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Michael steinberger with the new york times magazine. welcome. bidens lackluster performance as you know in that first debate. it didnt really hurt him in the polls, but can we expect him to come on the attack on wednesday? >> you know, i think hell certainly defend his record better, hes got a tough assignment ahead of him, he has to defend a 40 year record, he has to spell out a decision for the future. people dont want to hear necessarily about your senate record, senate colleagues you work w...

Questions. biden answers the what. im not sure he answers the who. >> okay. who answers the who? >> i dont know who the ideal person is to run. i dont know. the white guy with the lunch pail. i dont know. maybe it was sherrod brown. he is not rung. you dont choose the person you. choose among those who are rung thinking is an incredible overgeneralization, but there is not really one candidate like obama in 08 who can check all the boxes of nunes but also a moderately progressive. >> we didnt kn...

Hey, until january, raj shah sass sarah sanders top deputy at the white house, a chief spokesman, now he is joining fox core, the parent company of fox news. he is now a senior vice president at the network. at this point the fox-trump relationship has been very well established. the new book american carnage looks at how this began. you a tore tim alberta joins me now. its been a hot seller all week. you argued figures leak sarah palin broke the ground, loosened up the ground, how did that fox ...

That deterioration of the republican party, a lot of people reacted in that moment and said john mccain is a war hero. obviously trumps going to pay a price. but to the republican base, that was trump standing up to their enemy. >> not only that, steve, which is right, because mccain, of course, had really been sort of persona non grata to the conservative movement. remember, he picked sarah palin because his campaign needed a shot in the arm. they need to mobilize the base. they knew that to ev...

And said john mccain is a war hero. obviously trumps going to pay a price. but to the republican base, that was trump standing up to their enemy. >> not only that, steve, which is right, because mccain, of course, had really been sort of persona non grata to the conservative movement. remember, he picked sarah palin because his campaign needed a shot in the arm. they need to mobilize the base. they knew that to even have a prayer against barack obama, they needed conservatives to turn out in big...

Condemned him for some of the same language he is putting on wild display tonight again. im joined by cornell belcher and rick tyler, a republican strategist. lets talk turkey. i know we have to talk morality because we have moral standards in our country, including here. but why does trump get the ride? why does he get people that probably go to church on sunday. they teach their kids to use good manner, not to use racial slurs, and yet they put the maga hat on and they applaud like crazy peopl...

Trump state. we need to win back places we have lost. have been able to get meaningful things done through a republican legislature and taking on the fight of dark money like no one else does. i do have a lot to offer, and i have folks saying, we have to take a look at this bullock guy. >> great presidential candidates, candidates that have become president in history are the people who know how to synthesize the activist base with the rank and file, maybe the establishment base. reagan did it i...

Both. >> he has come under scrutiny a lot by his democratic challengers, he hasnt been very sharp in his response, particularly in the debate. he cut himself off when he was trying to respond to kamala harris, which i dont think was his best moment. got really testy with senator cory booker, when he called him to apologize and he also took some time. i bleefb it was 18 or 19 days, to apologize for his comments on working well with senators. he hasnt been able to respond as well as with a lot of ...

Effect. >> tom bradley was the black mayor of los angeles running for governor, polling way ahead. people thought he would almost waltz into the governorship, and then when people got into the voting booth, their rhetoric didnt match their action. >> a guy they never heard of. i thought that was going to happen, professor, too, in 30 -- 08. house minority leader whip steve scalise said today when obama was president, republicans didnt disrespect the office of the presidency. lets listen to that...

Fearful of on confrontation and unwilling to take the fight to the left, much more so culturally, and that was trumps decision in the first place. we spoke at length and talked about mccain in 08, vouching for obamas character at every turn. romney, refusing to swing back at obama, when the obama campaign was brutally, and trump comes on the scene, and says, look, i think i can take over this party. i think i can vanquish 16 other republican candidates for the presidency because theyre all afrai...