to say, you know, i agree with joe biden, but i m 30 years younger and, you know, more could do all of these things. so i think it s going to be really interesting shaking out over the next couple of months. and i would suspect by the summer if we look at the iowa numbers we re going to have a much better idea of, you know, sort of what the contours of the race are. rachel, it was so interesting we had harry enten on last hour where he showed us the continuum of where all the candidates are idealogically on the spectrum and joe biden and beto o rourke are right next to each other as most moderate. so does it announcement by o rourke change biden s colonel cue lous? joe biden is clearly not there. his top officials say he s 95% in. but obviously his heart is still in those last 5% so he has not jumped in yet. the interesting thing about beto is he s able to sort of bring up all this new jersey and really
office of management and budget director mick mulvaney. these are the two people who seem to be at the top of the list. the rumblings that john kelly is leaving, of course, are something that we ve been hearing for a while. the white house yesterday denied it. but again, poppy, they ve denied these kinds of departures before, and a lot of times, the folks end up leaving shortly thereafter, so we re keeping a close eye on that, poppy. abby philip at the white house, thank you. have a good weekend. rachel blade is joining me, margaret todd as well, political analyst. nice to have you. rachel, what do you make of what sources tell our supreme court reporter? this white house wants a pick and a pick made public for a justice to replace kennedy by july 9th. well, even if a pick comes fast, this is going to be a long summer, a pretty epic fight on capitol hill. so, even if the president does name someone before his trip, before july 9th, it s going to take a long time to actually get him
this morning a new cover from time magazine taking on the crisis at the southern border. take a look at this. it shows a towering president trump staring at a crying child with the message, welcome to america. the young girl you see here is a 2-year-old hon duren child crying for her mother. this is from an actual photo that was taken. the girl this is an image that they ve super imposed of the president there. joining me now, political analyst ron brownstein and rachel blade also with us. thank you both for being here. rachel, let me begin with you. you got that image and then you have the president saying, as he signed that executive order yesterday, quote, i didn t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. but this was his policy this was his practice. he knew that when instituting
children and our next generation. that was the first lady on tuesday talking about cyber bullying. two days later her husband called former vice president weak both mentally and physically and said if they fought, biden could go down fast and hard. unclear whether that meets melania s standard of helping children and our next generation. i m joined by molly ball, rachel blade and jackie kucinich. i don t want to dwell on this too much because it s dumb. i don t think there s any way to look at it other than it s not helpful for america like this. it s extraordinary to see two 70-plus-year-old men in this kind of spat. i think it s fair to say we re not going to see any kind of fist to cuffs come out of this. you would hope the discourse would be a little more elevated. looking ahead politically, trump