president. a new cnn poll suggests democrats all but assume that hillary clinton will be the party s standard bearer in 2016. but with joe biden heading to asia sunday at a key moment in u.s./china relations and a quiet support raising campaign now under way for him, some are wondering if biden might have some presidential joe-mentum of his own. brian todd has been looking into that today. anybody who has met vice president biden knows he s not a guy who will rest on his laurels. you get the sense he s running already for 2016? he could be. as you mention, he will need momentum, anything he can get to overtake hillary clinton in all these speculative races that we re riunning right now. still, joe biden has enough experience and political skill to bear in this whole thing. we have to take his potential candidacy very seriously. he s a natural handshaker and back slapper, evidenced on inauguration day. that common touch combined with decades of experience in the senate, an impressive
this is no way to run a business, let alone the largest economy. business itself is pushing back. the dysfunction in washington has trade groups re-evaluating conventional wisdom about the close relationship between business and the gop. pop quiz, which is the party of business? republicans or democrats? it had been assumed that business and republicans were in bed together. now all of a sudden you see the new breed of republicans, mostly from the tea party, who are not all that friendly with wall street or banks or big business. it s really scrambled traditional thinking. the united business in the gop for decades, a philosophy famously articulated by president ronald reagan. government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. and embraced by the party s standard bearer in 2012. corporations are people, i many friend. but a willingness by the right wing to threaten default
hearings for the supreme court begin tomorrow. republicans are confident in victory. president trump is ready for a win to taught on the campaign trail. three democrats on the judiciary committee are ready to signal to their base they have what it takes to be the party s standard bearer for 2020. white house correspondent jeff bennett and justice correspondent pete williams. pete, i want to start with you. as you look to this hearing, do you think there is any chance that a democrat lands a real blow in an opening statement? i mean, we have seen in the past ted kennedy, for example, with robert bork, simple statements that make an impact. yeah. i don t think that s going to happen this time. things have moved so beyond where that was during the bork confirmation hearing. everything seems to be so sort of predone and preset that i don t think you will see that. besides, brett kavanaugh s judicial record is well known. if there is one place where the democrats probably will focus their