kate bedingfield: it was pressure from outside. there was the expectation, the waiting, the anticipation. what's he going to do. jeff zeleny: every biden decision takes a long time. that's how he's made decisions in the senate. it's how he made decisions in the vice presidency, and certainly on his own political future. pamela brown (voiceover): some believe he was still stung by the pressure back in 2016 to step aside and make room for hillary clinton. evan osnos: joe biden was also seething, frankly, about having not been able to run in 2016 against donald trump. he had been coaxed out of the race, nudged out of it by barack obama and other powerful figures in the democratic party. van jones: i think that bothered biden. i think biden felt that he had promised his son that he was going to run and he didn't do it. joe biden: that's why today i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. jeff zeleny: when biden finally got into the race, there was excitement in some quarters of the democratic party, but there was

finally, please as he cup mccarthy sellers, kate bedingfield. thank you both. all everyone. every everyone both is inclusive perhaps all right kate let's go, back to you in new york thank you, friends. so security measures, they have been tightened around the convention site in chicago protests have already started with crowds gathering sunday, sunday night. how law enforcement are planning now to keep it all safe and secure over the next four days. and ukraine bombing a key supply route inside russia, taking out a bridge with the precision airstrike both countries are warning people living along the border to evacuate. now and extreme flooding the north in northeastern the northeastern part of the united states is leading to rescues and evacuations, just look at this video, are the threat now is today start your day with nature me and try new. >> zero sugar gummies what will you do? >> no power goes out. power outages could be unpredictable and inconvenient, but with a generale home standby generator, your life goes on uninterrupted because you have power when you need it th

i want to bring in scott jennings, kate bedingfield, van jones. they also may have some questions for john as well, scott, you just heard from john when when you look at how much the trump team has changed their ad spend and what does that say well, the map smaller now, i think john is exactly right. >> they were envisioning a much larger matt. now it's smaller. we're back down to the core states that we all thought were going to be the battleground states. and really it's still the competition between the sunbelt and the northern blue wall. and if i had any questions for john, it's really about the state of pennsylvania, obviously, the person that wins pennsylvania is highly, highly likely to win the race and given her past stances being on both sides of the fracking issue, given biden's special personal connection to pennsylvania, i wonder if john has any commentary on whether he thinks she is going to run or be as strong in pennsylvania as biden might have been giving his personal connections to the state and its connections to some of the olde

let's chat with our panel of experts, kate bedingfield is with us. litical commentator and former for biden white house communications director. kate great to see you as always, we actually just heard from president biden as he was departing the white house on his way to this event, i want you to listen to this soundbite how much farther light and vice president harris might food for political reasons distance herself from your economic he's not i'm not sure how will you heard the question there, but it was essentially about will camila harris distance herself from president biden when it comes to his economic policies, president's answer, there was no i'm wondering whether you think that's realistic given that polling has shown that the economy had been something of a weak point for the biden administration up to this point well, i expect what she'll do is talk about the economy deliver her economic message in her own voice, which is what she should do. so, in some ways, i think it will sound fresh to voters just because it will be delivered by her.

. >> i'm joined now by two top political minds, kate bedingfield and kevin madden. kate, i'm convinced that they're just messing with us and that everyone's clearing their schedule. i mean, would they be this obvious if that is actually what was happening here? >> i think the fact that everybody cleared their schedule and a lot of these people we know are in the vet process and we've even seen some leach confirmations that some of these folks have had meetings with the vet team, so i don't think we should imagine that there's going to be like a bachelor style rose ceremony here but i do think that there is yet to remember the vet process is usually a month's long process has been condensed into a very tight timeframe here. >> and so these conversations are happening and i suspect that some of these schedule cancellations are result of that. now, whether others who know that there are who'd been floated and are in the discussion here are canceling they're schedule just to look like they're in contention. that's always possible to. but but i imagine that there are some

brian lanza and former biden white house communications director kate bedingfield. let us communicate. as stephen stills one said, something is happening here. we heard governor walz bring up mcflurrys at this event yesterday, and then axios this morning has new reporting on what we will hear from harris on her x economic message later in the week, they say, quote, harris won't say it this bluntly in public, but her advisers do so privately. she wants to break with biden on issues on which he's unpopular first up rising prices. this is part of a highly choreographed effort to define herself. in some cases redefine herself as a different kind of democrat. >> a mcflurry democrat, maybe kate explained to me what you think this message will be and how effective it could be? well, i think she's going to very clearly draw the contrast between her own upbringing, her own experiences, and those have donald trump. i mean, look in some ways what we're seeing from trump as he's being his trumpy itself. and, you know, talking only about himself and using this moment to continue

i believe i will candidly admit i watched the end of his speech this morning but kate bedingfield, i mean, this honestly that moment where he acknowledged that he was too old to be president. i think you could honestly hear the reaction from the room that sort of inhale of, wow, he actually went there and said that would talk a little bit about what this means. you worked for this man for for quite some time. you invested a lot of yourself in him as well as did so many people when this room yeah. >> you know, the word that kept kind of reverberating with me while i was watching him last night was patriotism because we in this moment of incredibly divided partisanship in this country. >> we have really, in a lot of ways hardened into our corners. we've become incredibly combative and defensive and our politics and watching him last night and as somebody who worked for him for a long time and saw him up close in the way that he conduct conducts himself in public service. it was such an ode to the idea that public service is about being bigger than ourselves. and that there is reason fo

kate bedingfield used to work for biden. can you confirm he is?> i cannot come i can confirm he is not going back from me to let his expo it's not happening brad, todd, listening to this conversation the trump had last night with elon musk. >> i mean, it does seem like he doesn't totally know what to do when he can't grab headlines, right? he has been at the center of the conversation for so long in this sort of shift in attention has been a pretty remarkable, he was all over the place in this conversation with musk last night, is he doing himself any favors? >> it was it was long format conversation so it does lend a little bit too broad waterfront, but he's got to get focused. he has to get focused in it's not hard, right? people are disenchanted with how the biden-harris administration, scott, see how did that you have to add i see you there yep. it's not hard. >> right? you saw border encounters 7.5 million like this is easy spending, disposable income americans there's a lot more disposable income when he was president and they do now, that's

they need to face legal consequent to spirit kate bedingfield.t do make sure that they are held accountable. that's mafia like word coming from the federal government to private companies. the fbi command center before 2022. there's a lot there. we need to dig into it because the more we learn the worse it gets. >> emily: when does accountability fit in and what does that look like? we've been speaking earlier, there is a responsibility when you flip-flop, responsibility when your policies, actions, decisions of a very negative and real impact on americans. what are we supposed to do with this admission? the election past and there is one about to happen. >> gerri: is not very satisfying but i've got to tell you i don't really expect mark zuckerberg to defend my first amendment rights. he's a ceo. he started his career by building a platform where harvard students could rate the individual hotness of people that went to class with. okay, that his world. he is about that kind of thing. so don't look for him to be the first amendment freedom fighte

all and more with cnn political commentators, kate bedingfield and scott jennings kate, i was just talking to gary peters a second ago and asked him about what what he thinks that the protesters need to understand about what harris can and cannot do. and the very first thing he said was that we need to get to a ceasefire deal. there is a little bit of choreography about this particular moment where maybe they're on the cusp of a ceasefire deal. maybe she can't se a whole lot more about this issue at risk of jeopardizing that. but you've got thousands of protesters on the streets wanting to hear more well, that's often true in foreign affairs and national security, are things going on that you can't necessarily talk about publicly? >> but i actually i think on this she's been quite public about where she hopes to get to. she's been very vocal but she wants to see a ceasefire now that she wants to see hostages least, she has spent a lot of times making very clear that that's what she president biden and the administration are pushing for. i think look, the democratic party is a big party. it

so now let's go to kate bedingfield, former biden white house communications director. kate, when you hear this and see these numbers that harry was just going through in wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, non-college educated white voters seeing a move this significant in such a short period of time why do you think this is well, i think that the trump agenda is actually not as palatable to these folks as people might have thought. >> i think his sense of kind of chaos as sense of only being out for himself. i mean, i think you heard governor walz really effectively driving that point just a few minutes let's go in that soundbite you were playing from his remarks tonight. i think that there is a fatigue with trump. i also think that kamala harris is representing an economic agenda that does connect with these folks. if you look at what xi and president biden did and her four years in the white house they capped the cost of insulin other able to say that they beat big pharma on that, which i can tell you from my time in the white house is something that absolutely pulled

to count up the collective hours asleep at this table because it would simply be depressing kate bedingfield is going to political commentator, former biden white house communications director of a car sellers, cnn political commentator, former south carolina democratic state rep, elliot williams, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor and scott jennings, cnn political commentator, former special assistant to president george w bush. welcome to all of you. so grateful to have you here. bakari, you caffeine have been formed around actually added it up as about eight hours and 45 minutes among the four of you and put like three-and-a-half and kate got three, so yeah thumbs up or am i did i don't i don't know where i am or what i'm doing, but i'm apparently here just a little concerned but what kate let me start with you. last night we heard from harris, her presentation in particular stood out to me in terms of the decisions they made about how to frame her, how to present her there wasn't as much policy is maybe they could have been. what was your evaluation of what we saw less. well, i

morning seems to think so with this now are cnn political commentators, shermichael singleton and kate bedingfield can't i want to start with you and try to push it forward a little bit because i haven't found anyone at least here in chicago who watch this, who wasn't thrilled with what they saw last night. >> so it was what it was every democrat is like on crack this morning how do you turn that into success for the next 70 plus? stays? >> well, i think actually what the obamas did last night was lay out a really effective, really convincing messaging path for the democrats. actually think you've seen camilla harris and tim walz kind of take as you, as you saw her come to the top of the ticket, i think you've seen them embrace this idea, which is that one of the ways to beat donald trump is to take away this notion that he is all strength and that he's strong and that he's frightening. and i think what the obamas did so effectively last night is kind of say that's, that's an allusion. it doesn't mean that he hasn't done terrible things to the discourse in this country. obviously, you heard them r

kate bedingfield priscilla alvarez touched on this tactic that they're using in georgia because they're not going straight to atlanta they are going farther south in georgia. they are going to rural areas. it appears to be trying to peel off voters from from donald trump. what do you make yeah, strategy. look broadly speaking, i think it shows a campaign on offense. i mean, when you are when you feel that you have a wide battleground and you have options you have multiple paths and lanes. you have more flexibility to make some of these choices to go to places where you're acknowledging. you heard there campaign acknowledging they don't expect to to win some of these counties there campaigning in south georgia, but they do expect, they have an opportunity to limit losses. and in what will ultimately very likely be a marginal race, you know, that's a really smart thing to do. that's a sign of aggression. and i think the other thing to think about from a strategic perspective is, you know, six weeks ago, eight weeks ago, georgia there was a state that the trump campaign pretty much felt th

while while he's vice president and will come out and keep fighting for a common-law harris kate bedingfield, other republican, former presidential candidates are weighing in. florida governor ron desantis posted quote harris walls, most left-wing ticket in american history, minnesota was ground zero for the black lives matter riots of 2020 harris exit on and wall set by and let minneapolis burn unquote former south carolina governor nikki haley posted quote democrats doubling down on the progressive movement walz is a win for open borders. socialism. and iran in 2020, we should no governor walz did deploy the national guard after the riots in minneapolis and st. paul. he was criticized for not doing its sooner but he did deploy them. kate, what do you what do you make of the attacks? and do you think they are harris campaign needs to pivot more to address these? >> i actually think this is going to be a losing argument for the republicans because i think if this race is going to be fought on the question of who is more extreme, that is a fight that the democrats are going to win because you

but anyway, joining me now to discuss kate bedingfield, cnn political commentator, former biden whiteouse communications director of bakari sellers, also cnn political commentator and former south carolina state rep shermichael singleton, republican strategist, cnn political commentator, and mark mckinnon, former adviser to george w bush and john mccain. of course, the created their of the circus on showtime is here. thank you all for being here. i have to say that moment with tim walz's sun. can we put gous backup? i mean, it i feel like it really stole the show last night and it said so many things about about tim walz, about his family in this moment, this if for those who don't know, he struggles with disabilities, has been struggled with nonverbal autism it just really, really moving i've teared up every time i've seen a clip, i tear up thinking about the clip i mean it's i mean, talking right now but i'm watching it. >> i it's fair that's so relatable. >> i mean, how many people in america have challenges of some nature? almost all of them do. and it's just so relatable on it's

. >> i'm so delighted to have all of you here because there's a lot but yuan kate bedingfield, let's start first with you because the first day of the convention tomorrow president biden is the keynote speaker. >> all eyes on the man who, up until about a month ago, we thought would be accepting this nomination. i think we can expect to hear about his legacy and then also why he believes kamala harris is right. you've worked you worked with him for years? years. what do you think is going through his mind as he prepares for this? >> i imagined that he views this as an opportunity to sort of one more time, talk to the country about the reasons why he ran in the first place. there are some really kind of bedrock themes that have run through, ran through his campaign in 2019 and 2020 that really motivated him to get an office that i think he would say or maybe even more relevant than ever in this election, things about protecting our democracy. what kind of country do we want to be? what is, what does their future look like? so i think he views this as a significant moment to not only k

mike dubke, former communications director for the trump white house, and kate bedingfield former communications director for the biden white house. good morning to all of you how's everybody doing? >> good morning. morning. watching all that we wanted to talk about today mike, let's start first with you. >> of course i got it. >> but we're we're, we're watching all of this and end people are starting to comment, look, this is almost like birtherism 2.0 in a way making questions about where she comes from, trying to other her. >> what do you think he's getting at it? >> and these remarks i think what he's getting at or where the campaign is right now is they've had a week of this harris mania that's been going on. >> and donald trump's trying to get back into the conversation. one of the ways he knows to get back into the conversation is to say things that are going to we picked up on cable news and especially saying things in front of a black journalists audience that are going to be picked up and make news. so i think part of this is really getting back in front of the cameras and being releva

i'd gone i never thought that i'm better look in that she is joining us now to discuss kate bedingfield, cnn political commentator, former biden white house communications director bakari sellers, cnn political commentator, former south carolina democratic state representative, shermichael singleton, republican strategist, cnn political commentator and mark mckinnon, former adviser to george w bush and john mccain. >> and of course the creator of the circus on showtime. welcome to all of you. thank you guys for being here on this first day. mark mckinnon, i've got to start with you because of course what trump was reacting to their it's very specific example in a broader universe of just how people are dealing with kamala harris right now, the excitement here here he was technically responding to a peggy noonan column that was at the beginning of august where noonan says she is beautiful. you can't take a bad picture of her, her beauty plus the social warmth that all who have known over the years speak of combines to produce radiants. and it's foolish to believe that this doesn't matter

matt brown, national race and politics reporter for the associated press kate bedingfield, cnn political commentator and former biden white house communications director, and brad todd, republican strategist morning. thanks for joining me early this morning. all right. so alice, you talked to the harris campaign quite regularly that you know what their objectives were coming in. did they accomplish what they wanted to do in his big first interview? >> yeah. which is basically they wanted to say they finally did the first they can do not have anything, any sort of viral clip that their opponents can see sign. >> i can tell you that there was among biden aides, harris aides, democrats across town that the main attitude was because essentially some of his worst moments as vice president have been in these interviews that she can get a little bit on her back foot, that she can get nervous and have these sort of birol word-salad clips. now they i don't think everyone was saying this was an a plus, but they basically got through it and that was the one thing that comes up over and over again i