Duck a. Bit of a knowitall seems at times. Every time i hear you i feel a little dumber for what you say. America is not a racist country. Never, ever doubt who we are theres nothing from this debate that is going to push down Donald Trumps favorability. Theyre fighting for the bottom of the race right now. Clearly, this debate was a sign where these candidates are trying to emerge as the second place in this race against donald trump. Good morning, everyone. Top of the hour. So glad youre with us. Just heard the voice of our friend and workmate and so fascinating. Race for the bottom. Did they succeed breaking through against trump . Big question, in the race to actually win the race or some other position . Dig in and see what takeaways were. Yeah. Donald trumps rivals fighting for the spotlight at that chaotic primary. Yet again gop frontrunner a noshow and battled for a breakout moment. Its about if i may and showtime. Cant be a champion on both sides. I believe in these people. These are good people on the stage and one person on the stage. Sir, well have to cut your mic and i dont want to the do that. I dont. Like my house at bed and bath time. Moderators had a hard time stopping candidates from speaking over one another. Candidates struggling to put a dent in trumps significant lead. Vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis ended up having most of the speaking time. Border security, government spending. The two issues talked about the most onstage. Several candidates slammed trumps record and his failure to show up. But overall, they didnt spend a lot of time talking about him or attacking the former president instead of debating, trump in michigan. See him there, speaking to auto workers trying to upstage President Biden who was there the day before. Trump joked that his primary opponents are running for a job in his future administration. And President Biden seemed focused on a likely rematch with trump. He is set to give a big speech on democracy just hours from now warning that something dangerous is happening in america. There is an Extremist Movement. What hes going to say. That does not share the basic beliefs of odemocracy. The mega movement. After quite a debate, joining us, a lot of people talked over each other and at points hard to understand what they were even saying. Youre absolutely right and the bathtime comment, phil, 100 right. If you have kids, what it felt like at times. This was messy, loud and difficult to hear what they were saying at times from that debate stage and if the goal was to try to chip away at that enormous lead that donald trump has over this field, its hard to see how that they accomplished that. Reporter Achaotic Second Gop president ial debate. We want to get reporter with seven candidates all vying for second place behind donald trump, criticizing the frontrunner for not showing up. Youre not here tonight because you are afraid of being on this stage and defending your record. Youre ducking these things, and let me tell you whats going to happen. You keep doing that, no one up heres going to call you donald trump anymore. Beer going to call you donald duck. Reporter the candidate invoked trumps name more this time around zeroing in on the economy and possible Government Shutdown. The people in washington are shutting down the American Dream with their reckless behavior. They borrowed, they printed, they spent and now youre paying for more everything. They are the reason for that. And wheres joe biden . Hes completely missing in action from leadership. And you know who else is missing in action . Donald trump is missing in action. He should be on this stage tonight. He owes it to you [ cheers ] to defend his report. Reporter pence took direct aim at the president s bidenomics agenda. Joe biden doesnt belong on a picket line. He belongs on the unemployment line. Bidenomics has failed. Wages are not keeping up with inflation. Auto workers and all American Workers are feeling it. Reporter on the auto workers strike, a range of views and blame. They want fourday french work weeks but more money. They want more benefits working fewer hours. That is simply not going to stand. The reason why people are striking in detroit is because joe bidenen interference with Capital Markets and with free markets. Reporter the debate hit on many red meat issues for the Republican Party including immigration and border security. Our laws are broken every day at the southern border. Every day. And joe biden and his crew is doing nothing about enforcing that law. Defund sunk chewary cities. You see whats happening in philadelphia right now. Its got to stop. We need to make sure we put 25,000 more Border Patrol and i. C. E. Agents on the ground and let them do their job. If a kid of a mexican diplomat doesnt enjoy Birthright Citizenship neither does a kid who broke the law to come here. Reporter Vivek Ramaswamy forced to defend his Business Record in china and use of tiktok. A radical idea for the Republican Party. We need to win elections. Part of how we win elections is reaching the next generation of Young Americans where they are. This is infuriating because tiktok is one of the most dangerous Social Media Apps we could have and what youve got, honestly every time i hear you u feel a little dumber for what you say. Reporter the two candidates from South Carolina sparred over gas taxes in their home state and curtains. Nikki offered a 10 Tax Gas Increase in South Carolina as the u. N. Ambassador you literally bring it, tim. 50,000 on curtains at aed 15 million subsidized location. You got bad information. First of all i fought the gas tax in South Carolina multiple times. Secondly on the curtains . Do your homework because obama bought those curtains. Did you send them back . Its the State Department. Did you send them back . Youre the one that works in congress. You hung your curtains there before i even showed up at the residence. You are scrapping. Reporter something you didnt hear after the debate. Any candidates saying that they were going to take their foot off the gas from here. Some candidates will be heading directly south to orange county, california. Ramaswamy, desantis and scott will all speak at the california Republican Party convention, which begins tomorrow. It will also feature, phil and poppy, the big name in the room. Donald trump. Yeah. There you go. Hes important, because leading by 30 or 40 points. Thats right. Very impressive Hearing Sound going through the debate. Thank you. So true. All right. Back to you soon. At the take with us, scott jennings, van jones, a washington Correspondent Talae and josh back with us. Thank you for being here. I was struck that Vivek Ramaswamy was different last night. He wasnt totally different, but he seemed to have gotten some feedback from the last one, which polls went up. Listen to this part of what he said last night. Im here to tell you, no, i dont know it all. I will listen. I will have the best people, the best and brightest in this country. Whatever age they are, advising me. Well, so heres what happened. A consultant said they dont like you. They think youre a no itall. Youre offputting and need to stop doing that. So he went out and repeated those exact terms that consultants said. So heres the thing. When its just who you are it doesnt really work, and you saw him get a little spike after the last debate. Its calmed down. Soon as we turn the lights on on this guy, everybody was like, oh, my god. Watching nikki haley take him over her knee and spank him for the entire debate about the most pleasurable thing about this debate. It is morning television, by the way. An important moment, because it brought up Historical Context i wanted to show everybody. This is infuriating because tiktok is one of the most dangerous Social Media Apps that we could have. Yes, it is. And what youve gone, honestly every time i hear you i feel a little dumber for what you say. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul. The best political consultant, Billy Madison movies. And van, we laugh and joke, honestly, first them cake to my mind. Not much about my youth and influences and growing up. Attacks felt forced, some consultantdriven, scott pointed out versus where the party is. Actually policy issues itself and does any break through . Youre very frustrated what you saw last night . Yeah. Because, you know, its not just who winds up getting the nomination. Its what happens to the country along the way . And what i saw was a debate that was normalizing stuff thats shocking. The idea that youre going to attack the babies of immigrants, tell them they dont belong, Strip Away Citizenship is a completely bonkers idea that just went down like ice cream last night. The idea youre abandon ukraine. The idea youre going to make it impossible for people who are transgender to get medical benefits. Horrific ideas, not just bad ideas, mainstreamed in the process. Figure theous is anybody getting two points closer to donald trump before getting defeated . The country is not getting dumber but worse during every one of these debates. On the economy, where biden is polling so poorly right now, i didnt hear as forceful attacks on how i will be different for you, what i can actually get through, et cetera, how your life will be materially different on that front much as i thought from them. Just Broad Strokes but a lot of those broad streokes, no, they cant do alone as president. I agree. So far were seeing a personality campaign. Not a Policy Campaign coming from the debate stage. It was kind of a side show. The real dos this week, in michigan. Where the current and former president have been to hear and address the Economic Situation on that stage it was a bit of a side show. We had seven candidates who if you combined them, in the National Surveys they dont even add up to be able to beat trump together. To that point, let me play this sound from trump in michigan talking about them on the debate stage. Here it is. You know were competing with the job candidates. Theyre all running for a job. No. Theyre all job candidates. They want to be in the they want to, secretary of something. Even say have. I dont know. Does anybody see any vp in the group . I dont think so. I think what the next election will be about is the economy, and its the current and former president who went to michigan to hear the economic woes. Everyone onstage, hard to hear anyone. Fighting like children. The hosts threatening to cut off their mics just to get order onstage. No one was talking about the economy. If you ask people from middle america, youre from kentucky, im from ohio, then people are saying all of those men and that one woman are fighting amongst each other. There are two real candidates who are talking about our wallets and our Grocery Store checkout i do think both the contrast also just the picture of President Biden, former President Trump in michigan backtoback days. President biden today giving a speech on democracy. A through line from his first campaign, first three and a half years in office and into 2024. On the policy itself of economic policy. In michigan, the difference between the two, not just in terms of what we saw oncamera, kind of the messaging, but the policy here. I think when we talk about this isnt going to be a campaign, about the economy. Its a campaign specifically about inflation. Unemployment low now. Not doing a lot for the president s approval on the economy because real wages were falling. Improved Somewhatship Flat from a year ago not up a lot. People feel like theyre working and not getting as much value as they used to. I think the reason that doesnt turn into a really more specific conversations, first of all, fairly easy to go up and say joe biden came in, inflation went out of control. Look at all of stuff he did. Stop doing it and inflation will go down. Thats not actually how it works. Bring inflation down, raise taxes. Spending. Talking specifically cutting spending ends up being unpopular. Repeal obamacare, didnt want to talk about that. Specific things done about inflation is unpopular but because inflation is a mystery to most people point out. First of all, joe biden did do certain things caused part of inflation. Stimulus package in 2021 was too large. Basically say, he screwed it up. I wont screw it up like that. Not jut leading political issue in the u. S. Leading political issue Around The World. United kingdom, ireland, germany because of one issue i think is dominating Politics Around the world. Joe biden needs to deal with that, find a way. Im not sure how specific republicans need to get on the issue, the fact the president of the Minneapolis Federal reserve said on the show to us yo yesterday, to the American People. What do you say to them . Do not take on more debt right now. A warning what the fed may have to do here with interest rates. Jamie dimon this week saying worstcase Scenario Hit 7 . A Reality Americans need to brace themselves for, as a possibility. Yeah. Not a surety but a possibility. I just didnt feel that was directly addressed. The format for addressing things like this is terrible. This is a colosseum. Throw them out there, pit them against each other. More for environment than addressing something really serious, hey, cant buy a car or a house you dont feel you can afford any of the things you need to live. 42 weeks of full earnings right now to buy a car for americans. 42 weeks this debate, the way we set them up, pit them against each other is not designed to deal with any of that. A travesty. I agree with van about that. The two people who were talking economy this week are biden and trump and trumps obviously already pivoted out of this. Thinks this is an academic side show but its what people want to hear. Its the single thing that might reelect donald trump. Biden has no answer on inflation. Cant show people charts and graphs when they dont feel they can afford a basic vehicle . A charter or graph isnt going to fit that gut instinct of society about am i going to be able to afford to live . Nodding . Yeah. I think a lot of whats going on, i agree with you 100 . They were just fighting. They were they would have embarrassed a high school teacher, a Kindergarten Teacher how they were going back and forth and managed to diminish themselves. Youre supposed to be diminishing donald trump or whoever the frontrunner is. They made each other, like the incredible shrinking person poll and meanwhile people at home cant buy stuff. Not wrong. Youre taking stuff out of your basket. Go up, holy crap. You go back. So i do think that theres a deeper pain here in donald trump, he could just be the alternative to the pain. Just i think thats his, going to be his i you like what you got . Stick with what you got or go with me. Able to pull that off, you got a problem. Trump was a better candidate in 16. Not the incumbent. Didnt have to answer for decisions he made, really. Now, hes not the president. He does have a record, but hes a better candidate outside in and inside out. Jo think the biden people understand yet just how effective he can be. Thats a danger. Its dangerous and i dont they think get it yet. Coming up in about ten minutes, chris coons joining us, obviously a senator but art of the biden 2024 push. Talk about that and a lot more ahead. Thank you for a very thoughtful discussion, guise. Appreciate it. Senator John Fettermans outfits, to be clear, passing unanimous vote. Banning shorts and hoodies on the chamber floor. How fetterman responded. Also, the american soldier who ran into north korea is now back on u. S. Soil. Where he is headed now, what it took to get him back home. Welcome back this morning. U. S. Private travis king back on u. S. Soil. He flew in on a Military Flight which landed at Joint Base San Antonio overnight. The soldier who crossed into north korea in july and just before that king was released from a South Korean Detention Facility after an alleged assault at a seoul nightclub. Following all this and the joining us from the pentagon. Good morning. This trip to get him home took an assist from a number of countries. How did he get back here . Reporter it did. One of those rare, very rare, situations, i would say. You see Senior Administration officials thanking china for their role in helping all of this. It was sweden that acted effectively as the intermediary between the u. S. And north korea, after north korea made the decision to expel, ththeir words, Private Travis King after concluding their investigation of him. Why they chose to expel him and what the investigation is unclear. What is clear that king was on his way out of north korea a swedish convoy br