biden: thank you. >> we need your picture. mr. biden: oh, ok. thank you. >> i just want to shake your hand. i don't want to take a bunch of your time, but thank you and good luck. mr. biden: thank you so much. >> you're welcome. mr. biden: hi. >> i met you many years ago, when you introduced jimmy carter. mr. biden: oh my lord. >> i figure that was 1975. mr. biden: it was. >> isn't that crazy? mr. biden: i still talk to him once in a while, and god love him, he's doing well. >> i think i had a poster, which i eventually gave the democratic party. i don't know if they sold it. mr. biden: well let's get a you and me. got it? thank you. >> thank you. >> can i get one for my parents? >> thank you. mr. biden: thank you so much. >> good luck. mr. biden: all right, think you guys. >> i can't believe this. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] announcer: c-span's washington journal come alive every d

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>> biden is going after her. she'll have to defend herself. >> for me, can joe biden deliver?g about these attacks, sharpening his attacks against kamala harris for weeks. he's saying he'll be more aggressive in his pushback. can he convince voters that he won't have another rocky, shaky debate performance going forward? also, julian castro. he stood out against beto o'rourke. can he get into the mix? that's something to watch. >> has he been rehearsing a lot, biden? >> biden has been meeting with his advisers. he's had a few mock debates. we've seen him going over kamala harris and cory booker. last week we were in detroit and he's using that fantasy line. >> i think the person standing on the other side of joe biden, cory booker. the senator from new jersey. he's been telegraphing his line of twak the former vice president. the dynamic between cory booker and joe biden will be fascinating and it will go both ways. the former vice president's aides at least have been saying they'll bring up his record as mayor of newark. i'm be sure voters are that interested in cory booker's

. >>> biden slipping. a brand new cnn poll shows the former vice president losing support as kamala harris vaults to second place. is the front runner in prubl? >>> the president says iran is playing with fire, this as he cozies up to north korea. does he have a coherent strategy. >>> and is taxpayer funded security being misused for secretary of state mike pompeo and his family? let's go outfront. >>> good evening everyone. i'm in for erin burnett. biden takes a hit. cnn just out with a poll, the first one conducted after the debate and revealing a big crack in the front runner's facade. biden still in the lead and kamala harris is up there in second. dig in a little deeper and you will see biden's lead has narrowed to just five points. the 22% is down ten points for may. harris who took on biden at the democratic debate is surging up nine points from may. while harris is making significant strides with democratic voters, she is behind biden among one key segment of democratic voters right now, african-am

with bo biden.y way she keeps her momentum going is to go through him. does she do that now or decide right now is the time to defend the progressives, partner with him to make the case against them a progressive can win? is that the strategy this time, or is it fireworks between the two of them? and i'm talking about in the context of what does senator warren think. what does senator sanders think? senator sanders is struggling. he's in the middle of the pack. he has enormous fund-raising network. he has a loyal group of supporters. he can be in this to the end. if you look at him vis-a-vis 2016, he's in the teens. does he decide she's a threat? she is a threat. dz he dee said side to air it in the debate. that is a of my question. >> to add to tuesday, there are a couple people on the stage and they are all going to want to differentiate themselves to the degree because it's make or break for de blasio and hickenlooper. what they're going to try and do is go after warren or bernie and say, look, w

so a horse race concern for biden. a potential electability concern for biden. no good polling news today for the democratic frontrunner after that debate. i'm joined now by nbc news correspondent mike memoli. he has been all over the biden story from the beginning. and nbc news political reporty ali vitalia, our road warrior. mike, i got to start with you. what is the mood in biden world today? >> reporter: well, i think we saw a little bit of the mood in biden world. and the only thing we have heard from the biden campaign today, which is a strong statement from the former vice president of north korea. this is indicative of an effort to try to turn the page very quickly to a comfort zone which is that general election argument with donald trump. i just heard from a very senior biden official, though in, terms of this new poll saying we are no more concerned about one poll showing us dropping in the polls than we were overly confident based on the prolonged bounce that they did have after that announcement. but if you do look within the numbers, steve, as you

you can see, joe biden at 41%.ignificantly better. in south carolina, remember, well over half the electorate in the south carolina democratic primary is going to be african-american. more than 60%, probably, and wi biden with a massive lead. so, it's why biden is ahead in south carolina in a way that he's not in new hampshire and iowa and it's why biden enjoys the advantage still nationally in the polls, because he's been doing significantly better among black voters than among white voters. we see it in south carolina, we see it nationally and it is a big question going forward in this campaign, that advantage that biden has with black voters, it is so important to him. can he maintain it? well, ahead, joe biden, he is sounding off on the so-called squad, as he makes the case that his brand of democratic politics is the future for the party, no, sir necessaot necessarily their. more on this. ot necessarily thei. more on this you ted savings on select ford models, plus earn complimentary maintenance through fordpa

now here we are, joe biden. there is a lot on the line for joe biden tonight. >> yeah.a very big night for him. in the first debate, he had a lack luster debate. i think everyone is waiting to see if he'll come back and be a little stronger and the expectation is that the attacks will be coming at him just as hard, if not hard he, than they were coming at him last knight time. we expect kamala harris to go after him. cory booker has made it clear that he's planning to go after him. one of the things last night that was very lack luster was the case being made by the moderate lane. and for biden, he needs to make a better argument tonight to basically say, you know, we can do this in a way that is going to excite the base and, versus last night, we were hearing a lot from the moderates. we can't be too bold because we'll scare people. a lot is on biden to make that case tonight. >> that's a hard case to make. that is a really hard case to make. >> he will have to be like neo from the matrix, man. he'll have every bullet coming at him from every single person. so listen.

maybe biden can't either. he has been shaky but somebody with some gravitas coming in, making that argument. that may come in the next debate or the debates after tonight. >> we'll get more to tonight and the stakes. i want to get to this in the conversation. don't believe what you hear in washington because washington is not america. we do our best covering the campaigns and talking to voters. gary tuchman put the question to some undecided voters. who will impress you the most? >> being more moderate in the state of iowa will go far and bullock, klobuchar and ryan did the best to bring that out. >> who do you think did the best? >> warren. >> do thing did the best? >> warren. >> who do you think had the best performance? >> warren. >> do thing had the best performance this evening? >> warren. >> warren. >> warren. >> warren. >> i keep saying warren. you keep saying warren. who do you think did the best? >> warren. >> so it's 185 or 186 days till iowa votes. senator warren may wish we had a parliamentary syst

joe biden can make that case. joe biden is the person to do that. i think that that's a great place to be frankly. >> but it seems like you do take issue when people refer to that as in you're for the safe choice. you don't want to have it described that way. >> well, i just think it's not accurate. i think if you look at his record, if you look at his lifetime of fighting for change, if you look at the change that we were able to get done under the obama/biden years in the white house. you look at things like the elimination of don't ask don't tell. you look at the vice president speaking up for marriage equality at a time when political pundits were telling him that that wasn't a smart thing to do. he's someone who's been on the cutting edge for fighting for change in this country his entire life. so i reject the notion a progressive moderate divide. i think voters are looking for somebody who stands for their values, who they believe has good character. i think they know joe biden. they know that's him. they know that if they put him in the white

nice guy with joe biden. "new day" continues right now. >>> biden telling voters i'm not going to be as polite this time. >> what were you doing 5, 10, 15 years ago to fight for racial justice? >> if he wants to go back and talk about a record i'm happy to do that. >> bob mueller was going to pave the yellow brick road towards impeachment. >> if we don't take action on september 1st we should just shut it down. >> you don't even have the majority of democrats yet. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. it's friday, july 26th, 8:00 here in the east. expect to see a more aggressive joe biden. cnn has learned the form rooips is getting ready for what he believes will be attacks on him and this time he says he won't be see polite. bide is already responding to rivals who have criticized his criminal justice reform. biden has a 3 to 1 lead over kamala harris. and the former vp is the only democrat who beats trump in a hypothetical head to head matchup in that key swing state of ohio. >> meanwhile som

new pampers cruisers 360 fit >>> okay, former vice president joe biden is just out with a new criminal justice reform plan. this comes days before the cnn democratic debates next week. was that a plan? let's get the forecast with cnn's senior politics writer and analyst harry henton. so joe biden's criminal justice plan this way at the debate when he's asked about the old crime bill in the '90s so he says i'll refer you to my new i'm bill. >> so many people have been paying attention to this matchup, but the one that interests me the most is actually biden versus booker and why is that? we were mentioning criminal justice reform. so this is basically -- that's the wrong slide. well, the point is -- >> our seamless system. >> what i was pointing out is booker has been going after biden so much on criminal justice reform. the 1994 crime bill was an awful bill, why did it take biden so long to say it wasn't exactly a perfect bill? and more than that we've seen booker has really suffered with african-americans while biden is well ahead of the field at around 40%. so basically what i think

, he was so critical of biden after biden talked about the segregationists that he worked with in thed states senate. >> right. >> and i think -- we'll see if booker goes after biden. >> i'm sorry. >> no, that will be, that will be a possibility. >> i think we also ought to allow for the fact that even though these matchups are important, and i appreciate the fight night analogies, they all have imperative strategically -- >> totally. >> elizabeth warren is doing very, very well, but she's doing well with college-educated voters, very liberal voters and young voters. she hasn't broken through with white working class voters and her message is geared that way. she needs to find -- i think she would have liked to been in the debate with biden to have that discussion about the bankruptcy bill to burnish her vote there. kamala harris did very well in defining herself as a fighter in that moment. it was a very dramatic moment. her -- of all the top contenders, i think her message is least fleshed out, and so beyond having biden on that platform she needs to use that team to tell people exa

he had this big interview with the bidens, the vice president joe biden and also his wife as well. i want to ask you, did -- did joe biden's campaign -- did he get it back on track after his debate performance and his -- the bussing and segregation controversies? >> yeah, i thought his interview with chris cuomo was excellent. i think he helped himself tremendously. the upcoming debate on cnn, you know, you'll be one of the questioners. it's going to be very important. he's got to show strength. he's got to show that he can take a punch and that he can give a punch back because the one thing that joe biden has going for him, don, is that he more than anybody else can beat donald trump in a lot of the states around the country. he wins the election. and that's the biggest thing going for him right now. >> okay. so we heard something interesting, i thought, from the second lady about why biden jumped into this race. watch this exchange and then we'll talk. >> sure. >> do you think that joe biden had had an amazing run, that was it in 2016? did you think that was it? >> i did, and i t

and i think that probably explains a lot of biden's strengths because what is biden? a former senator, a former vice president, head of the foreign relations committee and he's a veteran. i think that's going on there. >> gene robinson, let's talk about your home state of south carolina. i have always said reverend al and i have always said, yes, iowa and new hampshire are so important but they're predominantly white. if you want to see what the democratic electorate is going to look like after the first two early contests you get a much better indication of how this race is going to shake out by looking at south carolina because racially the mix is more in line with across the deep south, california, across the rest of the country. boy there, joe biden sure does look strong in your home state. >> yeah, he sure does. you basically have to do well in south carolina. i mean, i think you look at those numbers and you see, you know, an important weakness in the campaign of somebody like elizabeth warren, for example. who is doing very well nationally. who is basically in

joe biden was last to arrive.are getting ready back stage as we get ready for the second big night of debating. earlier tonight. panltist jess mcintosh said she was looking for reinsurance from the former vice president. that may be true from any democrats. a lot of democrats coming into the debate feeling good him as a candidate. it will be fascinating to see if the perceptions change tonight. we are joined by david axelrod. gloriaer. and john king. we haven't heard from you. it's interesting listening in the run up to this all the division and expectations put on vice president biden. he has to look forward and be able to defend his record. he has to to be able to attack but attack trump also. there is a lot riding on him. >> there is a lot riding on it. deep in the rear view mirror but joe biden run twice before and both times sputtered at the cross road. s in a giant test for him. he has to know that in his personal history. i would argue last night raised the stakes. the stakes tonight were already high for b

joe biden. harris going after biden's support with black voters. you have waurpb slowly inching away. a lot of liberals backing bernie sanders.rren slowly inching away. a lot of liberals backing bernie sanders. >> and mary ann williamson trying to make noise as well. someone photo shopped her picture in. it is pretty cool. they're an interesting figure to have in this race, jackie. >> one of the complaints i heard with all due respect to williamson is there were some contenders left out of the debates. yesterday you had marianne williamson in there. and she has been a serious candidate. we will have to see where she goes. >> people search for her, right? . >> harris and warren, they are starting to be in support of one another. people are now choosing between harris and warren. some folks mentioned booker. for a lot of women, especially college educated women in iowa, man, that is looking like harris and warren right now. and for a lot of people it's agonizing. they love the plans. the "spectre" is awfully tempting. >> and in 2016, wanting to see a

biden at 18. warren at 16. harris down at 10% and this may explain why harris has not seen a dominant on the health care issue, you've seen the whole conversation about private insurance, should it -- this is among democrats, wolf. i want to make that clear. among democrats, only 30% favor going to a government -- a government-run program to replace private insurance and 49% say we should not replace private insurance with a government-run program so when kamala harris and elizabeth warren and bernie sanders sand de blasio raise their hands and kamala harris the next day heard the question wrong, that is the political concern. not even democrats are supportive of getting rid of private insurance. >> and the numbers show before and after the debate where the top democratic candidates were. let me put those numbers back on the screen and get your takeaways, joe biden lost ten points. >> yes. now, remember, this poll was from may to now, obviously the debate performance was critical. but that ten-point drop is a d

biden. and, again, we don't have the specifics. they're teasing a successful quarter. tell me more. >> yeah, look. it's an open question. we don't have an idea when the campaign is going to release their money totals right now. and they don't have to. no campaign has to until july 15th, the deadline when they have to file with the fec. so an open question now. you noted that email to supporters saying they blew their fund-raising goals out of the water. we don't know what their fund-raising goals were. we know the vice president has spent a lot of time, high-dollar money. there is a very good chance he's going to have equal to or more than pete buttigieg. the big question right now that has always been the case with the biden team, is the grass roots number there. is the money coming in from the types of supporters that have bolstered bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, that give those candidates the ability to stay off the fund-raising circuit and more on the campaign trail. we'll start to ge

exacts want to see. >> biden -- biden is making adjustments, rob.s he look like a more formidable candidate. >> no. just calling him a bully, that's going to scare donald trump who is used to tussling withen anyone and everyone at any time. >> on sne any issue real or imagined. >> if you hit him he hits back twice as hard. chris brings that up in the interview. are you ready to not only tussle but you know go after with everything you got, but i think and maybe the governor can answer this. i think before he gets to trump obviously he has to get through the democratic primary. and you saw it in the debate. he is tentative. i think the issues he had with women thinking he was being inappropriate to them, how is he responding now against a kamala harris, or an elizabeth warren, two women who he has to gets past to win the nomination. it's a delicate balance for him to attack them. and yet you know he has the whole issue of being inappropriate to women in the past. that's a really tough balancing act. >> are you. >> i'm not talking about sexually how h

harris hit biden hard on civil rights. biden vows this time he will not be as polite. his team says he will punch back. harris will be joined by a full field of contenders ready to go after the front runner tonight. that's right, jim. >> and last night, lines clearly drawn between moderates and progressives within the democratic party. bernie sanders and elizabeth warren avoiding any clashes with each other, instead pushing back on ideas that their policies are too pie in the sky. >> i think democrats win when we run on real solutions, not impossible promises. when we run on things that are workable, not fairy tale economics. >> i don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the united states just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for. >> medicare for all is comprehensive. it covers all health care needs for senior citizens. it will finally include dental care, hearing aids, and eyeglasses. second of all -- >> you don't know that, bernie. >> we'll come to you in a second, congressman. >> i wrote the damn bill.

biden, what does he know? who told him what? >> sean: all right, thank you john solomon, great reporting. if it were after the so-called journalists -- there are none of the mainstream media -- none of us would ever get reported. biden would never be fully vetted. just like in 2008 with barack obama. remember, this show investigated obama's ties to, yeah unrepentant domestic terrorists bernadine dorn, bill ayres. it was us on this show that were digging into his deep personal connection to reverend wright the church of gd america. and black liberation theology that so inspired him and acorn and community organizing and even and even the gang and so much more. remember throughout his presidency, it was really up to us to cover his scandal-plagued administration because, well journalism is dead and it's been buried quite a while unfortunately. most of the members of the media are nothing more than shills and an extension of the democratic party. they don't care about you, we the people. things have improved so m

you've heard biden prescribe plans that, one, he's center left, and two, he's an obama-biden democrat. as you have seen throughout the campaign, biden has pushed back against that notion that there has been this left tilt in the party. he had talked about how congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is a brilliant and bright woman. but he just doesn't think that the party has gone that far left, as you have heard him say. he's made the argument that there are loud voices in the democratic, on the left ward side of the party. going forward, you know, biden, he's said he doesn't want to make any of these criticisms personal. he's also starting to drill in on the i. you've seen -- on the issues. you've seen him keep focused on president trump throughout the campaign. in the interview he's staking out clear policy differences when it gloss medicare for all -- it comes to medicare for all, also decriminalizing border crossing, something that former hud secretary julian cast crow led on that biden is pushing back on. and you see him try to make the differentiation between himself and the othe

about joe biden. it's possible that harris's bump, which seems to be significant, came from another candidate. >> let's put this up. we have the morning consult poll post debate june 28th. joe biden 33%, that compared to the june 23rd poll down from 38%. kamala harris up to 12%. from 6%. what does that tell you? >> i think to philippe's point that support is coming from someone else. a lot of voters are asking themselves, you're raising questions about joe biden, everyone should articulate their previous positions. but if this guy was good enough to be president obama's vice president for eight years why is he somehow disqualified now? why weren't these issues brought up in the past? so i do think there is -- i would argue an articulation that could be made that obama chose joe biden for a reason. when crow look at some of the states that president trump won, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida, the margins are very, very slim. i think one could argue joe biden could make up those margins that

it is biden. the way he hounds and he talks and you know at least in terms of how he try to relate to people, he does a lot with men, it can sound a little strange with women when he does it on the rope line or interviews or if you try to do it at a debate like with senator harris, that would not work. >> the bro-iness of joe biden. >> biden has a tone and temperament issue that it would behoove him to adjust. we don't need to replace a septuagenarian. >> a lot of things if you put him on a lie detector test, he won't remember saying. it is relatable. there is sort of a way to go into living rooms, you know, in iowa or pennsylvania and it feels like that's the way from his point of view people talk. >> is he watching this now s saying c'mon, man, that's how i talk. >> it is not a phrase that pat was alluded to. this was not apart of his prepare for marks. it is a verbal tick he has and as you alluded to, there is a gender aspect in some ways to it. he's facing six women, many of them highly qualif

joe biden falling back. the democratic presidential race is lurching to the left. we saw it on the debate stage last week as many candidates embraced liberal policy ideas on health care and imgrigz, and now the campaign and one of the candidates who has been most vocal about his situation is in shambles. philip, susan, and basil are back. the candidate we're referring to is john hickenlooper, the former colorado governor, one of those 25 candidates joe sestak got in last week. what about that interpretation, this sequence of events of the last week that biden supposedly, the moderate here, falling back. you know, five, ten points in these polls. elizabeth warren we saw rise a couple weeks ago. kamala harris rising now. you saw those answers the candidates gave on stage. that idea the democratic party is moving to the left. what do you make of it? >> i think that there's a lot at play here. quite obviously. i guess that doesn't need to be said. but i'm saying it. a lot at play here. i think one of the aspects

biden at 51% among black primary voters there.en trying to shift away from civil rights because that was a thorny issue for him. and to health care. is that helping him? >> helping him among african-american voters, he has a long history with the party. if you think of how he defended himself after the first debate. he said obama vetted me. that was strong. i wish he did that earlier. that was a great line. as long as he attaches himself to baobamabarak obama. many are fairly moderate. a lot of men that do not like the way the party leaned into immigration reform. they have been saying we have been here a long time too. just the fact that joe biden is a moderate candidate in a field that some will say moved so far to the left. >> john, trump fired off some new sleepy joe tweets yesterday. do you think that is an effective attack on biden? >> well, i think it is of the people that trump is talking to. blue collar reagan democrats. you know, look. the one thing about this president he is not afraid of offending anybody and he offend

biden: we are a nation -- [applause] mr. biden: we have to protect our borders. we have to have a line. but ladies and gentlemen, the idea that he literally took the immigrants"ion of out of the monster that is in the definition of what our service is about. he literally took the words out. no longer are they part of the description. this isn't who we are. we all know we give this guy for more years, he's going to forever change the character of this country. not a joke. we can't let that happen. we have to beat him. and the balance -- failure isn't an option. that's why i promise you, whether i'm the nominee or not, i'm going to break my neck to make sure they get elected president. we cannot afford -- [applause] [cheering] [applause] it's,den: i know ancient history but go check political fact. i introduced the first global warning in the 1980's that had consequence that they labeled as a game changer. ladies and gentlemen, we're in a situation where the existential threat to everything we do is climate change. that's not hyperbole. that's not hyperbole. we kno

so, you know, biden was flat footed -- this is strange because biden is not a good candidate. been watching him and said for years he's not a good candidate, but is he the right candidate for this time? that's the only question. >> favorite anecdote i think from that debate and which might be indicative of a long running problem for joe biden is they asked, would you support providing health insurance to illegal immigrants and a bunch of hands shot up and others hands raised and then joe biden sheepishly knowing which way the wind was blowing and he was subsequently asked by the moderators why didn't you raise your hand? assumption being he wouldn't raise his hands. he's supposed to be the centrist moderate candidate but he did suggesting that he knows what the democratic party wants to do which is drift left. that's something you can't etch-a-sketch away. >> it's more of a gotcha question. if you don't raise your hands you think they want them the immigrants to die in the street. >> to the certain voter. >> yes. in a couple of debates look, john kerry won all three debates in

to be able to get into that 25% to 40% that joe biden -- i do think if biden has a performance that calms a lot of nerves in his orbit, all of a sudden you see how he might have a lock on that and taking that into iowa and new hampshire. >> chris matthews, you know joe biden so well for decades. he has been let's just say not as aggressive, not as focused as a lot of his own supporters would have liked to have seen. what does he need to do tonight? >> reporter: he has to direct all the fire from his colleagues toward the president. no matter what cory booker says, no matter what kamala harris goes after him, he should share with them his passion. no search and destroy missions tonight, mr. vice president. don't go following back to newark and how the police do -- what do you call it -- stop and frisk. don't get into that. they'll say you're doing to them what trump did to elijah cummings. don't go on the attack. don't fall for the bait. you start attacking down, you're going to lose. those guys are trying to get from 1% to 2%. you're trying to hold your numbers around 30%. you have a diff

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as was biden. and i have to tell you, of all of the candidates that i've seen here, these two seem very, very relaxed. >> kamala's way of preparing for these things, i talked to her team, she started with the big briefing book and works down to an outline to know exactly what arguments she wants to make and then she asked her team to press her in every fashion. so that she's ready for whatever argument her opponents will make. so that she's ready with a comeback and she's very cool in these settings. in some ways it's as high stakes as in the courtroom earlier in her career. >> in terms of just how lively this has to be tonight, for any of the candidates who are standing on the flanks of the stage, not center stage, they really, really have to bring it. because this could be the last debate. the september debate is going to be that much more difficult to qualify and this is really their moment to show that they have some legs and that their political campaign -- >> and de blasio and kirsten gillibr

it seems to me biden challenges biden.e is not being threatened in the numbers by cory booker, one or two percent at the most. he is not being threatened by kamala in the numbers. his challenge is to hold his numbers. >> that's exactly right, chris. he's got to rise to the occasion tonight and play more offense than defense. he's got a record going back to when he was 29 years old when he was first elected to congress. he is now 76. if he allows every single person on that debate stage tonight to attack him on his record, he is not going to do very well. his team knows that. he knows that. he's got some of the best campaign operatives in democratic politics today working on his campaign. they're fully aware of the stakes. i think he'll rise to the occasion tonight. >> danielle, give us a little preview of what's going after cory booker. let's go after kamala. they're the ones who really have nothing to lose. certainly booker has nothing to lose. he is about two points. kamala is one of the two or three people, maybe four w

why didn't biden push anything this drastic while he was in the white house in the biden-obama administrationd why now all of a sudden, 12 years later, ten years later, does biden sound just like ocasio-cortez? i think the answer is obvious because sleepy, creepy, crazy uncle joe doesn't have core values and he knows he is vulnerable to the attacks from this extreme wing in his party. so clearly he's willing to do and say anything to get elected. to make nice with the new claimant called that runs the democratic party, even plagiarizing his own campaign plan. it's beyond bad policy. this campaign under fire tonight for apparently stealing the exact identical passages from other climate documents. biden's camp trying to downplay it, claiming it was a multiple citation error. of course, plagiarism is nothing new for biden because the scandal back in 1988 torpedoed that year's white house bed where he literally copied word for word a speech by a british labour party leader at the time named neil connect. so while biden pens fake moral outrage over and over again, the past shows he will do whatev

. >> joe biden thinks out loud. some of those thoughts you want to say keep them to yourself. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. late last night house speaker nancy pelosi called on the labor secretary alexander acosta to resign over that secret sweetheart deal he made with multi-millionaire jeffrey epstein. this morning we are waiting to hear from secretary acosta and the white house on these new allegations and acosta's future. >>> joe biden told chris cuomo that senator kamala harris' her attack on her husband at the first debate came as a surprise. both jill and joe biden are opening up about their son's health struggle. >> we want to bring in joey jackson here, our cnn legal analyst to help us understand what's going on in the jeffrey epstein case. first, sarah, let's talk about the politics of all of this. can alex acosta survive this now that we know he decided to do this sweetheart deal so beyond all possible doubt what others would say would be applicable in a case of a sex offender with t

so good news for kamala harris and that top line number concerning for joe biden. >> joe biden tried to paint himself as the front-runner as the most electable in the contest against president trump. what are the numbers mean for him now? >> well, you raise what is his calling card in this race. we asked democrats, wolf, what matters more to you, defeating donald trump or getting a candidate who agrees with you on the issues and it is not even close. six in ten democrats say that they want a candidate that could defeat trump. only 30% of democrats say they want somebody who shares their positions on the issues. and then we asked, okay, well who do you think you could beat trump and 43% of democrats say they believe joe biden could defeat donald trump, nobody else is close.

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and the biden campaign to date. clearly he thinks he needs to do something differently. jonathan martin, it might get you what you have been writing about the last several days, which is the rise of two other candidates, senator kamala harris and senator elizabeth warren. let me play for you how senator harris responded to the biden apolo apology. >> well, he says he's sorry. i'm going to take him at his word. again, that doesn't address the issue of busing in america and the fact that he still -- we cannot rewrite history about what segregationists were doing at that time on a number of issues, including opposing busing. >> that's not exactly apology accepted, jonathan. it makes me wonder and you get to this in your piece a little bit. does the harris campaign think it needs a second act? what's next after the debate performance? >> it's a great question. we have a story today about the post debate rise of kamala harris and elizabeth warren. really kamala harris because warren was moving before the debate. that's t

people know joe biden. it's jefferson everyone -- it's everyone else's challenge to convince them they're a better option. that's not easily done. >> i want to talk about the polling. there's a new poll out of south carolina from monmouth university. it shows joe biden as the clear front-runner in that race there in south carolina, a key early state, of course. also there's a fox news poll that looks at the national picture, and it shows biden in the clear there, and it matches him against president trump. and he was the only one out of the era to beat him. how much does it bolster that he can beat trump and how much does it bolster the front-runner status? >> i think it bolsters it quite a bit. if you've seen a bunch of the polls leading up to this, all of the candidates running, what you see mostly is that democrats more than anything are desperate for a candidate that can beat trump. even more than a candidate what would mash up with their own values on every issue is and whom they agree with on every si

he endorsed joe biden last week. thank you so much for being here. >> glad you're in town. >> detroit has been putting on a good show for us this week. >> it feels great. as you know, detroiters love visitors. >> exactly. come back and come back often. you were in there last night. what did you think? >> you know, i was shocked at how much substance there was. before i was the mayor, i ran the major hospital system here for nine years, and the in-depth conversation on the health care side and delaney's grasp on health care i was very impressed with. probably doesn't play with most of the base, but i was impressed as they went from subject to subject, how serious it was. >> yeah, they got into a lot of substance last night, a lot of policy. you endorsed joe biden last week, right? he is still the front runner, but he was not mentioned once during the debate, which surprised me because i thought he was going to be a main target. the fact that he was not mentioned last night in the debate, the vice president, do you thi

the answer is only biden. cnn's arlet signs on the trail with biden's new sharper approach. >> reporter: dave and christine, joe biden is adopting a more aggressive, feistier tone when it comes to taking on his critics. he started out his campaign trying to stay above the fre keeping his focus on president trump. you're now seeing the former vice president fighting back against critics taking on his record. the former vice president is not going to take attacks on his record sitting down. you're seeing that fight out now in an escalation about criminal justice in the past. recently calling him the architect of mass incarceration and criticizing the former vice president's current criminal justice plan. biden pushed back pointing out booker's record as mayor of newark, new jersey, in the police practices that were underway when he was mayor. take a listen to what he had to say. >> if you look at the mayor's record in newark, one of the provisions i wrote in the crime bill, pattern and practice of misbehavior, h

is the biden camp concerned? are they going to make any changes especially with regard to his approach on that stage? >> they say they always expected this race to tighten. 18 million people watched this debate. however, of course they are concerned. underneath those top line numbers, you are seeing a problematic shift. for instance, with the african-american vote. i take you back to hillary clinton circa 2007 when she came in as the inevitable candidate and when they saw barack obama could be electable, there was a shift in mass. they'd rather have hillary clinton circa 2016 where that support remains firm and solid. he just cannot afford another repeat performance. >> such a great point. his front runner status has been in large because of the perception of his electability. when you get away from that, it is hard to come back. >> also to see the four top people on stage together. because warren was on night one. if we see kamala harris, bernie sanders and joe biden all on stage together for that next debate, i

the question is so many supporters of biden, admirers of biden wonder why he can't pivot on this and, look, the country has changed. thank god the country has changed and have an example like gay marriage or something where he was a leader in terms of the obama administration. why can't he make that pivot. but he seems very set in his ways and stubborn on this. but there is a sense and the biden people are pushing this. we'll have to see how this plays out. that some of his black supporters in south carolina and other places will stick with biden through pretty much anything and they are pushing the notion through some surrogates like senator carol moseley braun who's going after harris. but she is with joe biden through thick and thin. >> ride or die. this is what she had to say in a political article. we can be proud of her, talking about harris, but her ambition got it wrong about joe. he is about the best there is. for her to take that tack is sad. that was from carol moseley braun. jesse jackson was speaking in front of his group the rain poe push coalition and he said he's for

taking on biden.arted out trying to stay above the fray. you're seeing them really fighting back against critics taking on biden's record. the former vice president is not going to take attacks on his record sitting down. you're seeing that play out in an escalating feud between biden and cory booker who has been critical relating to criminal justice in the past. recently calling him the architect of mass incarceration and criticizing the former vice president's current criminal justice plan. biden pushed back pointing out booker's record as mayor and the police practices. take a listen to what he had to say. >> if you look at the mayor's record in newark, one of the provisions i wrote in the crime bill, a pattern and practice of misbehavior, his police department was stopping and frisking people, mostly african-american men. so i'm happy to debate with anybody the effects of the things i did as a united states senator, as i did as a vice president. >> reporter: biden has sharpened his attacks on kama

we know that biden is more prepared.den is expecting things like this from booker because he has given him a bit of a warning. and it may not have the results that booker's hoping it will. >> yeah. and, robbie there are should be or we expect to see some focus tonight paid to biden's role in the 1994 crime bill. president of the florida rights restoration coalition wrote this. he says joe biden needs to atone -- he needs to admit the error of his ways. so what do you think? will he do that? is. kind of thing he should apologize for after weeks and months of not apologizing? >> well, i think he needs -- obviously needs to be prepared for an answer on this. this was an issue in the 2016 campaign too. you know, these laws were passed a long time ago. there were a lot of unintended consequences. and i think he needs to address those. but, you know, this is always a challenge for people who have been in politics a long time, people who are the front runner. you can't spend all that time on the stage defending your past and re

>> i say joe, you say biden. joe. >> biden. >> joe. >> biden. >> i say joe, you say biden. joe. >> biden. >> joe. >> biden. >> so this is all happening in the midst of a battle over race issues between former vice president biden and senator kamala harris following their tense exchange on the issue of busing at the debate last week. now both candidates are having to answer for their positions on busing. i want to go live to iowa for the latest. cnn political reporter arlette saenz is following joe biden. kyung lah is following kamala harris. harris criticized biden and she's taken a position that is raising eyebrows. tell us about this. >> reporter: well, it's raising eyebrows not among her camp per se, because her campaign is saying they feel that this is all a distraction and it's being directed at them from the biden campaign. here's where it all began, brianna. there was a question yesterday in a reporter back-and-forth with kamala harris at an event. the question that was asked is whether or not she supports mandatory busing. she said yes. and then she followed up with

we'll find out, but i do think that a trump versus biden and a kamala harris versus biden, these are two completely different types of fights. i think that's kind of what biden was referring to when he says i know the trump, because he's the guy who was in my school yard, you know, 50 years ago making fun of me. we'll finding o out if that's ty it plays out. >> very good point. you're talking about him positioning himself to fight the president, but of course the fight is just beginning among democrats to find out who is actually going to get that chance. the vice president talked about his position on issues very different in many respects from a lot of his competitors. we're going to talk about that and much more after a break. a lot will happen in your life. wrinkles just won't. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair's derm-proven retinol works so fast, it takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin. making wrinkles look so last week. rapid wrinkle repair® pair with new retinol oil for 2x the wrinkle fighting power. neutrogena® hashtag vacay. sonoma? i want wine with lunch... it'