joe biden. >> imagine. we'll talk about you know about china. but imagine if don jr. went over on air force one with his dad and inked a big deal in an area he has no background. washington would go ballistic, i would, rightly so, such a different response to to it. when my book came out, number one on "new york times" bestseller list, i did your radio show, and fox, and no contact from the mainstream media. >> you write about republicans. >> absolutely. >> they don't want to hear. >> there is a cast system in washington d.c. they protect. i think one of reasons that their is so much animosity toward trump, some is ideological, some style or whatever, a lot is he represents a massive disruption to the business model of washington dc. which is you come in, you juice in your family, you juice in your friends, you serve in public service, you come out rich, and when you leave office you cash in further. high representhe represents a threat and challenge to, that they don't like that a lot of people in both pol

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

biden's ties to ukraine is coming up, joe biden says it didn't happen and in his own words he did ask the ukrainian president at the time to fire someone and -- >> fire prosecutor looking into the company that his son was part of. >> exactly, the story of joe biden is the one that's on the forefront now, some could say we don't know yet, we should know more thursday when the intel idea is going before the house intelligence committee, but this could turn into eyes being on the story of joe biden and turning worse for him. >> giuliani on fox news sunday complained about the probiden media which have covered this, we will get that more in later segment. the effort by rudy and allies, whatever the president said to ukrainian president is not the story, the story is hunter biden and ties and paid all the money and should biden have threatened ukraine with withholding $1 billion? >> well, the answer to your question, the winner here is donald trump, now it's possible for rudy giuliani to lose because of that kind of performance, who cares, he's not running for office. >> why is the winner

or never asked anything about joe biden. >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how lo senko who dismissed the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> reporter: the conversation rudy giuliani did have with officials including the president's representative are now under investigation by three different house committees who were demanding information while some republicans say it is overblown. >> i think there are people in the intelligence community and other parts of our government who just have it out for the president. >> reporter: now, jake, we should note that this report about president trump pushing the ukrainian president is published in the "wall street journal," a paper backed by rupert murdock a close ally of the president and this is coming days before the president is scheduled to sit down with the ukrainian president in new york next week, a meeting the white house confirmed is still on today. >> kaitlan collins at the white house with the breaking news. thanks s

biden, and joe biden's diplomacy in ukraine and how that intersected with joe biden's son hunter and his work in ukraine for a ukrainian owned oligarch gas company, i used the air quote stumble there because we had written about that back in 2015. it wasn't like he discovered anything new. what he say doing more was to push the ukrainians to investigate it, to give fodder to trump to be able to potentially run against joe biden, and that is why we see this complaint which i think is quite valid that rudy giuliani is sort of distorting the u.s. foreign policy apparatus and he has support in that effort from trump. >> what we're talking about tonight is this breaking story tonight which has really come to full bloom which is the latest reporting from "the wall street journal" and is that the president of the united states, donald trump, is out there dealing with the president of ukraine to get dirt saying i'll give you the latest military aid we owe you if and only if you get me some dirt on joe biden and his kid hunter. last night rudy giuliani said he had knowledge of his initial eff

joe biden said about his son. joe biden, it's a very dishonest he did. >> a separate source told fox news that it weakens the complaint, but not does not necessarily undercut all the complaints. >> sean: new york city mayor, rudy giuliani. all weighing in tonight's, along with john solomon and peter schweizer. they have written and investigated this extensively. it's pretty clear, the media's four day anti-trump binge was yet another false, totally misguided, and as usual, they got it all wrong moment. but despite so much terrible reporting and misplaced hysteria, we got a big thanks to the media mob. they've highlighted joe biden and the country of ukraine. biden's conduct is now rightly in the spotlight. this may be the end of joe biden's campaign. let's take a look. >> the left knows that biden's son is a problem for him. this is why when clinton was running, these stories first originated back one hillary clinton was trying to make sure that biden didn't get into the race. i don't know who came up with this sc

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

the quickly turning to joe and hunter biden. >> wind of this morph into an investigation of joe biden and hunter biden, and is it appropriate -- >> that's the way you characterize it. >> that's the way it appears to line up buried >> no it doesn't. >> you went there for one thing, found out something else -- >> of the media line set up. >> president trump and rudy giuliani say if there was any quid pro quo it was joe biden. as vice president threaten to withhold $1.2 billion in lone guarantees to ukraine if a prosecutor investigating the natural gas company hunter biden was involved with wasn't fired. in iowa, biden denying any wrongdoing. >> mr. vice president, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? >> i've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. >> in the face of mounting calls for his impeachment, the president trying to flip the script to the bidens, insisting they are the ones who should be investigated. >> when you see the call you're going to be very surprised. joe biden is the one that did a very, very bad thi

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

biden doesn't if you go back to the iowa state fair she was strong and crowds 3 times what joe biden was so i think that he might like chris said have a sugar high right now. based off of some sympathy by by the julio castro attacks but i do expect to see maybe elizabeth warren running away from this want to point out too that at this point in 2008 obama was still in single digits so there's still some room for one of these other candidates but i'm not sure who so let's just pretend for a 2nd that we are advisers to the sanders campaign what would you advise them to do to regain their their position against war and against biden chris. you know it's a tough place to be whatever you were a leader in a prior campaign and the find yourself stumbling in a new campaign i think sanders is his real challenge is you can only be an insurgent once and he kind of had that chance in 2016 i think a lot of people who who were with him in 16 have now moved over to warnings of looking for you know a younger step to generic if you will but she does of elizabeth warren comes off a little more reasonab

joe biden says, sure, plans are great, but can you get things done? >> what we have to do is we have to understand that you need to be able to bring people and countries and interests together to get anything done. plans are great, but executing those plans are another thing. >> i believe we start with a plan and then we get out there and fight for it. to me that's what being president is all about. it's about laying those plans out and showing the direction for this country and then getting in the fight. leading the fight and bringing people along. >> candidates, not just those two, but candidates don't always bring to the debate stage what they say when you're one on one or at the events. will you get a clash here? >> i think that's currently the big question, are they actually going to directly engage. the two have avoided direct clashes over the course of the summer. you had elizabeth warren when joe biden just got into the race criticizing him for cozieying u she says, to credit card companies. i think for right now it's unclear whether biden is

if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by now. >> again, the ukranian prosecutor has said he knows of no evidence of any misconduct by the bidens. as opposed to the intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint about the president's phone call and more, the trump administration is blocking from congress a complaint that the inspector general of the intelligence community appointed by trump called credible and urgent. consider, however, how much of this is playing out in front of our eyes and ears. in may, the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, told the "new york times" that he was going to ukraine to push for this investigation into the bidens to do so, in fact, to help his client, president trump. quote, i'm asking them to do an investigation that they're doing already and that other people are telling them to stop, giuliani told the times. and i'm going to give them reasons why they shouldn't stop it, because that information will be very, very helpful to my client and may turn out to

joe biden is in front of a fire truck. essentially, you have the 17 democratic presidential candidates that are all descending here on des moines. this is the big kickoff here heading into these final four months. we're going to take a listen here into joe biden here. >> how do you plan to address similar issue voters who are pro-life? >> who are pro-life? well, they should have an open mind about making sure that people have an opportunity to make their own judgments. there are a lot of decent, honorable people who have a different view than they do, and i think they should have the right to be able to have the access to what the supreme court has allowed. >> mr. biden -- >> who are pro-life? >> yes. >> well, i'm going to say, they should have an open mind about making sure that people have an opportunity to make their own judgments. there are a lot of decent, honorable people who have a different view than they do, and i think they should have a right to be able to have the access to what the supreme court has allowed. >

you mentioned joe biden. did anything about betos a performance either meet or exceed expectations for him as someone who sort of is thought to have found his voice in el paso and odessa after those mass shootings? >> i have to say that practically every single candidate when they wanted to talk about el paso or they want to talk about gun reform, they tipped their hat to the leadership of beto. and beto owned it, and he did it gracefully. he talked what most candidates have been afraid up to this point to really talk about. he named racism as one of the things that is tearing this country apart and named that it falls at the foot of the white house. and that is refreshing, because if you can't say it out loud, you can't address it. >> maria teresa kumar, greetings from everybody here. you know everybody here. >> you guys are having so much fun. texas is having a great time. thanks for having me on. >> you'll be here next time. thanks for joining us. >> it's your punishment. >> from houston. and now i underst

>> you never asked anything about hunter biden, anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden to get to the bottom of how it was -- who was appointed dismissed the case -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> welcome back to "hardball." that bizarre performance is the latest from president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani, attempting there to explain his months long efforts to get the government of crew crane to help dig up dirt on one of his political rivals, joe biden and his son hunter. multiple news outlets tonight are reporting that in july president trump himself pressured the new ukrainian president eight times by the count of "the wall street journal" to help giuliani in his efforts to get the dirt. according to "the wall street journal" joll yawny met with a top aide to mr. zelensky and assured him the ukrainian government would get to the bottom of the matter. and it was the state department that helped connect him to that top aide. giuliani defended his

"he" meeting joe biden. "we want someone who will take a lot of the systematic challenges we have, and he doesn't." is that building? speak of at us from the progressive side of the party what is striking about this new poll is that 75% of those polled said they had an optimistic, positive approval of elizabeth warren. that is striking, because you have -- she is being portrayed as someone from the far left. the parties ready to embrace her, and that is a major problem for joe biden. that's what you are hearing from congresswoman omar. >> harris: i've read that anybody who led at this point the way joe biden has come a front runner status, doesn't end up being president in the party coming from their lot. so we will follow it. bret baier, always great to see. 6:00 p.m. eastern is our next opportunity. will be glued. >> see you come here is. >> harris: the u.s. sending additional troops to the middle east. iran denying any evolvement on the attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities. secretary of state mike pomp

biden and his family. >> yeah, this was not about joe biden and his family. this was the foreign policy of the united states. this was the position that virtually the entire western alliance was taking, the imf putting pressure on ukraine saying if you want to get more aid and loans, you're going to have to deal with your chronic and notorious problem of corruption. if you look at the timeline, this has nothing to do with his son. this has nothing to do with an investigation into his son or members of his family. but again, if you take that out of context, it can be made to look like undue influence. everybody needs to step back for a moment and remember that donald trump's campaign used to be headed by paul manafort who was up to his knees in ukrainian corruption. so irony is dead in the era of trump. but for donald trump to be concerned about iranian corruption is highly ironic. and all of this is an attempt to turn the attention from the sitting president of the united states had a phone conversation that, according to the "wall street journal," included h

carley: yes, so joe biden's sent letter demanding they stop booking rudy giuliani, president trump's personal attorney, the letter saying in part, we write to demand that in service to the facts you no longer book giuliani, surrogate for donald trump who has demonstrated that he will knowingly and willingly lie in order to advance his own narrative, now that letter coming after giuliani appeared on 3 sunday morning shows including fox sunday morning futures, giuliani responded to the dale yes beast for comment, sounds like the usual left-wing censorship, some on social media are slamming team biden's demand , pamela tweets free press, he can't tell me who to keep off because they don't like what he's saying, another twitter user sounding off saying i think biden should stay in his lane and worry about biden, so a lot of people saying, you know, his campaign really overstepped their bounds, you know, who is he to tell a news network who they can and cannot book. >> we will see if news networks listen, which ones do listen. >> to be continued. >> let's talk about this, this is new stud

how about joe biden? >> joe biden? yeah. if he's going to be the candidate, it's joe biden or donald trump, i'm voting for joe biden. >> i don't know who's running. if anything, i'll go for anybody else other than trump. >> reporter: leaving the fairgrounds we traveled north trading this blue county for a red one, luzerne county. arguably the county that gave donald trump pennsylvania in 016, even though they hadn't voted for a republican here since 1988. trump's trade policies and the vote from farmers could determine whether or not it stays that way. over the past year, bankruptcy rep 13% in part rmers nationwide the second year of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. agricultural products. >> this particular farm has been in the family since the 1930s. we've been farming in this valley since the 1850s. >> reporter: curtis voted for trump in the 2016 primary but not in the general election. he explained some of the difficulties that farmers are facing. >> it makes it more challenging to come up with a marketing plan to plan your fu

and how much did joe biden know? >> so, one of biden's -- one of hunter biden's business partners had met an oligarch who was running the ukrainian gas company, and he offered his -- hunter's -- associate position on his board. and as part of that, eventually that same executive offered to bring hunter on the board. the rule that hunter had was that he didn't tell his father about his clients, he didn't tell his father about these things, and his father didn't ask. it was a don't ask don't tell policy. so hunter took the job, which was quite lucrative and he didn't tell his father and he didn't consult. and the news broke in the newspaper in the "wall street journal" in 2014. but it's unclear whether joe biden even saw the reports at the time. and it wasn't until much later that one of his state department advisers briefed him on hunter's role with the company. >> and what did the people around -- was anyone saying, look, mr. vice president, this is a bad look, not withstanding any agreement you have with your son, d

biden. >> insist on transparency from joe biden and his son hunter on the millions of dollars that have been quickly and easily taken out of ukraine. >> every reputable publication looked at the charge that been made against me and found them baseless and untrue. >> the former governor of ukraine and former president of georgia and joins me from the ukraine with his firsthand account. thank you for joining us, appreciate your time all the way from ukraine. what do you think? you are monitoring what is happening in the united states, you know firsthand you have dealt with the vice president, at the time joe biden. what is your take on all this? >> as a former president i had multiple telephone conversations with different us presidents and vice presidents including joe biden and the idea that those phone calls would be made like that makes me a little bit uncomfortable. i wouldn't have much problem with them but it is a little weird frankly. i don't think it is a cost of diplomacy. with regard to this case there -- i dealt with these people here, there was a guy who was the head -- a ver

when joe biden says, who is going to get it done? what he is also saying is who can go toe-to-toe with president trump? who is going to win a general election? he is looking at this from a practical perspective. i would be surprised, very surprised, if elizabeth warren came at this in a way she's never come at it before in a debate so i suspect we will see, she is still prosecuting the case about vision. he is prosecuting as dana says the case about practicality. and all of this is overshadowed by the larger question, who could beat the president? and is that a practical question? or is that a question about who has a vision? >> she has slowly tried to start to argue sui she could do both. she can have the vision and go toe-to-toe with the president, that they're not mutually exclusive and so it's going to be interesting to see if she continues on that path tonight and if she can do it in a more succinct way, especially given the fact that she's finally on the same stage as joe wide zbln so jeff zeleny, team biden, you hear trump say

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

, you never asked anything about joe biden -- >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that witsenko, who was appointed -- >> you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden -- >> of course i did. >> you said you didn't. >> he denied it, then he admitted it. >> right, i mean -- that's how it goes with rudy. rudy has publicly said he thought this was something the ukrainians needed to look into. the idea that there was some kind of quid pro quo that happened on behalf -- on the part of joe biden, you know, during the time that he was vice president, that he was pushing to fire a prosecutor as some kind of a favor to try to essentially help his son and his own business dealings in ukraine. so we've heard this, some of these public statements from rudy. it was kind of interesting to see him sort of try to navigate that tonight. but he ended up exactly where he has before. >> so -- >> no, i know. honestly, it reminds me of the -- it's weird but it does, this phony phone call on the howard stern show, the person will say to the radio person, whoever they'

i think joe biden needs to continue doing what he's doing he's already the most popular candidate in the race and matthew you would i have talked about this we have opinion polls that go back 10 years to the time when he 1st took office as vice president indicating that joe biden across the board republican and democrat is considered one of the most likable popular elected officials in the entire united states so i think it needs to continue doing what he's doing you know i mean this this this talk about biden gaffes and biden being creepy can we all remember who the president of the united states is i mean come on we're going to accuse joe biden of gaffes we're going to go right now i'm not talking about repairs since we're on a trip we're diving or paris and if we're to the rest of the democratic field right but that's something that democrats need to get straight to and this is something else that i've talked about with matthew and larry many times before is that nobody if i've said it once i've said it a 1000000 times nobody snatches defeat from the jaws of victory but of the lib

not a joe biden crusade to help his son. second important thing to note it's not at all clear how much investigating this prosecutor was actually doing. reports that he basically wasn't investigating anyone. why people weren't happy with him. not at all clear getting the prosecutor fired would actually help biden's son hunter at all. so there are questions here, conflict of interests experts have said. biden's son put him in a difficult position being on the board of a ukrainian gas company. but the complaint that biden was somehow corrupt here is simply not at all corroborated by the evidence we have. >> debunk. thank you, appreciate it, daniel dale. >>> right now tens of thousands of protesters are out on the streets walking out of school, maybe skipping for the day. often with permission. leaving their jobs to take part in a global call to action on the climate crisis. we are live for you in new york and seattle next. >>> plus, more on the breaking news out of utah. four killed in a tour bus crash. we are told there are m

joe biden. any response to that from the campaign yet? >> reporter: well, it's interesting because when you put that in the context of this ukraine story line, it can tell you one of two things, ari. it can tell you that the more that the focus turns to capitol hill, the harder it's going to be for other candidates including elizabeth warren, somebody who did have some momentum in the race to sustain that momentum. because you're going to see a lot of focus still on joe biden, a lot of focus on capitol hill. but, yes, there is a real recognition of the fact that this race is indeed changing. you've seen the vice president on the fundraising trail out here on the west coast. but it is in those fundraisers of where we get a sneak peek which is, one, that the president is trying to take away from the issues that matter. they think that this idea of scrapping obamacare in favor of starting from scratch something that may result in the raising of middle class taxes is something that will hurt elizabe

joe biden said it. but because you're a faker, you're a fake news group of people, you don't want to report that. i didn't do it. i hope you're going to be able to see a call. because i didn't do it. everybody's looking for that call. keep going. when you see the call, you're going to be very surprised. let me just -- quiet. joe biden is the one that did a very, very bad thing when he said that. i think it was $1.2 billion. he said unless they got rid of a prosecutor who was investigating his son and the company that his son works for. then you all say how much money did his son make from the ukraine? ask another question. how much money did his son make from china? based on energy. he knows nothing about energy. why did he leave china and ukraine with all this money? joe biden was very dishonest. when you see the call, i hope you see it, you will find out i did not do that at all. you'll be very disappointed when you see it. it's really a disgrace. it really is a situation where, it just shows the pres

joe biden. here is "the union leader" the biggest nape innewspaper in the. the back page saying joe biden is a lot like firefighters, a problem solver who loves america, steph. >> all right. vaughn, let's talk kamala harris, struggling to get out of single digits. what does she need to do tomorrow? >> reporter: yeah. i know mike is excited to be here in new hampshire and i'll go out on a limb and declare this officially the fall before the new hampshire primary. it's in the 50s here. kamala harris, this has to be a new tune for her campaign. to note since launching her bid nearly eight months ago she has visited the state just four times for 12 events by far the fewest numbers of stops of any of the top tier candidates. she has only been here one time since june. where does kamala harris's campaign go from here? she will be speaking over at a town hall this afternoon over in londonerry at an apple orchard and guess who was there a month ago? joe biden. she'll head up to portsmouth later this eve

you never asked anything about joe biden and his role in the -- >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was usenko, who was appointed would -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did! >> you just said you didn't! >> a classic giuliani. add to that cnn confirms the white house and the justice department were directly involved in keeping the whistleblower complaint from congress. there is a lot going on here. and there's a lot more to come this hour, so first let's get over to cnn's indicacaitlikaitl. shooeps she's at the white house. kaitlan, the president is speak to reporters in the oval office. we're going to get that tape. but you have some of the reporting of what's going on there. >> reporter: the president is addressing this complaint in the oval office. he says he believes that this whistleblower is partisan, though moments later he admitted he does not know what the identity of the whistleblower is. we should factor in, when the president and his attorney general rudy giuliani -- >> i'm interrupting you for only one

biden or tied joe biden. this is usually thought of as the gold standard poll of iowa, something that a lot of people look to to see what the lay of the land is there, and so she is certainly -- her organization in iowa this weekend, i was at the iowa polk county democrat steak fry this weekend. she had a very good reception. she had a selfie line there after her speech, which she usually does after she gives a major speech. was taking photos with as many people who wanted one. this is something that i think is displaying -- i'm seeing this on the ground as well as in the polls, there's a lot of enthusiasm for elizabeth warren right now. i think the question is whether she will retain this. she seems to be taking a lot of former bernie sanders supporters that are boosting her up, but whether she can attract people who might be a little bit on the fence about some of her proposals, like medicare for all, which would eliminate private health insurance, and she has been criticized recently from other democrats a

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of argument hurting joe biden? >> well i think in the situation they are hoping and believe that this is going to backfire on him. they're pointing to other moments in the debates where candidates like eric swalwell and kirsten gillibrand went after former vice president biden in personal terms and they are no longer in the race. but the biden campaign is aware that there are questions about his age and performance out there in the democratic primary field. you have biden himself say, yes, voters should consider this. if they have a problem with it, then don't vote for me. but now you have three democratic contenders questioning his stamina and mental ability and the question is this will affect voters as they consider -- >> but isn't also the point that castro was wrong about what biden said. that he had not actually contradicted himself. i thought that is what made this a cheap shot. it would be one thing if biden forget what he said, but he didn't forget what he said. >> there was an issue over the concept of op

he knows hunter biden is a weakness for joe biden. he knows that if he attacks hunter biden, it puts joe biden in a bad position. today joe biden could be if this was about anybody else, could be out on television attacking donald trump. joe biden's not doing that today because he doesn't want to talk about his son who's had various problems, not the kind of problems donald trump has asserted but other problems. and donald trump knows that. this is a hit job on the son, the last surviving son, his brother passed away. this is the last son. part of the reason why joe biden didn't run for president in 2016, because he wanted to take care after his family after he lost beau. this is an achilles hill of joe biden psychically. and donald trump is like where can i go to get the oppo to get at this guy's heart. >> because i have no conscience, i have no morals and i don't care about using the united states government and possibly foreign aid to carry out my campaign. >> correct. and if that's ukraine or if that's utah, donald trump is going

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

biden, all the while maintaining he didn't tie that ukrainian military aid package to joe biden but saying if he did it would be okay. >> everybody's looking for that call. >> reporter: president trump's place on the world stage overshadowed tonight by questions about his conduct during a phone call with a foreign leader. >> we had a perfect phone call with the president of ukraine. >> reporter: trump insists he didn't cross a line with the president of ukraine. after confirming he did bring up former vice president joe biden and his son during the call. >> the one who has the problem is biden. >> reporter: aides denied reports he pressured ukraine to investigate his political rival. though trump is publicly accusing the former vice president of corruption tied to his son's business activities. >> if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by now. >> reporter: biden says trump is abusing his power to smear him and should release the transcript. >> trump is doing this because he knowsual beat hi

joe biden gets basically a free pass. can he run around and commit all sorts of crimes because he is above the law. and to say that this administration can't enlist an ally to look into potential corruption of a political opponent? isn't that exactly what the last administration did listed multiple allies including ukraine no basis, no evidence. yet this time the evidence is right in front of us. we have joe biden on tape and we have his son's receipts. so, at this point, the democrats are accusing trump of crimes they committed and this is in order to get out in front of the durham investigation and the bill barr investigation. it's an admission they can't beat trump at the ballot box. this is nancy pelosi trying to ride this crazy impeachment train the best they can. you know what's going to happen? sadly? coincidentally or not? joe biden might take the fall for all of this. >> dana: i will have to stop you there for one second. come right back for more commentary. go to mike emanuel because the whistleblower complaint

joe biden? >> no, actually i didn't -- >> you never ask anything about hunter biden, never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked a bunch of varnish to get to the bottom of how it was -- he was appointed, dismissed the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> corseted ex-lax because you just said you didn't. spirited you ask the ukraine to look into it? >> rudy: said to me did i ever talk about joe biden, i said no. then i said i did say you should investigate joe biden and hunter biden. i corrected it immediately. i corrected it before he corrected it. the reality is the distinction is this, what they are trying to say as i went there for a political mission to kind of get joe biden in trouble. it ridiculous. i went there as a lawyer defending his client. i've known about this for five months. i've been trying to get people to cover this for five months sentiment will be very hard to get this out. one problem with this, it ukrainian collusion, whic

you said i went there to get dirt on joe biden, do you know what i find out about joe biden. i told my colleague, they are going to cover this up, too bad biden is involved, i have a night straight case of ukrainian collusion, the minute i say biden, washington press corps will go nuts. john: now you are stray -- >> i am straying to what is wrong with us today. john: we need to point out that prosecutor appoints after shokanwas fired, resurrected, and found that hunter biden was paid millions but said that the board of barisma was able to pay a board member whatever they wanted. >> so distorted. john: just a fact. >> he is the prosecutor that biden put in, there is a newspaper article where biden approves him, that does not strike you assed on odd? >> did you bother to look. >> one another point. >> no, let me finish. this is unfair. these are very important things that have been covered for years to protect slimy joe. reality, is there are three other prosecutor, you have to do go on-line, 3 others. that say, that this is done to get rid of biden to cover-up hunter and cover

well matt you know on previous shows we've talked about joe biden's performance president trump giving him the nickname sleepy joe i would give him the nickname creaky joe and we've seen so far during this campaign that he has a lot of verbal gaffes his language gets sort of tangled and it's leading to a lot of questions about you know his fitness to keep going is he going to be this dynamic energetic candidate you know all the way through particularly when we see that elizabeth warren is nipping at his heels i think it's smart for his advisors to lower those expectations so that joe biden could potentially actually you know outperform them as for talking about iowa let's remember that back in 2008 the former for vice president then senator biden he actually lost iowa i think you only earned less than a percentage point and immediately dropped out so i think a lot of our political watchers are pundits people who talk about this for a living need to kind of remember that he didn't have a great track record with iowa at least the last time around ryan. i think joe biden needs to continue

and they could go even further and investigate joe biden, even though this is not about joe biden, but let's make it all clear. that is what i think should be done. host: ok, charlie sykes? obvious,at is the most logical and low risk strategy for democrats in congress. this committee should be bipartisan. nancy pelosi should invite mitch mcconnell to participate. let's get the facts on the table before we take any other steps. this should not be complicated, because number one, we -- once we see what the ig saw with the whistleblower report, if we get a transcript, it will be clear what happened. and then put it on public record what we know about what happened in ukraine with joe biden, which i think will turn out to be the fact that there is nothing there. but again, this can be done in a relatively short time. i am not naive enough to think it will not be caught up in the partisan back and forth, but this is up to congress. the bulk is in their court and nobody else will pick this up. a committee is expected to meet with the director of national intelligence, that will be on thursda

jose, is joe biden's response string of? is it fair that his critics come in your own party, say he's not going be able to handle this and run? >> i think vice president biden will be able to handle this just fine. look, if there are some democrats want to put together a super pac because they want to attack president trump on his reelection efforts, i think joe biden is doing an excellent job. we are still too early. we are over 100 days out before iowa. i understand elizabeth warren, she's very tight with vice president joe biden. but time will tell. it's still too early. >> harris: lisa, he has fallen behind elizabeth warren in iowa. he has run for president twice before, joe biden. to my knowledge he hasn't gotten much past i will. where he is he right now in all of this can he fight on two fronts? >> he's not doing a great job of it. i don't think sending a letter trying to get networks to no longer have giuliani on their air is going to help that case either. there are still lingering questions about joe biden, and it

those african-american voters who, by the way, again, like joe biden and favorable to joe biden just like they like hillary clinton and were favorable to hillary clinton in 2008. it wasn't because we were making personal attacks on hillary clinton. you have to play the long game and make this case among african-american voters about why you're the better candidate to represent their values and their issues and making personal attacks on joe biden, a guy they like, is not the most effective way to do that. >> i agree with everything you said. if you remember in 2007 and 2008, the tone deafness of bill clinton's comments in south carolina. i'm just saying i can sort of posit out how this can be a weakness for joe biden in the future if he continues to say tone deaf things that appear to be out of touch with where black millennials are. i think his support is largely african-americans over the age of 50 years old, and that is not enough people to win the general election. cornell, you know that better than anyone. >> i don't disagree there's plenty of ammunition to attack joe biden with