welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., the cofounder of axios, mike allen. good morning to you. morning. talk to us about the axios one big thing today. the axios one big thing is wall street bonuses shrink. so courtney brown got some projections from new york city which of course cares about these bonuses because of taxes. and it s finding that they re likely to be down 9% this year after last year, even though the stock market continues to boom. now, why does this matter? two things. one is this sends a ripple effect through the tri-state economy up there, if you re a steakhouse or ferrari dealer, hamptons real estate agency, wall street bonuses mean a lot to you. why do they matter to us? two things. one is we re seeing the wall street firms go to delivered kinds of compensation or other compensation, for instance,
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energize voters. biden also dished about his fellow 2020 democratic opponents scoffing at the notion that senator elizabeth warren is building enthusiasm and accusing mayor pete buttigieg of stealing his health care plan. okay. let s bring in the cofounder of axios, jim vandehei. jim, somebody apparently has spiked joe biden s milk of magnesia. he s coming out fighting. stop it. you re on a roll this morning, joe. no, no, not and you know what i call it? no malarky, lad. no malarky. we ll have a no malarky exchange here. i think biden sees a couple things happen. one, with elizabeth warren he feels like she made an epic mistake in endorsing medicare for all without an option to keep your private insurance. so he s going to keep the foot on gas on going after her. when pete buttigieg, who he sees as the biggest threat in terms
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cofounder of axios, mike allen. good morning to you. good morning. thanks for having me in the house yesterday. we love having you on set as always. talk to us about the one big thing today. the axios one big thing is the republicans new impeachment argument. axios obtained an 18-page staff memo that went to the committee members who are going to be at the open hearing tomorrow making the republican case. and there s a key phrase in that memo. and that is the president s state of mind. so this memo argues that you need to understand the context of the president s state of mind when he was talk together ukrainian president. why does this matter? this matters because republicans are not going to context the mount tac mountain of facts out there with lots of corroborated facts. if they can make their argument about the president s state of mind and whether or not something seis impeachable that