and hunter biden flew with joe biden on air force 2 to china. in december 2013, two weeks later they close a deal fors china equity fund. would biden have a problem in donald trump jr. traveled to beijing on airs force 1 then struck a deal. there are questions about trump children, but this is different, and against joe biden has been around since nixon era. >> if -- if donald trump did jrd it they would be screaming murder. he is running for president of united states, you talk about conflicts of interest. and you start talking about corruption and nepotism that is something that american public pays attention to, they will determine if he is fit for office. elizabeth: age 26, while joe biden was senator working on banking and credit card issue, hunter biden got a senior vice president job with credit card company. joe biden got thousands of dollars in donation. i think that legitimate to ask for press to ask these questions. you wonder if cnn moderators will ask. >> i hope they do. but one thing for sure, if joe biden is nominee, the questions

i didn't go after joe biden. they handed it to me. a lot of evidence of collusion in ukraine and one of the guys involved in getting that evidence cut off his joe biden. you know what he did? i said no, i don't know what he did. they showed me the tape of the 2018 confession he made in front of the council on foreign relations which for a republican, washington press corps including you would have gone crazy. we would have had 3 months of investigation. what happens is biden covered it up. >> it is being investigated. >> it's not being investigated. let me give you an example what you covered. nbc put out a report, cnn put out a report that allegations against biden are not supported by anything. yes they are, they are supported by three affidavits, better than whistleblowers from ukrainian prosecutors who say joe biden bribed the president of the ukraine, put pressure on them, dismiss the case because of biden -- they could be lying. >> the federal loan guarantees. >> give the definition of bribery. bribery is offering something of v

there were so much more that defines joe biden. joe biden's intellect is incredible. joe biden's understanding of the world and our place in it and his understanding of what people live through in this state and in america every day. after he got that passed, he didn't just leave it be. he made sure that legislation was incremented. he made sure that women would be protected and that women would have their voice. joe has stood there through the years for all of us in legislation to make sure that women get heard, seen, believed. the next thing that joe did that was very, very life changing for so many in this room and for others is that he worked so hard on the affordable care act. he understood about how sickness affects families and about loss. he heard these stories from his own community, his own area, and he heard it across the country. and so i was there while he was working on the affordable care act and it was a hard pull as you all know and there are many, many times that some of us would just want to throw our hands up in the air and think are we ever going

biden and joe biden's son has tremendous problems with joe biden's son and ukraine. so he's got tremendous problems with biden's son and ukraine and all of the horrible things. you can get it, you can see it, it's been a big deal. >> julie: a big deal indeed. catherine herridge's live in washington. if this is all new to us, why don't you tell us more? >> career development diplomatn you give a statement on tuesday. they tell fox news kent testified that he was so concerned about hunter biden's position that he flagged those concerns in early 2015 to than that vice president joe biden's office but also testified that she went nowhere. kent is a senior state official and continued with investigators by being he believes hunter biden's board position sent the wrong message when the u.s. government at the same time was urging ukraine to avoid conflicts of interest. kent went even further saying ukrainian officials would probably conclude that working through hunter biden would curry favor with then vice president joe biden and his influential father. her separate report

not joe biden. joe stayed on it because he knew americans needed to have this so he was there and i was privileged because i was one of the people that worked on the affordable care in the house and to watch his place and we had children whose lives changed for the better in the room with us and to watch joe biden's face was to know everything you need to know about joe biden that he was there from the beginning and understanding and caring and making sure it happened and working with the house and the senate to make sure that this went through. i spent almost nine years on the house services committee and during that time, i had the privilege of traveling around the world and talking to world leaders as we do, congressional and hearing what was on their mind and their worries and concerns in talking about the united states and our role, as well. and it was so wonderful, always joejoe biden's name brought the greatest response, knowing that joe biden cared about our allies and cared about what was h

not joe biden. joe stayed on it because he knew that americans needed to have this, so he was there. i was privileged because i was one of the people who worked on the affordable care act in the house to be there at the white house for the signing and to watch his face. and we had children that had been impacted and whose lives were changed for the better in the room with us while the president signed that bill and to watch joe biden's face was to know everything that you need to know about joe biden. that he was there from the beginning and understanding and caring and making sure that it happened and working with the house and the senate to make sure that this went through. something i want to tell you about joe, i spent almost nine years on the house armed services committee and during that time, i had the privilege of traveling around the world and talking to world leaders as congressional cartels, and hearing what was on their mind and worries and concerns and talking about the united states an

. >> what was then vice president joe biden's role? >> so joe biden was obama's point person in ukraine, and he really carried that message for the president. he also oversaw the u.s. response -- perhaps not the u.s. response but the u.s. messaging when it came to conflict in ukraine, the russian annexation of crimea, it was 2014 where you had russia lops off a chunk of ukraine, annexes crimea and then the war begins in eastern ukraine in the spring of that year. it was the first hot war in the region in an extremely long time, and you know, biden really carried obama's messaging on that in the region. >> was it only the united states that was worried about corruption in ukraine at this point? >> no, absolutely not. i mean, this has been an issue for the european union, for the united states allies in europe, and also for international institutions such as international monetary fund. so things like, you know, the corner stone of the i guess conspiracy theory that you can call it that has been pushed about joe biden in ukraine is that

what did you discover with respect to hunter biden, joe biden, and others and redd china? >> well china is the great marketplace that everybody seems to be going to right or at least they were touring the obama administration, and the same mething applied with bidens, the story really begins in december of 2013 joe biden is going asia for a series of meetings, the center of those meetings is going to be with chinese officials. and hunter biden is on air force two with him. now you would look at the public accounts and think this was just sort of a social thing. but during the time that they were in beijing we don't know what hunt per was doing there's no schedule of his meetings. but joe biden was meeting with chinese officials anden he was criticized by "the washington post" and others for being soft. the chinese had erected air defense zones in the south china sea. they're making these territorial claims joe biden never even bought up publicly the fact that those issues existed. was very soft on the chinese. curiosity ten days after they come back from that trip. hunter

that is who joe biden is. joe biden is your friend, your leader, the man he will make us feel proud every single day and make us feel safe. tois my great pleasure introduce joe biden. [applause] >> hellojoe biden is your folks. hello, hello, hello. thank you, thank you, thank you. have been involved in public life. some of you have run, some of you have been elected. a lot of you work for other candidates. listened toyou as i her talk, one of the great benefits that comes from serving in public office, and i mean that you gety, is to make some of the deepest, most profound friendships in your whole life. you watch people going through great difficulty. you watch them taking political risks for what they think is right. you can find the ones who always are guided by basic morality, basic decency and basic sense of honor. carol, you are at the top of the list. thank you. [applause] >> the fellow you heard from earlier has gone way out of his way to be helpful to me. now occupies coons the seat i hope for many ye

i think that should be done for joe biden. release joe biden's transcripts with ukraine. use the same standards and let the american people read the transcripts and decide. >> margaret: for a look at what americans are thinking about the headlines dome nating our conversations on "face the nation owe we turn to our cbs news elections andreors. anthony has two polls for us today. first we look at the national poll on the impeachment inquiry. anthony, over the past two weeks have you seen a change? >> not over the last two weeks. we see hardening partisan positions here. repub hi cans increasingly say they support the president. don't think he should cooperate with congress. democrats strongly approving of the inquiry. important watching the polls differentiate against a inquiry, which there is marginal majority support. get the facts and learn what happened. whether they think the president deserves impeachment. that's much more mixed nationally. what i think is interesting going forward, margaret. you taupbg to the people who say they don't know which way to go on this, t

biden and joe biden alone going out there, focusing on getting rid of one person to benefit his son financially. >> they signed a letter in 2016. everybody stick around. more on the breaking news as the president and his allies keep trashing joe biden. the former vice president is now firing back with even more fury. ♪ (dramatic orchestra) 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. ♪ hi, my name is sam davis and i'm going to tell you about exciting plans available to anyone with medicare. many plans provide broad coverage and still may save you money on monthly premiums and prescription drugs. with original medicare, you're covered for hospital stays and doctor office visits, but you have to meet a deductible for each and then you're still responsible for 20% of the cost. next, let's look at a medicare supplement plan. as you can see, they cover the same things as original medicare and they also cover your

he cannot call joe biden a socialist. joe biden is a moderate, middle-of-the-road politician. he will not be able to use the socialist strategy against joe, so he will have to make up stuff. the idea that hunter biden and joe biden did anything wrong is made up by donald trump. it is the reason why none of it is sticking with democratic voters. david: at the same time, the vice president has said if he gets to be president he will not let hunter biden do what he did before. he question asked is why would not let him do it in the future if he did it in the past. gov. rendell: hunter biden answered it tuesday morning when he said he thought it was a mistake to have done it, to have taken that role. even though hunter biden did nothing wrong and joe biden was not affected in any way on the u.s. policy by the fact that his son worked for the gas company, it still creates the appearance of a possible conflict. in government, you have to stay away from the appearance because appearance is the same thing as the reality. it becomes reality. david: you made an important point about vic

at the end of the day, i think it's most important joe biden be joe biden. the joe biden we know and love. i am sure he will do quite well in the deba it this week. >> you are the mayor of one of america's largest city and certain will i the dominant city in the south in terms of international reputation. does it concern you that the democrats in a primary fight may give the perception is that there are things in a general election could be held against the party and in many ways make people feel na the democratic party is much more extreme in some of its policies than really central democrats are and people like you have to manage and govern cities and work with people in washington and you want to see people that are willing to work with you? >> well, mayor al, i know as mayor it can't be all or nothing. if you truly want to get something done or accomplished. and i think that's what separates the vice president from others, because he served at the executive level before. what i know as mayor is that you can be as far right on some issues as you can be as

here is joe biden, i consider him a co-front runner. but, to me kind of what stands out for joe biden, given he's been in the news environment, we have been unfairly maligned by the united states. pitch in $20 or $10 to help us fight back to president trump. a few days happening and we are now in the fourth quarter and the third. i am surprised the campaign did not leap into this. hey, we raised $20 million the last week. we are ready to go and we are taking a fight to donald trump. there is been little of it. to me it shows a campaign that's not quite nimble on how to maximize a rough news environment. it takes the fight back to the president of the united states. >> the trump campaigns going up with ads this weekend in the early states, in the early caucus state against joe biden on this whole corruption issue. >> it is important to kind of state the facts of this whole corruption issue. it is really a nothing burger. joe biden, there is never any kind of favor he was doing for his son on trying to get the prosecutors and ukraine fire

you dare to investigate joe biden. meanwhile joe biden should be investigated. his son should be investigated. and he called for impeachment of president of united states the other day. now he wants in essence democrat party in house to use impeachment clause and house of representative to advance his campaign. by trying to take out the president of united states had. oh, you top talk about interference, there is interference. all right, folks thank you for joining me, on life liberty and left uplevin, i'll see you next. reporter: new york city in the 1980ss looked different from what we know today. downtown in the crammed with luxury apartment buildings and restaurants served as a stomping ground for illicit activities including drug dealers and prostitutes. a crime rate engulfed the city.

joe biden. biden. biden. >> your whole point here, especially as then you show the poll numbers where biden is doing better is you're inviting voters to join a campaign that can beat president trump. i will tell you this sort of focus on trump being obsessed with biden, trump was obsessed with hillary clinton, too, including after he beat her. >> he doesn't want to face joe biden. it's unprecedented for an incumbent president to be facing a ten-point deficit against a potential rival, and that's joe biden. now you have trump and the rnc pouring money into a democratic primary because he doesn't want to have to face biden and he wants to win. if you asked donald trump who he wants to beat, it's joe biden. just this morning, biden is up 33% in the early states, up plus one. people like the argument he's making. they know he's taking a strong moral case to donald trump, and they know he's the guy that can beat him. part of the reason they know that is because donald trump is telling him joe biden is the o

he's talking about corruption by joe biden. joe biden is not in office. if the president was interested in getting rid of corruption in the american government, it is an odd place to start with somebody who doesn't actually hold an office. rudolph giuliani has been traveling the world, cooperating with the state department. we've got reports of him dropping off dossiers at the state department, potentially. he goes on television talking about how he's being silenced which is a very odd place to talk about being silenced. i'm not sure what he's trying to do other than rally support to himself in a public relations sense. i know the yankees were on television tonight. it might be time to take in some television instead of going on. >> did he go to the yankee game tonight of i hasten to add along with allen dershwitz in his regular seats. of what we know will happen next week, anything you can share with us? obviously at this pace, you want to get a good laugh out of the guy upstairs telling your plans for tomorrow. it was just yesterday, after all, the pres

joe biden thinks that he is going to be the nominee. but i think what you say is very true, that there is nervousness on the democrat side when they look at biden and sanders and warren at this point. in fact, arnold schwarzenegger says that he is considering, perhaps, voting for elizabeth warren. i will tell you asked if he would support trump's reelection source negra laughed and said, i doubt it. just i think the most important thing is we keep america number one. >> i don't want to trash the terminator, but it sounds like he's part of the squad at this point that he's not a republican. he says that she's not a republican. no republican would flirt voting for elizabeth warren. she destroy capitalism, she'd turn this country from number two to number ten. i don't know, maybe too much too much smog in california. >> martha: we look at why joe biden decided today to come out and say indeed he is in favor of impeachment. let's put the quinnipiac poll out here because this might have a little bit to do with what has strengthened his sinew

here's the problem for joe biden. it's not that anything was illegal or that it's his kid, it's that he's running as donald trump's moral superior. when you say how is it different from a vodka and whatever, we know what we know about president trump or joe biden as saying, "i'm going to bring morality back to his country." he's running as donald trump's better self. but if he is doing same thing, as you say, is not better. >> harris: one of his early relics, joe biden said "make america moral again." they can? >> marie: he's not doing the same thing. >> dagen: ed rollins, even before the ukraine story broke, said that joe biden has a glass jaw. i think we are seeing evidence of that. that he is swinging in the air, and throwing air punches, and he's not going to build a take one. he was the first one that throws one at him? is going to be someone on the debate stage next week? again, he went from friday -- this is part of peter doocy's reporting -- he went from friday until yesterday avoiding the cameras. he wouldn't

biden, raising questions about joe biden. similar things that we've been hearing from rudy giuliani over some time. but also including allegations that democrats are continued calling a smear campaign against the former ambassador to ukraine who was frauld her post back in may. this is the inspector general came to deliver this to the hill believing cohen wap impeachment investigation. democrats and republicans going through this, we'll see if it does anything to the investigation or as one democrat that was in that briefing said yesterday, is it just a distraction? >> thank you so much. we'll see what comes out if we do learn anything from this testimony kurt volker. jamie and ann and joe is still with me here. ann, from your perspective, what are the questions that you would have that vel coolker should be facing and answering when he's behind closed doors? >> there's so many and i think he's going to spend a long time in there. first of all the documents are really important. giuliani held up his phone, he read some text m

does this help joe biden, or is that a clip if joe biden is successful in the republican primaries, it's going to show up in a trump campaign ad? in the democratic primaries, i'm sorry. >> it's interesting to see how little effect this whole scandal seems to have had on the democratic primary race. they seem pretty much thoroughly siloed from one another. i think there were a few things that could have happened and didn't. i think the biden campaign was divided internally over whether they thought this would hurt them because voters would look at what the president is saying and say, let's just avoid this whole mess, or maybe he's not as electable as we think, or conversely, it could have caused a groundswell of rally around uncle joe, who they have an affection for, seeing him as unfairly targeted. either those two things cancel each other out or nothing has happened. biden's standing in the poll has been very static. >> you see biden walking onto the stage here. he's done this many times but he's still taking a look as he goes. i think you make an interesting point when you use uncle j

i think a lot of people prone to support joe biden underestimate joe biden. it's not just name recognition. it's not that he worked for barack obama. he is somebody whose candidacy and career is rooted in genuine loss and pain that i think is relevant to a lot of people, that reminds people why they like joe biden. i think when he gets attacked, when he gets maligned, when people sneer at him, i think they underestimate his strength and there's a reason he remains on top. >> stephen: there's a new poll from abc news/"washington post" tcby, has trump losing to the top five democrats. obviously, we're all scared from misleading polls from 2016. as somebody who, again, has been there intimately and seen the internal polling on campaigns, can we trust polls at all? >> yes, but don't. >> stephen: you heard him. five people-- >> that was confusing. i'll explain it! >> stephen: five people are going to beat trump! >> here's the thing-- i get why we're all looking at polls. our brains are profoundly broken. we are-- we are drowning in political coverage. we want this

so, joe biden aggressively going after president trump. so again, alex, foreign policy has not been a central discussion during this democratic presidential primary. that could change a bit on tuesday night here in ohio when some of those questions could come forward. but again, it's getting to be crunch time for many of these candidates, including south bend, indiana, mayor pete buttigieg, who's still on stage behind me here. he'll be followed by six other candidates tonight, trying to rally the ohio faithful here in columbus. alex? >> all right, that debate just 48 hours away. and jeff zeleny will be right there. thank you very much, jeff. joining me now are cnn crime and justice reporter simone prokupecz, historian and former director of the nixon presidential library, tim neftali and cnn political analyst and "the new york times" political editor patrick healy. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me tonight. lots to discuss. jeff hit on a lot of that. tim, i want to start with you and the clip we just saw of joe biden, those clips

how do you think the president has positioned this conversation around joe biden and what does joe biden from a political sense do? does he take a page out of michelle obama, when they go low, we go high or does he defend his family and get in there with the president? >> well, what the president is doing is a classic tactic of his, where he takes something he is accused of and turns it back on his political foe far more forcefully. if you put this in the current political moment, the president is facing an impeachment inquiry for house democrats because he had potentially an improper conversation with the president of ukraine where he asked the president for a, quote, unquote, favor to dig up dirt on joe biden and his son. while he's on the defensive on that, instead of trying to dpend himself, he turns it back on the bidens. what he's basically saying is you think i'm corrupt? look at these people. they're corrupt. with the same country, with ukraine doing something far worse than i did. there's absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the bidens in ukraine. that's something

joe biden observed all those rules. that's how we can have faith that he was acting on behalf of the united states. donald trump in the meantime has violated every norm, law and, you know, sort of tradition of basic ethics in the united states, one thing that makes this particular line of attack so hypocritical and so astonishing. >> during the russia investigation, we were asking can you obstruct justice in public. remember that? >> right. >> and so now the question is, with china, here he is. can you abuse the power of your office publicly? >> robert mueller answered that question. he said yes, public acts are designed to obstruct. >> very sensitive trade negotiations in the coming days and basically the president is saying, china, if you're listen i ing. >> he did it in the 2016 campaign, russia, if you're listening, get those emails. we know what happened days later. >>> committees are now spearheading the impeachment inquiry sparked by zblrchl. adam schiff has become, dana, one of the president's top targets. >> th

we wondered whether or not joe biden would be asked about his son in ukraine. we got our answer and it upset another candidate. >> my son did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. i carried out the policy of the united states government. >> elevating a lie and attacking -- it was so offensive. we should not have to defend ourselves. >> it was the first debate since the impeachment inquiry demand, most candidates would agree on that issue and we did. >> trump is the most corrupt president in history of this country. >> this president, i agree with bernie, senator sanders, the most corrupt president in modern history and i think all of our history. >> i don't think this impeachment process will take long. as the former prosecutor i know concession when i see it. >> we have to impeach this president. >> reporter: the trump campaign responding with a statement, quote, once again donald trump was hands down winner of this debate. i believe you with three take aways, the night belonged in large part to pete buttigieg who was strong at every point of the night. bernie i

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joe biden, hunter biden, investigation into political rivals. what the crux of this impeachment inquiry is actually about. of course he's talking here about this theory that ukraine was parted of the interference into the 2016 election but that is not what the impeachment inquiry is about. it is about the fact that the president of the united states asked another foreign leader for help digging up dirt on a potential political rival, something he did again on the south lawn earlier this week. so it's interesting to see here picking and choosing as they try to defend the president during this time. >> all right, kristen holmes, thank you so much. we'll check back with you. >>> meantime, we're taking a closer look at damning text messages given to congress by the former special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker. the messages between u.s. diplomats and a senior ukrainian aide bring up the explosive issue of a potential quid pro quo between the white house and ukraine. cnn's shimon prokupecz joining me right now. shimon, walk us through these text messa

the second thing i want to say -- host: he directly mentioned joe biden. caller: he did -- he called his -- but he did not call directly joe biden anything. unable -- everybody can see that. the other thing is trump is a christian and he claims he believes in jesus christ and the resurrection power of jesus. they tried to kill jesus, but he was too pure and holy. host: how that relates to the rally yesterday? caller: this is the whole thing everybody is trying to get at and what you are trying to figure out and what people are trying to figure out how can he get away with this -- how can he get away with saying these lies and being so incompetent and saying these lies and owing all these taxes? host: darlene in tennessee, independent line. caller: i watch this morning he is you came on and just a motivational antagonistic person. this must be a campaign to get reelected. i did not hear anything he was represees veragef the usd preedis fopolitical or commerciurse eress ohibit by e hou of ens. the sak prore: useill bin order. he cha lays borehe hous a cmunic

biden. >> remarkable to see joe biden with the teleprompter, delivers his speech, highly scripted from paid consultants and you see donald trump taking questions from reporters for 30 minutes yesterday at the white house and joe biden runs away from reporters because he can't answer a single question about how it was such a conflict of interest to have his son sitting on the most corrupt foreign company in ukraine when he had no experience, making $50,000 at least per month and joe biden is on tape saying we are going to withhold $1 million unless you fire the prosecutor looking into my son who has no experience sitting on this board. that is corruption and that is what we voted against in 2016 and that is why we are going to vote against it again in 2020. election interference, joe biden never made it out of iowa before and he's not going to make it out of iowa again. >> interesting to see if he can continue tonight answer questions on ukraine and china. let's talk about planned parenthood, they announced they are spending $45 million to fund pro-abortion candidates to flip the senate

and joe biden did nothing wrong. do you believe that they did nothing wrong? >> if you talk to the lawyers and they said there was nothing wrong, it would be great. when the general prosecutor's office will or will not take decision and has to consider all of the cases independently. if the general prosecutor's office decides considering the briefs my case, i would like to give the names of the lawyers you met. we will definitely talk to them. since they are sure there was no wrongdoing, they are the witnesses. we need witnesses a lot in every criminal case. >> once the office of the call with president trump on july 25th contains no blackmail and declined to make ukrainian version of the transcript publ public. >> i don't want to come in a lot on this because i don't want this issue to influence the u.s. politics in this way or that way. she was your president yourself. >> the ukrainian president did announce he would investigate whether his country interfered in the 2016 u.s. presidential election, something presid

i think he's the weakest mentally. >> joe biden has truly lost his path. >> joe biden is not playing with a full deck. >> you look at a guy like sleepy joe biden. >> he brings him up all the time. he cares about joe biden and he cares about politics. nobody -- nobody cares about polls and who is up and who is down more than he? trump loves polls. >> we've got great poll numbers. our poll numbers are through the roof. >> every poll that i see and every poll that we have i'm winning by -- we're doing well. >> okay. trump's polls explain his obsession with joe biden. the most recent head to head matchup was a fox news poll, one the president would listen to. biden 52, trump, 38. quinnipiac, 54, trump, 38. and that is why trump cares so deeply about taking biden down. kaitlan collins is out front at the white house. the subpoena very significant. any response trt white house? have you heard anything yet? >> no. we reached out for comment and they haven't said anything. it just came out a short time ago and we should note the white house was expecting this. democrats signaled as much just

he's talking about corruption by joe biden. joe biden is not in office. if the president was interested in getting rid of corruption in the american government, it is an odd place to start with somebody who doesn't actually hold an office. jewelry's rudolph giuliani has been traveling the world, cooperating with the state department. we've got reports of him dropping off dossiers at the state department, potentially. he goes on television talking about how he's being silenced which is a very odd place to talk about being silenced. i'm not sure what he's trying to do other than rally support to himself in a public relations sense. i know the yankees were on television tonight. it might be time to take in some television instead of going on. >> he did go to the yankee game tonight. i hasten to add along with alan dershowitz there in his usual seat. hey, peter, of what we know that's going to happen next week, anything you can share with us? obviously at this pace you want to get a good laugh out of the guy upstairs telling your plans for tomorrow. it was ju

i don't know how joe biden is going to address it tonight. i do think it's critical that people know, if true, that he, himself, didn't do anything specifically to grease those wheels or to set his son up, that this was hunter pursuing these opportunities on his own. which is our understanding, but i think that is one point that needs to be made clear, if true. >> if we're going to go down this road, there's a lot of people sitting in congress who are sitting in seats that their parents got them. it actually dawned on me this weekend, i had a senator on who was talking about hunter biden whose political career basically got started because he worked for his partner, ron and rand paul. you can go down this road and find yourself in -- >> i've worked for at least one of them. no names. >> what's going to happen tonight that isn't about joe biden that's of interest to this race? >> i think, you know, elizabeth warren has slowly been inching her way up and we've been saying for a while she's got the momentum. she is a couple points, within the ma

or joe biden. he said, is that impeachable? >> i really don't know if it is. but i think they are trying to make a lot more of it than actually exists. maybe it is something probably should not have said, but he did say it, i don't think it will be center piece of impeach offense, they will be hurt by doing what they are boeing right now. >> thank you. elizabeth: this likely your most important asset, your house. we have another reality check on big housing markets, some are in freefall. as goes the housing market, so goes the economy. we ask power brokers dolly and jennie lenz about that. >> and in the show, details about biden family instilling influence. that story coming up. as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowed to riff? what if i come out of the water? liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual cust

. >> what was then vice president joe biden's role? obama's point person in ukraine and carried that message for the president. he also oversaw the u.s. u.s. messaging when it came to the conflict on ukraine and the russian annexation of crimea. and then the war began in eastern ukraine in the spring of that year. the first hot war in the region in an extremely long time. and biden really carried the messaging from obama. the united states that was worried about corruption in the ukraine at this time? for thes been an issue u.s. allies in europe and also for institutions such as the international monetary fund. the cornerstone of the being pushedeory about joe biden and ukraine was pushing for ukraine to remove -- thatecutor general he was somehow doing that inappropriately. that he was doing it to shield his son hunter biden who was on the board of a gas company. that does not stack up with what was happening at the time. joe biden and to bury tory were pushing for the same thing. was very much in line with the broader picture of what

because they don't think trump wants to face joe biden but joe biden himself insists that stories about him and a son in ukraine and china are all just part of a scheme where president trump spreads what he calls lies in conspiracies and that no amount of presidential pressure will squeeze him out of the race. >> let me make something clear to mr. trump and his hatchet men and the special interests finding his attacks against me. i'm not going anywhere. [applause] you are not going to destroy me and you're not going to destroy my family. i don't care how much money you spend. >> biden believes president trump is abusing his power right now. president trump believes joe biden abused his power a few years ago. last night, biden alluded to that now infamous video that shows him bragging about withholding aid to ukraine unless they fired a prosecutor that was investigating accompany his son may have been involved with. biden told by a group of nevada democrats that all of that was transparent because it was happening in front of the whole world. >> dana: peter doocy in vegas, thank you. for

it's pretty obvious that the reason the president is attacking joe biden is joe biden is the one he is most afraid to run against. you know, i can tell you that attacks, it's incredible to me that he's come up with these baseless attacks, but the fact that before the election he was involved in abuse of power and now after his election is now calling on foreign powers to try to intervene in our elections, to really damage our democracy, and ultimately, to hurt our national security, it is something that i think all americans, i don't care if you're democrat, republican or independent, you should really be concerned about that. so as far as joe biden is concerned, we know that he is a strong candidate. we know that the president is really afraid to run against him. and it is really incumbent upon democrats and republicans to hold the president accountable for these acts. >> "the new york times" had a front page story today saying that it took the biden campaign a few days to figure out how to deal with this, whether they ignore it and just stay on policy, whether to deal with it. and th

this isn't base joe biden. and making clear he stays he does not -- he is not concerned about joe bidden. your reporting is otherwise. >> yeah, it's the exact opposite kate. we have known for months the president has been consumed with joe biden's campaign for president. and he and many advisers have seen joe biden as the biggest threat to re-election prospect. the president long viewed joe biden's appeal in the midwest among working white class voters, he viewed thats a big threat. when the president says he never saw widen as a threat, never winning the democratic primary and still doesn't, none of that is true, kate, as borne out repeatedly reporting. the president yesterday already let the genie out of the bottle when he talks about china investigating joe biden. as much as the president is banging the corruption drum, in fact he is only talking about this case involving joe bidden for which there is scant to no evidence to back up any of his claims. kate. >> great stuff, jeremy thank you so much. again, ve

biden then joe biden leading them in new hampshire. in iowa, specifically. in nevada. joe biden starts to do better and have double-digit leads in the states that come later, like super tuesday and such. >> he's got a strength that african-american voter. >> but will he get there? he's got to do well in the early states to get to where he is strong. >> melissa: so that may be why he saying this. let's listen. >> donald trump has violated his oath of office. betrayed this nation, and committed impeachable acts. >> melissa: what do you think, capri? >> well, i think that vice president biden is trying to deflect in a way that he is trying to set himself up. his name is in the middle of this. and i think is trying to take, in some way, shape, or form, the moral high ground. by saying the action donald trump made is an impeachable offense, as some sort of a violation, a violation of the constitution or the law. trying to take himself out of the fray. that's his calculus here. >> melissa: thank you, thanks to both of you. the nba doing dama

let's get back to joe biden now. the president's son, eric trump, is asking where former president obama has been in all of this in terms of maybe supporting his former vp. watch. >> where is obama? he's the only guy who is hiding -- i mean, joe biden was his vice president! where is obama? what does he think about this rampant corruption? what does he think about the fact that joe biden and his son were cashing in on the u.s. to line their own pockets? i mean, what is he on this? was his opinion on this whole nonsense? >> harris: ari, your reaction? to go obviously former president obama is keeping his head low grade i don't think th. former presidents like to stay above these things and i get into them. >> harris: wait a minute, though. this isn't just about a primary. this is about somebody who was working with the former president who is being accused of, at very least, working with or having his son work without the resume experience, with the foreign government. the brick energy supplier, burisma, maybe for acc

you know i really meant that joe biden to me is the only democrat that can be a competitor to donald trump and the general election i think of elizabeth warren i think she has a populous message much like bernie sanders said in 2016 but you know she has a lot of. type of circumstances you know you talk about you know the harvard professor and things of that nature and getting into the school so i think there's just a lot of hits on attacks on her that will run with 3 men with the american people but also remains to be seen you know there's been some scuttlebutt about hillary clinton coming into the race that be interesting to see again but to me i think joe biden is the only viable candidate and i think he has a real message and problem at this point in time robin is supporting any democrat. oh there are so many that look good right now. i've got my favorite 3 and that would be elizabeth warren joe biden and amy clo bashar i think she's someone to watch because she also is a moderate centrist. and she speaks a message that really would resonate in those states that donald trump carri

joe biden would beat this pathological liar like a drum. soon trump will run out of krpts he can pressure to bail him out politically and he will lose the old fashioned away, an intervention by his own country courtesy of the american people in 2020. >> in an op-ed biden criticizes trump's plea for china to investigate him, enough is enough, every day every few hours seemingly more evidence is uncovered revealing that president trump is abusing the power of the presidency and is wholly unfit to be president. he is using the highest office in the land to advance his personal political interest instead of the national interest. the president's most he cent violation of the rule of law calling for china to interfere in our elections as he stood on the south lawn of the white house is so outrageous it's clear he considers the presidency a free pass to do whatever he wants with no accountability. >> joining us from washington, d.c., political reporter for the washington examiner, emily larsen. thanks for betting up early for us. what do you make

corey gave a nice answer and joe and biden. you should have started with tulsi gabbard because she was the only person on the stage who was initially against impeachment and changed her mind. ask people on the areas where they may have difference. even if you say the argument can you be fair one way or another, senator harris and one point biden said we're not going to give a direct answer but now the evidence is clear. i think that was a weakness on the part of the moderators but it's also what happens when you have 12 zillion people competing. >> elizabeth warren was the first to come out of the gate. let's play what she had to say. >> we took a constitutional oath and that is that no one is above the law and that includes the president of the united states. impeachment is the way that we establish that this man will not be permitted to break the law over and over without consequences. this is about donald trump, but understand it's about the next president and the next president and the next president and the future of this

or joe biden that expect ukraine or china why hundredth per biden paid why joe biden interceded told ukrainian government that prosecutor needs to be fired? little plane ride on air force two with his father to china and the financial relationship that resulted from that investigating donald trump -- it's like the russian matter the only one who colluded with russia was hillary clinton of the dnc. not to mention the obama administration at the highest level of the fbi. the only one who is really colluded with ukraine again, the obama administration, ukraine, and biden on behalf of the son. trump didn't collude with the ukraine as i said where's congressional oversight that everybody talk about and they talk a about interference by -- may fourth, 118 robert mendez patrick writing general prosecutor of the yiewg crane and threatening him and among other things they say we respectfully request that you reply answering following question this is how they talk to foreign government has your office taken any steps to restrict cooperation with the investigation by special counsel robert mue

leave joe biden alone is what kamala said about this. because the clear issue here is this president's abuse of power. his willingness to sit in that oval office every day and put himself first instead of the country that he's supposed to be governing first. and frankly it is because he doesn't seem to care that much about the country, he only cares about himself. >> senator harris needs to do something, the quinnipiac poll and democratic-leaning voters only at 4% now. what does she need to do to break out. >> we still have four months until votes get cast in iowa. that is a long time. >> early february. >> yes. correct. we've seen in past elections cycles, 2007 and 2003 at this time the people who ended up winning the nomination were back in the pack and weren't leading into iowa so we still have a long way ahead and she's been spending time in iowa on the campaign trailing saying something simple to the american people with what is happening now. justice is on the ballot. when we have a lawless president who is threatening everything i

how is joe biden in this unique position? he's not the frontrunner, and he clearly wants to regain that. >> and there is this controversy at which joe biden is at the very center of the past couple days with the question of ukraine, so he's going to be at the center of a lot more pressure than we've seen of joe biden on the debate stage in the past. but the issue of ukraine, 55% of americans believe this is an issue that can hurt him. so while democrats who were rivals to joe biden are going a when he had this issue. he's going to have to prove that he can he will himself on this, especially when you consider that electability is such an. meantime, impeachment has been in the news. he'll likely have to respond to whether or not it is proper to impeach the president. he was one of the last democrats to do so, is there a but then there is the potential for joe biden to show strength on issues like syria. he has more experience in foreign policy than anyone else. there are opportunities for him. >> and then you have elizabeth wa