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republicans in the legislature live doing what they were doing in the midnight hours of the closing session of that legislature which doesnt meet again until 2025. >> theyre out. >> two years. two years. thanks, chris. >> you bet. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so today was the big day, the day the man who was widely seen as the strongest potential competitor to president trump in the republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the bigg...

theres more to do, so lets finish the job >> president joe biden makes his 2024 re-election bid official, vowing to finish the job well take a look at how his campaign has already hit the ground running plus, the former fox news producer whos now suing the network weighs in on tucker carlsons ouster what she had to say about the hostile work environment that she faced at fox and during closing arguments in their seditious conspiracy trial yesterday, attorneys for members of the pro...

Cold by the woke mind virus. i just thought the choice to begin with was a bad one or questionable one and then the execution obviously had problems. your thoughts. >> yeah, look, i think big announcements are typically done with two things in mind -- getting good coverage in the press and raising a lot of money both online and also via traditional big dollar fund-raising asks. and obviously the first part is going to be a debacle, hes going to get terrible coverage. theres a third thing im curi...

Now, lucky for mr. dant s that was not the only part of his launch today. he also released this much more traditional ad. >> in florida we proved it can be done. we chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. we showed we can and must revitalize america. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. im ron desantis, and im running for president to lead our great american comeback. >> theres a lot to get into there, but there is notably no...

>> can we talk a bit about the strategy, jonathan, just in terms of how desantis team thinks its going to be an alternative to trump without saying anything bad about trump or actually fighting him. >> yeah, ive actually asked his folks about this question, and what i think their view in desantis world is hes got to define himself, introduce himself, get some of the bioout there, the fact he served in the navy, for example, is not that well-known. even among gop primary voters. i think they want...

He reads stories. >> then mr. trump said youre fired. i love that part. >> hes teaching madison to talk. people say rons all trump, but he is so much more. >> big league, so good. >> that ad was from way back in 2018 when desantis was positioning himself as a trump understudy, someone who knew all the lyrics, who had studied all the lines, just hadnt gotten the lead yet. and that ad very much incapsulates the essential problem desantis faces as he tries to beat trump in the primary, something do...

Yet mike huckabee remember he didnt think women should use curse words. the farther right tea party adjacent ted cruz and libertarian rand paul. im not going to go through all the candidate because there were approximately 69 of them in that race, but the problem is they all had distinct personalities, personalities of some kind they were selling you could use to compare. but now that the republican party more or less is donald trump, not his ideas or his policies but the cult of personality tru...

Somewhat. i think we are back online here. great, well, its certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this historic announcement -- >> false start after false start after false start after false start for 21 long minutes. and as for that hype that it was so many people that it was melting the servers, it was barely more than tuned in to watch congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez play the video game "among us" on a random night in 2020 on the platform twitch. but you know ser...