you can imagine elizabeth warren, castro, bernie sanders doing kind of the same thing that kamala harris did in being aggressive, personal and persuasive about why joe biden's leadership and record is not really in touch with where the party is at today. >> one of the things that i think joe biden's campaign team and biden himself is probably talking about right now is, like, what the -- how they talk about the 40-year record that he has. >> you would think they would have figured that out before his presidential run. >> right. but it's a long record, right? i mean, like, it's one of the things -- it's one of the differences between running with a small record or, you know, three or four years of votes and 40 years of votes. you talk about how you're going to talk about those 40 years of votes. that's in some ways the central question for biden. >> the strategy has been to not apologize, to double down. it might change, but for now it has been to not apologize. >> the truth is a lot of candidates have long records in this race. so i do think the big question -- look, i was in debates tha

the people who are winning them are elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. you end up having joe biden in third place. those who want smaller scale change, joie biden is lapping te field. this has the contrast to what democratic voters want. they're divided here. another divide, or poll shows that democrats, pretty much are split on whether they want a candidate who is more aligned with them on issues or who can simply beat president trump. i tell you back in 2015, 2016, the last presidential cycle. the issues was in the 70%. now it's almost an even split. electability matters minorityor democrats than it used to. tier one are the people who are running at the top. you end up having the joe biden, elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg, kamala harris, bernie sanders. tier two, talking beto o'rourke, then you have all the 1 percenters. then those people who are less than 1%. >> when we look at the age factor, what's interesting about this is that bernie sanders, you know, tops the field among young voters. >> he does. of course, remember, that was his strength in 2

because bernie sanders and elizabeth warren have the same sort of thoughts on policies. so if you've got them dueling it out, and they also do not take big dollar donors, so they're almost competing for the same donor, too. if they hack it out and bloody each other, joe biden becomes unscathed and goes to the top along with mayor pete buttigieg, which wouldn't be a bad combo. >> noelle nikpour, thank you. i'm not letting you boys leave yet. >>> the fact that president trump has told four congresswomen to go back where they came from left the democrats in further gridlock. i'll be speaking to two mayors about what really matters in their cities. really matters in their cities ♪ and with bank of america and merrill, the benefits you get can grow, too. as a preferred rewards member, you can enjoy priority service and exclusive discounts... so your growing life can be more rewarding, too. ♪ what would you like the power to do? ♪ but dad, you've got allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed.

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.

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

yamiche, you and i covered bernie sanders in 2016. there's so much inside that quote, including possible sexist overtones that i'm reading into that a little bit, but all of those things while bernie himself may not be willing yet to attack him on the trail, the chief of staff is basically saying elizabeth warren is talking about frivolous stuff and we're not going to do that. >> i think there are two things, people are friends right until they're not. if they're scrapping at the end, can you see the things come out. i think joe biden admitted he wasn't ready for senator harris to come out in the way she did. he said oh, well she knew bo, she knows me. at the end of the day they're scrapping for this election. i could see that change. when it comes to bernie sanders not talking about traveling or his dog, i'm not sure if he has any pets or habits other than talking about the things he's been talking about for two decades, i think what you have is someone saying, look at my policies. but presidential elections are won on personality to

she and bernie sanders are kind of killing each other right now. the two of them could consolidate, you know, they could be a real threat to the vice president. and the last thing is kamala harris. kamala harris was the winner of the last debate. and came out of this debate looking very, very strong. and is really solidified her position, you know, in the top three. she needs to solidify her position in money. she didn't have as good of a fund-raising quarter as the others did, but she's on the map, you look at texas and california she continues to sit in a position where she could be the nominee of this party. >> well, you know, jim people say how early it is with the polls. and of course you go back and look historically about how polls in the past have meant very little. this time in 2007 of course rudy giuliani and hillary were looking pretty good. at the same time, with two candidates in the field, with the top five solidified you're starting to see a real correlation between how people are doing in the polls and how they're doing raising mone

bernie sanders and elizabeth warren defending their positions on healthcare against attacks from party moderates. all of which served to highlight the democratic divide at a time when many people seem willing to put aside ideals for pragmatism in their attempt to beat donald trump in 2020. all right. let's break it down with felipe, former deputy assistant secretary of state and spokesman for hillary clinton. he also cohosts the podcast unredacted. we've also got don callaway, a democratic strategist and ceo of pine street strategies. and michelle goldberg, "new york times" columnist and msnbc contributor. and, felipe, i want to start with you because the divide that played out last night, that could be the divide that defines the rest of this primary. and that's about healthcare. let's will be to this exchange between bernie sanders and john delaney last night. >> medicare for all is comprehensive, it covers all healthcare needs for senior citizens. it will finally include dental care, hearing aids and eyeglasses. >> but you don't know that. >> second of all -- >> you don't know that.

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

. >> you've written about elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. side by side next to one another on a stage. it's been reported they're not going to be attacking one another but let's be real. if either one of them want to get the nomination they've got to knock the other one out if they're going to get those voters. >> eventually that's probably true, stephanie, but i think at least as it turns out right now the dynamic we expect is less elizabeth warren versus bernie sanders and more elizabeth warren and bernie sanders against the folks on the stage that might be a little bit more moderate and might be a little more willing to knock their big, sweeping, progressive proposals. i'm thinking about student loan debt cancellation, medicare for all, especially the way bernie sanders and elizabeth warren talk about medicare for all which is there is no role for private insurance. i know that is in contrast to the plan kamala harris put out yesterday. that is the dynamic i expect to see on stage. in listening to your panel, there is this idea of being a

joe biden in front by 23 points over bernie sanders, kamala harris a strong lead from bernie over joe biden here among black voters. it's the reason we show him ahead nationally. you see that nine-point lead there for joe biden. that nine-point lead is powered by black voters. that becomes a big question for joe biden is that going to be durable for him? >> and josh, you have spent a lot of time with pete buttigieg. he's had his own problems among the black community with the police problems in south bend, where he's the mayor. but he's a big front-runner on money, $24.5 million in the last quarter. >> that's right. we continue to see this gap, andrea, between the amount of money he's raising outperforming all of the other candidates including joe biden and bernie sanders and the fact that his poll numbers are not catching up. they're not catching up among the african-american voters and he's doing everything he could do to try to improve his numbers with african-american voters. about half of his events and speeches now are geared in one way to addressing his douglas plan which is sp

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

off guard by bernie sanders, for example, winning in states like michigan, it's the same thing for joe biden. and yet surprisingly, they seem to be running the same playbook in so many regards. and i'm saying this as somebody who covered the hillary clinton campaign, down to, and we discussed this before, just the lack of interaction with the media as well that he doesn't have to take answers. he doesn't have to mix it up with the media the same way that the other candidates did. but i think we're going to watch now these next few weeks to see what kind of a course correction he is going to do, because like jonathan says, one more performance like that, people are starting to view that electability label as belonging to someone else. >> you make a great point, heidi, as often you do, but i mean it. de blasio did a better job than biden, because de blasio is in new york. you have to put up with that hellacious media coverage every couple of minutes. he knows how to fight. >> he knows how to fight. >> it wasn't a strange place for him to be on that platform. it was a strange place for jo

he hasn't told bernie sander to go home where he came from. it seems to be people who are a different color than him are told to go home. some of the house members i think will vote for the resolution and interesting to see if it's eight or ten or 12 which is the numbers you've gone typically on the attempts to break from trump. whether you get 30, 40, 50. this is one for me -- for me -- the others they should have voted against trump honestly. this is really fundamental, i think. the idea they put party loyalty over saying the right thing this is beyond the pale i don't believe most are going with trump, i guess. >> robert costa, bob costa just interviewed persbernie sander. let me play that interview and ask you about it on the other side. >> this is disgusting. this is the most racist outbreak statements from a president that i've heard in my lifetime and it must be universally condemned. apparently, you know, trump may be crazy, but he is not stupid. and i think what he believes it is a good political strategy to try to divide the american

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

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

off guard by bernie sanders, for example, winning in states like michigan, it's the same thing for joe biden. and yet surprisingly, they seem to be running the same playbook in so many regards. and i'm saying this as somebody who covered the hillary clinton campaign, down to, and we discussed this before, just the lack of interaction with the media as well that he doesn't have to take answers. he doesn't have to mix it up with the media the same way that the other candidates did. but i think we're going to watch now these next few weeks to see what kind of a course correction he is going to do, because like jonathan says, one more performance like that, people are starting to view that electability label as belonging to someone else. >> you make a great point, heidi, as often you do, but i mean it. de blasio did a better job than biden, because de blasio is in new york. you have to put up with that hellacious media coverage every couple of minutes. he knows how to fight. >> he knows how to fight. >> it wasn't a strange place for him to be on that platform. it with australia strange pla

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

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

in iowa shows joe biden has a slim 5 point lead over bernie sande sanders. elizabeth warren takes 17%, and kamala harris is at 16%. pete buttigieg is at 5th place at 7th%. a amy klobuchar with 4%. warren is at 18% and harris comes in at 12%. buttigieg with 7%. tulsi gabbard and beto o'rourke at 2%. south carolina is the best state where he has 30% of the vote. kamala harris and elizabeth warren at 12% each. buttigieg at 5% followed by booker at 3% and o'rourke at 2%. in the delegate rich primary in california, bide skn and harris tied. sanders at 16%, and buttigieg way back at 6. and in texas, biden holds a 10 point lead over the lone star state's beto o'rourke. 27% for biden, 17% for o'rourke. elizabeth warren at 16%. harris and sanders at 12% each, buttigieg and julian castro at 4% each. >>> president trump could win 5 million viewers votes and still secure an electoral college victory. despite democratic changes in california and texas. both are growing more diverse at a faster rate than the rest of the u.s. that are trending towards the democratic party.

that applied, by the way, to bernie sanders as well and not just the former vice president. >> yeah. >> what, i think, we're going to see from joe biden in the coming weeks and months is a real effort to build the largest ground operation in iowa. they're taking a page from the obama 2008 playbook, from the john kerry 2004 playbook and they're trying to identify voters who are unlikely to show up to the caucuses and get them out and convert a vote, if you will. they've got a special team in chicago of volunteers texting the unlikely voters in iowa trying to get them to commit and then they'll send field organizers to follow up. biden's team, he's only been in the race for two and a half months now, his team is already at 50 people in iowa, which is among the larger sort of teams on the ground right now. they say they're just going to keep growing and growing and growing and he's going to have the resources to build that really massive team. the big challenge though, is -- a lot of voters just think he's yesterday's news, and bernie sanders is as well and these other newer candidates,

this as we are getting fundraising numbers from bernie sanders. how he's comparing to the rest field. we'll look at that also. two of the candidates making headlines today will join us this hour. former colorado governor john hickenlooper who's campaign staff is getting a major shuffle and cory booker who is planning to overhaul our nation's immigration system as well. that issue front and center as democratic lawmakers visited the my durant detention facility where horrendous conditions have been report. what they say they encountered during their visit. we'll dig into in just a moment, but we start with the upheaval in the democratic 2020 campaign. pete buttigieg expected to speak at jesse jackson's rainbow coalition program any moment in an attempt to build support among african-american voters specifically. this was the logjam of 2020 contenders is showing its first signs of breaking up. two new polls now taken after last week's debates, one from cnn finds two candidates cutting into biden's double-digit lead, kamala harris and elizabeth warre

you are co-chairing the bernie sanders campaign. the president went after him today on this same subject. the president was referring to comments that bernie sanders made about baltimore while visiting there back in 2015. we can put that up on the screen. here's what sanders said at that time. he said anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation. you would think that you were in a third world country. there was also a 2016 tweet from bernie sanders, residents of baltimore's poorest boroughs have life spans shorter than people living under dictatorship in north korea. the president today said i assume bernie must now be labeled a racist, just as a republican would if he used that term and standard. what's your response to that? >> well, it's just more obfuscation. here's the difference. senator sanders didn't insult the elected representative of baltimore, he didn't insult the people of baltimore. donald trump is insulting voters and american citizens. what senator sanders

elizabeth warren is not going to sit there and call bernie sanders a flaming socialist. she is not going to have mitch mcconnell or donald trump language against him. >> oh, yeah? >> bernie sanders is not going to attack elizabeth warren as being a corporate centrist. you're just not going see that. >> okay. let's talk about the other people that are fighting for survival. adrienne, a couple of these people aren't going have 2% by september. there are some struggling about zero. will they take wild shots at the front-runners tonight? >> i think you are going to have to see some hail marys tonight. >> like swalwell last time? >> like swalwell. hopefully not that awkward, but you'll see folks like tim ryan, john delaney, they're going to have to really get out there tonight and show why they're in this race, why they deserve to be on that third debate stage, because of course, chris we know that the threshold requirements for the third debate have doubled over the threshold requirements over the first two debates. you do have folks like john delan delaney, tim ryan who hav

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

bernie sanders and elizabeth warren facing off as joe biden and kamala harris get their rematch. we'll break down both nights and talk about who has the most to gain and lose. has the most to gain and lose. red dress on the first day - bold move. same red dress today - even bolder. fight the fade and keep your red dress red. is it new? no, it's washed in studio by tide. ...when a plan stops being a plan and gets set into motion. today's merrill can help you get there with the people, tools, and personalized advice to help turn your ambitions into action. what would you like the power to do? >>> stage is set now for the second democratic presidential debate in the one happening in detroit, michigan. msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki is here with the key matchups. what are we looking at here? >> remember same deals when we did it two different nights, ten candidates each night. what you're looking up is the lineup for the first night. obviously center stage the two candidates in this mix who are polling in double digits right now, it's sanders, it's warren. reme

>> 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

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

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

bernie sanders -- this is a fox poll -- beats him six points. elizabeth warren is a point under him, which is really a dead heat, and the same with kamala harris. who do the republicans fear? i mean, you are a lincoln/reagan republican. i can say you are my favorite republican. i'll say it on television. they are very rare and unique these days. i don't know what happened, and i never thought i would like a reagan republican. >> i seem moderate. >> absolutely. but who do the republicans in your opinion -- let me rephrase that. who do the trump republicans fear would give them the contest that they most fear? >> right now it's joe biden. the trump campaign has done nothing to expand its base, so that means there's a lot of people who may have gone with trump who said, oh, gosh, people said, what do you have to lose? a lot apparently and they're worried about losing them again. senator harris is also very interesting, though, because i don't know if donald trump will know exactly how to run against a woman of color. >> and a prosecutor. >> and a p

. >> but bernie sanders also turns off those voters. >> he does. and i think that's why you've seen that some of the other candidates have had more traction in michigan. bernie sanders started out as, perhaps, the favorite since 2016. he won the state here. but he has definitely stalled in michigan and i think that's because of a lot of those voters in oakland and wayne county who are more well to do and they're not responding to his message as much. >> i got that. jonathan, thank you so much. susan, basal, matt, stick with me. moments ago the markets opened. as you can see, a flat start to the week. president trump earlier this morning lashing out at the fed again. basically demanding that the federal reserve cut rates immediately. the fed has been hinting at a rate cut later this month. president trump hitting hard, saying he wants it big and he wants it fast. there's also growing uncertainty over a budget deal. negotiations continue this weekend between treasury secretary mnuchin and speaker pelosi. just two months remain to solidify a two-year

sanders used to be, and it does not bode well for bernie sanders. >> well, you know, and mika, there was a discussion, in fact, a debate in bernie sanders campaign at the beginning, and he had people around him who wanted him to update the campaign and do several things that would make it look different and sound different from 2020 while still staying with his core objective and based on the reporting that i have heard bernie sanders and jane said, no, we're going into exactly what we did in '16. those advisers left and so we do still have the same campaign that worked well for him in 2016. but at that point, it was a choice between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. >> yeah. >> this is a far different landscape, and right now it's a landscape that bernie is having a hard time getting his footing on. >> elizabeth warren is often, i think, underestimated. let's bring in the chairman of the house democratic caucus, congressman, hakeem jeffries of new york. he's also a member of the judiciary, and budget committees. thanks very much for being on the show. kasie hunt has the first ques

sanders who collected $8 million or rather $18 million. also reporting last week, colorado senator michael bennet who raised nearly $3 million, and montana governor steve bullock who brought in 2 mill n million. >>> amy klobuchar is trying to differentiate herself from other candidates in the party during an interview on "meet the press" yesterday morning. the minnesota senator has staked out a centrist position by not supporting medicare for all, a public option but allowing those on private insurance to keep their plans. klobuchar saying that she's the best candidate, best positioned to achieve her goals in office. >> there's a lot of people making promises and i'm not going to make promises just to get elected. i am 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 promises, but i think what's most important to the people of america is we actually get those things done. >> president trump's t

if he was, bernie sanders would have been his target. but what does this do to the president's strategy if, let's say, joe biden, the current front-runner, becomes his opponent? yesterday while the president was launching attacks on these four women, joe bide enrolled out his healthcare plan which is not medicare for all. it's obama 2.0. if that's the case, how can the president win on this doubling down of those are unamerican socialists? >> well, i think kevin mccarthy is talking about this idea of ideology but the president didn't win the election because he had a bunch of great policies. he won the election because he ignited people to really think about the future of america, to think about their own identity and feel as though he is the person who could carry the torch forward. what the president is going to continue to double down on is the idea the other side is trying to destroy your way of life. that's what he's been saying in rallies and is going to continue to say. i will say that the white house yesterday was trying to pivot

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,

senator bernie sanders beats trump by 7, 50/43. senator elizabeth warren beats trump by 5, then it gets more narrow. kamala harris has a one-point edge over the president. that, of course, falls to the polls' margin of error. in the democratic race for the nomination, biden leads with 26% of the vote. warren second at 19. harris, bernie sanders, buttigieg round out the top five. as for the rest of the democratic field, andrew yang, beto o'rourke snagged 2% 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. but 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's in a statistical tie with kamala harris in second place and warren in third. buttigieg follows with 11 1/2

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

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

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,

in comparison to a biden versus a warren versus a bernie sanders. but you, in order to be truly viable, you do need some of that middle. by middle, stephanie, i mean both your moderate democrats and independents. the idea of getting crossover voters from the republican party is lost. but you do need some of that moderate middle. that is going to be the challenge. >> right. >> you can turn out the base but you can't win on the base alone for the democratic party. >> dave, what is your thought? >> well, i think the democrats understand you have to keep the focus on donald trump next year. donald trump needs to be the issue. if it becomes a referendum on medicare for all or immigration reform or tax reform or something else, the democrats are going to be in a bit of a bind. they have to keep the focus on the president. the president's behavior, the president's tweets, the president's lies. as long as they can do that they've got a shot. >> not the president's policies? >> not really, no. >> can't they go after the president in terms of health care, in

senator kamala harris has risen 12 points to 14% in this poll, while bernie sanders holds relatively steady at 13%. elizabeth warren is on the rise as well, up 6 points to 9%. in iowa, a usa today suffolk university poll puts biden in the lead with 24%, and harris in second at 16%. warren there at 13%, and sanders who nearly shocked hillary clinton in the 2016 caucuses, in fourth place with 9%. buttigieg, amy klobuchar and senator booker also register in this poll which counts toward qualifying for the third debate in september. so kristen, let's go back to the first set of polls, we can get to iowa in just a second, but the quinnipiac poll lining up with what we saw yesterday in a cnn poll, which is joe biden down and kamala harris rising quickly. >> that's right. i think a lot of this is in part is people giving the broader field a look after these debates. a lot of speculation before them was joe biden's lead, mainly a product of, a large contingent of support among african-american voters that was strong but after those debates when he was pressed on his positions from the 1970s,

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

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.

senator bernie sanders dropped four points to 14%. mayor pete buttigieg rounds out the top five in the poll at 4%. steve kornacki, a lot of people after they watched kamala harris do battle with joe biden expected there might be some movement. this was the first look we got at the entire group together. but that's a big jump. >> that's very big. i mean, five points, that poll has it five points when you think of all the advantages that joe biden had supposedly coming into the race, to be sitting in this poll -- let's see how this one looks in comparison to them. but to be up just five points and it is at 22% when you're the former vice president of the united states and you came in with all of these promises of electability, universal name recognition, all of these things i think that speaks potentially to seriously bad debate performance. in a debate performance that raised questions about what is supposed to be his core strength. and that is electability. and there was a separate poll that came out yesterday that has been asking dem

just today she endorsed the somebody who endorsed bernie sanders four years ago. it's obvious you have similar positions, similar messaging. what should a voter that likes both sanders an warren, why is sanders the right call for the democratic nomination, and how does he make that case tonight? >> they should pick senator sanders because he is consistent. he has been on this journey, a journey for justice for a very long time. even before he was an elected official to this moment. who was standing on the picket lines with the verizon workers and marriott workers. who marched on canton, mississippi, with the nissan workers as they were trying to unionize with uaw. who has stood with the grassroots fight for 15 workers as they continue in this country to level that we need a living wage and force jeff bezos an disneyland to give our sisters and brothers who work for those two entities a living wage in this country of $15 an hour. as a u.s. senator, chuck, he's already gotten over 400,000 people in this country an increase in their wage. senator sanders is not new t

you have mary ann williamson, pete buttigieg and the heavy hitters, bernie sanders, beto o'rourke and john hickenlooper and making his debut tonight, steve bullock. in double digits, warren and sanders, talk about how they will handle being up there tonight and shadow cast by the front-runner not on the stage tonight, joe biden. he will be there tomorrow night and will anyone try to bring him into it. garrett, we see the scene being set up behind you there. let me ask you about elizabeth warren somebody last time around sort of on her own when it comes to top candidates in the polling, not on the stage with biden and not on the stage with harris and sanders. again, biden not there tonight. did warren and her campaign, do they like that she hasn't been up there with biden yet and gives her a chance to build her own identity or do they want a shot at that? >> they're a slow build. you can't win the mantle of this race and progressive alternative to biden at this point. each sanders and warren's campaign acknowledge the other will be in this a long time, ideologically aligned. not a lot

it was joe biden and bernie sanders having the name recognition. what does that say to you about prospects as the candidate wages on. >> the name reflects much more than the chances in the ballot box. it's interesting to see some of the democrats who had less name recognition 45 days ago, moving up in the polls. for harris and warren, those are significant jumps. but democrats can't take any votes for granted when we get to 2020. they have to fight for the last vote. and this is an opportunity for the democrats to get familiar, not just with a president, but with the cabinet, with the entire tier of democratic leadership. so, there isn't much room for movement, or there hasn't been room for movement here. what's going to make the difference. >> you look at the difference of the cross tabs in this poll. this highlights a challenge for democrats. almost three out of ten hispanic voters still support the president. that's double what it is for african-americans. and that tells you that for all of the focus of the black vote, we see it in the president