this is how david axelrod summed up joe biden's performance in round two. >> the good news for biden is the best he can do. the bad news is the best he can do. he was much better than last time and much more engaged but i agree with these guys, he had moments in which he was uncertain, where he was on the defensive and the main thing is he was -- he was the guy who was going to take on trump and bring it to trump and restore values and decency. >> bill: that is how axelrod scored it. how do you score, dan? >> something like that. i thought biden did a lot better than he did in the first debate and he survived this one. they are talking as though what they want is a street fight

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i do think i might have respect for axelrod. saw barack obama likability, and got the words right, the slogans right, yes, we can the crowds were there, personable and meant nothing. it was a radical and a radical one ever change but axelrod did guide him through all of that. he is basically saying joe has no fastball in if he can't cut it, it is time to get out because he knows he can't cut it. >> well, yeah, obama had a career of it and, for joe biden it becomes increasingly embarrassing that barack obama would not endorse him for eight years, barack obama told us he picked the one person that could assume the presidency at any time. but he won't even endorse him for president for the democratic nomination. that is terribly embarrassing every day that goes by. he can't even play t-ball at this point let alone fastball. >> sean: dr. perio >> yeah, lo, allegedly, based upon a new report, 11 years ago and he is e vice president told obama, i promise i will never run for president because i would be too old to run for president. t

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i think axelrod might be right.s is the best we've got, and if he is not up to the task, he otcan't be the guy. senator elizabeth warren, another top democratic primary contender, is facing a lot of turbulence after she had to apologize to native americans again at aa camping event for "the harm that she caused" after her dna test, fiasco. joining us now with reaction, salem radio host dr. sebastian gorka, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. congressman, i start with you tonight. i do think that -- i have respect for axelrod. axelrod saw in barack obama-like ability so his ability, got the words right, the slogans right, the crowds were there, it meant nothing. he was a radical, indoctrinated radical, never changed. but axelrod died, acted guide them through all that. he's basically saying joe has no fastball and if he can't cut it time to get out because he knows he can cut it. >> yeah, obama had charisma. you could see it and he built the crowds. but for joe biden, it becomes increasingly embarrassing that barack

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> story is a reminder there are so many people doing great work inyour stories. i'm norah o'donnell. good night. ♪ >>> this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news," everyone. i'm errol barnett. police and city leaders in philadelphia are joining growing calls for tougher gun control. this comes after six officers were shot by man with an assault rifle. police say the suspect opened fire wednesday when officers came into his home with a warrant. he then barricaded himself inside and kept firing at others from a window. two officers and three hostages were trapped upstairs as police tried to talk the gunman into surrendering. jericka duncan has the latest. >> i mean you think about what could have happened, right? to have six police officers in such close quarters be fired upon with an individual with a rifle, an assault rifle. >> reporter: philadelphia police commissioner richard ross says he was front and center, watching the drama unfold in a s.w.a.t. vehicle for much of the nearly eight-hour shootout turned standoff. >> we k

we spoke about this before the break with david axelrod.rump has signalled his openness to more extensive background checks which drew a warning from naa chief executive saying this will not play well with his base. if the entire scenario seems kind of family it is as david axelrod mentioned after the florida parkland shootings talking to lawmakers including chris murphy of connecticut and sandy hook, the president also talked about backing stricter gun measures. and mocked legislators, republican legislators about not standing up to the nra. >> mr. president, it's going to have to be you that brings the republicans to the table on this because right now the gun lobby would stop it in its tracks. >> i like that responsibility, chris. i really do. i think it's time. it's time that a president stepped up and we haven't had them and i'm talking democrat and republican presidents. they have not stepped up. and they do have great power. i agree with that. they have great power over you people. they have less power over me. some of you people are

jim axelrod looks back. >> if i can't have it why even look at it? >> if i thought that i'd never watch another ppaul newman movie >> reporter: maybe the highest praise for valerie harper's skill onscreen is that, for many of her fans, she wasn't valerie at all. >> so, you're rhoda? >> reporter: she was rhoda... >> i don't know why i am putting this in my mouth. i should just apply it directly to my hips. >> reporter: ...mary's best friend on the "mary tyler moore show..." >> rhoda, chocolate solves nothing. >> no, cottage cheese solves nothing. chocolate can do it all. >> reporter: the spunky, lovable sidekick. >> rhoda was funny because she was a scuffler.. she was in life, feeling like a loser but somehow winning. >> reporter: harper, who started on broadway in the '50s and did movies like "lil abner," was so successful on the "mary tyler moore show" in 1970 that she got her own spinoff sitcom four years later. >> i really must love you i feel so sorry for you. >> reporter: but her most challenging role was also her most inspiring: the courageous

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david axelrod is saying the next one we have will tear this country apart.et a sense we're setting up for a civil war when it comes to the next nomination? >> perhaps, we should wait to see what happens with the next nomination. perhaps, we should wait for a while and see who stays on the supreme court for how long. why they leave. you know, who the next nominee is going to be. i'm not sure that david axelrod is really sort of helping the situation that he claims to fear there. obviously, he's very upset over the merrick garland nominee. and the same position that david axelrod has enveined there is something that he's feeding were eye that tweet. is more of partisan anger than actually a prediction going on sometimes. >> all right, jonathan allen, hanna trudo, thank you for being here. >>> keeping the peace. how the g7 will look a little different this year as organizers try to tamp down on the drama. >>> and coming up at 9:00, hakeem jeffries, a member of the budget and judiciary committee. it's tough to quit smoking cold turkey. so chantix can help you qu

of course axelrod is right.n't just throw the candidate in a closet and hope everything works out. he has to interact with the press and voters. the strange reaching, clutching at pearls over the gaffes, this is who he is and what he does. >> i agree. a little harsh on biden throughout this ramp-up of the primary season but i do agree with him here and we have seen total resiliency and biden's numbers. his african-american support is holding strong, where he was at 30 percentage points, people know who joe biden is including the gaffes, the interviews out of iowa from the state fair. how many voters that i know joe, i know what he stands for. there is no malice to his gaffes. they are baked into how they feel about him. >> new technology can read the fear in your face and could be sold to the new york government but bernie sanders is upset with the tech giant. our own tech giant steve bolton next. this john smith or this john smith. or any of the other hundreds of john smiths that are humana medicare advantage m

david axelrod is a former senior at visor to president obama hosts the axe files. >> listen, we are five months away from iowa. team harris now saying this is their lowest point. you've been through -- you know campaigns. >> theyen have the had a lot of low points. i don't know. you know, look, the campaigns are full of ups and downs, and you have to navigate them. i remember so well the 2007 race. and we were being pummeled by the national pundit corps around this time, in fact in the fall of 2007, i believe we were maybe 30 points behind hillary clinton, but we had a plan, and that plan was to win the iowa caucuses, and we focused there, spent 87 days, there, and that did win, that changed everything. kamala harris has time to make a play in this race, and we ought to remember as we look at these national polls, this is a sequential process, it begins in iowa, runs through new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, and then on to the other states. and iowa and these early states are going to make a decision as to who shall live politically and who shall not in this c

these are -- except for the case of dead fish -- axelrod is a pretty smart guy. in a nice way saying, joe, you've got to go. >> the veteran strategist. >> sean: joe concha? >> sorry. i thought you were talking to joe biden. you can't kind of get a girl pregnant. you can kind of run for president. you are either all and are you are all out. >> sean: the safe choice never wins. let's just look back to the last couple of presidential elections. hillary clinton, safe choice, 2016, lost. mitt romney lost. john mccain lost ray john kerry lost. al gore lost. bob goal lost. all chosen by the establishment, all the safe choice in the best chance to beat the other candidate and all did not win because they want the book bold candidate. joe biden's 78 years old on inauguration day. if you were to win, 86 when he leaves his second term. he's showing signs of decline, many democrats will say that. >> sean: wait aoc minute, i got a question. have two socialists, the angry vermont senator, then you have 1/1,024th. then you have kamala harris, all in on aoc, no private health ca

i also think following david axelrod on this is really interesting as well because if you follow himn twitter, if you've listened to what he's said on tv, he has taken open shots at joe biden and has also undercut his candidacy and this is someone who ran the 2008 and 2012 races. someone with intimate knowledge of joe biden's ability as a candidate who continues to take shots at him publicly. >> tucker: it seems pretty clear that biden isn't up for it and he doesn't have the support certainly of the professional class in the democratic campaign world. i wonder if people in biden's campaign know that. >> would seem reports that his allies want him to curtail his schedule because i guess he's been making more gas later in the day. i think there's at least some acknowledgment that there's trouble there. if you don't have the confidence in your candidate to go out and be doing these campaign events, that's not a very strong statement of that candidate's candidacy. that should be a concern to democratic primary voters. if you go through joe biden's history, he has not proven himself as a

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of course axelrod is right.row a candidate in the closet and hope everything works out. he has to interact with the press and voters. the strange, clutching at pearls over the gaffes. this is who he is. >> shannon: let me bring jessica in. >> i agree. i agree with him here and we've seen total resiliency in his numbers. african-american support. holding strong, where he was in the national average around 30 percentage points. people know who joe biden's. that includes the gaps. they feel comparable with him. the interviews from iowa, how many voters said i know joe. i know what he stands for. and there's no malice. to his gaps. >> shannon: faked into how they feel. thank you both very much. amazon says technology can read the fear in your face and it could be sold to the u.s. government. that's not why bernie sanders is upset with the tech giant. steve hilton next. or this john smith. or any of the other hundreds of john smiths that are humana medicare advantage members. no, it's this john smith, who met with hu

w >> sean: david axelrod is not a dope. he even said this is probably the best biden has got, and the idea they now want to hide biden, and as axelrod said, either you can cut it or not, this is the office of the presidency. trump will eat his lunch. t >> and you know what, trump, like him or you don't likeke trump, he is so quick, he is so witty, he is so, so smart. this guy, biden, is like, whoa, not functioning, they're not connecting, those circuits. >> sean: i'm looking warren, ioo did think kamala, but she has gone full-on aoc, green new deal, medicare for all, no private insurance. i don't see it. who do you see? mayor pete? >> honestly, any of them are a delight for president trump. about a year from now, donald trump is going to be standing under the debate stage with one of these guys. if it's joe biden, they won't have to put it on for free. >> sean: who gets it? >> i've stood on that stage with donald trump during a debate.ru let me tell you something. he will eat joe biden's lunch, and joe won't remember what l

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david axelrod, a former senior adviser to president obama joins us as well.d evening, gentlemen. david, if economic concerns are bringing out the worst in this president, how should 2020 democrats be addressing the chaos that results from this? what is the message here? >> yeah, well i think the word you used -- the operative word is chaos. i've believed for a very long time that the most effective argument for anyone running against the president is that we just can't do this for another four years. it's less about -- you know, it's easy to get outraged, it's easy to be morally indignant about what he's done, we do that all the time, but the reality is whether you like some of the things he's done or you don't, what i think a majority of americans can agree on is we can't wake up every day to the tweets and tantrums and gratuitous battles that create all of this chaos and make it very difficult to get anything done on the things that they actually care about. and i think that's the most effective argument for anyone running against this president. you know,

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and i think what the obama people have been concerned about and axelrod is one of them, obviously rahmat you're going to have seven or eight months of democrats fighting about the wrong thing essentially. fighting about the obama legacy when what they need to be focused on is the trump legacy. frankly this wouldn't be happening if joe biden wasn't sort of sitting there as the proxy for, as the stand-in for the obama legacy because then you'd have people talking much more about other people's records and looking at donald trump. and so biden's presence there for people who care about obama and what he built is a problem. >> it is fascinating when you talk to younger, even african-american voters who don't real a memory of obama. they were maybe in high school. 2016 was their first vote. they are not as enamored, whether it's criminal justice reform. in their mind obama didn't do enough but it would be fascinating. we'll see if that comes in at debate round three. we're waiting for former vice president joe biden at an event in detroit. we're expecting him to come out and talk to reporte

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axelrod was producing the walls, linda ronstadt, things were happening in the company. then one day -- and i was known as grabbing opened her for everybody. my secretary said there is a kid out here with long hair, so i dated bird summer who i produced three albums with. i knew the guys who wrote "hair." said his name is michael. does he have an appointment? ask him if he can come back tomorrow. she got back on the phone, he's from bensonhurst. i brought him in. his story is, i was sitting on my desk smoking hash. and that is so bizarre because i hadn't even gotten high yet. he's the one who got me into grass. john sebastian gave me a joint one time. that was the extent of my drug experimentation. langer, the police closed them down in florida. i was already living in the tallest building in manhattan, the penthouse apartment and still in my jeans and with my wife, i had a new baby. life was wonderful. this guy michael lang came in and we became friends instantly. he didn't have money so i supported him for a year and half and one night we were shooting pool, we were pl

here's jim axelrod. >> reporter: though he's never fired his gun on duty, syracuse police officer brandonll takes great pride in how he shoots. >> there it is! >> reporter: this kind of shooting. a standout basketball player in high school and college, officer hanks grew up like a lot of kids he knew: fearful of the police. y> the only time i ever really saw them in my neighborhood is when somebody was either going to jail orama cop he wanted to change that perception, posting this challenge on facebook to the kids he sees on patrol: one-on- one, first basket wins. if that's hanks, the challenger does 20 pushups, but if hanks loses, he buys the winner a new pair of sneakers. >> what gives me the hunger to not lose is thinking about the receipt for the $150 sneaker t ll. >> reporter: he's undefeated in 20 challenges. g does get the ball first, but he's playing in full uniform. >> i got my bulletproof vest on which is also, you know, another you 15 pounds. so it kind of balances out the rking perfect.a little bit. >> i m >> reporter: so far, the challenge is working perfectly. >> i mean, al

david axelrod was not too enthusiastic about joe biden's debate performance.xelrod worried about biden's performance after his second debate of the 2020 primaries. the good for joe biden was maybe the best he could do and the bad news is this could be the best he could do. he was much better than last time, much more engaged, but he had moments in which he was uncertain or on the defensive. is joining us from florida. good, independent line. caller: yes. how are you doing? i would vote for any democrat in there that wins except for mayor de blasio. i think joe biden can get the union vote. he can take pennsylvania. he can take back michigan because he saved the auto industry. he is more favorable and smart because medicare for all is taking away private insurance. bernie sanders, elizabeth warren think they will get those things through the senate. with mitch mcconnell there, they have another thing coming. all that stuff they are talking about cannot be done unless they take the senate. donald trump is using the presidency as a cash call. every time he goes t

. >> you think a guy like axelrod or karl rove, they were with reagan, and obama. lou: they knew the agenda. >> their job was -- >> wait, wait, you are not really seriously tonight suggesting they don't know they're basically undercutting the president of united states, they don't watch television, they don't read a comic book, come on? >> i would argue they are getting a lot of feedback from the hill, this is what -- >> they are working for the hill not the president? >> for the establishment, republican establishment, democrat establishment. washington, d.c. lou: you mean rinos, globalist elites. >> absolutely. >> the people this president ran against. >> a mind set so. lou: and forgot know man and fod woman. >> theyment to make the want toe president do the right thing that is what their attitude is, the right thing is to -- what he ran on. from my perspective what president promised the voter. lou: they are not doing the right thing. >> as far as hill. lou: ar are -- what are you doi? being sensitive to the establishment, i have to watch you. >> i'm not -- i'm

. >> now david axelrod says these gaps could cause concern if the former vice president can unseat president trump. here is axel's tweet: >> if biden blunders through the race anxieties will rise among democrats about his ability to go the distance. of course president trump has been using biden's slip ups to go after him. take a look. president: joe biden is not playing with a full deck this. is not someone you can have has your president tpefplt got the nomination i would be thrilled. joe is a pretty incompetent guy. i have watched his interviews, what he has said and how he says it. i wouldn't of rated him high in the first place. joe biden has lost his fastball. he limped through it. he got through it. i think it was okay. >> so the gop and president trump so worried about biden making this frame of a guy who says he's a gas machine is now mentally unable as evidence by the recent gaps. >> at one point there will be one too many gaps. president trump has made it possible to get away with that goofy if you will and forgetfulness. president trump got away with saying some of the most outra

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the makeup of the court and what happens when one day there are going to leave the court but david axelrod tweeting if there is a supreme court seat next year and mitch mcconnell carries through on his promise to fill it despite his previous precedent in blocking garland it will tear this country apart. i asked the senate majority leader about an opening next year and here is what he told me. >> we don't know if they will have a vacancy. what we do know for sure is we each picked two new supreme court justices and confirmed them. shannon: when pressured by the left to step down and make way of the democratic president, no way, i have a job to do and getting someone like me confirmed would be nearly impossible. reliable progressives. >> i wish her the best. she has a lot to do with the collegiality of the court, she has gone out of her way to praise justice brett kavanaugh and neil gorsuch. i'm not going to engage in morbid speculation about what is going to happen. a forest hearing the country apart we know who tore the country apart in the last confirmation battle. do we want to go throug

jim axelrod has more. >> if i can't have it, why look? more for many of her fans, she wasn't valerie at all. >> so you're rhoda? >> morgenstern, right. >> she was rhoda. >> i don't know why i'm putting this in my mouth. i should just apply it directly to my hips. >> reporter: mary's best friend on "the mary tyler moore show." >> what am i going to do? >> eat some candy. >> rhoda, chocolate solves nothing. >> no, no. cottage cheese does nothing. chocolate can do it all. >> the spunky sidekick. >> rhoda was funny because she was a scuffler and just in life trying to feeling like a loser but somehow winning. >> harper, who started on broadway in the '50s and did movies like "little abner" was so successful on "the mary tyler moore show" starting in 1970 that she got her own spin-off sitcom four years later. >> i really must love you. i feel so sorry for you. >> reporter: but her most challenging role was also her most inspiring, the cravens way valerie harper handled cancer. first diagnosed ten years ago with lung cancer, she announced four

axelrod is a pretty smart guy. i would argue that he is in a nice way saying, joe, you got to go. joe. >> oh, sorry. i thought you were talking to joe biden. you can't get a girl pregnant. you can't kind of run for president. you are either all in or you are all out. let's just look back at the last couple of presidential elections. hillary clinton, safe choice, lost. mitt romney, 2012, lost. john mccain, oh, lost. bob dole, 1996, lost. all chosen by the establishment. paul didn't win because they weren't the bold candidate. they didn't have the clear message. 86 when he leaves a second term. he is showing signs of decline. many democrats will say that. >> sean: okay, so you've got two socialists, you've got the angry vermont senator, and then you've got elizabeth warren. and then, you've got kamala harris. she's all in on aoc and no private health care. what does that leave them with? mayor pete. whatever his name is. buttigieg. the guy can't run indiana. how is he going to run the country? >> right. i say this same thing about cory booker. i think another candidate may still jum

seem human and i thought in your article, katie, it was interesting the quote you had from david axelrod say it's is a risk and strength of joe biden, and you know the person at the center of this, the man he was talking about, said you know the truth of the matter is it doesn't mothbother me, it lo me in the eye and it seemed authentic to me. that is the upside, right? >> as david laid out to me, the moment that was captured highlights both the challenge with joe biden, the propensity to be gaffe prone. but at the same time his ability to emphasize. i spent a lot of time with joe biden, and folk who are committed have less to go do with a policy proposal. they're looking at electability, and there is certainly other voters who are reemphasizing character. >> yeah, there are lines of people that want to hug him. >> this is controversial, earlier this year biden face criticism from women that say women said he was giving unexpected hugs, thank you so much, katie, have a great weekend, everybody. >> coming up, everybody. now a category three, i'll caulk with a hurricane hunter that flew ar

david axelrod wrote, this is bad advice. you can't cloister the candidate and win.t, and the only way he can prove he can is to be an active and vigorous candidate. he's running for president of the united states, for god's sake. >> david axelrod was one of my leaders on the campaign for barack obama in 2008, but i do think as chris just mentioned, campaigns are grueling. it is a grueling pace. i think for all of the candidates, joe biden, including vice president joe biden, that it is incumbent upon their staff to protect their candidates to make sure they ever an adequate time to recharge, to refresh and to carry their message directly to the voters. i don't think that the gaffes are going to be ultimately fatal to vice president biden, but i do agree that it's time to really shore up his performance and make sure that he is not seeding ground to the other candidates who are very strong contenders. we see the gap closing with elizabeth warren, we also see the gap closing with candidate kamala harris. >> uh-huh. we do. so, rick, you have some democrats concerned ab

. >> martha: david axelrod, he has been very reticent when it comes to joe biden, very cautious about supporting him. president obama has not come out, but he seems to be a fan of elizabeth warren. he says she has a super organization enter campaign is hot. when you look at the way the rest of the democratic party is looking at her, do you feel like they are honing in on her right now? >> yeah, perhaps that is the weight is going to go. we have so far to go until then. >> martha: anything can happen. >> we know how treacherous campaign seasons can be, especially the primaries, but it would be interesting to see rising number one target. up until now it has been joe biden and he hasn't done himself any favors. >> martha: i want to show you this exchange with my next guest who is john delaney, a democratic candidate and its reflective of something a lot of reporters have been pushing in terms of the narrative of white supremacy. watch this exchange. >> that is what i am saying. i'm not saying semantics, and being very direct. i said it! >> no you didn't! >> he supports white supremacist

and i think president obama, as well as david axelrod and the things he's been saying and obviously i can't speak for him but if you follow these things, i don't think they trust joe biden's ability as a candidate. they see him as one of the weaker candidates are not the stronger one to go and defeat president trump which is obviously the object above democrats. i also think one other big issue for joe biden is well with his abandonment of a high demand. it makes him look spineless. we are talking about the same week where you have campaign officials going on, telling the media look, this is deeply held conviction and he's had this conviction for decades and he will not open and hit -- abandon it and then joe biden abandon it and it makes him look weak, spineless and it doesn't look like he's rooted in any core beliefs. >> tucker: well, at least we know how he defines deeply conviction. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: with biden gone in obama's legacy rejected, what ic party? the answer, the most extreme set of positions in history, the best way to make america better is to give terrori

but back to what david axelrod was saying, he was saying the question is whether that do you believell numbers that he has is because we aren't fully geared into biden right now and the campaign race. what do you think it is? >> jason. >> yeah, so first of all, if you look at the national polls versus the iowa polls, you'll see a significant difference. first of all, biden's lead's about three points lower in iowa than it is nationwide. another significant difference is is that harris is actually ahead of sanders. in the state of iowa. but specifically to your question on biden, this question is coming up more and r more. does he have the stamina? we don't like talk iing about these things, but it's a legitimate question. has his age caught up to him? so he has an opportunity. the people in iowa want to see their candidates. if i were advising vice president biden, i would tell him get to the state of iowa. there are 99 counties. get a bus. go tour. all 99 counties. i've done it with cruz back in 2016. it's rigorous. if he can make it through that process, he can put to bed all these

i would argue that david axelrod is right.hat's probably the best you are going to get out of sleepy creepy uncle joe. he is losing his fastball. here are just a few of some of his biggest blunders from the past or present. i think you will find this quite entertaining. take a look. >> do you agree with me? go to joe 30330. and during in this fight. i watch what happen when the kids from parkland marched up and that i met with them and i went off the hill to go into those neighborhoods. >> we've got to let them know who we are. we choose unity over division. we choose science over fiction. we choose truth over facts. the words that stung the nation and i would argue, i know, struck the world. you had people like -- excuse me. people like the former chairman and the leader of the party in germany. you had alan merkel. it you had this notion that somehow if you are poor, you cannot do it. poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. while the kids. black kids. asian kids. mom lived in long island for ten year

this poll, but other polls show she is taking a dip after the last debate and i think it was david axelrod who said you know she can ask questions but we don't know if she can answer them and she was forced to answer them and it was a problem. >> don't worry about kamala harris, she will be all right. as a matter of fact, she is on a bus rolling through as we speak and there's a big sign that says fearless, kamala harris for the people. and one after another of these national news organizations want to interview her and not any of the other people. >> just the fact that she's rolling the bus through iowa, originally you might member, and we talked with her consultant, they would skip over iowa, it's no big deal. they will roll with carolina. >> that was a mistake. they never should have said that. >> she should have been there, well, she's been thinking something. >> there were a couple others in des moines at the gun control form. >>> still ahead, gottesman joints at the roundtable talking about gun reform and the possibility of a new ban on assault weapons. >> and the fate of a controver

i think david axelrod hit the nail on the head when he said the i good news is for joe bide, this isrobably the best he cab do, and the bad news for joe biden, this is probably the best he can do. >> tucker: so do you -- i just want to end on this, inject some reality into this, you are always talking to people who do politics for a living, political strategist from both sides. how many people do you know who believe that joe biden will actually be the democratic nominee? >> so, i think it's sort of split, but here's where things things start change and where, i think, things start things start looking different. even if you look ahead at the september debate, the requirements jump significantly. so the field probably is going to be cut in about half of who actually ends up on the debate stage and was going to be interesting as a lot of these moderates are not going to be on that debate stage. they're not going to hit the polling requirements or the unique donor requirement as well and i also think if you are joe biden, you are more exposedi bebecause you then get follow-up questions

. >> sean: even smart prominent democrats, like it or not, david axelrod took note of this and said thisreally bad advice. you can't win.el he either he can cut it or he can't and he also said previously, this is probably the best biden has got so you see what's going on. sleepy crazy creepy uncle joe doesn't have any kind of curveball. he can't run on the obama biden faded failed agenda. 13 more a million americans on food stamps, a billion more in poverty and he knows the new extreme democratic agenda has no chance of beating trump in 2020 and would drive the country into poverty, probaly instantaneously. so the new democrats, they are not moving on from sleepy crazy uncle joe. in comes elizabeth warren and now a newly released fox poll well, warren has surged into second place, within striking distance of joe biden. in a national poll, a statistical tie up your chi is surging in places like new hampshire and iowa. why? because, well, she is embracing the ultra radical extremism of her party. open borders, trillion new entitlement, abolishing private health care, reparations, and the o

. >> know, and i want to show you there is this quote from david axelrod that i think summarizes it as well. we can put that up for the viewers at home. and so basically he says this is bad advice. he goes on to say he either can cut it or he can't and the only way he can prove he can is to be an active and vigorous candidate. he's running for president of the united states for god's sakes. and joe biden had recently not too long ago floated the idea of a stacy abrams, potentially the vp nominee or at least biden's allies did and now, she's saying potentially should be open to being the vp nomination. listen to what she said in an interview. >> if any of the nominees offer me the opportunity to run with them as their vice president after they have been selected as the nominee, of course i'd be honored to consider that. >> mark: that's very sporting of her. we are going to come back to you but as we succumb of the president is on a roll here and we don't want to miss it. here he is in new hampshire. >> president trump: far more sophisticated and we had a man b and he is now our campaign

this is something that david axelrod tweeted out.into an election and the chinese know it. so is that a real possibility? >> i do -- i think that's possible, yes. and let me tell you, the nafta deal that is now sitting -- being ratified by congress, the new nafta deal, it's the same as the old nafta deal. there's only a few tweaks. so sometimes what leaders can do is say, oh, i had a great victory here and sometimes things are moving so fast that the press never goes to dissect it to explain it. so do i think it's possible that he will walk away from a tough china deal because he's worried it could tank the economy? yeah, i completely agree with that. but we shouldn't have been here to begin with. we should have been taking the chinese on with all of our friends and all of our allies and to say to china, you need to clean it up because if you don't clean it up, you face the entire world. he didn't do that. i think it was a terrible mistake. >> he seemed to indicate, though, he was having second thoughts on the trade war and then the