biden: god love you! how are you? how are you doing? mr. biden: hey, low ready, this is joe biden. i'm here with your daughter. we were reminiscing. i'm well. nice to talk to you. i bet she is freaking out. mr. biden: i remember. god love you. your daughter tells me you are doing well. oh, great1 that's great. maybe i will get to see you before this effort is over. >> you well. you will. mr. biden: ok. i hope so too. well, i need you. if you need me in there, i need you to get me in there. thank you. hey, mama. i'm going to hand you back. mr. biden: hey, man, what's your name? hey, luke. how old are you? where am i going? >> watch the van. watch the van. watch the van. mr. biden: good to see you, pal. [laughter] mr. biden: that is pretty good, man. you got it. come on, guys. >> watch out. watch out for the car. mr. biden: can't afford to lose you. >> we are going to try to get you through here, there will be a lot of people. mr. biden: how are you? >> have a good day, joe. >> come on, you guys. mr. biden: how are you doing, young man? 'ya?how are what is your name? >> everybody kne

biden is corrupt. trump is not. >> sean: and i'd like to know what did barack obama know about all of this. sunday nights, full hour. life, liberty. peter peered up next, my exclusive interview. vice president pence weighs in on this very thing. biden, the family dealings, ukraine, china, and the controversy over the whistle-blower. ♪ to put on our website? i mean i would have but i'm a commercial vehicle so i don't have hands... or a camera...or a website. should we franchise? is the market ready for that? can we franchise? how do you do that? meg! oh meg! we should do that thing where you put the business cards in the fishbowl and somebody wins something. -meg: hi. i'm here for... i'm here for the evans' wedding. -we've got the cake in the back, so, yeah. -meg: thank you. -progressive knows small business makes big demands. -you're not gonna make it, you're not gonna make it! ask her if we can do her next wedding too! -so we'll design the insurance solution that fits your business. -on second thoug

but there is something with biden. were gonna blow this out of the water right here on the show tomorrow night. there is something with durbin, leahy, manila does. and murphy also. >> you know it's funny when they report the news, it's fake. the acting dni story is a total fabrication as per the acting dan acting dni himself but when they report real news, they reporting in violation of what they say in their own principle principles. they are saying this conversation with the ukrainian leader which i see nothing wrong with. we can see the transcript. that that it's a problem but when barack obama actually got information, looking at the headline here in my phone. cnn politics. let me read this "british intelligence past trump associates communications with russians to u.s. counterparts." when the british intelligence gave information to obama about trump, cnn reported that like it was the greatest thing ever. and it was all fake news against trump. they have no principles. one more thing, remember they've admitted get

but there is something with biden. we're going to blow this out of the water right here on the show tomorrow night. there is something with durbin leahy, menendez. and murphy also. >> you know it's funny when they report the news, it's fake. the acting dni story is a total fabrication as per the acting dni himself. but when they actually report real news, they report it in violation of what they say in are their own principles. they are saying this conversation with the ukrainian leader, which i see nothing wrong with. we can see the transcript. that it's a problem but when barack obama actually got information, i'm looking at the headline here on my phone. cnn l politics. let me read this "british intelligence passed trump associates communications with russians to u.s. counterparts." so when the british intelligence and cnn reported this, gave information to obama about trump, cnn reported that like it was the greatest thing ever. and it was all fake news against trump. they have no principles.all the. one more thing

biden? >> no. actually, i didn't. >> you never asked anything about hunter biden, you never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden was to get to the bottom of how it was that lutsenko dismiss the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> joe biden can be involved in bribery. joe biden's son can get $1.5 billion from china and you won't cover it. and you want to cover some ridiculous charge that i urge the ukrainian government to investigate corruption. well, i did. and i'm proud of it. >> you just admitted it. did the president talk to the ukrainian president about what he wanted done with joe biden and what he wanted done with paul manafort? >> i have no idea. i don't know if he did and i wouldn't care if he did. he had every right to do it as the president of the united states. >> he is talking about a fool's errand, but that might be rudy's way of getting ahead of this story. with details of the july phone c

biden's campaign. let's take a look. >> the left knows that biden's sonn is a problem for him. this is why when hillary clinton was running, these stories first originated back one hillary clinton was trying to make sure that biden didn't get into the race.now that these han resurrected, i don't know who came up withthy is a whistleblower, is not a partisan we want to hear from the whistleblower but it sure looks likee the scheme backfired and it looks like this is the end of bead biden's campaign. >> end of his campaign? >> i really do. >> sean: the congressman is right. joe biden and his family should be very worried tonight. let's pay very close attention here, because here is what we know. thanks to the investigative work of reporter, john solomon, we can i look out a very damning timeline. we start in 2014. this is when president obama appointed him to leave theed a s iefforts in ukraine. april, 2014, biden's son scored a lucrative position on board a gas company. according to numerous reports he

, you never asked anything about joe biden -- >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that the man appointed dismissed the case against -- >> so did you ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. you have to see past the passion and see the purpose. giuliani came with a plan to provide cover for the president, which we will deconstruct for you tonight in detail. and how do we see the proof of it? well, just today. the president followed his lead. he did not deny that he, too, personally asked the foreign government to probe his political opponent. listen. >> it doesn't matter what i discussed but i will say this, somebody ought to look into joe biden's statement because it was disgraceful where he talked about billions of dollars that he's not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. so somebody ought to look into that. >> we will show you why what the president discussed does matter and why he discussed it matters even more. and the facts and questions that are dri

>> well, that's good for joe biden independe biden. this is a battle for the soul of the democratic party. is it a progressive party with big programs, big ideas or big price tags or is it a party that's more centrist, more moderate and that's the battle that is starting to take shape here. >> all right. i appreciate both of your time very much. thank you. >> and next, breaking news. the pentagon just announcing deployment of troops to the middle east. so why? plus as millions take to the streets in what may be the largest climate protest in history, sanjay gupta has a special report you will only see here and it is about the climate crisis and what you eat. your actual nutrition now. performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that's the kind lincoln's about. ♪ you can stream and scroll through other people's vacations, or you can be the kind of person that books their own vacation. a booker.

anybody think biden didn't raise the game? >> i think joe biden certainly showed a lot more fire. he was less on the defensive than he has been in some of the previous debate nights. it was the first time he shared the stage with senator elizabeth warren who comes off as a much more effective manager for the progressive wing of the democratic party that bernie sanders -- >> why, why is she better? >> she delivers it with a great deal of clarity. she had a strong line, she said, i never met any american who likes their health insurance companies. that's something that will stick with people in terms of why she's offering big, bold proposals. that's still the debate that played out, whether or not they want to lead a grassroots progressive movement or whether democratic voters are more driven by that incremental change, that steady hand that joe biden and some of the more moderate candidates are advocating. >> all right, so play to that, but almost anybody speak it up tonight? >> i would actually push back then against that a bit -- >> the warren part or the biden? >> the warren par

you said i went there to get dirt on joe biden. do you know what i found out about joe biden? do you know what i told my colleague? they're going to cover this up. i got a nice straight case of ukrainian collusion. the minute i say biden, that washington press corps is going to go nuts. they've been covering up for years. john: now you're straying into areas -- >> no, i'm not. i'm straying into what is wrong with us today -- john: we need to point out that the prosecutor who was appointed after shokin was fired, resurrected, reanimated the case and found that hunter biden was, in fact, paid millions of dollars, but he said that the board was able to pay a board member whatever they wanted, and he didn't see anything wrong with that. >> so distorted. john: i'm just stating the facts. >> if you did any work, you'd find out this is the prosecutor that biden put n. there's a newspaper article in which he approves him when he's appointed. doesn't that strike you as odd that the vice president would approve a particular prosecutor? did you ever bother to look? let me finish -- john:

and joe biden. nobody has denied that is the case. there is a whistleblower who wants to bring this information, he has a whistleblower complaint to congress and the white house is preventing that. if there is really nothing there, why shouldn't the white house just let congress -- let the gang of eight, the intelligence leaders of the house and senate and look at the whistleblower complaint and if it is as innocent as you say that would clean it up. >> that is a terrible precedent. conversations between world leaders are meant to be confidential and if ever time someone for political reasons raised a question and all of a sudden those conversations were disclosed publicly, and when you dus close them to congress, a lot of times they leak into the press. then why would world leaders want to have conversations together. so the real issue here is this was an important week. it is a very important week. what went on with iran, the maximum pressure campaign. this is a conversation between two world lead

where are joe biden's documents? let's put forth the proof that they really thought this guy had the evidence. he has not done that. >> sean: i don't think it's possible. we are going to have you back tomorrow and get in even more detail. you've been busy with this all day, this is only the beginning of 450 pages.john solomon, than. here with reaction former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia joe digenova. a former deputy assistant attorney general victoria toensing. you heard what he said, you see what is reported, it is prettyep obvious there are a billion reasons they fired a guy in six? >> we've known from the very beginning mr. shokin was not a corrupt prosecutor. we've known he was removed from office under pressure from vice president biden because he was investigating the vice president's son and because of his connection to burisma holdings. it's precisely why the democrats have undertaken this new move against the president of the united states with his corrupt allegation that there was something wr

biden: good to see you. vice pres. biden: the best i can do is spaghetti. we have to restore america's soul, build back the middle class, and we have to pick our heads up and remember who we are -- the united states of america. there's nothing we can't do. [inaudible] vice pres. biden: what's your name? >> [inaudible] vice pres. biden: good to see you. [crowd chatter] [crowd chatter] vice pres. biden: pardon me? i like them well-done, but don't tell my dad. [crowd chatter] >> let's go, joe! [crowd chatter] [cheers] [crowd chatter] vice pres. biden: all right. thanks, man. [drums] [crowd chanting] [drums] vice pres. biden: all right, watch out. we will do it real quick. thank you. >> we need a walkway on both signs, ok? >> thank you. >> joe, do you mind? thank you so much, sir. that's the winner. >> can i take a picture with you, our future president? tomorrow is my birthday. vice pres. biden: happy birthday. you're turning 40. >> i wish. we wish you the best of luck. biden: thank you. hi, how are you? >> good. can you take a selfie with us? vice pres. biden

the reason that you bring up joe biden with the past issues of ukraine and hunter biden, hunter biden is not one someone who has a lot of expertise becomes highly involved in ukrainian energy company, issues involved. the new yorker has written about it, i commend that you read that article. >> mention that that he made a lot of money, rudy giuliani, back in the program in april. he got into it with cnn's chris cuomo. >> so you asked him to look into joe biden? >> of course, i did. >> you just said you didn't? >> involved joe biden in massive bribery scene, it's sad to watch what happened here. >> i'm a sellout. >> you're telling me that i'm a sellout. >> who is help when he gets into that shouting match with chris cuomo? >> i'm not sure but we are all entertained, what i find fascinating the story about joe biden and hunt biden's ties to ukraine is coming up, joe biden says it didn't happen and in his own words he did ask the ukrainian president at the time to fire someone and -- >> fire prosecutor looking into the company that his son was part of. >> exactly, the story of joe biden

those are joe biden's words. that is concerning to me. >> bret: if the president did as is being reported, "the washington post" now does match "the wall street journal," he mentioned numerous times to the president of ukraine while the u.s. is considering $250 million in aid to ukraine, is that implicit quid pro quo to get this investigation kick-start a? >> you don't have any of the facts. let's wait until next thursday. let's go through the appropriate channels. how many times have we learned this lesson before? let's just say -- i'm not going to speculate that it happened. >> bret: let me just say, would something like that be a problem for you? >> you know what will be a problem for me? for me to speculate without knowing the facts. i want our president of the united states to have relations with every country. i want our president to be able to talk to those leaders and i think it is inappropriate that all these people are going to listen to these conversations and selectively put something out and then hav

son, hunter biden there. so, we're at the beginning of this story. we don't know where it's going to end up, and we've only heard from the president through twitter. we still haven't heard from him on camera today, but joe biden clearly angered and clearly going on the offense. alex? >> quite clearly so. hans nichols from the white house. thank you for that. joining me now, california representative john garamendi. w welcome back to the broadcast, sir. i know you heard the strong reaction from joe biden. in fact, we saw you through the camera nodding your head to that. what is your take to his response? >> he's doing exactly what should be done and what congress should also be doing. we need to push back on this president. this president's conduct is absolutely outrageous, most of it is illegal. quite probablied it engage in extort i extorting the new president, selenski, of ukraine, eight times. he did -- you notice the president didn't deny that he had said those things. we want the tapes. we want the infor

don't worry about whether or not joe biden -- you think joe biden can beat trump. we can all beat trump. they're going to have to actually meet a lot of other criteria too, which is why this has been a lot more difficult than many of them have expected. >> ryan, if you can respond quickly, but i just want -- can we just put up the quote? let's put up the quote and then i want you to respond to this because you talk about biden's campaign. they think that this smacks of elitism, right? you said that warren and most of her local supporters believe that biden's voters -- you're saying that the people who are biden's voters, they don't think that they know what is right for them, and they don't understand their support for them when they're fully aware of why they're supporting him. >> yeah. i think this is a really interesting debate because if you talk to the other campaigns, the thing you hear about over and over again is, oh, those biden voters, they are just supporting him because he's the most famous guy in the race. it's all about name i.d. when they actually pa

, hunter biden, his son was involved with who wanted to meet joe biden. and then hunter went with his father and joe biden and introduced his father, the vice president, to this asian partner who ultimately was arrested for corruption. and the partner's soash dwrait waassociate wasarrested for cor. this is dirty, dirty, dirty. in the end when everything comes up, if biden did play a central role in the energy policy in the ukraine and he's not going to try to turn the this around on donald trump, that's the biggest mistake of his life right now. >> judge, here's the interesting thing. i don't want to improperly accuse people of improper behavior. but adam schiff and his colleagues continue to spin the narrative over and over again of which they're guilty of. they'll accuse the president of colluding with rawsh sha. the only people that worked with with the russians was the dnc. i would think that the only people that actually worked with the ukrainians is that same group, the democrats and the hillary clinton campaign. and i think you'll see that. i welco

but i don't believe this is a big problem for biden. back to what guy just said that is the reality of what is "happening now," getting nancy pelosi the time she needs to whip the votes they need for democrats to have the majority, to actually vote on the impeachment on the floor. they need that time to clarify this evidence. if i am joe biden i don't want to be talking about this either, however, he didn't go to a foreign power's leader, withhold aid and say look at my political rival if you want military which we should give without qualms. >> people are pointing to him on camera more than one saying i tell them you're not getting your billion dollar loan guarantee unless you get rid of this prosecutor. there's a lot of talk about whether that prosecutor was a good guy or a bad guy but he was investigating a company on which under biden sat on the board. that is something biden has to talk about. >> no question there are appearances of potential conflicts but the difference is the anticorruption people in ukraine are on record as rece

to biden in the leading polls. the latest poll shows joe biden at 24%, sanders at 18%, sanders at 17%. for these ten candidates a chance to build upon or gain momentum as the leaves turn. we move from the long-a waited 2020 phase. joining me from houston, jeff and asala. what's the buzz in houston? >> there is so much talk about joe biden and elizabeth warren being in the same space. they have so much of an interesting history, john, going back to when elizabeth warren was appearing. even before she came to the senate, she was going after senator biden on democracy, bills and so much else. the biden campaign has already been telegraphing that they are going to go after her plans. they're going to say, how can you pay for these plans? is that realistic? that is the central argument, the central plan of the biden campaign. i'm curious to see if he'll be as tough as some of his advisers have been. >> that's a great point. and on behalf of senator warren, i think she's increasingly shown she's a really tactile politici

dirt on biden. what went on here with biden and his son is almost a decade ago. it has no relevance to contemporary relations between ukraine and the united states except as a source of campaign fodder for the president. >> hold that thought. let me get dana bash in here. dana, there is so much here and yet the white house chose to put it out. what does it mean for the president? >> there's something else in the following sentence from what katelyn was just reading from which i think is the key when it comes to what the house democrats did yesterday, the question of impeachment. that is the president didn't just say, please talk to the attorney general, he personally said, about joe biden. so if you can look into it, dot, dot, dot, it sounds horrible to me. the president of the united states himself asking the leader of another country to look into something that he thinks is bad for his political opponent, full stop. that sentence in and of itself is exactly why you have democrat after democrat who

i do think we've talked a lot about joe biden's gaffes. >> joe biden talks about joe biden's gaffes. >> it has been built into his identity because a lot of voters give him a pass. to david's point, he's well liked and part of who he is. some might argue, his campaign argues, nothing to do with age, he was gaffe prone 10 or 20 years ago and sometimes he's gaffe pro now and that's part of the reason people like him. we'll see if he can go toe-to-toe with president trump. >> it did seem at the end of the debate he seemed to be flagging in energy. this is a real issue for biden. you can see it in biden as well. there is a concern, he would be eight years older than any president that has taken office. people are looking carefully to see if he's up to it. he'll either prove he can during the course of the campaign or he won won't. it awkward when someone empbss. he talked about the debate and turned into a commentator. >> that's an interesting take, interesting take. after three hours you sit down for interviews and it's different the position -- >> my guess is he if he to do it over aga

and joe biden. howie: two competing stories here, let me great a break, rudy giuliani's dealings with ukraine and he's fighting back and deputy campaign manager on the media impeachment fever what are you doing back there, junior? since we're obviously lost, i'm rescheduling my xfinity customer service appointment. ah, relax. i got this. which gps are you using anyway? a little something called instinct. been using it for years. yeah, that's what i'm afraid of. he knows exactly where we're going. my whole body is a compass. oh boy... the my account app makes today's xfinity customer service simple, easy, awesome. not my thing. howie: rudy giuliani pushed biden story for months turns out to be key player in current drama, the president asked ukraine's lead the other work with him and giuliani insists that's not true. >> why are we talking about us and not bind? because the media in this city is corrupt, that's why. howie: why did president trump's personal lawyer play back-stage role, he responded to

warren over biden at 22, biden 20. this is the des moines register, considered a pretty good credible poll. is she on the march? >> senator warren has incredible momentum. but no one is surprised in the party because everyone thought her iowa campaign was her best. so she's showing it right now. it goes back to the numbers. her and bernie are one-third. mayor pete and biden are a third. >> dana: for the republican, if you're the tphopl nearbying you wouldn't necessarily have had to win iowa. iowa, who ever wins iowa goes on to be the nominee. >> if i'm the biden campaign looking at that poll, what's more concerning to me, 42 opinion have warren as their first or second choice. the caucus rolls are a little quirky. you need to have 15% in your local caucus. that first or second choice is extremely important to get down to it. >> dana: do you think the biden team's frustrated that it seems like the media is trying to help elizabeth warren? >> there's no question when you are the front runner and you have 100% name recogn

let's begin with the bidens and ukraine from the top. >> well, hunter biden is joe biden's son. john, that still alive, he lost beau biden tragically, until his father became vice president, he was a lobbyist in washington d.c., working for the on-line gambling industry, he had no background overseas in any of these area, once his father became vice president high started a private investment firm, half of capital provised by chris hynes, that john kerry's stepson, and another partner john kerry's financial co-chair in 2004. ukraine part begins in 2014, in february you remember pro-russia president, driven from power, putin starts glekin flexing his muscles. obama administration responded by saying, we're going to come and help ukraine, and the point person on obama administration policy is vice president joe biden. who goes to ukraine almost immediately. two months afterrian - --ian cos driven from po power. the company decides a great idea to hire the vice president's son as a consult an and board member, hunter biden has no background in energy or ukraine, and hired to help t

son hunter biden. >> wait a second. wait a second. not one single credible outlet has given any credibility to his assertion. not one single one. and so i have no comment except the president should start to be president. >> let's bring in our senior correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. the head of the house intelligence committee adam schiff is vowing to get to the bottom of the complaint. what more are you hearing from lawmakers? >> reporter: the house intelligence committee chairman is vowing an extensive investigation and warning that he may withhold funding for the director of national intelligence office until they get more information from -- about this complaint. also warning that they could end up in court and expect a grilling next week when the acting director of national intelligence appears before the house intelligence committee. now some democrats are also saying that this strengthens their push for impeachment. republicans on the other happened have a much different reaction. a numb

>> i wasn't trying to get dirty information on biden. biden was in our way. biden had the prosecutor fired who was investigating the collusion. that prosecutor, the new prosecutor, bought and paid for -- who is corrupt -- dismissed the case on hunter biden and on a company where a lot of the dirty information, including false information, came from. and if you think i'm just making this up, the american swamp media avoids the fact that in december of 2018 a ukrainian court found that there was illegal interference in the election. they named the particular parliamentarian who was guilty, and they say it was information illegally given to the hillary clinton campaign. that is a court decision. not rudy giuliani, but a ukrainian court. and i have four more affidavits like this. these are people who want to go under oath that say that false information and dirty information about the trump campaign was given to the american embassy, the democratic national committee, operateoffs for hillary clinton and the new york times. maria: so this goes back to the origins

. >> he also asked to look into joe and hunter biden saying biden was bragging he stopped prosecution so if you can look into it it sounds pretty horrible to me. sources who actually know how presidential phone calls work say this krantz ripped was standard procedure, however he administration for decades has called for leaders and also told fox news they are confident it is accurate. we will learn more when the acting dni is on capitol hill. >> we will watch closely, thank you. this fox news alert, republican chris towery serves on the house intelligence committee says the whistleblower complaint has been declassified, urging everyone to read it. we don't have it yet. joining me, chad program. this comes at a big hearing tomorrow but you got a tip that this was going to be declassified, sounds like it is, we are waiting to see. >> stuart set on air in the last hour so i got in touch with him. he had left the bureau to say what do we know about this and all we know is it has been declassified and this is why this is important. when joe mcguire, acting director of national intelligence

but from the biden perspective, they'll tell you, well, that goes to show you can't go after joe biden. you pay a price. kamala went up in the polls and she settled back down or below. all the other campaigns have looked at that and said all right, how do you go after biden, but have it stick? first thing is you have to do it subtly, but biden himself is very well liked by democrats. >> right. >> if it's really too tough and obnoxious, that could backfire on you. >> you don't want to look mean. >> people like the guy. that's very hard. and the second part is you have to have a post-debate strategy. >> right. >> it has to play into some message and larger theme about why you're the candidate. things i'm looking for is someone like -- do people take on biden's bond with obama? do they take on any of the big legislation of the obama era and the obama/biden record. does castro go back and talk about their sort of spotty checkered record on immigration. >> right. >> does, you know, klobuchar attack, go after biden on any of that? she really has been very, very hard to get her to say anythin

biden didn't seem to forget. all of that said this morning, at least one other major candidate is making the similar suggestion about biden, worried that he is, quote, fumbling. so has something shifted in the discussion about age this morning? or are some of the candidates saying the quiet part out loud. we'll speak with secretary castro in a few minutes. in addition four of the other democratic candidates who are on that stage last night, let's go straight to houston. in the meantime, cnn's athena jones is there with a look at what was a really interesting three-hour debate, athena. >> hi, john. it was. it's the first time the top ten democrats shared the stage, and there were some feisty moments in that three-hour event. the big topics showed just how divided democrats still are on issues like health care. each candidate hoping to stand out from the crowded field. front-runner joe biden started thursday night's debate with a new strategy. >> i know that the senator says that she's for brotherernie. well, i'm f

that's what joe biden is. >> joe biden is presumed innocent. but somebody has got to investigate him for going to the president of the ukraine and telling him i'm not going to give you -- >> that's fine. but you're working under authority of the president. >> no, no, no, no. not because of the authority of the president. because when the new prosecutor that joe put in came in, he not only dismissed the case on hunter biden for getting about $6 million in laundered money -- >> the prosecutor that was removed, which of the original intrigue on joe biden, that prosecutor was removed, first of all, by consensus of a multiple of western countries and it was after hunter biden's stuff was done. look, you should have your hand on your face. you know why? this is all a distraction from what i asked you. >> no, it isn't a distraction. what you said is totally wrong, completely wrong. >> it's a factual timeline. the prosecutor was out -- >> you don't know what happened. i know what happened. >> how do you know i don't know? >> you're just repeating spin.

then does biden have to be investigated? and why is it so hard to get biden investigated? >> sean: well, let's talk about that. when are we going to do that, mr. mayor? >> i don't know. the scandal, the people who are choking america are the corrupt press. and the corrupt democrats that have been covering up this pay-for-play scheme now for two or three years. it's not just one situation. it's two situations. millions in the ukraine, bes in china. john kerry is involve in the one in china. >> so is whitey bulger's nephew? >> isn't that extraordinary? the money from china goes to whitey bulger's nephew, the stepson of the vice president of the united states and the son of the president and they're coming after me for revealing it. i should be -- i should be a whistleblower. i brought out what the washington press, the corrupt washington press has been covering up for two or three years. and to this moment, they believe it's more important to try to figure out did i conduct the investigation correctly as opposed to is what i found true but rocks the foundations of our govern

i don't know. >> it is referring to hunter biden. alexandria ocasio cortez says it is more important to impeach the president than to listen to voters. a new quinnipiac poll shows 57% of voters believe donald trump should not be impeached. >> that is not reflective of a shift that has united almost the entire democratic caucus. we need to put country first before considerations of reelection. >> most polls were released before the transcript of the iranian call was released. time for the good, the bad and the ugly. the dog named queen get the f her own. and the kansas animal shelter when a volunteer moved into the shelter to be closer to the dogs because she seems depressed. i a high-speed chase with his electric tesla running out of power. >> the number one spot. heather: they forgot to charge the tesla. a sports car slammed into a school bus with 60 kids on board, look at this convertible under the bus in south carolina. no one was seriously injured. "fox and friends first" continues now. kim jong un fox news alert breaking overnig

did joe biden's push to remove the prosecutor help hunter biden's employer? allies were relieved by the dismissal of the prosecutor. at the prosecutor was ouster mr. biden had sought according to people familiar with the situation. he was not aggressively pursuing investigations into him or buries one, but the oligarch's allies say he was using the threat to try to solicit bribes from his team and that left the oligarch steam weary of dealing with the prosecutor. want to take some time and read from "the new york times," fact-checking on all of this. let's bring in our panel. chris stirewalt, politics editor at fox news. susan page, washington bureau chief at usa today, and katie pavlich, news editor at townhall.com. they're kind of two pieces to this, the president pushing back hard today, susan, on this phone call. >> that's right. there is a move now, the president suggested maybe he will release the transcript of the phone call. i think there's some good reasons why he shouldn't do that. >> bret: being that foreign leaders -- >> foreign leaders expect to

biden: there is a solution. i have seen nothing care the president has no fortitude to deal with this. he knows better. his instinct was to say yes, we will do something. let's do it. come on. this is disgraceful. is disgraceful what has happened. reporter: the current vice president, mike pence, is in contact with the attorney general. and is in part of gun violent legislation that will include expediting a penalty for mass murderers. what is your stance on that? mr. biden: it is irrelevant. this is what we have always done before in the past. what you do when you cannot get something do is rational, you increase the penalty. do with theng to with rational gun policy. death penaltyhe would stop the white supremacist who killed everyone in texas? i don't think so. reporter: you are here on labor day. workers have more federal labor law protects which -- protections, should be allowed to unionize? mr. biden: the answer is i think they should. what is happening here and iowa and across the country is that non-unio

and hunter biden. when it is appropriate? >> you characterize it. john: that is the way it appears. >> no, it does not. that is how pro-biden media lines it up. someone said, this i this is in. -- between you and your client. because biden had the guy fired. his statement on record, laze press could go read it. there are 3 videotapes on record. available on here nobody has covered for 5 months, this town protects joe biden. family has been taking money from his public was on the for years, 1.5 billion from china, our vice president, is supposed to be impartially, and independently negotiating for us. and the kid he takes him on air force 2 to china. john: in 2013. >> the kid unfortunately is a drug addict, china did not give 1.5 billion to his kid biden's kid, a recovering drug addict, carries stepson -- kerry's stepson and "whitey" bulger's nephew, look it up. john: this is a company called rosemont -- let me come back. >> for a second, white "whitey" bulger's nephew, from china that does not shock yo

kind of like this. >> the one who's got the problem is biden because you look at what biden did. biden did what they would like to have me do, except one problem, i didn't do it. >> behold the power of projection. projection is a regular part of the trump play book. he's taken the impulse and elevated it to an effective political tactic. you might remember this attack on ted cruz during the primaries. >> lying ted, oh, he lies. >> and of course this comes from someone who has lied more than 12,000 times as president according to "the washington post." ted cruz was pretty quick to push back and diagnose the problem. >> this man is a pathological liar, in a pattern that i think is straight out of a psychological textbook. his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. >> this impulse to deflect and project continued to the general election. so when trump was accused of being the most corrupt candidate ever, clinton became crooked hillary. when trump came under fire for racist appeals he called her a big got. when clinton raised questions about trump's erratic behavior he called

if biden collapses, when biden collapses, all of this stuff. he has been the one in the cross hairs from the beginning of this race. and he has with stood all of these attacks. and i don't think tonight -- i think what castro did to him will help him, i think he seemed presidential. i don't think he's going to move after tonight. we'll see. all i would add is i worked for a president who said -- >> >> we're going to elevate. >> the bitterness pettiness, the incentives to attack. one another and try to make differentiates without distinctions, mountains out of mole hills. we have to be bigger. we have to speak honestly. we have to act decisively. that's what i want to do for you as president of the united states. thank you. >> here we are with beto o'rourke. do you think tonight's example with democrats was engaged in a positive way or nasty? >> i didn't think it was particularly nasty we talked about the issues what matter most, guns, climate, race in america, the wars without and they we want to bring to a close. i thought it was a good conver

don't worry about whether or not joe biden -- you think joe biden can beat trump. we can all beat trump. they're going to have to actually meet a lot of other criteria too, which is why this has been a lot more difficult than many of them have expected. >> ryan, don't get mad at me. you know how it works. if you can respond quickly, but i just want -- can we just put up the quote? let's put up the quote and then i want you to respond to this because you talk about biden's campaign. they think that this smacks of elitism, right? you said that warren and most of her local supporters believe that biden's voters -- you're saying that the people who are biden's voters, they don't think that they know what is right for them, and they don't understand their support for them when they're fully aware of why they're supporting him. >> yeah. i think this is a really interesting debate because if you talk to the other campaigns, the thing you hear about over and over again is, oh, those biden voters, they are just supporting him because he's the most famous guy in the race. it

son, he wants you to make stuff up on biden's son. we know from contemporaneous reporting that he had mentioned things to at least one senator, that he believed that's why it was being held up and they're pressuring, going around washington, d.c. trying to figure out what is going on. why aren't we getting this money? it was clear their perception of what donald trump was doing is as important as what we know donald trump was doing. they believed they had to get stuff on biden's son to get the money to flow, and it was only the whistle-blower that sort of blew this -- blew it out into the public. >> and by the way -- >> laura, could i -- >> go ahead. >> could i build on that for just someone second? i think it's absolutely right we need not focus solely on the transcript. it is important. but the wider whistle-blower complaint. i think we actually need to expand the scope of what we're looking at and congress needs to do the same. >> evan, i want to hear why. everyone's staying with me. i want to hear why you want to expand it and how

that political opponent is joe biden. it is alleged president trump withheld aid from a foreign country, all to pressure a foreign want country to investigate and open up inquiries about his political opponent. that is not just unpresident's, brooke, that's unamerica. it's no who we are and what's different about this moment and we should all keep the focus here. one last thing. these allegations under president trump have introduced into the mainstream of political press, these are smears, brooke. as you noted in your opening, unfounded claims. it's important we all keep the focus on that. this is a national security issue. frankly, dponald trump is puttig our foreign policy at rick. we hope the president will comply with congress and stop obstructing their investigations and he complies with any new investigations that come forward and also previous investigation other committees opened. if president trump does not comply, there's no other option but initiate impeachment inquiries at president trump's own doing. >> and

you're right he doesn't talk at all about biden right away but he gets around to biden and mentions biden's son and he mentions it a few times. that's why i say it's unfortunate. it's bad judgment. very bad judgment. but it doesn't come close in my view to being a crime or to being impeachable. that's the problem. >> laura: words like extortion used. shakedown. these terms are casually thrown around by even lawyers. speaking of lawyers, the media have been desperately trying to tag and drag bill barr, the attorney general, someone we all three of us know quite well. take a look. >> is barr going to now recuse himself? >> i don't see how he can't in light of the fact that he's named. >> i think attorney general barr should absolutely refuse. >> how can bill barr not recuse himself? >> level 1 to 10, ten being the most likely, that the attorney general would recuse himself in this matter. ken, what do you think? >> two to three. i don't get this serious issue. we now know, we've been informed that the president never reached out to the attorney general directly or indirectly, that the attorne

what else did biden have to say? he was fired up. >> reporter: he was very fired up, martin, and had a lot to say to the press. we talked to him yesterday and he was very short with his answer but today he came ready to talk to the media and as you see really point all the attention back on president trump and his allies. it is interesting if you go to a fundraiser he had in south carolina back in may he told the group there, i know they're going to go after me and my family. he foreshadowed this months ago. he's talked about how this weighed heavily on him when deciding whether he should run about the personal attacks he anticipated from president trump. here's what he had to say to that. >> i know what i'm up against. a serial abuser. that's what this guy is. he abuses power everywhere he can and if he sees any threat to his staying in power he'll do whatever he has to do. but this crosses the line. this crosses the line. >> reporter: so vice president biden will be taking the stage along with many other presidenti

biden, let's investigate. a source close to the white house says the president has been seething for months and that giuliani has been, quote, egging him on. the president in the oval office today contradicting himself. the president contradicting himself repeatedly in a matter of minutes. where did you see that? you saw that last night on cnn with chris cuomo and rudy giuliani contradicting himself not even in minutes, in seconds. the president contradicting himself in minutes. first claiming the whistle-blower complaint is, quote, a political hack job. >> partisan whistle-blower. shouldn't even have information. i had conversations with many leaders. always appropriate. just another political hack job. >> so it's anonymous. he doesn't know who the whistle-blower is. how does he know it's a partisan whistle-blower. moments later, the president claiming it didn't matter what he discussed, then doubling down on exactly what he reportedly discussed, his claim that somebody, he didn't say who, should look into bi

for former vp biden? >> i think every major news outlet has looked at this, probed at this, not just recently, for years this has been looked at and nothing is there. the fact that this president is trying to distract people by attacking someone who is clearly a statesman in our nation, who has served and sacrificed for his country for decades, has an honorable reputation is unacceptable to me, offensive to me, and the fact it's not going to work. it's laughable that joe biden has done anything wrong. >> not that joe biden has done anything wrong, but it has come up that is there a whiff of nepotism that hunter biden got this privileged position high paying on this board? is that a legitimate question? >> one of the things -- >> or should vice president biden's campaign not have to talk about that? >> do i think there should be heightened ethics rules in the united states government, heck yeah. you see a president right now with his children going out there and profiting off of the position of their fathe

the one who has the problem is biden. if you look at what biden did. biden did what they would like to have me do. one problem. i didn't do it. what biden did is a disgrace, what his son did is disgrace. the son took money from ukraine and china, a lot of money from china. china would love to see -- they would think of nothing they would rather see than biden get in. they would have themselves a deal. let me çjust tell you what bid did was wrong. [inaudible question] >> president trump: you will see because what we are doing is we want honesty. when we deal with a country we want honesty. with the new president you'll see much more honesty in the ukraine. that's what we're looking for. we're supporting a country. we want to make sure that country is honest. very important to talk about corruption. if you don't talk about corruption why would you give money to a country that is corrupt? one of the reasons the new president got elected is he was going to stop corruption. so it's very important that on occasion you speak to somebody about corruption. ve

trump and giuliani began pressing him to investigate the bidens. in may -- >> i'm hearing it's a major scandal, major problem. very bad things happened and we'll see what that is. >> it's a case that is crying out to be investigated. >> then in june president trump made it clear that if a foreign government offered him help to win in 2020, he would take it. >> if somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent. oh, i think i'd want to hear it. >> days after the two presidents spoke on july 25th, giuliani met with a ukrainian official in spain to press him again to pursue a probe of hunter biden. right around the same time, the united states froze military assistance to ukraine, prompting questions from lawmakers. >> the implication seems to be to the ukrainian president that if he does what rudy giuliani is asking him to do and investigates the bidens, maybe he will get the money that the president is holding back. >> the white house finally released the aid last week. the details in the whistleblower's complaint are st

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