behind me. also about five miles away close to where the president is or will be. i am joined by boris sanchez, a cnn white house correspondent who was following the president. also with me is nicole perez. an el paso native. who just wrote an opinion piece for cnn.com called the spirit of el paso is invincible. boris, let me start with you. this speech from joe biden was blistering. it is part of a new heighted level of rhetoric and willingness in the democratic field to take the president on really directly on all of these issues. how is the white house responding? you just saw the president s tweet there. the president simply isn t affected by this sort of speech. we saw that in 2016 when hillary clinton gave that speech about racism and the president courting racists. steve bannon at the time essentially downplayed that speech. it brushed off his back. i expect kwe will see much the same here. he believes that democrats are