katrina peer -- pierson, good seeing. katrina: thanks for having me.esident says college football teams should take the field and media are choosing sides. ♪ how we just heard from trump campaign an joining from syracuse jessica tarlov. we will keep asking in the interest of balance. jessica, when kamala harris dropped out well before iowa of the presidential race, the consensus among pundits she had run a terrible campaign, erratic, mismanaged and clobbered among black voters in state of california, how is she being described by commentators as political super woman? jessica: i think it has to do a loot -- a lot of the big boom that she's given the joe biden campaign. if you look at polls day or two added to the ticket that moderate democrats and liberal democrats are overjoyed at the selection and when you think about the target demographic the president trump is doing the worse with, women and college educated women and that's suburban women that's kamala harris' sweet spot and makes sense that voting public is reacting well to her selection. howie:

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remember during a previous election security briefing, a briefer, shelby pierson, said something thatet president trump and that appears to be what's behind this. >> because you worked on the national security council obama administration. privy to the most sensitive information and intelligence information and based on everything i know, as a matter of principle and the law, the u.s. intelligence community, the office director of national intelligence, they have to brief what's called the gang of eight. the house leader in the, do you know when they weren't going to share this sensitive information with the so called gang of eight. >> i served with a republican and democrat. the president said i worked for, wanted lawmakers to have information that was critical to protecting themselves in this case, we have an intelligence community that has consistently played hide and seek with key information. remember the background here. the previous acting dni did not schedule the worldwide threat assessment because of last year, that briefing upset the president. now, we have the dni yet again

camel is the way we're going to hear it going forward in a statement from the trump campaign, katrina piersonn behalf of the president and the campaign started off by saying kamala harris call joe biden erases not long ago and asked for an apology that she never received. she never use the word racist or describe joe biden but in an interview after that famous debate moment joe biden said she believed the inference from kamala harris. that her husband was a racist. kamala harris did ask joe biden for an apology. it appears as always happens in politics you're willing to put aside disagreements of the past. what will be interesting to see is how kamala harris will handle this role because she's a very, very strong woman and joe biden when he was asked about the potential back in 2008 and becoming barack obama's running mate said "i never had a boss. i don't know how i would handle it." remains to be seen whether kamala harris indeed believes joe biden is the boss and how she will handle it. >> dana: i'm sure she'll be asked that. thank you. greg, i was thinking about another episode in the las

with katrina pierson trent senior adviser. saying in a statement that the parents is proof that joe biden is an empty shell being filled with the extreme agenda of the radical left so then it didn't take very long for the republican campaign for president trump do to respond i would think they had something ready a long before this and didn't trump is going to have one of his briefings later on today so we'll hear from him in person but in general she's a popular figure in california she had a rousing beginning of her presidential race. for the democratic nomination with a huge rally in oakland california hometown. she was not able to sustain any momentum. in the race for the 2020 nomination perhaps because she was. sort of the twixt and between between the more progressive side. of the democratic party with bernie sanders and the more pragmatic or traditional side or lane that joe biden occupied it's interesting since we have been talking about presidential politics political history in the united states there's an interestin

and media buzz, howie kirtz will be talking to katrina pierson here at 11 a.m. eastern. leland: well, calls to defund the police are becoming a large part of the presidential campaign and discussion. with that, big cities across the country are seeing a spike in violence, in shooting and homicides, aishah hasnie is coming to us from new york where it's on the rise. >> leland, you're right. we're used to hearing big cities hit the hardest by gun violence. tragedies are unfolding everywhere, in akron, ohio, an eight-year-old girl was just shot to death as gunfire erupted oust of her home. take a look at this, sarasota, florida, is reporting a spike of gun violence, 41 shootings in one neighborhood since march. a recent study showed that the coronavirus pandemic is associated with increased rates in violence. sarasota's police chief say that people are just fed up and they're becoming violent. take a listen. >> people are aggravated. i think they're tired of being inside. they're tired of wearing masks. they're tired of the government telling them what to do and how to do i

the answer from katrina pierson, a senior adviser on the trump 2020 campaign, she said, well, he wasessman and gave money to a lot of candidates. oh, by the way, she is a black woman, and as a result, we should stop talking about racism. so, i think there is an issue this campaign has to reckon with, and that is that she is someone who is going to be a formidable opponent for vice president pence when it comes to those debates, but also, she's someone who has made her bones making sure that she was ready for this fight. you talked about her being the vetted. i sat down with her several times and she told me her mother, when she would come home and talk about a mishap at school, maybe other students could be coddled by her parents, her mom would say, what did you do? centering her power. saying you have a power to issue and a power to defend yourself. i think that's the kamala harris we're going to see in the next few weeks, someone who is ready to defend herself. >> that sounds all too familiar to me, mika, growing up. if i ever came home and talked about something -- >> complained.