continues to meet with vladimir putin, not once, not twice, but multiple times without u.s. officials present and requiring that the translator in question give him his notes as happened at the g-20 in 2017, kate? >> the mystery continues. thanks, jeremy. great to see you. great to see all of you. thank you for joining me program "inside politics" with john king starts now. ♪ ♪politics" with john king start now. ♪ ♪"inside politics" with john kig starts now. ♪ ♪ thank you, kate. welcome to "inside politics." thank you for sharing your day with us. wall or no wall? the president says it's a waste of time if he doesn't get his wall money. plus, they are wrong. the president launches a morning tweet storm questioning the judgment and the smarts of his own top intelligence chiefs. and the battle of the billionaires. trump, bloomberg and now schultz. elizabeth warren, meet howard from the hood. >> i grew up in the projects in

brooklyn, new york. i came from the projects. we were completely destitute. >> back to that in a moment, but we begin the hour with a big meeting on capitol hill with an agenda that seems like a mission impossible. finding consensus on the border security issues that just led to that partial government shutdown. a bipartisan group of lawmakers meeting this afternoon for the first time. their deadline, only 16 days away. president trump setting the tone on twitter this morning saying if the committee of republicans and democrats now meeting on border security is not discussing or contemplating a wall or physical barrier, they are wasting their time. that's from the president. house speaker nancy pelosi telling the president in response, butt out. >> i think the conference can reach a good result left to its own devices without interference from anybody else. i am confident in the appropriators.

>> president stay out? >> live up on capitol hill. this is the beginning. set the table and what do we exxon this day one, getting to know you. >> a real-life public conference meeting and i'm very excited about that which says probably more about me than anything else. this is how it's supposed to work. usually one chamber passes a bill and the other chamber passes a bill and they've fallen by the wayside in recent years and public conference committees have become more rare. here's what we expect today. a democratic aide tells me that house democrats will use as a department of homeland security appropriations bill and they've been working behind closed doors and when that is unveiled that will be a tell what the proposal will not include, a border wall. that's no secret. democrats have been very clear and that's their position starting out at the current point. what it will include, i'm told is billions of dollars extra were added for border security

and the bigger question right now is republicans and what they're going to put on the table and the president's proposal from last week that failed in the senate. there is a bipartisan senate proposal last year that had $1.6 billion for fencing and that could be on the table somewhere, as well and what i am told is senate republicans want to see what house democrats put on the table before they start moving forward. the baseline and the main point of contention still remains a border wall. appropriators, deal makers and deal makers that can figure out a way to finagle financing and the big question right now is twofold. one, can they accept that? can anyone accept the compromise language given their baseline and two, what speaker pelosi, can the leaders stay out of this. it's not just the democrats that have asked to stay out of the negotiation. i've talked to republicans, and we'll have to wait and see what kind of progress they make today

in the first meeting, john. >> he's excited about a public conference today. i'm with you. so let's see what we get here. with me in the studio to share the reporting and cnn's abby philip, matt wiser with the washington post and politico's ileana johnson. let me start with you. speaker pelosi says it is president should stay out of it. doesn't the morning tweet say he's not stating out of it. >> he's reading the tea leaves of where this is heading. the real question about president trump is will he allow the conference to go forward and at the end of the process what will he do? he's had a habit recently of allowing lawmakers to do what they do and then at the very last second pulling back his support from something that they think has the votes to pass and creating a lot of chaos in the process. we don't really know what lesson the president learned from this basically failed shutdown of 35 days. it seems that he internalized

some of the criticism from the right. he seemed to brush back ann coulter saying that perhaps she's mad because he didn't return her call, but it's not clear whether he's decided that he can move forward without their endorsement or if he does believe that ann coulter is fundamentally correct, which is that if he doesn't get his border wall he doesn't get his reelection in 2020. only time will tell how he comes down on that decision and it could be at the very, very last second. >> he could go back and forth during the 16 days. we don't know how this will look at the end. some people say let's keep it to border security and listening to lindsay graham, saying maybe we should add quick sand to quicksand and let everyone go in the room and debate that. carl, you've spent a long time on this issue and they used to have committees like this and this is how government used to work. we do know this. the president is not getting a piece of paper that says here is $5.7 billion for you to spend as you wish on your wall.

that's just not going to happen. there won't be a big diagram on the wall and a conference report. the pain on capitol hill was bad in the shutdown, really bad. no one wants to go through this again. when mitch mcconnell said yesterday i'll do whatever it takes not to go through that again, and i think the secret that people don't realize is the appropriations process has been the thing that's been working during the trump administration with republicans and democrats that they've kind of ganged up on the administration in righting these bills. i think these appropriators can get together and come up with a deal and they're going to -- there will be something that's a fencing or a barrier. you heard hakeem jefferies say, there's a big semantics game that will be played here. these guys are professionals at coming to a compromise and they work very closely together all the time. i think they can do it, i think, not only does donald trump need to keep some distance.

nancy pelosi wants to keep distance, too, a while because to the republicans she's polarized. yesterday they're raising and will she even go along with the conference report. well, yeah. of course. if they come up with a deal that they agree on. both you and phil, good to have conference committee back. people haven't seen how they work. >> america is groaning at us. look, these are elected representatives from around the country. one of the reason we have partisan gridlock is we have an evenly divided country. so put them in the room and the most transparency we can see. this is the republican from tennessee, you know what? to carl's point. put us in a room, we can figure this out and guess what? we might have to spend a little more. >> i don't think we're miles apart. i think there is a lot of common ground. i think there are a lot of very strong passions in the room. >> will it still cost $5.7 billion? >> well, ultimately probably more than if we go down that path. bear this in mind, whether we call this a wall, a barrier, a

deterrent, that is only one aspect of the full border security situation. >> which gets you to the question so it looks like, okay, here's several billion, maybe in excess of the $5.7 billion, with some specifics, ports of entry, drug screening and other new technologies and barrier, fencing and the language worded in a way that everybody can say i win. is that enough for the president? or do we end up having a national emergency or some other executive action to say never mind, i'm going to find my money over here and build the wall. >> democrats are open to providing money for anything that's not abledlabeled a wall. they're open for under things under border security. the question i think is precisely the one you pose is what will the president sign on to? i think his negotiating position is weakened and his leverage is weakened because republicans on capitol hill don't want another shutdown and they don't support a national emergency. the president -- >> they don't even support the

wall. he would have got it his first two years. >> i think actually if the president and the administration had pressed that case, he could have gotten the funding he's now requesting, but he didn't. he didn't make it a priority when republicans had control and i do think his leverage is weakened because republicans don't want either of those things and for that reason i think republican leverage in the negotiations are weakened because they're not willing to go to an extreme if democrats don't give them what they want. they're not willing to shut down the government again and they don't support the president declaring a national emergency which makes the negotiations trickier on the republican side. >> i think democrat, too, want to do something so they're not branded as the party branded against any border security. so they have a chance to propose something which doesn't have a wall, but does protect the border. voters are generally supportive of. they're throwing in all these extra things to negotiate,

partly because so far it's been wall or no wall. i think the thinking is if you talk about other aspects then maybe you can start to make a deal whereas before it's been an intractable position. >> deserting with the broccoli and the peas. the question in the end is who is the president listening to when push comes to shove? when they put the thing on the table who is he listening to? john boehner said a lot of nice things about the president and said the president listens to the wrong people when it comes to issues like this. boehner saying this, when i was looking at a legislative process, the last place i looked at was talk radio, and by knucklehead he means freedom caucus. boehner has his way of saying things. he's saying stop listening to thearou ann coulters. >> it's really not clear, john.

the president has an enormous amount of power over the republican party. he has a lot of support among republicans. they follow him where he leads them. when he says we need a border wall, republicans, the polling shows that republicans move in his direction, but at the same time he has never really been willing to buck that, you know, 25%, 30% of the party perhaps represented by the talk radio hosts and others in order to push the republican party in a direction that will allow him to govern. it's just not clear to me that he's there yet. i think he has come out of the shutdown really irritated by the coverage of what happened there, not willing to acknowledge defeat even though he did sort of do that on friday in his speech in the rose garden. he spent the weekend trying to say that he didn't give in when he, in fact, did. so i think at the end of the day the president, it could be kind of like a boomerang. he could come right back to where he was at the beginning of the shutdown and say wall or no

deal and then we could be with the shutdown government again in a few days. >> even in the age of trump when many rules have changed. even if you say, i will not reopen the government without the wall money and then you reopen without the wall money, you lost. pretty simple. up next, president trump pushing back against his own intelligence officials and a flashback as we wait for this year's state of the union one year ago today. the president's first official state of the union. >> tonight, i call upon all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground and to summon the unity we need to deliver for the people. this is really the key. these are the people we were elected to serve. a different swim meet every saturday. but now... it's thursday. good thing they discovered gain flings.

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president trump today launching a remarkable series of attacks on his own top intelligence officials, chastising them for being soft

on iran among other things. in a series of morning tweets he calls them, quote, extremely passive and naive about iran saying the united states needs to be careful and suggesting, get this, perhaps intelligence should go back to school. the president is responding to yesterday's testimony on capitol hill on foreign threats in which his own intelligence chiefs seem to contradict the president on nearly everything from isis to north korea and russia. >> isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities. we assess that foreign actors will view the 2020 u.s. elections as an opportunity to advance their interests. >> the president didn't probably like a lot of that, and this response from his cia director

gina haskell. is tehran complying within the nuclear deal negotiate the during the obama years. >> they're making some preparations that would increase their ability to take a step back if they make that decision. so at the moment, technically they're in compliance. >> they are wrong. maybe intelligence should go to school. i was joking during the break, not really joking. it's one thing, you shouldn't criticize anyone that works for you, unless they deserve it, to publicly lash out to people dealing with life and death issues every single second of every single day is pretty remarkable. >> this is different, too. he's done this in the past criticizing the intelligence agency and the most vociferous he was around that was around the russia investigation. this is different. this is him not believing what they're saying because what they're saying goes against his world view on iran and north

korea, and so it's a little bit of a difference for him to speak out this strongly. just because of a policy difference. >> and the timing. most of the older stuff was at clapper, and the brennan and the obama-era people. that is a table of trump appointees. >> that's true. some of it was older, but i think the hearing we saw yesterday with dan coats and gina haspel was a continuation of something we've seen throughout the trump administration which is this two-track presidency, where you have the president saying one thing about intelligence assessments and his appointees saying something different. we've heard that on russia and north korea where the president has said they denuclearized. we've made so much progress and everyone can sleep easier at night and it makes often covering the presidency so difficult and understanding that

it's difficult that the president often seems to be at war, you know, with the office that he is in and with his own political appointees and that really was on display at the hearing. >> sometimes the good cop, bad cop approach makes sense in that you want the president to say can you cut a deal with china. sometimes it makes sense. this is parallel universe stuff. >> yeah. it's a continuation of what trump often does which is that he believes that he knows about pretty much everything more than the experts do, and in the campaign he said i know more about war than the generals do. he continued that into his presidency, and that's why it is so difficult for people who work for him to convey to him fact-based information. the president has his core, deeply-held beliefs and the iran deal is a failed deal and it's one of the deeply-held beliefs and there's no amount of information that you can provide to him that will change his view on that, his view that the u.s. should pull out of conflicts around the world.

that's a core belief. there is nothing that people have told him. i mean, his defense secretary quit over this issue. nothing that people tell him about these issues that are based on fact and information on the ground is changing his view of it. it's what makes it so difficult to work for president trump beyond just what it looks like to the outside world and the dual track presidency is a real conflict within the administration for people working with in these jobs. >> he is consistent on protectionism and the isolationist approach, if you will, and including wanting to get u.s. troops from syria and afghanistan and that's not just the intelligence chiefs. this is the republican senate majority leader for the second day in a row on the floor of the united states saying mr. president, you are wrong. >> our response to this progress must not be to take our foot off the gas pedal, but rather to keep up those strategies that are clearly working. our partnership with iraqi

security forces and the syrian democratic forces have stripped isis of much territory in those two nations, but we've not yet defeated isis. we have not yet defeated al qaeda and afghanistan. >> his view of republican foreign policy is 180 degrees, almost, from the republican president of the united states, is it not? >> yes. he's sort of articulating what has been the standard republican policy, you know, we need to engage. this is more equal to the bush administration. this is important. mitch mcconnell who has been so closely allied with the president, not willing to cause any trouble. two days in a row has gone out there and he has an amendment to the bill that is going to establish this as the u.s. policy. so if that bill were to make it to the president's desk it might present him with a problem, but they -- they just don't buy what trump is selling on foreign

policy. we -- they don't want to pull out of these places. they think we undercut our allies, and you know, this is a real problem going forward. i think what everybody said is right. what is our foreign policy and who is in charge of it? i have to say when i saw that tweet this morning, and to your point, i was, like, how do you work for this guy? when he's going to call you out in public as not being smart, when you're the head of an agency and your entire job is to compile this information and if it happens to -- the president. >> amen to them. what they see is not pleasant stuff most of the time, but the boss disagrees. up next, a billionaire wants to run for president. he says he's the only one that can fix washington. the best simple salad ever? heart-healthy california walnuts. the best simple pasta ever?

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this presidential deja vu all over again with an independent twist this time. a billionaire flirting with running for president and sucking up a lot of the cable tv oxygen. he says the current president is in way over his head and that both parties are captives of the big money swamp. that was donald trump in 2015 when the former democrat, an independent, decided to run for president as a republican, and that is howard schultz now in 2019 as the longtime democrat says he is now preparing to run for president as an independent.

>> and are you no longer a democrat? >> no, i'm not a democrat. i don't affiliate myself with the democratic party who is so far left that basically wants the government to take over health care which we cannot afford and the government to give free college to everybody and the government that wants to give everyone a job which is basically $40 trillion. we can't afford it. >> the former starbucks ceo is giving democrats fits both with his talk of running as an independent and his sharp criticism of liberal ideas. adding one more battle of the billionaires twist. the former city mayor michael bloomberg like schultz believes the democrats are drifting too far left. the best place to make that argument is in the democratic presidential primaries. schultz disagrees. >> mike bloomberg is not my proxy. a democrat is not going to be able to all of a sudden, if a democrat becomes president, all of a sudden the government will start working? nothing is working. i'm hearing from thousands of

american people, thousands saying finally someone's voice that i can relate to that represents the fact that i no longer feel as if i'm a republican or democrat. >> that's what they said about trump. finally, someone i can relate to. >> i'm not donald trump. >> he says he's not donald trump. he said the president is not qualified, but there is a trumpian flavor to the schultz beginning if that's what we're going to call it. >> yeah. i think his gamble here is to show his viability and to get to a 15% threshold and democrats are freaking out and then they would really freak out. that's what he needs to get on the debate stage. that's what he needs to roll out to show his strength. he's trying to start of chart. >> good for him. >> he's trying to sell books in the process. the question is -- he is, that's part of it. he's trying to sell book, but the other part is he's going to show up no matter what. the republicans are grabbing what he says about medicare for

all, and the tax plan. they're grabbing on to that and they see him as a gift. and the president is trying to goat him in. >> i think the democratic response to him as well as trump's response are the best -- they're the greatest thing that howard schultz could have asked for because in the same way, trump is elevating him by giving him attention and so are the democrats rather than writing him off, you know, as the would-be candidate, and i think schultz poses a far greater threat to democrats by running as an independent than he would for running in the primary and the democrats are pushing him to run in the primary and it would seem like it's someone to pull him to the center and that's what they don't want and the comments about medicare for all because he could be a real threat running as an independent and these guys are way too far to the left and what you need is somebody like me, an independent and he could really be a threat if he stays out of that primary, but is still to the left of trump. >> timing is everything in politics. it's an old cliche that happens

to be true. >> this rollout by schultz, and he running a campaign that has a lot of the same themes as howard schultz. >> free college tuition is nice to do. it's impractical to replace the entire private system where companies provide health care for their employees would bankrupt us for a very long time. >> think you could never afford that. you're talking about trillions of dollars. >> number one, i think the constitution lets you impose income taxes only. it's probably unconstitutional. number two, i don't know of any country that has done that. >> this is the week michael bloomberg wanted us to be talking about him as a potential democratic candidate trying to pull the party back to the center. instead howard schultz is taking a lot of his oxygen. >> not only that, but what's interesting about these two

billionaires trying to gain some national attention is that a lot of people are, like, do we need more billionaires? is this what the moment is really calling for? it does strike me that in some ways that while they do share business as a common factor with trump, what they don't share with trump is actually what i think democrats are trying to take from trump which is the idea that these things in politics that used to seem like third rails maybe are not. maybe when you put something out there for the american public that a lot of people told them they couldn't have and maybe they gravitate toward that. trump ran in a really unconventional way. he ran on things that republicans didn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole and that's why i think you see a lot of democrats finally talking about the things that the established democrats didn't want to talk about for a long time. bloomberg and schultz are trying to run a conventional campaign. >> my question was what about the billionaire thing? because people slapped that on trump and republicans trayed ie

slap it on america, howard schultz did grow up and michael bloomberg did grow up and he did start his own company and isn't that what we're supposed to do in america, but this is elizabeth warren and billionaires like michael schultz and michael bloomberg, plan to pay gobs of cash to buy the presidency and not on my watch. she's going after him there. this is sharon brown on a tour now, the senator from ohio, progressive and trying to decide if he should run for president. pretty much the same point. >> when i think of a billionaire trying to run for president and we tried a billionaire and the billionaire won and look where we are. a choice between trump and a progressive democrat, we're going have that, and i think we've got to win the industrial midwest, the heartland and the great lakes states and the state that you grew up in, chris, and the state i represent and we change the country.

>> the focus people who work with their hand, the industrial midwest i get completely after trump turns blue to red in michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. it's an easy reflex. >> part of me wonders what is in joe biden's head right now. he sees himself right now as the bridge between this progressive energy and his more centrist philosophy, and so i think as he weighs whether to get in, schultz and his pathway is impacted as a nominee is in joe biden or elizabeth warren or someone seen as much more left. so i think that's the question in my mind. >> she will certainly pull the democratic primary toward the joe biden. >> that's a great point. does that happen in the sense that he's going to tour for three months and he clearly at least in the beginning is getting attention and the question is it's a good place holder and we'll come back and check on that one. a republican governor while offering the secret to his success in his state.

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♪ topping our political radar today. what looks like bad news for president trump focused on job creation. foxconn in wisconsin says it's changing its plan. the company now plans to create a technology hub which is a far cry from the factory full of blue collar jobs that it promised the president. cnn's caitlan collins is live from the white house. this is a huge initiative for the president. what's the white house saying now? >> they haven't responded to our

requests for comment yet. not only did he hold a huge event here in the east room of the white house when they announced this. he also traveled to wisconsin for the ground breaking and while he was there he said this was evidence this plant alone that the manufacturing jobs were coming back to the united states, something that he promised time and time again on the campaign trail. now the company says it's still going to build this $10 billion plan. it's still planning on hiring 13,000 workers, but it's going look a lot different, john. essentially it's a reversal of what they promised this is going to look like, that it was going to be all these manufacturing jobs and now they want to make a technology hub and hire researchers and developer, engineers instead of the blue collar jobs that they promised. they say now three-fourths of the job would likely be the research and development ones and only a fourth will be manufacturing jobs. they'll hire the 13,000 people, but now they can't say when and the hiring pace is slow compared to what they had projected with a certain amount of people they

wanted to hire by the end of 2020. now they say the number is going to drop significantly and job, they were initially supposed to build lcd plants in wisconsin and now they say sliding costs were going to make them overseas and then they're going to ship the final product back to the united states which seems to go against exactly what president trump has been touting about this company when he was doing so just as recently as last summer, john. we reached out to the white house about this. what is the president's response to this company completely reversing what it said they were going to do and what the president was so proud of, but john, they haven't gotten back to us yet. >> we'll wait for that response. we showed the pictures at the top with the president at the ground breaking and it can be quite embarrassing. a president can't control what a company does, but a president can control what he or she says about a specific company or what he or she says about a specific day in the stock market. this is the risk you take. >> i saw someone tweeted foxcon,

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the trends that are going to change whether or not it's the midwest or places like pennsylvania will have the same type of jobs that they had in the past. there is not going to be much trump can do to reverse those things that are just a result of globalization and advances in technology. >> and in the politics, wisconsin, one of the states he flipped to become president. this will be an issue in 2020 without a doubt. next, the 2020 question that could define democrat depps. can the country really afford free health care? unpredictable crohn's symptoms following you? for adults with moderately to severely active

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prompted what sounds like a bit of a retreat. a harris adviser said, quote, it would be open to more moderate health reform plans being floated by other congressional democrats. excuse me? [ laughter ] >> so interesting. it is so interesting how early this is happening, and i think two years ago, three years ago during the 2016 campaign that something like this would have been a major, major, major misstep on a presidential candidate. now it's not entirely clear where it leaves her. in some ways it could endear her to the left, but the fact that they're trying to make it clear that she holds two positions simultaneously that a plan would eliminate private health insurance and i mean, it is trying to have it both ways here, but it's necessary considering that she has to both appeal to the left in the democratic primary and that is moving very far to the left on this issue and she has to

maintain her option for a potential general in which inevitably the democratic candidate is going to have to appeal. >> we have seen this in past democratic primaries in 2007 and 2008, hillary clinton and obama and edwards. is it universal coverage? is that the aspiration? is it universal access for universal coverage? there is a familiarity to it. she acknowledged, jake tapper pressed her and she acknowledged she could end up wiping out the private industry. medicare for all and the plan that she believes will solve the problem and get all americans covered, period. she has co-sponsored other pieces of legislation and this is the plan she's running on. which is it, then? it is putting her in a pretty difficult situation, trying to explain a plan they think people generally support the concept for all, but once you start talking about the details and that it actually could eliminate private health care industry then it gets more complicated

and she was crystal clear during the town hall and it was only in the aftermath that she walked away. it's interesting that it indicates the grip that bernie sanders has had on the party and the direction that he's taken it. 2016. >> the democrats won in 2018, after losing in 2010 and 2014 in health care. they won in 2018 on obama care. to your point, the kaiser family foundation. do you favor or oppose the government plan? 56% favor, 26% oppose. we can do medicare for all. do you favor treatment and oppose them? do you favor eliminating private insurance or oppose them? when you look at the particulars it gets a lot more dicey. >> yeah. the specifics of this are obviously where the problems arise, but what's so interesting to me is that donald trump didn't exactly run to the right on social issues and on entitlements. he ran to the left on them, and no, he wanted to repeal obama

care, that was a colossal failure. so it does seem to me that there is an enormous opening on these issues on the left for some democrat who has specific ideas and a plan and what's happening on the right, what happened on the right to republicans where they had a lot of talk, but then couldn't flush out the details and appears to be happening on the left here and at least kamala harris is an example of that. >> and in the crowded democratic primary and they want the base, right? >> that comment really jumped out at me. when she said that i said immediately, this is going to be a big problem because people like private health insurance and they want people to have access to healthcare and they don't want to get rid of private health insurance and the reason that obama care is is because that debate sort of got settled and there was a debate for single payer and it failed on the democratic side and no matter what the republicans did calling it government-run health insurance. it's really not. >> it's going to be a great contest of ideas as it should

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