joining me is david axelrod, also cnn political reporter, anchor of inside politics and gloria borger. david, i have to start with you. you were critical of the campaign in 2008. also a cnn contributor, published an internal document from the 2008 campaign. essentially pointing out the strategy that then senator obama used to defeat hillary clinton and a strategy of basically pointing out raising questions about her -- about trust, about her convictions, whether she actually has a political -- a soul of strong political convictions. >> as you point out, the memo isn't very revel torrey. because the strategy followed. we recognize that she had significant political assets. she's smart, she's tough, she's experienced and we'll see some of that, i think, tonight. >> does she still face the same and she's just arriving we're told any minute here at the hall. does she still face some of those questions about obviously about trust, about her political convictions? sniemts although she faces them more among independent and republican voters than among democrats. who give her high ratings on

let's bring in cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. rying to read the tea leaves about vice president biden's possible run for the white house. what are your sources telling you? >> my sources are telling me and our colleague jeff zeleny. we have spoken to people who have spoken directly with the vice president. and they say lately he sounds more like somebody who is really leaning towards a run. that he's more interested in the mechanics of a race. that he's telling people you'd be surprised at the number of people who i'm hearing from. and that, jake, he really doesn't seem to be concerned about losing, which was surprising to me. that he told one of our sources that, look, if i lose, so what. i've lost before. and i'll pick myself up and i'll just go on with the rest of my life. so they are saying no decision has been officially made, but the joe biden they're talking to now is very different from the joe biden they were talking to say a month ago. >> interesting. gloria borger, thank you so much. >>> this programming note, you can w

i want to go first to our non-partisan team, cnn political analyst david garrigan, gloria borger and also, senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. carl, you covered a lot of hillary clinton and you've seen a lot of hearings over the years. what do you make of this? >> i thought we got a great look at who president clinton would be, a competence and command over the scene she was being asked to testify under. she knew the issues. there was very impressive and you have to go back to joe mccarthy, to the house on american committee to find a process as abusive in a congressional hearing as this was. >> you think you go back to mccarthy here. >> i do. i think this was a reckless and outrageous hearing and the process is. that said, she has a problem with stone walling on the question of these e-mails and her server. the fbi is looking at it and that's probably the appropriate place but i think we got a real look at who hillary clinton would be as president. how she, her comportment, her composure, the terms of policy and familiarity with the issues down in the weeds. the fact she had been o

peter, paul, donna brazil and gloria borger as i like to call them, the killer bs. all bs. anyway. gloria, donna, when you look -- >> you can call me gloria, that's your mother's name. >> i know, that's my mom's name and you like my mom. when you look at his numbers among african americans, secretary clinton decimates him among african americans. her support is overwhelming, particularly if biden isn't in the race. how does he begin to change that because that's essential if he wants legs beyond iowa and new hampshi hampshire. >> there is no question bernie sanders -- >> going back, he was sitting at the university of chicago to desegregate housing. >> he's been a champion but he's also been a senator of vermont. you been to vermont lately? every time i go there i double the black population. he needs to campaign in the black community and campaign all across america. he needs to them them about his record and he may, you know, move up a little bit. let me tell you, hillary clinton is considered a sister. i don't know if y'all know what that means. >> she's done the work, been there

i want to bring in chief political analyst, gloria borger. our chief national correspondent, john king and cnn political commentator, michael smerconish. you've been reporting on bernie sanders, debate strategy, how tough is he going to be going up against hillary clinton? >> i think he's going to give pointed answers. if she challenges him, he will challenge her right back. if she says, bernie, how are you going to pay for all of these wonderful things like free college tuition? she's going to go right back on her. he's not going to be afraid to differ with her. he's going to say i've been consistent over the last three decades. you have not been consistent. and then, what he needs to do, and what they're concerned about he needs to show himself as presidential. somebody who is electable as president of the was not just a democratic socialist, right? >> that's what he calls himself, democratic socialist. he's not a capitalist, he's made that point. >> that's right. he needs to show he can win the presidency. >> you've moderated these debates

he's here with me together with gloria borger. listen to what hillary clinton said when she was asked if he was a progressive or moderate democrat. listen to her answer. >> i'm a progressive, but i'm a progressive who likes to get things done, and i know how to find common ground, and i know how to stand my ground. >> what did you think of that answer? >> i mean, it's an impolice it critique of sander's of the idea that he's a wild haired progressive. in that way, it's great. this idea that she can bring people together, i think, it's also sort of a critique of sanders. she's saying his agenda is too far left. but this idea, i think it contradicts the other idea that she's enemy number one of the republican party. she's trying to accomplish many things in that answer, and i think the kind of take away we'll hear is her idea of being a pragmatist. >> she said her enemy is the gop, the republican party. >> and this is sometimes, i don't know if it's kplekt wall inconsistency, i don't know the term. sometimes she's competing in a dem

joining us is gloria borger and the national journal, our cong rogers. gloria, here is the clip.ent said about it while she served as secretary of state. he said this on cbs. >> did you know about hillary clinton's use of private e-mail server? >> no. >> while she was secretary of state? >> no. >> do you think it posed a national security problem? >> i don't think it posed a national security problem. i think it's a mistake she's acknowledged. i do think that the way its been ginned up is in part because of politics. >> is this going to be a huge issue at this debate tomorrow night? >> i don't think so because 68% of democrats, don't forget, this is a primary fight. 68% of democrats believe hillary clinton is honest and trustworthy. if you're another candidate on the stage with hillary clinton, you're not going to say you're dishonest or not trustworthy and remember when barack obama said in 2008 she wasn't likable enough? that was a problem for obama. i think they are going to stay away from that. as for republicans in the general, absolutely. absolutely. >> mike rogers, you wer

so gloria borger, our chief political analyst, joining me now.e sources that are thinking this? what is the vice president asking them or telling them? >> in our reporting and talking to people who have spoken with the vice president himself, they are telling me and my colleague that the vice president does not seem to be concerned that if he got into this race he could lose. that he has told someone i lost before and always managed to come back from it. that he also seems to see this as a political opening, particularly after an entire life spent in public service that a sitting vice president should not cast aside. he's also told a source of ours that, quote, you'd be surprised at the people that he has heard from who would come out and support him. he doesn't think that organization r or money would be a problem. so overall, when you put it all together, he hasn't made a final decision. we are also told that, but he sounds more and more like somebody who is leaning towards a run. >> so in reading the reporting, some of the quotes and sources t

, cnn political reporter nia-malika henderson and john king of "inside politics" chief analyst gloria borger and david axelrod, former chief adviser of president obama. david, let me start with you. what moments stood out for you tonight? >> it's been true for several cycles is you want to get a big hand at a republican debate go after the media, and i think ted cruz did that to great effect tonight. he repeat the the moment that newt gingrich had four years ago in which he brought the house down by going after the media. marco rubio started it in response to a question about his attendance, and i actually think those two guys have a good night. i have a humility in judging these republican debates now because i've been misled at times by my own reaction. the one thing i feel pretty sure about tonight is the certain loser in tonight's debate was jeb bush. i think he had a very bad moment with marco rubio, very passive most of the night. john kasich stole the governing conservative mantle away from him or the lead mantle, and i think a lot of his supporters will be very, very glum tomorrow mo

. >>> "outfront" now, david gergen and gloria borger. gloria, let me start with you. clinton spoke out no fewer than 45 times in favor of this trade deal. this week she says she's against it. that's pretty tea damning, isn't it? >> yeah, i think it is. when you look at her words, parsing hillary's words, she said, as of today i am not in favor of what i have learned about it. so does that mean that at a certain point she could say, well, okay, that was then and this is now if she believes that during a general election she might want to -- she might want to switch a little bit? you know, i think it is pretty damning. >> and david, to this point, this seems to be the reason that people rate clinton as dishonest. the top four word associations for hillary clinton, this has been done before and a couple days ago, liar, dishonest, untrustworthy and fake were the four words. this would be part of the reason why. >> well, i think that's right. i must say, flip-flopping happens a lot in politics, but given her narrative, given the prevailing story that she's -- you can't tru

so let's talk about all of this with chief political analyst gloria borger. ks for coming up. chump and clinton reestablishing their leads in these key states. what do you make of that? >> well, look, they're the leaders in the national polls. it would make sense to me for them to lead in these three states. and let me point one thing out about ohio. no republican ever wins the presidency without winning ohio. so it's key. and if mitt romney had won all of these three states, he'd be president of the united states right now. another thing that's really important about florida and ohio is that they come later in march, march 15, and they are winner-take-all primaries. it's not like early states where you gather some delegates here and it's proportional here and there. these states are really important because you can soup up a whole bunch of delegates so this is very good news for both of these candidates. >> certainly. and not good news especially for marco rubio, jeb bush, and john kasich. they're not ahead more in the states that they represent. right? >> no

. >> gloria borger, what about bernie sanders? did he achieve what he wanted to? >> he did in a way. he spoke to the supporters and base to the democratic party. i'm not sure he made the case as to why he's electable as a candidate. i think he had a rough moment when hillary clinton surprisingly to me took him on on gun control, an issue on which she's been consistent and he has been inconsistent. i don't think he was kind of ready for that attack from her and i think she did extraordinarily well. i agree with david. she was so adept at making herself the candidate of both experience and change. it's kind of hard to do that. >> she clearly was prepared. she had gone through rehearsal after rehearsal getting ready for this. she anticipated these questions and the criticism she would get from some of the candidates. >> let's give anderson credit. i thought the questions were focused and appropriate. it was an adult debate yet thoroughly entertaining. >> i want to play a clip for you. our senior reporter is with us. she's been accused of flip-flopping, especially on

this is actually reporting by gloria borger, a source familiar with biden's thinking.ucial points in the time line as far as why not to run. one, the colbert appearance where he bore his soul, hard to pivot out of that. number two, the congressman clyburn remarks on monday saying that biden would not be doing him any favors by getting in. your reaction. >> brooke, i think that makes a lot of sense. remember that appearance on colbert, vice president joe biden spoke very movingly about the death of your son. once you've said it's going to be very difficult for your family to get to a point where you're emotionally able to conduct a presidential run, that was only a few weeks ago, it becomes very difficult to then argue that they actually have reached that point, though the vice president did say that his family is doing a lot better now. and the south carolina point is very significant because, if biden had gotten into this race, he was somewhere behind in iowa. there wasn't really space for him in new hampshire where hillary clinton and bernie sa sanders are both very

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let's bring in our senior political reporter knee area malik ask a henderson and gloria borger.ecessarily all that encouraging in florida and ohio for the native sons if trump is doing so much better. >> look, the outsiders, just like they are in the national polls, right? they're doing really well. i think what's really discouraging here is the results for jeb bush. if you look at the polling, these are three states by the way that if mitt romney had won in 2012 he would have been president of the united states. so these are three important swing states. if you look at jeb bush's numbers, in florida he's behind marco rubio. now, that's within the margin of error but still behind marco rubio. but in ohio bush is at 4%. that is not good for him. rubio is at 7% and in pennsylvania bush is at 4% also which ties him with none other than mike huckabee. so if you've invested $100 million in that campaign and you're looking at these battleground numbers you're saying there is something your candidate is not doing that he should be doing. >> i looked at pennsylvania by the way. the form

. >> gloria borger is with us as well. thank you all for joining us. to -- actually, it's not good to have you here considering the subject matter but i appreciate you joining me tonight. phillip, the president said put the numbers side by side. so tell us what we're looking at right now. >> we actually -- a month ago he made this argument that the number of people who had been killed in the united states smaller than the number of gun deaths. it's true by a large margin. over a month ago there had been over 8,000 killed in gun violence whereas the number of people killed in terrorist attacks was far less. >> how did you come up with these numbers? >> there's a great database that collects the number of deaths by guns. i believe it's the university of maryland that files that data. >> you said it was the angriest you've seen the president since after newtown. he has said that one of his biggest faults, his regrets, will be not getting as much done or anything done, in his estimation, about gun violence. >> that is exactly right. what you heard from the

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joining me, gloria borger and cnn political commentator dan pfeiffer who was a senior adviser to presidentbeen calling sources again tonight. how does this politico article and the pushback from the vice president's office factor into joe biden's timetable? >> everybody i talked to who considers themselves an ally of joe biden says to me, look, there's a lot more pressure now for joe biden to make a decision sooner rather than later. i'm told there's going to be a family conversation this weekend which could be conclusive. and even his friends are saying, look, he's lost control of his own story. you know, people don't vote for someone for president because they have sympathy for you. they vote for someone for president because they have a message and they believe you're going to be a strong leader and they think he needs to get to that part of his message really quickly if he's going to get in. >> dan, regardless of who told maureen dowd what and for what reason, is there a risk for the vice president being seen as indecisive? he's obviously grieving. there are realities, particularly tim

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let's discuss what is going on with gloria borger and senior washington correspondent jeff zellany. he was the most angry as i called him. they used to call him no drama obama but he was dramatic today. >> i think obama was raw there. i think he was furious. he was frustrated. he's exasperated, wolf, and this is a president who said all of us are collectively answerable to those families, and what the president did, which is different from what he's done before is said to people, if you care about the gun control issue, make this a single issue. vote on this issue, which is what all the progun control groups really want. >> let me run another little clip of the president, jeff, listen to this. >> we spend over a trillion dollars and pass countless laws and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil and rightfully so. and yet, we have a congress that explicitly blocks us from even collecting data on how we could potentially reduce gun deaths. how can that be? >> really blaming congress for the lack of what he calls sensible gun control legislation. he's tried,

square off tomorrow night, let's bring in michael smerconish, also our chief political analyst, gloria borger. hillary clinton is doing great against bernie sanders in nevada, south carolina. >> right. >> it's much closer in new hampshire and iowa, the first two contests. >> yes. she knows she's got troubles. she's behind in new hampshire, very close in iowa. i think the clinton campaign, our polls today are good news for them. what they're trying to do is establish a fire wall just in case they lose iowa and new hampshire. that wouldn't be good news. doing well in a state like nevada, lots of hispanics, she's been talking about immigration, doing well in the south. she's very popular with african-american voters. bernie sanders is less of a well known quantity. he's got a lot of work to do on his national i.d. and to present himself as somebody who is electable. that's what he'll try and do here tomorrow night. >> speaking about african-american voters, michael, 59% of black voters in our new poll back clinton compared to 27% for vice president biden. 4% for bernie sanders. this is in south

is senior advisor of the proclinton super pact correct the record and nia mallika henderson and gloria borgergovernor, as a clinton supporter, do you worry when you hear, you see the enthusiasm for bernie sanders, huge crowds that have turned out tomorrow on that stage in terms of senator clinton, senator clinton or secretary clinton going after each other, can she afford to alienate that kind of enthusiasm? that support? >> i don't think she will. she will want to welcome and invite them assuming she gets the nomination but so much of that huge crowd buildup has to do with people feeling angry about inequality and lack of jobs, particularly young people saying where is our middle class and upper middle class. to me, the republican haves done an unbelievable job about taking her away from being able to talk about those policies so tomorrow, anderson, when you have them on the stage, i am so excited to hear actual substance from the candidates about this. if you ask hue does a poll about the number one issue americans believe is the most important for politicians to address, it's always jobs i

. >> gloria borger, have you ever seen the rnc react like that after a debate? >> no, but if i was reice preibus i would be okay with all of this. the debate had the effect of uniting all the republicans against the media, which is something that works really, really well with the base. that's one of the reasons why donald trump didn't come out and blast the debate, even though he called some of the questions nasty during the debate. he didn't have to. it was already -- all the other candidates were doing it. reince priebus was doing it. he was smart enough to know once it was over, he dependent need to carry the lead on that because other people were doing it. and so if you're a republican and you're looking for who you want to vote for in the primary, it gave all of these candidates an opportunity to have a mutual enemy. and i think it worked for all the candidates, in particular, i think it worked for ted cruz. it started with marco rubio, who took on the media. and then cruz carried the torch and the others followed and i think it gave cruz a terrific debate

we have cnn senior political commentator david axelrod, cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger and national correspondent john king. david, let me start with you. you were with mr. obama, then-senator obama, president obama now, of course, preparing to debate hillary clinton. she's a pretty good debater. >> very good. she's polished she's crisp, fluent in issues. i don't think that's the challenge for her. the challenge for her is to take all of the policies, some of which she's adopted recently, and weave them together into something coherent and believable that people can hang on to. that is the challenge for her in this debate. >> you heard david allude to some of the positions that she's taken on recently, which is a polite way of suggesting that she has veered to the left on a lot of issues, including on a pacific trade deal that she helped write, let's be honest, and her baby, now distanced herself. >> it was the goal standard. now it's not what she thought it would be. >> going for platinum. >> maybe going for platinum in vegas. that's one less than 2008. she's protecting he

dana bash is going to join us withwe lea e elise labott and gloria borger. what did you hear, dana? >> well, after all of the hours, the question to trey gowdy is what now he learned and the answer was a little bit surprising. let's listen. >> i think that some of jimmy jordan's questioning, and when you say new today, ameae i mean knew some of that already in the e-mails. and you mean her testimony, new? >> yes. >> well, i would have to go back to look at the transcript, but i don't believe anything that she has not testified to earlier. >> and people being the question to spend nine hour on it if you don't believe she produced anything that she has not said before. >> well, i have to go back to look at the transcripts to see if she said anything new or not, but you have to talk to the secretary of state, and you is to talk to her after you gain access to the documents, and so really the better question, dana, with all due respect is how the previous committees were able to write the reports with how they didn't have access to what we have access to. >> and that is the fundamental

. >> our chief political analyst, gloria borger. >> who do you think is going to stand out?idn't say when. i said stand out. >> there are the wildcards. so anything could happen with those folks. with webb or chafee. they could stand out just by being outrageous and getting noticed, right? >> right. >> i think bernie sanders is the one here who really has to stand out, though. because bernie sanders is doing very well, but he has to prove that he's a president. that he's electable. that somebody who calls himself a democratic socialist can actually win an election and appeal to a broader base of people. democrats will be watching this debate, but independents will also be watching this debate. i think bernie sanders has to stand out. >> he has to stand out. but hillary clinton has to stand out as authentic. sean is referencing the poll that we've brought up, a poll of all voters, republicans and democrats, untrustworthy, dishonest. we have the memo here from 2008. the obama campaign. they said those very things about her. >> sure. >> that was her own side of the aisle. >> ri

. >> joining me now is david axelrod and gloria borger.t is your understanding how this came about because the vice president sounded like a candidate and this morning the tone changed and this kind of arranged rose garden speech. >> look, i think this is the nature of the last three months and a real tug and pull between his heart and his head. he clearly wanted to be running for president. that speech he gave today was an announcement speech between a decoloration, of non-candidacy but the politicians were not good and not getting better. clinic clean had been gaining strength. bernie sanders gained strength. a lot of folks were committed. a lot of money, a lot of organizers were committed and i just think the press of reality came in and as he said time ran out and he finally came to that conclusion last night. >> and gloria, especially after the debate, it was hard to imagine what political lane biden would position himself in. >> it did but he spent much of this week positioning himself in that little piece of space as he started, you

joining me now is cnn chief political analyst gloria borger and dan pfeiffer, who was a senior adviser to president obama. how does the push back from the vice president's office play in joe biden's timetable? >> everyone that i've talked to who considers joe biden an ally, there's a lot more pressure now for joe biden to make a decision sooner rather than later. i'm told there's going to be a family conversation this weekend which could be conclusive and even his friends of the sympathies for you and they believe they are going to be a strong leader and they think he needs to get to that part of the message really quickly if he's going to get in. >> dan, regardless of who told maureen what and for what reason, is there a risk that he's being seen as indicecisive? >> i think people are going to give him a very wide birth to make this decision. i don't think the public perception is an issue. what is an issue is that eventually he's going to run out of time because of the logistical nuts and bolts. >> when does he have to get in or not? >> probably within a few weeks of that. he's proba

i want to bring in jake tapper and also gloria borger and brianna keilar. this is clear ly a difficult decision for the vice president, jake. it is not an e easy decision. i think that the instinct was to go for it, but practically speaking, he, himself, acknowledged that unfortunately, he thought that he was out of time. >> it is very clear that he thinks that he would be the best president of everyone running. there is really no reason for him to take these kind of the dings that hillary clinton is saying at the democratic debate that she is proudest of the enemies that are republicans, which he did again today, and he did it again today. >> fourth time. >> and no reason for him the to do that other than to contrast himself. he feels in the gut that he'd be a better president than hillary clinton or any of the other nominees and certainly more than any of the other republicans, and clinton values not as good as biden values, and clinton is divisive and yet he is, and there is no path for him to the nomination. in the cnn poll with biden tested, and joe bi

gloria borger, curious, how do you think the secretary, the former secretary of state did? >> i think she did what she needed to do. i think she did a good job. i think her body language to me, we were talking about it at the table here, told it all, you know, at the beginning she kind of centered herself, ready for the incoming. and when the -- when the committee devolved into, you know, partisan wrangling between the chairman and the ranking member, she just kind of sat there like this. as if, is there anything else you can flip the channel to. she had this sort of bemused look almost. it was perfect. because she just sat back and the wrangling is actually what workings for her. i would also have to say at the beginning of the hearing, congressman roskam asked a very legitimate question, which is i think this policy in libya was bad. you own the bad libya policy. he tried to kind make that point. she said it was the president's policy. we were just, you know, we were carrying it out. then you had a congresswoman, brooks, saying you were derelict in your duties. it seemed

>> this is reporting that comes from gloria borger who is getting from a source close to the vice president that there is going to be a family meeting in his home in delaware this weekend, and there's going to be a lot of discussion, continuing discussion about whether he will, in fact, take the plunge into the presidential race, but gloria is reporting that this weekend the conversation will finally be conclusive. when i say finally, it's because as we all know, we have been reporting from multiple sorts these are discussions that have been ongoing for quite some time. but this weekend could be the actual time where we know, and it is announced, what joe biden will do. >> is it a discussion, and is there a decision that will follow or we don't know, dana? >> we don't know. for sure we don't know. but all signs are pointing to that, and i think it's becoming more and more clear from sources i'm talking to, sources gloria and jeff zela,000,000 ami and oe are talking to, it's clear inside the biden camp he has to do something soon. you know, never mind cnn's debate next week, but just even pe

and i want to go to the nonpartisan team of cnn political analysts, david gergen, gloria borger and carl bernstein who has a best selling biographer of hillary clinton, and legal analyst jeffrey toobin, and you have seen many times through this type of thing, and what did you see? >> i think that we got a look at president hillary clinton, and the competence over the scene that she was asked to testify under, and there was nuance about her positions. it was impressive given what she was up against, and another thing, you have to go back to joe mccarthy and the house on american committee to find the process as abusive as a house congressional -- >> you really go back to mccarthy? >> yes, it is reckless and outrageous and the process is, but that said, she has a problem with stonewalling on the question of the e-mails and her server. the fbi is looking at it, and that is probably the appropriate place, but i the think that we have a real look at who hillary clinton would be as president, and comportment, and the composure, and the nuance in terms of policy and the familiarity of the issue

. >> and i know that gloria, you have been hearing, and gloria borger with us as well, and you have been hearing for months of the really difficult arduous decision making that was going through the vice president and the family as a result of the loss of their son beau and now the decision coming forward in the last few minutes that the vice president will not run for president. and now, i want your reaction to the news. >> well, if you listen to joe biden, it is clear that this is a man who really wanted to run, again, for president. but he said it himself and he told the truth as he very often does, look, i ran out of time. but he also said that he is a man who has found a purpose in public life. i think that what he tried to do was to set the stage for the next part of his public life which continues for the next 15 months, and he was very poignant about talking about finding a cure for cancer which is of course took his son beau, and it is clear to me from talking to his very close associates, friends, staff, and visors and that biden really wanted in his heart to do this. but he is

ford, reagan, clinton, carl bernstein and nia-malika henderson, cnn politics correspondent and gloria borger cnn chief political analyst all here at table. david, we haven't heard from you so far tonight. who stood out? >> first of all, i think the debate may have given some heart to the republicans. after the benghazi hearings carl and i were on the air. she sees a clear path to the nomination, she has to be the front-runner for the white house. this showed that they have arguments in another area, in the economy, that if they push and weren't well developed arguments tonight, i think gave the republicans some sense we're still in this race in terms of who stood out. marco rubio. >> and it's interesting because he actually hit hillary clinton on her benghazi testimony saying as far as he was concerned it pointed her out to be a liar. >> and that's right, and he -- he's the smoothest out there. we've now seen, had seven hours of debates and we've seen this is not jeb bush's medium, i agree with ana. by far and await most qualified but it's not his medium. he doesn't handle this in a sparky w

cupp, jeff zeleny and gloria borger. peter beinart also. gloria, you've been talking to your sources. have you learned the final element that convinced the vice president it was -- >> i think it's been a couple of things over the last few months. i think as the vice president said time just kind of ran out on him. but i was talking to somebody who's close to biden today who said that first of all after his appearance with colbert where he poured his soul out, it was kind of hard to pivot back from that. and also earlier this week when congressm congressman clyburn told "the huffington post" that i wouldn't advise him to run. it was a clear signal to biden don't do this in my state. biden would have certainly needed to do well or win south carolina. but in the end the timing wasn't right for him. some days seemed more doable than other days. but he's a pragmatist. he knew he didn't have the money, didn't have the organization and also concerned about his legacy. didn't want to be a three-time loser. >> this is really his last chance 72 years

with me now i have our chief political analyst gloria borger and michael smerconish. u in vegas. gloria, to you first. we were talking earlier and, yes, we're talking south carolina and nevada. also important to remember she's losing to bernie sanders in new hampshire. virtually tied in iowa. this is the strategy that is the south. >> they would be silly. if they didn't have a southern strategy. they know they are not doing well in new hampshire. so she's got popularity with african-americans. she's been strong on immigration policy. she won the iowa caucuses last time she ran. she's a known quantity here. this is comfortable territory for her. they are hoping they don't have to go to a southern firewall, but if they have to, it looks good for them. >> one more for you. you talked to your sources within the bernie sanders campaign on strategy. >> they are ready. look, they are not going to attack her unless she attacks him. and she's not going to attack him. but he's going to emphasize something he calls the rigged economy, which play it is to her weaknesses to a certa

i have gloria borger and michael smerconish. awesome seeing you two. here under blue skies here in las vegas. before we talk about bold predictions, family, in terms of who will be in there tonight. the role of husbands, wives, children in the debate hall. i want to play sound because the nation knows the clintons, but we're learning more about bernie sanders' wife. take a listen. >> i've always been very interested in policy and always doing a lot of research and thinking and writing. so we have that kind of a relationship where we really discuss things. >> i offer advice all the time on almost anything. he will say, okay, good, and i'll know when he gives a speech or in a debate whether or not he agreed or not. >> gloria, to you. you have covered so many campaigns. how important is family during this? >> it's hugely important. family is comfort before you go. out on that debate stage. i remember talking to ann romney about this in the last campaign. she said out there in the audience, mitt romney always looked for her, made eye contact and then on a

jake tapper, gloria borger were listening and watching the president of the united states.ay, jake, you see the president shaken and very much willing, anxious to go after the nra but he spoke of that organization and clearly is ready to go to battle against them. >> that's right but he also challenged others, the news media and said we should put up numbers when it came to americans killed by terrorists versus mass shootings, the suggestion being we in the moeda hype the terrorist threat than numerically a greater threat, being shot in a mass shooting and challenged the public telling them to make sure they vote according to their feelings on this issue and also they make their feelings known and reflects something the white house press secretary said there needs to be a change in the way the public, the american people, i'll quote will need to see a fundamental change they they communicate this priority to congress. he is challenging others, as well, not just the nra. i would say one of the things this i think a lot of people who want to get behind the president on this a

let's bring in gloria borger as we look what's going on. gloria, round two. i don't know if we learned a whole lot right now, but it was more of the same what we saw in round one. republicans going after her, the democratic members of the committee defending her. >> right. and hillary having to defend herself. i mean, you just mentioned that exchange with the congressman. in which he tried to portray her staff as promoting her as the sort of savior of libya for her own political future. and she said, you know, that's political. i don't understand why this has anything to do with what happened that night in benghazi. and i think we've heard this, you know, over and over again, wolf, the thing that the most effective during this part of the session was hillary clinton actually talking about what it was like that evening here in washington as they tried to figure out what was happening with chris stevens. and she described it as the fog of war. and she talked about how the professionals responded with amazing amount of heroism. but that was just one little momen

. >> i want to bring in gloria borger and rebecca berg.l ad from this draft joe biden ad. i'll play it for our viewers. >> things can change in a heartbeat. i know six weeks after my election my whole world was altered forever. i got a phone call. my wife and three children were christmas shopping. tractor-trailer broadsided them and killed my wife and killed my daughter. and they were not sure that my sons would live. incredible bond i have with my children is a gift i am not sure, i would have had had had i not been through what i had been through. but by focusing on my sons i found my redemption. many people have gone through things like that. my dad's definition of success is when you look at your son and daughter and realize they turned out better than you did, and they did. you are on the edge of astonishing breakthroughs with mankind, scientifically socially but it will be up to you in this changing world to translate those unprecedented capabilities into a greater measure of handppiness not just for yourself but the world around yo

i want to bring in dana bash and gloria borger. you and jeff have been doing excellent reporting.lity of the vice president jumping into the race? >> biden hasn't announced anything but jeff and i have spoken to some people who have spoken directly to the vice president and what they are telling us is there seems to be a shift in the last couple weeks and the vice president sounds more like he's leaning towards a candidacy and interested in the mechanics of the race and talking more about how quote you would be surprised unquote about how many people he's heard from who would endorse him and he's also told people, you know what? who have said to him, you could lose saying you know what? i don't really care. i've lost twice before and managed to do quite well afterwards thank you very much. this is something after a career in public service as a sitting vice president for eight years, why wouldn't i think about it? having said that, no decision announced and people in biden world always say that, you know, don't expect anything to happen until he actually says it because he keeps c

she joins us along with our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny, gloria borger and cnn political ryan lizza. dana, you're getting new information about a big push to try to get paul ryan to run for speaker. >> that's right. we have been talking about the idea that so many people just in the immediate moments after mccarthy made clear that he wasn't going to run everybody's name -- the name on everybody's lips rather was paul ryan, paul ryan, paul ryan. well, it goes up to the tiptop. i just confirmed from a source familiar with the conversation that the current speaker, john boehner, is even calling trying to convince paul ryan, please, please reconsider. but, again, just confirming and reconfirming with sources who are familiar with paul ryan thinking he is absolutely, positively a no. he saw what happened to john boehner, he's been in the house for a long time, he knows the situation, knows the climate and he is not interested in this job right now. >> all right. everyone standby. we're getting more on the breaking news. joining us now republican congressman daniel webster of f

let's dig deep we are with dana bash, gloria borger and our special correspondent jamie gangel.ical period for the vice president right now. >> absolutely. look, we're hearing that he's going to make a decision in the next week or two. the fact of the matter is, he has to make a decision quickly. he has to file in november. and every day, if he's going to run, he's missing time raising money, he's missing time putting his ground game together. so, look, dates have been floated, and then we've blown by them before, but he's got to do it quickly. >> you saw this story, gloria, in "politico," suggesting that biden himself leaked word of his son's dying wish, beau biden died a few months ago of cancer, that beau supposedly on his death bed told his dad, i want you to run for president of the united states. the vice president is categorically denying this "politico" story, saying it's categorically false and the characterization is offensive, that he leaked this for political purposes. what are you hearing? >> even inside biden world, people who are allies of joe biden believe that n

secretary of state will take this break, gloria borger as we watch what is going on in this office building right now, it's been pretty dramatic. i'm not sure, though, we have learned a whole lot more about what happened on that awful night in benghazi. >> no, i think wolf, we're at a stand off is what i would say. jim jordan over and over again talking about you raised the video, 90 minutes before the attack ends, you raise the video. she read him her statement that she eventually released. the political point republicans are making over and over again is that it would have done administration no good to say this was a terror attack because it didn't fit into their national security narrative, that you killed osama bin laden and end the war in iraq and you couldn't have another terror attack and that's why you didn't tell the american people the truth. hillary clinton has not given any ground here. she has read him her statement and which was clearly specifically worded and hasn't given ground and in the end she keeps saying i don't understand what this has to do with why we are here today

dana joins me now along with nia mallika-henderson and gloria borg borger. dana, i understand a letter being circulated on capitol hill is making its own waves today. what is that? that's right. this is a letter sent by walter jones, a republican congressman from north carolina which asks the leadership to make sure that nobody who is running for any of these posts including the speaker has any misdeeds in his or her background done while they are in congress. this certainly raised a lot of questions, kevin mccarthy was asked about it whether that letter was directed at him and whether it had anything to do with him dropping out and he said no, walter jones talked to our colleague about it and insisted that there was no particular person or particular incident he was talking about but then went on to refer to some scandals that brought other speakers or almost speakers down like bob livingston for example. it's an odd letter and issue that's been flying around capitol hill. >> gloria, i know you've been talking to your sources. what have they been telling yo

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i was on last night with gloria borger, and i believe she used the term "shakespearen" in terms of theearned as much as they're going to learn from the mentor and the mentor is not quite ready to get off the stage. it was amazing. i thought governor bush was, frankly, very dispirited last night and afterwards. >> jeb bush seems to be playing politics going after rubio the way he needs to. rubio responded in a very human way, we're not used to seeing that in politics. >> one of the other things, remember the other week when donald trump was at a rally. he used the b.s. words. and was talking about the supposed friendship between bush and rubio. he mocked them and said, you know, listen, they're out there trying to do one another in. there's no friendship here, boy, ifs there last night -- >> rubio handled it as a friend would, i'll tell you that, not as an opponent. he did jeb a favor that way. kevin madden, donald trump is tweeting that 62% of those who watched the debates say he won. do you question that? >> yeah, i don't know where the methodology is. i'm sure he's looking at some on