bernie sanders has two arguments to make. one, he has a proven track record of winning votes in wisconsin, of michigan of attracting rural voters and independent voters. two, he has an economic populist message that appealed to working class voters, the same voters joe was discussing earlier. his message can resinate. and i thinking he has to make that case, clearly. >> all right. congressman, thank you so much for being on the show this morning. >> thanks for always having me on. >> and speaking pelosi is set to meet with one of her highest profile critics within the democratic caucus. right now, alexandria ocasio-cortez is slated to be sitting down with the speaker. now, according to a pelosi spokesperson, that is the case. aoc tells nbc news, quote, i don't think i have a strong message for pelosi, just to connect and make sure we're communicating. the meeting comes after the two seemed to clash over a compromised measure to provide border funding and then the "new york times" -- the new york congresswoman accused pelosi o

pre-debate we were talking about bernie and biden and biden being the establishment figure. and now we're talking about really a three-person top tier race with warren, kamala harris, biden, and bernie sanders being somewhat pushed aside. he is being coopted. the women were the breakout stars here. i don't think there were many americans who predebate saw harris as a person who could stand up on a stage with trump and disassemble him. but you take out trump and insert biden, i think many more people were able to envision that and see what she did inside congress with disassembling attorney general barr, with some of the other trump cabinet officials is something that she can also do in a campaign context. >> you know, back in '88, i remember george sr., the first george bush, taking apart dan rather. that was the sparring partner. that was setting him up for take down mike dukakis in the fall, and it worked. >> i think what we're seeing here is laziness on the part of the biden campaign. there is absolutely to reason he should be -- kamala harris was jab, left, right. he sho

bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. sanders trailing warren in the polls but both campaigns say they're planning on keeping things cordial. they'll face off against, among others, representatives from the party's center. the center right, including former colorado governor john hickenlooper and millionaire, former congressman john delaney. both men have made criticism of the party's, quote, democratic socialist

senator bernie sanders beats trump by seven. senator elizabeth warren beats trump by five and then it gets more narrow. kamala harris has a one-point edge over the president. that of course falls to the poll's margin of error. in the democratic choice for nomination joe biden leads with 26% of the vote, warren at 19, harris, bernie sanders, buttigieg. as for the rest of the democratic field, andrew yang, beto o'rourke snagged two percent and then it falls off a cliff from there. the rest of the pack lagging far behind. some of the names in this race fail to register at all. again, these are national polls. even though we don't have a national election, we have more like 50 state elections. there are also new and telling numbers out tonight from a key primary state. in a survey of likely new hampshire democratic voters, joe biden has the lead right now at this moment in time with nearly 21% support. but he is in a statistical tie with kamala harris in second place and warren in third. buttigieg follows with 11.5. and bernie sande

bernie sanders unmoved at 19%. joe biden is down in that poll 5 points, but remains a strong front-runner in the poll with 33%. then a new cnn poll out tonight shows joe biden dropping 10 points, down to 22%. that still leaves him in first place while kamala harris moved up nine points to second place with 17% in that poll. elizabeth warren gained eight points in that poll and moved up to 15%. bernie sanders lost four and moved down to 14%. but technically the margin of error leaves senator harris, warnen and sanders in a tie. maria urbina from indivisionible. director for hillary clinton's presidential campaign. jennifer, what happened? what do the polls tell us? let's put it out there. it could change income week. it apparently is a reaction to the debate. your reaction to that? >> dinote that biden's pollster tweeted that this was over a weekend and we shouldn't take them too seriously. she went for the king and she got him and she went up nine points. he went down in that poll 10 points and kamala harris went u

senator bernie sanders holds onto second place. joining me now from iowa, our road warriors, mike, you are following joe biden, let's talk about the second quarter for him in terms of fund raising compares to other candidates we know so far. >> reporter: the downside of being the front runner in that debate, joe biden put on defensive by some of his opponents. as he arrived today since the debate a little bit of a show of force for the biden campaign announce announcing the second quarter number. it is not as much as pete buttigieg raising more than $25 million. bernie sanders with a big number of $18 million. that's more on a curve day bases the biden campaign points out. i will read a few of these statistics highlighted binomial dy biden. 97% of all donations are from grass root donors, amounts of less than $200 or less. they have more than 256,000 donors. obviously, ali, as biden, having to deal with that tense debate exchange with kamala harris. the fact that he's not going anywhere. a reminder from the biden campaign as well.

i think you're right, joe, about elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. bernie sanders had to wake up to the numbers from elizabeth warren yesterday and go, whoa. she raised a lot of money. she did it in small donors. i think some people thought it was a stunt maybe when she started her campaign and said i'm not going to do any fund-raising. i won't be calling rich people. it's not how we'll run the campaign. well, it's working. she's going out there on the stump every day. she's not been particularly flashy. not having viral moments like some of the other candidates have. she's doing the work and now showing up in the polls and in the fund-raising. >> we were worried and concerned that she was burning through the cash in the early part of the campaign and she couldn't last this long. i think what we see in some ways that cadre, that organizing public that bernie sanders had. right? that those folks who were always already engaged are now really looking to her, looking towards her and looking towards him. i mean, she didn't outraise him by a significant n

he never told bernie or any of the other guys to go home. >> but bernie is part of this too. what's confusing the democrats in all this, why are the president's numbers improving? why are states like michigan and pennsylvania -- >> that's an answer. >> i think a big part of that reason is you see these far left social democrats are an insult to a lot of americans who say this isn't the american dream. this isn't the america i was promised. and they're frankly insulted to some degree that the democrats aren't fighting for them. >> jemel, your thoughts. why are they the target of this president politically? because what trump cares about, whatever his prejudices are, his number one goal i would say is him. his goal. he wants to win and be a bigger shot next year than he was this year. a still bigger shot two years from now, a still bigger shot three years from now. that's all trump wants to be. bigger, bigger, bigger. why is he doing it this way? >> because women of color and people of color have always been low-hanging fruit in this country. with all due respect talking about

she's in the range of senator bernie sanders who collected 18 million. and ahead of michael bennet and steve bullock who raised $2 million respectively. >>> democratic presidential candidate amy klobuchar is trying to differentiate herself from her other candidates, during an interview on "meet the press" staking out a centrist position by not supporting medicare for all, favoring an approach that would create a public option but allowing those on private insurance to keep her plans. she says she's the best candidate. >> there's a lot of people making promises. i'm not going to make promises just to get elected. i'm not running for chair of the democratic national committee. i'm running for president of the united states, and some of my colleagues, yes, they have, i guess you could call them bigger and bigger promise but i think what's most important to the people of america is we actually get those things done. >> president trump's top immigration officials disputing reports that migrant children have been held in crowded and unsanitary conditions at th

kamala harris and bernie sanders are tied at 13%. mayor pete buttigieg trails at 7%. andrew yang and former texas congress and beto o'rourke are at 2%. everybody else is under 2%. joining me now, our senior editor, beth buoy, talk to me about elizabeth warren's game. we have been talking about kamala harris' gains possibly expense of joe biden but bernie sanders seems to have come down a little bit and what are we thinking about where elizabeth warren is getting her gains from? >> she's been steady for a while. this poll is note worthy, it is the first one that we have conducted since our debate last month. a lot that we have seen has not change from before the debate. even though kamala harris had that big break-out moment at the poll, at the debate where she challenged biden on issues of race and bussing. warren with a slow steady uptake and continuing for bernie sanders who just seems to be losing a lot of that progressive grounds to those of warren. >> let's talk about elizabeth warren, we talked about being big on policies. there is an interesting in this poll th

bernie sanders raised $18 million. and kamala harris has a $12 million haul. those totals for democrats pale in comparison to president trump's fund-raising totals. his re-election campaign and the rnc collectively raised $105 million for the second quarter and he's tens of millions of dollars ahead of where president obama was at this point in the 2012 re-election bid. let's bring in my panel. sher michael singleton, a republican political consultant and a contributing host for vox media's "consider it" and doug thornell, former senior adviser to the democratic national committee. before discussing campaign finance, i want your thoughts on what we heard in my interviews with senator warren and mayor buttigieg. shermichael, let's go to you first. >> i think with mayor pete stated, dleerecognizing areas o shortcomings and faults and things that are ongoing in his city was very laudable, right? i think we can applause that. as you talk about the money he's raised, what it does indicate is just because you have backing from financial donors doesn't necessarily me

and bernie sanders is strong here. you may recall that he ran very strongly here the last time out too. but let's talk about what happened to biden. while i defer to a.b. and her wisdom, even if he takes a hit again tomorrow, look what he's been through in the last few weeks, brian. i mean, he didn't just have that terrible moment with senator harris in that debate. there's been talk about his nostalgia for serving with races in the senate, the media has unearthed all kinds of things about his record on crime, to progressive voters, and he's still in the national polls and has a huge lead. we don't know what's going to happen. even though there's conflicting evidence in polls on this, democrats want one thing more than anything else, whether they're progressives or moderates. they want to win. so the issue of electability and the so-called conventional wisdom that biden may have the best chance against trump, i'm not sure if we don't get into our tunnel vision here on what all of this means on july 29th of 2019. >> two

a winning coalition for warren, she can pull from mainstream democrats easier than bernie can. just having enough a plurality, for progressives is going to make her across the ticket. >> joel payne, great to see you steve kornacki, thank for being at the board. award winning journalist katy tur who you usually see this hour and jacob soboroff kick off their series "american swamp." it's going to dig deep into murky areas of american politics. everything from president trump's business ties to the dark money impacting our elections. you're going to want to catch the premiere episode of "american swamp." on sunday on msnbc. >>> if reports are true that the president can stand to profit bigly from the next g7 summit "one more thing" next. into our. why don't we just ask geico for help with renters insurance? i didn't know geico helps with renters insurance. yeah, and we could save a bunch too. antonio! fetch computer! antonio? i'll get it. get to know geico and see how much you could save on renters insurance. booking.com offers free so bookers can book now... and ask their boss l

bernie sanders put out a voluminous e-mail late last night. at some point this week we will see how much money we raised and how many contributions make up that amount. he has a phone call at the top of the hour but maybe we will learn some more. does it tell you anything we haven't heard from the rest of the field how much money they raised? >> i think it does. i think you will see a win knowing. 20 candidates is a lot of people. the size of this field right now is unwieldy. if voters are making preference known by campaign contributions or by polling that does help win no people away. on the other hand, remember what a dynamo jeb bush was in terms of fund-raising and the amount of money he had. and hillary clinton. they both were money raising machines. at the end of the day, money does help in elections but it's not determinative. >> meantime, you have the press release that came out, maybe to answer pete buttigieg, from the rnc raised $105 million this quarter, that's $20 million more than obama did with the dnc during that same period, fo

bernie sanders at 11%. elizabeth warren at 8% and pete buttigieg at 3%. >> that's a number that elizabeth warren has been well aware that she needs to work on really from day one. you know, you saw her even before she announced giving a big speech at a historically black college in baltimore where she laid out some of the themes about housing, her opposition, and her understanding of red lining and the effect that's had on black communities. she's consistently been hammering that message again and again and again before white and black audiences quite frankly. but you haven't seen it move the needle yet. and i know that they've also -- the campaign has worked hard with black influencers. in that area, particularly younger female black influencers, you've seen them change their minds a little bit. you've seen them come along, people who were suspicious of her in the past, on twitter saying good things about her. for that to translate to actual numbers, you're absolutely right. that's a difficult number for h

to fifth place in the new hampshire poll at 9.9% and in the last presidential campaign, bernie sanders won the new hampshire primary with 60% of the vote. after this break, we will be joined by cornell belcher for more on the latest polling in the presidential campaign. n the the presidential campaign. bleech! aww! awww! ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft for the win win. ♪work so hard give it everything you got♪ ♪strength of a lioness tough as a knot♪ ♪rocking the stage and we're never gonna stop♪ ♪all strength, no sweat... just in case you forgot♪ ♪all strength, no sweat... ♪no no no sweat... we run right into these crises, and we do not leave until normalcy is restored. we'd been working for days on a site in a storm devastated area. a family pulled up. it was a mom and her kids. everything they had had been washed away. the only thing that brought any kind of solace was the ability to hand her a device so she could call her family and let them know that she was okay. (vo) there for you when it matters most. join us and get up to $650 when you

bernie sanders at 11%. elizabeth warren at 8% and pete buttigieg at 3%. >> that's a number that elizabeth warren has been well aware that she needs to work on really from day one. you know, you saw her even before she announced giving a big speech at a historically black college in baltimore where she laid out some of the themes about housing, her opposition, and her understanding of red lin lining and the effect that's had on black communities. she's consistently been hammering that message again and again and again before white and black audiences quite frankly. but you haven't seen it move the needle yet. and i know that they've also -- the campaign has worked hard with black influencers. in that area, particularly younger female black influencers, you've seen them change their minds a little bit. you've seen them come along, people who were suspicious of her in the past, on twitter saying good things about her. for that to translate to actual numbers, you're absolutely right. that's a difficult number f

then there is a tie for third place between kamala harris and bernie sanders at 13 points each. that's the top tier. the double-digit crowd. biden, warren, seven points back and harris and sanders six points back from warren. below the top four, we get into the single digits. pete buttigieg is at 7%. two candidates at 2%. beto o'rourke and andrew yang. and then candidates in the 1% club. amy klobuchar. then a 0% club. kirstin gillibrand. kirstin gillibrand all polling at goose egg in the new poll. this is just one poll. it's early on. they are all trying to hit at least one or two percent to help them get into the next debates. there are a couple of things that i want to show you about this top tier of candidates as they rate in the new nbc poll. it's on the subject of senator harris and her standings since she will be our guest tonight. also because of that top tier of candidates, senator harris is the 1 who turned in the lowest fund-raising numbers in the last quarter that ended after the first debate. mayor pete buttigieg was only at 7%, ranked fifth in the poll, but in the l

bernie has been very honest about it. he's going to have to raise taxes in the middle class, end all private insurance. he's straightforward about it. he's making his case. so far not. so far not. >> meantime, senator bernie sanders pushed back on biden's claims in an e-mail to supporters, including biden of stirring up misinformation about his campaign. sanders writes quote it is preposterous as we expand medicaid for all that people with cancer and other illnesses will not get the care they need adding that under his plan americans would not have to face bankruptcy over serious medical conditions. >>> still ahead, bob mueller's upcoming congressional testimony gets delayed. we have details about the agreement between the former special counsel and house democrats. >>> intense rainfall swamps louisiana as tropical depression barry moved inland. meteorologist bill karins will have a full check on the forecast coming up next. ing up . these folks don't have time to go to the post office they use stamps.com all the services

taking the stage tonight bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. not many fireworks on the campaign trail just yet. might that change tonight? nina turner. senator turner, thanks for coming back on the show. >> reporter: good to be with you, hallie. >> so let me start with sort of the news of the morning here and how you see the president's comments, his attacks on african-american lawmakers playing out in tonight's debate, if at all? >> i'm quite sure that question is about race and racism, and i hope it goes deeper than this president even though he is the manifestation of hate. instead of lifting and using the power of the office to lift communities in this country, he uses it to belittle. i would be surprised if race and racism did not come up in the debate. i hope we can go deeper. this is bigger than one individual. this is about the institutional racism. we know from 1619 to right now, it's been 400 yards since the first afternoons were brought to the shores as slaves. so we have a deeper conversation in this country to have. and i would als

he wants the party, he wants ha bernie scene. he wants leaders of the party to be married to these four. he's used that verb. they've married them. so while the speaker will continue to fight with these people when they give her a hard time and say seize coding abusers in detention centers by rushing this money off and not demanding more concessions, from republicans, this is a central question among democrats, how will we pull together behind a nominee and who it be? it is no longer clear it's joe biden unless he comes back fighting and describes to the party that the path forward is through the center in convincing terms. but he's going to get so much heat from the left from now until the end of this race and we just don't know if he's going to win it. >> eliza use your equally formidable powers of description, what must it be like for a republican member of congress, let's say a member of congress that just scooted by in the last election to defend and protect that seat with this going on? >> well, incredibly uncomfortable. we

to fifth place in the new hampshire poll at 9.9% and in the last presidential campaign, bernie sanders won the new hampshire primary with 60% of the vote. biden is still in the lead in new hampshire. warren is now at 16.7 percent. sanders has dropped to 5th place. (burke) at farmers insurance, we've seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a parking splat. fly-by ballooning. (man) don't...go...down...oh, no! aaaaaaahhhhhhhh! (burke) rooftop parking. (burke) and even a hit and drone. (driver) relax, it's just a bug. that's not a bug, that's not a bug! (burke) and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ ♪work so hard give it everything you got♪ ♪strength of a lioness tough as a knot♪ ♪rocking the stage and we're never gonna stop♪ ♪all strength, no sweat... just in case you forgot♪ ♪all strength, no sweat... ♪no no no sweat... ♪ corey is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her bod

the bernie people have a presence here, but let's wait and see. there is a lot of enthusiasm about electing a woman. i've seen it in so many events. if you look at the list of the panels, so many are women elected for the first time in 0 2016 or 2017. i looked at how to win back the blue collar voter in 2020 and it had to be sponsored by the teamsters because it wasn't part of the vibe here. many of the people here were journalists and not panelists. i think women power was a big scene. >> i think there was like a game. i don't know if you saw on the board where they were putting up who should drop out next, and we looked at it and the people who had the most votes was biden. that's not going to happen, but there was a sense of the people who wanted to reach out to the other side that that's not what people there were really into. another thing here. the 2020 nominees, they were asked by our abc "wall street journal" poll should they push big scale, big, big policies or smaller scale policies? it's a pretty big difference. people want big policy.

bernie sanders is welcoming that contrast with joe biden. he was talking about his vision for medicare for all. despite something he fought for himself, he had tens of millions of people uninsured or underinsured under the affordable care act. >> at the end of the day, we say this one last time, the united states must join every other major country on earth, and guarantee health care to all people as a right. and if people tell you we can't afford it, you tell them that medicare for all will cost less as a nation than the current dysfunctional system. >> bernie sanders selling this himself. he's unveiling his plan for senior issues. is he going to be expanding social security by raising the cap on income taxing. not all americans, just up to $139 a year. >> mike memoli. joining us. talking about medicare for all, as well. as the democrats duke it out on the campaign trail the new york times is reporting that the electoral edge could grow in 2020. joining me now to break this down are republican strategists joe watkins and amy tarkanian. you

bernie is a very honest person. he said over and over unlike others that supported this legislation. over and over again, this will ban making it legal all insurance except cosmetic. except insurance for i guess plastic surgery. everything else is banned under the medicare for all. >> obviously senator sanders, you get a response. >> just briefly, you know, mike, medicare is the most popular health insurance program in the country. people don't like their private insurance companies. they like their doctors and hospitals. under our plan people go to any doctor or hospital they want. we will substantially lower the cost of health care because we stop the greed of the insurance companies. >> we have to think about how this affects real people. and the reality of how this affects real people is captured in a story that many of us heard and will paraphrase. there is any night in america, a parent who has seen their child has a temperature that is out of control and calls 911, what should i do. take the child to the emer

the dnc was playing favorites with hillary clinton over bernie sanders. >> on page 45 of the mueller report, private messages over twitter between wikileaks and russian opera tufs released an interest in the stolen information and causing conflict in the democratic party. >> wikileaks explained we think trump has a 25% chance of winning against hillary so conflict is interesting. >> she was hillary clinton's director of strategic communications at the time of the dnc hack. >> you had outside forces like wikileaks that were trying to perpetuate discord and dysfunction between two people who really should be coming together and unify iing the democratic party. >> the idea that inside the dnc, which is supposed to be neutral, the thumb was on the scale for hillary clinton. >> that's where you got your split between bernie sanders supporter and hillary clinton supporters. and the u.s. news media ate it up. >> the next thing i know i've got bernie bros, trump supporters, just crazy people calling me and saying every word you can imagine under the sun and then hanging up. it felt violating

of note, elizabeth warren also moved ahead of bernie sanders there. but what's raising the most eyebrows is this new national quinnipiac poll, where harris is essentially tied with biden. she's trailing by 2 points, which is within the margin error. beth fouhy and jeremy peters join us. this is an indication of momentum on the part of kamala harris and slowing on the part of the joe biden. is this meaningful to you? >> it's 16 months out, ali, these don't tell us much about what the nominee will be. what they do tell us are about the respective weaknesses and strengths of the people we assumed were going to be the leading candidates. kamala harris really rocketed to the top of the field after pumpi puncturing two assumptions that we had about the race, one, that biden had this aura of strength, dominance in the field. and two, what a general election debate challenger to president trump could look like. and she really i think performed at a level that would make americans comfortable, seeing her side by side against president trump, she could be a ver

>>> meanwhile, a new fox news poll today showing joe biden has a commanding two to one lead ov over bernie sanders. welcome all. mark murray, these polls are pretty stunning for joe biden. because for all the talk about how he faltered and stumbled quite a bit and was not punching back in the first debate, he is not lost elevation. >> it's a lot like dorothy at the end of the wizard of oz, and realizing everything was a dream. that debate where joe biden is the exact same place in that fox news poll he was back in june. to me, it's kind of a reminder when you have these debates that they can be clashes and moments but sometimes they revert back to the mean. it was in 2012 when barack obama had that rough debate performance with mitt romney. after a couple good debate performances everybody forgot about it. that's the challenge for joe biden. he can afford one bad debate performance, but two, i think would really destabilize this race. that's what i'm going to be watching. >> in fact, you know, his team -- everyone is projecting he wants to punch back. he said i'm not going to be as polite

night one will feature both bernie sanders and elizabeth warren as well as add a new face to the mix, montana governor steve bullock. night two get a chance to see joe biden and kamala harris face off or not again. this time the front-runner will be standing between harris and cory booker. both of them have challenged him on race. the stakes are high and "the washington post" writes this -- quote, the primetime democratic debate in detroit late this month could be a season finale for as many as half the candidates who have made the stage, as they struggle to meet the higher qualification requirements that go into effect for later gatherings. everyone is back. lydia, two things we should point out, no diversity on the first night, and i think harris, i don't know that she benefits with all of the focus being on will she or won't she? she should be held to a higher standard because of her performance last time. i don't love this arrangement. >> the bar is going to be very high for harris on that second night, right. because biden will be ready. he's going to be waiting for that to come.

>> bernie sanders and elizabeth warren will have their own night. they basically admit, no offense to the other eight, that will be seen as -- does bernie sanders attack elizabeth warren? if he does, how does he do it? we know she's not. she doesn't need to. he kind of does. >> it's interesting because if you think about who's been debating since the debate and mixing it up, biden, booker, harris, sanders. who's not in this mix? warren. she's done a very good job of staying above the fray. she's all about the policy. she's all about the issues. staying out of it. let the food fight between all of them. >> she caught another break by not being with biden, didn't she? >> absolutely. >> the one candidate who may not attack biden is kamala harris. >> she did great the first time. >> right. why stop for the second. >> so the fox poll you would think nothing happened the last two months but even though that speaks to stasous, there's fluidity in this race and by the time there's snow on the ground in iowa, lusomeone will catch fire. >> it feels like we're

of note, elizabeth warren also moved ahead of bernie sanders there. but what's raising the most eyebrows is this new national quinnipiac poll, where harris is essentially tied with biden. she's trailing by 2 points, which is within the margin error. beth fouhy and jeremy peters join us. >> what does this mean. this is an indication of momentum on the part of kamala harris and slowing on the part of the joe biden. is this meaningful to you? >> it's 16 months out, ali, these don't tell us much about what the nominee will be. what they do tell us are about the respective weaknesses and strengths of the people we assumed were going to be the leading candidates. kamala harris really rocketed to the top of the field after puncturing two assumptions that we had about the race, one, that biden had this aura of strength, dominance in the field. and two, what a general election debate challenger to president trump could look like. and she really i think performed at a level that would make americans comfortable, seeing her side by side against president trump,

bernie sanders stands for that a acu. there was a reference that you probably heard about that senator sanders hasn't even called to ask for your support again. where do you stand on the presidential race? >> well, we have a lot of capable individuals who are running who do understand the kitchen table and i'm really looking forward to them laying out that vision, getting amay cuexcited about returning to the fundamentals of taking on health care, education, infrastructure, living wage jobs. things that have been incredibly neglected and set aside by this administration. >> so why not sanders this time? >> i feel there are many capable individuals who are making this case and i'm looking forward to hearing each of them lay it out. it'ser the vision you have and you ability to carry that vision into the momentum that allows you to make the decisions in office. i think a robust debate is no longer a hillary clinton and bernie sanders. hillary clinton is not a candidate. so we have a different set of cards this time and i'm

so does bernie sanders. i don't think if she were to leave congress tomorrow, this is something the republicans will give up any more than calling joe biden old or sick. this is just their play book. they don't need us to help them with character. it might be annoying circular family session that's being played out in the newspaper but we're too feckless to have circular firing squads. >> all right. i'm sure my viewers are disappointed we can't continue the conversation. thank you. >>> another series of tweets when the president triggers controversy. we have reaction next. controversy. we have reaction next. a test. and i...was... shocked. i'm from cameroon, congo, and...the bantu people. new features. greater details. richer stories. get your dna kit today at ancestry.com. ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. the volvo xc90. there's brushing and there's oral-b power brushing. oral-b just cleans better. it's t

senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders follow. senator harris and vice president biden are among the candidates campaigning in iowa. when a "usa today" poll shows biden continues to lead. joining me now nbc's vaughn hillyard on the trail. what's it look like out there? >> reporter: yeah, this is what the scenes in iowa in the summertime begin to look like. with kamala harris in the white, in west des moines picnic. before you toss to me, i saw senator amy klobuchar walk in between the candidate, they're the two main candidates here, going to address several hundred folks here in west des moines. and she has a town hall later in the day. and that conversation is what do you take from a candidate from the debate stage where kamala harris through the contrasts with joe biden. what does it look like on the campaign trail? well, you can say it's basically the second inning. we'll continue to see what the message is here. the first stop over the course of three days, then new orleans and south carolina on sunday and monday. >> vaughan,

but after biden and warren, harris is tied with bernie sanders at 13 points. it is clear at this point that kamala harris is a top tier candidate in this giant race. with that happening, how do you keep that momentum going? there's a whole lot of race still to be run. however do you capitalize on recent moves in the horse race like that? joining us now is california senator and democratic presidential candidate, kamala harris. thank you for being here. >> great to be with you, rachel, thank you. >> i have not seen you since the debate. obviously america thinks you did well. how has it changed your campaign or how you are doing this? >> well, on a daily basis, it has not changed. i'm spending a lot of time in the primary states. this past weekend, it was in iowa, new hampshire, tomorrow i'm going to nevada. we're building up a great ground game and hiring staff and organizing around voting and registration. and -- but there is momentum, and the way i think about it is that it is steady and to your point, the trajectory is a good one, but there's still a lot of

kamala harris and bernie sanders close behind. warren and sanders are on the same stage for the first time tonigh tonight, competing for progressive voters. pete buttigieg tries to get a boost in the polls. t joining me now from detroit, kristen welker and mike murphy, a former aide to mitt romney and john mccain. here with me in washington, mark murray and joel payne, a former director in the 2016 clinton presidential campaign. kristen welker, first to you, you're there in detroit. michigan played such a critical role in the victory for donald trump. bnz w hillary clinton lost to donald trump by 10,000 votes. that's how small the margin was. very well chosen location for tonight's debate. who gains the most and risks losing the most tonight in the first round? >> reporter: we'll be watching for a couple of things here in what is a critical state for democrats. you're absolutely right about that. first, the extent to which the candidates who are going to be on stage tonight will be talking about two people who won't be on stage. o

i am going to be speaking to bernie sanders shortly. he'll be making a significant speech about healthcare for his proposal for all later on. president trump continues his attack against the four congresswomen of color. did you know because i didn't know this, 5% of congress members were born abroad. i am going to talk to one of them. norma torres of california, next. you are watching "velshi & ruhle," live on msnbc. johnson & johnson is a baby company. but we're also a cancer fighting, hiv controlling, joint replacing, and depression relieving company. from the day you're born we never stop taking care of you. who got an awful skin condition. with uncontrolled moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, you feel like you're itching all the time. and you never know how your skin will look. because deep within your skin an overly sensitive immune system could be the cause. so help heal your skin from within, with dupixent. dupixent is not a steroid, and it continuously treats your eczema even when you can't see it. at 16 weeks, near

but the most prominent is bernie sanders. and you didn't see the president tell bernie sanders to go back from where he came from and told that to four women of color elected to the house. these were racist comments. that's clear. but this is part of a broader political strategy as gabby was just alluding to. the president is trying to -- a base tunchout, maximizing the turnout of his conservative base. not looking to persuade swing vote e voters of his hard core supporters and to galvanize them and energize them and the way he's doing that is by stoking racial animous. it's the same strategy he had in 2016. it's the same thing we saw the president do in the final weeks leading up to the final midterms and we're going to see this continue between now and november of 2020. >> but, philip, and jake, what does this do to his -- it seems like this most recent example, people are really starting to hold trump's base, his feet to the fire. if you voted for this man, you are supporting his way of thinking and you are supporting the

nomination, the abc news "washington post" poll has joe biden leading the field at 30% with senator bernie sanders at 19%, senator kamala harris at 13%, and senator elizabeth warren at 12, while mayor pete buttigieg is in a distant fifth place with 4%. and over in the real clear politics polling average, a recent surge for senator harris since the june 27th debate has moved her past sanders and warren at second place with biden at 26%, and maris harris 15.2%, and warren at 13.8%. 45% of democrats think biden is best positioned to defeat president trump next year. the abc "washington post" poll also is finding that 18% view sanders as the best bet to win while 9% are picking harris and 7% are picking warren. >>> and senator kamala harris's fundraising missed the mark in the second quarter, according to new numbers released by her campaign on friday. the harris campaign raised less than $12 million in the past three months, boosted by a $2 million haul in the first 24 hours after her performance in june's democratic debate. and an additional $1.2 million the following weekend as the back and

senator elizabeth warren gained in her case eight points to come in third and overtaking senator bernie sanders who went down four points. kamala harris' rise comes from a breakout challenge to biden for his comments over working with segregationist senators and his opposition to federally-mandated bussing back in the '70s. senator cory booker who also criticized biden's comments took issue with what biden said friday about african-american teenagers. here goes biden again. >> you got to recognize that kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gang-banger. >> as a young black guy in america who was followed and surveilled, faced that indignity and even the danger of that, being perceived to be a threat, again, this is just another example of just conversations or lessons that joe biden shouldn't have to learn. >> i'm joined by donna edwards, former maryland congresswoman and "washington post" columnist. and a great one at that. who am i to say? but you are a great writer. i think i'm giddy about politics today. because it shows nights matter, donna. people w

of course you look at joe biden and bernie sanders. they've been a top for several months mostly because bernie sanders just ran for president in 2016. joe biden a popular former vice president. it makes sense that they would be atop the national consciousness. but when i look at the part of this poll where it says "never heard of," joe biden, bernie sanders have 5 and 4% respectively i believe of people who have never heard of them. then you look at the elizabeth warren. 19% of people never heard of her. kamala harris, 26% of people never heard of her. pete buttigieg i think it's something like 40% of people say they've never heard of him. so clearly that shows that there is room for growth here. so when we watch the impact that the debate has, it's really bringing people to the national consciousness as more names become in the political vernacular and voters start to get more comfortable with who's actually running in this race. >> and, mike, i think you also hit on what may be the key question for biden in the immediate future in w

>> bernie sanders. >> bernie. >> yeah. bernie. >> great. >> i'm going to let bill make up his own point. because sometimes it's like we've lost control of the monster we've created. bill and then back to professor rigore. >> the point about election security is very good. i believe senator mcconnell blocked security legislation today. said the democrats weren't serious. i don't know if the bill is perfect or good but fine, amend it. let's have a debate about kind of an important issue where they are interfering and it's not clear that the u.s. government is doing what it should be doing to protect our election from 2020. there's where democrats should be doing a lot to highlight this, especially the fact that the republican -- it's one thing not to agree with a particular piece of legislation. they want to spend the money differently, have different guidelines. it's another thing to not even have a debate about it. >> yeah, we've got that headline up. professor? >> so two quick things. one, i think one of the things that t

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it's great to see medicare for all as it's been proposed by the candidates, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, but his argument is, i'm proposing things that can actually get done. joe biden talking a lot about what he did in the midterm elections, that he campaigned for some 69 candidate s in 24 states, those were the races where you had to beat a republican incumbent or a strong republican challenger in a purple or red district, and the,ment here being that, you know, he's closer -- basically, you can put it this way. joe crowley is much more of a joe biden democrat, the person that lost to alexandria ocasio-cortez. but that's where his team has been arguing to me for months, where the majority of democratic voters are. you can look at our latest poll, too, which shows, yes, a slight plurality of democrats want a candidate that is more aligned with them on issues than who can beat donald trump, but it's much lower than it was in 2015. this is about who can get things done. they feel they're on the right side of that and he's much more active, i would say now, in making that case to v

and so she is a -- she is, number one, a really direct competition to bernie sanders. but he will have enough money to continue. she is also -- she's up there in the tier one as a real competitor with the fund-raising and the polling. >> absolutely. let's talk about the guy who is number one, at least in the polls, joe biden. do you think he's turned the corner during the debate? >> i'll say this. look, black voters understand one thing. they understand how dangerous donald trump is. they understand the hatred. they understand the bigotry. the outright racism. and, you know, that is not surprise why we see black voters, one of the number one things they care about is to get rid of donald trump, to beat donald trump in 2020. so when the two things that biden has to deal with after this debate was number one, he showed his vulnerability on race. number two, he put that doubt in people's mind, which was can he beat donald trump? and that's a very dangerous doubt to put in people's minds when you're the front-runner and you're running this electability, this kind of genera

they trust bernie sanders on health care. these are what the numbers show. again, joe biden is still at the top of the pack. what does that tell you about the party when it comes to that perspective? >> we have one debate. and i think it's an important debate. you can see that it shifts. joe biden has a very long record. people know him really well. i think it's not surprising to me that he is keeping his position after one debate. people really did move up considerably. the issue is, look, people care about policy. they are not going to happen if you can't defeat trump. >>> speaking of donald trump, new reporting from politico talking about this nra meltdown that has the trump campaign sweating. with the chamber of commerce and koch political network withdrawing, republicans worry three organizations that have long formed the core of their electoral infrastructure will be effectively on the sidelines. if you're in the trump camp, are you freaking out? >> no. i just raised $105 million. >> so you're good. >> in terms of networking and maybe dollars that way,

bernie sanders also hitting a pride parade. this one was in new hampshire. you see him there waving. in pop culture news, a musician named little nas x behind the song "old time road," he announced he's coming out. using twitter and later pointed to the rainbow colored building on his album cover. that does it for "the beat." we wanted to give you those updates. "hardball" is up next. >>> california, here she comes. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews back in washington. an afternoon poll today shows a big shake-up in the democratic presidential race after last week's debate. biden is down big. kamala is up big. also, donald trump walks into north korea, but then gets thrown by a high school question about western-style liberalism. plus, this look into political warfare up in pennsylvania. >> you need

but effectively tied with senators kamala harris, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. and dead even with mayor pete buttigieg. >> let me ask you, bob costa, the high water mark for president trump, 47%, that's among the registered voters. i suspect he'd be a couple of points if you narrowed it down more to likely voters but what's your takeaway on this poll, the 47% number? again, high water mark despite the fact that most americans say that he's unpresidential and actually consider him upside down on most issues. >> inside the white house and on capitol hill when you're talking to lawmakers in both parties, they believe president trump is riding the bounce from the mueller report. that entire investigation finishing. yes, he still faces the special counsel coming to congress next week to testify. but they believe the economy and the end of the mueller report have helped the president lift up in the approval ratings and the economy's strength really is a boon to him. it's very helpful for the president to have the economic numbers but there's a lot of uneasiness still.