Sean the problem, remember laura where is it . I dont see any report. Sean ill give you the answer. What has happened is, all of a sudden, people like Christopher Steele decided to talk. They didnt have that opportunity. Also, others i did speak, when they realized the significance and seriousness of it, realized they were in trouble, they all started to talk, too, and then it took on the counterintelligence aspect of outsourcing illegal activities here, and that would be spying laura all right. Sean its all coming together. Laura math like with my kids. I was driving with my kids in california, and they kept saying, what are we going to get there . Ones are going to get here . Sean the wheels of justice go slow, but i can tell, everything we reported has been deadon accurate. Laura i cant wait. Sean unlike the media mob. Laura all right, after labor day. Fantastic show, as always. Im laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. It was just four weeks ago when President Trump upsets opposing norms by calling out congressman Elijah Cummings and his failed stewardship of baltimore. The congressman held his first form in the city, and activists was there to get reaction. I wonder who he invited . My community didnt get invited. Laura kimberly will be here with more of that video. Just moments. But first, hillary 2. 0. Oh, thats the focus of tonights angle, part one. Something very odd is happening in the democratic party. It is beyond the usual jockeying for pole position by the candidates desperate to remain viable. Its more than that. The funny thing is the sum of so called experts, even obama reportedly, keep telling people that biden shouldnt be the nominee. We are now sitting here with the democratic frontrunner, having a spokesperson try and defend his comments on busing. When you are trying to hide the candidate, thats probably means you dont have a good candidate. Thats like weekend at bernies, where the guy was dead, they had to pretend he was alive. President obama reportedly told joe biden directly, quote, you dont have to do this, joe, you really dont. Laura [laughs] when you love to be in the room in that conversation happened . But despite some shaky debate performances and more than a few medical alert moments, biden has gained seven points on his rivals since june. You can call this medicare advantage. He now has a doubledigit lead over his 2020 rivals. But there are reasons for concern. The closer you look at biden, the more it all comes into focu focus. Doesnt this begin to feel like the Hillary Campaign . The frailty, the flipflop, the conflicts abroad, and of course, the messy family life. Bidens campaign is looking like a bad sequel. Hillary 2. 0. In the warning signs are all there. Just look at both of the candidates, the overall fitness for office. Hillarys campaign spent a lot of time fighting off concerns about the former first ladys health. For her, it was questions surrounding her physical condition. New questions this morning surrounding Hillary Clintons health. Speak of the democratic nominee now forced to Cancel Campaign events in california after she collapsed at the 9 11 memorial. Laura boy, they shoved her into that van fast, didnt they . After the fall, hillarys doctors scrambled to reassure voters but my overall impression is that mrs. Clinton remains healthy and continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States. Well, at 76, biden is even older than the former first lady. But for him come of the concerns are about his mental or cognitive fitness. Politico have big journalist equivalent of a medic medevac finding the surgeon who operated on biden in 1998, claiming biden is every bit as sharp as he was 31 years ago, i havent seen any change. Which led many to wonder, you mean, biden has been like this for decades . The country wasnt billed by wall street bankers, ceos, and hedge fund managers. Union workers, and their futures and their pensions. Investing much more in medical research to conquer devastating diseases like cancer, addiction. Laura but dont worry, remember, the surgeon said he is as sharp as he was 31 years ago. Well, biden, like hillary, is willing to jettison longheld political positions to win over the radical part of his party appeared on trade, for example, hillary supported the transpacific partnership, the tpp, while in obamas cabinet. I did say, when i was secretary of state three years ago that it would be the gold standard. It was just finally negotiated last week. And, in looking at it, it didnt meet my standards, my standards for more new good jobs for americans, for raising wages for americans. And i want to make sure that i can look into the eyes of any middleclass american men say this will help raise your wages, and i concluded i could not. Laura mr. Flip, meet mrs. Flop. Same story, of course, but nafta, by the way, was signed by her husband. I think everyone is in favor of free and fair trade, and i think that nafta is proving its worth. I said i would like to renegotiate it when i ran back into thousand eight. Laura no, no. And as for biden, back in the olden days of 2015, his office that he supports the tpp agreement and will help pass it on on the hill. But here is biden last month. I would not rejoin the tpp as it was initially put forward. I would insist that we renegotiate pieces of fat. Laura did he say tpp . We forgot that in our gaffe montage. You see his ancient position of four years ago was the establishment democrat position. Profree trade and proglobalization, no questions asked. But that is not with the energy of his party is today. Biden, like hillary, is trying to placate the socialists in the ranks of the party, blunting the candidacy of warren and sanders. That is why they do that. And then there are the messy family matters. Hillary had bills seedy reputation in the anvil of the Clinton Foundation around her neck, a personal fund for those who wanted access to the next president. As for joe biden, he has his son, hunter, lucrative business deals in the ukraine, and hunters Chinese Business deals which the former vp helped facilitate in his official travels. And thats part one of the angl angle. This is like hillary 2. 0, but its a sequel nobody wants to go to. The only other movies playing at the cineplex are also bad, so they just go to hillary 2. 0. In moments, im going to reveal the driving force been behind bidens president ial bid and the reason democrats should be very concerned for but lets put to our pollster power panel, joining me as tom devon, cofounder and president of real clear politics. Chris wilson, Digital Strategy director for senator ted cruzs 2016 campaign. Tom, lets start with you. Should the similarities between joe and hillary have team biden were read . I think they should come and i think you make a pretty good argument of the similarities between the two candidates. At this point in 2008, in the race, democratic primary race, Hillary Clinton was up 20 points over barack obama. She led that race all the way until barack obama won iowa, and that is when she really started to collapse. We may see a similar dynamic with joe biden. He has two things working in his favor, one was support among africanamerican communities, very strong, the other is the electability question, which you saw his wife, jill biden, comment on the other night. Those two things, if they start to erode, he is going to be in real trouble. Laura chris, whats amazing here, there have been so many efforts to elevate, prop up, or inflated the appeal of the other candidate. We see endless profiles of buttigieg, we see Kamala Harris heralded, it goes on and on. Sanders still can draw a big crowd. Warren has a big crowd. Yet biden is not only still on top of the heap, he has gained point from some pretty lame debate performances. So what does this tell us . It all seems like 2016 to me, not 2008, as tom referenced. It does, but the other thing about 2016, joe biden would give anything to have Hillary Clintons numbers. When you have an established frontrunner, you look at clinton in 2016, she was consist in the over 50 at this time. George w. Bush in 2000 consist on the over 50 at this time. If biden was really 2. 0, he would be doing better. He has picked up about seven points in the most recent polling, and youve also seen the other candidates, who we thought were going to start competing with him, Kamala Harris has dropped substantially, Elizabeth Warren is down a little bit. The other problem that biden has right now, he is just a Big Government conservative in a party that is increasingly dominated by actual socialists. The question he is struggling with is how far to the left, how close to the socialist angle does he have to go to make sure he doesnt begin to hemorrhage votes to sanders or Elizabeth Warren . And its a really difficult place to be, because right now, the argument has to make, as tom pointed out, he is electable in a general election. But if he continues to veer too far to the left to maintain or pull over the socialist votes, it puts him in a real challenging position moving into a race against trump. Laura tom, what does this mean, though . Because he is the guy who is on the top of the heap. Hes not at 50 , youre right, chris, but the other candidates didnt have a dozen plus candidates to split up the electorate into these small slices, thats a big difference in this race. Give a lot of people in the race, and a lot of them with increasing name i. D. And endless, glowing profiles in vogue magazine, people magazine, its an endless series of puff pieces, and nothing they have done, tom bevan, has been able to blunt biden. Even his gaps are to changing public opinion. Maybe people like the gaffes, i dont know. They are still being written off as joby and joe, though as you point out, there are questions being raised, they might be one of those things wha brushed off until they reach some sort of Tipping Point that really causes his candidacy trouble. But there is no question the fact he remains at the top of the heap is part of the fact that this is such a big raise, and the progressive vote is divided up among a whole host of candidate, including if you add together Elizabeth Warren and bernie sanders, they have more, percentagewise, than joe biden right now. But it looks like both candidates are going to be in the race for the long haul. They both have enough money to stay in the race and have support, so that could end up benefiting biden, able to thread the needle in the end. Laura i want to play something, this was this morning on msnbc. Again, another effort, after bidens Campaign Ad First landed, a big event, a campaign ad, actually ran. This is what Joe Scarborough said. Watch. Going up against an incumbent, its about contrast. And there is a great contrast there. You have very hopeful, all almost Ronald Reaganesque visions. Where this country can be. You see a lot of smiles, a lot of hugs. Laura is that it . A lot of smiles and a lot of hugs . He had a lame turn out today in iowa. Hes not appearing much on the campaign trail i will get to that in just a moment. But chris, again, another attempted, you know, list of biden. It is, and his Campaign Team has really got to be has got to be struggling right now with how to handle it, because they dont want to run, they try a bit of a rose garden strategy, doing interviews. That didnt work out. Its a must like theyre trying and weekend at bernies strategy, roll him out, then roll him back before he can say or do anything that might be a problem. I dont think youre going to see many more speeches like the one you showed clips of before, the union hall. Now that you have msnbc, Joe Scarborough trying to tout his tv ads laura reagan asked [laughs] it belies any sort of description because it is so laughable. Laura may be bonzo, but not reaganesque. Thanks so much, guys bear now for part two of the angle. There is another similarity between the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and joe biden. In both cases, the energy, the force behind the thing, originates with someone other than the candidate. For hillary, she fought bills popularity and legacy would carry her over the finish line peered for joe biden, its obama who he endlessly evokes, even if the former president reportedly discouraged biden from going into the president ial ring. The Guiding Force behind the biden run is this person. We cant stay fractions like we are now. If i could jump in here sensitive to whether or not someone wants me to reassure them. I think what you dont realize is how many people approached joe. Trump is very confident, should you win back the nomination, but he could beat you easily. Our u. S. Confident . Im confident. It has to start with allowing children thats my wife. Sorry. I cant compete with dr. Biden. Laura imagine with the media would be saying if Melania Trump were injecting herself into her husbands campaign this way. Joe biden is more than a surrogate, she has emerged as joe bidens spokesman, bodyguard, and brain. Yesterday in new hampshire, she made this argument for his candidacy. You may like another candidate better, but you have to look at who is going to win. Your candidate might be better on, i dont know, health care, then joe is. But youve got to look at who is going to win this election. And may be tough to swallow a little bit and say, okay, i personally like soandso bette better, but bottom line has to be that you have to beat trump. Laura whos the candidate again . Why is an biden out making his case in this way for his own president ial run . Well, the truth is, his repeated gaps have driven him off the trail at times and away from the can cameras. Its risky to expose him to regular public scrutiny. The whole affair is like hillarys march to the nomination inevitable, and oh so lifeless. Bidens newest argument, which is a wife makes in the latest campaign ad, focusing on polls. He tops the president in the polls, the only one who can beat trump, blah, blah, blah. Therefore, the democrats best hope. The euphoria sounds familiar. Hillary clinton has a tenpoint lead over trump in a headtohead match up, her support crossing over the 50 line peered Hillary Clinton with a ninepoint lead over donald trump nationwide. Nine points. Voters are much more inclined to vote for a candidate who may believe can win. That is where joe biden gets his sustainability, from those voters. He is the democrats best option for beating donald trump. Laura this should fill the democrats with some trepidation. As we saw with hillary, polls do not tell the whole story, particularly where a candidate like donald trump is concerned. Once again, democrats are about to have an established hand, or brand, that fails to excite anyone. Remember the hillary crowds during her illfated campaign . Biden seems to be having the same effect on people. Case in point, last week, the president held a rockets rally in manchester, new hampshire. The Biden Campaign responded with a counter rally of its own on the same night. It was billed as an antihate event. Biden wasnt there, but i got a lot of buildup. President trumps rally broke even elton johns attendance record at the Southern New Hampshire university arena, 11,500 people packed the stadium, with another 9,000 standing outside. Off the road, the biden camp could reportedly only draw about 30 people. Literally. Well, maybe they should have asked jill to speak, could have been a bigger crowd. Biden seems to be starting, i dont know, in his own version of spinal tap. They were booked into 10,000 seat arenas, 15,000 seat venues, and it seems that now, on the current tour, they are being booked into 1200 seat arenas, 1500 seat arenas, and i was just wondering, does that mean the popularity of the group is waiting . Oh, no, no, no. Not at all. I just think their appeal is becoming more selective. Laura very, very selective selective. Today, biden broke his silence and spoke in iowa. He barely drew 100 people, and couldnt fill the venue, according to our reporter on the scene. Now, none of this is lost on the president. I think sleepy joe may be able to limp across the finish line. They are going to cut way back on his appearances because he is such a disaster, they are going to have fewer appearances. Can you believe it . If i ever did that, it would be over. The fake news would get us, but we dont let them get us. Laura the problem for biden is that the gaffes arent shrinking, they are continuing. We have this notion that somehow, if you are poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. Watch what happened when the kids with parkland marched up, and i met with them on the hill when i was vice president. We choose science over fiction, we choose truth over facts. Just like in my generation, when i got out of school, when Bobby Kennedy and dr. King had been assassinated in the 70s, late 70s, when i got engaged. Laura 68. As voters can see and consider bidens atrocious record, the flipflops, the missteps, and his absence from the campaign trail, it will become clearer, though he may be the most electable candidate the democrats can muster, he is not ready for a president ial contest with a prizefighter. And thats the angle, parts or go. Up next, four weeks after President Trump put a spotlight on the blight in congressman Elijah Cummings hometown of baltimore, the congressman helped a muchhyped Community Forum today. Well, the woman who is a video this conversation spoke to fole and today and is here with the exclusive, next. E. Our 18 year old was in an accident. Usaa took care of her car rental, and getting her car towed. All i had to take care of was making sure that my daughter was ok. 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