news alert. we ll see president joe biden take the stage at a rally in north carolina in just a couple of hours. no doubt all eyes will be on that after what people watched well, at the political lectern last night. it was disastrous showing for the president at the debate. some democrats are calling it a nightmare, that s a quote. political suicide is a quote. it led to a deluge of calls from within his own political party for the president to step aside. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the white house is blaming biden s raspy voice on a cold. we got that note late last night. then there was all of this and more. president biden: we had 1,000 trillion airs in america. they pay 8.2% in taxes. if they paid 24 or 25%, they would raise $5 hundred million. billion dollars i should say. what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with look, if we finally beat medicare and i m going to continue to
first night. his name is beto o rourke. he lost the nomination last night. most of us don t know much about him. i had never seen him personally give too many speeches. last night i couldn t have been less impressed by him. no, i think he did absolutely what i was afraid someone would do, which is lose a nomination by having such a poor debate. still so early. still so early. but it is. i hear you on the criticism. and it was the back and forth that he had with julian castro, google searches went berserk over people educating who is julian castro. you gave him a b minus, this is the moment where he really stood out. let s play it. watching that image of the father and daughter is heart breaking. it should also piss us all off. why did that really rezen ate with you? because he was speaking like a real person. one of the reasons donald trump is popular, is because he speaks
cillizza. hi, chris. i m putting on my glasses for this as well. unfortunately i always wear my glasses, but sure. joe biden. how is he doing this week? okay. very hard to grade him this week, alisyn. i gave him a b minus. i had c plus. i changed it to a b minus and the reason, let s go through the positive first. donald trump continues to be joe biden s best advocate, attacking him, raising him up as though it s a one on one race between trump and biden. joe biden s numbers in the iowa poll, yes, he was ahead. he s very well known and not in that big of a lead. that s always concerning. i give him a b minus. it could have been a c plus. i think still in first place. let s not overlook it. you did give out one a this week. i did. to whom? south bend mayor pete buttigieg. he hasn t been in the grades
raised min mem wage, paid family leave, a buffer to whatever policies come out of industry. thinking a grade pretty good, noah? what did i give him? a minus. a slight mark for the trade war and invoking national security in order to go after allies like canada and japan, which doesn t make a lot of sense and as a president will really regret. however, by and large out of the way. gave him a b minus. wow. i gave him a b minus. he hasn t changed it, but a continuing uptick in everything, which i think is good. start with a grade when it comes to health care. what did you give him and why? another d. okay. because i don t think he s detecting a trend. that s right. i don t think he s torpedoed it, to you d your word, but again go back to what states and localities are doing to try to step in. the repeal and replace has come up several times, which democrats pushed back on.
about the first 100 day s throuh websites and other forms of social media. you re going to be hearing talking about what they ve done and not focusing on what they haven t done. on one hand, you have the president who is like poo pooing the idea of the first 100 days. on the other hand, he set himself up during the campaign. now they re doing all these things that talk about the first 100 days. is it a false construct or do you think he s setting himself up for a further fall? the first 100 days, chris, is really an arbitrary deadline. however, the president set himself up for this. i would say that if i were to measure donald trump against his own words about what he accomplished in the first 100 days, i would give him a d. but if i measure him against the standard history of most presidents i would give him a b minus. based on? he s met with many, many