18 months of this campaign and over my, throughout my presidency, will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power. there s a new corporate feudalism in our country. greg: robert f. kennedy jr. is ready to challenge him for the democratic nomination. the media tries to write him off as a fringe candidate, but he already has 14% of joe s voters, no fringe, and 32% would rather have anybody but biden. the president could stop the democrat back stabbing if he was popular, but the white house can t defend that. 50% of those polled have a negative view of the economy. president biden talks about the economy all the time. he talked about the economy all the time because he wants the american people to know he is doing everything he can to make sure that his policies that he has put forward that has shown that he is building an economy that doesn t leave anybody behind. i know you re reading a poll now. that is one poll. greg: there you go, just one poll. dan
the hard part, legislating, governing starts now. news out of newport news, virginia, a 6-year-old fired a shot into a teacher. kohberger charged with the murders, may have cased the scene of the crime for months. i do believe he has an ego big enough to think that he had outsmarted the system. harry s memoir has leaked. the excerpts are shocking the u.k. and there are more revelations to come. i m pamela brown in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom. thank you so much for being here. the white house says president biden has called congressman kevin mccarthy to congratulate him on becoming speaker of the house. the california republican finally got his gavel well after 1:00 in the morning on the 15th vote. after the previous round, mccarthy went straight to the man standing in his way, fell le republican congressman matt gaetz who denied him the single remaining yes vote he needed. and then watch this. republican mike rogers lunging at matt gaetz, havin
him. so if you watched garland carefully, his press conference the other day, you may have noticed that he appeared highly annoyed by the idea of having to stoop to explain himself to mere citizens. he found a solution. being a liberal, merrick garland s first instinct was to seize the role of victim, because when you re a victim you ve already won the argument. you don t have to explain yourself. you don t have to change your behavior. you re by definition the good guy. the victim always is. being oppressed means never having to say you re sorry. so as garland explained in the press conference, the fbi was the victim. mean old fox news was asking unfair questions, and that s wrong. the real problem isn t that america s most powerful law enforcement agency is corrupt, no, the real problem is the people have dared to complain about it, and they must stop immediately or else they re domestic terrorists. as gary put it with genuine outrage, i will not silently stand by as the in
joining us now, nbc news chief political analyst, chuck todd, the man behind the article and nbc news correspondent, vaughn hillyard. chuck, when you go back and look at 2020, and why donald trump lost, is there a definitive answer for why he lost? i think if you surveyed political strategists and political scientists, you wouldn t get a definitive answer. i think he lost simply because of covid. there s a lot of people because of what happened after the election with january 6th, they think about his antics, the first impeachment. then we had the second impeachment that sort of took place right after the inauguration. we never really had that sort of consensus, you didn t have the after action reports because you have one party was in denial that they actually lost, so they didn t do an after action report. but in some ways, neither did the democrats and i think that what i feel like i m watching is what the biden campaign thought their theory of the case was in october of
presidential race front and centre donald trump watching meetings with lawmakers and business leaders while president joe biden half the roadway and italy pledging more support for ukraine as he meets with world leaders. for the first time today, commenting on his son hunter. wait till you hear what he said. what did he say over there and who did and didn t show up for donald trump over here? what the president is no sane. welcome everybody glad to have everybody with us. let s begin first with mike emanuel on what we are hearing from the president. mike. good afternoon president biden speaking in italy a short time ago offering support for his son hunter following his conviction on gun charges in delaware. i am externally proud of my son hunter he is overcome an addiction and is 1 of the brightest, most decent men and no. i am satisfied that i m knuckling to do anything i said i d buy by the jury decision i will do that and not pardon him. was also asked about efforts