of our leadoff panel. nbc s national political correspondent, my dear friend, michael memoli is here. he s covered president biden, his family, and his inner circle of advisers for more than a decade. susan glasser joins us, staff writer for the new yorker. she coauthored the book the divider, about trump s time in the white house, and former attorney joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor, and now is an msnbc contributor. mr. memoli, let s turn to you first. it appears that president biden s campaign is focused, and they ve got their message, warning that donald trump is a threat to american democracy. what can you tell us? yeah, steph. we remember how president biden kicked off his 2020 campaign, which was talking about a battle for the soul of america. now, as we turn the calendar to 2024, the very first public speech we re gonna hear from president biden is gonna make it clear that he believes this fight for the soul of the country is still very much engaged. now
she ever had. and andrea may even say something about that. i want to ask about that, and please speak to it, but also about the fact that the focus of your father-in-law s speech in 1963 was, as much about sort of economic inequality as well as racial inequality and how they basically are all part of the same challenge. and those disparities still exist today. the plblack unemployment rate i more than double that of white americans. the median household wealth of that white americans is nearly eight times that of black americans. why is the gap still so persistent? i think it points to the fact that we still have much work to do. my dear friend, jennifer jones austin and i actually just penned an op-ed for time.com a few days ago, talking with very real numbers about the disparities of poverty within the black and white community, particularly as it relates to black women.
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they re already hitting walls on fund-raising. we saw that from the second quarter numbers. donors are hesitant to see their dollars go towards something other than a candidate or a campaign or campaign operations. so it s all of that right now. it will only get worse as this thing begins to accelerate. we re into trial, we re into debates and we re into the process of primaries. michael steele, you ll be back with us later on when we talk about the debates with glenn kirschner. my dear friend, garrett haake, always good to talk to you. michael, i promise not to ask you if you think the other republicans are change their strategy a year from now? it s not you. trust me. you and i are on the same page there, my friend. what s going on in israel as
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