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traditional methods and put out an audio with elon musk. it turned into a fiasco as desantis was unable to speak due to heavy user traffic causing technical issues, once it was revol sofled he was able to speak. >> my pledge to you is this. if you nominate me, you can set your clock to january 20th, 2025 at high noon, because on the west side of the u.s. capitol, i will be taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the united states. no excuses i will get the job done. >> reporter: and desantis is the latest to enter the rapidly-growing republican primary. just this week, south carolina senator tim scott announced his candidacy. on wednesday, it was reported that scott's campaign has raised

$2 million in the 24 hours after his launch all of these candidates also likely have to contend with the frontrunner former president trump. the president took shots at his one-time ally on truth social, calling it a desantis and predict p disaster. president biden is set to potentially make history for his pick for the next chief of the joints chief of staff. he is expected to announce cq brown jr if brown is confirmed, it would mark the first time in u.s. history that the top positions in the pentagon would be held by african-americans. with brown serving alongside defense secretary lloyd austin

brown would replace outgoing chairman mark milley whose term ends in october. as negotiations on raising the debt ceiling continue with one week to go bore the june 1st deadline, fitch ratings placed the country aaa rating on rating watch negative on wednesday. this is not an official downgrade but a warning that the agency could take that action. fitch cited the partisan fighting in washington as a major reason for issuing the warning. during the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, standard & poors did downgrade the u.s.' aaa rating even after an agreement was reached. one of the most recognizable january 6 rioters has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison. a photo of richard barnett with his feet propped up on then-speaker pelosi's desk became one of the most well-known images from that day. he was convicted on eight charges, including theft of government property and prosecutors say he was armed with a stun device and ten-pound

steel pole after he was convicted, barnett said he was the victim of political persecution. his lawyers said they will appeal convicted murderer alex murdaugh is facing new federal charges. murdaugh, who is serving life in prison for killing his wife and son, has been indicted on 22 fraud-related charges. he is accused of cheating the family of gloria satterfield, his former housekeeper out of a settlement of nearly $3.5 million she died in alleged fall at murdaugh's south carolina home he's also accused of redirecting other settlement funds for his own personal gain. his attorneys say he is cooperating and they believe the charges will be resolved without a trial. american officials say it was likely ukrainian agents who were behind a drone attack on the kremlin in moscow earlier this month, according to the "new york times. nbc news has not independently confirmed that report. nobody was injured in the explosion on may 3rd, and president putin was not even in the building when it happened.

for the latest on this, we bring in claudio lavanga good morning so how c how candidate u.s. govt re did the u.s. government reach that assessment? >> reporter: u.s. officials now believe the drone attack on the kremlin in the beginning of may was coordinated by ukraine and ukrainian officials believe their country was behind it now. right after the attack, the ukrainian government, including president zelenskyy completely denied, strongly denied they had anything to do with it but with the latest findings, it seems like this was part after series of covert operations organized by the ukrainian secret services. and even though the same officials told the "new york times" that they have low confidence that the ukrainian government, including president zelenskyy was directly involved, or gave a direct authorization for that attack.

this is still cause for serious concern for both president biden and his western allies, because they've been providing ukraine with weapons since the start of the war, including a recent pledge to supply them with f-16s and long-range missiles on the condition that ukraine does not attack russia in its own territory, phillip >> yeah, that would and bad look if it was used for those purposes claudio lavanga joining us, thank you. it has been one year since the uvalde massacre in uvalde, texas. families of victims are still struggling to come to terms with the unspeakable tragedy that shattered the community and shook the country to its core. >> the pain, the anguish, it's just like it was yesterday but not being able to hold your daughter, give her a kiss, say

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kids can collect tonys which are different figures. they sit on top of the box to hear songs, stories. so many are fun characters and some from pop culture. but our friend sleepy sheep is soft to the touch and lights up as a night light when you place him on the tony box you're going to get soothing lullabies. the light also has different auto shutoff feature if you don't wan don'tt thansou you just use the light >> i love t it i'm sold you know i was raving about this all throughout the commercial break, years and years of my kids' childhood, boogie boards i love this take >> boogie boards are these boards that you draw on with a styleless, and to erase it, super easy, press a button

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for that story i see a school holiday every single year. mr. charlie should have a celebration for every grade. >> great to see the smile on all their faces. he they say lightning only strikes once, but that may not be the case. lightning crackles on jupiter very similar to how it does on earth. science found they existed 40 years ago on jupiter, but now they have confirmed the near-identical patterns. the they're still questioning how they can happen. earth much different jupiter is much larger and mainly gas more things to figure out anin'♪

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