"inside politics" starts right now. thank you, kate. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thanks for sharing your day with us. one week to 100 days and a kade line to keep the government open. president trump pushes congress to try again on repealing obamacare and to find more money for his border wall. >> as far as keeping the government open, i think we want to keep the government open. don't you agree? so yeah, i think we'll get both. >> he thinks he'll get both. more tough talk, too, about iran and north korea. but the president makes clear he wants no part of the continuing kayous chaos in libya. >> i do not see a role in libya. i think the united states his right now enough roles. >> and as democrats debate their future, a pep talk from the woman who thought she would be the one counting down to 100

days. >> i know the election hit a lot of us hard. { laughter } >> but i can tell you this. even when it feels tempting to pull the covers over your heads, please keep going. >> i had that temptation this morning. how about you feel? with us to share their reporting, molly ball, carol lee, perry bacon and jackie. add to the report card the growing things of which president trump is flexible. today this tweet. no matter how much i accomplished of the first 100 days and it has been a lot including supreme court, media will kill. but it wasn't always a ridiculous standard. perhaps the president forgets

his own version of the gettysburg address. >> i am asking the american people to dream big once again. what follows is my 100-day action plan to make america great again. it's a contract between donald j. trump and the american voter and it begins with bringing honesty, accountability and change to washington, d.c. >> rewatch or reread that speech and you will understand the political problem facing the president on this, day 92. he promised to label china a currency manipulator on day one. he promised to fight for tax reform passage in the first 100 days. and new infrastructure spending. and to end the common core education standards. to impose new trade tariffs. to fully fund his border wall and of course this. >> the repeal and replace obamacare act.

[ cheers and applause ] >> fully repeal obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts. we can do that. >> now, his 100 day list was wildly unrealistic, but it is his list or contract as he put it. now his more modest hope, to get the house, just the house, to try again on obamacare repeal. >> we are doing very well on health care. we'll see what happens. but this is a great bill. this is a great plan. this will be great health care. it's evolving. there was never a give-up. >> let's start with the ridiculous standard as the president puts it. look, it is in some ways an artificial standard. it dates back to fdr. the second 100 days will be just as important. but this president in that speech in get tysburg, they mad

it clear they were going to get a lot done, a lot done. by legislative perspective, they simply haven't. >> not just that. every politician makes uprealistic promises and every politician has to decide on what they're going to prioritize and they're not going to achieve all of their goals right away. what's interesting about that list is it's a mix of flip flops and things that have totally slipped off the agenda. there's a lot of things on that list that he hasn't talked about since he's got in office. things like china he's actually gone the other way on. the tariffs have gone nowhere. and so there's a sense that that list is as if it didn't even exist. >> i only read some of them. if you go back and read that speech, and good for the president for laying out his ideas during the campaign. the idea that you were going to get a lot of these done and get the action ball moving was completely unrealistic about how this town works. but now why is the president trying to say this ridiculous standard? because he knows he's in for a tough week?

>> yes. because he hasn't met, not even let alone all of them, he hasn't met a number of them for all the reasons molly just said. when you're facing that, you've seen this president do this. you try to rewrite history and act like something that happened didn't happen. he can say that publicly, but we all know this white house is working hard to plan for this 100-day mark. they want to be able to show something. that's why the big push this week on health care again . it does matter. >> the more they talk down the 100 day standard, the more they call attention to it. >> health care seems to be a lot of motion. just because it's moving doesn't mean it's alive. nothing that they've presented is different enough from what was presented before to that

this this is something that could pass the house let alone the senate. particularly these waivers that states could opt to ask to get out of these health benefits. it's going to be a nonstarter for a lot of people. >> at what price? the president is now pushing congress. in a week they'll be back for three or four days. government spending deadline a week from today. the government runs out of money. the government would shut down. they may do a one week extension. how risky is it for the president to say i need this? it would be one chamber of congress. how risky is it to say i need you to do this before the 100 day mark, because if it fails again, that's a huge scar. >> one f , if it fails again, t second this bill has a 17% popularity rating. do members of the house really want to vote for a bill like that? you're risking winning their reelections. the 100 day standard in one way,

there's a standard where the president gets more done in most administrations because often congress is more -- this is a honeymoon period. so in fact you're missing a part of your presidency. if this honeymoon is over, things are going to get harder, not easier. >> no question. >> one political upside for trump of continuing to talk about the health care bill, and that is if it looks like he's trying and congress can't get it done, he can avoid blame. but that's not going to win him a lot of friends in the republican congress. >> infrastructure, not easy. let's come in on the health care again. l listen to the president. they pull the bill on march 24th because speaker ryan told them i don't have the votes, sir. lot of finger pointing about who's to blame but a lot of negotiates while congress has been home for a two-week recess. here's the president's view of where we stand today.

>> the plan gets better and better and better and it's gotten really, really good. we have a good chance of getting it soon. i'd like to say next week, lubui believe we will get it. whether it's next week or shortly there after. >> is he unrealistically again raising expectations that if you talk to the leadership in the house they don't think they're ready to do this next week? they want to get everybody back. they want to count votes. they want to put something on paper and see what happens. when they put something on paper last time, a lot of people walked away. and they have to keep the government open next week. >> and they can't struggle to do that in a good week. the idea that congress will move as fast as this president wants just because they want him to is unrealistic. you have all the reasons of getting people on the same page, which has know extremely difficult. he's really raising expectations

and at the end of the week what they're going to have is not the health care bill and maybe a one week extension for the budget. >> what does that say about republican government? they had the house. they won the senate. they said give us a republican president and we will show you we can get things done. we have stop gap measures to keep the government open or at least start moving, advancing their signature promise of the last five, six, seven years, repeal and replace obamacare. >> there's a reason they didn't have something to go. health care is pligtcomplicated not everybody agrees. the republican party has many factions that i guess no one bothered to talk to before making this promise that this was going to happen right away. they are complicating the government shutdown vote. by adding the border fence funding into the mix again, that could, you know, push them even further apart. >> let's go through these

issues. first on health care. you mentioned all the factions. if you go back to when it collapsed, the finger pointing, the speaker didn't want him to but the president said we're open to negotiation. the president made a number of concessions to the freedom caucus and then still couldn't get enough votes to pass the bill. listen to dave brat, one of the members of the freedom caucus, why does everybody keep blaming us. >> president trump was good in the negotiating process. we said yes. he said yes. somehow something in the swamp said no. >> something in the swamp. >> the lochness monster. >> about half the freedom caucus, about half the people thought the bill was too conservative. that's the problem with trump. when he's talking about all coming together, when we get to the actual policy, there are some people who want repeal every part of obamacare. they only want to repeal very small parts.

i think mulvaney said they have 200 votes this week. i don't necessarily believe that. getting the other 17 or 16 will be really hard. >> if you move it to the right, you lose the moderates. to your earlier point a lot of people thought if you had a republican president, some of these ideological objections would melt because they would think we have to take one for the team. the president needs this. these parts are okay. but we haven't seen that in the republican party. let's get to the government funding measure, as he comes back to the health care, he wants the border wall in there. there are a whole number of issues that could get ahead of this one. can they work it out? can they prove at least they can keep the government open? it's kind of their most basic job. or are we going to see again the factions and ideology send us off the rail? >> i don't have a prediction whether the government is going to shut down, but it's going to be tough. it will be a very interesting test of the leadership. really much more in congress

than the president. because this isn't something the white house has been engaged on except for demanding things to throw a wrench in and make it harder. but this is a very basic test of can you keep the government up and running? there were -- again, there were lots of promises that now that there's a republican president we can actually pass real budgets we don't have to do these continuing resolutions. they may have to punt once or twice. but if they can avoid a shutdown, that will be a big deal. >> everybody sit sight. up next tougher immigration enforcement is a promise kept by mr. trump even if the man in charge is a man with an island in the pacific.

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shutdo kucin welcome back. attorney general jeff sessions is of course the nation's top law enforcement officer and it seems the president's top ambassador when he wants to reassure the trump base. two trips to the u.s. mexican border. my favorite, a surprise visit to the white house briefing room on the first workday after the obamacare repeal dabacle in the house. >> i strongly urge our nation states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws and to rethink these policies. >> dating back to his days in the senate, immigration is an issue sessions knows cold. geography andsi civics, well, h might need a little work.

>> i'm amazed a judge sitting on an island in the pacific issuing an order that stops the president of the united states from what appears to be his statutory and constitutional powers. >> hawaii is a state. it's actually eight big islands and about 130 smaller islands. yes it's in the pacific. the attorney general of the united states knows that yes, a federal district judge, whether he is in hawaii or in maine or in texas or anywhere in between, has that power. right? what is this about? >> well, he did come back and clean it up afterwards saying that was his point. his point was that it didn't seem fair that a single federal judge could get in the way of this initiative that he believes to be constitutional and that's what the appeals process is for and the administration does have a chance to bring it before more federal judges. but yes, of course he knows how the system works. >> his argument there is with alexander hamilton and john jay?

>> the argument is with the judge who has stopped the order from being implemented. what he's actually upset about is the outcome. the fact that actually several courts, including this one. has stopped all of the iterations. >> but there's reason for him to be amazed. he knows how this works. what we have seen is that donald trump has moved off of positions and shifted around and flip flopped or not followed through with some promises. jeff sessions has been a consistent very advocate for all the things president trump stood for. >> and they like when he's out there publicly, especially the reason i talked about that event at the house, he talked about sanctuary cities. he had nothing new to say. he added some tough language. but it was an existing policy actually using obama administration policy on that day but they wanted to put him out there because if the trump base was wavering they wanted to see -- if you're a trump

supporter and the president, effective in the first 100 days. >> if you think of trump flip flopping on foreign policy at times, domestic policy or economics, on these issues of immigration enforcement, particularly, he's been very consistent. he's done what he said in the campaign. general kelly and jeff sessions sound like trump did in the campaign. i do think that the base happens to be a place where trump can say i promised something, we're doing it. >> although he still has not rescinded daca which is something he promised to the immigration hawks in his base. look, people talk so much about the power centers in the white house. jeff sessions was steve bannon before steve bannon was around, right? he's the o.g. of immigration restriction, if you will. he was the first and for a long time the only senator to endorse donald trump. he really is the vessel of a lot of the stuff. he was out liar in the senate. a lot of his republican colleagues in the senate thought he was crazy and there were a lot of votes where he was the only one. he really is a driving force and a voice for the sort of populace

nationalist trade protectionism and immigration restriction that trump talked about so much on the campaign trail and has seemed to waiver on since taking office. >> any of the people trump will go out on the limb for, one of the people trump will defend. the tweet that started a lot of this russia conversation came after sessions got himself in trouble by saying something during a committee hearing it turns out that wasn't necessarily true. so there aren't a lot of advisers look at bannon who once that became kind of a hot relationship, trump started distancing himself. jeff sessions is not that. he's very -- he's close to the president. >> he has not gone back before the congress because he knows he'll be questioned about the meeting with the russian ambassador during the campaign and he didn't want to deal with that right now. today as we talked about earlier, one of the issues the trump administration is fighting for next week when congress is deciding how to keep the government open, the administration is insisting not only that they revisit obamacare but they need the seed money to pay for the border wall.

the administration saying we want it. some conservatives don't think it's money well spent. a lot of democrats think it's a fool's errand. >> we do need that wall and we want to bring this down to virtually zero. we want people in america to know that we've secured the border. i think congress will provide our necessary funds and there will be ways to fund this wall and i believe we've got to do it. >> he's been passionate and consistent on this issue, but will they, will the president of the united states, will his budget director and his attorney general say don't sign it, don't keep the government open if they decide, sir, we can't do it, we'll come back to it later? >> that's the big question. this is where it gets really hard for them to get something on -- get a budget. also to throw health care into this mix . it further complicates this. the republican leadership has acknowledged they would have to

try to cut a deal with democrats. so it's kind of he's a little bit playing on edge. it's not clear where this will go and how much the white house really wants to push this forward. it's hard to oversee a shutdown. >> also hard when your credibility and effectiveness has been questioned. if those two things don't happen or if one of those two don't happen, you're going to have questions about his effectiveness. >> the only other thing i would add is this is a white house that's worried about the narrative that he keeps flip flopping. >> i'm not trying to be cute about this. wasn't mexico supposed to pay for the wall? now they have to go hat and hand to congress. >> he did say back in that speech in the 100 day plan he does say he wants congress to give him the money and then he'll get it. >> check's in the mail. >> so that point, the president in his first press conference

back in january said it's not a fence. it's a wall. here's his homeland security secretary working closely with jeff sessions on this issue describing what he thinks will happen along the border. >> there's a paramount of what i would call fencing here between the border. the men and women that work the border, cvp and i.c.e. and others find it remarkably effective in keeping down the amount of illegal movement across the two borders. >> now, i actually don't -- you know, trump poromised a wall. secretary kelly talks about a wall for further miles here, fencing here. i don't think most trump voters give a hoot as long as the numbers are down. as long as the crossings are down. it's interesting when the president keep using the terminology and pushes back when you call it a fence that his own leader is out there saying it's going to be a fence in someplace. >> crossings have went way down. this is a big accomplishment. kelly would argue whatever is

effective is what i'm going to do and i think trump voter, that data is one they can point to and say we did this one thing we talked about throughout the campaign. >> if you're looking at the numbers the first 100 days, that one is a stunner. secretary kelly make the case it's because the obama did not deport people and did not try to enforce the border. both by having more aggressive enforcement and just by word of mouth, the rhetoric that carries over to the southern side of the border people saying maybe i don't want to come. a lot of people disagree with the policy, but in terms of the president keeping that policy, that's what he gets. >> i think you'll see him talk more about that in the next week. they haven't tout today ed it i way they could. >> up next, the world stage. the president is urged by a key u.s. ally to help in libya and he quickly says no. tech: when your windshield needs to be fixed...

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welcome back. italy's prime minister came to the white house yesterday looking for help. a bigger u.s. role in trying to stabilize libya. president trump quickly made

clear he isn't interested. >> i do not see a role in libya. i think the united states has right now enough roles. >> but like so much of the new administration's foreign policy, things became less black and white the more the president spoke. listen here as he opens the door to perhaps helping some in the fight against isis militants who dominate western libya. >> i do see a role in getting rid of isis. we're being very effective in that regard. we are effectively ridding the world of isis. i see that as a primary role and that's what we're going to do, whether it's in iraq or in libya or anywhere else. that role will come to an end at a certain point. >> it's fascinating when you listen. the first answer was black and white, no role. we're doing enough. then he opens the door and it's yet another example of trying to -- can anyone tell me exactly what the policy is when it comes to libya? >> you don't really know.

obviously he can't leave out the islamic state. he has to say that the u.s. will go places to combat the islamic state. one of the questions that he raised in his comments was whether he was saying the u.s. was going to withdraw in terms of helping politically negotiate a stable government in libya, the u.n. backed government is one that the u.s. has strongly supported. there's all kinds of questions about whether he meant that or we're not going to go in and do robust military action. >> this is one of a number of issues in which the administration has sent mixed signals. if you remember on the iran deal there seemed to be cross wires or at least some nuance in terms of what the stance was on the iran deal that he promised to get rid of as a candidate. and so i think for a lot of our allies included, but a lot of foreign governments are just perplexed. because it's very hard to know where this administration stands on a lot of things. >> the president like that when it comes to people like kim

jong-un, and bashar al assad, he wants people who are viewed as foes to be a little nervous. so when your allies are off balance, that makes them a little nervous. i want to get to a moment where we can show you a tape. one of the criticisms when the leader of egypt was here is that the president didn't bring up human rights at all. this is an american aide worker, hijazi. she's now back home in the united states. she gets a meeting with the president in the oval office. she had been in prison for years, back in the obama administration were trumped up charges in egypt. the president was criticized for human rights groups for not piblpib publicly chastising him. he would not meet because of the human rights abuses and other abuses in egypt. how do we rank this one? sean spicer saying he told the president of egypt when he was here this is primportant to me d

she's home. >> this washed away some of the concerns about him not raising human rights. but the question is what's next? what did he get or give in return and where does this relationship go? and we just don't know yet. >> that's another example of what's next. the criticism has been there this's been transactional steps. air strikes in syria, dropping the bomb in afghanistan that some people view as successes, important statements, but what's the strategy? >> it's a collection of one offs right now. two things. he wants you to pay more for nato. and he wants to fight isis. beyond that, every issues seems to be an evolving, what do i think, what does tillerson think. >> it's a transaction -- >> the position with russia, he was so consistent about becoming friends with russia and that definitely hasn't happened. >> another one is kim jong-un, the president has asked, and we

talked about this, he promised on day one on label china a currency manipulator. he promised a whole host of other trade sanctions, aggressive actions to what he called rape during the campaign. now very muted tone, very friendly tone because the president is asking for help with north korea. >> i actually told him you'll make a much better deal on trade if you get rid of this menace or do something about the menace of north korea. because that's what it is. it's a menace right now. >> how is this transaction going to turnout is the question. >> he's really setting the expectations very high for what china can do. there are a number of people including the president himself who said it's not clear how much power china has to change the north korea dynamic. so he's really relied on that. he's boxed himself in to taking some sort of aggressive action. china is the fire wall and if that doesn't wall, then you don't know where it goes from there. >> and the president tweeting

again today china is very much the economic life line to north korea. so while nothing is easy, if they want to solve the north korean problem, they will. the question has always been where is china's line. china does not want to stabilize the regime. they do not want a unified korea. so where's the line for china i think is the question that president trump is trying to answer. president obama tried to answer. president george w. bush tried to answer. president clinton tried to answer. >> not many candidates have a lot of foreign policy knowledge going into this job. he's learning on the job. more so than in the past because it zdoesn't seem like there was any reparation. we saw it with syria where she was shocked about the chemical weapons use. now we're seeing it with china it's a lot more complicated over there. we're seeing this president learn on the job alive and on television. >> i wasn't in the media with the chinese president, but it appears he moved trump.

the anti-china went away. he's quoted him a few tiemmes, seems like that meeting stuck in his head and really changed and sort of gave him more views about what china's role and why china bashing is not done by presidents. >> we don't know how all this is going to turnout out. it could be we're looking at good relations with china and deescalation with north korea and we can look back and say all of that tough talk was his initial negotiating position and look where it ended up getting. we don't know where this is all going to go. >> but the footnote, this is somewhat foreign policy related. the house select committee on intelligence, an investigation gone off the rails, now has a new chairman for the investigation part putting out a press release saying director james comey of the fbi, national security adviser mike roger have been invited to a closed meeting

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welcome back. president obama on monday ends his post election hyper nation. you might say his post election series of excellent vacations. the 44th leader of the free world makes his first public appearance since leaving office. it will be at the university of chicago wherein his previous life he was a law professor. the event is being built as a conversation on organizing and civic engagement. in his absence, democrats have, to put it modestly, struggled to

find a person who can lead the party out of the wilderness. what's old is not new again. >> i know the election hit a lot of us hard. but i can tell you this. even when it feels tempting to pull the covers over your head, please keep going. >> a great texan used to say you put lipstick on a sow and call her monique and she's still a pig. that's what this bill is. it's the same terrible bill. >> do you consider yourself a democrat? >> no. i am an independent and i think if the democratic party is going to succeed and i want to see it succeed, it's going to have to open its doors to independents.

>> we spent a lot of time earlier in the program on the republicans having a hard time getting the governing act together. the democrats had their own set of dysfunction and disarray. i don't mean to beat up on the public service of secretary cl o leader pelosi or bernie sanders being an independent while he's out on tour trying to help the democratic party rebuild, but if you look at the leadership of the party, who is the state senator? who is the new face. >> i think it is hard to know who the leader is. they're doing well right now in part the democrats because they're opposing things. they're good at blocking the new obamacare bill. they're having these marches. >> it worked for the republicans. >> exactly. at some point there will have to

be a voice of the democrats. you still have win those who voted for trump. still not sure if they're going to vote for the democratic candidate in 2018. particularly in 2020. i think you still have to find the positive vision of the democratic party. their auditions are open and you are seeing some of these folks particularly in the senate. they are auditioning. there are books coming out. they are promoting the books. they don't -- no one writes books for their health. >> at some point the leader of the democratic party is donald trump. because it is the anger at him that is really energy jiizing t base. the question is is that anger going to stay at its current fever pitch. the results out of georgia were very much sort of tea leaves for that and the resulted sort of middling. he didn't win out right which

would have been in favor of the democrats but he also did better than you probably would have expected for someone in that district. >> you mentioned that race. it's in a two month runoff. the republicans are happy. they think they can hold the seat, but they did get a scare. part of their way to go against jon ossoff, he was trying to get 50%. we just showed nancy pell low cea -- pelosi, a, trying to raise money, and b, trying to take down a candidate. look at these ads. >> ossoff lived and worked with the liberals in washington. that's why nancy pelosi and her allies are pouring millions into his campaign. >> the truth is nancy pelosi's friends are rolling ossoff's campaign. >> this is not a new strategy. republicans have been doing this since 2010 making nancy pelosi the villain, but they wouldn't keep doing it if it didn't work

and it does get their base out. >> the candidate is trying not to get sucked into that. he's talking very much about compromise. >> local issues and the like. that race was as you mentioned, had the democrats won, it would have given them some confidence heading into 2018 even though we often over read the results of special election. nancy pelosi wants to be speaker again. can she get there? does the math work? she thinks. >> are there enough winnable races to take back the house? >> yes indeed. if it were today i feel very confident. >> this is also not a new talking point for nancy pelosi who said the democrats were going to win the house in 2012, 2014. but in every instance it was almost impossible for that to happen. i wouldn't necessarily take that as a statement. >> in any other organization, with that track record, you would have a new leader.

but they have their own dysfunction in the top and plus she's the one who can raise money. she's the only one that can raise money on the steal that she does. >> that's why sthey keep her. she got quite a lot of votes against her to be leader. there are a fair number of democrats who wish she would move on and allow a new generation. >> but the new jgeneration have -- there is a little bit of brain drain going on in the democratic caucus. >> it looks for other opportunities. we'll watch this one. everybody sit tight again. coming up, he loves them, he loves them not. president trump loved wikileaks on the campaign trail but his white house says julian assange maybe should go to jail.

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you probably remember this. candidate dronald trump was a bg fan of wikileaks. >> by the way, did you see another one? another one came in today. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. >> wikileaks just came out with lots of really unbelievable things. just minutes ago. in fact, i almost delayed this speech by about two hours it's so interesting. >> that was then. this is now. the trump justice department exploring whether a criminal case can be made against wikileaks for revealing reams of u.s. government secrets. attorney general jeff sessions says he comment specifically about wikileaks or julian assange but listen as the leader does make clear sensitive leaks of information has his attention. >> yes, it is a priority. we've already begun to step up our efforts and whenever a case can be made we will seek to put some people in jail. >> couple things here.

one, just the tone shifts between candidate trump loving wikileaks and the trump administration lashing out, using very tough language. now apparently looking to build a criminal case. but on the substance, pretty big challenge as julian assange says we're publishers. we have first amendment rights to this. can they make a case? i guess is part of the case to make a case you have to get that they were involved in the illegal conduct that brought the leaks? not just receiving the information? >> right. to me the core question is wikileaks like "the new york times," like news organizations publishing things that are sometimes obtained secretly or is wikileaks involved in stealing things from the government. the government i assume would have to prove the case more, the latter. like assange and others are grabbing information. more like edward snowden than the noew york times are.

>> this started with them saying they are a nonhostile -- the president is learning that wikileaks is not really fun when you're president and you have classified national security secrets that are being published uncensored by a website. and it will be very interesting to see how they try to build this case against him. but this is also another instance where there's clear tape on him saying one thing and then getting in office and saying something else. >> it's almost as if politicians take positions on the campaign trail that appeal to voters, that they don't actually intend to carry out. >> but i do think that what cia director pompeo was also reversing himself from the campaign. it also appears to be an attempt to make nice with the intelligence community. that trump was so antagonistic to when he first came in. >> let's listen to mike pompeo

who in a speech made crystal clear he thinks wikileaks is not just an enemy but a threat. >> julian assange and his kind are not interested in improving civil liberties. they have pretended first american to shield them from justice. they may have believed that you about they're wrong. he relies on the dirty work of others to make himself famous. he's a fraud, a coward hiding behind a screen. >> he doesn't love wikileaks. >> in light of what wikileaks did to turn the tied on this and to remake their messaging from that campaign, because -- >> make this public case. the question is can they make a willing case. that's it for "inside politics." hope to see you sunday morning. back here on monday. news continues after a quick break with my colleague wolf blitzer.

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it's 1:00 p.m. in washington, 8:00 p.m. in moscow. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we start with russian bears coming close to alaska. it marks the fourth time this week that russian military plans have come close to the alaskan coast. the first couple times they scrambled jets to keep an eye on the jets. let's bring in ryan brown. he's joining us. senior international correspondent fled pl-- what ar you hearing from the pentagon. four times over four days. >> well, that's right, wolf. this is the fourth time and we hadn't seen this kind of activity for quite some time before this. 2015 was the last time these russian bombers flew into what's called the air defense identification zone. it's in international air space, but it's kind of this