to use the power of our institutions against the american people. and you have to decide for yourself whether or not you're ready to buckle up enough to get behind an 81-year-old guy who is like, i'm ready to do this fight. you know, let's just push him. keep pushing him. let's keep pushing him. if he looks weak, pick him up and push him more. if you're not pushing joe biden, you're pushing the country. you're pushing who we are as citizens. that's what this is about for me. and i think -- i hope it's important to enough americans when they walk into not july, i think the summer, go do you, boo. work on that tan, but when it's time for you to saddle up and buckle up, come labor day, come october, do the work. >> michael steele, do the work

gets the last word tonight. thanks to michael and molly. we're looking at this detroit, michigan, rally. the president has been seen. we had eyes on him walk into the building. msnbc will cover it for you live. joy reid takes up our special coverage right now. good evening, everyone. we begin tonight with president biden who is just moments away from giving a speech in detroit, michigan. when that speech begins, we will bring it to you live. joining me now is erin hanes, editor at large for the 19th. fernand amandi, and msnbc political analyst, and david jolly, former republican congressman and msnbc political analyst. i'm going to start with you. it feels in some ways like there is nothing president biden can do to stop this train that's gone out of the station from some members of his party and from some in the media. but what do you expect him to do tonight, and at this stage, what

does it get him? >> yeah, i mean, more than two weeks out from this debate, we're still kind of watching president biden's appearances not necessarily for the issues that he is going to raise, but for what his delivery might look like. and trying to figure out if in fact certainly the democratic voters still many of them are with him and believe he is electable, but that's not where some members of the party are. there's definitely, he's not doing much to kind of quell fears among some members in congress and others that he is still the person for the job, even though he is insisting obstaying in this race. that is what he is going to continue to do to make that case here probably in detroit, michigan obviously, a must-win state for democrats. but you know, you don't have folks like the popular governor of michigan in town to kind of even though she's signaled her support for him, she's not there tonight. so that crowd, it certainly looks robust.

if they're enthusiastic, i think that is maybe another signal at least to president biden that he needs to stay in this race and that the voters. he's hearing from people on the ground, and he says these voters are affirming over and over again they're with him regardless of what other establishment democrats are saying right now. >> you know, david, yeah, i have been watching cnn has been doing a bunch of moss and moss from other places as well, and they seem consistent. particularly when people are talking to voters of color. they're saying yeah, no, we want trump out and we're committed. i haven't seen anecdotally a lot of this coming from the actual voters or people who have to vote in the election. it definitely feels like it's coming from the professionals in the party. i haven't seen any evidence that it's voters that are in a panic over president biden. >> joy, i agree with you. the debate over joe biden is over. but for democratic professionals inside the beltway in

washington, d.c. the polls have shown us that things have stabilized for the president. he has told us he's in. you're seeing him at a rally tonight. you saw him lead a successful nato conference this week. this debate is over. and so you're either working for joe biden to get re-elected or you're working against him. and it's really that simple. i'm not quite sure what democrats think they're going to get out of the next week. if joe biden had indicated he was reconsidering, fine, have this family conversation. but you're having a family conversation without the president. all you're doing is handicapping him. and all of this time, all of this time, we could be prosecuting the case against the criminal nominee. you have a criminal nominee in donald trump. against an incumbent joe biden who is aging. are democrats really concerned that joe biden is more dangerous than donald trump? that they have to work on the public airwaves and on tv and radio and through public statements to try to push out joe biden? when republicans are nominating a criminal? a criminal?

you have a nominee in donald trump who wants to roll back democracy and in joe biden one who wants to defend it. in donald trump, somebody who wants to roll back your personal freedoms. in joe biden, someone who wants to protect them. and democrats are having a public conversation about kicking out joe biden? and it's only the washington inside the beltway democrats. i get the anxiety of all the voters. we all feel it. we do. i felt it. i was unsettled by the debate. i raised questions, should joe biden stay in this race or not? but he told us he is. he's in it. there's no other conversation to be had. the debate is over. joe biden is on the campaign trail tonight. you're either fighting for joe biden or you're fighting against him. it's that simple. and the last people to understand that seem to be everybody living in washington, d.c. who get paid to be a democratic consultant or a democratic member of congress. >> next week if the conversation isn't about that crazy

convention that going to be taking place among republicans in which it's going to be only fans stars and such on stage and them pitching project 2025 to turn us into the handmaid's tale, then nobody knows what they're doing. everybody is incomp tntd. next week, the conversation hopefully will be about that. fernand, let's talk about michigan. this is a very important state, obviously. it's a must-win state. there are these three must-win states for democrats. michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. no democrat really at this point can win without all three. talk about michigan, where does it stand? where did it stand predebate, where does it stand now? it seems like a lot of the sort of fundamentals in the swing states are pretty much the same? >> well, joy, michigan is probably the centerpiece if you will, the crown jewel of that blue wall. it's a state that frankly if biden and the democrats do not hold it in november, the math becomes almost impossible.

and that's why you see so much time being spent there. we saw it of course manifest in 2016. again in 2020. and if michigan is in any way on the fringes, the democrats are going to have to do their very best to fortify that. the good news is there is four months to still do that, and just to echo congressman jolly's point from earlier, i think it was appropriate that following the debate performance, questions were raised. discussions were had. those conversations and those discussions are now coming quickly to the point of no return. and for all of us in america watching, we have to realize, they're above our pay grade. this is a decision that joe biden has made, and if he's going to be the democratic nominee going forward in a week or two, that's going to be an official sanctioned thing, democrats need to get back all of them, volunteers, operatives, voters on the trail to do whatever they can to fortify states like michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania because if those crumble, joy, there is really no path to 270.

and that's why you see president biden there tonight, even while his campaign is going through all of these discussions and turmoil in that critical state of michigan. and he's going to be there a lot between now and november because it's the one state the democrats cannot afford to lose, joy. >> yeah, for sure. you know, there is this, you know, i have been getting all the emails with all of the fantasy scenarios, et cetera. all of that is moot. there are rules in the democratic party. there is a very important date coming up which is july 21st which is when you have this virtual balloting among the delegates. that is when joe biden who goes into that with nearly 3900 pledged delegates or about 700-some odd uncommitted delegates, that's it. there's simple rules. there is no like separate town hall strategy where you do different primaries. there's a vote on that date. if president biden then as expected gets more than 1976 delegates, he's the nominee. there is no alternate procedure

to change that. so at this stage, this is a moot point unless he on his own for whatever reason or for some other mechanism decides he's not running. then there is this other conversation that comes in because the fantasy football is also involving who else. there is no who else. there's kamala harris, the vice president of the united states. it's her job to be next in line. what do you make of the fact the fantasy talk has included someone besides her. that seems to be self-defeating and frankly insane. >> look, that's basically what i wrote back in november when president biden said, again, he was running for re-election and there was talk of possibly replacing vice president kamala harris on the ticket then. what i wrote in november, black women were not having that in november. it would be crazy for democrats to throw vice president kamala harris over the side for whatever reason because she's literally the sitting vice

president and is also somebody who is seen as an asset to the ticket particularly by black voters. this is certainly not a new conversation, but i guess it's a conversation that's not going away because here we are again in the post debate disaster era, still kind of talking over and around the vice president who was one of his swiftest and staunches supporters in the hours immediately after the debate and in the two weeks since. she's been out on the campaign trail making the case for people who think she's finding her lane or voice in the two weeks since this debate, welcome to covering the vice president. this is who she has been. she has been calling out trump by name for the past at least several months, calling him out on tying him directly to the fall of roe and the loss of reproductive rights for millions of women. and you know, she's been making the case that a trump presidency

is not an option. she's been resonating with women, with young people, with the key constituencies that democrats need to shore up over the next four months. and we have seen her do that. we were at essence, we saw in new orleans, the reaction she was getting from those black women who are in support of president biden in part because of his vice president, kamala harris. and you saw her at the convention in dallas making a pitch to her sorority sisters to get mobilized, to get organized. you saw her in greensboro this week against the backdrop of the 60th anniversary of the civil rights act talking about the people in that community and the duty they have had in their democracy and calling on them again to do their duty for the country come november. so she has really been an asset on this campaign trail in the last two years. she was an asset in the midterms. they think she's going to be an asset between now and november.

any talk of jettisoning her in any capacity is a nonstarter with any black member i have talked to and other people in the democratic party who do see her as an asset. >> fernand, you have the numbers. one of the best polling firms ever. you guys just recently did the numbers. she outpolls joe biden in the numbers that you guys put out this week. she's actually a huge asset. she's also a huge asset, we have the news today both hamas and israel have accepted the framework that president biden and the administration have put out in terms of trying to get a peace deal. she's actually helpful to him on college campuses on that issue and obviously the big issue, of course, reproductive rights. she's the spokesperson for that. talk a little bit about that. people are saying well, she would be a great option. she's already an option. she's on the ticket. >> she is indeed, and to your point, our opinions don't matter. it's what the data tells us. the data is speaking clearly this week. kamala harris is not just viable, she's ahead. she's winning, as you point out.

she's within the margin of error on every single poll i have seen. she's pulled ahead in a couple including the one we released this week. any talk that suggests she's not on the ticket is crazy talk. and that talk needs to end. joy, i think what america needs to do and voters especially those watching, we need to understand something very clearly. i know it's been difficult these past couple weeks. there's so much anxiousness and anxiety and it's valid, it's legitimate. but this election is not about joe biden and donald trump. it's not anymore. it's not about the personalities. we have had the luxury in the united states for the better part of our lifetimes and certainly the century where presidential elections were about two personalities within a framework that was loyal to the constitutional order. this election is about democracy and the continuance of american democracy or fascist dictatorship. and why is it not about joe biden? because if anything happens to joe biden, kamala harris is there behind him. if anything happens to her, another pro-democracy democrat

will be right there behind them. on the other side, the republican party is now an authoritarian fascist project. if anything happens to donald trump, then voters can rest assured the person in their place and we'll find out who his vice presidential pick is in a matter of days if not hours, they will represent that fascist authoritarian project. so we need to internalize what are the stakes and what the polls say are what the stakes are. that is why despite the disastrous performance, let's not kid ourselves, the debate is a disaster, and joe biden is old, he's very old, but he's a soldier standing on the front lines to defend democracy. and that is what this election is about. we either get with the program and defend our democracy, which today is the party of the democrats' mission, or we turn our country over and our children's futures as hostages

to fortune over to a maga authoritarian project. as i say all along, i'm the son of cuban exiles who lost their country. if you lose democracy, don't expect to get it back in your lifetime. >> amen. amen, and thank you for saying that. i'm going to go to you on this, david. i have been to cuba. i went because i was doing a research project for a project my husband and i were working on. i have actually seen that first-hand. i almost wish that everyone could go and see it. there's a learned helplessness that comes with autocracy has kicked in. there's a sense people have, a combination of sort of fantasizing about, people thinking could i get over to the united states and maybe work in a hotel? that's a sort of high ambition because that's the highest paid job. also, a sense of complete helplessness that i can't get this back. so most people don't fight, most people don't resist. they stop resisting at a certain point because the small number of people who did rezest end up in jail and you never see them again. there's a fear that makes people

helpless. i see a sort of learned helplessness in this country as well. you think about states where the red states have taken over where republicans have taken over, and where people who have numbers like numbers, people of color, people who are vulnerable could vote in huge numbers but they're convinced it doesn't matter. louisiana, mississippi, texas, places where minority voters could bring their strength and don't because they have been convinced by the autocratic oligarchs who run those states that it doesn't matter. how do we fight this learned helplessness that democrats are displaying now if they're saying trump is unbeatable, and i'm hearing so many democrats saying he's going to win. well then why have an election? and why are you shocked when republicans don't believe it when they lose? you're the one saying that they can't lose. you go. >> thank you. thank you. elected democrats need to shut up. they need to shut up. they're not helping right now. they're hurting. and i actually think what has happened in the last two weeks is we have undergone this

distilling effect almost to recognize how easy this choice is. i'll give you a little background here, fernand and i talked a lot on debate night and the days after, like all other americans did. saying uh-oh, what does this mean? what do we do? you hear both of us us tonight. we didn't talk before tonight. we're both at the point where we realize, you know what's happened? joe biden is in this race, and now the decision is easy. it's easy because over the last two weeks most voters have experienced the fear of realizing, oh, no, donald trump might be coming back. if donald trump comes back, we lose our democracy. we lose our freedoms. we lose our rights. and i actually think what you're seeing in the uptic in the vice president's polling reflects that as well. recall three weeks ago, her numbers were softer than biden's, and most of your disaffected republicans, your independents, your persuadables would say i don't know. i don't think i want vice president harris and biden is too old, we can't have kamala. they're not saying that now. >> i'm going to rudely interrupt

you. >> amen. amen, my friend. let's watch president biden. here he comes. he's going to speak to a very important crowd, michigan, detroit, michigan. here he is. >> good evening, detroit.

>> good evening, detroit. >> good evening, detroit. good evening, michigan. good evening, detroit. and good evening, michigan.

[ cheers and applause ] >> well, good evening, detroit. good evening, michigan. it is my distinct honor to present a transformative leader. i say -- i say transformative because when our nation urgently needed proven leadership, he not only met the moment, but he ushered in life-giving change. when our economy was teetering on the brink of recession, president biden turned it around remarkably. hallelujah.

and because of the biden/harris administration, we have seen lower prescription drug prices and lower health care premiums. nearly $170 billion in student loan forgiveness. more people in the american workforce than any point in history. nationwide rebuilding of infrastructure. the signing of the first significant gun safety law in 30 years. tremendous boom in small businesses. over $16 billion in support for historically black colleges and universities.

and the list goes on. as a woman of faith, as a pastor, i am grateful that president biden operates out of compassion for people, the people he serves rather than serving his own interests like the other side. you see, while trump is promoting autocracy, president biden is defending democracy. trump spews misinformation and disinformation while president biden fosters transformation and elevation. trump wants to move us backward in 2025, but president biden

wants to see us all bloom and thrive. trump wants to be a president king, but president biden wants freedom to ring. trump wants tax cuts for the wealthy, but president biden wants to keep america healthy. and even though there are some who have vocalized their doubts, there are still plenty of us who fully support our president. so allow me, allow me to paraphrase the biblical prophet elijah. president biden, there are far more who are with you than there are who are against you.

and because he has been a transformative leader, we want to give him four more years to finish the job. it is my honor and privilege to present the 46th president of the united states of america, joe biden. >> hello, hello, hello. i tell you what. >> we love you.

>> thank you, i love you back. look, i'm not going home unless i get one sign. and that is motown is joe town, and it is. you don't know how true that is. my dad sold automobiles, got me through high school and college and law school, and sold automobiles. i think we always looked to motown. uaw. by the way, the pastor is at ame church. i'm still a young guy, but when i was a young fellow volved with the civil rights movement in my state which was segregated by law. i would start at pastor beamen's church, the ame church in wilmington. i would go to 7:30 mass and then 10:00 service.

we would plan what we were going to doerse how to desegregate. now you know why i spent so much time in the ame church. pastor, thanks for that introduction and for your spiritual leadership in the community. by the way, we have a great crowd here, to state the obvious. if i didn't do this, i would get in trouble. my dad looking down on me. >> we love you! >> my dad would give me hell if i didn't turn and say, excuse my back. i apologize. look, folks. members of congres --

[ chanting we got your back ] >> i got your back. i got your back as well. members of congress debbie hallie and -- by the way, i want you to know that i have spent a lot of time with debbie. she's helped me a lot. and i forget which event we were at, someone said you're his wife, aren't you? because she looks like jill, my wife. and thank you very much. look, we got state leaders. lieutenant governor gilchrist. hard to miss, he's 7'3". secretary of state benson. democratic chairman. we got civil right leaders, faith leaders, labor leaders.

thank you all. and by the way, i don't call labor. it's simple. unions. say the word. i can't tell you how much this means to me. i really mean it. thank you, thank you. folks, look, i'm here for one reason. kamala and i won michigan in 2020 because of you and we're going to win it again in 2024. and here's how we're going to do it. we're going to stand up for women in america. we're going to protect contraception. we're going to protect ivf. and we're going to restore roe v. wade as the law of the land. i mean it. we're going to protect the right to vote. we're going to fight for

medicare and social security, not cut it like the other guy wants to do. i promise, i'm going to keep lowering the cost of prescription drugs in america. i'm going to keep expanding health care. no matter how many times trump and his maga republicans come after the affordable care act, we will stop them and stop them and stop them. i mean it. too many people are depending on it. we're going to protect our children. we're going to get weapons of war off the street. we're going to ban assault weapons. folks, look, more children are killed by a bullet than any other reason in america. they die for that from more than anything else, any disease, any problem. it's sick. above all else, we're going to stand up for our constitution and save our democracy.

folks, you probably noticed, a lot of speculation lately, what's joe biden going to do? is he going to stay in the race? is he going to drop out? here's my answer. i am running, and we're going to win. i'm not going to change that. in fact, just today, the maris poll, a national poll, has me beating trump 50 to 48. so much of my narrative of my campaign has fallen apart, they say. i'm the nominee of the democratic party. the only democrat or republican who has beaten donald trump ever, and i'm going to beat him again. i know him. donald trump is a loser.

[ chanting lock him up ] >> folks. i'm the nominee. i'm the nominee of the party because 14 million democrats like you voted for me in the primaries. you made me the nominee, no one else, not the press, not the pundits, not the insiders, not the donors. you the voters decided, no one else, and i'm not going anywhere. i learned a long time ago, when you get knocked down, you get back up. i have led this nation through the depth of the pandemic, through the strongest economy literally in the world. and we're not done yet. we're not done yet. we have to finish the job and do what we're going to do. folks, let me tell you something

about donald trump and his friends down in mar-a-lago. wall street didn't build this country. you did, the working people, and the middle class built this country. and unions built the middle class. that's a fact. that's a fact. folks, i'm proud to say i'm the first and only president in american history to walk a picket line. because i know labor, when labor does well, everybody does well. that's not hyperbole. i came to michigan to walk that picket line. i stood shoulder to shoulder with united autoworkers. the greatest autoworkers in the world. i want you to know, i promise you, i give you my word, i will always have your back because you have always had mine.

remember what donald trump did when i was here walking the picket line? he gave a speech at a non-union shop. when trump comes here to tell you how great he is for the auto industry, remember this. when trump was president, we lost 86,000 jobs in unions. i created 275,000 auto jobs in america. the fact is true, and it's true all over america. since i became president, we created nearly 16 million new jobs nationwide. 390,000 of those jobs right here in michigan. we created 800,000 manufacturing jobs nationwide, including 24,000 in michigan. unemployment is down to 4%,

record lows for more than two years. historic low unemployment for hispanics, black, asian americans including here in michigan. look, just yesterday, it was reported because of my economic plan, inflation is down again. again. over all prices fell last month. core inflation is the lowest it's been in three years. prices are falling for cars, appliances, air fares, grocery prices have fallen since the start of this year. we have more to do. we're going to keep working to take corporation greed on. since the pandemic, corporations have doubled their profits. i understand corporations. i come from the corporate capital of the world, delaware. they have more corporations in my state than any other state in the union combined. i'm not anti-corporation but i'm anti-greed.

meanwhile, donald trump is riding around on his golf card filling out his scorecard before he hits the ball. he's calling for -- this is the god's truth, he's calling for a 10% tariff on everything we import, including fruits, coffee, and other necessities, and the leading economists in this country tell us his plan would cost working families $2,500 a year in new taxes. that's a fact. not a joke. folks, the vast majority agree, our economy is moving in the right direction. jobs are up. wages are up. the economy continues to grow, and inflaugz is down. i love telling trump this, even though i don't own the stock, the stock market is at a historic high. people are getting a little worried that so many moderate and mainstream republican -- not

all republican, mainstream economists support me. look, when more people have more money in their 401(k)s than they ever did before, but folks, you don't have to take my word for it. 16 nobel laureates in economics agree. under my economic plan, they say we're going to tin to grow and keep inflation down. they say that trump's plan would put the economy in recession. 16 nobel laureates last week say it would put us in recession and inflation would soar. folks, look, in fact, i guess i should worry, but the new "wall street journal" survey of economists say inflation would be worse under trump. that's the "wall street journal." great paper, usually not supportive of me. do you really want to go back to the chaos of donald trump as president?

back when the united states lost 3 million jobs. by the way, by the way, donald trump, the only president in american history other than herbert hoover who lost more jobs than he had when he came in. that's why i call him donald herbert hoover trump. remember the days when people were dying, literally dying, and we were pushing on the covid effort. guess what? he told us, don't worry about the covid. it's not that bad. just inject -- really, inject bleach in your arm. think he must have hit his head. look, remember when trump was trance congressing peaceful protest across the white house lawn. who were marching for justice. look, folks.

you know, if it wasn't so serious, it would be like a made-up novel. i'm not complaining. i'm just saying, you may have noticed that since the debate, the press and they're good guys and women up there, they have been hammering me. i make a lot of mistakes. no, no. no, no, no. it's okay. they have been hammering me because i sometimes confuse names. i say that's charlie instead of bill, but guess what? donald trump has gotten a free pass. he hasn't done a damn thing until a couple days ago. riding around in his golf cart filling out his score card before he picks up his club. rambling. hannibal lector he says is a nice guy. he would rather be electrocuted

thanaten by a shark. that whole thing, remember that? poor donald, he can't even watch tv this week because it's shark week. and by the way -- [ cheers and applause ] on a more serious note. i had 32 members, mostly from europe, but 32 members of nato in washington. and by the way, and the press has covered this. they give me credit for strengthening nato, expanding nato, making it what it is. look, this is deadly earnest. when that butcher putin who i have known for a long time, when he invaded ukraine, here's what trump said. i'm not making this up either. he called him a genius and said

it was wonderful. what in the hell is going on? the people would rather talk about how i mix up names. i guess they don't remember that trump called nikki haley nancy pelosi. well, no. no more. donald, no more free passes. today, we're going to shine a spotlight on donald trump. we're going to do what the press so far hasn't but i think they will soon. we're going to say who he is, what he intends to do. folks, donald trump is a convicted criminal. a convicted -- he was convicted

by a jury of his peers, of 34 felonies for paying hush money to a porn star. and hiding from voters in 2016. donald trump was found liable for sexual assault by a judge who told us not to be fooled by trump's brushing it off. this is what the judge wrote, quote, the judge in that case wrote mr. trump attempted to minimize sexual abuse, finding it frivolous. mr. trump raped her. this is the judge's language, not mine. raped her. as many people understand the word rape. folks, donald trump is a business fraud. he lost his license to do business in new york state. been fined over $400 million for giving false information to banks. and he still is facing charges for mishandling classified information, which is a criminal

offense. he still is facing charges for his role in january 6th, trying to overthrow the outcome of the 2020 election. he's still facing charges in georgia for election interference. remember his phone call? i just need 11,780 votes. name me another president who's done any of that. look, if you want to know how bad a businessman trump really is, just think about this. he inherited millions of dollars only to squander it. he's filed bankruptcy six times. he even went bankrupt, even went bankrupt running a casino. i didn't think that was possible. doesn't the house always win in a casino? most importantly, and i mean this from the bottom of my heart, trump is a threat to this nation. he led a violent mob on january

6th to overturn the 2020 election. to hold on to power. to deny an election i won by 7 million votes. folks, by the way, he made these claims about stealing the election. guess what? what happened was -- [ chanting four more years ] by the way -- i know. [ chanting four more years ]

[ chanting four more years ] >> folks. look. give me one second. folks, look. i understand her passion. i understand her passion. that's why i put together a

detailed plan that the united nations accepted, that the israelis accepted, that the palestinians accepted. to end this war, this war must end. it must end. look, you saw with our own eyes, we saw how he sent thousands of people to attack the capitol, trump. we saw the police being attacked. the capitol being ransacked. the mob hunting for the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. gallows set up to hang vice president pence. we saw -- we saw it here in michigan, a stark attack on your state capitol. a horrendous plot to kidnap your governor. protests surrounding her home, the home of your secretary of state. for simply doing her job. she's here tonight, madam secretary, i'm proud of you. where are you, madam secretary?

[ cheers and applause ] that's why i have bestowed on the secretary the presidential citizens medal, one of the highest honors in defense of democracy. folks, now trump wants to pardon those january 6th insurrectionists. it's outrageous. it's wrong. and i will never let it happen. no president has ever attempted to do what trump tried to do. no president. but trump is even more dangerous now. i'm serious. he's unhinged. he snapped. and he refuses this time around, herefuses this time around to say he'll accept the results of this election. can you imagine that? look, he says if he loses, there will be a bloodbath when he

loses. and the united states supreme court said there's virtually no limit on the power of a president. trump said if he wins he'll be a dictator on day one. he means it, folks. we're not going to let that happen. over my dead body it will happen. folks, i'm not complicated but look at this right wing project 2025. you heard about it? it's a blueprint for the second trump term that every american should read and understand. now, of course, trump is lying about it now. he tries to distance himself just like he's tried to distance himself from overturning roe v. wade, because he knows how toxic it is. but we're not going to let that happen. and the press shouldn't either. project 2025 is run and paid for

by trump people. his top policy people. his campaign press secretary, his personal bag man in the white house. the biggest funders and more. it was a project built for trump. folks, project 2025 is the biggest attack on our system of government and our personal freedom that's ever been proposed in the history of this country. and here's the nightmare, what it would unleash. trump project 2025 will criminalize the shipping of abortion medications, medication anywhere to deny contraceptionive coverage. allow a ban nationwide. that's what project 2025 is about. project 2025 will deploy the department of justice to prosecutor trump's enemies. and that's the real deal. trump's enemies. trum himself calls himself a campaign -- this is what he calls it -- revenge and retribution. that's what he says.

well, trump's 2025 project will eliminate the civil service. no, i'm surious. not a joke, read it. and he will let -- it will allow him to hire tens of thousands of civil servants that are running only because they support trump. they have to take a loyalty oath to trump beforehand. folks, that's not the united states of america. trump's 2025 project will cut social security and medicare. rip away protections for pre-existing health conditions, will eliminate $35 a month cap on insulin allowing companies to jack up prices back to $400 a month. stop medicare from negotiating lower drug prices, and by the way, i got criticized for taking on the drug companies, pharma, for that. by the way, you know what it did? when i won, they cut the federal

budget by $160 billion. trump's project 2025 would eliminate -- he wants to eliminate the department of education, not a joke. he wants to cut school lunch programs. i know it almost sounds like a joke, but it's real. he wants to eliminate head start for low-income children. his project will allow employers to stop paying overtime for hourly workers but give the very wealthy another massive tax cut, the tax cut he's

>> you heard him say it. you heard him say he wants to do it. that's what he says he's going to do. ripping them away from their homes and schools, because trump calls them animals who poison the blood of america. look, folks, there is only one reason why trump's plan goes on for 900 pages. we've never seen anything like this. it's not a joke. it is time for us to start treating politics like entertainment and reality tv. another four years of donald trump is deadly serious. their deadly serious. america needs to wake up and realize that trump and his maga republicans, what they are trying to do. we are going to join them, we are going to engage them, and we are going to stop that.

folks, we all know it is not enough just to be against something. we have to be for something. today i am going to start by laying out the first 100 days of my second term. here it is. the first bill i'm going to introduce would restore roe v wade and make it the law of the land. i will sign the john lewis freedom to vote act. we are looking to stop trump and the maga republicans from cutting social security and medicare. we will expand and strengthen social security and medicare. and here's how are going to do it. the press always asks how. listen, press. by making the rich pay their fair share.

we are going to end medical debt. by that i mean we have already made sure medical that can no longer be put on your credit report. we can wipe out medical debt for pennies on the dollar. we are going to raise the federal minimum wage. we are going to pass the pro act and end union busting once and for all. and i am going to ban assault weapons again. i did it once, and i'm going to do it again . we are going to keep meeting the world where we are on climate and clean energy. when i signed the american rescue plan the law expended child care tax credit to child

poverty in half in america. and it did. i am going to make child care tax cuts permanent. and, by the way, it increases economic -- it doesn't increase deficit. people will work. that is a deal. we capped the cost of insulin for seniors at 35 bucks total cost. no senior, beginning in 2025, is going to to pay more than $2000 a year for all their prescriptions. including cancer drugs that are 10, 12, $14,000 a year. and my second term, here's what i'm going to do. i'm going to make that same plan available for every single american. again, saving the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars over time. we are going to make housing more affordable. that means taking on corporate greed and getting the rent down.

we are going to build 2 million housing units and cap rent increase at 5% a year so corporate landlords can no longer gouge everyone. we can do this. we are going to end trump's tax cuts for the very wealthy and the corporations to make the tax code fair. i kept my commitment. i think a lot of you thought why isn't biden doing what he said, well, no one making less than $400,000 will make a penny in federal taxes. i want to be clear, i wasn't going to be taxing anyone who is a working manner anything close to it. what we're going to do, we are going to make billionaires, we have 1000 in america since the pandemic, pay a minimum tax of 25%. by the way, you know what they pay now? a billionaires federal tax is

8.2%. not a joke. i'm not making this up. because no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, a firefighter. it's ridiculous. that one thing alone will generate $500 billion in revenue over the next 10 years, allowing us to do more for child care, elder care, bringing down federal deficit. to do so much more. we are going to continue to secure the southern border. look, after trump killed the bipartisan effort we put together that a lot of republicans supported, as well, he got on the phone and he called all his friends, because he said if, in fact, you vote for it it could be a win for biden and a loss for me. so don't do it. well, i have to admit you, i was a little surprise the republican party walked away

from it. that is when i took executive action. i said, and since i did the border, encounters have gone down over 50%. and we are going to keep it going down, fixing legal immigration, paving pathways for citizens. i made it clear that for over half 1 million americans married to americs who don't have a green card after 10 years, they are now going to get their green card. folks, the days of failed trickle-down economics are over. the first 100 days of the second term will continue to be all about working people in this nation. unlike donald trump, i don't work for big oil. i don't work for big pharma. i don't work for the national rifle association. i work for you, the american people. everyone, look.

what is america all about? everyone in america is entitled to a fair shot. no guarantees, a fair shot. but in america we are going to give everyone a fair shot. that's all we are. folks, let me close with this. i know i look 40 years old, but i'm a little bit older. hopefully with age comes a little bit of wisdom. and here's what i know. i know how to tell the truth. i know right from wrong. i know how, and i demonstrate how to do this job. and i know america wants a president, not a dictator. i also know no self-respecting

american president would ever be put in putin's puppy like this. americans want to protect their freedom, not give them up. i know what america stands for. with stan for the proposition that all people are equal and should be treated equally. we have never fully lived up to it. we have never walked away from it, though. and i will be if i will let donald trump walk this nation away from that. folks, this race is about your family. it is about your freedom. it is about democracy. are you with me? we are going to stop donald trump. let's get this done! just remember who we are, we are the united states of america, and there is nothing

beyond our capacity when we do it together. god bless you all, and may god protect our troops. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> that was the president of the united states, joseph biden, holding a spirited campaign rally in detroit, michigan tonight. we just took that live, clocking in around 30 minutes before an exuberant crowd. i am chris hayes here in new york, joined by my colleague, joy reed, the host of reidout just before me. and my first rate on this, i think we have been honest throughout about the various performances we have seen from this president, from the debate, the stephanopoulos interview, the press conference, that was, by far, i thk