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presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted, and now he s getting buried a couple of months before he even announces. so trump turbo-charged by his indictment in the stormy daniels case has been rising in the polls, and desantis has been sinking. i ve argued for many weeks now against my guests that desantis needed to respond to trump s assaults rather than largely ignore him because he s busy with the florida legislature. now that s becoming the media s conventional wisdom. throw in the journalists who say ron desantis lacks charisma, and you have a whole new landscape at least for this week. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: when it comes to ron desantis taking knack over his war on disney flak over his war on disney, it comes from the left and the right. governor desantis is trying to stop bleeding on what s left of his unofficial presidential campaign. it s going to start to wilt a little bit. you just see he s got no answers, he s ....
now. new reporting from the white house this hour ready to go. those are the words of a biden adviser tonight about a 2024 run. and we re going to tell you what else is going on behind the scenes tonight. all new reporting from our phil mattingly at the top of the hour. plus, ron desantis new target is a small liberal arts college. his goal is to turn it into a conservative school and the man desantis putting in charge making double his predecessor. space race, inside china s spy balloon-making operation. famed astrophysicist kneel degrasse tyson is out front. let s go out front. good evening. welcome to this special edition of out front. i m erin burnett. tonight, ready to go. that s an exact quote. those are the words of a biden adviser tonight telling our phil mattingly about the president s plans to announce he s running for re-election. up until last week president biden publicly said he s not ready to make a decision on 2024. he kept using that wo ....
time. carley say, pack a snack and read it. it is worth doing. the market is reacting to the largest federal rate hike in decades. three major indexes taking a beating. the dow closing below 30,000. bill: it signals a bear market taking hold. they shed all their gains since the president took office. dana: adding insult to injury mortgage rates are soaring to their highest level in 13 years. inflation is at a 40-year high forcing nearly 60% of americans to dip into their savings or go into debt. bill: all this putting the white house in crisis mode. good morning. the president has grown increasingly frustrated with his polling and with his media coverage. he sat down with the associated press for the first time, by the way, since taking office with that publication to push back on all this blame saying the economy that he inherited and the pandemic that left psychological scars on the american people have gotten people down. fox news poll this week showed that h ....
watch list right here at our southern border. those numbers are higher than the last five years all combined together. they are running out to flat top area. an average of 1,800 illegal immigrant runners have slipped past border patrol every day since october. cbp forces tell fox news. and new cbp data on the number of potential terrorists encountered at the southern border highlights why that is a major concern. according to cbp in fiscal year 2017, there were only two people on the terror watch list arrested at the southern border. fiscal year 2018 had six. fiscal year 2019 had zero. fiscal year 2020 had three. fiscal year 2021 had 15 and so far in facial year 2022 border patrol has already arrested 50 people on the terror watch list. the trend is clear. the numbers of known or suspected tastes arrested at the southern border have exploded under president biden: we are here once again dealing with the ongoing failure of the biden administration to do its fundame ....
translator: i want to see the sun so when our houses are rebuilt, we can live if peace, we can live in ukraine, because this is our native home. reporter: a ukrainian official in mariupol saying a planned evacuation has been thwarted by the russian military. he says at least 200 civilians who thought they were on a bus headed to safe points were instead taken into russian-controlled territory in the east. russia capturing dozens of small towns in eastern ukraine, but uk officials say russians have not made any major gains in the last 24 hours. and this as russia reveals its end game in this invasion. top military officials say they plan to take full control over southern ukraine and the eastern donbas region. let s bring in scott mclean in lviv. what more can you tell us about these missile strikes in odesa? reporter: hey, fredricka. one city counselor in odesa called these an easter gift from vladimir putin. this is not the kind of gift that you want to get. we r ....