because they don't know if it will lead to inquiries about immigration status. imagine that kind of stress confirmed dead but by accounts on the ground, that number, while you're dealing with that unfortunately, could be much kind of grief. greater. this as 6,000 people listed as and that kind of homelessness missing on a website seeking to reunite loved ones. and the complete shattering of now, today, the paradise cruise liner, grand celebration, your lives and your homes and completed its humanitarian trip your family. let's not only pray, let's act to the bahamas. it was the first cruise ship to dock in freeport. and move on the world to act with us. it brought supplies and returned that does it for me. to florida with more than a thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, richard lu picks up the thousand evacuees. the damage there, overwhelming. coverage. >> it's just overwhelming, you and hello, everyone, i'm richard lui live at msnbc know, it's just, you're through a process, you're not here but you're here. it's like a nightmare. headquarters in new york city, >> reporter: any idea how your talking about hurricane dorian home is doing, any damage? today at this hour. it is still putting out >> everything gone. >> reporter: lost everything? >> pretty much. hurricane force winds, it is making its way to nova scotia but i still have life, so thank god for that. >> flood came up to here in our house and we had to swim out and canada. take a look at this crane that with our children to get help. but no one would pick us up so collapsed under the heavy winds of dorian. we're starting to get videos and we swum like half a mile.

pictures of the crane. that there is in halifax, nova cars. >> reporter: do you feel amazingly fortunate to be scotia. standing here? >> oh, yes, sir, thank god to be now, this is what we don't know. alive. that's the biggest thing of it we don't know in terms of the all. >> reporter: but you've lost number of injuries in that everything? >> yes, sir. people gave me this, what i have collapse. on. thank you. we'll have more details when we >> we have our life. get them right here on msnbc. that's the only thing we have now, the worst of the damage is left. all our family, we still here, now behind dorian but these are thank god for that. the images from the bahamas that are gradually andthe islands, 4 >> on the east coast, this is the view from above an ocracoke island in north carolina. tens of thousands do not have power. helicopters air lifted food and water to stranded residents of the north carolina outer banks on friday after they suffered catastrophic flooding but the governor says overall the collective feeling is things could have been much worse. at the same time, the other big story and that is 19 presidential candidates gathering for a democratic convention in new hampshire. we've got all of that but we're going to start in the bahamas and the path of destruction dorian has left behind. nbc news morgan is in nassau,

bahamas, and morgan, you've seen some of the video we just played but these are also stories that you have learned yourself speaking with many of those who are on the ground. the concern right now and that is that the death toll growing as thousands are missing, according to one website. >> reporter: richard, that's exactly right, and the prime minister of health here in the bahamas even telling me he is aware of thousands of people still unaccounted for in abaco island and in grand bahama and we're going at about a week since dorian struck this chain of islands and right now, if you did survive, those people who are still trapped in debris are facing an unbearable sun, nearly a week without water, potentially, and food, and that is why relief crews are really trying to get a foothold on greater abaco island, which took the brunt of dorian's force when it moved in. crews are able to start going door to door through what's left of those homes to search for anyone still trapped in that debris in hopes of making sure that no one is left behind in

those damaged areas. meanwhile, the coast guard has really been flying nonstop to reach those who are critically injured and trapped, hoisting them up, bringing the hospitals back here in nassau which has essentially kind of become the hub of relief of search and rescue efforts here. we know dozens if not hundreds of people have already been brought here who are uninjured and need food, water a t-shirt or two so they can begin that long process of recovery. officials saying they're still taking inventory of the defensivation. the coast guard yesterday just found 150 people on a small island that had yet to be found, several critically injured that were completely cut off from communication because of the sheer devastation dorian left behind, so it's important to note, as drastic as the devastation that we've already seen is, there is still areas that are being discovered as we speak because accessibility has been so tough in those spots. meanwhile, a glimmer of hope

coming in those major relief efforts, those cruise lines making tens of thousands of meals, refugees able to load up on them to get much needed shelter in florida. that's only going to be growing because roads are now being cleared, airports are being reopened, so as devastating as dorian was, richard, we're starting to see a hopefully a serious foothold for relief that could not come fast enough for the bahamian people. >> you know, morgan, and we have to underline this for those that are watching, how difficult it's going to be for officials there as well as the red cross and other organizations and ngos that are trying to deploy help there, is how big and how many islands we're talking about when we think of the bahamas. we can't forget as they often will say, this involves, what, 700 islands in an archipelago longer than the state of florida and so getting the resources to the right places is difficult. are you seeing, then, because of that difficulty, people waiting in line to get loeaves of bread water, are they waiting in line to get simple, everyday things which really underlines the

severity of this humanitarian crisis? >> reporter: absolutely. people are waiting in lines, richard, to get out because there is simply nothing left where they came from. when we had a chance to fly into marsh harbor on abaco island hours after the airport reopened there, one of the first things we saw were people stationed outside the buildings there, sitting there in the sun, dehydrated with nowhere else to go and when i asked them what were you able to recover, how's your home doing, they said, what we have is what you see. the clothes on our backs, whatever we could grab in that moment before that storm really hit and that's why you see the lines forming at ports all over greater abaco island and on grand bahama because the people there even though it was their home, it simply cannot sustain life at this time so while they do some of them may have plans to rebuild, they're unable to do so at this time and that's why they need to get somewhere where

they can at least take care of themselves in the weeks and months of recovery ahead. >> yeah, 90 degree weather is what they all have to operate under at 4:00 in the afternoon when we last checked. now it's 6:00 p.m. hopefully a little bit coolly. nbc's morgan chesky. morgan, thank you so much for your reporting throughout this week and i know we're going to touch base with you as we look at further humanitarian efforts. i want to go to kerry sanders who was in marsh harbor, bahamas, and this is the discussion that he and i had had not too long ago. >> reporter: this here is marsh harbor, i'm in a neighborhood known as mud. it was called mud in pigeon because it was a low lying area and there was a lot of mud here that the residents had to live with so it explains why when that storm surge came in, which is driven by the wind, the tremendous about 25 feet of storm surge came through here and it just leveled as far as the eye can see and way off into the distance, you can even see a hill and there's a few houses on

the highest hill there that have some walls that are standing by the roofs are ripped off. those who decided to stay here, i'm sad to report, are likely dead, buried under the rubble. we met a search and rescue team here that flew in from miami fire department. they came through. they are looking for the possibility now six days after this hurricane that there might be a survivor but they're also realistic that it's likely that they are going to come upon the dead, not the living at this point. it's hard, richard. i mean, there's a stench of death here, and it's -- it's difficult because you know that in this vast area that has been destroyed, there were people whose final moments of their lives were a sheer terror of the horror that comes with the chaos of 185-mile-an-hour winds and driving, driving water and storm

surge. let me take you over this way here. i'm not sure whether we can see it but taking off in the distance right now is one of the u.s. navy sea stallions way off there in the distance. that's the airport here at marsh harbor and it has been a beehive of activity as people are flying in not only the u.s. military but also civilians making their way primarily from florida but we even met somebody who flew in from virginia, made a stop off in florida, picking up supplies and then landing but of course the challenge is once they land and they're able to off load those emergency supplies to people, most of the cars have been turned upside down, wrecked by the storm surge, so traveling around the island is very difficult and it's complicated to get those emergency supplies that are arriving to the people who need them. many of them here had made their way down to a port where they're waiting to get on boats and there's a fair amount of desperation. it's brutally hot out here. this has been days for folks who have been dealing with the

chaos, the unknowing nature of what the next hour is going to bring, being beaten on the heat and quite frankly finding it very difficult to even find a safe place to sleep. >> kerry sanders there on the ground from a couple hours ago in the bahamas and you just got a sense as he and his -- and the videographer that were able to scan the grounds and the smell that he was so concerned about. again, according to one website, 6,000 people now missing, people looking for loved ones. now from dorian and we're going to get back to the topic of the bahamas very shortly. we're going to get to the other story we're following today and that is 2020 and develop democrats hoping to take on president trump in 2020, they were in new hampshire today, 19 of them, for the state's democratic party convention and while former vice president joe biden maintains his lead in the poles polls, two other contenders are quite familiar to voters in the granite state. that includes senator elizabeth warren, who received this welcome, shall we say, when she

took the stage. watch. [ cheers and applause ] >> how about that for a welcome. now, addressing the crowd after she was allowed to speak, warren talked about winning over moderates and her marathon selfie sessions. >> when you see a government that works for the rich and not for anyone else, that is corruption, pure and simple, and we need to call it out for what it is. here's what i guarantee. if there's a decision to be made in washington, it's been influenced by money. it's been shaped by money. it's been decided by money. so, here's what we have to do.

we start by calling out honestly what is broken, the corruption in the system, and then we show we've got plans to fix it. now, you know me. and you know the kind of campaign i'm running. i don't go behind closed doors to fancy fundraisers with corporate ceos and millionaires. instead, i spend time with you. and have fun. so far, 26 states and puerto rico, 129 town halls, thousands of unfiltered questions and the real measure of democracy, more than 50,000 selfies.

>> well, senator bernie sanders, he won the state's democratic presidential primary back in 2016. when he spoke today he said his top priority this time is to beat president trump. >> no matter who ends up winning that nomination, and needless to say, i hope it is us. we will all come together to defeat the most dangerous president in modern american history. this country cannot continue to have a president who is a pathological liar, who even uses

his sharpie pen to lie about the direction of a hurricane. how crazy is that? we cannot continue to have a president who is corrupt, who is using his office to enrich himself and his family. we cannot continue to have a president who is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a religious bigot. that is not what america is about. together, we will make donald trump a one-term president. >> now, also today, and that was bernie sanders, addressing the group of new hampshire democrats, south bend, indiana, mayor pete buttigieg and i got a chance to speak with him this

afternoon. this is what he said, in part. >> you came out pretty quickly in saying that the president's change specifically to a weather map was something that, and i'll put it mildly, you did not like. >> yeah, no kidding. i mean, it's embarrassing for the country but also it's one more example of how day after day we've got to worry about this president throwing one after another embarrassment at us when real people are suffering, whether it's economically, making sure that we deliver an economy that actually works for us, not just the numbers on a page going up and the dow going up but making sure we're better off to the fact that we had americans fleeing for their lives from a super storm and the president's busy altering a weather map with a sharpie. the problem is the more we're dealing with him, the less we're focused on the things that are actually going to make a difference in our lives like healthcare, paid family leave, supporting workers, we got to make sure our focus is how to make people better off in this country. that's the focus of our party

and that's the focus of my campaign. gun violence is a huge problem in this country from high-profile mass shooting to the shootings and gun violence that we're seeing everything day, often one at a time and far too often affecting young men of color in this country, including in my own hometown. there are some basic, common sense measures we got to put in, universal background checks, red flag laws to disarm domestic abusers and catch people who are a danger and as somebody who trained in the military on weapons of war, i can tell you that there are weapons that have no place in american neighborhoods. but here's the crazy thing. we talk about this as an issue where americans are divided but actually, especially on something like universal background checks, the american people are united. 94% of americans want this done. that includes the vast majority of gun owners and republicans. the real question is, how can you have the american people united around an issue and the american congress fail to deliver? and that is an indication of how far out of step the current republican party in washington is from the american people, and it's why we need leadership that

can actually cut through these problems instead of just having the same debate over and over again. >> all right, joining us now from manchester, new hampshire, msnbc road warriors, we got vaughn hill yard and mike and nobody's behind you because you have finished now a marathon of all 19 candidates that are in the run and i just want to throw it to the two of you. what do you think? what should we be talking about after we got to see all 19 of them? we'll start with you, mike. >> reporter: well, richard, what's interesting to me as somebody who covers joe biden are some of the warning signs for why we should be looking at him as certainly still the front runner but a front runner with some potential liabilities. i think for the most part we heard candidates speaking about the need for unity. one key exception was elizabeth warren. she told the voters here, gathered at the convention, that we should not choose a candidate we don't believe in because we're scared and we shouldn't be asked to vote for somebody we don't believe in, a clear reference to the rationale

behind joe biden's candidacy and there was another stop in the sky box for interviews with msnbc and we heard tim ryan, congressman from ohio, very much in the joe biden lane, raising questions, raising his concerns about what he talked about as joe biden's clarity, whether or not he is running an energetic enough campaign. there's been a lot of focus on those gaffes and here we had a candidate for the first time raising some things we've been hearing privately very much in a public way. >> hey, vaughn, there's been a lot of talk about younger voters, energizing them, the issues that are important to them and on top of that kbrd idea of age is the very candidate that the democratic party will elect for the general election. how did the different candidates, if there were to be a headline on this, how did they address that very issue? >> reporter: yeah, richard, i think that, you know, you mentioned that the room is now quite behind us here but earlier you played a little bit of that sound there when elizabeth warren took the stage and ultimately addressed some of those very questions in her

direct stump speech there, in her conversation, and she said this is the type of presence that it takes to beat donald trump, it takes the momentum, it takes excitement and what you saw not only here today in she got a two-minute standing ovation from -- these are the most engaged activists, more than a thousand of them here in the state, but you also look at the rallies that she held in recent weeks in minneapolis and in seattle and it's that sort of momentum that she is trying to make that argument that folks are turning out in numbers and if you have an engaged democratic electorate that's what it's going to take to beat donald trump. that's going to be the answer to the very electability question that joe biden is trying to hold on to himself, elizabeth warren is trying to turn that on her head and talk about, if you want to talk about electability, look at the number of people coming to our rallies and look at the excitement here at a convention like this here in new hampshire. >> being political junkies i had a little bit of fomo watching the two of you report all day, getting to hear what is happening today, all 19 there in

front of you. thank you so much for your recording, vaughn, mike, all day here on msnbc. >> thanks, richard. >> have a good one, my friends. next, senator cory booker talks with our own joy reid and what he says he would do to end racism in our criminal justice system. i am royalty of racing, i am the twisting thundercloud. raise your steins to the king of speed. so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. and now for their servicees to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need.

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the men in the white house, they try to write our nations out of history with its bitter, twisted lies. he may try to trod us in the

very dirt but i tell you right now, america, like dust, we will rise. we will rise. we will rise. we will rise. >> new jersey senator and democratic presidential hopeful cory booker at the new hampshire democratic party earlier today this morning. after that, he spoke with msnbc's joy reid about whether the president should be impeached. >> there is a story in politico we've been reporting on this morning that donald trump is being -- is benefitting financially in many, many ways from his office, including, apparently, a military transport stopping at his resort in ireland rather than stopping where they would normally stop. his vice president paying him to stay at his hotels, his attorney general paying him to stay at his hotels. should donald trump's use of the

office, one might say abuse of the office, to gain personally, financially, be an article of impeachment against him? >> yes. it should be investigated, that's why we need to start an impeachment process. there is clearly an emoluments clause in the constitution, our founders did not want a president to be using that office to benefit financially. to me, this is clear, the house should be investigating and we should be starting articles of impeachment. the impeachment process. this is -- we cannot let this president continue to violate the ideals of our constitution, including checks and balances. he won't even allow his people to be subpoenaed or information to be collected. he is acting more like an authoritarian leader than the leader of the free world. no one is above the law. and anybody who is violating or undermining the checks and balances of our constitution, we should begin impeachment proceedings. >> you have promised that if you are president of the united states, you promise to grant a

record number of clemencies for nonviolent drug offenders. is that specifically targeted to this huge disparity? i mean, marijuana is like the thing making colorado people rich, most of them are white, while black people are still going to prison for selling the same drug on the street. >> well, you know this, joy, that in the senate, i fought for years and finally got the first step act which my efforts to lead that bill to conclusion and a law liberated thousands of people already, just by correcting the crack/cocaine, powder cocaine disparity. it not only liberated over 2,000 people but 90% of them are black and so we are at a distraught present right now. all of us who believe in liberty should be angry because we have more african-americans now under criminal supervision than all the slaves in 1850. there are thousands that are unjustly incarcerated, and right now, i'm challenging the rest of the field to use your clemency power.

i plan on being the president but if i'm not, i want whatever democrat is to use their clemency power to liberty thousands and thousands immediately who are unjustly incarcerated, put them on a path to liberty and freedom. and justice. >> i have a panel that i want to introduce and bring in because we have some folks that might have a question for you but can you get republicans to sign on to this? republicans won't sign on to election security, helping get immigrant kids out of prison, they won't seem to sign on to anything and republicans, the amount of money they get from the prison industry is almost eight times what democrats get, $847,000 plus to republicans, 105,000 democrats, if people are taking money from this industry that essentially benefits financially from locking people up, how do you get republicans to go along with any kind of change? >> well, look, i got to the senate and chuck grassley was on the floor speaking out against the very bills that i wanted to get passed and i started working across the aisle and before you knew it, he was with me on those

pieces of legislation. so, i believe in building coalitions. this is not a democrat or republican issue. this is a justice and freedom issue. and plain and simple, we are -- the incarceration nation of the planet earth. we have 4% to 5% of the globe's population but 1 out of every 3 incarcerated women on the planet earth is in this country, 1 out of every 4 inkars raccarcerated on this plant are in this country. if you believe the government is getting too big, the prison system has exploded 800% since the 1980s. we should fight back against that. if you believe that we should stop and combat racism or the institutional racism in our criminal justice system must be confronted, this is an issue that should unite americans, i've shown the ability to do that in the senate but as president of the united states i'm going bring this country together to end this national nightmare. >> that was joy reid there with senator cory booker, a presidential candidate. joining us now onset with reaction is tiffany cross, the

cofounder and managing editor of the beat d.c., democratic strategist nathan ruben, the author of "boomers to millennials: moving america forward." you've got to see the best of the day and we spoke to the majority of all of those who spoke in new hampshire. i got to speak with a handful of them. the question is, what does this say about how they're going to do, those who are going to be in the debate, at least i'm kind of curious. how are they going to do? >> listen, we have to remind everybody they're not running against donald trump right now, they're running against each other so it's time to distinguish their record and there's going to be some jab throwing. this debate is going to be an hbcu in texas so it's been really clear that the appeal to communities of color, particularly the black community, particularly black women who stand in front of that path to the white house is something that all the candidates have taken note of and tried to make, you know, inroads with that community. so, i think, you know, it's not going to be this very nice, kind debate that we've seen so far, and i don't think that's a bad

thing. i think it's time to distinguish themselves from each other. >> and as we look at the new hampshire voters and i've said this all afternoon, they're picky shoppers. what did the candidates say today to you in this case in terms of, oh, i think that might be a good way to go for now, again, it's early in the contest. >> well, i think it's not so much what they said, i think how it was received. when we watched elizabeth warren walk out there, you played the clip earlier, she was made with a raucous reception. and i think the point that, you know, people are excited, people are turning up, people are showing up to events like these, she said she's taken over 50,000 photographs with individual supporters, she's not going to big money fundraisers, that type of energy, that type of enthusiasm, that's really hard to build and once it's there, it's going to stick. >> the only thing i would add, though, the primary is for kind of like nerds like us. most people are not paying attention so even when you look at new hampshire, new hampshire in no way represents the united

states, there's so much focus on new hampshire and iowa, these are two states that are 90% and 94% white respectively and i know they get a lot of attention but i think as the rising majority of america and the demographics change we have to start looking at the debates and this process through a different lens and we just haven't gotten there yet. >> which state is the real real here, nathan? >> you saw california move their primary up and just a couple days ago, governor cuomo in new york floated the idea of changing the primary and he was met with a lot of resistance so you're starting to see these more diverse states kind of raise their hand and say, wait a second, what about us, we are more representative of the u.s. >> stick around, both. more to talk about, busy day. by the way, tomorrow night on msnbc, nbc news presents an eye-opening look at the injustices of the criminal justice system from the inside out, first in "dateline," life inside, lester holt gains unprecedented access here to the louisiana state penitentiary to report from the inside on how incarcerated people live. then, lester holt leads a special town hall on criminal

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he was at, like, 1% of the polls, it's where bill clinton was, you know, john kerry wasn't yet 30 points behind up here, i mean, there's long lists of people that have gone on to win the nomination or win the primary here in new hampshire in the last month, and in fact, that is the way it works. if history is any guide at all, the people that are leading in the polls right now are not the people that are going to win iowa and new hampshire. i don't know why history wouldn't be our guide and what i'm going to keep doing is the kind of retail politics that have been able to do in colorado to get elected and re-elected there twice. being in people's store fronts, being in their living rooms, meeting with them in their communities, and i think over time, it takes time but over time, you can build a reservoir of support that can make a successful. i believe that most voters in iowa and new hampshire and in south carolina haven't made up their minds. this race is wide open, and that

presents a real opportunity for voters to consider what kind of candidate they want to have to beat donald trump and i hope to win their trust. >> well, i've got you senator, you're not going to be in the next debate. what's your thought? are you planning on getting in the fourth debate and how are you going to do that in? >> i hope that i'll be in the fourth debate. i'm sorry that i won't be in the third debate. i think the dnc rules are totally arbitrary and it sounds self-interested of me to say that, but i think objectively, that's true. and i don't think the dnc should be winnowing out candidates right now. that's what the process in new hampshire and in iowa and in south carolina is all about. so i'm going to keep fighting, i'm going to keep moving forward. it's obvious to me that the debates actually haven't had an effect on where people are standing in the field and when you look at just the last national poll where i was at 1% there were three other candidates at 1% who are on the

debate stage who have been going down, not up, and there's another candidate who's at zero who's on the debate stage so it doesn't make a lot of sense to me if the question is, who's making progress, who's going to be in a position to be able to beat donald trump? but you know, it is what it is. i'm not discouraged by it. i'm not disappointed by it. i'm just going to go out and do the work that i think's going to make a difference in iowa and new hampshire. >> all right. senator michael bennett there. earlier in the day, senator kamala harris was back in new hampshire as well making her best case against the president. take a listen. >> let's talk about the current occupant of the white house for a second. because that's context. we got a guy in the white house who campaigned on a slogan about make america great again. which, for many of us, required the question, again, exactly, for whom, and for all of us, made it clear that dude was talking about going back to something. back to what exactly, we asked.

back before the civil rights act? back before the voting rights act? back before roe v. wade? back before the americans with disabilities act? back before title ix? because we're not going back. we are not going back. and he came in office, guys, promising people a whole lot of stuff. he promised working people that he was going to help them. he said the manufacturing industry, i'm going to help you, i'm going help you out. but now it's in a recession, right, we're looking at a recession. the only thing he's manufactured is chaos. and when you look at the record number of global crises that

this guy has got us into, that's about the only thing that he can claim to be made in the usa. he promised people that he'd get them healthcare and then spent full-time trying to get rid of the affordable care act and now he's got a bunch of attorneys general in states around the country trying to get rid of the protections we created against preexisting conditions, the protections we created so that our 26-year-olds could be on our health coverage. he made all kind of promises. he said he was going to keep folks safe. well, i'm going to tell you, i serve on the senate intelligence committee. i serve on senate homeland security committee. i meet on a regular basis with members of the american intelligence community. this guy's got us one tweet away from war. the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what

separates us. so, let that fuel us in our march toward 2020 and finally let us also remember one of the greatest strengths about who we are as a people and a nation is we by our nature are aspirational. we are a nation that was founded on noble ideals, present when we wrote the constitution of the united states and all of its amendments and the bill of rights and the declaration of independence and those words we spoke in 1776 that we are all equal and should be treated that way. we are aspirational. we are also clear-eyed. we've not yet reached those ideals, but the strength of who we are is we fight to get there and this, then, is a fight born out of optimism. this, then, is a fight born out of knowing and believing and having faith in what can be,

unburdened by what has been. this is a fight not only for the soul of our country. this is a fight born out of love of country and this is a fight new hampshire democrats that we will win. thank you. >> all right, senator kamala harris there in new hampshire and when we return, we'll dig into some of the highlights from the podium as former vice president joe biden framed what's at stake in this historic election. msnbc's extended coverage continues. at verizon, we're building the most powerful 5g experience for america. that's why the nfl chose verizon. because they need the massive capacity of 5g with ultra wideband, so more screaming, streaming, posting fans... can experience 5g all at once. this is happening in 13 stadiums all across the country. now if verizon 5g can do this for the nfl... imagine what it can do for you.

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during his appearance today in new hampshire, former vice president joe biden put his focus on president trump. take a listen. >> the core values of this nation are standing in the way of democracy. everyone knows who donald trump is. now we have to show them who we are. >> we cannot, and i will not, let this man be re-elected president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] limit it to four years. i believe history will look b k

back. but if donald hump -- donald trump is re-elected -- freudian slip. if donald trump is re-elected, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. [ cheers and applause ] donald trump does pose an existential -- it's not hypothetical his threat to this nation. he does pose a real threat. the core values of this nation are standing in the way of our democracy. everything that's made in america, america is at stake. everyone knows who donald trump is. now we have to show them who we are. who we are. [ cheers and applause ] that we choose hope over fear. we choose science over fiction. we choose union over division. and yes, yes, we choose truth over lies. [ cheers and applause ] folks, folks, i've never been

more optimistic about america's chances than i am today. we're better positioned than any nation in the world to lead. >> vice president joe biden. our panel back with us, tiffany cross, nathan ruben. the front-runner doing what front-runners normally do, punching up. should he be moving towards policy now? >> donald hump, finally a good joe biden gaffe. >> he put one out there for you. >> yeah. but i'm going to take issue with the question. you called him the front-runner and i'm not sure he is. that's like what we say in the echo chamber, but when you think about it, how many people are being polled? i think he does poll well with older americans who are focused, who answered land lines from unidentified calls. i don't think too many young people are answering those calls. and so, look, for a lot of people, joe biden was a part of this amazing presidency, and so

that he has name recognition. but for a lot of younger folks, that's the floor, not the ceiling. so they do want to hear more from him to your point on policy and he has a long legislative record to account for and that's going to be a challenge for him. look, if biden is the nominee, everybody will get behind him. >> nathan, do you like my question? >> i'll answer it. i want to piggy back off tiffany, what she said about younger people not being polled is an excellent point. the true front-runner is undecided. people do not know who they want to support at this point in time. we have a long way to go until iowa. as soon as iowa is really settled, you'll start to see people shift around based on who actually wins. >> does joe biden need to start to get to issues just looking where we're at in the process? we've got so long to go here. >> yeah, and i think you will see him start to do some of those things. but the challenge for him is he's already addressed a lot of these issues in his long legislative career.

he has to adapt older policy to present times. right now people are viewing him in 2019 lens for things he's done over the past 40, 50 years. honestly we know how campaigns work. i think the staff around him is going to have to help elevate some of those things. i don't know that he's always the best messenger. he's going to have to find strong validatetors. >> the contenders are bringing issues as well, not that joe biden's not. >> i think that is a risky message for the biden campaign, especially when you look at the head-to-head polls nationwide, five democrats are beating trump. >> good pointed. >> biden, bernie, warren, harris, pete buttigieg, they have advantages over trump. when you say i'm the one who can beat donald trump, so can four other people. >> it rests solely that he's a

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good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. today marks the end of a confounding week in the trump presidency. it began after the president abruptly canceled his trip to poland so that he said he could monitor the looming threat of hurricane dorian at camp david. and yet he spent the better part of that three-day weekend at his resort outside of washington playing golf. then there was the firestorm over vice president mike pence's trip to ireland. pence stayed at a trump resort in the town of doonbeg.