was, as predicted by some, overshadowed by technical glitches. also new overnight, america s credit rating is at risk. a key rating agency now put the u.s. on watch. the one week to go until a possible default. and house speaker kevin mccarthy is set to send house members home for the weekend with no deal. meanwhile, u.s. intelligence is indicating that a ukrainian group may have been behind that recent drone attack on the kremlin. officials picking up chatter of ukrainians blaming one another. and anti-lgbtq campaign takes on corporate america again. target remove sometimes pride merchandise after some employees were threatened. and fans around the world are san. she was the queen of rock n roll, tina turner died at age 83. we re going to remember her life and her legacy on cnn this morning which starts right now. she was the queen. the queen. simply the best. we re going to honor her this morning. you re going hear a lot of tina turner this morning. get re
desantis is finally in the race for president but not without a hitch right out of the starting gate. the governor s unusual choice to announce in an audio interview with elon musk on twitter, it was plagued by glitches and started 25 minutes late. desantis on fox later making light of the technical difficulties and laying out his vision for leading the country in a different direction. i m running to lead a great american comeback. we know the country is on the wrong track. we see it with our eyes. we feel it in our bones. we see the border being overrun, we see crime infesting the cities. what i will do is help restore normalcy to our communities, integrity to our institutions and sanity to our society. jessica dean is in miami with more on desantis big unveiling. r do you go with the crowd or do you look at the data yourself and cut against the grain? and i chose to do the latter. reporter: florida governor desantis attempt to declare candidacy for president in
special counsel jack smith is investigating the former president s handling of classified documents and his potential efforts to overturn the 2020 election. cnn reported that smith appears to be in the final stages of that investigation on the documents. wil he could soon decide whether to indict president trump. this is a development from what we talked to you about yesterday. does the trump team have any leverage here to actually make this appeal successful? well, poppy, they can try to make this appeal successful. they can try to get this meeting with garland. but we don t know if they re actually going to get a meeting with the attorney general at this point. what they re doing here, it s not entirely clear exactly what this is, is this a legal effort or is this primarily a political effort? but we do know from a team of reporters who have been working on this, we have an understanding now that there are basically three asks that the trump team wants to make of attorney general g
wednesday with the federal election commission. on tuesday desantis wife tweeted a hype video. america has been worth it. reporter: desantis jumped in the primary following months of speculation about the florida governor s political future fueled by a national book tour and visits to key early nominating states. i have only begun to fight. reporter: as the republican fight intensifies, a new cnn poll shows former president trump leading the gop field with roughly double the support of desantis and no other candidate in double figures. but the survey also finds the republican field to be far from settled. more than 8 in 10 of those polled said they would either support or say they are opening to consider either trump or desantis.
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