Unbelievable. the sharpies nitpicking or the joe biden is the rfk our time. but you know, both of them and are completely b ridiculous and whack a doodle and unbelievable everybo and evy knows that. they re all they re both unbelievable. but alli guess if you re going to tell a lie, tell a big one, and just like go big, we haven t learned anything else about from politics these days. it s that go with the big lie. yeah. freean, and monica, ther are butcher knives and there are butter knives and joe an sharp it s just not clear which one, apparently. well, you know, pete, if you actually have to runm cl ad claiming that you are sharp as a knife, you are not sharnotp as a knife. right. they re saying these polls, they know that increasinglreasij increasingly, americans do not believe that he is capable of doing this job. that s why they re putting this ad out. bee justo much, not ma right? because just because you claim that he s sharke ip, a knife dos not make it true and it s not persuasive. seethe american people have see
Approach leading toward the convention? i totally agree with monica. they realize that this is a real liability for them and they can t ignore it. they have to address it. the problem is this is not an effective way of addressing it. honestly, the real only thing that they really can do, i think, is to protect him and keep him from engaging from fueling the press keep him from engaging. they are desperate to keep him from debating. i don t believe it s possible that he doesn t wind up debating. and so at the very least, they are going to try to down play his, you know, exceptions as much as they can. so that when he does perform, they will just they will just plunge him with every cocktail of drugs known to man to get him through just maybe one debate. and if he doesn t completely fall out, he pulls off a performance like he showed us
With the state of the union address. then they will call that a win. pete: we ll see. there is going to be curve balls all over the place. monica, real quick, you are a graduate of columbia university. saw that you interview we just did. 2020 was marked by riots across the country. could this be the type of thing that leads to the civil unrest we saw in 2020? could well be new pretext before the election burning down the country. all the same revolution. whether it s the pro-hamas people or antifa or black lives matter. doesn t matter what the superficial issue is. it s just a grab a pretext or create one to get their shock troops out on the street to create instability, destabilize the society, create fear and uncertainty and chaos in order to ram their candidates through. and we certainly saw that in 2020 and this may be the new antifa and black lives matter. pete: this time just pro-terrorists and pro-hamas.
[ applause ]. joining us now, nbc news white house correspondent monica alba and nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. so, monica, what more are we hearing from the kennedy family, how are they explaining putting their support behind joe biden and not one of their own family members, and how does an endorsement like this perhaps benefit joe biden. in the case of everybody you saw on stage just now there, ana, their own sibling, the siblings of robert kennedy jr. who came on the stage with president biden, and fully enbraced him over their own blood relative because the election is too high stakes to not get off the sidelines and put their weight behind president biden and vice president harris. they say that is because they believe their relative s candidacy could take votes away from president biden that could
Bobby. this campaign is about trump versus biden, and what we need to do today is focus on biden winning. a vote for anyone else is a vote for trump. nbc s monica alba and nbc 10 s lauren mayk are reporting from philadelphia, and also with us is chuck todd. monica, what do we know about how this endorsement came together and how important it is to president biden? reporter: well, it s been in the works for some time, chris, and we know that recently there was a very intentional visit by members of the kennedy family to the white house on st. patrick s day, invited by president biden to spend some time together where we know that was meant to signal that they were laying the groundwork for this kind of endorsement where you re going to be seeing robert f. kennedy jr. s siblings come out and effectively say we believe president biden has the values