joe biden needs to give an answer. >> should he not run as a result, >> that's for joe biden to decide. >> you covered the vice president for years. are you surprised of this issue of inappropriate touching? >> i am not surprised. joe biden, anyone who's covered him. has seen these moments point he's an affectionate person. he's put his hands on women's shoulders. it's part of what people have called, the uncle joe persona. do those moments look different in 2019? we've gone through the #metoo movement. not necessary sexual assault but making women feel uncomfortable. if he's using his position of authority to do that.that will not be looked at favorably by this democratic electorate. >> it reminded people of this incident this is 2015. there's the defense secretary and joe biden is touching the wife of ash carter. puts his hands on her shoulders. nozzles and whispers something into her ear. could this be a problem? as julie points out in the #metoo. ? >> i think it could be. that video you played is one of many examples. i think between not necessarily the story, these are warning sig

policy affects the world. >> let's talk about joe biden because joe biden is talking about joe biden perhaps getting in the political case and his chief guy saying he's at 95%. you are part of the young new guard in the democratic party. how would you feel about joe biden who has decidedly not part of the new guard of the democratic party getting in the 2020 race? >> we should ask him whether he thinks he's part of the new guard as well, but in all seriousness, i think vice president biden will offer something very interesting in this race. he is, i think, in a lane largely that if he gets in it he could potentially own. >> which is what exactly? >> i think he's probably one of the candidates that we would consider on our side on the more moderate end of the democratic spectrum. he's someone who i think appeals across a range of voters who i think some in our party feel we must more actively go after. but the question will be i think is the vice president prepared to offer a vision about the future of the country that people can wrap themselves around? elections are always about the

joe biden knows better than anybody what this would entail. what is the thing that he's going to learn over the next couple of weeks that will push him over the finish line? i think the longer that this goes on, it leaves open the possibility that he doesn't do this ultimately. >> chris: josh? >> he might be at the point of no return. i think the draft has been very difficult and it might be too big for them to walk the fact but to the point that guy made earlier, i think that's honestly a mistake. i don't think that he can compete in his primary electorate. >> if it doesn't get it and it will be a real watershed in the history of the democratic party because it will be the end of that whole generation of leaders and they will be moving into sort of an unknown no land with a whole bunch of newcomers, ideologically very different, diverse from one another and it would be a real free-for-all. >> chris: still bernie sanders, 77 years old. at elizabeth warren, 69, and not a completely a generational shift the makeshift yet. >> a different kind of

>> no surprise that joe biden is the front runner, joe biden is loved by all wing of the democratic party, i thought it was laughable arguing that keeping medicare around as we know republicans and donald trump want to cut medicare and make it hard tore get health care, education, it's not what all the things she said, but joe biden, he's solid, i agree with her that joe biden will be the front runner in the race, he will be the person to beat, he was a fantastic vice president, well loved by all wings of our party, we have lots of great candidates to choose from but joe biden is the front runner, even joe biden criticized by what he calls, kristin, the new left and by that i think he did mean some of the extreme issues that they are running on and talking about. >> the left has become totally extreme. just to push back on what my fellow panelist just said, the left is pushing for single-payer healthcare, medicare for all which would bankrupt the country, free college which, of course, isn't really free, it would just increase taxes and tax as high as 70%, this kind of stuff drives away w

joe biden is a lovely man. whenever i would run into him when he was a senator, he was always just wonderful to talk to, other senators like him. he's a lovely guy. he's not an exciting candidate and you need to be able to andrate some excitement have a real following. reagan peopleere and someone? candidates have huge followings often and i don't think he has one. i think that's sort of necessary. host: today's washington post, writing and sanders are too old. do you think they are too old? guest: i do. biden is 76 and sanders is 77. they are too old. andgetting around that age i think you don't have the same energy among other things. -- it don't think they think democrats want somebody different this year. 2008 withebody in barack obama. when they went back to somebody, hillary clinton in 2016, old hat, it didn't work. host: what do you think this idea of a pledge to serve one term? guest: terrible idea. host: why? guest: why restrict him? why say that? i don't think you gain anything and it's particularly d

joe biden staff says he doesn't remember it that way. here's what lucy florence to abc news. >> the second most powerful man in the country, the vice president is touching me and kissing me and smelling my hair. >> to give you a sense how quickly this is moving. this is a statement that has just come out from former vice president biden. he says in my many years on the campaign trail, and in public life, i have offered countless handshakes, hugs and expressions of affection and support and comfort.and not once, never, that i believe i acted inappropriately.if it is adjusted i did so, i will listen respectfully, but it was never my intention. kelly m, you have shared the fact you are a victim of sexual assault much earlier in your life. i know this doesn't rise to that level. but your reaction about what you're hearing about this incident. >> first of all, this woman lucy is bold to come forward. i would remind the audience that she shares joe biden's political party. it's quite bold for her to go up against the highest levels of her own

having joe biden in this -- addressing the firefighters is really joe biden in his environment that he knows very, very well. addressing these rank and file union members. this sounded to me like speeches that joe biden had delivered on the campaign trail in 2012. certainly when he was running for president in 2008. but he does have some twists on what he'd actually be talking about. if joe biden does end up running, you'll see him talk about things like free college, community colleges, free tuition. he's going to talk about a $15 minimum wage. he's going to make a big push for infrastructure. but the question that joe biden has is, are a lot of these things different than you would end up having as a third term of barack obama or hillary clinton if she had beatpen donald trump. there are some democrats that say we need to turn the page and try something that's new. >> mark, thank you. biden also took a shot at president trump in his speech. specifically how the president talks about race and how he defines the idea of what it means to be an american. >> you know, we can't be defined.

joe biden isn't there. the big movers here and we'll get to elizabeth warren coming down three spots sherrod brown, a big mover. i would group six through eight together and nine through ten. i don't think they are really in the same class. >> based on the polling you have seen. based on the endorsements, the activist support. >> we are looking at different statistical models. all the factors are being taken into account. gillibrand isn't in the post, castro isn't. people aren't searching for them on google and they haven't pulled a lot of endorsements. >> show us the top five. >> one through five. this one in particular which we are talking about. bernie sanders hais going up. amy klobuchar as well is going up despite negative reports on staff treatment. really the top two are stable with kamala harris and joe biden. i would probably group one through four together and then probably five would be a little bit lower down. >> of course i imagine this would change substantially if joe biden or beto o'rourke g

. >> people know joe biden, right? name recognition is not the problem he has. the question is how does he expand upon that and can you expand upon that when there's 48,000 other candidates running for the office? i don't know. as for stacey abrams, let me just say this. there is an important point to make here which is that she did better against the baseline expectation than beto o'rourke did in texas. and the fact that we haven't talked about her as a viable national candidate does say something i think about race and gender in this country. >> she did give the opposition state of the union response. >> the bedrock voting demographic, as we know, is black women, and i think she would have obviously a lot of connections to that community. >> if she launches, she would be at the top. we'll be interviewing her next week. >> excite. >> or in two weeks. >> i'll be watching. >> you should watch he ever dev sam. mark marry, anne gearan, thank you so much, and mike memoli, of course. harold, great to see you from the firefi

, and he said, i think joe biden is going to run but i don't think joe biden knows he's going to run, and that's a problem. >> he has high favorability among republicans and that's something the white house is very closely watching. i was talking with sources who are republicans saying they're very nervous, that if he could get to the general election, he's the guy that could be the most danger. they have not been talking about joe biden much. >> the president does. he mocks joe biden but if you talk to people, people around the president say he worries about the scrappy people from scranton. >> i hear biden wants to take me to the back of a barn. he would be in big trouble, let me tell you. remember when he said that? "i'd like to take him --" you know with biden, you go like this, phew, and he goes down. sleepy joe biden. we call him 1% joe because he ran at least twice. they say twice, i think he ran at least three times, and he never had more than 1%. >> both relish a good fight. you see biden and you think he wants to get into that fight. among the top five elected officials in t

host: we heard from joe biden over the weekend at the dinner. here's a little bit. [video clip] >> we do not treat the opposition as the enemy. say a nice word about a republican when they do something good. some people think we do this because we are a small state and we will run into that person on the others of a debate again or in a grocery store, or church, or at the beach. all true. but i think it is more than that. it is more than that. barack always used to kid me because i would repeat 1000 things to him as michelle writes in her book. she said "joe was like barack's big brother" so i could be completely candid. when i was asked for advice, i would pass on the advice i got from my mother and father and say politics is personal, and it is personal. one of the reasons things get on a little better in delaware than other places is that we know one another. as much as you disagree with the man or woman across from you on the merits of a political problem, you also know that they may have a son or daughter who is ill, or that someone's wife or husband is sufferi

you'll see elizabeth warren attacking joe biden for that. you'll see her attacking db they'll be going back and forth over the iraq war certainly. you're see attacks on joe biden. the anita hill hearings, on and on. an elizabeth warren hap has demonstrated hypocrisy all over the place. >> so i jus since you've been g. thank you so much for coming on. thank you for having us in your homes. thank you for watching. "lou dobbs" is next right here on the fox business network. have a good night. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the red storm has arrived. china carrying out acts of espionage and war. aggressively targeting the u.s. military and defense contractors in massive cyberattacks over the past five years. and without cyber counter attacks from the united states. without any response whatsoever, it appears. our intelligence agents asleep, perhaps helpless as the world's largest nation is at this very moment steal some of our most secret sensitive technology. threatening america's status as the world's only supow

he thinks joe biden should run. caller: yes, biden should run because of obama and biden took and trumpsion away, never handled a real emergency. biden knows how to unite us with our allies. he will unite the whole country. trump is running off the hard work of obama and biden. he had the economy handed to him when he got in. host: that is kevin in connecticut this morning. plenty of discussion about the 2020 democratic field in today's newspapers. this is from the opinion pages of "the wall street journal." the column -- how democrats may blow it in 2020. he writes, voters will be looking for a presidential candidate who is reflective, experienced and a unifier rather than a divider, and who demonstrates being capable of serious governance. not just another pugnacious self seeker. how many of the announced democratic aspirants fit that description? appealing mainly to anti-trump ours. but it is a mistake to believe that the national opinion conforms to that. you could ask presidents goldwater and mcgovern about mis

joe biden, should he declare to run, and i think it is obvious to everybody, joe biden will be a presidential candidate, joe biden is a real threat to donald trump if he can survive a democratic primary, which will likely be rocky and tumultuous. i think the democratic party will define who they are and where they want to go through this nominating process. as we sit a year out, maybe the tier one candidates would be biden, beto, harris, bernie, maybe. who is going to emerge? will we see a transformation of the democratic party in 2020, like we saw of the republican party four years ago? i think we all will wait to see. maybe steve could share insight on that. >> i do think there are things in his past that will come up for sure, steve. there is an article in "politico" that joe biden might have trouble with his self-proclaimed, you know, middle-class joe moniker. he's made a lot of money since he left the white house. $250,000 for a speech this mult. biden is unique among the top hopefuls because of his avoided distance from the upper class, they said. it is central to his political identity

there is no online biden stands. there is no one dying online for joe biden. and it's a place where the gap between the democratic primary voter and the world of political conversation might be its widest, because there are a lot of people out there among democratic voters who are really looking for joe biden. >> absolutely, chris. the extremely online set is not crying for joe biden to get in. but as we all know, twitter is not a fraction of the american life. when you talk to people in iowa and new hampshire, you do hear there is absolutely an opening for somebody more in the middle, for somebody like joe biden, who most democrats have a very fond image of. they like him. they like his association with barack obama. i think the question for him is whether he can translate that into being a candidate. >> right. >> we know from hillary clinton that your poll numbers almost always drop once you leave the nonpolitical world and you enter the political world being a candidate. and he is no longer the guy with the aviators and the ice cream cone that we remember f

i know joe biden to be someone of very high moral character. and a very -- there's very few people in politics i've known who i admire more. the reason i say it's not a zero sum game is the issue that lucy flores is raising is important and how she feels about it is important, so we should give her her due. the comparisons i've heard today to people like al franken are just silly. with him there were eight credible allegations of sexual harassment. >> and she is not claiming sexual harassment. >> yeah. she's not claiming that at all. again, we have to think that -- we can't think about this as if she is -- feels uncomfortable that that makes joe biden a bad guy. and i think he addressed that in his statement today. i think it was effective in saying i do, i go and i hug and i kiss and that's the biden i've seen for four decades. but respecting her is what i think differentiates the democratic candidates from the current president who doesn't have the same respect for women. >> hold on. here's where i think there's some difficulty here. no one i

that's why i'm looking to joe biden to do that. on the age issue, the biggest, top people in this primary are over 70 years old and that contrast for beto is pretty interesting and that will help him, obviously. vice president biden has the obama legacy to help him. >> i don't think biden would exploit the youth and inexperience of beto o'rourke. >> from the reagan/mondale debate in 1984. great to be with all of you. >>> coming up, kirstjen nielsen under fire. i can't tell you who i am or what i witnessed, but i can tell you liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> you wanted to separate children and families and you wanted to do it with compassion. so in the meantime you didn't do nation at all and you let kids be vatted without tracking them. do you know how outrageous that is, madame secretary? you have no feeling, no compassion, no empathy here. >> california congresswoman hammering homel

biden, and the clarence thomas/atina hill, joe biden, this was not one he'll like. >> bernie sanders said he has no reason not to believe lucy flores. what do you think, pam, bottom line, warning shot for biden if he gets in? >> yes, i do. look, i think what we're doing broadly in the me too era is we're redrawing the lines of what's appropriate, what you can get awayt we tolerate, what we think is okay and what we think is not, even if it's no be sort of somewhere on that line, right? you want to be far away from that line, and i think that it's going to be incumbent on folks like elizabeth warren, other candidates to say something here, because the democratic candidates want to draw a firm line on me too. they want to be strong on this issue. they want to draw a line between them and republicans, and strongly support women, and believe people when they come forward. i think we've seen clearly that's where this party is going right now, and so i think that this will be something that biden will likely have to weather, and you know, again, we're redrawing the lines of what's okay. he

biden, also benefiting if joe biden were not to run. in that poll it says 30% for biden could go for sanders at this point. pretty notable's one other thing bernie sanders may not be thrilled about in the poll. an interesting divide comes between him and biden. in that poll only 54% of people say bernie should run again compared to two-thirds of people who say biden should. yes, bernie sanders and joe biden well-known entities. interesting to see this trickling on to south carolina killer and other states, maybe their time has passed or the right moment for them. >> when you have choices there. from concord, new hampshire, thanks to you. >>> turn to my panel now. rick tyler, co-founder of a strategist firm and from "what's next?" and former director of the new york state democratic party. our thanks to all of you. rick, start with you. if you're working, say, for donald trump 2020 campaign, what's the most interesting part of that new poll we got there from the des moines register? >> i think it's the strength of joe biden. joe biden is

joe biden is part of breaking american politics, joe biden had a front row seat for breaking american politics going back to the role he played in the anita hill hearings for which democrats and republicans, he has been part of breaking this process. we remember him telling an epic an american audience in virginia in 2012 they want to put you back in jane's. joe biden can't just show up now and say he fell off the back of a turnip truck and wasn't part of how our politics got broken. but he does have an opportunity to be part of fixing it but he has to run a campaign that is both tough but also aimed at healing these divisions. heather: it will depend whether the new generation, very vocal younger generation would show up, going back to the old school when things were a little different but there are things in the past he has got to answer for and he will find that out. we will watch. good to see you. actor jussie smollett shows up for court hearing he didn't have to attend. the strategy for proving his innocence. the uk in chaos as the brexit deal fails again. followed in the us. con

we do know that joe biden has a history of doing this. he's caught red-handed on tape doing that to the former different secretaries wife. >>leland: that was kellyanne conway making that point. my mother via text message about the ask carter press conference.>> all of these post #metoo allegations and insinuations really don't comport with joe biden's conduct over the years. if anybody types in creepy uncle joe, you come up with a treasure trove. >>leland: if all this is already baked in and as josh points out, these videos are out there. people can decide whether it's creepy or uncomfortableor whatever it is. either way, that's baked into the public's knowledge of joe biden and he still polling number one among democrats . >> exactly.i find it interesting because he's not a person who's been caught the last Ãlike senator al franken where allegations of a sexual nature were brought forward. it's just that touching stuff you don't be touching other people like it's your daughter. you don't do that sort of thing. but yet, he has done that.

joe biden, he wrote that. he wrote it. [applause] sen. carper: barack obama asked him about three years ago, the flow of illegal migration was strong, barack said, joe, what can we do about it? he took the plan, dusted it off and created another. here's the deal. we send money to help these three countries, on doris, guatemala and el salvador, three ways. one to foster hope and economic opportunity. number two, crime and violence. number three, go after corruption. the question is is this working? you know what? it is. we have seen it with their own eyes. these three countries were the highest and murder capital in the world. last three years, the murder rate in honduras is down 35%. the murder rate in el salvador down by 35%. the murder rate in guatemala down by 35%. the number of people trying to get out of those countries on to the last couple of months, down by almost 80%. honduras, they took their police force, they fired a third of the police that were corrupt. now they have a good police force. guatemala, they were training people

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>> that's for joe biden to decide. >> i believe lucy flores. we need to live in a nation where people can hear her truth. >> all right. hillary, you first. what does this do for bide snen will he or won't he run? >> well, i -- i don't know. i think that there are other reasons, why you know, joe biden is probably been delaying his announcement. i think that across the board there's a lot of questions, but i think he has an established record like i said. i think uniquely for a man his age he has been willing to kind of go back and look at himself and change and, you know, consider how mistakes in the past ought to be discussed now. i don't believe in this conversation about this -- about what people call the what aboutism. i don't think it's okay for democrats to say, well, we can have a candidate that does "x" because donald trump is so much worse. i'm proud of democrats that we're having this conversation in the primary, that these things will matter. >> okay. >> but i also think that to go forward as country we need to find, you know, ways t

if joe biden runs, this will be up to 3r50iprimary voters. the trend we're seeing is not as lynn said, vetting these candidates for who might be best equipped to be trump that could change next week. i don't think that voters in the democratic base at this point are assessing candidates to see who may be the most pragmatic and reasonable feature to take on donald trump in 2020. >> unless the body politics of democrats aside the person is the strongest to take on trump, i would be surprised if that's what evolves as a winning formula, both things could be true at the same time the democrats are vetting as they're looking to fit into a political frame. >> might this be a division within the democratic party? last hour we were talking about this, two democrats and one republican. the two democrats saw things differently, they said there may be a generational thing about that, you know, whereas one generation is saying, we're familiar is it with some of joe biden's style, the other one is saying, just because he got a pass, it may not be acceptab

mike is at joe biden's event in washington d.c. garrett haake is on capitol hill with his beto o'roarke reporting onset, kimberly atkins and jeff mason join us as well. mike, i think the firefighters have cleared out so far. biden has another event later today. i'll be honest, he seemed -- i need your energy in a few weeks. that's a pretty big hint from joe biden there. no? >> well, ali, just to correct you, it's been a half hour since he talked. he's still in the room taking pictures and doing selfies. you would not be surprised. hallie, this is a critical week in terms of joe biden and his deliberations. i've been following the vice president for about 11 years since our friends at nbc had me camping out in his driveway the week he was named as barack obama's running mate. even though he wasn't supposed to announce anything, and he didn't. even his closest advisers, watch today, you might get a hint. the timetable his aides have laid out is an april announcement. that means they're hoping for a decision this week. we didn't hear

joe biden announcement. >> my husband said, if joe biden were a super hero, he would be gaff man. i makes so many mistakes. listen, great. joe biden, go ahead and run. run on your record. stagnant wages, jobs leaving this country, manufacturing jobs fleeing the united states of america, of bad trade deals, bad foreign policy. we have a president who is finishing his second summit with kim jong-un. he walked away because he said, we're not going to take away the sanctions if you are not going to denuclearize. let's look at what was happening under the obama administration. north korea was firing missiles every 24 days. that's what was happening. president trump, under his administration, it has been 458 days, he has increased the sanctions and the president has strengthened our country with his strong, strong support of our military and his strong stance on the national stage. joe biden, please run. run on your record. we would love to have that. >> that's an invite to joe biden. thank you. appreciate you this morning. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] ♪ >>> the war in the pacif

biden is going to get in this race it's a sign that joe biden will be the favorite in this race and it's a sign that that's the opening in some ways donald trump has left the center open by going you know he's over served his right political base more than any president in american history so there's an open center for someone to take it and that's the argument for biden potentially winning the next election david are you hearing any rumblings from the biden camp or people around biden that he's taking this very seriously about jumping in you know i'm hearing he's going to get in and the argument for biden is that someone from the center left can win the election the danger for the democrats now i think i mean is what happened to the in the u.k. one factor one they had to progressive nominees that were sort of took a hard left kinnock and foot same thing when reagan won two democratic nominees pretty much hard left respectively mondale to caucus so in some ways the way the democrats can lose the election is to go hard left and do nothing but go hard left biden really sort of allows

how much is straight up name recognition. >> joe biden and bernie sanders, especially joe biden are well liked by democratic voters. it comes down to is the opening day for joe biden the best day of his campaign or can he offer a message that doesn't just remind them of the obama years but as a candidate who could take on trump. >> the three leaders are white men. particularly in a year where you see a lot of push among the democratic base for a woman, a person of color is this surprising, locked in? >> it is surprising. they are a gay american and an african-american american woman. we'll see what happens when the candidates are better known. not particularly well known at this point. >> another candidate trying to distinguish herself from the field, senator amy klobuchar in revealing this trillion dollar infrastructure plan, infrastructure priority for both parties, priority for a lot of americans here. an attempt really to show -- i suppose to bring it back to the issues for her campaign. >> absolutely. running on a promise she can work across the aisle to get things done in washingto

that's joe biden. joe biden is the strongest one because he reminds people, a, of an era where there was more decency in politics. he's a fundamentally decent man. i disagree with joe biden on numerous policies. this is a man i respect as an individual. i think a lot of americans do, too. when they see donald trump do the bluster, joe biden can offer a clear contrast to that. i don't see bernie sanders being able to do that. i don't see elizabeth warren or kamala harris, certainly not tulsi gabbard. >> we have 12 debates in the democratic primary. i think it's too early to judge now who can be that one and only person who is standing on the debate stage taking on trump. i agree, i think joe biden would do great and be very formidable. i also think kamala harris and other candidates who are running for the presidency, we need to see how the do on the debate stage. they're going to have their moments. we have 12 debates, two nights. the first two at least. it's going to be a lot of air time for these fol

it's not a knock on joe biden's credentials. but it is a referendum on what he represents, you know, you look at 2018, a ton of women, younger, diversity, diversity of opinion, they're very far out on the left, he checks none of those boxes. does that concern you? >> no, i don't think -- it doesn't concern me at all. i think if you look at history, i'm not sure the people of alabama as a whole are necessarily looking that way. they want somebody who can lead. they want somebody who can make sure that they've got the experience necessary to bring us together, to govern this country and to do it in a way that we have respect for institutions of government. we've seen transitions before. this may be that time after eisenhower, we became kennedy. people are looking for a leader, regardless of their age, regardless of where they are i think they're looking for a leader and somebody that can govern. in that standpoint i think people in the democratic party really people in america are going to look for that person who can best govern.

we haven't heard from vice president joe biden. there was a statement yesterday where they said that he essentially couldn't remember anything like this and he certainly didn't remember it this way and then the other statement they put out today again not from vice president joe biden, we'll wait to hear from the other candidates. do they believe lucy flores? it is interesting, though, you have in vice president joe biden someone who has been thinking about running for president, his aids say he's 95% of the way there but they must have known that in this era, the me too era, when the scrutiny of men is much more public and open than it has been in years past, they should have probably known that this was going to get an airing. we'll see where the campaign -- it's not a campaign, where the possible campaign, where the possible candidate vice president joe biden goes with this. >> we know he's already been addressing anita hill and some of the other issues that could potentially be soft spots for him. you're in houston so let's tal

look, joe biden ran three times. he never got more than 1% and president obama took him out of the garbage heap. i'd love to have it be biden. >> i can't get past the part about him dreaming of biden. what do you think of the biden march up. >> if we're talking about joe biden when i was in college in 1988, i think the president would have a formidable challenge. the problem is biden is go having to a debate with himself because the joe biden of 1988 -- and you have tapes going back to the 1970s where he talks about a desegregation in a way that's init tolerable. today's joe biden is going to have to twist himself into an ideological pretzel which is the base and i would argue a majority of the democrat party. by the time biden finishes debating himself from what he said decades ago and maybe even a few years ago and tries to appeal to that radical element within the it democratic party -- by the way diversity is fine. i'm for diversity but not when it's based on being hostile to white males. and unfortunately that i

joe biden is leading a new poll ahead of the iowa caucus. the former vice president has not officially announced, but he now leads bernie sanders by two percentage points. that is, though, within the margin of error. in third place, senator elizabeth warren, followed by senator kamala harris and former representative beto o'rourke, who is still teasing a possible 2020 run. senators cory booker and amy klobuchar coming in at 3% a piece there. today, democratic presidential hopefuls are returning to the campaign trail, and here are some highlights from 2020 democrats speaking at south by southwest yesterday. nbc news asked beto o'rourke when would he announce, and he said he's on a, quote, timeline that works for my family and for the country. then, senator warren was asked how she's ideologically different from bernie sanders. >> bernie has to speak to what democratic socialism is. >> you are not one? >> i am not. and the centrists have to speak to whatever they are doing. what i can speak to is what i'm doing. markets have to have rules. the

for my democratic choices, i think maybe joe biden. we need a guy who can be apologetic and apologize for all the things that have happened over the last couple of years pretty if by any chance john kasich would come over to our side and run as a vice presidential candidate, to where we could maybe form a party in the middle, where it is not far left or far right, but somebody -- joe scarborough could come on board with the democrats. host: thanks for the call. of a joehave not heard biden-john kasich ticket floated yet. specifically,en he is someone a lot of democrats are saying they feel he is best to take on trump. i spoke a little bit earlier that he appeals to a lot of the white, working-class of voters who trump swept in 2016. in democrats mind who think he is the best, it is largely because of that reason. also, because of the nostalgia a lot of people feel for the obama presidency. who is best to take on trump depends on who you ask. i think a lot of women feel potentially a female candidate on thee best to take mantle where hi

look, i think joe biden has to do something extraordinary because joe biden might be yesterday's news for a lot of democrats. he is going to have to excite the base and excite the party, so he might have to be thinking out of the box, and this is one way to do it. >> laura: we got to get out, guys. fantastic segment, i feel we will bring you back a lot. next, my message to president trump about his feud with george conway and john mccain. stay there. allergies with sinus congestion and pressure? you won't find relief here. go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritin-d. while the leading allergy spray only relieves 6 symptoms, claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d relieves more. ♪ >> laura: finally tonight, a message to president trump. sir, you are presiding over the strongest economy in the world. due to policies and priorities that you campaigned on and are now implementing. manufacturing is back. wages and optimism are up. opportunities are boundless. this is truly one of the best times ever to be an american. you are doing a great job on

i want to talk about the appeal of joe biden. a majority, 64%, say joe biden is more experienced. 34% say the time for him has passed and he should stay out of the race. biden, indeed, had a long career in politics. in the senate in 1973. how do you think his record and legacy will come into play? >> he obviously has a lot to point back to in terms of speaking about his successes and the experience that he has obviously serving not only in the senate but also as vice president under president obama and it is in stark contrast to president trump where he can sort of say this is why i am the better candidate. look what happened when we elect a president that doesn't have the same as i do. he is in his mid 70s. some supporters have said it's time for fresh, new, youngblood. i think his experience and the years he has spent on capitol hill will bode well for him. >> he's 76 years old and bernie sanders is 77. what in his past might he have to defend here, joe biden? >> there have been questions raised about comments he made in the '7

biden a progressive or is joe biden a moderate? >> joe biden, first of all, very impressive public servant, but i certainly consider him a moderate. >> so can't be the nominee? >> i don't think this party is going to choose a moderate. i don't think this party should choose a moderate. if a moderate runs and wins, this very dangerous status quo will continue. we have an incoming economic crisis that's dangerous and destabilizing. >> you have a lot of respect for joe biden. >> 100%. >> but we can say joe biden would not win the de blasio endorsement? he's a moderate. >> look, i have a lot of respect for him but you say what does this party need right now, it doesn't need a moderate. what this country needs right now, it does not need a moderate. >> and he's a moderate. >> he's a moderate. >> okay. >> so bill de blasio, who himself is thinking about running for president, heads to south carolina this weekend. he's been to iowa. who knows how real that is, but he's the very liberal mayor of the biggest city in america and has had a pr

but i tell you this, with the iowans, i came away with one larger impression, which is joe biden's got a lot of work to do, because while joe biden is well-known, all of these democrats seem to be interested in essentially test driving a whole bunch of new cars before they sit there and decide whether the guy from delaware is

biden and bernie sanders take almost 50% of this at this point. >> and joe biden had that great everyman appeal that worked well for him, it's what he could win in states like pennsylvania and michigan. it's why it was so surprising to see him get bullied last week by an actor who said he was wrong for not saying mike pence was evil and he agreed he was wrong for not saying that, it's exactly the opposite of what he should be doing at this time. bernie sanders does also have that, he has that excitement, that authenticity about him. he might have embraced a lot of questionable ideas in his history, including support for the soviet union in the 1980s but he's very consistent about it and he really is authentic about it. >> bret: is their fear about bernie sanders being this popular, raising this much mone money, is there somehow an inherent threat for the party that sanders is that popular? >> i wouldn't characterize anything is fear at this point, it's a large field. it makes sense that the one guy who has done this before is the only announced candidate who has run for president. he's g

look, i think joe biden has to do something extraordinary because joe biden might be yesterday's news for a lot of democrats.as he is going to have to excite the base and excite the party so he might have to be thinking out of the box, and this is one way to do it. >> laura: we got to get outnk guys. fantastic segment, i feel we will bring you back a lot. up next, my message toto president trump about his feud with george conway and john mccain. stay there. all money managers might seem the same, but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. ♪ >> finally tonight, a message t president tr >> a message to donald trump. >> you are presiding over the

that's a problem for biden. >> harris: joe biden, just this week -- he said it before. i would imagine he's feeling some pressure now that he sees the party leaning far left, saying that he has actually delivered on that far left promise more than anybody else. who is running. i want to point this out -- we talk about his gaps, but there is also 25, 30, 40 years of history in terms of what he has done as a leader. senator chris coons, democrat from delaware, on whether biden would be able to get past some of his controversial stances. let's take a look. >> there are things that he was involved in or said or voted for 25 or 30 or 40 years ago that i expect he will get asked about on the trail. but he has a real and solid record of stepping forward and being a champion for civil rights, for women's rights, for lgbt key rights, and i think on the whole the democratic party primary electorate will be very satisfied with joe biden's record and with his vision for our country. >> harris: what would be a sticky wicket for joe biden? >> certainly i think the biggest one is the

joe biden, amy klobuchar and beto have. which i think is sort of some good news for the democratic base as we go into this hotly contested primary season. >> harris: beto is about to take another stage in iowa as that happens. we are also talking about the situation of jeb bush today chris stirewalt president trump needs somebody to primary him. what does he mean by that. >> you know, jeb bush -- i'm sure he wouldn't like this comparison, but jeb bush is starting to seem an awful lot like hillary clinton.

already joe biden is in damage control mode forced to answer questions about his past and a woman who claims unwanted kissing from the then vice president. the fight for the truth. democrats battling to get the full mueller report out without redactions and attorney general barr takes a black marker to it and at least one republican suggests the document should never see the light of day. plus, israel on the edge just before an election to decide if netanyahu holds on to power and the middle east peace plan. all of that coming up straight ahead. >>> we want to start with the allegations facing former vice president biden. lucy flores, a former nevada assembly woman accuses him of behaving inappropriately with her in 2014 running for lieutenant governor of that state. watch. >> out of nowhere, i feel joe biden put his hands on my shoulders get up very close to me from behind, lean in and smell my hair and then plant a slow kiss on the top of my head. >> so biden responded friday first to the allegations and then yesterday in a statement. his latest statement reads in part in my many ye

. >>> and new overnight, joe biden's reckoning and regrets. what he's saying act his role in the anita hill hearings. >>> and the barbara bush bomb shell. the book with her blunt personal thoughts on donald trump including why she blames him for her heart attack. >>> we expect nancy pelosi at the podium gearing up to defend the health care law. a fight they are eager to have after the trump administration renewed it this week. >> the gop will never stop trying to destroy the affordable health care of america's families. >> that comes as we're hearing more about the battle inside the administration over this. with two key cabinet secretaries reportedly opposing the move to ask courts to invalidate obamacare. we have new reaction from one of those agencies and for a little perspective here, a new poll shows 55% of americans, more than half of americans support improving, not replacing the country's health care system. nbc's geoff bennett has the latest developments in capitol hill. kelly o'donnell is at the white house, and geoff, let me start w