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midterm clues a familiar face turns his focus -- to 2020. >> when they go low, i say we hit harder. "inside politics." the stories sourced by the best reporters, now. >> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. it was a very big week for the special counsel. dramatic testimony in the paul n manafort trial including clues about what's to come. took a turn playing conservative radio host, more evidence the focus is on politics, not the law or the truth. >> a lot of people interpret it this way. if he's telling the truth, why wouldn't he go in and testify? hey, welcome to the real world. the reason we have to worry about it is one, we're giving away prerogatives of the president. second, we're walking him into a possible perjury trap, not

because he isn't telling the truth but because somebody else isn't telling the truth. >> why would you do this? why would you submit any claim let alone the president of the united states to this kind of situation? >> plus new clues this week about the midterm election climate. democrats see hope in the suburbs but republicans ramp up attacks on nancy pelosi and immigration. they insist the house is not yet lost. >> you should never panic. if you panic you shunts be in politics. these are going to be tough races. if we fight hard and don't panic, there should be no reason why we can't keep the house. >> and one year after the ugly, charlottesville divide, the president tweets about racism, insists he's trying to unite the country. why new attacks on african-american football players? >> i think everyone knew that the president was going to say something about players kneeling. he expects them to, you know, to take a back seat and turn a blind eye to all of the racial

inequalities going on in the country. it's about race and he tries to downplay that it's not about race, but we all know it is. >> with us this sunday to share their reporting and insights, i will yan na jackson of politico and harry bacon and katelan collins. >> one who defied his subpoena and challenging the legality of the investigation. also a new response, it appears to be much more a stalling tactic. did not appear to close the big gap whether the president will refuse to answer questions. the big case brought by the special counsel will likely go to the jury in the week ahead. prosecutors could rest their case as early as tomorrow. they witnessed the past week to paint as a greedy sleezy crook who lied to banks to get loans and hiding millions in overseas

accounts. there was a mystery recess on friday, a long break in the proceedings. we still don't understand. that wasn't the only intrigue. the judge sealed the transcript of a conversation with lawyers about witness rick gates. defense lawyers wanted to ask him about his work in the trump campaign and how many times he talked to the special counsel about that work. prosecutors though objected and this argument carried the day with the judge. disclosing the identified transcript portions would reveal substantive evidence pertaining to an ongoing investigation. in addition, sealing will minimize any risk of prejudice from the disclosure of new information relating to that ongoing investigation. let's start the conversation there. normally as trials progress, you answer questions. that raises a huge one. what else is rick gates helping the special counsel with and clearly there's something to do with the trump campaign. >> you know, the -- one of the commentaries about this trial has been oh, it really doesn't

have anything to do with the trump campaign or with russia collusion, it has to do with paul nmanafort's misdeeds years before the campaign but has opened up the prospect that rick gates, who was the key witness against paul nmanafort, that hi testimony was given -- also giving testimony to the special counsel for something against president trump and that a con vings against paul manafort will be used to squeeze manafort for his cooperation against the president. i think we're seeing a long term strat egy strategy, sort of widening of the appertour here. >> what was public about the conversation, at least the special counsel used this as a building block, not just a case about paul manafort's precampaign bad deeds. we'll see what happens when we get there. >> also we see how wrong they can be when they are saying this

is going to be brought to an end by september first. it needs to be ended soon and then subpoenaed to testify on september 7th. it shows how we're only hearing from the president aegs legal team's side on this and how wrong they can be. even mueller and them aren't talking in public, we're seeing through their actions how they are responding to claims. >> it was completely clear to your point that rudy giuliani and jay sekulow, took over sean hannity's show for a couple of hours, in a plit strategy to steal the republican base into the political climate of the midterm elections to generate this is unfair to the president, you have to help the president and protect the president. to your point about the grand jury, roger stone, an old nixon hand if you will. been in republican politics and known dirty t y trickster for y. why is he bringing a manhattan madam and andrew miller, former age to roger stone, what is it

that robert mueller thinks roger stone knows about contacts with julian assange and wikileaks and other attempts? is this the connection and boy, it's weird. >> we don't know exactly why she came in earlier last week to testify. it's still unclear. we do know that undoubtedly the special counsel was trying to understand roger stone's role and context with julian assange and in roger stone's public comments, his comments with julian assange were through an intermediary and messages with gus sifr were inof course cuous, it's clear the special counsel is investigating that much more further and may not necessarily believe roger stone, brought in for weeks been talking to people very close to stone and you'll recall when one of stone's closest friend went in afterwards, caputo came out and said it was very clear to him they are investigating russia

collusion. so it suggests perhaps that stone could be central to that case. we'll see what they have. and it's also interesting, john, stone has not been contacted yet by mueller's team. that also suggests that you don't want to be the person not being contacted when you're being investigated. >> you don't want to be the last person. that means it's about you. it's interesting, andrew mill every, the former stone aide defied a subpoena and they are challenging the legality of the investigation. that will be another test in court for bob mueller. he passed every one so far when people have said you're outside your mandate or jumped beyond what the purview of the special counsel -- survived every one so far. we'll see here. the president remarkably quiet this week. in bedminster on a working vacation and active on twitter. he goes after jeff sessions this week, even though we have an hour to explain to you the president is basing this on something you'll find in another network by another journalist who i worked with a long time

ago, not based in facts or reality, a guy that works in the justice department in counter narcotics and trying to put him into counterterrorism and the like. i'll leave it there. the president tweets, do you believe nelly worked for fusion and her husband still works for department of justice. never seen something so rigged in my life. raj is scared stiff. ig report soon, witch hunt. we can spend a little time on that. rag is scared stiff and missing in action. why is he back? >> the fascinating dynamic here to me is that the president attacks jeff sessions, which is of course unprecedented. but he doesn't fire him. and that to me says that jeff sessions has a lot of power here. because of course if the president moved to fire him which he wants to do but doesn't, it would play into robert mueller's hands in an obstruction of justice case. so while i think it looks like jeff sessions is in a bad

position, he does have a certain level of power because a president really can't fire him to a certain extent, it obviously would be better if jeff sessions had the ear of the president, which he doesn't. but he's one of the few trump cabinet members who is unfireable. >> this is the president talking to his base trying to a, d disinstruct them what's happen, manafort trial and grand jury investigation which will carry into next year, mark it down. why? >> i think all of this is building towards we will not testify. in seku low's interview, it is illegitimate and we will not testify. i think that's where we're headed and all of this is building toward. >> to that point, less listen to mark will levin, everyone has t right to first amendment but is this the argument conservative defenders of the president want to make? >> robert mueller is a greater

threat to this republic and constitution than anything vladimir putin did during the campaign. i'm no fan of vladimir putin. >> what questions exactly does mr. mueller have? talking to you, mr. mueller. exactly what questions you have where you seek to turn the country upsidedown and disenfranchise the over 60 million who voted for this president of the united states? >> we could spend a long time listing the legitimate questions for the president and -- >> "new york times" -- >> maybe he has answers to clear them all up. it would be great for the country. is this where the conservative movement wants to be that robert mueller is worse than vladimir putin, a vietnam war veteran and korean prosecutors led the fbi after 9/11. >> purple hearts and several other medals and i don't even know what to make of the argument that robert mueller who is investigating russian interference in the election, by a country that is led by vladimir putin is worse that vladimir putin. the right to vote is one of the most sacred rights as americans

that we hold. that is why it is so important we are doing everything we can to protect elections. if people doubt the legitimacy we're in a bad place. listen to that argument and look at the twitter feed and remember the president had mark levin in new jersey at his club just this week along with sean hannity. and those are the people the president is listening to and those are the people that have the president's ear, not jeff sessions who the president does not speak with barely even acknowledges when they are in the same room together. it is mark levin who has the president's ear on things like that. this is why you hear from the president in the way we did. >> the argument misses the point that there have been russians who have been indicted as part of this investigation who have been accused of interfering in the elections and who are part of vladimir putin's government. it's -- >> and several people who worked for the president in the campaign are in michael flynn's case in the white house who have acknowledged lying to prosecutors but, we go. up next, a republican congressman charged with insider trading tries to get off the november ballot.

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representatives. two races though front and center in recent days suggest that could be wishful thinking. one is an urgent effort to get indicted and christopher collins off the ballot in western new york. collins insists he's innocent of insider trading charges but republicans are worried he might lose a district he carried about 26 points and help democrats make a national argument about a culture of gop corruption. the tight special election, this past tuesday in an ohio house district, the president carried by nearly a dozen points, the gop candidate leads as the final votes are being counted but the democrat ran very strong in the close in suburbs that were once reliably republican. >> there's no question that people sent a message to the party to republicans that knock it off, the chaos and divisions a lot of republican women don't like this noise. they don't like this division. >> here's the challenge for the republicans. if you are losing college educated women, if you are

losing millennials. if you are losing minorities because you're not getting much of that vote at all, you've got a problem. >> let's come back to the point made there by governor kasich in a moment. new york has a very strange election law. to get off the ballot this late, he has to essentially take another office. they have to find a job for him, appoint him or elect him to it to get him off the ballot. he wouldn't want to be on the town counsel and have to cast a vote. that will be used against you when you run for something else. it does reflect that they are working on this and the lawyers are studlying this and trying to find a landing zone for him tells you that national republicans think this is a giant problem even though it's only one house district. >> when you vote for the guy for dog catcher. >> well, look -- >> and hope the dog wins. >> this is a reliably republican district, if collins were not arrested and indicted that he would have walked into. this was a democratic challenger running against him who had really no money, no name

recognition. but collins name remains on the ballot, they could lose that significant and that would be a significant loss in an election where every seat counts, democrats in the game 23 back -- to take back the house. very feasible for the democrats. they cannot afford to leave that on the table. that's why they are doing -- scrambling to get his name off the ballot. we'll see if they succeed in avoiding -- >> he initially said he's going to fight. he said he's innocent and said he was going to fight and stay on ballot. then he changed his mind after pressure at home and national republicans and in part because democrats see this as tee ball. nancy pelosi. this insufficient and overdue announcement does little to drain the toxic ses pool that proliferated in washington under gop control. the brazen corruption has left hard working families in the cold. republicans will zbut that when you have a congressman indicted for insider trader who allegedly

tipped his son off at the white house picnic, that's pretty good. >> she could have said that same quote in 2006. she did say a similar thing. >> that may have been recycled. this is the kind of thing the democrats need, to win a couple of seats by the republican congressman doing something wrong, being under scandal. that type of thing could make a difference here both in terms of seats individually and also in the idea it's not you hate trump but the whole republican party is sort of a cancer, the case the democrats are making and this does help. at the same time, if they can get collins off the ballot, they are going to win the seat. >> if they can get him off the ballot. let's come back to the bigger picture out of ohio 12. just one race. but it's a district trump carried about 12 points. if you look at the way cnn rates house races, 95 competitive seats, 82 held by republicans. republicans are on defense in this election year. in 36 of those, trump has lower support -- have lower trump support meaning the president -- if you're in those districts and just so what happened in ohio 12

you're thinking oh, boy what's happening in my district. remember that doesn't include the seats hillary clinton won and they need 23. >> for me the message was the strong economy may not be outweighing for voters all of the other drama, the child separation at the border and other negative headlines that this administration is generating. >> also shows that this theory -- if president comes and gives a rally and tries to boost the candidate it will help them. it didn't help him that much. he barely squeaked by. if he does squeak by but maybe xbron john kasich had more to do with that and less president trump. how do they change that if they are going to need president trump even though he's taking credit for it and saying he swooped in and helped them so much here. but really this is a really republican area. they shouldn't have to worry about this. it does make you question how helpful president trump will be in the coming months and i think that's a lot of anxiety they

have as well. >> to that point this is a district that starts in the columbus sush bushes and makes its way out. wasn't great turnout in the rural areas. the republican candidate won by big margins but the turnout was under weming. the suburbs they did -- look at the numbers from the npr/pbs poll. the president's approval rating in smaller cities, 38%, suburban areas, 36%. small city suburban women, 25 president. the president is a drag in the areas where you find a lot of republican house districts. >> and look, the fight for the house is going to go through suburbs and suburban women and people who voted for trump last time who are concerned about what he's doing now. talking to republicans involved in house races on friday, in the aftermath of what happened in ohio, they said, look, at the ed of the day this is eventually going to be a referendum on the president when he's not doing things that part our party, that voters are just unnerved about, whether it's helsinki and you mentioned the

child separation at the borders. things like helsinki, that really concerns voters has a down ticket on these members who are up and that ultimately is going to cost members their seats. the more the president can stay on message and not do these chaotic things will be ultimately helpful. can the president do them. >> to the point. ileana made, you have unemployment below 4% and gangbusters growth in the last quarter. they cut taxes they say are responsible for some of that growth. instead, turn on a tv and this is what republicans are doing. >> the liberal resistance is demanding open borders. they want to eliminate the law enforcement agency that enforces our immigration laws, opening america's doors to more crime and drugs. would liberals in washington politicians have a in crusade. they want to get rid of i.c.e.

illegal immigrant before upstate new yorkers. >> that tells me plain and simple they are worried. democrats have this enthusiasm and economy is not motivating their base, they need to use that to try to intrude republican rally the base issue to turn out voters. >> that seems smart actually, the talking about the culture issues and national anthem, that seems to me like you look at the data, wages are still stagnant for a lot of people. unemployment rates are low in the trump areas, people are not -- a lot of economic growth is happening like in washington, d.c., not in sort of rural areas of the country. i do think that approach is like smarter one. but it still may not work. the worry for the republicans should be, you might lose 50 if you have low turnout among the trump base but high turnout among suburban people who swing from trump to democrats. >> it's a great point. we'll come back to the democratic side in a few moments. one year before he blamed both sides, half of america, half of

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charlottesville, virginia, marking the one year anniversary of the vi marches of hate groups. more march and rallies and demonstrations or on tap today. the rally organized by white house nationalists and others. president trump tried to get out ahead of the anniversary with a tweet yesterday condemning all types of racism and acts of violence but we all remember the president's words a year ago were anything but unifying and critics see the continuing attacks on african-american members of congress and black athletes and language he uses in those attacks as evidence of his true compass. >> listen to any of his language, it's always language

that is trying -- stereo typical racist type language of which many of the neo-nazis say themselves and been saying it behind closed doors but this president is giving them the freedom to say some of those things in open now. >> now the president and his allies insist that is not fair. but this is fact. one year after charlottesville, look at these number, 49% half of americans believe their president is a racist. just every time i look at those numbers, it just stuns me. and you would think that he would wake up every day knowing those numbers thinking i'm going to do something about this. if it is unfair and they think this is unfair. in the year since charlottesville, has he? >> well, his tweet is interesting, i condemn all types of racist. it's not clearly as specific as the tweet from his daughter ivanka that said she specifically condemned neo-nazis and white nationalists, no room in the country for white supremacy. the president said all types of raci racism. that was unusual. they do try to get out ahead of

that before whatever could happen today, but this does come on the week that you can't ignore what the president himself has said about the athletes who protest by kneeling during the national anthem which the president said they were unable to define what it was they are protesting and referred to two successful prominent men as dumb and insulted their intelligence. you can't ignore what the president does and say compareded to one tweet saying he condemns all types of racism. >> this is mitt romney, former republican nominee running for state in the state of utah. people who knowingly march under the nazi banner disqualified themselves as good people. we must insist those we elect as leaders respect and embrace americans of every race and sexual orientation and gender and national origin. in this country it must be electoral disqualifying to ee quif indicate on racism. the president one year ago ee quif indicated on racism. saying the president shupt be

president? >> mitt romney should not do that in 2020, what my guess -- >> change your ways sir. >> he embraced trump during the campaign, during romney's senate campaign this year. i don't think he's running as at anti-trump candidate. if you read his statement it was a repudiated the statements trump made last year, very aggressively -- base he canally an anti-trump charlottesville statement in 1,000 words. i know what romney is trying to get at. he wants to be referring to himself as the moral voice, anti-trump voice for the republican party. >> i don't think everyone has forgotten this is a president a year ago. there were no lent protests no question as to who was responsible. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred and bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. you also had people that were

very fine people, on both sides -- >> it was not the time to say many sides, both sides. in the context of this one year later, a prominent trump supporter on another news network stoking this in the lat no contest with this. >> in some parts of the country, it does seem like the america that we know and love, doesn't exist anymore. massive demographic changes have been hoisted upon the american people and they are changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don't like. much of this is related to both illegal and in some cases legal immigration that of course progressives love. >> i would argue from that that one year later, we haven't moved the ball in the right direction. >> after charlottesville, the president wanted to reverse the perception that you showed in that initial poll of half of the country views him as racist. he could have come out much more strongly, cleaned up his remarks

again and condemned white supremacy and what happened in charlottesville, perhaps that could have changed perception among a lot of voters, he dug in and fought and pushed back and they tried to move on from the controversy to a new controversy but undoubtedly that was one of the lowest parts of his presidency and he's done very little to clean up that perception since then. >> he could travel the country and do town halls and do this quietly or privately. he did suggest at one point during the nfl anthem conversation he wanted to listen to some of these players. they are protesting african-american treatment by police and protesting for prison refo reform. he could either public or privately or combination of the two show some outreach and show he's willing to listen and take criticism for his language or past actions but he hasn't. >> if trump had said what he said yesterday, i condemn racism, all types of racism, if he had said that a year ago, i don't think there would have been the controversy that there

was. i think his critics are not asking for a whole lot and he could put all of this to rest through simple gestures but there is a certain i think stubbornness with the president. i think his supporters would call it stubbornness and critics would call it racism. in the end we can't read his mind really. that he simply refuses to do things. i think there's part of him that refls in the controversy that he causes. it's -- he causes things -- he deliberately causes things that elicit ee normal controversy and media coverage and sits back and watches it. >> there's going to be across the street from the white house, david duke. the response from the president, go away, you don't speak away, dwo go away from my house. >> we'll see if that happens. adding to the year of the women momentum, there's this question, not about 2018 but about 2020. >> before i go any further,

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is this the word of the women, flural for democrats or the year one democratic woman helps republicans defy the odds? >> the liberal resistance is going too far. now these radicals want to abolish i.c.e., the law enforcement agency that deports criminal illegal aliens. kathleen williams is their candidate for congress. still liberal, she would vote with pelosi for open borders and a.m. testy. >> republicans hope nancy pelosi is the not so secret weapon but they say the primaries only add momentum to what they believe will be the midterm legacy. here's for the house of representatives. 476 women have filed to run for the house. more democrats as you see, 186 of them have won their primaries to date. that's a huge number. let's look at senate races. 54 women have filed to run for the united states senate. slightly more for democrats and republicans, 14 have won their primaries to date. let's look at the governor's

races as well, big deal in 2018. 62 women filed to run for governor, 41 republicans and 21 republicans and 12 won to date. look at the comparison to two years ago and you get the picture here. female candidates in 2016, a whopping difference this year. a democratic candidate for the house in michigan says there's one reason these numbers are so big. >> i think president trump being there in office, getting elected was kind of a bat signal for women across the country. it was like it's our time. we have to march on and we can't stay on outside of the ring anymore, we have to actually run for office and we have to demand to have a seat at the table. a lot of that drive does come from president trump being in office. and the -- just the culture and atmosphere that he brings. >> the numbers and the success of these candidates is truly i think because we're focused on other issues maybe we koent come

back to that enough, that's going to be the story of 2018. >> there's a big tension between the year of the democratic woman who runs the democrat, that's a big tension there, to figure out if there was a viable 50-something woman who was in leadership, she would be -- the speaker candidate tomorrow i think. a big factor here that protects pelosi in a certain way. i think you have 50 democrats who said i will not vote for pelosi for speaker. that's a big number. we're getting to the point you don't want to win the house but who's the speaker is a big question at the end of it. >> to that point, friday tweets get right to the point you raised. she's trying to deal with this now. she's trying to deal with this. i have made very powerful rich enemies because i've been highly instrumental in passing dodd frank, affordable care act and special interest dark money grunz are spreading falsehoods because they in republicans in washington have nothing to run on. she's trying to deal with the problem you just mentioned now

by saying i'm not the problem, republicans are looking for somebody as a pinata, her audience is a audience of 200 something, the members of the democratic caucus sitting in those seats. she hopes it's more than 2018. the question will be, where do these questions come down if the democrats do take the house? this is going to be a public vote on the house floor, members will have -- these candidates who said they will vote against her, who is the speaker of the house? she's had a very difficult time getting that 218 number to become speaker, already there are those opposed to her, narrow majority for the democrats, hard to overcome. >> some of that is because of republican criticism, they want to be safe politically but some is generational change. they look at her and say it's time for younger leadership. let's move on to 2020 for a

second. highway state fair week, big democratic dinner and three candidates for president were at the dinner and this guy got the lead bill. >> what i fear for this democratic party that i love so much is that we have a tendency to bring nail clippers to a gun fight. when they go low, i say, we hit harder. >> seems i am plausable, the attorney for stormy daniels as a potential democratic candidate for president of the united states. i would say seems implausible has been said before. is michael aven natty a real contender in the democratic party or on cable television a lot trying to have a andy warhol moment. >> the people you may think are the least likely to secure the nomination and become president are the people who can secure the nomination and become president. that was a big lesson we learned with president trump and i think going forward people will be

cautious about ruling people like michael avennatti out. >> when barack obama ran, smart kid, running to raise his profile and rising star in the democratic party then he was president. >> he rose. >> my except six comes from the fact he was trying to damage the president and had tons of free media exposure for the past six or nine months and doesn't really seem to have landed a blow. so democrats are looking for somebody who can take down the president. his track record doesn't seem all that strong to me. >> also says how open this field is. there are going to be 20, 25, 30 candidates and maybe he can sneak by because he's the well known of a lot of these people. if he's the one person willing to go low, probably lower than a lot of these politicians are willing to go, maybe that appeals to some in the base. >> and might force others to be tough too, if people leave those dinner saying i don't think this guy is president. i like that he's kicking, might

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>> we'll ask our great reporters to share a little something from their notebook and get you ahead of the political news around the corner. >> senator chuck grassley this week announced supreme court confirmation hearing for brett kavanaugh will be september 4th and so i'm looking ahead to see whether this nomination will meet with any real resistance from democrats. so far we sort of had dramatic resistance but whether we'll see any real controversy, the first trench of the e-mails were turned over and big trench. and there was maybe one controversial e-mail, we covered it at politico but doesn't seem

to be a roadblock. haven't seen anything like that with kavanaugh, whether he'll glide to confirmation or anything like that will come up. >> the fact they scheduled the hearinging tells you the republicans are confident. >> there's still a lot of questions about the cryptic comments that bill nelson made suggested the russians penetrated certain counties in florida in the aftermath of that the governor rick scott came out and said where's the evidence of this, secretary of state from florida sent a letter to the senate intelligence committee asking them to turn over evidence. because nelson himself had cited both mark warner and richard burton of the intelligence committee to make his case that there's something untoward. but in the aftermath, the statements that have come out have been confusing. first the department of homeland security called water on nelson's statement but then richard bur issued a statement, a vague statement, not confirming it or denying it and saying talked to the fbi or

homeland security department telling florida officials to do that. marco rubio joined nelson in the earlier concerns about florida and general concerns, he issued a statement not disputing what nelson said or confirming it either. all of which prompts a number of questions, did the homeland security department, did they say when they poured cold water on it, should they have and should nelson have disclosed information that was true or perhaps is classified? did he get out ahead of the news story here and all playing in the back drop of af very contentious senate race that could control the senate. >> cleanup time. cleanup time. >> a lot of primariy ies on tuesday, the wisconsin for governor, scott walker won in 2010. he won in 2012 and won again in 2014. the fourth time a big year democratic year probably if they can't beat scott walker this time maybe he'll be governor

forever. it will be interesting to who the democrats nominate, who is a bernie person or clinton person as well. >> big question mark on the republican party. kaitlan. >> as someone who spent last week in new jersey, a lot were discussing the nonvacation vacation, insisting only there because doing renovations to the white house, not the oval office specifically. they didn't mention the renovations before he left to go to new jersey last week. it's interesting how they maintain he's still working even though he's there and even the president himself saying he misses the white house and wishes they were back there. they love the small table he uses to do bill signings and did a prison reform round table and it's not unusual for presidents to take vacation. his predecessor took vacation with abandon and never try to insist it wasn't some kind of vacation. but with trump because he's long criticized his predecessors, his most recent one specifically, barack obama for golf being and

going on vacation, he tries to maintain he's not doing that when in fact he's golfing and on vacation. >> it's been a strange week. this is the most quiet he's been throughout the presidency. i'll close by circling back to the supreme court nomination, democrats looking for reasons to apose kavanaugh, he asserts a sitting president should not be indicted. if you read them, other kavanaugh memos from the ken starr investigation, offer fodder to mock the trump legal strategy. wrote it was quote a weak legal argument to assert as team trump does that a president cannot be subpoenaed to testify and writing back then to support articles of impeachment against president clinton, kavanaugh said get this, refusing for months to testify while repeatedly lying to the public and key witnesses about key facts made credible pieces of an obstruction of justice count. that's it for inside politics. catch us weekdays as well. president trump's lead attorney

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