people watching this show today, what we heard last night, but is it to the base, who the candidates are speaking to? no question, that s what the base wants to hear. you can almost think of this as two debates, two primaries. you have the maga primary which, clearly, vivek won, and then you had the, you know, donor/normy debate. i think that nikki haley really scored points there. i think she ll get another look at folks looking for an alternative. i have to say, that may have been chris christie s finest moment, standing next to mike pence and devoting his time to defending what the vice president did. it was very clear, in a very articulate way. mike pence not shying away from the decision he made on january 6th. but we should be under no illusions, that the people like vivek and ron desantis were appealing to the majority of
i m joe. it s really great that you ve chosen to be with us on this first of our hopefully many shows ahead. that was some kind of debate last night, but nikki haley had some moments. she did. there was another moment, willie, where she basically said, let s stop lying to everybody. it s not joe biden that caused the deficit. it s not joe biden that caused the debt. it was donald trump. you went along with it and said nothing. it was a fascinating debate. ramaswamy was insulting everybody. everybody is bought and paid for. what i found in politics is, when you have somebody going around the stage saying everybody is bought and paid for, they re the one who is bought and paid for. but he reminded me of tracy flick in the old movie about politics. reese witherspoon, yeah. yeah, reese witherspoon.
maybe one this year. we might. they re a talented and young team in baseball. fun to watch. is it okay if we yankee fans can be adopted? our coat tails are long. come on board. we need something. well, let s talk about what we saw last night. we ve been talking this morning about the debate. eight people on the stage minus donald trump. what d you make of what you heard? it made me realize how glad i am to have joe biden as a partner in this work. the singular world view was divisive. the singular world view was there is a specific playbook they were all playing to, but there is no plan. and, you know, i think about it where we watched eight people on the stage talk about, you know, things like national abortion bans. eight people on stage talked about how much they d want to cut medicaid and social security. we watched eight people say law
around. you ve got tapes. he moved the boxes around. you have this i.t. guy who just flipped, who basically says that he was told that the boss wanted to cover this up. you know, he s dead to right there. again, 91 counts, you don t the prosecutors don t have to go 91 for 91. a lot of these felonies are 5, 10, 20 years. all it takes is a few counts, and he s done for the rest of his life. by the way, with the i.t. guy flipping, there may be more flipping to come as people look at the potential for jail time. they re not going to jail for donald trump. elise, our colleagues at cnbc are reporting that donald trump is going to hold a fundraiser for rudy giuliani s legal defense fund. finally i guess he answered rudy s call. $100,000 a plate at bedminster in a couple weeks to get rudy some legal help. but we are watching at the debate last night, and this question we ve been talking about, of would you still support donald trump? would you still vote for him if
meanwhile, president biden is agreeing with something nikki haley said last night. he posted the following video with the caption, what she said. take a look. you have ron desantis. you ve got tim scott. you ve got mike pence. they all voted to raise the debt, and donald trump added $8 trillion to our debt. our kids are never going to forgive us for this. joining us in studio, the democratic governor of the great state of maryland, wes moore. he is a member of the biden/harris 2024 national advisory board. good to see you. good to see you, too. before we get to the debate and other stuff, when you were sworn into office in january, the orioles were coming off a fourth place, unremarkable season. since you took office, they have the best record in the american league. is there a connection, sir? i think so. they re going to be a juggernaut for years to come. this is maryland s decade. that includes we re going to get world series rings in the ballpark.