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Different view than -- they talk about barack but they have a fu fundamentally different view than the president of the united states. lets focus on who has the best path forward to lead this country to greatness. >> are you supportive of the debate stage shrinking going forward? >> well, im supportive of having a debate. not one-minute assertions. look, its not anybodys fault the way its worked. theres 20 candidates and thats a good thing. but the idea that we dont actually have a chance to exp...

That stage has a fundamentally different view than -- they talk about barack but they have a fundamentally different view than the present president of the united states. lets argue who has the best path forward to lead this country to greatness? okay. >> are you supportive of the debate stage shrinking going forward? >> im supportive of having a debate. not one-minute assertions. its not anybodys fault the way its worked. theres 20 candidates and thats a good thing. but the idea that we dont ac...

Excuse me, they talk about him, but they were fundamentally different view than the president of the united states. lets argue, who has the best path forward to lead this country to greatness? >> reporter: mr. president , are you supportive of the debate stage shrinking going forward? >> im supportive of having a debate. not one men and assertions. its not everybodys fault, 20 candidates is a good thing. but the idea is we dont actually have a chance to explain our policies in less than one minu...

Just prove it happened to you and you get coverage. the same way i did when the president agreed when we said anyone who comes back, so many people coming back with brain injuries because of the concussion. more amputees and more brain injuries than any war that im aware of on a percentage basis. heres the deal. now guess what, all you have to do is prove that you were in an area with concussion if you have wrong and you get covered. ive got to go, guys. >> democrats are saying they want to see ...

Private. >> mr. vice president, you cant have it both ways. you and president obama more than anybody this this campaign. you cant do it when its convenient then dodge it when its not. >> dana: biden responding a short time ago. watch this. >> i just want to make the point that some of these assertions being made were absolutely -- how can i say it nicely? not true and taken out of context. if they really meant what they said, they wouldnt have done a lot of things they did >> dana: former aide ...

Sure that we hand the republicans an election coming up. look, folks, theres a lot of things everybody has done in their past and votes that no longer have a context today. theyre taken out of context. and i just wanted to make the point that some of these assertions being made were absolutely, how can i say it nice nicely, not true and taken out of context and if they really meant what they said, they wouldnt have done a lot of things they did. >> do you think your party has gone too far to the...

Somali born congresswoman broke out at his last rally. we begin tonight with joe biden who weathered an onslaught of attacks on his record at last nights debate as some of his challengers even tried to call into question his association with the former president. in this afternoon, in detroit, the former vice president fired back with a reminder of what the 2020 election should be about. >> look, i hope the next debate we can talk about how we fix our answers to fix the things that trump has bro...

We had republicans in election coming up. look, folks -- theres a lot of things everybody has done in the past. but no longer have a context today. i just want to make the point that some of these assertions being made were absolutely -- how can i say it nicely? not true, taken out of context, and they really meant what they said, they wouldnt have done a lot of the things they did. >> reporter: do you think your party -- >> reporter: on immigration, for instance, what will you do differently fr...

A lot of democrats watched biden last night the way i watch the national bullpen these days. hoping its good enough to save the game, and, gees, youre nervous every second until its over. those biden answers night, admit it, you were listening to them wondering, okay. today biden spoke to reporters in detroit where it felt as if he was trying to clean up some of the mistakes he believes he made last night. he had today what he arguably shouldve done a lot more of last night. he took the attacks ...

General hyten. >> we had some dramatic and emotional testimony on capitol hill today. leah, let me get your take on how this latest twist has unfolded with the president and elijah cummings. the president seemed to be direct in explaining why it was that he was so frustrated here targeting cummings, of course. he does chair a committee that has incredible power and is looking into the presidents finances in a myriad of other things. but again, still making these assertions that, frankly, his sta...