contributor jake sherman, staff writer with the new yorker, susan glasser and msnbc political analyst, peter baker. peter, i'm going to start with you on this. it feels like something's changing today. >> yeah, you're seeing the drip, drip, drip beginning again. the president had kind of put a halt to this for 24, 48 hours with his letter and calling into "morning joe" on monday and the nato summit, which you rightly quote nancy pelosi talking about. she wanted any discussion of this to hold off until he was off the world stage. you don't want to embarrass the president when he's hosting leaders from around the world. it doesn't stop the drip, drip, drip. you're hearing more from democrats that they don't consider this to be a tenable situation going forward. he's going to give a press conference at 6:30. maybe he'll convince people to hold fast, rally behind him. if he doesn't have a good news conference, it could accelerate the momentum the other direction. >> talk me through "the new york times" reporting regarding both insiders -- the white house is flatly denying this, trying to come up with

garrett haake, nbc news national law enforcement and intelligence correspondent tom winters and peter bakerdo we know about whether we're going to hear roll call on the vice presidential choice? >> reporter: nothing we can report right now, andrea. the reality is donald trump has played up this drama to maximum effect, teesing out the so-called veep stakes to the point where he can go no further. the only real reason the conventions exist is to formally nominate the presidential and vice presidential nominees at the top of the ticket. that's the most important official work that has to be done here and that work will have to be done. it's also one of the few elements across the entirety of a presidential campaign that a campaign can control entirely if they play their cards right. the trump campaign has won that thus far. i covered the romney campaign in which they rolled out paul ryan's announcement as vp on an aircraft carrier after flying him across the country basically in the middle of the night. we don't know yet what kind of subterfuge may be under way even as we speak to keep this p

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but peter baker, give me context and just a reality check of what has happened since then.ted states congress trying to allocate more money to fund ukraine, but it being held up in the house by maga republicans who didn't believe that the u.s. should be getting involved in it or who might have been a little bit more sympathetic to russia, to vladimir putin. >> yeah. to say there's not a different approach to russia and ukraine by this republican ticket is to ignore history. yes, it's true that president trump sent javelin missiles to ukraine and president obama failed and refused to do so, absolutely true. what they don't say is the missiles were locked in storage containers in western ukraine and not allowed to be used. let's not give too much credit for that. they didn't make any difference in the battlefield one way or the other. remember, the thing he got impeached for at the time was for holding back aid to ukraine, because he wanted to leverage that aid for his own political benefit to get ukraine to announce some sort of an investigation into his possible challenger,

new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker, and former rnc chairman and host of msnbc's the weekend , michael steele. peter, you have been covering this closely, and i know that some folks have been watching tv all day, some are just tuning it now. oh, looks like maybe i don't have peter, so i'm going to start with michael. what is your reaction to this? >> well, you know, it is a mix of thoughts at one time. you know, i was not very happy with the way the process played itself out, i think i made that very clear over the last few weeks. but in the end, joe biden did the statesman thing, and he recognized whether it was looking at the data or just feeling the emotion of the country right now, the desire to actually avoid a catastrophe in the fall, and he stood up for the country. and i think he is rightly being applauded for that. and so now, we have it, and it was important, it was very important for joe biden to lead the country in that pivot by endorsing kamala harris, because there was a lot of pressure inside the democratic party from some folks i know and have talk

> we start with mike memoli, kellie o'donnell, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker and from "the washington post" ashley parker, and national editor phil rucker. kelly is on a rainy south lawn. what did the vice president say in her first comments since all of this happened, changing her life and certainly the nation's politics? >> reporter: what is very clear is that kamala harris wanted to project she's been a good partner for the president, a loyal partner, and to make the very personal connection that she got to know him first through his son, the late beau biden, when she and the younger biden were attorneys general of their states, she -- he in delaware and she in california. this event for the ncaa, champions from the ncaa, this was supposed to be an event for the president, if not for covid. she stepped in, and wanted to be very clear about giving him the respect she feels he deserves, the respect of this moment to talk about his accomplishments and his communitiment to the country. putting aside for now the obvious, the new interested in her not just as vic

and "the new york times" and nbc only analyst peter baker.e, it's showing within the white house this is the end for president biden. what you can tell us? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, katy. look, multiple people familiar with the dynamics say there is a feeling among biden allies that we are close to the end, that's according to nbc news reporting, again. katy, we're actually getting some pushback just within a last few minutes from a source close to president biden who says, can we all just remember for a minute that these are the same people trying to push joe biden out, they're the same people who literally gave us all donald trump. so, you see this unfolding, katy, as this continues to drag on for several days. they're pointing to the scars of 2015. when vice president biden felt pushed out in favor of hillary clinton. and back then, you know, she lost to donald trump. so president biden's allies insist that he is still in this race. but privately, as you were mentioned, the political ground has really shifted in the last 24/48 hours

joining me now, gabe gutierrez at the white house, david jolly, peter baker, "new york times" white houserespondent and msnbc political analyst. gabe, take us inside the white house. what's the latest on the strategy to deal with this? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. as you mentioned, the white house and the campaign in full damage control. there are a lot of questions about how this is being handled. within a short time, we are told the white house chief of staff will hold a call with his staff and with junior staffers to try to keep them in the loop of what's going on. we are told that the campaign will do so as well with its staff. this comes as the president is expected to meet with democratic governors, both here at the white house and virtually, later on this afternoon. earlier today, we got an email from the campaign sending it internally to the staff showing they are bracing for negative polling that's expected in the near future, potentially from "the new york times," that they expect to see a swing in the race. what they point to is internal polling that they have had over the

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. >> brian: governor, maggie haberman and peter baker, peter baker i know pretty well. put together a comprehensive list of all the failings of joe biden. what's happened when european leaders were saying at the g 7 how they were all concerned when he forgot the hhs secretary's name. he misstated the purpose of ukraine aid. said it was for reassembling their electric grid. he froze on juneteenth. he was confused at points during the d-day celebration. even some of his allies were shaken and the president of italy knew what she was dealing with and had an eye out for him the entire time. how dare you know all this wait for the clasp of the debate to write this. >> yeah. they have, you know, the ink all over their hands. that's simple as it could be. and i think that there is culpability. they should be ashamed of themselves and apologize. they never will. in the meantime, this is a tragedy for america and for the world. and joe biden, if is he really sharp, he could end it all by simply coming out and having an extensive press conference, taking all the questions. or hav

peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times, charlie sykes, msnbc contributor, columnist and senator from north dakota, senator camp, it's great to have all three of you with us. senator, let me start with a breaking news that we got a moment ago, this sad news out of washington, d.c., your reaction to the passing of congresswoman sheila jackson lee, who has passed away. >> you know, over the years there has been a lot of attention to john lewis, rightfully so, but there are a number of congressional black women who have led the way and spoken not only for african- americans in our country, but also african-american women, and this is truly a passing of a giant voice for equality. a giant voice for fairness in this country, and she will be missed, especially by her constituents in texas, and it is sad to see someone really not that old, suffer from pancreatic cancer, and i think so many working men and women, people have been disenfranchised. they have lost a leader today and we can't understate that. >> i've had the privilege of interviewing her many times and

peter baker, nbc news correspondent garrett haake covering the trump campaign, and sam stein.come all. kelly, for the first time, the harris campaign is officially weighing in on the vice presidential search. what are they saying? >> saying what we have known but now they're saying it officially, that there's work to be done to respond to what the vice president is looking for, vetting that needs to take place to give her the best choices to review their public and their financial and all of their background so that she can make a good choice. i'm particularly struck on a day like this when the candidate kamala harris is not out publicly. that means there's a lot of interesting stuff happening behind the scenes, especially when you have an abbreviated schedule. meaningful work can happen when she's not doing public appearances, when she's not making a speech. we know it is a limited window of time. she has a deep bench of democrats. every cycle presents its own list of potentials. this has a strong list of people from key states, people that she has worked with before as an at

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also with us, peter baker, "new york times" chief white house correspondent and msnbc political analyst, and nbc's raf sanchez who was reporting from tel aviv. so kelly, what more do we know about how president biden is approaching this meeting today? >> this has been a tense relationship for some time, and the president wants to walk that line between showing unequivocal u.s. support for the state of israel and has demonstrated that in a lot of ways that he would talk about it in terms of the support provided especially when iran was taking aggressive action toward israel in addition to what happened on october 7th with hamas, and so that kind of steadfast support the president wants to reiterate. but at the same time, he believes that it is time for israel to find a way to get to a cease fire agreement that can bring hostages including some americans who have been in captivity are believed to still be alive to try to secure their release, and to make certain that there is sufficient action taken for the humanitarian needs of the palestinian people. president biden is one who believes

bring in nbc's monica alba who's covering the white house, steve kornacki is at the big board, peter baker is "the new york times" chief white house correspondent and an msnbc political analyst, with me in studio former new york democratic congressman joe crowley. good to see all of you. peter, you report today that people close to joe biden believe he has begun to accept the idea he may not be able to win in november. very carefully worded reporting as we should all be doing right now, but how do you reconcile that with what we're hearing from his campaign chair just this morning, and then also coupled with bernie sanders making yet another very public statement of support. >> yeah, look, you know, the campaign, of course, is not going to try to cut off the president's options by suggesting he is anything other than in this race up until the moment he may change his mind. if he does change his mind, obviously, you know, that will make these statements inoperative. but for the moment he hasn't changed his mind. what people around him are saying is he seems to be increasingly accepting that

others who might not have been that excited about joe biden, but were part of his coalition. >> peter baker, mike memoli, ryan nobles, thank you, guys. and joining us now with the staff writer with the atlantic, elena platko, a great argue, you really diagnosed what happened to kamala harris in 2020, why her campaign didn't take off, why she seemed so not comfortable in her skin in 2020. i wonder how that informs what she might do now that she's been handed the endorsement from president biden and potentially the nomination of the democratic party. >> first, katy, thank you so much for having me. it's great to be back. building on what peter said, a lot of the unknowns when it comes to what kind of campaign she would run, and what story she will tell about herself and the her accomplishments the past few years, one reason that we don't really know or have a great instinct as to how she's going to approach that task is because, like peter mentioned, her 2020 campaign was so short lived and the primary impediment it suffered, i would say is that she never quite found a lane for herself. she n

peter baker, i hope we have a date next weekend. thank you so much. >>> jonathan swift once said a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on issues. next, the one thing donald trump said about kamala harris this week that's getting lots of frequent flyer miles. we are back in 90 seconds. seco. (restaurant noise) allison! (restaurant noise) ♪♪ [announcer] introducing allison's plaque psoriasis. she thinks her flaky, gray patches are all people see. otezla is the #1 prescribed pill to treat plaque psoriasis. over here! otezla can help you get clearer skin and reduce itching and flaking. with no routine blood tests required. doctors have been prescribing otezla for over a decade. otezla is also approved to treat psoriatic arthritis. don't use otezla if you're allergic to it. serious allergic reactions can happen. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. some people taking otezla had depression, suicidal thoughts or weight loss. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. ♪♪

joining the conversation we have peter baker of the "new york times." former u.s. of the national constitution center jeff rosen. thank you all very much for joining us this morning. joyce, first of all, your gut reaction to the decisions and the implications? >> well, i think the opinion, when you read justice roberts' opinion, it's a clear approach that talking about consolidating power in the presidency, far more worried about making sure that power remains intact than it is about the potential that a future president might abuse that power. of course, this opinion doesn't happen in a vacuum. the context is the possibility that donald trump could return to the white house. and so, keeping that context in mind, which is something that the majority simply refuses to do, this notion of removing all of the guardrails from a presidency and immunizing conduct as long as you consider it with fellow members of the executive branch is a very frightening position for the country to be in moving forward. >> from a constitutional perspective, i'm curious how you view this d

we will bring in right now peter baker our political analyst and the chief white house correspondent co- author of the divider trump in the white house 2017 through 2021. last nights rally becomes a day after the major news conference and he made some typical gas. overall proved his knowledge on foreign policy and the role of the united states in several areas. did this quiet some of the concerns in the campaign? >> a lot of people feel like it was a mixed bag and on the one hand it wasn't a disaster the way the debate was and on the other hand there were moments troubling and he didn't exactly have a forceful presentation the entire time and then middle ground where several more house democrats came out afterwards saying he should step aside but not the flood people had anticipated and there could be an expectation that a few dozen would come out. in that sense it slow the momentum for the desire to replace him on the ticket. i don't think it actually cured the problem. if you talk to members of congress which i do and if you talk to senior democrats and even inside the biden team,

joining me now, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker, yamiche alcindor and jackiemany. peter, let's talk about where president biden is right now. there were a couple of gaffs, but he got through the news conference. he didn't quiet the dissenters. they were waiting until after nato concluded, literally after nato concluded in the case of jim himes, under direction from nancy pelosi and others before they would articulate it. in fact, last night, hakeem jeffries went to the white house. the message is that the caucus isn't with him. right? >> yeah. there's a lot of nervousness there. he did obviously calm the waters to some extent with a steadier than debate performance. but if that's the standard, a lot of democrats are worried it won't be something he can sustain. at some point there's a worry he will have another bad moment, a bad performance. even if he gets through the next few days, they will spend the next three months or so on pins and needles. your point with james from earlier, we have looked at this. there are not five american presidents who have had ap

. >> joining us now, peter baker, chief white house correspondent at the "new york times." msnbc political analyst as well kenneth vogel at the "new york times," ashley -- and brendan burke, an msnbc political analyst. peter, the president today in his interview can go two ways, right, at least two. one is to defend what he is, what he can do, and his ability. the other is to go after his opponent. how do you think he balances those two objectives? >> well, i think he'd like to do the second. i think the first is the more important thing for him today. he has to -- reassure democrats, first of all, that he is up for the job. democrats are not convinced that he is. everybody watching this interview to see how he does in unscripted moment without a teleprompter and to see if he has the kind of commanding authority that looks different than it did last thursday night a week ago at the debate. there's a lot of skepticism among democrats, they don't think he can do it, it's too late, the damage has been done and it's time to move on. there are those who are still sticking by him,

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joining me now to discuss his are correspondent who is covered president biden for decade and peter bakerrespondent. this was the third oval office address of biden's presidency. talk to us more about his response and message of unity and how the white house is handling it. >> it is remarkable when you think about the last 48 hours. we saw president biden on friday in detroit. the white house has been using the word fighter to describe him as he is in this battle to retain the democratic nomination for president trying to demic -- convinced democrats he should remain in this race with some of the toughest rhetoric on president trump and the rally calling him a loser and talking about his felony conviction or what he would do if he were reelected to another four years in the oval office. as a result of this assassination attempt on donald trump, this searing event in our nations history, the president has returned to home base, the joe biden that so many democrats and so many americans voted for in 2020 and president biden, the one who is drawn on that well of empathy and tragedy in his ow

. >> trace: peter baker said this in "the new york times,"en richard. mr.en returned vastly prdifferent presidency. he is not that creature read it in the oval office, lame duck,hs commander-in-chief on the way out who is being challengelengdo serve his relative fence even as the world moves on. lamer duck in poor health, richard. i >> i don't know if i wouldt th characterize it that way we saw from open two weeks ago then nato is in command of the worldd leaders and definitely inlv command of trying to solve theuk puzzle in ukraine. let's member as this is happening, the vice president is running foprr president and he will be very instrumental for her.rks she works on winning over the democratic party. and also talking to american voters. e the idea you will not see joe biden campaign in pennsylvania where he will beon very't popular or scranton shown scranton, i think that will be a big mistake. >> trace: kaylee, really, it six will be a dicey six months a because there have been no answers an d no buddy trust saysing the white house anymore. >> i don't

peter baker joins us, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. carol lentic, investigative reporter with the washington post and senior national politics reporter john allen who co-authored the book "lucky." we know this is a very difficult story to cover and absorb. tensions are high, but we are here to tell you exactly what is going on every single night, because the story could not be more important to our country, and that is why we have this expert panel of top reporters in this country to break down this historic newsday. peter, i turn to you. you've been covering this story every single step of the way. what was your take away from the news conference tonight? >> if you talk to democrats afterward, what you hear from a lot of them is a little bit of relief that he did in fact not do badly. some of them thought he did pretty well, that he demonstrated a grasp of policy issues, talked pretty fluently on foreign policy, especially that he did not do anything near as disastrous as that debate in this big, unscripted on-screen moment. that did

peter baker said this in the new york times, mister biden returned to a vastly different presidency. he's now that creature most dreaded in the oval office, a lame-duck, a commander-in-chief on the way out who's being challenged to assert his relevance even as the world moves on. a lame-duck in poor health, richard. >> i don't know if i would characterize it that way. i thought we saw two weeks ago is a president who's in command of world leaders, in command of trying to solve the problems in ukraine and let's also remember that as this is happening, his vice president is running for president and he will be very instrumental for her as she works on winning over the democratic party and also talking to american voters. i think the idea that you won't see joe biden campaign in pennsylvania where he will be very popular, if you don't seize grandin joe in scranton, i think that would be a big mistake. >> trace: really it's going to be a dicey six months because there have been no answers and nobody really trusts anything the white house says anymore. >> right. i don't think kamala if sh

peter baker's point is valid.tever has been going on -- and there are people who find the discussions in the last week and a half to be distasteful -- they are coming from a party of people who are trying to figure out the right way to defeat donald trump. we're not sure what the answer is still. >> right. i think some people are good faith actors here who are saying, like, the biggest, most existential threat, this could be our last election, right? this is the do you want to have elections election. so, we need to go with the army that can win, right? that's a good -- but it's not clear, i think, in this short time what that army is. >> right. >> and i think there's a real possibility that joe biden can show us, as he's doing and trying to do and will be doing with this incredibly important interview happening very soon, that he can do that, in which case i think the party will rally with him. and i think that's, sort of, where we are. there have also been really bad faith actors who never liked him or who, you

with that let's bring in peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times, eugene daniels, white house correspondent for politico , and donna edwards, former democratic congressman of maryland, and msnbc political analyst. good evening to you all. peter, what can you tell us about the president and vice presidents meeting with democratic governors tonight? >> well, look, he needed to get out there and start talking to democrats. what is remarkable is we are almost a week after that debate and for the first time in 24 hours he began talking with democrats. he didn't call hakeem jeffries until last night. he didn't call nancy pelosi or chuck schumer and i think a lot of democrats were quite frustrated by that. not just the debate itself that they've been upset about, it's actually been how he has handled it since then. privately, he understands it's not necessarily in his full control at this point. there are circumstances in which he might not be able to keep going forward. he knows the interview two with george stephanopoulos on friday is critical. he has to be vigo

joining us now is "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker and former u.s. or to ambassador idor daldor. peter, first of all, is this a tough challenge for the president? the set pieces on teleprompter last night, the welcome, this arrival ceremony, that's all cut and dried. but he has a long day today. he has a dinner tonight. he has the news conference tomorrow. he is trying to keep the focus on this while at the same time george clooney, a big fund-raiser at the l.a. fund-raiser is urging the president to drop out. that's pretty devastating. he is an influential voice. everyone is reading it. this is not just noise around the nato summit. they are reading it also, and they are very anxious, according to the leaders i have spoken with. >> i think that's exactly right. it's a very volatile time for the leaders to be here in washington instead of celebrating 75 years of the most successful military alliance in history, that narrative is complicated by the political weakness of the american president hosting the event. i think that that's obviously nobody's pr

. >> martha: that was new york times peter baker who broke the story we mentioned earlier, that "some discussing how to convince them to step aside. re: fleischer stepping buy but peter doozy first reporting live from washington. hello peter. >> martha, president fighting trying to keep people at nato focused on nato and the subject they're talking about but it is not working. case in point a little while ago he was sitting side-by-side with the -- ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy and answered a question about whether or not he is going to stay in the race by talking about ukraine. there had been various items printed around this item -- some exciting nuts or about the trumpeter to office. the national security advisor jake sullivan now claims that is not the case. >> i haven't has on the president's conversations with his counterparts. what i've heard as they went around the table yesterday the session just with nato allies which was a drumbeat of praise for the united states but also for president biden personally. >> barack obama was aware that george clooney op-ed urging bide

joining me now, peter baker and staff writer at the atlantic, mark leibowitz. let's start with you. i just laid out my sense of where things dan on things. there's a mixed bag, we are sort of in a purgatory in my view in terms of where the broad swath of public officials sit. where's your sense of where things sit right now? i think we may be having a sound issue with peter. let me go -- >> sorry, my bad. i was just saying how right you are. yes, of course it was important. i think you got it right. you have made all the right points. i think were at this point in our nation right now where the president says he is staying in, but nobody believes that the final were necessarily yet. they're still obviously a lot of agitation out there. he certainly did not calm the waters. it did not make things necessarily, you know, as bad as it could have been, but he obviously didn't convince people that he is ready and able to handle the rest of this campaign. i think you are right to point out how much trump is hanging on this, because it's not the people don't want joe biden. they admire him

. >> as for biden, peter baker said every flub and every verbal miscue even quickly corrected now takes on outside importance ricochetting across the internet that may reendorse doubts about his capacity. he gets no free passes any more. the president acknowledged he needs to allay fears. is he doing it? nbc's gabe gutierrez is reported from detroit, michigan, where the president is holding a campaign rally. ali vitali is on capitol hill. and with us former spokesperson for hillary clinton, and imagineu dowd, from the bush cheney 2004 campaign and a political analyst. great to see saul of you. as the president gets right back out on the campaign trail, what is the plan moving forward? >> hi there, chris. and good afternoon. they are echoing what we just heard from jim clyburn, they want to focus on substance. in terms of foreign policy as you mentioned, they are really eager to turn the page at this point, chris. they see every day that they don't spend talking about a potential trump second term and what they fear about that, talking about project 2025, any day that they don't spend ta

and also with us, senior political correspondent for the hill, amy parnes, and peter baker. what is the feeling in the white house as the doubts in d.c. keep spiraling and the expectations for today's press conference? >> reporter: good morning. well, the white house and the campaign insist that president biden is staying in the race, and they view today's press conference as an unscripted event that will prove to his doubters, those on capitol hill, to donors, for example, that he is ready to do the job. now, as you mentioned, this is his first solo press conference of the year, and we understand it's now been pushed back an hour because of nato's schedule. it's scheduled for 6:30 eastern time. this is something that washington, really many of president biden's critics, will be watching to see how he answers reporters' questions. we don't have an exact time for how long this press conference may last. the president has held other news conferences but those are often with foreign leaders and only offer two domestic reporters and two international reporters. this press confer

i'm going to ask you to stay right there as we are all joined by peter baker, msnbc political analyst chief white house correspondent for the new york times and co-author of the divider, trumping the white house 2017 to 2021. let's look back at thursday night specifically. trump made a showman's entrance on stage to deliver his acceptance speech. he seemed to stick to his prepared remarks on the teleprompter for 15 minutes or so before going off script for most of the next 75 minutes. some describe his remarks as rambling, boring, divisive. was this speech a gift to democrats? >> i think it was a gift in the sense it didn't expand his base. i think the people who are excited about president trump who are there in grand rapids are obviously charged up. i think the fact he comes out of this with a burst of energy from his base but i don't know he expanded his support to people who haven't supported him in the past. after that first 15 or 20 minutes which was personal and evocative and he did talk about unity he quickly went back to rally trump. talking trash about his opponents and talk

with us, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times" and msnbc political analyst, peter baker. good to have you both here. dasha, you first. what does harris's veep vetting process look like, particularly given this extremely short window to get it done. >> reporter: not a whole lot of time here. clock is ticking, alex. it's looking a lot like this. we're in a high school gym in montgomery, pennsylvania, a critical battle ground state. the governor of the state, josh shapiro, and governor gretchen whitmer as well. shapiro is inching his way on to the short list for a couple of reasons. number one, the state that he governs, pennsylvania, is so important. its importance can't really be overstated. he have also, alex, has largely been a bipartisan governor. that's really what he's built his brand on, someone that can bring together both democrats and republicans. i'll tell you a whole lot of influential democrats in pennsylvania have endorsed him for vp. really want him to get this position. for voters, they see the vp as maybe something that could be helpful but not necessarily

. >> peter baker and shakeel brewster, thank you so much. and tom llamas, had to continue reporting. i think you so much for being with us this afternoon. >>> joining me now, special agent cliff watts, also nbc news security analyst. mary mccourt is -- national security for the department of justice. we heard from members of secret service, we were listening to that at the rnc. what stood out to you? >> i think the thing that is quite striking is the challenge facing the secret service moving forward. they're going to have to account for the attack that happened yesterday. they've got to make sure that the rnc is conducted to perfection and is secure. and remember the democratic convention just a few weeks away, with both candidates, president biden, former president trump hitting the road for multiple stops, likely going to multiple locations and there's going to be a lot of questions about, do we have adequate security at each location. one of the challenge, you remember back to 2011, congressman gabby giffords was shot and everyone was as

. >> donald trump, peter baker, is expressing support for holding televised military tribunals against former republican congresswoman liz cheney. >> social media posts calling for the indictment of members of congress who were on the january 6th select committee. >> i am 5,000% sure that merrick garland is going to end up in prison. >> steve bannon was marked with axios as the fact that alvin brag should be jailed. >> the president told comey he should throw journalists in jail. >> you take the writer and/or the publisher of a paper, a certain paper that you know, and you say who is the leaker of national security? they say, we're not going to tell you. they say, that's okay, you're going to jail. >> trump has left the door open to jailing his poliical opponents. >> when you ask me if you would do it, i'll tell you in three years. >> joe biden is a criminal and you're a criminal and the media. >> because you'd be in jail. >> people that would be on the list know who they are, know who they are. >> over the weekend trump effectively said that miley should be executed for treason. >> yo

and with that let's bring in our lead off panel peter baker, chief white house correspondent for thenew york times and an analyst. white house correspondent for politico and donna edwards former democratic congresswoman of garland and msnbc political analyst. good evening to you all. peter what can you tell us about the president and vice president's meeting with democrats tonight? >> he needed to get out there and start talking to democrats. what's remarkable is we're almost a week after that debate. and for the first time really in the last 24 hours he began talking with senior democrats. he didn't call jeffreys the house democratic leader until last night and nancy pelosi or chuck schumer until today. he didn't talk to the governors until this evening. i think a lot of democrats are quite frustrated with that. it's not just the debate itself that they had been upset about it's actually how they've handled it since then. he's trying to get out there and say i am in it to win. privately he understands it. it's not necessarily in his full control at this point that there are in fact,

michael warren is senior editor at the dispatch, peter baker is "the new york times" chief white houserespondent, and julian castro, former hud secretary and 2020 democratic presidential candidate. both peter and julian are msnbc political analysts. moments ago, the biden campaign responded to doggett's comments and said simply, he's staying in. but do you think the floodgates could open or if not at least a trickle of others among the democratic -- among democrats in congress to say the same thing? >> that's what they're trying to do by saying he's staying in by leave nothing window open. but that doesn't necessarily mean the issue is settle. the other day i asked a biden person, they said i know today's decision, i don't know tomorrow's decision. and i think that's key to this. this is an open question here. i think he seems likelier to stay in than not. but if more elected officials start coming out, start seeing polls showing real trouble particularly in the down ballot races in red states or competitive districts, and if the donors start to melt away, you know, you can see a very

what happens every, unit 20 years, but in the "new york times" wrote the story from kenny rogers, peter baker and michael scheer that says the friction between a sitting president and leaders of his own party so close to an election is unlike anything seen in washing 10 in generations. especially because the democrats are now working to ease him out with some of the allies most critical to his success over the last dozen years. and that is when i was like oh, i am not just crazy. it is-- this is truly, it feels like unprecedented how, yesterday, congressman clyburn was here and he told us in his you this is curable. how is this curable, and when does it get. >> that is a very easy answer. we haven't seen anything like this. but i guess maybe the holiday is because this is the moment we passed of no return, this has either rectified joe biden, or if the democratic party has to go with, harris, there will be a focusing of the mind affect right? and it is likely to come in september when the choice is going-- >> for non--- now, for non-they don't have until september, these people will try to fo

i'm sure you had peter baker and susan glasser here, who was able work across the aisle, make government work. and we don't have people like that much anymore, which is obviously a shame. so until something i'm not optimistic about our federal government and let's not say i'm not optimistic about the american people because i'm an optimist. i'm a happy person. i'm blessed many ways. but right now i don't feel great about our federal government or our last two presidents. thank you, anybody else. here? we got a man man. which one of these eight guys would have the best chance of getting today? well, because lincoln, my mind stands head and shoulders above of them. if you had to pick a frontrunner in my mind, it would have be lincoln. because he was totally eloquent. he was a very shrewd political. and he was he was principled. he could recognize what the moral issues were compared to what the political issues were and and and in fact, my book presidents an average of three leadership traits for president a total 24 leadership traits in the book. they're all different no and when i got thr

i'm sure you had peter baker and susan glasser here, who was able work across the aisle, make government work. and we don't have people like that much anymore, which is obviously a shame. so until something i'm not optimistic about our federal government and let's not say i'm not optimistic about the american people because i'm an optimist. i'm a happy person. i'm blessed many ways. but right now i don't feel great about our federal government or our last two presidents. thank you, anybody else. here? we got a man man. which one of these eight guys would have the best chance of getting today? well, because lincoln, my mind stands head and shoulders above of them. if you had to pick a frontrunner in my mind, it would have be lincoln. because he was totally eloquent. he was a very shrewd political. and he was he was principled. he could recognize what the moral issues were compared to what the political issues were and and and in fact, my book presidents an average of three leadership traits for president a total 24 leadership traits in the book. they're all different no and when i got thr

eugene daniels, white house correspondent for politico and peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." >> the president is still at home isolating with covid. what do we know about the vice president's day and her mindset this morning? >> reporter: jose, the eyes of the political world are now focused on vice president harris in the wake of the president's announcement yesterday. as you mentioned, we expect to see her in just over an hour for the first time juggling these two roles. one, of course, as vice president and the other as the person who the president passed the torch on to. she has a lot to do in a very short amount of time starting when that announcement came yesterday. remember, she still has to pick a running mate. she still has to find a way to put her own unique stamp on the now harris campaign. a source familiar is telling my colleague, kelly o'donnell, that she's already told her staff that she would like to speak drefkly with campaign staffers in the wake of this news, of course, campaign staffers still processing the shock of this change, h

in "the new york times," peter baker put it is this way.ns to a vastly different presidency with six months to go. he is now that creature most dreaded in the oval office, a lame duck, a commander in chief on the way out who is being challenged to assert his relevance even as the world moves on. nbc news reports that white house staff will gather to watch the president's remarks together. let's bring in nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. in some ways, mon, this is a chance for joe biden to write i guess almost a first person draft of his legacy, right, even with six months to go. what do we know about his message? >> exactly, chris. this is a man who for years has talked about being a respecter of fate and trying to place his own moment in history in context of what we're experiencing, and i think he's going to try to do a lot more than that by talking about his 50 years in public office, but also what he sees as his major accomplishments of the last three and a half, and then he's going to try to lay out a road map for what he

"the new york times" peter baker reports while biden may have returned from covid isolation as that creaturet dreaded in the oval office, elaine duck, he has made it clear on a phone call to his old campaign headquarters on monday that he harbors hope for progress. telling staffers, i'm determined to get as much done as i possibly can, both foreign policy and domestic policy. joining us now, former white house communications director for president obama and msnbc political analyst, jen palmieri. jen, it's going to be a big night, an emotional night i'm sure for president biden. i was looking at a series of clips over his career and i was reminded at how long he's been in office, how much he's done, and what a forceful and emotional speaker he was and, you know, in his earlier days, even ten years ago. what do you expect to see from them today? is he going to go back and take us on a tour of his career or will it be looking more forward about what he hopes to do next? >> i hope that he takes it, because it's been phenomenal. when he was elected to the senate in his late 20s, we saw prime mini