Joining the democratic field for 2020. You are looking at live pictures from philadelphia where former Vice President biden is holding his first fund raisers hours after officially announcing had he is running for president if we get donald trump eight years in the produce he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are. And i cannot stand by and watch that happen. As you heard there, biden taking trump head on. Also, slamming the president for his response to the deadly white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia. This is bidens third run for the white house. And he is the 20th candidate to sberp the race. At 76 years old he is also the second oldest in that field, just behind bernie sanders. But as biden looks forward to 2020 some of his past coming back to haunt him today. Day one and the controversy over the 1991 Justice Clarence thomas hearings back. Today bidens team revealing he had a conversation with anita hill tu but it today she fire
Whats the situation at this hour . Reporter right now the cleanup is underway in the city. Behind me police are Still Standing in front of the governors mansion. But you can also see what was left of that protest. A broken down barrier. And on the walls of the streets of san juan, you still see the frustrations in the graffiti that the protesters left behind. This as the calls for the governors resignation are growing. A tense standoff in puerto ricos capital escalating to a clash between police in riot gear firing tear gas into clouds. Thousands of protesters taking to the streets well into the night demanding the islands governor resign. A direct message to coverage ricardo rossello. Well be out here until he resigns. Were tired of the abuse of so many years of corruption. Reporter rossello is under intense scrutiny after puerto ricos center for Investigative Journalism uncovered nearly 900 pages of a leaked private group chat between the governor and his inner circle. They include v
And later thousands of democrats descend on a story to iowa cattle call. The pact shrinks as the stakes get higher for cory booker. It is another weekend with so much to get to. The president just wrapped up an event with australias Prime Minister in ohio. The president essentially campaigned with indias Prime Minister in houston, texas. The two World Leaders walked hand in hand in front of tens of thousands. Were going to get to that in just a moment. My interview with senator ben cardin is also coming up in a few minutes as complicated ties from allies with ukraine to india to israel to saudi arabia to, did i misrepresentatiention more complicated. Also tonight democrats begin to separate themselves from Elizabeth Warren in health care and new polling gives some insights on how voters feel about medicare for all. And former president of planned parenthood Cecil Richards joins me from detroit as workers continue to strike in michigan. But first in spite of everything that has happened
Comes after the most contentious hearings. Fiona hill debunking one of the conspiracy theories that it was ukraine and not russia to interfere in the 2016 to help democrats. Based on questions and statements ive heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its Security Services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propagated by the russian Security Services themselves. A fictional narrative and shes not trying to be subtle. Shes saying anyone who pushes those Conspiracy Theorys is an unwitting russian agent helping putin. Hill also attacking trumps efforts. President trumps ambassador to the eu about the investigations. He was being involved in a domestic, political errand and i did say to him, ambassador sondland, i think this is all going to blow up, and here we are. A domestic political errant. Seven public hearings and 12 witnesses
In for chuck todd. Welcome to meet the press daily and were one week out from the release of the Mueller Report and it is becoming increasingly clear the president will remain defiant and both are looking to 2020 for the ultimate vindication. The day after joe biden cast his candidacy as a mission to purge the nation of trump, the president delivered a red meat speech at the nra annual meeting and it felt like the first draft of the stump speech you could expect trump to be delivering throughout the 2020 campaign with prominent mentions of the russia investigation. They tried for a coup. It didnt work out so well. [ applause ] and i didnt need a gun for that one, did i . Spying, surveillance, trying for an overthrow and we caught em we caught em. Americas future has never been brighter and yet democrats have never been angrier, especially now that their collusion dilution has been exposed to the world as a complete and total fraud. The remarks came moments after he doubled down on the