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Wanting to back down from with one white house official saying we want this fight. we relish this fight. >> cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz, thank you very much. let's bring in cnn political director david chalian, senior political analyst nia-malika henderson, and chief political affairs analyst, casey hunt. the president clearly sees going to florida and going after senator rick scott and what he said about social security and medicare as giving him a political advantage, at least in that home state of senator scott. >> in that home state and nationally, because when you defend, ...

Veto it. >> reporter: all arguments that could be central to a 2024 re-election bid. the president taking that pitch to a state that's rich with senior voters, a group he lost in florida by ten points in 2020. and looming large over this trip are the two florida men who could serve as the president's chief republican rivals, governor ron desantis and former president donald trump. biden referencing both men briefly in his remarks, but still quiet about when a 2024 announcement will come. >> it sounds like you're running. >> i haven't made that decision. that's my intention, i think, but i have...

I'm not -- >> he did the right thing. >> he did absolutely the right thing. it's just that ever since he did that, donald trump has worked to make him anathema to the republican base that he's going to seek right now in a potential republican nomination contest, and his attachment to trump is part of his credentials, so he is in this very tough situation, and now, being asked to testify related to january 6th is only going to remind republican base voters about this divide with the former president. >> and listen, it reminds us about what happened that day and the situation that mike pence fou...

And i am told that pence's team got word of this earlier this week, that this is going to happen, and now he has been subpoenaed by the special counsel, and this is the special counsel, jack smith, who's investigating two things. to be clear, he's also investigating the classified documents that former president trump took with him to mar-a-lago, but he's also investigating trump and his role in january 6th and what that looked like. so, that is why it makes sense that pence is involved in this and that he would be subpoenaed in this, because obviously, he's closely involved. i'm told that jac...

Window of the next weeks or month or couple months or so that he would do that, but you know, again, until he does it, we are waiting for him to actually say it, because every time he gives a sound byte like that, that says, it's my intention and current thinking, it will just start the hand-wringing inside democratic circles again if he is really all systems go on this. >> the idea that he hasn't made up his mind yet, i think that's what he said in that interview, it's a little strange. really? you haven't made up your mind? >> part of this legal -- yeah. >> at some point, he'll run. you saw ...