Good day, everyone. Ahead of a critical test frs joe biden in tonights debate. He showed new strength in new National Polls despite an uneven performance last month. Now signaling hell be tougher tonight and expects attacks for all sides. Perhaps this time not from Kamala Harris standing on one side of him but more likely from cory booker, appearing for the first time on the same stage as biden and a sharp critic on his stance on the issue of race. Some performed well last night, including Steve Bullock or Michael Bennett who is appearing tonight. Disagreements over healthcare is sure to be a dividing line again as they were last night. We should deal with the tragedy but why do we got to be the party of taking something away from people. No one is the party. Theyre running on telling everyone that your Health Insurance is illegal. Hospitals will save substantial sums of money because they wont be doing billing and the other ive done the math. Im not going to support a plan that rips a
I want to be absolutely clear about my record of position on racial justice, including bussing. I never, never, never ever opposed voluntary bussing. And as a program that senator harris participated in and it made a difference in her life. I did support federal action to address root causes of segregation in our schools and our communities including taking on the banks and redlining and trying to change the way in which neighborhoods were segregated. Ive always been a favorite of using federal authority to overcome stateinitiated segregation. Former Vice President joe biden defending himself in chicago today fending off criticism about an anecdote that he told about working with segregationist senators in the 1970s, uing it to highlight his ability to work with views who says he morally opposed. Im going to talk to new jersey senator cory booker, the first president ial candidate to criticize the Vice President s remarks. Between biden and california senator Kamala Harris who said bid
Tomorrow night to save your space . The candidates have had time to walk through and take a look at the inside of the stage and also to review their attacks on the rivals since the last showdown. All right. Now one after the other, how does it look . Does negativity work . What is that angle . Will anybody talk about detroit and flint and about people and try to make a positive moment . A lot of different angles going on. So now lets get to our coverage. Lets go inside of the fox theater and we have Phil Mattingly and we were talking before, holy cow is it beautiful inside of that room. Yeah, no question about it. A beautiful theater, a beautiful stage. But for the candidates, a very clear focus less maybe on the aesthetics and more on the strategy. And make no mistake about it, all ten candidates on stage tonight standing at the lecterns over my right shoulder are going into this debate with a strategy. Whether or not that strategy lasts, that will be an open question. The way you hav
Voting between 4 00 and 5 00 today on this issue. This will be the opportunity. Today its going to voted . Today, 4 00 and 5 00 today. This will be the opportunity for us to all go on record. Either we will move forward with impeachment or well vote against it. Okay. Manu raju is with us. Thats big. I thought this was going to happen next week. Yeah, it could happen within the next two legislative days. Thats under the house rules, this resolution will be brought up. Its considered privilege. That means that essentially he can force a vote without the consent of the democratic leadership. As a result, it could happen today or tomorrow. Al green told me that he expects it this afternoon. I just spoke to top democratic leadership aides who say that they have now made a final decision yet about when exactly this will come up or what form it will come up in. It could very well happen in just a matter of hours. Democrats are divided over this issue, as they have been for some time. Also div
Bureau, but first to Garrett Tenney live in washington. Reporter the exact details of who and what will be deployed is still being worked out this weekend, but we are told it will include air and Missile Defense units as well as hundreds of u. S. Soldiers adding to the roughly 70,000 american troops already deployed to the region. That announcement has raised a lot of concerns that the u. S. Is moving closer to a potential war with the iranian regime. On friday during a joint press conference with australias prime minister, President Trump said he wants to avoid war and hopes iran will take steps to change its behavior. The easiest thing i can do in fact, i can do it while youre here would say, go ahead, fellas, go do it. And that would be a very bad day for iran. In my opinion, it shows strength. Because the easiest thing i could do, okay, go ahead. Knock out 15 different major things in iran. I could do that and all set to go. Its all set to go. But im not looking to do that if i can