weijia jiang is white house correspondent for cbs newsnd dan balz is chief correspondent for "the washington post." welcome to youll. and weijia, let's start with you. becauseou are out there traveling wit the president in new hampshire at his rally tonight. d the story going into the week from the democts last week was this is a nation in trouble. with the pandemic, the economy, and uncertainty ahead, you're with the president and his am do they think that they changedhat storyline? weijia: it is incredibly louder just because the crowd was he cheering for president. but i can tell you that what we ard tonight, what he's talkg about rig now is really an extension of what hep ented during his acceptance speech yesterday on the sou lawn. and, you know, the campaign promised that he would deliver praringsal message. e andas -- aspirational messagecaut e he focused so much on joe biden in order to draw that contrast it reallyn has b a long string of dire warnings to americans about what kind of the country they would live in if t democrats were to win. and so instead o focusing on his prioritie

joining us, "washington post" chief correspondent dan balz. thank you for joining us. this changes the focus for the voters, maybe that's a good thing. >> it does change the focus of the voters. as i talk to the people involved in the campaign and those tracking the campaign, one of the things they say is that covid has overwhelmed everything in the way people are thinking about their lives and politics. somebody said to me yesterday, they do focus groups and the moderator tries to get people to talk about something else and it always comes back to the pandemic and the way they are trying to deal with it and all of the problems that a lot of people are having with that, not just in the health and safety but obviously economically. and this question now that we're facing about education, what happens with schoolchildren and what happens with college students. but i think that the other thing that has happened as a result of that is that it has focused, as you suggested, even more attention on the performance of president trump. all reelection campaigns, as you know, are

. >> host: to sarah palin's book itself, dan balz wrote in the post over the weekend and asks is palin's book tour merely an opening chapter could provide subtext to her political plans, particularly any presidential aspirations. so in addition to her book, the tour follows, various states, mauler cities from what -- smaller cities from what we understand. the but it provides a discussion for what kind of political future she may have. in defining a political philosophy that could help her party win elections and turning into a viable national candidate. first of all, there's something called palinism. [laughter] >> guest: there's definitely palin critics. i'm not quite sure we've hit palinism yet, though i think balz makes an excellent point because that is the $50,000 question, will she be able to take this great support she is from the grassroots and make it into something bigger. i think if she adopted a free market populism saying run against washington, run against the e recents trying to manage the economy and trying to design america according to their e own theories about how so

we never heard why kimberly guilfoyle delivered her speech at that volume but we did learn from dan balz that i'm not the only one that thinks these are the signs of a campaign very worried about its base turning out again. he writes, those are not the words are a confident incumbent, and for good reason. trump and his campaign have been struggling for months, no matter what they have tried. their efforts have moved polls only marginally with biden still in the lead. trump trails nationally and in battleground states by margins wide enough that if the election were held now, he would probably lose, a.b. >> right. i think that this is his last opportunity to use a lot of fear in a cohesive way that he might not be able to in the debates to energize his base with. so in the debates, he's going to bark, scream, be on offense the whole time putting on a big show. this was planned by other people to really highlight the best of his accomplishments, and i think they did so pretty effectively actually. it was not a whole night of kimberly guilfoyle screaming and don junior talking about trying