biden be biden. harris: what does that mean exactly? who is biden? i want to see him doing more press conferences. he gives speeches two or three times a week. harris: not helping his polling. let s see more of him, though. again i m a big i want him to be front and center. i want him to be accountable and answer these questions from the american people. these conversations about the visitor log are a side show. he is coming on the heels of donald trump who refused to release any white house logs. this administration released all the white house logs and coming on the heels of donald trump who spent 150 days in his first year in office at one of his homes. again, this gotcha stuff is silly because republicans do it, too. democrats, republican presidents are allowed down time and become better presidents when they feel at home and have that release as
brought forward that tom price has not been entirely honest or may be ethical in some of his stock dealings, kevin, what do you make of it? not a whole lot. if they had any actual evidence of any wrongdoing it would ve come out long before now. and about the worst thing that they can say is that he didn t reveal that he was at one time technically under investigation for an ethics charge in which he said on his questionnaire to the senate committee that he had never been investigated for ethics, it was a charge that was eventually completely dismissed. they barely began any kind of investigation into it in the first place. and the purpose of filling out the questionnaire is to try to get the information out. he admitted that he had made a mistake, they went back and corrected it, and that is about the extent of what they actually got in terms of actual gotcha stuff. leslie, does any of this stuff sound monumental enough to you that the guy should be neither position for which she s
i ve been stabbed and i remember who stabbed me. it wasn t dr. ben carson, was it? no, no. forget all this other stuff. on issues, he can t explain his tax position. he can t explain his middle eastern position. he can t explain his defense position and now he s taken some of the world s great monumets like the pyramids and turn them into grain bins. didn t that the prove the point, which is, shouldn t journalists, what ben carson would say is that journalists should be focusing on those things of substance and do away with his personal childhood stories that may have discrepancies. if there s enough discrepancies, no, the answer to that is no. the cnbc, those people sat around and must have had a bad night or they got in trouble with husbands and wives. that was ridiculous. fox people will come out and ask serious policy questions. they re not going to do any gotcha stuff so republicans can t pull that off again or at
reporter for a boston television station, i think his name was andy hillard asked this question of george w. bush and bush could not name three of the four people he was being asked about in terms of foreign leaders. he still got elected president, twice. whatever people think of george w. bush. this is i like you, hewitt, but i think this is gotcha stuff. at the end of the day, if you are president of the united states, you ll get up to speed quick. trump is a smart guy. he s a good, quick study. i don t think it s going to hurt him. jeff, just to be true, 1999, he was not a foreign policy moment. a lot of terrorist activity, the general very much in the news right now. to that point, we are more than a decade after 9/11, the
advisers. i know some adviser i m mystified how this happens. the other question is are we going to ask ourselves the really tough questions. yes. exactly. and are we going to seek answers to the really tough questions or just plow around the base of the mountain of this business? i think those of the important things. do you have faith the campaign either through the process of journalists covering the campaign, interviewing these candidates or debates and the way they go on. do you have faith the campaign process can do that hard work? got the gotcha stuff but the real hard work? i do not have faith. i have hope. hope springs eternal to use the cliche. i don t have hope in it because it s been the case in the past. i think we have to remember in the background of this, i think one of the answers possibly, why did they do this. why did they bungle answers to the obvious question they ask. this will be a $5 billion-plus