welcome to jesse waters primetime. i m in for jesse who sat an event in california. it s no secret, biden is trying desperately to rebrand himself as a war time president. with his approval ratings at record lows and bidenomics not working, war is all biden has to campaign on. biden knows his history. presidents in the middle of war do better in the polls like george w. bush and lyndon johnson, who breezed their way to re-election. but if biden wants to be a wartime president, he s going to have to demonstrate that he understands the complexities of war. is this the most complicated time of your presidency so far? thank you. nothing? you can t say nothing to it when the world is on the brink of world war iii, joe. our military bases are getting attacked. record numbers of islamists and chinese are pouring through our open borders and protesters are filling our streets. instead of being in the situation room, joe biden is spending his time at fund-raisers where last
Could afford to ease up a little bit, right . And they might have done that if the fundraiser were just for them but theyre not just running clinton for president and kaine for Vice President. They dont want to just win the white house. They want democrats to win governorships and control of congress or to get as close as they can. They obviously want democrats to get control of the senate. For the Clinton Kaine campaign, it is pedal to the metal from now till the end. 41 fundraisers from now until november 3rd. He had five today alone. He squeezed me in between them. Thats on the democratic side. On the republican side, its nothing like that at all. Mateo gold at the Washington Post reports tonight that the comparable fundraiser effort on the republican side is already over. In fact, it ended last wednesday. The Washington Post reports
tonight that donald trump did his last big dollar joint fundraiser for his campaign in the Republican National Committee Last wednesday and hes not goi
Benefiting the most are not High Frequency voters. Thats huge. Their benefit is needed, i think. Thanks for joining us tonight. Thats all in for this evening. Make sure to stick around because its veep night on msnbc. Rachel maddow has an exclusive interview with tim kaine and mike pence will join brian williams. That is true. Almost a little weird, but thank you for the preview. It is, in fact, Vice President day here on msnbc. Vice president or would be Vice President day. Chris matthews this afternoon had an interview with our current Vice President of the united states, joe biden. Joe biden is now into a third day of explaining what he meant when he said he wishes he was in high school and he could take donald trump out behind the gym because he wants to get in a fight with him, basically. Donald trump today responded that he, too, would kind of like to go get in a fight with joe
in terms of Clinton Kaine, theyve already outraised trump 21, the New York Times projection as to who i
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. They will appear before lawmakers just, at that point, less than two months before the election again, i understand theyre going to ask some more questions, some more hearings. What is congress prepared to do to stop this, to say were do everything you possibly can to make sure there is not outside influence in our elections . Well, Lindsey Graham told me this shows we need an olive government approach. Introducing this legislation in part. Trying to get the president to joinest. He wants to see more pressure being put on russia. Were also hearing that some of these pages have been identified, and russia is an equal opportunity offender here. That our Political Leadership not to necessarily follow the rabl trail that the russians are
from the white house on this issue. Donald trump had his First Ever National security meeting the other day devoted to this subject. Didnt make any statements, didnt give any orders a
minds, remember how you spell see was dictated in those late night tweets, were how about the constant assault on our most secret institutions, our democracy and freedoms. it is only going to get worse. so that is the choice right now. chaos and corruption, or you can sue strong steady leadership. those were comments that the first lady made at another fund-raiser today. and what is evident in the statement as, well just the fact that even without comment, the contrast is very much on display, between the chaos of the former president getting indicted, getting arrested, and president joe biden focused on his, work and trying to show what joe biden is talking, about that is strong steady. kaitlan? yeah, still getting asked about his predecessor s actions learn the, wager meantime in front, white house thank you. for more perspective, joined by cnn senior political commentator david axelrod who served as senior adviser to president obama, and knows what it is like behind those doors,