pete aguilar and katherine clark. so that's all just happened. that's where things are headed. bakari, i just want to start with you you've got your your ear to the ground here. grassroots people, you're in touch with everyone. what are you hearing? it's morning and nothing but excitement if we want to be hundred percent honest, i mean, i don't think we had this level of excitement before i just did the rickey smiley morning show, big urban, i think that's what they call it colloquially, but i call it black radio show. >> that is transmitted throughout the country country. people are excited about kamala harris and one of the things that's unique about this campaign is that kamala harris, you can see the history she represents, but the campaign also realizes that they have to go into rural pennsylvania, that they have to go into grand rapids, that they have to go outside of milwaukee, wisconsin and bring in some of those other voters that joe biden did extremely well with. i'm talking about farmers. i'm talking about white rural voters it's suburban white women. so this campaig

kathleen clark, the minority whip, has backed kamala harris, pete aguilar has backed kamala harris. do you expect all of the house leadership to endorse her? this fast and very quickly. >> i do because joe biden and kamala harris together, i've had the most successful administration in modern times, and they are a team. his decision, which was selfless and put country over party to end his campaign and endorsed kamala harris it sends a very strong message, not only to our leadership, but to our convention delegates. that his desire and his signal is that he liked his delegates to end our elected leaders across the country to support kamalaharris as our democratic party nominee. and i'm proud to endorse her and proud of our precip i do want to ask you about some of the attacks as you might imagine, there are attacks from the other side of the aisle. >> they have begun, they actually began before she announced, but they are now in full swing. i want to get your response to them one of the attacks is, hey, look at the republicans we just voted our guy in. the voters had to say the dump

i was joined at that meeting by katherine clark, pete aguilar, speaker emerita pelosi, and some of our leaders on the committees of real van jurisdiction including jim himes, greg meeks, and rosa delauro. at that conversation we talked about how we can fully implement the legislative product that was produced in connection with the national security package and we also talked about the stakes being incredibly high. that is a moment in the world where we are locked in an existential struggle between democracy and autocracy. between freedom, and tyranny. between truth and prop began davment the united states and ukraine stand on the side of democracy, freedom, and truth. vladimir putin stands on the side of autocracy, tyranny, and propaganda and is engaging in brutal tactics such as bombing a children's hospital. russian aggression must be stopped. at all costs. for the good of the ukrainian people. for the good of america's national security interest. and for the good of the free world. we made clear to president zelenskyy that we'll be with him every step of the way until russian aggre

after, house democratic caucus chair pete aguilar, only saying this -- >> right now, president biden is the nominee, and we support the democratic nominee that will beat donald trump. >> reporter: the president is getting a boost from the powerful congressional black caucus, still squarely in his camp. >> well, he's a good man. he has good policies. there's no reason to change. >> we're riding with biden. >> everyone? >> we are riding with biden. >> reporter: new york congressman ritchie torres expressing what i've heard from a lot of democrats up here today. >> you know, if president biden declines to leave voluntarily, then we have no choice but to support him as our nominee and make the best of a complicated situation. i mean, that's the concession to the political reality we face. >> reporter: over the weekend, congressman jerry nadler told his colleagues biden should drop out. but today, he told me this -- >> whether we have concerns or not is beside the point. he is -- he's going to be our nominee, and we all have to support him. >> reporter: but some democrats i spoke with, no

stuart: democrat congressman pete aguilar is distancing claims that kamala harris is the border czar.> let's be very clear that there is no border czar. kamala harris's role was to engage in multilateral discussions with latin american countries. the numbers speak for themselves on where we are with border crossings. we are in a much better position than we have in the past. efforts by house republicans to carry the water of donald trump are laughable and unserious. stuart: i think the democrats are embarrassed by kamala harris's performance on the border. i might ask what has harris done to address the migrant crisis? >> he hasn't done anything and i would agree with my colleague what is laughable and not serious is kamala harris's efforts at the border which were negligible. the numbers do speak for themselves. we had 5 million border crossings for folks from central america and the northern triangle since she was named the border czar. not the best numbers we've seen in a while. the worst numbers we've seen historically even under obama and donald trump, they had 2 million illegal

i was, of course, joined at that meeting by katherine clark and pete aguilar, nancy pelosi, some of thecommittees of jurisdiction. at that conversation, we talked about how we can fully implement the legislative product that was produced in connection with the national security package. and we also talked about the stakes being incredibly high. this is a moment in the world where we are locked in an existential struggle between democracy and autocracy. between freedom and tyranny. between truth and propaganda. the united states and ukraine stand on the side of democracy, freedom, and truth. vladimir putin stands on the side of autocracy, tyranny, and propaganda, and is engaging in brutal tactics such as bombing a children's hospital. russian aggression must be stopped at all cost for the good of the ukrainian people, for the good of america's national security interests and for the good of the free world. we made clear to president zelenskyy we will be with him every step of the way until russian aggression has been defeated. we discussed a wide variety of issues in terms of how to oper

past hour vice president harris secured the backing of house majority whip katherine clark and pete aguilar. lots of democrats supported harris last night. democrats believe harris gives them a major boost. >> this is going to completely change the nature of the race. republicans wanted to run against biden. they were very happy with where the race was. it was stable, the polling was completely trending their way day after day. this changes things. >> some top democratic leaders held off with their endorsements want to see where rank and file members land. there is also a question about seeing if harris maintains immediate staying power. that would stave off a messy convention. someone who is not running is joe manchin of west virginia. he does not want a coronation. >> i could not believe there was not going to be a primary process or mini process. other countries do it. why is everyone afraid to speak out and afraid to stay? the system is wrong. >> other people could run. the question is whether the harris juggernaut can quash other candidates. >> we have a process that anybody who wants

but for pete aguilar to say right now joe biden is the nominee, that kind of tells you where things aree democratic party. >> john: mark penn was on this program yesterday and said something very similar. this is who they have chosen and who they have to stick with. it seems right now that is the message we are getting from these democrats as they continued to be behind closed doors. >> john: "right now" seems to be a turn of phrase today. >> sandra: got it i would heavy hitters bailing on biden brian bromberg and jack adela jiles are here and ready and they will join us live next. of texas is currently out of the country. the president then called the lieutenant governor of texas to ensure that texans are getting the resources they need and deserve following this derve following this devastating storm. on the call the president raised the need for a major disaster declaration and immediately approved it while on the call when the lieutenant governor requested it. with this major declaration in place to provide life saving and life-sustaining abilities. he and his team have been working

. >> bill: pete aguilar is a democrat from california. a lot of people are thinking this. let's see the press conferences and campaign stops and see all this. all of it is going to be necessary. that gets to the point of wait and see and see how he does. >> i mean, i don't know what we're waiting to see here at all, bill. this has been evident for quite some time where joe biden is. i get a kick out of the democrats well, he just needs to be more aggressive and get out there more. it sort of exacerbates the problem. they act as though all of us in america have not experienced the aging process. like we don't have parents or grand parents, like we haven't watched what this process looks like. somehow he will snap out of it and be a 1985 version of joe biden. he is not going to be. there is nothing to watch. i think their problem is their alternatives. if you throw kamala harris into the mix as number two is now a nominee, one, she starts without the infrastructure but i don't think there is good evidence she polls better than an infirm joe biden at least in the states that

have a good, robust discussion tomorrow in that last comment came from the number three democrat pete aguilar, who would not say if he supports joe biden right now. so they can have a robust discussion. we do expect them to hear from here, from the democratic leaders and a press conference on tuesday afternoon, there'll be also key moment about the messaging about joe biden and we do know that from the senate majority jordan, the chuck schumer, he has not said a whole lot about biden. he would only say i'm for joe biden. he would not go further than that. we will not express any concerns about the prospects of binding could drag down senate democrats and their ability to hang on to control in the senate. but a key moment, the present he called in to a meeting of the congressional black caucus, one of the most, the biggest caucus within the larger house democratic caucus on monday night, he plans to meet with progressives later in the week, as well as he tries to shore up support within the ranks manu raju, cnn, capitol hill allan lichtman is a presidential historian and a distinguished profes

biden along with others who say they are still team team biden here's what democratic caucus chair pete aguilar said when asked if biden is doing enough to assuage concerns, he is followed in this clip by democratic senate majority leader chuck schumer. my answer is we'll see like, let's let's see let's see the press conference. let's see the campaign stops. let's see all of this because all of it is going to be necessary. >> are you confident that president biden has what it takes? to win in november and stir the next four years. >> as i've said before, i'm with joe all of this comes in the face of democratic governors privately telling president biden, they worry he cannot win. >> there states again, numerous elected democratic officials privately expressing terror that biden at the top of the ticket good puts not just his race, but their careers and the democratic party in peril. jake sherman reports that california democratic congressman mark takano recently saw a poll that had president biden losing into condos congressional district, a district that biden won with 62% of the vote in 2020.

this morning for a couple of hours worth noting, we heard the man on the left there congressman pete aguilar say that right now, joe biden is the nominee and we support the nominee. what we didn't hear gloria and jeff was any sort of ringing endorsement of joe biden and they tried very much not to talk about joe biden. they want to talk about donald trump and i think it is interesting because we had members of congress, democratic members of congress on yesterday the first, there's a rule in politics if you don't like the question and answer a different one. and that's what we're watching them do. what what house democrats are doing right now jeff, does this put additional pressure on the leaders of the democrats in the house and the senate. hakeem jeffries and chuck schumer to eventually step in and either her say, cut it out if he's the nominee or biden, you got to step aside look, it could it certainly could. >> or they could be a followers in this respect, this is a true test of hakeem jeffries leadership before he would ever become speaker. we don't even know if that will happen. of cou

there are a lot of democrats who are not going nearly as far including the number three democrat pete aguilar, who i just caught up with moments ago. i asked him directly if he supports joe biden at the top of the ticket, he would not say he said we're going to have a robust discussion tomorrow. a lot of democrats are saying that, or they say that biden needs to prove that he can move ahead and can have unscripted moments in the words of pramila jayapal. and they want to make sure that he could actually to win this race. so a lot of concern, the jury is still out among many democrats, but make no mistake about it, erin, there's a reason why joe biden is meeting virtually with the congressional black caucus tonight. they are the largest, most vocal group, largest group in the house, democratic caucus. if they come out and offer vocal support for him, that could go a long way. tamping down this rebellion in the ranks yeah, an interesting word when you use the word rebellion. >> all right, thank you so much manu. and i want to go now to mj lee because she's outside the white house and mj the whi

president biden's lead in just recent hours we saw top house democratic leaders specifically, pete aguilar, katherine clark endorsing harris. we've seen governors also back here. a couple of missing names, though, so far are speaker emerita, nancy pelosi, current leader hakeem jeffrey, chuck schumer. help us understand the dynamics and what those leaders might be waiting on. >> those leaders are in the position of having to be represented in the case of jeffries and schumer of where the rest of their caucus is. this is a traveling day. democrats are back in town, the secret service you and i have been covering, and i'm standing outside. for jeffreys and for schumer, it's important for them to be reflective of where their entire caucuses are. that's at least my guess as to why we haven't seen them come out with more full throated endorsements of vice president kamala harris. to that end, both of those leaders did speak to her yesterday in her many, many phone calls that she was making around capitol hill and around the country in various parts of the democratic apparatus. that said, key cau

. >> we heard last night our from democratic caucus chair pete aguilar, who took slightly different tone count. congressman angular saying his fellow democrats will be watching biden's moves for the rest of the week, including a key press conference here he's scheduled to hold on thursday. aguilar going on to say, let's see the press conference. let's see the campaign stops. let's see all of this because all of it is going to be necessary. let's talk more about this with democratic congressman robert garcia of california. he is a member of the biden campaign national advisory board. congressman, thanks so much for being here. with us. we appreciate it. i want to start first with what a source told our colleagues on the hill team that there was a sense of sadness among your democratic colleagues in today's caucus meeting. what did you think the mood was like behind closed doors? >> look, i think some folks are going to have their perspective and i respect actually all my colleagues opinions on this issue we all want to defeat donald trump, but i think that's the most important thing i wal