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good. >> i will take that into my new year. mark, appreciate it, my friend. thank you. >> take care. and "cnn this morning" continues right now. good morning. welcome to "cnn this morning." 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. republican candidates crisscrossing iowa. nikki haley, ron desantis and donald trump all holding events in the hawkeye state today and they aren't holding back against each other. defense secretary lloyd austin condemning recent attacks on commercial ships in the red sea by iranian backed u.s. forces. we will dig into what the plans look like ahead. a woman in ...

what's moved this needle with the media? >> absolutely. absolutely. there's no question. you look at the polling and right now donald trump is seven point ahead of joe biden and trending upward. joe biden is trending downward. >> another republican says the quiet part out loud, brazenly admitting that his party's anti-biden crusade is nothing more than a time wasting political stunt to help trump. jamie raskin joins me to respond. as governor, high school teacher and author. wait until you see some of the things he wrote in a little noticed 2011 book on the founding fathers and presi...

>> good evening. tomorrow, the man who many expected to give the former president's toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida's governor, ron desantis, getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching the campaign in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. his opponent's former favorite megaphone. which he used in 2016, of course, to pummel the rest of the republican field, including former florida senator, marco rubio, and floor -- jeb bush, who you turn first into a verbal punching bag, then a campaign punchline, and finally, a political foo...

>> thank you fo her and robbie kaplan here together, i -- watching them come out of the courthouse every day during the trial, you'd see them come out and they would wait for one another depending on which one would come out for, as they would hold hands and walk out together, holding each other like a united front. seeing them together, seeing them as an indivisible pair in this together in every possible way, really i felt like i understand more about how e. jean got through this. how they did it. it was eye-opening to me and i'm glad that they're both over with it. >> they absolut...

c confirmed could happen as soon as june 1. manu raju has the latest. >> reporter: speaker kevin mccarthy has been pessimistic as talks have occurred on the staff level the past week to try to avoid the nation's first ever debt default. the white house has resisted calling for the national debt limit which is more than $31 trillion to be raised without any conditions whatsoever to avoid the prospects of the u.s. not being able to pay its bills. the house did pass a bill that included a host of priorities that democrats say is dead on arrival. so there is not much time left. in order ...