biden being one-on-one with the president, with 235 days to go before the iowa caucus. remember that jeb bush and some republicans thought that was a coronation. and hillary clinton was a coronation. we just gave them too much energy too soon. yeah. i mean, comparing the last republican race to this one, it s apples to oranges. it s a good strategy for vice president biden. increasingly, he s not in step with the partyideologically. if he is able to show he can have back and forths and appear the strongest, that can appeal to democratic primary voters that want to defeat president trump. that s their ultimate goal. the backdrop to this schoolyard brawl was the polls just released. it had surprising takeaways.
in the meantime, i think the problem is that we americans don t understand what the policy is. it s like, i don t know if you all went to public school but it reminds me of like a schoolyard brawl where trump is here. hey, rocket man and kim jong-un is, hey, barking dog. we don t know if this is going to end in a brawl but if it does, we are just bluffing, or are we really prepared to go in there and quote/unquote annihilate north korea. it seems our policy is just to agitate and infuriate a mad man. the question is russia, though. once again, the simplest explanation for the fact that russia wasn t raised this week that trump always ends up in a pro-putin place is that he s compromised. that manafort isn t the center of this. he s the doorway to trump which is at the center of this. that s a known/unknown. we ll have to hit pause. blasted by jimmy kimmel and on the outs with some of the trump base, republicans make one
the sake of getting one person and you ve got four of us here, we re not even close to the number that you re really after. so i think that s a fair debate for us to have. how did cruz do? i think he was definitely among the top. you think he was the best? better than kasich? i thought he was a reassuring presence on the stage. he wasn t as engaging in a schoolyard brawl and that he was knowledgeable about the issues. i think he came across as a statesm statesman. i think he did very well. i think it was a horrible format. i don t say that because i don t think my guy got the kind of questions that i was hoping he would have gotten. talking about outreach and grow. ing the party and what he s done. there was nothing on civil rights tonight. nothing and as republicans we ignore those type of things. we have a national audience.
i have a different world view on gathering all these records for the sake of getting one person and you ve got four of us here, we re not even close to the number that you re really after. so i think that s a fair debate for us to have. how did cruz do? i think he was definitely among the top. you think he was the best? better than kasich? i thought he was a reassuring presence on the stage. he wasn t as engaging in a schoolyard brawl and that he was knowledgeable about the issues. i think he came across as a statesman. i think he did very well. i think it was a horrible format. i don t say that because i don t think my guy got the kind of questions that i was hoping he would have gotten. talking about outreach and grow. ing the party and what he s done. there was nothing on civil rights tonight.
for two years. now we have a woman in a prison in sudan. we left americans behind in benghazi, libya. this is a tragedy. we are seeing a direct correlation between this increasing religious hostility here at home by the hands of our own government and this rising persecution abroad manly of christians. a petition is calling on the white house to fight that sentence. it now has 600,000 signatures. heather? shocking video of a dad egging on his son during a schoolyard brawl. right now. punch him in the face. there you go. do it again. no, no, turn around. do it again. child welfare officials are looking into the home life of an 11-year-old boy and his father after this video surfaced that shows the father urging his son to take a swing at a fellow classmate. the father and the son met with school officials. the students now facing disciplinary action as police