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he knows joe biden well. his dad knew joe biden when he was governor really well. this is an asset we have tended to underplay. they are new faces. joe biden will be a test of the importance of that longstanding deep relationship >> what's also important, david cohen who is throwing the fundraiser who was the general counsel of comcast which owns nbc is one of the most powerful democratic donors and most active in the country. it's a show of force to donors which is important to joe biden to provide shock and awe in the democratic field. he never wants to run a two-way race. as one democratic strategist said, this is trump. he wants to be biden against a field of 20. it's always him against the rest of them. not one on one. this is an attempt to show the power of the fund raising potential >> i think david is right to flag david cohen's role in this. not to pick on him individually, but the presence of him and other folks in the room will be a test to the rest of the democratic field. it's bait for the populous to have the guy who oversees a major media company's l

you vote for biden? >> let's wait and see how this all goes. >> that's not one word. you know, i didn't vote -- because i don't know. i don't know how joe biden's going to do and i'm not going to -- >> if it was. >> i'm not -- >> i'm not saying he's going -- >> short answer, when the time comes, i'll let you know. how's that? anti-biden short answer. not saying another word. >> that was a politician's answer, thank you, john kasich. >> i just don't know. what if i run, you going to vote for me if i run, d. lemon? >> it depends what you do over time. >> wait a minute, you're doing the same thing. >> if you answered one word, i would have answered one word too. so my answer is no. how about that? i'm kidding. >> oh, come on. you're breaking my heart. >> i've got to run, governor. >> don't do that to me. >> see you next time. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> a lot more on former vice president joe biden announcing his bid for president, coming out swinging against president trump. is that the message

government to biden companies when joe biden was vice president and went to biden went soft on china. effectively it countered china's rise is the single most important strategic challenge for the next president. how can joe biden possibly do that when the chinese government has been funding biden family businesses? just on the basis of what we already know by the standards the democrats have set for donald trump joe biden is compromised by foreign power and unfit to be president. there's a lot more we need to know and what went on in those beijing meetings and billet number five and what promises were made? what favors were exchanged? why did joe biden. in china when it's aggression and our allies demanded a response? to borrow nancy pelosi's words, what does china have on joe biden politically, personally or financially? here's the bottom line about to biden. he's a fake and phony. tomorrow he launches his campaign and in the union hall to brand himself as a man of the working people. don't let them fool you. he's training on reputation that has not been true for decades. when he c

biden. before i read this, i should point out that like little marco rubio or low energy jeb, the president's nickname for joe biden is apparently sleepy joe. so some context there. president trump tweeting, welcome to the race, sleepy joe. i only hope you have the intelligence to wage a successful primary campaign. it will be nasty. you'll be dealing with people who have sick and demented ideas. if you make it, i'll see you at the starting gate. what do we know about how worried trump's people are about the entrance of joe biden ? >> from the beginning of the administration people around president trump have thought of joe biden as one of the potential threats to the votes that helped power donald trump to the white house. working class white voters, working class white men voters in particular. certainly the word sleepy is not one that's typically been applied to joe biden. he's an energizer bunny. his aides have struggled for years to get him out of events because he wants to shake hands

president trump going out of his way earlier today to take on former vice president joe biden after biden officially jumped into the race just 24 hours ago. and it comes as cnn learns that biden is already making the president sweat, but he's not about to concede that. here's what president trump said just minutes ago. >> i think we beat him easily. i just feel like a young man. i'm so young. i can't believe it. i'm the youngest person. i am a young vibrant man. i look at joe, i don't know about him. i don't know. >> if you have to declare you're a young vibrant man, are you? we'll deal with that later. it's not just the president taking on biden this morning. possibly solidifying biden's status as the democratic front-runner, fellow democrats running are also taking shots. senator bernie sanders, he sent out a fund-raising email jabbing at biden's announcement, writing this. it's a big day in the democratic primary, and we're hoping to end it strong. not with a fund-raiser in the home of a corporate lobbyist but with an overwhelming number of individual donations in response to today's n

biden is very assuring. the president is he can reassure suburban voters, he was the vice president, he was a good leader, and he can l reach out to workig classri voters. he r represents a very, very strong candidate. probably the strongest candidate in the field today would be my guest. he's going to have to stand up to the primary. can he defeat bernie sanders? >> do you agree with mark's analysis?pr does he have a woman problem? given at the apology and there's grope and sniff gate. >> i'm sure there will be a strong strain to can we get back to two years ago, four years ago. biden runs a real risk of looking at that. if you look at the electorate, they are not risk avers -- adverse. they are furious. >> i know. trump has moved the ball on those t issues. doesn't that make it steeper than last time? >> they are furious that our government is incompetent and incapable of addressing the issues the country is faced with. we w are tired of them blaming each other. the whole thing is a problem. if biden says

joe biden will get to that. to have not only the strategy but the discipline to say, i will solely focus on this notion that i am the person you can envision in the general election against donald trump and beating him because of who i am, my stature and experience. joe biden is telling the voters he'll get to those issues. no doubt he'll be asked about them. as much as he'd like to fast forward through the primary, that's not the case. he'll have to share a debate stage. he'll be tested, poked and prodded by voters and he has to fight for the nomination inside the modern day democratic party. we'll see how he does it. to come out of the gate with this focus and discipline on where he wants to keep the message, i found surprising. >> there was a big debate about when to do this. everybody was waiting. there was thought it would happen yesterday. that would have competed with the she the people conference talking about women's rights and equality. he wanted to have a moment that was his own. he has achieved it >>

does then senator biden, now vice president biden need to do more? >> he said he called her and listen, you have to look at the entirety of the record. that was a mistake back then. you have to look at people through their own -- we all make mistakes, learn by them. joe biden made a lot of mistakes. i have made mistakes. i learned. i'm sure you have, too. it's all about the issues and mistakes you may have made. no one has dug in more on fighting on women's issues than joe biden. you have to look at the totality of someone's record. he was the author of the violence against women act. we have to look at the whole record. also look at the world stage. i'm disgusted about the way america is viewed on the world stage, what president trump has done. relationships to nato, what he's done with tariffs. farmers in virginia. soybean farmers in virginia are no longer selling soybeans to china because of the ridiculous tariffs >> you're saying lots of nice stuff about joe biden, but to be clear, you haven't endorsed him yet. >> i'm a big fan of joe biden. i vi

be the think biden would nominee. i certainly think his ongoing somethinggoing to be that is going to push him to the side. ,ost: do use that line creepy you think that over being warm and friendly. andt: i have seen the video the images. this is not something that has cropped up recently. this has been part of joe biden's reputation, whispered among political circles for years and years. it is my view that if you are a politician and part of your job is to read people to get their votes, you should know about the reputation you have. if you are stuck with a reputation like that, a good politician, a decent human being would work hard to change that reputation. the fact that joe biden has not but has laughed it off and excuse it as being simple friendliness has defied logic. host: what about president trump, who has talked about women's parts, that access hollywood video, and 18 to 20 women claiming he has abused them. if you want to make a case out of president trump, that is fine by me. there were certain valid ques

is joe biden nimble enough? one of the tests of a presidential candidate especially in a live town hall or debate is being nimble. >> this right now is the really crucial period for joe biden. i think more than any of the other candidates he needs to come out strong out of the gate because there have been so many people whispering, including the other candidates, that his best day is going to be the day that he announces, and it's all going to be a downhill slide from there as more and more voters hear things that disenchant them or if they find out he's not the person that they thought he was. he's got to show energy. because the president is calling him sleepy joe and he has to prove what he's got what it takes to be out there on the trail and because he starts as the front-runner and he has to build grass roots and enthusiasm, the guy that is doing the high-dollar fund-raising. >> it's real early. i'll tell you what, not only who can win this, but who is the best person to lead the country, and that's what ha

during the video that biden made? it sort of runs counter to what a lot of the other candidates are saying, this can't just be about donald trump. >> i thought it was an interesting strategic move. when you think about it, what everybody says about joe biden, yeah, he would be a very strong candidate against donald trump, but we don't know whether he can get through this democratic party and these nominating fights. and so what he decided to do was give people a preview of what that battle would look like. and he lifted the stakes in a way that i thought was very, very effective. >> so in a sense, kind of looking past the primary? >> exactly. saying, you know, i think he in a subtle way kind of consigned everybody else to the kiddie table and said i'm coming back to try and make things right, and i'm ready for that fight. >> it also sort of sets an idea of what the stakes are as opposed to important things like, you know, economic issues or health care or things like that. >> yeah. at the end of the day, i think every

what do you hear biden doing there? >> i'd note, also, remember, the american public did not find donald trump honest and trust worthy when they elected him president either. i don't know if that'll be the most resonant message to win back voters, or if it'll be more on an economic appeal, which joe biden spent much of the speech yesterday doing, alisyn. i mean, this was sort of a piece, a pillar of his campaign, about his vision for how to rebuild the middle class. when he said that if a democrat is going to win back the white house, it is going to be right here, i mean, this is why i think he is getting under the president's skin. i think the president is keenly aware that joe biden may have a unique appeal in this field of 20 democrats to actually win back some of the very voters that delivered the oval office to donald trump in pennsylvania, in michigan, in wisconsin, that he may have a unique appeal to bring some of the people back into the democratic fold. >> let's let people see the numbers once again. joe biden

i personally like joe biden, but i don't know if my like of joe biden validates him enough to take him over the finish line for this particular race in 2020. >> paul, where do you see his strengths and weaknesses? >> well, he needs to begin with the black community. and this is something i think my republican friends never understand. they think the democratic party is white liberals. if you look at a lot of these candidates running right now in the democratic that. >> seem to think that the whole party is white liberals. the first strategy question james carville and i had with bill clinton in 1991, we said the path to the nomination runs through the african american community, and when doug wilder, the african american governor of virginia decided not to run, we thought we could win. that's how clinton won. that's how barack beat hillary. that's how hillary beat bernie. i'm not for any of these candidates. i'm completely undecided. but somebody is going to figure that out. the heart and soul of the republican party i believe is the white christian evangelicals. they're not the majori

look at biden among non-white voters, a key constituency among democrats. 50% are more biden. next is sanders at 14%. this is a huge advantage, and it is what is powering his lead. i want to caution, we're still early. 64% of democrats in our poll say they might change their mind. 36% say they are definitely supporting the candidate they're with right now. we also tested some candidate qualities. look what comes out on top. the chance to beat donald trump, 46% of democrats say that is extremely important. electability is key. the right experience comes in at 31%, saying extremely important, working across party lines. electability, way out in front. issues matter, too. take a look at the issues that are dominating inside the democratic nomination race. climate change, 82% of democrats say it is extremely important. medicare for all, 75%. it goes down then from there. guns. free public college, impeaching the president, paying reparations, voting rights for felons, much lower. it is climate change and medicare for all that are animating this race for the nomination. john, alisy

now look, we all know joe biden, right? he spent eight years as america's vice president and surprise masseuse, but before that, he had a whole career that you might not know about. you know, kind of like how some people only know billy ray cyrus from little nas' "old town road" remix. and like billy ray, bind was doing his own thing for decades before he was made cool by a young black man. so let's learn more about the democratic race's newest frontrunner in another installment of getting to know them. ( cheers and applause ) joe biden, the man may be new to the race but he definitely isn't new to life. in fact, at 76, he's older than two buttigieg -- buttigieg -- buttigieg -- (pronouncing). that makes biden one of toldest in the 2020 race, along with trump who is 72 and bernie sanders who is 278. looks good for his age, though. doesn't look a day over 240. but joe biden, like most old people, wasn't always old. when started his political career, he was the fresh face. >> biden's senate career began with him at the fifth y

joe biden can. at the end of the day, the party has to make a decision, and we'll see how it goes out, but the person who can go and get those votes back is joe biden. >> scott, what do you make of the obama factor? we heard jeff zeleny talking about obama's response to this, his kind of positioning here. he's excited about the diversity of the field. he thinks a robust primary made him when he was running a better candidate and better president. while he loves joe biden, he's not likely to be endorsing anyone anytime soon. does it surprise you? >> i think it shows both that they have a genuine and sincere friendship that was great for both of them and great for the country, but also shows that joe biden has to win this race on his own with the allies, with the folks who fight for him. >> i guess everyone would probably want that. >> we as a party do better when it's not a coronation, when it's a fight. i think that watching this fight for our values and who we are as a party and as a country matter

now it's a biden video. take a look. >> this is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public service. somebody who has devoted his entire professional life to service to this country. there could not have been a more effective partner in the progress that we've made. the best part is he's nowhere close to finished. >> and, larry, no way biden is doing this unless obama gives him some kind of sign-off on it, you have to think. the other thing, though, that occurs to me is you have a former vice-president running. this is not walter mondale with jimmy carter, dan quail with george w. bush. this is a vp who can call on the former president and the administration. >> it's only four years prior. people, certainly democrats, everybody else remembers obama and democrats remember him very, very well. it kind of reminded me a little bit of how nixon kept invoking eisenhower, even in 1968 when he was running the second time, but eight years after the eisenhower administration left office. eisenhower was

biden is in. the longtime senator, two-time -- two-term vice-president launched his third attempt for the democratic presidential nomination early this morning in a video that frames 2020 in visceral, emotional terms. >> if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of the

biden is in. the longtime senator, two-time -- two-term vice-president launched his third attempt for the democratic presidential nomination early this morning in a video that frames 2020 in visceral, emotional terms. >> if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of the nation, who we are. i cannot stand by and watch that happen. the core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our democracy, everything that has made america america is at stake. that's why today i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. >> with that long expected announcement, the democratic field now stands at an even 20. while joe biden is not the oldest, that honor belongs to bernie sanders, he has more political experience than the other 19 candidates combined. you heard that right, 19 combined. you have been covering biden for some time. this opening salvo really goes viscer visceral, emotional, for the soul of the nation as he

will it be joe biden? joe biden, any minute now, will officially release a campaign video online. is he not making a speech or anything like that. he is going to put it out there as soon as it is available and we think it is going to be soon available. ainsley: under construction looks like they are making changes. we will bring you that as soon as it drops. steve: i'm being told it has just appeared online. now what we will do is we will take it off the website and we will ingest it in the back room. the boiler room of the fox news channel and we should have it by the conclusion of this segment. ed: he tweeted. ainsley: what did he say? ed: fox business half hour ago waiting for announcement. you could have used that any point the last couple months. we have been waiting and waiting. steve: here's the point. when you see the video something that will be missing from it, you will not see barack obama sitting right next to him saying, you he no, i endorse him. because a source who has talked to barack obama, who was the president as joe biden was vice president said, quote: he is n

kate benningfield with the biden campaign, finally the biden campaign. it's not just likely or expected. >> thanks for having me. >>> and we're going to talk about the risks and rewards of being the front-runner in a crowded field, plus bernie sanders getting booed and heckled at an event featuring minority women. >>> also, why the fbi is raiding the home of baltimore's mayor, and we have some breaking news. north korea present the u.s. was a $2 million bill for the care of otto warmbier. hear what the president did. ♪ pardon the interruption but this is big! now at t-mobile buy any samsung galaxy s10 and get a galaxy s10e free! with a $500,000 life insurance policy. how much do you think it cost him? $100 a month? $75? $50? actually, duncan got his $500,000 for under $28 a month. less than a dollar a day. his secret? selectquote. in just minutes, a selectquote agent will comparison shop nearly a dozen highly-rated life insurance companies, and give you a choice of your five best rates. duncan's wife cassie got a $750,000 policy for under $23 a month.

biden now a 26 point advantage. and that is not bernie sanders in second place in this quinnipiac poll. that is elizabeth warren moving in to second. obviously a very distant second, but this is her best showing in a poll in some time. but biden up close to 40%. and this is not the only poll showing a result like this. this morning the morning consult weekly tracker, they have biden at 36%. 14 point advantage over sanders. there is also this from cnn, out this morning, biden 39%, a 24 point advantage over bernie sanders. so again, three polls coming out in the space of about 12 hours here. all of them have biden now into the high 30s, approaching 40%. there have been all these comparisons made, they say biden the week frontrunner, is he jeb bush from 2016, mitt romney from 2012, is he john kerry. kerry did win the nomination. romney did win the nomination. but none of those three names i mentioned at this point in their campaign or for nts nos afterwards were anywhere near 40%. so there was some who sort of had a fe

biden says there's no place for me in this family and i have to go back to joe biden 1988 candidate in the 98d8 doesn't sit well with obama and the other people in the party. >> laura: i want to get your thoughts on this. why is trump still having to fight forces within his own party? i've been thinking a lot about this. three examples. over the weekend senate finance committee chair chuck grassley issued this threat. he said if these terrorists aren't -- tariffs aren't liftedt for nafta is dead. there's no place to debate usmca with the tariffs in place. then the reaction to the mueller report, saying that he is sickened. dishonesty, misdirection, bob loblaw. don't forget mike lee, 1 of 1 dozen g.o.p. senators who voted against trump's national emergency decoration of the border. victor, these are trump's friends in a critical point in juncture for the country. what's going on? >> trump didn't say he was going to drain the democratic swamp. he said the swamp. that means republicans too. if he recalibrated republican messages he did in 2016 to restore industry and jobs to the interior

the joe biden advisers. you know, there's nothing that could make joe biden's argument more than us talking about donald trump, via his twitter feed. >> i think his twitter feed is the best window into him. donald trump sending four tweets about joe biden. joe biden couldn't have scripted that better. you couldn't have written those tweets better to make the, i'm the guy he's obsessed with, i'm the guy that can beat him. >> let's see what he has to say tomorrow. he's leaving pennsylvania, heading to iowa, another very important state. we'll see what his message is there. there's more news we're following right now. democratic lawmakers haare eage to grill the attorney general william barr over his handling of the mueller report. but barr's scheduled hearing before the house judiciary committee may be in jeopardy right now as he wrangles with the committee chairman jerry nadler over the terms of his testimony let's go to our congressional correspondent, sunlen serfaty. tell us about this disagreement. >> this

joe biden has come out. he's being asked questions. >> going on the shows and you'll hear a lot about it. >> do you have a message for the rest of the world? >> yes. america is coming back like we used to be. ethical, straight, telling the truth, supporting our allies. all of those good things. >> how you doing? good to see you. >> president too. >> where did you go? mouse, i'll catch you later. >> houw's your family? >> everybody's forit. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. >> thank you. >> we love you. >> i so much. >> nice to see you. nice to see you. tell joe i said hello. >> i will, sir. >> by the way, he was so good. >> we love him, too. >> thank you. see you guys. >> joe biden with a reference, of course to his late son bo biden, who died of brain cancer and that, of course, was the compelling narrative of his family's decision not to run last time around. kelly o'donnell, i'm sorry that kelly isn't there, i wanted to congratulate kelly on 25 years with nbc news, i know she had to run to another assi

so here we have joe biden. that's one of his greatest strengths. let biden be biden. he has an incredible connection with people. you saw it on "the view". he talked about his son telling him, hey, before he passed away, i don't want you -- me to stand in the way of your public service. come out there and come out fighting. that could have changed. if he had gotten in in 2016, that could have changed the dynamic in the race. right now i'm saying people are sick of political correctness. we're seeing that nationwide. he needs to run in the democratic primary. he does need to be sensitive to the race. his video -- he needs to also remember that his greatest strength is his connection with people. and his ability to come out fighting. >> you said it. authenticity reigns supreme. susan, thank you so much for coming on on your piece. i appreciate it. we are learning the trump administration did agree to reimburse north korea. 20 2 -- 2 million. here's what the man sent to north korea to bring warmbier home. this is what he told cnn this morning. >> as soon as the north kor

my name is joe biden and i am joe biden's husband. that's how i'm known back home. that's how i'm known most places. thank you, bernice. before i begin, i want to take a moment, quite frankly, to reflect on something that happened here in the state not long ago. as a matter of fact, very recently. and reflect on the anti-semitic attack that took place this weekend in a poway synagogue in california. one dead, three injured. but folks, we saw hate in charlottesville. swe saw it again in pittsburgh at the tree of luf synagogue, the attack was the deadliest in american history on a jewish community. and we're reminded again that we are in a battle. we are in a battle for america's soul. i really believe that. and we have to restore it. so, folks, i want to thank rich fitzgerald, the county executive, the allegheny county executive for being here and mayor, mayor nezby, city of duquesne, is here as well. you're here somewhere, mayor. i got to see it. and international firefighters' general president and my friend for a long, long time, one of the guys that in the unions

joe biden is on the side of credit card companies. >> bernie sanders sent fundraising e-mails attacking biden for launching his fund with a fundraiser in the home of a corporate lobbyist. >> biden was in philadelphia for the first big donor event. he lamented the idea that the way to gain power and control is to split the nation, today biden will be on the view. for the next few weeks he'll campaign in florida, nevada, iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. i should have said nevada. people hate that. his big 2020 kickoff rally is set for philadelphia, my hometown, on may 18th. >>> democrats on the house oversight committee threatening jail time for white house officials who defy congressional inquiries or subpoenas. three officials have refused to comply with the request to testify about the census, immigration policy and security efforts. part of a wider effort to stone wall with the president's blessing. house democrats don't plan to put up with it. >> if a subpoena is issued and you're told

biden: i didn't say progressive. my whole career i wish i had been labeled as a moderate the seven times i ran. i have never been labeled as a moderate. of all aecord traditional organizations, i have never walked away from them. i am not sure when everybody came out and said they are for gay marriage and talked about a lot of the things i talked about, but my point is, the definition of progressive noise to be changing. do you believe in, whatever? i was talking about, up until this last time around, the traditional -- whether or not you were a liberal, was whether or not what was your position on race, women, lgbt communities, civil liberties -- i stuck my record on those things against anybody who has ever run and is running now or who will run. let me say one last thing. here is the deal. if you look at all the polling data and look at the actual results, the party has not moved to whatever characterization you just made. thefact of the matter is, vast majority of the members of the democratic party are still lib

president trump of about that came after biden's inhales mitt do you think donald trump takes biden's candidacy seriously is he afraid of by. he definitely takes it seriously there are candidates who have announced their tennesse for president and the president hasn't tweeted anything he hasn't given them the time of day. you know bite him is someone that trump has been talking about for months last year he said it would be a dream if biden got into the race because he considers biden someone he doesn't think can wed a liason joe biden has run for president before and not made it trump has said that he wants to challenge biden and so you can expect to see trump weighing in on anything that biden says and does going forward and we know that joe biden was vice president for brought obama for but eight years said when obama left office in two thousand and six he had a depressive approval rating of fifty nine percent yet biden is not taking advantage of that positive energy take a listen to what he said about that today. if you are the best choice for the democrats in two thousand and twe

stay close to a camera in case we have more breaking biden news. i want to thank neera tanden, bob costa. good to see both of you. >>> we have nbc news exclusive reporting breaking right now on this show. acting defense secretary patrick shanahan and the investigation that seems to have been delaying his formal nomination to that position. let me bring in nbc pentagon reporter courtney kuby who joins us. what are you hearing? >> we first heard about this about a month ago in march when there were allegations made by a non-profit group, activist group in d.c. that secretary shanahan had been pressuring pentagon leadership, military leadership to support boeing. of course, shanahan was a three-decade career official at boeing before he came to the pentagon in 2017. the allegations made their way into the media. there were news reports about it. the ig opened an investigation. what we've learned today, hallie, is based off of part of this ig investigation that we obtained a copy of, the first allegation against acting secretary shanahan was actually l

president trump welcomes biden to the race while insulting both biden and his rivals. in almost two decades after being officially eradicated, measles is back in the u.s. this is "special report." ♪ good evening. i'm chris wallace in for bret baier. joe biden says america is in a battle for its soul. tonight he is the 20th democrat to announce a bid to replace the person, president trump. but before he can take on the president, biden must win over enough democrats to get the nomination and there are already indications that won't be easy. correspondent peter doocy starts us off from philadelphia. >> joe biden started today first and primary polls but he also started his day last in primary fund-raising. so to catch up he's not going to be one of those democrats that keeps lobbyists at arm's length because a few minutes from right now, he will attend a fund-raiser hosted by the head lobbyist for nbc's parent company, comcast. the motorcade is gone and so is the support. >> if you are the best choice for democrats in 2,020, why didn't president obama endorse you? >> i

it's joe biden. we won't make any. >> it will surprise you about when kenny rogers sang about the gambler he was not thinking of donald trump. donald trump has the worst poker face. he was talking about joe biden being in and he understands this year will be all about pennsylvania, pennsylvania, pennsylvania, and he has drawn the worst card in joe biden if he wants to went pennsylvania. >> well, joe, talking about a poker face, it's really hard to maintain a poke are face with your competition when tweet out exactly what you think. i found it very telling that president trump was -- he was definitely unnerved by the union support that joe biden enlisted yesterday and was ripping into union leadership as taking money from the rank and file and he still maintains his support. but i thought that that shows that joe biden has definitely gotten under his skin and that the way joe biden is going about attacking him, not directly head on but references the lies and the lack of moral character and definitely

later, biden still on trump's mind. in a late night interview with fox news >> i think when you look at joe, i have known joe over the years. he's not the brightest lightbulb in the group. he's a pretty sleepy guy. >> reporter: within hours of being in the race biden's past is exposing vulnerabilities including his handling of anita hill's testimony during the clarence thomas confirmation hearings. >> to this day i regret i couldn't come up with a way to get her the kind of hearings she deserved. he recently reached out to hill >> it was a private discussion. they have spoken. >> reporter: hill telling "new york times" i cannot be satisfied by saying i'm sorry for what happened to you. i will be satisfied when there is real change and real accountability. with a late start to the race biden had a fundraiser at the home of a media executive in philadelphia. now to how much biden raised in the first 24 hours and he'll have his first interview on "the view." monday, his first campaign event in pittsburgh. it will be a busy

so joe biden brings that to the stage. and now as a republican, lifelong, obviously, i haven't always agreed with joe biden on things, but i think if he has what it takes to beat trump in those areas where people like me can find a political home backing him, just solely to get trump out of there. >> and obviously, there's a lot of questions coming from the left, especially we heard today, questions about how he handled the anita hill/clarence thomas hearings. and also, whether he gets too touchy/feely with people. do you think he handled that okay? >> i think it's a work in progress. and makes me wonder, what has he been doing? why isn't there slightly a sharper answer to that. >> we knew these questions were coming. >> for sure. joy behar on "the view" was basically leading him to water there. to say, why not say, "i'm sorry" for. instead of speaking in past tense, i'm sorry for what happened. >> mistakes have been made. >> exactly! but he didn't drink. he believes that he did not do anything intentional here. so i think

they know that about vice president biden. they see that in vice president biden. and it's just so authentic. which is part of the value of the firefighters endorsement this morning. these folks are the real deal, right? they, they cannot fake their job. they cannot not show up. the fact that they have along with biden this early, first union to do so, is really an extraordinary compliment to the campaign and the cause that he's running for. >> mr. steele, what does so authentic mean to you? many trump voters consider him keeping it real and super authentic while the "washington post" fact checkers say he crossed this threshold of telling 10,000 lies. >> in terms of president trump? look, that's one aspect of trump and what folks do is they compartmentalize quite honestly. they set that aside. that is part of the showmanship. the bragbragand joe biden repres the biggest credible threat to this president. trump was able to go into those neighborhoods and those working class places around the country and draw in democrats, republicans and cross section of voters and

for biden, that was valuable. but the headline was his headline treating women. >> how'd he do on "the view"? >> in terms of the anita hill portion of it, i spoke to some democrats on this. and he essentially said, he's got to fix the anita hill thing and fix it fast. if you listen to joe biden, he's been in the same place really for years in terms of talking about anita hill. it went sort of from, she's owed an apology, he finally picked up the phone 28 years later and called her and said, he's sorry for what happened to her. he's still not able to take any responsibility for his role in that. critics at the time, critics now essentially say, he could have done more. he could have called corroborating witnesses. he could have called expert witnesses. he could have controlled the stone a little bit more. they basically say he was run over by the gop, who wanted to control it a bit more, even though he was the chairman. so he is going to have to fix it. i think the image of anita hill, a black woman, and remember,

does that hurt biden more than it helps him? >> well, he does have a long history that includes being the vice president for 8 years, he has name recognition that no other democrat out there has. that's going to benefit him in the primary but, again, i think it's going to be a tough road to hoe on an incumbent president. cheryl: yeah, robin, i know we have you back, it's about the money, right? there's a report that on conference call last night joe biden actually talked about the issue of fundraising and he said the money is important, we will be judged by what we can do in first 24 hours, first week. matters because beto o'rourke pulled more than $6 million in first 24 hours, robin, how crucial is for booeden -- biden? >> it's absolutely necessary. but i'm more concerned about whether or not he can energize the youth vote because that's going to be most -- it's going to be completely dependent upon that, in 2016, 40.9% of voters, can joe biden deliver a vote to get people to polls? lauren: you don't think he can build on that

. >> i have been bullish on biden. i watched his performance on "the view" it's anemic, as friendly as an audience you can get. he talks about in the future, we will be traveling and flying cars, kids, it's no why i want to be president. i watched mayor pete, other candidates, they're inspirational, better with folks, the time may have passed biden by. >> you heard congressman seth moulton say he thinks joe biden owes anita hill and the american people an apology for how he ran the judiciary hearings in 1991. >> i think that's obvious, though. >> back to wide zbln exactly. to most people it's obvious. the fact that he isn't willing to do it first of all, it's not that he didn't prepare for it. he knew it was coming. he made a decision. this was how he was going to handle it and apparently only spoke to hill because barbara boxer said, you need to do something about this. so it's a problem -- it's a problem -- it's a problem for me. i'm say that much. i'll say it before, people affected by that as a lot of women were. h

biden: my name -- [cheering and applause] mr. biden: thank you. my name is joe biden and i am jill biden's husband. [laughter] mr. biden: that's how i'm known back home. that's how i'm known most places. thank you. before i begin, i want to take a moment, quite friendly, to reflect on something that happened here in the state not long ago. as a matter of fact, very recently. reflect on the anti-semitic attack that took place this weekend in poway synagogue in california. one dead, three injured. but, folks, we saw hate in charlottesville, we saw it again in pittsburgh at the tree of life synagogue in the attack of the deadliest in american history on a jewish community. and we're reminded again that we are in a battle. we are in a battle for america's soul. >> yes we are. mr. biden: i really believe that. and we have to restore it. [applause] mr. biden: so, folks, i want to thank rich fitzgerald, the county executive, for being here and mayor nezby, city of ducane is here as well. you are here somewhere. [applause] mr. biden: international firefig

biden needs to do that same thing. stay tuned tomorrow to see how much money he collected in that first -- how much money he brought in the first 24 hours. >> paul -- sorry, go ahead, gary. >> this is gary. i'm sorry, liz. that ad, that first ad, that first impression ad that they ran today, i thought i was watching an ad about venezuela or walking into a haunted house. it was so dark and negative. what was the thought behind that? and is that a mistake, or is just the one off and they will move forward with something a little bit more positive? >> you know, there was a debate within the biden campaign, my sources tell me, about which video to use. i think they had two duelling videos. this one -- there was some talk at one time that joe biden would be going to charlottesville, virginia, the site of the 2017 clashes between ultra white nationalists and those opposing them. we all remember what the president said at that time that there were good people on both sides. there was some thought that joe biden would go there

joe biden. the president predicting he will beat the former vp easily. it comes as new reporting suggests perhaps the opposite that the former vp is the democrat that the president is most concerned about come 2020. as for biden, we're waiting on the campaign to tell us how much campaign cash they brought in during the first 24 hours. first phone call two decades in the making between joe biden and anita hill. why she is saying it wasn't enough. joining us now, mike one of just four reporters inside a biden fund-raiser last night and spokesperson for a progressive group who announced opposition to biden's presidency come 2020 and also with us alexia and carol lee. we start with you on all things related to biden. you were in the room for the fund-raiser and biden talked about the fund-raiser with anita hill. >> it was interesting that the campaign itself did release the fact that they spoke at all. it was without any sense of timing or what the nature of the call was announcing that he had spoke

and biden's miscalculations. former vice president joe biden gives a rousing speech that could set the stage for a 2020 campaign. but then stumble again when he seemingly makes light of the controversy over his past unwanted contact. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. >>> breaking news. president trump's outside lawyers havef e president's tax returns, from the democratic chairman to the powerful house, ways, and means committee. white house officials are preparing for battle, warning they'll take the fight to the supreme court. the opening skirmish in that fight is playing out as president trump visits the border with mexico and warns would-be migrants, and i'm quoting him now, our country is full. after a week of threatening mexico, then climbing down from those threats, the president then headed to look at a section of the border barrier. he calls it a new wall, but it's more of a fence and a replacement for what already existed there. >>> i'll speak with congressman hakeem jeffries of the judicia

know why did biden decide to join the race is he joining kind of late. well brendan his video announcement today he said that the american values will be at stake and that will be the reason why he's running now he also said that the crucial moment when he decided to run was back in two thousand and seventeen when at a far right protest in a child's villa a counter a demonstrator counter protester died and donald trump at the time refused to condemn these neo nazi protesters joe biden really focused his video announcement on these events and said that was the moment when he decided to run to avoid another term of donald trump literally but of course there is more behind than that . joe biden has been dubbed like something like the eternal candidate for all four decades almost she ran in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight she ran again in two thousand and. twenty sixteen but then made way for hillary clinton this time around will be different though because he was already in paul's came out as the most popular of all candidates even before officially

by the way, joe biden included. the problem biden will have is, these photos are everywhere. there is evidence of him being a little creepy. it's all over the place. that will hurt him. >> laura: chris, during the kavanaugh confirmation hearing, joe biden said christine blase ford should be given the benefit of the doubt 30 years later. this is five years later in the case of miss lapos, ten years later. so all is fair in love and politics, i guess. >> politics ain't bean bags. if you want to be president, you have to go through fire to get there. if joe biden wants to be president, he's going to have to go through fire. yeah, there are a lot of things out there that show him being a close talker, a little touchy feely. something that was totally acceptable at one point and today is probably not. women are saying they might have felt uncomfortable around him and should be believed. nobody is accusing him of actually sexually assaulting anybody -- >> sean: wait a second, chris. they should be believed. i have a real problem with this whole my truth thing. any time someone says

talk about that moment. >> joe biden has a new name for the campaign, obama biden. in the last few days i was interested in whether he would weigh in. he hasn't with any other candidate entering the field. the fact they put out a statement at all reminding everyone that in the act of selecting somebody to run as your running mate is saying this person is qualified to be president, to talk about the close personal relationship they have is not an endorsement but a signal to democratic voters that i have his back. joe biden may not have said to the former president i don't want your endorsement but i don't think he would have asked for an endorsement knowing that the president was probably not going to offer it anyway, that he knows what the president'sed a -- advisors said were true. he benefits from the tough 2008 primary against clinton. it made him a better candidate and president. there is that element of needing to prove it to the voters to the country that you can go through the grind of this campaign, it will make you better for it. >> alexi, joe biden has liv

obviously younger than joe biden. right now the energy is for the candidates that are generation younger than joe biden. so of course they've been no surprise attracted to some of those candidates. so sure, he's going to get some of those people that very much see themselves as obama-biden people. a lot of them have gone other places. you know, i don't know that that is that big of a deal. we've had so much speculation about biden up to this point. like now the race starts. i'll say that i'm someone that was not really sure how -- i guess i'm still not sure how it's going to go for him. i do believe that his announcement video was pitch perfect. >> neil: really? >> absolutely. >> neil: i thought it was a debby downer. >> no. i thought it showed a ton of gravitas, which we know he has. but yeah, i really thought -- >> neil: i just thought a little dark. that's all. >> well, as compared to donald trump? i don't know. yeah -- >> it was definitely dark. >> i think it will go well for him. >> neil: you founded dark, nick.