friend. nice to have you on. you, too. start with joe biden. seems with each debate whatever flub, analysts predict joe biden s demise but he continues to stay strong, maintain a lead. what do you make of that? it s interesting that there really hasn t been a significant shift away from joe biden, despite some of the negative reports that you re referring to. if i m joe biden, former vice president biden, then my glass half full says, look at this. nationally, i remain the front-runner. the glass half empty analysis says, we don t nominate based on national surveys. take a look what s going on in those first few states. he s got a problem in both the iowa caucus and new hampshire primary. here s how i see the issue. should he lose the iowa caucus and the new hampshire primary, will there be a momentum shift? because i must say, brooke, with the holidays coming, a lot of folks just aren t paying attention, but they will start
international policy at the center for american progress. thank you both. it is a little late in the game to deny the ring leader is the ring leader when all along it s been a one man band. i think you re right. it doesn t pass the laugh test. however as a legal matter and public relations matter it may be the only strategy they have. who is the audience for this stuff? who is going to buy it, that he didn t lead the band and he didn t have it in his heart to get some dirt on joe biden or at least get the president of a country to say we got some dirt on him? the audience are the regular people with jobs who aren t paying attention as closely as you and i are and you know what? this is like i don t see this in the polls. i see people in the polls paying attention to this thing. imagine nixon without the tapes. could they have pinned it on nixon without the tapes? we don t have yet donald trump ordering the aid withheld. excuse me. i ll try you now. he says to the presiden
chart, and that s just if people would even pay attention to it. this is the problem with the messaging strategy and the coverage so far they ve gotten. they ve gotten a sort of drip, drip, drip and the only way to follow this is like reading a tolstoy novel. you have to be tuning in 24 hours a day. it s why we saw such a straight line partisan vote today. there is no reason to flip your vote. republicans are going to say democrats are for impeachment. these two guys don t get a pass. i was talking to an official last night who was saying in their view what they re hoping for is this is going to backfire against the democrats, that for people outside of the beltway who aren t paying attention to the drip, drip, drip and aren t following all the nuance, this official said, look, if you ask someone outside the beltway who is not closefly wauchgtching it
and you can criticize lebron james, and i think he was wrong to say what he said, because it s just so complex andnuances nuanced that you have to be careful about what you say to people who aren t paying attention. there are people who don t like what lebron james said about black lives matter, who don t like what lebron said about trayvon martin, so many other issues in the united states that now look at this as a convenient time to jump on lebron james and make a point he s on the wrong side of this. i don t know that they re especially motivated by the protestors in hong kong. that s a good point. david aldridge, thank you so much. we appreciate you coming in. more on this explosive testimony coming from premiere diplomats. a picture of the rogue operation involving the president and some
trump jr. is not somebody i care about. sure. the problem here is most americans aren t paying attention to politics and living in it as you and i are. so they kind of hear that something s going on with hunter biden and maybe it s similar to what trump s kids are doing and then they think to themselves, they make that leap into the average voter makes the leap into, well, they re all cooked, they re all corrupt. i think that s not true, even though that s the narrative that the white house wants to use hunter biden to make. it s really unfortunate because it distracts from potential crimes, actually, that have been committed by the white house and those around it. and that is a very different situation than having money in politics and influence in politics. and it s just not true that all politicians are corrupt. what hunter biden did was a lapse in judgment and it s unfortunate because it gives