. that does it fiduciary tor . "hardball" starts now. >> split screen, split country. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in new york. this is america. the june before a presidential election. we will see a split screen picture of a country divided roughly down the middle. on one screen a president attacking the person he fears most politically. on the other, the challenger who waited his whole life for this chance. it's the country that's split

between the minority backing donald trump and the popular majority want him gone out of their faces and their lives and out of the white house. joe biden is making his bid 18 months ahead as the surest person to make that happen. president trump will be in a fund-raiser in des moines while in davenport, iowa, joe biden will be giving a speesh where he plans to talk about a range of issues. it comes after dueling events where biden offer this is scathing assessment of the president. >> look, i believe that the president is literally an existential threat to america. he is a genuine threat to our core values. this is a guy who does everything to separate and frighten people. it's about fear and loathing. it's about what he calls people names and no president has done something like that.

it's bizarre. and it's damaging. >> on his way out of washington, d.c., the president tore into biden. >> i heard biden who is a loser. joe never got more than 1% except obama took him off. it looks like he's failing. it looks like his friends from the left are going to overtake him pretty soon. look, when a man has to mention my name 76 times in a speech, that means he's in trouble. i have to tell you he's a different guy. he looks different than he used to. he acts different than he used to. he's even slower than he used to be. when he mentions my name that many times, i guess i should be complimented. >> as the president tried to parry reports he is afraid of biden, look at these numbers. it shows the president today losing to biden in a general election match up by 13 points.

that's a solid majority. 53 to 40 against an incumbent president. it comes as the "new york times" reports that biden seems to have gotten into the president's head. according to the report, after being grieved on a devastating 17-state poll conducted by his own pollster, mr. trump told aides to deny that his polling showed him trailing mr. biden, even though he is trailing in public polls from key states like texas, michigan, and pennsylvania. president trump said he was hoping to face biden. >> i would rather run i think biden than anybody. he's the weakest mentally. i like running against the weakest mentally. the others have much more energy. i don't agree with their policies, but i think joe is a man who -- i call him 1% joe. until obama came along, he

didn't do well. >> biden was asked about the latest attacks a short time ago. >> the president today raised questions about your age and raised questions about whether you have the stamina to run for president. there has been a lot of questions about your schedule and that it has been lighter than the other candidates. >> look at me and answer the question. >> you answer the question. >> it's so feminine. you know it's a ridiculous assertion on his part. people have a right to question all of our ages. that's totally a legitimate thing. all i can say is watch me. >> washington bureau chief today. democratic strategist and a fellow at harvard and former rnc chair. i have to go to susan down the middle. 40 to 53 looks rough. i always wonder if people are straight in their answers to some well spoken reporter.

i always think there was a hidden vote. there was last time. i wonder if the president is perhaps on the other hand scared of joe. >> i think he is clearly concerned about joe biden because joe biden is strong with the kind of voters that gave him the presidency. one thing to look at in that quinnipiac poll, president trump got only 40 to 42% against any of the contenders. the contenders, all of the ones tested defeated the president. he is in a very narrow band of support. that should raise as many questions for president trump in looking at his standing at a time the country is in great shape economically. record low unemployment. he can't get above 42% in a poll against challengers. that has to be of concern. >> he's back up to his old tricks. obama, it's like he used to say

no one knew him in school. this spooky language. no one knew him in school. like what? he was not in those schools. have you noticed biden is different now? is this one of the spooky things that you make the people think there is something wrong with the guy's brains. he has dementia? >> a lot of what trump was say being biden, people are thinking about him. >> a trumpster. >> the trumpster himself. what the president does out of the gate, if you notice the way they contrast conversation about the other, for biden, it was around policy and how the country is coming together or not. it's around this idea of who we are. the sense of us. trump personalized it and made it about biden. the name calling, the vitriolic undermining of his mental capacity. the taking and tearing him down

personally. that's how he wants to engage. he wants to make it personal. that's what his base feeds off of. the sort of personalized attack against the individual. irrespective of what is going on around him, trump will personalize it. he can't take it into the broader space. it becomes a different conversation when he talks about how this president has managed the affairs of the country versus how he manages his personal relationship. >> he went to a boxing match and it turned into a hockey game. all hockey games turned into boxing matches and this guy, trump wants to turn trash talking in the main event. trash talking is the main upon event for trump. >> that's what's so shocking as we sit here and literally week after week after week, watch this trash talking guy who is

literally a thug. he wants to be a mobster. he picks bullied school yard fights with folks and not have a decent conversation about issues or ideas or policies, etc. i think people are not here for that anymore. when you look at that -- >> we will see. his crowd loves it. >> anyone will be better than this trash talking thug. >> his crowd seems to like the wise guy talk. the ethanol plant on council bluffs, the president tried to sharpen the attack on biden, rolling out the nickname for the former "veep." >> he was someplace in iowa and he said my name so many times that people couldn't stand it anymore. no. don't keep saying it! sleepy guy. >> worry biden, we would never be treated with respect. people don't respect him. even the people he is running against. they are saying where is he? what happened? he makes his stance in iowa once

every two weeks and then mentions my name 74 times. that reminds me of crooked hillary. she did the same thing and when it came time to vote, they said, you know, she doesn't like trump very much, but what else does she stand for. the same thing is happening with sleepy joe. >> the stream of consciousness is obvious. that was not strategic. >> we are not seeing a strategic plan for the president's reelection. it's interesting because he actually declared his reelection the day he was inaugurated for his first term. very much a short-term punch and counter punch campaign. we don't see plans for what i would do in my second term. the thing we would hear when they were running for reelection. we hear a vitriol that marked the 2016 campaign and americans must think do we have another year and a half of this coming

up ahead of us. >> your first question. here it is. is trump afraid of biden or not? would he rather run against someone to biden's left or face biden? biden is the safe nominee people think. who knows. who knows. he is portraying himself as the safe bet. as i said in the beginning, the best bet to beat trump. does trump think he's the best to beat trump? >> i think that president trump at this moment probably does think that joe biden is the biggest threat to him. a bigger threat than someone he can portray as a socialist like bernie sanders. >> let's start there. >> joe biden has both experience in the office next door as vice president and aligned with a popular former president, barack obama. and he has an appeal to white catholic voters, voters in the industrial states. i think the calculation is, he

is the strongest candidate. not every democrat is going to agree with that analysis, but it's likely the analysis we are hearing in the whoutite house. >> susan hit it out of the park. that's right. it's very evident that joe biden of all the 23 candidates on that stage in a couple of weeks is the most inside the president's head. the president knows something that's very true and very important to him is that joe biden can peel off his votes. he can take votes away from trump and so that's what is going to be critical for democrats going into this next cycle. it's electability and at the end of the day, who can syphon off votes from trump. you can fill the patch holes in the blue wall that were open. joe biden is the guy that trump knows is the best at doing that.

>> you and i are both roman catholic & is trump going to make the risk of going hard on the life and hiding biden for giving up on the hyde amendment or be careful? >> he is constantly going to go hard and play to the most extreme base. those are the people who show up for him. i wonder about biden on this, too. i wonder if biden thinks and he's going hard to the paint too with the back and forth. if he thinks -- >> you have been watching the nba. go to the paint. >> i think he is really -- biden gets under trump's skin. we might see a few good men moment. he keeps poking the bear and maybe trump says you know what, you can't handle the truth and literally gives himself up and says you know what, everything you believe about me is right and don't care. he is so frazzled by joe biden the way he is coming at him. >> that would make for good

theater and government in a better country. president trump needs biden -- this is fascinating. they look at the strings on the racket to get ready on the match. apparently according to the time, they are reporting that according to the campaign aides they talked to, this president is a candidate who needs an identifiable opponent to keep his interest. he is engrossed from the reelection. he won't even think about it unless you say biden. trump rarely if ever thinks about what he hopes to accomplish with a hard second term. he has shown no interest in forming a message and continuing with the make america great again slogan. that's up to him. susan, it seems to me he needs to have a street corner fight for him to focus mentally. >> that is the form in which he excels. he found a counterpart in

hillary clinton that he could batter. nancy pelosi in some ways emerged in that way since democrats won control of the house. i think he is most comfortable in that format. in fairness, i think a lot of candidates are best when they have an identifiable opponent who they can demonize and attack and not a more and more. it is probably hard to run against 23 democrats at once. >> it seems to 3450e and this is the way i think about it all the time. trump had a strategy. get in the mid 40s, around 44 or 45, and knock the other guy's block off. make it personal and get close enough to strike and hurt and knock the other person off. you don't need a lead. you need to be within striking distance. i don't think he is right now. he has to get between now and next year to beat the opponent if he does go at them personally. >> here needs to get in the 46 or 47% range.

he's not that far off in some respects from where he was in 2016. the dynamics will be different. i think people need to assess a campaign for trump against hillary clinton versus a campaign for trump against a democrat who has now seen four years of this. and has a better sense of how to come at them. elizabeth warren candidate, he can do the pocohontas thing all day, but when she is thumping on his head, it's not working. >> it's not. when she is thumping on his head that got attention of a lot of people, how does he pivot off of that when someone comes at him from a different angle other than an attack at him. >> say he is giving joe biden the political equivalent of a kiss. that's the biggest thing. a big kiss. all the newspapers tomorrow, all

the newspapers and everything tonight on cable. in nightly news, it will be about the back and forth between the president of the united states and the front-runner. susan paige, thank you. comprehe coming up, two powerful democrats don't agree. the judiciary committee chair is pushing hard for impeachment and the committee is to all the democrats, but nancy pelosi will not be swayed. the strategy is coming from her. i will talk about members of nadler's committee and presidential candidate eric swalwell. joe biden calls president trump an existential threat to the country. wow. i will talk to former cia director john brennan about that. he has a case against trump already. does he agree that the president is destroying the country? why isn't the white house taking it seriously? here's something really special.

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welcome back to "hardball." the debate over impeachment has exposed a deepening rift between house speaker nancy pelosi and the chair of the house judiciary committee. jerry nadler. while nadler has been quietly pushing pretty hard to hold impeachment hearings, he wants to get going, the speaker remains firm in opposition. a source close to the speaker put her thinking in blunt terms to politico. opening an impeachment inquiry would be the equivalent of jumping off a cliff. their rift exploded in the public view last week when they reported that pelosi told nadler i don't want to see him impeached, i want to see him in

prison. she declined to elaborate when asked today. >> did you see that? you would rather see him in prison. >> when are we have conversations in our caucus, they stay in our caucus. do people think there are impeachable offenses? yes. are they criminal? many people think they are. >> here's what nadler said late today when asked about reports he is pushing pe loelosi to go impeachment. >> when people say chairman nadler is pushing pelosi it's basically true or not true? >> nancy pelosi said that all options are on the table. they are on the table. when we get more information has that process continues, we will have to make decisions down the road. >> neither has been willing to address their differences. the split between nadler and

pelosi is evident. he often alluded to the threat of impeachment while pelosi expressie expruszed caution. >> we talked for a long time about the constitutional crisis and we are now in it. >> impeachment is a step that you have to take with bringing the american people with you. >> with respect to impeachment, all options are on the table and nothing should be ruled out. >> i do think that impeachment is a very divicive place to go in our country. >> we're will not allow the president to block congressional subpoenas, putting himself and his allies above the law. >> many constituents want to impeach the president. but we want to do what is right and what gets results. >> through the clapping, it was against this backdrop of these two fighting that they approved to make it easier for committee chairs to enforce subpoenas through legal action. i'm joined by 2020 democratic candidate and congressman eric

swalwell of california. a member of the house intelligence and judiciary committees. tough question, but this is "hardball" and you agreed to come on. whose side of you on? >> we are on the way to impeachment. >> no, whose side are you on? nadler's or pelosi's? >> i don't accept that they are in conflict. >> my reporting is wrong? they agree? >> they both recognize it's an extraordinary remedy. it was a big day in the house. we voted to hold the attorney general in contempt. >> we will see if the ploys work. i watched the democrats play around with process and what he's going to do and not going to do. you guys never get anything done. you never got a single witness. name a witness you got to come before the committee in all these months you had subpoena power. >> you bring me back in three months and if we haven't gotten

witnesses, i will say you are right. i went to the differently justice and i reviewed materials. >> you will get mcgahn and mueller and who are you going to get that is important and they will turn the issue around to move on impeachment? who is going to come up? >> empty witness chairs will mean empty pockets. they can go broke or come forward and tell the truth. >> do you think bringing back john dean served any purpose? >> yes, of course. playing the foundation of what this means in the perspective of history. i was in high school when bill clinton went through impeachment. i was not alive when richard nixon went through impeachment. there are generations of people who never have seen our country go through this. you can't just assume everyone has seen and is familiar with watergate. lay it out for them. >> did you know he was going to tough and had no facts to offer about the guilt or innocence of the president? did you know ahead of time he was going to say i'm not a fact witness? >> no, i didn't know that.

>> that's dramatic stuff and takes him off the table as a guilt by nostalgia. walking about a ouija board. bringing nixon back. it became ridiculous. >> what is show side what is at stake. the democracy is very, very fragile and this is not the first time we had a lawless president and won't be the last. here's what nixon did and what you can do now. i thought it laid the foundation. >> i respect you, but do you believe nixon -- i'm back in the past now -- do you think trump obstructed justice? >> yes. >> what's holding you up from impeachment? he committed a crime. >> the evidence we need to show the american people he obstructed justice. >> what do you need to see? >> the full mueller report and his taxes. mnuchin and barr blocking that.

>> you need to see his taxes before you can prove it. >> we want to have one full body of articles and we got the taxes and let's add that on. we all know how the story ends. how many pages before we get there. >> will you make me a gentleman's bet that trump will be impeached? >> he's not going to be president on january 2021. i want to get it right. >> you bet he will be impeached? >> yes. >> thank you. eric swalwell on the judiciary and candidate for president. speaker pe losso told her caucus in a closed door meeting that the president wants to be impeached, but "the washington post" reports that the president does not want to be impeached and eager to avoid any such thing. white house reporter for "the washington post," ashley parker. we missed you.

so many things that i think pelosi is trying to make a case. he wants to be impeached so don't do it. it's one of the clever tactics to keep the left tactics. i hate him more than you. i think it's all delaying. she is not for impeachment because she believes it's bad politics and she can't make the case for conviction. what's up with trump? it looked like he was egging on pelosi and trying to say terrible thirngs about hngs abo family. he seemed to be wanting to get her to jump at him. >> that's one of the reasons i said about reporting the story is there was a theory out there that you can make credibly that the president in his comments and the way the white house was stonewalling nearly every request from congress that they were basically trying to double dog dare democrats into impea impeaching the president. the president is

impeachment-curious. there are parts he finds intriguing, but at the end of the day, president trump does not in any way actually want to be impeached. >> sorry that why he permitted attorney general barr to begin to release documents for the mueller report? >> that's a great question. i actually don't know the answer to that specifically, but you said you stonewalled on just about every single request from congress s. th congress. do you believe that would be politically beneficial? the answer if you take them at their word, there is no broad strategy to bring about impeachment because they think it might help the president get reelected in 2020. >> what about the theory if trump were impeached where they get to 218 votes in the house to bring the indictment in the senate for a conviction over there.

even if they couldn't get that far, it would stain his record. that's one argument that trump would not want. the other argument that trump is maybe against your reporting. that trump figure fist they do go to impeachment, he will say what i told every one of my people. in pennsylvania or wisconsin. the deep state was coming to get me. those damn people out there are coming to rob you of the decision you made in 2016 and rolls up the excitement on the maga crowd. >> the truth is both are true. the president to your second point, he does believe and has been told by his political advisers he think fist they come after him, that gives him a good one target to focus on. you were talking about that earlier and a lot of people paint democrats as sore loser who is are continuing with the witch hunt and he looked at what happened to bill clinton and believes it could very well help him politically. he understands that and it's one

of the reasons why he's intrigued, but he understands as you said, it would be a historical mark against his record. he doesn't like that and he doesn't like the way he thinks more importantly it would allow the democrats to challenge the legitimacy of his presidency which is something that drives him crazy. >> great reporting. i don't know how you guys get these people to talk at the white house, but you particularly get these people to blab for you. great reporting. thank you, ashley parker. house democrats are gearing up for another big hearing exposing the ongoing threat. foreign interference in our elections and former director john brennan. perfect guy to talk about trump being an existential threat to the country according to biden. don't go anywhere. en don't go anywhe.er here are even more reasons to join t-mobile. 1. do you like netflix? sure you do. that's why it's on us. 2. unlimited data. use as much as you want, when you want. 3. no surprises on your bill.

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russian intelligence officers who are part of the russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. i will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments, that there were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election. that deserves the attention of every american. >> welcome back to "hardball." robert mueller started and ended his only public remarks about his russia investigation with a warning to all americans about

the extent of russia's infiltation of presidential elections. tomorrow the house intelligence will hold a little first on a series of hearings on the counter intelligence implications of russia's meddli meddling. president trump downplays even as measures of his own administration contradicted it. the president is shredding america's core values. >> look, i believe that the president is literally an existential thread to america. >> msnbc senior national security and intelligence analyst. would you analyze the comment about this president being an existential threat to our republic. >> i think vice president biden was talking about mr. trump's impact on our national security as well as credibility as a nation across the board. from the standpoint of a threat, he is emphasizing how harmful

mr. trump's actions and inactions in terms of addressing the issues we need to address that it is a danger and one that is an existential threat. >> sometimes i wonder what he has to talk about something important that you spent your life on security. whether he is deliberately lying or delusional. what's more dangerous? he lies all the time or believes this stuff. the malarkey that joe biden would call it. >> it's hard to point out any aspect of trump's behavior that is more dangerous than another. he doesn't seem to be curious about things that affect our lives and lives of future generations. whether it's climate change or other issues such as the threats that exist in that cyber environment. how we need to prepare ourselves for the challenges that lie ahead.

vice president biden is emphasizing that donald trump does not have the capability or the interest and trying to do what's in the best interest of the country. >> if he did manage to squeak a second term and beads biden, what's your worry? what is your fear about the look of the country in same 5.5 years. >> i keep shaking my head to the fact that donald trump is the president of the united states. he has allowed us to treat him like the ball on a kid's soccer field. they all go after the ball. he enjoys being that spectacle. it doesn't allow us as a country to be setting the tone for the other issues that need to be addressed. it's all about him. unfortunately there is too much focus on his every move. what we need to do and i'm glad the committee tomorrow will be addressing this issue about the

counter intelligence challenges. we need to as a country in a bipartisan fashion deal with the challenges. our national security and our future prosperity and security does require this government to tackle the issues in a thoughtful, strategic and bipartisan way. >> as wayne gretzky once said, don't go after the puck, go where the puck is going to be. the north korea leader's half brother was a source for the cia before he was killed with a nerve agent attempt at the airport in 2017. president trump was asked about that report and whether he thinks kim jong un had anything to do with his half brother's death. >> i don't know anything under that. that wouldn't happen under my leadership.

>> what did he mean? spy on who she killing and his family? >> he has no appreciation for what the professionals do to include going out and recruiting individuals to provide us the insights we need to keeper countries strong and safe. it never would have happened under his watch. i will not talk about whether an individual was a source or not of the cia, but rest assured that officers around this globe are trying to get close to those people that are going to provide us the insights, the information and the secrets we need. mr. trump always had a very, very negative attitude to the cia. >> he called off any agents that he protected with the north korean dictator? would he do that? >> i wouldn't put it past him to prevent the agency from

understanding what might be happening if he felt that was going to be harmful to his policy or personal objectives. that's why i'm concerned about the upcoming presidential elections. the russians interfered to help mr. trump in 2016. is he turning a blind eye because he wouldn't mind if the russians involve themselves again to try to enhance his prospects for reelection. it's really quite unnerving to think this president, mr. trump can turn off law enforcement and intelligence if they pose a threat to him personally. >> thank you, john brennan. always an honor. more on trump and biden doing their way across iowa. biden said trump's tariffs are tru crushing iowa farmers and makes things better in the long run. he's right. they're both right. back after this. he's right they're both right back after this. i've always been amazed by what's next.

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>>. >> welcome back to "hardball." democrats have been blanketing the state of iowa making their pitches to voters. biden made his second trip to iowa, hitting the president where it hurts on the issue of tariffs. >> president trump is in iowa today. i hope his presence here will be a clarifying event. iowa farmers have been crushed by his tariff war with china. he thinks being tough is great. it's really easy to be tough when someone else absorbs the pain. >> president trump is self titled tariff man launched a war with a number of countries that hit american farmers hard. that explains why some were relieved to hear he would not launch a war in a new front with mexico, which he is calling a

victory on. >> the best thing that ever happened to the farmers is me. that's the agreement that everybody says i don't have. i'm going to let mexico do the announcement at the right time. mexico wants to go through it, but here's the agreement. it's a simple agreement. this is one page. this is one page of a very long and very good agreement for both mexico and the united states. without the tariffs, we would have had nothing. >> vice president biden fired back at that. let's watch. we will show you that when we come back after this break. you come back after this break

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the president is down the road. apparently he has a secret important document with mexico. and i'm sure that there are a heck of a lot of iowans who are being crushed who would like to see that secret document. i'm anxious to see it. >> vice president biden hitting the president again on his trade wars. they voted for barack obama and then trump. despite the punishing cost, president trump's support among

republicans is strong at 81%. strong support. they are putting up with it. only 42% of iowans approve to the job he is doing. % disapprove. that's sort of a national number. cheri bustos from illinois, chair of the campaign committee and brett stevens is a columnist. i want to you separate the two. the china trade wars that is punishing china because of their screwing around with us in terms of trade and the billions that have been building up because of the trade with the united states and the more recent thing with mexico which is to stop all the asylum seekers. is there a difference to the trade war issues? >> keep in mind that the biggest agricultural trading partners we have are china, mexico, and

canada. if you want to go back to candidate trump, he stood behind a podium in des moines saying i am going to end the war on the american farmer. here we are in this trade war where who is getting hit among the hardest of just about anybody? it's our family farmer. our family farmers are not just hurting, but also the unpredictability of what comes out of the white house through the tweet of the day. we don't know what's going to happen with trade next. it starts out we would have this 5% tariff starting minute and all of a sudden, we are not. he pulls this piece of paper out of his pocket. >> we're don't know. i think he might have the deal. >> i hope he does for the sake of the american farmer, i hope he does have a deal. >> let me ask you about the patriotism and the economic needs of a farmer through the

success of our props being sold. i remember with carter inviting afghanistan, the farmers stuck with him. >> sure. >> through all the hardship. >> farmers have complex political motives. they are not just economic determinates. farmers are being hit two ways. that's the cost of goods for them is going up and their ability to sell is going down. that's a real opening for any democratic opponent of trump. this is what's the matter with kansas. people don't vote their economic interests. they vote cultural values and vote for the guy who speaks for them in a larger sense than the bottom line. >> i think people feel china has been eating our lunch and not honest about intellectual property and they can go buy half of africa and they have so much exchange. at the same time people, regular

republican voters want to stomp the immigration for across the border. so doesn't trump get benefits for taking on the fights with the farmers? >> the farmers don't want the trade wars fought on their backs. that's what's happening right now. i was just home meeting with about 15 farmers just over the last couple of days. on my ride to provefitstown, literally the farm fields on the right and the left of the road, literally have standing puddles. i look over to one and there are ducks swimming on a farm field. i talked with an insurance agent who sells crop insurance. 90% of the farm clients are applying for what's called preplant. they are unable to plant corn and beans because of the weather. we have all this

unpredictability over these trade disagreements. we have got a big problem here. then on top of it, if we get things heading on a good path, then we have mitch mcconnell who is unwilling to take up what we are doing out of the u.s. house of representatives to address other needs that our farm families have like bringing down the cost of health care. you have all of these issues going on along with the trade and the bad weather and the cost of health care. all of that is impacting the farmer in a big way. >> i still see the republican vote for trump. >> probably, but one important point is the immigration cuts both ways. the heartland is being depopulated and families are using people and desperately need workers. they need workers and trump's war on immigrant labor doesn't help. >> so interesting. they don't like the idea, but they need the reality.

thank you so much. up next, jon stewart's heart felt plea on behalf of 9/11 first responders. it's something. back in a minute. t responders it s'something back in a minute ♪

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it's rare that a witness before the congress speaks with as much passion, authenticity and power as jon stewart did today, pleading the cause of the

9/11 first responders. >> your indifference costs these men and women their most valuable commodity. time. so one thing they are running out of. they responded in five seconds. they did their jobs. with courage, grace, tenacity, humility. 18 years later, do yours! >> comedian urged them to sustain the victim fund with cancer and respiratory due to exposure with the toxics dust to those exposed. thankless to jon stewart, we are

reminded of why so many grow up wanting to be firefighters. they want to save people and that's that voice called to us to keep faith for those who raced to save us 18 years ago. that's "hardball" for now. all in with chris hayes starts right now. >> tonight on all in. >> i believe that the president is literally an existential threat to america. >> biden takes on trump in the first in the nation. >> i think i would rather run against biden than anybody. >> the strategy to skip the primaries to run directly against the president. is it working? >> do people think there is some impeachable offenses the president committed? yes. >> maxine waters on the impeachment clash as democrats start to wrap up oversight. >> nobody is above the law. >> then jon stewart ex-coreiates congress on the hill. >> your