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A huge trump fan. did you like the fact he was a businessman? >> yes. that was one of the biggest things. i feel the country has become like a business. >> reporter: criminal defense attorney paul walker is definitely not for trump and he sees trouble ahead. >> if this economy turns like i think its going to, its going to turn on him. >> reporter: scranton is a factory town nationally manufacturing jobs numbers are the highest in a decade according to the department of labor but there are signs ...

Favorite, greg. >> juan: he is mad at me. and fox poll and we have four people beating him but the key for democrats is can you beat trump? this is interesting he is up right now in the polls. before he ran this ad, he had increased in the cnn poll by seven points, now up to 29%. sanders and warren at like 15 and 14, about 30% of that. the key for me is looking inside the numbers and when you look inside the numbers, what do you see? moderates, old democrats, some of the young folks but really s...

Three, four days. >> that wasnt my question. >> thats not what he meant. >> that wasnt my question. >> vice president biden friis f scranton, pennsylvania. anything that says he doesnt understand working class people in this country is absurd and is not something the american people will buy. >> i want to talk about his gun proposal. he put out an op-ed and part of that is -- heres what he said. well only see more and deadlier shootings if we continue to dodge the core issue of unregulated assau...

Campaign and other democrats, but i think the biden campaign has presented itself, and he has presented himself as somebody who understands those voters, understands those workers, has that working class background. he loves talking about his family, loves talking about his parents, and that resonates. that resonates with voters. eric: always reminding people it doesnt hurt in pennsylvania from scranton, born and raised scranton joe, down in delaware, in fact about two hours ago, mr. biden on th...

She wants to find some other way to sort of talk around it. her campaign motto is speak truth. well, the truth is her plan takes that away and she doesnt want to talk about it. back to the vice president. some of those exchanges he was okay. to davids point, bidens strength here is if he is to convince democrats you want me to go up against donald trump because i will defend the obama record and also get the scrappy kid from scranton, the blue collar guys. macomb county, michigan will come back ...

Million americans who many of them dont want to get rid of it, some do, but many dont. or the green new deal, make sure every american is guaranteed a government job if they want. that is a disaster. you might as well fedex the election to donald trump. >> fedex the election to the president. with me now, the man who had that line, former colorado governor john mickehickenlooper. thank you for being here. i know you guys were up almost all night. so your hope, you told jake yesterday, you wanted...

>> to that point, you look at the republican response to all of this. if this is not a concrete strategy from the president, you see republicans treating it as such. thats what we saw in the response this week. >> i think theres no further debate that this is the party of trump. theres no republican identity outside of him. if you consider a big picture idea here, joy reid led opt thought all week that campaign time came around real quick. i have not brought back your jobs to scranton and schene...

In a lot of trouble there, buddy. brian: you are talking like joe biden middle class now millionaire joe biden. he is standing up for the blue collar people. is he wrong? is he not telling the truth? >> about what? >> about standing up for the working class. you sound like what joe biden saying. are you running on the same platform. >> joe biden and i have obviously a lot in common. is he from scranton, pennsylvania. im from youngstown, ohio. but i have been in the fox hole here with the workers...

And then i notice stuff missing off the dresser. jewelry was gone, money was gone. >> what was going on in your head when you saw this, as you noticed things were missing? >> i knew something was -- something bad. >> reporter: oh, and it was. what happened to that grown-up girl in this modest house in the little city by the sea on the first of october, 2001? a mystery for so many years. >> she was such a sweet, loving, kind -- >> caring. >> caring, full of life. >> reporter: sharon ord mcphillip...

High school education. >> we came from coal guy who scranton, no jobs. my dad was a white collar worker. >> native town of scranton hometown of womenton. represent thes and towns that make up middle class americans. all my time in public life i have been referred to as middle class joe not always meant as a compliment. >> i know im called middle class joe and thats not compliment. >> i know im called middle class joe in washington and i know thats not a compliment. steve: documents filed show he...