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, and he said, i think joe biden is going to run but i don't think joe biden knows he's going to run,nd that's a problem. >> he has high favorability among republicans and that's something the white house is very closely watching. i was talking with sources who are republicans saying they're very nervous, that if he could get to the general election, he's the guy that could be the most danger. they have not been talking about joe biden much. >> the president does. he mocks joe biden but if you talk to people, people around the president say he worries about the scrappy people from scranton. >> i hear biden wants to take me to the back of a barn. he would be in big trouble, let me tell you. remember when he said that? "i'd like to take him --" you know with biden, you go like this, phew, and he goes down. sleepy joe biden. we call him 1% joe because he ran at least twice. they say twice, i think he ran at least three times, and he never had more than 1%. >> both relish a good fight. you see biden and you think he wants to get into that fight. among the top five elected officials in the

joe biden isn't there.and we'll get to elizabeth warren coming down three spots sherrod brown, a big mover. i would group six through eight together and nine through ten. i don't think they are really in the same class. >> based on the polling you have seen. based on the endorsements, the activist support. >> we are looking at different statistical models. all the factors are being taken into account. gillibrand isn't in the post, castro isn't. people aren't searching for them on google and they haven't pulled a lot of endorsements. >> show us the top five. >> one through five. this one in particular which we are talking about. bernie sanders hais going up. amy klobuchar as well is going up despite negative reports on staff treatment. really the top two are stable with kamala harris and joe biden. i would probably group one through four together and then probably five would be a little bit lower down. >> of course i imagine this would change substantially if joe biden or beto o'rourke got in. >> we would se

joe biden is a lovely man. whenever i would run into him when he was a senator, he was always just wonderful to talk to, other senators like him. he's a lovely guy. he's not an exciting candidate and you need to be able to andrate some excitement have a real following. reagan peopleere and someone? candidates have huge followings often and i don't think he has one. i think that's sort of necessary. host: today's washington post, writing and sanders are too old. do you think they are too old? guest: i do. biden is 76 and sanders is 77. they are too old. andgetting around that age i think you don't have the same energy among other things. -- it don't think they think democrats want somebody different this year. 2008 withebody in barack obama. when they went back to somebody, hillary clinton in 2016, old hat, it didn't work. host: what do you think this idea of a pledge to serve one term? guest: terrible idea. host: why? guest: why restrict him? why say that? i don't think you gain anything and it's particularly d

start with biden. his pair of political events today means for the first time since the midterms we're hearing him get overtly political. it's not just what he's saying but who he's saying it to. the natural biden constituencies. he's got public policy wauonks earlier. firefighters, particularly after he teased about a potential run, listen to this. >> i appreciate the energy you showed when i got up here. save it a little longer, i may need it in a few weeks. >> to understand why this group is so important to biden and to democrats at large, take a look at this piece. this is from just after the 2016 election. how firefighters help explain the outcome of the 2016 election. nearly 85% of professional firefighters are white, more than 95% are men. making them look a lot like the other blue collar voters who surged to donald trump. let me start now with our senior political editor mark murray . it really feels like he's getting his ducks in a row. >> he's tanned, he's rested. he looks ready to go. it doe

joe biden needs to give an answer. >> should he not run as a result, >> that's for joe biden to decide. >> you covered the vice president for years. are you surprised of this issue of inappropriate touching? >> i am not surprised. joe biden, anyone who's covered him. has seen these moments point he's an affectionate person. he's put his hands on women's shoulders. it's part of what people have called, the uncle joe persona. do those moments look different in 2019? we've gone through the #metoo movement. not necessary sexual assault but making women feel uncomfortable. if he's using his position of authority to do that.that will not be looked at favorably by this democratic electorate. >> it reminded people of this incident this is 2015. there's the defense secretary and joe biden is touching the wife of ash carter. puts his hands on her shoulders. nozzles and whispers something into her ear. could this be a problem? as julie points out in the #metoo. ? >> i think it could be. that video you played is one of many examples. i think between not necessarily the story, these are warning sig

policy affects the world. >> let's talk about joe biden because joe biden is talking about joe bidenn the political case and his chief guy saying he's at 95%. you are part of the young new guard in the democratic party. how would you feel about joe biden who has decidedly not part of the new guard of the democratic party getting in the 2020 race? >> we should ask him whether he thinks he's part of the new guard as well, but in all seriousness, i think vice president biden will offer something very interesting in this race. he is, i think, in a lane largely that if he gets in it he could potentially own. >> which is what exactly? >> i think he's probably one of the candidates that we would consider on our side on the more moderate end of the democratic spectrum. he's someone who i think appeals across a range of voters who i think some in our party feel we must more actively go after. but the question will be i think is the vice president prepared to offer a vision about the future of the country that people can wrap themselves around? elections are always about the future and if we f

he thinks joe biden should run.aller: yes, biden should run because of obama and biden took and trumpsion away, never handled a real emergency. biden knows how to unite us with our allies. he will unite the whole country. trump is running off the hard work of obama and biden. he had the economy handed to him when he got in. host: that is kevin in connecticut this morning. plenty of discussion about the 2020 democratic field in today's newspapers. this is from the opinion pages of "the wall street journal." the column -- how democrats may blow it in 2020. he writes, voters will be looking for a presidential candidate who is reflective, experienced and a unifier rather than a divider, and who demonstrates being capable of serious governance. not just another pugnacious self seeker. how many of the announced democratic aspirants fit that description? appealing mainly to anti-trump ours. but it is a mistake to believe that the national opinion conforms to that. you could ask presidents goldwater and mcgovern about mista

biden's staff says he doesn't remember it that way.his morning, here's what lucy florez said to abc news. >> at that point it wasn't even joe biden, it was the second most powerful man in the country, the vice president of the united states of america is touching me and smelling my hair. >> chris: and to give you a sense of how quickly this is moving, we're going to put up on a screen, this is a statement that has just come out from former vice president biden. he says "in my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, i have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support, and comfort, and not once, never, that i believe i acted inappropriately. if it is suggested i did so, i will listen respectfully, but it was never my intention." you have shared the fact that you were a victim of sexual assault much earlier in your life. i know this doesn't rise to that level but your reaction to what we are hearing now about this incident? >> kellyanne: first of all, this woman lucy is very bold to come forward and i

is going to get in this race it's a sign that joe biden will be the favorite in this race and it's a sign that that's the opening in some ways donald trump has left the center open by going you know he's over served his right political base more than any president in american history so there's an open center for someone to take it and that's the argument for biden potentially winning the next election david are you hearing any rumblings from the biden camp or people around biden that he's taking this very seriously about jumping in you know i'm hearing he's going to get in and the argument for biden is that someone from the center left can win the election the danger for the democrats now i think i mean is what happened to the in the u.k. one factor one they had to progressive nominees that were sort of took a hard left kinnock and foot same thing when reagan won two democratic nominees pretty much hard left respectively mondale to caucus so in some ways the way the democrats can lose the election is to go hard left and do nothing but go hard left biden really sort of allows the dem

this is from cynthia hogan, a senior staffer to senator biden but also vice president biden years laterll-male environment in the early to mid-1990s. i can happily answer that the experience was wonderful because i was lucky enough to work for joe biden who had promoted several women, including me, to leadership roles on the staff of the senate judiciary committee and who treated us with respect and insisted that others do the same. now, there are also questions today about the timing of this. of course, the former vice president hasn't announced his campaign just yet. we may be weeks away from that. here's how lucy flores responded to the question of why she was raising this now and whether there might be some political motivation involved. >> how would you respond to somebody out there who says she's attending a beto rally, she supported bernie in 2016, politics might be partially motivating you here. what would you tell those people? >> i would say politics was definitely the impetus. the reason why we're having these conversations about vice president joe biden is because he's consi

i know joe biden to be someone of very high moral character. and a very -- there's very few people in politics i've known who i admire more. the reason i say it's not a zero sum game is the issue that lucy flores is raising is important and how she feels about it is important, so we should give her her due. the comparisons i've heard today to people like al franken are just silly. with him there were eight credible allegations of sexual harassment. >> and she is not claiming sexual harassment. >> yeah. she's not claiming that at all. again, we have to think that -- we can't think about this as if she is -- feels uncomfortable that that makes joe biden a bad guy. and i think he addressed that in his statement today. i think it was effective in saying i do, i go and i hug and i kiss and that's the biden i've seen for four decades. but respecting her is what i think differentiates the democratic candidates from the current president who doesn't have the same respect for women. >> hold on. here's where i think there's some difficulty here. no one i

now the president says joe biden, big smile. >> i dream about biden. that's a dream.ever got more than 1% and president obama took him out of the garbage heap. i'd love to have it be biden. >> i can't get past the part about him dreaming of biden. what do you think of the biden march up. >> if we're talking about joe biden when i was in college in 1988, i think the president would have a formidable challenge. the problem is biden is go having to a debate with himself because the joe biden of 1988 -- and you have tapes going back to the 1970s where he talks about a desegregation in a way that's init tolerable. today's joe biden is going to have to twist himself into an ideological pretzel which is the base and i would argue a majority of the democrat party. by the time biden finishes debating himself from what he said decades ago and maybe even a few years ago and tries to appeal to that radical element within the it democratic party -- by the way diversity is fine. i'm for diversity but not when it's based on being hostile to white males. and unfortunately that identi

>> no surprise that joe biden is the front runner, joe biden is loved by all wing of the democratic partyt it was laughable arguing that keeping medicare around as we know republicans and donald trump want to cut medicare and make it hard tore get health care, education, it's not what all the things she said, but joe biden, he's solid, i agree with her that joe biden will be the front runner in the race, he will be the person to beat, he was a fantastic vice president, well loved by all wings of our party, we have lots of great candidates to choose from but joe biden is the front runner, even joe biden criticized by what he calls, kristin, the new left and by that i think he did mean some of the extreme issues that they are running on and talking about. >> the left has become totally extreme. just to push back on what my fellow panelist just said, the left is pushing for single-payer healthcare, medicare for all which would bankrupt the country, free college which, of course, isn't really free, it would just increase taxes and tax as high as 70%, this kind of stuff drives away working cla

joe biden staff says he doesn't remember it that way. here's what lucy florence to abc news. >> the second most powerful man in the country, the vice president is touching me and kissing me and smelling my hair. >> to give you a sense how quickly this is moving. this is a statement that has just come out from former vice president biden. he says in my many years on the campaign trail, and in public life, i have offered countless handshakes, hugs and expressions of affection and support and comfort.and not once, never, that i believe i acted inappropriately.if it is adjusted i did so, i will listen respectfully, but it was never my intention. kelly m, you have shared the fact you are a victim of sexual assault much earlier in your life. i know this doesn't rise to that level. but your reaction about what you're hearing about this incident. >> first of all, this woman lucy is bold to come forward. i would remind the audience that she shares joe biden's political party. it's quite bold for her to go up against the highest levels of her own

there is no online biden stands. there is no one dying online for joe biden. and it's a place where the gap between the democratic primary voter and the world of political conversation might be its widest, because there are a lot of people out there among democratic voters who are really looking for joe biden. >> absolutely, chris. the extremely online set is not crying for joe biden to get in. but as we all know, twitter is not a fraction of the american life. when you talk to people in iowa and new hampshire, you do hear there is absolutely an opening for somebody more in the middle, for somebody like joe biden, who most democrats have a very fond image of. they like him. they like his association with barack obama. i think the question for him is whether he can translate that into being a candidate. >> right. >> we know from hillary clinton that your poll numbers almost always drop once you leave the nonpolitical world and you enter the political world being a candidate. and he is no longer the guy with the aviators and the ice cream cone that we remember f

among those under age 45, sanders has a 9 point edge over biden but among older caucus goers, biden is ahead there. the ideology, sanders leads biden by those considering liberals but moderate or conservative, biden has a wide edge. 36% to sanders 18%. anything in that data that tells you who has the kind of support that should worry president trump the most? >> i'll tell you what. i think there are two things in this poll that really jumped out at me that senator sanders and vice president biden, their leads at the moment largely driven by high name id. that's the first thing. but i do think that democrats generally are going to be driven by their more progressive wing which seems to me, which wants a next generation of leadership. something new, something fresh. i would not be very comfortable if i were joe biden looking at those numbers. you have to think that kamala harris or cory booker or beto o'rourke or maybe even elizabeth warren, although i doubt it but one will emerge and break through because i think this is about the next generation of leadership. if you're president trump

how big of a problem potentially is this for biden?ores well and i think she's credible and thoughtful and i think what she said is -- was both respectful and real, and this is an issue for many women and many men. that's why we've had this moment over these last two years, but i have to say i really appreciated the way joe biden responded to it, not with the statement you just read but what he actually said on friday which is that he didn't remember it but he absolutely applauded and respected her right to speak out. he didn't try and silence her. he didn't do what a lot of men have done over the last two years which is try and demean her and undermine her and trash her, and i think that the challenge here for all of us is to look at people's real record and to see whether, you know, consciousness has been raised to see what intent is and make a judgment about it, and i think that's what people will do about joe biden. >> so nomiki, you are also good friends with lucy flores. when you talk about intention what do you suppose besides s

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although favors biden. competing in the progressive lane and not as um competing for the establishment lane. >> yeah. seems to be a play there in iowa, in the hawkeye state. mary, i want to read something "the des moines registrar" row. joe biden sitting on the fence. i see this poll and might want to jump in. i can't find much in the poll that would be a red flag for joe biden, according to the "des moines registrar" is it's name recognition? >> that and the fact joe biden, he looks like a lot of other american presidents. i think that that's a really important thing. >> like the previous 44. older white men. okay. >> we're comfortable with him. >> got t. comfortable with him and important to keep in mind. >> and also, the name rec fligs. john delaney, out there since i believe -- for months, and has spent $1 million on advertising out there in iowa. so there's something to be said about just being somebody that they like and recognize, i guess? not necessarily somebody who's out there doing the sort of re

senator elizabeth warren said she believes biden's accuser. do you believe biden's accuser?> i don't know who's telling the truth. i think the facts will come out over time. i think we need to listen to what women are saying and we need to listen to the vice president when he says it's not true. let's watch as it goes forward. >>kristin: - - sent today she believes his behavior is disqualifying. do you believe it's disqualifying? >> i don't know what the behavior is i've known the vice president for many years. >>kristin: the accusation is that he's making women feel uncomfortable. >> i'm not going to go through hypothetical situations.let's see what the facts bear out. i have tremendous respect for the vice president. i think he's a wonderful public servant and would be a great candidate for the presidency and miss forest deserves to be heard and maker points made. >>kristin: let's turn out to what's happening at the border. there's a debate to be had as to whether what's happening constitutes a national emergency. do you believe there is at least a crisis taking place at t

that's not joe biden's style.s built his career as someone who can work with people across the aisle. >> it depends who you're talking about. you have heard people like elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar talking about reaching across the aisle, bills they've worked on with various republicans, but there are certain politicians out there among the democratic base, mike pence is one of them, that in this field you can't say something nice. there are some people that will appeal to but not the ones where the energy is right now in the democratic party. >> and the fascinating part about it, and let's just have the conversation as we anticipate a biden candidacy. again, he's doing everything to run. it would be almost stopping if he decided not to in the end. for all this talk of a fresh face, for all this energy in the active base of the party, if you look at the iowa poll, biden and sanders. writing in the post very smartly about these two guys who you would have to say are at the top of the pack. biden and sanders occu

biden.ook, joe biden ran three times, he never got more than 1%. and president obama took him out of the garbage heap. i'd love to have it be biden. >> do you believe that -- i can't get past the part of him dreaming about biden. what do you think about the biden matchup, why is the president so giddy about that? >> look, if we're talking about joe biden when you and i were in college back in 1988 when he ran briefly for the democratic nomination, i think the president would have a formidable challenge. the problem is, joe biden is going to have a debate with himself. because the joe biden of back then, of 1988 and, of course, you have tapes going all the way back to the 1970s where he talks about desegregation in a way that is intolerable in today's democratic party, today's joe biden is going to have to twist himself into an ideological pretzel to appeal to the most radical elements within the democratic party, not just the radic radical elementsh but actually the base, and even the majori

i'll say that biden has, you know, 40 years worth of a record to examine. and he's got to be prepared to be called out for some of the things he may have done 20, 30 years ago, 10, 15 years ago. and actually have an explanation and a conversation about that and be able to prove to us that he is evolving and understanding that what might have been okay with social norms for a gentleman of his generation 15, 20 years ago, whether it be the way the way he engaged in the policy discourse and debated legislation or interacting with women, what might have been around 20 years isn't acceptable now with the base and to the extent that he is ready and it sounds like through his statement he is willing to be a part of a conversation about evolution and to really atone for and to face head on the things that he has done and then to have a conversation and make an argument for what he has learned and the man he is now and where he takes us in the future i think it's a good thing we are teeing this up and having this conversation. and i'll offer this. one of the things

biden would be very strong there.ry is going to be a test to him. >> one thing is for sure. the idea is biden is going to have trouble because he says things he's going to have to apologize for. this president has somewhat mitigated that for biden. the biggest challenge for your party, where does it wind up in your opinion oin terms of what -- >> is this going to be thought out on a left/right spectrum or on some other grounds? i think people choose someone who will be the ant dote to the president you have. and trump is a very strong figure. and obviously he has strong feelings. and the people most object about him is not anyone particular position, even if they disagree vehemently with him. it's the fact he divides the country efor practice, that that's his political scheme and it's possible someone will be looking for someone who can bring the country back together and who treats someone with respect and someone who they want their kids to grow up to be. this may be more important than where you're positioned. i kn

biden has another event later today.onest, he seemed -- i need your energy in a few weeks. that's a pretty big hint from joe biden there. no? >> well, ali, just to correct you, it's been a half hour since he talked. he's still in the room taking pictures and doing selfies. you would not be surprised. hallie, this is a critical week in terms of joe biden and his deliberations. i've been following the vice president for about 11 years since our friends at nbc had me camping out in his driveway the week he was named as barack obama's running mate. even though he wasn't supposed to announce anything, and he didn't. even his closest advisers, watch today, you might get a hint. the timetable his aides have laid out is an april announcement. that means they're hoping for a decision this week. we didn't hear that announcement from the vice president. we did hear a preview of the message he would take into the campaign. he criticized the president for his new budget proposal noting it would slash medicare. he talked about the pet

i am joe biden's husband. community, community, community. hyperbole, not hyperbole, not hyperbole. literally, literally, literally. not a joke. not a joke. not a joke. not a joke. not a joke. >> laura: [laughs] okay. wait a second. is that a real montage? his potential entry into the 2020 race is important because it means the two current democratic front rotors nationally in iowa and new hampshire have a combined age of 153 years old. it is not going to fly in this new more diverse democratic party and what exactly does biden bring to the table? he was vp for eight years under president obama who was granted unlimited goodwill and his beloved to this day. but what did they actually achieve? well, joining me now is doug schoen, fox news contributor and former advisor to president bill clinton. and rochelle ritchie, former congressional press secretary for house democrats. great to see both of you. doug, let's start with you. that was an odd address. i wish we had an hour to play the full sound bites but let's just say maybe he's a little rus

biden or beto? or is biden waiting on beto, he's the last one in?o wait and see. >>> former house speaker paul ryan is warning that president trump's re-election hopes may be in danger. he said it became a polarization and kept his speech focused heavily on policy. he said he could lose in 2020. the person that defines that race is going to win the race, if this is about donald trump and his personality, he isn't going to win it. >> it will be with nbc meteorologist bill kierans, we will get some good news in the northeast. it's hard to say in the rest of the country. >> east coast looks okay, in the middle of the country, it is wake-up time in ft. worth, a very strong line of thunderstorms. 50 to 70 mile per hour winds, through the downtown, now this line of storms will slide through dallas, about 20 to 30 minutes from now. we will have a chance of winds in dallas. there is some lightning. i'm sure that thunder is waking people up. later today that line of storms will weaken. then it will fire back up this afternoon. from about 2:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.

as for biden, the former vp has yet to declare he's running in 2020.on: democratic socialist congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez says republicans are making total fools of themselves and their tax on the green new deal. following the latest comments. >> she certainly did, she says many on the right are totally taking her ideas out of context. she spoke tonight at a townhall in the bronx. she spent the majority of that townhall touting the green new deal from the moment the plan was introduced in january it has gotten praise from the left, taken quite a bit of heat from the right. this week senator michael he ripped the proposal with colorful cartoons on the senate floor. the congresswoman addressed lee and others. take a listen. >> i didn't expect them to make total fools of themselves. [cheers and applause] >> i expected a little more nuance and i expected a little more concern trolling. [chanting] >> and chanting from the president's rally in michigan, donald trump arguing he wants democrats to keep the green new deal because ultimately he says it

. >> people know joe biden, right? name recognition is not the problem he has. the question is how does he expand upon that and can you expand upon that when there's 48,000 other candidates running for the office? i don't know. as for stacey abrams, let me just say this. there is an important point to make here which is that she did better against the baseline expectation than beto o'rourke did in texas. and the fact that we haven't talked about her as a viable national candidate does say something i think about race and gender in this country. >> she did give the opposition state of the union response. >> the bedrock voting demographic, as we know, is black women, and i think she would have obviously a lot of connections to that community. >> if she launches, she would be at the top. we'll be interviewing her next week. >> excite. >> or in two weeks. >> i'll be watching. >> you should watch he ever dev sam. mark marry, anne gearan, thank you so much, and mike memoli, of course. harold, great to see you from the firefi

get in and the argument for biden creds now i think i mean is what happened to the in the u.k. when you're one they had to progressive nominees that were sort of took a hard left kinnock and foot same thing when reagan won two democratic nominees pretty much hard left respectively mondale to caucus so in some ways the way the democrats can lose the election is to go hard left and do nothing but go hard left biden really sort of allows the democratic party to get up in the air and transcend in some kind of center left position that's what's attractive here my prediction he's going to get in this race and he will be the front runner when he does it and he's the one democrat i think that can beat trump without a lot of argument we can go through the numbers something about it we have david i can see that what you're saying about joe biden candidacy for the general but what about for this primary i mean we're seeing the democratic contenders moving way to the left i mean we even saw a senator come all heart harris talk about reparations for african-americans this is a position that

i'm not sure that joe biden's candidacy is that. i think he will have some clal lenging that some of the other candidates may not have. >> and that's great, right? if you want to win the presidency i think joe biden provides the democrats, i don't want to give the play book away but you have to win, why is the dnc holding it in milwaukee? you're right. the party, your party, democratic party is energized by me l millennials. the blue collar reagan democrats. it will be by this primary. >> i want to bring in and come to you, biden addressed as an offhand comment he referred to vice president pence as a decent guy. i think he tweeted out an explanation and agreement that he isn't decent. take a listen. he excellented on that today. >> if you floets i get criticized for saying anything nice about a republican. folks, that's not who we are. that's not how we got here. >> this is again part of the disagreement. it is generational as much as it is in terms of progressive versus moderates. >> it raids questions how it was over the last fou

we haven't heard from vice president joe biden. there was a statement yesterday where they said that he essentially couldn't remember anything like this and he certainly didn't remember it this way and then the other statement they put out today again not from vice president joe biden, we'll wait to hear from the other candidates. do they believe lucy flores? it is interesting, though, you have in vice president joe biden someone who has been thinking about running for president, his aids say he's 95% of the way there but they must have known that in this era, the me too era, when the scrutiny of men is much more public and open than it has been in years past, they should have probably known that this was going to get an airing. we'll see where the campaign -- it's not a campaign, where the possible campaign, where the possible candidate vice president joe biden goes with this. >> we know he's already been addressing anita hill and some of the other issues that could potentially be soft spots for him. you're in houston so let's tal

mitigates that for biden.r your party, where does it wind up in your opinion in terms of what its soul is? >> well, look, i think one of the interesting questions is, is this going to be fought out on a left/right spectrum? or is it going to be fought out on some other grounds? i think people choose someone who will be the anecdote to the president you have, and trump is a very strong figure and evokes very strong feelings. the people most object about him is not any one particular position, even if they disagree vehemently with him. it's the way he conducts himself. it's the fact that he divides the country for practice, that that's his political scheme. i think that it's possible that people will be looking for someone who can bring the country back together and who treats people with respect and is someone who people want their kids to grow up to be and so on. this may be even more important than where you're positioned along the ideological spectrum. one other thing i want to say. you asked me about what b

biden doesn't have that luxury. he's constantly defending against old stuff. >> another communication strategy is if you have baggage and skeletons in your closet, get them out there early, let it be vetted. >> get in front of it. there's going to be a lot of this, and this specific issue is one that will dogle democratic party, because they have used it so often to attack republicans. the question remains will they be behind somebody who can beat donald trump might not have been the choirboy, but he had the electability. >> alice, basel, thank you so much. >>> up next, a legendary spy catcher tells me whether we're ready or not for the 2020 election. i'm really into this car, but how do i know if i'm getting a good deal? i tell truecar my zip and which car i want and truecar shows the range of prices people in my area actually paid for the same car so i know if i'm getting a great price. this is how car buying was always meant to be. this is truecar. itreat them all as if, they are hot and energized. stay away from

if joe biden runs, this will be up to 3r50iprimary voters. the trend we're seeing is not as lynn said, vetting these candidates for who might be best equipped to be trump that could change next week. i don't think that voters in the democratic base at this point are assessing candidates to see who may be the most pragmatic and reasonable feature to take on donald trump in 2020. >> unless the body politics of democrats aside the person is the strongest to take on trump, i would be surprised if that's what evolves as a winning formula, both things could be true at the same time the democrats are vetting as they're looking to fit into a political frame. >> might this be a division within the democratic party? last hour we were talking about this, two democrats and one republican. the two democrats saw things differently, they said there may be a generational thing about that, you know, whereas one generation is saying, we're familiar is it with some of joe biden's style, the other one is saying, just because he got a pass, it may not be acceptab

the last week has raised a lot of issues for senator biden or former vice president biden and i thinkave to address many of them and this one in particular, if the story continues, if the questions continue. i don't think a spokesperson will be enough. this gets to the heart of some of the concerns with the biden candidacy and i don't think this will quell the concern. >> so, you know, biden -- vice president biden has been criticized for this before in many different aspects over the years. he also ais a man who says he supports women and with that said, siraj, does this signal to him we are living in a different era, he may be doing things differently at this particular time. may we see a different vice president biden if he hits the campaign trail? >> yes and one that is capable of evolution and change and biden is no exception to that. also he suffered from an al franken problem who in late 2017 a photo surfaced of his groping a woman while she was asleep and franken then resigned from being a senator in minnesota. biden hat same problem where there are a number of visual instance

so that's the issue with biden.ust an electability issue. >> and, laura, allow me to quote politico. i figured you would not object. "behind closed doors, the president has fixated on biden while top aides have tried to assure their boss that the former vice president is doomed. in recent weeks, trump has peppered aides on more than one occasion for updates on how biden is faring in early democratic primary polls. a sign of just how seriously trump takes the potential candidacy." laura, is that because he sees him as a peer, a fellow fighter, a warhorse? >> it might be that. it also may be just the fact that biden is at the top of so many of these polls and right behind him is bernie sanders, but unlike sanders, again, although biden likes to say that he is among the most progressive that would run or that are running, he -- he is going to have to face a very different democratic primary than he ever has before, and he's going to appear more centrist, it would seem, so i think that is why trump is worried about him

joe biden is part of breaking american politics, joe biden had a front row seat for breaking americanolitics going back to the role he played in the anita hill hearings for which democrats and republicans, he has been part of breaking this process. we remember him telling an epic an american audience in virginia in 2012 they want to put you back in jane's. joe biden can't just show up now and say he fell off the back of a turnip truck and wasn't part of how our politics got broken. but he does have an opportunity to be part of fixing it but he has to run a campaign that is both tough but also aimed at healing these divisions. heather: it will depend whether the new generation, very vocal younger generation would show up, going back to the old school when things were a little different but there are things in the past he has got to answer for and he will find that out. we will watch. good to see you. actor jussie smollett shows up for court hearing he didn't have to attend. the strategy for proving his innocence. the uk in chaos as the brexit deal fails again. followed in the us. congr

rob: let's get information here, biden versus bernie as we take a look at this assuming biden gets inoving along quite nicely and closing the gap, much wider gap than a month ago, let's take a look at joe biden's history here, he does have a very bipartisan history as he calls himself very progressive but these are some more conservative bills that he has supported in the past, bankruptcy reform, drug bill, defense of marriage act back in 1986. i mean, when he calls himself a progressive, do you buy it? >> a lot of those, look at it, most of those things president trump is more progressive than he is. that's the irony, president trump has more progressive record. look at the crime bill, he was the chief sponsor, joe biden, president trump did criminal justice reform which overturned most what are seen as racist laws, look at the iraq vote, joe biden was one of the chief leaders where president trump opposed that. look at wall street, joe biden has represented wall street which has many banks, crack down on student -- on students on graduates who had high loan debt and so a lot of thes

with more on this allegation against joe biden. stephanie, good morning. >> reporter: dan, good morning. a former nevada politician says she was initially grateful and flattered that former vice president joe biden was supporting her campaign for lieutenant governor back in 2014. but she says by the end of an event, he made her feel uneasy, gross and confused after she says he kissed the back of her head. this morning, we're hearing for the first time from the woman accusing former vice president joe biden of inappropriately touching and kissing the back of her head five years ago. >> at that point it wasn't joe biden. it was the second most powerful man in the country, the vice president of the united states of america is touching me and kissing me and smelling my hair. >> reporter: lucy flores, a former nevada politician says the encounter happened right before she took the stage at a campaign rally. she came forward with her allegations in "new york" magazine friday. >> what do you do? who do you tell? it was awkward and disturb

i want to talk about the appeal of joe biden. a majority, 64%, say joe biden is more experienced. 34% say the time for him has passed and he should stay out of the race. biden, indeed, had a long career in politics. in the senate in 1973. how do you think his record and legacy will come into play? >> he obviously has a lot to point back to in terms of speaking about his successes and the experience that he has obviously serving not only in the senate but also as vice president under president obama and it is in stark contrast to president trump where he can sort of say this is why i am the better candidate. look what happened when we elect a president that doesn't have the same as i do. he is in his mid 70s. some supporters have said it's time for fresh, new, youngblood. i think his experience and the years he has spent on capitol hill will bode well for him. >> he's 76 years old and bernie sanders is 77. what in his past might he have to defend here, joe biden? >> there have been questions raised about comments he made in the '7

host: we heard from joe biden over the weekend at the dinner. here's a little bit. [video clip] >> we do not treat the opposition as the enemy. say a nice word about a republican when they do something good. some people think we do this because we are a small state and we will run into that person on the others of a debate again or in a grocery store, or church, or at the beach. all true. but i think it is more than that. it is more than that. barack always used to kid me because i would repeat 1000 things to him as michelle writes in her book. she said "joe was like barack's big brother" so i could be completely candid. when i was asked for advice, i would pass on the advice i got from my mother and father and say politics is personal, and it is personal. one of the reasons things get on a little better in delaware than other places is that we know one another. as much as you disagree with the man or woman across from you on the merits of a political problem, you also know that they may have a son or daughter who is ill, or that someone's wife or husband is sufferi

>>> let's start with that new reporting on joe biden. clearly the former vice president wants to run for the white house. his people have spent the last few months kind of drip, drip, dripping those intentions to news outlets across america. now "the wall street journal" reports two big nuggets that make a run seem inevitable. one, they report biden has told half a dozen supporters that he does indeed intend to run. and two, he's got an early focus on making a big splash when he's officially getting in. how do you do that? well, you can show all the support that you have with an early haul of money. that's one of the things that got beto o'rourke a lot of attention and he is scheduled to appear at any moment at his next stop in plymouth, new hampshire. so far he has made the biggest splash in the money race, more than $6 million raised in just the first 24 hours. just moments ago he gave reporters more detail saying those millions came from about 128,000 individual users. pretty broad base of support there. definitely not bernie sanders'