they were charging hillary clinton which is what they should have done. the fact is these other folks in the race they are just looking for a scapegoat they want to blame anybody. i will tell them who to blame. blame joe biden and merrick garland who have not provided the type of leadership in the country or the justice department that you need. people should go to chris christie.com for they should look up what we have to say and to donate to the campaign will have these debates right on the stage frequency sounds like they ve the fbi director gets to saving up the attorney general. government will see out there on the campaign trail, thank you. thank you, thank you she had a great fox news channel hosted the first primary debate just six weeks from now in milwaukee bret baier, martha maccallum candace going just take the stage at 9:00 p.m. eastern. cap next the panels back really have south carolina s taking center stage with two very different visits by president biden former pres
just over a year ago. in my time working for the president s white house press secretary i saw, firsthand, just how he thinks about his role and how he thinks about republicans. as he looks ahead to 2024 he is reaching back to the success of his 2020 bid and the messaging around that. campaigning against trumpism without totally alienating all republicans. the idea, in part is for the president to convince people who may not be democrats to come over and support him to. if they can t stomach trump. it s not just politics. that s also louis s. when i worked for him, he would regularly pick up the phone and called republicans. without much fanfare. without announcing it. he s kd of a bridge builder by nature. the open question is if that strategy will pay off in 2024. my next guest are people who have spent a lot of time within their offices, on the phones, texting them about strategies. and i m so grateful for them being here tonight. kate bedingfield is a former white house communicati
evening from new york i am jen psaki in for chris hayes tonight. as many of you may know, i ve some experience work with presidents. both president obama and president biden. in those jobs, i spent a fair amount of time classified information. both from the white house, and also the state department. here s what i can tell you from my experience. despite what donald trump s lawyers are telling all of you. there is neither a magic wand a president has to retroactively declassified documents. there isn t some sort of special declassification process available only to the white house. and the argument from trump allies that only taking classified documents without issued as sensitive as nuclear secrets or a hypothetical thing that iran has sent and sharing that with others. which donald trump has reportedly done is the exact same thing as an knowingly, that s the key word here retaining classified documents and then returning them. which president biden former vice president mike pence di
think it is what the american people are yearning for. i don t think it is a globe we romanticize version of it. they just know that in an argument where two people are having that argument. the likely answer lies somewhere in this. and i totally agree with kate. i think people come to washington to get things done. whether you are the most junior member of congress where the most senior member of the senate. where the president of the united states. you want to see progress on things. the american people are sophisticated enough to know that the only way they are going to see progress as if both sides work together. they spent 40 years watching somebody but sometimes and almost always unnecessarily limit division. biden is he confident grown up in the room who would want to avoid the chaos and can bring washing to gather. i m sure it is been using him for a while that i was told this bipartisanship was dead.
who were very close with robert gibbs who served as the white house secretary for obama. i also work very closely with him. i want to start with this overarching question for you. you work for the president for so long. you know him very well. i think is overarching view was that there is a real appetite out there in the country for someone who can find common ground even with members of the modern-day republican party. that promises a big pitch in 2020. how essential do you think that is going to be to the reelection campaign and the messaging of that as we look to 2024? first of all, thank you for having me. this is a treat. i think that is going to be a critical piece of the messaging in 24. for two reasons. one, as you said, it is fundamentally what president biden believes. it is how he has long navigated washington, successfully. and he definitely believes that leaders should be able to find common cause when they can. i think, secondly will be a key piece of messaging because