executive producer casey dolan, and not to be left out here with me in our d.c. studio is none other than jason neil, jason, the camera over here, son of our executive producer jasper, jasper i used your daddy s name and i am so sorry. this is jasper neil, son of michelle perry neil and jason neil jasper is bilingual in english and spanish, an ace math student, and he s going to be taking over the show one way or another in about 20 years. so thanks to all of you, jasper, eleanor, and daphne, and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow the show online, on facebook, and on twitter @mitchellreports chris jansing reports starts right now. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. ron desantis is halfway around the world but still feeling the heat back home, from donors, supporters, and of course donald trump. is it enough to get him to finally commit to launching a presidential campaign? our new reporting that he s r
the media would go easy on biden because, basically, he s not trump? that s out the window. look at sunday s new york times. biden s age is a big problem. polls show many americans consider mr. biden too old, and some democratic strategists do not think he should run again. monday s new york times, most democrats don t want biden to run again in 2024. that figure, 64%. tuesday, a times columnist pleads with biden not to run, and then there s the former president. tuesday s times, half of gop voters to leave trump behind, poll finds, and a significant number vowing to abandon him if he wins the nomination. trump s response, this is good, the failing new york times is down 40% year to date because if they are fake news. their reporters are dishonest. they hate our country. the new york times is truly the enemy of the people. now, of course the media would be committing hall practice if they didn t report on malpractice if they didn t report on biden s awful poll numbers or
Not something that i think is likely it sounds like she thinks he s got five more years maybe, and first of all, what do you make of that is that her trying to get back into the conversation, which is hard to do when you re up against a sitting president and the former president or donald trump in any case. what do you make of that that s not the way to get back into conversation you know, that is not something that it s an unfortunate statement to make on a number of levels you don t have to project the man s death to say that he shouldn t be president and i think, you know, again, it shows sort of the earliness of her campaign, the ineffectiveness of messaging and message preparation. there are cleaner, better ways to talk about this talking point, which is going to be a talking point from the gop about
Michelle goldberg of the new york times is the latest person begging biden not to run are. she s citing his age. joe biden s many trouble in trouble. i think that s pretty obvious. the biden presidency is failing so much, so past that even the media mob, they re being forced to reckon with the reality that they helped create concern. joe biden s approval rating does not mean that america wants donald trump. donald trump is a uniquely unpopular figure in american life. at some point you would hi republicans are going to realize that. howard: joining us now to analyze the coverage, ben domenech, editor at large at the spectator, and in los angeles, leslie marshall, both fox news contributors. ben, does this feel to you like a political campaign by the media? and isn t it bizarre that liberal news organizations and pundits are trying to push biden out two years early? that s the the earliness is the bizarre part. howard: yeah. you would have thought, you know, as the pre
And the black smoke came a little earlier than a lot of them had expected. probably 40 minutes. i want to bring father tom reed. he can explain a little bit more about the earliness of this smoke. we had expected it around 12:30, which is 40 minutes earlier. what does that say to you? just that the cardinals happened to move faster than we thought they could. and this is a really a key time in the conclave because last night for the first time, they had real data on how much support the front runners have. then this morning in the two votes they had, they were watching to see who gains votes. it s momentum. it s all about momentum. if those front runners don t get enough votes, if they don t keep increasing votes, then their day is passed and they ll have to look for somebody else. let s talk about one front runner, father scola. we re looking at him as one of the outsiders. one that will come in and sort