on cnn. obama can t help himself. if you notice he doesn t spend a lot of time praising pal joe biden who has his old job. we can only wonder why that is? joe and ba rock used to be good friends, i they they gave each other friendship bracelets. remember when joe tweeted that. doesn t he think joe thinks he s a good president, shouldn t he get another bracelet for the new job? doesn t seem to be happening. instead obama used the cnn interview to attack republicans, specifically not donald trump but senator tim scott of south carolina. the fact that tim scott has an optimistic view of race relations in america seems to have the former president very upset. i m not being cynical about tim scott individually. i am maybe suggesting that the rhetoric of, can t we all get along, and the quotes you made about, you know, from my speech in 2004 about there is a your united states of america, that has to be under girded wind an honest accounting with our past and our present. and so
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bret: let s all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, i m bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this week s candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. we ll have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major stories at this hour. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at the congressional hearing today up on capitol hill on whether he should be charged with contempt of congress. but we begin with a late afternoon surprise. this one in the 2024 campaign. republican presidential candidate chris christie is suspending his campaign and is dropping out of this race. christie making that announcement just minutes ago. you saw it live on the five. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is here in de
quick-whited you are. it s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. because you would be in jail. [laughter] jesse: and debates are really your last chance to deliver that knockout blow. are you better off than you were four years ago? is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? is america as respected throughout the world as it was? jesse: but, last night, in the pennsylvania senate debate, john fetterman knocked himself out the second he opened his mouth. hi, g good night everybody. i m working to serve pennsylvania. jesse: only got worse from there. campaign dr. oz is a carpet bagger who owns a lot of homes and he has gotten some traction on that. did he debate you have to show off your policy chops. fetterman couldn t even spew slogans. no, here s what i think we have
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