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desantis' upcoming announcement. what are we expecting from this audio event on twitter with elon musk? >> reporter: well, jake, ron desantis has already filed the paperwork to run for president this afternoon. so all that's left for him to do is to say the words "i'm running for president" and we expect him to do that tonight at this virtual town hall with elon musk. it will start in about an hour. during that time, he'll take questions and give a statement, and he will finally enter this race. he's spent months and months in this slow rollout. he's been on the road, a book tour, he...

Would save us money on entitlements and they had to withdraw that on friday because the democrats weren't willing to do it. now, again -- you disagree? >> yes, he proposed chained cpi last year as part of a grand bargain. republicans said no way. you had members of congress campaigning against chain cpi, they did. now you have obama saying i'm not going to fall for this again. and the republicans are screaming about chain cpi. >> before we put the viewers to sleep by debating chain cpi, which is so -- >> you can explain it well. you understand it. >> it's something we used to do in a club befo...

Would save us money on entitlements and they had to withdraw that on friday because the democrats weren't willing to do it. now, again -- you disagree? >> yes, he proposed chained cpi last year as part of a grand bargain. republicans said no way. you had members of congress campaigning against chain cpi, they did. now you have obama saying i'm not going to fall for this again. and the republicans are screaming about chain cpi. >> before we put the viewers to sleep by debating chain cpi, which is so -- >> you can explain it well. you understand it. >> it's something we used to do in a club befo...

Democrats enjoy the moment on taxes. here is where republicans are on entitlements. >> there's been no serious discussion by the white house on entitlements, on medicare and medicaid. this has to be a part of this agreement or else we just continue to dig the hole deep i. >> republicans are very frustrated that what's taking up oxygen right now is the issue of taxes. in fact, yesterday that's what happened. the first major public break inside the republican controlled house, oklahoma congressman tom cole who endorsed the president's short-term approach. >> in my view we all agree we're not goi...

Also, three former bp employees have entered not guilty pleas in connection with the deadly deep water horizon rig explosion in april 2010. two of the men were rig supervisors, the third was an executive. they entered their pleas and were released on bond, in new orleans, charged with manslaughter in the deaths of the 11 rig workers who died. in that disaster. trials are now set for early next year. high-level negotiations resume today on capitol hill over the looming fiscal cliff. there are fresh signs that republicans may be in disagreement over the best way to avoid tax increases and spen...