[ sigh ] it's bring your own phone, not pony. so i could've taken the bus? yeah. bring your phone. switch your carrier. save hundreds a year with xfinity mobile. call, click or visit a store today. welcome to inside politics. thank you for sharing your day with us. another court set back for the president. the judge said his asylum policy runs a foul of laws already on the books. nancy pelosi's critics who helped the democrats to their big wins want change at the top. one got an earful when he tried to make the change. >> ivanka trump usings e-mail

for her white house work. here explanation sounds clintonian of. >> even ivanka would have to say it was a mistake. you can't do that in that position. it's irony, hypocrisy and i think this is one of the main reasons why the american people are so fed up with washington. in general, the american people have a very low approval rating of washington. they don't feel these people are in touch with them. >> back to that story in a moment, but up first, the trump administration explaining about another legal hurdle to the signature item. immigration. taking issue with a monday ruling who said the president's directive to deny asylum for those who cross the border illegally is unconstitutional. the judge issued a restraining order, causing the policy.

whatever the scope of the president's authority he may not rewrite the raws to impose a congress that congress has ex-pressley forbidden. gone are the constant warnings from the president about the caravan winding through mexico. customs and border protection. a key crossing point adding control measures into fewer lanes, they had the caravan plant to rush the border. the mission has no specific timeline. the troops have spent year there is and officials are saying the president expected soon to grant the troops station being to protect the personnel from migrants if they engaged in violence. with me to share the reporting and the insights, politico, bloomberg, olivia knox and kim with the "washington post." it's the judge in san francisco

and the administration has the right to appeal that goes back to the favorite places, the ninth circuit. this is another set back for the administration which says we will use executive power to impose our will to change tell us. >> we have seen that throughout the trump administration as it pertains to immigration. the courts have been this with the executive actions whether it's the latest directive. the multiple iterations of the travel ban and the last version of which did get upheld. sanctuary cities and daca and we knew once the asylum director was drafted it would get challenged in the courts. now the temporary restraining order is through november 19th. it's a question to see if they go back and work the directive to see whether they could write it in a way that does get upheld by the courts, but clearly a set back for the administration here. >> you know, the reason that we

have seen the president and the administration use executive orders is that nothing happened in congress on immigration. the president has been frustrated with that and wants to flex his muscles on immigration. he said i want to draft executive orders and let them sue me. that's precisely what happened. right now, we are getting mixed signals on what the administration's strategy is going to be. we had the president tell troops on the border he is giving them more authority to do what they want, but the colleague also reported yesterday that the pentagon is going to start pulling troops away from the southern border and we have seen a shift in his focus away from rattling and bipartisanship. it's not at all clear the strategy that the administration will pursue legally going forward.

>> i am required to deport all these people legally, but they only have the authority to protect 400,000. the court shot him down. president trump said there is a massive backlog. they will create a new category. the courts are saying there are only two categories by which the government can exclude people on asylum. they have a well founded persecution and not a danger to the u.s., but the judge is saying they are creating a 30 category by entering in a 30 place. the ag has discretion despite the categories. >> to eliana's point, where is the president going to go on this. the unknown middle eastern people there. they are bad guys and this is a threat. they have to do something about that. does he change his tone or take out because he gets mad at the judge and starts yells at congress, where is my border wall funding? the president talked about it

repeatedly and republicans put it in their ads. do you think it poses a major threat, minor threat, no threat. there is a divide on breaking down. >> there were a lot of variations and answers to your questions about which direction the president goes. does he threaten or does he get angry or blustered or say i don't want to talk about a shut down or be perfectly happy to have a shut down. this is echoing across his appearances since the election. i don't think we have an answer, but we suggest the last three years of people saying donald trump will pivot and change his ways might be instructive here. i don't think that they are going to bow away and shy away from the fights. quite the contrary. they will be seeking them out. >> remember to that, the campaign season is not quite

over yet. they have campaigns coming up in mississippi. i would not be surprised if this resurfaces as a theme. >> the talk of the caravan helped republicans in deep red areas. indiana and missouri and north dakota. republicans and voters who cited them by 52 points. that's an enormous margin. >> where it helps and it does help in red areas. you can talk to your former congressman of southern florida and he would tell you he got hurt. >> he didn't want the em place. >> don't expect the president to change. maybe for a day or two. immigration and trade, he is consistent about what he wants to do. he tweeted this out. the border wall issue is a big issue. they are showing old footage of people climbing over the ocean area fence. no climbers anymore under our

administration. you expect criticism from the left. how about this from ann coulter who thinks the president dropped the ball. >> miles completed yesterday? . miles since inauguration? zero. on the right, there is a lot of disappointment that the president hasn't fought harder for this money and disappointment that when the president said they are building the wall, they know it's not true. >> it's not just on the right, the president himself is frustrated that he has not gotten the funding for a border wall. he is aware of it. i would refer back to the last fight for funding over the border wall where the president agreed to a spending bill that greatly increased domestic spending, rare under a republican president who talked the way he has. that was in public and said he regreeted signing the spending bill. that will weigho his mind as he approaches a signing government

spending and doesn't want to make the same mistake again. they impose a different set of demands on what he will get for his border wall. democrats are not going to back down on that. they will give him his wall as far as my reporting suggests. >> a quick break on the developing story. wall street taking another beating. down nearly 400. this is gone for the year. >> i have to think about that. all of the gain that is the dow and the nasdaq made this year are wiped out. that in itself is under cutting

any confidence in the market. secondly we have tech shares leading the charge in dragging down the broader market. it was the tech shares that powered the market higher over the past few years, sending the indeces to record highs. yesterday's darylings are today's dogs. they can't run fast enough. we are hearing about the regulation and a crack down on these companies that can really change the way they do business. i haven't even mentioned what else is simmering. trade tensions and talks and that is just before president xi of china. they are expected to meet at the g-20. things are not looking good as far as finding the resolution for the fed looking to continue and tighten and raise interest rates. what that does is slow down the economy.

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now to a case of the trump family getting a taste of their own medicine. the president's daughter under fire today after it was revealed she used a private e-mail account for a number of months as she transitioned into her white house role in 2017. ivanka trump and jared kushner sometimes used private i mail for washington business, but they have new details on the scope reporting that officials were alarmed at the practice and asked ivanka's personal attorney to review the attorneys. they have hundreds of e-mails about the schedule and impact on

the family commitments and she used personal e-mail fewer than 100 times to discuss official business with administration officials. a source coarse to the president's daughter said this was a 14 month old story and there was nothing there then and nothing there now. no intent to avoid governments service explaining if she sent an e-mail from her personal e-mail to a government employee, then hits the government server. go back in time. use the internet. that sounds like what hillary clinton said when her use of e-mail sentenced. remember her explanation didn't sit well with ivanka's father. >> 33,000 missing e-mails. think of it. >> she should never been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with e-mails. >> she doesn't even remember whether or not she was instructed on how to use

e-mails. were you instructed on how to use -- i can't remember. hillary clinton can't keep her e-mail safe and you know what, folks. she sure has hell can't keep our country safe. >> she deleted the e-mails. she has to go to jail. >> um, there are important distinctions. ivanka trump did not have a personal server. hillary clinton had a personal server in her home, but she is saying she was not fully aware of the rules. give me a break. her name is trump. she lived in that campaign. >> yeah. the arrogance and ti glide abov them. the differences are that hillary clinton is the secretary of

state of the united states handling classified information and running for president. ivanka trump has basically the cure in the white house. the democrats absolutely will investigate them. they target what they did for republicans and the importance of her position and the position she was running. >> agree on the distinctions. of all the things that you think you would be extra careful about with the new -- >> she is not alone in this administration. there is a parade of senior officials in this administration who have been caught. the former chief of staff, reince priebus. steve bannon and several others. it's an overall climate and not

just ivanka doing this. what she had with hillary clinton. i don't know why that's relative. whether the basement is in chappaqua or with the domain, i don't see why that is relevant. they make sure bad people were not getting their hands on it. >> going back to eliana's point about how house democrats will investigate. that's why this comes at a precarious time. now house democrats have won back the majority and they get investigative power. the house oversight has been

looking into the issue with the minority. they become more powerful with the gavel and indicated this is going to be added to the list of things they are looking into. the trump family's personal interest with government history. >> ivanka trump continued to profit from the hotel and her own organization while in office. the e-mail is one of among many things related to ivanka trump. that does bear more resemblance to hillary clinton profiting off of the clinton foundation with republicans going into that 2016 election. >> to that point and they try to call her up on the house side to an oversight hearing. they will ask for questions once

they get her in the chair. during the last campaign. at least 117 candidates and committees, all republicans spent money at trump properties in the lead up to the mid-term. the president will say my family owns a hotel business and democrats say come on, why are you staring the money here. >> to the ivanka issue, listen here. two former trump officials say really bad. >> it appears hypocritical and it looks bad for sure. >> i think look. anyone here would be familiar with the rules. >> there is irony, hypocrisy and i think this is one of the main reasons why the american people are so fed up with washington. in general.

>> what do you call her? jury of her friends? is that fair? >> a fair criticism is they were above the rules. the trumps are arguably taking this to another level. the president has not released the returns. not to do that. the first major party candidate not to do that. he has not divested while he is making decisions where that sprawling empire exists. jimmy carter had a peanut farm and nobody would think he had nepharious biases. this is a sprawling real estate empire. it's a different thing. of course people will have questions as to whether the decisions being made are affected by that. >> we live in a different world in a few weeks. january. a small group of democrats make their gamble and take a public vow against nancy pelosi. ld, and saying, "really?" so capital one is building something completely new. capital one cafes.

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message of status quo. signing on to this type of letter comes with risks. here's one congressman hearing from constituents last night after he signed up. >> we don't want to the do what the republicans said what the tea party are splitting the party and i am deeply concerned that that's what they are doing. the way you are challenging pelosi. >> the majority of the democrats want this change. >> no! >> yes, we do. we want this. >> i give him credit for holding town halls. a lot of them don't do that. this is an interesting one among the democrats who stepped out. the issue is you have to sell it at home, too. >> again, if you are a betting person, it's hard to bet against nancy pelosi that involves her counting the votes. she knows intimately what her

members want on policy or leadership races like this. with the 16 people who sign on to that anti-pelosi letter, that doesn't count the people who pledged without a doubt they would vote against her on the floor. people like abigail spans burger and that is a difficult to overcome margin. i think it will be interesting to see what she promises in terms of committee assignments and crafting legislation that she could do to get those votes across the finish line. >> to that point, it is for these for those who signed on, if she wins, she is a transitional leader. it's not them. >> it's a big risk for younger members who have profiles. seth has been talked about as a presidential candidate.

abby span berger is one of the most high profile congress women-elect who just won. this could potentially hurt them until pelosi chooses to lay down the gavel if she does win. this is risky for them. there is talk of pelosi saying she will run and set a date for when she might leave. i don't think that's going to happen. i do think we have to give these democrats who are wage ag i committee against them for putting their names to the effort. >> they are somewhat critical. another knew they got a lot of national attention when she knocked off a member of her leadership team. she wants change and looks at the letter and people who signed it have this opinion. >> there is no vision. there is no common value. there is no goal that is really

articulated in this letter aside from we need to change. what it does is creates a window where we could potentially get more conserfative leadership. if you look at the signatories, it is not reflective of the diversity of the party. >> that are is part of nancy pelosi's argument. the people are more moderate. this was a progressive win in the election. they are mostly men. we elected a record number of women to come to congress. the question is, can she sell it to just enough members? >> not from the base of her party, but it comes from the right. the break down is interesting. you have four member who is are newly elected who are not in beginning who are in difficult districts. a number of them are republican leaning. anthony and cunningham and max rose. the others are democrats in safe districts and kathleen rice who won a generational change.

this represents the fact that returning and new are not going to be the ones that give pelosi a problem. >> she sounds confident and they want to be confrontational when it comes to president trump. in a new profile, she said she pushes back against some of that. in terms of subpoena power, you have to handle it with care. on the left, there is a pound of flesh club and they want to do to them what they did to us. that's not who we are. go get somebody else if that's not who you want. go get somebody else? that's a care. >> one of the things that is interesting about the push to become speaker, a lot of it is done through the news media. part of her caucus was anti-woman. that's a pretty bold claim to make to fellow democrats. she took part in the "new york times" profile where she made claims like that.

she is an interesting case study in maintaining power and how it's done. i think pretty savvy. >> fascinating one. first the caucus and the floor vote. stay with us. it's going to be fun. up next, the secretary calls out who he said is to blame for california's wildfire disasters. life insurance? i'm just an average guy. do i really need it? all of us leave final expenses: funeral costs, medical bills, and other debts. in fact, the average funeral alone is between $8,000 and $9,000.

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topping our political radar, california residents devastated by wildfires bracing for possible flooding and mudslides. several inches of rain in the forecast. ryan zinke just toured it, calling it the worst he has seen

including military service in the war zones. he said better forest management could have prevented it from happening and took a swipe at environmental groups. >> in many cases it's these radical environmentalists who want nature to take its course. we have dead and dying timber and the president is absolutely right. this is as much about mismanagement overtime. it wasn't just the last administration. this has been going on for years. >> an about-face by joe kennedy iii on whether marijuana should be made legal. after coming out against it, the massachusetts democrat said total prohibition is not working and legalization would produce abuse prevention. massachusetts begins allowing recreational marijuana stores. now has the only brick and mortar stores on the east coast.

they are declaring victory on his race against congresswoman mia love in utah. the lead in the contest fluctuated and the latest tallies now show mcadams up by 739 votes with an unknown number of votes outstanding. he is certain his legal hold. >> i'm eager to get to work representing utah's fourth district. we are confident that there is no way representative love will retake the lead in any recount if she were to request one. furthermore we are confident this number will be outside the recount margin when all of the votes are tallied. >> that one has the special significance. he said no to voting for nancy pelosi. it looks like he seems to think he is coming. that adds to the map. >> this has been an interesting thing to watch with the trading of beliefs. remember when the president

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the breaking news is a remarkable statement from the president of the united states about saudi arabia and the murder of the journalist, jamal khashoggi. issuing a statement covering the white house for 10 years, i have never seen anything like this. it starts with the headline america first and an exclamation point. even though our reporting is they have not had a final cia sent by the president, he makes the case no matter what that

report said, he will stand by saudi arabia and resist any calls from congress for tougher sanctions that he does not think of appropriate. more directly from the statement in a moment, let's go to the white house and sarah westwood. this is so striking. a lot of exclamation points beginning with the world is a very dangerous place. take us to how this came about. >> reporter: the president is acknowledging what we have been learning about the cia assessment about the crown prince's involvement in this incident. he said maybe he did and maybe he d didn't know about the murder of jamal khashoggi. of course the crown prince's knowledge of the event before it took place is one of the central questions concerning how the u.s. should react to the murder of jamal khashoggi. there are lawmakers from both sides on capitol hill who have been pushing to take a tougher line and the president said he may consider whatever ideas

congress does send him in terms of sanctions, but won't do anything that violates the security of the united states. he is continuing to timeoout th economic relationship and pointing to iran as a menace in the mideast and why the administration pursued this realignment with saudi arabia as its top ally in the mideast. the president is very much focussed on countering iranian influence. he has a lot of hawks around him like john bolton. the president here is positioning himself to not take tougher measures against saudi arabia as his administration is a wading the delivery to an intelligence report and what the cia knows about the crown prince's involvement in the murder. >> live at the white house. important reporting. it is a pass. it's a presidential pass to the

crown prince. he has been briefed and we know the initial findings that said with reasonable certainty that the crown prince ordered this murder. he ordered this murder. the president of the united states said in the statement, our intelligence assesses all information and it could be the crown prince had knowledge. maybe he did and maybe he didn't. that being said, we may never know all the facts and in any case our relationship is with the kingdom of saudi arabia, period. >> that's the important sentence. i get it with the exclamation points, but this is what the president argued since the very beginning. one, the middle east is about containing or controlling back iran. two, the relationship with saudi arabia is pivotal and it's larger than this one journalist who appears to have been murdered in istanbul.

and this repeated theme with the president. when someone is accused of something, someone he likes denies it, he emphasizes the denials and said who can really know. stripping away the stylistic stuff, this is where they have been most of the time since the early october murder of jamal khashoggi. >> one week, two weeks. he will make a final verdict on whether the crown prince of saudi arabia was involved in this or knew anything about it. he permanently kicked the can down the road. we may never know what's going to happen and he said our alliance with the saudi kingdom is more important than any human rights atrocity. >> he is saying i don't care what happened. i don't care what happened. i'm sticking with saudi arabia. >> this is what america first means to the president. this alliance whether it's military arms sales with iran and the selling of arms are more

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welcome back. democrats are raising new questions about the acting attorney general and the special counsel investigation even though robert mueller's lawyers say that the new boss at least so far had no direct impact on their work. the senate's top democrat asking the inspector general to look into whether the acting ag had illegal or improper contact with the trump white house. i am particularly concerned about whether mr. whitaker may have shared or could share confidential grand jury from the special counsel investigation or any criminal investigation. cnn joins our conversation. the democrats have been saying they view this with alarm. is there any evidence of that? any suggestion that matthew whitaker is the president's source? >> i don't know that legally there will be a problem if

whitaker decided to brief him on anything? there are issues and that's why the department of justice and the ag would never brief the president on something that he is involved in. or anybody that he knows is involved in. but could it happen? it could happen. we may never know. those are the questions i guess people are going to want considered. he may not be there that long. we will see what happens. i don't think anything is stopping whitaker from briefing the president. >> just to listen to the democrats. he forced jeff sessions out. he has been elevated now and they question the constitutionality of that. explaining what he thinks whitaker's job is. >> what we have is the danger of a slow motion saturday night massacre. death by a thousand cuts. and that could strangle the investigation. cuts in authority.

cuts in subpoenas that may not be public. i will introduce legislation that will require, absolutely require full dizzy closure of all findings and evidence of the mueller investigation if he is in any way forced to resign or if he is fired. >> the concerns are understandable. all the reporting says that whitaker was on a public record saying things about the special counsel. so the concerns are understandable, but slow motion saturday night massacre and death by a thousand cuts that could -- none of that happened, right? >> if you think of this for a second, we may be at the end of this. the funding that mueller would need is already there. i don't know about cutting the funding. look, i think having whitaker there presented problems for the special counsel and for mueller and rod rosenstein and they are very much aware of this. i do get the sense that nothing changed.

>> i think having whitaker there is an emotional relief to the president simply because he is able to think i've got my guy and i have an ally there. i do think that that move backfired in that there was so much scrutiny on that appointment that whitaker was totally constrained and anything he actually did substantively to clip mueller's wings would have drawn such backlash that it's unlikely he will do anything. i wonder if that makes him move faster, but it's more symbolic in the president's own mind than likely to be substantive in terms of affecting mueller. >> you hear on capitol hill, the democrats don't seem to have the votes and jeff flake is standing with them to protect robert mueller. nelson cunningham ask a prosecutor and i talked many times to say if the attorney general and whoever the boss is says no to something, there is a

provision who said you have to tell the committees in congress. it's after the fact though. the attorney general is required to tell the congress he had taken the action only upon conclusion. there is no realtime mechanism to compel them between them. how whitaker responding, they would be hid friend view. that's one of the reasons they will be suspicion. something happens now in the weeks or nosthat whitaker is there. after that happens, robert mueller asked for something and he said no. >> you are seeing the urgency from both sides. they will have to see how successful jeff flake is in the coming weeks. if the votes were there to put on the floor and should pass. the way jeff flake is doing it, highly unlikely to succeed. thanks for joining us inside politics. see you back here this time

tomorrow. more breaking news. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great day. thanks, john. i'm live from the washington headquarters and we begin with breaking news. an explosive declaration from the white house. "the world is a very dangerous place! this is part of the explanation for the president's muted reaction to the saudi arabia sanction murder of "washington post" journalist, jamal khashoggi. the president admits that the killing was terrible, but also said king sal man and crown prince deny any knowledge of the planning or execution of the murder of mr. jamal khashoggi. our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information and could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge o