did the obama biden state department prepare you to give me answers for and if so if there were others which ones. i just don't recall you don't recall that there were any other companies is that correct i'm quite sure there probably were some companies but i i mean you know this is a while ago and i don't recall but you specifically recall. yes all right. out of thousands of companies in the ukraine the only one that you call the obama biden state department preparing to answer questions about was the one where the vice president's son was on the board is that fair. you understood from deputy assistant secretary george kent's testimony as it's been related to you that he testified a few days ago do you understand that that arrangement hunter biden's role on the board caused him enough concern that as he testified in his statement that in february of 2015 i raised my concern that hunter biden status as a board member could create the perception of a conflict of interest he went on to talk about the vice president's responsibilities over the ukraine or over ukraine ukrainian policy as o

biden officials played in that. we know this, the report is supposedly 500 pages, it does not take in inspector general 500 pages to say everything was done correctly and properly. and i cannot tell you everything that is in there but what i can tell you that i know the inspector general is going to have to find that there were things that were done wrong and there is exculpatory information that was not provided. i think it is going to be an indictment of adam schiff who has written his own pfizer rebuttal memo if you remember general 2018 how the republicans criticize people like peter strzok and lisa page and andy mccabe and bruce or who have done nothing wrong. i think the ig report is going to find that there were problems in the pfizer application process and they don't want that to come out until after they impeach the president. we have a letter from adam schiff to to give a ne devon an, we will all of these hearings specifically to be only about the ukraine phone call, we don't want anything about hunter bi

on the board of burisma, but i don't think that you gave us the answer or answers that the obama-biden state department prepared you to give in response to that question. do you remember what those answers were? >> yeah. it was something along the lines of i would refer you to the vice president's office on that. >> so did they in the course of that brief you about the amount of money that hunter biden was ? >> no, this was not part of their briefing. i had big old books with questions that might come up. >> in preparation for your confirmation? and they thought that hunter biden's role at burisma might be significant enough that it would come up during your confirmation, is that correct? >> apparently so. there were hundreds of questions. >> well, hundreds of questions, but where there are hundreds of companies? how many companies other than burisma did the obama-biden state department prepare you to give answers for? if there were others, which on ones? >> i just don't recall. >> you don't recall that there were any other companies, is that correct? >> i'm quite sure that there were

role on the board of barisma, but i don't think you gave us the answer or answers that the obama-biden state department prepared you to give in response to that question. do you remember what those answers were? >> yeah. it was something along the lines of i would refer you to the vice president's office on that. >> so did they in the course of that brief you about the amount of money that hunter biden was being paid by barisma? >> no, this wasn't part of a briefing. i had sort of big, old books with questions that might come up. >> in preparation for your confirmation. and they thought that hunter biden's role at barisma might be significant enough that it would come up during your confirmation. is that correct? >> apparently so. i mean, there were hundreds of questions. >> well, hundreds of questions, but were there hundreds of companies? how many companies other than b barisma did the obama-biden state department prepare you to give answers for? if there were others, which ones? >> i just don't recall. >> you don't recall that there were any other companies, is that correct? >> i'm

from obama-bi. and obama-biden care passed almost ten years ago. as we sit here today, over 20 million americans have no healtm >> we're ready, how's that? the other thing is that michael bloomberg is saying rebuild america. america already elected a builder. if we want the truly rebuild america, then the people who work behind us for you and me ought to get infrastructure done, surface transportation and air traffic control system that was built for 100,000 passengers and we now have close to one billion. we have a builder in the white house who wants them to do what nancy pelosi said she would do this fall, and it's almost christmas. michael bloomberg was a great mayor of new york city. i lived there under rudy giuliani and michael bloomberg. all four of my kids were born in new york when he was mayor. i wish he would be mayor of new york city again. if he's going to jump in, the most important thing to note ise who will throw that money around the way billionaire never did. we were underresourced and staffed. hillary clinton showed the fastest w

how many companies did the obama-biden state department prepared you to get answers for? if so, if there were others, which once? >> i don't recall. >> you don't recall that there were any other companies? >> there probably were some this was eight while ago. i don't recall. >> but specifically recall teresa? >> yes. >> the only one you will recall, the obama biden with the vice president sons was on the board, there? yes. >> do you understand george kent testimony because it's been related to you, he testified a few days ago, you understand that arrangement, hunter binds to throw on the board cost him enough concerns that asking testified in his statement in february 2015, i raise my concern hunter biden's status rate the conflict of interest. he talked about his response abilities over ukraine policy is one of those. do you recall that? you agree with that? >> yes. >> it was a legitimate concern to raise? >> i think it could raise the appearance of conflict of interest. >> did you ever discuss that? >> i don't believe so. >> august 2016, prosecutor general fired by the

obama thinks biden really didn't have it. by the way, another candidate who really doesn't have it as of late is massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. her poll numbers are in free fall and, in fact a recent quinnipiac poll shows the left-wing senators numbers have been cut in half, in just one month. from 28%, up to 14%. no wonder that 20 chief mike bloomberg expressed his view is that mike is poised for a 2020 victory. joining us is kayleigh mcenany, nationally syndicated radio host larry elder and bloomberg 2020 campaign poster doug show and is joining us. just a couple days ago, kaylee gave birth to her first baby girl. pictured here, all three of you look amazing. congratulations to you. amazing blessings coming into thanksgiving. >> it really is. thank you. >> you've now joined the bloomberg campaign, the campaign manager for bloomberg is saying that trump is poised. he's on a trajectory to win the nomination. >> he said and i agree, appeasement particularly in swing states among swing voters has become a negative for

how many companies other than barisma did the obama/biden state department prepare you to give answers for? and if so, if there were others, which ones? >> i just don't recall. >> you don't recall that there were any other companies. is that correct? >> i'm quite sure there probably were some companies but i mean, you know, this is a while ago and i don't recall. >> but you specifically recall barisma? >> yes. >> all right. out of thousands of companies in the ukraine the only one that you recall, the obama/biden state department preparing you to answer questions about was the one where the vice president's son was on the board. is that fair? >> yes. >> you understood from deputy assistant secretary george kent's testimony as it's been related to you he testified a few days ago. do you understand that that arrangement, hunter biden's role on the barisma board caused him enough concern that as he testified in his statement, that in february of 2015 i raised my concern that hunter biden's status as a board member could create the perception of a conflictf responsibilities over the ukrain

colleague john ratcliffe. >> out of thousands of companies in the ukraine the only one you recall the obama-biden state department preparing you to answer questions about is the one where the vice president's son was on the board, is that fair? >> yesw. >> he tiftdified i raised hide concerns that hunter biden'sing position as a board member couldn't create the impression of conflict of interest. >> yes. >> was it a legitimate concern? >> sit could raise the appearance of a conflict of interest. >> it could raise the appearance of a conflict of interest. they spent enough time coaching her on this, so it was important enough for the last administration. but when the current president is interested in investigating the appearance of conflict of interest, that's out of bounds and apparently it's impeachable. lou: it's clear after the first three witnesses they produced this week for their star power in this inaugural of their impeachment theatrical production. it's clear not one had direct knowledge of anything, knew nothing firsthand, and frankly, this is -- they led with the strength -- this is o

the only way is if president obama says biden is the guy. get in line. it doesn't look like obama will do that. >> take a look at pete buttigieg. he is saying that he is not the guy that obama was talking to for this anonymous quote. >> i am not. our message is resonating here. i think iowans are looking for a bold vision and a readiyness to do that in a way that unifies and doesn't divide. >> greg, counter my sentence. the president is going to florida. he is advertising this is a homecoming rally because he moved from new york to florida. i am thinking to myself 2 things. one, i am thinking hey, you don't have to pay income taxes in florida, right? and the second thing, he gets to go home early for thanksgiving while i am working. >> there you go. you know what is funny. you followed up buttigieg with the talk about a rally. that's a huge issue. the dems are suffering from fun envy. the democratic faces. biden, bernie and bloomie. it's like the golden girls without the sex appeal and you have buttigieg who is boring as all hell. it's like the dmv, vers

did under the obama-biden administration accepting $83,000 a year from the obama-biden administration and having the vice president call off the investigation -- >> in fairness matt, my leads up to you was showing how cpac is an important part of the process. >> thank you for your compliments about cpac. >> it's also true. on the evidence because i want to stick to that for your response, here is what sondland provided as the white house e-mail. and you see right there zelensky on the call and then you have mulvaney saying i asked the security council to setup the call. obviously the difference to past administrations would be that donald trump was seeking domestic re-election help, not foreign policy goals. your response. >> well, look, would there be a political benefit to donald trump and republicans generally if hunter bidens and joe biden's potential criminal wrongdoing was exposed? absolutely. but you can't get past the fact that if you're concerned about pi impeachable offenses surrounding foreign aid, wasn't it problematic joe biden went to the council on foreign relations and

and others to get meetings with obama-biden state department officials and diplomats. that raises all new questions about whether this was a board looking at corporate governance issues or whether in fact they were lobbying hunter biden's father and the obama-biden administration when remember, joe biden was overseeing all ukrainian policy, laura. >> laura: interesting. ed, thank you soefrp. it wasn't just the democrats ed, thank you so much. it wasn't just the democrats. the media played up the importance of acting >> the media also played up the importance of acting ukrainian ambassador bill taylor's testimony today. >> the democrats, they picked these two diplomats as their leadoff witnesses because they assumed they were the most effective, most credible. >> star witnesses where people like bill taylor and kent. >> bill taylor, i think, is a critical witness. >> but all it took was a republican secret weapon, congressman jim jordan who was just added to the intel committee, remember, to set the record straight. >> you didn't listen in on president trump's call? >>

come on, man. >> but did obama get it from biden or biden from obama? maybe one or the other got it from the espn sports segment -- >> c'mon man. >> joe biden's c'mon man has got to the point that right wingers have come to his defense. a "new york times" columnist wrote about the bro-yness of joe biden calling c'mon man a device that men use among themselves in locker rooms and barbershops. conservatives criticize the criticism for being pc. comic side andy richter credited biden when describing his dog crowding him in the car in the words of joe biden, come on, man. an expression joe hangs on to like a dog with a bone. >> c'mon man. >> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> and thanks for joining us. ac 360 with anderson starts now. >>> good evening. tomorrow for the first time in a generation and only the fourth time ever americans will hear testimony in the impeachment of a president. in a few moments we'll be joined by one of the lawmakers involved and talk about what to expect but we have new reporting on turmoil at the white house in advance of tomorrow

colleague john ratcliffe. >> out of thousands of companies in the ukraine the only one you recall the obama-biden state department preparing you to answer questions about is the one where the vice president's son was on the board, is that fair? >> yesw. >> he tiftdified i raised hide concerns that hunter biden'sing position as a board member couldn't create the impression of conflict of interest. >> yes. >> was it a legitimate concern? >> sit could raise the appearance of a conflict of interest. >> it could raise the appearance of a conflict of interest. they spent enough time coaching her on this, so it was important enough for the last administration. but when the current president is interested in investigating the appearance of conflict of interest, that's out of bounds and apparently it's impeachable. lou: it's clear after the first three witnesses they produced this week for their star power in this inaugural of their impeachment theatrical production. it's clear not one had direct knowledge of anything, knew nothing firsthand, and frankly, this is -- they led with the strength -- this is o

obama hasn't endorsed joe biden because he doesn't want to endorse joe biden. why? maybe he has other plans? obama's presidential memoir was supposed to come out this year. now it's release has been delayed until the middle of the democratic primaries. in other words, at exactly the moment when democrats will be thinking deeply about how to beat donald trump, america will be talking about the obamas. coincidence? maybe it is. maybe it's also a coincidence that michelle obama just released yet another book last week one that will require her, of course, to get on the road and talk to crowds. maybe she really isn't interested in joining the race that would make her unusual among democrats in this country. the current field is so weak that it's inviting a lot of new intrants massachusetts governor has convinced himself he can be president. the mediocre mayor of a small crime ridden town in indiana may actually win the iowa caucuses. it is that bad this year. the democratic party is ripping itself apart over race and gender and class. michelle obama, let's be honest, is

president has served the minority communities better than the eight years of biden-obama. record low unemployment for african-americans, asian-americans, hispanic-americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment. i guess the narrative that republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic is not true, is it? >> not at all. certainly not as president. i'm just glad to see that there is finally come i never thought i would say this, sean. but i finally think that one though that the democrats has figured it out. michael bloomberg's campaign manager actually got something right. and admitted it. donald trump is winning. and all of america is winning. and that's why his numbers continue to go up. it is just amazing to see that somebody from their side is actually admitting it and talking about it publicly. and i think that if those numbers stay and hold where they are even as a baseline, it's not just game over, but this is a landslide victory for this president. >> sean: if you had to guess -- >> and i think america -- >> sean: i think the plan is that the obama, i don't know,

. >> former vice president joe biden confirms in a memoir how in 2014 he implored president obama to increase legal aid to ukraine but obama flatly rejected the idea and the united nations report says between april 2014 and november 2016, 9733 ukrainian armed forces and civilians died and despite donald trump warning ukrainians in their fight against russia former navy until officer turned msnbc analyst continues to say donald trump is a russian asset. >> thank you as always. policy differences or high crimes and misdemeanors, former bush 43 secretary gary fleischer tweeting this is like watching the meeting of the council on foreign relations discuss the most appropriate us policy to resist russian aggression in ukraine. good stuff but hardly the stuff of impeachment. joining me to discuss, director for president clinton james woolsey, good to have you with us. what do you make of the assessment? this is a discussion that is important to have but is it one that rises to the level of impeaching? >> normally does it not rise to level of impeachment but it is difficult to understand ho

at the very same time the company was evoking hunter biden's name all over the obama state department. what were they wanting? political favors, make these investigations go away. this is how corruption, the swamp works, isn't it? when their media mob friends lie they say no evidence of any wrongdoing, that's what the mob says no evidence of any wrongdoing. one of this president trump and don jr. this is business as usual. this is okay. nothing here. no evidence, a conspiracy theory? forget the law, forget the conflict of interest. forget the biden got rich off the backs of u.s. taxpayers and despite all these documents, all this evidence, all this stench and stink in the swamp of corruption, all over washington, d.c., not a single whistleblower came forward here. no outrage from the mob in the media. no, they are too pizzey makin -- busymaking up excuses. biden was totally protected just like hillary was totally protected. when trump upheld his sworn duty read the transcript, enforcing the law, election interference and asking the newly elected president of ukraine to cooperate with

obama told people close to him before biden entered the race that biden would have to earn it. >> obama believed that biden had no connection to voters in iowa and would only speak out, obama, if sanders emerges from the pack. is this the kiss of death for sander or biden? >> the voters want change. that's why they elected donald trump. they don't like washington. the heartland of america is coming back to president trump. the democrats are killing joe biden with this impeachment stuff. >> sanders and warren. this is 40% of the democratic base. that's a big block for barack obama to write off. >> it's a huge block and a huge problem. sanders and warren advocate getting rid of private health insurance for people who have insurance and like it. and they are supposed to believe the government will make you feel better about. >> the democrats impeachment scam is not the only thing turning voters off. "new york times" said that democratic leaders are calling medicare for all a political liability. warren is in a free fall. down 14 points. half of her support gone. is this medicare for all th

what about the bidens? we have sleepy crazy uncle joe 33330 bragging about his quid pro quo. by the way even the democrats' star witness today had to acknowledge this blatant misconduct. got to give her credit. take a look. >> out of thousands of companies in the ukraine, the only one that you recall the obama biden state department precinct to answer questions about was the one where the vice president's son was on the board. is that fair? >> yes. >> as he testified in his statement, that in february of 2015, i raised my concern that hunter biden's status as a board member could create the perception of a conflict of interest. did you ever -- do you agree with that? >> yeah. >> that it was a legitimate concern to raise? >> i think that it would raise the appearance of a conflict of interest. >> sean: imagine that. a billion dollars if you fire the guy, you don't fire him, you don't get the billion. investigating his son being paid millions with zero experience. here now, author of the best-selling book "new york times" witch-hunt, fox news legal analyst and senior legal advi

to get meetings at the obama biden state department to lobby on marie smith's behalf as you suggested a moment ago so the bottom line is, you are not going to see adam schiff of these impeachment hearings digging into hunter biden and burisma but you have republicans who run the senate talking about starting their own investigations whether it's grassley and ron johnson or maybe even lindsey graham as chairman of the of the senate judiciary committee. >> sean: it's amazing. it's like boomer a number trickle. amazing how it works out. by the way, nice haircut pretty good to see you. thank you. if we have been asking for months, we are now told, i told you last week, my patience are pretty much shot and freda but hopefully it will pay off for the long delayed horwitz fisa abuse support we are now hearing could be as early as one week from today where they are telling me, my sources, the in other words, preventative front against the pfizer cord and sculpture evidence purposely withheld, circular reporting deceptively bolstered their warrants and the wise and pfizer, unverified so-called

ultimately, maybe he ends up being the nominee by complete default, by nature of being part of that obama-biden administration, because they are -- who also is there? >> tucker: as he said at the outset, a cluster. can i make a final note, a spiritual point. all very much deserved. they've earned this. they burned the chaos, the sadness that they are reaping now. >> i went into this and i was trying to give some clear statement of putting a crystallized angle, and the only thing i could come up with is that it's complete cluster. the other part i can't say on national television. >> tucker:n no, you can. we get your point. lisa boothe, thank you. america's national debt meanwhile is more than $24 trillion. whatever. the democratic race, that is pocket change. candidates are competing to see who can promise the most over most over-the-top spending programs. to fight global warming, which is an existential crisis, they keep telling you. unlike actual environmental crises like littering. they are promising to spend money like it's the end of the world because they think it is. so it's a good thing

as president obama has not endorsed joe biden. or defended joe biden, on biden ukraine conflict of interest scandal. and as we have reported would happen, we said it on air, now happening. new polls show elizabeth warren now in freefall in the polls, losing half her national support in one month. started right after elizabeth warren released her rubik's cube plan to fund her government takeover of healthcare, that would take away insurance. and long with everyone else. the day warren released that plan saturday we said her campaign would hit a wall. and we dig behind narrative, media now reporting to doj ig probe of the probe, that report will come out soon, we'll show you what media is not telling you, what it is missing and how top spin it nickel-better-than-expected now wants -- now mexicoment wants a meeting with president trump. i am eli elizabeth mack donald. the "evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: we have must 8 working days left in house, no nafta 2.0. democrat are fast tracking impeachment, house judiciary hearing

. >> obama might not say anything if it looks like biden can lock up the nomination on his own. this politico story reports there is just one candidate obama would come forward to try and stop, and that's the democratic socialist senator bernie sanders. who complains a lot about obamacare and makes arguments in favor of medicare for all. sanders says he wants a political revolution, but obama said publicly in the last couple weeks he doesn't think voters are interested in revolutionary ideas as much as they are just in improvement. julie? >> julie: peter doocy, thank you very much. joining me now for more on this, robin biro, former obama campaign director. thank you very much for talking to us. a lot of people have sat back and wondered, why hasn't the former president gotten behind his former vp? a lot of questions come about when the wonder that issue. is that why he hasn't endorsed him yet? because he is basically criticizing the former vp, perhaps behind his back. >> that could be the reason, julie. joe biden is pretty old school, so actually believe, to some extent, that h

now there may be documents suggesting that hunter biden was being used to lobby the obama biden demonstration. but to your point i bet there will be republicans saying we have got to get some testimony from people. >> dana: if you could stay with us we want to bring in our senior producer on capitol hill, chad program. you've had another 6 minutes to look through so tell us what you know so far. >> i'm going to go through a couple of key sections here. first of all, in july according to the testimony, it became clear. that's the word that bill taylor used in his testimony, that the meeting with burisma, there was some sort of issue here with burisma, tied to hunter biden. and i will read this other section, this is bill taylor talking about gordon sunderland, european ambassador. they had electronic text messages exchanges were taylor expressed concerns about what may have been going on and if there was potentially a quid pro quo. taylor -- someone told me many times that president trump so there was no quid pro quo. i observed to move forward with aid there must be an investigation. that's p

joe biden, he's making a run for the obama voters, deval patrick's. joe biden right now has 41% of african-american support. cory booker and kamala harris, who might have made a claim at that, have not been able to trip away at that. deval patrick may be able to do that, so what this is, this is a cry for help. this is a cry for help from the democratic establishment that is looking at this race and seeing joe biden's old and fragile and not ready to go mano a mano with donald trump and the pummeling he's going to get from donald trump at his machine and they see elizabeth warren, who is embracing this far left agenda, that gives no safe harbor to people who are suffering from trump exhaustion, so the democrats see this race slipping away from them, they are desperate for somebody else to come in, the leadership of the democratic party and they think that deval patrick and grab that obama lane, bring the african-american in the way hillary couldn't. >> bret: cory booker couldn't either. >> what's his platform? is going to embrace a platform like warre

obama told people close to him before biden entered the race that bidenob would have to earn it. >> obama believed that biden had no connection to voters in iowa and would only speak out, obama, if sanders emerges from the pack. is this the kiss of death for sander or biden? >> the voters want change. that's why they elected donald trump. they don't like washington. the heartland of america is coming back to president trump. the democrats are killing joe biden with this impeachment stuff. >> sanders and warren. this is 40% of the democratic base. that's a big block for barack obama to write off. >> it's a huge block and a huge problem. sanders and warren advocate getting rid of private health insurance for people who have insurance and like it. and they are supposed to believe the government will make you better about. >> the democrats impeachment scam is not the only thing turning voters off. "new york times" said that democratic leaders are calling medicare for all a political liability. warren is in a free fall. down 14 points. half of her support gone. is this medicare for all the rea

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carl, what do you make a barack obama saying, i had 2008 what joe biden doesn't have. >> we have to take this report with a little bit of grain of salt because we are relying upon comments that president obama made in a private conversation and off the record. it does seem there might be something to it because barack obama didn't have as a candidate in 2008, a credible relationship with iowa voters that faulted him into a surprise victory. a dramatic speech at the dinner and he had a gigantic organization that was able to take the enthusiasm and a few weeks later bring him a surprising victory. joe biden doesn't seem to have the same magic. the other thing is that the obama people don't seem to have rallied around joe biden as you would expect them and their fragmented -- biden has some good endorsements. the former iowa governor bill zach. this obama team is everywhere across the field and you don't get the sense there's a lot of love and enthusiasm for joe biden as a candidate. maybe it's because they don't think he can get it across the line. maybe it's because they don't agree with

no love loss there between those two, barack obama and joe biden. 2008 when barack obama swept the iowa caucuses that's when joe biden dropped out. now suddenly it starts to make sense. on his first day when he returned to pennsylvania, rather delaware to announce that he was running for president in 2020. joe biden was asked a very simple and logical question by our political reporter. he's very tall. used to live upstairs at my house. and listen to the answer joe biden gave and now it makes perfect sense. >> if you are the best choice for the democrats in 2020 why didn't president obama endorse you? >> i asked president obama not to endorse. answered doesn't want to -- we should -- whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits. guys, guys, welcome to delaware. steve: i asked president obama not to endorse me. come on. who is going to believe that? he stood by his side, joe biden did, for eight years. that's a logical thing. hey, i'm going to run for president. can you endorse me? emily: you saw that when he entered the campaign there was a measure of uberous. he assum

i think the comments from obama were definitely good news for, i think, buttigieg and biden because obama remains the most popular democrat. >> let's talk about one of the new candidates in the race. there's a reuters ipsos poll out that hayes former mayor michael bloomberg and 4%. still in single digits but he's on the debate stage. what's the significance here? nearly half of the responders to the poll recognize him. >> it's name recognition at this point. while we know michael bloomberg has championed causes out of the office of mayor of new york such as climate change, we know there are many issues that will be important to the democratic primary. voters are unfamiliar with his stances which could impact their view with them. definitely this is name recognition. remember, congresswoman tulsi gabbert or businessman andrew yang, gabbert, while she's been on the national stage for a couple of years, she's still not a household name. bloomberg is. there's "bloomberg news" and bloomberg meade yachl he already has that going for him. once he starts rolling out particular policy platforms, t

every point joe biden was a point man appointed by obama, the biden family came away with millions. ed: okay, you've talked about that. >> nobody wants to look at that because the washington press corps protects him. ed: i want to ask you then. i talked about your letter, you want three ukrainians to come to america and testify. >> four. ed: four now. in the letter i saw three. by the same push of transparency, are you going to have lev parnas, your former associate now been indicted come and either testify to adam schiff or lindsey graham in the interest of fairness? >> it's up to him. i can't tell him to do it. i don't represent him. as far as i'm concerned he can testify to everything he did and it was perfectly appropriate and perfectly normal. he has said a few things lately that are completely untrue and completely untrue. he claims we had a meeting with the president at the hanukkah party. ed: right. >> in december of 2018, somebody should remind lev there were five witnesses, including his good friend, igor fruman, who all say categorically untrue, provable by records. he's

robin, even though you are on the obama-biden team, you aren't sure that joe biden is going to make at this time. however, to your last point on health care, hasn't it been joe biden leading the way of the democratic party saying, folks, medicare for all is too far left. why not build on obamacare instead? >> yes, he has been leading that fight and i appreciate that. i'm glad he's up there speaking coherently about that. but it needs to be said and there are other candidates like mayor pete for example for medicare who wants a pair that's more palatable to your swing voters. these centrists, amy klobuchar, tulsi gabbard, they are saying some really good things but they are not getting the poll numbers. of course, this is a democratic primary so they've got to clear that hurdle first. that's the challenge right now, ed. >> ed: a newcomer to the democratic sweepstakes in michael bloomberg. he said something last year on taxes that caught my ear. listen to this. >> the problem is in people who don't have a lot of money. so higher taxes shouldn't have a bigger impact on how they deal with

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