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introducing joe biden via video here before joe biden takes to the stage here.es well among women and non-whites. why is it, in your view, that he seems to appeal more to women and non-white voters, more so right now, early on, again, than, say, candidates, you know, cory booker and camikamala harr? >> listen, i think there is a myth that somehow there isn't excitement among joe bivoters a joe biden, whether college educated or non college educated voters. numbers have improved because of that. the confusion that biden has talked about in the excerpts is not being confused about why people are angry. what he's talking about is, let's not confuse anger and fight anger with only anger. why play donald trump's game? again, i think there are a lot of candidates that are -- that deserve attention here. i haven't picked a candidate. the idea that somehow that all of the energy in the party is at the far left is just not supported by the facts. the campaign -- do the campaign for the sake of finding out the answers to the questions, but i think it is wrong to say that,

since biden announced, trump has spent the last week obsessively rage tweeting biden, retweeting 60 biden tweets in an hour at one point. much to biden's delight. >> i understand the president has been tweeting about me this morning for a while pip w. i wonder why the hell he's doing that. >> reporter: trump is giving american voters a sneak peek at what a general election could look like, and that's good for biden. as one adviser told politico of trump's biden fixation, we've asked him, i personally asked him to stop. it's not helping us, it's helping biden. we don't think biden can make it out of the democratic primary, but he will if the president gives him oxygen. it not just trump, though. the rnc is happy to help joe out, too. in an e-mail blast this week, they helpfully shared this with voters -- as vice president joe biden advised president barack obama not to go forward with the raid that resulted in the death of 9/11 perpetrator osama bin laden. all that did was remind us that joe biden was vice-freaking-president of the united states, that he disagreed once with barack obama, o

and i think by the president talking about joe biden overseas, he played right into biden's hands.ink that the campaign was probably very smart in not having biden respond to it directly. they had a campaign person respond to it. and i would add, only after the president returned from overseas. and what biden has been doing and trying to make this a race about the president's values, about his character, and about foreign policy. and i think if they want to have a foreign policy debate, i think that's something biden is clearly ready to have with donald trump. >> former chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. vice president for eight years. he's ready for that debate, for sure. the former vice president, as gloria said, ryan, waited until the air force one was back on u.s. soil before they issued that statement. they used to say in the old days, politics stops at the water's edge. that's gone away, a long time ago, on both sides. but what does it tell you about the biden campaign? >> i don't think the issue with the trump statement was that he was abroad. it's the state

joe biden's big pitch. where he stands in the poll r polls. >>> migrant detainees, where they are and being flown to another state. >>> and bill barr facing questions about who he serves, the president or the public? >>> plus, omarosa, she's joining me to talk about equal pay and whether new abortion laws could backfire on the gop. >>> we begin with the battle for 2020, certainly a crowded day on the campaign trail. got 11 candidates, hold something to dozen events across several different states. joe biden will be keeping up momentum as the front-runner of this day, leading the field 35% in the new fox poll. now even though he announced his presidential run a few weeks ago, biden is comparing for the official campaign kickoff rally where you see it in philadelphia. in just about an hour the former vice president will fully lay out the final phase of his campaign rollout as he calls to unify the country. we're going to the big rally there and we have nbc's garrett haake, and bernie sanders is live in orange

but hopefully biden, yeah, biden -- i haven't seen it here but that's what biden wants to do. those crowds, especially the firefighters you pointed out in pittsburgh. bryan llenas on the ground, bryan, we will come to you as former vice president takes the stage, thanks, kristin. >> all right, so for more on, this let's bring in political panel, former communication's director for health care at the department of health and human services, megyn smith and democratic strategist and millennial nathan ruben. as i'm watching those images of the stage where joe biden is about to speak, i can't help to wonder why he didn't do that and give a speech like that with a good-size crowd, nice sunshine, big banners projecting message, why didn't he do that for official campaign launch? >> hi, kristin, for the fast few weeks joe biden has been going around the country talking to voters and hearing their concerns and talking about his vision for the campaign and for the country and one thing that's been totally clear is two different worlds and that is the dc twitter and actual american prim

again, he sees biden on tv, he reacts to biden on tv. if for some reason we have a different frontrunner a week from now, i don't think he'll be fixating on biden, he'll be fixating on whoever is the frontrunner at that time. >> thank you, philippe. hallie jackson, safe travels back to america. >>> historic trial. the first case holding a drug maker responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic that's plaguing this country. that trial beginning right now in oklahoma. should a drug company be held criminally liable for the opioid crisis? we'll dig into that. >>> too many options? why that crowded democratic field of 2020 contenders may come down to a basic rule of retail. ke up! there's a lot that needs to get done today. small things. big things. too hard to do alone things. day after day, you need to get it all done. and here to listen and help you through it all is bank of america. with the expertise and know-how you need to reach that blissful state of done-ness. so let's get after it. ♪ everything is all right what would you like the po

why do you think biden is doing so well with black women?xpected black women to support cory booker or kamala harris. >> well, let me break it down for you. cory and kamala are fine, but if i'm completely honest, they've got a bit of an image problem. cory is nice but he reminds you of the cousin who's a tattletale. even when no one asks, snitching for the love of the game. and kamala looks like a mean vice principal. she just comes up, like, dulce, i want what's best for you, which is why i'm giving you detention. corrie, thank you for coming right to me! >> trevor: it doesn't explain why black women go for someone like elizabeth warren. she's arizonaed specific issues black women have, reparations, the black mortality rate. >> younger black women will probably go for elizabeth warren, but older black women go for biden because if biden becomes president, then obama is back in the white house. ( cheers and applause ) ah! ha ha! ha ha! >> trevor: wait, wait, but that's not true. obama can't be president again. >> who said anything about pres

because every time biden takes on trump, he makes -- i mean, every time trump takes on biden, he makes it a two-person race, which is exactly what biden wants. >> dana, president trump has gone flu three national security advisers. should we have any expectation that john bolton is going to be his last? i mean, dexter raised the point that, you know, who else is there in terms of somebody who is prominent, who has a name -- in the president's parlance -- looks the part and has credibility? >> no. i mean, we should have no examinations either way. we've learned that just not only on the national security adviser role, but several other, many administration.the but dexter is exactly right in his piece. i agree with you, was right on about the fact that bolton has always been a true believer. there is no gray. it is black and it is white, especially on the issues of iran, but also north korea. and the fact that he agreed to go into the administration and was eager into the administration by all accounts, is just a different approach from what others who are saying, you know, i don't agree

veer man or joe biden? >> i mean i don't think it is spartacus i don't think it is sleepy joe. i don't know who verman worn hats in the past. go with berman. you don't know his name but guessing him. >>s what he described himself s a friendly fascist. yes. >> you've got it. final question. er>> i'm ready. are you ready -- or apparently not at the billboard music awards how was reality star and country singer julianne hough injured during a performance? she was hit in the throat by paula abdul cast got tang nld a dance scar is of and fell or camera hit her in the leg. >> you got what you wanted i have no idea -- this is a music question -- >> you didn't tune in i guess. i have no clue about award so this is a country music singer? >> julianne hough i gave you information that you deserve. julianne hough a video went around. >> go with camera jib hit her. you have taken out on the five -- that's what happens with with my nose is crooked. [laughter] >> camera hit her in the leg is it right? [buzzer] wait until

joe biden succeeded in doing that in 2016. it was reopened 21/2 months ago and they are quite -- trying to quash again. at the time joe biden did it his son -- getting something like 3 to $10 million from a crooked ukrainian oligarch who was hiding in russia and he got it while joe biden, vice president of the united states in charge with relations with the ukraine and in the tape you saw joe biden have a prosecutor general dismissed and the case against his son was dropped. that -- wait, that stinks, the facts are stubborn and eventually this is going to have to be investigative. i will get out of it, in order to remove any political suggestion i will step back and just watch it unfold. shannon: no trip to ukraine on sunday. >> no trip. i believe i was walking into a bunch of people, one of whom already was found to be involved in this but i wasn't aware of and i think this is a set up. and the whole thing was a setup from the beginning and that is what you will find and it goes back to january when they decided they should d

he is doing with joe biden. that underscores the point joe biden is trying to make. he already moved on to a general election against donald trump. in an odd way trump's actions are helping joe biden avoid a primary on the assumption that he is the strongest candidate. let's move on to that. that will be an interesting consequence of what president trump is doing. >> let me go back to brett on this. i loved your column in the times, but it used to be elite liberals. i know a lot of them who love to put their noses up in the air and look down on republicans as not quite as intellectual as they are. this is a strange thing for a guy who runs as a populist to run on relative iq. it's unusual. >> i think the psychological term is projection. when you fear that you are yourself a low iq individual. you claim it of your enemy or opponent. i wanted to take exception with nick. i don't think he will disagree and said this is unprecedent ed it's unprecedented in history. the idea that an american president may side with a psychotic or murderous dictator against an honorable o

joe biden is a safe place. they know they like joe biden and can support him and not so much about the others. candidates gets in, pop, come down a little. folks are still swiping. >> still swiping. enjoyed that analogy. >>> tune new to beto o'rourke tonight with rachel madmaddow, 0 eastern only on msnbc. >>> it is crunch time as garrett mentioned. crunch time for the on the bubble democratic candidates hoping to land one of the 20 coveted spots on the debate stage next month. to get in they have to receive donations from 65,000 people in 20 different states, or get at least 1% of support in three pre-approved polls, but just because they hit the goals doesn't necessarily mean they're automatically in. i want to bring in communications director for the dnc. do you guys -- you've laid out objective criteria for what it takes to get on the debate stage in florida next month. what happens when more than 20 people qualify? >> our goal all along has been to be inclusive, fair and transparent and set the threshold ba

biden: thank you. i am sorry about your family. i really mean that. is thathat i do know there are three things we have to do as it relates to research and to a number of these diseases, including alzheimer's. to insistt we have that researchers share their data. what is happening now is that cancer and alzheimer's, there are no more dedicated people than there are in researchers in these medical fields, they do incredible things. when we started, i will use cancer as an example, when nixon declared the war on cancer, he meant it, he was serious about it. he had no army, no means to share data, no way to get data from hospital to hospital. the notion was that it would be jonas salk who would walk into a laboratory answer how to cure polio like it was with the silver bullet. back then we thought there was one cancer that resided in different parts of the body. we now know that there are over 204 strains of cancer that require different kinds of therapies, as many of these other diseases do as well. i ha

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biden in first place. biden at 35%. that is significantly higher than where he was just over a week ago, just before he got in this race. there has been a bounce for joe biden, a big post announcement bounce. his support has moved up. that's where the race stands now that joe biden is in it. the question becomes what does that mean? what does that tell us about the strength he takes into this race? we have been talking about him as a very weak front runner. he's been compared to very weak front runners we have seen in presidential races in the week or the recent past. let's compare where biden is now that we've seen this bounce to where some of those very weak candidates were in the recent past. so let's take a look here. we can advance it. there we go. biden steps in 35%. a lot of people have been saying it is jeb bush all over again. a lot of comparisons have been made between the two. so where after his announcement in 2016 did jeb bush stand on the republican side? let's see. 15%. that's where he stood. so already y

other candidates now defending joe biden.ng to differentiate themselves or talk about their own policy which are more and more introducing specifically on daily basis, they are in the position of having to defend joe biden in this war of words between him and the president. >> look, we talk a lot about political opponents falling into president trump's trap. a little bit trump has fallen into joe biden's trap. he made it clear he was going to run as if this was a general election. he was running against trump. he was not running against the other democrats. we see trump playing right into that strategy by treating biden as if he is going to be the ultimate opponent. >> he's the front-runner right now significantly. >> if you think about it, you're exactly right, susan. generall lly speaking, you try elevate you think you can win most against. the fact that he's elevating joe biden and not others who, who knows, you never know, but probably at this point don't look like they would be as viable against the president. that's wha

do you think it only helps biden?easons that frank just outlined, but also because it gives biden the opportunity to do the contrast that he wants to do. this is exactly how he wants to be contrasted with donald trump. he wants to be the person who is the statesman, the person who is bringing a sense of morality and decency back to the presidency. so it gives him an opportunity to kind of rise above it in the way that he also waited to criticize the president until he was back on american soil going back to this what now seems like a very old-fashioned way of doing politics where you aren't criticizing your opponents, or at least attacking your opponents on foreign soil. so i think it gave him a good opportunity to contrast himself with donald trump. >> so i guess if you're biden, kirsten, do you want to do anything, or do you just let this ride for a while until you really have to get out there on the campaign trail? >> well, i think it would be better for him to be out there a little more than he is, but it's still

he'll be joe biden.'t know that you can compare the sort of loose ends quality of joe biden versus ultimater ca utter chaos of donald trump. there's a contrast there, we'll see. >> karine i want to ask you about biden facing, start point of interaction with voters we'll see today. headlines about smaller crowds others are getting. i invite garrett to jump in about anything he's seen and coverage how they are not putting him out there all day every day. i don't know if they are pacing themselves. sometimes if you don't make it, you regret not leaving it all on the field. >> you said it perfectly, leaving it on the field. this is it. this is game time. we're talking about a presidential election. i would tell the biden campaign less crowds is not a good thing. you want the energy. if you are running as the front-runner, it is good to have a crowd to give you that energy. i just really disagree -- i know what they are doing. we talked about it. they are trying to control him. he's known for having gaffes. h

biden sees a possible opening here. next week, biden is going to hit the road again. he is heading to tennessee and florida for fund-raisers. the following week in houston and dallas, texas. pretty soon, you are going to see biden start to roll out some policies, trying to put his platform in front of the american people. he says a major speech on climate change is coming next month. fred? >> thank you so much from philadelphia. we'll check back with you. >> among the folks on the trail this weekend, bernie sanders is on a four-state tour of the south. sanders is trying to show support after a drop in the polls after biden dropped the race. he is hoping to make a splash rolling out policieses, including a massive investment in education. >> billionaires do not need more tax breaks. the children of our country need quality education. my plan addresses the serious crisis in our educational system by reducing racial and economic segregation in our public schools. make sure we attract the best and brightest young people to become teachers. reestablish a positive learning

biden: number one. secondly, we should be in a position where we invest a great deal more not only in research to be able to get better meds, to deal with whatever the problem is, but we should be engaging in a way that we invest in the community to be able to have the resources to work on -- resources to provide for the treatment of these conditions. if you give me your name, i can send you a layout of what exactly that means and how you do it programmatically. but i am so proud of you. soon't even know you, i am proud of you. [applause] i really mean it. >> sorry. we are out of time now. [crowd groaning] >> but how lucky we were, right? [applause] [laughter] fmr. vice pres. biden: whoa! i like it. [laughter] [applause] fmr. vice pres. biden: you know, two things, one place we still have a lot of work to do, i'm speaking of the need for treatment in mental health facilities and all of that. i carry with me, if you don't mind my showing this, i carry with me every day, i have for the last 12 years, i ha

sanders, sanders is talking about biden, biden is talking about trump. with the governor. the generational issues are real, he has a problem with the under-30. i like joe biden, he reminds me of my grandpa. if i asked them, do they feel grandpa joe can represent them? i got shoulder shrugs and awkward pauses. i asked a lot of voters, if it comes down to bernie and biden, how do you make that decision? every single voter when it comes down to it they want someone, anyone to beat donald trump. >> biden says he's going to be very tough on margaret thatcher. >> by the way, that's why biden i think is doing this smartly. biden doesn't want to argue with any of those people. he doesn't want to argue with bernie or buttigieg. biden's like, you want to beat trump? i'm the guy. that has to be the argument. that recent poll helps him. listen, i'm the guy who can do this and do this better than anybody else. that will override all this in the end. >> democrats want to win. >> they do want to win. >> what's interesting about that same poll also showed that democrats

and biden has faced scrutiny. >> former vice president joe biden accused of inappropriate touching. >men have come forward to say they made him feel uncomfortable and embarrassed. in response, biden releasing this video. >> i always tried to make a human connection, and i get it. i get it. >> reporter: then days later, biden addressing a predominantly-male crowd seeming to make light of the allegations. >> i just want you to know, i have permission to hug lonnie. >> reporter: some people were wondering if you really get it. >> i really do. here's the deal. i've always thought that part of leadership, part of politics was listening to people, hearing them, making them feel comfortable. it's my responsibility to be more sensitive to whether or not someone wants me to reassure them or wants to say hello or wants to show affection and support, and that's my responsibility. >> but robin, i think what you don't realize is how many people approach joe. one of the things that joe is known for is making connections with people. but going forward, i think he's going to have to be a better judge

front-runner joe biden.s. >> reporter: well, john, joe biden is going to be arriving here at the community event, a pizza restaurant here in manchester, new hampshire. people are waiting over by the doors to see him walk in, but as you mentioned, he's here on his first trip to new hampshire as the clear front-runner in the democratic field. we have a poll that came out last week that showed biden above his democratic rivals coming in at 36% followed by bernie sanders and a few others behind him, but biden is going to be here making his pitch to voters in this first in the nation primary state, and this event has the potential to be a little bit different than his previous events in states like iowa and south carolina where he stood on the stage and delivers remarks and hasn't really engaged in voter question and answered and here at this small restaurant he's expecting to take a few questions from voters at the end. biden and his campaign are very aware of trying to maintain that authentic new hampshire feel

take a listen. >> people forget, senator biden -- vice president biden has tried this a couple times and failed miserably. and what he's getting ready to do is really, really hard. i think biden's what, 75, 76 years old. this is a hard job. >> harder than he knows? >> yes. >> donald trump will be 74 in 2020, so there's not a huge age difference there. i wonder about this age question on the democratic side as they look for an electable candidate. if that's on their list here. biden would hit 80 years old in his first term of president. we've never had a president that old before. how much do you think democratic voters are looking at him on the campaign trail and asking does he look his age? does he sound his age? >> and there's this issue of whether the party wants a fresh face right now, whether they're willing to, you know, take a flier on someone new. and a lot of it comes back to electability. they feel so strongly that they need to deny president trump a second term and that's where joe biden fits in. he's the comforting figure, the person they know and love and respect. and so

especially joe biden, right? but clearly he is in taking that advice, he tweeted about biden five times they peered wisely hitting such a nerve? jesse: take it from me, he is not hitting enter. i know this, i spoke to him about it. donald trump is not scared of joe biden. he would love to run against him. he said it himself. >> biden seems to have lead, i'd be very happy if it were -- sleepy joe. i think he did a bad job. you think that he is beatable? >> i just don't think you'd be a very good candidate. jesse: besides being able to run against the record -- have the time he doesn't know what he is talking about. >> china is going to -- come on man! they cannot even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the china sea and the mountains in the east. i mean in the west. they can't figure out how they're going to deal with the corruption in the system. i mean, you know, they are not bad folks but guess what? they are not competition for us. jesse: joe, where have you been th

a biden aid responding to cnn, calling the president's tweet unhinged and erratic, while biden's rivals him. >> kim jong-un is a murderous dictator and vice president biden served this country honorably. >> reporter: the former vice president was off the trail this weekend, but that isn't stopping another candidate from partaking in a favorite biden treat. senator bernie sanders, cooling off with three ice cream socials in new hampshire on monday after turning up the heat on trump in a vermont rally this weekend. >> we have a president who is a pathological liar. >> in iowa, senator amy klobuchar also taking aim at the president on saturday, recalling a moment with the late senator john mccain at trump's inauguration. >> john mccain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech, because he knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation. he understood it. >> reporter: john mccain's daughter, meghan, weighing in today on twitter, asking klobuchar to leave her father's legacy and memory out of presidential politics. and we're here with cory booker in iowa, as he wraps

joe biden, jill biden, very comfortable there in pennsylvania, the birthplace of joe biden in scranton, and then jill told a story of how growing up in philadelphia, you know, is near and dear to her heart. i mean, clearly, this was an electrified crowd. it has to go beyond philadelphia. it's important for joe biden to clench pennsylvania, a state that donald trump won. how will he do it? >> well, you know, first of all, i think it was really important for him to put his campaign headquarters in pennsylvania. it signifies that this is where he's -- where the fight begins, right? to win pennsylvania -- like a republican doesn't need pennsylvania to win the presidency, but a democrat definitely does. he gave -- he needed to do three things in his speech effectively today, and i think he did do that, in terms of talking about his role as the vice president with barack obama, the things they accomplished. he also needed to talk about somish shoo ye issues that were important. he struck that with climate change. i think people thought he might be a little less progressive on that. he talked

the biden campaign referred cnn to a statement it had given to "the new york times" claiming biden acted on ukraine without any regard for how it would or would not impact his son ''s business interest. randy kay, cnn new york. >> as she mentioned, giuliani was planning to go so far as to travel to ukraine in this effort to dig up dirt on biden. then he suddenly decided to cancel that trip. cnn white house reporter sarah westwood is live on the north lawn of the white house. sarah, what's giuliani saying about why he decided to cancel at the last minute? >> reporter: well, alex, giuliani is making a reversal of this decision to travel to ukraine amid a massive backlash. he tells our colleague mike warren that he came to believe that the meeting with ukrainian officials would accomplish little, and he said, quote, it may be in the hands of those who might misinterpret it. giuliani also complained about the media coverage of his upcoming trip to ukraine. he thought that his version of events wasn't being portrayed fairly. the narrative was that giuliani was traveling overseas to meet with

how is biden.eam biden is prepping for what is obviously coming from trump very soon, the hunter biden attacks. >> it's already under way, chuck. one of the last times you and i talked here this was one of the factors that we thought might keep the former vice president out of the race. this was something that close family members and close allies the of the former vice president worried about, how would he react on the campaign trail? for the trump campaign, this is a dually effective strategy on some level. one, to the extent that they can ever continue to muddy the waters. while you think that jared and don jr. have a problem, look at hunter, he also has his problems. that's one potential way of going this. they also know nothing is more abhorrent to the former vice president than attacks on his family. there is an element of getting in the vice president's head. >> that's what i'm wondering this. >> if he wants to stay focused. they've war gamed this. sat around and said, what if somebody asks

deal over biden. it is hard to see this is what the white house was hoping to get out of this trip. >> the central fact that helps make sense of the way that president trump talks about kim jong-un that he organized his foreign policy in large part based on the personal relationships that he has with foreign heads of state. trump believes that kim jong-un likes him. he believes the two of them have a repore and he believes that personal relationship could lay the foundation for a legacy item in his presidency. however, not something that the people around him put a particularly high revel of confidence in. that's where we get this bifurcation within the white house and within the trump administration and the key allies, including japan. while trump himself seems to have great faith in his personal repore with kim jong-un when it comes to the north korean issue. >> could it be the president is trying to preserve his talking point heading into 2020 that his big gamut on north korea worked? >> we know tr

here's the problem with biden. eight years are obama are great, he can dress himself up in an obama skin suit all he wants, but it's what he did beforehand. that's what i, south carolina, the african-american community is concerned about. you can obama 12 times he's not going to magically appear. >> you don't think you say trump three times and people are like let by gones be by gones? >> i don't think so. his release video, i don't know if that's where you want to start, we know donald trump is a bad guy. i don't think he's stainable. i think joe biden is a nice guy, i think he might be electable if he stumbles into the nomination. he's never been able to do this. in a field he's going to be up against ten other people, and people who are clearer, sometimes smarter, sometimes more eloquent than him, i don't think he can sustain it. >> did you see the republican primary? >> that was a clown car. that was an absolute clown car. but this is the strongest, deepest field we've seen in 30, 35 years. a lot of these peopl

biden jr. from delaware. so those who are listening, if you want to be part of your campaign, pick up your phones. pick up your phones. now. send a text to the word "united." to the number 30330. okay. that is united. 30330. or 303330. b-o-o. you got it. it's on the back there. so look. look, it is a logical question that people ask why we began this journey in this place. this great city of philadelphia. well there is a simple reason. there is a simple reason. because -- let -- let him go. that's not how we do it. other campaigns do it this way, we don't do it this way. we don't do it this way. [ applause ] you will not hear me speak -- i made a pledge. i mean this sincerely. i made a pledge. you will not hear me speak ill of another democrat. look, the reason we're here is because in a literal sense this was the birthplace of our democracy. it was here over -- the fact is two of the most important documents not only in our history but the history of the world were written right here. in 1776 the declaration

opening weekend for former vice president joe biden. think avengers game. >> joe biden off to blockbuster start today. were -- we are talking about joe biden, now up in the field. >> why many pundits completely and totally wrong about the former vice president, the new k times. plus media mystery 400 as the new jeffrey champion chatters all record. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ >> right before senate committee was going to bill attorney general bill barr calculated leak to washington post, letter of complaint that bob mueller had to leave barr in march, 4-page summary has created public confusion and undermined confidence because it didn't fully capture probe. >> i called bob and said, what's the issue here, i asked him if he was suggesting that the march 24th letter was inaccurate and he said no but that the press reports had been inaccurate and that the press was reading too much into it. >> and it has only gotten hotter, holly, senior editor. district media group and former television producer and caprie cafaro. >> how d

i mean we know that joe biden -- joe biden's going to defend obama care.blic option as part of this. politico is saying biden is heavy on emotion and light on policy. kelly ann conway saying is biden for medicare for all? because that means obama care didn't work. do they have a point there? >> yeah, yeah, i think they have a point. it's just -- it's so scattered. it's hard to grab hold of anything they are talking about because it's this way. it's that way. it's trump. it's not. it's crazy. elizabeth: you know the other thing too, ernie, the congressional budget office out with a new report that got virtually zero coverage. we're giving it to you now. the cbo saying that medicare for all, bernie sanders plan, the democrats, the medicare for all, will cost -- it would be really expensive, 3.5 trillion dollars a year, the cbo says. it would wipe out all government spending on other programs and, yes, government imposed wait times to see a doctor would rise dramatically. your take on that, ernie? >> i agree. look at the various countries that have national h

and one where biden sees an opening. a recent poll found biden beating trump by 11 points. >> if i'm going to be able to beat trump in 2020 issue going to happen here. >> reporter: biden enjoying his stronger than expected front-runner status, topping national polls, lining up endorsements in key early states and raking in more money in the first 24 hours than any of his democratic rivals. he's taken his politics to six states across the country. from an ice cream shop in iowa to fielding voters' questions into a new hampshire backyard. >> folks, we can change this again. and inbest way to change it, and i'm not joking is to get donald trump out of that office. >> reporter: biden framing his campaign as a showdown with president trump. a move that's drawn the president's ire. the former vice president also facing friendly fire from his democratic opponents. >> i disagree that crime bill, that 1994 crime bill, it did contribute to mass incarceration in our country. >> no, i don't think that joe is the most progressive can

joe biden? >> i think you're already seeing some of that in the shadow boxing that takes place in the media where you have people pitching opposition research on joe biden and hunter biden and his dealings in china and ukraine. that's been helped by president trump and his allies, who have dished on this as well. trump called -- said it was appropriate for him to intervene and bill barr to launch investigations again joe biden and hunterat biden. once the debates start kicking up in june, you'll see people throwyo more mud at biden and s, well, are you liberal enough? whatra about your climate chang plan? yesterday hecl said the most important part of his climate change plan was to defeat trump but that doesn't actually solve the global warming concerns. >> not as far as we can tell. i also want to discuss a new analysis a bit largest democrat super pac, priorities usa. it says if the election was held today, the president will not have enough electoral votes but ohio is less likely to go for de

trump can't stop attacking biden.ident believes he can portray biden as an ossified political class like hillary clinton enough that biden about collapse or stagger into the primary. will there be someone who says you've been part of the problem for too long. and he was the vice president to the most popular democrat in the country. but at some point is someone going to say, i have to take the risk. >> who it will be will be the big question but you see some people dance around it. democrats so far have been so resistant to these kind of -- these sharp political attacks. that's why they're making the contrast on policy and not anything else. i mean, i don't know when other candidates would go after biden for, say, his conduct during the clarence thomas hearings. i don't know if that's something -- >> at the end of the day joe biden's biggest rival is joe biden. what he says. so, it is a high wire act. so far he's doing strong because voters are looking for someone who can win. can we? we don't know the answer to that

ptweeted again about biden. and a campaign spokesman called it rich that biden would criticize the president for getting political overseas. pointing out that biden criticized the president in germany earlier this year. >> the campaign season is just beginning. >> that's right. >>> opening statements were made in a landmark trial in oklahoma. it could determine whether states can hold drugmakers responsible for the opioid crisis. omar villa fran ka k ka is ther. >> reporter: t.j. served his country in the kentucky national guard. he was addicted to opioids and tried to get clean. >> i followed him to drug testing him. i put $11,000 on a credit card to put him into treatment. and he wanted to get better. >> reporter: in 2012, t.j. died after overdosing on oxy. he was only 21. >> reporter: >> it's extremely hard for people to overcome that. >> reporter: emily and thousands of other families are watching closely, as the opioid crisis is on trial in oklahoma, in a case that could impact 1,800 other pending lawsuits.

listen to uncle joe biden himself back in 1993. the need to dispose of entire swaths of young men. watch. >> unless we do something, about the young people, tens of thousands of them, born out of wedlock without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing, because they literally, they literally have not been socialized. they literally have not had an opportunity we should focus on them now. >> again, does not mean because we created them. that we somehow forgive them or do not take them out of society to protect my family and yours from them. they are beyond the pale many of those people. beyond the pale. and it's a sad commentary on society. we have no choice but to take them out of society. kennedy: wow! certainly harsh and it is not tough to figure out who he wanted to take out of society for good. joe biden has been a series of recent rationalizations about the crime bill that will not take responsibility or make amends. even former president bill clinton has been overtly contrite abou

biden's record on the '94 crime bill. be clear, even though president trump signed this recent criminal justice reform bill, he's not the best messenger on this. he has a very checkered past on race and justice when you start digging into it, although it seems likely that his supporters don't care, they haven't cared this far. however, jen, i wonder for biden, especially as you see him taking incoming from the left on this issue, potential biden supporters may care. this may be politically smart of president trump. >> sure. if we're betting on trump making a political calculus, and who knows what's behind it, he is calculating that if he can repress african-american turnout, that that is good for him in a general election. he is betting if he can turn voters off from biden, a candidate i think is in his top tier of ones he is scared of facing, that is to his advantage. so it doesn't matter what the truth is or what his own record is, what he's looking at is who he wants to face in the general election. >> i think jen is a

there's no biden doctrine, there's no biden movement, there'su no biden base.he guy doesn't even have a slogan. all right, let's move over to the this other story that people on the internet are really getting excited about in a negative way. facebook's banning everybody now. i mean, they banned farrakhan, they're banning this guy milo yiannopoulos, they're banning alex jones, laura loomer. you know,rr in my opinion, there should be more freedom, not less freedom. i understand, you know, you don't want people, dinesh, inciting violence, and you've got to draw the line at that. you don't want that, obviously, but if you're just being a provocateur or if you have the freedom of speech in this country to be an idiot or to be, you know, crazy or whatever idthese people are, where is the line drawn? i mean, ten years, twenty years is facebook going to say, you know, i don't like this guy either, get him off the platform? >> i think the scary thing is that the people that they're shutting down are not doing that. i mean, laura loomer is trying to expose things, and s

>> my sense is that joe biden does.ll of the key demos, he's doing extremely well and african-american voters is the most critical of the demographics. african-american wins are the ones that deliver wins for democrats. neil: and they turn out. >> they turn out when they're excited and joe biden is someone who listened to jim cliburn and a lot of endorsements from from south carolina, for instance. they know joe. we've been around with him for ages and think back to the summit where bernie sanders said i marched with mlk and got booed by minority voters. his argument he'd been there for the black community is not resonating for them. union workers say i know joe. black voters saying i know joe. women as well and shaving off some of the millennial and gen x sport that bernie sanders was hanging onto and now bernie is in the low teens and he was a lot higher before biden got in. neil: a new fox poll, they're democrats are split and 41% think it's all about attacking the president, and we see this through our own prisms, i

i think joe biden is formidable.e last two presidential cycles we had a party that had a very large number of candidates, and 2016, you had front runners and folks like jeb bush but i use the term front runner loosely. it sort of fell off by the time the first debate happened and it was kind of trump in the lead from there on. i think the 2012 republican primary provides an interesting comparison. we admit romney and the in the joe biden seat but he hung in there even is a crowded field there was lots of turns, rick santorum, newt gingrich, other people picking up individual states. but mitt romney holding onto his court and slowly but surely growing it as they approach the convention and wound up hanging on. gerry: they say joe biden has been running for president since william mckinley has been present. he's been around a long time. half a century and politics. is it possible that some of the people -- democrats looking for a fresh face, who of the fresh faces is the most plausible? >> are certainly a lot of footag

since entering the race biden has held 11 public events.roarke held nearly four times that number in the same period. kirsten gillibrand lagging in the polls planned 11 stops in iowa just over the holiday weekend. elizabeth warren showed her face to the public at 27 events in four weeks since biden entered the race. cory booker has had 27 events scheduled in the same time span and bernie sanders has had at least 17 announced engagements. most of those candidates i just mentioned, laura, are at single digits. >> right. >> you see why the biden strategy thus far at least has been not damaging to joe biden. >> exactly. if you're joe biden, you don't need to be out there campaigning this early. you already have the name recognition a lot of other candidates are trying to get. if you're beto o'roarke or if you're christen gillibrand, you're trying to introduce yourself to voters that may not know who you are. biden was former vice president of the u.s. and a senator for decades. that's why these accounts are having to -- candidates are holding m

biden the front runner most 2020 polls.e real clear politics polling average has the vp up 24 points. as taking aim at biden controversy in his past could make for bumpy road ahead. bien was telling donors he knows president trump is going to go after his family. our correspondent trace gallagher is live in the west coast newsroom with the details. trace? >> ed, let's begin with biden's controversy involving ukraine and what was billed as an effort to fight political corruption in 2016 then vice president biden traveled to ukraine and threatened to withhold a billion dollars in u.s. loan guarantees if the country didn't fire its top prosecutor. who was accused of ignoring corrupt politicians in his own office. here is biden recounting the story two years later. watch. >> i said you are not getting a billion. i'm going to be leaving here and i think was six hours. i said i'm leaving in six hours. if the prosecutor is not fired, you are not getting the money. well son of a [bleep] [laughter] he got fired. >> the very same pro

ent joe biden.e tweet this. north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others. but not me. i have confidence that chairman kim will keep his promise to me and also smiled when he called swampman joe biden a low iq individual and worse. perhaps that's sending me a signal. the president initially spelled biden's name wrong bust corrected it in a follow up tweet. president trump was asked about his attacks on biden. >> does it give you pause at all to be appearing to side with a brutal dictator instead of with a fellow american, the former vice president joe biden? >> well, kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. he probably is, based on his record. i think i agree with him on that. i can tell you that joe biden was a disaster, his administration with president obama. they were basically a disaster when it came to so many things, whether it was economy, whether it was military defense, no matter what it was, they had a lot of problems. so