Good morning everybody. Happy Monday. We have an amazing show for everybody today. What do we have, Crystal? Indeed we do. Lots of news breaking especially in the political world where it looks like

current President Biden is announcing his reelect tomorrow with a little launch video so we'll tell you everything we know about that including there's some pretty revealing new polls not just about him but also about the Republican primary and potential head-to-head match-ups so we'll get into all of that. We also finally did get a decision from the Supreme Court with regards to what's going to happen in the interim with that abortion pill which was a Texas judge said okay no abortion pill we're going to rescind that across the country there was another judge that said no we have to keep

the status quo in place Supreme Court is saying for now while appeals work their way through the system the current status quo is going to remain in place so we'll break all of that down for you as well as the politics around abortion we have to new numbers there as well Elon doing a million different Elon things for the past few days.

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breaking points dot com week greatly greatly appreciate it all right so the big political news this week is we had a couple scoops from various news outlets at the end of last week put this up on the

screen looks like president Biden is going to be announcing his reelection campaign next week go ahead a one put this up on the screen guys they've targeted Tuesday

to release an announcement video to coincide with the four year anniversary of his 2020 campaign launch now there had been a lot of speculation about one exactly he was going to pull the trigger here not a lot of doubt that he ultimately would although given his age and the concerns that a lot of even Democrats

both elite and certainly during the in the base have over his ability to effectively run a campaign effectively you know hold office of the presidency for another four years given that he is already the oldest president in history there was always a little bit of a question mark so

all of those questions being put to bed now there are every reporter who is putting this information out there is saying listen this is a man who can change his mind right up until the last

minute so you don't really know until it actually happens but it looks like this is coming tomorrow so the details that we've got here and mostly the Washington Post had sort of the specifics about what this is going to look like they're calling it a soft lunch there's not a big speech plan there's just a launch video he recorded it mostly after he got back from his trip to Ireland they also are planning some sort of like a donor meeting they said on the heels of the plan for election announcement by will meet with top Democratic donors in Washington because

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