that's the biden benchmark. the reid rule, the schumer standard, the biden benchmark. now i read a statement from the vice president where -- that he issued after he saw that this old news clip and his statement had been made public. he quite conveniently said this is not an accurate view -- this is not an accurate description of my views on the subject. well, i think the words are pretty clear. i think what he might have said is that these are no longer my views on the subject because, of course, he would like president obama to be able to make that nomination. so i want to reject this myth that many of our democratic colleagues are spreading that what we are doing here and now is somehow unprecedented. quite the clear, what we are doing is what the democrats' top leadership has advocated in the past. what do they think we are? they think we're going to abide by a different set of rules than they themselves advocated? how ridiculous would that be? i could not explain that to my constituents back home in texas. if i was going to say well, the democrats can apply one se

i mean the question of joe biden on the supreme court. there was some reporting that i put to the vice president today, and it produced a very intense moment in our discussion. >> i'm going to throw you a bit of a curve ball which is just this afternoon a senate source has told msnbc that it is beyond just idle chatter, there's been significant discussion that you might conceivably be the president's choice especially under these unusual political circumstances. talk about one person who could get through and nobody else could. if the president asked you to do it, would you say yes? oh, dear. that's next. stay with us. pain when... hey joanne, want to trade the all day relief of 2 aleve with 6 tylenol? give up my 2 aleve for 6 tylenol? no thanks. for me... it's aleve. the nissan rogue. with the power and performance of our intuitive all-wheel drive. now get a $189 per month lease on the 2016 nissan rogue. we heard you got a job as a developer!!!!! its official, i work for ge!! what? wow... yeah! okay... guys, i'll be writing a new languag

doing as senator biden actually did. ont is what we are counting republicans in the u.s. senate to do. they should not do it because they are forcing -- forced into a position based on awkward quotes that they themselves have given. goodness knows, there are plenty of them. we could discuss those as well. in some ways, the most important element of this is they have a constitutional duty. they swore to uphold an oath, and fulfill the responsibility that the institution of the u.s. senate has to consider the president's nominee, to give them a fair hearing and give that person a yes or no vote. i know there are at least two senate republicans yesterday he would knowledge that oath and acknowledged that if the president, when the president nominates someone, the hearings should go forward. senator kirk himself specifically referenced the oath he took, not just as a member of the united states senate, but also as a member of the armed forces. he takes that oath seriously, and recognizes that giving the president's nominee a

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i got a fairly epic sitdown, a one-on-one with vice president joe biden. he talked about everything from donald trump's new war with pope francis of all people to what's about to happen with the vacate supreme court seat. it's all straight ahead. >>> one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him. and i think it would do this country a good deal of service if people starred thinking about candidates out there, to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what obama is doing. >> all right. that was you in 2011. understand that. >> but that was in response to a question on a radio show. this is a media issue. this is one thing i said on one radio show many, many years ago. media likes that issue. >> you were pretty tough on bill clinton's record and you said you hit his record on wall street. you said this was a guy who wanted to deregulate wall street, for welfare reform, and got nafta through. it didn't sound like a presidency you were very pleased with. >> i was a

. >> we do know that president biden. vice president biden and mrs. biden will be attending the funeral tomorrow. that funeral is at 11:00 a.m. at the basilica here in washington, just a few miles north of the supreme court. almost due north of the supreme court. and that will be live on c-span at 11:00 a.m., as well. justice and mrs. scalia, marine scalia have had nine children. cliff is in flint, michigan. what do you think justice scalia's legacy is? caller: i think for a lot of americans, justice scalia was a divisive figure on the court. while he claimed to view the constitution as far as its original intent, he was always 100% behind all conservative views. and that is like saying he had already pre-judged his opinion before he heard any case. 100% of the time, justice scalia was going to decide for whatever conservative views are. not what the constitution was. if we really looked at the constitution original intent. that means african-americans are three fifths of a human being. you cannot sit there and say i view it the way it was written. th

that's the biden benchmark. i read a statement from the vice afterent that he issued he saw this old news clip. this is not an accurate view, not an accurate description of my views on the subject. think the words are pretty clear. what he might've said is that these are no longer my views on the subject because he would like president obama to be able to make that nomination. i want to reject this myth. that many of our democratic thatagues are spreading what we're doing here and now is somehow unprecedented. what we're are doing is what the democrats top leadership has abdicated in the past. who do they think we are? that we are going to abide by a different set of rules? how ridiculous would that be. i could not explain that to my constituents back home. the democrats can apply one set of rules, but republicans must apply a different set of rules? burned byok has been the democrats. and what we are operating under is the status quo that they advocated back in 1992, 2005, and 2007. they have every right under

plus a big announcement by joe biden. there's lots ahead, stay with us. >>> last night we told you about a new project we're working on. it's our attempt here to flesh out some of the surprisingly elusive details about the hillary clinton versus bernie sanders race on the democratic side of the presidential contest. despite all the punditry and jibber jabber about this race in the press, there's very little hard data reported about the strengths of the clinton and sanders operations, particularly when you get beyond nevada and south carolina. if you're wondering who's going to win that race, it would be helpful to know how strong those campaigns are after nevada and south carolina. we're pretty certain it will go on past nevada and south carolina. neither candidate is expected to crop out no matter how they do in these next two states. that means the next stage, potentially the definitive stage for deciding the democratic presidential nominee this year is going to happen on march 1st and the 11 states that all vote that d

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vice president biden has shown no evidence he's looking at this again. he decided last fall he will not get in for family reasons, other reasons. but remember, he said in january that he regrets every day that he did not get in. but it doesn't mean he's running. it means there are democrats who are going to freak out about this until hillary clinton locks things up. the clinton campaign is dismissing this poll. they said it doesn't have a lot of credibility. number two, they want to get past iowa and new hampshire. once they get down to south carolina and other states down south, they'll have the african-american vote, where she has a huge advantage over bernie sanders and says everybody will just chill out. >> ed, good to see you. joining me with more, ebony williams, and alan colmes. so it's very exciting to look at new hampshire and see this tight race. you tell me whether the polls that follow after, because i'm looking at south carolina, minnesota, north carolina, and clinton's cleaning up in all those. so is this just drama for the sake of tv? >> l

that the name of vice president joe biden is popping up yet again. a prominent, bill bart mann fired off an e-mail to fellow democrats saying, i would urge all of you to join me in keeping our powder dry until we see if the for the good of the party we should res direct draft biden movement. he specifically cited a new poll showing a steep dive for clinton. as bernie sanders pulled into a virtual tie with hillary clinton in a national poll, he packed the fame town hall so tight the fire marshal shut it down. and the spillover crowd waited in the snow to hear sanders stand up loud and proud. >> yes, we are going to move this country in a very new direction. thank you all very much. >> reporter: sanders leads hillary clinton in new hampshire by double digits. in the new national poll found she is only up by 2 points. after beating him by 31 points in december. sanders is fueled in particular by the enthusiasm of young people that has befuddled clinton. >> i want to say a word to the extraordinary people, particularly young people who are supporting sen

joe biden urged h.w. bush to hold off on choosing a supreme court nom neep. >> president bush should consider following the practice of a majority of predecessors, and not name a nominee until after the november election is completed. >> biden says that was dean out of context and there was no supreme court vacancy at the time. >> in fiji, residents got to see what is left of their homes after last week's cyclone. >> very sorry to see the building to be devastating like this. the damage left behind next. >> there has been an instruct difficult day across the golf course. we are not done yet. i will show you where we are accepting the rest of the damage. more on that after this. >> every monday night. >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping... inspiring... entertaining. no topic off limits. >> 'cause i'm like, "dad, there are hookers in this house". >> exclusive conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> these are very

. >> republicans are also using vice president joe biden's own words against the white house. >> that if a supreme court justice. >> in 1992, senator biden urged the republican president to hold off choosing a supreme court nominee. >> president bush should consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors, and not name a nominee until after the november election is completed. >> biden now said that was out of context and about a hypothetical, since the vacancy didn't happen back then. >> understand joe has made a few statements over the years about a lot of things but in this one instance, it wouldn't mean a thing, because nothing was pending. >> did he make a mistake saying that? >> no, he has a right to speak. >> the white house has repeatedly said it will send a nominee to the senate. >> this would be an historic and unprecedented acceleration of politicizing a branch of government that's supposed to be insulated from politics. >> it's unprecedented ground. republicans refusing to even meet with a nominee and democrats refusing to back down. >> the american people

as senator biden actually did. that is what we are counting on republicans in the u.s. senate to do. they should not do it because they are forced into a position based on awkward quotes that they themselves have given. goodness knows, there are plenty of them. we could discuss those as well. in some ways, the most important element of this is they have a constitutional duty. they swore to uphold an oath, and fulfill the responsibility that the institution of the u.s. senate has to consider the president's nominee, to give them a fair hearing and give that person a yes or no vote. i know there are at least two senate republicans yesterday he would knowledge that oath and acknowledged that if the president, when the president nominates someone, the hearings should go forward. senator kirk himself specifically referenced the oath he took, not just as a member of the united states senate, but also as a member of the armed forces. he takes that oath seriously, and recognizes that giving the president's nominee affair h

this was -- there was no vacancy at the time joe biden said this. he said this as a preemptive strike. he said if the president nominates somebody in an election year, it is essential we will not confirm them. chuck schumer said the same thing in 2008 and now they are outraged what republicans are doing what they twice threatened to do. >> but on the other side, bill, we have the republicans, including mitch mcconnell, who, at the time came out and said -- when this was being done -- not giving up and down votes when the republicans wanted them, this is an excuse for our colleagues to run out the clock on qualified nominees who are urgently needed to fill vacancies. apparently they're not that urgent on the supreme court when it's now 4-4. having an extra justice will help break the ties. >> look, joe biden -- people should remember that he ushered through justice kennedy, you know, while there was a republican president, as well. >> no one is saying you never do it. [ overlapping speakers ] >> the rhetoric is overblown. regardless of all this, the

it was a private conversation in the oval office and he let me see and sit in joe biden's seat. it was kind of fun. but we had a very quiet and also very reflective chat and needless to say, he was a little bit uptight about the republican's feeling this seat should not be filled at this time. >> the letter that you signed, the letter the 11 of you signed said the american and who will be the successor to justice scalia. wait a minute, the american people decided that twice elected barack obama. >> the republicans believe that and until next year and termination and get it out of the heated politics we've had over the last number of years. >> if the argument is we live in a very unsettled time politically speaking, imagine a president trump. do you think will will be any more continuity in that kind of environment that would allow a seat like this to be filled. >> it worries me whoever is going to be president because i want the very best that can find to fill the seat and justice scalia was one of the best and he shouldn't be degraded because the president wants somebody that r

jill biden are going tomorrow. they're closer to the scalia family than the president, even though ideologically they may be separated by an ocean. >> right, joe biden has been in the washington scene for such a long time. it's no surprise there. a couple of days ago, the white house was really hesitant to get into the decision making of why president wasn't attending the funeral tomorrow. and they clearly seemed to not want to get into the political statement that some were surely going to make out of his attendance or not. you know, let's say he was going to attend. sort of how that would change the tone of the event potentially. i thank likely went into the white house thinking. if obama and scalia had had a relationship, a long-standing or deep relationship here in d.c., i think it might have been different. what the white house had said on this decision making is the president finds it important to pay his respects. they found the appropriate time to do that was today. with the first lady. again, they're going

and i've been hearing republicans all week invoking the biden rule. what do you make of that? >> i think there's a couple things that should be brought up. first of all, biden was chair of the judiciary committee when justice kennedy was confirmed in the last year of reagan administration. and secondly, i think that the context of that was a justice with, you know, resigning, who is older. that would be like, say, justice ginsberg deliberately resigning so that president obama could appoint somebody or nominate somebody. that's -- this is very different. this is a vacancy caused by the death of a justice. and so what we're talking about now is for the next two terms of the supreme court, that we would not have anybody there. and that's just unacceptable. especially when you have -- would have so many 4-4 decisions. and people rely -- americans rely on decisions from the court. >> senator franken, i know you've endorsed former secretary of state hillary clinton for the democratic presidential nominee. >> i have. >> and she certainly seems like she is regained, if she ever lost,

when grassley refers to the biden rules, he refers to a speech that joe biden gave when he was chairman of the senate judiciary committee in 1992. he was addressing a situation in an election year. there was a thought that perhaps harry blackmun would retire that year and there would be a vacancy. it did not end up happening, but joe addressed the possibility and he made a very equivocal statement which was, i estimate of the senate judiciary committee do not believe that president george h.w. bush should in this election year make a nomination and if he does, i believe he said, we should seriously can sitter that the committee should not hold hearings on that nominee. that as as see perfectly analogous situation. they are happy to quote senator back towords right anyone who is that they oh president obama's nominee consideration. well,mocrats have said that was a hypothetical, we are talking about actual vacancy and or ais not a plan vacancy justice who is engaging in a political maneuver, somebody died in office and this is an unexpected vacancy and is not the same. host: because they

there was nothing that senator biden said that prevented the senate from fulfilling its constitutional duty. reporter: mr. earnest: i wasn't there in 1992. i was a senior in high school. so it's hard for many to assess with a lot of clarity exactly what the dynamics were. but what is clear is that there was no vacancy at the time, there's nothing here that he said that prevented the senate from fulfilling its constitutional duty. and in fact in the same speech then senator biden made clear that he would be open to consultation with the white house, that was controlled by the other party, and fair consideration of the thomny that was put forward by the president -- nominee that was put forward by the president of the other party. reporter: could you tell us a little bit more about the president's -- mr. earnest: that's right. the president periodically has con -- convenes meetings with his national security team to discuss the ongoing effort to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. the president will convene the meeting or the next meeting on thursday at the state department. over the la

. >> it's that town drawing a sharp rebuke from joe biden. mr. biden said, if everybody doesn't buck it, guess what, it's gospel. analysts say americans feel uneasy about the economy, and for a good reason. >> they know that their job opportunities have gone down. they're having a tougher time getting loans at the bank, it's because of laws like the affordable care act and dodd frank. policies which this administration pushed on this economy. >> the white house is eager to point out the fact that the deficit has gone down dramatically, down nearly 75%. what they don't like to talk about as much is the debt. $19 trillion. more than half of that coming on the president's watch, it's a bill he'll be passing on to the next occupant of the white house. >> kevin, thank you. congress will get its first look at the president's plan to close guantanamo bay tomorrow. the white house today said that some of the remaining 91 detainees could be held in the u.s. the white house is skeptical congress will go along with that plan. >>> just two days after justice

instead, vice president biden will be there to represent the administration. the white house has said that the vice president had a relationship with justice scalia and his family. they've also said that the security footprint will be lighter, so it won't interfere as much with tomorrow's funeral. justice scalia was a devout catholic. his son, one of his sons is actually a catholic priest and will give the homily tomorrow. he is waiting at the top of the supreme court steps for his father's casket. the justice had nine children in all, 36 grandchildren. a lot of family on hand both today and tomorrow. >> his son, father paul scalia, as you said will deliver the funeral mass tomorrow. you talk about the controversy that is surrounding president obama's decision not to attend the funeral, is it customary libby, for penalties to attend the deaths of a supreme court justice? >> we've only seen four justices die while still sitting on the bench in 65 years. when justice rehnquist died, chief justice, of course, president bush did attend that fub rely, but it's not

. >> it's that town drawing a sharp rebuke from joe biden. mr. biden said, if everybody doesn't buck it, guess what, it's gospel. analysts say americans feel uneasy about the economy, and for a good reason. >> they know that their job opportunities have gone down. they're having a tougher time getting loans at the bank, it's because of laws like the affordable care act and dodd frank. policies which this administration pushed on this economy. >> the white house is eager to point out the fact that the deficit has gone down dramatically, down nearly 75%. what they don't like to talk about as much is the debt. $19 trillion. more than half of that coming on the president's watch, it's a bill he'll be passing on to the next occupant of the white house. >> kevin, thank you. congress will get its first look at the president's plan to close guantanamo bay tomorrow. the white house today said that some of the remaining 91 detainees could be held in the u.s. the white house is skeptical congress will go along with that plan. >>> just two days after justice

they ran them by joe biden's people and senator biden said we could go along with these names but not this name. one of the names they said don't go with was robert bork. one of the names they would go along with was anthony kennedy. and reagan nominated kennedy and 97-0 in a democratic senate. so advise and consent means a process like that where the president and the senators have some consultation and discussion about who would be a good choice. host: the current chairman is chuck grassley and he has said he is open to hearings. guest: i think that's what he said. originally come he seemed to say, shortly after justice scalia's death, that this should be reserved to the next president. and then he had an interview with radio reporters in iowa where he seemed to say, we will take it one step at a time. he seemed to say he was open to holding a hearing. and i don't have inside knowledge on this but my belief ofn this is that because public pressure and whatnot, the senate will at least hold a hearing and consider the president's nominee assuming it's not somebody who they think is si

in this case, the senate will withhold it. >> now vice president biden said his comments from 1992 were taken out of context. pointing to what he said later in the speech that the parties needed to come together to put forward a compromise nominee. meanwhile, minority leader harry reid hit back at mcconnell, accusing him of taking marching orders from donald trump. >> senator mcconnell is leading a charge to cheapen the presidency at all costs regardless of the damage it does to our democracy. but doesn't that sound familiar? it sounds like something donald trump would do. that's because it's exactly what donald trump urged senator mcconnell to do. and at a republican presidential debate in south carolina ten days ago, mr. trump said of the supreme court vacancy, i quote. i think it's up to mitch mcconnell and everybody else to stop the nomination. it's called delay, delay, delay. that's exactly what the republican leader is doing, delay, delay, delay. >> now to the democrats, where hillary clinton and bernie sanders are now just three days away from the south carolina primary and six a

but the president won't be at scalia's funeral tomorrow, by noting that vice president biden and his wife jill biden will be going instead. >>> on the campaign trail, senator ted cruz blasted the president for skipping the funeral even though cruz said he wouldn't be attending either. >> we have 11 more months of watching damage to this country. from a lawless and faithless president who's eager to travel to cuba but unwilling to show up at the funeral of justice scalia. >> cruz said he'd be changing his schedule to attend the funeral late last night. amid all of the political posturing, the president has begun the process of finding scalia's replacement according to the white house that said he's talking with senior members of his team and plans to nominate someone quickly. >>> still ahead on "way too early," more information on the battle with apple, behind the months of talks that fell through. >>> and winter takes the weekend off across much of this nation. bill karins has a taste of spring next on "way too early." constipated? trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax use dul

how late can biden get in and get on all the ballots? do you know? >> it is sort of like -- i don't know the rules on this. but i'm sure the dnc will change the rules. >> right. >> if they get -- if she is literally knocked out, look, the democrats can change any rule, any time that they want. >> all right. i have got to governmental it's not going to look good. it's going to anger the sanders people it can be done and they will do it. >> charles krauthammer, everybody, give him a hand it will be interesting to see the mail tomorrow. next on the run june?adthe left wing and right wing media weigh in on the votes. very provocative sound. we have that for you as the factor continues all across the u.s.a. if you have high blood pressure like i do, many cold medicines may raise your blood pressure. that's why there's coricidin® hbp. it relieves cold symptoms without raising blood pressure. so look for powerful cold medicine with a heart. coricidin® hbp. say they'll save youfor every by switching,surance companies you'd have like a ton of dollars. but h

is it a, attorney general loretta lynch, b, jeh johnson, or joe biden? >> amy clobuchar said she liked her job. secretary johnson didn't seem interested and joe biden said that was the one job he never wanted. i would have to say this would be a, attorney general loretta lynch. process of elimination. >> steve, you have the answer for us. >> let's roll the tape. >> are you saying if the president called and ask if you would consent to be vetted that you would say no or would you consider it if the president asked? >> i'm saying i like my job now. >> i have it from a reliable source that secretary johnson told friends he has, and i quote, better chance to be pope than to be our nation's next supreme court justice. i don't even think he's catholic. >> look at me now. i have no desire to sit on the supreme court. >> that leaves loretta lynch. >> tell us the good news. did he win everything? >> he won. prize, you tell me. you tell me. >> mark, you're a ringer. it's great to have you back in spirit here at msnbc. thank you. you win all the loot. really apprec

and it doesn't matter what joe biden said in 1992. it doesn't matter what mitch mcconnell says too. they're just not going to do it because they don't want to give up that seat and they have the power to stop it. >> and, yes, again, republicans do point to joe biden said, you know, and to sort of show the hypocrisy that exists, frankly, on both sides. >> and joe biden said that, i believe, four months before the election. not 10 or 11 months before. >> but still. >> but still, of course they are going to use it. but the time frame is a little bit different. >> right. >> all right. gloria borger, jeffrey toobin, david chalian as well. >>> the battle intensifies between apple and the fbi. what ceo tim cook said just a short time ago. >>> a deadly storm system sends tornadoes ripping through the southeast and dangerous weather hitting parts of the northeast. the latest from our weather center when we come back. how does rock and roll work? ♪ you need a team... ♪ working together... ♪ doing all kinds of jobs. ♪ and the best place to find the job that's right for you is on the wo

the only reason we can talk about this stuff is because president obama and vice-president biden did such a great job of cleaning up the mess of the republicans. >> let's talk about the whole thing being talked about in this cap pain. ethnicity. it gets into the air, new hampshire is a largely white state. iowa as well. out here, it's diverse. >> yes. >> the hillary people put out that it's 80% white. >> they're trying to depress expectations for her performance and suggest that bernie can't win from people from a broad spectrum from the democrat party. it's not true. in new hampshire, it was a small sample, bernie won nonwhite voters, and we're going to have a real test here on saturday whether he can win support. >> what's the difference between hillary clinton and senator sanders on immigration? how do we deal and fix the system? >> they both support policies that the president has tried to support. they both want a path to citizenship. they have differences from the past. when we had the situation with young children trying to come if central america, hillary said no, we need to

c., amy klobuchar or d., vice president jodi biden? let's see, jamie klobuchar said she liked her job. secretary johnson didn't seem the least interested. joe biden said that was the one job he never wanted. so i would have to say this would be a, attorney general loretta lynch. >> process of elimination. steve you got the answer for us? >> let's roll the tape. >> i have to just can you, are you say tack if the president called you and asked if you would concept to be vetted and said he wanted to consider you, that you would say no or would you consider it if the president asked? >> i'm saying that i like my job now. i have it from a reliable source today that secretary johnson has told friends that he has and i quote a better chance to be pope than to be our nation's next supreme court justice. and i don't even think he's catholic. >> look at me now. i have no desire to sit on the supreme court. >> the correct answer is a, mark is right once again. >> okay. tell us the good news. did mark win everyone? >> he won. prize, you tell me. y

. >>> the white house says vice president biden spoke by phone with ukraine's president, the second day the two have spoke. reforms are a condition of a 17.5 billion bailout from the international monetary fund. the tatar residents of crimea, say russian security forces on the black sea peninsula have raided homes and charged four of them with terrorist offenses. the four of them could face up to 20 years in jail. the tatars make up 20% of crimea's population. opposed crimea's taking by russia two years ago. >>> many caught in the cross fire including children. al jazeera's are charlings stratford. >> brought up in poverty and two with severe learning disabilities they now live with their adopted parents in the village of zavonka. despite repeated calls for a ceasefire the fighting continues and especially at night. >> nadia is always very afraid when there's shelling. she cries and screams at night. we try to keep the girls calm. we try show them that we are not afraid. >> reporter: an agreement signed in the belarusian capital of minsk. heavy weapons are supposed to be withdrawn as pa

have come a long way in seven years and we should be proud of the accomplishments of the obama and biden administration. [applause] but, we have got to be honest, and acknowledge we still have a long way to go to create the nation that i know all of us believe we can create. [applause] i have been all over this country talking literally to hundreds of thousands of people. nobody i know thinks that it is acceptable, that it is moral, think that it is sustainable that in the united states of america we have more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth, that it is worth -- worse here here today then 1928. that is not acceptable. it is not acceptable to me the owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. it is not acceptable the 20 wealthiest people in this country own more wealth than the million americans. it is not acceptable that one owns more wealth than the bottom 40% of the american people. when we talk about the economy -- it's not just well. it is income. , we have many people, millions throughout our country working not one job but to jobs and three jobs

he is waiting in the wings and want to run biden and elizabeth warren is the likely ticket they would get. he is going to win new hampshire. this is a muddled race making it more cloudy and complicated. >> we will have more evidence at this point. i don't think there's a business sis pi point she will be indicted. if the evidence is there i believe the fbi will act in a responsible way. >> i don't think we have the evidence yet. it is still a political process. >> thank you both. >> the iowa caucuses are less than 24-hours a away and when we come back geraldo rivera they come back geraldo rivera they will have reaction (singing alougetting to know you. getting to know all about you... getting to like you. getting to hope you like me... is someone getting to know your credit? not without your say so. credit lock lets you lock and unlock your transunion credit report with the swipe of a finger. getting to know you. getting to know all about you... get one-touch credit lock, plus your score and report at transunion.com get in the know. >> it is divinely inspired. we are here for a purpos

obviously vice president biden has a unique perspective on this situation. presidedeone who has over the hearings of, i believe, for different supreme court justices. he has his own unique insight into the kind of criteria that a president can and should use when choosing a supreme court justice. president obama has drawn on that expertise and experience from vice president biden in announcing his nomination of the elena kagan to the supreme court, and i am confident that president obama will be drawing on vice president biden's knowledge in making this decision as well. what president obama is focused personchoosing the best and the united states of america to fill this job. again, i'm not going to get ahead of the process. i do not know if the the p has expressed interest in this job -- the vp has expressed interest in this job. but he has pointed out that there is a number of senior level judges, judges that serve on the appellate courts, who have actually gotten strong bipartisan support in the senate. there is a track record that the president has of ap

but biden has been in this town before and knew him very well and called him a friend. he will look to the issue of the security detail. if he were to go to the funeral, it would change the whole tone of the funeral. with those three things in mind, he backed off. >> john terrett for us at the supreme court in washington. up next, a free man after four decades behind bars for a crime he claims he did not commit. the last of the angola three walks out of prison. and keeping on the pressure. hundreds take to the streets of flint, michigan, to bring awareness to the city's water crisis. >> so another development in apple's fight against the government today the justice department filed a motion to force the tech giant to unlock the encrypted iphone belonging to san bernardino shooter. apple is refusing saying that it threatens the security of its customers. and the government said that is a marketing ploy. >>> it is the 69th birthday that albert wood fox is not going to perfect. he spent four decades in sol stare confinement. he's the last of the so-called angola 3 being h

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joe biden couldn't ready. and for a while, sanders was a real threat to hillary clinton, i know you have doubted it. at one point, you told me if he is elected you're going to buy a place if ireland. so you're going to move. so i'm just wondering tonight whether -- are you calling airlines? making a reservation? >> i have a line in a little cottage in tiperari. when i said that, all of the irish got on me because we're socialist here and all of that, but i said yes, i'm an artist and you have special rules for artists and writers and things like that. aha. i'm not worried about sanders winning the presidency. i think republicans will be overjoyed if he gets the nomination. i think they'd rather run against old hillary than bernie. >> and if bernie sanders gets the democratic nomination and runs as an independent, given other issues like that, he might take votes away from the democrats. a former senior advisor to president obama's sake. if sanders is the nominee, bloomberg gets in. >> bloomberg has got to get

will appoint justices who will defend religious liberty, but he's given money to jimmy carter, joe biden, chuck schumer, harry reid. >> former presidential candidate senator lindsay graham joked that his own party will be responsible for electing a president. >> the most dishonest person in america is a woman who's about to be president. how could that be? my party is going bat (bleep) crazy. >> it is my honor and my privilege to introduce the next president of the united states, donald trump! >> reporter: at a rally friday in fort worth donald trump hugged his new supporter and spoke to the crowd. >> we love you, it's a movement, it's a movement. >> with trump well ahead in the polls, the republican party may have another kind of nominee to stand behind. heidi zhou-castro, al jazeera, fort worth texas. >> former mexican president vicente fox used strong language while discussing donald trump's plan to build a wall. >> i'm not going to build that (bleep) wall. i'm not going to apologize. >> during an interview on thursday trump called for an apology and promised to build the wall ten fee

joe biden would not be a progressive, gene shehe rvetionn woulheen wouldnot be a progress. i know write stand i know who stands with me i know what i've done. >> they stand by their policies which is different, one of them has to do with health care. let's take a throirch this. >> listen to this.>> deductible, we should not be paying the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs and our medicare for all program will guarantee comprehensive care to all people and save middle class families some thousands of dollars a year. >> i want to defend the affordable care act. it is one of the greatest accomplishments not only of this president but of the democratic party going back to harry truman. [applause] >> you know, the republicans are determined to repeal it and they've tried 62 times. just to turn it back to the insurance companies. senator sanders and i share the same goal. we want to get to universal health care coverage. >> now interestingly enough, there were a couple of other things that had come up here, including bernie sanders age. he is 74 years old. and one

biden: mr. president, why don't you just assign the congress to them? [laughter] pres. obama: just assign the congress to them generally? v.p. biden: congress to the governor. [laughter] pres. obama: well, they've got their own legislatures. i know that they enjoy those interactions tremendously. [laughter] next, terry mcauliffe. where is terry? here he is. gov. mcauliffe: thank you, mr. president. let me first -- great night last night. thank you on behalf of all the governors. [applause] gov. mcauliffe: chaka khan. i've been listening to her for 40 years. pres. obama: that was michelle, basically, that put that together. i tried to take credit last night, and nobody believed me. [laughter] and rightly so. gov. mcauliffe: let me just say that we just finished, mr. president, four great days of the governors association with the great leadership of gary. but we met -- gary and i -- met with your team, jerry, about six weeks ago when valerie -- we laid out what we needed. your administration gave us everything we needed. we had the secure briefing at the fbi. so let me j

can you imagine what they must have on jar jar biden that he hasn't jumped in yet? the clintons must have something on him that is exquisite. class warfare over there don't trust anybody over 50. now they believe don't trust anybody over 50 k. that's what happened. >> what about trump winning so big. did that surprise you? >> you with see what trump is on with you, $bsten, you can like him. you can hate him. there is a bunch of people each seeing -- sector. he at least seems door. i can't believe the guy is that unguarded. you must admit after watching robots for years, after watching hillary come out last night some crazy priest outfit and bill is standing there it's just nice to see somebody who doesn't act like politicians act over the years. >> all right. now, miller, the beard, looking like some german intellectual siegmund someis that acquired down in antarctica? >> it's a full shackleton. i figure if i'm going to go down to the antarctic circle. i made it to 66 parallel south. 66, 6' 7 minutes. almost 6' parallel south, you can see the penguins, billy. they a

vice president biden is not progressive because she supported keystone. even the late, great senator paul wellstone would not fit this definition because he voted for doma. we have differences, and, honestly, i think we should be talk about what we want to do for the country. if we're going to get into labels, i don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the brady bill five times. i don't think it was progressive to give gun makers immunity. i don't think it was progressive to vote against ted kennedy's immigration reform. we can go back and forth like there. most people watching tonight want to know what we've done and what we will do. that's why i'm laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress and get more job, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements that will build a strong economy and ensure americans will keep making progress. that's what i'm offering and that's what i will do as president. >> how do you establish a list of what it means to be a progre