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and sbc host, jen psaki. that interview coming up in minutes. and a very good day to all of you from nbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news, right, now the senate is holding a sunday session as lawmakers scramble to lockdown a last-minute deal on funding for both ukraine and israel. this comes after republican scrapped a bipartisan border deal that would have finalized that budget for wartime. we have a live report ahead f...

tomorrow >> thanks to 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 former president trump in the 2024 republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the biggest day of florida governor ron desantiss political career so far. the biggest state, certainly, since he first stepped out into the national stage in 2018 as a candidate for florida governor. >> everyone knows my hus...

course today, and then the shock, the parallel world in which the republicans in the legislature live, doing what they were doing in the midnight hours. of the closing section of that legislature, which doesnt need to get rid until 2025. >> they are out. yeah. >> two years. >> they are. out >> two years. thanks, chris. out > thanks to 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 former presiden...

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Fired. i love that part. truth is, theres only one person who can make america great again. >> what a night. we have some very much to talk about. joining me now are jonathan martin, the politics bureau chief at politico, and mark leibovich, staff writer at the atlantic and author of the book, thank you for your servitude, about the republican party. bowing down before donald trump. how pressure and indeed. mark leave itch, let me start with you. first your reaction to the 21 minutes of technica...

Going to have to engage at some level? or -- awful coverage, that we are going to see her in the next day, just alienated him further from the mainstream press, and drive him further away? i think this will be a good test in that sense, of this candidate. >> yeah. well there are so many tests that ron desantis has to pass. i guess one of the things that was reported in the new york times, mark, was the army that -- assembling to basically get out support, get out the vote for ron desantis in the...

Decide if he is a candidate, do you keep that plan of, just to bio talk about me and avoid, engaging in trump, or do you have to call on -- . the flight here and get back? lord knows donald trump is going to be swinging in swinging fiercely. >> yeah. mark, in the time that those 21 minutes of technical glitches, we were treated to that, the trump campaign literally cut an ad juxtaposing trumps campaign launch with the ron desantis campaign launch. theyre going to be vicious. the dissent as peopl...

People who are going to be door knocking multiple times on the same door for ron desantis? do you sense a groundswell of grassroots enthusiasm for ron desantis, mark? >> no. i dont. certainly tonight will not help. i do think that clearly, there is a hunger, there isnt appetite in the republican party for someone alternative to donald trump. ron desantis had this positioning for the last three months, that he was looked to is someone who could be that person, that people could rally around. you ...

>> no journalists with top democrat party sources, they are reporting about the worry within the party. a few weeks ago it was jonathan martin not senior democrats is too old for second term. and today it was mark leave of the atlantic. also noting the worried the democrats have in private about joe bidens age and wishing he would step aside. the public silence around the presidents predicament has become tiresome and potentially catastrophic for the democratic party. somebody should make a refr...

A shoe in. and at this point in 2016, trump wasnt even seen as a contender. but this time really does feel different. trump is an incredibly known entity and it doesnt seem like republicans like what they know about him. joining us now as mark leave a bitch staff writer for the atlantic and author of thank you for your servitude, donald trumps washington and the price of submission. mark theres almost no one in the world and i would rather talk to this about. i will try to refrain from philly. w...