so a horse race concern for biden. a potential electability concern for biden. no good polling news today for the democratic frontrunner after that debate. i'm joined now by nbc news correspondent mike memoli. he has been all over the biden story from the beginning. and nbc news political reporty ali vitalia, our road warrior. mike, i got to start with you. what is the mood in biden world today? >> reporter: well, i think we saw a little bit of the mood in biden world. and the only thing we have heard from the biden campaign today, which is a strong statement from the former vice president of north korea. this is indicative of an effort to try to turn the page very quickly to a comfort zone which is that general election argument with donald trump. i just heard from a very senior biden official, though in, terms of this new poll saying we are no more concerned about one poll showing us dropping in the polls than we were overly confident based on the prolonged bounce that they did have after that announcement. but if you do look within the numbers, steve, as you

joe biden was last to arrive. they are getting ready back stage as we get ready for the second big night of debating. earlier tonight. panltist jess mcintosh said she was looking for reinsurance from the former vice president. that may be true from any democrats. a lot of democrats coming into the debate feeling good him as a candidate. it will be fascinating to see if the perceptions change tonight. we are joined by david axelrod. gloriaer. and john king. we haven't heard from you. it's interesting listening in the run up to this all the division and expectations put on vice president biden. he has to look forward and be able to defend his record. he has to to be able to attack but attack trump also. there is a lot riding on him. >> there is a lot riding on it. deep in the rear view mirror but joe biden run twice before and both times sputtered at the cross road. s in a giant test for him. he has to know that in his personal history. i would argue last night raised the stakes. the stakes tonight were already high

biden at 51% among black primary voters there. now, he has been trying to shift away from civil rights because that was a thorny issue for him. and to health care. is that helping him? >> helping him among african-american voters, he has a long history with the party. if you think of how he defended himself after the first debate. he said obama vetted me. that was strong. i wish he did that earlier. that was a great line. as long as he attaches himself to baobamabarak obama. many are fairly moderate. a lot of men that do not like the way the party leaned into immigration reform. they have been saying we have been here a long time too. just the fact that joe biden is a moderate candidate in a field that some will say moved so far to the left. >> john, trump fired off some new sleepy joe tweets yesterday. do you think that is an effective attack on biden? >> well, i think it is of the people that trump is talking to. blue collar reagan democrats. you know, look. the one thing about this president he is not afraid of offending anybod

>> biden is going after her. she'll have to defend herself. >> for me, can joe biden deliver? he's been talking about these attacks, sharpening his attacks against kamala harris for weeks. he's saying he'll be more aggressive in his pushback. can he convince voters that he won't have another rocky, shaky debate performance going forward? also, julian castro. he stood out against beto o'rourke. can he get into the mix? that's something to watch. >> has he been rehearsing a lot, biden? >> biden has been meeting with his advisers. he's had a few mock debates. we've seen him going over kamala harris and cory booker. last week we were in detroit and he's using that fantasy line. >> i think the person standing on the other side of joe biden, cory booker. the senator from new jersey. he's been telegraphing his line of twak the former vice president. the dynamic between cory booker and joe biden will be fascinating and it will go both ways. the former vice president's aides at least have been saying they'll bring up his record as mayor of newark. i'm be sure voters are that interested

nice guy with joe biden. "new day" continues right now. >>> biden telling voters i'm not going to be as polite this time. >> what were you doing 5, 10, 15 years ago to fight for racial justice? >> if he wants to go back and talk about a record i'm happy to do that. >> bob mueller was going to pave the yellow brick road towards impeachment. >> if we don't take action on september 1st we should just shut it down. >> you don't even have the majority of democrats yet. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. it's friday, july 26th, 8:00 here in the east. expect to see a more aggressive joe biden. cnn has learned the form rooips is getting ready for what he believes will be attacks on him and this time he says he won't be see polite. bide is already responding to rivals who have criticized his criminal justice reform. biden has a 3 to 1 lead over kamala harris. and the former vp is the only democrat who beats trump in a hypothetical head to head matchup in that key swing state of ohio. >> meanwhile som

is this the reset biden needs? and kamala harris releasing her latest fund raising numbers as she shifts focus to iowa. but is she too late to the

you've heard biden prescribe plans that, one, he's center left, and two, he's an obama-biden democrat. as you have seen throughout the campaign, biden has pushed back against that notion that there has been this left tilt in the party. he had talked about how congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is a brilliant and bright woman. but he just doesn't think that the party has gone that far left, as you have heard him say. he's made the argument that there are loud voices in the democratic, on the left ward side of the party. going forward, you know, biden, he's said he doesn't want to make any of these criticisms personal. he's also starting to drill in on the i. you've seen -- on the issues. you've seen him keep focused on president trump throughout the campaign. in the interview he's staking out clear policy differences when it gloss medicare for all -- it comes to medicare for all, also decriminalizing border crossing, something that former hud secretary julian cast crow led on that biden is pushing back on. and you see him try to make the differentiation between himself and the othe

articlette iowa is joe biden's first stop at a five-day campaign swing. >> that's right joe biden will be in waterloo iowa in a while. they hit the campaign goal but they were not prepared for mayor pete buttigieg to post such a high number. they set the tarrings thinking the other candidates would be raising no more than $10 to $12 million in a quarter. that clearly wasn't the case. joe biden may be the democratic front runner but not leading the pack in the money race. the former vice president second quarter fund raising haufl totalling $21.5 million. that puts behind mayor pete buttigieg at 24.8 million but ahead of bernie sanders raking in 18 million last quarter. biden entered the 2020 race three weeks into the second fund raising quarter. but he did devote a substantial amount of time to raising cash. holding more than two dozen high-dollar fund raising events since launching his campaign. earning criticism from grass roots focused candidates such as sanders and elizabeth warren. >> well in in unprecedented campaign we are doing it very differently. >> biden's numbers come as ma

why didn't biden push anything this drastic while he was in the white house in the biden-obama administration, and why now all of a sudden, 12 years later, 10 years later, does biden sound just like ocasio-cortez? i think the answer is obvious because sleepy, creepy, crazy uncle joe doesn't have core values and he knows he is vulnerable to the attacks from this extreme wing in his party. so, clearly, he's willing to do and say anything to get elected. to make nice with the new climate cult that runs the democratic party, even plagiarizing his own campaign plan. now, it's beyond bad policy. this campaign is under fire tonight for apparently stealing the exact identicale passages from other climate documents. biden's camp is trying to downplay it, claiming it was a multiple citation errors. of course, plagiarism is nothing new for biden because the scandal back in 1988 torpedoed that year's white house bid where he literally copied word for word a speech by a british labour party leader at the time named neil kineck. so while biden pens fake moral outrage over and over again, the past shows he

. >>> biden slipping. a brand new cnn poll shows the former vice president losing support as kamala harris vaults to second place. is the front runner in prubl? >>> the president says iran is playing with fire, this as he cozies up to north korea. does he have a coherent strategy. >>> and is taxpayer funded security being misused for secretary of state mike pompeo and his family? let's go outfront. >>> good evening everyone. i'm in for erin burnett. biden takes a hit. cnn just out with a poll, the first one conducted after the debate and revealing a big crack in the front runner's facade. biden still in the lead and kamala harris is up there in second. dig in a little deeper and you will see biden's lead has narrowed to just five points. the 22% is down ten points for may. harris who took on biden at the democratic debate is surging up nine points from may. while harris is making significant strides with democratic voters, she is behind biden among one key segment of democratic voters right now, african-am

exacts want to see. >> biden -- biden is making adjustments, rob. does he look like a more formidable candidate. >> no. just calling him a bully, that's going to scare donald trump who is used to tussling withen anyone and everyone at any time. >> on sne any issue real or imagined. >> if you hit him he hits back twice as hard. chris brings that up in the interview. are you ready to not only tussle but you know go after with everything you got, but i think and maybe the governor can answer this. i think before he gets to trump obviously he has to get through the democratic primary. and you saw it in the debate. he is tentative. i think the issues he had with women thinking he was being inappropriate to them, how is he responding now against a kamala harris, or an elizabeth warren, two women who he has to gets past to win the nomination. it's a delicate balance for him to attack them. and yet you know he has the whole issue of being inappropriate to women in the past. that's a really tough balancing act. >> are you. >> i'm not talking about sexually h

it seems to me biden challenges biden. he is not being threatened in the numbers by cory booker, one or two percent at the most. he is not being threatened by kamala in the numbers. his challenge is to hold his numbers. >> that's exactly right, chris. he's got to rise to the occasion tonight and play more offense than defense. he's got a record going back to when he was 29 years old when he was first elected to congress. he is now 76. if he allows every single person on that debate stage tonight to attack him on his record, he is not going to do very well. his team knows that. he knows that. he's got some of the best campaign operatives in democratic politics today working on his campaign. they're fully aware of the stakes. i think he'll rise to the occasion tonight. >> danielle, give us a little preview of what's going after cory booker. let's go after kamala. they're the ones who really have nothing to lose. certainly booker has nothing to lose. he is about two points. kamala is one of the two or three people, maybe four

. >> reporter: joe biden is adopting a more aggressive, feistier post taking on biden. he started out trying to stay above the fray. you're seeing them really fighting back against critics taking on biden's record. the former vice president is not going to take attacks on his record sitting down. you're seeing that play out in an escalating feud between biden and cory booker who has been critical relating to criminal justice in the past. recently calling him the architect of mass incarceration and criticizing the former vice president's current criminal justice plan. biden pushed back pointing out booker's record as mayor and the police practices. take a listen to what he had to say. >> if you look at the mayor's record in newark, one of the provisions i wrote in the crime bill, a pattern and practice of misbehavior, his police department was stopping and frisking people, mostly african-american men. so i'm happy to debate with anybody the effects of the things i did as a united states senator, as i did as a vice president. >> reporter: biden has sharpened his attacks o

biden: we are a nation -- [applause] mr. biden: we have to protect our borders. we have to have a line. but ladies and gentlemen, the idea that he literally took the immigrants"ion of out of the monster that is in the definition of what our service is about. he literally took the words out. no longer are they part of the description. this isn't who we are. we all know we give this guy for more years, he's going to forever change the character of this country. not a joke. we can't let that happen. we have to beat him. and the balance -- failure isn't an option. that's why i promise you, whether i'm the nominee or not, i'm going to break my neck to make sure they get elected president. we cannot afford -- [applause] [cheering] [applause] it's,den: i know ancient history but go check political fact. i introduced the first global warning in the 1980's that had consequence that they labeled as a game changer. ladies and gentlemen, we're in a situation where the existential threat to everything we do is climate change. that's not hyperbole. that's not hyperbole. we kno

with bo biden. the only way she keeps her momentum going is to go through him. does she do that now or decide right now is the time to defend the progressives, partner with him to make the case against them a progressive can win? is that the strategy this time, or is it fireworks between the two of them? and i'm talking about in the context of what does senator warren think. what does senator sanders think? senator sanders is struggling. he's in the middle of the pack. he has enormous fund-raising network. he has a loyal group of supporters. he can be in this to the end. if you look at him vis-a-vis 2016, he's in the teens. does he decide she's a threat? she is a threat. dz he dee said side to air it in the debate. that is a of my question. >> to add to tuesday, there are a couple people on the stage and they are all going to want to differentiate themselves to the degree because it's make or break for de blasio and hickenlooper. what they're going to try and do is go after warren or bernie and say,

it is biden. that's the way he hounds and he talks and you know at least in terms of how he try to relate to people, he does a lot with men, it can sound a little strange with women when he does it on the rope line or interviews or if you try to do it at a debate like with senator harris, that would not work. >> the bro-iness of joe biden. >> biden has a tone and temperament issue that it would behoove him to adjust. we don't need to replace a septuagenarian. >> a lot of things if you put him on a lie detector test, he won't remember saying. it is relatable. there is sort of a way to go into living rooms, you know, in iowa or pennsylvania and it feels like that's the way from his point of view people talk. >> is he watching this now s saying c'mon, man, that's how i talk. >> it is not a phrase that pat was alluded to. this was not apart of his prepare for marks. it is a verbal tick he has and as you alluded to, there is a gender aspect in some ways to it. he's facing six women, many of them highly

about joe biden. it's possible that harris's bump, which seems to be significant, came from another candidate. >> let's put this up. we have the morning consult poll post debate june 28th. joe biden 33%, that compared to the june 23rd poll down from 38%. kamala harris up to 12%. from 6%. what does that tell you? >> i think to philippe's point that support is coming from someone else. a lot of voters are asking themselves, you're raising questions about joe biden, everyone should articulate their previous positions. but if this guy was good enough to be president obama's vice president for eight years why is he somehow disqualified now? why weren't these issues brought up in the past? so i do think there is -- i would argue an articulation that could be made that obama chose joe biden for a reason. when crow look at some of the states that president trump won, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida, the margins are very, very slim. i think one could argue joe biden could make up those margins that

joe biden can make that case. joe biden is the person to do that. and so i think that that's a great place to be frankly. >> but it seems like you do take issue when people refer to that as in you're for the safe choice. you don't want to have it described that way. >> well, i just think it's not accurate. i think if you look at his record, if you look at his lifetime of fighting for change, if you look at the change that we were able to get done under the obama/biden years in the white house. you look at things like the elimination of don't ask don't tell. you look at the vice president speaking up for marriage equality at a time when political pundits were telling him that that wasn't a smart thing to do. he's someone who's been on the cutting edge for fighting for change in this country his entire life. so i reject the notion a progressive moderate divide. i think voters are looking for somebody who stands for their values, who they believe has good character. i think they know joe biden. they know that's him. they know that if they put him in th

biden: thank you. >> we need your picture. mr. biden: oh, ok. [laughter] >> thank you. >> i just want to shake your hand. i don't want to take a bunch of your time, but thank you and good luck. mr. biden: thank you so much. >> you're welcome. mr. biden: hi. >> i met you many years ago, when you introduced jimmy carter. mr. biden: oh my lord. >> i figure that was 1975. mr. biden: it was. >> isn't that crazy? mr. biden: i still talk to him once in a while, and god love him, he's doing well. >> i think i had a poster, which i eventually gave the democratic party. i don't know if they sold it. mr. biden: well let's get a you and me. got it? thank you. >> thank you. >> can i get one for my parents? >> thank you. mr. biden: thank you so much. >> good luck. mr. biden: all right, think you guys. >> i can't believe this. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] announcer: c-span's washington journal come

quote, joe biden had more than 40 years to get this right. the proud architect of a failed system is not the right person to fix it. >> it was hurtful. >> reporter: harris and booker could take direct aim on the issue when they meet in detroit for the debate. >> i think it is right he talk about everything from his support of the 1994 crime bill which was one of the sort of jet fuel to mass incarceration all the way to his stance on busing. >> that 1994 crime bill, it did contribute to mass incarceration in our country. >> reporter: one of the key components of this bill that the campaign believes stands out is its focus on juvenile justice.

so biden is saying he fixed it. trump undid something and if biden gets back he will go talk to the central american leaders and fix it again. chris. >> chris: peter doocy on the campaign trail, thank you. it was a big day in the markets. the dow surged 228 points today to break through the 27,000 mark for the first time in its history. the s&p 500 was up 7 to also close at a new all-time high. nasdaq lost six and a half. up next, a british warship comes to the rescue as iranian vessels harassing a british tanker. and america's war on drugs, we will show you the spoils from that war as "special report" continues. ♪ insurance, so you only pay for what you need. nice. but, uh... what's up with your... partner? not again. limu that's your reflection. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ play it cool and escape heartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tum tum tums most people think a button is just a button. ♪ that a speaker is just a speaker. ♪ or - tha

biden at 18. warren at 16. harris down at 10% and this may explain why harris has not seen a dominant on the health care issue, you've seen the whole conversation about private insurance, should it -- this is among democrats, wolf. i want to make that clear. among democrats, only 30% favor going to a government -- a government-run program to replace private insurance and 49% say we should not replace private insurance with a government-run program so when kamala harris and elizabeth warren and bernie sanders sand de blasio raise their hands and kamala harris the next day heard the question wrong, that is the political concern. not even democrats are supportive of getting rid of private insurance. >> and the numbers show before and after the debate where the top democratic candidates were. let me put those numbers back on the screen and get your takeaways, joe biden lost ten points. >> yes. now, remember, this poll was from may to now, obviously the debate performance was critical. but that ten-point drop is a d

so joe biden is able to defend himself. joe biden is able to speak eloquently about his record. what i would caution people to remember, though, this is 30 seconds/60 seconds. it's great to win a debate, but we want the election won in november of 2020, and i care far more about the election than i do a debate performance. >> but you're not suggesting that he's the only candidate that can beat donald trump because the same polls, though they have biden, the last poll i've seen, beating trump by ten points, you have others that are tied or only one point behind trump according to the polls which is really a dead heat. you're not suggesting that he's the only one that could beat donald trump of the 25 candidates running? >> i am suggesting that he is our best bet to beat donald trump. when i look at all of the other candidates, i don't see any other candidate who can win ohio, who can win michigan, who can win wisconsin, who can win pennsylvania, who can even win georgia, who can win north carolina. i don't see that with any other candidate, and i have a great deal of respect and

and the biden campaign to date. clearly he thinks he needs to do something differently. jonathan martin, it might get you what you have been writing about the last several days, which is the rise of two other candidates, senator kamala harris and senator elizabeth warren. let me play for you how senator harris responded to the biden apolo apology. >> well, he says he's sorry. i'm going to take him at his word. again, that doesn't address the issue of busing in america and the fact that he still -- we cannot rewrite history about what segregationists were doing at that time on a number of issues, including opposing busing. >> that's not exactly apology accepted, jonathan. it makes me wonder and you get to this in your piece a little bit. does the harris campaign think it needs a second act? what's next after the debate performance? >> it's a great question. we have a story today about the post debate rise of kamala harris and elizabeth warren. really kamala harris because warren was moving before the debate. that's t

he had this big interview with the bidens, the vice president joe biden and also his wife as well. i want to ask you, did -- did joe biden's campaign -- did he get it back on track after his debate performance and his -- the bussing and segregation controversies? >> yeah, i thought his interview with chris cuomo was excellent. i think he helped himself tremendously. the upcoming debate on cnn, you know, you'll be one of the questioners. it's going to be very important. he's got to show strength. he's got to show that he can take a punch and that he can give a punch back because the one thing that joe biden has going for him, don, is that he more than anybody else can beat donald trump in a lot of the states around the country. he wins the election. and that's the biggest thing going for him right now. >> okay. so we heard something interesting, i thought, from the second lady about why biden jumped into this race. watch this exchange and then we'll talk. >> sure. >> do you think that joe biden had had an amazing run, that was it in 2016? did you think that was it? >> i did, and i t

you're bringing a biden quote to take down biden? come on. [ laughter ] if anyone's gonna take down joe biden with a joe biden quote, it's joe biden. [ laughter ] also, look -- look at that smile. [ laughter ] joe biden uses his teeth the way wonder woman uses her bracelets. that zinger just bounced right off that pearly white wall and by the way, just in case you were wondering after last night's debate, another candidate got chance to bust out some spanish again and it was southbend mayor, pete buttigieg >> i want to say hello and good evening. [ speaking spanish ] to mayor buttigieg [ speaking foreign language >> seth: when he did that, nbc took a live shot of cory booker at home. [ laughter ] now the question of health care was obviously a hot topic as were many questions which led to a lot of over talking and yelling at the beginning >> at this issue we have to think about how this effects - [ overlapping speakers ] >> senator harris, i'm so sorry. >> part of joe's generation. [ overlapping speakers ] >> seth: good lord, it soun

new pampers cruisers 360 fit >>> okay, former vice president joe biden is just out with a new criminal justice reform plan. this comes days before the cnn democratic debates next week. was that a plan? let's get the forecast with cnn's senior politics writer and analyst harry henton. so joe biden's criminal justice plan this way at the debate when he's asked about the old crime bill in the '90s so he says i'll refer you to my new i'm bill. >> so many people have been paying attention to this matchup, but the one that interests me the most is actually biden versus booker and why is that? we were mentioning criminal justice reform. so this is basically -- that's the wrong slide. well, the point is -- >> our seamless system. >> what i was pointing out is booker has been going after biden so much on criminal justice reform. the 1994 crime bill was an awful bill, why did it take biden so long to say it wasn't exactly a perfect bill? and more than that we've seen booker has really suffered with african-americans while biden is well ahead of the field at around 40%. so basically what i think

so good news for kamala harris and that top line number concerning for joe biden. >> joe biden tried to paint himself as the front-runner as the most electable in the contest against president trump. what are the numbers mean for him now? >> well, you raise what is his calling card in this race. we asked democrats, wolf, what matters more to you, defeating donald trump or getting a candidate who agrees with you on the issues and it is not even close. six in ten democrats say that they want a candidate that could defeat trump. only 30% of democrats say they want somebody who shares their positions on the issues. and then we asked, okay, well who do you think you could beat trump and 43% of democrats say they believe joe biden could defeat donald trump, nobody else is close.

biden: mr. mayor, thank you very much. how many of you have lost someone to cancer or are fighting it now? that is why you all know, it never fundamentally goes away. that is why i think for jill and me, and for the mayor himself, when you start talking about it, you relive it immediately. we are making enormous progress. i will do everything i possibly can as president of the united states to see to it that we and cancer as we know it and we can do that. we are well within reach. [applause] mr. biden: mr. mayor, we have a lot in common and our backgrounds except i only had one daughter get married at one time. we would have to sell the house. [laughter] you think i'm kidding, but i'm not joking. the county chair, the democratic chair, i said to her inside that this is the most important, thankless job in american politics, but thank you for doing it. i also thank jim, the president at uaw. inre is an expression delaware. they are the ones that brought me to the dance. in early days, we had the

that's easily flipped on me and saying, well, biden is being arrogant, biden thinks i'll have him as hi vice president. so i'm not going to comment on any individual. a woman came up to me, i guess it was -- i don't know, a month ago. i guess i was in new hampshire, and said -- >> all right. i'm almost done. >> why shouldn't i vote for a woman? i said you should. if you think that person is most qualified at the moment right now to deal with our problems, vote. i'm not suggesting you shouldn't vote for women. look, i have spent my career to say my daughters and granddaughters can do anything, and i mean anything, anything that a man can do. anything. and so i don't have a doubt in my mind. and if i started naming some of the people around the country, people who are not running for president as well who are fully qualified to be vice president, again it would be he's awful presumptuous. so there's a lot of really qualified women out there. >> in terms of -- last question. in terms of what we haven't seen from joe biden yet, i remember -- last question. last question. i promise. last

biden. and, again, we don't have the specifics. they're teasing a successful quarter. tell me more. >> yeah, look. it's an open question. we don't have an idea when the campaign is going to release their money totals right now. and they don't have to. no campaign has to until july 15th, the deadline when they have to file with the fec. so an open question now. you noted that email to supporters saying they blew their fund-raising goals out of the water. we don't know what their fund-raising goals were. we know the vice president has spent a lot of time, high-dollar money. there is a very good chance he's going to have equal to or more than pete buttigieg. the big question right now that has always been the case with the biden team, is the grass roots number there. is the money coming in from the types of supporters that have bolstered bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, that give those candidates the ability to stay off the fund-raising circuit and more on the campaign trail. we'll start to ge

that is good for biden. i don't think it is good for biden if he keeps telegraphing his strategy about the debate because can he deliver. he set up this fireworks between him and presumably kamala harris and maybe even cory booker and it is deliver on stage and we'll see if he can. >> there was a funny moment if we could go to question six because andrew yang who is running for president and michael bennet had a little funny moment on twitter trying to get in on this telegraphing thing with yang tweeting, i would like to signal to the press that i will be attacking michael bennet at next week's debate. sorry michael bennet but you know what you did and he responded, and rue, how do you know i got a "c" in calculus. and i want to ask you about the poll. it is early. july 2019. and it is not that early. e eyo wans will vote in a few months. >> it is so early. 36 days before iowa voted in -- >> hold it up. >> dean pulls away in a democratic race. >> a cbs poll and said president dean pulled on and he served two

biden and sanders are both down. and what's amazing altogether is how many americans are willing to put their own money into a presidential campaign. an election. give it to politicians. trump's campaigns and his committees say they've raised more than $100 million all in. 54 million for him, 51 million for the rnc. that's a lot. and the top seven 2020 democratic candidates together have raised the same amount. i mean, these are jaw-dropping numbers. jay lee is traveling with elizabeth warren. oufrnt in peterborough, new hampshi hampshire. how significant is this money? and the context here, tripling in the second quarter from the first for her campaign. >> reporter: that's right, erin. this is a significant fund-raising haul for elizabeth warren. you know, in addition to the $19.1 million that she raised in the second quarter, the other number they're going to be pretty happy about today is 19.7 million. that is how much cash she has on hand heading into the third quarter and why is this significant? because first o

, he was so critical of biden after biden talked about the segregationists that he worked with in the united states senate. >> right. >> and i think -- we'll see if booker goes after biden. >> i'm sorry. >> no, that will be, that will be a possibility. >> i think we also ought to allow for the fact that even though these matchups are important, and i appreciate the fight night analogies, they all have imperative strategically -- >> totally. >> elizabeth warren is doing very, very well, but she's doing well with college-educated voters, very liberal voters and young voters. she hasn't broken through with white working class voters and her message is geared that way. she needs to find -- i think she would have liked to been in the debate with biden to have that discussion about the bankruptcy bill to burnish her vote there. kamala harris did very well in defining herself as a fighter in that moment. it was a very dramatic moment. her -- of all the top contenders, i think her message is least fleshed out, and so beyond having biden on that platform she needs to use that team to tell peop

biden still leads in almost every poll. the general trend in the last month has been, warren is gaining and kamala harris is gaining. bernie sanders is going down a little bit and biden is going down a little bit. biden is still the front-runner. he's ahead in every poll. that said, this debate performance wasn't great for him, showing up in the numbers now. harris from fund-raising, from on the ground in iowa, has a bit of a momentum right now. >> can the other democratic candidates really chip away at biden at this point, matthew? >> it shows in aftermath of the debate, they can. joe biden was sitting at 38%. he's down to 25%. i think we're in the round, some soccer, go women today, they're playing the netherlands today. we're in this group stage and we're about to go into the knockout stage soon. probably in advance of the abc debate in september. i think joe biden and bernie sanders are the two weakest sort of front-running candidates that we have had in a party in a long, long time. i think once other candidates do wel

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when you talk about who's problematic -- and this is my problem with joe biden, my fear with joe biden that he's hillary 2.0. i sat in focus group rooms with younger voters of color. they brought up the super predator stuff with hillary clinton. they said, we cannot -- you know, they're not going to make the binary choice between the lesser of two evils. i think the problem with joe biden is he becomes hillary 2.0. we need the candidate that can inspire those young people and rebuild the obama coalition built on young people and expanding the electorate, not going back to the 1992 campaign again. >> my sense is they need both of those things. they need what cornell is talking about, but they also need some of these twice obama, once trump voters from these midwestern states. the question is who can thread that need the. the question for biden is can he electrify those people that cornell is talking about. i see little evidence. >> not if you have to talk about bussing at every debate. that is no way to elect. >> as a trump skeptic, i see this campaign shaping up into two 40% bases talk

and not donald trump if biden is the nominee. racism isn't afemoral. they will switch back and forth depending on the candidate. are you suggesting 3%, 4%, that small number, they're a racist if they vote for trump and warren is the nominee but they're not racist if they vote for biden and he's the nominee? >> no. my suggestion is simple. it is my belief. that if you condone racism and racism as a strategy, we really haven't seen this exclusively since 1968 with george wallace. but if you condone that and you rationalize it in some way and you support racism, then you have some racism in yourself. again, how trump stacks up against other people. i'm not saying that trump's going to lose because of this. i think that's what makes this election so important. because it is -- it is kind of a clarion call of what our moral values are and what this country is about. that someone can stand up and say, black and brown people are different than white people and that they are, you know -- and that immigrants can be treated in a subhuman w

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>>> biden slides and female candidates surge. a new cnn poll shows front-runner joe biden's lead shrinking to just 5 points after the first democratic debates. closing the gap capitalizing on their strong debate performances. good morning. i'm jim sciutto in new york. poppy harlow is off today. the numbers seem to confirm what we had suspected last week. senator kamala harris' attack on joe biden was devastatingly effective and shows bernie sanders is slipping. and pete buttigieg despite his fund-raising numbers is practically stagging. it's in the numbers, mark, quite a dramatic drop for vice president joe biden. although there are other numbers that look more positive for him. break it down for us. >> when you talk about dramatic, a 10 point drop, at the same time you add elizabeth warren and kamala harris both coming up almost by double digits and you have to wonder if it was all that debate. let's take a look where joe biden is with african-american voters because remember that was the flash point during that debate. where is

to be able to get into that 25% to 40% that joe biden -- i do think if biden has a performance that calms a lot of nerves in his orbit, all of a sudden you see how he might have a lock on that and taking that into iowa and new hampshire. >> chris matthews, you know joe biden so well for decades. he has been let's just say not as aggressive, not as focused as a lot of his own supporters would have liked to have seen. what does he need to do tonight? >> reporter: he has to direct all the fire from his colleagues toward the president. no matter what cory booker says, no matter what kamala harris goes after him, he should share with them his passion. no search and destroy missions tonight, mr. vice president. don't go following back to newark and how the police do -- what do you call it -- stop and frisk. don't get into that. they'll say you're doing to them what trump did to elijah cummings. don't go on the attack. don't fall for the bait. you start attacking down, you're going to lose. those guys are trying to get from 1% to 2%. you're trying to hold your numbers around 30%. you have a diff

others have joe biden ahead. the issues she's running on a busing and that's unpopular-- >> and the prosecutor unpopular and in south carolina, biden has very strong support and struggled there among other places. i want to get to joe biden, still the front runner, the president has been punching at the most or hitting the hardest. here is biden yesterday on cnn talking about russian interference with the u.s. elections. >> look at what's happening to putin. while putin is trying to undo our elections, he is undoing elections in europe. look what's happened in hungary, in poland, look what's happening. do you think that would have happened on my watch or barack's watch? i promise you it wouldn't and it didn't. leland: well, something happened in 2016. that said, your colleague, ben shapiro, has been famous for saying, joe biden's first days are his best days. are we seeing proof of that with sound bites like this? >> we've long predicted this, that joe biden is great in theory, but in practice he's a total dufus,

support among black voters for joe biden has been really strong. his association with president obama helping him there. is that now vulnerable do you think because the way harris went after him? >> i think he's incredibly vulnerable. i think we saw last night was so good for harris because she did essentially two important things. one is, she can miss the d&c democrats, establishment democrats who may be on the fence about joe biden that maybe it's time to switch. the second is, she showed her strength and prosecuting a case in a politician and 40 seconds, joe biden was starting to struggle. and it was a moment if you candidates get in their career. it was great to see. gerry: they got most of the attention. who else, eric, do you think is kind of standing? it was 20 candidates, two debates. most did not get a look and. who is still standing? >> i think sanders reaffirmed his support in position and reminder he is one that brought the party where it is today. even if time is passing him by for a number of factors including some self conflicted pol

. >> joe biden thinks out loud. some of those thoughts you want to say keep them to yourself. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. late last night house speaker nancy pelosi called on the labor secretary alexander acosta to resign over that secret sweetheart deal he made with multi-millionaire jeffrey epstein. this morning we are waiting to hear from secretary acosta and the white house on these new allegations and acosta's future. >>> joe biden told chris cuomo that senator kamala harris' her attack on her husband at the first debate came as a surprise. both jill and joe biden are opening up about their son's health struggle. >> we want to bring in joey jackson here, our cnn legal analyst to help us understand what's going on in the jeffrey epstein case. first, sarah, let's talk about the politics of all of this. can alex acosta survive this now that we know he decided to do this sweetheart deal so beyond all possible doubt what others would say would be applicable in a case of a sex offender with t

so, you know, biden was flat footed -- this is strange because biden is not a good candidate. republicans have been watching him and said for years he's not a good candidate, but is he the right candidate for this time? that's the only question. >> favorite anecdote i think from that debate and which might be indicative of a long running problem for joe biden is they asked, would you support providing health insurance to illegal immigrants and a bunch of hands shot up and others hands raised and then joe biden sheepishly knowing which way the wind was blowing and he was subsequently asked by the moderators why didn't you raise your hand? assumption being he wouldn't raise his hands. he's supposed to be the centrist moderate candidate but he did suggesting that he knows what the democratic party wants to do which is drift left. that's something you can't etch-a-sketch away. >> it's more of a gotcha question. if you don't raise your hands you think they want them the immigrants to die in the street. >> to the certain voter. >> yes. in a couple of debates look, john kerry won all