Is up next the art of the deal by joe biden at Michael Smerconish and philadelphia. Did President Biden just snuck or President Trump with regard to the debates . By now, you know, the candidates reached an agreement this week, they will debate outside the framework of the commission on president ial debates. Theyll square off twice first in june, then in september, potentially with a Vice President ial debate inbetween, it seemed quick and organic, but i have my doubts two weeks ago, cofounder and cochair of the commission on president ial debates Frank Fahrenkopf was my guest here. I asked him if hed heard from either campaign other than the criticism that we just heard from the Trump Campaign with regard to trying to move the bates earlier in which we think weve answered as best we can, we can answer it. Weve had no contact with either campaign, which is not unusual cycle, where you normally dont have contact with pressed republican and democrat and other people who may be able to b
today. i ll see you back here next saturday at adm. eastern smerconish is up next setting the bar i m michael smerconish in philadelphia, thursday here on cnn is the first of two scheduled debates between president biden and trump. jake tapper and dana bash will moderate the debate will last 90 minutes with no live audience. there will be no opening statements, answers will be two minutes rebuttals will be one-minute closing statements will be two minutes based on a coin toss, trump will go last. there will be two commercial breaks and perhaps the biggest wrinkle microphones will be muted when it s not someone s turn the stakes are high. the racist tight weather measured in national surveys or by battleground states. so the debate is a very big deal and opinions as to who won will no longer be influenced by expectations advantage joe biden. and here s why call it, be careful what you wish for in the last two weeks, president biden traveled overseas to participate in a
stole them all. ricky news, he has said he i a firm no on this. he s a mercurial person to b dealing with for people i talke to within the white house. we know this to be true. he may want to be a key figure in some ways when it comes to the decision. if he wanted to extend that. who is that guy anyway. did you hear that audible gasp from the first panel of it was someone was standing on his oxygen hose. may become as someone accidentally clicked on that would cause me to gasp it. it turns out they were devastated they didn t get the trillion dollar spending bill i they never to debate, but much less read. they were mad their side blast and that was it, it was once again politics. they bet $20,000 on the heavily
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think, with that presidential leadership. but, i mean, you know, fundamentally there was something profoundly wrong with the bill, which is that every healthcare expert thought it was awful and would harm the health of the american public. one of the things i fear is that now president trump is going to try to undermine obamacare not through the legislative process so much but by not providing the cost-sharing subsidies, which would hugely undermine it by isn t that happening somewhat now? especially with the rhetoric. and every time president trump talks about how it s going to die under its own weight, you know, the image i think of is somebody who is stepping on the oxygen hose of the patient and saying, oh, look, the poor patient is dying. it s because you re stepping on the oxygen hose. and i hear people say that and if you actually read up on it and you look at the fact checks, it s not collapsing under its own weight. absolutely not. there are a number of different f