it s hard for me to believe he didn t put the hammer on somebody else. why not ukraine. i bet that putin planted that seed at least as early as helsinki. last june. to get that in the president s mind. i spoke with the former vice president biden today. he talked about the relationship that s needed to stand up to russian president vladimir putin. i command the world stage. every leader will know who i am. friend will know. i m with them and not moving. and enemies will know those who i am. vladimir putin knows i know him and he knows me. and the fact is that this is what is needed on day one. we re in trouble. this president is shredding our alliances. yielding to putin in a way that
what is going on. okay, this reporting is really significant. you have learned the attorney this is about nunes. meetings to get dirt on joe biden. go. what did you learn? last december, devin nunes made a secret trip to meet with victor shulkin. the former prosecutor general in ukraine who is fired in 2016. because he wasn t doing his job. he was fired under pressure from western leaders including joe biden. who was vice president. he has an accident to grind against biden. nunes was looking for dirt on joe biden and his son. and looking for proof of this theory ukraine somehow meddled in the election. nunes comes back from the trip.
tonight and the sort of viciousness for that attack. sort of intimating that the vice president has a memory problem when it was actually the vice president was right in that exchange. castro made the mistake in that exchange. bret: he had some slip up later on in the debate but in that exchange he was wrong. he was wrong. i think it was a tough night for castro. but can i make one point about something byron was talking about earlier, you both were talking about on the health care exchange, the other really interesting dynamic was everyone was ready for sort of biden versus warren and bernie on health care but then you saw klobuchar come in strong and you saw buttigieg come in strong and it was sort of sort of the resurgence of the center left. the revenge of the moderates, pushing back hard on bernie and warren saying that s not how we want to approach this. bret: essentially what they were saying. i thought it was an interesting dynamic we hadn t seen yet. bret: one more
changed the dynamic you saw coming in? it seems like everything was pretties can tend with what we see with the exception of be calling somebody out by name. the democrats are loathe to go after each other by name in a critical way, and you really saw that with castro and the former vice president biden today. as for biden, does his performance tonight helphi or ht him? if you looking at all the national polls right now, early state polls, it is about three s out of 10 democrats in all the places say he is their top choice. his performance tonight, he ll on alling the things that i ve seen wax very consist twenty his performance in early stated like eye work hamid karzai and north carolina. the joe biden tonight was the joe biden that the influential early state democrats are
abc put on a serious substantive and fast-paced debate with george stephanopoulos, but i have to say univision s jorge ramos is an unabashed crusader for illegal immigration. he made no attempt to hide it. let s look at one of his questions to joe biden. when you served as vice president in an administration that deported 3 million people, the most ever in u.s. history, are you prepared to say tonight that you and president obama made a mistake? biden did not. the obama administration was enforcing the law on deportation. ramos also spewed an invective against president trump saying why did he tried to ban muslims from the country in the form of a question. in the larger sense though, i would say this, there was very little challenge to the moderators when candidates like cory brooker, beto o rourke, glenn castro called president trump a racist, made the inflammatory charge that the el paso shooter had been inspired by donald trump are going for the confiscation of some weapons,