specific question, i d like a specific answer. the president has the state department, he s got the cia, he s got the pentagon, he s got a number of other agencies. why did he use three private lawyers to get information on biden from the ukrainian government rather than go through all of the agencies of his government? two different points. number one chris: how about answering my question? john durham, as you know chris: wait a minute. john durham is investigating something different. i m asking you a direct question. why did the president use private attorneys rather than go to state department? if you don t know, that s an acceptable answer, but let s not talk about john durham who s investigating there s two issues. chris, i understand. i understand that the you have your question, i have my answer. there s two issues that were brought up chris: your non-answer at this point. there are two issues brought up in the phone call. one was ukrainian knowledge about the n
specific question, i d like a specific answer. the president has the state department, he s got the cia, he s got the pentagon, he s got a number of other agencies. why did he use three private lawyers to get information on biden from the ukrainian government rather than go through all of the agencies of his government? two different points. number one chris: how about answering my question? john durham, as you know chris: wait a minute. john durham is investigating something different. i m asking you a direct question. why did the president use private attorneys rather than go to state department? if you don t know, that s an acceptable answer, but let s not talk about john durham who s investigating there s two issues. chris, i understand. i understand that the you have your question, i have my answer. there s two issues that were brought up chris: your non-answer at this point. there are two issues brought up in the phone call. one was ukrainian knowledge about the n
president joe biden over his record on criminal justice reform. vice president biden also spoke to the urban league. biden did not use that event to attack his rivals but he has been more aggressive, suggesting he ll draw sharper contrast both with senator booker and senator harris. the biden campaign taking a poke at booker today on twitter citing two polls booker well behind biden among african-american voters. so the biden campaign, no secret, they say we have to be more aggressive in the next debate. booker is a bit more surprising to me in that he was the candidate of love. he said he didn t want to have a fight with his democrats. he sees what harris did for her gain in debates round one and it s almost a copycat strategy, right? everyone is talking about harris since the debate because of the fact she went on the offense against joe biden on a number of important and sensitive topics. now with joe biden after his comfortable lead predebate is also having to defend himself,
campaign officials telling their allies to repeat the president s over and over again. say it was a bad performance, say it hurt their democrats. say the special counsel landed few, if any, very serious blows against the president. time to move on, it s the message. moving on will deprive the president that s been an everyday target that animated him two plus years. that s an interesting question for me. this has been a rallying point almost. the president loves an enemy and sometimes needs a punching bag. if mueller is done, what does he do? i think that we re forgetting and i was reminded of this by a trump supporter the other half of this coin which is barr is still looking into how the investigators handled the investigation. if we think that there s not going to be something that they produce from that, we haven t been paying attention for the last couple of years. but look, i do think that there is a risk for trump in the fact that this show has moved on from mueller. that muel
the more the focus is on trump s behavior, the more the focus is on policy and how it relates to working class voters, middle class voters, the more that the focus is on things like the president s tweets about the squad, quote unquote, i don t think that helps him. and so i do think that a lot of the noise around mueller, despite the conduct that it was describing, was beneficial to him. the other thing that the president said in mischaracterizing this really quickly, what mueller said. what mueller was the most emphatic about was russian interference in the election and the fact there is going to be interference again in 2020. possibly not only by russia. that was something he s clearly profoundly disturbed by. he said it in his only other public statement. that is something the president doesn t want to talk about at all, in part because he sees it as undermining his own victory, but that s where we re headed for 2020. without a doubt. that s where he was most passionate, mueller