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he joins me to tell us his inspiring story, coming up. storp good evening. im mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. its the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to kn...

good evening. im mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. its the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. ...

Election, teach a very unpopular policy in schools. second, deny it is happening. every parent, every child see every day it is happening, because of remote children, we can trust the children as we play our clips. see it is happening while they lie it is happening. finally call parents domestic terrorists to attempt to push back on the education, in fact use the department of justice to investigate them for domestic terrorism. that is -- you come from the political background. both of you have ...

The campaign trail? >> the president is paying attention to biden and nobody else, showing the president thinks hes the front runner. the country know s biden. he can speak about obama and biden, the economy, as he did in that piece. he is in a tremendous position relative to a very large democratic field, where you have so many others who are trying to find their own lane, to break out of the pack. he doesnt have to do that. i think, as much as there is some tension in the democratic party abou...

Democrats need to be thinking about a way to talk to voters broadly and appeal broadly and you are an experience running in ohio where there is a bunch of different constituents and as opposed to what is the thing you are worried the field has been doing or is going to do that youre trying to provide an antidote to that is bad. >> i dont say it is bad. it might become that. i dont think that our candidates are thinking of the general election. i think that there is a bit of one bird flies off th...

Course we played a pro -- a progressive base and against nafta and the bankruptcy bill and a whole bunch of issues as a progressive but we have to talk to workers. if we do that, i predict whoever raises his or her hand on january 20th, 20 -- whoever year it would be, 2021, they will talk about the dignity of work in his or her inaugural speech. >> sharpen that. you are trying to say, look, democrats need to be thinking about a way to talk to voters broadly and appeal broadly and you are an expe...

>> donald trump allowing for brenda snipes to be fired for her handling of the florida election and recount. jillian: the president saying i should have been removed in the middle of this mixup, questionable practice piles up, is it time for snipes to go? rob: former florida congressional candidate, you have experience running for a seat in florida what do you think? >> alan wests seat is held by brian mass, great guy. you would think they would get this right. everything comes down to florida. ...

Theyre poor because they dont feel like they got a chance and every time they reach for the next one on the ladder its the boot of government that often comes crashing against their head because the programs penal penalize people for wanting to work harder. >> you say youve had experience running against the clinton machine. technically arkansas by the time you took the governors mansion. how will that be an advantage. >> when people say they were gone bill clinton was governor for 12 years. tha...

Government not doing its job. >> secure the borders first. >> absolutely. >> on the size of government you said in 2008 im thought a republican because i grew up rich and as our piece documented you did not. you said im a republican because i didnt want to spend the rest of my life poor waiting for the government to rescue me. explain that. >> poverty is an industry in america. there are a lot of people who are poor in america who are poor because the government traps them. this nonsense people ...

When he looked like the certain nominee and then imploded. that youre george mcgovern was running and figured, i know ed muskie seems to be the forgone conclusion so im running anyway. so nothing to lose for those who go ahead and want to run if to nor other reason -- if for no other reason than to get some experience running. thats what many used as the argument for bill clinton running, and he ultimately took it all. i guess what im saying is, why is this forgone conclusion, written in stone, ...