7:00 eastern, right here on msnbc. that is tonight s last word, the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the biden and trump rematch, now less than two days away. why trump is now trash talking the first debate, even though he agreed to all of the rules. an alarming new warning about trump s plans for the economy, and what they would mean for your money. my talk with senator joe mansion, why he left the democratic party and how he will be voting come november as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. live from aspen, colorado at the aspen ideas festival and we are 133 days away from the election and less than 48 hours away from the first presidential debate between president joe biden and former president donald trump. we ve been watching us trump has been talking about this debate for months, and we think you need to know what he has been saying throughout these months. so let s start with the last few days, where h
televised political debates over the years, a lot of them featured joe biden. he was on the debate stages in 1988 and 2008 and 2012 and 2020 . we are not even counting 2024, yet. if you had to pick one moment where joe biden was able to beat back his critics and win the moment in as few words as possible, it would probably be this one. an editorial in the los angeles times said, in addition to his uncontrolled verbosity, biden is a gaffe machine. you have the discipline you need on the world stage? yes. thank you, senator biden. that was joe biden during the 2008 democratic presidential primary debates. while moments like that did not win biden the democratic nomination, we later learned his performance on stage was a real factor in why barack obama chose joe biden to be his running mate. it is also a reminder that biden can be a very effective debater when he is calm and in control. by contrast, there is his opponent, donald trump. not a person who would ever willing