we have new cnn reporting on efforts to get president biden to take a more forceful public role in bringing together the warring factions that are atlanta to go sink his domestic agenda. we have cnn senior reporter ed war isaac dovier joining us. i see you a bunch on tv. now you re ours. welcome to cnn. your inaugural live shot. i do want to hear what you are hearing from democrats. look, as jeremy was saying, this is a critical period for the agenda to either happen or not happen. and democrats on the hill are starting to say we need joe biden to step in and say, okay, we know what he wanted originally. what does he want in the final deal, what does this look like. a call last week between house speaker nancy pelosi and joe biden talking about this. they agreed they need to get this done and they need him to step up more forcefully. you are feeling that in the west wing, you re feeling that on the
battleground states, never mind the national poll, the battleground states, florida, north carolina, ohio, places where he needs to be building leads so he can win state and the election. we re not seeing that in the collection of polls, that s when s important. so looking at trump s calendar here, he s got events tomorrow and tuesday and the debate is wednesday. is he doing any debate prep? well, not clear to me how does he debate prep. i watched a bunch on tv, video. his debate style, this gets back to the whole question about the e-mails too. you see hillary clinton, she s been a political person for 30 years. everything is built with an infrastructure and a plan. with donald trump, there is not a lot of infrastructure and not a lot of plans. stuff just happened. so i don t really know he s doing a full sit-down debate prep at this point. he has been doing some, there was some discussion that he had chris christie preparing for him