that. so, alexi, you re looking at how voters in iowa look at this situation with joe biden and his son. what are they saying? yeah. and before we get to that, i just want to be add something. i was joining joe biden during his no malarky tour in iowa for the last few days of the trip. one thing was clear over and over again, whether it was former secretary of state john kerry or a local precinct leader for the iowa caucuses, the people around former vice president joe biden are much better at telling his narrative and his story than he is capable of doing. but this issue with hunter is simply the not something that he can allow the folks around him to kline, to yoclean up in theo he needs to find a better answer on. this is something when he called the man a damn liar, this is what we saw when he called us rotters on his bus for a 15-minute conversation. and he shut it down after a few rounds of back and forth because he simply doesn t want to talk
president just like he was. you re a damn liar, man. that s not true, and no one has ever said that. no one has said my song has done anything wrong, and i did not on any occasion, and no one has ever said it i didn t say you were doing anything wrong. you said i set up my son to work in an oil company. isn t that what you said? get your words straight, jack. that was former vice president joe biden in a heated exchange. he was at a town hall in iowa thursday on his no malarky bus tour. while biden was sparring with a voter, other democrats were at each other. senator elizabeth warren attacked mayor pete buttigieg who has been rising in recent polls. when asked about a new york times editorial looking into the south bend mayor s past career with a consulting firm, she questioned his private
there. you know the numbers. you guys got it all wrong about what happened and what you said trump i do. look, it s not fake, it s just bad judgment. you all thought that what happened was the party moved extremely to the left after hillary. aoc was a new party. she s a bright, wonderful person. but where s the party? come on, man. come on, man. come on, man. at least we didn t call you jack. no malarky. that was an exclusive look at this sunday s episode of axios on hbo featuring a special interview with former vice president joe biden. joining us now, cofounder of axios, mike allen. happy friday? happy friday! speaking to that, mike s an alabama fan, his family s an alabama fan. we have to talk about the most important event, sec championship game. yes. lsu/georgia, what do you think? i think ls u.u is in the
and we ve got ali vitali in new hampshire. mike, i imagine that all of the candidates are going to be asked to respond to this shooting that took place in pensacola this morning. but i understand that joe biden is about to show up where you are and he s got john kerry with him. explain what s about to happen here. reporter: i ll set the scene for you. if you re wondering what life has been like for us on the no malarky tour, this is day seven of that. you re looking at it. it s standing outside in the cold outside of a venue with a dozen of my dear friends in the press corps waiting for the bus to pull up and maybe to have a chance to speak to the former vice president. and we ve had some success doing that all week. as you say, john kerry endorsing the former vice president falls under the category of not a surprise. it would have been probably bigger news if kerry did not endorse him. of course they were colleagues in the senate for decades and worked in the obama administration. b
how is that playing out there, mike? well, andrea, as you can see, the former vice president still working that rope line behind me, they just finished up in the last 20 minutes or so. i promise you, if the technology allowed, i would be up there trying to ask him questions, as you know. we ve seen things we haven t seen so far on the seventh day of the no malarky tour. one is the endorsement of john kerry for his close friend joe biden, saying he wasn t here against anybody but for joe biden. we also saw joe biden back on the teleprompter for the first time on this seven-day tour. this no malarky tour, for all the jokes about the name, has been an important ramping up of the effort of the campaign to show commitment for the former vice president at a time when his polls have been slipping.