let's begin with the bidens and ukraine from the top. >> well, hunter biden is joe biden's son.n, that still alive, he lost beau biden tragically, until his father became vice president, he was a lobbyist in washington d.c., working for the on-line gambling industry, he had no background overseas in any of these area, once his father became vice president high started a private investment firm, half of capital provised by chris hynes, that john kerry's stepson, and another partner john kerry's financial co-chair in 2004. ukraine part begins in 2014, in february you remember pro-russia president, driven from power, putin starts glekin flexing his muscles. obama administration responded by saying, we're going to come and help ukraine, and the point person on obama administration policy is vice president joe biden. who goes to ukraine almost immediately. two months afterrian - --ian cos driven from po power. the company decides a great idea to hire the vice president's son as a consult an and board member, hunter biden has no background in energy or ukraine, and hired to help them

biden's campaign. let's take a look. >> the left knows that biden's sonn is a problem for him. this is why when hillary clinton was running, these stories first originated back one hillary clinton was trying to make sure that biden didn't get into the race.now that these han resurrected, i don't know who came up withthy is a whistleblower, is not a partisan we want to hear from the whistleblower but it sure looks likee the scheme backfired and it looks like this is the end of bead biden's campaign. >> end of his campaign? >> i really do. >> sean: the congressman is right. joe biden and his family should be very worried tonight. let's pay very close attention here, because here is what we know. thanks to the investigative work of reporter, john solomon, we can i look out a very damning timeline. we start in 2014. this is when president obama appointed him to leave theed a s iefforts in ukraine. april, 2014, biden's son scored a lucrative position on board a gas company. according to numerous reports he

biden: good to see you. vice pres. biden: the best i can do is spaghetti.d back the middle class, and we have to pick our heads up and remember who we are -- the united states of america. there's nothing we can't do. [inaudible] vice pres. biden: what's your name? >> [inaudible] vice pres. biden: good to see you. [crowd chatter] [crowd chatter] vice pres. biden: pardon me? i like them well-done, but don't tell my dad. [crowd chatter] >> let's go, joe! [crowd chatter] [cheers] [crowd chatter] vice pres. biden: all right. thanks, man. [drums] [crowd chanting] [drums] vice pres. biden: all right, watch out. we will do it real quick. thank you. >> we need a walkway on both signs, ok? >> thank you. >> joe, do you mind? thank you so much, sir. that's the winner. >> can i take a picture with you, our future president? tomorrow is my birthday. vice pres. biden: happy birthday. you're turning 40. >> i wish. we wish you the best of luck. biden: thank you. hi, how are you? >> good. can you take a selfie with us? vice pres. biden: sure i can. there you go. >> mr. vice

biden. cnn's kaitlan collins joins me live from the white house with this breaking news. kaitlan, what are we learning? >> reporter: the president today said he did not deny discussing joe biden during the last known phone call with the president of ukraine. a phone call that came at the end of july. but now the "wall street journal" is reporting that during that phone call about eight times the president pressured the cranan president to work with his personal attorney rudy giuliani who you saw on our air last night on a probe looking into joe biden because according to the journal the president told the ukrainian president that people in washington wanted to know if the allegations were true or not. that comes after just hours ago in the oval office the president said he didn't know if it that was phone call that prompted a whistleblower to complain. president trump's second state visit overshadowed today as he faced questions about a whistleblower complaint he made an alarming commitment

biden: god love you! how are you? how are you doing? mr. biden: hey, low ready, this is joe biden. i'm here with your daughter. we were reminiscing. i'm well. nice to talk to you. i bet she is freaking out. mr. biden: i remember. god love you. your daughter tells me you are doing well. oh, great1 that's great. maybe i will get to see you before this effort is over. >> you well. you will. mr. biden: ok. i hope so too. well, i need you. if you need me in there, i need you to get me in there. thank you. hey, mama. i'm going to hand you back. mr. biden: hey, man, what's your name? hey, luke. how old are you? where am i going? >> watch the van. watch the van. watch the van. mr. biden: good to see you, pal. [laughter] mr. biden: that is pretty good, man. you got it. come on, guys. >> watch out. watch out for the car. mr. biden: can't afford to lose you. >> we are going to try to get you through here, there will be a lot of people. mr. biden: how are you? >> have a good day, joe. >> come on, you guys. mr. biden: how are you doing, young man? 'ya?how are what is your name? >> everybody kne

or tied joe biden.is usually thought of as the gold standard poll of iowa, something that a lot of people look to to see what the lay of the land is there, and so she is certainly -- her organization in iowa this weekend, i was at the iowa polk county democrat steak fry this weekend. she had a very good reception. she had a selfie line there after her speech, which she usually does after she gives a major speech. was taking photos with as many people who wanted one. this is something that i think is displaying -- i'm seeing this on the ground as well as in the polls, there's a lot of enthusiasm for elizabeth warren right now. i think the question is whether she will retain this. she seems to be taking a lot of former bernie sanders supporters that are boosting her up, but whether she can attract people who might be a little bit on the fence about some of her proposals, like medicare for all, which would eliminate private health insurance, and she has been criticized recently from other democrats and fro

but there is something with biden. were gonna blow this out of the water right here on the show tomorrow night. there is something with durbin, leahy, manila does. and murphy also. >> you know it's funny when they report the news, it's fake. the acting dni story is a total fabrication as per the acting dan acting dni himself but when they report real news, they reporting in violation of what they say in their own principle principles. they are saying this conversation with the ukrainian leader which i see nothing wrong with. we can see the transcript. that that it's a problem but when barack obama actually got information, looking at the headline here in my phone. cnn politics. let me read this "british intelligence past trump associates communications with russians to u.s. counterparts." when the british intelligence gave information to obama about trump, cnn reported that like it was the greatest thing ever. and it was all fake news against trump. they have no principles. one more thing, remember they've admitted get

did joe biden's push to remove the prosecutor help hunter biden's employer?he dismissal of the prosecutor. at the prosecutor was ouster mr. biden had sought according to people familiar with the situation. he was not aggressively pursuing investigations into him or buries one, but the oligarch's allies say he was using the threat to try to solicit bribes from his team and that left the oligarch steam weary of dealing with the prosecutor. want to take some time and read from "the new york times," fact-checking on all of this. let's bring in our panel. chris stirewalt, politics editor at fox news. susan page, washington bureau chief at usa today, and katie pavlich, news editor at townhall.com. they're kind of two pieces to this, the president pushing back hard today, susan, on this phone call. >> that's right. there is a move now, the president suggested maybe he will release the transcript of the phone call. i think there's some good reasons why he shouldn't do that. >> bret: being that foreign leaders -- >> foreign leaders expect to have a confidential conver

and hunter biden.n it is appropriate? >> you characterize it. john: that is the way it appears. >> no, it does not. that is how pro-biden media lines it up. someone said, this i this is in. -- between you and your client. because biden had the guy fired. his statement on record, laze press could go read it. there are 3 videotapes on record. available on here nobody has covered for 5 months, this town protects joe biden. family has been taking money from his public was on the for years, 1.5 billion from china, our vice president, is supposed to be impartially, and independently negotiating for us. and the kid he takes him on air force 2 to china. john: in 2013. >> the kid unfortunately is a drug addict, china did not give 1.5 billion to his kid biden's kid, a recovering drug addict, carries stepson -- kerry's stepson and "whitey" bulger's nephew, look it up. john: this is a company called rosemont -- let me come back. >> for a second, white "whitey" bulger's nephew, from china that does not shock you. j

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biden?> no. actually, i didn't. >> you never asked anything about hunter biden, you never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden was to get to the bottom of how it was that lutsenko dismiss the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> joe biden can be involved in bribery. joe biden's son can get $1.5 billion from china and you won't cover it. and you want to cover some ridiculous charge that i urge the ukrainian government to investigate corruption. well, i did. and i'm proud of it. >> you just admitted it. did the president talk to the ukrainian president about what he wanted done with joe biden and what he wanted done with paul manafort? >> i have no idea. i don't know if he did and i wouldn't care if he did. he had every right to do it as the president of the united states. >> he is talking about a fool's errand, but that might be rudy's way of getting ahead of this story. with details of the july phone cal

the biden people bristle this because they think that's essentially saying that biden supporters are,, somehow not smart enough to understand whey they support him. >> and i think that is a -- you know, i think it's a good point. it was an eye opening point when i heard it. because he does have the largest percentage of support from, say, the african-american community. bernie and biden actually share a lot of voters in common or at least demographically. there's this argument that hey, you're too stupid to know you're supporting for what reason. that's a big frustration of the campaign. and it's not true from the polling. the most politically involved voters are supporting him. >> ryan lizza, it is a fascinating piece this morning. thanks for being with us. >> thanks, john. >>> all right. coming up, we have another fascinating segment for you. the unseen fallout from the battle with isis. cnn's cameras go inside a refugee camp in syria and hear about the fears of the next generation of isis fighters. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose. so you can enjoy it even if you

on the other hand, if vice president biden and his son hunter biden are in the news a lot as part ofandal, there's a real possibility that that gives some benefit to elizabeth warren by just not being a part of it. and in addition it gives her an opportunity to continue running what she has been running, which is sort of an outside washington campaign, somebody who's been talking a lot about systemic corruption in washington, whether or not that actually reflects on the former vice president because we've seen all of these folks in the ukraine come out and say there's nothing to this story, and there really is nothing credible that anybody has found in terms of the corruption there. obviously when you've got an impeachment trial going on in washington i think a lot of the country looks at the and says we do have some systemic problems in our political system. she has been very critical of donald trump, and of course poins to the fact that she called for his impeachment in april. so i think this is going to be a critical time over the next few weeks. >> let me ask you this. if you are

i think a lot of people prone to support joe biden underestimate joe biden.e worked for barack obama. it's somebody whose candidacy and career is rooted in genuine loss and pain that i think is relevant to a lot of people, that reminds people why they like joe biden. i think when he gets attacked, when he gets maligned, when people sneer at him, i think they underestimate his strength and there's a reason he remains on top. >> stephen: there's a new poll from abc news/"washington post" tcby, has trump losing to the top five democrats. obviously, we're all scared from isleading polls from 2016. as somebody who, again, has been there intimately and seen the internal polling on campaigns, can we trust polls at all? >> yes, but don't. >> stephen: you heard him. five people-- >> that was confusing. >> stephen: five people are going to beat trump! >> here's the thing-- i get why we're all looking at polls. our brains are profoundly broken. we are-- we are drowning in political coverage. we want this nightmare to end. we want someone to give us certainty. aist tell

biden is down three.s moines register" has a good track record of kind of getting a sense of iowa. this is a cnn "des moines register" poll. it shows that she is searching. it matches what peter doocy has been saying out on the trail, which is these crowds are increasing. that she has a real ground game in iowa that is very stout. and she has people, she has numbers, emails, and she is on the move. >> harris: democratic operatives, i was talking about this on the couch last hour. they've been saying she has hired the best. she has everybody. if you look at bernie sanders or anyone else who hopes to reset and hire staff in iowa, she has literally scooped up some of the biggest names behind the scenes who can do those things politically for that you're talking about. i caught peter doocy on the trail this weekend. no doubt you did, too, running into joe biden. how much is what's going on with joe biden and this talk about ukraine and his son, how much is that playing a role? because they are on the ground n

of biden now. the democrats know whoever wins the caucus almost always gets the nomination. what can biden, bernie, and the others do to stop her. she's going fast. much more we're going to get to tonight. stick with us. ore we're going t tonight. stick with us. playing throughou) so, i needed legal advice, and i heard that my cousin's wife's sister's husband was a lawyer, so i called him. but he never called me back! if your cousin's wife's sister's husband isn't a lawyer, call legalzoom and we'll connect you with an attorney. legalzoom. where life meets legal. should always be working harder. that's why your cash automatically goes into a money market fund when you open a new account. just another reminder of the value you'll find at fidelity. open an account today. the way you triumph over adversity. and live your lives. that's why we redesigned humira. we wanted to make the experience better for you. now there's less pain immediately following injection. we've reduced the size of the needle and

president pressured ukraine's president to investigate joe biden's son business ties.aking news, ukrainian government said they weren't pressured during the nice call, sleepy joe biden on the other hand forced tough prosecutor from investigating his son's company but threat of not giving big dollars to ukraine, that's the real story. congressional democrats have issued subpoena for a copy of the whistleblower's complaint and warning of impeachment if they don't get it. >> i have been reluctant to go down the path of impeachment but maybe we do have the move forward with the extraordinary remedy if, indeed, the president is at the same time withholding vital military assistance, he is trying to leverage that to obtain help in political campaign. >> so iran and ukraine, two of the big story lines going into un assembly, president trump schedule today speak on -- scheduled to speak, heather. heather: busy day in new york city, actually all week, as democrats scramble to take the focus off of biden's connections with ukraine, game-changer in democratic primary. >> the left

biden is corrupt.rump is not. >> sean: and i'd like to know what did barack obama know about all of this. sunday nights, full hour. life, liberty. peter peered up next, my exclusive interview. vice president pence weighs in on this very thing. biden, the family dealings, ukraine, china, and the controversy over the whistle-blower. ♪ to put on our website? i mean i would have but i'm a commercial vehicle so i don't have hands... or a camera...or a website. should we franchise? is the market ready for that? can we franchise? how do you do that? meg! oh meg! we should do that thing where you put the business cards in the fishbowl and somebody wins something. -meg: hi. i'm here for... i'm here for the evans' wedding. -we've got the cake in the back, so, yeah. -meg: thank you. -progressive knows small business makes big demands. -you're not gonna make it, you're not gonna make it! ask her if we can do her next wedding too! -so we'll design the insurance solution that fits your business. -on second thought,

then does biden have to be investigated? and why is it so hard to get biden investigated? >> sean: well, let's talk about that. when are we going to do that, mr. mayor? >> i don't know. the scandal, the people who are choking america are the corrupt press. and the corrupt democrats that have been covering up this pay-for-play scheme now for two or three years. it's not just one situation. it's two situations. millions in the ukraine, bes in china. john kerry is involve in the one in china. >> so is whitey bulger's nephew? >> isn't that extraordinary? the money from china goes to whitey bulger's nephew, the stepson of the vice president of the united states and the son of the president and they're coming after me for revealing it. i should be -- i should be a whistleblower. i brought out what the washington press, the corrupt washington press has been covering up for two or three years. and to this moment, they believe it's more important to try to figure out did i conduct the investigation correctly as opposed to is what i found true but rocks the foundations of our govern

of argument hurting joe biden?ation they are hoping and believe that this is going to backfire on him. they're pointing to other moments in the debates where candidates like eric swalwell and kirsten gillibrand went after former vice president biden in personal terms and they are no longer in the race. but the biden campaign is aware that there are questions about his age and performance out there in the democratic primary field. you have biden himself say, yes, voters should consider this. if they have a problem with it, then don't vote for me. but now you have three democratic contenders questioning his stamina and mental ability and the question is this will affect voters as they consider -- >> but isn't also the point that castro was wrong about what biden said. that he had not actually contradicted himself. i thought that is what made this a cheap shot. it would be one thing if biden forget what he said, but he didn't forget what he said. >> there was an issue over the concept of opt in and buying in. >> i thi

. >> president trump also asked him to look into joe and hunter biden saying biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it and it sounds horrible to me. sources who actually know how presidential phone calls work say this transcript reflects standard procedure. it's however administration for decades has documented calls with foreign leaders. they also tell fox news they are confident it's accurate. we will learn more, shannon, tomorrow when the acting dni is up on capitol hill. shannon. >> shannon: we are going to watch very closely, gillian turner, thank you. >> you bet. >> shannon: a fox news alert, republican who serves on the house intelligence committee says the whistle-blower complaint has been declassified, he is encouraging everyone to read it, but we don't have a link, we don't have it, sojourning out, chad pergram. this all comes ahead of a really big hearing tomorrow but you got a tip from stuart this was going to be declassified. it sounds like it is, we're waiting to see if we get a look. >> set it on the air just last hour so i imm

, hunter biden, his son was involved with who wanted to meet joe biden.nd then hunter went with his father and joe biden and introduced his father, the vice president, to this asian partner who ultimately was arrested for corruption. and the partner's soash dwrait waassociate wasarrested for cor. this is dirty, dirty, dirty. in the end when everything comes up, if biden did play a central role in the energy policy in the ukraine and he's not going to try to turn the this around on donald trump, that's the biggest mistake of his life right now. >> judge, here's the interesting thing. i don't want to improperly accuse people of improper behavior. but adam schiff and his colleagues continue to spin the narrative over and over again of which they're guilty of. they'll accuse the president of colluding with rawsh sha. the only people that worked with with the russians was the dnc. i would think that the only people that actually worked with the ukrainians is that same group, the democrats and the hillary clinton campaign. and i think you'll see that. i welcome

the joe biden tonight was the joe biden that the influential early state democrats are seeing, for better or for worse. brett. >> the spin room obviously will get very busy in a matter of moment, as the candidates and secure fats come in trying to spin -- and surrogates come in trying to spin. it is tough not to be on this stage to continue that campaign. >> right, especially because it was three-hours long. the candidates had half a dozen opportunities teach get everything they wanted to say out there there were candidates tonight who did not make the debate stage who were in early states reek iowawh with a few dozen early state voters gathered but that is a few dozen compared to a few million who are be watching the show case tonight and this is because this is the first debate after labor day when a lot of political watchers think people who have not been involved so far are really going to start paying attention, so this might be the first team. and you know we have bernie sanders here, senator sanders, do you have time for a quick question. okay. senator sanders, the former. have, bi

joe biden?actually i didn't -- >> you never ask anything about hunter biden, never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked a bunch of varnish to get to the bottom of how it was -- he was appointed, dismissed the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> corseted ex-lax because you just said you didn't. spirited you ask the ukraine to look into it? >> rudy: said to me did i ever talk about joe biden, i said no. then i said i did say you should investigate joe biden and hunter biden. i corrected it immediately. i corrected it before he corrected it. the reality is the distinction is this, what they are trying to say as i went there for a political mission to kind of get joe biden in trouble. it ridiculous. i went there as a lawyer defending his client. i've known about this for five months. i've been trying to get people to cover this for five months sentiment will be very hard to get this out. one problem with this, it ukrainian collusion, which was la

biden. let's investigate. a source close to the white house says the president has been seething for months and that giuliani has been, quote, egging him on. the president in the contribukr repeatedly in a matter of minutes. you saw that last night on cnn with chris cuomo and rudy giuliani. contradicting himself not in minutes but in seconds. but the president contradicting himself in minutes today, first claiming the whistle-blower's compliment -- or complaint, excuse me, is, quote, a political hack job. >> it's a partisan whistle-blower. it shouldn't even have information. i've had conversations with many leaders that always propappropr. it's just another political hack job. that's all it is. >> so it's anonymous. he doesn't know who the whistle-blower. how does he know it's a partisan whistle-blower? moments later the president simultaneously claiming it didn't matter what he discussed. then doubling down on exactly what he reportedly discussed, his claim that somebody -- he didn't say who -- should look in

biden's dealings. this is the washington "times" today saying that those dealings are helping his father's rivals in this campaign. charlie sykes. >> yeah, i mean, the caller threw up a lot of things that i don't know are substantiated whatsoever. i haven't decided who i'm going to vote for. but what i find amazing, though, is that anyone who supports donald trump purports to be concerned about corruption, concerned about sleaze. this notion that, yes, we have to be concerned about joe biden because of these possible conflicts of interest, i mean, could you look in the mirror and look at what's going on with the president? and again, i do think that these issues have been well reported by people who have talked to the prosecutors, who have talked to officials in ukraine, and they say there's nothing here. there was no crime committed in the ukraine. there was nothing improper that was done. now, hunter biden was paid money to be on the board of directors of this company. did he pay all of the taxes he

you mentioned joe biden. did anything about betos a performance either meet or exceed expectations for him as someone who sort of is thought to have found his voice in el paso and odessa after those mass shootings? >> i have to say that practically every single candidate when they wanted to talk about el paso or they want to talk about gun reform, they tipped their hat to the leadership of beto. and beto owned it, and he did it gracefully. he talked what most candidates have been afraid up to this point to really talk about. he named racism as one of the things that is tearing this country apart and named that it falls at the foot of the white house. and that is refreshing, because if you can't say it out loud, you can't address it. >> maria teresa kumar, greetings from everybody here. you know everybody here. >> you guys are having so much fun. texas is having a great time. thanks for having me on. >> you'll be here next time. thanks for joining us. >> it's your punishment. >> from houston. and now i underst

>> i wasn't trying to get dirty information on biden. biden was in our way. the prosecutor fired who was investigating the collusion. that prosecutor, the new prosecutor, bought and paid for -- who is corrupt -- dismissed the case on hunter biden and on a company where a lot of the dirty information, including false information, came from. and if you think i'm just making this up, the american swamp media avoids the fact that in december of 2018 a ukrainian court found that there was illegal interference in the election. they named the particular parliamentarian who was guilty, and they say it was information illegally given to the hillary clinton campaign. that is a court decision. not rudy giuliani, but a ukrainian court. and i have four more affidavits like this. these are people who want to go under oath that say that false information and dirty information about the trump campaign was given to the american embassy, the democratic national committee, operateoffs for hillary clinton and the new york times. maria: so this goes back to the origins of the rus

and they could go even further and investigate joe biden, even though this is not about joe biden, but let's make it all clear. that is what i think should be done. host: ok, charlie sykes? obvious,at is the most logical and low risk strategy for democrats in congress. this committee should be bipartisan. nancy pelosi should invite mitch mcconnell to participate. let's get the facts on the table before we take any other steps. this should not be complicated, because number one, we -- once we see what the ig saw with the whistleblower report, if we get a transcript, it will be clear what happened. and then put it on public record what we know about what happened in ukraine with joe biden, which i think will turn out to be the fact that there is nothing there. but again, this can be done in a relatively short time. i am not naive enough to think it will not be caught up in the partisan back and forth, but this is up to congress. the bulk is in their court and nobody else will pick this up. a committee is expected to meet with the director of national intelligence, that will be on thursda

everybody who knows joe biden and supports joe biden will dig in deeper. they will be deeply, deeply, deeply concerned and upset about what trump is doing to the biden family. you have joe biden who lost his daughter and wife in a car accident. and then lost beau biden to brain cancer. this is joe biden's surviving son. this politically is losing very ugly for the trump campaign. that's the bottom line. up next, we'll dig into the new poll poll out of iowa. >>> plus. >> i'm going to call to you right now. i need everybody's help on my campaign, because we're not running an individual campaign, we will win this election not by dividing democrats, but have people that unite us and bring us together. we will win this election not by showing the worst of who we are, but the best of who we are. >> senator cory booker needs to raise millions of dollars and fast. we'll talk to the presidential contender whose campaign for the white house might be on borrowed time. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right ba

>> well, that's good for joe biden independe biden.s a battle for the soul of the democratic party. is it a progressive party with big programs, big ideas or big price tags or is it a party that's more centrist, more moderate and that's the battle that is starting to take shape here. >> all right. i appreciate both of your time very much. thank you. >> and next, breaking news. the pentagon just announcing deployment of troops to the middle east. so why? plus as millions take to the streets in what may be the largest climate protest in history, sanjay gupta has a special report you will only see here and it is about the climate crisis and what you eat. your actual nutrition now. performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that's the kind lincoln's about. ♪ you can stream and scroll through other people's vacations, or you can be the kind of person that books their own vacation. a booker. scootin'

to this day there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by hunter biden or joe biden.said is true, that joe biden, in cooperation with all of our allies, say that there's a corruption problem in ukraine. this guys at the center, and we need them out before we put additional -- >> the point i'm making, we should be misleading the american people that the president was the one who brought up biden first, and brought up giuliani first. that was brought up by zelensky and referencing the corruption and the draining of the swamp in the ukraine. >> no, he brought it because president -- this is incredible, by the way, to me, jason -- he was empowering giuliani to go over there, and suggesting to zelensky, "contact my attorney general." as president of the united states, he is the chief law enforcement officer. unless you want to say it's the attorney general. if he believed something wrong happened involving an american citizen, joe biden, hunter biden, he should say, "you investigate." we don't go to another country and say, "you do the investigations." >> where draining th

make every sandwich count with oscar mayer deli fresh. >>> tonight joe biden hits joe biden. former vice president telling a group of donors about his debate performance and i quote him. i thu i could have done better. i will do better. god willing. that coming as his campaign is calling julian castro attack on the vice president a cheap shot and low blow. during a discussion about healthcare he attacked biden's memory. let me play the exchange. >> your plan would not -- >> they do not have to buy in. >> you just said that two minutes ago. they would have to buy in. are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? are you forgetting already what you said two minutes ago? >> the former vice president is now shrugging off the criticism. >> i don't view it as anything. he got his facts wrong. >> medical records address concerns. >> what concerns. you want to wrestle? >> so look, it was a moment that -- it was the moment. last night. what does the biden campaign make of this attack by julian castro? >> joe biden campaign is arguing this is going to backfire against julian castro

, biden can't make the argument any long. >> will be certain biden more than donald trump?this is why donald trump was elected, you get sick and tired of seeing a politician, who knows nothing, $6000 a year. >> the real casualties joe biden's candidacy. donald trump's side will energize his base, nothing turns out your base more than when you feel your choice for office has been unfairly treated. extended continuation of this witchhunt. this has to do with when the democrats overplay their hand on brett kavanaugh, turning out republicans, it is going to strengthen the president's chances, the only casualties joe biden. >> we appreciate it. jillian: 9 minutes until the top of the hour. different decades, different party. >> the republican majority is not judging the president with fairness but impeaching him with a vengeance. >> democrats, the ultimate hypocrites about impeachment. >> the trump campaign cashing in on the latest move from democrats. carly shimkus here to talk about a huge fundraising hall by the trump campaign. . ♪ baby, you just someone new ♪ yeah, you just

anybody think biden didn't raise the game? >> i think joe biden certainly showed a lot more fire. he was less on the defensive than he has been in some of the previous debate nights. it was the first time he shared the stage with senator elizabeth warren who comes off as a much more effective manager for the progressive wing of the democratic party that bernie sanders -- >> why, why is she better? >> she delivers it with a great deal of clarity. she had a strong line, she said, i never met any american who likes their health insurance companies. that's something that will stick with people in terms of why she's offering big, bold proposals. that's still the debate that played out, whether or not they want to lead a grassroots progressive movement or whether democratic voters are more driven by that incremental change, that steady hand that joe biden and some of the more moderate candidates are advocating. >> all right, so play to that, but almost anybody speak it up tonight? >> i would actually push back then against that a bit -- >> the warren part or the biden? >> the warren par

you said i went there to get dirt on joe biden. do you know what i found out about joe biden?i told my colleague? they're going to cover this up. i got a nice straight case of ukrainian collusion. the minute i say biden, that washington press corps is going to go nuts. they've been covering up for years. john: now you're straying into areas -- >> no, i'm not. i'm straying into what is wrong with us today -- john: we need to point out that the prosecutor who was appointed after shokin was fired, resurrected, reanimated the case and found that hunter biden was, in fact, paid millions of dollars, but he said that the board was able to pay a board member whatever they wanted, and he didn't see anything wrong with that. >> so distorted. john: i'm just stating the facts. >> if you did any work, you'd find out this is the prosecutor that biden put n. there's a newspaper article in which he approves him when he's appointed. doesn't that strike you as odd that the vice president would approve a particular prosecutor? did you ever bother to look? let me finish -- john: one other point w

biden punched back.son about his overseas business dealings, this was biden's response. >> here is what i know. i know trump deserves to be investigated. he's violating every basic norm of a president. you should be asking him the question. why is he on the phone with a foreign leader trying to intimidate a foreign leader if that's what happened. that appears to be happening. you should be looking at trump. i will beat him like a drum. he's using abusive power of every element to smear me. everybody looked at this and said there is nothing there. ask the right question. >> it is worth asking. are democrats at large prepared to fight the same battle again against donald trump for foreign election interference and media both sides in this. does the party know how to fight the game in this and win. joining me now, our maria kumar and jennifer rubin and jonathan capehart. >> it is like a rerun of whatever donald trump has done is levelled out at least in the media but zeroing in on something of his potential

he said improprieties were suspected bite joe biden's son, hunter biden.other official, you would want to have it looked into. so he argues that the fact of the matter is it wouldn't have mattered if this were joe biden or somebody else. and that it doesn't matter that this was the president's direct political opponent this year. so i'm looking at your twitter and you say you don't need explicit quid pro quo to betray the country. we will get to the bottom of the president's conduct. are you on the same page, that maybe that's not exactly what happened anyway? >> there is no evidence there was any impropriety with biden. the president of the united states should not be involved in that. that's why we have a law enforcement -- >> harris: how do you know there was no evidence? joe biden hasn't talked about it. he just wants the fingers pointed at his opponents. >> okay. harris, there is no evidence. the ukrainians have said there is no evidence. multiple media outlets have said there is no evidence. but if you want to show me evidence, i'm open minded. let's

son, hunter biden there.ory. we don't know where it's going to end up, and we've only heard from the president through twitter. we still haven't heard from him on camera today, but joe biden clearly angered and clearly going on the offense. alex? >> quite clearly so. hans nichols from the white house. thank you for that. joining me now, california representative john garamendi. w welcome back to the broadcast, sir. i know you heard the strong reaction from joe biden. in fact, we saw you through the camera nodding your head to that. what is your take to his response? >> he's doing exactly what should be done and what congress should also be doing. we need to push back on this president. this president's conduct is absolutely outrageous, most of it is illegal. quite probablied it engage in extort i extorting the new president, selenski, of ukraine, eight times. he did -- you notice the president didn't deny that he had said those things. we want the tapes. we want the information. we want to end the stone-calli

where are joe biden's documents? let's put forth the proof that they really thought this guy had the evidence. he has not done that. >> sean: i don't think it's possible. we are going to have you back tomorrow and get in even more detail. you've been busy with this all day, this is only the beginning of 450 pages.john solomon, than. here with reaction former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia joe digenova. a former deputy assistant attorney general victoria toensing. you heard what he said, you see what is reported, it is prettyep obvious there are a billion reasons they fired a guy in six? >> we've known from the very beginning mr. shokin was not a corrupt prosecutor. we've known he was removed from office under pressure from vice president biden because he was investigating the vice president's son and because of his connection to burisma holdings. it's precisely why the democrats have undertaken this new move against the president of the united states with his corrupt allegation that there was something wr

joe biden on the attack. the showdown is headed. >> trump is doing this because he knows i will beat him like a

. >> he also asked to look into joe and hunter biden saying biden was bragging he stopped prosecution so if you can look into it it sounds pretty horrible to me. sources who actually know how presidential phone calls work say this krantz ripped was standard procedure, however he administration for decades has called for leaders and also told fox news they are confident it is accurate. we will learn more when the acting dni is on capitol hill. >> we will watch closely, thank you. this fox news alert, republican chris towery serves on the house intelligence committee says the whistleblower complaint has been declassified, urging everyone to read it. we don't have it yet. joining me, chad program. this comes at a big hearing tomorrow but you got a tip that this was going to be declassified, sounds like it is, we are waiting to see. >> stuart set on air in the last hour so i got in touch with him. he had left the bureau to say what do we know about this and all we know is it has been declassified and this is why this is important. when joe mcguire, acting director of national intelligence

but from the biden perspective, they'll tell you, well, that goes to show you can't go after joe bidenpay a price. kamala went up in the polls and she settled back down or below. all the other campaigns have looked at that and said all right, how do you go after biden, but have it stick? first thing is you have to do it subtly, but biden himself is very well liked by democrats. >> right. >> if it's really too tough and obnoxious, that could backfire on you. >> you don't want to look mean. >> people like the guy. that's very hard. and the second part is you have to have a post-debate strategy. >> right. >> it has to play into some message and larger theme about why you're the candidate. things i'm looking for is someone like -- do people take on biden's bond with obama? do they take on any of the big legislation of the obama era and the obama/biden record. does castro go back and talk about their sort of spotty checkered record on immigration. >> right. >> does, you know, klobuchar attack, go after biden on any of that? she really has been very, very hard to get her to say anything bad

they go hire biden, hunter biden. they go hire a guy who is having a drug problem.t in the military? joe pulled strings to get him in. he was only there less than a year and he got caught with cocaine. now, you're going to put a kid on a board like this who is a cocaine abuser? and pay him $1 million a year? here's how you pay him. they didn't give him a check, didn't give him a wire. they sent $3 million from ukraine to latvia, to cypress, to the u.s. when the prosecutor who got fired zeroed in on cypress and demanded the money, the cyprian told him the u.s. embassy, obama's u.s. embassy intervenedd told them not to give the amount of money. the president of th ukraine cald him in and said biden wants you fired. he zeroed in on the $3 million laundered to the son. you don't get paid if it's legit. this is the best proof you can have of intent. goes from ukraine -- anybody get paid that way? ukraine, laug latvia, cypress. maria: the president's sceptics are not focused on that at all. look, i understand -- believe me, we just came off of the require sha -- >> we hav

those are joe biden's words.hat is concerning to me. >> bret: if the president did as is being reported, "the washington post" now does match "the wall street journal," he mentioned numerous times to the president of ukraine while the u.s. is considering $250 million in aid to ukraine, is that implicit quid pro quo to get this investigation kick-start a? >> you don't have any of the facts. let's wait until next thursday. let's go through the appropriate channels. how many times have we learned this lesson before? let's just say -- i'm not going to speculate that it happened. >> bret: let me just say, would something like that be a problem for you? >> you know what will be a problem for me? for me to speculate without knowing the facts. i want our president of the united states to have relations with every country. i want our president to be able to talk to those leaders and i think it is inappropriate that all these people are going to listen to these conversations and selectively put something out and then have

two years before joe biden successfully pushed to remove the prosecutor general, biden was also joined in his anti-corruption push against the prosecutor by numerous leaders in europe as well as the international monetary fund, none of whom had any family ties to baresma, which was the company -- >> hunter biden was on the board, and that did create a conflict of interest for joe, no question about it. >> and should be investigated. they did investigate it. >> they did. let me read from the "washington post." joe biden traveled to the ukraine, as you said. it was not a demand to stop baresma prosecution and there's no evidence the prosecutor was after hunter biden, the current prosecutor general in ukraine said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by either biden. politifact. we found no evidence to support the idea that joe biden advocated with his son's interests in mind, as the message suggests. it's not even clear that the company was actually under investigation or that a change in prosecutors benefited it. that's three. there are probably 20 more, but go on. you read one as well. >>

the son of his presidential rival, joe biden. hunter biden was a paid executive. asking a foreign government to address possible corruption before being the beneficiary of u.s. aid isn't itself illicit, but it becomes problematic and becomes potentially criminal. critics say leveraging the presidency could rise to the level of extortion and conspiracy. trump raises similar questions of propriety about vice president biden to hear rudy giuliani tell it, when in march of 2016 the then-vice president threatened ukraine with the loss of $1 billion in loan guarantees, unless it fired a prosecutor. then looking at a company where hunter biden had ties, it was joe biden who was leveraging his office. ironically it would be the trump administration that held up financial support for ukraine, due to concerns about corruption. trump and giuliani make their claims despite reports that say the investigation of hunter biden had already been shelved by the time vice president biden threatened the loss of loan guarantees. "the new york times" notes that quote hunter biden sat on