And the moment, the candidates polling between 1 and 2 , julian castro, cory booker, senator Amy Klobuchar. Can any of them seize on the opportunity provided by the National Spotlight. Lets bring in nbc News White House correspondent peter alexander. Hes made his way to houston, texas, to cover the debate. Peter, what should we expect to see in the matchup between biden and warren . Reporter you summarized the likely story lines pretty well. This is notable. The first time in the course of this Democratic Campaign that well see joe biden and Elizabeth Warren on the same stage together, as you noted. Ten candidates on stage, one night, three hours in all. Biden will be flanked by sanders and warren. Its the first time he and warren have been on together, they have sparred in the of the pa. It goes back 17 years, she called him out by name in 2002 in an oped specifically for his support of a bill that would have made it harder to pursue a bankruptcy for individuals. The two got into it w
Is call out, cancel culture, defend our democracy and that is what he has made an assault on also described as not, as big and if the republicans have a higher loyalty to the president structural change and elizabeth than they do to their oath of warren calls it or not satisfied with horse trading of the past. Office, thats their problem. Oh, you see president ial campaigns specifically the ones cnn chief political analyst of sanders and warren talk about Gloria Borger here with us now. Movement building thats not look at this and at the vote and reliant on specifically coming not a single republican broke to the middle or necessarily ranks. Right. A big deal . It is a big deal. Compromising your values and the kind of traditional come back to the president asked for the center for the general republicans to remain united. He said democrats are good at election. They think that the authenticity doing that. Had two defections. Of beal morally clear is what they was a brings people to th
Kristin fisher is also live in houston right outside the debate all and that is where we go first for the highlights. Good evening, kristin. Well, the big question heading into tonights debate was will joe biden finally debate like the front row that he is . Will he prove that hes worthy worthy of his place in the polls . Tonight joe biden was definitely more forceful and energetic than he has been in any of the previous debates, but Julian Castro would not let voters forget how forgetful biden has been on the campaign trail. Watch this moment, really by far the most heated of the debate were castro accuses biden of not remembering the details of his own Health Care Plan. When you said just 2 minutes ago i cant believe that you said 2 minutes ago that they had to buy in and now youre saying they dont have to youre forgetting that anybody whose grandmother has no money. Your automatically enrolled. Automatically enrolls people regardless of whether they choose to opt in or not. If you l
Despite the president being overseas. President trump i think he is a deranged human being. He grew up with a complex for a lot of reasons that are obvious and hes a very sick man and he lives. Adam schiff made up my conversation with the president of the ukraine. Melissa chief White House Correspondent live in london. You know, Prime Minister justin trudeau, the president defended, and the president is also promising that if it does go to trial and Senate Things will be much different. He encourage the White House Administration officials that he blocked from testifying in the house to participate in the senate trial. Listen to what he said. When its fair, i would love to have mike pompeo. I would love to have mitch. I would love to have rick perry. And many other people testify. But i dont want them to testify that this is a total fix. While impeachment remains a big story, here are the big story is nato. The president was very critical of the french president Emmanuel Macron saying