. >> joining me now is van jones, cnn commentator and former obama administration offical, >> amid at up on the screen and read it out loud, and ask you to dissect. it's no secret tom friedman, that vice president harris has not elevated her stature in the last two plus years. i don't know what the problem is, whether she was dealt an impossible set of issues to deal with, or is in over her head, or is contending with a mix of sexism and racism as the first woman of color to serve as vice president, all i know is that doubts among voters about her abilities to serve as president, which were significant at off for her to quit as a presidential candidate even before the iowa caucus in 2020, have not gone away. what is it? what of those explanations do you buy into? >> i'm not sure, but i'll tell you this. i've known kamala harris a very long time. i was a young activist in san francisco, she was a young politician. she had given an extraordinary job as a dea in san francisco, as the attorney general, and as a senator. i just think sometimes, if the team never gives you the ball and let

you alluded to it, van mr jones is 27 years old. he is the youngest member of the tennessee state house. mr pearson is 28 years old. he won in a landslide in memphis. and when you look at these two young people were always telling young people get involved. get involved. make sure you vote. make sure you take part in the process. they're taking part in the process, and they've just been expelled. so what does that tell all the other young people who are watching this right now going well, why would i get involved in that? if that's what's going to happen, do you think it's a generational thing? i mean, i think it's very clearly if you just have to look at it, and it's a generational thing. whether or not i think there are a lot of dynamics here that are both very complex and i think have a lot of layers to them in terms of suburban rural ex urban cities, generational issues, race issues, i think all of that is combined, and we see this in a lot of states around the country. just look at the electoral results on election night and wh

listen to something that van jones said. >> in such an unusual position. she's a woman. she's black. she's asian. she's running alongside the oldest person to ever do it. so she's essentially running for president. that's what she's doing. people understand that. i think she understands that. i think she's going to rise to the occasion. >> i won't even go to the rise to the occasion part of it. but the idea that van jones, who's a democrat, is, like, it doesn't matter what biden is doing. she's running. and, again, i guess they have to support him. >> i think that probably scares the democrats that are kind of in charge of biden more than anything, is the idea they may have to wake up one day and she's the boss. she may not be the herded sheep that biden seems to be. i know that biden has pushed back on from those that are kind of pulling the strings, or maybe the progressive left, two different groups, those in the white house, and the really loud progressives, is maybe domestic policy, something like afghanistan, where he didn't listen to the generals and advisors and

i just had that conversation with van jones. that will end up being the case. thanks for joining us. i will be back tomorrow. "cnn tonight" with alisyn camerota begins now. >> welcome. president bide

let's talk about it with someone he heard about in that conversation, van jones. closely with kim kardashian on all of these fronts. good morning, van. >> good morning. >> you call it, to me, we talked a lot before this interview, the kim kardashian effect. >> yes. that's the kim i know. you know, on the flash and stuff that people talk about, how sober she was, how seriously she takes this. and it is really true. she's not wrong. lawyers like myself, you will spend 10 years, 20 years on a case and sometimes lose when someone like kim kardashian, she has more instagram followers than some countries have people, okay? so, when she reaches tout a governor or a senator or president, they return the call. and sometimes that's all you need is just for someone to focus on the case. and these cases, some of them are just horrible. you can't believe somebody's going to do life for a nonviolent drug offense or somebody, you know, even the people who fight against them and recounted 15 years ago and said they were lying and that person may still be put to death. but you can

van jones said she is essentially running for president, that's what she's doing.it to joe biden. she needed to be subpar to a doddering subpar president. she made him look better. but now that she needs to be elevated, there is a very good chance something is going to happen to him if he won re-election and she's on the ticket and running for a second term, she needs to appear better but the difference between those two pieces of sound you showed, she's attacking old white men in the first clips, how easy is that, and then she has to be a messenger and she cannot do that, and even if she had accomplishment after accomplishment, whether it's the border, whether it's voting rights, she would ruin everything because her fallback is always ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, this weird laugh. >> sandra: it's true, we hear it over and over again. and to your point, dagen, pete, about this not just being nikki haley or those on the right who are taking notice of this being a fact, she would be his back-up if something happens, david axelrod on another network. >> kamala harris will h

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legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honig, cnn political commentators david urban and van jones and cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. katelyn polantz start with you. what's your sense of how the former president is thinking about this? he didn't really spend the weekend acting like someone who is about to be indicted. he was playing golf, having lunch with friends going to dinners and mar-a-lago. i think, though the fact that he has added a new defense attorney to his team the day before he's about to be around, does show that they are taking this seriously despite what they've said about the merits of the case here, adding, someone which i was told happened literally today is when they added this new attorney. someone who has ellie knows him. well he has a good reputation. he has good credentials. he worked in the s d n y office. um adding him to the team does speak to the level of how they're approaching this because joe tacopina, there's been some internal divisions within the legal team over whether or not he was the best person to take this to

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african-american, police chief is black, 60% of the force is black, 70% of mem memphis is black, we have van jonesa that this is proof of racism. these are revolutionary ideas that exam from the come from people who are very wealthy. john kerry lectures us that our problem is our leaf-blowers, while he is on a jet. that they lecture us about climate change, these ideas come from the established. it is not the people on streets that demand that we stop exploring natural gas or open the border wide open, it is the elite. very different from most revolutions, they are not grassroot revolutions. mark: what is it about that? people who luxuriate. in the peaceful diversity, that causes them to want to burn it all down? i'm asked this all of the time, why are billionaires and multimillion ors so left wing? >> almost a psychological mechanism. they live such exclusive pampered lives they feel guilty. they try to virtue signal 7 displays of caring or empathy for under privileges or planet or particularly perceived victims or the oppressed as a way of justifying they are quite privileged, they are pretty. t

but cnn's van jones got that call from anita dunn. >> she's black.sian and running aside the oldest person to ever do it. it's essentially running for president and i think people understand that. i think she understands that. i think she's going to rise to the occasion. >> she's had three years to rise to the occasion. this is way off message. way off message. elect joe biden and when he stumbles and falls down, here is who you are going to get. the american people have already decided that this president is heading into a reelection with some of the lowest approval numbers we have seen. but guess whose numbers are worse. kamala harris's. for him to say vote for him and you are going to get her? that's not on message. >> laura: that doesn't help them. so good to see see you in the studio. thank you. >> laura: he has >> this isn't how it works. the government can't step in against a private entity and defame them. >> taking on disney is not just petulant but your concern people saying that they are private citizens but is not conservative and quite f

way this has been going on, since the obama administration, rm, when he had his green jobs czar van jonest story about high-speed train, in california. 33 billion dollars now almost 130 billion dollars in costs, don't have any done not close to being done what did you put up on screen 92 trillion dollars for this can you even conceive the size of that number how much more than that is? if you are going by all the failures from the past you might as well multiple that by four. inconceivable. >> janet yellen admitted in the testimony in washington that the inflation reduction act climate change bill. inflationary you are making the price of everything go up epa now wants to dictate, insurance, and warn tooez on car batteries the cost of everything go up. tiana: projections evs will comprise two-thirds of all new cars win next decade. maria: yet they were able to name it the inflation reduction act. unbelievable. marketing is, we will take a break when we come back futures mixed we are looking to probably the biggest reit so far in earnings, particularly for big tech we preview, kevin is joi

. >> and former obama official van jones, and so good to see you, and we saw the video announcement fromresident biden this morning an rolling out officially the election campaign, and themes of abortion rights, and threats of democracy and through the januaryth imagery, and voting rights and abortion rights and gay rights and the fight is not over, and what did you think of it? >> well, you know, one thing about joe biden, he has always been underestimated. he was considered a lightweight in the senate, but he is a winner. it is hard when you have won vice president twice and won the presidency twice, once, to not want to do it again. so, i don't think that anybody is surprised that he is running. i think that the themes that he is talking are interesting, because this battle about freedom, and you hear both sides saying that the other side wants to take away your freedom of speech, your second amendment rights, and the other side wants to fight democracy itself, and he is right on target where a lot of concerns of where americans are. concerned about the economy and democracy and he is

i just had that conversation with van jones, i think she's got to a per game or that will end up being the case thank you for. joining us. the news continues here on cnn. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i am rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, u.s. house republicans and narrowly pass a bill to raise the country's debt limit, the fight with democrats and the white house is far from over. explicit and dramatic testimony, as the woman accusing donald trump of sexual assault takes the stand. plus prosecutors and now say the classified intel stolen by the 21-year-old in national guardsmen exceeds what's been reported. and the human side of the conflict incident, we will hear from a man whose mother died in his father's arms. after a mortar attack. good to have you with, us well republicans in the u.s. house are claiming a major victory passing a bill to raise the nation's debt limit potentially avoiding economic catastrophe. but their celebration will be short lived. the measure is dead on arrival in the senate, where

i want to go straight now to van jones. you know, robert f. kennedy jr. well.d to your first book. so you know him and you know the good, you know the bad. 19% of democrats right now are supporting him right now over president biden in that new fox news poll. and you've just got to pause and think about that. an incumbent president and the first person out of the gates gets 19%. what is behind this number? name recognition, gop crossover? and these aren't really democrats somehow, the polling's not working? people who just want to say stop with biden, anybody, or none of the above? >> well, it's probably a little bit of all of it. >> or all of the above. >> look, robert f. kennedy, that's a famous name, it's a glorious name in american life. i think people who are wanting some return to a better day might see that name and say, i like that name. i don't think this is going to last. i think that there is a protest element here, people who are concerned about biden's age. he has a certain amount of, i don't think it's going to last. you see people sometimes momen

i just had that conversation with van jones. i think she has to up her game or that will end up being the case. thanks for joining us. i will be back tomorrow. "cnn tonight" with alisyn camerota begins now. >> welcome. president biden facing two big issues tonight, the first developments in the long running criminal investigation into his son. cnn has exclusive reporting that hunter biden's attorneys who you can see here met with justice officials today. prosecutors are still weighing to bring several tax charges and a false statement charges against the president's son. then there is the other big issue hovering over joe biden. that's his age. he will be 86 at the end of his term. we'll tell you what he's saying about that today that's different from what she's saying before. plus, the case about richard blossom. this man has been given three last meals before being granted reprieves. now he's scheduled to be executed again. will the supreme court step in? and sales of budlight dropped considerably since kid rock and others wen

jones appreciate it. thank you. harry antin, also with us tonight, so, harry, this is as van points out. this is very delicate because recovering from shingles is no joke. i can say that my mother in law would attest to that. there's also the reality of dianne feinstein has been there a long time and we've seen a shift in the senate. she's 89 years old as a whole. we've seen this shift in the senate over the last several decades. what are we looking at in terms of the makeup because this matters to voters were finding the senate has gotten significantly older, right? so take a look at the number of u. s senators who are 70 and over. right now. it's 34% compare that to where we were 20 years ago was 16% compare that to where we were in 1983. it was 6% so we've seen a doubling upon a doubling right, so the united states senate is most certainly getting older, and i think we're going to end up with situations like we have right now, especially as some of those senators get into, you know their eighties and upwards of 90 years old where you know you can be good one moment. and not necessaril

there's some resume issues here that i think he may have to grapple with later in this process, van jonesmuch should democrats be watching for senator scott's potential appeal to black voters who are such a critical part of their the democrats voting? volition. look i think tim scott should be taken very seriously. um he is, uh, i think one of the more respected senators. first of all, let's talk about the republicans. you do. you have had black handed to be taken seriously, if briefly from ben carson, herman cain in primaries past, there's these moments where they're sort of like a rush to the black candidate, and they sort of fade. if that happens with tim scott, he might be able to hold on. two more support. i think you know his record in terms of getting support for black colleges for getting support for opportunity zones for getting support for criminal justice, i think makes him unusual in terms of his ability to appeal to democrats, possibly. but first he's got to get through this primary. and i think you know, i remember when you had nikki haley on stage with marco rubio and tim s

there was a great bill that that van jones, one of the contributors of cnn, worked on with the trumpdministration with the coke network that gave new pathways for people to get out of prison to get into productive lives. so there's been a lot of really good work. we talk a lot about everything broken in politics, but sometimes things work, but that correction has become kind of an overcorrection and some and some cities. so i think the progressive left has gone too far, and i think policymakers need to find an equilibrium. although in san francisco, the d a was recalled 10 months, so i mean, there are a lot of people in san francisco who have made this partisan and have said that this is somehow chaz board ends , you know fault even though he hasn't been in office for 10 months, i do think there is a tendency and republicans to say that cities are dangerous hellholes. we had marjorie taylor green in our city, and she said it was a dangerous hell hall. i have found new york not to be a dangerous how hall so i mean, i think that it is important to you know, this is a crime. we don't kn

you know, ellie and then mccabe and van jones basically saying that, you know, it's inexplicable, inexplicablehe case that was actually bright some concerns as all the political analysis analysis folks do about the statue of limitations, taking a state crime and turning into a federal crime, so he's got some challenges there, but the political side of it. yeah it gives them a bump. you can tell from the folks that are right there and we just heard gives them a little bump. but can you sustain it? he's got to focus on people. the issue is not himself, and that's exactly what we just heard from these trump voters. this focus group that franklin's dead fascinating. i'm sure you have similar conversations as a pollster. one thing that i think is so interesting about what these voters were saying in this focus group is that they don't want donald trump going after folks like ron desantis. what's always been tough for any of these other republicans in the field. is the asymmetry of donald trump can take a swing at them and people go. well. that's just how donald trump is. he just likes to throw punc

because van jones was, you know, he lived in nashville. he was talking with us yesterday. there is the health ethics committee. you can go to their all these other steps you could take before that if you really wanted to prove a point about the quorum, of course, we're going to talk a lot more. about this later. we'll talk about what president obama said. as well in response in a little bit, but we do need to get to israel. justin jones is gonna be with us in a little bit, so we need to get to this because it's also happening right now. we'll get back to that story. we're following the escalation that's happening this conflict in the middle east this morning overnight israeli forces launching a series of air strikes on lebanon and gaza. those strikes coming after israel says a barrage of rockets were fired from the lebanon border into israel israeli territory. the tension comes after police in israel's stormed the al aqsa mosque in jerusalem earlier this week, cnn's had asked gold live near the israel lebanon border with more this is really escalating this morning. what is

but cnn's van jones obviously got that call from anita dunn.nn >> watch this. she is in such an unusual position. she's a woman, she's black, she's asian, and she's runningd alongside the oldest person to ever do it.th so she's essentiallye oldest rug for president . that's what she's doing. and i think people understand that. but i thinunderstand thai k shts that. >> and i think thai think sht ik that she's going to rise to the occasion. >> and so she's had three years to rise to the occasion. >> tha ot isn't going to happen. but by the way, this is way offg message, way off message electy. joe biden. >> and when he stumbleso you are and falls down, here'sgo who you're going to get. the americanin get people have already decided thisthat president is heading into a reelection with some of the lowest approval numbers wesr have seen. but guess whose numbers are worse? e kamala harris is . kama >> so folar him to say, vote for him and you're going to get her her, that's not on message. >> i think that that doesn't help them, that she's running for president . hor

there was a great bill that that van jones, one of the contributors of cnn, worked on with the trumpdministration with the coke network that gave new pathways for people to get out of prison to get into productive lives. so there's been a lot of really good work. we talk a lot about everything broken in politics, but sometimes things work, but that correction has become kind of an overcorrection and some and some cities. so i think the progressive left has gone too far, and i think policymakers need to find an equilibrium. although in san francisco, the d a was recalled 10 months, so i mean, there are a lot of people in san francisco who had made this partisan and have said that this is somehow chaz board ends , you know fault even though he hasn't been in office for 10 months, i do think there is a tendency and republicans to say that cities are dangerous hellholes. we had marjorie taylor green in our city. and she said it was a dangerous hell hall. i have found new york not to be a dangerous hell hall. so i mean, i think that it is important to you know, this is a crime. we don't k

for all the reaction we are seeing on capitol hill, cnn, political commentators scott jennings and van jonesgood evening to you both. and thank you for being here. scott i saw lindsey graham later tweeted that, he said people were not getting the irony of his tweet. but are you surprised by the republican reaction that we've seen overall on capitol hill in response to this indictment? not really at all. i saw the quinnipiac survey that came out this week they took a large survey over 60% of americans agreed that the indictment was more politically motivated than legally motivated, and that was including 93% of republicans. so if you're a republican politician on capitol hill, and you've got 93% of the people in your party, believing something is politically motivated. uh you know, it was pretty easy to predict how republicans were gonna react to this thing and that's what you're seeing play out over the last couple of days. i noticed, but mcconnell has not said anything. what do you make of that? well i think he doesn't make a habit of commenting on donald trump these days and what whether i

bring it now cnn political commentator and former special adviser to president barack obama, mr van jones. former trump campaign adviser. republican strategist, mr david urban. he doesn't say my name that way, poppy heart. uh but listen, we need a little levity because this is good morning. to both of you. this is big. this is big van. yeah give us some perspective on this. look i mean , some of the images today will be in history books. uh 100 years from now, when people are talking about photos in court, the court will be in history books. this is a really, really big deal. and the question is, does this prove that ourururm one is above the law. that the law applies to everyone. are we going to be stronger as a result, or is this going to be seen as something that was more political that this was? you know, a witch hunt . that's going to be the debate today and for a very long time. we'll know a lot more today, though, that's going to be helpful just in terms of facts versus misinformation and assumptions that have been made will see the indictment that'll be unsealed. but then tonight

political commentators van jones and david urban van served as special adviser to president obama david, his campaign adviser, the former president, also cnn. political commentator former trump white house communications director eliza for griffin's chief correspondent, anchor katelyn polantz and two former federal prosecutors here from the southern district of new york. cardozo law school professor jessica roth and cnn senior legal analyst elie honig . katelyn polantz you were in the at the courthouse today in the hall. what are you hearing from? out from team trump. one thing that everyone is reflecting on is his expression when he walked through those doors, as you showed earlier today, he had this incredibly stern look on. that is something that even people in his inner circle people who are going there to mar-a-lago tonight have been talking about is just the demeanor. he had publicly you're hearing that he is in great spirits. that's what all his attorneys are saying that he is very resolute. he's very determined. i think he's a lot angrier than that. when you talk to people who s

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