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hatch. we are taking you live to international space station where the paying customers are making history. this is cnn "news central." so, any moment now, republican senator tim scott is going to take the stage in his hometown in south carolina and formally kick off the presidential campaign. these are the live pictures of the event, and that is the room right there, and he has racked up some impressive endorsements, but he is entering field that most polls are showing that is dominated by former president donald trump. and we have eva kim there this morning in charleston, south carolina. what are you expecting to see? >> well, faith and optimism is central to his campaign pitch, and he is going to be leaning

heavily on the personal biography of someone who grew up in poverty and ascending to the united states senate, and able to run for the presidency. i have been speaking to the supporters all morning, and they tell me that the low poll numbers right now reflect that much of the country don't know him, and don't underestimate senator scott and the appetite for the message. we spoke to his long time pastor at the seacoast church, and faith is going to be important to the pitch. listen to what the pastor told us. >> i think that the misconception that people might have about him is that his niceness, his humility translates as weakness. they don't know the tim scott that i know. i like to see it as an iron fist in a velvet glove.

>> so, we anticipate that the remarks are going to be slinging mud against his fellow republicans, and we will see him endorsed by john thune who is respected in the upper chamber, and we will have to see if the popularity is going to translate to the voters in new hampshire and iowa and right here in south carolina. >> thank you for being there, eva mckend. now, as we are waiting for this to happen any minute now, here is more on him. he is 57 year-old and if he wins republican nomination, he would be the first black person to do so. with the big launch, he is going to join a crowded field of candidates, and soon to join the group back here, notably,

because it is going to be happening this week, and soon to be joining this group is going to be florida governor ron desantis, and he is expected to make his presidential announcement this week, and so this is a big week in republican presidential politics, but as you are looking at the field, keep one important fact in mind, the polls are showing donald trump as the clear frontrunner in the group. tim scott is the first black senator elected in south carolina, and now he has to introduce himself to voters not only in south carolina, but across the country. and as you hear from eva, you will hear about his experience growing up poor in south carolina, and this is more about his resume to this point. scott started out on the charleston city council serving for more than a decade and then he served in the:00 is zac house before going on the serve in the u.s. house representing the

first congressional district. he was then tapped by former governor nikki haley, and now tim scott and nikki haley will be running against each other for the presidential nomination. >> and obviously, tim scott, if he is going to get the presidential nomination, he has to run through donald trump, and now joining me is david chalian host of his own podcast, and how does he get through that? >> well, his challenge similar to every other candidate not named donald trump which is the belief that roughly half of the republican electorate which is not interested in having donald trump as the republican nominee in 2024, and so the play is to becoming the half of that

republican party with the support that he has amassed, because he is the front-runner the race. the way in which the scott campaign is believed they are to do that, they believe that he is the best messenger that the republican party has. we have seen some of this in moments of the state of the union address, and the high profile convention speech, and he had a big splash when nikki haley appointed him to the senate in 2013, and so he is hoping to deliver the conservative message is one that resonates with the republican voters. >> and even though who decide that endorsements don't matter in the presidential campaigns, i think that a number of people took vote that the number two people in the republican legislature john thune is going to be on this stage, and the number two backing tim scott, and what does that tell you about the establishment support?

>> first and foremost, it is telling me what anybody who has covered capitol hill knows that it is he is a beloved colleague, and one of the most popular members of the republican senate conference, and you will see some of the support from the fellow senators, but politically, it is something interesting that if the number two republican is not signing up with the president, trump's strongest rival at the moment, this is the starting line of the race. this is going to be a run in a crowded field and it is not a party to make it a two-person race or a coronation for donald trump. >> how much trump talk do you expect from tim scott? >> very, very little.

i expect much more anti-biden rhetoric. tim scott, one of the core pieces of the message is that grievance politics is not something that he thinks is just in the domain of donald trump, and he thinks that it is something that the liberal left biden democrats lean into as well. and he is going to make the argument tied to the success ladder that he has. i expect that you will much more about the current president and not the past. >> thank you, david chalian for being with us so far, and we will expect to hear from you later on. and now, meeting time as the debt crisis talks resume at 5:30 this afternoon, but the negotiations between the teams have already started on capitol h

hill. this is why they need to get to it in a real way. in ten days, the united states could default on the debt, $31 trillion of debt. government bills could go unpaid, because the government could run out of money to pay those bills, and those who rely on the social security checks, and medicare and military pay and messages around the world and a catastrophe for the global economy if this happens. mccarthy said they had a productive phone call over the weekend, but arlette seanez is at the white house. let's get a read there. arlette, we have a meeting time, but it is going without saying, so far from we have a deal, and we have a fix, and we will avoid this massive crisis. >> yeah, it does, kate.

president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy have recognized the urgency of avoiding a default. they will be meeting in the oval office even though the two sides are risking being so far apart. they are saying that they have so many obstacles to overcome. one of issues that has emerged over the last weekend is the issue of the spending levels. the white house has proposed the spending year current levels and the republicans want to reverse it back to 2022 levels. both the house speaker and president biden have talked about each of their sides and the approaches to spending. take a listen. >> the underlying issue here is that the democrats since they have taken the majority have beened a digited to the

spending, and we are going to stop. we will spend less than last year. >> i have propose d but i beliee that we also have to look at the tax revenues. >> and they have said that the tax revenues is off of the table, so the revenues are a top priority to be one of the topics here this afternoon, but it is highlighting a very urgent high stakes moment for president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy, and it is unclear if they are going to reach an agreement as the june 1st deadline is approaching, and do not forget how much time it takes to move the legislation, and wrangle capitol hill. >> that is exactly right. arlette seanez at capitol hill. and so there is a pro ukrainian forces operating

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the naacp has issued a travel advisory for florida. it says that under the administration of ron desantis the state is quote openly hostile toward african-americans. the leadership of the naacp is urging the black community to avoid visiting state. nebraska governor is set to sign into law today a 12-week abortion ban. the state lawmakers passed the law friday and bans abortions with exception for sexual assault and family emergencieme and also for family emergencies under the age of 18. and now, for the private entry after an 18-hour space flight, and this is so cool to

say, says captain obvious kate bolduan. and now, watching the space dock this morning after traveling over japan, and they will in moments away, they floated over the hatch into the space station, and joining crew already on board. these astronauts are going to spend eight days working alongside the crew with so many things. we go over to carlos suarez who is live at the kennedy space center. i see you there, but i am keeping an eye on the monitor, because it is so cool to see the pictures coming in from the iss. >> yeah, no worries, kate. i have a monitor right here and i am keeping a close eye on. you should be keeping a look at the international space center of these four crew members that are now joining the seven astronauts that are currently at the international space station a few minutes ago when we saw all four of them make their way on to iss.

peggy whitson, the u.s. commander was the first to be welcomed on, and she is a former nassau astronaut, and she knows a couple of the astronauts already there, and she herself was a commander at the iss. she is no stranger to any of this having spent 665 days in space. john shoffner, he is the mission pilot, and the second person who made it on to the iss, and then following him were the two saudis who are on this ally alqarni who is the mission specialist, and then also a mission specialist on the trip is rayyanah barnawi, and she made history herself being the first saudi woman in space, and so right now, all four crew members are aboard the international space station, and as you noted, they will be there

for eight days doing a number of experiments from cancer research to taking a look at the effects of gravity on the production of stem cells. they will be looking at the new communication systems and some technology that axiom says is going to improve the lives of future space travelers. kate? >> it also looks like they have an 8 1/2 by 11 pieces of paper that said "welcome aboard" which is a nice way to welcome them aboard in this massive operation of amazing engineering to give them a paper certificate that says "welcome aboard." we will continue to watch, and we have the live pictures coming in from nasa tv. thank you, carlos. >> maybe it is just to check it out to make it easier if you get the slip in the beginning. >> i don't know, there is a lot going on with it. in less than an hour the man charged with murdering four university of idaho students is

going to be appear in court. bryan kohberger is charged with fatally stabbing to death four college students. jean casarez is joining us to lay out what we will see. >> this is first time that bryan kohberger has entered a plea in idaho and first time in district court which is the trial court in idaho. because of the indictment last week, that has proceeded to trial, and that is definitive it is going to trial. we believe he is going to enter a plea of not guilty, because his attorneys have been extremely aggressive in the charges so far, and the first counts are first-degree murder and burglary in regard to the stabbing deaths of the four university of idaho students and moscow on november 13th. the families may be in the courtroom today, because it is very important appearance, and

kay kaylee goncalves and maddie chapin and the two others will be in the murder charges, and he could also face other charges as well as the charge of burglary. >> thank you for laying it all out for us. and now, this morning, there

are multiple shells that are hitting residential buildings in belo grad in -- well, we are going to be taking the live pictures now -- we are going to get back to this story out of ukraine in a moment. what you are seeing right now, it is senator tim scott in south carolina, and this is his nephew giving him the introduction and that is the senator just about to announce his presidential bid. >> thank you, thank you. all right. thank you, thank you. obviously, i cannot dance, and you knew that already. how is everyone doing today? woo, i would say that you all look fantastic!

look at this great place to be and i would say without question, i am so happy to be back in north charleston, south carolina. i cannot tell you how much i mean this from the depths of my heart how proud i am to be an american. i cannot hear you? i cannot hear you. oh, yeah. america is the greatest nation on god's green earth. and our greatest doesn't come from the politicians. it does not come from the government. it comes from we, the people !

we, the people. and when i think of the greatness of america, i have to start with the greatest of americans, and that is the greatest american, my mother. where is my mom? i love you, mom. it is hard to find your mama in a crowd this big. and so diverse, too. and let me say this real quick to my mother, thank you for your hard work and your dedication. thank you for believing in me when no one else did. i'll tell you that before -- thank you. as long as y'all shout, the longer it goes, and i don't mind, because this is good. i have to go back to washington next week, and this is all of the fun i get to have. but i will say without any

question that when you think about, mom, come up here for a second. when you think about the miracle of america, it is someone who comes down to the miracle mile and toughest of nails and puts it all on the line, and when it comes down to me, and be careful back there, but when it is coming down to me, it is for my mother. now, if you have heard my story, and most of you have heard my story, i'm going to tell pit again by the way, and i can't believe my little buddy took my best line anyway, and this is amazing. but i will say this, mom, i love you.

thank you for your sacrifice. thank you for standing strong in the middle of the fire. y'all should thank her, too. amazing. i also say this, though, when i was growing up in single-parent household, there was a guy from the citadel named john monice, and he was the mentor that i needed at the right time. and i have had more mentor since then, and i thank god almighty that he continues to provide me with really cool mens or the and another one larry ellison is with me, and i am so thankful to have so many mentors in the house, but there is a mentor who means so much, and jannice is with us today, and come up here, janice, and so for those of you

who were knowing that me coming up and i was failing out of school, and it was jannice's husband at the time who caught me at the time and helped me to survive some hard time, and for those who wonder if it is possible for a broken kid in a broken home to rise beyond their circumstances, the answer is yes. and for those of you who wonder if america is a racist country, and if all of our people can come together, the red ones and the black ones and the brown ones and the red ones who can come together with unconditional

love and bind hearts together, look around. we are not defined by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character, and if they tell you anything different, they are lying. i wanted to present both of y you -- thank you, jordan. jordan is janice's granddaughter, and my mother gave her flowers when she was first born and so i wanted to return the favor to these two women who made this possible. [ applause ]

let's get this speech started. and also to, the beginning of the speech. there you go. we live in the land of opportunity. we live in the land where it is absolutely possible for a kid raised in poverty n a single-parent household in a small apartment to one day serve in the people's house and maybe even the white house. this is the greatest nation on god's green earth. today i am thinking back to my grandfather born in 1921 in sally, south carolina, in the

deep south. by the time he was in the third grade, he was forced out of school, and his education was over and he was forced to start picking cotton. but my grandfather lived long enough to watch his grandson pick out a seat in congress. [ applause ] that's the evolution of the country that we live in. my family went from cotton to congress in his lifetime. and it was only, and it was only possible because my grandfather had a stubborn faith -- faith in god, faith in himself and faith in what america would be. he looked beyond the pain of his present and he saw the promise of his future. that black man who struggled

through the jim crow south believed then what some doubt now in the goodness of america. i was 7 years old when my parents divorced. we moved in with my grandparents and my mom and my brother, and we all shared one bed in one bedroom in that 700 square foot rental home, and my grandfather said to me, "son, you can be bitter or you can be better, but you can't be both." you see, he chose patriotism over pity. he focused on the windshield of his life and not on the rearview mirror. and today, i am living proof that america is the land of opportunity and not a land of oppression.

[ applause ] amen, amen, amen. for you see, this isn't just my story, it is all of our stories. the circumstances and the situations may be different, and the details may change, but every single one of us are here, because of the american journey, and where there were obstacles that became opportunities, and our pain revealed our purpose. if you believe that, can somebody say amen. but unfortunately, under

president biden, our nation is retreating away from patriotism and faith. the fewest people in 30 years believe that their kids will be better off than their parents, and the radical left is pushing us into a culture of grievance instead of a culture of greatness. my mom worked 16-hour days as a nurse's aide changing bed pans and rolling patients. it was hard work. it was not glamorous. but those 16-hour days put food on the table and kept the lights on. they empowered her to move her boys out of a place filled with pain into a home filled with love. my mom's work ethic taught me that there is dignity in all work. that's why --

[ applause ] -- and that's why i know if you are able-bodied, you work, period. everybody should go to work, if you can. my mom said to me, son, you can be a victim or we can be victorious. she chose victorious. but under president biden, our nation is retreating away from work and dignity. millions and millions of people have dropped out of the workforce entirely and the share of working aged men choosing to work is the lowest it has ever been. that is pathetic. my mom working those 16 hours, i was kind of feeling sorry for myself.

my mom was too busy and my dad was not there, and we didn't have money for the little treats and i felt disillusioned and angry and i was a challenged young man and i felt like the weight of the world was accumulating on my shoulders, and this is why i loved the monice family, because when i was 13 years old i met monice, a chick-fil-a operator, and right when i needed someone the most and he treated me the wimost saying, i like to work but creating jobs is even better. and one day, you can be making a profit to help the entire

community, and john taught me that anyone at anywhere at any time can rise above thaur wildest expectations and imagination, but first, i had to take responsibility for myself. he told me in the most loving way possible to look in the mirror and to blame myself. he said, don't blame your mom who is working 16-hour days, and don't blame your dad, because he is not around, he said, if you see the problem in the mirror, then you see the promise. if you see the obstacles, you undercover the opportunities. i chose personal responsibility over resentment. i became the master of my faith, but today, the biden administration has us retreating away from earned success, aspiration and accountability. he wants to make waitresses and

mechanics pay for the student loans of lawyers and doctors making six figures. this administration has borrowed, taxed spent billions of dollars try to place a hand-up with hands out. and all they have bought us was crushing inflation. that is devastating families like the one that i was raised in, and like many poor families, we move around a lot, and by the time i was in fourth grade, i had attended four different elementary schools and like my nephew shared so eloquently,

gosh. and like he said, i was not doing well, i failed four subjects spanish, english, world geography and civics, and for those of you not familiar with civics, civics is the study of politics. i will say this though, i will say this, a hallelujah, that after ten years in the capitol, i am not the only one in the capitol failing civics. so, that is where i found my unhappy self. my mom was a tireless encourager, and she still is, but when she saw my report card that year at the end, come on.

come on. come on, she said. come on! i wish that is what she said [ laughter ] but she had a different approach. she introduced me to a different form of encouragement, and it was from right about here to here. y'all know what i am talking about? okay. good. well, then you realize that i went to summer school, and caught up with my class and i never failed another subject for the rest of my life. thank god for a good mama. i started college on a very small football scholarship at a christian school, but that is where i learned that jesus was my life, and football is just a game. i found my true hope in the

words of ephesians 3:20 that god is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or imagine. now i graduated -- hallaluyer -- and i graduated with a degree from charles southern university, the home of the bucks! you see, i have lived that the closest thing is an excellent education, but today, extreme liberals are letting the big labor bosses trap millions of kids in failing schools. they are replacing education

with indoctrination. they spent covid locking kids out of the classroom, and now they are looking kids out of their futures. in biden's america, crime is on the rise and law enforcement is in retreat. the far left is ending cash bails. they are demonizing, demoralizing and defunding police. i grew up in neighborhoods alongside people who ended up incarcerated or in the cemetery, not seminary, well, the seminary, too, but the cemetery, too. and we needed more public safety not less. we cannot have innocent people at risk, police officers getting ambushed and attacked and seniors locked in their homes from the time the sun goes down until the sun comes up.

joe biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me climb, and that is why i am announcing today that i am running for president of the united states of america! [cheers and applause] thank you. thank you. you see, they are attacking our american values -- our schools,

our economy and our security, but not on my watch. not on my watch. that won't work. i cannot stand by while this is done to america. she has done too much for me. our nation, our values and our people are strong, but our president is weak. america is not a natio n --

[ no audio. ] >> tim scott, tim scott, tim scott. >> all right. all right. >> thank you. we will see if this one works. all right. good catch. but under joe biden, our nation is not a nation in decline, but under joe biden, we have become a nation in retreat. retreating from our heritage and our history, and retreating from personal responsibility and hard work, retreating from strength and security even retreating from religious liberty and the worship of god, himself.

they say opportunity in america is a myth and faith in america is a fraud, but the truth of my life disproves their lies. the good news is that all we need to do is turn around. on my first day as commander in chief, the strongest nation on earth will stop retreating from our southern border. [ applause ] if you don't control the backdoor, it is not your house. and if our southern border is unsafe and insecure, it is not our country.

hundreds of people on our terrorist watch list are crossing the borders and chinese nationals are flooding into mexico the break in and joe biden and kamala harris are doing nothing when 70,000 americans lose their lives to fentanyl. every county in this country has become a border county. the left shutdown, the left shutdown our schools and churches in the name of slowing a virus, but they won't secure the border to protect our families from fentanyl. when i am president, the drug cartels using chinese labs and mexican factories to kill americans will cease to exist.

i will freeze their assets. i will build the wall. i will allow the world's greatest military to fight these terrorists, because that is exactly what they are. security needs to start on the border, but it need not end there. we have been spending decades to getting deeper and deeper in debt to the chinese communist party. their goal is not to just surpass us. their goal is to beat us. i am reminded of a bible verse proverbs 22:7 that says that borrower is slave to the lender. it goes beyond our finances though. it is about the supply chains, and medicines and microchips and critical minerals. it is about china buying the farmland and infiltrating our

air space and tracking the kids and it is about president xi tracking us with iran and doing for america what joe biden cannot. as president, as president, i will rebuild a military so lethal and so powerful that our adversaries will fear us. and our allies will respect us. my father who is with us today spent 27 years in the air force. my two brothers spent two decades each in the military. three decades for my older better

85 years of combined military we will defend our national interests and our people, whoever they are. and we will win the next century by the strength of our economy. china started this new economic cold war but, america, we're going to finish it. i was one of the lead authors for the republican tax reform

bill that slashed taxes for families, brought jobs and investment back from overseas and created our signature legislation from the opportunity zones. has brought billions of dollars back into the poorest communities that have been left behind. we created high employment, low inflation, and the fastest growing economy for the working class people we've seen in 50 years. that was just one bill. imagine what we could do with an entire agenda. i will be the president who ramps up research and development, reclaims our supply chains, and re-energizes our manufacturing base and an entire made in america agenda.

i see an era of exponential innovation, where america leads the world with new breakthroughs, where new medical cures and cheaper drugs and lower health care costs become the norm, lengthening the lives of our citizens. where law enforcement has advanced equipment to keep each and every one of them safe. where american -- where we have huge new american factories creating high-paying american jobs, running on, running on plentiful cheap american energy. but america cannot be safe or secure if we sink into a

cultural quicksand here at home. as president, i will rebuild and restore every rung of the ladder that helped me climb. because i want my story to pale in comparison to your stories. as president, i will motivate, inspire and require every able-bodied citizen to take responsibility and go to work. we will back the blue, secure our streets, and finally make it a federal crime to kill, ambush, or assault a cop in this country.

i will lead a revolution for excellence in our schools. less crt and more abcs. i will not rest until every family has a choice and every parent has a voice, giving every child a chance. and no child, and no child should be forced to attend failing schools simply because they live in the wrong zip code. i will be the president who destroys the liberal line that america is an evil country. i think back a couple of years

ago when i addressed the nation and i said america is not a racist country. we need to stop cancelling our founding fathers and start celebrating them for the geniuses that they were. they weren't perfect, but they believed that we could become a more perfect union. finally, my grandfather's stubborn faith was not just faith in the goodness of america, it was faith in god himself. assault on

our religious liberty. i will preserve one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. yes, i will. yes, i will. we will be the nation where we honor our creator and respect every innocent life. this is who we are. this is who we can be. this is the freest, fairest land where you can go as high as your character and your grit and your talent will take you. i bear witness to that. i testify to that. that's why i'm the candidate the far left fears the most.

you see, when i cut your taxes, they called me a prop. when i refunded the police, they called me a token. when i pushed back on president biden, they even called me the "n" word. i disrupt their narrative. i threaten their control. the truth of my life disrupts their lies. i -- i will proclaim these truths from the highest mountaintop, and i will proclaim these truths in the deepest valley. i will take our message to the board rooms. but i will also take it to the classrooms. i will take it to a gymnasium

filled with friends, but i will also take it to an inner city church filled with skeptics. i have lived the american dream. i hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal endowed by our creator to be equal and free. our party and our nation are standing at a time of choosing. victimhood or victory. victimhood or victory. >> victory! >> victimhood or victory? >> victory! >> grievance or greatness? >> greatness! >> i choose freedom and hope and opportunity. will you choose it with me? will you join me as messengers

of hope? as visionaries that believe that the strength of our ideas can change our nation again? i will. let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go! >> let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go! >> oh, yeah. let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go! let's go!

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