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her reporting and her opinion pieces in the "wall street journal" are strong and illuminating. g us is kimberly strassel, member of "the wall street journal" editorial board. great to have you with us. let's start with the remarkable interview last night of tucker carlson talking with tony bobulinskiment i thought it was -- bobulinski can. i thought it was come pelling, it was revelatory, and we now have both an eyewitness and evidence that contradicts the former vice president. your thoughts about that interview and what it revealed. >> yeah. so i think contradicts on two levels, lou. as you connectly pointed out, you know, to me, one of the biggest aspects of this is that joe biden has spent the last several years insisting that he's never had any conversations with his son about his buzz, knows nothing about it, doesn't talk to anyone about it. and if this is to be believed, and there's no reason not to believe it especially because mr. bobulinski has also provided documentation backing up his claims, then that's just not true, and he's not been truthful with the united state

watch c-span's "wall street journal" at 7:00 thursday mourning. join us with your phone calls, facebook comments arcs texts and tweets. >> here is a look at what is live thursday. on c-span, our campaign 2020 coverage includes two rallies in tampa, starting with president trump at 1:30 p.m. eastern, then joe biden at 6:30. at 8:00 p.m., senator bernie cardinals hosts a virtual event kamala harris. the carnegie endowment for piece looks at how the community views the u.s. then in the afternoon, eric holder and newt gingrich rich talk about voting and the 2020 election. at 2:00 p.m. eastern, more on election day and what to expect from the i beg your pardon policy center. six >> six days ahead of election day, vice president joe candidate kamala harris -- vice presidential candidate, harris in arizona. tucson?ris: what's up, hey, everybody. can we please hear for mayor romero? [horns honking] what an incredible leader. she is a sign of strength and compassion and she represents who we are as a nation. thank you for everything you are and everything

wall street journal lead story, layoffs flow, u.s. recovery, waiting on jobless figures to come out and about 40 minutes or so, we will let you know what those numbers are. the last numbers we expect to see before the election. following the news of the president's diagnosis with covid-19, you can see a lot of red here, all of the market futures are down, beginning with the dow down 400-plus points heading into the open in about 90 minutes or so. back to your calls on the news about the president and the first lady testing positive for covid-19. brenda, houston, texas, democrat, thank you for waiting. caller: thank you for taking my call, paul, it has been a long time since i have spoken to you. host: good to have you back. caller: i am happy to see you back on. you are definitely one of my favorites. i am not going to be very pleasant. i first want to say, to that caller from illinois, a republican scolding democrats about keeping our negative remarks to ourselves and leaving the country. well, this president has been nothing but neg

siobhan hughes covers congress for the wall street journal. with the hearings come up and the jute -- in the judiciary committee coming up, we have spent an hour talking about these four days worth of hearings siobhan hughes, welcome. how did these hearings compare with ones in the past given we are now operating under the pandemic. four days for the nominee. caller: four to -- guest: four days is about the standard for a lot of people who have been tuning into the supreme court nominations only recently, it might feel a little different. that is because the brett kavanaugh nominations were so contentious. it did go on for longer than normal. four days is about right. we will start monday with opening statements from senators. we will hear from a neat -- amy coney barrett. divebsequent days, we will into very intense questioning of her by the senators. finally, there will be an outside panel that the senators will question. that is the format. that is standard. what is not standard is that we are operating in a pandemic. this is going to be a

>> the "wall street journal." ere. >> [overlapping talking]. >> what did they say? >> i have it here. october 23rd "wall street journal" in the news section. corporate records reviewed by the "wall street journal" show no role for joe biden. no discussion of joe biden taking a role and they note he was a private citizen at the time these discussions were taking place. >> [overlapping talking]. >> wait, wait, wait. >> [overlapping talking]. >> there was no payment whatsoever. they looked into it and found nothing. yet you want to pursue this because you have a political agenda. >> not true, juan. the "wall street journal" confirmed what? that there was a holding company? >> no money and no discussion. i repeat. >> [overlapping talking]. >> i will tell everybody, you are okay with the biden family doing business with the chinese communists. >> they were not doing business! oh my god, they didn't do business. >> that's just not true. >> oh, my gosh. >> [overlapping talking]. >> juan, why did hunter biden represent the

. >> your familiar with wall street journal supreme court correspondent joining us. on the opening date of the new term of the supreme court . but before we get to that, just give us an update on judge hope hicks confirmation timeline and what impacts the presence diagnoses into members of the senate judiciary committee diagnosis will have on judge amy coney barrett supreme court domination >> so far the chairman no affected all. posting ahead. the begin next week. that he is announced 40 the committee put out a fact sheet last night. claiming how any hearings they've had so far. wereey some members at a participated remotely so intentionally right now from the republican leadership is to continue moving as quicklyci as possible to attempt to confirm judge amy coney barrett before the election. we have not heard any change there. i think we will find out if perhaps something comes up to delay the democrats on the committee. demanding that they hearings take place in person they say. and they also are saying is too dangerous to have such . but they don't have the powe

sandra: thank you from the wall street journal for us.nt trump is said to be improving at this hour as he undergoes treatment for covid-19 in maryland. plus researchers say a vaccine for children may not be identified before late next year. why pediatric trials are still lagging behind? sandra: fox news alert this just in from john roberts. update on the president's condition and what he has been experiencing over the past 48 hours. a senior administration official is telling fox news that on friday morning president trump was showing troubling signs of a possible progression from mild to more severe coronavirus disease. medical professionals took a quick -- took quick action to aggressively intervene, that's when they made the decision to then transfer the president out of and abundance of caution. in short the trajectory of possible disease progression was concerning and doctors wanted to make sure they got ahead of the virus. they did say he responded well to aggressive treatment. 24 hours ago, quoting there was real concern about the

he lied about the deal, "the wall street journal" proved he was lying about it. he lied about these spikes. he said the spike has gone away in florida. you just showed numbers prove that's a lie. the spike went away in texas and you showed the numbers that prove that was lie. he claimed the spike had ended in arizona. you showed numbers that that proved a lie. in campaigns past, if barack obama or mitt romney had done this in 2012, there would have been full page, front page articles not only "the new york times," but "washington post," "wall street journal," "usa today." everybody would be showing the clips and proving that one of those two candidates lied. here, donald trump lies dozens of times at least in a debate. doesn't get the facts wrong, because that happens sometimes with candidates. he just out and out lies and it's just become accepted by 45, 46% of the population. it's an extraordinary thing and what's so extraordinary, willie, is that i grew up in a washington where republicans tore off their robes and put on sack cloth and ashes for six months and

this is the front page of the wall street journal, debate chaos sparks review. some of the potential changes that could happen to ensure better discussion of the issues. it could include tweaking how much time a candidate could speak or whether the moderate could shut off a candidates microphone, according to one member of the commission board at the wall street journal. we are waiting for the official announcement for the commission on presidential debates. as we do, we want to hear from you. what changes would you make? tony is first out of florida, on the line for those who support joe biden. good morning. caller: good morning. i have an idea. one idea is for the moderator to tell both candidates they will put a shock color -- collar. host: do you think they will actually agree to that? guest: -- caller: well it is necessary, because the whole world is laughing at us. this is a circus. , the dumpsteria fire, the list goes on and on. host: short of a shock collar, what is something that you think could actually be implemented that both campaigns would be ok wi

joe biden leads president trump by 14% in the new wall street journal/nbc news poll.he lead is his biggest of the campaign. the polls were taken after

. ♪ gerry: welcome to "the wall street journal at large".or four long days this week colorly-i illuminated with charts and images punctuated by long, turgid lectures especially from democrats, amy coney barrett -- president trump's pick for the supreme court vacancy -- managed to school senators, tv viewers and the wider public in the proper role to have judiciary in the american system of government. while democrats tried repeatedly to get her to tell them what she thought about obamacare, roe v. wade, gun control and a host of other policy issues, she patiently explained that none of that is her job. >> i interpret the constitution as a law, and it's not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it. as i've also said repeatedly, any policy preferences that i have don't matter anyway. they're irrelevant. so making that law, that's sure job. gerry: what we saw on display were the two very different visions of the role of the courts. conservatives believe in judicial restraint the, interpretation of the law by judges. democrats

. ♪ ♪ gerry: welcome to "the wall street journal at large".wasn't exactly a coaz is su chat between two old friends, but the final presidential debate on thursday was a stark contrast to the first rancorous showdown a few weeks ago. perhaps it was the threat of the muted microphone, but we got a more measured, restrained and even respectful exchange. we also got just for a moment what this election and, unfortunately, so much of what our modern media and political climate has been lacking, a real choice for america's voters in just over a week's time. a good part of the evening was spent on the big news of this week, talking about the business act deaths of mr. biden's son hunter. unlike our colleagues and some other news organizations, we won't ignore the issue, but we'll discuss it later in the show. the biggest differences were around policy, the economy, health, energy and other areas. joe biden got off to a start by warning of a dark winter of covid ahead while president trump insisted that the primary responsibility is to get the economy

. ♪ gerry: welcome to "the wall street journal at large".or four long days this week colorly-i illuminated with charts and images punctuated by long, turgid lectures especially from democrats, amy coney barrett -- president trump's pick for the supreme court vacancy -- managed to school senators, tv viewers and the wider public in the proper role to have judiciary in the american system of government. while democrats tried repeatedly to get her to tell them what she thought about obamacare, roe v. wade, gun control and a host of other policy issues, she patiently explained that none of that is her job. >> i interpret the constitution as a law, and it's not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it. as i've also said repeatedly, any policy preferences that i have don't matter anyway. they're irrelevant. so making that law, that's sure job. gerry: what we saw on display were the two very different visions of the role of the courts. conservatives believe in judicial restraint the, interpretation of the law by judges. democrats

. >>> "wall street journal" poll is out the debate, narrow but important window. after the debate, but before the president's diagnosis in that window biden is up big. we'll head over to the big board and break that down, as well. that's coming up. [ thunder rumbles ] [ engine rumbling ] [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] uh, you know there's a 30-minute limit, right? tell that to the rain. [ beeping ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. [ beeping ] - with the ninja foodito intelligesmart xl grill.ing just pick your protein, select your doneness, and let the grill monitor your food. it also turns into an air fryer. bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you. you're constantly weakening that enamel structure. pronamel repair allows more minerals to penetrate deep into the enamel layer and it repairs it. it is pretty phenomenal. keeping your oysters busihas you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim

we have seen this storyline start to change with "the wall street journal" actually challenging it ands of fox news as well. let me explain to you what's been going on with these stories. "the wall street journal's" news division published an account that really cast doubt on the so-called scandal, that the opinion operation has been promoting. and yet the opinion part of the "wall street journal" is still hyping it, claiming these emails are a massive story. of course, still a lot unclear about the credibility of these emails and how significant they are, how real, whether they are all real, whether some are made up, all of these disinformation questions linger. we see a news versus opinion fight at "the wall street journal." the panel is back with me. michelle, since you had a media literacy group, let me start with you. what is the media literacy lessons when there is a story blowing up in right wing media, that is questioned, its credibility is questionable, and other news outoats are not able to convert it, outlets like cnn are not able to confirm it. what's the media literacy les

because we were talking about the media and the coverage of the hunter story, we mention "the wall street journal." they looked into this china deal and they said "the venture never received propose funds from the chinese company or completed any deals. corporate records reviewed by "the wall street journal" show no role for joe biden." the journalist had looked into it and they said they haven't found a role for joe biden. i think you handled that issue pretty well last night. >> harris: mollie. >> mollie: interesting point. if you look at the text on the messages in the emails that the whistle-blower, tony bobulinski has shared with some reporters and shared with the fbi and the senate committees. they show that part of the discussion is about how to obscure the role that joe biden is playing in the business dealings. one of them said to tony bobulinski, you cannot put into writing that joe is involved. save it for the face-to-face meeting. in another section when they are talking about how they would divide the money they say that the money for joe biden would be held by hunter biden. so havin

joining me now is a chief economics commentator at "the wall street journal" and author of the recentce "demographics and debt hang long term over u.s. debt growth." looking for good grows these days you have bad news and worse. >> yeah, sorry, if you're bothered by the short-term economic outlook, my bad news is that the long-term outlook is actually worse kelly, we talk about debt in the opening of this segment, but it's almost as much if not more so a demographic story really. demographics to a great extent is destiny when it comes to long-term growth and this has tended to aggravate two serious problems that the united states has had, one is the fertility rate which has been declining since the last recession will probably drop again. the congressional budget office thinks it will fall to 1.6% year, the lowest, well below the 2.1 number as we think of. that alone will put a serious drag on population kids not born next, won't be part of the labor force 20 years now. what do you do about low infertility, lower immigration we'll have fewer immigrants because of the barriers raised d

lou: well, in other words, you're not siding with "the wall street journal" editorial board. >> no, "proach from the washington establishment. lou: we don't have time for typical approaches, tom. we've got three weeks until the election, and we still don't have a damn substantive document that's been released by the deep state and the defiance of the president's orders goes on another day. hopefully, that will end today. tom, thanks for being with us, as always. good to see you. tom fitton, head of judicial watch. >>> up next, we'll take up president trump's return to the campaign trawl. radio host larry elder joins me. stay with us, we'll be right back. good to see him back where he is, ready to raise hell. ♪ ♪ because of the research that i've started to do on ancestry, with documents, with photographs, i get to define myself through the scores of people who lead to me. bring your family history to life like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com ♪ ♪ lou: the president back on the campaign trail in florida tonight for a rally. and out in arizona, three former astronauts

. >> and a big shift towards biden in our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. joining me for insight and analysis are former homeland security secretary jeh johnson, "wall street journal" columnist peggy noonan, rich law erie with "national review" and former obama white house communications director, jennifer palmieri. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press with chuck todd." >>> good sunday morning. if there's any good to come from the terribly unsettling news that the president of the united states has been infected and hospitalized by the coronavirus, it is this -- perhaps americans who have flouted medical advice to social distance and wear masks will now take this disease a lot more seriously. this is all happening just as the country is experiencing a rise in cases amid fears that colder weather will lead to yet another deadly wave of the pandemic. yesterday, the white house initially offered a far less upbeat report on trump's condition th

lou: well, in other words, you're not siding with "the wall street journal" editorial board. >> no, "ok, this is the typical approach from the washington establishment. lou: we don't have time for typical approaches, tom. we've got three weeks until the election, and we still don't have a damn substantive document that's been released by the deep state and the defiance of the president's orders goes on another day. hopefully, that will end today. tom, thanks for being with us, as always. good to see you. tom fitton, head of judicial watch. >>> up next, we'll take up president trump's return to the campaign trawl. radio host larry elder joins me. stay with us, we'll be right back. good to see him back where he is, ready to raise hell. ♪ ♪ arched and found sofi and applied for a personal loan. i paid off my credit cards and felt a weight come off my shoulders. thank you sofi for a great experience and for helping me get my money right. ♪ state of the art technology makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx. lease the 2021 nx 300 for $359 a month for 36 months. experience amazing. at yo

ahis preview of the supreme court confirmation hearings for judge amy coney barrett with a wall street journalongressional reporter. and we look at the history of the presidential campaign commercials with louisiana state of university school of communications professor robert mann. watch live at 7:00 eastern this morning. and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. ♪ next, president trump delivers remarks at the white house. was the president's first in person event since his return to the white house from walter reed medical center after testing positive for covid-19. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ♪ pres. trump: thank you. [crowd chanting "usa"] [cheers and applause] pres. trump: well, thank you very much and keep that enthusiasm going. get out and vote. we have to vote these people into oblivion. vote them into oblivion. got to get rid of them. so bad for our country. i'm feeling great, i don't know about you. how is everyone? [cheering] i'm honored to welcome -- we call this a peaceful protest -- to

wall street journal reports, trump decided not to reveal his first positive test result last thursday as he awaited the results of a second. that would mean he got the initial result before his interview with sean hannity when he confirmed senior aide hope hicks was indeed positive. >> he did test positive. i just heard about this. i just went out with a test. we spent a lot of time, and the first lady just went out with a test also. so whether we quarantine or whether we have it, i don't know. >> "the wall street journal" further reports, quote, as the virus spread among the people closest to him, mr. trump also asked one advisor not to disclose results of their own positive test. don't tell anyone, mr. trump said. today we also learned the centers for disease control has yet again updated its website to indicate airborne transmission appears to play a role in coronavirus spread. one more item here, politico reports that the commission on presidential debates has agreed that plexiglass can be used to separate pence and harris during the debate saturday. additionally the candidates wi

what worries them, if youoo our "wall street journal" the trump base. senior citizens are moving against the president and working-class men are moving against the president. and so thene thing republicans who had their doubts about the president was thathe base is solid and trump base will help me, but there is some doubt about that and you have suburban women who continue to move south. there is a lot to be worried about if you are a repub senator. robert: is that why the presidt came back to t negotiating table on friday and etary mnuchin working with speaker pelosi on a stimulus deal? >> there was real backlash when president trump took that surprising step and said he will be calling off negotiations in the relief packa and wanted confirmation of judge barrett. this is a talking point. the democrats have en saying that the president wants to th hk aboutself and his nominee and doesn't care about the american people. when the president took that move. airline companies said we will keep on floughing employees and people were saying, millions of peop

i think like i said and the wall street journal said as well, i think it's a great time for him to create a personal connection with the people, right? if he is able to connect at a personal level live, i think it would be phenomenal, biden won't have that opportunity. as much as he tries to campaign out there, he doesn't have the same energy behind him that president donald trump does and i think they'll be phenomenal to see the president reporting live from the hospital or the white house whichever to connect with everybody. live feeds should be essential part for him going down into this final stretch of the campaign. sandra: having gone through this yourself and having had the virus and seeing how different people react, i know you were really shocked to see -- i think most of us are embracing all of the wonderful messages, well wishes that we see for the president and the first lady but i know you were shocked to see some of the ill wishes towards the president as he continues to fight this not just here but around the world. >> unfortunately in this country at least, we are two part

saying nothing illegal here, as if that mattered. >> jesse: first of all, juan's claim that the "wall street journalbunked this story has been debunked, juan, first of all. second of all, i don't think the read the "wall street journal" article, they did not debunk this, they helped substantiate what they saw. >> juan: jesse, go back, you shouldn't tell people something like that. >> jesse: excuse me, juan, peter, advice, have you ever met tony? see if he can answer that question, that would settle a lot of things. you brought up cred iblt, do you believe the officer that has e-mails and documentation and voice recordings, who went to the f.b.i. under penalty of perjury or believe the political family with history of plagiarism and shady deal making who hidden and ran for the hills since this broke and three business partners are in prison? the deal is simple, they cooked it up in 2015, while joe was vp, the chinese communist sent $10 million to the biden family, an interest-free loan, 5 million went to twhere the bro held bac 10 for the big guy. tony meets with the vp twice on this and tony wants t

we need to -- when it comes to vote fraud, there was a great article in the "wall street journal" i think 15, 20 years ago, amazingly enough it was altered by glenn simpson of cheap gps of russian gate fame, and investigative report of the "wall street journal" am talking about vote brokering a certain ethnic enclaves in texas and other places around the country which is a real thing that happened. there are vote brokers particularly in immigrant communities in this country. these are things that were used to be able to talk about that were used to be able to address, and now if we try and address them, you are a horrible, horrible person who doesn't want anyone with a different skin tone to be able to vote. i again i think we need to really like guileless back and get focus on civics and process and general fairness instead of being sucked into these debates that are so politicized and so bitter. unfortunately i don't know a way out of that at this point in time. it's profoundly frustrating with a moan to point out obvious facts about election insecurity. you are, in fact, smeared as rac

the "wall street journal" editorial board slammed the confusion it caused writing mixed messages likeent. let's bring in dan henninger the deputy editor of the "wall street journal" editorial page and fox news contributor. i spoke to the white house yesterday and brought this whole thing up about mixed messages and i was told the reason they didn't come out and clear up the confusion is because it was a fluid situation. are you buying that? >> only up to a point, trace. really, what is one of the great realities of our day especially regarding the trump white house? it is that non-disclosure is a non-starter. big things always leak in our day and age and the stories about the president's blood oxygen levels eventually leaked. they were not able to suppress that. i think the white house communications staff should have known that something like that was going to happen. so they went through this period of having to deal with these contradictions which, of course, the press jumped on. i think our argument in the editorial is under circumstances like this transparency to the extent possi

"the wall street journal" is not exactly a liberal publication. the story there is that perhaps the manufacturing health may be a bit overstated. what exactly can we say about the trade war with china under president trump and where it goes hypothetically if he takes another four years in office >> right, thanks very much for having me. incredible topical to think domestic and international policy and practically the eve to the election. i think this week we need to think about what china is doing. china at the moment is involved in five days worth of leadership talks thinking about their plans going forward. so right now the u.s. and shy that have a first degree trade agreement. always seen as a steppingstone going forward. so i think that we need to think about what it is that china is considering for the u.s. relationship and it's not only about access to markets. it's also about access to finance and capital. that's one of the things with should be thinking about how it is that both the u.s. and china fair going forward and where any trade agr

and instagram, and i'll be back next week with more in-depth interviews right here on "the wall street journal at large." thanks very much for joining us. ♪ ♪ ♪ jack welcome to "barron's roundtable" where we get behind the headlines and prepare you for the week ahead. i'm jack otter. the merger with amazon is helping whole foods cut costs. whole foods' ceo john mackey will join us. but what we think are the three most important things investors ought to be thinking about right now. the markets dipped on news of president trump testing positive for covid-19 but leveled off and ended the week with gains. why wasn't it a bigger deal? oil stock tumbled, what that means for the energy sector and your portfolio. and sony and microsoft are set to reelite next generation video game console ahead of the holidays, is and most repreorders have already -- preorders have already sold out. on the round table, my colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. ben, i thought the debate might be the big story of the week until we all woke up friday morning to find out that's president and first lady

. ♪ ♪ ♪ gerry: welcome "the wall street journal at large."to go now until voting ends in the 2020 election and just a few more days for the media to maintain its protection around joe biden, insuring nothing could possibly interfere with his right to be elected president. the last few months we've witnessed the completion of the transformation of most news organizations into well-financed, highly-engaged tools of the democratic party. still refusing to mention the revelations about hunter biden, his plans for a lucrative family deal with a chinese company. remember this gem from a couple of weeks ago? [inaudible conversations] >> one vanilla, one chocolate. but i wanted to get what we call black and white, but we're going to -- [inaudible] gerry: withering questioning. this week there was this shocking expo is say from from e new york times." how the candidate is dealing without being warm and friendly to people because of the coronavirus. helping a candidate over the line will, in fact, be successful. later we'll talk to a couple of pollster

nbc news/"wall street journal" polling. it shows joe biden with a 14-point late, which is double almost the eight-appointed late taken just before the debate. also biden's largest lead of the race, the previous high being 11 points. we also have pre-debate nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows, post debate joe biden has a one-point lead. so a 14-point swing amongst men 50 and older. what do you make of that? >> i take it that joe biden talks about the dignity of work. joe biden is the most pro-worker, pro-union candidate of my time, and he will govern through those eyes. the contrast that with trump's betrayal of workers, he's betrayed workers saying don't sell your homes, the jobs are coming back before the plant shut down and we tried to save it. he puts the secretary of labor in, who used to be a corporate labor lawyer making millions suing workers and breaking unions. so it's clear trump is not on the side of working families. that's becoming clearer and clearer, especially in contrast to a pro-worker candidate like

. >> fox and the "wall street journal" have reviewed bobulinski's business documents and they do notrole for joe biden in the paperwork. dana? >> mike emanuel, thanks so much. so both candidates facing questions last night about foreign deals during the debate. take a listen. >> the kind of money that you raked in, you and your family. joe, you were vice president when some of this was happening. it should have never happened. i think you owe an explanation to the american people. >> i have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life. we learned that this president paid 50 times the tax in china, last a secret bank account with china, does business in china and in fact is talking about me taking money? >> dana: kim is a member of the "wall street journal" editorial board, a fox news contributor and the author of this column called "the biden family legacy." posted last night. kim, says what we earned will. what did you learn from last night's exchange between the two guys? >> well, first of all, it was remarkable to hear joe biden address this question of his son, hunte

♪ ♪ gerri: welcome to "the wall street journal at large". media spent much of the week trying not very hard to have hide their dismay at president trump's apparently, so far at least, rapid recovery from the coronavirus. when he got ill with the virus last week, he was instantly condemned for his own recklessness in contracting covid and possibly exposing others. catching the virus was some kind of karmic justice, and he had to answer for it. many supposedly reputable media doctors, all those people you see in white coats all the time, spent much of last weekend that his chances for survival were not that good. >> given the president's age and his pre-existing illnesses, he's going to be at increased risk. >> we are living a nightmare, and coronavirus is now in the white house. >> he is still quite ill. we know that during the course of this illness a patient can feel just fine and suddenly take a turn for the worse. gerry: you can almost hear the anticipation, the excitement and the anticipation. so imagine their horror when he returned to

not worth mentions on this show, there are a lot of names worth mentioning related to "the wall street journal." i know you used to have great respect for the "wall street journal" and i would watch -- >> editorial page. >> watch some of the best writers on television saying that the press is all focused on coronavirus like coronavirus isn't a big story. look at the number on the screen. it's a crazy time in terms of what people will do to try and deny facts. with us we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. host of msnbc's "politicsnation" and president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. and host of "way too early," kasie hunt is with us. so the president wakes up in nevada before heading to arizona for a campaign event and the latest cbs news yougov poll from arizona has trump and biden statistically tied, biden 50%. trump 47%. the president held several campaign rallies over the weekend, super spreader events and with 15 days until election days, things sounded like four years ago. with crowds chanting lock him up, whenever the president star