iowa countdown. with a week to go, gop candidates barnstorm iowa. there is a new day in america. without chaos. i m running for your issues. pretend we re one point down. and battle for democracy. facing political head winds, president biden hits the campaign trail with an allout focus on donald trump. democracy is on the ballot. as trump tried to flip the script. joe biden is a threat to democracy. will the strategy work. mike pence will join me from tel aviv, israel. and then congressman james clyburn. plus health scare. lloyd austin facing criticism for waiting days to tell the president and the public he s in the intensive care unit. how serious was his illness and why was it kept secret? hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is once again just shaking our heads. we re eight days from the iowa caucus, one day past the january 6 attack on the capitol and donald trump is dominating the political conversation in the only way he
iowa countdown. with a week to go, gop candidates barn storm iowa. there will be a new day in america without chaos. i m running for your issues. one point down. is this race more fluid than it seems? and battle for democracy. facing political head winds, president biden hits the campaign trail with an all out focus on donald trump. democracy is on the ballot. as trump tries to flip the script. will biden s strategy work. three years after the january 6 attack, mike pence will join me from tel aviv, israel. and then south carolina democratic congressman jim clyburn. plus health scare, defense secretary lloyd austin facing criticism for waiting days to tell the public he is in the intensive care unit. how serious was it and why was it kept secret. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is once again just shaking our heads. eight days from the iowa caucuses, one day past the third anniversary of the january 6 attack on the capitol. and donald tru
because, you know, that is referring to they re in the past. when every day the nominee is talking about it. so it is very much a threat in the present. and i think that is what president obama was getting at to joe biden. we could not take this for granting. we could not let 2016 happen again, no one will vote for trump when you just quoted in the segment with mike pence, what, 47% of americans think that the fbi instigated january 6. that is not a ghost story. those are real americans who are being fed lies by the republican nominee. and so, we can t risk running a biden campaign that is not full force right now. and so with the speech that he just gave is important, they re staffing up and i will just say from the folks that i have talked to at the biden campaign all the way at the top, they are not taking this for granted. they are stapping up and going into battleground and primary states getting the vice president out there. they understand the threat that is pending. they re goi
just quoted in the segment with mike pence 40% of americans actually think that the fbi instigated january 6. that is not a ghost story. those are real americans who are being fed lies by the republican nominee. and so we can t risk running a biden campaign that is not full force right now. and so with the speech that he just gave is important, they re staffing up. and from the folks that i ve talked to at the biden campaign all the way at the top, they are not taking this for granted either. they are staffing up, going into battleground states, going into primary states, getting the vice president out there. they understand the threat that is pending. they will talk about joe biden s record and they realize they have to meet voters where they are from the diversity of coalitions because many folks have different issues that are a issues that are a priority. brad and then doug. to my point is that joe biden had had a choice.