away from his predecessor s america first messaging. as a global community, that our own success is bound up in others succeeding as well. to deliver for our own people, we must also engage deeply with the rest of the world. to ensure that our own future, we must work together with other partners, our partners, toward a shared future. our security, our prosperity and our very freedoms are interconnected in my view as never before. joining me now, white house correspondent for the washington post and an msnbc political analyst. good friend to us here. good to see you, ann. what was your interpretation of biden s speech? do you think he moved the ball forward in any major way? alex, he really didn t. i think he was doing a number of things that were kind of diplomatic spade work in that speech. you mentioned in your opener that china was the subject. it absolutely was.
unlike rumors of the ties. there has been some concrete evidence when it comes to the trump tax controversy. just ahead of a widely publicized report the white house confirmed that the president paid $38 million in taxes for the lit year of 2005. it is still unlikely to go away because the president still refuses to release his tax records.oing audit that to n and of itself does not prevent him to them to do so. another challenge marshall competing interests inside the trump white house. especially amid rumors of constant strike between the strategist. he was once dubbed the great manipulator. he had been credited with the america first messaging. the influence of late seems to be on the decline. still white house officials say it does not make a