re-election bid. rich edson live at the white house with the latest for us. good morning. president biden begins second day in california in san francisco meeting with those artificial intelligence experts as the white house says to seize the opportunities and manage the risks of a.i. technology. yesterday was all about climate. president biden touring a march land in palo alto, california. announced $600 million in funding to help mitigate the effects of climate change. the president took the opportunity to rip republicans for trying to reverse climate initiatives like this as biden has started campaigning for re-election. we re investing in the people and places that have been hit the hardest. but who are also on the front lines of leading us forward. unfortunately, some of our maga republican friends in congress are continuing to try undo all the progress we have already made in the first two and a half years. they were holding the country hostage over the debt limit
special prosecutor jack smith has a history of taking on big cases and losing big time. what is trump up against when he faces jack smith. maybe we can find out by looking back. remember john edwards once high fro file had a kid out of wedlock. he wanted to use campaign contributions in order to pay for that kid. they go ahead and decide to take him to trial because he was using campaign contributions to hide an affair. well, when jack smith decides to try him. it turns out he was acquitted on one count. dead locked on the other. he said let me do it again. the doj says no. we re not going to do this again. jack smith loses. what about the high profile 2015 case with governor bob mcdonald s of virginia? now he and his wife were accused of using that position to help out donors that supported them in their run for the virginia governor s spot. so he was tried on 11 different construction counts and he was convicted on that. it cost him $23 million, that conviction would be overturned
money to attack other republicans. i am not for that position. laura: you called president trump s rhetoric divisive and blamed him for blowing the virginia race on cnn. virginia is a blue state. i don t agree with you. laura: oh, really? do you want me to answer your questions or are you going to keep stepping on me? i don t think that virginia is a blue state. if we say bob mcdonald s election in 2009 was a reverend oo laura: it didn t work. you think president trump is
republicans. i am not for that position. laura: you called president trump s rhetoric divisive and blamed him for blowing the virginia race on cnn. virginia is a blue state. i don t agree with you. laura: oh, really? do you want me to answer your questions or are you going to keep stepping on me? i don t think that virginia is a blue state. if we say bob mcdonald s election in 2009 was a reverend oo laura: it didn t work. you think president trump is devicis? yes, the polls show that.
for the democratic party and they actually, you can sort of see the clouds of doom coming in again a couple days ago, remember we went around the panel monday morning, asked everybody who they thought they were going to win, ed gillespie, ed gillespie, everybody was saying it. by yesterday afternoon, you started hearing sort of order restored, a lot of conservatives were saying, wait a second, you know, northam may end up winning. the same thing with democrats. it was big. this is big. you look at these races, they call these off year races but in virginia they always matter, 1993, george allen s landslide victory replacing doug wilder. that led to republicans, foreshadowed them winning a huge landslide. 2009, bob mcdonald s win, another landslide a year after barack obama elected president.