uphill or off to the side but getting a good view of some of this lava. i've been amazed to hear from so many people that it's going to take a lot to get them to evacuate. kate? >> scott, thank you so much. a reminder, you can watch the scene live any time on our website. go to cnn.com. thank you for joining me. "inside politics" with john king starts right now. ♪ thank you, kate. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. president trump says the deep state is getting caught spying on his campaign. but his own spokesman won't repeat that allegation. and james comey says the president and his republican allies are just plain lying. plus, the secretary of state says he made clear to kim jong-un that the united states will offer security assurance to his regime, but only if north

korea completely ends its nuclear program. secretary pompeo says kim doesn't use notes and he knows his stuff. and the year of the democratic woman takes shape after another big primary night. in georgia, stacey abrams looks to make history by proving a block woman can black woman can be elected governor. >> i think it's an important statement that i stand here today that i am the first african-american, the first woman, but more importantly, i'm a georgian who understands that i want latino and the asian pacific islander community, that i want every community in georgia to feel that they have a voice in our government. >> more on that remarkable story. but first, president trump lashing out what he calls the "criminal deep state." his target, his own jthustice department, the men and women of the fbi, and the special counsel who so far has ignored months of presidential attacks and expanded his investigation. angry presidential tweet storms are becoming as predictable as

the sun rise. but today, spy, scandal, scam, phony, illegal, witch hunt, just a sampling of the president's tough words this morning. the president would have the american people believe that the criminal deep state made up the russia scam, and paid a spy to entrap members of his campaign. if what the president said were true, it would be a monumental scandal. but he offers to evidence of any illegal investigative tactic, and one of his own white house spokesman repeatedly refused to accept the president'sdy fintive take. >> you haven't seen any evidence to support this claim. how can you say there was a spy planted in his people this >> i haven't said that there is a spy. i said there was intelligence collected on the trump campaign. >> the former fbi director responded with a tweet of his own, saying there are strict rules on using confidential

sources in investigations and the president and his allies are lying to discredit the investigation. the timing makes one wonder why the president is so agitated. sources telling cnn the president's lawyers are trying to narrow the scope of a potential interview with special counsel robert mueller. the hope, to take questions about the president's conduct after the election off the table. the president's lead lawyer, rudy giuliani, says he opposes letting the interview happen at all. the worry, described by mr. giuliani, "that mr. trump could talk himself into becoming a target." let's start with evan perez, who has been track thing investigation from day one. any sign the special counsel would consider cutting that deal with president trump's team? >> reporter: we don't see any signs of that yet. but look, a lot of this discussion is happening back and forth between the trump team and the special counsel's office. one person we talked to said that this is a negotiation that's inching forward. you know, essentially the president's team is trying to

limit the questions, limit the scope of questions to things that are prepresidency. so that would probably take obstruction off the table. they don't want any questions on obstruction. they say the president is willing to sit down for a limited interview, perhaps a couple of hours with a limited set of questions. but then he can answer additional questions perhaps in a take home test version, the written test version. we don't though whether the special counsel will accept that. as a matter of fact, what we were told, the special counsel's office has indicated that they're not inclined to accept such a request. one of the things the president's lawyer are asking for is there be an audio version or tape of this interview, if it does happen, and that way there would be no dispute over what the president says, john. >> i think an audio version would be just fine for everybody, especially it's part of the public record. evan, in the context of all these tweet attacks on the

investigation, in a normal world, question about the legality of investigative tactics, including questions about the use of informants, would be challenged in a court. so far has special counsel mueller lost any challenges in the court where this is rightly done to his authority or tactics used by investigators? >> reporter: great question. so far no, the special counsel, i just came back from the courthouse half a mile from here, where we're sitting, and the judge is hearing a challenge from paul manafort, the president's former campaign chairman, who says that the fbi illegally searched a storage facility of his as part of this case that they're bringing indictments here in d.c. and in virginia. the judge, so far is not buying that argument. the fbi agent who carried out the search was in the courtroom. everything that is happening is happening according to the way the law works, john. you know, this is not deep state, this is simply the judicial system at work, and it appears so far the judge is not

buying it from paul manafort's lawyers. >> evan perez, appreciate the reporting. with me here in the studio is my panel. is that what we're seeing then, that if you can't win in court, challenging mueller's tacticing a -- tactics, you challenge it on twitter that if there's a report and if it says bad things about me and more people are charged, don't believe any of it, is that what this is? >> yes and no. i would say strategy is secondary to what donald trump is doing here. what he's doing first of all is what he always does, fight back in his own words. this is how he defends himself. he insults his opponents, he tries to delegitimize them. does that amount to a strategy to delegitimize a strategy? it does. but first and foremost in trump's mind, he pushes back on anyone he feels attacked by.

>> yeah, i think there are two things here. one is that there's a legal problem and a political one. what we're talking about is in part the political one. insulating himself from the findings, whatever they might be. if mueller comes back with something, they don't need to worry about it. but there is also that lurking danger at some point this white house might make a move on bob mueller and try to get him fired. the only real recourse would be a political one, which would be action by congress. and by spinning up his base against bob mueller, he's giving room to republicans on capitol hill to stay out of it if he makes a move on robert mueller. >> including on a call for a second special counsel to investigate the investigators. you go to court, you present evidence to a judge. appeal if you lose the first round. they're doing this all in politics. to that point, there is supposed to be a white house meeting tomorrow with the chief of staff john kelly to brief members of congress on at least some of the

details about this quote unquote unfor mant, the president calls it a spy. the democrats have said, don't do this. if you have to share the most sensitive u.s. intelligence information with key members of congress but you don't want to get it out to a big group, you bring in the top eight. >> i think that's a surprise to everybody. it's almost as if they're giving away the game here. when you keep the gang of eight or top democrats on the house oversight committee out of this meeting. if it's just republicans, if it's just two house republicans, if one of those house republicans is devin nunes, then there's going to be a lot -- i make this clear -- this is not just democrats saying that's a little odd. i talked to a lot of republicans yesterday too who are perplexed, why not make it bipartisan, gang of eight or bring in somebody from the senate or the top

democrats on each panel and give the appearance that this is a regular process, or at least a process that's going through kind of the norms of how this is supposed to work. that's not happening, at least it hasn't happened yet. i will note three republican senators sent a letter to rod rosenstein saying they believe they should come, as well. so this could get bigger. that's where you might see additional members added. but there's real concern based on the attendance alone that this isn't on the up and up. >> shouldn't it make you suspect that the president and his allies don't want to use the processes that are set up? east gore to court and challenge the investigator or use this process in place, if the obama people planted a spy in the trump campaign, and if the democrats were told that in this sensitive meeting, they would know, back off. something bad did happen. if the republicans said there was something horrible at play, the democrats would have been in the room and they couldn't challenge it. >> you would think that would be the right way to do it.

this is part of, if not quite a strategy, it's donald trump first fighting and then getting a strategy later. and getting some comfort from devin nunes who has been sort of his bonnie and clyde or batman and robin, whatever your metaphor is. the wild card is trey gowdy. he in some ways has been critical of this president, in some ways a straight shooter. he's not up for re-election. so it will be interesting to see what he has to say about this. it will be much more believable if it were bipartisan. >> it's also interesting as the debate plays out, everyone is in your predictable silo. if you're a trump silo, people say the deep state. then you have mark corralo, a justice department spokesman when bob mueller was at the fbi. he worked for a short time as a spokesman for the trump legal team. he says this, i doubt bob

mueller feels any pressure other than the pressure to do his work as quickly as possible. bob mueller is not moved by headlines or stories, only concerned about the facts. that is what he's interested in. he knows bob mueller well and he also knows the president in his tactics or reflexes. and that's the sense you get, that the president's frustration is he keeps saying, close the investigation, narrow the investigation. and mueller keeps ignoring him. and so what happens on the schoolyard with the bully is, if you keep ignoring him, the louder he gets. >> this goes to the point how there's the political and judicial right now. there's a vacuum on the judicial side. you're not hearing from the mueller side or hearing a lot of information. and in that vacuum has stepped in the president, who is frustrated by the vacuum, but also sees an opportunity, that if nothing is coming out of mueller's team, if they're not getting a clear picture where this is going to end up, they can step in and fill that and

change the narrative. that also goes for the inspector general's reports on a lot of the very issues the president is saying is so problematic. when bob mueller releases his mindings, then the answers will be out there. in the meantime, there's an opening, and i think the president's allies have stepped in on it. >> and the president knows so much more than we know in the negotiations about the interview. when they say we don't want you to ask about that and mueller pushes back, he gives this pump w -- this much. mike pompeo, former cia director, is talking mostly about north korea, and he was asked by ted lieu about the deep state. >> i haven't seen the comments of the president. i don't believe there's a deep tate at the state department. >> thank you. you formally served as cia director. do you believe your colleagues at cia are part of the criminal

deep -- >> i think the tape just froze there. it happens with technology. >> it's called the deep state. >> the secretary of state going on to say no, he doesn't see the deep state at the cia. again, this is the position, the president of the united states, by saying there's a criminal deep state, including people he has appointed to sensitive jobs in the united states government, now conspiring to hide all the evidence that hillary clinton did horrible things and stir up fake evidence that he did horrible things. this is the position he puts respected members of his cabinet in that they have to answer questions about. >> the idea that they sprang the october surprise in january of 2017. it's pretty messy. they have misled the public in the past, but yeah, the idea that the elites areout toget him. which is the message that he carried all the way through 2016. the financial elites screwed you, american voter. the national security elites

brought you iraq. the media elites don't care about the things you care about. he's adapted that to himself. >> to the point comey made in his tweet today, james comey helped a lot of people out there, if you read the book, it's a very interesting book. so his point was, the president's attacking, the president's lying. his point was more to the mun part -- republican party saying how are you going to look your grandchildren in the eye when you keep challenging men and women of the fbi? the point is, you mentioned these three senators, they wrote to john kelly and rod rosenstein saying we should be in this meeting, as well. they're not known as the most partisan guys, they're also senior guys. chuck grassley, lindsey graham, a military lawyer. john cornyn, the number two in the senate republican leadership. is there a sense among them that they need to get this away from,

forgive me, the freedom caucus agitators, and to get a responsible republican in the room? >> the answer to that is yes. and we have seen with the grassley bill as well, senate republicans moving significantly to prepare to protect the investigation if they feel it comes to that. one problem is that the red line keeps moving. they keep saying there will be red line, it hasn't been crossed yet. and then arguable lapses in the respect for law occur and the goal posts move. the president and his allies are waging an aggressive case in the court of public opinion, and mueller is not playing in the court of public opinion, which means that that case goes more or less unrebutted. and to hear from democrats, but also from comey types who consider themselves rule of law hawks, i guess, that's what they're worried about is nobody is making an affirmative case defending not just defending the

mueller investigation abstract terms that it should occur, but defending the things that he has done and refuting some of these conspiracies. >> in the meantime, the voters, republican voters are buying a lot of the sort of spin and conspiracy theorys that the president is spewing. you see in the polls, a confidence in the mueller investigation among republicans. it never was really high, but it's decreasing over these last many months, the president really hammering -- >> i do take it as significant. first, the two democratic leaders, the fact that john cornyn, and the other senators want to be in the room, we know what they think. it seems to me that you have the adults essentially saying we want a grownup in the room to make sure what later comes out in public we can fact check. we'll see if they get a yes or no from the justice department. up next, the new secretary of state is on capitol hill. he says nothing's changed. the u.s. still wants total and

complete denuclearization from north korea. but is kim jong-un still willing to make a deal?

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the president of the united states just left the white house, on his way up to new york. he did stop and talk to reporters on his way to marine one. he discussed when the united states will know for sure. the president says next week whether north korea will go ahead with that big planned june 12th summit. the goal, of course, denuclearization. that's also the subject for secretary of state mike pompeo today. he's on capitol hill, pushing back against some lawmakers who think the united states might already be softening its demamds. secretary pompeo says in his meetings he's been crystal clear about what must happen if that summit goes forward. >> our demands have been unambiguous. when i spoke to him, i could not have been clearer about the scope of the verification work that would be required, all of

the elements necessary in order for america to understand that there had been real denuclearization. he took those on board. in return he made it clear it was important to him that when that time came, when those objectives had been achieved he would receive economic help. >> secretary pompeo, new on the job, speaks from a unique place of authority. he's now met in person with kim twice. he was asked for his candid impression of how the reclusive leader operates. >> he knows the file. he doesn't use notes. he is speaking, we have real conversations through a translator, obviously. he's have a different generation and a different time, and it's my hope that when he and president trump get a chance to be together, that we can get the north koreans to make the strategic shift about how best to serve the country, that the nuclear weapons program isn't the thing that keeps the thing in power, but the thing that prevents the regime from being

in a place it wants to be. >> we know so little about the 30 something dictator of north korea. just to hear from a guy that's met with him twice, knows the file, meaning he knows his stuff, he's having the conversation. that's all good and fine and it's great to learn about kim jong-un. the question is, is he really coming to the table with an open mind about giving up the thing that's propped up the regime, nuclear weapons? >> i thought the generation comment was really interesting. for generations, the north korean regime has seen the nuclear program as a key to survival. mike pompeo seems to be saying they can change the mind of kim jong-un. the problem with that is that there's an infrastructure in north korea that's tied directly to north korea. one of the questions i have, how willing are the generals, how willing are the bureaucrats who

are in there, how willing are they to go along with kim jong-un? there have been a couple of reports that kim jong-un is concerned about traveling outside of the country because while he's gone, bad things might happen to his hold on power. that's all part of this question. >> it's a fascinating point, because you hear from the south koreans that he's worried about traveling. and when you had the comments out of north korea a week or so ago, a lot of people took that as the military establishment pushing back saying this is our livelihood. but the question is, the way the administration was talking about a month ago, it was like all of a sudden there was going to be a fairy tale ending, but there was no fairy tale endings when it comes to north korea. that's a seasoned analyst making a rational point. and yet, we do have mike pompeo saying maybe. >> yeah. i mean, i think we've seen from

this president sort of overpromising and underdelivering time and time again on any number of issues. they seem to be recalibrating at this point, the president saying maybe if it doesn't happen, it would be fine. there's a substantial chance that it doesn't happen. he said yesterday, what was also interesting about mike pompeo, this idea that kim jong-un knows the file. i think a lot of people wonder how well the president knows the file. is he going to give away the store? so that's i think a lot of concern about what he would do face to face. >> i think what's interesting is it's such a calculated play on one individual's willingness to change the course of history and change what we've seen for decades, including negotiations repeat lid. and that stick, and the offer of

the carrots, major economic help for a country that, by all accounts, in the dark, compared to where the rest of the world's economy is, that that will be enough. we've seen that construct of nuclear deals before not work. and the idea that one individual or a new generation in a country will totally shift because of the economic benefits, that hasn't necessarily worked in practice. it's interesting that the administration is pursuing that. >> there may be only one way to find out. this is president trump speaking to reporters on the south lawn. [ inaudible ] >> you have to look at the basics. it looks like a very serious event. we'll find out. when they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a lot of bad things happen. i hope it's not so, because if it is, there's never been anything like it in the history of our country. if you look at clapper, he sort of admitted that they had spies in the campaign yesterday,

inadvertently. but i hope it's not true, but it looks like it is. [ inaudible question ] >> i think james comey has a lot of problems. if you look at what he did, if you look at all of the lies, the tremendous lies, if you look at all that's going on, i think james comey's got a lot of problems. now, at some point, they have an ig report and then let's see what james comey has to say. but i assume he's covered in the ig report. but if you look at what he said, all of the lies, all of the fiction, i think he's got a lot of problems. [ inaudible question ] >> i don't want to get into it yet, but i will tell you after we look at -- after we look at the proof, would he know? i would certainly hope not. but i think it's going to be pretty obvious after a while. we're going now to talk about ms-13 with the great police officers. we're going out to long island.

i don't know, are you coming with us? no? it's going to be very exciting. [ inaudible question ] >> no, no. we're not undercutting. we're cleaning everything up. this was a terrible situation. what we're doing is we're cleaning everything up. it's so important. what i'm doing is a service to this country. and i did a great service to this country by firing james comey. and -- excuse me -- a lot of people have said it. you go into the fbi and a lot of those great people working in the fbi, they will tell you, i did a great service to our country by firing james comey. [ inaudible question ] >> i want them all to get together, and i want them --

because everybody wants to solve, but a lot of bad things have happened. we now call it spygate. you're calling it spygate. a lot of bad things have happened. i want them to get together, they'll sit in a room and hopefully work it out among themselves. [ inaudible question ] >> excuse me, nafta? i think your auto workers and auto companies, in this country, are going to be very happy with what's going to happen. you'll be seeing very soon what i'm talking about. nafta is very difficult. mexico has been very difficult to deal with. canada has been very difficult to deal with. they have been taking advantage of the united states for a long time. i am not happy with their requests. but i will tell you, in the end, we win. we will win, and we'll win big. we'll get along with mexico, we'll get along with canada. but i will tell you, they have

been very difficult to deal with. they're very spoiled, because nobody has done this. but i will tell you that what they asked for is not fair. our auto workers are going to be extremely happy. [ inaudible question ] >> we're going to see what happens. on singapore, we're going to see. and it could happen. it could very well happen. but whatever it is, we will know next week about singapore. and if we go, i think it will be a great thing for north korea. [ inaudible question ] >> some day, a date will happen. it could very well be june 12th. some day, a date will absolutely

happen. it could very well be june 12th, we'll see. we'll know next week. [ inaudible question ] >> they'll all be in the room tomorrow. we'll see what happens. i want total transparency. wait, you have to have transparency. even they probably want transparency, because this issue supersedes republicans and democrats. so what i want from rod, from the fbi, from everybody, we want transparency. and you know what? i think in their own way, they are obstructionists, but even the democrats, i really believe on this issue, it supersedes. i think they want transparency, too. thank you. >> here the president taking questions for a little more than five minutes, making his way to

marine one. our white house correspondent jeff zeleny is at the white house. you were asking questions about rod rosenstein. i hope it's not true, it might be true, kind of a scatter shot, to be kind about these allegations that there's a spy planted in the trump campaign. he says we're all using the term spygate. no, we are not. >> reporter: when the president says a lot of people are saying it, that is true, but that's people on one spectrum, those are many of his advisers, including those that work on fox news. sean hannity is essentially an adviser to this president. so some spectrums are calling it spygate, but that was coined by the president. as i was standing out there on the south lawn a few moments ago, it was almost a bit of deja vu. we have seen the president do this repeatedly. he operates off of a potential rumor or some factoid and turns

it into a conspiracy theory. i was struck by one question there when he was asked who is to blame for this? who is behind this? if in fact there were spies in his campaign, which we are told by multiple u.s. officials there were not. he says, i hope not, when asked if president obama was directly involved in it. so this is classic donald trump throwing a lot of things out there, trying to validate, you know, what is already in the ether there. but he is doubling down on the fact that he is calling this spygate. he's also owning the james comey decision. he called it a great service to the country by firing james comey. many supporters of his strongly disagree. that triggered the special counsel. but the president also said he's not trying to discredit the special counsel's probe, he's trying to explain it to the country, john. but it's clear he's using a

variety of rumors, conspiracy theorys and his own facts to fit his version of events. on the singapore summit, he said he believes we will know the answer to that question next week, if there is a summit, as we heard on june 12th. john? >> jeff zeleny for us. another interesting day at the white house. not sure there's not been an interesting day since the beginning of this administration. interesting, this is a president who he did this when he was a businessman, as a candidate, now as president of the united states, which we shouldn't be surprised because he's consistent. but sometimes we're shocked. there you see the president, marine one has landed at joint base andrews. we'll track the president as he goes. he is consistent in the use of innuendo, people are saying, i hope it's not true, but then taking two minutes to say things that are not proven.

he said james clapper said there was a spy in the campaign. james clapper did not say that. he did say he wants full transparency. this would be good to hold the president to that test. if he wants full transparency as we look at the documents about fbi practices, right now, it's a small group of house republicans invited to this meeting. am i right about that, with chief of staff john kelly. two republicans. three republican senators want to go. john cornyn, the number two in the leadership, a former state attorney general, gets these issues. lindsey graham, a military lawyer in the reserves. why not? and why not let chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, two democrats in the room. if you want full transparency, bring everybody in the room. if there is evidence of misconduct, then you can have a bipartisan consensus to do something about it. if there's not, everybody can

close their you know what's and stop talking about reckless conspiracy theorys. >> one aspect is this is still an ongoing investigation. you know, i think that there ought to be transparency for everything that law enforcement does. but as reporters, we don't get to know what the police are doing while they're doing it. >> thank you for that. it's a pretty important point. >> they're trying to exercise oversight of an investigation that has not concluded. traditionally, the investigation concludes, and then there be be oversight of it. this is what has led some to suspect they are trying to get visibility into the investigation on behalf of the president's defense legal team. >> we don't slow down off enough to say wait a minute, wherever you live, say the police department is in the middle of an investigation into organized crime, a bank that's cheating, they don't tell you who their informants are, where they're getting their information from, until they charge somebody or they drop it and they go to court. and again, there's a process to

do this. and then there's the way the president does this. >> yeah, and in this limited example when you're going to have trey gowdy and devin nunes in this meeting tomorrow at the white house, if they're in there, and the president wants transparency, you're right, why can't chuck and nancy, his old pals from the fall when they did deals together, why can't they be in there? you manage thimagine that's the step, they'll call the president out on this. the problem for this president is what comes out of that meeting if chuck and nancy are there. it's unlikely they're going to double down on this conspiracy theory that he has and he is now calling spygate. >> so that point, devin nunes had to be recused as chairman of his own committee. he has zero credibility. so why would you do that? trey gowdy is a different story. he's been much more straightforward, a former

prosecutor. he's different. but i would assume he wants a little backup in this meeting. >> we're back in the court of public opinion, where the president is championing himself, and he's forcing law enforcement officials to defend the norm, that people don't necessarily understand, that you don't short circuit an ongoing investigation. you don't disclose the identity of an informant mid investigation. sometimes maybe ever. so he's casting himself as the champion of right to know versus these shadowy deep state characters. remember release the memo? this is a recurring theme with these guys. >> there is a recurring theme. policy on a cultural war issue the president relishes talking about. if you have medicare

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topping our political radar, senate negotiators finally have an agreement on how to change the broken system for handling sexual harassment claims on capitol hill. compared to the house bill, the senate's version gets more specific in terms of who's libel and who pays when a member of congress or a staffer are accused. party members applauded the deal, saying they're optimistic the senate will pass it quickly. this year marks a decade since the financial crisis. christine romans is here with more on rolling back dodd-frank. >> reporter: weaker financial rules are on the way to the president's desk. the house voted in favor to roll back parts of dodd-frank. the center piece is toese rules on community banks. they day dodd-frank hurts those

banks, so the bill raises the -- all the way up to $250 billion. that leaves only the very biggest banks like wells fargo, bank of america, they're the ones that face the toughest skrout scrutiny. they have to provide plans on how to safely dismanlt it witle fail. anything below that doesn't need a rainy day fund. this will help community banks create jobs on main street. but progressives warn any rollback could trigger another financial crisis and point out there are institutions up to that $250 billion size that probably still need some strict oversight. the bill is not just about bank oversight, though. it loosens regulations for mortgage lenders, it changes the rules for student loan default and makes credit freezes free

for all americans. the bill now heads to the president. he's expected to sign it before memorial day. congress is cutting these regulations at the moment banks are reporting their best quarter in history. profits soared to a record $56 billion in the first quarter. banks are not hurting. john? >> christine, not hurting. that's a good way to put it. the national football league has just announced a brand new policy for dealing with players who protest during the national anthem. it says all players on the field during the performance must stand. but they can stay in the locker room if they so choose. the nfl says teams with players who sit or kneel can be subject to fines. the commissioner speaking about this new rule moments ago. >> we want people to be respectful to the national anthem and we want people to stand. that's all personnel. and make sure they treat this moment in a respectful fashion. that's something we think we

owe. we've been very sensitive in making sure we give players choices, but we do believe that that moment is an important moment. >> you have to say victory for president trump, is it not? he threatened the league essentially, and some of the tv ratings went down. some people boycotted. i don't know the extent of it. but is this a victory for the president this >> one of the most illuminating things is when "the new york times" got a hold of the closed door meeting between the owners and the players and it made so clear how terrified they were of the president. it's the classic pr case of trying to have it both ways and upsetting both sides here. this was a terrible -- just bogged down issue for the nfl to begin with. i don't think it's going to

change any time soon. i'm not sure when you're say thing didn't mean they're unpatriotic. this wasn't the reason, and now you're fining them. all it does is lead into the improper perception of patriotism. >> it was about players who are americans exercising this thing we cherish called our first amendment right. this from the players union. the nfl chose not to consult the union in the development of this new policy. roger goodell trying to have both sides of an argument. coming up, progressive women win big in the southern primaries. that's next. i've been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. there's a lot of innovation that goes into making america's #1 shave. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes close. now starting at $7.99. gillette. the best a man can get.

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texas is changing. texas is changing. look around you. look around you. this is what texas looks like. i am constantly hearing this is going to be such an uphill battle. please, tell me when i didn't have an uphill battle. >> what happened tonight is amazing. i couldn't be more honored and more humbled to be standing here tonight as your nominee. >> this is our moment! our chance to lift up georgia. and if we fight, if we push, if we work, we will win! >> progressive women who dominated democratic primaries in texas, kentucky, and georgia, giving a glimpse of the emerging trends this primary season.

for democrats, it seems to be about female candidates and moving the party more to the left. one of those hopes to become the first democratic black governor in georgia. you did some report thing in georgia. what a statement it would be if an african-american woman could win. she would be the first african-american governor any way, but in georgia, ruby red trump country. >> trump is not a ruby red state anymore. obama lost it by just five points and i believe trump won it by just five points. so it is a state, like the rest of the coastal south, is beginning to purple at the edges. but has it gone far enough? we don't know from a democratic primary is whether someone like stacey abrams can when statewide when republicans are voting. we know democrats are excited, mar play about by female candidates

and anti-establishment candidates. one of the things i learned from reporting, she was perceived as the more left wing candidate, largely because of her political strategy, and perhaps because she's black. but she wasn't politically ideal logically. she may have been more centrist, and her election pitch will be the way she worked with republicans in the state legislature. >> i think the key there is going to be what white voters do. we focus on black voters. but if you look at past campaigns, black voters that shown up, it's the white voters who haven't voted for democrats. michelle nunn got like 14% of the white vote in 2014. so we'll see. in texas, it's essentially the same thing. i do think having these candidates, particularly in texas, a latino at the top of

the ballot, might mean something for down ballot races. for the first time, you'll have democrats challenge republicans in all of those districts. so that will be interesting to watch, if there's any effect there. but unlikely either of these women will win. >> and the candidate in kentucky, another example of not having a title to help you. not being a politician is still out there in america. >> i think that's absolutely true. we seen it throughout the primaries. you see the party and organization gets behind you, as detrick did with her opponent in kentucky, it doesn't necessarily work. for all of the problems in california, and other places, she had an okay night last night. but they swung and missed, and the interesting element is a progressive female candidate, how do they do in a district they probably shouldn't win on painer? >> some fascinating races shaping up for the midterm.

tonight on cnn, the house minority leader nancy pelosi answers your questions at 9:00 p.m. right here on cnn. you don't want to miss that. thanks for joining us on "inside politics" today. we'll see you back here this time tomorrow. wolf's in the chair when we come back. have a great day.

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