the suburban voters. they won in 2018. don t want to see a major movement on impeachment until the process plays out. so speaker pelosi, as ever, holding this party together, but it s a fragile peace. robert, anything else from democrats as far as what they were hoping to hear as opposed to mistakes made on the stage in their view? the most interesting thing i picked up in the last few minutes is some of the rival camps are saying vice president biden had a chance tonight to not only escape major issues but to go after senator warren. you saw some of his allies like former pennsylvania governor ed rendell attack senator warren on the fundraising front. vice president biden avoided that kind of confrontation tonight, but that kind of confrontation, biden allies and other top democrats say that still looms on the horizon. what is he going to do to confront his chief rival at this time in the coming months? robert costa, worth his weight in gold as a guest on this or any broadcast.
their view? the most interesting thing i picked up in the last few minutes is some of the rival camps are saying vice president biden had a chance tonight to not only escape major issues but to go after senator warren. you saw some of his allies like former pennsylvania governor ed rendell attack senator warren on the fundraising front. vice president biden avoided that kind of confrontation tonight, but that kind of confrontation, biden allies and other top democrats say that still looms on the horizon. what is he going to do to confront his chief rival at this time in the coming months? robert costa, worth his weight in gold as a guest on this or any broadcast. thank you so much, as always. a quick note to our viewers. when we come back, we re going to hear from former housing secretary julian castro. he, of tonight s deeply uncomfortable moment according to some on stage when we took a kind of a round house. he called him a skunk. at joe biden. so we ll have that when we com
now to hallie jackson who probably likes a chick-fil-a sandwich. who doesn t? i m hallie jackson in washington. a different kind of storm is settling over the west wing as an angry president today blasts the new york times and denies he ever asked the former ag to step into an investigation that affects him. the fallout from that and our top three take aways this morning as the former fbi acting director stands by his story. what he s ready to tell lawmakers now about whether he thinks president trump could be a russian asset. a member of the judiciary committee joins us live later. and on the 2020 front, the president is taking a dig at bernie sanders calling him crazy. he is crazy rich on the fundraising front. how the senators huge fundraising hall might send a shiver through his competition. and the new american led push to crack down on anti-gay laws around the world led by the
which is something he sai early on he had no interest in doing. maybe he s feeling the pressure a little bit and feel like run the most unorthodox campaign isn t always the right way to do it. sometimes old school rules. paul ryan is just not there yet when we talk about whether or not he s there. largely, there are several reasons. one of which he s not convinced yet he can get the 247 votes in order to become speaker, he doesn t want to live week by week the way john boehner did or face the same rebellion from the 40 or so republicans in the house freedom caucus that torpedoed mccarthy s bid to become speaker. he s also got concerns about the amount of fundraising that goes into the job like this. john boehner, of course, travelled virtually every single weekend for that job. but there are a lot of pressure on him to take it and folks are saying, look, we can help you out on the fundraising front.
fundraising front? a startling development caught people s attention is how much money republicans are taking in and raising for mitt romney. and paul ryan. it is not close anymore. guest: the democrats and president obama have been raising for a long time. mitt romney and the republicans have just recently been raising money, they capture a large donor base and the continued political rhetoric we hear in discussion and the contrast coming from the democratic convention comparing working families to the wealthy machines that is further separating and drawing a contrast of wealthy donors which are continuing to run toward the republican party. however, president clinton s speech was very motivation am,