a fonny scandal trump s trying to create and say he s afraid of me and go toe to toe. i d be out there trying to cease this moment. you have the opportunity to elevate. i would seize it. is that what joe biden is doing today? i think david has a legitimate point and you have to realize this vice president hates bullies and i think that president trump has finally crossed that line and so vice president biden is going to square off with him and i think it is because donald trump is afraid. all of this stuff started when the polls started showing joe biden beating trump by over ten poipts. that s when the telephone calls started and all the other things. we re going to do exactly what you do with a bully and that s punch him in the mouth and expose hum for what he is, a weak and scared person and i think vice president biden is prepared to do that and today
case. instead they left it up to republican lawmakers who for the people who watched could see they struggled saying the president was just kidding talking about the having china investigate the bidens an argument that the white house hasn t made. instead you re seeing the campaign take a lead here. where they re hosting a conference call with reporters today pushing talking points and at times the talking poipts were not completely accurate. they see it as they re trying to defend the president. trying to put a message out there. which you haven t seen a concerted effort like that from the white house yet. which is frustrating people. i hope it doesn t come down to the literally vs. seriously. thank you each for being part of the show. president trump claims it s a perfect call. he said it over and over again. but the facts just don t line up. the anatomy of a lie, just ahead. (logo whooshes) (logo chiming)
they re coming into the country. we re getting them out. i refer to them as animals and guess what i always will. reporter: ms 13 has long been a rallying poipt for trump when speaking to the dangers of illegal immigration. sanctuary cities are the best friend of gangs and cartel. like ms 13. ms 13 horrible killer gang members. violent criminals. gang members. these are not good people. we have to stop ms 13. killers. savage. reporter: many of trumps talking poipts about the street gang and numbers are off base. ms 13 has been functioning in the u.s. since the mid-80s. and is composed primarily of immigrants or descendents of immigrants from el salvador. there are 10,000 said to be residing in td u.s.
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a new week and new shake-up for the battle for the presidential nomination. newt gingrich is now the solid front runner in the state of iowa. but today his focus was on new york. and a meeting with donald trump. let s go to new york. there s jim acosta following this for us. what s the latest with newt gingrich the front-runner and donald trump? well, he is in the big apple and you can say he is singing new york, new york, start spreading the newts. he his message he is can win the republican nomination. he is willing to take this battle to all 50 states. at a news conference in new york, newt gingrich insisted he can go toe to toe with mitt romney in a 50-state battle for the nomination. even with a much smaller operation. we have all these articles about how businesses are getting leaner. how they are flattening their hierarchies. doing all sorts of things. have you people who work from home. you have virtual organizations. all of these cutting edge ideas. you have a gr