hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. a busy day in the republican race for president. in the next two hours, two new candidates as the field grows to ten. that s ankeney, iowa, where mike pence will announce his candidacy for the republican normination next hour. and in fargo, north dakota, the first lady is about to introduce the government nor. he, too, will enter the republican race for president. that will bring the field to ten. we believe these are likely the final two entries in the crowded republican field. we have reporters to bringout latest. let s start in iowa where mike pence will make it official next hour. what are we going to see? reporter: you re going to see in about an hour this official in-person rally for mike pence. this is the kickoff for his iowa campaign, where his campaign says they have to lean all in. this is where they will make their mark or be allowed to continue. and they plan on try too good that by go
memorial day weekend. jonathan hunt does live with what we are learning tonight at. good evening, teach you, teresa. breaking news, we just heard from officials they ve arrested five people all under the age o 18 on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon. two marines curled in the fetal position trying to protec themselves from an onslaught by thousands of teenagers. out attacked that left official in the usually peaceful community in california horrified both by the violence and by the symbolism of it happening on the memorial day weekend. officials say the group of teenagers were setting up fireworks and generally causing a disturbance when the marines or off duty and not a uniform and they asked them to stop. the mayor believes the attack was likely did not know the men were marines and did not target them because of their military status. i think what you have here i a group of youths celebrating the school year in the beach area and getting a little out
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. senior national correspondent kevin corke s live in dc with where we stand at night. we are still looking at things and trying to measure it all out for her now the debt ceiling struck by the president the house speaker has actually passed a critical hurdle tonigh that should allow house lawmakers to vote on an agreement wednesday evening. the house rules committee actually approves approve something called the terms of debate for the legislation by implementing a 76 both this the date and despite the close call the house speaker still likes his chances of pushing the budget over the goal line, even if many in his own party still think it s a terrible deal. this is a career defining vote for every republican. not one republican should vote for this deal. it is a bad deal no one to borrow an additional for