generational argument. but increasingly, both inside and outside of his campaign, there are concerns that his candidacy simply isn t rising to the challenge of taking on trump yet. let s discuss all of this and more with cnn s jeff zeleny and melanie zanona and tia mitchell, and politico s eli stokeles. and you were out on the campaign trail, trump just shows up on friday after being gone for quite sometime, skipping the fourth of july parades, he is just it seems not playing by the same rules as everyone here here. well, look, he certainly has a head start so he doesn t have to introduce himself. people are very well acquainted with him for good or bad, depending on your point of view of republicans. but he a big campaign rally last saturday in south carolina and he was back on friday in counsel bluffs iowa. i was struck by his aides insisting he was going into desantis and talking about
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white house reporter eli stokeles and dr. natalie azar. eli, what are we expecting to hear president biden say any minute now from the white house? a couple of things, jeff. there will be sort of a victory lap not talking about the fact that 160 million americans almost have gotten the vaccine. this will be the president, again, urging those americans who haven t to do so and outlining new steps the administration is taking along with the private sector and with state and local officials to make it easier to find the vaccine, make access easier, so getting the vaccines to doctors, expanding mobile clinics, helping set up workplace vaccination sites, making it easier and emphasizing this is really easy and really important with these variants on the rise. but i think this white house is trying to do that at the same time when the president is also trying to not just take a victory lap, but demonstrate, as he did over the weekend in michigan, to demonstrate that
indicated that they would view any stone walling by the trump associates as further evidence of obstruction of congress. this is going to be further evidence of an effort of the administration to obstruct the lawful and constitutional duties of congress. this is only going to further add to the body of evidence on a potential obstruction of congress charge against the president. for their part, the house republicans are looking to question the whistle-blower, but the house leader kevin mccarthy rejected a deal proposed by the whistle-blower s attorney to submit written questions. many are saying that the testimony is unnecessary because much of the complaint has been confirmed by others including the president who voluntarily released the readout of the call to ukraine. joining me is geoff bennett, and jake sherman and los angeles times and white house reporter eli stokeles and secretary of state and senior fellow for the
you want something back, and hoe wanted something back to help himself politically, and the republicans are trying to gloss over it, and you will hear the democrats trying to make the point more precisely as this continues. we will try to make sense of it all by having you guys to join us and helping us out. michael, and geoff and eli and smegma dogmatic stew, and you try to top that one. so, the documents were subpoenaed as part of the investigation into potential hush money payments to two women prior to the 2016 election. joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. can you explain to us this decision? sure. it is a three-judge panel of the 2nd circuit court of appeals, and they say for several reasons the president s argument fails