when you look at joe biden, can you support joe biden? would you support him and what did hillary clinton's campaign teach you? >> first of all, i'm an independent, not a democrat. i voted for democrats, i have voted for republicans. i've voted for third party candidates think what biden is going to have to face is a left wing of the party that has wind in its sales. they are saying, why should we go with another centrist, moderate democrat. it would happen with hillary in 2016. she snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and lost to donald trump. they are going to need a true believer and joe biden has to face some tough questions. to be what i both to look at this, this is kind of the middle america reaction. watch. >> i have to say, i am so moved by that video. >> i mean, our uncles were in normandie, we were the good guys in this country and now we are not. and now we are not. people look at this country in horror and say what happened to america? it is not just about policy right now. he will get to that. but america, look at this a

president trump of about that came after biden's announcement do you think donald trump takes biden's candidacy seriously is he afraid of by. and you definitely take that seriously there are candidates who have announced their candidacy for president and the president hasn't tweeted anything he hasn't given them the time of day. you know bite him is someone that trump has been talking about for months last year he said it would be a dream if biden got into the race because he considers biden someone he doesn't think can when a lie said joe biden has run for president before and not made it trump has said that he wants to challenge biden and so you can expect to see trump weighing in on anything that biden says and does going forward and we know that joe biden was vice president for brought obama for but eight years said when obama left office in two thousand and six he had a depressive approval rating of fifty nine percent yet biden is not taking advantage of that positive energy take a listen to what he said about that today. if you are the best choice for the democrats in twenty twe

got into the race because he considers biden someone he doesn't think can when a lie said joe biden has run for president before and not made it trump has said that he wants to challenge biden and so you can expect to see trump weighing in on anything that biden says and does going forward and we know that joe biden was vice president for brought obama for but eight years said when obama left office in two thousand and six he had a depressive approval rating of fifty nine percent yet biden is not taking advantage of that positive energy take a listen to what he said about that today. if you are the best choice for the democrats in two thousand and twenty why didn't president obama. says i'm i'm i'm not over the. river winds is. going to make sure you're going to go over. me do you really believe biden when he says obama doesn't want to endorse now. well obama has made clear that he's not going to endorse in this primary he's looking at the same race that we are and he's looking at the same democratic electorate that we are one that's trying to figure out who it is there was a lot of

joe biden being joe biden, he did not stick to the script as his aides envisioned. making a joke off the top and making a joke in reference to the children sitting near the stage. i've already heard from some of the potential opposing campaigns saying this was entirely out of step. i think it reflects the vice president's assessment of how quickly the story has evolved. it was a week ago when lucy flores came toward with a campaign encounter. people were saying he may not be able to run at this point. they believe as the allegation was seen as potentially more politically motivated, we did hear from some biden advisers, this idea it was being floated by rival campaigns. a former bernie sanders endorser, he had the opportunity to rally this large network of his former staff and allies. some of this happened organically coming toward to testify to his character. that video he posted on twitter in which he said he would learn from his experience, he understood that social norms were changing. he would adjust to it. now just a few short days later, making a joke about i

biden: my name -- [cheering and applause] mr. biden: thank you. my name is joe biden and i am jill biden's husband. [laughter] mr. biden: that's how i'm known back home. that's how i'm known most places. thank you. before i begin, i want to take a moment, quite friendly, to reflect on something that happened here in the state not long ago. as a matter of fact, very recently. reflect on the anti-semitic attack that took place this weekend in poway synagogue in california. one dead, three injured. but, folks, we saw hate in charlottesville, we saw it again in pittsburgh at the tree of life synagogue in the attack of the deadliest in american history on a jewish community. and we're reminded again that we are in a battle. we are in a battle for america's soul. >> yes we are. mr. biden: i really believe that. and we have to restore it. [applause] mr. biden: so, folks, i want to thank rich fitzgerald, the county executive, for being here and mayor nezby, city of ducane is here as well. you are here somewhere. [applause] mr. biden: international firefig

i think it's joe biden and everyone else. it could end up being two lanes with bernie sanders and what he represents of the new progressive wing of the democratic party and joe biden who is a bridge to an older democratic party. even though he hopes to have a halo of being barack obama's vice president. this is really a choice for democrats around do you go with who is most electable, who can beat trump, who can bring the kind of restorative power to politics that many believe biden can or ideological party it's time for the party to go in a new direction on a series of issues including reckoning with big social forces like me too. and i think, allison, to your earlier point this morning, on "the view" this morning, i look for bidden to actually have a coherent response, not just to the anita hill hearings but to what the country has gone through in the past couple of years around me too. is he ready to really explain that, to reckon with it in a way that's going to resonate with particularly younger voters in a democratic pa

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how electable is joe biden? sometimes i look at it and say this is the simplest, easiest slam dunk things that the democrats can do, and others i think this could be the biggest mistake the democrats could make. there are two wildly different ways to look at the question. one i think he hopes that democratic voters are looking at. you remember this map, he wins in the electoral college, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, first republican in three decades to win any of those states. look closer, pennsylvania, that trump margin, it was just 44,000 votes in pennsylvania. it was even closer, much closer in michigan, about 11,000 votes in michigan. in wisconsin, that margin there, you add up his margin, trump's margin, in those three states, it comes to 77,744 votes combined across three states that no republican had won in three decades of. ed biden message is joe biden, scranton, pennsylvania, you think i'm not winning back those votes? i'm the guy who can do it. hoar's eye they've been taking it to years on joe bi

. >> i think we'll look at this race bb, before biden and ab, after biden. it is interesting that president trump and former vice president biden are going back and forth over age. they're both in their 70s. the president is 72, joe biden is 76. but what i'm told by people who are close to the president is that the president has been fixated, of course, on pennsylvania. that is his -- the feather in his cap, if you will, of 2016. they believe joe biden can win pennsylvania. a top republican told me this this week. if he would make it to the general election, yes, he's a big problem. how does he survive a democratic primary. that is idea's task as he heads out on this. but he benefits from a crowded field. yes, there are a lot of canned dalgts here, but also a lot of democrats who want to win and joe biden, that's his central message. >> i think you can't -- i agree, of course, with everything jeff said, but i don't think you can fight the last war. every race was different. it was interesting to me how he made no concessions really to the current democratic

with biden, it's not the issue of where is biden's constituency, which may be polls. it may be good feels for the barack obama constituency. >> that's a good constituency, though. >> they follow quickly. it is already going. >> it is interesting you bring that up. it feels like a kamela harris or beto has a deeper constituency because they've won recent state races. >> yeah, at this point. >> almost won. >> biden will be making the argument that it was extremely unfor ther comfortable for hillary clinton to make in 2016 that not really running for a third obama term you, but i am kinda, yeah. >> we'll see if obama, team obama will let joe biden run on the obama third term. that's another debate for another time. thank you very much. >>> up next, a major first for the second city. ajor first for the second city. tremfya® can help adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis get clearer. and stay clearer. most patients who saw 90% clearer skin at 28 weeks stayed clearer through 48 weeks. tremfya® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk

the president thinks joe biden is the guy who will give him the biggest run for his money, if biden is able to get out of the democratic primary so he did, in fact, take this bait. he's not backing down. he's not really one to do so. but he might be walking into a trap, relitigating an issue that caused him to lose a lot of support in the polls at the time that it happened. even if it didn't cause him to lose support among his base. the question is can president trump move on from this and will he at some point really grapple with the fact that this was actually something that the country thought was handled poorly and maybe in the future will he change the way that he talks about this issue? it seems based on his answers today he doesn't have any retrospective view of this issue and sticking to his answer this was all about history and not at all about the hate that everyone saw on display in charlottesville that day. >> you would think it would be easy to condemn that hate. in simple terms. abby phillip at the white house. "outfront" tonight, van jones former special adviser to presi

get away, biden! ( laughter ) now, the truth is nobody's really surprised by these stories because, unfortunately, biden has been going this kind of thing out in the open for his entire 200-year political career. >> questions have been raised in the past about biden's behavior around women. >> he was dubbed america's creepy uncle and a walking h.r. violation. ( laughter ) >> viebt joe biden ended up with a woman from a biker group on his lap. as two biker dudes watched. biden reportedly told her, quote, i know who runs this show. ( laughter ) >> trevor: wow. check out the looks on those guys' faces. huh? look at this dude's face over here. you see that? if you can make a biker gang uncomfortable, you crossed the line, my friend! ( laughter ) but, according to, biden, being hands-on is what makes him a good politician. in fact, here's what he was saying just a couple of weeks ago. >> i'm a tack tile politician. i always have been. that's what gets me in trouble as well. ( laughter ) but i think i can f

biden: i didn't say progressive. my whole career i wish i had been labeled as a moderate the seven times i ran. i have never been labeled as a moderate. of all aecord traditional organizations, i have never walked away from them. i am not sure when everybody came out and said they are for gay marriage and talked about a lot of the things i talked about, but my point is, the definition of progressive noise to be changing. do you believe in, whatever? i was talking about, up until this last time around, the traditional -- whether or not you were a liberal, was whether or not what was your position on race, women, lgbt communities, civil liberties -- i stuck my record on those things against anybody who has ever run and is running now or who will run. let me say one last thing. here is the deal. if you look at all the polling data and look at the actual results, the party has not moved to whatever characterization you just made. thefact of the matter is, vast majority of the members of the democratic party are still lib

speaking about joe biden. cnn's reporting is that the president seems to be nervous because he's asking a lot of questions about him. why is that? >> yeah, i mean, the president and his team see joe biden and this entire democratic field as the candidate most likely to go and grab some of the voters that actually helped deliver the oval office to donald trump. some of those middle-class rust belt older white voters in places like, you know, wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania, that joe biden has a unique ability when looking at the entire field of 20 democratic candidates to go in there and try to win some of the voters back. some of the voters, you recall, voted for the obama/biden ticket in 2012. they see that as a real clear and present political danger to them, which is why i think you see the president commenting on joe biden and trying to develop some sort of framing, negative framing around him more so than he's done with any other candidate in the field. >> this is one case what the president means

authority he's willing to cut taxes but he's also making demands on french workers also coming up joe biden hits the campaign trail to become the next u.s. president the former u.s. vice president warning the soul of the nation is at stake if donald trump wins another term but can bite him in the controversy over his own past first. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us the president of france has laid out a raft of reforms after months of yellow vest protests protests that have put his authority in question in a bid to restore order to the country tonight pledge to cut income tax for the middle class and to make it easier to hold referendums on some issues but he also says there will be no tolerance for violent protests here's more of what he had to say. we will be loyal to you today above all public order must return it's essential that we come together. but i don't want the actions of some people to eclipse the just demands that were put forward at the start of this movement and that we're broadly supported if you. are join me here at the big table as my colleague in montreal that

he knows joe biden well. his dad knew joe biden when he was governor really well. this is an asset we have tended to underplay. they are new faces. joe biden will be a test of the importance of that longstanding deep relationship >> what's also important, david cohen who is throwing the fundraiser who was the general counsel of comcast which owns nbc is one of the most powerful democratic donors and most active in the country. it's a show of force to donors which is important to joe biden to provide shock and awe in the democratic field. he never wants to run a two-way race. as one democratic strategist said, this is trump. he wants to be biden against a field of 20. it's always him against the rest of them. not one on one. this is an attempt to show the power of the fund raising potential >> i think david is right to flag david cohen's role in this. not to pick on him individually, but the presence of him and other folks in the room will be a test to the rest of the democratic field. it's bait for the populous to have the guy who oversees a major media company's l

you vote for biden? >> let's wait and see how this all goes. >> that's not one word. you know, i didn't vote -- because i don't know. i don't know how joe biden's going to do and i'm not going to -- >> if it was. >> i'm not -- >> i'm not saying he's going -- >> short answer, when the time comes, i'll let you know. how's that? anti-biden short answer. not saying another word. >> that was a politician's answer, thank you, john kasich. >> i just don't know. what if i run, you going to vote for me if i run, d. lemon? >> it depends what you do over time. >> wait a minute, you're doing the same thing. >> if you answered one word, i would have answered one word too. so my answer is no. how about that? i'm kidding. >> oh, come on. you're breaking my heart. >> i've got to run, governor. >> don't do that to me. >> see you next time. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> a lot more on former vice president joe biden announcing his bid for president, coming out swinging against president trump. is that the message

ladies of "the view," biden spoke at length about his late son bo biden who encouraged him to run back in 2016 and the former vice president got emotional. >> is he why you're running? >> no, he's not why i'm running. but i hope -- it's not stupid. when i get up in the morning i think about -- you know, i hope he's proud of me. i hope he's proud. but look, a lot of people, all you folks who've lost somebody, they're still with you, they're in you, they're there. the way you get by this, the philosopher, have something to do, some of the love, and something to look forward to. that's what this is about and you've got to get there and you can get there. but the people who really impress me are the people who get there sort of on their own. >> ryan lizza, susan glasser david swerdlik are back with me. that's what draws joe biden to people. i sort of related to that moment after my sister died. i've told the story before, there was an inrecognized call for a 202 number that came up on my cell phone i usually don't answer those, and i picked up, we have the vice president for you, oh, right

does then senator biden, now vice president biden need to do more? >> he said he called her and listen, you have to look at the entirety of the record. that was a mistake back then. you have to look at people through their own -- we all make mistakes, learn by them. joe biden made a lot of mistakes. i have made mistakes. i learned. i'm sure you have, too. it's all about the issues and mistakes you may have made. no one has dug in more on fighting on women's issues than joe biden. you have to look at the totality of someone's record. he was the author of the violence against women act. we have to look at the whole record. also look at the world stage. i'm disgusted about the way america is viewed on the world stage, what president trump has done. relationships to nato, what he's done with tariffs. farmers in virginia. soybean farmers in virginia are no longer selling soybeans to china because of the ridiculous tariffs >> you're saying lots of nice stuff about joe biden, but to be clear, you haven't endorsed him yet. >> i'm a big fan of joe biden. i vi

government to biden companies when joe biden was vice president and went to biden went soft on china. effectively it countered china's rise is the single most important strategic challenge for the next president. how can joe biden possibly do that when the chinese government has been funding biden family businesses? just on the basis of what we already know by the standards the democrats have set for donald trump joe biden is compromised by foreign power and unfit to be president. there's a lot more we need to know and what went on in those beijing meetings and billet number five and what promises were made? what favors were exchanged? why did joe biden. in china when it's aggression and our allies demanded a response? to borrow nancy pelosi's words, what does china have on joe biden politically, personally or financially? here's the bottom line about to biden. he's a fake and phony. tomorrow he launches his campaign and in the union hall to brand himself as a man of the working people. don't let them fool you. he's training on reputation that has not been true for decades. when he c

i think vice president biden, maybe future president biden, fully occupies the center lane there. amy klobuchar is the only other candidate that was really in that space. as i made the point a couple you thins ago, i think people are underestimating how pragmatic democrats are about this and if you look at the polls, and he's been in the front there since we started tracking this, we'll see in the next couple days if he can maintain that and there have been a number of people who entered into the race including mayor pete, beto o'rourke, people who garnered a ton of excitement and it hasn't chipped away at his frontrunner status there. that's what you have to pay attention to. elizabeth warren and bernie sanders can conside criticize hl they want. if he maintains that lead and that union support and the support from the african american community, he will be hard to beat in the primary. arthel: i want to point out numbers, jessica and i want chris to respond to this. you've had almost 97,000 people donated online to biden for president with donations less than $200, with an averag

biden. before i read this, i should point out that like little marco rubio or low energy jeb, the president's nickname for joe biden is apparently sleepy joe. so some context there. president trump tweeting, welcome to the race, sleepy joe. i only hope you have the intelligence to wage a successful primary campaign. it will be nasty. you'll be dealing with people who have sick and demented ideas. if you make it, i'll see you at the starting gate. what do we know about how worried trump's people are about the entrance of joe biden ? >> from the beginning of the administration people around president trump have thought of joe biden as one of the potential threats to the votes that helped power donald trump to the white house. working class white voters, working class white men voters in particular. certainly the word sleepy is not one that's typically been applied to joe biden. he's an energizer bunny. his aides have struggled for years to get him out of events because he wants to shake hands

during the video that biden made? it sort of runs counter to what a lot of the other candidates are saying, this can't just be about donald trump. >> i thought it was an interesting strategic move. when you think about it, what everybody says about joe biden, yeah, he would be a very strong candidate against donald trump, but we don't know whether he can get through this democratic party and these nominating fights. and so what he decided to do was give people a preview of what that battle would look like. and he lifted the stakes in a way that i thought was very, very effective. >> so in a sense, kind of looking past the primary? >> exactly. saying, you know, i think he in a subtle way kind of consigned everybody else to the kiddie table and said i'm coming back to try and make things right, and i'm ready for that fight. >> it also sort of sets an idea of what the stakes are as opposed to important things like, you know, economic issues or health care or things like that. >> yeah. at the end of the day, i think every

i personally like joe biden, but i don't know if my like of joe biden validates him enough to take him over the finish line for this particular race in 2020. >> paul, where do you see his strengths and weaknesses? >> well, he needs to begin with the black community. and this is something i think my republican friends never understand. they think the democratic party is white liberals. if you look at a lot of these candidates running right now in the democratic that. >> seem to think that the whole party is white liberals. the first strategy question james carville and i had with bill clinton in 1991, we said the path to the nomination runs through the african american community, and when doug wilder, the african american governor of virginia decided not to run, we thought we could win. that's how clinton won. that's how barack beat hillary. that's how hillary beat bernie. i'm not for any of these candidates. i'm completely undecided. but somebody is going to figure that out. the heart and soul of the republican party i believe is the white christian evangelicals. they're not the majori

of while joe biden was america's chief diplomat to those countries. a huge problem in a huge vulnerability. shannon: new york times is reporting in 2015 about these relationships, a statement saying hunter biden is a private citizen, the president is not involved in these situations involving hunter, his business is his own thing. >> the united states in 2011 signed up for the international bribery agreements, signed by hillary clinton. a payment is a bribe whether it is whether it goes to a politician's family member so just because hunter biden was not in the government is irrelevant. of the chinese government, the ukrainians, money coming from the money of the prime minister during this time they are making payments to the vice president's on to get favorable treatment from the vice president that is a bribe whether joe biden takes that money or not. that kind of answer is not going to clear this up >> keep us updated with your investigation and we will see that with hunter biden as well. thank you. germany on a financial commitment to nato and don

what do you hear biden doing there? >> i'd note, also, remember, the american public did not find donald trump honest and trust worthy when they elected him president either. i don't know if that'll be the most resonant message to win back voters, or if it'll be more on an economic appeal, which joe biden spent much of the speech yesterday doing, alisyn. i mean, this was sort of a piece, a pillar of his campaign, about his vision for how to rebuild the middle class. when he said that if a democrat is going to win back the white house, it is going to be right here, i mean, this is why i think he is getting under the president's skin. i think the president is keenly aware that joe biden may have a unique appeal in this field of 20 democrats to actually win back some of the very voters that delivered the oval office to donald trump in pennsylvania, in michigan, in wisconsin, that he may have a unique appeal to bring some of the people back into the democratic fold. >> let's let people see the numbers once again. joe biden

biden: thank you. thank you. ♪ >> after his speech, the former vice president spoke to about the controversy of several women who expressed discomfort in the way he had physically interacted with them. he also talked about his timing in his entry in the 2020 presidential race. this is 10 minutes.

president trump going out of his way earlier today to take on former vice president joe biden after biden officially jumped into the race just 24 hours ago. and it comes as cnn learns that biden is already making the president sweat, but he's not about to concede that. here's what president trump said just minutes ago. >> i think we beat him easily. i just feel like a young man. i'm so young. i can't believe it. i'm the youngest person. i am a young vibrant man. i look at joe, i don't know about him. i don't know. >> if you have to declare you're a young vibrant man, are you? we'll deal with that later. it's not just the president taking on biden this morning. possibly solidifying biden's status as the democratic front-runner, fellow democrats running are also taking shots. senator bernie sanders, he sent out a fund-raising email jabbing at biden's announcement, writing this. it's a big day in the democratic primary, and we're hoping to end it strong. not with a fund-raiser in the home of a corporate lobbyist but with an overwhelming number of individual donations in response to today's n

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you vote for biden? >> let's wait and see how this all goes. >> that's not one word. you know, i didn't vote -- because i don't know. i don't know how joe biden's going to do and i'm not going to -- >> if it was. >> i'm not -- >> i'm not saying he's going -- >> okay. i'm going to give you a short answer. when the time comes, i'll let you know. how's that? anti-biden short answer. not saying another word. >> that was a politician's answer, thank you, john kasich. >> i just don't know. what if i run, you going to vote for me if i run, d. lemon? >> it depends on what you do over time. >> wait a minute, you're doing the same thing. if i run, you should say, yeah, i'll be for you. >> if you answered one word, i would have answered one word too. so my answer is no. how about that? i'm kidding. >> oh, come on. you're breaking my heart. >> i've got to run, governor. >> don't do that to me. >> see you next time. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> a lot more on former vice president joe biden announcing his b

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joe biden can. at the end of the day, the party has to make a decision, and we'll see how it goes out, but the person who can go and get those votes back is joe biden. >> scott, what do you make of the obama factor? we heard jeff zeleny talking about obama's response to this, his kind of positioning here. he's excited about the diversity of the field. he thinks a robust primary made him when he was running a better candidate and better president. while he loves joe biden, he's not likely to be endorsing anyone anytime soon. does it surprise you? >> i think it shows both that they have a genuine and sincere friendship that was great for both of them and great for the country, but also shows that joe biden has to win this race on his own with the allies, with the folks who fight for him. >> i guess everyone would probably want that. >> we as a party do better when it's not a coronation, when it's a fight. i think that watching this fight for our values and who we are as a party and as a country matter

biden is very assuring. the president is he can reassure suburban voters, he was the vice president, he was a good leader, and he can l reach out to workig classri voters. he r represents a very, very strong candidate. probably the strongest candidate in the field today would be my guest. he's going to have to stand up to the primary. can he defeat bernie sanders? >> do you agree with mark's analysis?pr does he have a woman problem? given at the apology and there's grope and sniff gate. >> i'm sure there will be a strong strain to can we get back to two years ago, four years ago. biden runs a real risk of looking at that. if you look at the electorate, they are not risk avers -- adverse. they are furious. >> i know. trump has moved the ball on those t issues. doesn't that make it steeper than last time? >> they are furious that our government is incompetent and incapable of addressing the issues the country is faced with. we w are tired of them blaming each other. the whole thing is a problem. if biden says

by joe biden. so biden definitely represents a threat to his presidency. i think the president has been itching to get a ring with anybody who got out ahead and he decided to go in. but i must tell you, erin, it's almost a year and a half before we vote in november. it's awfully early to start throwing punches right now. you would think he would let it go and go after the left, and the socialism represented by the new progressives and all the rest and try to tie biden into that. >> but of course he's not doing that. not the brightest light bulb in the group. he also, of course, has given joe biden nicknames, sleepy joe biden being that nickname. and, you know, you could chuckle at that or roll your eyes at that, but nonetheless those silly nicknames were powerful in the 2016 primary. do you remember these? >> little marco, very, very low energy jeb bush. >> but senator, what do you make of this? sleepy joe, could this actually be problematic for joe biden? he and the president are close to the same

joe biden will get to that. to have not only the strategy but the discipline to say, i will solely focus on this notion that i am the person you can envision in the general election against donald trump and beating him because of who i am, my stature and experience. joe biden is telling the voters he'll get to those issues. no doubt he'll be asked about them. as much as he'd like to fast forward through the primary, that's not the case. he'll have to share a debate stage. he'll be tested, poked and prodded by voters and he has to fight for the nomination inside the modern day democratic party. we'll see how he does it. to come out of the gate with this focus and discipline on where he wants to keep the message, i found surprising. >> there was a big debate about when to do this. everybody was waiting. there was thought it would happen yesterday. that would have competed with the she the people conference talking about women's rights and equality. he wanted to have a moment that was his own. he has achieved it >>

be the think biden would nominee. i certainly think his ongoing somethinggoing to be that is going to push him to the side. ,ost: do use that line creepy you think that over being warm and friendly. andt: i have seen the video the images. this is not something that has cropped up recently. this has been part of joe biden's reputation, whispered among political circles for years and years. it is my view that if you are a politician and part of your job is to read people to get their votes, you should know about the reputation you have. if you are stuck with a reputation like that, a good politician, a decent human being would work hard to change that reputation. the fact that joe biden has not but has laughed it off and excuse it as being simple friendliness has defied logic. host: what about president trump, who has talked about women's parts, that access hollywood video, and 18 to 20 women claiming he has abused them. if you want to make a case out of president trump, that is fine by me. there were certain valid ques

now it's a biden video. take a look. >> this is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public service. somebody who has devoted his entire professional life to service to this country. there could not have been a more effective partner in the progress that we've made. the best part is he's nowhere close to finished. >> and, larry, no way biden is doing this unless obama gives him some kind of sign-off on it, you have to think. the other thing, though, that occurs to me is you have a former vice-president running. this is not walter mondale with jimmy carter, dan quail with george w. bush. this is a vp who can call on the former president and the administration. >> it's only four years prior. people, certainly democrats, everybody else remembers obama and democrats remember him very, very well. it kind of reminded me a little bit of how nixon kept invoking eisenhower, even in 1968 when he was running the second time, but eight years after the eisenhower administration left office. eisenhower was

lead among democrats for biden, he's sure to harden up and i think joe biden has been well advised to sort of answer occasionally but not all the time. i think it will be tiresome and you never know which way that would go if you spend 18 months back and forth and hitting each other. i can't imagine -- that's risky for biden. >> david gergen, thanks as always. >> thanks, jim. >>> today as we noted joe biden will visit iowa for the first time since he officially entered the race in 2020. joining me to speak about how the former vice president stands in that early voting state, troy price, the chair of the iowa democratic party. troy, good to speak with you this morning. you know, the cnn numbers -- biden was already the national front runner based on prior polls but now he's way ahead nationally. tell us how he's doing in iowa, though. >> well, i think the vice president is going to start with a very strong -- starts in a very strong position here in the state as jeff noted a little bit earlier. the vice president's been here twice and has a strong network he guilt in 1987, back in 200

biden as the nominee. it shows a lot of the trump white house day to day tactics are just trump watching tv and responding to what he sees on tv, it's not based on any kind of strategy that his campaign is giving him. it's him sitting in the residence until noon watching a dvr'd morning news coverage and responding to it online. it's remarkable, but it's where we are. it does, guys, have the effect of creating this trump versus biden dynamic for the first five days of the campaign that biden is in. >> everybody should dvr our show. >> i do every day as you know. >> very good. >> go ahead, abby. >> it's also worth noting that the president is elevating joe biden which seems like a good thing for joe biden, but i think biden actually when he's -- first came out of the gate benefited from some fairly low expectations in terms of how he would be able to raise money, how he would be able to compete on a sort of grassroots level and there is a risk here that joe biden can become the sort of inevitable candidate,

joe biden said some weeks ago, i am an obama-biden democrat. what is the thing he's trying to capture right now, because a big portion of the party would like the party to be as jonathan allen said more progressive and a larger portion would like it to be more progressive to do what nancy pelosi said and continue to win in those swing districts influenced by moderates. what is joe biden in the mix? >> i'm going to back up for a moment here and understand what an obama democrat is. you have to go a long way back to find a democrat who won back to back majorities. you have to go a long way back to find a republican who won back to back majorities. when he is talking about an obama democrat, you are talking about a big party. obama brought 8% of the electorate were people who never participated before. it's about broadening and expanding the party and bringing more people into the conversation. this back and forth about progressive and or not fro gressive is an elite game. when you talk to the real democrats, they are talking about kitchen table i

biden: thank you. thank you. ♪ >> after his speech, the former vice president spoke to about the controversy of several women who expressed discomfort in the way he had physically interacted with them. he also talked about his timing in his entry in the 2020 presidential race. this is 10 minutes. fmr. vice pres. biden: it wasn't my intent to make light of anyone's discomfort. i realize my responsibility is to not invade the space of anyone who was uncomfortable in that regard. and i hope it was not taken that way. i literally think it is incumbent among me, not anybody else, to make sure that if you touch someone, it is with their consent, regardless of your intention. you are trying to bring solace, welcome them, it is my responsibility to do that. >> what is your reaction to president trump taunting you on twitter? fmr. vice pres. biden: it doesn't surprise me. he doesn't have time to do his job. look, everybody knows who donald trump is. i don't have to say anything more. reporter: do you expect a

got into the race because he considers biden someone he doesn't think can when a lie said joe biden has run for president before and not made it trump has said that he wants to challenge biden and so you can expect to see trump weighing in on anything that biden says and does going forward and we know that joe biden was vice president for brought obama for but the eight years said when obama left office in two thousand and six he had a depressive approval rating of fifty nine percent yet biden is not taking advantage of that positive energy take a listen to what he said about that today. if you are the best choice for the democrats in twenty one why didn't president obama or. there's a moment not over the. river windsors. when the other remember where you think of it over. me do you really believe biden when he says obama doesn't want to endorse him now. well obama has made clear that he's not going to endorse in this primary he's looking at the same race that we are and he's looking at the same democratic electorate that we are one that's trying to figure out who it is there was a

will it be joe biden? joe biden, any minute now, will officially release a campaign video online. is he not making a speech or anything like that. he is going to put it out there as soon as it is available and we think it is going to be soon available. ainsley: under construction looks like they are making changes. we will bring you that as soon as it drops. steve: i'm being told it has just appeared online. now what we will do is we will take it off the website and we will ingest it in the back room. the boiler room of the fox news channel and we should have it by the conclusion of this segment. ed: he tweeted. ainsley: what did he say? ed: fox business half hour ago waiting for announcement. you could have used that any point the last couple months. we have been waiting and waiting. steve: here's the point. when you see the video something that will be missing from it, you will not see barack obama sitting right next to him saying, you he no, i endorse him. because a source who has talked to barack obama, who was the president as joe biden was vice president said, quote: he is n

joe biden announcing that he will run. how do you as a democratic congressman pick among your friends? i think it's incredibly important that we choose the candidate who is the best person to go up against president trump. i think it is joe biden, i really do. he is a moderate. we need to win wisconsin, ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, that we lost last time. joe biden is uniquely situated. he is a known commodity. because everybody knows who he is, eight years in the white house, several decades in the u.s. senate, he is a known commodity. i think his reputation is more resilient because people know him. people know him and trust him. he is a moderate, common sense. i think he has a better ability to counter president trump, who will be a tough candidate to beat. an incumbent president, especially if the economy is humming along. if democrats mess this up, they moreoing to have four years of donald trump, so they better choose wisely. i think joe biden is our best chance of success. david: thank you for your time today, cong

recent allegations of inappropriate behavior by some women, a biden spokesperson confirming biden called i need a hill, the woman who accused clarence thomas of sexual harassment to apologize for how he treated her during the confirmation hearing in 1991. according to the new york times biden's apology left her deeply unsatisfied saying, quote, i cannot be satisfied by simply say i am sorry for what happened to you. i won't be satisfied when i know there's real change and real accountability and real purpose was the former vice president launched his presidential campaign in a 31/2 minute video in which he denounced donald trump's response to the charlottesville white supremacist march. >> we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. to we can look back on four years of this president and all the embraces and is an aberrant moment in time. but if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, it will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are. i cannot stand by and watch that happen. >> reporter: biden is focusing on trump, justice democrats and gro

later, biden still on trump's mind. in a late night interview with fox news >> i think when you look at joe, i have known joe over the years. he's not the brightest lightbulb in the group. he's a pretty sleepy guy. >> reporter: within hours of being in the race biden's past is exposing vulnerabilities including his handling of anita hill's testimony during the clarence thomas confirmation hearings. >> to this day i regret i couldn't come up with a way to get her the kind of hearings she deserved. he recently reached out to hill >> it was a private discussion. they have spoken. >> reporter: hill telling "new york times" i cannot be satisfied by saying i'm sorry for what happened to you. i will be satisfied when there is real change and real accountability. with a late start to the race biden had a fundraiser at the home of a media executive in philadelphia. now to how much biden raised in the first 24 hours and he'll have his first interview on "the view." monday, his first campaign event in pittsburgh. it will be a busy

cnn learned biden rallied donors and supporters yesterday on a conference. >> caller:ing how will biden change the