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the 1students and teachers are commemorated ron desantis is set to announce his run for the presidency and the detainment of evan gershkovich. and an actress joins a rare club with less than two dozen other actors of asian descent. it's wednesday, may 24th "early today" starts right now >> good morning, i'm cori coffin >> i'm frances rivera. today marks one year since the horrific day in yew auvalde, te. they are going to hold a moment of silence and state flags will be lowered the time coincides with the moment a gunman began his n beg

p rampage, killing 19 students and two teachers >> it is something we live with every second just imagine everything you love getting ripped from you. >> there's no moving on. i'm stuck on that day, and i will forever be stuck on that day. >> 12 months later, and the victims of families are still seeking accountability and action many have been pleading with lawmakers to raise the age to buy the type of weapon the 18-year-old shooter used but that measure appears stalled at the texas capital we are learning more about the scare at the white house when a u-haul truck slammed into security barriers. a 19-year-old flew from missouri, rented the truck and drove it directly to the white house. he is facing multiple charges, including threatening to kill or harm a president the charging documents say that he told agents that his goal was to seize power and be put in

charge of the nation and that he would kill the president if that's what he had to do authorities also seized anazi flag from the truck. the suspect is expected to appear in federal court today. in washington, a deal on the debt ceiling is still out of sight with just over one week remaining until the u.s. could default on its debt obligations. speaker of the house mccarthy told reporters that while he still thinks there's time to make a deal, conflicting decisions on government spending remain the reason for the stalemate with the white house this as some republicans question the deadline of june 1st cited by janet yellen. geer ge negotiators are set to meet again later this morning nbc news has learned ron desantis is officially gearing up to enter the race for the white house. the florida governor is expected to break from tradition tonight, launching his presidential bid in a twitter live stream with elon musk.

his campaign would put him in direct competition with former president trump for the republican nomination. dasha burns has the exclusive report >> reporter: we're hours away from an expected major shakeup in the race for president with florida governor ron desantis ready to jump in >> stay tuned, stay tuned. >> reporter: and now nbc news learning exclusive details about that announcement, which will feature a surprise guest desantis set to reveal his presidential run in a discussion with billionaire twitter ceo elon musk wednesday night that will be live streamed on twitter spaces, the site's platform for audio chats, according to three sources familiar with the plans. musk first tweeted his support for desantis last year, and a source familiar with conversations between musk and the governor's team tells nbc news musk does not think republican front runner former president trump can win and believes desantis is the future. >> my prifeference i think would

be the preference of most americans is to have someone fairly normal in office. >> reporter: musk saying he won't be making any endorsements wednesday. >> i'm not at this time planning to endorse any particular candidate. but i am interested in, you know, twitter being somewhat of a town square. >> reporter: the florida governor will instantly become mr. trump's top rival. >> ron desanctimonious >> reporter: their feud has been escalating just this weekend desantis slamming trump over his pandemic response >> we can never allow warp speed to trump informed consent in this country, ever again >> reporter: now the sunshine state, ground zero in a growing republican divide. those backing trump. >> i would pick trump. >> reporter: you would pick trump? >> trump has already proven what he can do. >> reporter: and desantis. desantis versus trump, who would you pick >> if it was just those two? >> reporter: yeah. >> i would pick desantis

>> desantis all the way. >> reporter: why >> well, i want a winner >> reporter: the event on twitter spaces will be followed by a gathering of donors and fundraisers here in miami who will be raising money for the governor's campaign. and next week, after memorial day, he will take a big swing through those critical early states as an official candidate. >> dasha, thank you. it has been three months since former president jimmy carter entered end of life hospice care he remains in good spirits his grandson tells "the associated press," even enjoying regular servings of ice cream. he and his wife have been married since 1946 his grandson jason tells the ap their faith is really grounding in this moment foermer president trump has found out he will have to go to court during election season the judge set a trial date of

march 25th, 2024 for the case in which former president trump pleaded not guilty last month to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records at least 25 state also have their presidential primary contests by that date. trump declared his latest presidential bid in november of last year. the announcement was made during a virtual hearing on an order barring trump from disclosing evidence in the case south carolina accused a bill tuesday that would ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. a bipartisan group of five women senators tried and failed to stop it from passing the legislation includes exceptions for fetal anomalies, the mother's life and health and rape or incest up to 12 weeks. it also orders the father to pay

child support starting at conception the governor says he will sign it into law. a court in moscow has suspended the pre-trial detention by three months. "the wall street journal" reporter could face up to 20 years in prison. let's bring in chapman bell who's following the story for us what's the immediate reaction to the decision >> reporter: good morning, cori. as you said, gershkovich pre-trial detention extended until the end of august now. and immediately after the state department telling reporters outside the courtroom they once again were calling for his immediate release, as well as the immediate release of american paul whelan, himself, also classified as wrongfully detained also the "wall street journal" evan gershkovich's employer calling for his immediate release saying that while they

expect n expected no change to his immediate detention they are disappointed that seen by some of his colleagues at the "wall street journal" tweeting a horribly disappointing development as we continue to wait for justice for our colleague. another one of his colleagues saying "release evan know. the state department has had consular advice and meetings with evan. the ambassador was in the courtroom and his parents, but we are not sure if he was able to interact with either as the hearing was behind closed doors. >> what do you think the next stage is for gershkovich in this case >> reporter: well, it's kind of hard to tell in the sense that he's the first reporter who has been arrested for espionage since the cold war, so there's a lot of unknown ahead of us however, in a country that has a 99% conviction rate, only a 1%

chance of acquittal, it seems likely that the, as it goes through the motions, we see where these, what the outcome would be also any terms of a prisoner swap, in the past they must have been convicted so there's never been, they always call for a conviction before they discuss a prisoner exchange so we'll have to wait for the end of the trial if there's going to be any sense of that. >> just on that note we saw with brittney griner. the new chinese ambassador to the u.s. has arrived stateside at a time of great tension between the world's two largest economies. speaking to reporters at jfk airport here in new york city, he acknowledged serious difficulties and challenges between washington and beijing he said he hoped for dialog and cooperation so that, quote, our relationship will be right to the right track. however, diplomats speaking to

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