speaking about last night s debate, biden told donors at a fund-raiser today, quote, i think i could have done better. i will do better god willing. joining me now to discuss, congressman cedric richmond. so vice president says the age card is fair game. do you agree? look, i think the vice president stands by his record. he is who he is, and you can t do anything about age. so if the american people think age is a real issue and, remember, everything s relative. the guy that he will be running against is nearly the same age. but if the american people think that that is an issue, i think he s willing to address it. so i think it is fair. i don t think how it was played was fair, especially since the facts were wrong surrounding the exchange. are you concerned that this is an issue that s just going to keep coming up? because it s the kind of thing that once, you know, people start to think about it or focus on it, anytime then somebody
this is cnn breaking news. and good morning, i m carol costello. and along with chris cuomo, he s in jacksonville along the st. john s river. breaking news this morning, of course hurricane matthew slowly, agonizingly slowly, moving its way up the east coast of florida. all the way, almost to jacksonville. chris how are conditions there? well, so far, so good. we re about tropical storm level right now. gusts at about 40 miles an hour. everything s relative, right carol? obviously you don t want that. but you know when you have a hurricane headed your way and that is the current advisory that jacksonville which was supposed to be a tangential hit is going to see concentrated lit from hurricane matthew. we heard from governor rick scott. he said the good news is about halfway through this dilemma, things have gone better than expected. there were over 500,000 that lost power. about a quarter of those have been restored.
all coming armed with information about the trump record, past affiliations with the democrats, past donations and be ready if trump targets them to come back at him. there s a lot we should mention. support of abortion rights, support of universal health care, support of progressive taxes, a lot of ammo. bob, one guy who s had somewhat of a drop over a last month and i thought did really well last night at the new hampshire candidates forum is marco rubio. well spoken. had detail. but he is taken a real hit in polls over a last month and some attribute it to the support of trump. how important do you think it is nor rubio on thursday night and have to do to get back in there in the top three field where he was in the beginning? everything s relative. this is the first of nine official republican debates. the summer is quiet.
management and budget and citigroup executive now, peter orszag. how are you doing? great. you look relaxed. everything s relative. you were talking to barnicle about the difference between serving and not serving in the white house. you do look you have more color in your face. anyhow, let s talk about the sanctions on russia so far. what have we imposed and why does it not appear to be working? are we being like the typical impatient american and we re supposed to give it time? why doesn t n t we see some kin reaction? we see vladimir putin making grand pronouncements about his new acquisition, which is crimea. unless we re going to prohibit investment in russia what have we done? we ve done limited things involving russian officials and associates. the kicker would come and i
control decided to bring it in manly. that turned out to be more difficult an imagined and it collided and accused the mere to tumble. they got it under control. they won t want this happening to the international space station, so i imagine they ll be very careful on it but they need the cargo that s onboard. food, water, all kinds of supplies, so i think they ll try to have a manual docking. but they re going to be very, very careful. you know, i don t want to be an alarmist and obviously when you re waiting for vital things like water, not to mention a roll of tp, you want supplies but my goodness, these things travel at an incredible rate of speed. any kind of collision could be catastrophic, couldn t it? everything s relative. they re it going on 17,000 miles