it off now for our continuing coverage with anderson cooper 360 i didn in detroit wrapping up a fiery defense of his canvas, see his stamina and his chances defeating donald trump in november, speaking to chants, have we got your back? and don t you quit and four more years he talked for about 35 minutes joining us now is former ohio democratic congressman tim ryan ran for president 2020 also to cnn political commentators, ashley allison, who served as national coalitions director for the 2020 biden-harris campaign, and kate bedingfield, former biden white house communications director, congressman, it was ten days ago that you call from vice president harris replaces president biden at the top of the ticket president said again tonight, he s not going anywhere. what did you make of his speech tonight? and does it make you change your mind no. i honestly i didn t watch a whole lot. i just listened to it as as i was sitting here. but i think the fact that a lot of the almo
swing-state numbers are looking like, anderson in these swing states, the biden campaign has spent already. the trump campaign and the outside groups have not spent already and you think about the debate, you think about the george stephanopoulos interview. you think about the putin and trump comment last night. and you think about nearly $1 behind those ads that is going to shift public opinion that s what guys like me are really, really worried about as we move forward into this campaign with so much at stake. kate, i m wondering what you made at the congressman s point. and also today, the head of the united auto workers urge democrats not to quote, put our heads in the sand and hide from reality well, the congressman may be right that some members of the delegation weren t there, but look at the voters who were there in ultimately as the voters who are going to decide this election. and i think you had an incredibly raucous, energetic crowd here that was really feeding
fall and people see the binary choice between joe biden, who s fighting for them, and donald trump, who only cares about himself, who spouts all sorts of crazy nonsense, who wants to take away your freedoms and your rights? who supported an insurrection? section on january 6 that people are going to vote for joe biden and i think that there is time for biden to make that case, and i think if he does what he did tonight repeatedly in the swing states, he s going to be in a much better position actually, one of the difficulties you can have events on teleprompter, or even in the press conference last night where he was able to speak about foreign policy and for a very long period of time, i ve talked to a lot of people who would very much wish joe biden was the candidate, but are holding their breath every time he has an event fearful of what may happen and watching it in part to just see if anything happens. is that tolerable for the rest of the next i mean, it s whatever ha
agenda next deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger, a columnist, chemist rasul and mary anastasia o grady. let me start with you, dan. these inflation numbers are mind-boggling if you don t have to tell people on main street because if you like washington d.c., the irony is on one hand, president biden want to take victory laps for economic achievement and yet keep the pressure on for emergency spending. that s for sure, charles. finally free visiting the wonderful world of inflation. in that world, an economist talk about push inflation and demand, we are not going to talk about that. we are going to recognize that prices are being pushed higher and yet you have the white house and federal reserve in the chairman jerome powell trying to pull back expectations inflation is going to go much higher or persist in the economy. the struggle here is between consumers out there worry about the effects of inflation on their budget and conceivably pulling back their spending. r
president zelensky is warning his nation to remain calm. we ll get a live report from kyiv with the latest. meanwhile, here in the u.s., the latest covid surge is stretching health care centers to the brim. we ll hear from workers on the front lines about how they are grappling with this wave of new patients. out west, new mexico s governor is asking state workers and national guard members to become licensed substitute teachers and child care workers amid a growing staffing shortage. in washington, house speaker nancy pelosi says she s running for another term in congress. but will she seek the leadership again? we ll get an update from capitol hill. and south of the border, a journalist who feared for her life was found dead in her car on sunday in mexico. now the deadliest country for journalists. and we begin with the latest on the escalate tensions between russia and ukraine. four senior administration officials tell nbc news president biden is considering giving a s