he is now the president. when people look at joeiden, if you close your eyes you can say, okay, that's a president. >> and it also -- you know, the themes that he laid out in that video about values and about american goodness, i think that is a big component of it, right, as julie was saying. the feeling that the democratic voters had is that the american ideal is being trampled upon by trump and that he's changing what america stands for, and so the more biden can make himself the sort of standard bearer for the projection of american idealism and this sort of -- you know the jfk style, the lofty rhetoric, the -- the idea. he talked about america being an idea, and that is something that democratic voters have a lot of angst about under president trump. >> i think also -- >> let's talk quickly but two questions he didn't was asked about bernie sanders, bernie sanders is a front-runner, i don't know if we want to use that term front-runner in a crowded race. is joe biden going to say that's a bad idea. let's fix obamacare. i was at

with joe biden, he sent out this tweet, sleepy joe. he said essentially at the end of it, once you get through all this stuff, you are running against all these people with dangerous ideas, and then i'll meet you at the starting line. >> you know what i thought was interesting than, i think what trump was signaling to activists within the democratic party is that biden isn't one of you and perhaps creating mischief for biden. if biden emerges from that process, what trump has certified is he's actually kind of a centrist, which is one of the reasons why i think republicans fear him more than the others. he reaches more into that swing voter who might vote for trump than any of the other democrats, at least right now. >> i want to ask you what biden said earlier today, that he asked president obama not to endorse him. do you really buy that? it's a convenient thing to say because there is understandable reasons why president obama wouldn't want to endorse somebody, particularly at this stage of a race. >> i don't know what passed between

j he's in. joe it official and describing the race as a fight for the soul of america. >> the core values of this nation are standing in the world, are very

speaks from the cuff, and he is joe biden. can he run a disciplined campaign? because he has not shown that necessarily in the past. what would be different this time? >> well, look, i think you both see him trying to take on some vulnerabilities and also voters want that authenticity. what you hear most from voters is the desire for an authentic candidate and an electable one. he sees what happened in the white house and it's clear he thinks we can do better. it's that candor that connects with voters and i think it's a way to say i hear you, i get you. let's do this together. >> and, i mean, the race is at a different place today now, alex, than it was the day before joe biden got in. he was leading in the polls before he was even in the race. i mean, that comes with risk, right? because you don't -- you have room to go up, but you have a lot of room to go down. they have this singular focus almost on, big focus on pennsylvania. why? what does that represent here? >> the cornerstone of his appeal to a lot of democrats, beyond

j he's in. joe biden makes it official and describing the race as a fight for the soul of america. >> the core values of this nation are standing in the world, are very democracy, everything that's made america america is at stake. that's why today i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. >> fresh off his announcement the former vice president just momentums ago. >> why are you the best choice nor democr for democrats? >> that will be for the democrats to decide. >>> president trump challenges the power of balance as he tells past and present aides not to testify. >> we're witnessing contempt of congress, con tell ll mtempt of contempt for the american people. >>> vladimir putin and kim jong-un meet for the first time presenting a united front against sanctions and denuclearization demands. >> for kim jong-un, the message to president trump, you know you're not my only friend in the world. >>> good day. joe biden is officially in the race to replace donald trump. drawing battl

he's been hinting at it for months and today he made it official. joepresident. becoming the 20th candidate to seek the 2020 democratic nomination. he announced his candidacy in a campaign video, but he didn't go after his democratic rivals. instead, taking direct aim at donald trump's presidency. especially trump's handling of the deadly white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia, in 2017.

you've got reporting about the president and how worried he is about joe biden. what are you hearing? >> reporter: don, the president was just asked what he thinks about joe biden entering the race today. of course he was repeating the same criticisms he had earlier in the day, essentially questioning his intelligence. but don he did seem bothered by the fact that in joe biden's video he immediately brought up charlottesville and the way the president was criticized for how he handled that, as you showed the video of what the president said and what the president seemed to be worried about there, don, despite what he thinks of joe biden and despite his criticisms of him, he kdid note the fact that he does have name recognition, sources have said that the president is worried about when it comes to joe biden. >> biden was front and center today, talk of the news, the president wasn't on tv as much. is that pretty much the worst fate of all for president trump? >> reporter: we've talked to campaign sources and they've said they do think it could be a problem with th

he knows joe biden well. his dad knew joe biden when he was governor really well. this is an asset we have tended to underplay. they are new faces. joe biden will be a test of the importance of that longstanding deep relationship >> what's also important, david cohen who is throwing the fundraiser who was the general counsel of comcast which owns nbc is one of the most powerful democratic donors and most active in the country. it's a show of force to donors which is important to joe biden to provide shock and awe in the democratic field. he never wants to run a two-way race. as one democratic strategist said, this is trump. he wants to be biden against a field of 20. it's always him against the rest of them. not one on one. this is an attempt to show the power of the fund raising potential >> i think david is right to flag david cohen's role in this. not to pick on him individually, but the presence of him and other folks in the room will be a test to the rest of the democratic field. it's bait for the populous to have the guy who oversees a major media company's lo

he has already been called sleepy joe by the president. e does hnahave against trump if he secures the nomination? >> i think a very good chance. let's break down the american electorate as it exists now.th is a love or loathe it election. 35% of the electorate loves donald trump. they will love him no matter what.le 45% of theorate loathes donald trump. they will lth him no matter what. what matters is the 20% who have these are folks that voted for barack obama and then for donald trump. this election is really about those 20%. joe biden does best with those 20%. people who live in pennsylvania and michiganwisconsin, florida, arizona. he actually has great appeal to that 20%. his supporters and his campaign would argue he is best positioned to take on donald trump with that very important segment of the electorate. jane: but what is his appeal? we have talked about a diverse c field in the democraea. why does he appeal to the 20%? what is it about a 76-year-old white man? >> middle-class joe. folks know what he is about.i as you mentionar

joe forever. i loved that he kicked off by talking about charlottesville >> why? his comes down to a question of character, joe biden versus donald trump. i was the governor of virginia. i was there in charlottesville. a thousand neonazis, white supremacists and alt-rights were screaming vile things about members of the jewish faith. i talked to the president that day, president trump, told him what was happening in the streets of charlottesville. he said he was doing a press conference. he came out and said there were good people on both sides. john, there were not. they were screaming obscenities. what i love about what joe biden has done, this is about who we are as americans. he didn't talk about his record. donald trump failed the test as president as the moral leader of our country. on the other side racism exists in this country >> i get it. >> people didn't think racism exi exists. it ripped the scab off. we have to do things about income inequality, inferior schools. the next step for joe biden. tell me how we'll make all schools equal. every child in amer

i said is that really joe biden? he doesn't look the same to me. i know joe over the years. he's not the brightest light bulb in the group. so, you know, as they say, it is a fight, though, that aides would prefer president trump sit out. sources tell cnn tonight that the president's political advisers have warned him don't do it, you could be elevating a potentially formidable rival. abbey philip is out front live outside the white house tonight. and abbey, are the president's advisers really expecting him to layoff joe biden? leerily he want to light into him and he gets great pleasure in doing so. >> some of them are advising him not to go after biden in this way, but others are acknowledging what you just said which is trump is going to be trump. he's going to attack who he wants to attack and they are going to have to follow his lead. but i think what some of the advisers are seeing when president trump attacks joe biden is the president revealing something about biden that he is worried about biden as a potential general election competitor, and he also seems to be givi

all joe has to do is show he can raise. nd i have given to five other candidates. ton of people have given to joe because they want to show support. i don't think we have a money issue with joe biden. the other thing i think ainsley to your point, whether you have name recognition, you don't have to pay for ads to introduce yourself. there is a big difference when we go on stage in june where there is 20 candidates or 22, i think there is two more that's going to enter. and all of a sudden people know joe. you don't have t waste seven minutes introducing himself. ainsley: he has the experience, too. >> he has the experience and he has a few gaffes that i saw you guys put out. ainsley: will that hurt him? >> no. it makes him regular joe. everyone has gaffes. we even have gaffes. [laughter] steve: he does appear to be a very likeable guy. >> yeah. steve: he has a great stage presence. that's what you are talking about. >> i think, you know, president trump really won the union vote. i mean, he was, you know, whether i was supp

he said i guess her democrats are not on twitter. we live in a bubble this way, joe biden does appeal across the out. the 6.3 million is more than any other candidate. it's a big deal. >> brookley, sarah, he seems to be a bit rusty with reporters. he has not done this for a while. >> he's been out of the game. the new some like kamala harris that not only, has she announced way earlier than him but she is talking to importers, engage in some of these news and fiery topics. joe biden has been sort of privately preparing for this. but he is not been publicly facing cameras. so you're right he is a few months out while some of his others are a couple of months and. >> thank you so much for coming by this sunday. ahead, the president saying people the new york times will have to get on their knees and begged him for forgiveness. up next come presidential aides join the president. this is the biggest liberty i could find to hang out with. >> president trump left the white house correspondents dinner last night for the third straight time but there was a choice. he ordered

. >> joe biden has spent a lifetime as a political power player. >> he just had encyclopedic knowledge of foreign policy. >> one thing i know about joe biden, this is a guy i would take on a long patrol. >> he celebrated triumphs. >> i accept your nomination to run and serve with barack obama! >> weathered setbacks. >> you were on the verge of dying, weren't you? >> the hearings caused an incredible backlash. >> and endured devastating personal tragedies. >> we can always get another senator but they can't get another father. >> you cannot lose a child and three months later get on the campaign trail. >> this was a tough one. he said beau was his soul. >> he has stepped off the political stage but doesn't hold back when it comes to an unconventional president. >> we are in the battle for this nation. >> i don't think the tombing was ever right for joe biden, but now might be the time. >> a number of women said his public conduct with them made them uncomfortable. >> joe biden tonight is grappling with another woman's accusation of unwanted touching. >> does joe biden still have what it

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joe: he does. i have been with him in parts of my state, other areas. from scranton originally. he knows working families who goes to the mill, auto plant, who go out and make sure their farm succeeds for another year. he gets that. there is a reason he is called middle-class joe. he comes from our kind of communities and understands our kind of communities. david: we have been talking largely about the general election, not the primaries. are those two different races? will the message that will prevail in the center in the general election differ from what will get the base out in the primaries? joe: i saw a statistic yesterday that was interesting. it broke down the democratic primary voters in two different categories. moderate was 35%, conservative, 17%. that is about 52%. what you'll find is, what primary voters what to do is make sure they can put someone in place who can beat president trump. they are concerned about our foreign policy, concerned about things like infrastructure and climate change. what was mentioned earlier, they are concerned a

looks great, vice president he, a senatorric people think of him as joe every man, they are helpful to win this, he will have to actually do debates and be out there talking to people, he is a walking gaffe machine, it could get pretty difficult, if not that he is all together that moderate but with how liberal he is, party has moved so far left he might not be able to really lock them up, because he -- his views are not extreme enough. kennedy: not just hearth change -- party that changed but politics has changed, you talk about the hand-to-hand combining that you have to do, he will have to have fundraising and social media strategies, and these are areas that are foreign to him, is it too late for him, soar do you think he secretly had a team together that is the best and brightest in democrat party who have been waiting to jump in and help him out. >> he is worried about fundraising he made it part of his pitch he needed money in first 24 hours, he does have so much of establishment more or less locked up, he as the advantage of of lifetime in politics this is a long

he's going to have to deal with that. if joe biden were a monument, a statue, these folks would be taking him down. now he is a real, live, breathing human being. we shall see. but it is going to be interesting. also the guy, i thought he was kind of charming some times but he is kind of gaffe-prone. he's going to be talking a lot. >> martha: look at these polls polls, 56% of democrats pulled said they would rather have a candidate that they don't agree with but who they think is stronger against trump. obviously, in any election, democrats want to win. before i let you go. >> yeah, we will see about that. at the test will be when he is on with you, right? on fox. he has to do that. that's a gauntlet he has to run and we shall see. but that is kind of an abstract of judgment, martha. let's get someone who can beat trump. at the end of the day, people like to have the kind of real deep affection and passion for a candidate, whether he can generate that or not remains to be seen. but i like the old joe. not sure about the new joe.

he will look doing that. trump does have a good card in the economy. kennedy: if i were joeiden, i would be so upset right now for two reasons, i would look at that stage in 2016, and who do you have lincoln chaffey? he could have mopped the floor with lincoln chaffey and bernie sanders and other two who ran. >> you make a great point, in some ways 2016 was his best shot. kennedy: you could make the argument then -- let's say joe biden looking at economy saying he got an obama-biden bump, that is what trump is enjoying. if he had that -- >> do you remember from his memoir he talks about how president chose hillary clinton, and persuading him not to run. and mrs. clinton said are you going to run, said yes, but if i do it will be fair and honest on campaign. she said me too, but you never know what your serogates are going to do there was a lot of that. kennedy: we're learning now this president obama did not want joe biden to run because he thought -- >> he bet on hillary. >> what a bad bet, does obama have no political instinct. >> you see the pennsylvania visit biden will

they know joe biden has to win this on his own. but he did issue a statement through a spokesperson this morning praising joe biden and saying it was the best decision he ever made as a running mate. now, as we go forward here, there is no question -- i was talking to an adviser of joe biden and they said what he's trying to do is shake the conscience here and refocus the debate that there is one thing this 2020 election is about. it's not about medicare for all, not about the green new deal, not about inmates voting, it is about defeating donald j. trump. so that is what joe biden is trying to do today. of course, he can't hit the fast-forward button through this primary. but he's trying to reframe and refocus democratic voters on the big picture here. and change comes in many ways. change could be a younger candidate, a female president, or it could be change from what the current situation and station is. and that is what the biden folks hope he can deliver for change. but for all the talk today about how he's going after trump, he sti

i also think reputationally he's more resilient, because people know joe. of demonizing or creating nicknames for his opponents like he did in the republican primary, people know joe biden, so whatever story he's trying to spin, i think it will be more difficult, because people know joe biden. >> let me ask you this, too. his message was centered on donald trump and beating him in the general election. there are some democrats out there, these voices who look at those polls, they sigh right behind him in second place, in one poll i say bernie sanders, do you think bernie sanders, if he was nom assassinated by the democratic party, do you think he's capable of winning? >> look, he's a wonderful man, but is he going to be able to carry those states that we just mentione mentioned? s is he able to beat president trump? i tent to think not. for a lot of democrats, whether you're talking about the black vote or, you know, the environmental wing, you know, is the new green deal people, there's one unifies purpose, and that is to get rid of president trump. that is

joe. both jack and gary have beat up on him. he's apparently wants to open his campaign next week in the steps of the philadelphia art museum. remember rocky? not all old-timers who have tried it before failed. rocky succeeded and joe thinks he can be the next. >> will he be wearing the gun metal gray sweats and the whole thing? david: we'll have to wait and see. might be too cold. >>> the economic impact of trump's trade deal with canada and mexico. it could be huge. a startling prediction coming next. ♪ am car with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good,

why not listen to what he has to say now first? >> in part because joe biden has been in politics for 40 years and those key decisions he's made, i don't know how he's going to explain to voters who have been affected by his decisions on mass incarceration, the war in iraq and financial deregulation and unfair trade deals. those are concerns that need to be raised that are part of his political career. he is leaning on his experience as a democratic leader as his reason for running. but i think that there are fresh voices in the democratic party who are bringing new things to the table and part of the reason we have 20 minutes in the mix at this time is because people at the top of the party haven't made room for fresh voices in the in an election if the status quo or legitimate fears of that being, again, the way that 2020 is decided. there is a lot of things to already go on joe biden, particularly things he said about, you know, the progressive movement and about young people and he has been historically a centrist and moderate in the party. >> alexa

words michelangelo mit easy was his full name but he was best known as joe he telling a painter was activefrom the early fifty nine hundred to his death in sixteen ten and had a profound influence on baroque painting and his main innovation at the time was his. hyper realistic style so realistic in fact that again this troupe of actors from naples a nifty idea. the entombment of christ. caravaggio's famous painting as a tablo on stage. and here an actress strikes the pose of mary matalin in ecstasy. modeled on caravaggio's portrayed from sixty six. these living pictures became popular in the late eighteenth century it's how art was offered to raunchy. and lead them in a lot in just a delayed future director livy could run barely came up with his idea in two thousand and six when she gave a talk on caravaggio's working methods at the university innovators a question that was not the father once and me a little bit instead of giving a lecture she had a few students replicate the way kind of worked out in his studio we sat there for what she came to realize that this performance had something

he also has a lot of experience running for president. >> joe biden hoping the third time is the charmer failing to win the democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008. biden's past two bids for the presidency were rocky. in 2008 he got just 1% of the vote in iowa. the first time in 1988, he dropped out after news reports revealed he plagiarized part of a speech. >> trevor: oh! plagiarism used to be a campaign ruining scandal? oh, america, you were so cute when you were little! you were so cute! oooh! ( applause ) that was a scandal? nowadays you can say you love grabbing pussies on a bus full of your unreleased tax returns while doing a drive-by on fifth avenue and the worst thing is mitt romney will fur row his brow in dismay. ( laughter ) people don't just love joe biden because he's a down to earth man. he's an adorable goof ball. >> his biggest possible weakness, his reputation for verbal gaffes. >> as barack says a three letter word, jobs, jobs, jobs. ( applause ) you cannot go to a up7-eleven or dunkin' donuts unless you have a slight indian accent. i'm not joking. his momma lived in

joe biden is a man of integrity. he hasn't done everything right in his life but there's no comparison to donald trump. i think his problem, joe biden's problem, is that he has to win the democratic nomination first and this issue of anita hill and what happened and how biden conducted those hearings, that's not going to go away. that's going to get more intense. he has to figure out a way to try and answer those charges. >> but is that not a gift to president trump? if it's joe biden against president trump in terms of morality, biden has it all day long. if the democrats go after one another, when they need to unite to beat president trump, isn't that a tremendous gift to trump? >> well, yeah. what i'm concerned about here is that, you know, we saw in 2016 with hillary's emails. all of a sudden you had this false equivalence where something that she had done was somehow compared to donald trump and there was never any comparison there. i worry about that. i think the purpose of the democratic primary is to find the be

he's in. after much speculation former vice president joe biden announcing his third presidential bid for the going after president trump. using images from charlottesville saying we're in a battle for the soul of this nation. will the president be his biggest challenge in 2020? >>> also, this is quite the image. it's a summit between vladmir putin and kim jong-un. and they were talking denuclearization. >>> breaking news on this thursday. 32 people hospitalized because of an ammonia spill just north of chicago. this is the scene. we're going to go to chicago live as

time refused to condemn these neo nazi protesters joe biden really focused his video announcement on these events and said that was the moment when he decided to run to avoid another term of donald trump literally but of course there is more behind than that . joe biden has been dubbed like something like the eternal candidate for about four decades almost she ran in one nine hundred eighty eight he ran again in two thousand and eight almost ran in two thousand and sixteen but then made way for hillary clinton this time around will be different though because he was already in paul's came out as the most popular of all candidates even before officially announcing his spirits so now he will certainly also make the case that he's the most likely one to defeat donald trump in twenty twenty years certainly has the advantage particularly because everyone in the united states knows him or work you know uses his name how does biden's bid change the competition in the calculus of that competition. well we're witnessing a very interesting moment drive now in the run up to the primary election so the whole party the democratic party shifted t

he called him sleepy joe yesterday in his tweet, and now he's talking about his energy level, his age. a few years older, but let's be frank, not much older than him. that's his line of attack. >> joe biden is actually only four years older than the president, but the president is saying he would never call someone too old to run for president, but he was implying that's what he thinks about joe biden. that comes as cnn is reporting behind the scenes, the president is questioning allies and advisers whether or not joe biden can beat him. he knows the former vice president has a lot of name recognition and he would be going after similar voters the president went after in the last election. the rust belt voters, the midwest voters. the president behind the scenes is raising questions about joe biden. something else, when joe widen made his announcement that he was entering the race, he brought up one of the moments that has essentially come to define trump's presidency, and that was the remarks he made about that violent protest in charlottesville that left one woman dead. and the pres

and he's drawn the worst card in joe biden if he wants to win pennsylvania. >> well, joe, talking aboutard to maintain a poker face when your competition when you tweet out exactly what you think and i found it very telling that president trump was, he was definitely unnerved by the union support that joe biden enlisted yesterday and was ripping into union leadership as taking money from the rank-and-file and he still maintains his support. but i thought that shows that joe biden has definitely gotten one his skin and that the way joe biden is going about attacking him, not directly head on, but referencing the lies and the lack of moral character, and definitely making donald trump part of his case for defeating him that the character of the man does matter. has been effective and has gotten in donald trump's head. >> coming up on "morning joe," senator an gus king is just back from iraq. we'll get his take on the situation there. and bring in acclaimed wear correspondent dexter filkins who is rofiling john bolton for "the new yorker". more "morning joe" in just a moment. new yorker".

he did not say joe biden was too old. he said he was too sleepy. i think joe biden's real issue is he is a fish out of water in the modern democrat party. he has such a liberal contingent that has captured the energy, the hearts, the minds, and the souls of so many democrats. can an old style, old school, more moderate politician like joe biden prevail over all those democrats? my suspicion is that joe biden is going to run out of air like a balloon. you are going to watch him fly through the air with the air gradually coming out. i think he has peaked at his highest numbers on the day he entered and it is down hill from here. >> austan, would you say that you have a fellow who is entering as though he is entitled to this? this is almost like the next in line, the kind of framework that voters rejected in 2016, that hillary was the next in line? is that going to be a fit? >> i think that would be a mistake if he took that tone, because the presidency is not owed to anyone. anyone that runs for president should explain what they want to do and why th

and he's already done it, as you see, with joe biden, which i think he's most worried about. calling him sleepy joe. what he doesn't have a message or rationale for election. i didn't hear that today in his speech to the nra. even with the nra, their most important legislative item for the first two years of the trump administration was reciprocity of conceal, carry licenses and nobody, it was not moved on at all. so, look, i don't think the nra is going to endorse or get behind any of the democratic candidates so he's probably pretty in safe territory. but if you look at the economy at 3.2%. which is an extraordinary number. a lot of defense spending in that number. but it's still, it's an extraordinary number. low unemployment. this president if he could stay on message about the economy, because that's where people vote. he could be in the 60s, 50s, he's not. he's in the lowest approval rating of his presidency and he's never gotten out of the 40s. >> which brings me to something that was written in politico exactly to your point. i'll read it here. he needs to let go. trum

has been for some twenty plus years in its democracy and now with this being a deep seated problem joe he has made it is his the deepest efforts to raise the rankings on the c.p.i. and he has successfully done so indonesia still ranks eighty ninth in the list of one hundred seventy five countries but whether or not that is actually tricking trickling down to the people is another question i guess tell me about the issue of palm oil that's something that both candidates say that though continue as far as production goes despite what europe basically. is totally against exactly with the e.u. having a plan to cut the use of palm oil in order to reduce deforestation in indonesia indonesia now has to back fire has to fire back with that plant the intent to contest at the world trade organization they want to challenge the definitions of what sustainable methods are in the e.u. and defend their rights. and their palm oil economy as well and rating for us in singapore on the individual elections thank you very much. the long running dispute between the u.s. and e.u. over aircraft subsidies is go

biden is joe biden. if he runs for president he's going to win because he's joe biden. he's got to respect people's space, understand that there are some people. he's acknowledged people that don't like it but his strength is empathy. >> i'm going to bring in the panel. jeff, what do you see? >> clearly his staff thought the attempts at humor were a miscalculation. they had joe biden speak to the press to do cleanup work. >> we were told he wasn't talking to the press. >> right. >> you get the sense this was done for cleanup. >> absolutely. on the other side, democrats and progressives, liberals, have to come to grips with an acceptable level of their own political fragility. whoever emerges as the democratic nominee will go against donald trump who has perfected the art of political shamelessness. he uses shamelessness in the public realm as a cudgel. as evidence of that we saw him today asked by reporters on the south lawn, the president was asked was it appropriate to retweet the doctored video mocking joe biden. the president said people got a kick out of it. he's be

>> he's always concerned about the economy, that's why he's done a fantastic job. when joe biden comes out he thinks he's got to fight donald trump? he's got to fight the trump legacy. joe biden had a hard week vis-a-vis the democratic primary. they don't realize he voted for bill barr and neil gorsuch. >> barr was confirmed like 97-0. >> joe biden was one of them. >> don mcgahn has been subpoenaed to testify in the obstruction of justice investigation. the president did not claim executive privilege when mcgahn spoke to the special counsel. is the president going to try to block mcgahn from testifying? is he going to try to exert executive privilege. >> it's always an option, always on the table. don mcgahn hag already talked under oath for 30 hours. >> is he going to testify? >> it's his right. those subpoenas different individuals are trying to push aside that we have an entire mueller investigation, lasted 22 months, cost $30 million, expansive, expensive definitive inclusive investigation. no crime was charged. no indictment was -- >> there are lots of crimes charged,

i know the portfolio he gave joe after the great recession. we were fighting back. he gave joe the portfolio to bring jobs back and gave joe portfolios to took him to all parts of the world. i think it's going to be really good for the whole party to have joe and mayor pete in there and the women in there. i'm proud to be a democrat right now. maybe we don't agree on every single thing and maybe some people think we need to go young and some people say we need to go old or left or middle, we have great people there. everyone will feel comfortable with the field. >> what are do you think about the aiming thing. do you think in their 70s people lose a step or two? >> you talking to me? >> when i first met you, it's all true. not that i am allowed to talk about appearances, but you look like you are handling age very well. i heard that older people shouldn't be president. do you have a view? >> i absolutely do. it's crazy to paint everybody of a certain age with a certain brush. that goes to young people. look at mayor pete. he's an old soul and he's very young. the fac

he did. i told him, joe, bu. they can't change you -- joe, be .ou joe biden is a type of person in our generation, touchy-feely was something that we just all did. i told people when i was a young in family,time, hugging and kissing, that was how you greet, men, girls, everybody. a cousin of mine i knew was a relation, i didn't greet him that way because i didn't know him, and i got reprimanded. and i'm thinking. , whew, never making that mistake again. when he walked through our door, you hugged and kissed, no matter who you were! [laughter] of friends, you are friends with senator susan collins. she has been with you, leaders on the no-labels group. she is up for reelection in 2020. was your support her? sen. manchin: i would campaign for her. her? would campaign for sen. manchin: as she wanted me to, i would campaign for susan collins. for america to lose someone like susan collins, it would be a shame. >> she may take you up on that. sen. manchin: if she does, i will be happy to do that. >> do you think your

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he faces for chaharges relatingo financial misconduct, but denies any wrongdoing. former u.s. vice president joe biden has officially announced he is running for the white house in 2020. biden made the announcement on twitter, saying that the soul of the nation is at stake, with donald trump's did for reelection. the 76-year-old joins an already crowded field of 19 other democratic hopefuls competing for their party's nomination. biden is the most experienced of the democratic candidates. he served as president obama's rise president for eight years, and has been a u.s. senator since the 1970's. more -- for more on this, it's good to oliver salad. good evening to you. we have joe biden's announcement of bringing the field of democratic candidates up to 20 now. do we know why biden decided to join the race and is he joining late? oliver: this video announcement today, he said that the american values would be at stake and that that would be the reason why he is running now. he also said that the crucial moment when he decided to run was back in 2017, when at a far right protests, in charlottesvil

biden is running as if he's from pennsylvania. joeiden left pennsylvania in 1952. >> delaware/pennsylvania. >> come on. >> so he's doing an event in philadelphia. >> his headquarters are in philadelphia. >> he's obviously placing some importance. if you ask me why? because there's 80,000, 90,000 votes that separate the president. and i think joe biden speaks -- >> i was going to say on the electable question, though, that's pretty misleading in polls. what do we even know what electable means? i think for joe biden, i want to go back to the point which was important. the video cannot be the totality of his roll-out. and i don't think it is. >> he's going on "the view" tomorrow. >> yeah. >> well, i'm just saying. that's what i know. >> he's going to be at a lot of campaign events. an important part of what we need to hear is who joe biden is, why he's running, his personal story. i think we'll hear that. that video was lacking that. and i think it's important that he does that and introduces his history. >> the counterargument would be