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how old is too old for a president. first, the battle for suburban women is on. and if the race ends up being between donald trump and joe biden, today might have provided an opening for the president. for some context, why college educated women are thought to track closely with suburban women. trump lost this group by seven points in 2016. now biden has his own women's issues, if yo you'd like to cale and snope. he seemed oddly unprepared. >> i have to be more careful. including whether i sit down next to somebody and is not invited to sit down. so that's my responsibility. >> also said we'd like an apology. >> well, look. i'm really sorry if they -- what

i did in talking to them, trying to console, that in fact they took it a different way. and it's my responsibility to make sure that i bend over backwards to try to understand how not to do that. >> she wants you to say i'm sorry i invaded your space. >> so i invaded your space. i'm sorry this happened. but i'm not sorry in the sense that i did anything that was intentionally designed to do anything wrong or be inappropriate. >> i guess having women sit on his lap and nuzzle them without permission, nothing inappropriate. joining me is nan hayworth, kathie arue, former washington post panelist. will grope and sniff gate dog joe biden or did he put it to rest? >> it sure feel like a sorry not

sorry kind of session. i mean, you know, if you're going to -- i mean, if you're going to try to be sincere, if you really think that women's issues -- and i do not -- are limited to these kinds of things, independent women's forums, women's issues concern us all. but if you're going to run on that kind of an issue and you go on "the view," you better be prepared to do some humble groveling. >> kathy, they sent him out there to put it to rest with a largely female audience. did he do it? >> i think so. he was humble, apologetic, careful. absolutely. >> he was vague. >> he was vague, he was service. we didn't want a cocky guy on "the view" saying he would do it all over again. >> but he wasn't confident or

apologetic. >> audrey, i want you take on this. >> it's not a true apology. but to your point, it gets back to what are the issues that affect all women. and there are some. let's look at the economy now. no one wants to go back to what it was eight years ago. women unemployment is the lowest it's been in 65 years. that's the important issues that we should be talking about. >> absolutely. >> there was another moment in this interchange with "the view," uncomfortable moment when biden struggled to answer a question about his treatment of anita hill during the clarence thomas hearings and a recent conversation they had. watch. >> she was not 100% happy with your discussion with her. so here's your opportunity right now to just say you apologize, you're sorry. i think we can clean this up right now. >> by the way, i did. i understand -- look. i'm not going to judge whether or not it was appropriate, whether she thought it was sufficient. but i said privately what i've

said publicly. i'm sorry she was treated the way she was treated . >> i don't know why it took you so long to call her. i wish it had happened earlier. >> i didn't want to quote invade her space. >> i think what she wants you to say is i'm sorry for the way i treated you, not for the way you were treated. i think that's chloe. >closer.>> did you catch that? the way she got treated, using the passive voice, in other words, not my fault. will this hurt him, kathy? >> it's not going to hurt him. it's going to be a great meme. everything is going to be memes. >> liberal women will put this aside? >> they're going to forget this. this is going to be forgotten just like -- trump did much worse, the thing he said on the bus with billy bush. much much worse. this is a meme at best. >> now, stop. that was trash tack which

frankly you know. go to a bar, you can hear them talk like this. >> i know. >> i'll take you to one. >> okay. >> but you know, here's what i think everybody needs to remember. virtue singling is not virtue. words are not deeds. and personalities are not policies. so when we are judging any of these candidates -- i can look at president trump and say i know what he has done for america's women. >> hurt women. >> no, no. >> absolutely. >> one at a time. andrea, how has he helped women in your estimation. >> look at the unemployment rate. america is stronger than the international stage than it was eight years ago. our economy is stronger than it was eight years ago. he's appointed six cabinet level position to women in his administration. to your point, he's put forth strong leadership and america is stronger today than it was.

>> absolutely. >> -- under president obama. >> that's not the only issue. the violence against women's act just disappeared. >> human trafficking act. >> it has actually helped women. >> violence against women's act fell apart during the shutdown of the government and everyone let it go. >> i know from being been in congress that it's deeply flawed and need to be improved. this mt. made material improvements. >> he ignored it. >> i want to move on to something else. very interest in the kei battleground state that delivered to election to donald trump. women in wisconsin, 50% would support joe biden, 40% donald trump. is this a problem for the president in. >> i think it's an opportunity for the president, raymond. i think president trump has been the past couple of months how the present counts of even how our tax breaks have gone for

people have been badly distorted by the left. people don't actually know amazingly enough the real story about what's going on with this economy and what's going on with the benefits that the president provided. it's his opportunity to make that case. >> when you dig deeper into the poll, on trust with the economy, who would best handle the economy? 49% trump wins women, 33% for biden. who is best at keeping america safe. 46% trump, 35% biden. what does that tell you? >> tell me right now how people are feeling. but what's going to happen six weeks before the election. how are they going to feel six weeks before the election. right now it's about becoming the candidate. biden needs to get past the issues, get this out of the way and talk about the real issues. >> aren't these the real issues? how decisive are they for the women voters. >> they're real important. we're heading in a good direction. to go back to the policies that

we had before is something that i don't know that women are going to want to do. those numbers are strong. but to your point, americans get to make their decision, women get to make their decision and they're going to have two different policies to choose from. today on "the vow" -- i believe the culture informs a lot of this. and joe biden appearing on "the view." he was there for most of the show. he not only addressed things that tied up his campaign in the early days but he wept over his son, beau biden who died a few years ago. they were very close. does that in any way connect him to american women and show a vulnerability that perhaps president trump hasn't shown? >> yes, raymond, it is very sympathetic trait and vice president biden is good at those sentimental moments.

but again, personalities are not policies. and what americans need most desperate by are policies that work in their lives. those are the things that make it possible for us to create great things for our loved ones. >> how do you think this will affect women, particularly women who are not particularly political? >> those are the ones that are going to decide. those are the ones going to decide this election. so we've got the ones very trump, ones very democrat. but the people deciding the election are going to be the women that want if best for their children and the future. suburban moms are going to decide the election. trump wins. >> andrea, you have the last word. >> certainly you feel for him and there's a lot of people who have gone through tragedy and he can relate to that but at the end of the day it gets down to policies. >> thank you all for being here. after his lame attempt to answer his critics, joe biden spent the rest of the time on

the view discussing the campaign of his campaign launch video, the charlottesville events in 2017. >> i wrote an article at the time in "the atlantic" magazine when charlottesville happened. this is snot what we are. it's about decency, honor, including everyone. in leaving no one behind. i don't remember that happening in an administration before in well over 100 years. >> the president is looking to relitigate all of this. what they see is a troubling moment for president trump. today they pressed him on his way to the nra convention. watch. >> you look at what i said, you will see that that question was answered perfectly. and i was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to robert e. lee, a great general, will you like it or not. >> here to react is communications director for

turning point usa and president of democrats for education reform. ladies, gentleman. is this a legitimate campaign opener for biden? and your reaction to the president's comments there. i'll start with you, shaffar. >> the charlottesville issue spoke to the character of president trump. he said there was blame to go on both sides. we had white nationalists and white supremacists who caused a death to a person. race has been a faultline in our country and we need a president to bring this country together, not tear it apart. >> candace your take on that. the president called white supremacist fine people. is that what happened? >> that is not what happened. he specifically said i am not speaking about white supremacists or nazis.

and what's really bizarre is that joe biden of all people would use this as a way to launch his campaign. he is a man who was mentored by robert byrd, a literal kkk mentor. he has issues with black america and i'm really happy to see that people on both sides of the political aisle have spoken up and pointed out his hypocrisies. >> cnn's van jones thinks that biden planted a perfectly laid trap for the president. watch. >> he's got him right where he wants him already. but really, it's so painful to hear the commander in chief, the president of the united states sit up here and brag on a traitor, brag on someone creating an act of treason. it's painful. it's wrong. wrong-headed. beneath him, beneath the office of the president. but from a political point of view, joe biden showed the world he knows how to put a banana

peel in front of the president and watch him fall. >> has biden laid a banana peel for the president to fall on? >> no. there is not a single candidate that is going to beat president donald trump and that is the truth. they have nothing that is new. to me joe biden is the new hillary clinton. they're going to celebrate him and say he's highly favored when in fact he is not at all. people understand that he does not have any policies. he's doing more fear mongering and being hypocritical and america is not going to fall for it. we're doing much better under this president than we were under obama. >> is this really what the african-american community is looking for in a candidate, sort of identity pol politics, this y is a racist and i'm not, criminal justice reform from trump. what are african-americans really looking for in your opinion? >> first of all, the

unemployment trends we see today started with president obama. in the aftermath of the bush recession, the african-american unemployment rate was 17%. when president obama left office 8.5%. orbed the bush recession, the latino unemployment rate reached 13%, less than 6% under president obama. we've seen improvements in the last couple of years under trump but most of the trends started under president obama. president trump has dismantled the affordable care act which affects working families across this country, disproportionately people of color. and that sort of character, that racialized character is what we've seen from this president for a long period of time? what about criminal justice reform. i want both. you to react. president obama talked about this. we heard it talked about during his administration. it was never enacted. nothing was done.

candace? >> would say this. black americans are tired of being undermined. that's best evidence that despite the rhetoric, despite the media trying to label trump as a white supremacist. we're tired of people issuing an emotional response to donald trump. we want people to offer policy to fix our community. unfortunately it's only trump offering policies. i predicted over and over again that president donald j. trump is going to be the person that cracks the black vote because we're tired, fatigued with the racial argument. >> you do see numbers in support from african-americans rising for trump. to what do you attribute that? >> first of all, i'm not offering emotion, i'm offering facts. president trump just this year sought to cut $200 billion from the student loan pact, 200. >> student loans affect everybody, hispanics, whites,

chinese. >> they disproportionately affect people of color. >> the majority of blacks don't make it to college so that's dishonest. >> i got ten seconds left. >> i mean i would like to finish. under president obama. >> just correcting you. i'm sorry. >> i'm going to correct you now. under president obama we saw record numbers of black people complete college. >> records are not the majority. the majority of people that attend college are white. i want to correct the record. >> dramatically there are more white people in country. high school graduation rates went up. >> the question was about student loans and who tholed would impact. >> i would love to be able to finish. again when president obama was elected, the aftera math of the worst depression, african-american unemployment rates before down 50%, latino

unemployment rates went down 50% under president obama. >> historic lows now. i gave you plenty of time. you're not answering my question. why are black americans now rising in their support of donald trump? you got five seconds. >> well they can go nowhere but up. he was close to zero in between so they may go up incrementally but he's going to lose the african-american and latino vote. >> no he's not. i'll answer in five seconds. black people aren't stupid and we're getting tired of the race mongerying. >> guys, i wish i had another half-hour with the two of you i guess. thank you forking the here. to the heartland, president trump champions the second amendment at the nra convention and the harrowing tales of americans who saved lives with guns. wait until you see this. allergies with sinus congestion and pressure? you won't find relief here. go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritin-d.

. democrats proposed banning new guns and confiscating existing guns from law-abiding citizens. what they don't tell you is the bad guys aren't giving up their guns and you're not going to be giving up your guns either.

democrats want to disarm law-abiding americans while allowing criminal aliens to operate with impunity. but that will never happen as long as i'm your president, not even close. >> the second amendment is quickly becoming a political flash point ahead of 2020 and today at the nra convention, president trump made it very clear what side he's on. the 2020 democrats however have staking out some aggressive language on their own on this issue. watch. >> opinio upon being elected i l give the united states congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws and if they fail to do it i will take executive action. >> i'm going to ban and buy back 15 million assault weapons and i know most americans are we many. >> joining me now, the found are

of faster colorado, an organization that trains armed school staffers at a fellow at the independent women's forum, along with the former dnc communications director. laura, swalwell wants to confiscate 50 million guns in the country. how does this square with the second amendment? >> it's fine to say something like that. it will never ever happen. what they're looking at is they want something that will tell people i want you to be safer. but what they're proposing is something that will absolutely not make people safer. and you mentioned the president being on stage at the nra. he had some people with him who used -- two people who used ar-15s to save people's lives. and you can't say that gun is bad but the people who used them to protect life within they shouldn't have had them either. >> laura, let me roll this for you. you just mentioned it. there were some harrowing

stories related by these individuals. watch. >> someone started banging so hard on the door it broke in two places. he was running towards me with a look in his eyes that i'll never forget. i shot him twice and held him at gunpoint until the police arrived. >> i entered the building, ran down the hallway and saw a man attacking a woman in the neck and the head with a large knife. i yelled, he stopped, paused for a moment and ran at full speed toward me. at 18 feet i fired three rounds from an ar-15. >> after hearing stories like that do you support stripping ar-15s? >> dana lohse who was originally going to be here had said last

year, mentally ill people shouldn't have guns. and if that's the position that the nra takes, they should support not just background checks, universal background checks but they should support closing the gun show loophole which allows anyone to walk in and buy a weapon at a gun show without having the screening that they should have to make sure that our kids in schools don't kneel threatened or have to worry about somebody walking in with a ar-15 and shooting them. i had family in the school the day of the shooting. there's in way you can make the argument that you can uphold the second amendment and protect our kids from being the victims of ar-15s at school. it is not right and donald trump said so. after that shooting he himself wanted to strengthen regulation. >> laura, i want you to react. >> we do not want mentally ill people having access to firearms. we agree. but if you want to bring up

marjory stoneman douglas high school, they failed the students. you can have laws and safeguards, but if they're not followed, if the checks don't catch people because of inept government people, you can't say let's much a bunch more laws on the books that also aren't going to be used. i agree. kids should not fear being shot at school. their teacher should be there to be able to protect them. >> i want you to respond quickly. >> the local officials failed should also not be the reason that we don't have reasonable laws that guarantee that somebody who is mentally ill who has been flagged as a threat can't access a gun, especially an assault weapon like this at a gun show. >> i want both of you to react to this. i'll start with you, laura. very briefly. why do you think democrats are staking out this position of gun confiscation limiting -- it seems that they want to limit or put guardrails up around the

second amendment. why politically is that a good idea? >> laura, quickly. >> i think it's a terrible idea. we're a center right country. people want to choose their own self-defense and these candidates should not be in the position of choosing my self-defense for me. that's my job. >> there's a reason that the nra is in a civil war over the people who want to protect their legitimate second amendment rights. protecting the illegal sales of weapons that we saw today, donald trump pulling out of an agreement. >> no no. that agreement would also give -- it's a u.n. treaty. luis, stop. >> that's what happened, raymond. >> i'm being civil with you. please stop. >> as am i. >> that u.n. treaty would have barred and given international entities control over the second amendment in this country and

the sale of weapons -- i got to go. >> oliver north, of course. >> thank you both for being here. >> it's the wrong position. >> coming up, brian kilmeade sitting i in for me. how old is too old to be president. and wait until you see the kinky things people are doing to save the earth. this sun believable. >> shamelessly hug trees, massage the earth with our feet and talk e ro a erotically to p. oh! oh!

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it's friday and that means it's time for friday follies. how young and vibrant does a capped date have to be to be electable. an exotic class for your children and eco-relationships that makes me uncomfortable. joining us now, fox and friends cohost and star, brian kilmeade. thanks for being here. the president pounced on biden's age today. biden is 76 to trump's 72 but apparently he feels so young. >> i would never say anyone is too old but i know they're all making me look very young. both in terms of age and i think in terms of energy i am a young vibrant man. i look at joe, i don't know about him. i don't know. >> if he looks young open vibrant compared to me, i should

probably go home. >> follow me around the campaign trail. >> i've continued to have my endurance. >> brian, should youthful endurance be a consideration? >> all i can tell you for people who are watching who thinks that 70 is a death sentence, remember, george foreman said 70 is a death sentence and he won? i would say these three have something in common. energy and endurance will not be their downfall. it will be their ideas. and remember, hillary clinton passed out because it was hot at a 9/1 i11 event and people questioned her endurance. nobody questions donald trump's endurance even though he's terribly and doing five events a day to win. i do think it's great when a 72-year-old president can say

i'm young and vibrant compared to my competitors. makes you wonder what pete buttigieg is thinking. >> here they're reacting to the just released gross product numbers. watch. >> that was great, fantastic. >> didn't like it. >> what would you know, your old fool. >> don't call me an old fool. i'll give you the evil eye. >> oh, i'm scared. i'm scared. [ laughter ] >> brian, don't laugh. the debate actually could look something like that. >> right. first we got to get through 19 people and then we'll see what happens when it's said and done. >> at ucla, the sexual health coalition and ucl a's housing authority offered a course to students in the art of pole dancing. i want you reaction.

instructor candace cane taught the course claiming that it opens up a whole other world for students. i think it's called the sex trade. just what every parent wants to hear. my son graduate at the top of the class on the pole. are you following this logic, brian? >> yes, i am. >> you are? >> because for those of you who are bashful, not proud of who you are, the way to fully express yourself, i've done a lot of interviews with people who have done poll dancing to liberate and gain confidence, it's a one-day ticket to success. a lot of people pick up the secret or watch the dvd. for me i try to take the pole dancing class at ucla remote. and i'm able to pick up tips that helps my self esteem. you're not going to believe how much confidence i'm going to have this weekend talking about pole dancing. >> let me know how that turns

out. maybe you can do that on "fox and friends." >> there east winter and sports. this is a flashback follow that i came across the other day. now these people are so-called echo sexuals. they believe that having sex with the earth can actually save it. i guess you could call them the new green field. here's one of the practitioners. >> caress rocks, pleasure waterfalls, admire the earth's curve, make love with the earth and we are very dirty. >> looks like a very dark place. i don't want toga there. they claim this will raise awareness of the environment because you become one with it. your talk. >> really? you want me to follow-up on this? put this segment right to media

hype or tv news? i'll give you my take on this. number one, i thought if there was going to be sex and planets it would be saturn because they could put a ring on it. there was a story a few weeks ago that less and les people of the next generation are actually having sexual relations. but if you ask people what they're passionate about, generation z, xwy or l they will say they're fighting if are the planet. and for them maybe that is the sexual intercourse that they're looking for but yet leaving out. bachelorette parties in nashville. >> did you book anybody else today? you're wearing me out. >> this is actually in your lane, okay? the bachelorette parties in nashville are lived because their girls weekend landed smack-dab in the middle tough nfl draft. cue the unhappiness. >> the one that's going to pay

for this is my husband when i refuse to watch football the entire season. i don't want to watch a bunch of football days. >> navigating to broadway. >> you get married once. how often does the draft happen? >> every freakin' year. >> these ladies said they weren't given enough notice. what is your advice. >>ly say this. not only is it going to get worse for you, if you stick around through the weekend there's a marathon on sunday bringing 30,00,000 people. it's hard for them to shine in a sweaty sea of men. but the ones not getting married, the ones supporting the bun getting married, it's not a bad thing when lead athletes come to town looking for a good time. we're too much focused on the person getting married and not enough focus on those who are not yet. >>'or going to believe it there. brian kilmeade, thank you for

being here. subpoenas are flying and trump is resisting them. some are saying that the president obstructed justice. did he? alan dershowitz joins me in moments. stay there. so you can move more.

. welcome back to this ingraham angle special. in august of 1998, in the throes 0 an impeachment bat, then president clinton visited the industrial town of worcester, massachusetts. saying that clinton was greeted enthusiastically by supporters. now the democrats of today are learns those lessons in the wake of the mueller report you could describe them as the avengers end game. they're bent on driving trump

from office by any means necessary. jerry nadler wants to subpoena the entire trump administration and if they refuse to comply, jerry conley is threatening to throw them in jail. >> we'll use any and all power in our command to make sure it's backed up with, whether that's contempt citation or going to court to get the citation enforced, whether it's fines or possible incoarse ration. >> maxine waters had clearly staking out her position. >> we're up against him. the american people in the final analysis is going to push on the congress to do the impeachment pep we're going to have to do it. we're going to have to impeach. i just wish it was sooner than later. >> alan dershowitz, he wrote the forward to a published version of the mueller report, which i will get to in a moment. professor, let's start with the revengers.

the president is suing some of the congressional chairs. doesn't congress have a right to hear from these trump officials as their oversight? >> congress does. but the courts also have a right to check congress. i grew up in the mccarthy period where congress abused its authority to subpoena and to bring people in front of committees just to humiliate them, just to embarrass them and the courts stepped in and said enough is enough. i suspect we're going to have a real battle. the courts will sustain some of the subpoenas but will refuse to sustain others if they think they're being used for an improper purpose. >> trump is refusing to submit to any of the subpoenas or allow any of the staff to testify. the president said today at the nra convention, he talked about hiss efforts that his says were meant to take him down. watch. >> they tried for the coup, don't work out so well. corruption at the highest level,

a disgrace. spying, surve surveillance, tryr an overthrow and we caught them. >> are words like coup and overthrow over the top? >> generally they are but there was one instance when it wasn't over the top. people talked about invoking the 25th amendment for an incompetent president, i used the word coup even though i try to be balanced and reasonable. the 25th amendment was never intended for a president you simply disagree with. >> i need you to put your legal scholar hat on. judge anthony napolitano is raising questions about obstruction of justice. he holds this view. when the president asked lewandowski to get mueller fired, that's on instruction of justice. when the president trump asked his then white house counsel to

get mueller fired and then lie about it, that's obstruction of justice. when he asked don mcgann to go back and change his testimony, that's obstruction of justice. but ordering them to break federal law to save him from the consequences of his own behavior, that similar moral, that is criminal within that is defenseless and that is condemnable. >> do you agree? is this obstruction of justice in. >> i do not agree. i think judge napolitano is terrific and we often agree about the law. but in my introduction in the mueller report, i go through the elements of obstruction of justice. the act itself has to be illegal. it can't be an act that is authorized under article 2 of the constitution. >> so firing the fbi director. >> not even a close case. the best analogy is president george h.w. bush par doored casper on the eve of his trial to stop the iran contra investigation. the special counsel said he did

it for that reason. nobody suggested it was obstruction. nixon obstructed justice because he acted outside of his authority destroying evidence, paying hush money, telling his subordinates to lay to the fbi. >> napolitano says he told people to write letters to the file. >> not obstruction of justice. those are all legal acts. if he ever told somebody to lie in front of a grand jury, that would be on instruction. >> i have 30 seconds. there's a new poll out, 56% of americans say they should not begin impeachment proceeding, 37% say they should. your thoughts. your advice to your democratic colleagues. >> the 50-some other have read the constitution. they know that you can't impeach. clinton was impeached for a crime that wasn't high. trump may have done something that was high but wasn't a crime. neither of them should have been impeached . >> don't tell maxine waters. >> i'm telling her all of the

time. she better start listening. i'm a democrat. a liberal. i want to see the constitution complied with and i want the democrats to get back to the business of legislating. coming up, some reporters who got it wrong should be feeling pretty embarrassed right now. we'll name names next. stay there.

. kevin hassett, the chief memphis the white house said the economic growth in 2019 was going to be even higher than it was in 2018. it would be 3.2%. jay powell said exactly the opposite today. there is a very big difference in outcomes between those two forecasts where now late in the first quarter that's expected to be below 2% growth, that is another source of pressure on the president. >> that was cnbc's john harewood, completely playing down the administration's gdp estimate which we found out was right on the money. for more we go to trace

gallagher in the west coast newsroom. trace? >> good evening. let's begin with the experts and move on to the media. this is if first time since 2015 that economic growth in first quarter went above 3% much to the chagrin of woman top economic analysts. former harvard president and obama economic adviser larry summers said, quote, the budget forecast that u.s. economic growth will rise to 3% because of the administration's policies. fair enough if you believe in tooth fairies and ludicrous supply side economics. so larry summers got it wrong but liberal economist got it really wrong saying, the president's tax cuts are ineffective, the tech bubble may be deflating and this, quoting, i think there is a good chance that we will have a recession late this year or next year. he went on to say that the administration doesn't have an effective response if stuff

slows down. but remember the economy grew at a significant rate despite a government shutdown in january and despite an ongoing trade dispute with cry that. and paul isn't the only one who brought up the r word. >> there's the key indicator david right here, the so-called yield curve flipping to negative for if first time since 2007 right before the great recession pep sometimes when this happens it can indicate another recession may be coming. >> for sure the economy is slowing. it's been slowing since we had -- we had one very good quarter last year at the beginning and since then it's inched its way down and down. >> the economy is slowing and it's not poised to deliver the kind of growth that the white house says it's going to. >> today msnbc used the word extraordinary to describe gdb growth. and you know the economy is strong when msnbc says it's strong. raymond. >> thanks for that, trace. now stay there because i have

some breaking news on laura ingraham when we return. and i'm not sure she would want you to know this or not. but stay there.

>> laura may not want you to know this but she was actually on vacation all week long and she's back monday. it's been my pleasure to sit in for my pal here in new york.

i'll be signing copies of my will wilder book series on may 4 and may 11. details on my website. the fox news team now. >> shannon: welcome to fox news. we begin with a fox news alert. the gloves are off as the growing list of democratic candidates fight to capture the 2020 nomination. the newest one biden now fielding attacks from the left and right, from inside and outside his party. president trump is doubling down tonight on claims that the f.b.i. was trying to infiltrate the white house. vice president mike pence is demanding an investigation. it's all over those newly uncovered text messages between lisa page and