protecting our democracy. the president is expected to address threats from maga republican election deniers to not accept the result thofs year s vote. and the growing embrace of political violence in the aftermath of the hammer attack on house speaker pelosi s 82-year-old husband. joining me for the hour are jen saki, matthew dowd and david plus. jen i start with you. you ve been talking to white house officials. what should we expect to hear from the president? joy, it s six days until the election and this is the big closing argument for the president. there he s doing this because at this point it sless about convincing people that you have a better plan. it s about lighting a fire under those democrats and people who are going to support democratic candidates to get them out. the other piece they are focused on is saying to democratics and other people voting for candidates hang with us. it may be a long week. it may take time to count the votes but stick with us and
candidates hang with us. it may be a long week. it may take time to count the votes but stick with us and that s vital at this point. let me go around the horn. matthew, that pause that we re going probably see between election night and wait a minute. i m going to pause more. here comes president biden. he s walking up to the podium. let s take him live. good evening everyone. just a few days ago, a little before 2:30 a.m. in the morning, man smashed the back window and broke in to the home of the speaker of house of representatives, the third highest ranking official in america. he carried in his backpack zip ties, duct tape, rope, and a hammer. as he told the police he had come looking for nancy pelosi to take her hostage, to interrogate
your names to president barack obama, talk about all of the amazing wonderful things that helped americans. talk about those policies. i haven t heard about any of the good things that we did without just attaching his name. martha: i m curious. do you think that joe biden will last? david axelrod suggested that he could spin out. do you think, robin, let me go around the horn here, lori, do you think he goes to business here? i want to jump in i thought honestly. martha: robin, jump, in quickly, robin. i thought honestly that his campaign would die of attrition that his best day would be his first. you saw, of course, an 8 point burden o bump after he announced which surprised me. he still stands the risk of dying by attrition. martha: what do you think? let me go back to you, lori. so i think that he had a strong start but you build off that momentum. you don t take an easy road
flatter, more efficient tax code. we re working together, we ve had the first hearings together in more than 70 years. i think a more efficient and flatter and fairer tabs code would help the economy and help people get the work they need and also maybe get higher wages if they re already working. let me go around the horn now with xavier becerra, bob woodward and peggy noonan. bob woodward, you re no stranger to these controversies in washington. how has the administration handled this this past week? first of all, people are making comparisons to watergate. this is not watergate but there are some people in the administration who have acted as if they want to be nixonian, and that s a very big problem. who and how? pardon? well, i think on the whole benghazi thing. you look at those talking points and, i mean, the initial draft by the cia very explicitly said we know that activists who have ties to al qaeda were involved
platteplat flatter, more efficient tax code. we re working together, we ve had the first hearings together in more than 70 years. i think a more efficient and flatter and fairer tabs code would help the economy and help people get the work they need and also maybe get higher wages if they re already working. let me go around the horn now with xavier becerra, bob woodward and peggy noonan. bob woodward, you re no stranger to these controversies in washington. how has the administration handled this this past week? first of all, people are making comparisons to watergate. this is not watergate but there are some people in the administration who have acted as if they want to be nixonian, and that s a very big problem. who and how? pardon? well, i think on the whole benghazi thing. you look at those talking points and, i mean, the initial draft by the cia very explicitly said we know that activists who have