Trump. when donald trump sort of sets up this contrast, he s been calling him sleepy joe for a long time. these sorts of comments from former vice president biden really do feed into that kind of criticism. he may have a case where a couple months from now, democratic voters are looking at a field with a lot of people that they know more about than they do now and they say, does it have to be joe biden? is he the only electable one? does he have a lot of weaknesses against president trump that maybe we need to take into consideration. dana: we ll see. nate silver, the guru on politics, he said it s not that complicated folks, biden will lose the nomination if and when democrats become convinced that democrats can t beat trump. collin, i take your point that joe biden isn t firing on all cylinders right now in the campaign. is anybody else looking like they can possibly surpass him? one thing that i m interested to watch is what happens when either senator sanders or
Person from another cabinet. and that s a vacancies reform act that has all sorts of technicalities. it s unclear whether that would come into play. as shimon mentioned, this would effectively change the person who oversees the russia probe. while that person doesn t supervise robert mueller day-to-day, that person does approve major steps taken in the investigation as well as potential expansions in scope of the investigation. so that is where that is where that new person, their power would be felt almost immediately. let me ask you, if rod rosenstein would be out regardless, be it firing or resigning, he is a witness in a lot of what this investigation is about. i mean, that s some of the discussion we have been having all along, is overseeing the investigation while he was witness to some of what is being
Democrats are setting the stage again to place blame on another government shutdown. the shutdown would be very bad news for the country. total disruption and i think it would be a very bad idea for republicans going into the november elections. but many congressional republicans are also of the mind that government shutdown would be very bad for their party. let s hope not. i think hopefully most of the appropriation bills will be passed. a little better prioritization spending. i don t like playing shutdown politics. i don t think it would be helpful. let s try to avoid it. the president isn t buying that. he doubled down on it firing off a new tweet since the one you just read. his new tweet is we must have border security, get rid of chain, lottery, catch and release sanctuary cities and merit based immigration and protect law enforcement and ice and keep building but much
The president offered kim jong un and that was security. basically, you can stay alive. once things start to change and you do business with us, it could get dicey. we are offering you security. he made some points and what the beaches could be if they weren t firing off cannons. the real estate developers as wow, look at that beachfront property. the fact of the matter is, there are a lot of images coming back and forth, satellite images, trying to see what is going on and are they expanding? are we getting clearance on that? melissa: know, we are not getting any clarification on them. trying to see what they re doin doing. and i think the u.s. needs a clear road map of what there is and they need a way to verify that it is going down at the same time. this is going to be a slower process than anyone would like and we have made no headway over the past couple of decades.
rosenstein said he felt used by the white house when they blamed him for the firing of james comey saying it firing of james comey saying it damaged his reputation and the white house manipulated him. here is what rosenstein has said in public. with regard to the russia investigation, do you stand by your recommendation to fire james comey? i ve testified several times about this and yes i do. joining me now, the daily beast betsy woodruff, kenneth white and paul butler. i want to get your reaction on this report from all of you. what do you make of this news about how rod rosenstein felt he was thrown under the bus by the white house? i ve known rod rosenstein for