biden: what was your first name? >> sarah. mr. biden: sarah. you could hear a crack in sarah's voice there, because a lot of you experienced the same thing i have. i have been a consumer of health care. when i first got elected, before i got sworn in, i was in washington, and a tractor-trailer blindsided my wife and daughter christmas shopping, and killed my wife and my daughter. my sons survived. but what happened, i have insurance. was i hadat happened --urance i had the peace of mind that i would be able to get them good doctors. you know, i got hospitalized years ago with a cranial aneurysm. i was hospitalized a couple of times. they took the top of my head off the second time, said they could not find the brain the first time. [laughter] mr. biden: but those nurses gave me hope. son beau,-- and my attorney general, a decorated war hero -- for real. a year in iraq, six months in cozumel before that. he came home and was diagnosed with glioblastoma, given months. it was not could he -- would he live, it was when. run out of coverage. suffer

biden: thank you, thank you, thank you. >> i am voting for joe biden. mr. biden: thank you. me too. god love you, thank you. >> i am in the air force. mr. biden: i tell you what. you have your blue angels and the other air force guys. >> the 2020 presidential race has one less candidate after california senator kamala harris announced tuesday that she is suspending her campaign, citing a lack of financial resources as the reason. in iowa, former vice president joe biden reacted to the news while speaking to reporters. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] a first-ratee has intellect and is a first-rate candidate. a real competitor. i have mixed emotions about that because she is really a solid, i'm sure she is she will makeut, changes. >> would you consider her for vp still? candidates are reacting to senator harris leaving the 2020 race on twitter. senator amy klobuchar says, kamala is a friend and a strong public servant. somet

it should be joe biden or hunter biden. that hunter biden had just put himself smack dab in the middle of that corruption, and that even though democrats and many of their friends in the media would have you believe that bth burisma/biden corruption, this was all just a vast right wing conspiracy allegation, when in actuality, it was the obama administration that raised this issue first. back in 2015, george kent reported his concerns about hunter biden to the vice president's office, and the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yavonovitch, said she was coached by the obama administration on how to answer pesky questions related to hunter biden and burisma that might arise during her senate confirmation process. and nearly every single witness who testified at the intelligence committee impeachment inquiry agreed that hunter biden's burisma deal created, at the very least, an appearance of a conflict of interest. yet the democrats on the intelligence committee under chairman schiff and now democrats in this committee are de

biden. >> the gentleman is recognized to explain his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman, this strikes the reference to joe biden as thefe center of the proposed investigation and replaces itga with the true top of the investigation, burisma and hunter biden. an essential element of the democrats' case on abuse of power is that the bidens did nothing wrong. it can only be an abuse of power and not a correct use of power if the president was pursuing something under which there was no reasonable basis to ask a question about hunter biden and burisma. hunter biden and burisma, that's an interesting story. i think just about every americank knows there's somethg up with that. $86,000 a month, no experience, working for some foreign government while your dad is the vice president of the united states. is there anybody who believes this is okay? i know a few of my democratic colleague who is might run for president one day, would you let your vice president have their son or daughter or family

biden: thank you, thank you, thank you. >> i am voting for joe biden. mr. biden: thank you. me too. god love you, thank you. >> i am in the air force. mr. biden: i tell you what. you have your blue angels and the other air force guys. racee 2020 presidential has one less candidate as kamala harris is suspending her campaign. a first rate candidate. competitor.al she is a solid person. loaded with talent. >> would you consider her for vp? >> other candidates are reacting on twitter. deval patrick says, i hope she prosperousand career in politics. i look forward to working with her. michael bloomberg says, she perspectives and to the race. castro, i am so thankful for her friendship and candidacy in this race. d she will keep fighting for an amierca where everyone counts. at work on are hard candidatesthey wish would address. idea?orking on an we have resources on our website. information to guide you throug the process. entries must be 2020.ed by january 20, >> you are never too young to have an opinion. tuesday, the house intelligence committee president's report on trump and ukrain

biden campaign, the biden camp, the family. they've missed the opportunity of defining to the american people really the introduction of the biden family in the political context. so far, it's just been all trump's side of it and all of the republicans' side of it that we're hearing. and when you allow other people to define for you what the relationship was, what activities were happening, even if they're flat out lying about it. right now, they're only hearing one side of what happened and one interpretation of what happened, and i think that at some point very soon, once we get through the actual impeachment process, biden as a candidate's going to have to stand on the stage and explain thoroughly what actually happened with his son. does he agree with what happened? is there something he'd like to see differently unfold? and i think that he will do that. i think that we're seeing the first stage really was the indignant anger that we saw from biden. i agreed earlier with what was said that it was a good thing that biden sho

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and i think that biden -- it's incumbent upon biden to keep turning this back onto trump and turning the attack back on to him. >> our guests are all going to stay with us. anyone i didn't get to, i will get to in the next segment. we're going to fit in another break. our conversation continues on the other side. >>> their defense or excuse is that president trump wanted to investigate corruption. now, that's just laughable on its face. if you want -- if president trump wanted to investigate corruption, he could start at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, look in the mirror, or he could look around the cast of criminals that have been indicted from his circle. >> a little louisiana common sense from a member of congress tonight. "the new york times" reporting the trump campaign thinks impeachment is helping with voter enthusiasm. annie karni and our friend, maggie haberman, report it this way. while mr. trump himself has ruled the fact that impeachment might tarnish his legacy, his political advisers presented the unfolding proceeding as nothing but a boost to the campaign in every metric it

. >> will president biden nominate dr. obama to the supreme court? >> if he would take it, yes. >> jason: we would call him president obama, but here is gayle trotter, spokeswoman for the judicial crisis network. donald trump really has transformed the judicial system. >> he has. president trump and senate majority leader mcconnell have shepherded 187 excellent jurors to lifetime appointment on the federal bench. these are young, excellent credentialed jurists will make sure that they apply the law as written and set of trying to invent laws as they go along. >> jason: "the wall street journal" recently wrote an op-ed revitalizing the federal courts trump and the g.o.p. senate elevate a new judicial generation. i want to read part of that. one reason for the faster pace is then democratic majority leader t harry reid's decision o kill the filibuster. they can no longer block a nominee. r the trump-mcconnell. when they got rid of it, it paved the way for mitch mcconnell to spend all day, every day working to get new people

hunter biden this, hunter biden that. hunter biden salary. any haven't brought up the past ukrainian leaders or business. it's all the bide. s. their defense speaks to the truth of the allegations in this article that it was all about the bidens. they're all about the bidens. and that's what it's about. >> would the gentleman yield. >> i yield. >> i did bring up. >> yield back to mr. jeffreyy. >> okay i shouldn't have tried to correct you then i guess. >> foreign interference in an american election solicited by the president is not okay. that is an abuse of power. it undermines our national security. the president should be held accountable because no one is above the law. >> the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does mthe gentleman seek recognition. >> strike the last word. >> i think the gentleman from new york laid out in an articulate way the basis and justification for both article 1 and article 2 before us. but i just want to touch on the debate around obstruction of congress and explain to my colleagues and to the american peopl

brings in joe biden, too. but remember, fundamentally speaking, you've got the leaders of the gop in the senate not wanting to get into the witness pool at all. the fact that biden has said this now brings this debate back into the fore. gives them something to point at and say wait a second. it potentially creates a little bit of a problem for biden himself when answering questions about how he would conduct himself if he were president in a similar -- similarly partisan time. and what his relationship would be like with congress, especially when congress, potentially, would subpoena biden administration for people to testify and for documents and witnesses. but as for right now, how that changes the debate about witnesses, i think probably it doesn't actually take -- take away from what mitch mcconnell wanted to do that much because he wanted to avoid this altogether in the first place. and this is just all the more reason not to get into a long, drawn out fight where you're going to have witnesses defying s

we say here we're riding with biden. we're excited. >> might have been more clever than the no malarkey, riding with biden. >> well, especially if you say it with an accent like i have it, it rhymes. so that's our approach. and he's building a broad coalition here that includes those young people that you mentioned. >> so buttigieg, mayor buttigieg. you know, he is another moderate. his popularity has surged in that state, up double digits from where he was in september. is the mayor the biggest threat at this point to biden nomination? >> i don't think so. i think people don't know the mayor very well. he's exciting now. he's new. but if you look at the coalition of voters that vice president biden has put together, it is much broader. here in nevada, we've got a large hispanic population. min minority population. asia p. students. military. labbe e unions. that's a broad coalition that the vice president has that these other candidates don't even if they're a little exciting right now. >> so nationally, biden is leadin

biden, it is incumbent on biden to keep turning his back on trump and back on him. >> our guests are going to stay with us. anyone i didn't get to i will get to in the next segment. we're going to fit in another break. our conversation continues on the other side. ♪ >>> the defense or excuse is that president trump wanted to investigate corruption. that's just laughable on its face. if you want -- if president trump wanted to investigate corruption, he can start at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. look in the mirror. or he could look around the cast of criminals that have been indicted from his circle. >> a little louisiana common sense from eye member of congress tonight. the "the new york times" reporting the trump campaign thinks impeachment is helping with voter enthusiasm. annie carn ee and our friend maggie haberman report it this way. while mr. trump has ruled the fact that impeachment might tarnish his legacy, his top political advisors presented the unfoeding proceeding as nothing but a boost to the campaign and every metric it measures from volunteer recruitment to small donor d

or joe biden. we heard from mr. goldman last week -- and i asked him specifically -- if his committees had investigated that claim, that there was some legitimate concern by the government about corruption regarding burisma. and he said they thoroughly investigated it and found absolutely no evidence. mr. trump is welcome to be here. he was welcome to be here. he was welcome to participate, his lawyers, so that if he has any information that would exonerate him about this he could present it at any time. he is not. now let's compare that to the fact that he has prohibited witnesses from coming before our committee and other committees. he has prevented documents from seeing the light of day. he has intimidated witnesses. so let's remember that he is doing absolutely everything possible to hide his wrongdoing. if he could prove otherwise, he would. now, compare that with the information that was created through the investigations. over 300 pages in a report, over -- or 17 witnesses, over 200 text me

bidens? >> the white house said this if there is an impeachment trial they will call you. >> i won't let them take their eye off the ball. >> shannon: the president threatening to haul joe biden in the event of an impeachment trial. what are the odds? welcome to you both. >> thanks. >> i have been reading up on exactly how this works. senate leaders set rules and john roberts would help enforce. we know with a predecessor he won't want to get involved in this. they try to hammer this how the. jason is, how do you think the 2 sides will set the guidelines? >> i don't think either side will get along. no precedent for that. i do think there will be a pressure from the republicans to have the federal evidence rules enforced. everything in the house of representatives would be inadmissible except for perhaps sonland's testimony. republicans get to call witnesses and hunter biden and joe biden and the whistleblower and adam schiff himself. these are prime people that i am sure republicans are goin

>> it talks about biden's son. >> it says biden stopped the prosecution, is that correct? >> that's what it says, yes. >> and doesn't it also say president trump asked him, if you can look into it, correct? >> that's correct. >> president trump was asking ukranian president zelensky to have out crathe ukranian officik into vice president joe biden, correct? >> i don't think the report says that. >> can you look into it, president trump is asking him -- >> i don't think it says that. i think it's ambiguous. mr. goldman, you're an experienced federal prosecutor. i know that firsthand. is this president trump asking president zelensky to investigate his political rival, joe biden? >> i don't think there is any other way to read the words on the page than to conclude that. >> and, mr. castecaster, you mae point, as an experienced investigator, is it your experience that when someone has done something wrong and corrupt that they explain their intentions to do something wrong and corrupt? >> are you talking about the call transcript? >> i'm asking you in general. >> you're sayi

>> joe biden. >> i think it's something like biden. but i wouldn't count out bernie because the issue with the brokered convention is that you need to have very strong delegates, very politically-astute delegates that are going to be willing on the floor -- that's a big deal. nobody wants to have to get into. >> but neither of the female candidates can make it all the way. >> i don't think they can. >> i don't see -- i don't see the path -- well, warren is the only one right now i would say the top four that -- >> you don't think warren has -- has another moment? you think she's -- >> she could. >> -- all downhill from here? >> i don't think she has any money. >> we'll see. >> as long as no one person runs the table in the first one or two states, then i think it -- it -- it opens the door. >> it opens the door to super-tuesday. >> what if it's a buttigieg in iowa, biden new hampshire or bernie new hampshire. you think bernie new hampshire? biden, south carolina. does the door close for anybody who's not one of those three names after

it's not just joe biden, though. you have beto o'rourke said it was a dumb idea and activists like david hogg also said that teachers shouldn't be allowed to be armed to protect students. so my question is, have they all seen this footage? have they changed their mind? is the media going to hold them to account? what do you think of this? because these are real lives, real people. by the way, jack wilson, and the president tweeted he is a hero, absolutely is a hero. in six seconds, he took the shooter down. and again, when asked about it, i guess, later on a post, he says he thanked god and feels blessed that he could help protect his parishioners in this way. >> gregg: you know, larry, julian castro, democratic presidential candidate, said this, "a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy is fiction. it doesn't work that way." i don't know what dream world that guy is living in. >> some years ago there was a shooting called grundy law school, appalachian law school in virginia. a gunman shot a dean, a student, and a t

jill biden. [applause] mrs. biden: thank you. thank you, joe. closer.tell me i am the [laughter] biden: you are. mrs. biden: so in 62 days, iowa has a choice to make. a moment i want to take you into the future. want to take you past the caucus, past the election and nto the next year, the next november. it's 2021. so it's a beautiful morning like in iowa and you wake up and like joe and i did we had our morning coffee. and then you pick up your the headline and isn't about some late night tweet storm. [applause] instead, it's about our children, america's children who will benefit from universal pre-k. it's about how the teachers in his country are finally going to get a raise. you read about investing in wind and green technology that is going to create jobs here in iowa. and then, like we did this on the you turn television and the anchors we're talking about how on the brink of some ill-advised war. instead, they're talking about ow we're going to build on the affordable care act with a public option and bring down prices.tion drug and -- [a

and i think joe biden showing some righteous anger about the way trump has gone after hunter biden has benefited him somewhat politically and it continues to illustrate the risk factor trump seems to feel that biden presents to him. i will say, though, that you got to constantly be on offense with trump. you can never try to defend yourself or clarify. you always have to go back right up into his grill. you always have to keep kicking. the minute you start attacking trump, you have to stay at it. republicans learned that lesson the hard way in 2016 where they would go on stage with one canned trump joke, and then he would do his insult comic thing for half an hour. toulgt you got to be always on him. it's incumbent upon biden to keep turning this back onto trump. >> our guests are all going to stay with us. anyone i didn't get to, i will get to in the next segment. we'll fit in another break. our conversation continues on the other side. for a different kind of drive. ♪ ladies and gentlemen for the drive to create a new kind of family car, that became a new kind of race car. for the

. >> joe biden. joe on, vice president biden is here today in peter's -- peterborough, we got to be a little bit louder. there we go. my name is jake, i amcharacter l integrity that we are going to need to repair the soul of this nation. from ohio andlly i grew up in an independent catholic family, so it really broke my heart, seeing a lot of family, friends, teachers, people who i look up to go support donald trump. they raise me to treat others the way you want to be treated, then they support a man like that. well, that is the antithesis of what joe biden is. he is a strong leader who has always looked out for those who need help to most, whether it is protecting victims of domestic violence with the violence helpingwomen act, or bring americans out of the 2008 recession with the american recovery act, joe biden has always looked out for those who need help the most. that is what we need in a commander in chief. that is who is going to be donald trump in november. but we cannot do that alone. if w

the only reason obama is not saying anything about biden to avoid embarrassing biden. but indirectly, he is saying it, actually. an event in singapore, the obama said the problems of the world are due to old people, usually old men not getting out of the way. not clear who he is referring to. in fact he said that women are categorically better leaders than men purely on the basis of their sex. richard is an attorney and former adviser to the other dynasty, bill and hillary clinton. thank you for coming on. >> sure. >> tucker: for many levels here but for obama tell us that women should be in charge, i'm old enough to remember when we learned that the obama white house was paying women 88 crept cents to y dollar they were paying men. that is not speculation. that is actually true. why didn't obama govern according to this precept if he believed it? >> it's interesting. first of all, he is not going to go to a private meeting in singapore for which there is no audio or video to deliver a political message about our presidential campaign. >> tucker: wait. we hearted it, d

bidens? >> the white house said this if there is an impeachment trial they will call you. >> i won't let them take their eye off >> truly about the bidens and not call the bidens. >> the white house is saying if there's a senate impeachment trial they might want to call you as a witness. would you appear voluntarily? >> i'm not going to let them take their eye off the ball. >> the threatening to call joe biden and other democrats before the senate in the event of an impeachment trial. what are the odds? harry litman and fox news contributor and jason chaffetz, welcome to you both. i have been reading up on how this works in past impeachment, senate leaders come together, set the rules, chief justice of the united states would be there to help but, one of his predecessors, chief justice rehnquist, he won't want to get involved in the minutia of that to try to hammer this thing out. how do you think the two sides get along and set the guardrails about it will show up and how it will work? >> i

[applause] so, when chairman biden became vice president biden, he did not just hand me a gavel. he had to be a legacy of getting things done with integrity and bipartisanship. of shared experiences, that we had, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles around the world because he was chairman of the foreign relations committee and i served on it with a whole bunch of people ahead of me like pulsar bins and chris dodd. i never thought i would be chairman of any committee. -- paul sarbins and i'm ever in 2008 when russian tanks rolled into a neighboring country called georgia. it was chairman joe biden who immediately picked up the phone. harry did not pick up the phone to ask -- he did not pick up the phone to ask for a personal favor to do with that election in the united states. he picked up the phone to find out what america could do doubt the president of that country, and that country, survive. [applause] but he did not stop with a phone call. he got on a plane right away. he flew overnight and sat on a hilltop in georgia without president, of our democratic ally. and he mad

biden's role did not change and former vice president biden continued to lead u.s. policy in ukraine on this record there is a legitimate basis for president trump to have concern about hunter biden's role on barisan as board. the prospect that some senior ukrainian officials worked against president trump in the run up to the 2016 election draws an even more visceral reaction from most democrats let me say very very clearly that election interference is not binary i'm not saying it was ukraine and not russia i am saying that both countries and work to influence an election a systemic coordinated russian interference effort does not mean that some ukrainian officials some ukrainian officials did not work to oppose president trump's candidacy did not make statements against president trump during the election ambassador volcker testified in his public hearing that it is possible for more than one country to seek influence in u.s. elections dr hill testified likewise at her public hearing contemporaneous news articles in 2016 noted how president trump's candidacy led

this is not about hunter biden. they have said that on the other side repeatedly up until they start talking about hunter biden having some substance abuse problems. you can't have it both ways. let's be honest. this is about our conscience, the conscience of the nation. the conscience of my friends on the other side of the aisle. do you believe that we should allow this to go unaddressed, with the president did? because we are a country of precedent. we are a country of rule of law. we are a country of norms and traditions. are we going to allow the violation of our norms, our traditions, our legal precedent. after all, bribery was not a crime. there was no criminal code when the framers past the constitution, but they said bribery in there and what it meant was i am offering you something if you do something for me. i will give you this. in other words, you give me this and i will give you that. that's what we had in this case. that's what bribery means. it doesn't depend on the statute. it depends on what we know

but now going after biden who, in a lot of things, he agrees with biden on a lot of policy issues. this is his way of potentially moov moving up in the polls. >> he's been making the age argument. a lot of people, we've seen a bit of a trend at some of these biden events, protesters showing up. here is one interaction recently. [ inaudible ] >> how much money did you make in ukraine? >> i released 21 years of my tax returns. your guy hasn't released one. what's he hiding? just let him go. he's an idiot. as my mother would say, would you hush up for just a while? okay? be polite. >> so biden says "be polite" after he calls the guy an idiot. if voters didn't catch all of that. there's something a bit trumpian, right, about the way biden is interacting with some of these protesters, but again, he's also doing a call for the restoration of america's soul. >> he's remained pretty durable, actually, biden has. he's at the top of the poll. >> 28%. >> he's come under an onslaught of attacks by the president and folks around the president. you see more and more democrats unleashing on his d

however, hunter biden's role did not change and former vice president biden continued to leadco u.s. policy in ukraine. on this record there is a legitimateco basis for presiden trump to have concern about hunternc biden's role on burisms board. the prospect that some senior ukrainian officials worked against president trump in the runup to the 2016 election draws an even more visceral reaction from most democrats. let me say very, very clearly that election interference is not binary. i'm not saying that it was ukraine and not russia. i'm saying that both countries can work to influence an election. a systemic coordinated russian interference effort does not meanff that some ukrainian officials, some ukrainian officials did not work to oppose president trump's candidacy, did not make statements against president trump during the election. ambassador volker testified in his public hearing that it is possible forng more than one country to seek influence in u.s. elections. dr. hill testified likewise at her public hearing. contemporaneous news articles in 2016 noted how president trum

before hunter biden was hired just a few weeks before he was hired, joe biden told the ukrainians ramp up your natural gas and what happen? happen? all of a sudden, his son got hired. he set it up by giving that speech to the prime minister and that farmer actually had the right script, joe biden is the one that doesn't have the facts right. >> sean: great and thank you. i am a talk show host emma we do straight reporting, we do investigative reporting, we do opinion, sports, culture. that is being part of the press. we have a free press, good job, thank you. and we also call sources, that's how you break stories. more reaction in the impeachment sprint, kevin mccarthy. good to see you again. i think you should be very proud of your team and you know when i've been critical of republicans, very loud about it. but this has been a moment where clarity, can you explain how the media and the democrats ignored the hunter-joe situation? >> they ignore almost everything and you have to remember here if i was a democrat and i was sitting in one of those 31 seats that president trump carried an

vice president biden i'm going to guess that vice president biden did not clear that remark through your campaign ahead of time. >> i'm going to guess he wasn't talking about me. jillian: joe biden dancing around barack obama's shade at old white men. rob: social media not letting him off the hook so easily though. carley shimkus is here with reaction. hey, carley. >> good morning, guys. the shoe may fit but he is not going to wear it. joe biden turning his age into a good thing saying with experience comes good judgment and wisdom. some folks on social media not buying it. one twitter user rebecca says i'm actually very willing to bet that obama was talking very directly about joe biden with the old white men comment. sam also echoing that saying when barack obama said old men were the problem in politics, it definitely did not include an exception for joe biden. and then this twitter user right here makes a joke saying can we reboot grumpy old men with bernie and biden. their cantankerous get off my lawn schtick is adorable but not presidential. meantime, there were seven candidates on

the reference to biden. you see on the july 25th call on page four, isn't it a fact that president trump and his call with president zelensky said that he heard that vice president joe biden had stopped that investigation to his son? >> the other thing, there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that he stopped the prosecution >> he said he stopped the prosecution. >> he is entitled to answer his question fully. >> there is a video of the former vp, that's what the president is referring to, it was a little bit of the former vp was a little bit audacious in how he described. >> i am only asking you what it says on the transcript, is that what it says? >> the other thing, there's a lot of talk about biden's son. >> and that biden stopped the prosecution, is that correct? it also goes on to say president trump asked president zelensky if you could look into it. you could look into it, correct? >> that's what it said. president trump was asking ukrainian president zelensky to have the ukrainian officials looking

andy richter criticized joe biden. in the words of joe biden, come on, man, an expression joe hangs on to like a dog with a bone. >> come on, man. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. >> come on, man. >> reporter: new york. >> happy new year, man. thanks so much for joining us. i'm jim sciutto. ac 360 starts now. >>> good evening. tonight new reporting on some of the central facts, the impeachment case of president trump. "the new york times" citing previously undisclosed emails and interviews with dozens of current and former administration officials providing perhaps our best look yet at the order to freesz military aid for ukraine. it was, according to that reporting, very much a top down affair driven by the president with acting

there is a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution. so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. witnesses unanimously testified that there was no factual support for this claim. rather, they noted that vice president biden was acting in support of an international consensus and official u.s. policy to clean up the prosecutor general's office in ukraine. despite these facts, by the time of the july 25th call, mr. giuliani had been publicly advocating for these two investigations for months while also using back channels to press ukrainian officials to nashiate them in support of his client, donald trump. ambassador sondland understood mr. giuliani's role very clearly. he testified, mr. giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states. and we knew these investigations were important to the president. to others, mr. giuliani was working at cross-purposes wit

why should biden? >> lawrence: challenges in the court and separation of power. >> marie: the second question is, the senate trailers to judge president trump's behavior and soul of joe biden's behavior is not part of the impeachment article. >> lawrence: it but this is where the center of this started according to democrats because he wanted dirt on his opponent's home bring him in. but let's talk about joe biden because he flip-flopped. first he said he wasn't going to appear and then he said he was going to appear but he has a big problem. he still doesn't have an answer on the hunter biden thing. this dismissiveness will work with the mainstream media right now, but when you get on the general stage, you will have to answer to them. donald trump will go blow for blow. so he will keep the question until he's officially answered it. and you know, hunter's baby mama might get the answer before he does. >> i'm not sure that has anything to do with it, but we are about to start an impeachment trial on t

democratic presidential contender joe biden says there's no legal basis to force him to testify at donald trump's impeachment trial. "we bought a zoo." a french crowd—funding plan which aims to return a zoo full of animals back to the wild. the president of somalia has blamed al—shabaab militants for a deadly bomb attack but said they wouldn't succeed in demoralising the somali people. 70 people died and many more were injured in the capital mogadishu. our africa correspondent andrew harding reports. moments after the blast, an eyewitness films the scene. smoke still billowing from a vehicle, the remains of what is thought to have been a massive car bomb. shocked civilians move in to look for survivors. the attack was timed to catch the morning rush—hour in mogadishu. many students had been heading to classes. dozens were killed when the bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the somali capital. attacks like this are not unusual here, but they are seldom so deadly. this man said the blast caught him as he was getting out of a minibus heading to work, his leg injured. within minutes

like the bidens. and it's very clear from mule approximate moult approximately witnesses exactly what he wanted to get from president zelensky. he wanted a statement on television that ukraine was investigating and was going to investigate vice president joe biden. and he wanted a statement contradicting the 2016 understanding by our intelligence committee and by special counsel mueller that there had been a sweeping and systematic campaign by russia to interfere and saying it was ukraine that interfered in our campaign. that's what he wanted. that was the big stuff. he didn't care about the russian war on the people of ukraine. he didn't care about corruption. they invite us to believe that donald trump is an anticorruption crusader. who was shaking down president zelensky about corruption. when he doesn't raise any corruption on that call except for what he believed was going on with the bidens, except that he reus to doed anticorruption funding for u krooin. he doesn't raise it anywhere else that w

the biden campaign pushing back on a political report that biden has signaled that he would serve only one term if he was electedn 2020. quoting an advisory saying if biden is elected he's going to be 82 years old in four years and he won't be running for reelection. here's the former vice president's response when asked about that today by our own peter doocy. >> about a one term pledge. >> no, never have. >> martha: all right. the host of the american enterprise institute's podcasts and fox news contributor, austan goolsbee. he knows what's going on. let's start with you. this appeared to have come from someone in the campaign, that it's something they discussed that if he were elected he might only serve for one term. >> yeah, i don't know where that comes from. a lot of times there are trial balloons that floated and a lot of times there is just extraneous information that gets floated as if it's a fact. who knows. i think the downside of promising a one term thing is in no way, it kind of makes you a lame duck before you even get there. i would be surprised if they come out with t

or joe biden. we heard from mr. goldman last week, and i asked him specifically if his committees had investigated that claim, that there was some legitimate concern by the government about corruption regarding barisma, and he said they thoroughly investigated it and found absolutely no evidence. mr. trump is welcome to be here. he was welcome to be here. he was welcome to participate. his lawyers. so that if he has any information that would exonerate him about this, he could present it at any time. he is not. now, let's compare that to the fact that he has prohibited witnesses from coming before our committee and other committees. he has prevented documents from seeing the light of day. he has intimidated witnesses. so let's remember that he is doing absolutely everything possible to hide his wrongdoing. if he could prove otherwise, he would. now, compare that with the information that was created through the investigations. over 300 pages in a report. over -- or 17 witnesses. over 200 text messa

we've had people already mention the next president, joe biden, he may be the next president. well, we've already got the forms, all we have to do is eliminate donald trump's name and put joe biden's name in there, because he's on video. he and his son. he basically has admitted to the crime that's being hoisted on the president improperly. i'm scared for my country. i've never seen anything like this. this is supposed to be the congress. i came up here from a court where we had order and we had rules and i've seen nothing of the kind in here today, and it's outrageous that we're trying to remove a president with a kangaroo court like this. >> if i could just clarify, treason is not in our report. >> the gentlemen yielded back -- >> yeah, and it is mentioned in the report we got. thank you very much. >> the gentleman yielded back. mr. johnson. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i'd like to get us back to the undisputed facts of the president's abuse of power. mr. goldman as a prosecutor in the southern district of new york, when you prosecuted drug counsel spirscy cases, was it stand

joe biden had one of his steadier performances. here's biden highlighting what many see as his strength. promising to work with republicans even as they try to investigate him and his son. >> i refuse to accept the notion as some on this stage do that we can never, never get to a place where we have cooperation again. if that's the case, we're dead as a country. we need to be able to reach consensus. and if anyone has reason to be angry or t angry with the republicans, it's me. the way they have attacked me, my son, my family. but the fact is, we have to. we have to be able to get things done. and when we can't convince them, we go out and beat them like we did in the 2018 election in red states and in purple states. >> for more, i'm joined here on set by nbc news correspondent carol lee. brendan buck. and doug thornell. welcome all. doug, this is your party. sort -- sort that field. i mean, there's different ways you can squint one way and say that person did well. >> yeah. well, i think amy klobuchar won the night. and her attack

call joe biden, call hunter biden, call the whistleblower and while were at it call john kerry and the democrat senators who are up to their neck in the ukraine cash for gas scandal as well. call them all. get to the bottom of it. as the democrats constantly say. for the past three years in england, the establishment tried to overturn the brexit vote in this week the people told them to get lost. they meant it the first time and they voted for it a second time. here will be the same but even more so because in england nothing got done during the establishment attempted count. in this country, unbelievably while all this is going on, the obstruction, the resistant, the impeachment, whatever, through it all president trump has managed to deliver not just his promises but a record rich on policy and substance that adds up to the most successful presidents in history. just in the last few days, incredible job numbers, giant trade deals, help for working families, and much more. over the last three years, unemployment falling, earnings rising, criminal justice reform, the heartland revived,

biden? or dennis rodman? chemistry is a class you take in high school or college we figure out two plus two is ten or something. and look at that, still a three way tie they all got it right. speed. >> i've had a crush on him for 25 years. kennedy: i almost got fired for almost getting into a limousine with dennis rodman. they said if you get into that limousine i will fire you. fun fact here on the kennedy show. here's quote number five. i got tested for aids. there's note shame in being tested for aids. it's an important thing. who said this trump, biden, or flavor flav or flavor? get up get up get up down down. biden or flavor flav? and look at that cat now loses the lead. danielle and chris got biden. v. >> that was biden trying to be cool. kennedy: here's quote number six are we ready? are we feeling it? can't you answer this right the answer wrong you're in it. here's quote number six. why was there this civil war? why could that when not been worked out? who said this trump biden or paris hilton? denni

the first question of the biden running mate. i think is why people like joe biden. that he says things like this. i am not just a partisan hack. i would consider a republican. my problem is his view of the republican party is shaped by years in the senate. made up of republicans who are no longer -- this is a different republican party than when joe biden was in the senate. >> and also, the progressive base already distrusts biden. when mccain said he would nominate lieberman and he backed off of that. >> emily, i take it different. i feel like it's pandering. he is trying to still come up as the moderate joe. i am bring everyone together. >> right. i think it speaks to the fact he is archa ache. ---archaic. it annoyed everyone. you can't even name one. it's more like harkening back time. and the open floor plan, as a managing attorney in the federal government it was an open floor. but i was a manager and it was horrendous. it was breaking a lot of rules that i was in that situation. i can't imagine that open floor plan you dealing with super classified information