chris coons why biden is his choice. what do you think sets joe biden apart from the other 22 candidates? >> i'm a democrat. i want to see our party unite. i want to be behind someone that will unite behind joe. we don't just need a united democratic party, a united country. nobody in the senate, outside the senate is better connected than joe biden. they know him and trust him. that's another thing we need. at the core, he is a decent, good, human being as well. >> do you believe that you and senator coons represent the establishment of the democratic wing? when there are so many progressive dems saying it's their turn, what do you say to them? >> it's big. if you look at the polling data, among the people who identify as democrats, a number of folks are progressive. a lot of people think of themselves as moderates. there's a surprising number of folks that say i'm conservative. joe is somebody who can appeal to all those elements. we need somebody, i mentioned earlier, that will unite the party. really, we have a president who sees the job as a divider, somebody who builds w

complicated. it's interesting to watch the rise of joe biden. and to see bernie sanders on what to say taking but losing the support.in fact more supporters of bernie sanders actually happy with joe biden, they focused on who can take down donald trump what is the number one issue for democratic voters. bernie sanders is out there with his democratic socialism which he has not been able to adequately explain to people. and with what's going on in venezuela it's a persuasive argument to say capitalism versus socialism. gerry: other republicans going to be able to frame what they are standing for, socialism? >> there's a big generational divide on this question. on one hand what democrats are calling for is expansion of government, policies that would lead to redistribution of wealth, things that sort of head in that direction but they're not calling for government to seize production across economy. sometimes republican will make the case that democrats are proposing the path to venezuela. democrats say no, we are proposing the path to denmark. i think somewhere in between is really what we ar

noon in the east, 12 in the west, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." joe biden's big pitch. where he stands in the poll r polls. >>> migrant detainees, where they are and being flown to another state. >>> and bill barr facing questions about who he serves, the president or the public? >>> plus, omarosa, she's joining me to talk about equal pay and whether new abortion laws could backfire on the gop. >>> we begin with the battle for 2020, certainly a crowded day on the campaign trail. got 11 candidates, hold something to dozen events across several different states. joe biden will be keeping up momentum as the front-runner of this day, leading the field 35% in the new fox poll. now even though he announced his presidential run a few weeks ago, biden is comparing for the official campaign kickoff rally where you see it in philadelphia. in just about an hour the former vice president will fully lay out the final phase of his campaign rollout as he calls to unify the country. we're going to the big rally there and we have nbc's garrett haake, and bernie sanders is live in orangeburg, sou

trump is stepping up his attacks on former vp joe biden which is receiving criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. >>> severe weather striking the plains and the midwest. the national weather service confirms a large and dangerous tornado touched down near daytona, ohio. meteorologist bill karins will have the latest in just a couple of minutes. >>> good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, may 28th. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc white house correspondent jeff bennett. we start with president trump on his way back to washington this morning. after spending the memorial day weekend in japan. there he met with u.s. troops and also down played the recent missile test by north korea. even praised that country's leader for the move. during the course of his visit, trump suggested that he was not personally bothered by the short range missile test carried out by pyongyang earlier this month. in a tweet on saturday the president wrote this, north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others but not me. i have confidence that chairman kim

trump and joe biden is going into overdrive. the commander-in-chief now openly questioning the intelligence of the former vp. but some said thepresident has go so far so should he backoff us an offense against the current democratic 2020 front runner ?the latest firefight started last week when the north korean state media called joe biden a fool. and an imbecile while on his weekend trip to japan the president commented on the jobs via twitter writing quote - north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others but not me. have confidence that chairman kim will keep his promise to me and also smiled when he called a swamp man joe biden a low iq individual and worse, perhaps it is sending me a signal. and during a news conference after the president went one step further. watch. >> kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. he probably is based on his record. i think i agree with him on that. kennedy: but that rub some republicans the wrong way. including illinois congressman, adam can singer who tweeted it is morally we

watters. joe biden splendors per the subject of tonight waters words joe biden epic typical politician.>> we ever run for political office again? >> no, no. >> of course he goes back on his word like others but in his first major campaign event only 600 people showed up. here's a little side-by-side of joe's audience. and president trump's audience from last week. 600 and the audience. it seems generous by the repeated present both the attendance record in green bay last week. around 12,000 full capacity people waiting outside around the block. no one is driving hours and hours to hear joe biden speak. here's why. the man can barely string a sentence together. >> the anti-semitic attack that took place this weekend in -- the country wasn't built by wall street bankers, ceos and hedge fund managers. the u.s. took cuts in the pensions to get gm working. and the same -- i regret to think how we define what would constitute as a successful economy. they see the workers as a means to an end. not the end -- in themselves. much more in research to conquer devastating diseases like cancer and

bipartisan criticism for siding with north korea's dictator during his trip to japan, as joe biden's campaign says the president's attacks are underneath the dignity of the office. and bribes and extortion. as president trump praises kim jong-un, a u.s. human rights report paints a grim picture of suffering under north korea's corrupt regime where bribes and extortion are the price for survival. mia i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news. millions of americans tonight are bracing for severe weather or picking up the pieces from devastating storms. in western ohio, powerful tornadoes destroyed dozens of homes, killing at least one person. more than 50 tornadoes were reported in eight states overnight. in arkansas and oklahoma, there's historic flooding with evacuations and water rescues and more bad weather expected. meantime, president trump may be beginning to feel the heat. he's back at the white house facing heavy criticism after siding with north korea's dictator during his visit to japan. the president excused kim jong-un's lates

the new york times saying joe biden, you are wrong, on a lot of things about the trump policies including the tax cuts. you won't believe which country joe biden is saying is not a threat to america. how one of joe biden's big fund-raisers is a law firm tries to bust unions. critics saying he's heavy on emotion, so will the real joe biden please stand up? all of this is unfolding. a new congressional budget office study says yes, the democrats your medicare for all is really expensive. it would wipe out government spending on most all other programs and the cbo also says yes, the government wait time to see your doctor would be much much longer. thank you for joining us. i'm elizabeth mcdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. okay. here's what's going on with william barr. the democrats are trying to side line william barr, get him out of the way from future decisions about investigating president trump involving the mueller report. this as senate democrats are putting the brakes on trump impeachment talk. one senior democrat saying it is close to impossible to get the 20 r

, thank you. [ crowd chanting ] >> thank you. thank you. >> folks, thank you, jill. i'm joe biden and i'm jill's husband. y'all think i'm kidding. that's how i'm identified. everyone knows jill is a philadelphia girl. she loves this city. i do too. but to paraphrase the poet james joyce, i have to say this folks, because i'm near my state, when i die, delaware will be written on my heart. i love philly. look, i'm mildly prejudice but i think she made a great, great second lady and she's going to make one heck of a first lady. [ cheering and applause ] folks, in the past few weeks i've been all across america. pittsburgh, iowa, south carolina, nevada, california, new hampshire, and today philadelphia. this campaign is just getting started. and i promise you this, no one, no one is going to work longer, no one is going to campaign harder to win your hearts, your trust and your support than the son of catherine eugene from scranton, pennsylvania. joseph r. biden jr. from delaware. so those who are listening, if you want to be part of your campaign, pick up your phones. pick up your phone

warheading into an election year. plus, joe biden makes his first 2020 campaign stop in new hampshire this hour. as the front-runner and the president refuses to cooperate with congressional investigations says it's the democrats who are causing a constitutional crisis. his attorney general calls it something different. >> that's a nicer reception than i get on capitol hill obviously. i've been attorney general now for less than three months, and i haven't been able to get out of washington, but once i deal with this beltway silliness -- [ applause ] "you'll be seeing me. >> we begin the hour with world markets in turmoil. investors panicking as the trade war between china and the united states escalates yet again today. take a look at the big board of the right now the dow down nearly 580 points right there. that's more than 2%. just minutes before today's opening bell, china announced it will raise tariffs on $60 billion worth of u.s. goods. those new tariff rates go into effect on june 1. it's the latest tit for tat, that after president trump increased tariffs on chinese goods last wee

instead of with the fellow american former vice president joe biden. >> kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. he probably is, based on his record. i think i agree with him on that. >> in response, vice president joe biden acted more presidential than the president by waiting until donald trump returned to the u.s. just a few hours ago to weigh in. he issued this statement through a campaign spokeswoman, quote, the president's comments are beneath the dignity of the office. to be on foreign soil, on memorial day, and to side repeated with a murderous dictator against a fellow american and former vice president speaks for itself. and it's part of a pattern of embracing autocrats at the expense of our institutions, whether taking putin's word at face value in helsinki or exchanging love letters with kim jong-un. trump's performance over the weekend turned the american presidency into an international embarrassment on the world stage. "new york times" describes the outing this way, quote, throughout his visit, though, mr. trump acted like a man who could never be

-un's unflattering assessment of democratic presidential candidate joe biden. philippe ryan is former assistant deputy secretary of state and nbc reporter hallie jackson. hallie, there has been some criticism on the president's comments on north korea and joe biden specifically. what more can you tell us about th that? >> reporter: craig, the criticism is coming from both side of the aisle for president trump, specifically on the comments he made first in tweet form and then in spoken between form at a news conference next to prime minister shinzo abe that essentially kim jong-un was correct when he insulted former vice president joe biden. president trump was pressed about this by my colleague in the white house, jeff mason, about how the president could feel comfortable or appropriate siding with the north korean dictator over an american citizen, a former american vice president. president trump said he believed kim jong-un's attack on biden were correct. this shows how the president has his eye on domestic politics even as he's dealing with thorny foreign affairs issues in japan.

man, joe biden. there's even a cameo by rudolph giuliani. >> yeah, it's almost two separate stories. we have joe biden as vice president having intervened to sort of force the firing of a ukrainian prosecutor who happened to have an open case looking into a company, ukrainian gas company, that was employing joe biden's son. joe biden's son, hunter biden, was on the board of. potential conflict of interest i think joe biden will have to answer for, particularly as he's casting himself as a statesman. and then on the other side you have rudy giuliani and allies of the president actually soliciting information from ukrainians that could be damaging to joe biden and also could be used to undermine the origins of parts of the special counsel, what became the special counsel investigation, so you have rudy giuliani really trying to capitalize on this in a way that could redound to donald trump's benefit. >> to our viewers, the request remains the same. look for ken vogel's byline as always, especially tonight. to ken vogel, our thanks, along with berit berger, matt miller, jeremy bash. ou

ukraine to weigh in on investigations involving hillary clinton and joe biden, democrats in the media say sounds like collusion with a foreign power. rudy giuliani is here to explain what he is up to in a fox news at night exclusive, the president gets tough on china, new tariffs kicked in and the move will ultimately hurt americans. we will ask an expert on china and advisor to the president what he thinks. you have heard rumors that the white house is worried about the president having to run against joe biden in the rustbelt. why does it seem the president is embracing him as the democrats nominee? i am shannon bream in washington, the growing backlash over giuliani's announcement he is heading to ukraine. it looks like the enlisting of the help of a foreign power to get the president elected. we will talk live to rudy giuliani in minutes but david hunt is here to fill you in on the controversy. >> rudy giuliani is opening his play book for all to see. he is encouraging ukraine to get involved in issues that help is quiet and friends, the president of the united states and calling

president joe biden. think avengers game. >> joe biden off to blockbuster start today. were -- we are talking about joe biden, now up in the field. >> why many pundits completely and totally wrong about the former vice president, the new k times. plus media mystery 400 as the new jeffrey champion chatters all record. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ >> right before senate committee was going to bill attorney general bill barr calculated leak to washington post, letter of complaint that bob mueller had to leave barr in march, 4-page summary has created public confusion and undermined confidence because it didn't fully capture probe. >> i called bob and said, what's the issue here, i asked him if he was suggesting that the march 24th letter was inaccurate and he said no but that the press reports had been inaccurate and that the press was reading too much into it. >> and it has only gotten hotter, holly, senior editor. district media group and former television producer and caprie cafaro. >> how did we get to the point where some were saying he should be charged, run out of

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joining us! ( cheers and applause ) also on tonight's show, why black people love joe biden, a car crashes cory booker's beach and the pope says snitches get stitches. let's catch up on today's headlines. first up, if you were planning a vacation to venezuela this week, i hope you've got trip insurance. >> breaking news out of venezuela where an attempted coup is underway there. you heard that right. opposition leader juan guaido calling for the military to oust sitting president nicholas maduro. in an early morning video guaido kaying "the moment is now" calling for his support torse take to the streets, and many answering that call. >> trevor: that's right. as we speak, venezuela is in the throws of an attempted coup. after five years of repression and economic crisis, the country has just finally reached a tipple point. it's either that or everyone was just super inspired by watching "avengers: endgame" and "game of thrones" in the same weekend and they're, like, we can do it! ( laughter ) i say it's a coup, but according to john bolton, president trump's national security advis

, praised kim jong-un for attacking who could be a rival, joe biden. that's raising some eyebrows, as well. >> that was charming. hallie jackson in tokyo. good to see you. >>> joining me now, julia manchester with "the hill." after a golf game with abe, the president tweeted this. numerous officials told me that the democrats would rather see the united states fail than to see me or the republican party succeed, death wish. even on foreign soil, politics never stops for this president. >> it doesn't stop, alex. this underscores how much 2020 is on the president's mind right now and how much he's thinking about joe biden. i think president trump is obviously keeping a very close eye on the biden campaign. and it seems, in a way, biden is coming under his skin. it's remarkable that the president is on foreign soil, amid these nuclear -- these missile tests from north korea. he's in japan, not too far from north korea. and he's negotiating on trade. he is still talking about 2020. it's remarkable to see where the president's head is, in terms of joe biden. >> doesn't talking about joe biden e

is the fight of our lives. >>> could joe biden have defeated donald trump. >> oh, i don't know. >> this is the great what-if. >> i say to democrats and republicans and independents alike, don't sell this country short, folks. >> joe biden has spent a lifetime as a political power player. >> he just had encyclopedic knowledge of foreign policy. >> one thing i know about joe biden, this is a guy i would take on a long patrol. >> he celebrated triumphs. >> i accept your nomination to run and serve with barack obama! >> weathered setbacks. >> you were on the verge of dying, weren't you? >> the hearings caused an incredible backlash. >> and endured devastating personal tragedies. >> we can always get another senator but they can't get another father. >> you cannot lose a child and three months later get on the campaign trail. >> this was a tough one. he said beau was his soul. >> he has stepped off the political stage but doesn't hold back when it comes to an unconventional president. >> we are in the battle for this nation. >> i don't think the tombing was ever right for joe biden,

market. that having been said, we are one tweet away from a rally. >> leader of the pack, joe biden leads big in a new early state poll built largely on success with black voters and the perception gnat he is the democratic most likely to defeat donald trump. >> biden surge we have been seeing nationally evident in south carolina, as well. among african-american voters, biden doing 20 points better with black voters than bhiet voters. >> don't speak. donald trump goes on the attack against former white house counsel don mcgahn following reports he twice said to trump no to requests to publicly state he did not believe the president obstructed justice. >> good day. where wall street is reeling from the escalating trade war, let's start this monday with the market melt down. it was sparked by the president's twitter feed and china retaliating with $60 billion -- after the president began his morning by pouring more gasoline on this fire with another round of tweets predicting the economic pain he is going to heap on the chinese and claiming there is no reason for the u.s. consumer to pay th

in mind he is 65 miles west of scranton, the hometown of joe biden. he leads by 11 points there. i am martha maccallum and this is "the story." and moments karl rove, geraldo rivera on the state of the 2020 race tonight, but first breaking tonight, tensions with iran are escalating with the foreign minister slamming president trump for his "genocidal talk." he tweeted this yesterday. the president saying if iran wants to fight that will be the official end of iran. never threatened the united states again. strong words from our president. a short time ago, the president said that spirit >> i think they would be making a very big mistake if they did add a thing. if they do something it will be met with great force we have no indication that they will. lindsey graham is fresh off a briefing from the national security advisor and to joints me now. good to see you. let's start right there with what you were told by john bolton that i want to show you what one of your colleagues at about the meeting. >> i was briefed saturday by mike pompeo. this goes back to the decision by the president

keystone state is a bellwether, and following joe biden's big shannon: the keystone state is a bellwether and following joe biden's big event on saturday the president rallying his base in pennsylvania tonight. brian, great to see you. >> 65 miles west of scranton, pennsylvania, the home of joe biden and tonight trump had a message to these blue-collar working-class voters that he is still very guy and not joe biden, message heard loud and clear in biden's backyard, thousands, some waiting since early this morning showed up to hear the president, trump said he was here to encourage voters to support republican candidate fred keller who is fighting in a special election tomorrow, donald trump attacked joe biden, who in the latest poll is ahead of donald trump by 11 points in this pivotal battleground state. >> this guy talks about scranton. i know the places better. he left you for another state and didn't take care of you because he didn't take care of your jobs. he that other countries come in and rip off america. >> reporter: trump emphasized to vote as he kept his promise about rebuild

swampman joe biden a low iq individual and worse. both have said north korea's missile test which landed off japan's shores violated u.n. resolutions. and the president sl's slap at biden while on foreign soil. a member of the senate republican leadership, iowa senator joni ernst. thank you so much. the president is in japan as we speak right across the sea well within striking range of any missile and yet the president says north korea test firing missiles earlier this month did not disturb him. do you find those missiles disturbing? >> i find them very disturbing and certainly wouldn't trust kim jong-un. i think we need to keep our eyes on north korea. i understand the president wants to maintain a relationship with north korea so that we can work with them. however, those strikes are disturbing. >> the fact that the president says they're not while in the region, does it disturb you that that is the president's action or maybe reaction? >> certainly. i think japan does have reason to be concerned and i am concerned as well. we need to see north korea back off of those activities and w

. >>> plus, joe biden kicking off a two-day swing in the critical primary state of new hampshire today. a new poll, and another prit sta primary state showing biden is tracking one key group of voters. crunch time for the rest of the field trying to get a covenant place on the stage for the first democratic debates next month. what it will take to secure the spot, we'll talk with the dnc. >>> we start with a very unhappy market and a white house in re-election mode put on notice by china. there it is right now. you can see the dow other indexes all down after china retaliated over the u.s. tariffs. the dow currently off more than 530 points right now. it started the morning down about 460. china's new tariffs as high as 25% on some goods,'s 5% to 10%, on about $ 0 billi60 billion in. in large part targeting u.s. farmers according to cnbc. here to try to make sense of all of it, a cnbc contributor and chief economic correspondent for politico. and on duty for us from the white house, and hans, start with you. any clue how the white house may respond to this? >> reporter: not yet, craig. still

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supreme court justices? >> reality is whoever is not on the same night as joe biden, will be seen as in the second tier. >> ooh. >> joe biden is the front-runner, the only chance to take a punch at the front-runner is to be on the same stage with him. >> i don't think that is the case, simply because it is random, not like in 2016, you had a main event and then undercard, where you knew the undercard was the undercard because it is random, you could have mary ann williams on. >> harris: who is that >> like a new ag person, she could be on the stage with joe biden. it it gives an opportunity, have you two things happening, one being that if you are the front runner, you have an opportunity to trip. if you are not as well known, you are -- >> harris: probably not going to trip up next to mary ann williamson. no offense to her, but you couldn't tell us who she is and you are the democrats on the cabinet. >> capri: agreed. people in the top tier have opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot, people who are not have an opportunity to rise. >> harris: this is the time and what we lea

that were made and who knew about it, melissa. what did barack obama know about? what did joe biden know about? >> melissa: or you might ask the dnc. >> donna: i know what the dnc knew because we were hacked. i want to know what rich mccall and pauline did. they also had information. republicans researching donald trump. you have 140 contacts with the kremlin. >> matt: now you have jumped the shark. inappropriate contact between team trump and russia and mueller said that is not factually accurate. there was no collusion period. there is no sense spending more time on that. >> donna: there is a lot. >> matt: then you don't think bob bueller's report is accurate. >> donna: if you are 140 contacts -- >> melissa: we are about to get run over by a break but weak detail that the show was going to be sizzling on the other side. don't go away. we'll be right back on "outnumbered." with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. now that you know the truth... are you in good h

-runner, joe biden will hold his campaign kick off rally in philadelphia in just a few hours. biden's campaign will be based there. the former vice president is a pennsylvania native and is hoping to turn his birth state blue. cnn is at the rally location. people are starting to gather there. what might be the message from biden today? >> reporter: well, fred, joe biden's message is going to boil down to unity and how he thinks he can unify the country. we got a look at excerpts from the speech. i want to read you a line from what he is going to say. biden is going to say, if the american people want a president to add to our division, to lead with a clenched fist, closed hand and hard heart to demonize the opponent and hay tresz, they don't need me. they have a president who does just that. biden will say, i am running to offer our country, democratses, republicans and independents a different path. biden's official kick off rally here in philadelphia today wraps up a three-week tour since he became an official candidate. the first event was held in pittsburgh, across the other side

this with voters -- as vice president joe biden advised president barack obama not to go forward with the raid that resulted in the death of 9/11 perpetrator osama bin laden. all that did was remind us that joe biden was vice-freaking-president of the united states, that he disagreed once with barack obama, one of the guys that trump voters supposedly loath. look, it's early, there's a lot of runway for biden to blow it but one thing's for sure, in the immortal words of the bull durham pitcher, he wants to announce with authority. let's bring in van johns. do you want all the shows in are you coming for my show? would you like this hour? >> it's an eight-part series. it will be over soon enough. >> it's great and we're all really happy for you. >> thank you. >> and proud of you. so let's you and i talk like friends. i'm a republican, as you know. >> yes. >> i can't support a number of the democrats' policies, but i want trump gone. >> yes. >> i think he's bad for my party, he's bad for the country, he's bad for our soul. so i am laser focused on identifying the person who is the

holding this rally in pennsylvania as he sets his sights on the rust belt, joe biden is gaining down the mic ground. cohost of the podcast and he is joining us from manchester, new hampshire, which is again another important state. i do want to talk to you about pennsylvania. joe biden beating president trump, sanders beating tromp, warren beating trump and harris tying him. i always think about campaigns like every monday, what is the foreign forward momentum that someone wants to set with intention for the week? president trump kid keeping it off tonight. >> the worse news for donald trump is that hillary clinton will not be the democratic nominee again. he narrowly won in pennsylvania very narrowly in michigan and wisconsin. he's got to win two of the three of those again in order to do it all over. and joe biden obviously is a much better candidate or, at least he is at this point, a much better candidate than donald trump had to face in 2016. not only that but biden is shoving his whole chip stack in on the stage with, putting his campaign headquarters in philadelphia and he doesn't

now. big board to w you why joe biden is not the front-runner of years past. "the 11th hour" starts right now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. i'm steve kornacki in for brian williams. day 834 of the trump administration and just a short time ago, we learned that north korea has fired an unidentified short-range missile from its eastern coast. south korea's joint chiefs of staff say the north's missile was fired from the area on the east coast near wonsan. south korean officials and u.s. authorities are now analyzing the details of that launch. the white house says it is monitoring the situation. meanwhile, president trump is at the center of a new controversy after he talked on the phone with vladimir putin and discussed the mueller report in a conversation that the president says did not include any talk about russia's interference in the 2016 election and the possibility that it might seek to do it all over again in 2020. the white house says the conversation took place this morning and that it went on for over an hour. russia's state-run n

! >> represent the team well and you kind of have a different ratio joe biden now leading in the polls. and when i think about joe biden, think about obama, i think hillary clinton and i think that if he were to be the candidate and the president is certainly making a lot of noise about him, number one, does the president want to run against joe biden? or is he just -- [laughter] >> actually think it really doesn't matter who the candidate is. i think the president is very comfortable with where he stands. 2016, this was a businessman and a television personality who we all knew but we did not know whohow he would do as president. now he's deliverance only promises that he made to the country and it's benefiting the american people. joe biden on the other hand as part of the obama administration. a vice president for barack obama who told people of his home state that he keeps trying to claim pennsylvania that the manufacturing jobs that keep the state running were gone forever, they were overseas and obama said it would take a magic wand to bring them back. guess who brought them back to t

you about 2020. here. we were talking about china. you have joe biden out there saying china is not that big a deal. is that the sort of party line that democrat will pursue. if so, where does that land them or joe biden? >> i don't think it is necessarily democrats, i think you will see tough lines, bouabide en, you know -- to bide in, joe biden has to prove to american people, number one he las to prove he is not compromised by chinese communist party in 2013, on steve hilton show, president trump, asked for the inves investigation. did clinton cash, they drilled down on corruption of clinton apparatus, they did same thing on joe biden, they found in 2013, his son, hunter, unqualified went on a trip with him to china, and stuck around in bank of china, that unlike any other central bank in g20, reports not independent like federal reserve, it reports to the government, they gave this kid, 1 billion dollars and then to a billion 5, someone unqualified to run a private equity hedge fund, 1.5 billion to vist, he invested it i believe in surveillance companies some companies that opre

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lawyer, to get the ukrainians to investigate joe biden for his diplomacy in the ukraine while his son was serving on the board of the largest natural gas producer there. the president told politico on friday it would be appropriate for him to discuss a probe of biden with the attorney general. is it appropriate? >> of course it's not appropriate and what is so shocking to me, i served for many years on a democracy commission in the congress where we would partner with parliaments in emerging countries, emerging democracies, and we would always say when you win an election you don't seek to jail the losing side. here the president of the united states is saying it's perfectly okay for him -- and he has said this before -- to go to the attorney general and get them to open an investigation of his rivals. sadly, this attorney general has turned out to be so political and so partisan and so frankly without integrity, he just might do it. that does add to the sense of crisis, that these democratic norms are being broken down every day. the fact that we're not even done with this investigat

. apparently this president is terrified, terrified of running against joe biden. why else would he, in the middle of a state visit to japan, when any other president would be trying to defend america's interests, why would he attack joe biden with his own tweet calling him low i.q. why would he do that? making matters worse tonight by saying he was being nice to biden by calling him a low i.q. individual instead of a low i.q. idiot. biden himself would say, come on, man. he has too much class to say anything else. there is literally no possibility that anybody could miss the insult in all of this. a gleeful and childish insult against the candidate he seems to fear the most, even though his own aides have, according to the "new york times," pleaded with the president to ignore the former vice president. biden's campaign calls trump's comments beneath the dignity of the office. and they're right. but there is so much more. and i repeat. so much more. and all of this happened while the president was on a state visit to japan, while he was downplaying the fact that north korea has test-fired

joe biden leading. in the race for the twenty twenty democratic presidential nomination evoking memories twenty six. no food. market. leaders. party because of their. policy. a very warm welcome from moscow you are watching our national with me. two pm here on this the ninth of may a special day to mark the seventy fourth anniversary of the capitulation of nazi germany. world war two known here as the great patriotic war the conflict on the eastern front which lasted just under four years was a battle of attrition but unprecedented for all city and claimed the lives of over twenty five million subjects. well for over twenty years now a military parades have been a key component of the victory day celebrations on red square was in all types of colors this morning here some of the scenes we witnessed on the square. it's very difficult to describe the atmosphere it's it's. electric. tense but this super cheap siteman up excitement just released during the break it felt. like. it turns out. they are. could see several. of them on such an iconic. flight. from. the first victory parad