be, and that means if you re not a go zillionaire and running for president, you can come into iowa and meet voters. reporter: it s all about likability here at the state fair. we re in the heart of the midwest, and people really don t want to tub some of the policief the policies at the debate, but with they want to see their likable, how they communicate, how they hold some of these babies, eat corn on the cob. you name it, they re doing it, so we ll see how it all turns out. molly: eating corn on the cob in front of a dangerous people, that is always a dangerous a bunch of people, that s always a dangerous thing. thank you for covering it for us, alexis mcadams, we appreciate it. griff: for more on campaign 2024, joining us to the marc lotter, america first policy student chief communications director, and david defurry, former obama campaign foreign policy adviser. let s pick up right where alexis left off, if can that is you go
the department of justice, he did not work for the attorney general, janet reno at the time. he was picked because he was a prominent attorney from outside of the united states government, from outside of the department of justice. that s how special counsels are supposed to work. and as you mentioned, the regulations that govern the department of justice specifically state that a special counsel is supposed to come from outside of the government. because remember, it s not just about making sure that the process is complete, come we e hencive and fair comprehensive and fair, it also has to have the proper appearance of or fairness. and again, here you have david weiss who literally works as an employee for the department of justice under merrick garland being picked by merrick garland, the hand-picked attorney general of joe biden to investigate joe biden s son. obviously, the optics don t look right here which is why you re supposed to, if you re the attorney general of the united
natasha, does this help or hurt joe biden by muddying the water for him or does it raise his profile even further as the democratic front-runner? i think it s mixed for biden. on the one hand, yes, it does raise his profile, it sends a clear message that trump believes that biden is so dangerous that he has to involve other countries in investigating biden. so from that standpoint, we get a look into trump s psyche and who he s worried about. on the other hand, it s slightly negative that the optics don t look great. this is trump s effort and i do think trump was caught off guard by all this. there doesn t seem to be the same type of war room that you had with the clinton impeachment
it is like trying to catch confetti, there is so much. the challenge is foreign policy, there are so many people removed from 9/11, so you go to his rally and you ask these magga people, tell me the difference of taliban and al-qaida. i doubt they can do this. there was a show where they went to trump rally and started asking questions, did you know that obama was nowhere near 9/11, don t you think that s strange? it is scary. this is to jennifer s point, that is national security risk. i fear what will happen with the president having access to the colt, just quickly, this is crazy because he puts it out there for us to see. he s our leader. yeah. imagine we are uncovering
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