earlier i spoke about all this with legendary former white house correspondent and abc news anchor sam donaldsonment speech, the kickoff, and there were so many falsehoods in it, what does it tell you about what the next year and a half will be like? >> you know, there is an old saying, never quit a winning game. the opposite is true. quit a losing game. but he seems to say to himself, i won in 2016, i'm going to double down, i'm going to play to my base. immigration is going to be terrible. i'm going to make all of these things that i say happen, maybe, and i'll get reelected and he's foolish about that. he can't get reelected on that platform. >> you know, it's interesting because if you wanted to press the white house on any of the things he said in the announcements that weren't true, you wouldn't be able to do it in a press briefing because there hasn't been one in 100 days. what's your view of that? >> well, may not be another one. who knows. mr. trump wants to be his own press secretary. he wants to tweet in the morning, watch fox and friends, change policy because of it may be, and go ab

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. >> sam donaldson, thank you for being with us tonight. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> the news continues so i hand it over to chris cuomo, cuomo "prime time" starts now. >> i am chris cuomo and welcome to "prime time." joe biden taking on opponents who are taking him on the civility of segregationists. and senator bernie sanders is here tonight. he's in the thick of this fight for all the policy plans. the real plan he needs is how does he beat trump? let's see if the senator has an answer you look like. and what does he think of biden's battles with his past and elizabeth warren catching up to him in the present polling. we have a member of the house judiciary committee here tonight fresh off the hope hicks testimony and the first hearing on reparations in 30 years. let's get word from inside the rooms where things happen. what do you say? let's get after it. ♪ >>> so joe biden has gone from offense to defense. he's now taking on the rivals who were going after him for recalling the quote civility of two former segregationist senato

here to discuss now with the great sam donaldson. good to have you here.der fire for prizing his working with segregationist senators. his ability to reach across the aisle has been a major theme of his campaign so far. he wants to be the candidate of compromise. watch this. >> i've worked across the aisle to reach consensus to help make government work in the past. i can do that again with your help. for me, for me, to me, our principles must never be compromised, but compromise itself is not a dirty word. >> the opponenrepublicans are m opponents, they're not my enemy. they're not my enemy. there are people who say you can't work with the other side. if that's the case, prepare your children for a totally different u.s., totally different world. >> okay. so, sam, listen, three years for now republicans on capitol hill have been in lockstep with president trump. for eight years before that they worked to stymie virtually everything barack obama did, along with joe biden. so, you know, is this what democrats want to hear? >> i don't know. but it's what i w

>> guest: i grew up covering -- watching the like of sam donaldson and dan rather and wolf blitzer, and i think i just dish saw those guys and i said that's what i want to do. but i knew i had to work hard at it. i didn't come out of college and say, put me on the network. i started in knoxville, tennessee in a local station there and from there went to dallas, texas, chicago, and then after i worked in chicago for a bit, i was hired by a cbs news their affiliate service. then win to cbs news and then cnn. so i went up the old-fashioned way in this business. climbed the ladder from local news to where i'm at now. >> host: why have you stayed with cnn? that does cnn stand for in your mind? >> guest: i think it stands for commitment to top notch journalism, and it's always been, i think, one of those news outlets and it's been universally regarded i think in this fashion, as an outlet where you have a lot of brave journalists out there, put energy lives on the line all over the world. we all remember when cnn was set up during the persian gulf war and maybe some of the younger viewers don