expected to give the former president his toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida s governor ron desantis getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. trump used it to pummel the republican field, including marco rubio and jeb bush who he turned into a campaign punching bag. in a moment, randi kaye looks into whether desantis will do better. first, the political waters he is about to jump into. in one way they may appear promising for a republican candidate. the current president s job approval now stands at 40%. new polling out late today shows this. with the debt ceiling crisis coming to a head, that poll shows 34% approve of the way the president is handling the economy. desantis enters a large and growing field. five more are known to be weighing a run, including pence and sununu and chris christie and youngkin. it s the large field that some experts say will favor the former preside
count one, terrorism causing death. the defendant shall serve life without the possibility of parole, credit for eight days served. counts two through five. homicide first degree, premeditated murder, juvenile defendant. the defendant shall serve the rest of his life without the possibility of parole with the michigan department of corrections, credit for eight days served. on counts 6 through 12, assault with intent to murder on each of the counts. defendant is sentenced to 18 years and nine months to 80 years with the michigan department of corrections, credit for eight days served. on counts 13 through 24 being felony firearm, the defendant is sentenced two years with the department of michigan with credit for 737 days served. counts 1 through 12 are concurrent to each other and counts 13 through 24 are concurrent to each other. count one is consecutive to count 13. count two is consecutive to count 14. count three is consecutive to count 15. count 4 is consecutive to coun
defending the strike initially, saying it was a strike against an isis cartarget. they stood by that for weeks until cnn reported it wasn t a target of the strike. the pentagon has confident in the processes set up to protect civilians in the wake of the strike. here is the brigadier general from earlier today. in terms of the strike, as you know, they conducted that strike on the 3rd of may. they are investigating the allegations of civilian casualties. i think our record speaks for itself in terms of how seriously we take these. very few country ies around the world do that. the second has confidence we will abide by policies we put into place. does it lead to an investigation? at what point and will there be calls for accountability?
would never be able to take time off what i big project has to get done on deadline. funding the government, that s a big project with a very important deadline. and consider this. according to expedia.com, the average american worker gets 18 vacation days a year. 18. and they only use 14 of them. did i mention that since january congress has only been in session for 125 days? plus they divided 112th congress promises to be the least productive in recent memory. since january only 14 house measures have been signed into law by president obama. and look at this, had when democrats controlled the house last year from january to june, 466 bills and resolutions were passed. by comparison over the same time frame this year only 207 bills or resolutions got approval. they spent more time bickering than getting anything actually done. yet house lawmakers sure do get paid a lot. rank and file representatives earn $174,000 a year. the speaker of the house takes home $223,500. now, com