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Which i believe according to the laws of physics is impossible, and of course driven by ill motives. The story broke land wednesday. We are six days into this and the speed i guess we knew there was a whistleblower complaint coming out of the dni. One of the defining features of the trump era is the incredible speed, ferocity with which information happens. It was apt that we would end up here after all these months of waiting around, that the thing that turned out to be the trigger could turn i...

Speech? >> he should go on "60 minutes" with hunter biden by his side and take every question. >> what do you think of a checker speech? could it be effective? >> it could be quite effective. i think he has to deal with it more than he did. >> my apologies for those of you who didnt know checker speech. sometimes we make these references, but at that point nixon accused of something and he uses television for the very first time to become a sympathetic figure. >> i think joe biden could complete...

Ukraine. i think it started to show up in donald trumps numbers. i think this story has put a whole new big pile of exhaustion onto this big, big sort of smoldering whatever it is we have. >> you can be pro-trumps agenda. >> i think thats true. i think the problem for joe biden what he had going for him is he was part of the obama administration, scandal free basically, no drama every day and he could return to that normalcy in a certain sense and now hes been made part of this drama. the risks ...

Funny, i would assume that you try to get it done before iowa. >> can i just say one thing, chuck? you know, joe biden for months has wanted this to be a man owe mano y mano race with trump. it is going to get so ugly. calling on biden to release the transcripts of all his calls with the uniqkrainian governmen the chinese government. they are going to play this so hard. joe biden has not shown us hes ready for that kind of combat. >> go ahead. >> its not just policy. this is when you asked about...

Lecture camilla harris for being a prosecutor. then he sedz worsays words and play cute. i want joe biden, i want the empathy and honesty and integrity. im not seeing that and it makes me sad. >> can he recover it? >> you never know. you mean the checker speech? nixon was in the toilet. barack obama gave the race speech and got out of it. you dpind a moment and hit reset. reagan with the whole im not going to criticize my opponent. there is always a moment out there for you and he seems -- the n...

Trump and never supported him. several of -- most of them the ones in the past 24 hours did endorse him and willing to vote for him. but now theyre saying including con da lee za rice an saying he is not fit to be fit of the united states. >> right. i mean, in this environment, all that does is underscore the problem. and in a historical sense when nixon got in the trouble as a vice presidential candidate, same thing. republicans said he has to get off the ticket and led to the checker speech an...

Were live from washington university in st. louis. all the parents out there spending a lot of money sending these kids to school. this is what theyre doing instead of studying, just so you know. theyre engaged in the civic process. were hours from round two of an epic dual between hillary clinton and donald trump. lets bring in our panel of opinion leaders. former philadelphia mayor and clinton supporter, michael nutter is with us. trump supporter andre bauer. trump supporter and political comm...

Now, wont you? geni genius. genius. that speech is always called the checker speech because at the height of his argument for how hes done nothing wrong and nobody is bribing him and hes not in anybodys pocket. in the night of his argument he busts out the family dog, checkers, who the nixon children love. you want to take away my dog? is that what you want to do? im not giving up that dog. he recasts his political accusers as people who would take a childs puppy away. if you do not want the pup...

He thought was a more strategic approach. some of this is much more complicated. the second point, i think it is true that how you handle donor relationships matters dramatically. every single person who fund raises knows that if you dont stay in touch with donors, they dont keep giving you money. its not as prescription about your policies as it necessarily appears. >> thats just mannerism, i think. one of the things we are witnessing is the end of a certain kind of republican populism. yesterd...