how long could the vice president s momentum last and that lead continue? arthel: that s a great question. we want to talk about it with our political panel, jake macoby, former speech writer for loretta lynch. john thomas also with us, he s founder and president of thomas partners strategies and a republican pollster. boy, i m sure you were listening, and i m going to start with you, jake. one of the things that, notes that vice president biden ended off, he says the single most important thing we have to accomplish is defeat donald trump. that and unity. so, jake, is this why joe biden is resonating right now, and what will it take for the former vp to sustain the lead that he has over the other democratic candidates? well, i think it s certainly clear from this speech, this event that we just saw why president trump is afraid of joe biden. he s clearly capable of doing the job and clearly cares about
at all. jake, those policies that vice president biden pointed out at the rally again, social security, health care and climate change is this what it takes for him to become the president again? i think that s partly what it s going to take for anybody on the democratic side to be president, looking into the future and trying to tackle the challenges we face, and those are three big ones. and whether a candidate can speak compellingly about those things is going to determine whether they become president. but i think it is extremely important, and you re seeing that now, for people to be able to draw a contrast between approaching these issues with an eye to future and an eye to kind of country that we can be versus president trump s approach which is to look back to a past that never was and say we can be that again. and i think the future is always going to be more compelling, and that s what the vice president was talking about. arthel: yeah. he said that we need a clean ener
paul manafort visiting assange in the ecuadorian embassy. michael cohen the mueller investigation never transpired. these stories are doing a disservice to the american people. what this president has pointed out for the last two years, it is fake news. the american people see through it. let s get the facts right. making accusations which we know to be not truthful aren t helpful. more over, michael cohen, very important, ed, michael cohen, audio recorded every conversation he had. let s see if there is an audio. this doesn t exist, because it never happened. jake, he went through a long list of stories where the walls are closing in, it is over for trump. maybe not. the walls have closed in further. that s why you have rudy giuliani saying that members of the president s came pan may have colluded with russian
i don t know whether the story is true or not. i would take it with a giant grain of salt. a giant block. chris wallace says some are jumping whole hog on what they think is a new blockbuster. democrats saying they have an unverified buzz report saying he instructed michael cohen to lie to congress. some are crying impeachment immediately if the report is true. tonight, the white house is firing back. that s absolutely ridiculous. i think the president s outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today that s categorically false. joining me now, corey lewandowski and jake macoby, former speechwriter for loretta lynn much.