tim russert, there is no better -- no better sunday show host than him. and he was fair. and he asked hard questions of both sides. those days are long gone but, by the way, stephanie, so are the audiences. there is a dirt little secret nobody watches those shows. we get four times what those shows get in viewership every night. >> i agree and our comms team has been working and focusing on the shows that get ratings and giving a lot of attention to local tv where the real americans are real americans coming from homework and picking up their kids from day care. they are watching their local news. that is something the white house has been very focus you had on. >> it's been a pretty impressive week for the white house. stephanie grisham thank you for being with us. if i need, to i guests i will have to host a sunday show. i don't know. thank you. after a pathetic fourth place finish in iowa, quid pro quo joe and his presidential campaign, they are finally beginning to see the handwriting on the law. they are reeling, but that might be the least of his worries. as we repo

. >> ba in 2008, tim russert burst through the door asked if he could be on the show and we were like, yeah. here's my mic. >> i'm looking over your shoulder, joe. pictures of the wall including a picture of you and mika, tim russert still wearing the coat when he came in and asked to be otton show. a superior special place. >> yes. >> and my daughter still on my lap is in college now. joined by three presidential candidates, pete buttigieg [ applause ] a lot of pete folk here's. senator amy klobuchar and andrew yang will be here. [ cheers ] plus, we're going to be joined by, i can't wait, my friend dr. jill biden will be here onset as well [ applause ] so the starting gun if that isn't a big enough headline, look at the week ahead. an tonight's action in iowa, tomorrow is president trump's state of the union address to congress. kind of awkward given everything going on. on wednesday, the senate will take a final vote on his impeachment. on thursday we'll try to catch a breath before theriy in their final debate ahead of the new hampshire primary. along with joe, willie and me, we ha

and when we came on, and tim russert said that he learned an important lesson of the journalists pushinghe candidates on the health. this is no different and bernie sanders has put a standard out there that he is going to be completely transparent, and he has to live up to it. and he is 78, and my mother is one week younger than bernie sanders, and i inquire about my mother's health all of the time. and it is perfectly appropriate. especially when theattack. >> he said it is fair and on the table, and his campaign spokesperson made the ridiculous claim that asking about bernie sanders' health is the same as -- >> a smear campaign. >> and raising questions about president obama's origins and the birther issue. >> and we will see if it is sustainable, but bernie sanders finds himself as a different kind of campaigner, and a different kind of candidate, and here he is going back on his own word and on his own standard and see if he can do that. >> and that kind of unprofessional of questioning president obama's lineage, they are not close. and bernie sanders if he is ready for prime time, h

i give a quarter of it to the estate of tim russert but five bucks. >> baby i like to mimic you every we should point out you are two veterans of campaigns who are caucus, both victorious we should say. what are you looking for? >> i'm looking what model is. competing whiteboards. bret: you know we have graphics. >> this will not be a blowout like 2000, where al gore wins 60-39 under donna's leadership. it could be 2004 john kerry goes on to win the nomination t could be a dead-heat like last time around t could be small margin potentially between number one and two and number three and four. i think it will be a multiclose like 2018. barack obama beat expectations at 35, john edwards had 31. hillary clinton had 30. a contest was ended on final primaries in june. i think that is where this will presage. i bet this is the first iowa caucus we stand a good chance of four candidates having significant number of delegates. amy klobuchar may be strong enough in the rural parts of the state in the first and second districts that abeauty her home state of minnesota she has delegates. we coul

if tim russert were here he'd say the 2020 campaign is about wisconsin, wisconsin, wisconsin, insteadfox news polls always drive donald trump crazy. look at some of the head-to-head matchups and see how well donald trump is doing. head-to-head matchups heard from the republican party how great impeachment was for donald trump and democrats were such fools. let's see. joe biden. huh. beating donald trump by eight points 49-41. michael bloomberg 48-40. bernie sanders 49-42. elizabeth warren 46-43. pete buttigieg 45-42. amy up those are certainly going to be maddening to the president. they are going to be also encouraging to democrats but look at those swing states especially wisconsin, and, you know, the only -- and this is why in mortal words of william goldman, i think. nobody knows nothing. >> right. >> the only person, only democrat right now in recent polls that appears to be beating donald trump -- bernie sanders. he's the only guy i've seen ahead of donald trump in wisconsin. oh, and there's the poll. just magically have it there. beats him by two. >> yeah. wisconsin's going to