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here we go. tuesday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm christine romans. president biden is ready to confirm what used to be a given for an incumbent in american politics, that he is running for re-election. the official announcement of his 2024 campaign today comes as polls show a majority of voters and even a majority of democrats don't want him to run again. jasmine wright is joining me. good morning. what do we know about the campaign rollout? >> reporter: well, today is the day maybe, that is an important caveat, because we know that p...

Are the declarations they are willing to work on important legislation or just empty talk. or will senate democrats finally do their part to move the appropriations process forward? soon we will vote on advancing a package of domestic funding legislation. as i said last week, i'm grateful to chairman shelby and senator leahy for their continued conversations and hopefully they can produce the substitute amendment that will fund urgent domestic priorities. once we conclude the work, we will vote to move forward to funding for our national defen defense. two big votes. two big votes, mr. preside...

Investigation. >> president >> he said, i'd like to do you a favor. >> with when i read the -- >> it's in the -- >> they really don't have a defen defense. these folks throw smoke bombs, perform for the cameras, i don't think it's working as well as it did a couple weeks ago. >> yeah, it will be interesting to see who kind of comes out and criticizes the president and the white house. one of his former top aids. the question is, are there going to be others? we don't know at this point? what do you think? >> i think there will be others. i think there's something exchanged in the past week, it...

The rest of carter's policy he agreed with so compare that to james mattis who is secretary of defen defense with this j.d. againsce about as anti-trump a document as you could imagine. from someone who you have to assume, chris, over the last two years the things we haven't heard about. can you imagine the number of things he has saved us from. >> eleanor, whether he saved us from them or not what is clear he here, if you've been in the most intimate high level conferences with the president whose judgment of the president is what our judgment is -- i don't want to put this in anyone's

The "new york times" author, the idea that this person is a check of anonymous staff member. it's something of a backhanded defen defense. >> i said wait a second, this isn't a profile in courage. i actually agree perhaps even with david urban, that this is not profile encouraged. this is not how democracy is supposed to work. and i don't think this person can really be applauded. >> as with the administration before it, you don't stand in the background and undermine, you come out in the open and say what you have to say and leave