welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. big news from the supreme court. the conservative majority allows the president's ban on transgender military service to take effect, but a big loss for the president on another front, immigration, and the justices will debate gun control for the first time in nearly a decade. plus partial government shutdown day 32. a second missed payday for 800,000 federal workers now all but guaranteed. congress faces a legal debate

that is less on compromise. a senator offers this blunt take on the president. >> we have a hater in the white house. the birther in chief, the grand witness of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. one thing we've learned is while jim crow may be dead, he's still got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well. >> back to that provocative statement a little later, but we begin with a new majority on the supreme court delivering a verdict on the president. these are issues critical to the trump administration. the high court in a federal ruling says the trump administration bars a ban that bars transgenders to serve in the military. they said the process should be in place while the low courts

discuss constitutionality. consider that a win. this, too. the supreme court will hear a gun debate, the first time they've put it on the docket in more than a decade. but the morning also made a setback for the president, the issue central, of course, to the ongoing daca case fight. they again negatively said they would pass on the daca agreement. we have our panel here. let's get right to this. let's do the nitty-gritty first. the justices say the transgender ban can go into effect. they're not ruling on the merits, but is it a hit?

>> yes, because you needed five votes to lift the injunction that was blocking it, and the five conservatives, led by chief justice john roberts, said yes, and ruth bader ginsberg, sotomayor said no. so you had that fault line there. >> same question on guns. they're just saying we'll take the case, but it's been nearly ten years since they took a gun control case. is this the conservatives saying, we want another whack at the heller case which is defi defining definitions? >> absolutely. and the court hasn't stepped in, right. clarence thomas complained about that, said you're thumbing your nose at the second amendment right, and now we have brett kavanaugh on this court. the supreme court agrees to take it up, and that's a big deal for supporters and for people who wanted the court to get in on this. >> so transgender issues, guns.

two culture issues but they take a pass and say, no, mr. president, we're not going to step in for you on immigration. what's the consequence for that? >> it means that 700,000 people that wanted to include protections put in place for the obama administration, they continue. trump isn't taking up appeals at this point, litigation goes on around the country, and it helps hundreds of thousands of people go forward with what's known as daca -- people who came here as children undocumented. >> which means the court could still, right, agree to take it up next term. but what we learned today is they are not stepping in this term on that issue, as far as we know, and that's a victory for chief justice john roberts who i think wants to keep the court below the radar a little bit and keep these issues maybe still in play -- >> he's got some mixed tensions here because as we know in november, right before thanksgiving, he issued that

statement invoking president trump. there are no such things as obama judges, clinton judges. unfortunately, the court keeps showing its fault lines, just as i said in the transgender, it did split republican justices versus democratic justices. >> the candidate really was blasted. he was someone who would have split on these issues. >> i assume, right. >> he cast the fifth vote on the gun rights case. antoni scalia who wrote the landmark 308 ruling probably had to navigate around anthony kennedy who we all know is not there. >> not on the court. i want to come back to what this says about john roberts with kennedy gone. the president, not that long ago, just last week, i believe it was, thought he was going to get his win. he thought the supreme court was going to step in which would give him -- we'll get to the nitty-gritty of the shutdown a little later, but the president

thought this would give him the leverage in the fight, which is this. >> i think it will be overturned in the united states supreme court, and i think it's going to be overwhelmingly overturned. nobody thinks that should have happened. we think it was a fluke, and it was a disgraceful situation that a judge ruled the way the judge ruled. if we win that case, and i say this for all to hear, we'll be easily able to make a deal on daca and the wall as a combination. but until we win that case, they don't really want to talk about daca. >> they would actually be happy to talk about daca, and right now they think they have a lot more leverage over the president. >> this is what i think is so fascinating about the supreme court's decision to say they're not really going to resolve anything around this case. one, it currently upholds the daca situation which affects 700,000 people who came to country not legally as children. but secondly, it really removes this bargaining chip that the president had banked on having

during the government shutdown. you look at public polling, and time and again, the public seems to side with the idea of adding some sort of resolution to daca or d.r.e.a.m.er kids. >> guns, transgender issues, so sexual preference issues. the court saying not now. what's it tell us about this court? antoni kennedy is gone. more importantly, john roberts now, does he have the freedom of idealogical balance? >> going to her point about antoni kennedy, they could either go to culturally war issues, but the chief is it in front but his vote is not fluid that way. he will not be with the court on religion and gay rights and

sexual orientation type issues, so he gets in more power with his vote. he's got more the reputational interest to worry about. what they didn't, including a coach who wanted to pray on the 50-yard line in the state. they haven't acted on a very controversial indiana abortion laws, and just so i'm right, we're so close to that in the court. >> you look at john roberts and they have been sitting on these petitions for a while, right? it takes one justice to move it off the conference list for down the line. what do we see today? we see the court saying, we're not going to hear daca now,

we're not going to hear this abortion case this term. there was another lgbt rights employment law case, we're not going to hear that this term. but on the other conservative majority on the court serve itself today. we see the grant on that second amendment case, and we see the fact the foreign liberals chose to say we would have kept that military ban off the fwoorloor. they did not take up that civil liberty case. but the four proet separawrote and said we shouldn't have taken up this case about the coach that knelt on the sidelines during the football game. however, we are troubled by some of the language in that major lower opinion. the court has moved so much to the right on religion.

this is a more conservative supreme court than we had, frankly, in the late 1990s. he had to skip the world economic forum in davos, but still available for questions. >> when is the shutdown over? >> we all hope it will end fairly quickly. political fights in the united states are a time-honored tradition as those of you who have studied our history know.

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the president is accusing the democrats of, quote, playing political games. never seen nat majority leader and republicans so united on an issue as they are on the h humanitarian crisis at the border. this is for the next two years. i get that, but try to tell that to federal workers staring down their second missed paycheck next friday. >> it's very difficult. my son is in fourth grade and his fourth grade class talked about this, and for him to come home and ask, are we poor now, i don't need my extra milk at lunch, a 55 cent milk. i hope i didn't lie to my son telling him everything will be okay, because i'm uncertain but you have to keep that face on to make sure you don't put him in

question. >> reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell today will mirror a plan put into place by the president saturday, which is temporary protection for daca recipients, temporary status for daca extension. millions for humanitarian and drug detection program, all for his border wall. the democrats don't see it as a deal. as of now, he doesn't have any votes, maybe one or two, but this will probably fall apart in

the senate. now the republicans have a proposal, they can talk about how the democrats are opposing something and that's basically what they've been dealing with for the last four weeks. the democrats say, look, we've been offering clean proposals to reopen the government. once it's passed, we'll be happy to talk about border security. we talked abo they are still going to say they're not funding a border wall to make a point. so long as the republicans and democrat leaders don't talk or move from their current positions, nothing will happen right now. the question is can they keep this up for long? >> come back to us if there's any news.

joining our conversation is my panel. 1,300 pages. as phil said, they put some disaster relief in here, they put some things in that congress should pass, anyway. you, like phil, say it's not going to happen. >> no, it's not going to happen. >> so why do it? >> i think what you'll see in the next 24 to 48 hours, is, is this a government of unity? will he say, i'm going to reopen the government, or will they counter the offer for daca recipients in exchange for wall money. there are democrats in the house writing to nancy pelosi saying, we want you to counter this offer, and we want you to write specifically a vote on his border wall after he reopens the government sometime in february.

that is not a promise it will pass. in fact, the letter says this will be amendable. lindsey graham made something like this a couple days ago and it was panned by the senate. some of these moderate dems are feeling uncomfortable and they're not secure in this position that democrats are not going to negotiate. >> the president's plan doesn't have the votes in the senate, one of the reasons mitch mcconnell wouldn't take it to a vote to show the president, sir, you don't have the votes. will there be cracks in the democratic unit? the "wall street journal" editorial board are going after the speaker this morning saying pelosi's refusal to negotiate even after trump's new offer says she's concerned that trump might get some credit for a bipartisan victory. the left doesn't want to solve the problem, they want recognition as a campaign issue. not just that, but the point about what about the president's plan?

speaker pelosi a short time ago said this. >> at first when we heard the president was going to make a proposal, we were optimistic he might be reaching out to open up government so that we could have this discussion. but then we heard what the particulars were in it, and it was a non-starter, unfortunately. this will be the ninth or tenth time that in the house of representatives we have voted to open up government by putting forth bills that had passed the senate under the republican leadership, but now they're not taking yes as an answer to their own proposals. >> can she hold that? her position is, and chuck schumer's position in the senate is, open the government. we're not going to talk about any of this, maybe in the end we'll give you some wall money. chuck schumer is willing to do 1.7 billion or more in the senate, but until then, open the government. can they do that? >> they don't really see this as

an incentive. in their view, extending time for daca recipients, et cetera, is just a temporary resolution. they don't see it as a long-term solution. >> you wonder what this would have looked like if they had done a permanent daca solution, the trump folks, as their picks. that would have put a lot more pressure on pelosi and the house democrats. >> this isn't a bill -- >> it's the opening entre. >> but is it an opening entre? the president blinks all the time when the d.c.-based republicans get involved.

do they want a permanent d.r.e.a.m.er solution? is the president prepared to go there? >> if they give him money for a wall, i think he may be. i think you raise a very important point here, and this is the challenge of president trump, and that's that he doesn't appreciate the power he has with his own base. he's so wrapped up in the media coverage of everything that he does that that restores his juice with the rank and file voters, right? he doesn't like hannity and coulter -- last week on saturday, when he gave that speech in the west wing, a compromised pitch. not a hard-line attack but a compromised pitch, he got a standing ovation and chants of "trump" at a gop conference that was taking place in louisiana that simu dlrlcast his remarks the ballroom. he's their president, they love him, they hate the enemies he

has. the point being he will bring them along. i just don't know if he can get past, to your point, the critiques from the conservative media coverage whose coverage he consumes daily. >> he can call this a win even if he has to compromise. he hasn't done that. he's asked for more, he's asked for cuts to legal immigration. there is a change to the process that some may want but the president didn't campaign on it when he first put out this deal. so as far as the president putting out more things and asking for more things and not just accepting a wall for daca tradeoff is part of the reason we're at this standoff. >> and with no end in sight. up ahead, does the administration run? yes. how much does it run? we go to south carolina.

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welcome back. iowa and new hampshire traditionally, and understandably, get the most attention as the next presidential race gears up. but expect the states to come a little bit later to get more attention this year. in part the crowded democratic field makes this so unpredictable, and the diversity of the democratic field makes it both historic and fascinating. this is the 2016 electoral results. this is why donald trump is president of the united states. among the states, of course,

south carolina, which the president won quite handily. don't expect in 2020 south carolina is going to become a blue state. but it is critical in the democratic primaries. up first, though, states that are much more white. iowa, new hampshire, nevada, which was 60% latino vote in nevada, but 60% democrats. then you go to the percentage of african-american voters. a quarter of the voters in virginia, a third in north carolina, more than half in alabama. six in ten democratic primary voters in south carolina african-americans. that's why the fight for that vote is so important. you saw two candidates there on martin luther king holiday. listen to jim clyburn, close friends with the vice president, but this is an open primary. he says, we want to listen to everybody. >> we want it to be a contest

that everybody would be competent to come to. i'm not going to single out any one of them at this point. we need to demonstrate that this party is open, people are welcome to debate it, the issues, and i think that that is good for party, good for the country. >> you're just back from south carolina where i think he said something to you that was, shall we say, a little different. >> yes, mr. clyburn is there with his convention bureau hat on trying to invite everybody down to boost the economy, but i talked to him last week for some time, and he is very close to joe biden. what he told me was if joe biden gets in the race, it's a race for second place. now, there is a lot of democrats in south carolina who are less certain about that. >> there are a lot of democrats in south carolina going back ten years saying this is a hillary clinton state. obama proved he was reliable and

gone. >> i think biden has a lot of support. among established politicians, he's a formidable candidate there. but talking about both politicians and just average voters, i got to tell you, the folks getting the most chatter are kamala harris and to a lesser degree beto o'rourke. it will be fascinating to watch kamala come in and speak for her sorority which is having an event in columbia. her candidacy is getting a lot of chatter down there, but it's still in the form of curiosity. i just want to hear her and see what she's all about. that's a key difference, this time, than '08 and '16. none of these candidates besides biden are all that well known. by this time in 2007, barack obama was a pretty big name. certainly hillary clinton was, and the same can be said for

hillary in 2015 and 2016. none of the candidates are that well known yet besides biden. >> this is an approval rating. joe biden is off the charts because he's well known among african-american voters. then you see cory booker, kamala harris, beto o'rourke. they're lower numbers here. is doesn't mean they'll have no appeal to african-american voters, they're just not well known yet. the party is moving left on issues particularly in criminal justice reform. you have adrian shropshire saying you have black lives matter movement in the 2016 cycle. >> some of the candidates stumbled as they didn't know

what to do in 2016. now we have the benefit of two years, four years, and many of the potential candidates are talking in a far more nuanced way about police brutality and a need for criminal justice. the other thing i will say that they all pointed to, which i think is really important, is that the culture in this country has changed, they feel, largely because of racial tension that they attribute to president trump. all of the candidates just feel more comfortable about centrist racism because of the man in the white house. >> starting with the dem primary in iowa and new hampshire, two more white states, is going to feel increasingly awkward for this party's coalition. go back the last few years, it's got taken little bit tougher and tougher. i think this time around, you're going to see some candidates take a really long look not at skipping iowa and new hampshire, but it may be downplaying them. kamala harris going on her first

world trip on friday instead of iowa or new hampshire, that's no accident. >> i was going to say, in iowa and new hampshire, i visited both of them recently, everything you hear from the local activists is you need to do well enough in one of our states. i say, what's well enough? and they say top three. especially if you have a booker who is paying more attention, which i'm sure he has been -- >> it's so wide open. >> and don't forget nevada. >> i don't forget nevada. the white house makes room for -- oh, yes -- the mooch. but a subaru can. you guys ok? you alright? wow. (avo) eyesight with pre-collision braking. standard on the subaru ascent. presenting the all-new three-row subaru ascent. love is now bigger than ever.

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. topping off political radar today, cnn has learned that the white house moving ahead in preparation for the state of the union address. the white house has sent an e-mail to the house sergeant in arms to schedule a walk-through at the capitol. this comes, of course, after nancy pelosi's request last week to postpone or cancel the state of the union in light of the government shutdown. she actually suggested holding a rally instead. for now the white house wants to go ahead with the state of the union as scheduled at the capitol. we'll see. the government wants to overhaul the fundraising apparatus so small donations are collected on a website known as a payment apparatus. two films featuring prominent political figures among the nominees for this

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they've been pushing this nonsense for two years. but any time there is a negative, any chance to get trump, they jump on it. he's doing a great job. imagine what he could do without the noise, without the every day need for impeachment. let him do his job he was elected to do. >> pretty easy to follow the defense there from the president's son but pretty much what has alluded what is supposed to be our chief and public defender.

rudy giuliani's grasp on his client's actions and his grasp on his own words. rudy giuliani issued a statement on monday intended to clarify other statements he made over the weekend that a trump tower moscow project lasted until the 2016 elections. asked by a new yorker about those statements that the discussion ran through the day that candidate trump won, giuliani said this, i did not say that. i said if he had those conversations, they would not be criminal. raise your hand if you understand either what he's trying to say or whether he knows what he's saying. i guess my question is is there a method to the madness or just a madness to the method? >> people are saying he's trying to drip out some of this incriminating information so when it finally comes out in

mueller's report, it's less of a bombshell, that we've all heard it before. i don't know if that's the strategy being implemented here. it could be that giuliani speaks first and clarifies later and maybe is hearing from the president's other lawyers who are telling him maybe it's not the best idea to say the president has a secret deal going on with the russians. but it is head-scratching to make it look like the president was in cahoots with the russian campaign and hacking into the, this cannot be lost, he is the person who came forward saying the president lied to you about his involvement in the hush money for stormy daniels. now he's just saying the president lied to you, meaning you, the american people, about

having negotiations during the trump campaign. michael cohen said it went at least through june. what he is saying is it's no big deal. >> in the most recent interview he said i am a criminal defense lawyer. i am only trying to protect the president from any criminal liability. i'm not talking about what he might have done that's not ethical. >> clearly he himself is confused. maybe he's receiving contradictory information from the legal team, et cetera. but yes, this is causing a problem, i would think, from the president's lawyers, and it's confusing a lot of people. i mean, he corrected his correction in an interview he just did yesterday with the new yorker -- the new yorker called him and said, what about this buzzfeed report that said the president told michael cohen to lie to congress? and he said, no, i'm not true, i

wen throu went through the tapes. the tapes? i didn't mean the tapes, the recordings. it's just confusing. >> any other president of either party would bow to the preference of their attorneys on this for a sensitive moment and not say anything at all and their lawyers wouldn't say anything on air. that's his feedback, that's his. manically. he's going to create challenges for his client, but he's not taken off the air. he's still on the air and it's just wild. >> he was a detail-oriented federal prosecutor, successful federal prosecutor, and was a tough mayor in new york city even before 9/11.

now he says things about trump not being truthful about it. is that your legacy? absolutely. i'm afraid it will be on my gravestone. rudy giuliani, he lied for trump. i don't think that will be true, but i'll be dead. i figure i can explain it to st. peter. >> part of this does ultimately stem from the president and the president's desire to have a defense. there is this feedback loop where his supporters feel this is a witch hunt, he feels it's a witch hunt. he put someone out on tv to defend himself. in that process, i just think there is utter confusion. whether it's malicious, whether it's intentional, i don't want to figure it out. >> you're losing it in terms of this president if you don't defend him on tv. >> that's largely the job of mr.

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a member of the congressional leadership taking a tax on president trump to a new level. this event honoring dr. martin luther king jr. take a look at this caucus honoring representative jeffries of new york. >> the grand wizard of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. one of the things we've learned is that while jim crow may be dead, he's still got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well. >> jeffries not the only one going directly at the president on the race question, and another mlk vet yesterday, bernie sanders, said trump is, quote, a racist. while the white house has not responded in comment, sarah sanders did respond saying

senator jeffries' quote is wrong. what he's saying is racially wrong. hakeem jeffries is a nobody. if he wants to be a national democrat, the democrats have no pretense anymore, no nuance? >> that's right, democrats are definitely saying this more and more. alexandria ocacio-cortez said something similar on "60 minutes" when the democrats took the house. if you look at actions, too, this is the first time last week we saw democrats sort of rally to vote on a resolution that would basically disapprove of what steve king said, these racist comments he made. steve king has been talking like this for years and any one member of the house can actually vote on this and they chose not to. last week they came with republicans and actually voted

on something, so it's not just comments like these, it's action rebuking other colleagues as well. >> let's listen to the very same hakeem jeffries not mocking the president here but stopping short of a line. this is september 2017. >> he's a racial arsonist. he uses race to advance his own ends. that's troubling. i'm not going to stand here and call him a racist or not, but i will speak to the facts as part of his journey. >> i'm not going to try to hedge anymore, he's a racist. >> i think the president's actions and statements over the year, especially as he was campaigning for the midterms, he really ramped up the rhetoric. the base saw how republicans responded. they were pushing back against the president's rhetoric is,

really take on the president when he does things that are considered racist. >> the base of the party, whether it's sort of a diverse coalition of people of color, but i would argue even white literals and hear more about race and racism and tributes of reform. we're moving into a 2020 primary. it's somewhat strategic. >> if you go back 20 years, this was not a safe place to be having discussions. >> yes. >> a senate structure of politicians to speak more bluntly, whether it's got race or anything else. the democratic bhoefl bern r

said that, especially a clip on hakeem jeffries. i think it may be more the on line versus real life thing, but the ones in person are more about substance than mr. trump. >> thanks for joining us for this hypocrisy. brianna keilar joins us right now. >> i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. nearly a million federal workers on their way to missing their second paycheck since the shutdown began. now they're in search of a deal. no, they're not tapes but i've listened to them, says rudy giuliani in an effort to clean up a wild mess. why contenders are making more stops on the