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it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. right now, president biden fights back. how dare he raise that? it wasn t any of their damn business. the president forcefully responding to the accusations of memory loss in the special counsel report that found no criminal charges were warranted for his handling of classified documents. new reporting today on why the memory details were included in the report. at the supreme court, the justices gear up to potentially hear another case involving former president donald trump. on capitol hill tonight, the senate is due to consider the stripped down bill providing aid to israel and ukraine, but its future is still uncertain, even without the bipartisan border provisions. overseas, israel steps up its assault on the city of rafah in southern gaza. president biden says the response in gaza has been, quote, over the top. we begin this morning with president biden s response to a report on his handlin ....
an autocrat facing dozens of ny charges with an ax to grind against the government he seeks to lead. that s a question that republican candidates are either unable to answer or unwilling to answer at this moment. there s now just one major challenger to ex-president trump after florida governor ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump. it s hard to remember but for a time, ron desantis was seen as the much vaunted trump slayer, the one candidate who could break the hold on trump that he had on the voters in the republican party. appeal to those alienated by trump and ultimately beat joe biden. back in 2022, the new yorker asked, can ron desantis displace donald trump as the combatant in chief? the new york times asked, quote, is ron desantis the future of the republican party? but a las as it turned out, voters didn t want a trump alternative, they wanted trump. that became clear as his legal troubles mounted with every indictment the trump got stronger in t ....
the gavel. this morning, he was not able to bring along a handful of far right lawmakers who oppose his nomination and are demanding more big power concessions from him as the price for going forward. we may have a battle on the floor. but the battle is for the conference and the country. that s fine with me. i don t see how a few people maybe it s 5, maybe it s 20 sit because they want a gravel that they can t earn. that s not what the constituents voted them for. this as house democrats united behind hakeem jeffries, with a new younger ship team holding business cards to play as the republicans dissolve into chaos. why is choosing a speaker important? the house cannot form committees or do work on any legislation until there is a presiding officer. it s been a century since it has taken more than one roll call vote to fill the position. at this hour, we don t know how many votes it will take to elect the next speaker or how long it will drag out and da minute ....
forgotten. family. she is the latina woman who is saying enough is enough. that our values matter. the government does not know us. my pastor knows me. we are going to kick you out of our cities, kick you out of our states, and kick you out of the white house. before she is a representative, she is an ambassador of christ. she represents christ wherever she goes. [speaking spanish] so, is it that michael flores won, or is it that the democrats allowed her to win? hello everyone, i m paula ramos. with the big election just weeks away, we have been exploring a apparent shift among latino voters away from democrats and towards republicans. what is at the heart of that? we are going to talk about texas. a longtime democratic stronghold were just months ago, republican maya flores, a mexican immigrant, flipped a historically blue house seat during a special election. now, she is running as the unexpected incumbent against democratic congressman. we went to the ....
testify in georgia tomorrow. also tonight, vote remembers going to the polls in two states with liz cheney s political career on the line in wyoming and lisa murkowski facing a challenge for her senate seat in alaska and get this, sarah palin is trying to become relevant again. get that skit ready, snl. i m tiffany cross in for joy reid. we begin with a familiar place, maybe even a happy place, because donald trump is once again at the center of controversy. this time over classified top secret documents that led to the mar-a-lago raid. now the judge who approved a search warrant will hear arguments thursday over whether to unseal the search warrant affidavit. the doj has asked a judge to keep it sealed while trump wants it released. meanwhile, republicans and pro-jump extremists continue to slam the fbi and justice department over their search and now there s another talking point floating in the ether saying what trump actually did it was no big deal. i think mar- ....