i think many of you are familiar with joe collins. that voya is actively recruiting the remaining four counselors. i will turn it over to brian to provide a high-level overview of the transition time line, the expected enhancements and the special elections micro site. when that complaints, i'll conclude my report. >> thank you very much. so first of all, my name is brain, relationship manager at voya financial. i'll be responsible for the overall relationship with the city and county of san francisco and i just want to thank you and the city for the partnership. we're thrilled and looking forward to servicing the s fdcp and plan participants beginning in september. referring to the -- referring to the time line that we have here in front of us, we have a significant team back in our home office working very hard in anticipation of a september live date. we've already started to build out our team, as diane mentioned. we have one of our local team members. we've also assigned staff in our home office who'lling responsible for the admi

let's bring in kaitlan collins, joe lockhart, and susan glasser. happy monday, everybody. joe, i want to start with you about bernie sanders' plan to relieve college debt. this is great. you can promise -- i mean, candidates promise lots of things. obviously then when they get in office, the devil's in the details. i just don't know how much stock to put in it. >> you know, i think it is campaign season so you're going to see promises. promises that will be modified or tossed over the side once somebody wins. that's the nature of campaigns. i think it's interesting with sanders proposal. it does indicate how much elizabeth warren is having an impact on this race. this idea that i have a plan has really forced bernie sanders' hand and i think others to jump in. the reality is the plan as written has zero chance of getting through a congress that is controlled at least in the senate by republicans. again, the reality for democrats is very often they come into office after republicans have been in and have to deal with the deficit. so i think you're going to see tax increases

in part because they either don't like the ones that they know like joe biden or elizabeth collins. esident trump looks like the best food on the buffet right now, which i thought was really fascinating. >> they didn't particularly care for joe biden either, is that right? >> and that's in be a little excited or at least intrigued that he's running. but he was the opposite. though they did say that doesn't dit qualifiesing and talking ount points from the charlottesville protest a couple of years back. they said the portrayal that biden had in his video was a complete lie. they also think that those things started during the obama administration and that he didn't step up and saying enough then so they're curious why he's stepping up and saying something now. >> is there anybody who stands out amongst the 2020 canned candidates? >> i just mentioned him. but john hickenlooper who don't want to intrigued. they looked that he seems like a regular guy, who is going to stand up for the little guy, not a politician. >> alexi, axios, i understand, is also looking at sort of inter-party atta

also works, according to all of our reporting, for president trump to have joe biden because as maggie haberman and kaitlan collinses having a foe. in fact, he needs a foe to stay focused on his own campaign. >> no doubt, it works for both of them to be in this mode. there are some trump advisers that felt that the president's focus on biden might be elevating biden, helping him, but i think the value of having him engaged and having him have a foil and getting him focused on the year and a half battle to come for his re-election may outweigh some of those concerns. listen, joe biden, as you noted, wants to pretend that there's not a democratic primary taking place or better yet, he wants to be so focused on president trump so he can go to democratic primary voters and say see, i am the best equipped to take him on and take him down. you noted that amped up rhetoric. i think one of these questions out of what joe biden is going to say today is, is this the right way for a democrat to take on donald trump or have we seen this before and it didn't work effectively? >> one of the things that he's doing in this speech

joe biden is a dummy. >> you heard it. cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins is live in des moines and washington correspondent jeffeleny is ottumwa and dana bash. jeff, first to you, the fact that joe biden team leaked the speak and they had to know trump would pounce and was this part of the game plan? >> well, brooke, good afternoon. a game plan to frame this conversation as a one on within debate, a duel if you will between joe biden and president trump. and it almost feels as though we have fast forwarded through this primary process of 2019 and are at the general election. of course that is what joe biden would like to do. that is why he's framing his entire conversation here in ottumwa around president trump. i just walked outside here, a sunny day outside and was just inside with the former vice president and five words stand out to me. let's make america america again. we don't know if that is going to be the biden campaign slogan, but it certainly sounded like that inside of this hall today. and the former vice president went on to say that democracy is in deed threat earnern -- threa and he went through

sunday, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren inching closer to joe biden in new state poll, wall street journal political reporter eliza collinsst david brown. eliza, first of all, congratulations move over to wall street journal, good for you. what's your take on what's going on in iowa, i know the polls can be all over the map, there was a time when hillary clinton had a comfortable 20-plus lead over then senator barack obama, he ends up inching by winning the state, stumbles in new hampshire, but, again, not according to plan, what do you learn from this? >> we are still so far out in the big, it's so big i do expect they'll be plenty of surprises but things that are notable on the poll, joe biden still does have lead, the lead has narrowed, now in single digits, bernie sanders was the clear second place before in previous polls and he's got elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg actually basically tied with the margin of error, i think for someone like sanders that's cause for concern and biden as well, biden was not one of the 19 candidates in iowa over the weekend, he has taken a different approach to campaigning, not as ag

collins is a national political reporter with the "wall street journal." tonight, night number two, totally new crop of candidates, including front-runner joe biden, we saw last night, senator elizabeth warren staying above the fray. do you think the former vice president will be able to do the same? >> well, tonight is a different ball game, really, because we have the front-runner, joe biden, bernie sanders, who's pulling two or three. we have pete buttigieg up there, and kamala harris. four out of the top five candidates are on this stage tonight. and senator sanders and joe biden have very clear differences. senator sanders has not been afraid to go after joe biden already in his campaign. joe biden has made clear he's trying to take a centrist approach and appeal to independents and republican voters. i think already we know all of that going into tonight. it could get messy. last night got a little more heated than we expected. >> well, there was a lot on policy, you can tell the moderators were trying to figure out where the daylight existed. you didn't hear as much about president trump. so, you know, biden as we all know has made beating trump the ce

collins is in des moines. good morning to you both. jeff, let's begin with you. i find this speech fascinating, that joe biden is going to give today. what's interesting is it's almost all about the president. >> poppy, good morning. no question about it, that's what joe biden exactly wants to make this trip about, about president trump. of course, joe biden wants to make this 2020 election a referendum on president trump. he wants voters here in iowa and elsewhere to consider the type of leadership they're seeing from the white house. and the former vice president is going to do something we have not seen many other democratic candidates do so far, talk about trade and tariffs specifically. poppy, we do have an early look at the speech that the former vice president is going to give later today here in iowa. let's look at one part of it because it is interesting how he goes directly at the trump administration. he is scheduled, expected to say this. i believe trump is an existential threat to america. i have said many times that we can overcome four years of trump, but if we give him eight years in the white house, he will forever

collins, buzz aldrin, they want a mars shot. ot.ers say it is an earth sh we have climate change and we have to take care of our planet. others like joe say it should be a war on cancer, the new moonshot to do away with cancer. from what i know, being around the country, there is a collective hunger to do something big, american, can do, short of war. david: you are a distinguished historian. when historians come on we often ask, what is this president like, what is he not like? history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes, they say. are there parallels to donald trump that we can draw constructively? douglas: there really are not when you look at presidential history. he never had a political background. but neverillionaire ran for office before president of the united states. that said, he has hung a portrait of andrew jackson in the white house. he likes the idea of being an economic populist. i think steve bannon's early influence on trump. richard nixon has an influence on trump. i asked him about nixon and he said he used to dine with nixon in new york city quite a bit, lot from him. it froa and then ronald reagan, a little styl

collins. kaitlan, you have been following everything that the president said. what are the headlines here? >> reporter: well, the president is essentially unloading on joeawn as he's headed here to iowa where, of course,

collins. kaitlan, you have been following everything that the president said. what are the headlines here? >> reporter: well, the president is essentially unloading on joeiden on the south lawn as he's headed here to iowa where, of course, he's going to be sharing the state with the former vice president. people close to the president, brianna, say this isn't surprising because all day he's been watching a coverage of a speech that joe biden hasn't given yet and his campaign went ahead and released the text of that speech where he mentioned the president dozens of times and going after him not only for his trade policies, his climate change policies but also just his character and his policy issues overall, and now were seeing the president retaliate and fire back at joe biden saying that he believes that he's mentally weak. he thinks that this is a candidate he'll be able to beat easily and he talks about how joe biden does mention him so many times in the speech and someone that has those mention him that many times, that means he's in trouble. of course, brianna, this is setting us up for the showdown once president trump does get here to iowa, but a

joe biden. the president today personally attacking former vp, slamming the former vice president's health. cnn's arlette saenz gave us biden's line of attack. now let's go to cnn's kaitlan collinsg president trump, whose advisers are frustrated that the president keeps talks about biden, possibly helping the democratic front-runner. >> well, i love iowa. i've gotten along great. i won iowa by a lot. >> reporter: president trump in iowa today for the first time this year. >> hello, ottumwa! >> reporter: but he doesn't have the state to himself. >> joe biden is a dummy. >> reporter: the potentially 2020 rival who has consumed him the most is also in town. >> when a man has to mention my name 76 times in his speech, that means he's in trouble. >> reporter: but the two men who have traded jabs for a week won't come face to face or even within a hundred miles of each other. trump will stay on the western side of iowa, before heading to des moines for a fund-raiser while biden campaigns towards the east. though they may not be in the same air space, sources say biden is definitely occupying trump's head space, which he made obvious today as he lashed out at the former vice president.

collins is live in des moines. jeff, let me begin with you. what is most striking from the remarks biden will give? >> poppy, good morning. no question joe biden is trying to make this a race between him and president trump. he wants democrats to see him as the strongest democratic candidate to take on the president. and to unseat the president. so he is going after him on, with an economic argument about restoring civility to the white house, but what joe biden is also trying to do is distract from his primary race at hand. he has had a very rocky week, the past seven days or so, in his campaign. flip-flopping on the hyde amendment, some other matters. so he's trying to sort of brush that aside and say look, i'm the strongest candidate here. so and some democrats, of course, their top concern is finding someone who is electable to defeat the president, but not everyone is sure, of course, that joe biden is that person. we're not going to hear any new policy from him, any sort of new or bolder ideas. he's saying, look, president trump is not the leader the u.s. needs. the question is, though, do democrats want to hear that, or do they wa

collins. she's in des moines where the president is headed later today. and in washington, cnn political director david chalian. so kaitlan, you also have some new reporting on how much joe biden, already, it seems, has been getting inside the president's head. what is it doing? >> that's what joe biden wants, to frame himself against the president instead of the other democratic candidates, as jeff was laying out. for the president, it seems to be working because people close to him say it is joe biden who has consumed the president's head space the most, more than any other potential democratic nominee has. now, the reasons for that, of course, are not only that joe biden has name recognition from being a senator and a former vice president, but also because the president believes he's the most serious threat to appealing to those middle of the road voters, some of those blue-collar voters that the president won over in 2016. so that is his fear there. so you can see the president, he's been not only talking about it on twitter, at press conferences with other world leaders, but also sources say that's who the president is talking about when he makes those early mornin

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joe biden is on 24%, bernie sanders on 16%, while elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg are at 15% and 14% respectively — none of the rest of the field for more, we'rejoined now by eliza collinst massively representative of the country as it is a white state, not much diversity but how do you think it reflects the state of the democratic race generally? well as you said, it is the first state to hold its caucus so this is where we will see who in this massive field rises and falls. people need dropout after iowa but iowa is a very important marker and a lot of candidates see it as important which is why we saw 19 of them there over the weekend. we did not seejill biden there who is leading in the pool biden there who is leading in the pool, but he has dropped since the last straw poll of the area. he was at the graduation of his granddaughter which is why he was not there. he was not disrespecting iowa. some 60% of respondents said their priority was someone who could beat donald trump, only one third said they had to reflect their political responsibilities, winning is the key for the democrats in the moment. yes, we have seen that in all sorts of pools. when you go further,