where is joe biden from? joe biden, from scranton, pennsylvania. do you think he could have won the extra 70,000 votes? >> could joe biden have defeated donald trump? >> oh, i don't know. i'm not going to speculate on it. >> the rust belt? >> look, i -- >> your home territory. >> it's -- >> regrets? >> no, i just wasn't prepared to do it after i lost my son. i have no regret in the sense that did i make the wrong decision. i made the right decision, but do i regret that my point of view is not going to be reflected in the next administration because we have mr. trump? yeah, i do regret that. >> coming up -- >> november 7th we were sitting on top of the world. december 18th our world had collapsed. and the army taught me a lot about commitment. which i apply to my life and my work. at comcast we're commited to delivering the best experience possible, by being on time everytime. and if we are ever late, we'll give you a automatic twenty dollar credit. my name is antonio and i'm a technician at comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and aw

this is the united states of america. >> joe biden, classic joe biden, speaking on home turf to the university of pennsylvania on tuesday, road testing a message that could become the basis of a potential campaign. let's get the inside scoop from mike memole, msnbc contributor sam stein, and beth lui. mike, you were there in the audience, you saw the way the kids reacted. this was classic biden. of what's your read on this? >> yeah, andrea, that's right. i'll be perfectly canned it with you. you know from the discussions that we would have off the air here in the bureau and elsewhere that my own reporting and my experience in covering biden now for more than a decade had been pointing me in a direction that he was less likely to run in 2020, that we would have a similar situation as in 2016 where he got close to the line and backed off. but my conversations over the last week or so with members of his inner circle has me realizing that his default position is that he will run for president. two things are clear, one is that he believes he has time. you were in munich, you heard him say over th

i want joe biden and kamala harris. all bernie sanders wants to do is ruin this party. .e refuses to become a democrat if he won't even do that, then just go back to his independent green party and run from there. he knows he has no leg to stand on. i'm waiting for vice president biden and kamala harris. i think they would be wonderful together. host: speaking of senator sanders, cnn wrote a story last week that addresses this very issue. sanders senator bernie plans to sign a plan affirming he will run as a democrat in 2020 and serve as one if elected. meet insaid it plans to the coming weeks with the presidential primary campaign and require to affirm in writing that they are a member of the democratic party, will accept the democratic nomination, and will run and serve as a member of the democratic party. sanders, and independent of vermont, caucuses with the democrats in the senate. his refusal to more formally embrace the party has been a sore spot with some democrats. let's go to carol, calling from texas. good mo

is it better for hunter biden if it joe biden runs or doesn't run. as you saw there he doesn't want to be the reason his dad doesn't run. >> it seems -- i just emphasize with the vice president as a father. it seems he can now figure that he might hurt his son no matter what he does. >> what i have been told by people close to the family and they rally around each other in a fight. i quote chris koocoo koons is d involved in that, let us fight the fight for you. >> it is astounding that it is a given that the assumption is of course president trump will make this an issue. and of course it won't backlash on him. why do we think it won't backlash on the president if he goes really low blow. >> one thing i will be curious to see is we're all just desensitized to everything he does. we have seen it already. i looked up every trump tweet that mentioned biden. it talks about him being physically and mentally week. my strategy for the family is they might target joe, suggesting his own emotional state a fragile. that is a charge that could be seen as a pro

joe biden specifically who is a former vice president. i will point out, a lot of us, especially me, saying joe biden is out in front. he's the former vice president. when we look at the cnn poll this week when we asked people to list the most important issues. the three top three, beating donald trump having the experience or being able to reach across the aisle, those are three qualities that fall right into joe biden e ebiden'sd butter. >> harry enten, thank you for the insight. >> thank you for having me. you two have a lovely, lovely day. >> awyou as well. >>> joining us wesley lowery from "the washington post" and r rob robby lope. robby, there are comparisons for the 2016 race where there was a large field. but most of the time, donald trump, the single candidate, was the head of the pack. do you think we'll see something like that or something with joe biden? or like in 2012 where michele bachmann had a week, and rick perry had a week where it's the flavor of the month? >> yeah, to be honest with you, either could happen. what i w

what percent joe? >> we call him 1% biden. he's tough guy. he's a real genius. >> i want to challenge him to a fight behind the barn. oh would i love that. would that be good? >> they're reporting that joe biden wants to be president and each day he's closer to being ready to run for office. however he's carefully considering a crucial question, what happens when the president of the top allies try to make his family an issue? joining me is national political reporter who did reporting on biden on his deliberations. so take us through this. you're finding that biggest hurdle right now in biden's mind is what this is going to do to his family? >> i've been asking joe biden and his team about running for president since election day, 2012. obviously he passed on that with the unusual death of his son. i've been asking what's different now that wasn't then? his engagement in the process is light years ahead of last time but taking it much more seriously. conversations are much more serious. but the same thing in 2016 is true now but in a very di

>> i'm not sure in joe biden's issue is which week he enters the race. the democratic party has changed really dramatically in a fairly short period of time. and joe biden has a very, very long track record at a time when you could be a democrat and take positions that are now really -- if you go back an look at joe biden's records on reregulating a wreall street or a whole seri of issues those were more mainstream in the democratic party now but hard to defend today, support for the iraq war. i'm not sure how much tolerance in today as democratic party for some of the positions that joe biden took in the past. >> you believe the polls that show him far ahead in primary choices is name recognition. he is not now having to defend his positions over the last 30, 40 years? >> yeah. i think so. i think it's mostly name recognition. joe biden might have certain strengths as a general election candidate but remember the iowa caucus is dominated by democratic activists. the democratic activist base which plays a disproportionate role has been moving in a very p

new cnn poll numbers this hour on joe biden in 2020. these things rarely end as they begin, but the early numbers may prove hard for the former vice president to ignore. the state of the union is still divided. the president's big speech did include a few bipartisan olive branches, but his tone on immigration, investigations and the democrats is driving the morning-after debate. >> we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country. [ booing ] >> america was founded on liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination and control. we are born free and we will stay free. [ cheers and applause ] tonight, we renew our resolve that america will never be a socialist country. >> we begin the hour right there with the president's state of the union, bipartisan wishes overshadowed by bipartisan thumps and the biggest pressing question, no guarantees the government won't shut down again in just ten days. the big annual stage is the chance for the president to offer us a road map, but look and listen for some clear d

joe biden knows how to talk to working class voters. he knows how to sort of bring this coalition together. so i do think he knows how to run against president trump. i think the trickier path for him is the democratic primary. is he the person who fits the moment, the mood the energy of this democratic primary? he is not a shoe in by any means at all. he would have to make the argument that he is the best one positioned to defeat the president and the best one to govern. but, anderson, there is a sense talking to voters, i was in iowa this weekend and a lot of people like joe biden, they say, look, we like everything he stands for but is it time for a new fresh face? so he would have to contend with those concerns long before the idea of taking on president trump. >> biden also said if he were to run he would not accept money from a super pack. is that a move to appeal to bernie sanders or elizabeth warren? they made pledges to keep big money out of their campaigns. >> he cannot do it like he used to, but the question is he will still

this is a smart thing for joe biden to do. one of the companies he's talking to is responsible for beto o'rourke's viral effect when they televised his defense of the football players kneeling during the national anthem. that company gets to 70% of millennials. there's other candidates as well, who as we all assume didn't wake up one day and know how to wield social media controls like in 2016. he had advisers and meetings with people to build that social media strategy. the young will disperse. it's very smart. >> neil: evan, what i don't understand, who you meet with. are they acting as advisers which might concern me here or are they just sort of saying this is how it works with our medium? this is how you connect? what are you doing? >> the biden team is wanting to find out what do young people talk about on social media platforms. when appeals to them. >> neil: usually interest rates and stocks. i don't know what it is. these kids are crazy. >> i'm sure they're into apr and all of that in addition to the cutest pug memes.

let's talk about joe biden, susan paige, we've all covered joe biden a long time. i believe he's leaning towards running, but he is, shall we say, not the old person in the room. he's the grown-up in the room. he's the foreign policy expert, he and john mccain used to be the co-leaders for many, many years in munich for decades as the former chairman of the foreign relations committee and that he's the person who can speak to the rest of the world. >> and that's true. no question joe biden wants to be president. there's really no question he wants to be run to be president. the question is whether he will and there are some reasons why he might not, but there are a lot of reasons including the very first thing to want to be president to encourage him to jump into the race and he is the candidate by far the deepest foreign policy experience of this entire field of the 15 or 20 potential democratic contenders. >> and with president obama's role behind the scenes, clearly interested and he won't jump in right now, amy klobuchar with rachel maddow was asked about poten

joe biden knows how to talk to working-class voters. he knows how to sort of bring this coalition together. so i do think he knows how to run against president trump. i think the trickier path for him is the democratic primary. is he the person who fits the moment, the mood, the energy of this democratic primary? he is not a shoo-in by any means at all. he would have to make the argument that he is the best one positioned to defeat the president and the best one to govern. but anderson, there is a sense talking to voters, i was in iowa this weekend and a lot of people like joe biden, they say look, we like everything he stands for but is it time for a new fresh face? so he would have to contend with those concerns long before the idea of taking on president trump. >> biden also said if he were to run he would not accept money from a super pack. is that a move to appeal to bernie sanders or elizabeth warren? they made pledges to keep big money out of their campaigns. >> i think it's accepting new money in politics. he cannot do it like h

host: what about joe biden? guest: like bernie sanders, he is a known commodity within not just the democratic party but the country. host: but do you think he runs? guest: i have not talked to the vice president in a couple weeks. i know he is exploring it. he is talking to donors and former staffers. he is likely to jump in but if he does not, there are more than enough democrats who will fill that lane that vice president biden will normally fill, looking up for working people, helping to make a difference on major issues. joe biden is another great candidate. host: there is another candidate who has 100% name modification based on what might come out of the -- report. is there any chance to clinton jumps into this race? guest: i don't know. i have talked to her a lot of her -- i have talked to a lot of her closest confidants. while she has not joined in the interest, i have not any evidence that she might be running but she is a remarkable woman, phenomenal. she ran a campaign that sought to bring people tog

your take on joe biden running? >> joe biden would be considered a moderate and the rest of democrats are probably cheering they have someone that at least makes sense on most of the issues. whether he would be able to fool the flaming liberals -- stuart: the only one who makes sense. >> he does at least try to make sense. the other candidates who are ready to declare make no sense. i can't predict what will happen but joe would be receiving a lot of accolades from normal moderate democrats because at least he would be able to make some sense. stuart: do you think he could beat donald trump if that were the matchup in 2020? >> no and here's why. i don't believe any democrats can beat donald trump because of the president's record of results the tax cuts are not going to go back up with control of the senate by republicans. regulations will not be rolled out. nancy pelosi and democrats could come up with all the neat sounding free stuff schemes they want but the president has a long track record of resulting just two

i could vote for joe biden. >> i keep hearing that about joe biden. the other thing i was surprised with, to see sherrod brown, who's probably the best democrat you've never heard of be polling at 21%. nipping on the heels of a cory booker even. that shows you something else that's happening in our party. sherrod brown is a working class champion. >> midwestern. >> working class champion for the democratic party. this guy, he'll bring you to tears talking about a waitress. who does that kind of stuff. >> you had a great conversation the other day, this week you're talking to julian castro. let's listen to what he had to say about biden. >> i get the sense out there that people want a new generation of leadership. i travelled a lot during the last two years supporting candidates in the 2018 cycle. i don't say that as anything personal against one person. the sense that i get is that people want a new generation of leadership. and in this race, just speaking for myself, i believe that i'm going to bring a vision for the country that represents the futur

joe biden has wanted to run for years. joe biden has run two other times back in 1988 in 2008 he department do very well then but that was before he was vice president of the united states for eight years. so e he's -- he's 76 years old. he's somebody who is, obviously, at the end of his political career so if he's going to do it he's going to do it now and he wants to do it what's holding this back could be family considerations would be number one. his wife isn't really all that thrilled about doing it so that could be a consideration for joe bide as he does that's going to happen over next couple of weeks. >> that seems more democrats are going to be jumping in. dave leventhal senator for public integrity. >> thank you, john. a bill to award colorado electoral votes for president to winner of the national popular vote is heading to the governor's desk for signature there. alicia explains what's going on. >> colorado democratically controlled legislature voted to join the national popular vote interstate compact tone sur

that's not a challenge joe biden is facing. cnn has a poll that shows more than 60% of democratic voters want him to run for president. if you were to throw him into the mix though, how does that change the current dynamic among those that already announced? >> tough to speculate on which candidate helps or hurts. i think that let's not forget, people love joe biden. people across the spectrum in a variety of demos like joe biden, think he is a good guy. it would be fun to see him in the mix, see him shake up the campaign. >> last question, jeff, real quick. percentage chance that we see joe biden running for president in 2020. what are you putting it at? >> i'm going 70%, my bold prediction, 70%. biden in the mix. >> appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >>> new reporting that president trump decided early last year to work around congress to get money for his wall, and that sparked a behind the scenes battle in the white house that's still going on today. >>> new allegations against r. kelly. we speak with the execut

because, look, joe biden is in these early polls. a lot of it is name i.d., but in these early polls in the early states, he's on top. he's been there. he's been there in primaries or caucuses with regard to iowa, he's been there in the general election cycles. so they know him. and everybody's just waiting to see what the calculus is. he clearly has this desire to do it pb a it, and that obviously is what senator feinstein picked up on, but he also has other issues, family issues and issues with the fact that he has done it before many times skand whether it's time for someone younger to take over. >> so here we wait. another little carrot dangled in front of all of us to see when he's going to jump in. and no definitive answers just yet. thank you so much, dana bash. >> thank you. >>> breaking news we want to get to involving r&b star r. kelly. prosecutors now looking at a newly surfaced video that according to lawyer michael avenatti shows kelly having sex with an underage girl. >>> plus, the wife of the white house communications

joe biden until the words come out of his mouth. so for now, we may still be a few weeks away from finding out how he feels and ultimately getting that word directly from him. >> and that unpredictability is sometimes seen as endearing and sometimes it has been seen as gaff prone, which would also come back certainly be brought up if he jumps in, some of his previous gaffs. but, jeff, is he right about his timeline? i mean, aren't already the resources of fundraising and staff being divvied up? >> i mean, that is the central question here. he can wait a while, but not a very long time. and that is why, alisyn, you said staff. there are people who would like to work for him who want him to jump in. but they're not going to wait around forever. i think that he knows that he has a limited amount of time. so look for him to make a decision probably in april. he does not want to jump in during the month of march probably because that would mean that he would have to show a fundraising number the first period of fundraising ends at the en

i think there is a lane for joe biden. i would love to see him paired with one of the younger candidates because i think that that would send a message about the kind of president he will be and what that transition of leadership is. but there's definitely a lane. i think he must look at this field and say, you know, why not me? i can make a case to the american people. >> let's turn to elizabeth warren here. she continues to be embroiled in this controversy about her claims of native american ancestry. we saw her application for the texas bar. >> are there any more forms out this like here that you have listed yourself as? >> this is who i grew up believing with my brothers. this is our family's story. and it's all consistent from that point in time. >> so we know that senator warren is expected to make her announcement, her official announcement this saturday. is her campaign already doomed? is this going to essentially end any possibility of elizabeth warren becoming president? >> elizabeth warren is a powerful voice in

ne: early days, how long can joe biden wait before he declares? josh: he doesn't have a lot of time, because look at the attention everyone else is getting. being wellnown only takes you so far. he has to hire staff. there is competition for the best talent in the democratic party. he cannot win a whole lot longer. yet he cannot wait to hold hcannot wait a whole lot longer. advantages with his nam and celebrity but he will have to decide if he isunning and ise money fast. jane: joshks kraushaar, tho much. already shaping up to be an interesting ratc. you are wahing "bbc world news america." still to come, 40 years after ayatollah khomeini returned to iran, we look back on the day that changed history. the funeral for one of south korea's most prominent world war ii sex slaves as been held in central seoul, with many treating the service as a protest against what was seen as pan's failure to properly address war crimes. 93thear-old died on monday. aporter: yellow butterflies, symbol for south korea'sso formr -called comfort women. shundreds took to

as for my gut about joe biden, i don't know. but i did hear him last week at the munich security conference. he certainly sounded fired up to go after donald trump on foreign policy and on other areas where biden has a sphere of influence and can claim some difference among the very large democratic field. >> well, if he runs and you think he may although you didn't say that, one of you guys will be right. that's true. >> that's always good, yeah. >> let's move to the mueller report. john, you first. what do you think happened in terms of the timing of the release? is it just not ready to go? >> i think as our friend and colleague ben wittes has instructed us over and over, nobody outside the mueller team, the mueller investigation really knows what he has, what he's going to do with it and when he's going to do it. there's a lot of speculation. we're reading smoke signals but we do not know almost everything robert mueller has done so far has surprised us both in the timing and in the particulars that he's laid out. so we're go

i mean, i love joe biden. i caucused for joe biden and for bernie. but i would like to see things shaken up a little bit. either a woman or just something that looks different that brings in a new mix. and i think that would energize people who have not felt like they are part of the system. that's the most important thing to me. >> a great flavor of the competing pressures, competing interests, the competing desires and long list of questions iowa voters have. >> yeah, that is exactly the last voter that you talked to, that is the central theme right now for so many of the voters out here. it goes to the electability, viability theme and the idea that, in all of this chaos in washington, they want someone fresh, tough, fierce, and they want their candidates to show that to them. >> yeah, it is striking to hear that last voter because i heard some of that yesterday, too, that there really is, i think, a trump-era hungerness to prove this country does not reflect trumpism and that i think democrats deep down are consumed with sort of rebuking, not jus

joe biden is a famous person, so they recognize his name, obviously, name i.d. has a lot to do with it. as you dig deeper into this poll, what's clear when you look at democrats is they want to win and about half of those who say winning is the most important and it's majority of democrats, they support joe biden because they clearly believe that he's the most electable. they're not looking for ideological purity in 2020, at least as we see it right now, what they're looking for is someone to beat donald trump. >> i want to play some sound. this is chris christie talking to jake tapper about his chances -- biden's chances a couple days ago. >> because you like to pride yourself on candor. >> yeah. >> candidly, who in the democratic field concerns you? who do you think might be able to defeat president trump? >> vice president biden because he's going to be able to potentially appeal to the white working-class voters in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, ohio that determine this race in 2016 and i think more than any of the other candidates right now, he has the

and i like joe biden, and i thought he was a heck of a vice president. if he wanted to run for vice president, i would be on board. i think you should have to run for vice president like the old days. no, i think he's missed his window, sometime in the 1980s, to be perfectly honest with you. and i think the party has moved considerably in a more progressive direction than to be satisfied with joe biden. i think there are people out there who can appeal to the same, you know, joe biden voters in the midwest, certainly, sharod brown. elizabeth warren from my own state is moving in that direction as is kamala harris. i don't think there's a spot for him at this time. if he wanted to be king maker, that could be his role. if i was a democratic politician i would love to have joe biden on the stump for me. i talked about kissing the pig in iowa, joe biden would slow dance with the pig in iowa. he loves all the political stuff that most politicians hate. >> jimmy: trump said we're going to take a break from the shutdown, we're going to take three weeks and neg

jane: early days, how long can joe biden wait before he declares? josh: he dsn't have a lot of time, because look at the attention everyone else is getting. being well known only takes you so far. he has to hire staff. there is competition for the best talent in the democratic rty. whhe cannot win e lot longer. yet he cannot wait to hold -- he cannot wait a whole. lot long he has advantages with his name and celebrity butto he will have ecide if he is running and raise money fast. jane: jh kraushaar, thanks so much. already aping up to be an interesting race. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, 40 years after ayatollah khomeini returned to iran, we look back on the day that changed history. the funeral for one of south korea's most prominent world war ii sex slaves as been held in cent seoul, with many treating the service as a protest against what was sn as japan's failure to properly address war crimes. the 93-year-old died on monday. aporter: yellow butterflies, symbol for south korea's former so-called comfort women. hundre

. >> we see joe biden well out ahead. and this has been consistent where he has held the lead in all the polls taken, whether it's now, three months ago, so on, so forth. >> and then many people asked, is it just name recognition? is it because people know who joe biden is? but you've got numbers that indicate maybe not. >> maybe not. so this i think is so interesting, right. remember four years ago when donald trump was running we said republicans wouldn't want to go for him because he wasn't conservative enough and we thought republicans wanted conservative but we were wrong about that. we weren't listen together voters. this time i think we should listen to the voters. look at the top issues we found among democratic voters for choosing a good nominee. good chance to beat trump. right experience, willing to work with the gop. all of these. these all sound lie joe biden's sort of bread and butter. good chance to beat trump. he's leading in all the polls. has the right experience, elected experience. he served in washing

look at that. 62% of democrats want joe biden in this race. there is a hunger for him and that is different than what we saw in the summer or fall of 2015. only half of decmocrats wanted him in there now and this is welcome news in the biden camp. >> take a look. also, we have the likelihood of supporting president trump for president. 29% very likely. 12% somewhat likely and 6% not too likely, but my god, take a look at this number. 52% of people in this poll, brianna say this is not at all likely that they will support president trump and he begins this election season for 2020 with a pretty tall hill to climb and kamala harris will have some numbers here to be proud of, as well in this poll. remember we were in the field right after her big first week roll out of her announcement and lots of positive press. 16% say they're very likely supporting her. 21% somewhat likely and that 37, 38% number is not necessarily as joe biden's 50%, but this is a solid standing from which kamala harris can now to start to build upon as she gets out there in

and what we know about joe biden tonight. abc's mary bruce on the race for 2020 already. >> reporter: tonight, bernie is back. >> i'm running for president. >> reporter: the vermont senator sparked a progressive movement in 2016, taking on the establishment and hillary clinton. >> the american people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails. >> thank you. me, too. me, too. >> reporter: but this time around, he's got more competition. some who also support his old rallying cries, like medicare for all and free college tuition. >> you know what's happened over three years? all of those ideas and many more are now part of the political mainstream. >> reporter: senator elizabeth warren this weekend unveiling her plan for universal childcare. >> america's middle class is under attack. >> reporter: but other democratic candidates are blunt about some of these progressive promises. >> i am not for free four-year college for all, no. thank you. >> let me ask you then this, because -- >> and i wish -- if i was a magic gen

the senate followed the joe biden rule, namely the rule that joe biden articulated when george w. bush was president which was that the senate would not take up a supreme court nomination for a vacancy that occurred during a presidential year. with a senate followed was joe biden's own rule. is all of that correct? >> i believe 1932 was the last time a supreme court vacancy was filtering a presidential election. >> i assume joe biden all would recognize is not a republican partisan? >> >> for observation you would have to go back to the 1880s to find the last time a senate of a different party from the president filled a vacancy on the supreme court when the vacancy occurred during a presidential year. >> mr. chairman. >> manual for a question? >> yes. >> you been careful in your language and the that he filled in a presidential election year occurred in the previous year but the actual vote was taken in the presidential year. >> but the vacancy was created in 1987. >> senator alexander has noted before then it was not the biden rule driving the train it was the rule which was dri

i'm told that joe biden was not in the room for that speech. but biden is expected to present of a contrast. >>> in the race for 2020, democrats are everywhere this weekend. making campaign stops. gg kirsten gillibrand, cory booker, and amy klobuchar in iowa. i'm telling you they're ever where. all over the map. >> the democratic national committee meetings are wrapping up this morning in washington. with a historic number of democrats planning to run for president. the dnc has announced its format. there will be no kids' table. >> there will be no kids' table. random selection here. amy klobuchar is no stranger to speaking up to the president. monday night, she talks to encoura hampshire voters to speak here on cnn. >>> and robert mueller's team is recommending a stiff sentence for paul manafort while revealing new evidence with roger stone. (client's voice) oww, it hurts... (danny) ...that you're not using smarter tools to manage your business. you work too hard to work this hard! collecting receipts? is it the 80s? does anybody have a mixtap

joe biden at the top of the list. i think most is name recognition? >> i think part is name recognition and part is what joe biden stands for in the party. you talk to party faithful, they would say joe biden stands for somebody who is reasonable and electable and who appeals to the old-school democrats and also appeals to the obama democrats because he was on the obama ticket in 2008 and 2012. people like him. >> martha: in the polls, he ran a couple of times before and also down at like 3%. at the very bottom of those polls. now at the top. >> i think a lot is name i.d. and 8 years being vice-president will do that for you. we are in a different political world. i think joe biden speaks to the kind of voters democrats know they need to get back. in the upper midwest and in states like pennsylvania. it's democrats, people who used to vote democratic, union members, white men and white women. that middle-class that democrats lost to donald trump, joe biden appeals to those voters. >> martha: you look at the messages, elizabeth warren expected to annou

joe biden could do well according to polling against the president, i find a hard time seeing people coming out and running the nominations fording such an extreme agenda winning the nomination. >> to continue, the pot boiling and the lid which is an interesting analogy, i'm not making fun of it because there are some republicans who thought nancy pelosi would not be in control of that part and wasn't going to become speaker and she defied the odds and in round one in terms of the government shutdown you can argue all day where we are headed after the state of the union but appeared she did pretty well in round one. >> you see the party establishment absorbing these forces, putting them into play, giving them resource and allowing them to have their say on particular committees but they coalesced. we saw this happen with steve bannon in early primaries after the trump victory, we are going to have the m aga coalition going to primaries and put in only people who agree with the nationalist agenda. mitch mcconnell is the leader of the senate, driving the trump agenda, the party establi

how would you feel if joe biden jumped in? how would they stack up against the president. chris steigerwald is here to answer those questions and more when we return. well, you should definitely see how geico could help you save on homeowners insurance. nice tip. i'll give you two bucks for the chair. two?! that's a victorian antique! all right, how much for the recliner, then? wait wait... how did that get out here? that is definitely not for sale! is this a yard sale? if it's in the yard then it's... for sale. oh, here we go. geico. it's easy to switch and save on homeowners and renters insurance. ♪ >> shannon: tonight, it is official, bernie sanders has joined a 2020 race, and p >> bernie sanders has joined the 20/20 race and plenty of democrats are not thrilled. how do they feel about joe biden and how would either of them match up against donald trump? a task krista i are walled. chris steigerwald. people are feeling the burn. >> and have been for four years. >> let's talk about the 2016 campaign. >> three months paid family and medical leave. a living wage, $15 an

you saw joe biden with 27%. and carol, i ask you the feeling and reporting now on whether or not joe will run? >> well, i think, we don't know. >> he's looking for -- >> this is, we've all seen this video before. all attended it in 2015. you know, i think -- >> is the mole, "he's not that into you"? >> you know, clearly, talking to a colleague of mine, talking to him closely. he knows he wants to be president. doesn't know if he wants to run for being president. that's very true. last time around obviously was going through very hard family issues. now it's a different question, i think. the one, when you look at joe biden and bernie sanders the thing that stands out the most is age, when you look at the field that's already declared itself and how that plays with voters is unseen. one thing i'll note, i don't know how much you can take stock. i grew up outside of philadelphia, burks county, where trump did well with supporters who also supported obama. talk to those folks, they would support a joe biden over a

and do things joe biden could come in later and do. biden has made a whole career out of playing the hamlet routine of, will he or won't he. since 1980 he's been considering running for president. so i think that biden is one of those who could get in. but i think he likes that contrast. mike pence was also there. there's a contrast there between mike pence and joe biden that i think he welcomes. and is projecting a different image on the world stage which would be his strength if he gets in as a candidate. >> that's what you heard there is his central argument for running. obviously, he's going to make a domestic case about why he's the best person but this idea of nostalgia for a time when the united states was seen as a leader. nostalgia for when barack obama or even george w. bush was president among independents and even some republicans and certainly democrats i think would be the case he would make for why he is the best person to go up against president trump. even though he's not in iowa, he's making that case that will be cru

joe biden always sounds like he's running for president in my opinion. in this case, it seems like he certainly has not sided he is not running. he is leaving the door opened. he might be leaning slightly towards it. if are you joe biden, you are look at the polls, you are signature at the top at the moment. you know this is your last chance to do it if you are going to do it. it sounds like a tempting proposition. >> i want to read through this stream of unearthed connections between the president and safe harbor. >> inc elbe. >> this steadfast dedication that the trump administration specifically has had with saudi arabia since president donald trump has been in office and. >> and in the killing of khashoggi. >> the lack of acknowledging the connection between the murder of jamal khashoggi and mbs actually. >> right. there was a meeting last week at the white house about this idea of putting nuclear reactors for nuclear power in saudi arabia. so that is an ongoing proposition. i think for -- there's a couple things going on here, one is that the saudis

we're talking about joe biden. and joe biden is likely to position him as the centrist democrat in this field. mike bloomberg who would be the pragmatic businessman type even further, i don't know what you call further center. so it is already shaking out to be unique. but here's the thing about compassion, about what we look for. the candidate who will emerge and will be successful is able to connect these ideals to these voters that will decide this election. it's going to be white women and black women, and we are going to see them focus on those things that are -- those progressive ideas. and i am energized. i am excited. i am thrilled to talk about ideas, to talk about how to give people child care, maternity leave, a more -- a fair tax system, better skills training for our workers. training our children. >> better education. >> let's talk about these things for once. we haven't talked about them in years, and it will be refreshing and good and we'll see who will emerge. >> she did say murphy 2020. i want to

if you ask me who has the broadest reach, joe biden does. we'll see how that develops over the next six to 12 months. >> okay. i wanted to ask what democrats are doing. we saw the big showdown with attorney general matt whitaker, the acting attorney general, outgoing in that position. he testified on capitol hill capping off a busy week of hearings. right now, democrats pursuing 21 investigations across 11 different committees. here's what president trump tweeted. never happened before. the committees are going nuts. congressman, what is your response? >> as usual, he's wrong. i don't know that anybody faced the kind of investigations and oversight hearings that president obama did or frankly, secretary clinton did or president clinton before that. they impeached president clinton and that was defeated in the senate as it should have been. but we hav a responsibility to do oversight. frankly, the last two years of this president's term, republicans decided it was not their business. in fact it is our responsibility to oversee and make sure t

one of the benefits that joe biden has, that none of the other democrats have, is that joe biden, he is who he is, right? so for example, donald trump, when donald trump was running in the republican primarition everybody kind of knew who he was so when he said something offensive, provocative, crazy, it really didn't hurt him. it was baked in the cake. i think marco rubio had a bad debate. it actually hurt him. and i think likewise, joe biden will have the same been fit. if a scandal happen, if there is a slip of the tongue, it is baked in the cake. that's joe being joe. democrats, they don't have to worry about winning the popular vote. they can win the popular vote. can they win the electoral college? and i think the best way to win the electoral college is probably to try to take back the rough spell, the working class white voters in pennsylvania and michigan. joe biden is probably the best candidate. at least on paper. being originally from pennsylvania before being a senator to make case. >> you know, i was just thinking about this. given his standing in the polls and he's not

of course, he spoke following the current vice president of the u.s., joe biden. maybe a presidential contender in 2020. we imagine their two messages were quite different. >> they were received very differently as well. there were moments of quite intense applause when snjoe bid was speaking. that was absence during mike sense pence's speech. he came to pass on president trump's message, to channel president trump and his message was a very direct one. his message, for example, on nato and for the nato european allies to make good on their 2% gdp commitment. this is something we've heard a lot about. but he rather gave the impression that it was the united states that achieved the ability to get commitments from these nato allies sitting in front of him to make good on that commitment but by 2024. of course, that was all agreed at a nato summit in wales in 2013. so former vice president joe biden when he spoke about needing to uphold existing global institutions for world order, that was met with quite some applause. it was also noticeable, this very large delega

but i do think that joe biden or a candidate like joe biden is the type that presents or poses the greatest threat to the trump team. i think they would rather see someone like bernie sanders, like elizabeth warren, like kamala harris. joe biden is someone that could really threaten the trump coalition and rebuild the democratic blue wall in the midwest. >> thank you. joel, always good to have you, thank you as well. >>> president barack obama took a shot at an nba star at the launch of his foundation. it's an offshoot of his my brother's keeper initiative. obama and steph curry talking about the obstacles they overcame as young black men in this country. and the president decided to poke a little fun at the superstar. >> what were some of the struggles you went through as a kid and how did you get through it? >> well, steph, why don't you talk a little bit about some of your struggles with your ankles, man. >> that's a sensitive subject. man. >> you know. it worked out so he can talk about it now. he won two mvps after that. >> that's pretty good. i got no comeback for that one. >> preside

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> where joe biden hasn't taken the bait yet. he has been on stage for more than 20 minutes now and he has been asked by the moderator historian john mecham if he will run and the vice president doesn't answer that question. his focus has been foreign policy and trying to reset relationships with nato allies. he thinks it's been damaged since trump took over. >> it is not a protection racket. no, no, but it really is. we talk about it that way. we made a sacred commitment in article 5. an attack on one is an attack on all. that's what has maintained the peace and security in europe. and now there is a question going on whether or not we mean it. whether we mean it. >> biden might be best known now for his role in helping get obamacare passed, which would set him apart from the rest of the democratic primary field since so many support single payer medicare for all, trace. >> trace: how is biden taking a different tone than other democrats? >> it would be different. other democrats running now in the top tier of candidates are try

in any way, shape, fashion, at least not led by joe biden. he has just blown his chances for 2020 in all likelihood. biden, it seems forgot one important lesson from his former boss. president obama at least waited until he was elected and was in office before slamming america overseas. joining us tonight, former white house political director, ed rollins. ed, great to have you with us. what a day. let's start with biden, he just blew, didn't he? >> he certainly did something outrageous then anybody i have ever known. a former vice president to go before an important meeting and condemn america, it's just outrageous. you often do that if you are a presidential candidate in iowa, or new hampshire, or somewhere. but to go before our allies and take apart the administration's position is outrageous. >> lou: when president obama did that, his famous apology tour in berlin in cairo, he had been elected. there is a chance to make things right in 2012. romney did not make that happen. i think biden can just kiss it goodbye, personally. i would like

and i'm not so sure we don't have the same thing with joe biden. you can go back and see the times that joe biden's run for president of the united states before. it's been tough. joe biden ran a hell of a race in 2008. he was great in the debates. he never moved the needle because he was running against history. in 2020, that's 12 years later, he still may be running against history. his time may have just passed. we don't know that. but i do know that there's this thought that joe boyden -- >> i love joe. mika loves joe. i have to say it's if he gets into that race, mika,ies going to have to stit it like everybody else. i'm not so sure that jazz is in addition to, quote, a lot of wall already being we're finishing up design on the most important area, the rio frand area and others. we are building a lot of wall. we'll bring in cal perry, who recently returned from a trip -- >> what is that? we are building a wall. >> honestly, it's amazing. sflits disturbing that he just keeps regressing. >> no, and he has his cabinet secretary saying "we want wa

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