we will always ask you to do the same mike memoli, eliza collins, greatly appreciate your time tonightng up for us, remembering two giants in our line of work >>> it's been a special responsibility for female journalists and reporters to talk about how public policy affects women, how women in public office behave, how women voters are different from men voters that's been something i have done throughout my career. i'd like to be remembered as a mother and a wife and friend, people i love very very much. >> which brings us to the last thing before we go tonight, her full name was mary martha ka rin morrison claiborne bogs roberts. thankfully that got shortened along the way to cokie cokie roberts died of breast cancer complications today she was an essential explainer of politics in a business that didn't always get that right a major player behind the scenes in a huge shaper of careers in our business, and if that wasn't enough to like, she was from louisiana, and not only that, she was a member of one of that state's royal families her father was hale bogs, house majority leader, he

nbc news correspondent mitch mcconnell mike memoli is in las vegas where in an hour joe biden is going mike, we've heard some things out of the campaign this week and we have heard some rumblings of what joe biden has been telling people. what is joe biden's response right now? >> reporter: well, 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 ov

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. >> he didn't come to the spin room, but mike memoli, our best reporter of the biden campaign, someone who knows him inside and out is with us. >> you'll have to settle for me. >> well, joe. >> mike. >> i was kidding about him being joe. >> i'll channel the vice president as much as i can. listen, i think it's interesting, if you look at what we're starting to see in the first two debates, you certainly saw some of joe biden's rivals trying to go after his past, some of the positions he took as a senator in the '80s and the '90s. and very quietly in some cases less quietly and less delicately, you're starting to see his rivals attack his president, raise these questions. you saw it from tim ryan last week in an interview saying the vice president is in decline you. obviously saw julian castro make his point tonight. obviously it was a prepared line, something he was looking for an opportunity to use, and ultimately did. and then cory booker, it should be noted elsewhere tonight in his own post debate comment, raising himself this idea that there are a lot of conversations among democra

let me check in with the joe biden campaign, mike memoli has been in wilmington with the biden campaign. you know, it's interesting, mike. >> reporter: chuck, you want me to follow that? >> yes, you have to follow that. john kennedy is example "a" of the challenge joe biden has in dealing with this story and dealing with however we cover it. the facts don't matter to some people. it is just simply creating "be fair" or "be this." this is going to be the challenge i think that team biden has to deal with. >> reporter: chuck, before the former vice president got into this race, you and i talked about the concern among the vice president himself and his team about the fact that they knew this was coming. we've all known this discussion about hunter biden was going to come at some point in the campaign. i don't think even the biden campaign expected it to come up in this way, with the president of the united states speaking to a new president of the ukraine and asking him potentially with the threat of withholding federally allocated money to investigate his opponent. what makes this diffic

back with us tonight, nbc news correspondent mike memoli who's covering the 2020 campaign for us and tom bevin, cofounder and president of real clear politics. gentlemen, welcome. mike, i want to take you back to the beginning of summer when you first went out on the road. the last time your suitcase had that new suitcase smell. how has the democratic field changed as you've watched them? >> well, brian, it's a little bit smaller now. we talk about 19 candidates going to be on stage here in manchester for the convention tomorrow. you know, that's down 20% from the bigger field that we started with just months ago. but i think what's interesting is as big as the field still is, it does feel increasingly like a three-person race. we have joe biden occupying that center, the more lane, very much playing up that electability argument. and you have elizabeth warren and bernie sanders clearly fighting for that progressive energy, trying to make the case that this is more about the heart than the head in this democratic campaign, not just about who can beat donald trump. for these other cand

mike memoli and ali vitaly, thank you. jiemg n nina turner, great to see you. bernie sanders have been saying the same things for decades. my question to you is, are we going to see this play nice pact between him and warren designating at some point or will he start going after his progressive pal? >> everybody on that stage wants to be president of the united states of america. this debate is about showing the people who is best suited to serve on that stage, that's tonight and every other night. it's not just her, it is everybody on that stage. he's already differentiated himself. actually, he ran for the presidency in 2016. he had the courage to step you. on top of that, the entire democratic lineup is really preaching from the gospel according to bernard sanders because they had courage to say medicare for all should be a right notsds country, colle right. to say we need to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, so he will go on that stage as the visionary that he has always been. >> i get that, but some might think bernie sanders and elizabeth warren a

mike memoli covers the biden campaign for us and he is on his way to wilmington, delaware for that announcementoining me not in front of a camera, but by phone. mike, what can we expect to hear from joe biden at 2:30 or 2:00. >> reporter: i literally just set foot in an acela car so probably no more appropriate place. but what the campaign is say, that this statement is on the whistleblower complaint and the president's reaction to it. i think all of us are asking the question that lot of the colleagues are asking as well, will he call for impeachment of the president. he has been reluctant to do that before. and saturday when i was covering him in iowa, he passed on that question. he said depending what the house finds, he could be impeached but i'm not making that judgment now. but we often tend to hear from the vice president at fundraisers privately what he ends up saying publicly and last night he was speaking at a fundraiser in philadelphia and he said that we know that this guy is -- we know how this guy will be, it will be ugly, mean. and so he is clearly hunkering down for an even more

let's go to mike memoli who is at the event covering all things biden. were expecting biden to address the ukraine issue at the very beginning of the event. so did he and how did he do it? >> reporter: yes, he did. and with apologies at the out t outset, i'll do my best jim nantz impression. but yes, sir, he began his remarks here with an explicit reference obviously to the events of the past week. he started by talking about the fact that he believes that the president may have not only violated the oath of office, but committed a crime. but then as he has in fundraisers behind closed doors throughout the pa west week tal about the fact that he thinks trump is trying to hijack the election. let's take a listen to what the vice president said. >> in the weeks and months to come, it is the congress' job to pursue the facts and to hold donald trump accountable. in the meantime, my job, our job, is to make sure that above all else we beat donald trump. >> reporter: and so chuck, what is interesting is that we've had this discussion since the beginning of bid

charlie savage, and brittany shepherd, and joy reid, and mike memoli, i will be get to you more, and thank you. >>> and now, what disagreements do the candidates have? >> we have different policies, but what unites us is stronger. we need to fire up the base, yes, but bring in the moderate republicans and independents. >> i am not worried. we have to go through this and it is part of the process and it is a good thing to unite the disparate voices. >> shame on us if we can't gather a majority of the americans who agree with us on a majority of the issues and use it to win an election, but to govern well. >> today, these candidates holding their message and tomorrow the president is to hold a rally in new mexico. joining me from out west is katy hill, and welcome back to the broadcast and good to have you. so let's get into this. >> good to be here. >> your reaction to this. are the democrats fractured and does that put 2020 at risk and what would you do to remedy it? >> i agree with the candidates who were saying that the things that unite us are so much powerful than the things that

. >> joining me now from delaware where we're expegting to hear from joe biden soon is mike memoli. mike, the guidance that the biden campaign was putting out earlier had him walking up to the line of impeachment. but not crossing it. will that calculus change now that the reporting is out that nancy pelosi will open an impeachment inquiry? >> it's always been interesting how the former vice president approaches this question of impeachment. on saturday, a number of us asked him if simply the reporting that was out at the time represented enough in his mind to bring him to that step, say he would also call for impeachment. what he said then was that the house should be able to continue to investigate it and base ed o what they were able to find, they may have to go ahead with impeachment, but said i'm not make iing that judgment now. these developments are happening so quickly now u that even the guidance that biden advisers were giving us a few hours ago took him up to the line saying it may be inevitable if the white house was not cooperating with the house investigation. ht just o

mike memoli joins us from outside the event. mike? >> reporter: ali, we expect to hear from the vice president any minute now. aides say what to expect to hear is maybe bringing him closer to the line of himself calling for impeachment. he is going to say abuses of power we have been reporting on the last few days go above and beyond anything that the president has been accused of. he will call on the white house and the president himself to fully comply with congressional oversight requests, not just having to do with the ukraine matter but across the board, and if the president continues not to comply with those requests, then yes, he would support impeachment investigation and impeachment by the house. i should note, ali, the vice president doesn't come to this question easily. a few days ago in iowa we asked him about this. he said i'm not ready to come to that judgment just yet. he wanted to see what the house investigation would produce. he was elected to the senate in 1972. he celebrated in this same hotel his first election to

we understand from mike memoli that joe biden is expected to say for the first time today at 2:30 that if the president doesn't comply with congressional demands for the whistleblower complaint, that now impeachment proceedings should start. that's a big step, warren had said it early on but joe biden had not said it. >> yeah, and that feels like it mirrors what we're seeing in the democratic party, people who like joe biden, in the last 24 hours their tune is changing on this. >> john lewis, yamiche, has been someone we've all looked up to and gone to at critical moments in american history because of his unique role, having survived the beating in selma and havihaving seen so much history unfold. for him to take the floor today, following the series of events, for him to take the floor and call for impeachment inquiry, i interviewed congresswoman elissa slotkin, i don't know if you saw, she and six other moderate democrats writing in "the washington post" that it's time to begin an impeachment inquiry. >> this feels like an inflection point. john lewis has served as the conscience of

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our own mike memoli is with the biden campaign in laconia. vaughn hillyard is covering kamala harris's campaign in manchester. michael, let's start with you. joe biden knows the process well. this is the third time this man is running for president. let's be honest. the last two times they were a strikeout. so here's his third shot. is it a charm or what is he really risking? >> well, stephanie, first goit to say nothing makes me happier than when the center of the political universe is here in new hampshire. we are in laconia in the lakes region of the state where joe biden has the first of two events in the state ahead of tomorrow's convention. yes, joe biden has run for president twice before. he's never made it past iowa. he's never had a chance to actually run in the new hampshire primary. what is different now? he brings a number of advantages as the former vice president. one fact, the neighboring candidates from vermont and massachusetts have tended to win the new hampshire primary. of course we have both of those now with bernie sand