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 orange

>> i thought it was very strong speech for joe biden. he's defining the terms of this debate as that the -- the crisis for this country is division and he is the person that could fix that. i think there is a lot of people who feel that way, who are just sick and tired of this and looking for their -- yearning for normalcy and yearning for optimism and someone who can beat donald trump. so on those measures i thought he did very, very well. and, you know, there was this feeling that when joe biden got in the race this could be -- that would be his top moment and he would go down from there. his launch has exceeded expectations and the number of donors he's got has exceeded expectations and the number of followers and his staffing level is very good. and i think this speech, too, was just another strong moment. his candidacy and front-runner status is for real. long race but it is for real. >> it is a long race. some 200 plus days until the caucus there in iowa. in the meantime, he did mention and i've seen so many of these kickoff speech

introducing joe biden via video here before joe biden takes to the stage here. you know, joe, joe biden does well among women and non-whites. why is it, in your view, that he seems to appeal more to women and non-white voters, more so right now, early on, again, than, say, candidates, you know, cory booker and camikamala harr? >> listen, i think there is a myth that somehow there isn't excitement among joe bivoters a joe biden, whether college educated or non college educated voters. numbers have improved because of that. the confusion that biden has talked about in the excerpts is not being confused about why people are angry. what he's talking about is, let's not confuse anger and fight anger with only anger. why play donald trump's game? again, i think there are a lot of candidates that are -- that deserve attention here. i haven't picked a candidate. the idea that somehow that all of the energy in the party is at the far left is just not supported by the facts. the campaign -- do the campaign for the sake of finding out the answers to the questions, but i th

he's nervous about joe biden. he doesn't want to face joe biden. he knows that head to head polls have joe biden beating him by as much as ten points. he knows that the key to 2020 is his retaining pennsylvania and he knows that biden will give him a run for the money. that don't mean he's not nervous about others in the field. again, he sees biden on tv, he reacts to biden on tv. if for some reason we have a different frontrunner a week from now, i don't think he'll be fixating on biden, he'll be fixating on whoever is the frontrunner at that time. >> thank you, philippe. hallie jackson, safe travels back to america. >>> historic trial. the first case holding a drug maker responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic that's plaguing this country. that trial beginning right now in oklahoma. should a drug company be held criminally liable for the opioid crisis? we'll dig into that. >>> too many options? why that crowded democratic field of 2020 contenders may come down to a basic rule of retail. ke up! there's a lot that needs to get done today. small

i think joe biden is formidable. if you look at the last two presidential cycles we had a party that had a very large number of candidates, and 2016, you had front runners and folks like jeb bush but i use the term front runner loosely. it sort of fell off by the time the first debate happened and it was kind of trump in the lead from there on. i think the 2012 republican primary provides an interesting comparison. we admit romney and the in the joe biden seat but he hung in there even is a crowded field there was lots of turns, rick santorum, newt gingrich, other people picking up individual states. but mitt romney holding onto his court and slowly but surely growing it as they approach the convention and wound up hanging on. gerry: they say joe biden has been running for president since william mckinley has been present. he's been around a long time. half a century and politics. is it possible that some of the people -- democrats looking for a fresh face, who of the fresh faces is the most plausible? >> are certain

. >> so, how is that being deciphered by joe biden? >> well, frankly, i think it's premature to talk about who might or might not be a running mate for which of the candidates. at this point in the primary process, it's important the american people get a look at the candidates in the field. one of the reasons i think joe biden is well respected is because of how well he has served our public and country and over so many decades. he's someone whose got a record to run on. in the end, i think we'll be asking the question, who will be the best running mate for joe biden. i respect that colleague harris said it's early for us to have that conversation. she might make as good a running mate for vice president as she would for him. that's a great phrase on her part. it's so early in the process. polls will come and go. what matters, as the average american gets to know the other candidates, they will know more deeply why they want joe biden as president. >> senator, put your foreign relations committee hat on. you know, as we look at tensio

biden stands for. >> throughout his political career, joe biden made the rights of women one of his signature issues. >> violence against women is a crime, pure and simple. >> if you want to see joe biden emotional, it is going to be on that issue. >> awe you tapes surfaced today. trump is making crude and vulgar comments about women. >> during the 2016 election biden appears outraged by the secretly recorded remarks made by then candidate trump. >> what he said he did and does is a textbook definition of sexual assault. in march 2019. his own public conduct with women comes into question. >> former nevada assemblywoman accused joe biden of inappropriately touching and kissing her without her consent. >> three more women came forward. to the "washington post." saying he made them uncomfortable in the past. >> he came forward fairly quickly and said i don't believe that i was inappropriate. but throughout my fire life as a politician, i have been extraordinarily affectionate with my constituents and votes. i give handshakes and hugs. that seems to be a relic of his time as a politici

as long as donald trump is talking constantly about joe biden, joe biden looks like the democratic nominee. and that's certainly fine with the biden campaign. obviously, you know, we have a long way to go and the polls in may do not determine the outcome in the convention next summer, much less the iowa caucuses, but i can't believe that the biden campaign isn't thrilled to be constantly attacked by donald trump. that's a badge of honor in the democratic world today. and he's happy to have that. and it deprives oxygen of all of his scores of other candidates. >> you know, gloria, it's been ten days since the last biden campaign public event. he's about to speak right now. is this part of a new strategy to sort of stay on the sideline? >> well, i don't think any candidate should or can have a strategy to stay on the sideline. i think, they believe, the campaign believes that biden has the name recognition he needs, he doesn't have to go out there in the same way that, say, a senator bennett has to go out there and introduce himself to the american public. they're behind in fund-raising. the

listen to uncle joe biden himself back in 1993. talking about the need to dispose of entire swaths of young men. watch. >> unless we do something, about the young people, tens of thousands of them, born out of wedlock without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing, because they literally, they literally have not been socialized. they literally have not had an opportunity we should focus on them now. >> again, does not mean because we created them. that we somehow forgive them or do not take them out of society to protect my family and yours from them. they are beyond the pale many of those people. beyond the pale. and it's a sad commentary on society. we have no choice but to take them out of society. kennedy: wow! certainly harsh and it is not tough to figure out who he wanted to take out of society for good. joe biden has been a series of recent rationalizations about the crime bill that will not take responsibility or make amends. even former president bill clinton has been overtly

especially joe biden, right? but clearly he is in taking that advice, he tweeted about biden five times they peered wisely hitting such a nerve? jesse: take it from me, he is not hitting enter. i know this, i spoke to him about it. donald trump is not scared of joe biden. he would love to run against him. he said it himself. >> biden seems to have lead, i'd be very happy if it were -- sleepy joe. i think he did a bad job. you think that he is beatable? >> i just don't think you'd be a very good candidate. jesse: besides being able to run against the record -- have the time he doesn't know what he is talking about. >> china is going to -- come on man! they cannot even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the china sea and the mountains in the east. i mean in the west. they can't figure out how they're going to deal with the corruption in the system. i mean, you know, they are not bad folks but guess what? they are not competition for us. jesse: joe, where have you been th

i mean we know that joe biden -- joe biden's going to defend obama care. he wants a public option as part of this. politico is saying biden is heavy on emotion and light on policy. kelly ann conway saying is biden for medicare for all? because that means obama care didn't work. do they have a point there? >> yeah, yeah, i think they have a point. it's just -- it's so scattered. it's hard to grab hold of anything they are talking about because it's this way. it's that way. it's trump. it's not. it's crazy. elizabeth: you know the other thing too, ernie, the congressional budget office out with a new report that got virtually zero coverage. we're giving it to you now. the cbo saying that medicare for all, bernie sanders plan, the democrats, the medicare for all, will cost -- it would be really expensive, 3.5 trillion dollars a year, the cbo says. it would wipe out all government spending on other programs and, yes, government imposed wait times to see a doctor would rise dramatically. your take on that, ernie? >> i agree. look at the various countries that h

joe biden is a safe place. they know they like joe biden and can support him and not so much about the others. candidates gets in, pop, come down a little. folks are still swiping. >> still swiping. enjoyed that analogy. >>> tune new to beto o'rourke tonight with rachel madmaddow, 0 eastern only on msnbc. >>> it is crunch time as garrett mentioned. crunch time for the on the bubble democratic candidates hoping to land one of the 20 coveted spots on the debate stage next month. to get in they have to receive donations from 65,000 people in 20 different states, or get at least 1% of support in three pre-approved polls, but just because they hit the goals doesn't necessarily mean they're automatically in. i want to bring in communications director for the dnc. do you guys -- you've laid out objective criteria for what it takes to get on the debate stage in florida next month. what happens when more than 20 people qualify? >> our goal all along has been to be inclusive, fair and transparent and set the threshold ba

and also, not to have the response come from joe biden. it came, not from the campaign manager, but from the deputy campaign manager, as if they were like, this isn't even worthy of a response from the top person running the campaign, but the second-to-top person, which is not joe biden. and they're demoting it. and saying, you know, we're tired of this, we're not going to pay that much attention to it, but privately, of course, they're all thrilled. because every time biden takes on trump, he makes -- i mean, every time trump takes on biden, he makes it a two-person race, which is exactly what biden wants. >> dana, president trump has gone flu three national security advisers. should we have any expectation that john bolton is going to be his last? i mean, dexter raised the point that, you know, who else is there in terms of somebody who is prominent, who has a name -- in the president's parlance -- looks the part and has credibility? >> no. i mean, we should have no examinations either way. we've learned that just not only on the nationa

taking a run at joe biden. i think republicans like myself are sitting on the sidelines and watching this play out. >> we're a month from the debates. dnc chairman tom perez said he is committed to making sure we don't see a repeat of the republicans' kiddie table scenario from the 2016 election rounds. how hucmuch is riding on the wa they're distributed between these two night? you don't want the heavyweights going against each other. what does that leave for the others? >> absolutely. you want someone to say this is a fair and equitable process. you want to make sure that will have the campaign and given time to present themselves to the american people. you also want the ability to say that everyone that has the ideas are going to put them forward. we don't want to see a kiddie table. maybe night a-1 and a-2. you're not looking to say this is varsity versus j.v. >> do you think the first round of debates will start to actually win the field. you think that candidates that don't make the stage or make waves,

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joe biden succeeded in doing that in 2016. it was reopened 21/2 months ago and they are quite -- trying to quash again. at the time joe biden did it his son -- getting something like 3 to $10 million from a crooked ukrainian oligarch who was hiding in russia and he got it while joe biden, vice president of the united states in charge with relations with the ukraine and in the tape you saw joe biden have a prosecutor general dismissed and the case against his son was dropped. that -- wait, that stinks, the facts are stubborn and eventually this is going to have to be investigative. i will get out of it, in order to remove any political suggestion i will step back and just watch it unfold. shannon: no trip to ukraine on sunday. >> no trip. i believe i was walking into a bunch of people, one of whom already was found to be involved in this but i wasn't aware of and i think this is a set up. and the whole thing was a setup from the beginning and that is what you will find and it goes back to january when they decided they should d

donald trump is clearly bothered by joe biden, worried about joe biden, obsessed with joe biden. he's a man who is the fear that he has, the nervousness he has about the prospect of running against joe biden is evident in his social media and other utterances. >> but political wisdom would teach you, jonathan lemire, you don't want to be the front-runner now. >> no. >> it's eight months before our first primary. the entire party is going the opposite way of joe biden. he's in many ways on outlier along with bernie to a lesser degree. what is it about this guy? >> biden is having a moment, he's the front runner now. the polls have been very good. surprisingly good to many here. in the 2016 campaign went behind the barn and having a fight. donald trump certainly recovered. but biden has an appeal to a particular graphic that the president prides himself on, the blue collar voter, upper midwest residents, it's really been his focus this time around, firefighter, resembles that character pretty carefully, being on the trail in 2016 a lot of firefighter types supported the president.

he'll be joe biden. i don't know that you can compare the sort of loose ends quality of joe biden versus ultimater ca utter chaos of donald trump. there's a contrast there, we'll see. >> karine i want to ask you about biden facing, start point of interaction with voters we'll see today. headlines about smaller crowds others are getting. i invite garrett to jump in about anything he's seen and coverage how they are not putting him out there all day every day. i don't know if they are pacing themselves. sometimes if you don't make it, you regret not leaving it all on the field. >> you said it perfectly, leaving it on the field. this is it. this is game time. we're talking about a presidential election. i would tell the biden campaign less crowds is not a good thing. you want the energy. if you are running as the front-runner, it is good to have a crowd to give you that energy. i just really disagree -- i know what they are doing. we talked about it. they are trying to control him. he's known for having gaf

>> i think joe biden is an old shoe, and there's great comfort with joe biden at the top of the ticket. i think african-american voters are socially conserved, and are a lot more pragmatic than they get credit for. that someone who increases their economic stability and security. the argument that the trump administration has, they can make the case that they -- they have made their lives better. that's something the trump administration has to hammer home, they will not get the majority of the book black voters but they could get 20%. it will be a huge victory for them. >> he tweeted this last night. he said another massive crowd tonight, while over a thousand in birmingham. any campaign would covet this audience, but his event was roughly 90% white. is there anything bernie sanders can do that could turn that around for him? >> i think he is recognizing the challenge this time far earlier than he did in 2016. in 2016 hillary clinton crushed him with the minority vote. he's making his case now and making his case early. it remains to be seen whether or not it works or if there was too

i have loved joe biden. i'm waiting to see what he comes through with some more ideas and how he thinks he will pull everybody together. >> joining me now by phone because joe biden is just about taking the stage at the event in new hampshire is nbc news political reporter. jeff mason reuters white house correspondent. there has been so much talk about this. can biden run a clean campaign? are they doing anything differently in this third run to avoid controversial moments? >> it's interesting. joe biden just taking the stage as we speak for the first event here. this is a full circle moment for me. the first time i covered joe biden he was a senator from delaware and trailing in the polls here in new hampshire. back then as you would expect for a candidate not in the front runner position, he was very available to voters and reporters. he entered as the front runner showing him with a very clear lead over the field. what you are seeing is a front runner strategy. he is limiting his engagement with the publi

other candidates now defending joe biden. instead of trying to differentiate themselves or talk about their own policy which are more and more introducing specifically on daily basis, they are in the position of having to defend joe biden in this war of words between him and the president. >> look, we talk a lot about political opponents falling into president trump's trap. a little bit trump has fallen into joe biden's trap. he made it clear he was going to run as if this was a general election. he was running against trump. he was not running against the other democrats. we see trump playing right into that strategy by treating biden as if he is going to be the ultimate opponent. >> he's the front-runner right now significantly. >> if you think about it, you're exactly right, susan. generall lly speaking, you try elevate you think you can win most against. the fact that he's elevating joe biden and not others who, who knows, you never know, but probably at this point don't look like they would be as viable against the presi

front-runner joe biden. set the stage for us. >> reporter: well, john, joe biden is going to be arriving here at the community event, a pizza restaurant here in manchester, new hampshire. people are waiting over by the doors to see him walk in, but as you mentioned, he's here on his first trip to new hampshire as the clear front-runner in the democratic field. we have a poll that came out last week that showed biden above his democratic rivals coming in at 36% followed by bernie sanders and a few others behind him, but biden is going to be here making his pitch to voters in this first in the nation primary state, and this event has the potential to be a little bit different than his previous events in states like iowa and south carolina where he stood on the stage and delivers remarks and hasn't really engaged in voter question and answered and here at this small restaurant he's expecting to take a few questions from voters at the end. biden and his campaign are very aware of trying to maintain that authenti

>> joe biden has the most name recognition and experience. he was right there next to the first black president for eight years. we have the most diverse pool of candidates and history and we will see were the primary goes over the next couple of months. >> tucker: are you bothered? >> i am encouraged. what we are seeing from the party is more ideas, more candidates stepping up and candidates of color running for president. >> tucker: last question. now i'm being sincere. i was yanking your chain a little bit. as an attempt to stop with the racism and white privilege stuff attacking people on the base of their skin color? can we call a truce? >> sincerely i wish we could but what we have been seeing under this president is a rise in white terrorism, a rise in white nationalism. >> tucker: do you have to attack white people? >> it is the opposite. we are seeing that people like dylan are getting more radicalized. be when i wonder why. even if you are poor we hate you because of your skin color. you don't think that radicalized people? maybe a

that's what joe biden was trying to address. so going after his son is just a method of going after someone the president believes is his most formidable opponent. so, yes, let the president go after him but don't seek the help of a foreign government in your election. if this isn't criminal and bob mueller said he could not prove all the elements of a crime, then maybe we need to change the elements of that crime because we cannot make this the new norm, that if you can't win an election on your own, it's fine to seek help from a foreign power. >> chairman schiff, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thanks, george. >>> let's get a republican response from senator rand paul. thanks for joining us this morning. let me pick up where chairman schiff -- >> good morning. >> good morning. -- where chairman schiff left off, that perhaps congress should consider making it illegal to engage foreign governments, foreign assistance in campaigns. do you agree? >> i think the american people would be shocked and dismayed to know that j

i want to start talking about joe biden. he made controversial comments two weeks ago saying that he believed that china was not big competition for the united states and was not a threat to the u.s. economy. your thoughts. >> i think i know where former vice-president biden is coming from, which is a different take than the trump administration has taken with respect to the trade negotiations, but china is the big 600-pound gorilla for taking on our economy and hence the reason why the president, president trump's administration has taken these 301 actions and pressing the chinese for a trade deal. kristin: we saw the attempt to make a trade deal fall apart and then president trump sauys he's going to meet with x jinping at the g20. and believes that he will be able to tell the american people if he's able to reach a deal with china in three, four weeks. do you think it's a realistic time frame? >> i think it's a realistic possibility. and i think we're coming off a week, with the announcement last night and then the whole

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 hands? .

they want joe biden back. he's going to make him wear those comments for as long as joe biden is in the race. it's a smart strategy. the fact that president trump is an america first candidate and he is unabashedly so. >> martha: what to say to the story from politico about the 17 states' internal polling from the trump campaign, it shows joe biden is ahead in pennsylvania, ahead in michigan and ahead in wisconsin. >> i think it's early and i think those polls are sort of meeting was at this point. i think over the long run -- joe biden has run for president at least three times literally and many other times beyond that. i think ultimately his gaffes and his fake folks eunice winds up wearing off on people and it only reminds people where you have a guy like donald trump, when he says stuff, he doesn't really take gaffes. he says things politicians aren't supposed to same but that juxtaposition i think makes joe biden look a whole lot figure. >> martha: when you look at look at pete buttigieg's town hall over

literally every day, on twitter, trump is calling biden sleepy joe. that's his nickname for him, which is weird. you have to admit. no, i mean, it's like a strange slavment sleeping is just a basic human function. like, hey, look at him, he sleeps. what? ( laughter ) i will say this, though, if joe biden goes up against trump, i can't wait to see those attack ads. >> joe biden says he wants to be your president, but is he too sleepy for the job? >> i'm so sick and tired -- sick and tired -- tired -- tired -- president trump is never tired. at 3:00 a.m. when joe biden and other babies are in bed snoozing, donald trump is tweeting about cnn's low ratings. so in 2020, ask yourself do, we want a commander-in-chief who goes to bed at night? or do we want a real man? >> i'm donald trump. i haven't slept in nine days and i approve this message. >> trevor: we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) there's nothing more important than the education of a young mind. except maybe being first in line to the grand opening of the world's largest rollercoaster. th

biden headlines, he's making joe biden a big story, he's making joe biden look big by being so small and joe biden doesn't have to lift a finger. he just has to occasionally release a statement kind of indicating the disapproval of what trump is doing that most americans instinctively feel. dana is right, this is no strategy. this is a very small-minded president who gets obsessed with people, let's things get under his skin, and he's telling the world, i fear biden the most. if you're a democratic voter, you'll look at that and say, oh, maybe i should side with joe biden. he's not accomplishing anything here. >> kirsten, let's just imagine, if you will, that you're simone sanders or whatever -- i'm joking. you're kirsten powers and you're on team biden. you got to be loving the attention from this president, right? do you think it only helps biden? >> definitely for the reasons that frank just outlined, but also because it gives biden the opportunity to do the contrast that he wants to do. this is exactly how he wants to be contrasted with donald trump. he wants to be the person who

he is doing with joe biden. that underscores the point joe biden is trying to make. he already moved on to a general election against donald trump. in an odd way trump's actions are helping joe biden avoid a primary on the assumption that he is the strongest candidate. let's move on to that. that will be an interesting consequence of what president trump is doing. >> let me go back to brett on this. i loved your column in the times, but it used to be elite liberals. i know a lot of them who love to put their noses up in the air and look down on republicans as not quite as intellectual as they are. this is a strange thing for a guy who runs as a populist to run on relative iq. it's unusual. >> i think the psychological term is projection. when you fear that you are yourself a low iq individual. you claim it of your enemy or opponent. i wanted to take exception with nick. i don't think he will disagree and said this is unprecedent ed it's unprecedented in history. the idea that an american president may side with a psychotic or murderous dictator against an honorable o

biden as creepy uncle joe i think that's why we saw the attack on joe biden the week that he was going to announce a few weeks ago because bernie sanders knew one thing if joe biden gets into this race bernie sanders gets pushed aside quite a bit so i think that says that was very certain egypt there if joe biden has this commanding lead over bernie sanders that suggests to me that in fact the democratic party isn't that interested in identity politics dianne feinstein she just threw her support behind joe biden instead of her colleague from california koala harris because she said that her loyalty is to buy in and go obama. doesn't that mean that president excuse me vice president joe biden is a pretty formidable candidate possibly in front of a very unified democratic party in two thousand and twenty. yeah there's no doubt about it he is formidable and i think he will win the nomination quite easily he's certainly got the campaign staff and others who will help him get through the state conventions and the caucuses that he needs to but again going up against president you have presid

joe biden is already known. he needs to shake the rust off and not say things like "china is not our competitor." who needs to look like he's present and understands the current climate, which means using all the newest tactics, including everything from podcasts to twitter to everything else. that's his job. >> mark and kevin, thanks so much for joining me. kevin, congratulations again on the new baby. >> thank you. >> historically large field of democrat being hopefuls means there are lots of storylines within storylines. and a little later we'll have the latest out of venezuela and the worrisome influence of president trump's favorite phone a friend, vladimir putin. some things are out of your control. like bedhead. hmmmm. ♪ rub-a-dub ducky... and then...there's national car rental. at national, i'm in total control. i can just skip the counter and choose any car in the aisle i like. so i can rent fast without getting a hair out of place. heeeeey. hey! ah, control. (vo) go national. go like a pro. ♪ when

opening weekend for former vice 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

afraid of joe biden. i think what we see from the president in the past is he's very willing to talk about the things he wants to see happen, too. i think he believes that he can make things a foregone conclusion by talking about them. so i wouldn't necessarily interpret his attention to joe biden as a sign of fear. >> i mean, that's the interesting question here, too, phillip. part of this process for democratic voters, obviously, is there is a strategic element here in picking their nominee next year. they are asking themselves do you see this in the polls. who is the most electable candidate? who can win? who can beat trump. that's the message that biden is trying to put out there. hey, i can get the union folks. i can get wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania to win those states back, and that will be that. to the extent this is trump versus biden on the public stage right now, democratic voters get a chance to make that judgment on whether he matches up well. >> part of the season why you are seeing the

this is no surprise to joe biden. he knows he those work for it and earn it but he would like to put that off a little bit. >> democratic front-runners tend to get challenge. hillary clinton did in 2016 and survived but in 2008 she did not. a busy news day. stay right there. brianna keilar starts right now. ♪ i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now, from the midwest to the northeast, millions of americans on high alert as the risk of tornadoes climbs. chaos on the world's tallest mountain as the death toll rises. climbers are in the final hours of a window to reach the summit. plus, president trump attacks former vice president joe biden on the 1994 crime bill. could biden's weakness politically ben put it trump despite the president's checkered past on the issues of race and justice. >>> and as the president considers pardoning war criminals a sitting u.s. congressman admits he took pictures with enemy corpses. first up, more than

biden -- hunter bide flies with joe biden on air force 2 to beijing. as an official member of the delegation and then 10 days after that trip he all of a sudden gets a billion-dollar investment in his private equity fund not have from a chinese company from the chinese government. the government officials that were negotiating with joe biden. again, you don't fly on -- can you imagine if donald trump went to beijing and. >> ed: brings donald trump jr. >> brings donald trump jr. and 10 days later the chinese government gives donald trump jr. a billion dollars? do you think like jerry nadler would be investigating that? >> ed: would be calling for another special counsel. >> yes. >> ed: to be fair the president's business interests. breaking tonight the "new york times" has a story saying they have obtained tax information that reveals from 1985 to 1994 president trump's businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known. the numbers show in '85 mr. trump reported losses of 46 million from core businesses largely casinos. we knew about th

here is the problem with joe biden and the rest of the democrats. if you want to save the economy got better after the worst recession we signed the nation's history. if that is your talking point go for it because here's what voters in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin understand. the trump policies of lower taxes, less regulation, constitutional judges are giving people economic opened all the polls show -- look at the customer confident surveys through the roof. shannon: we will see if people are happy about the economy and content and that drives people to vote or they fight up and don't believe he ever should have been president are the ones who show up. it's all about the turnout. thank you very much. a tales two commencement speeches by billionaire boomers, paying out the graduating class's student debt and another says his generation has failed the students and why congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez is criticizing some of this. i've never been in one of these before, even though geico has been- ohhh. ooh ohh here we go, here we go. yo