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There's a big event talking about the largest number of candidates on the stage in ohio. will they unite behind biden against the president or join the republicans in attacking? joining me now from westerville, ohio, "washington post" chief correspondent dan balls. and back in washington, mark murray. dan, what are you looking for tonight, what friction or what special lines are you looking to write about? >> i'm looking for a couple things. one, obviously, there will be a focus on vice president biden because this is really the first big moment that he's had since all of the ukraine story bro...

A kohler walk-in bath provides independence with peace of mind. welcome back. panel is here. former republican governor of north carolina, pat mccrory. former democratic governor from missouri, claire mccaskill. hallie jackson, and huh lain cooper, pentagon correspondent for "the new york times." i want to start with this headline. actually, we'll call it a series of headlines. dan balls' analysis piece. for most of the night, biden's time to shine. and then at some point, "the washington post" decided to change their headline to the following, claire mccaskill. for most of the night, biden ...

Political commentator. ax, dan balls, the dean of political reporters in america, writes this morning that joe biden had the kind of debate that supporters have been waiting for. >> yeah, i think that's half true. i think for the first hour, he was very, very strong. and he was, you know, he was more engaged than he had been. the first debate was a disaster. second was better. this was even better than that. he did flag at the end of the debate. what i would say about presidential politics is it never gets easier. it only gets harder as you move along. so the performance last night was more th...

You have the farmers, very patriotic, and they are not being let in on the deal and that's a big, big problem for the president. >> dan, what is your sense of where the country is on these questions? are they -- do they care about whether this president is focused on governing as you outlined, or whether he's off on the various tangents? >> i think most people screen out the tweets and, you know, i think we have all had conversations with trump supporters that would say i wish he would get rid of the twitter feed. they're not following things in the way that people inside the beltway are follo...

Within a short period of time they would work something out that is good for everybody. i really believe that. >> dan, i think the president read your column where you called into question his ability to answer some of the questions. >> i suspect the tweet he sent out last week saying what he said here, which is that i think if president xi would sit down, everything would work out fine. i think that got the attention of the people around him, and this was a little more nuanced tonight in the way he was talking about the risks for china, if there's a violent refreshen, another tianamen square....