store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing this busy news day with us. elizabeth warren and the 2020 crisis. she registered as an american indian when she ran in texas more than 30 years ago. new cnn poll numbers this hour on joe biden in 2020. these things rarely end as they begin, but the early numbers may prove hard for the former vice president to ignore. the state of the union is still divided. the president's big speech did include a few bipartisan olive branches, but his tone on immigration, investigations and

the democrats is driving the morning-after debate. >> we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country. [ booing ] >> america was founded on liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination and control. we are born free and we will stay free. [ cheers and applause ] tonight, we renew our resolve that america will never be a socialist country. >> we begin the hour right there with the president's state of the union, bipartisan wishes overshadowed by bipartisan thumps and the biggest pressing question, no guarantees the government won't shut down again in just ten days. the big annual stage is the chance for the president to offer us a road map, but look and listen for some clear direction on how to resolve the border wall dispute and avoid another government shutdown.

>> now is the time for congress to show the world that america is committed to ending illegal immigration. in the past most of the people in this room voted for a wall, but the proper wall never got built. i will get it built. simply put, walls work and walls save lives. so let's work together, compromise and reach a deal that will truly make america safe. >> if you're an optimist you did hear the president say the word compromise and nowhere in the 82-minute speech did the president hint where or how he would budge off his wall demand. the top democrat in the senate today sounding sour on the odds of a deal and the shutdown. the vice president warning more stalemate could well be on the horizon. >> can you guarantee there will not be another government shutdown?

>> well, i think our hope is that there's not, but i -- i can't make that guarantee, jeff. >> cnn's sunlen serfaty live on capitol hill. sunlen, on the day after the president offered something that many don't see a way out. hopeful negotiations might find a path forward, they still feel that way? >> reporter: the negotiators, john, are trying in earnest to look the other way. they're trying to keep their heads down and keep trying to hammer out a deal, i should say and essentially not let the president's rhetoric in his words derail them in any way and the feeling up here on capitol hill between democrats and republicans is the more that president trump stays out of these negotiations the better shot that they have at actually getting something and that is in part why we've seen something of a different posture coming from many aides and negotiators up here on capitol hill. you have at the time president trump splashing cold water on the conference committee.

you have the negotiators saying something of a rosy language saying they are making progress and they're inching toward a deal and giving us glimmers of hope that they could potentially broker a deal potentially as soon as the end of this week and the conference committee this morning they are at this moment continuing to meet. they've been meeting for over two hours this morning and they had a classified briefing on the border wall. of course, that is the thorniest issue and senator durbin emerging from the meeting moments ago and he was asked if anything he heard in the briefing leads him to agree and stay tuned as this all continues. >> we'll see and even if they do come up with a deal they've got to convince the president, and with me in studio to share the reporting and insights. julie pace and cnn's jeff zeleny and julie hirschfeld davis with "the new york times." was there a hidden clue there as to how to get out of this and was this a 2019 governing speech

or a 2020 campaign marker? >> it was a 2020 launch. she's seeing these other democrats doing and that's what he was doing in the house chamber and it was clear by immigration and the socialism language and other things. he was a, i think trying to get republicans back on his side into the idea of he is their standard bearer and it is his party and the speech was a lot of different things and it was to my era, at least and to a lot of people i talked to, the opening bell for his re-election campaign. >> jeff's right on one important point. a lot of what president trump was trying to do was shore up support among the republicans. he has the support of republican voters at large. there has been some signs of weakening among the republicans on capitol hill and what i think was interesting about his rhetoric around immigration and the border wall and the possibility of a future shutdown. he was very clear he wants to build this wall and sees that as a central promise. he didn't mention his pledge to use an emergency declaration if

congress doesn't give him his deal and he didn't use the wall as an ultimatum. there was no bright line on what he would or would not sign. >> i think what he did not say about immigration and the wall was as interesting as what he did say. the conference committee is hoping that the president will stay quiet and will stay on the side lines and let them broker this deal if there is a deal to be brockered and the fact that he didn't put meat on the bones of what that compromise would look like and he did make an ults ma ultimatum and there is still the overriding question and he didn't do anything about that what he's able to get there inside the room. >> will he back down? which is why you hear the negotiators. the deadline is a week from friday. normally, they will go to a week from friday probably until the sun was trying to set, maybe if they have a late flight, but there's talk of trying to get it

done this friday and the reason for that, to see what happens and to avoid another crisis at the end and listen to the top two democrats say we hope, mr. president that a, maybe listen and sign it. >> left to their own devices, you will have an agreement on time by friday. >> you heard his speech and you said, uh-oh, but if the president stays out of it i am confident that the democrats and republicans, house and senate can come up with the agreement. >> do you think the president can stay out of it? >> i don't know. i mean, he can't help himself. >> normally that would be a ridiculous question. >> he's the president, he ran on this issue and he has every right to be a part of it and even the republicans will tell you the problem with the president is he's so inconsistent when he gets involved and sends things off the rails. >> that's why we have a government shutdown for 35 days

and there was a compromise and the president decided he was not okay with that deal and that's why the democrats and republicans who are sort of hanging out behind closed doors trying to hash out a deal they realize they can have something that they can take to their parties and avoid a government shutdown and the question is whether or not president trump will sign on to that and that's something that democrats have no idea about, but even republicans who talk to the president regularly do not know what his bottom line is and what he will ultimately decide if they come up with a deal. that's a big challenge that republicans are facing not knowing the bottom line for the president and whether or not he would just veto a bipartisan deal or just go ahead and sign an emergency declaration and do this without congress. >> and you learn, if you go through the speech or if you watched last night, three pages on immigration. he did say to the democrats let's work together on hiv-aids and work together on childhood cancer and democrats were

skeptical on the financial issueses, and you want to get along and you want the economy to continue, essentially call off the investigative dogs. >> an economic miracle is taking place in the united states and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous parts san investigations. >> the democrats would say constitutional, congressional oversight. >> he can say whatever he wants about that, but democrats are moving forward with oversight starting today and that's going to be his new reality. what he's trying to do there is essentially do the same thing to the congressional investigations that he's trying to do to the mueller investigation which is to try to undermine his credibility and try to make it look like it's politically motivated so no matter what comes out of this, he can look at it as another democratic witch hunt, but those

investigations will go forward and they'll be a central part of his presidency over the next two years. >> i think the other thing he's trying to do is set the table for his argument and he's listening to his advisers which he sometimes does or sometimes does not. the likelihood of any big, substantial legislative accomplishments between now and the time that he's going back to voters and asking to be reelect side pretty low and so he wants it out there as an idea that the reason that nothing got done, the reason that you're seeing, you know, less accomplishments then is because they're busy investigating and he wants to set up that opposition now so that the thought is in voters' minds when he has to go back and explain why there hasn't been more done in his first term. >> it will be fascinating to watch the next week to ten days in washington as the negotiations continue and will there be a follow-up. the president has laid out ideas before. is there a follow-up, we shall see. a fascinating speech. up next, breaking news in

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like rappers and we listened to it at the time and dressed up and put on wigs and brown makeup. this was a one-time occurrence and he is deeply sorry for the pain this revelation is causing. ryan nobles joins us live. as if that wasn't enough, what now? >> john, this is unbelievable. we first heard a rumor about potential black face and have been chasing it for the last 24 hours and the attorney general releasing a dramatic statement where he admits being at a party dressed as a rapper in brown makeup. we also know that the attorney general in an attempt to stave off the criticism that may come to this did meet with the legislative black caucus to inform them of this situation and of course, this comes after the backdrop of two other scandals that are rocking

virginia's capital with the other statewide elected officials and justin fairfax is facing accusations of a sexual assault charge that goes back to 2004 and the governor ralph northam facing accusations or the release of a photo that appeared in his medical school yearbook which showed someone in black face and the kka outfit and he's not one of the people in the photo and the problem with all of this, john s that all three men have yet to say that they're going anywhere despite calls for resignation from the governor and a lot of heat put on by the lieutenant governor and this new emerging situation with the attorney general and basically the entire state capitol is in the state of chaos. to pivot back how the lieutenant governor is handling all of this and we know that over the past couple of days behind closed doors the lieutenant governor has been forcefully encouraging democratic leaders to stay by

his side and he went into an expletive-latent rant about this situation. that could be part of the reason why you see him softening his tone with a new statement saying we need to hear from the accusers and have this process play out. the sum total of this, john, is there is a good chance that despite all three of these scandals that nobody here leaves their current office and they all stay in power for the balance of their turn. john? >> wow. you. wow. brian nobles, remarkable, and ryan, come back with us if there are developments. you have had top democrats and i don't mean to be disrespectful of the republicans, but this is a democratic governor, and the democratic attorney general, and the top three officials in the state all dealing with these problems. the calls for the governor to resign still stand. questions about the lieutenant governor are on the table. he's trying to clear those up and now you have the attorney general where people the other day were saying wow, this is

really a doozy and we have to lose the governor and the attorney general and the politics of that, this will be a conversation about politics and principle and the politics of that will tell you the democrats will dig in, right? >> i think their silence is a little surprising in some respects because they, of course, were very loud and vocal, democrats were about the kavanaugh situation and slightly quieter about the governor and we'll see the reaction to the attorney general and the only thing that quiets people more here usually in washington politics is when they're worried about the other side winning over. the reason it matters nationally and the reason this is an important thing is virginia is a key state and it also is a moment is one party going to be hypocritical or not and we've still not heard from a lot of leaders in the democratic party including former president barack obama. >> the standard laid out by the top democrats in virginia echoed by a lot of top democrats in

washington okay. you may have been a good person and it's inexcusable. it's sensitive and he did this when he was 19. >> it's zero tolerance from democrats and the big reason why it has to be zero tolerance is they want clean hands if they'll be targeting president trump on race or some kind of sexual misconduct so they have to be pretty pure on this issue. all of the national democrats are aligned and the point ryan made there at the end that is pretty unbelievable to think that all three of these men think that they are going to stay in their jobs. even if they do that, how productive can they be in their jobs going forward? what would especially be the point of them staying in. >> in any year where it's more re relevant and the democrats think they can flip a chamber where

virginia is a red state and it's considered a pretty blue state although you mentioned it's still in play. >> so you have the governor who acknowledges appearing in black face mimicking michael jackson and now you have the attorney general, mimicking a rapper and going in black face to a party. he was quite e special suggesting other opponents were leaking this information and questioning why his accuser was coming forward again because she came forward during one of the campaigns and talked to "the washington post." they could not corroborate the statement, and while this allegation has been surprising and hurtful i also recognize that no one makes these kiebs of charges very lightly and i would like to treat the meetia and both the woman who made this and i seek no way to denigrate her voice and i cannot agree with

the description of events that i know is not true. that is a calmer place than the lieutenant governor was 72 hours ago. >> it is also at odds about what some of the reporting is about how he has responded to this privately and it speaks to what the reaction to that may have been and the fact that as ryan said it appears, if you read that statement that he thinks that it's possible that if he tipped those back and makes a more conciliatory statement he might be able to hang on to his job and the thing that is amazing is that this is unfolding in virginia which is the site of the marches in charlottesville which got president trump in hot water in his first year in office and it was insufficiently condemning, white supremacy, neo-nazis and now you have a couple of democratic electric officials after the outrage that was expressed about president trump's behavior it's hard for

them to say it's better and in lower positions and this is where the history of these issues is woven into the fabric and it's a painful thing and it's stunning to believe that you have two officials that high up who think they're in a position to hang on to their jobs there. >> and in a position to think that they could not, should not have done something to get out ahead of this. the arrogance of that. the arrogance of that that you know it happened, you saw charlottesville. you see the national debate. you see the national debate in your party and the state debate in your state and you don't raise your hand saying there's smk i need to talk to you about. >> days washgs way from her 2020 announcement. the debacle and apologies were in the bag until this came along. [cell phone rings] where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic.

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new wrinkles today on the controversy senator elisabeth warren just can't seem to shake. the massachusetts democrat facing new questions why she claimed native american heritage this time on an official state document. cnn's m.j. lee is here with the details of this developing story. you see the document right there. it comes just as elizabeth warren is preparing to announce her campaign for president. the senator has tried to put this in the past and it won't go away. >> that's right. this is a problem that's not going away for elizabeth warren

and the reason that this washington post reporting is significant is because we now have a visual, elizabeth warren writing in her own words and her own handwriting describing her race as american indian. so this is not just a checked box and this is appears to be an example of warren herself explicitly describing her race as american indian regardless of how long ago this happened, and i should note that a warren aide was pointing out to cnn that this was not a part of her state bar application, but rather a form that she filled out after she was already admitted to the bar and an obvious important distinction, but i'm not sure, frankly, that this is going to be a distinction that people and voters necessarily understand or care about particularly those who are going to be looking at elizabeth warren in an unfavorable way for whatever reason. i also wanted to read a statement that we got from elizabeth warren's spokesperson. it reads senator warren has said she is not a citizen of any

tribe and only tribes determine tribal citizenship. she is sorry that she was not more mindful of this earlier in her career. now, john, how much are voters going to care about this? it's obviously very, very early on in the cycle. so this is an open question, but just anecdotally we know that elizabeth warren has taken dozens of questions since she announced her exploratory campaign on new year's eve and by my count she's been asked this question two times and make of that what you will and obviously the timing of this is not great given that she's going to formally announce her campaign on saturday, john. >> we'll see how it plays out. >> m.j. lee, appreciate the reporting. to m.j.'s point, president trump cares about this. he has several times taken her to task. she's taken a dna test to somehow quiet the president and it did not work. i just want to show here. these are just times senator warren identified herself or was

identified. >> powwow chow, that's what it's called. sorry to have to say that. the american law schools directory, and from 1986 to 1995. the question is what is the impact on the campaign? we'll talk more about this poll. we have brand-new poll numbers out today, and if you look at them elizabeth warren is viewed favorably, 52% view her favorably and gillibrand and buttigieg, and viewed most favorably. when you ask democrats what's the most important factor, they talk about a good chance of beating trump. will this hurt that argument. if electability is the defining issue for democrats will this hurt her candacy? >> this has caused per to make a number of stumbles in her

candidacy. saying she's not a person of color and that's not enough, because now we see documents that do claim that she is native american and that's why this issue is dogging her campaign because there are so many different iterations of this problem. she hasn't been able to put this behind here because new documents come out and they're not working. >> it raises the question are you red for prime time? she just ran for an election in massachusetts. if she tried to deal with it in that campaign, deal with it fully and completely. if you know this is an issue and call your staff in. where was i registered for the bar and where did i bring in a suit and where did i ever sign a piece of paper and do it yourself. this is the same conversation about virginia and there is a way to get out ahead of it and the dna test and she a popologi to the cherokee nation and that

has a lot of campaign strategists wondering what else? >> because the dna test was the attempt to get out ahead of it and it was so botched. 101 in that situation should have been to go to the cherokee nation and say, hey, if i were to do this what would you think about that? what would your reaction be? i think the reality for her is this is not going to go away. so whether it's more revelations or whether it's president trump keeping in the spotlight this is something that she'll be dealing with throughout the course of hadder campaign and the question is what do voters take away from this? do they look at this and say this is someone who was trying to claim she was something that she's not and that means we don't trust her? do they look at this that's just political motivation from trump? do they look at this as someone who is not fromprepared for pri time. >> does another democrat bring it up? >> if that happens, as of now the candidates are generally not taking swipes at each other. it happens faster than we think

every cycle and someone may try to make gains with this, but this is her own doing. this is not a staff issue. this was her own doing. she did not have staff with her at that time when she was signing things years ago. her staff is researching more aggressively than others. it raises the question why didn't this come up sooner? we cannot sit here right now and say that voters are actually concerned about this. we all remember things 12 years ago in the obama campaign and the clinton campaign and reverend jeremiah wright, and it didn't. so we don't know how voters will react to it, but how she reacts to it, he did have to give a big speech on it and the candidate had to right the ship. we'll see how she handles this. >> up next the new cnn poll gets right into it and shows who democrats are most likely to support come 2020. and cinemacolor for ultra vivid color.

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new reporting today on joe biden's 2020 time line and some new poll numbers that could help him work through any last-minute doubts. let's get to the numbers first and take a peek. in the new cnn ssr poll, who are you most likely to support for president in 2020. this is not a horse race. who do you like? who could you see yourself supporting? joe biden comes out on top ahead of president trump. thinking about running for president? you've got to think that's pretty good, right? bernie sanders does good. kamala harris, she's moving up and her rollout in the national attention and just talking about elizabeth warren and this poll taken before the latest

controversy. this is who are people thinking about. don't take this as who will they vote for and who they're likely to support for president. joe biden, you're the only guy ahead of trump in this poll. are democrats choosing a nominee? a good chance to beat trump comes in first. has the right experience. willing to work with the gop comes in third. again if you're joe biden, that describes me. races don't always end as they begin, but if you're joe biden in the beginning those are pretty good numbers in the new poll and these are democrats and democratic-leaning independence and again, this is not a horse race poll and who are you warm toward, and who are you likely to support. you're encouraged by that and bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, cory booker round out the top five there, and i would start as the front-runner. here is the bottom of the pack

and beto o'rourke although he told oprah yesterday probably, if you're michael bloomberg and sherrod brown. especially if you look at want at all likely to support and that's a problem for him as he tries to say i was a republican and now i want to be a democrat and beto o'rourke, plus side. there say negative there and if we watch this plays out, one thing we do know, one day i'm not there. senator amy klobuchar, is she going to run? tune in sunday. >> sunday come to boom island in minneapolis as in boom, ireland, drop the mike. >> you are going to announce your decision. >> i am. we've had so many discussions about this. i thought, well, here you go. that's the moment. >> senator klobuchar on sunday. we'll come back to that in a minute. you'll be working your biden sources. and the answer is? >> his orbit and world is still preparing for the likelihood

that he'll run. he still has not made a final decision yet. there's always the open question with joe biden and they are likely eyeing a date at the end of next month and the end of the first quarter or the beginning of april so he doesn't get caught up how much money did he raise in the first quarter because that's what will be happening. everyone in his orbit is preparing for him to run and he believes in polling and he believes there's more of a lane for him and i'm guessing this poll will heighten that argument, but again, it has to be his decision and i am told he's not quite there yet. >> the question is how do you read the data because if you look at the history of campaigns they very rarely end as they begin. if you're biden, you're the horse and ahead of the track and you're around the first curve, can you count on that to last. >> you generally don't want to be the front-runner and what are the takeaways and this is interesting because joe biden's argument if he does go forward will largely be, i am the only one that can beat trump. i think if you look at the polling including this new one there are a lot of candidates

who voters think can beat trump. i'm not sure that message i'm the only one who can do this will resonate with democratic primary voters. the other things that were interesting, you had 26% said the most important thing was who can beat trump. you have 30% who said none of the things that were on that list and i'm not sure the democratic base really knows what it is they're looking for in a presidential candidate. ink because biden was vice president he's very well known and has name recognition and they associate him with the obama presidency and perhaps nostalgia for that under president trump is pushing people toward him, but we don't know what the other 30% is and that's a very important question and joe biden doesn't know that either so i think that's probably one of the things he's weighing now is will that be the lane for him to be in. >> one of the candidates we're waiting for. senator klobuchar, midwestern voice, and we'll hear on sunday when she makes her decision. another is beto o'rourke who did

his drive after he did the texas senate race, and some people loved him and some thought what is this all about? sat down with oprah yesterday and dropped a hint. i'm sorry. i thought we had sound and we want to play a great a role as possible to making sure this country lives up to our. xigzs to the promise of the potential that we all know her to have. i am so excited at the prospect of playing that role and none of us have the luxury of sitting any of this out. that sounds like he's running. >> his numbers he was just second to mayor bloomberg and the number of democrats that would definitely not support him and there is residual opposition to mr. o'rourke maybe because of his dilly dallying about whether they'll jump into the race and his road trip. i think that turned a lot of people off, but he is someone who a lot of people are watching and whether or not he will jump

into the race and that can impact folks liked bien and bi senator sanders. there are a number of people on the sidelines right now that can shape up the polling and shake up the race if they decide to jump in and right now because the race is so wide open it looks like more people are looking like more likely to run. >> expectations may have lored for him as we've gone on here. that could be a good thing for someone new on the national stage and someone that introduced himself. he also said his family still isn't there yet and he was very specific with oprah that his older son ulysses doesn't want him to do it. he left open the possibilities. if you know klobuchar, the boom island part, the backdrop of that is the i-35 interstate and the bridge which collapsed. it was a major trajts agedy thed

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today promoting and defending its decision to draw down troops from syria and afghanistan. the secretary of state mike pompeo reassuring allies today that the united states remains committed to fighting isis. secretary pompeo says progress is being made, but he stresses now the u.s. role in his view, evolving. we're entering an era of decentralized jihad so we must be nimble in our approach, as well. the nature of the fight is changing. that's why president trump's announcement that u.s. troops will be withdrawing from syria is not the end of america's fight. the fight is one that we will continue to wage alongside of you. the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change. it is not a change in the mission. >> rear admiral john kirby is with us for the conversation. it sounds like they're giving a better conversation that we have to readjust.

are they readjusting? >> how to make the tweet and the decision fit their narrative, but he's being too cute by half there. it is a change in mission. those troops were on the ground in a tactile purpose to advise and assist and help indigenous forces, mostly kurd, find and finish isis targets. eventually they won't be able to do that. so that is a change in mission. i understand what they're trying to say we will still put pressure isis and you can do that from iraq no question about it, but the mission is different and they're trying to sell this thing in a way that's more palatable. >> sell it because there are questions from allies in the region and the questions of republicans in congress and the rebuke from the president just this week. isis will continue to try to regroup and isis is not completely defeated and listen to the president last night making his case and watch some of the key reaction. >> great nations do not fight endless wars.

today we have liberated virtually all of the territory from the grip of these blood thirsty monsters. now, as we work with our allies to destroy the remnants of isis, it is time to give our brave warriors in syria a warm welcome home. >> the chairman of the joint chiefs there with quite the poker face. all of the reporting, all of the reporting inside the building says that the chiefs and former secretary mattis who left, resigned over this, they think this is a bad call. >> just yesterday, owen west, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict in the house arms services committee hearing just yesterday said he agreed with secretary mattis' decision to resign after the decision for the syria withdrawal. >> a public rebuke from a still sitting pentagon official. >> no question about it. >> this debate is not over.

i appreciate you joining us on "inside politics." a lot more ahead. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great afternoon. ♪ ♪ i'm brianna keilar live from cnn headquarters. the clock ticks and another shutdown looms and the president wants a compromise, but only on his terms. plus joe biden well ahead of the pack when it comes to support for a presidential run. in her own handwriting, elizabeth warren identifying herself as an american indian. will it end her candidacy before it begins? president trump says he wants more legal immigrants than ever before, but that's not what his policies say. the state of the union is now in the rear-view mirror, so what's next? there's still another government shutdown looming. nine days and count,