...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. a gangbusters job report. the economy added 300,000 jobs last month. mike pompeo says they will avoid the deal entirely if

russia doesn't do the pact. and the russia investigation, this priceless gem. >> yeah? i'll be in in a little while. what's more important than the the "new york times." nothing. okay, nothing. cory booker joins the very crowded democratic field. >> i believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind. where parents can put food on the table, where there are good-paying jobs with good benefits in every neighborhood. where our criminal justice system keeps us safe instead of shuffling more children into cages and coffins. where we see the faces of our leaders on television and feel

pride, not shame. i'm cory booker, and i'm running for president of the united states of america. >> the 49-year-old booker is the fourth democratic senator in the race and there likely will be more of them joining soon. he's the second black candidate joining kamala harris in an extraordinarily diverse democratic field. >> this is the story of my life in many ways, from the time i was just coming out of law school. i ran to places where folks said things couldn't be done. i'm running for all americans, but i know that often in the black community, the conditions and the realities are what is a good lens with which to view the success of our nation. >> with me in studio to share their reporting and their insights, julia pace with the associated press, henderson and lisa blair with the "new york times." where does he fit? what's his line? >> i think he's doing sort of an obama 2.0 in some ways.

i don't say that just because he's african-american, but partly. he's doing the uplift, right, and he's talking about love and love being the answer. his video touched upon his roots in newark as mayor there, and struggles with the civil rights movement and his parents able to overcome some of those racial struggles as they were coming up. the question is, does this work? he was on "the view" today. i think he was very well received. he's trying to get that audience of women. he was on the tom joyner show talking there about the specific lens of seeing problems through african-americans. that was something obama didn't necessarily always do. obama was like, i'm the president of all people, not just black america. then he would go in front of audiences and kind of lecture them about their behavior. that's not something we're seeing from any of these black candidates. he's focusing on not only newark but the drum line. if you've been in any black setting in the hcu, that's very

american. so we see a shift from obama who was very cautious about race. >> i think that's a good poichb point. we're seeing both with booker and harris and some of the women in the field a diversity. you see a gillibrand campaigning as a mom. she's trying to make that the cent centerpiece of her campaign, so you see these candidates under pinning their candidacy. these are what they think they need in order to become a nominee. >> you see the diversity of the democratic field, and that diversity has grown even stronger through the trump era. but senator booker ended that video with, we will rise. i'm not sure many republicans want to rise, they want to punch

him in the face. i'm just not sure that the democratic primary electorate is in a hope and changing mood right now, but that's what will be tested. you see these other candidates like elizabeth warren and it's not the same. >> she's not talking about hope, she's not talking about love. you see liberals saying, how is that love thing going to work out when you're negotiating with mitch mcconnell? >> democrats tried to come together in a mindset in 2008, and they were very excited about it. they watched president obama get obstructed all along the way, so they'll be looking for someone instead who wants to flip the table. >> but that cycle was a clear democratic cycle.

i'm not sure we know. you can look at president trump's numbers and say he's down, but then you can look to 2016, and to your point do you want to be the uplifting candidate, he is, he's the human chain saw. ask ted cruz and jeb bush and everyone else. look at this field. it's a fantastically diverse field. a mixed field. you'll have mayors, you'll have senators. listen to cory booker this morning on the radio mostly talking about the issues. >> we disproportionately incarcerate black and brown people. that has got to stop. it's hurting us all. i signed up as a believer in medicare for all, but i believe that because if we give people a quality public option, we're going to be able to get more people in the system. if you just lower the eligibility age for medicare down to 50, into your 50s, the congressional budget office

actually shows that will save money. >> where does he fit idealogically in a field where you have elizabeth warren populism, kamala harris stressing this as well, although hers will come into play in california. where does cory booker fit? >> he's interesting because i think he is viewed in the democratic party as actually being a little bit more of a moderate, but he actually has quite a liberal voting record. he's talking about medicare for all, which is becoming kind of a litmus test for democrats in the primary. is he going to try to cast himself as more this moderate lawmaker, or is he going to go toward this liberal -- >> he's definitely on that page, but in 2012 we saw where his instincts were newark where he grew up, right across the street from manhattan, he jumped up to defend bayne capital. >> he gets money from law firms,

money from security investments, money from real estate if he gets traction. the democrats are being nice to him right now. once he gets traction, this is the introductory phrase. iowa caucuses are next sunday. but if cory booker gets traction, you might see someone like elizabeth warren saying you're the democratic guy. >> right now there is a superpac supporting him but they're not endorsing that superpac, and that was a discussion among his survivors, whether they would support superpac. for the others, there is no question, there will be no superpac. he's not quite as clearly in that progressive lane. but i do think on the love message, like the one thing we know about this field is that authenticity is key. that's what a lot of people have taken away from the trump era, and a lot of people at this table heard him speak in 2012,

2016, that has been his message. in a way he has to lean into that because that is where he's been. >> he's also been early on social media. from the beginning, very active on social media. listen to him here. on the radio a lot today. he's busy today. including "the view" where he gets asked a couple interesting questions by megan mccain. >> how do you convince people, especially on the left, that you're authentic and you're not a phony, especially during this time and this isn't just sort of a political stunt, if you will? >> you can't speak to authenticity. you just have to be who you are and there will be critics all the time. what you do, my work speaks for me. >> when i think much you right now, i think of barnbarks -- barnaby sparticus. >> it's a tough culture. >> there are times he hasn't

been able to figure out his lane vis-a-vis elizabeth warren, vis-a-vis kamala harris. he's been very differential, for instance, to other republican members on that committee, something you wouldn't necessarily hear from kamala harris. he's got to figure out if this love message, i think, is right for moment or if it's too much of a retread of what we saw from obama. and you mentioned that. and the thing is, a lot of liberals, black liberals in particular, aren't too lahappy retrospect with the way obama played things. if you get everybody in a room and everybody sort of sings kum-ba-ya, you saw that that necessarily didn't work. in the background, you saw a lot of jockeying particularly in south carolina for aids. people who were going to stop the campaign. the sanders people thought they were going to go with him. they saw him on the issue of criminal justice which is going to be such a lightning rod issue, particularly for these

two candidates. >> the flip side is it might have value in the election. i talked with other members about who do you fear most in 20920 election? the name that came up most often was cory booker. >> i think of him getting in because of this competition, it's not important to most of america but it's important to the candidates. bernie sanders has to make up his mind, others have to make up their mind pretty quickly. the government shutdown of all government shutdowns barely made a dent in the job market. how's wednesday at 2? i can't. dog agility. tuesday at 11? nope. robot cage match. how about the 28th at 3? done. with unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans, including the only plans with the aarp name, there's so much to take advantage of. from scheduling appointments to finding specialists, it's easier to get the care you need when you need it.

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the white house today celebrating a better than expected jobs report. the january numbers far exceeding expectations after being economists predicted there might be a slowdown due to the partial government shutdown. it turns out the labor market riding on the shutdown is not a big deal. the president could not be more excited about the economy. tweeting this morning, best january for the dow in over 30 years. we have by far the strongest

economy in the world. christine romans is here to explain the strong numbers. >> john, a really strong jobs report to start the year. finishi finishing, really, after a strong year last year. 250,000 jobs created last year, and this year, 300,000 net jobs. that's more than economists expected. this is the labor market shrugging off that shutdown. you have federal workers who were furloughed. they were not counted as unemployed. the government did not count them as unemployed. the unemployment rate went up a little bit to 4%, but this is 100 months in a row now of job creation. this marks a pretty interesting milestone for this labor market. still quite strong and the hiring is it across the board here. leisure and hospitality, bars and restaurants, a lot of hiring there. transportation, mining, construction, you name it, there was a strong margin across the

board here. wages went up 2.5%. that's great for workers but the labor market is making sure there's not too much inflation in the pipeline. last year you had 200,000 jobs created. this year looking like we're starting where we left off. >> you look at the report and it's strong, strong, strong, strong. any signs of weakness in here? >> there were some negative revisions to some earlier months, but if you look at the overall arc, it's absolutely a strong story. the really good news as i see it, we're seeing evidence of people entering the labor force who were not in it before. it's not just that there's strong job growth, there is strong job growth at a time they already have a low unemployment rate. >> so 100 months of consecutive job growth. so they said, aha, this all began under obama.

if you're a president gearing up to run for reelection, this is a handstand moment. >> it's terrific news if you're trump running for reelection. the biggest thing trump has on his side if this continues, and there is a long time between now and election day, is that the economy has been strong under his watch. it did start with obama but it has continued for the first two years of his term. the thing his advisers are concerned about is some sort of downturn, that it will shift and the economy, that he came in here to juice up the economy, that he will lose that argument. >> still, 38% approve the job the president is doing, 57% disapprove. on the economy 46% approve, 51% disapprove. last year he was above water on the economy. he's a little under water there. but if he's running for reelection, there are a lot of trump problems if you look at

the polls. that's why the democrats are optimistic. but if you're a democrat looking at these headlines, to julie's point, about potential things down the road. let's listen to the president yesterday. he's in the middle of high stakes discussions with china. it's not just about trade, it's not just about other things. the president sounds optimistic. >> i think if the final deal is made, it will be made between myself and president xi, but we're talking about theft, we're talking about every aspect of trade with a country. and we're talking about fentanyl, too. >> on this issue he's been pretty consistent. if you're a president running for reelection and you don't want to disrupt the economy, you assume the political i mpetus would be to cut some kind of deal. but the president said we're going to get a big deal.

what is the potential impact of that? >> that is very much intention, as you say. the chinese could buy 5 million tons of soybeans, they could do things to try to reduce the trade deficit and make the president feel like he has a deal and sign something. that's what's best for the economy in the near term. if you want to see wall street do better, get some kind of deal to just paper over those problems. but these problems have been building for 20 years. they're not new. it's fundamental relations between two economies. the question is how much is the president willing to hold out? how much risk is he willing to take to the economy to actually get a deal that will leave the economy in better shape in the long run? >> we appreciate you coming in. up next, what the special counsel has told us and the big questions robert mueller still leaves on the table. wouldn't it be great to have epix?

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it debunks the democratic theory pushed by many, now including the house chairman committee, adam schiff. but the special counsel's paper trail leaves us still with a lot of big unknowns. let's go through some of the big questions in this investigation. let's start with rick gates. he was the deputy campaign chairman. he pleaded guilty to lying to the special counsel and conspiracy. the big point here is he is now cooperating, and his sentencing has been delayed because he continues to cooperate with respect to several ongoing operations. the big question, what? mr. gates was involved in the campaign, involved in the transition. what has he told special counsel? paul manafort was convicted in a court in virginia. he gave polling data to a russian business associate known to have contact with lots of business associates. could the russians have used it

in their forms? then you have the president's fixer, michael cohen. he has now pleaded guilty to lying to congress. cohen tells the special counsel, gave them relevant and useful information s information, the special counsel says, about conversations with people in the white house before that conversation with congress. the big question is who? who was he talking to in the white house? did he say things that aren't true? roger stone, due in court in just an hour or so. he's been indicted for lying, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. special counsel says that roger stone had been back and forth with wikileaks to find out about

any additional releases and what other damaging information organization 1 had regarding the clinton campaign. the big question, who is the senior trump campaign official? who directed them? the b >> the answer, never did. zpz but this is >> but this is a president who has had thousands of lies that have been documented, so it's really difficult to give him any credence, and his family is in some kind of jeopardy liability, but we have to remember, there is three prongs to conclusion, which is a loose term for over kinds of crimes. russia, the 2016 election and the trump campaign. we know from exchange of the polling data, we know from the october release of wikileaks

e-mails after the "access hollywood" tape dropped, and we know from a june trump trial meeting, we have those prongs three times and very prominently in the trump domain. so i think the notion that there is nothing with trump and russia is kind of in the rearview mirror at this point. >> it's the personal fingerprints we continue to look for. i want you to listen here. this is going back in time, but donald trump jr. has a point, tweeting late last night, has anyone heard from adam schiff? i imagine he's busy leaking other confidential info from the house intelligence committee to change the subject. there were phone calls they were looking at and they were blocked on the other end. let's just say, adam schiff thought he knew. >> as they were setting up that trump tower meeting, as don jr. was on the phone with his russian counterpart making arrangements to get dirt on

hillary clinton, there was a meeting with the son of that oligarch. that call is a blocked number, so we want to get the phone records to determine, was donald trump talked to his son during this meeting? it's difficult to get the tape because they don't know where it might lead. >> we want to get those records, period. it's obvious it's what you want to find out. but this was, ha ha, a blocked number. >> there's a little risk for democrats in this whole past yeerlt. there is a lot on the table that we know looks pretty bad for the president and his family, simply looking at all the people around him who were lying for something besides russia.

they kind of poirntd p point to dots that aren't there. >> i think what they should do is just discredit the house intelligence committee. one way to do that was to say, you know, they're protecting trump. that was a recurring refrain that we got from them, so i think it was less about pinning that phone call directly between donald jr. and his father as much as it was look what year trying to find out. this is how important it might be, and republicans are blocking it. >> i'm a broken record on this topic, but it's really important to remember r that, really, the only credible information comes out of mueller's filesly, that if this moves to some kind of,

they were ~ing about. the president says his lawyers were told by the deputy attorney general, nothing to worry about. >> well, he told the attorneys that i'm not a subject -- i'm not a target. >> which? >> there's two, there's moehler and there's cohen. >> i don't know about that. >> the president says he doesn't kn know. i could say, i'm not a subject, i'm a target. that would be good news skpchlt we have any questions, any damaging information about the president, he will leave that to the politicians to settle. he gave a report, just like ken

starr did. they don't have as much distinction in this case? >> this is the million-dollar question. can you indict a sitting president, and i think there's a deate the -- death in the white house. >> mueller is most likely going to leave this, here's my report. >> the report back to the ken starr point, that was a statutory requirement that it be it a report. then there could be a second report if there is a conflict between mueller and the attorney general. if that doesn't happen, there might not be anything public at all. >> the democrats will ramp up on that one as he gets his second vote next week. up next, why the nuclear

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to so many courageous venezuelans, to hear your stories. the leadership of the united states of america, president donald trump, stands with venezuela and stands for a free venezuela. >> sheldon addleson and his wife help trump supporters caught up in the addl erk dradelsons' def fund. president trump raised $130 million for his reelection. it includes a $120 million surge in the last quarter of 2018, most of which it spent supporting republican candidates in the midterms.

they have just suspended their participation in the treaty with russia. the united states and europe say moscow has been violating the landmark arms control agreement since 2016. mike pompeo announcing the suspension a short time ago, starting a 180-day clock. he says we'll completely withdraw if russia doesn't change its tune. >> russia has jeopardized the united states security interest. and we can no longer be restricted by the treaty while russia shamelessly violates it. if russia does not return to full and verifiable complaints with the treaty within a six-month period by verifiably destroying its missiles, launchers and associated equipment, the treaty will termina terminate. >> secretary pompeo there. many democrats saying they are opening up an arms race. but nato supports this.

this is something that nato has been complaining about for some time. >> the russians have been out of compliance for about ten years. the secretary general came out today and said if russia does not come back this compliance, it will bear sole responsibility for the end of the treaty. that's as strong a statement as the allies can do speaking with one voice here about the treaty. russia is in compliance and china is not in it. so that has drawn the u.s. efforts to keep pace with russia's development as well. they didn't just pull themselves out immediately. it's been a long process. if nato is saying russia would bear sole responsibility, that seems pretty serious. >> nato and russia are not on the same page. we'll see what the russians do, and b, will china come to the table on these issues. senator brown takes a shot at populism, right in the heart of trump country. [music playing] (sashimi) psst. hey, you!

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ohio senator sherrod brown is in iowa today, warning about trump for things he can't deliver. in a message to his fellow democrats, brown says letting americans buy into medicare early, say at age 50 or 55, is a much more viable idea than a more destructive medicare program for all program. he's trying to show he's the candidate that can appeal to both progressive democrats and working midwestern class republicans. the senator is making a point to visit some of the smaller counties that were blue but then turned red. >> reporter: john, no question, and that's exactly where senator sherrod brown started his tour here in iowa. he was in howard county. it's one of the many counties in

iowa, and indeed, across the middle of the country that switched from blue with president obama to red with president trump in 2016. a remarkable switch. howard county alone, 2012, voted 60% for obama. he carried a margin of 60%. president trump, 57% just four years later. that is a sign of where sherrod brown was trying to make his message clear, saying that the democrats need to have a candidate who is not afraid to go into trump country to at least bring down some of the margins. but john, we heard over and over a branding exercise the senator is using for the president. >> talk about phony populism, you think he's a phony populist? >> you don't push someone down to lift him up. that's what this president has done. call it phony populism, call it bigotry, whatever it is, it's wrong, and the public is rejecting it.

>> it sure appealed tie lo a lo voters two years ago. >> it may have, but it won't in the future. >> that's the big question, if it will in the future or not. it seems to me by talking to some people around him, he's pretty far along in his thinking. a meeting he'll be having here in perry, iowa. a farming community about 45 minutes from des moines. he'll be talking to a farming group on trade. he was a big proponent against nafta, of course, so will some of these farmers who are gathering here have some concerns for him about what the trade war has done for their prices? so a tricky balance here for senator brown, john. >> interesting to see if he adds that midwestern touch to the increasingly crowded field. jeff zeleny, enjoy the iowa spring. we'll see you when you get back. it would be interesting. this is bryce smith, the chair of the democratic party in dallas county. i definitely think a midwestern

and more central democrat at the top of the ticket will still get the coast and also resonate with voters in the midwest where we've seen either pushback or back turning in the democratic party. there is this tension, if you look at trump'sie l electoral m iowa, pennsylvania. >> it feels like a moment like we said earlier in the show where voters want this consistent authenticity. but not all midwestern democrats are the same, and he's fairly progressive. if you contrast him with, say, senator klobuchar, that's a pretty different profile even though they're both from the midwest. so i think if he were to decide to jump in the race, and advisers tell me he's still pretty unsure, he would be certainly somebody who could make a strong case for it. but it's just hard to know

whether that's a case where the parties are completely responsive right now. >> in the general election, the hillary states are unlikely to move in 2020 and the democrats just have to win back michigan, pennsylvania and ohio. >> and iowa. >> and iowa. by keeping the red republican score down in counties like adams where democrats were just getting crushed, and those counties exist in michigan, iowa and pennsylvania as well. >> i do think the argument against trump is fascinating, because essentially what voters will be deciding here, the voters are swing voters. did trump deliver on his promises or not? in some of these places, brown feels like he's got a really credible case to make that trump made specific promises on the economy on keeping certain jobs, bringing certain types of jobs back, and that the evidence is

there for voters that didn't happen. i think almost more than any other democrat, he's got a really succinct and credible message on that front right now. >> he's also concerned over the long haul for these counties that turned from blue to red. on my show i asked him, what about the democrats getting knocked around in ohio. he said, really, i'm not happy with it. we need find a message that works not just on the coast but the waitress in milwaukee, the steel worker in pennsylvania. that seems to be taking a longer view of where the democratic electorate might be heading. >> respecting the people who work with their hands. >> there are certainly people in the democratic party, and i've had praifoperatives in ohio who worked on this race saying, forget about ohio. forget about iowa, even. look at virginia. this is a fight. >> do you give up on those states? that's why we have a fascinating campaign ahead of us. up next, special stop in

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super bowl liii just two days away. when the patriots and the rams face off this sunday, tom brady taking on history -- we call him the goat. coy, tom brady gets in the nfl history books, but he's a determined underdog here, right? >> john, i know as a past fan, you love being able to say the goat, and you're not wrong. tom brady is incredible, but they're in a happy place, right, saying they're the underdogs even though they're not in this game. they're getting back to a sense of normalcy, whether it was deflategate, spygate, anything, it seems that the patriots rally back in a tight-knit group when they feel like it's them against the world. they are back for a third straight super bowl. they have 36 players who have played in the big game whereas

the rams they're facing, only four. experience versus inexperience a huge story line. let's look at the coaches, for example. patriots coach bill bellichek is 66 years old. he has coached in the nfl for the entirety of sean mcvay's life plus two. he has won two super bowls in his career, jared goff, where tom brady has won 29. that's more than any other quarterback has even appeared in a playoff game, yes, including peyton manning, all the greats. it's an incredible thing they've built in new england and it will try to be replicated. tom brady, you mentioned the goat, and i played with him every year for six years when i was with the buffalo bills. i saw his work ethic. he commanded his team. the thing that makes him great,

he out numbers everyone. he knows some of the players better than they know themselves. i want to shake his hand and tell him i respect the way he plays the game. >> you don't have any doubt who is going to win, do you? >> who i want to win is totally different than who is going to win. >> take the quarterbacks out of it. who is the most important player on each team besides the quarterbacks? >> the kickers. this is going to come down to a close one. the average margin of victory four and a half points. every other margin of victory, 16. it will be a close game. >> coy wire, appreciate it. don't miss kickoff in atlanta.

a cnn bleacher report and i'll be watching here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. super bowl liii is sunday. brianna keilar starts right now. i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. underway right now, another day, another dem. cory booker enters the 2020 race, and he's already making headlines. will the man who refuses to remain silent be muzzled by a judge? roger stone in court any time now. and the mysterious calls