only understand one word, no, no, no. >> peter: white house officials putting out...

>> they lost their lives, thousands putting lives on the line every day. will: they are allowing palestinians civilians to get out of northern gaza. social media posts, if you care about yourself and your loved ones heat our instructions to head south. rachel: mike tobin live on the ground in southern israel with the latest. what are you hearing? go ahead. i was just going to say. >> reporter: i was going to say. got the delay we are competing with. as far as what im hearing, evacuatio...

Has gone up yet again if just september. 52% now from 46%. desantis in second. rachel: he also increased a little bit to 18%. will: and so did haley, but in third place. vivek holding at 7%. pete: yeah. theres a lot of speculation about how, what that fields going to look like after iowa. rachel: ray and ron desantis staked so much on iowa that many people are saying that if he doesnt win, which it doesnt look like hes going to, that this might be the time that he steps down from the rouse. from...

More money. hes stronger than ever before. hes got all the wind out of the balloon from any of the other dozen or so candidates that are out there. they cant get a breakthrough. and its really sort of over in terms of his winning the republican nomination. >> he says its over. what do you say to that? >> well, first of all, i appreciate fred donating to my campaign even after he says its over. thats really very nice of him. but what i would tell you is i think fred, respectfully, is wrong. erin,...

Maybe that being ron desantis. now you have hutchinson, desantis, chris christie and still the likes of glenn youngkin and chris sununu. >> the former governor nikki haley of south carolina as well. steve, lets break down some of the numbers. we look at what republicans think of chris christie right now. as you note, he may face the steepest uphill climb of all the gop candidates. >> yeah. i think theres two questions here when it comes to this candidacy. looking at the numbers, where are the nu...

Has a big lead, 53% of conservative voters prefer him as their top choice. the governor desantis in second with 26%, nikki haley and then tim scott trailing in the single digits. just a note, this poll was conducted before ron desantis and tim scott had officially declared. joining me now, a republican congressman from florida. we also have debbie, the current congresswoman in florida. and in the studio, christian horner, a reporter with bloomberg covering the republican campaign. thank you so m...