Good afternoon from Washington. I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.

On today's show Joe Biden's campaign released a massive $1.7 trillion climate change plan

and they were quickly accused of plagiarizing parts of the plan from news stories and advocacy groups.

Are you kidding me? We'll be talking about that. Also the rest of the 2020 field, same as it ever was?

What can the candidates not named Biden due to break through and later is Texas ready to go purple?

I spent the day in the Lone Star State where a lot of people think Democrats best candidate to be President Trump is not Joe Biden, but Beto O'Rourke.

For this conversation on this hump day here in Washington, first June podcast that we're having, joined by Carl Hall,

sees the Chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times and Carrie Dan from NBC News political unit.

Author of first read by the way, co-author of first read and was with me in Texas. Carl, man, you've got a book.

Real book. I do. I have a real book. I've written one.

Confirmation bias, it's called inside Washington's war over the Supreme Court from Scalia's death to Justice Kavanaugh.

I want to get into this a few minutes. In fact, right before we started, we were in the middle of writing our next poll

and our next poll is going to be about sort of checking in on the health of democracy in America.

And we have an interesting little array of Supreme Court questions that I want to talk about at the end of this show.

But let's start with what is like matriculating up the budget board here and that is Slope Joe.

Slope Joe. Where's Adam Sandler? He's got a whole song called Slope Joe.

Joe gets no benefit of the doubt. Well, here's the thing. This is one of those stories where I was of two minds.

I was, it's a little silly. And at the same time, why are you guys this sloppy?

Here's the deal. Apparently he puts out a climate plan that is really just cherry picking from a bunch of other

plans, ideas, opinions. It was the type of plan you'd have expected from Congressman Schmengi running for the first

district of pick a state in the union who does a cut and paste job, not from a guy who has a policy shop at the University of Pennsylvania,

pretty good school I hear. And oh, by the way, served eight years as the number two in an administration.

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