barack obama trusts joe biden. i trust joe biden. those investigations have been done.alk about delaware for a moment, the university of delaware, and any university that takes somebody's documents they're taking their policy documents, they're taking their speeches, they're not taking their personnel records and in fact -- >> but why not just search tara reade in those documents? >> this is like the hillary e-mails. because there was nothing there. and the reason is, if i'm going -- i worked on the senate judiciary committee in 1995, the ranking member was joe biden. i wasn't working for joe biden, i was working for senator kennedy, but if you want to see my personnel record you don't go to the kennedy institute, that's not where they go. so when you ask the university of delaware to take a look at something, you're asking them to look for something that doesn't exist and the fact of the matter is that the president of the united states, the former president barack obama conducted an exhaustive search. >> that was 2008. i want to move on to the campaign a and how you c

like biden's quote failure to embrace a bold climate agenda. the reason that we use those tactics is because of those learnings from history about how change happens it doesn't happen when you continue with business as usual it happens when you disrupt business as usual. the big easy reason why you can't declare bankruptcy for student joe but it hasn't refraining on his climate change record i mean there are a lot of things in biden's platform that i would love to see move a little bit farther left i would love to see him take a stronger stance on rejecting the role of big money in our politics his climate hot form could use some real work it needs more environmental justice language and provisions. hey are you voting for anything or. just ok nato agarwal harden is 17 years old are you ready for burning today. night and the political lead for the end or birth of the sunrise movement where you are and it's a very clear devoted to god so that sunrise advocates for a green new deal which is a vision for the future includes rapidly decarbonizing ou

again, hunter biden is not running for president, joe biden is.evidence that joe biden did something wrong, none of us have seen it yet. republicans are trying to use this issue of hundred biden -- spew when i spoke to the issue, then. why wouldn't the former president obama just hand over the rest of those papers? since we are saying is you want to get to the bottom of it, let's get to the bottom of it. all right, you two. i want to bring you back pretty good to see you. matt, marie, thank you. college students finishing up the spring semester online, some of them. many are wondering what school will look like in the fall. we will talk with one university president in arizona he says he plans to get kids back in the classroom. it ♪ is that net carbs or total?... eh, not enough fiber... chocolate would be good... snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. with nutrients to help support immune health. i'm a talking dog. the other issue. oh... i'm

biden actually declared that he was going to beat joe biden. take a look. >> are you prepared now to say you are going to govern as a progressive and enact programs with sanders hanna worn and if so, what does that say to either moderate democrats or dependents or even some republicans to satisfy the president trump? >> i'm prepared to say that i have a record for over 40 years, and that i'm going to beat joe biden. look at my record. >> sean: we will let you decide to. but what progressive means is that means new greendale economi deat fo america. and that's not hyperbole at this point, he's doing a pretty good job of beating himself and also on friday, he had another disastrous interview with radio host charlamagne and it was so bad that one bite and staffer actually tried to interject in order to prevent his ever confused, compounded boss of having to answer any more questions. listen to this. >> elect people saved your life in the primary. one is a black woman running mate. what do you say to this? >> what i say to that is i'm not acknowled

can joe biden donald trump oh yeah one hand or both type binders back. faultlines followed both candidates on the campaign trail in the 2 places that may have mattered most to michigan and south carolina. happens up here on i think about what happened here . sanders has suspended his campaign and endorsed biden but many democrats remain concerned that the party is too fractured to defeat donald trump in the fall i don't consider bernie sanders part of the democratic party because he's let his in and a punch bowl like you and his supporters i don't see is furthering what i understand the democratic party to be they want to change the democratic party i believe joe biden candidacy itself is the middle finger to my generation i think your generation i will not be voting for surviving give me a break the. last do you think the democratic party has ever been this divided not in my lifetime i've been to 65 years and i've been involved in politics but i've never seen the country in the shape that it's in. charleston south carolina was the site of the 10th debat

the moderate wings main argument has been a liked ability that joe biden can. put together the coalition of voters democrats need to be donald trump for there is a person i have at times for over time going top prosecutor perhaps some progressives believe the influence of big money is a defining feature of the conflict within the party and they criticize the democratic establishment reliance on wealthy donors the moderate wing defectively can produced by big money and it says that business really is kind of the engine of the american economy and democrats need to be a crow growth kind of pro-business party in order to win over a you know collect enough corporate cash to then be able to win over these median voters that they that they believe exist. moderates in modern day are less literally means reliance on foreign fighters less and so what has become of me if you called yourself a moderate what does it mean there's a lot i don't care and about the substantive outcome of bills and legislation i will settle for some middle ground for pretty much friends lies. a

i'm sticking with biden. and aslam going for. election day voter turnout searched passing the record set by barack obama in 2000 and. one south carolina by almost 30 points and claimed more than 60 percent of the black vote according to exit polls time at the site somewhere and so we don't have to worry about a proper convention if that's important variable a man who restore the goodness of this this this and take us the way this country can be there's a turn over monarch. the one who i knew who. was. taking. the democrats want to nominee who's a democrat was most americans don't want the promise of revolution they want more the promises they want results was up on a victory tonight nice incentive for unity can the democratic party most of its base a little something of what they're looking. at the case that the democratic establishment respondents abidance blog victory moderate candidates people are judging amy club which are dropped out and endorsed him giving him momentum just when he needed it if they had stayed in the race s

losing badly to biden in pennsylvania. losing to biden in michigan. losing to biden in just about every swing state. what does biden do moving forward? what does -- i would ask, what does donald trump do moving forward? again, he doesn't seem to be able to control himself at all. i'm just wondering, here we are in may, and a lot of people would say, "tit's way too early" i remember the 2012 story you wrote about how barack obama defined mitt romney in such a way in may, romney never recovered from it. >> right. you go back and talk, joe, to smart people who have been at the core of incumbent re-election campaigns. white house political directors and campaign managers in re-elections. obama in '12. bush in '04. clinton in 1996. just the presidents in our lifetime, right? all will tell you that all three of those races in the re-elects had presidents who were struggling in various ways. they were a little below 50% or maybe a little more than below 50% in their approval ratings. all of them were deeply concerned about their boss' ability to win. all of

biden? >> he has been accused by tara reade who worked for him when he was a senator in the 1990's and she's alleged that he sexually and ms.d on the hallway reade made these allegations ast month but they -- numerous reporters have reported on that but haven't been able to find anyone to corroborate her story until this week when a neighbor said she has been told this story by reade around the time that reade said this occurred. so far, democratic officials have been standing by or nancy pelosi stood by him yesterday and he's expected to address these allegations and there's more interview within the hour. host: has the allegations made by tara reade always been consistent? guest: well so far her story has more or less not changed but because speaker pelosi when she was defending joe biden, she was saying there was no other people that worked for joe biden at the time who had say had knowledge of the allegation and that has reassured her and other democratic officials that to date, they sho

because on friday, biden actually declared he was going to beat joe biden. take a look. >> are you prepared now to say you are going to govern as a progressive and enact programs in the mode of sanders and warren, and if so, what does that say and moderate democrats democrat or independents or even somede republicans dissatisfied with president trump? say i have ared to record of over 40 years, and i'm going to beat joe biden. look at my record. >> sean: we'll let you decide. what "progressive" means, new green deal, economic death for america and that's not hyperbole. at this point, he's doing a pretty good job of beating himself. also on friday, he had another disastrous interview withda rado host charlemagne and it was so bad that one biden staffer tried to interject to prevent his confounded boss from having to answer more questions. take a look at this. >> black people saved your political life in the primaries. they have things they want from you and one of that is a black woman running mate. what do you say to that? >> what i say that that is i'm not

in this case, obama at the biden inauguration. the democrats and their media poodles will flail away at president trump for a pandemic that china started, we've seen that. but meanwhile, their presumptive nominee is actually incapable of standing up and taking questions from pretty much anyone. even a comedian. >> i've been doing a lot of live stream things and i'm getting used to it. it amazes me that everybody is, you know, tuning in to so many different ways to findnd out what's going on. >> laura: well, they have a candidate who can't campaign. the likely vp candidate, i don't think that's going to help them much either. >> one nation under a groove. [laughs] and republicans, who have been -- excuse me, real defenders of the president. >> did you ever smoke? >> i have. and i did inhale. >> laura: i love the forced laughter. how do you win and election when your ticket -- it's so lame! are to believe that biden -- watching everything that's happened just over the past few months, that biden would better handle the pandemic than

sad to see that the democrats believe her, me too party, so quickly move on, say joe biden is joe bidenrd any of these allegations, not calling for an investigation, you know, liz, the university of delaware took a grant, a taxpayer grant for biden's archives. so the taxpayers are paying for these archives, yet he won't open them up and allow this investigation to go forward. elizabeth: i mean, so brett kavanaugh had his personal notes, his diary probed, fbi investigation. you know, let me back up. we have john cooper, former chair of the democrat coalition questioning if reade was quote unbalanced or driven by malicious motive. we have a biden delegate calling for an fbi investigation into reporters covering the allegations. so you know there is a different standard being held for tara reade. she describes herself as a working class poor person. she is a life-long democrat. now says the democrat party has betrayed her. different standard versus what happened with brett kavanaugh. >> hypocrisy with the media, versus how brett kavanaugh and joe biden has been treated is crazy. joe biden

joe biden with staceyl abrams. >>> when joe biden announced his campaign for president just over a year ago, covid-19 did not exist. but now the coronavirus pandemic threatens the lives of every man,s woman, and child in the united states. you have heard joe biden on all of the other issues that were raised in the several presidential campaign debates. now it'sisl time to hear from biden about the issues that will dominate the rest of the presidential campaign. issues of life and death. if joe biden is sworn in as the next presidentsw on january 20t your life and your children's lives and your parents' lives and your grandparents' lives ard going to depend on the work that joe biden starts doing that afternoon in the oval office, in the cabinetin room, in the situation room. we're goingsi to ask joe biden take us inside those rooms with him tonightin and tell us exact what he would do on the afternoon of inauguration day if he isn elected president. when i say we, i mean you will be joining in the questioning because we will turn this hour into a town hall of sorts with questions from y

james clapper and joe biden on the list, despite biden denying this and biden denying it to abc's georgelos knowing anything about this. now it looks like he did know about it. the history of unmasking under the obama administration, the obama administration went full bore on unmasking in 2013. james clapper said you can unmask names of conversation men and lawmakers in conversations, right when obama left office, he said to 16 intelligence agencies, you can have even increased more access to the nsa database. and now we zoo this. we keep hearing about what is going on with unmasking during the obama administration. that is this. basically obama loosened the rules to do even more unmasking, to have more officials doing the unmasking. in other words, keeping him, obama, out of what was going on, letting others, this is a government source telling me this, others do the dirty work for obama. what's your reaction to that? >> this whole thing with the unmasking, what's even worse, is that when they did the unmasking during these obama, seconds, when they did all this unmasking they denied it

>> we don't think vice president biden is in a bind.made that commitment on the last debate stage about electing a woman as his vice president running mate. because it was an important commitment for him to make. it's something that he thought about for a while. and there are numbers of very capable and amazing and competent qualified women, and, you know, who knows who the woman will be for the job, but i know everyone is waiting and ready to find out. we have a process that we have established. and the selection committee is underway. but we are going to let that process payout, and we look forward to sharing it. >> dana: i have two other questions for you. because i also want to ask you about your book. the tara reade allegations are still out there. there was a poll that shows about a third of the democrats think that this might impact them when it comes to voting in november, how are you going to try to clear that hurdle? >> look, first and foremost, we have to be very clear and understand the facts. and the facts are as vice presi

biden at a disadvantage against mr.rump." >> lawrence>> richard: it will t go away if "the new york times" stops doing what they did about hillary clinton's emails, spending all his time on that and no time about donald trump's impropriety. biden is running against not kavanaugh, but against donald trump. so i'm not saying it's kind of, "it's okay." the fact is, there is no evidence of a complaint having been filed here. when she talked to the press over a year ago, she also talked about biden rubbing her shoulder. he is a hugger. hshe never talked about this -- >> lawrence: hugging and rubbing is totally different. >> richard: the fact of the matter is there is no basis for an independent investigation. i'm sure republicans would love a fishing expedition. >> harris: i read the notes to give my team. i'm going to go to lawrence again. i read the notes to give my team, and one of the things that stuck out was you said there is no need for an investigation, richard, because this never happened. i don't know that you know

biden is doing well in the polls. he is reaching out a hand to white evangelicals saying i am prioritizing needs you're telling me about. yes, we should open up places of worship. the president didn't stay to say what authority he can use to override governors. this is a completely different tact when you look at the way he handled testing and other things. he said other states should be able to make their own decisions. now he is saying for places of worship and public safety, governors should listen to the federal government. it will be interesting to see which states do it, and interesting to see whether the president lashes out at republicans if they don't answer the calls to open up places of worship. what we have seen the president do is chastise, be angry at democrats, doing the things that the republican governors were doing. >> just for clarity, last few minutes i was exchanging texts with the governor's office in the state of washington, jay inslee's office, they said they weren't clear exactly what the pres

biden's ear are rather uniform. perhaps that helps to explain some of off the keynotes the team -- that biden has sounded in the past couple of weeks. biden and his team, i should say. like failing to directly to respond to an op-ed written by prominent black women activist and influencers who called on biden to commit to choosing a black woman running mate, a black woman on the supreme court, and a substantive black agenda. to give black voters a return on their investment in the democratic party, and in the biden candidacy and frankly to shore up the community that is sure to be hit the hardest with voter disenfranchisement in republican led states and who face the greatest mortality risk if forced to line up and vote due to disproportionate rates of covid-19 sickness and death. to be clear, the issue is not about threatening to withhold votes from biden. just look at what is happening in america right now. it is about policy concerns that black voters still have, even now. and then there was the second off key th

biden, nor am i a democrat. not only voted for trump, i have sent him a couple small campaign contributions. mymy thinking is mr. biden is a sophisticated, intelligent, thoughtful man. and men come i don't know how to say it but are trying to get where they want to go do not approach women this rudely. they develop an interest in a woman, they develop friendships and flattery and so forth. that is why i simply don't believe these allegations aree true. i do b believe mr. biden and i would say he's a man, but i just simply don't believe that he is that crude. >> host: okay robert, heather drevna any response? >> guest: it's understandable that many people are struggling with the allegations. and the credibility of vice president biden for themselves we need all the facts to be out there for folks to make those judgments. >> host: let's it from cookie in boston, massachusetts. >> caller: hello good morning i just got one question. how come nobody went after donald trump when donald trump was doing what he did to w

this is a joe biden idea. the nuclear deer was withdrawn by president trump thank god they took the committee and had capabilities to make a bomb. if joe's idea to get out of i rack in the general said no we need troops hear from going bad, it's joe biden who pushed obama to pull out of iraq. as joe biden he sent troops given the dates with drop wasn't joe biden and barack obama there never be in isis. with donald trump we build a military that have been broken. we were short of ammunition, morale is low, that their hands behind their back when it came to finding isis in the taliban in syria, afghanistan and iraq. president trump comes in, increases military spending like ronald reagan, replanted all the weapons systems that have been depleted the planes are being flown, the wings are following all people are going back-and-forth, back-and-forth pretty increases size of the military rejuvenated the military, he told the guys to go kill these balusters, they killed them. we got out of the deal fire ron, thank g

this was all obama, this was all biden.se people were corrupt. >> they have found that vice president biden is guilty of using government to go after a political opponent. >> bret: these are the seven names that have been declassified and this includes vice president biden, cia director john brennan, james comey, james clapper, then obama chief of staff dennis mcdonough and u.n. ambassador samantha power. they requested to unmask, reveal the name of the american who was talking with the person that the wiretap was focused on which was the rest o russian ambassador ae time. it let's bring in our panel, matthew continetti, katie pavlich, and jonathan sw jonathan swan. democrats are everywhere saying this is a distraction, not a big deal, normal effort, response. >> as senator rand paul said, this is about questions about how the obama administration used the government to go after political opponents and joe biden has already denied this, he has more questions to answer. and when you look at the list of names, it's also a wit

the same is true for joe biden. and what makes this so tricky for biden and for any democrat, frankly, is that as the me too movement exploded, there was a zero tolerance situation for democrats. al franken is probably the prime example. it was different, there were photos, it is not the same. but just in terms of the political approach, it makes it very hard. but as you said, he said it so right, alisyn, you have -- we all have, but especially you've been covering these issues so intensely for the past few years, it is going to be very difficult to get an answer that will prove a smoking gun either way. it is impossible to prove a negative, but it is also hard to prove a positive. and so he is relying on his experience, his record, and everything that goes along with it as his character to get people to at least take his word for it. >> look, dana, democrats, particularly democratic women, have been faced with questions about this in the last several days. alisyn asked nancy pelosi about it yesterday there has been

i don't understand why joe biden. one center for everybody else and there's one standard for joe biden. on sexual assault, brett kavanaugh didn't get the presumption of innocence, but joe biden is supposed to get the resumption of innocence. now, on ukraine, democrats spent months and months not just investigating president trump but impeaching the president oveover the investigation of ukraine. the hunter biden an obviously corrupt dealing in ukraine, which because their father who was in the vice president in charge of ukraine policy to have a conflict of interest under federal law, and somehow the united states senate is not supposed to investigate this? i'm sorry, the rules that apply to everybody else also apply to joe biden. he's not above the law or the rules. >> harris: leslie, you and i have talked many times about the hunger for transparency. we always agree that it's better to know what all then not know enough. don't we need to know all that happened with hunter biden and his father, joe biden, when his da

the fact that joe biden is joe biden.ob: times have changed, the house speaker responding to tara reade's sexual assault allegations, social media responding to nancy pelosi's position. jillian: queen reworking a classic it was inspiring newly rex. ♪ you keep on fighting until the end ♪ you for all of us. . . jillian: good morning, welcome back. house speaker nancy pelosi getting major heat after asked about sexual assault allegations against joe biden. >> i don't need a lecture or a speech. there's a lot of excitement around the idea that women will be heard and be listened to. there is also due process. and the fact that joe biden is joe biden. rob: due process. carley shimkus joins us now with the overwhelming outrage on social media to this. carley: house speaker doubling down on her support for joe biden amid a sexual assault against him. you heard her use phrase joe biden is joe biden. some folks saw that insufficient rationale for why he is being treated differently than supreme court justice judg brett kavana. you

you're saying you believe biden is due and is owed the presumption of innocence but that biden and hise applying a standard here that they have not always applied. explain what you're arguing there. >> well, look, i think like anyone accused of a serious crime, joe biden deserves due process and a presumption of innocence that is not the standard that's been applied by advocates in cases like brett kavanaugh but on college campuses for example, when joe biden was vice president, the joe biden administration expanded title nine regulations on sexual assault on campus and an after effect, many young men accused of sexual assault were not given due process, not allowed to confront accusers. i want to know from joe biden, look, i'll presume his innocence but i want to know if his standard has change and if it has, why aren't his sure sure gets, he's sending women out to argue his case and say they believe him. they look like hypocrites unless he defines what this standard should be. >> michelle, i'm curious about that. the argument is being made out there that this is a moment, ala it was

biden asserted that his personnel files are "not tre."e declined to discuss her decision to speak out. >> you have said in the past that if a woman goes under the lights and talks about somhihing like we have to consider that the essence of this is re. is the essence of what she is saying is real? why do you think she's doing this? >> i'm not goi to question her motive. i'm not going to get into that at all. i don't know why she's saying this. i don't know why after 27 yrs all of sudden this gets raised. i don't understand it. i'mot going to go in and question her motive. i'm not going to attack h. e has the right to say whatever she has to say. but i have a right to say, look at the facts. robe: susan, as a political reporter who has covered vrmeprment biden, what d you learn from this interview and this whole week? -- has covered the v.p. biden what did you learn from this interview and this whole week? >> headn't responded in a television interview. i think they thought it was n necessary bt sufficient. he had to do this. but this stor

biden his baby toward women.hasgi apod about making others comfortable with his t.braces and physical cont he has been criticized for his treatmenof anita hil made allegations of sexual misconduct against clarence thomas during s supreme court confirmation hearings in 1991. but speaker of the house nancy pelosi says she continues to support mr. biden for the democratic nomination. ms. pelosi: i want to remove any great comfort level with the situation as i see it. with all due r world for any woman who comes forward, with all the highest regard for joe biden. reporter: republicans are already accusing democrats of double standards. the question is whether mr. biden has done enough to quell unease among democratic voters he will needtowin -- to win the first presidential election in the me too era. anchor: as he fends off tho allegations, joe biden is also facing a clinical battle over china. president trump has been trying to paint him as weakn dealings with beijing, and mr. trump has accused china of doing every

biden. reade's husband said she told him about a problem she was having with biden.said she eventually struck a deal with the senator's office and left her position. he said so far this is the first written record from the time to that substantiates reade's claim. there are friends, family members who have gone on the record saying reade told her about it's many years ago. all of this including her late mother calling into there arey king. >> i'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in washington. my daughter just left there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through the with her problems at all. the only thing she could have done is go to the press and she chose not to do it out of respect for him. >> she had a story to tell you about out of respect for the person she worked for she didn't tell it. >> that's true. jesse: democrats said kavanaugh had to submit to an fbi investigation. if he didn't, he was obviously guilty. underred same standards, joe should submit to a full fbi investigation. tara reade says joe biden should

that's what biden is still in the race. is not enough to claim that someone is guilty, youin got to prove it. or the person cannot be punished. that rule is not a feature of our justice system. it is the whole point of our justice system. the presumption of innocence prevents america from becoming a police state. the tone of the main reasons so many people move here from around the world. they want to live in a country where you can't be denounced and imprisoned without evidence. so you have to think that right now, joe biden has never been more grateful to live in america. without our long tradition of fairness and protections like due process, joe biden would have been forcibly retired the day that tara reade gave her first media interview. and yet here's the irony bomb. no politician in america has done more to undermine those same protections than joe biden has. as vice president, biden led president obama's task force on. campus sexual assault. under his direction, did administration ordered thousands of american colle

she saidid, n no, only exexperid it within the biden offffice by the hands of joeoe biden. number of voicices there -- there are other people, too, byy the way. ii s spoke with an interwhwho workrked under tara in the biden office, and she says she dodoe't rememberer tara saying a anythig about t sexual harassment or sexual assault, but whenen she does confirm is s tara was all f a sudden in mid april 1993, tara was replaced and no longer heher supervisor. amy:y: i want t to put president trump on who was questioned about whether. joe biden should respond to the allegations. pres. trump: i don't know anything about it. i don't know exactly -- i think you should respond. it could be false accusations. i know all about false accusations. i have been falsely charged numerous times. amy: that was president trump, who himself has been accused of rape and sexual assaultlt repeatedly by dozens of w women. rich mchugh?h? a complicated conversation, no doubt about it. a arerurump and biden n now crededibly accused. we're talking about this allegation right n now because t is joe bid

biden was wrong, and trump was right.h regards to the economy, president trump created over 7 million jobs. he brought an employment to a 50-year low, and obama and biden presided over the weakest and flattest recovery since world war ii. who do you want to preside over the rebound of this economy? with regard to -- >> harris: okay, let me stop you right there, because i want to give the other jason an opportunity to talk peace dominic. jason nichols? >> jason n.: i think the death star metaphor is really unfortunate, and it's not really one that i think is going to connect with people. i think if you want to win and election, particularly with suburban women, you don't go negative from the very beginning. i think, really, having a position where people don't have strong feelings for your opponent is actually a really strong position to be in. you don't want him to have a passionate following. i think right where they are -- >> harris: what? wait a minute, my brain just broke. jason, why wouldn't you want your candidate t

pretty good deal for biden.on: we find family denying the sexual assault claim, and of to convince potential border -- voters with trump 2020 legal advisor jenna ellis, good to have you with us. let's start with this, the letter the former vice president said to the secretary of the senate. make public the results, not only a complaint but any and all other documents in the record that relate to the allegations. that since pretty comprehensive, i will be pretty transparent, good enough? >> it is not fully transparent and he made that very clear when he deflected in an into view on morning joe. let's be clear, joe biden said during the brett kavanaugh hearing believe all women, presume she's telling the truth, burden shifting which is classic strategy to shift the burden on to brett kavanaugh or other republicans under any sort of accusation and that is simply a power grab. then he shifts the burden back to do process, to the constitutional standard. regardless of the truth of the matter, joe biden can be convict

joe biden's running on.atform except trump is bad. elect me. i don't know what he is going to do in terms of taxes. i don't know what he is going to do in terms of foreign policy. i wish i could see more questions about that around joe biden. only 150 days until the election. i imagine we will eventually get there until now is he undefined candidate. that's what hurt hillary clinton in 2016. you can't run against the guy and say i think he is a better person. you have to have a message. right now i don't know what joe biden's message is largely because of the questions he has been asked outside of this latest interview. steve: well, he did leave the basement yesterday. is he back in the basement today. joe biden is joe concha who joins us -- joe concha is in his basement right now. for the live report. >> it's texas toast. like french toast but different. steve: don't let it burn. all right, joe. thank you very much. 25 minutes now before the top of the hour. still ahead a new op-ed argues the slow reopening

president trump's political allies have rebranded his opponent, joe biden, as "beijing biden," sayingis too soft on china. they had been planning to campaign on the economy, but that has tanked. mr. biden's team has hit back. >> now we are paying the price. reporter: accusing mr. trump of trying to deflect attention away from the mistakes he made in handling the pandemic. for both men, it is about leadership, especially as holes show that distrust of china here is at an all-time high. esther trump has reently upped ante, accusing beijing of helping him lose the election, saying he will make them pay for the coronavirus disaster. president trump: we are doing serious investigations and we are not happy with china, we are not happy with that whole situation. we believe it could've been stopped at the source, stopped quickly, and it will not have spread around the world. reporter:hina has strongly denied the charges and tensions are rising in what ialready a fficult relationship. you ve the world's two biggest economies facing off, two different types of nationalisms confronting each oth

obama has a new job as joe biden's press secretary.or the record, that in his speech that i read there was no mention of manufacturing, no mention of china. as far as i'm concerned, his administration was a kumbaya of incompetence. >> harris: bret baier, fox news chief political anchor, as well as anchor and executive editor of "special report." good to see you, bret. >> hey, harris. we won so, the former president. why a commencement speech? i mean, i asked this question during "outnumbered." has something changed in the calculus who goes to the polls? graduating seniors, are they running vote these days? >> not usually in big numbers, but it is a place that gets a lot of viewership. not just those kids, but their parents, especially in the current environment. it's a big megaphone that was watched by millions of graduating seniors, and also historically black college graduations, as well. i think it was this show one week ago in which we were reacting to the phone call, the conference call, that president obama had with former admini

that is vice president biden.can prove that by doing those things. >> matt: melissa, can i jump in on that? >> melissa: i will give you last word on the timing. >> matt: she's been trying to tell her story. she told people at the time, 27 years ago in washington, d.c., the young female staffer wouldn't have been given the same kind of credibility, frankly, that she would stay. she's been trying to tell her story. where are the journalists to cover the story? joe biden has done an interview after interview after interview with softball questions. he wasn't asked this question. if they had done journalism earlier and appropriately, maybe the democrats could have known more as they settled on their nominee. >> jehmu: i can't disagree with that with that. >> melissa: there were 25 interview since the statement, since she came out, where he wasn't asked about it. thanks to both of you. wall street powering through some of the worst economic headlines in recent memory, to mark its best month in decades. why the markets

i think joe biden has a long roadad ahef him.ut president trump is not going to be able to hit him as hard as he wants to or the combaints -- campaign wants to. robert: ty're an important constituency. speaker posi, top strategies, how are they responding as they watch all of this unfold? well, bob, it's clearly not a story that any top decrat would want to be in the news right now or want to be talking about that said, they have been behind vice president biden. he has the support of pelosi and others. there did seem to be a private sort of ground swell of urging that biden get out there and thrip band-aid off andt talk ab it. he for days and days was avoiding meda interviews and wasn't putting himself out there where he could be questione about these allegations the way he was this morning on "morning joe." i suspect we're going to see a t o democrats take him at his word and point to his record.he as in the senate for many, many years. in addition to that many vears ce president. he has a governing record on things hes done ag

what do you say to women ready to vote for joe biden, eager to vote for joe biden but this gives themious pause because they do believe tara reade and you're not going to change their mind about that. what would you say to them about their vote? >> well, i think they should vote their heart. if they believe tara reade, they probably shouldn't vote for me. i wouldn't vote for me if i believe tara reade. her story changes considerably, and so i don't want to question her motive. i don't want to question anything other than to say the truth matters. this is being vetted. it's been vetted. they went and people interviewed scores of my employees over my whole career. this is just totally thoroughly completely out of character and the idea that in a public place in a hallway, i would assault a woman. i mean, anyway, i promise you, it never happened. it should be vetted. she should be thoroughly looked at and whether or not these happened, look at the story. follow the story line and determine whether there is any truth to it, and there is no truth to it. i promise you. >> i want to go back

biden beats trump on all of those. the economy, trump still outpolls biden on that issue, just barely. >> trump still benefits from the economy he inherited from barack obama. for the first three years of his presidency, he had a strong economy, he had the stock market booming. but the stock market is not the economy, steve. and i think one of the things you're seeing unfolding right now, as we sit in the emergency that i think a lot of us feared in terms of a crisis that would require competence, detail-oriented behavior and management skills that donald trump as of yet had not demonstrated that he had. and i think that people who are looking at their choices, you have the choice between joe biden and donald trump, the status quo, and you see someone who is saying inject disinfectant versus somebody who has been through many crises while he was vice president, during the obama administration, and he's also listening to experts. i don't think we are going to be able to solve this economic crisis until we get a handle o

maybe that's what biden did. i don't know it but if it's good for president trump, wouldn't it be good for biden and wouldn't you want to know that? >> martha: here's the question. with regard to the names on this unmasking list, it's my understanding that it may or may not mean much, that some of those names are there because someone else asked them to put their name on the unmasking request and then perhaps the person who was behind most of the desire to unmask those doesn't have their name on that list at all. does that add up to you? do you agree with that? >> it does not. i heard that from samantha power. in the number of unmasking such she requested was so far outside the realm, and then she said she didn't know about most of them, but that's the problem is and it? you give the power to someone to unmask and they are delegating that power to a clerk or a subordinate, this is the question for joe biden. we know you asked to unmask michael flynn's name. we know that. how many other unmasking request did you m

there is also due process and the fact that joe biden is joe biden.ur reaction congressman. >> amazing that nancy pelosi and the democrats just discovered due process, it's been our justice of the founding ordination they just discovered it. but it goes to hypocrisy and it shows you the media narrative, is a scenario that all republicans are bad then he always believed the victim. if it does not fit the narrative, then you gloss over ignore the victim and move on. that's what the democrats are doing and that's the mainstream media is doing as well. liz: make up rosinski had a tough interview. we'll see what happens with the rest of the media. >> there being forced to do it. they sat on it for two or three weeks. liz: i hear you. innkeeper coming on, great to have you on. come back soon. liz: next up former deputy national security adviser katie my furling on why michael flynn on shells the fbi admits doing reveals around double standard among certain fbi agents were on the lookout and on the hunt to nail michael flynn and railroad him at any cost in o

liz: coming up growing calls for joe biden to come clean, after a week of flip-flopping, biden denyinghen omitting and then denying that he knew about the obama administration investigation into michael flynn after biden's name appeared on a list of inter-circle, flynn's identity former trump corey lewandowski takes that one and also the cbs story, that is coming up next. family at home or those at work, principal is by your side. we're working hard to answer your questions. like helping you understand what the recently passed economic package can mean for you. we're more than a financial company. we're a "together we can get through anything" company. now, more than ever. >> i was never part or had any knowledge of any in criminal investigation into flynn while i was in office. , not one single time, thought you asked me whether or not had anything to do with him being prosecuted. i'm sorry. i was aware that they asked for an investigation, that is all i know about it, i don't think anything else. >> that was joe biden, first denied knowing about the flynn investigation, he was denyin

>> i would take one if joe biden takes one but i'm not a criminal >> reporter: tonight, biden was asked about reade by local reporters in florida. >> nothing ever happened with tara reade taking a woman's claim seriously when she steps forward and vetting it in every case, the truth is what matters. in this case, the truth is these claims are flat out false. >> nbc news asked tara reade for an interview and has not been heard back nor do they know what else she has been asked. the biden campaign said there's more inconsistencies emerging in what they say are false charges. >> get ready for a blast of winter this mother's day weekend. some windchills down in the 20s and snow could fall across parts of the northeast and new england through saturday >>> tonight, frontier airlines says it will start checking employees and passengers' temperatures just one of the big changes in the air here is tom costello with that. >> reporter: the top priority for the nation's airlines, reassuring passengers it's safe to fly disinfecting planes, making masks mandatory, spacing out passengers and blocking

biden?you know, i had a conversation with some folks. >> how would you characterize the conversation? >> just an open conversation and it's not something i would call a professional, you know, formalized vetting. >> tucker: a professional, you know, formalized vetting. oh, okay, as opposed to an amateur vetting, the kind you don't get paid for. what is gretchen whitmer talking about? no one knows. ask anyone who lives in the state of michigan. they are still trying to figure out why gretchen whitmer banned the sale of paint and carpet in response to a pandemic. gretchen whitmer never explained why she did that. in fact she has no idea herself. paint and carpet just seem scary to her so she made them illegal. then when citizens complained about this, governor whitmer denounced them as racist. do you sense a theme here? no wonder the biden campaign called gretchen whitmer. they are looking for someone with deep experience playing the race card. there are other possibilities that you may not ha