let's begin with the bidens and ukraine from the top. >> well, hunter biden is joe biden's son. , 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 w

somebody ought to look into joe biden's statement because it was disgraceful. >> did you talk about joeen during the conversation. >> i don't want to talk about any conversation other than to say -- other than to say great conversation. totally appropriate conversation. couldn't have been better. >> we should point out this reporting about president trump talking to ukraine comes from a rupert murdoch backed newspaper, the "wall street journal" and murdock seen as a close ally of the president. let's chew over this with the panel. jane, let me start with you. the president said it doesn't matter what i discussed. it matters quite a bit. >> it does matter. it is interesting, because there is what matters politically and what matters legally. legally he's on slightly firmer ground. there has been some interesting writing in terms of what you can actually ask someone to do for you. if there is no evidence of quid pro quo, he's on firmer legal grounds with regard to this. but politically, it looks really bad. and think think you're going to hear a lot of people, specifically folks on the ri

y is story is -- the stor the democrats are trying to get ahead of joe biden's messy family affairs, including biden on a major drug sting that included him getting hooked up -- his ex-wife, and running around china and the ukraine, posing as an energy expert and making millions of dollars on the biden name. and the democrats are trying to get ahead of this story because it could be very damaging for joe biden. the whole idea that donald trump needs to be investigated for some type of crime -- listen, we do not believe you or bill kristol anymore. host: that was built in pennsylvania -- bill in pennsylvania. here is one of the papers focusing on hunter biden's dealings. the washington times saying that there was dealings are helping his father's rivals in this campaign. charlie sykes? the caller, i mean, throughout a -- threw up a lot of things. i do not know who i will vote for. i find it amazing that anybody who supports donald trump, anybody concerned about corruption, this notion that we are concerned about joe biden because of these possible conflict of interest, could you look i

but what the media should start looking at, remember what joe biden said and what joe biden did withkraine. judge jeanine: yeah. >> withheld money to get a prosecutor fired in a place that you wonder what his son was doing. judge jeanine: yeah. so his son wouldn't be kb continue to be investigated. but right now you know know any more than that, what the substance of this alleged whistle-blower complaint is? >> i don't know the motive, i don't know the person or the complaint, the substance. all we know is the media is trying to drive something. judge jeanine: here we go again. speaking of that, let's talk about the democrats efforts to impeach. they started with cory le corey lewandowski. that felled flat. >> that backfired on them. they had a conference after that with where the speaker was upset with nadler. democrats are wondering why nadler is staying as chair of this committee. you've got a crisis at the border, you've got inspector general reports come in that they're not bringing inspector whhorowitz in. he's got tech companies. he's not overseeing that. all of these things t

ask the ukrainians to investigate joe biden. ere is a story here, a very big story about hunter biden working for this oligarch in an oil company and all of this background to this investigation and they are there appear the reporter say there is more to come. that is what you're pointing to. >> my point is, and joe biden's own words, he tells how he pressured the ukrainian government that they would not get funding from america unless they fired a prosecutor. it's concerning to me, that prosecutor investigating his son and he said you've got six hours? and within six hours they fired him and joe biden was proud of it. i only learned about this by joe biden telling us about it. >> bret: you are saying the dni's going to come forward with information? >> i am real concerned about it. wouldn't it be interesting politically if you want to people not to look at what biden was doing to try to bring something, once again, alleged against this president as they have done time and again because they don't like the outcome of an election.

he knows hunter biden is a weakness for joe biden. knows that if he attacks hunter biden, it puts joe biden in a bad position. today joe biden could be if this was about anybody else, could be out on television attacking donald trump. joe biden's not doing that today because he doesn't want to talk about his son who's had various problems, not the kind of problems donald trump has asserted but other problems. and donald trump knows that. this is a hit job on the son, the last surviving son, his brother passed away. this is the last son. part of the reason why joe biden didn't run for president in 2016, because he wanted to take care after his family after he lost beau. this is an achilles hill of joe biden psychically. and donald trump is like where can i go to get the oppo to get at this guy's heart. >> because i have no conscience, i have no morals and i don't care about using the united states government and possibly foreign aid to carry out my campaign. >> correct. and if that's ukraine or if that's utah, donald trump is going to

>> joe biden and president trump trading blows as the president questions possible corruption linked unter biden's business dealings in the ukraine, democrats in the media coming to former vp's defense, why isn't his family under the same scrutiny, the trump family has been in the past 2 years, video from the daily caller joins us with more, thank you per joining, appreciate it. >> thanks, heather. heather: why discrepancy on how the particular incidents are being covered and handled? >> i mean, it's really the double standards are astonishing, it's very unfair what's happening to president trump, if you look at the facts and this phone call that he had with the ukrainian president, listening to facts from a whistleblower who didn't even hear this conversation directly so it's actually heresay, then we heard the washington street journal say that there was no quid pro quo and then we look at over at the biden situation and how his family dealings, there may have been some conflict, joe biden as vice president threatened to withhold $1 billion if they didn't fire top prosecutor who had

the reason that you bring up joe biden with the past issues of ukraine and hunter biden, hunter biden not one someone who has a lot of expertise becomes highly involved in ukrainian energy company, issues involved. the new yorker has written about it, i commend that you read that article. >> mention that that he made a lot of money, rudy giuliani, back in the program in april. he got into it with cnn's chris cuomo. >> so you asked him to look into joe biden? >> of course, i did. >> you just said you didn't? >> involved joe biden in massive bribery scene, it's sad to watch what happened here. >> i'm a sellout. >> you're telling me that i'm a sellout. >> who is help when he gets into that shouting match with chris cuomo? >> i'm not sure but we are all entertained, what i find fascinating the story about joe biden and hunt biden's ties to ukraine is coming up, joe biden says it didn't happen and in his own words he did ask the ukrainian president at the time to fire someone and -- >> fire prosecutor looking into the company that his son was part of. >> exactly, the story of joe biden is

and now he's blaming joe biden. and right now the front and center issue is did the president of the united states cajole and dangle promises or threats in front of a foreign leader in order to get that foreign leader to provide dirt or potential dirt on a political opponent. that is flat out wrong, it is unethical and probably illegal. >> congressman jerry connelly, thanks so much for joining us. >> my pleasure, wolf. >>> we'll have more on the breaking news. we're getting some -- getting some frightening pictures of an suv -- look at this, smashing through a suburban chicago shopping mall. stand by. we'll have the latest details. at humana, we believe your healthcare should evolve with you. and part of that evolution means choosing the right medicare plan for you. humana can help. with original medicare, you're covered for hospital stays and doctor office visits, but you'll have to pay a deductible for each. a medicare supplement plan can cover your deductibles and co-insurance, but you may pay higher premiums and

he can at joe biden, which makes folks most confident that he is the democrat to beat trump. al balling here, i think it slides off of biden. >> do you agree with that, rick? how would you advise -- i know you're a republican, but how would you advise joe biden to handle this? i mean, if he's being put a bit on the ropes, so to speak, how should he handle this to be most effective? >> i think he should handle it the way he handled it, that is he's pushing back on it, but it also reinforces his message, i'm the candidate that is most likely to beat donald trump, beat him like a drum is what he said. and this -- i agree, this reinforces that message. it's his strongest message. but look, they have to understand, this isn't that complicated to understand -- hunter biden worked for a company, a gas company that was owned by a ukrainian oligarch. that oligarch was an officer in viktor yanukovych -- he was the corrupt russian former prime minister who was ousted and thrown back into russia. it was paul manafort who worked foran kovich, for which now, because of his dealings in ukrai

the quickly turning to joe and hunter biden. >> wind of this morph into an investigation of joe bidennd hunter biden, and is it appropriate -- >> that's the way you characterize it. >> that's the way it appears to line up buried >> no it doesn't. >> you went there for one thing, found out something else -- >> of the media line set up. >> president trump and rudy giuliani say if there was any quid pro quo it was joe biden. as vice president threaten to withhold $1.2 billion in lone guarantees to ukraine if a prosecutor investigating the natural gas company hunter biden was involved with wasn't fired. in iowa, biden denying any wrongdoing. >> mr. vice president, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? >> i've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. >> in the face of mounting calls for his impeachment, the president trying to flip the script to the bidens, insisting they are the ones who should be investigated. >> when you see the call you're going to be very surprised. joe biden is the one that did a very, very bad thing

but in 2016 joe biden as vice president played a prominent role in getting the prosecutor fired because he'd been ignoring corruption. biden joining other countries and groups in the widespread push to get ukraine to clean up its act. fast forward to 2019 and president trump, his lawyer and many supporters pounced, accusing biden of helping out his son. now there are questions about whether that push by trump and giuliani is tied to the late august move by the white house to put a hold on $250 million in military aid for ukraine which was later released. on september 1st, vice president mike pence met with szalinski, the vice president danced around it. >> as president trump made clear we have great concerns about issues of corruption. >> reporter: whatever the alleged promise that the whistle-blower says the president reportedly made, democrats in congress are vowing to get to the bottom of those claims. >> they deserve a thorough investigation. that's what we're intent on doing and come hell or high water that's what we're going to do. >> chairman adam schiff also heads up one of the

watch this. >> did you ask ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no, actually, i didn't -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> house representatives have watched investigations into whether the president held military aid to ukraine, a prospect they say would be a staggering abuse of power. that aide was eventually released last week but only after lawmakers of both parties expressed outrage and the white house correspondent for pbs news hour, ben wittis, and cal, it's great to have you on tonight. this is the biggest story i've seen in months. the president of the united states always spent three years denying he colluded with a foreign power to get dirt on hillary clinton. and now says -- excuse me, i'm out there doing it again this time to get it on joe biden, i'm working for 2020 here. >> i know, what gives. it's funny a person that we've interviewed said to me today, you know, robert mueller in his two-year investigation never really had what you would ostensibly call a quid

"he" meeting joe biden.t someone who will take a lot of the systematic challenges we have, and he doesn't." is that building? speak of at us from the progressive side of the party what is striking about this new poll is that 75% of those polled said they had an optimistic, positive approval of elizabeth warren. that is striking, because you have -- she is being portrayed as someone from the far left. the parties ready to embrace her, and that is a major problem for joe biden. that's what you are hearing from congresswoman omar. >> harris: i've read that anybody who led at this point the way joe biden has come a front runner status, doesn't end up being president in the party coming from their lot. so we will follow it. bret baier, always great to see. 6:00 p.m. eastern is our next opportunity. will be glued. >> see you come here is. >> harris: the u.s. sending additional troops to the middle east. iran denying any evolvement on the attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities. secretary of state mike pompeo calli

nothing. >> sean: it should be for joe biden, and the ukrainian president that wants to clean up the corruption there and drain the swamp, he knew all about it. he's got his people on it. i wouldn't want to be hunter biden today. >> joe biden, the former vice president of the united states, when he was the vice president of the united states, in essence bragged about this, has stated when he was vice president, this prosecutor is gone in six hours or you're going to be losing a lot of money. it's not an issue for anybody? that is a quid pro quo. it just happened to be that his son was engaged in this activity. whatever that activity was, let me tell you it's not right. the vice president using his office. of the democrats talking about that? no. what is senator murphy say? if you discuss it, if you open up a probe, ukraine, against vice president, you're going to have your financial assistance in jeopardy. this goes beyond a double standard. i'm going to tell you, sean. it was nothing before. it is nothing again. >> sean: well done, jay sekulow. it reeks. it's hurting the country. it'

this is not joe biden doing something that was free-lancing. and this had nothing to do with an investigation into his own operation. so again, this is the alternative reality, unfortunately, that we're living in here. and this is why i do think it is incumbent on congress to do something, to create maybe this select committee. because you can't wait for the special prosecutor, the department of justice is not going to lift a finger about this. this now is up to congress. and congress has to decide what is his constitutional responsibility. is the president above the law? do the laws apply to the president? will he ever be held accountable for his conduct? because if you do have a president of the united states who is in effect betraying the national interest of this country, colluding with a foreign country to dig up dirt on his opponent, that is a big deal. and republicans ought to recognize that as as well as democrats. >> that clip that you just referred to of joe biden that the caller was referring to, a couple of callers had asked us to p

into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> that was the same interview. did the president lean on a foreign government to help his re-election effort. >>> parts of texas under water. two dead from devastating weather. >>> another episode of blackface and another apology from justin trudeau. can the iscanadian prime minist overcome the scandal before the next election? >>> and the vaping cases skyrocket to 500 nationwide. now, the feds are investigating. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "early start." i'm julia chatterly. >> i'm dave briggs. it's friday, september 20th, 4:00 a.m. the call is coming from inside the house. compelling details about the whistleblower complaint, that confirms president trump's communications with a foreign leader. "the washington post" first reported the complaint, relates to ukraine. that's according to two people familiar with the matter. the complaint involved some kind of promise the president made, a promise so alarming, a u.s. int

that's what joe biden is. >> joe biden is presumed innocent. but somebody has got to investigate him for going to the president of the ukraine and telling him i'm not going to give you -- >> that's fine. but you're working under authority of the president. >> no, no, no, no. not because of the authority of the president. because when the new prosecutor that joe put in came in, he not only dismissed the case on hunter biden for getting about $6 million in laundered money -- >> the prosecutor that was removed, which of the original intrigue on joe biden, that prosecutor was removed, first of all, by consensus of a multiple of western countries and it was after hunter biden's stuff was done. look, you should have your hand on your face. you know why? this is all a distraction from what i asked you. >> no, it isn't a distraction. what you said is totally wrong, completely wrong. >> it's a factual timeline. the prosecutor was out -- >> you don't know what happened. i know what happened. >> how do you know i don't know? >> you're just repeating spin.

listen here. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? ctually 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 lar

if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by now. >> again, the ukranian prosecutor has said he knows of no evidence of any misconduct by the bidens. as opposed to the intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint about the president's phone call and more, the trump administration is blocking from congress a complaint that the inspector general of the intelligence community appointed by trump called credible and urgent. consider, however, how much of this is playing out in front of our eyes and ears. in may, the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, told the "new york times" that he was going to ukraine to push for this investigation into the bidens to do so, in fact, to help his client, president trump. quote, i'm asking them to do an investigation that they're doing already and that other people are telling them to stop, giuliani told the times. and i'm going to give them reasons why they shouldn't stop it, because that information will be very, very helpful to my client and may turn out to

wall street journal poll that was released on wednesday that says joe biden and elizabeth warren both gained ground since july and this is after the last debate any surprises chris. well it's it is surprising to me how quickly bernie sanders the story has been dropping and i i really thought camel harris after the 1st debate would rise more than she has and she's now completely fallen off the map as well i think what you see is it's become a 2 person race between joe biden and elizabeth warren and the question is does it remain so there is i think you really have a couple of lanes right now you have kind of the left of center moderate lane that joe biden is occupying and you have sort of the far 'd left of center socialist lane which will lose warren is occupy and there's only room for one person in that socialist lane and it's kind of between warren and sanders now is does biden stumble and i really believe the attacks from who in castro in the last debate helped joe biden and it probably created a situation where he's had a little bit of a false inflation a sugar high if you will an

today he said on television when joe biden fired the ukrainian prosecutor, there wasn't even an open case. tomorrow you can read the open case. you can read the prosecutor's memo. specifically what hunter biden's legal team was asking the prosecutors to doto end that ca. there was an investigation. the media is wrong because they haven't picked up their notebooks and actually done the gumshoe work that it requires to find out what happened here. we are going to see documents from the state department, documents from hunter biden's legal team, text messages from hunter biden's own business partner devon archer who joined him on the board. official documents of the ukraine government that they've given to me on the record, all of thesee documents tell a very different story than joe biden's narrative to the american voters. >> sean: spectac -- first of all, this will be the top of the night.morrow stay right there, john. gregg, i want you to absorb all that and let's look into the legal aspects of what we know today. go in any order you want. we have joe biden on tape. you're not going

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. >>

they've highlighted joe biden and the country of ukraine. biden's conduct is now rightly in the spotlight.as comeman devs weekend,d, this may be the end of joe 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

not a joe biden crusade to help his son.ing to note it's not at all clear how much investigating this prosecutor was actually doing. reports that he basically wasn't investigating anyone. why people weren't happy with him. not at all clear getting the prosecutor fired would actually help biden's son hunter at all. so there are questions here, conflict of interests experts have said. biden's son put him in a difficult position being on the board of a ukrainian gas company. but the complaint that biden was somehow corrupt here is simply not at all corroborated by the evidence we have. >> debunk. thank you, appreciate it, daniel dale. >>> right now tens of thousands of protesters are out on the streets walking out of school, maybe skipping for the day. often with permission. leaving their jobs to take part in a global call to action on the climate crisis. we are live for you in new york and seattle next. >>> plus, more on the breaking news out of utah. four killed in a tour bus crash. we are told there are multiple injuries as

what is joe biden's response right now? what we've been seeing from the biden campaign itself is really operating on two tracks. one, they have been extremely aggressive in rebutting and challenging a lot of these accusations that we're hearing from the president from rudy giuliani and from republicans on capitol hill about what it was both that hunter biden was doing with his role with an energy company in ukraine and the vice president whether he was taking any official action to benefit his son in that capacity. all the independent reporting has been that that's not the case. we've gotten information today from the foreign minister and from the ukraine ethics board as well. so that's the primary focus on the part of the campaign. they're also speaking in terms of the politics right now and the magic number you hear them repeat over and over again is 70. thalz the number of public polls they say joe biden beating president trump in the next election. we heard from kate bedingfield saying all of what we are seeing from the

news wall street journal poll conducted after the last democratic debate shows joe biden and elizabeth warren both gaining ground and leaving their challengers well behind what's behind the strength of the new front runners and how might the rest of the pack adjust their campaigning as a result of this poll let's talk about that with the political panel they are chris wilson he was director of research and digital strategy for ted cruz's 2016 presidential campaign he's in oklahoma city and in atlanta robin by road democratic strategist and former obama campaign regional field director he's also retired u.s. army ranger welcome to the program thank you matthew good to be with you ed thanks for having so let's jump right in 1st your reaction to this federal reserve cutting interest rates by a quarter percent does this lend credence to a coming recession let's start with you chris. well i think the fed is clearly concerned about some type of downturn but let's face it recessions are notoriously hard to predict and if we tried to bet every time the federal reserve cut interest rates it was

for the first time, joe biden facing off against elizabeth warren. the front runner versus the leading liberal. for both this is a pivotal evening. now, warren has been chipping away at biden's lead, steadily rising. now only six points separate the two. team biden revealing new details about the former vp's strategy. help wants to build upon his former boss' record, which was the focus of a new ad. >> sometimes you step back and don't say something you say. barack obama is an extraordinary man. >> he wants to emphasize that relationship and another man paying very close attention to the debate is president trump. he spoke just a couple moments ago about who he thinks will be the person he faces off against in 2020. >> he should be able to make it. i would imagine biden would be able to make it if he doesn't make any major mistakes. >> if he doesn't make any major mistakes. yes, sir ka dean is live out front in houston. what more are you learning about biden's strategy, for he knows it's crucial he not make any big mistakes? >> reporter: that's certai

to claire's point, joe biden is incredibly popular, and he is well known. we called him uncle joe for a reason, right? because we knew about the gaffes. there was something about him that is incredibly lovable and likable. there is going to -- he is not going to go down tomorrow if anything happens. there is a trust factor and a comfort factor with him. so that is real. but the numbers have moderately dropped, and the person that chris just interviewed, elizabeth warren, has been shooting up in the polls. and so we'll see what happens. >> senator? >> every time that -- i'll tell you who -- this is driving me crazy is bernie sanders. because -- >> just in general, claire? >> we're here for you. >> it's driving me crazy because he would make the argument that his numbers have been pretty stable too. >> uh-huh. >> and that, you know, elizabeth, yes, she has moved around, but in many of thele pos he is second and she is third. but all everybody is talking about is how elizabeth is moving and bernie is sticking around. and therein lies the issue in these early st

was it on the up and up in your view, and how much did joe biden know? >> so one of biden's -- one of hunter biden's business partners had met an oligarch who was running burisma, the ukrainian gas company, and he offered his -- hunter's associate a position on his board. and as part of that, eventually that same executive offered to bring hunter on the board. the rule that hunter had was that he didn't tell his father about his clients. he didn't tell his father about these things, and his father didn't ask. it was sort of a don't ask/don't tell policy. so hunter took the job, which was quite lucrative, and he didn't tell his father, and he didn't consult. and then the news broke in the newspaper, in "the wall street journal" in 2014, but it's unclear whether joe biden even saw the reports at the time. and it wasn't until much later that one of his state department advisers briefed him on hunter's role with the company. >> and what did the people around -- was anyone saying, look, mr. vice president, this is a bad look, notwithstanding any agreement you

joe biden and elizabeth warren are taking fire from the rest of the 2020 democratic field. bernie sanders calling out biden in a rally in north carolina, for attending three big-money fund-raisers in chicago. >> the overwhelming of our contributions comes from the working people and i'm proud of that. i would contrast that with how my good friend, joe biden, is raising money today. >> a casino and business developer who hosted one of the fund-raisers says that sanders and warren don't represent the party he supports. there's no indication if biden reacted to that comment at the event. >>> pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar are targeting warren on health care and some of her more progressive plans. >> senator warren is known for being straightforward and extremely evasive when asked that question. and we've seen that repeatedly. i think that if you are proud of your plan and it's the right plan, you should present it in straightforward terms. >> we have a lot of people running. but some of the ideas are better in the college faculty lounge. >>> and kamala harris is all-in for i

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

how about joe biden? >> joe biden? yeah.or joe biden. >> i don't know who's running. if anything, i'll go for anybody else other than trump. >> reporter: leaving the fairgrounds we traveled north trading this blue county for a red one, luzerne county. arguably the county that gave donald trump pennsylvania in 016, even though they hadn't voted for a republican here since 1988. trump's trade policies and the vote from farmers could determine whether or not it stays that way. over the past year, bankruptcy rep 13% in part rmers nationwide the second year of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. agricultural products. >> this particular farm has been in the family since the 1930s. we've been farming in this valley since the 1850s. >> reporter: curtis voted for trump in the 2016 primary but not in the general election. he explained some of the difficulties that farmers are facing. >> it makes it more challenging to come up with a marketing plan to plan your future sales agreements. if the market is highly volatile it makes you be more emo

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elizabeth warren and joe biden statistically tied. he first and second choice, warren crushes biden 42 to 30. she kills when it comes to that. what does that tell you? is this concerning for joe biden? >> i think it's concerning for all of the candidates who are not elizabeth warren, right? but i also know that i think in that same poll, only 20% of people have their mind made up. so it's one poll. it's a poll that demonstrates that you have to have a big presence on the ground in iowa. i think you're seeing a lot of these candidates really amp up their commitment to iowa. so we'll see what happens. i just -- i don't think you can say it's all over, because it's just too far out. but i do think that for those candidates who are getting small numbers, i know we're going to talk about the dnc thresholds in these early states. it is a moment to have yourself really do a gut check. is this where i should be spending my personal time? >> what do you say, jess? 42 to 30? >> i totally agree, these are really big numbers for elizabeth warren.

joe biden attended a fundraiser in houston where he said last night's debate was a good night but said he could have done better and will do better in the future. but biden's campaign tonight is sieging on that moment. that clash he had with julian castro saying the former hud secretary's comments are a low blow and a cheap shot. tonight joe biden pushing back on rival julian castro. after some heated clashes at thursday night's debate. >> i'm fulfilling the legacy of barack obama and you're not. >> that will be a surprise to him. >> reporter: castro launching this attack on biden during an exchange on health care. >> they do not have to buy if. >> you just said that. you just said that two minutes ago. you just said two minutes ago they would have to buy in. are you for getting what you said two minutes ago. are you for getting already what you said just two minutes ago? i can't believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in and now you're saying they don't have to -- you're forgetting that. >> reporter: biden responding a short time ago. >> think he got his facts wrong

awesome. >>> tonight joe biden is slamming president trump over reports that trump put the squeeze onvestigate biden's son. i want to bring in senator chris coons now, a democrat from delaware who is a biden surrogate. he is campaigning with the former vice president this weekend. good evening, sir. good to have you on. thank you so much for making the time. >> good evening, don. great to be with you from the beautiful des moines airport. >> senator coons, let me ask you, we're now learning that president trump pressured ukraine's president to investigate joe biden's son. to put it another way, he demanded eight times, according to "the wall street journal," that a foreign leader investigate his opponent's family and potentially influence an election. is this an abuse of power? >> that strikes me, if proven, these allegations strike me as a demonstrable abuse of power. i'll remind your viewers, those who might be just catching up with this story or tuning in, that what was held over the newly elected president of ukraine was a $250 million aid package that congress appropriated, somet

you said i went there to get dirt on joe biden. do you know what i found out about joe biden? 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 we

to journalism but the president's order was on full force yesterday. >> if i change the names of joe bidenter biden to donald trump and donald trump, jr., 8 approximately from ukraine, 1.5 billion from china while negotiating from china, would i be sitting here? >> the 1.5 billion is simply not true. griff: president trump says he deserves to meet accuser tweeting in addition i want to only meet my accuser who sent information but legally gave information which is largely incorrect to whistleblower, as or impeachment fever, the inquiry has not slowed down, adam schiff to finish negotiations are on their way now for whistleblower to testify, a lot happening on monday morning. heather: except once again what was that you said, lisa? >> yeah. heather: thank you so much, griff, democrats hang on whistleblower they refuse to name, steven miller says that president trump is the only one exposing government corruption. >> i think it's unfortunate that the media continues to describe this individual as a whistleblower and this person does not deserve hit job, does not make you whistleblower becaus

and if the nominee is in fact joe biden he absolutely should debate him and would because he. we could probably get him off of his game and get him to stumble and make a few of these infamous gaps that he makes almost on the daily so that would be a good strategic move for him now if that nominee is elizabeth warren i don't know she's much more quick on her heels she is a fighter i think that his best move for teacher glee and what he would ultimately do would refuse to debate her and say that he's just going to hold rallies and stead and take his message out to the american public which would be a good message for his base just to say that he's just not giving her time but ultimately if she were the nominee i do not think that he will debate her do you guys think that joe biden's age which a lot of people talk about his energy and the gaffes that we're speaking of which some people talk about that that being evidence of a lack of mental acuity is that all fair game in the 2020 alexion and i mean trump constantly refers to him as sleepy joe chris. so there's not a big age diff

especially last night when castro said to joe biden -- he was actually wrong about what joe biden said. i'm not beating him up for that. he was wrong, but it was crystal clear what he was trying to do. >> no question. and if you look at the first debate and the second debate, one strategy that has not worked is trying to go after joe biden personally. eric swalwell is out of the race. kamala harris had her best moment and her worst week since. so the reality here is that they have injected this into the bloodstream. even though they're apologizing this morning, this is something, as you said, democrats are talking about it, but either own it or not own it. they had to know it was going to sort of not be seen that strongly by democrats. but i think the bigger point is, when you swipe away everything, i'm not sure that much changed last night except joe biden is still the frontrunner. he had a very strong first part of the debate. as the debate went on, it was very long, he had a weaker performance. but you walk away from this, he's the winner. julian castro is not. >> but what's really

i think joe biden needs to continue doing what he's doing he's already the most popular candidate in the race and matthew you would i have talked about this we have opinion polls that go back 10 years to the time when he 1st took office as vice president indicating that joe biden across the board republican and democrat is considered one of the most likable popular elected officials in the entire united states so i think it needs to continue doing what he's doing you know i mean this this this talk about biden gaffes and biden being creepy can we all remember who the president of the united states is i mean come on we're going to accuse joe biden of gaffes we're going to go right now i'm not talking about repairs since we're on a trip we're diving or paris and if we're to the rest of the democratic field right but that's something that democrats need to get straight to and this is something else that i've talked about with matthew and larry many times before is that nobody if i've said it once i've said it a 1000000 times nobody snatches defeat from the jaws of victory but of the lib