If it's Friday, President Biden with a little help from some famous friends

breaks in tens of millions of dollars but not without interruptions from

pro-Palestinian protesters.

Plus, the president says he's heading to Baltimore next week to view the wreckage of the Francis

Scott Key Bridge as officials prepare for a massive and daunting operation to clear the

critical waterway. And American journalist Evan Gerskovic marks one year in

Russian prison as Washington renews calls for his release including a rare

bipartisan statement from the top four congressional leaders. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker in Washington. We begin today with the

2024 race for the White House and both campaigns efforts to build momentum and build

up their campaign war chests. The Biden campaign is celebrating what it says is a massive

26 million dollar fundraising hall last night from the celebrity field event with former

presidents Clinton and Obama.

The campaign hopes to leverage their cash advantage

to overcome their polling gap

with former President Trump.

The Biden team did not allow reporters

to record video inside the event,

which featured the three leaders taking part in nearly hour-long conversation

moderated by late night host Stephen Colbert.

But this morning morning the campaign releasing

edited clips from the event seeming to signal what they hope the big takeaway

from last night will be. When those folks came out of the fields carrying torches and Nazi flags and accompanied

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