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

. >> 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

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

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

biden: what was your first name? >> sarah. mr. biden: sarah. you know, you could hear a crack in sarah's voice there, because many of you have experienced th. also was a significant user 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 daughter. but my sons survived. anyway. but what happened was, i have insurance. i had the peace of mind that i would be able to get them good doctors. and then, 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 n't find my brain the first time. [laughter] mr. biden: but it was my nurses that gave me hope. and my son, beau, 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 wasn't could he -- would he live, it was when. run out of coverage. suffer in

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

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

biden: what was your first name? >> sarah. mr. biden: sarah. you know, you could hear a crack in sarah's voice there, because many of you have experienced the same thing sarah has. also was a significant user 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 daughter. but my sons survived. anyway. but what happened was, i have insurance. i had the peace of mind that i would be able to get them good doctors. and then, 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 n't find my brain the first time. [laughter] mr. biden: but it was my nurses that gave me hope. and my son, beau, 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 wasn't could he -- would he live, it was when. run out

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

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

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

>> i think it's already hurt biden. i don't think there's any excuse allowing your son to do business in the ukraine? >> when he has no experience in that sector. >> yeah, clearly hunter biden is a troubled soul. clearly joe biden is a wonderful father, but this is very difficult in a country now that's really sick of politicians self-dealing. >> yes. yeah, i think it will be a problem for biden and well and a legitimate one. >>> i've been asking democratic lawmakers who come on the show, asking if it would be worth it. they all say yes, because it was the right thing to do. i believe they believe that, but do you believe that it will have been the strategic thing to do if democrats suffer political for it? >> well, whether or not they suffer political, it was the right thing to do to investigate this guy. i have thought from the beginning that impeachment was a bridge too far. i think the investigations should continue. i am really curious about what's in those tax returns. >> sure. >> there are other things, you know,

the president asked for biden. and his perfect phone call. he asked for biden. concerned every one of the diplomats except morrison was this -- >> and volker. >> no, he thought it was really weird that this was becoming ability an american election. and thought it was dangerous. >> when volker was ask whether or not there was impeachable offense observed he said no. >> a legal conclusion at any trial? do you remember the lady -- really? you remember a witness being asked -- did you think it was robbery or burglary? >> look, these are people who interface with the national security apparatus regularly. ambassador volker. >> it's not their job. >> they have an ability to provide some context for the circumstances that have arisen. if given the context there was a severe concern on the part of everyone involved. you would hear the concerns from morrison. >> that's why they were testifying. >> all the people coming forward you can break down into categories, hearsay, conjecture and speculation or a legit policy disagreement. people like vindman who -- >> circumstant

biden is and same for any other candidate. this is a piece, an exhibit of evidence that they're going to use as much as they possibly can. >> carlos, that polling includes or congressman i should say, that polling also includes florida. what do you make of voters down there and their desire to ditch trump and to try out joe biden? do you think that there are trump voter that is voted for him in 2016 saying no more? i like joe biden more than for elizabeth warren or bernie sanders or cory booker or andrew yang or anybody else? >> katy, carlos is good. we have gone through this before. but what stood out to me most looking at the polls in florida is the gulf between biden's performance against the president and the other candidates. elizabeth warren, bernie sanders. it's not even close. joe biden's not only the only one ahead, the others way far behind and swing voters in florida especially here in south florida, a lot of hispanics that fled socialist revolutions so they're weary of the democratic candidate that is identify as s

it could be joe biden crying. it could be joe biden being sensitive. >> he's emotional, let's say. >> yes, a man can be emotional in a way a woman can't be. >> it is true there's a double standard of behavior, i think it is accurate. the trump administration making a move that could leave close to 700,000 americans without access to food stamps. stay with us. bringing families . this time of year, that's really important. so we're making it easier than ever to become part of our family. that's why our chevy employee discount is now available to everyone. the chevy price you pay is what we pay. not a cent more. family is important to us. and we want you to be part of ours. so happy holidays. and welcome to the family. all: the chevy family! get the chevy employee discount for everyone today. i'm a verizon engineer, and i'm part of the team building the most powerful 5g experience for america. it's 5g ultra wideband-- --for massive capacity-- --and ultra-fast speeds. almost 2 gigs here in minneapolis. that's 25 time

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

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

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

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 said they thoroughly investigated 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 if he has any information that would exonerate him about this, he can present it any time. not 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. he could prove otherwise, he would. compare that with the information that was created through the investigation. over 300 pages in a report, over 17 witnesses, over 200 text messages, that is just what was able to make light

young's getting heated between joe biden end and i love voter, this just in attic campaign event biden ended up calling that a vote or a liar. were going to show you this exchange and we are turning it around, it just happened. plus hillary clinton once again fueling rumors of a 2020 bed. what a recent big interview of hers could mean. ♪ and once you refinance, the savings are automatic. thanks to your va streamline refi benefit, at newday there's no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. activate your va streamline benefit now. the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the pressure cooker that crisps. creais back at red lobster.ast with new creations to choose from; like rich, butter-poached maine lobster and crispy crab-stuffed shrimp rangoon. how will you pick just 4 of 10? it won't be easy. better hurry in. when you're looking for answers, it's good to have help. because the right information, at the

you take for example, the bidens. we know hunter biden was receiving up to $83,000 a month to serve on the board of the largest natural gas company in ukraine, burisma. $83,000 a month. that's a million dollars a year. that's nearly ten times a month as much as exxonmobil pays its directors, and hunter biden, look. i'm from houston. i know lots of people who serve on the board of natural gas companies. you know what they tend to have? they tend to have a background in geology and physics. they tend to know something about drilling and natural gas. hunter biden had none of that, but his dad was vice president of the united states, and we have joe biden on film publicly and proudly bragging about how he threatened ukraine with withholding $1 billion in foreign aid unless they fired the prosecutor that was potentially prosecuting burisma, the company on which his son sat on the board. that's not just a little bit of evidence of corruption. that's serious evidence of corruption. >> senator, as you know -- >> i think the p

so how can the other democrats not name joe biden in in race? how can they campaign in those issues more effectively to sort of chep away at biden's lead. >> there's a conventional wisdom that's set in that joe biden is the only candidate that's talking to black voters or other candidates aren't trying to. i think black voters are going to be central to whoever the democratic nominee is going to be this time around in the way we've not seen in the modern era. but i think that biden, there's almost an incumbency advantage that he has, obviously closely aligned with former president obama and i think that, you know, joe biden, because of his high name is a known entity to a lot of african-american voters in the country. so i think because of that advantage, i think that there's this sense that african-american voters know him. but i will say depending on what happens in iowa, new hampshire and nevada, his fortunes could change in south carolina. so i think african-american voters are going to behave pragmatically. they want to go with the candidat

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

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

i think it's a bernie sanders joe biden race. however, i think because the iowa caucus is so, so particular and peculiar and because there still is a lot of time left, the iowa caucus is a little bit later this year than it normally is. it's not in january, it's february 3rd. there still is a lot of time left, and i wouldn't be surprise first-degree y ed if you saw someone from the middle of the pack come back, could that be amy klobuchar, could that be cory booker, there are a couple of people who could probably catch fire. >> i think bakari's right in that you have bernie sanders and joe biden both as what we'll call the establishment candidates in that voters know them, know who they are, and have formed opinions about them. so really the issue is whether iowa breaks out somebody new, whether they break out pete buttigieg, whether they break out amy klobuchar or elizabeth warren, and that platform of iowa is very significant going into new hampshire, south carolina, nevada, because as we know joe biden has a stronghold in sout

joe biden in iowa asked if he would nominate former president obama and the supreme court and joe biden actually said if he would take it, yes. i'm not sure obama would take it so what do you make of joe biden? >> i think this is in true joe biden form, trying to pull in obama whenever he can. whether or not he will nominate obama if he is elected the next president of the united states is to be seen. i do think it also prep plays into that fanfare, that local rock star in this that comes with obama and to the people who like obama hopefully will translate to the same people who like and hopefully vote for joe biden. if he does that, that will be something that will raise a lot of eyebrows on both of her left and right side of the aisle but i'm not surprised by this comment. everyone is here grabbing at straws and we are getting down to the wire. he's doing what he can. >> how much pressure would you think there is on that democratic contender, that are facing the pressure of details, to file the plans and fill federal court vacancies, with the angst of president trump packing the bench

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

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

nd i know that joe biden is that person to do that. my neighbors -- [applause] want my neighbors, my friends, my colleagues, my family, to respect the they didn't en if vote for him. as i made my decision, i thought people i grew up with, ina town just outside perry, mount pleasant, southeast iowa. i thought about my classmates nowthe diverse students who attend wesleyan college where i serve on the board of trustees thought about those eighth graders who i taught for 20 years who now have eighth of their own. and i thought about the kids, volunteered and i thought about all the people traveled around the state of iowa as first lady and in the fourth district where congress, and ir thought about what do we need in in order to take care of all of those people that care about so much? and i think one of the most things is that word trust. of do i trust to take care all of these people? and i think one of the most a ortant qualities that candidate has to have is compassion. and i have seen jill and joe over the last 33 years reach out and

joe biden happily takes a step back. i thought joe biden had the best night of anybody. >> winning just by staying out of the way. i do want to play one of these back and forths between amy klobuchar who tried to make these points in a couple debates. but i feel like she landed them tonight and we can talk more about biden afterwards. let's listen to klobuchar v. buttigieg. >> i want to be president of the united states. and the point is we should have someone heading up this ticket that has actually won. >> senator, i know that if you just go by vote totals, maybe what goes on in my city seems small to you. if you want to talk about the capacity to win, try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80% of the vote as a gay dude in mike pence's indiana. [ applause ] >> again, i would -- mayor, if you had won in indiana, that would be one thing. you tried, and you lost by 20 points. >> that kind of ended with bernie sanders took over from there. but, you know, it is a relevant point. because part of wh

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 jr., replace it with hunter biden. the argument being the president was very concerned with corruption in ukraine allegedly against hunter biden. jeffrey toobin, big picture. the day is going in the way you anticipated it? >> i think it is. i mean, this is not a cross-section of the house of representatives. these are the extremes of both parties. you are not going to see any democrats vote in anything other than for impeachment. you are going to not see these republicans vote in anything than for the president, against impeachment, including on these ame amendments. you see the vote as party line. it's going slowly. we heard as many as eight amendments here it is a little over 3:30 and they've only gotten through one. see how long they really go. in terms of what has actually happened, it's about predicted. >> and john king, how do you think about president trump seriously concerned about corruption in ukraine and not about joe biden and his political opponent? obviously there is a lot of corruption in ukraine. that's

everybody it apparent hi but joe biden slow joe biden. and here's the infamous video of joe biden subsequent sometimes subsequent to that flashback. go. one concrete example, i, i was not -- but it happened to be that was the assignment i got. i got all of the good ones. and so i got ukraine, and i remember going over convincing our team and convincing that biden -- loan guarantee ab i went over to i guess the 12th, 13 time and i was supposed to announce that there's another billion loan guarantee. and got a commitment and that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they didn't. so they said they were walking out to press saying if no i'm not going to we're not going to give you the billion dollars they said you have no authority you're not the president the president said i said call them. [laughter] i said i'm tell you you're not getting billion dollar wibs you're not getting billion i'll be leaving there and i think six hours i look and saying i'm leaving in six hours the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting mone

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

biden is winning it by four. this is a president with a 42% approval rate, a high water mark of 46% and he has just been impeached. if you trailing hillary clinton's support now, that is not constructive. >> could they replicate that as they try to mount presidential races in other swing states. >> possibly because they had, through the years, an increasingly large number of democratic wins and they have a statement that is heavily populated in northern virginia. this only works if you have red states with heavy population centers. i would look to wisconsin as a place where you can focus in the milwaukee area and possibly try to replicate that. you have certain elements. you need a strong suburban swing voter. some other states that you want to flip. one is not one fits all. you have to look at all of them differently and all of the state primaries in that way. for biden it is good news because it builds him up stronger before he gets hit with all of the hunter biden stuff that is just getting in line now to be p

and nationally, biden is sitting about 11 points ahead of anybody else. >> reporter: he expects biden to return to california and hold public events to connect with voters before the march primary. here in the bay area, several elected officials had endorsed senator harris. now that she has dropped out of the race, biden and others can earn their support. jean elle, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, jean. >>> six recovered bodies from new zealand's white island will soon be back on the mainland after a recovery mission to the volcano. that mission, extremely dangerous due to the toxic air and the risk that the volcano can blow again. 47 people were on the island the day the volcano erupted. two young brothers from chicago are among the dead. confirmed dead. their parents are still missing. new zealand police say as long as the rescue team is safe on the island, it will continue to search for more people. two people still remain unaccounted for. >>> the suicide barrier project for the golden gate bridge is behind schedule. san francisco began building the barrier in 2016. it's resigned

the reference to joe biden. on the july 25 call on page four, isn't it a fact that president trump and his call with president ellen ski said that he heard joe biden had stopped the prosecution of his son? is that correct? it says the other thing, there is a lot of talk about joe biden's son, joe biden stopped the prosecution. >> point of order, he is entitled to answer the question fully. there is a video of the former vice president, i think that is what the president is referring to. the council on foreign relations. president wase audacious and how he described, he went over -- >> i am asking what it says on the transcript. is that what it says? mr. castor: it's as the other thing, there is talk about biden's son. >> and joe biden stopped the prosecution. say,so goes on to president trump asked president zelensky, if you can look into it, correct? those are the words? mr. castor: that is what it says. askingident trump was ukrainian president zelensky to have the ukrainian officials look into vice president

burisma and biden. did the ukrainians complained repeatedly that they didn't want to be a pond in us democratic politics by helping donald trump's reelection campaign? >> they did in july and august, they didn't get the statement in large part because they had reservation because when anticorruption reformer, they had reservations about domestic politics. >> i want to get back to mister castor, you said when donald trump said to ambassador sondland that he had no quid pro quo you said he had no reason, september 9th, no reason to be any less than candid. that's what you said. let me show you what happened on september 5th, slide 52. days before he made the statement the washington post rented an article that says trump tries to force ukraine to metal in the 2020 elections and goes on to describe those efforts and let me show you whether donald trump was aware of that article before he volunteered, no quid pro quo as a defense, a tweet by donald trump on slide 53. and again this, he is putting out a twee

biden. it was very telling to see biden joe biden just go after this guy he called him that he challenged him to push ups how was biden and alice and alex on and on top of that a lot of people have that question but c.n.n. and mrs b. c. they will never ask that question in an ordinary citizen a pensioner asked that question that millions of people have keep going it's a huge story exactly and he wanted to know what was going on how is biden going to react during the debate when trump brings this up over and over and over again there is no chance that biden is going to be able to take on trump the democrats have nobody at this moment and peter we saw hillary clinton on howard stern and what did we hear again her hinting that she's going to run and then a lot of open and a lot of coughing and a lot of coughing not a lot of coughing and that would be another disaster to be a train wreck on top of a train wreck that's why we have this impeachment hoax going on go ahead to match up well it's inte

, joe biden. michael, when we look forward to what kind of a trial this would be, assuming that they do get beyond the impeachment vote next week, and it goes to the floor, they report it to the senate, we're hearing from mitch mcconnell they want a very short trial, just may be the presentations by the managers on both sides and not even calling witnesses. michael? >> yes. absolutely right, andrea. as you were saying earlier it is very much within the hands of the senate majority leader after consultation with chuck schumer, obviously. and you know, the other thing is that one thing that is going to be interesting in the senate trial, we saw almost a preview of coming attractions this morning but one thing that tells you an awful lot is the articles of impeachment left out. you were talking earlier about the possibility that there might have been one or more additional articles based on the mueller report. think how different today that discussion would have been had that been true and same thing

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biden: ok. >> welcome. mr. biden: thank you. it is good to be home. >> vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. but no malarkey.

joe biden was rock solid. go ahead and clap. he was rock solid then and he's rock solid now and that's why i'm supporting him in the iowa caucus on february 3. [applause] >> so what do i want from the 2020 election? i want to be able to get up every day, knowing that i can trust that the people who live and work in the white house will keep in mind my best interests as they deal with issues around the world, and i want to be able to look my grandchildren in the eye and know that they can look up to the president of the united states, because he represents the american values that we all share. and i want to be able to get up every morning and go about my work as an educator and as a community volunteer knowing that the people living and working in the white house will be able to work with people in congress, to solve the problems that face us on the domestic level. and i know that joe biden is that person to do that. so, i want my neighbors -- [applause] >> i want my neighbors, my friends, my colleagues, my family, to respect th

about hunter biden. as politico puts it, joe biden has two methods of responding to questions about his son's controversial business dealings in ukraine. denial and anger. but so far biden doesn't have a clear and cogent message, and iowa voters are starting to take notice. we're happy to have joining our conversation, karine jean pierre, chief public affairs officer for move on. she is also the author of a new book that tells the story she knows quite well. it's her own. it's called "moving forward: a story of hope, hard work, and the promise of america." her fellow author, rick wilson, remains with us. karine, could you make the argument that biden's problem along these lines is he hasn't settled on the story, the response, the story to tell. for now his story is owned by the other side. >> yeah, that is a problem that biden has, which is what is your narrative? can you control your story, right? that's kind of politics 101. control the narrative before the other side does. and he tends to not do that.

what's your response to hunter biden? >> there have yet to produce any evidence that hunter biden has been involved at all in anything that has happened here. this is a man who went as a private citizen onto a board of a company in ukraine. what does that have to do with whether we should impeach the president? they are just trying to find witnesses to embarrass vice president, former vice president biden, because they see him as the front-runner for the nomination on the democratic side. >> and president trump claims this is unifying the republican party. his tweet today, the republican party has never been more unified. this impeachment scam is just a continuation of the three-year witch hunt, but it is only bringing us even closer together. and look, he has a point here, doesn't he? despite the facts here, despite witness after witness including the president's own million dollar donor saying there was a quid pro quo at the behest of the president of the united states himself, not one republican has said they will vote

however, hunter biden's role did not change and former vice president biden continued to lead the u.s. policy in ukraine. on this record, there is a legitimate basis that president trump to have concern about hunter biden's role on burisma's board. the prospect of some senior ukrainian official worked against president trump in the run-up to the 2016 election draws a visceral reaction from most democrats. let me say very, very clearly, election interference is not binary. i am not saying it was ukraine and not russia, i am saying that both countries can 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. that it did not make statements against president trump during the election. ambassador volker testified in his public hearing it is possible for more than one country to seek influence in more than one election. doctor hill testified likewise after public hearing contemporary noo news articles d how president trump's candidacy led wid