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welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. it was a miserable week for president trump. he could not close a deal with kim jong-un and his longtime confidante called him a cheat and a liar whose crimes carried into his presidency. a two-hour-plus speech yesterday left no doubt about the president's mood. >> they fight so hard on this witch hunt, this phony deal that they put together, this phony thing that now looks like it's dying so they don't have anything with russia. there's no collusion, so now they go and morph into, let's inspect every deal he's ever done. we're going to go into his finances. we're going to check his deals. we're going to check -- these people are sick. >> plus, that speech offered telling glimpses into just how the president thinks. mocking the southern accent of his former attorney general. repeating a nickname offensive

to native americans and this, questioning immigrants in congress. >> we have people in congress that hate our country. we can name every one of them, if they want. it's very, very sad. very, very -- and find out, how did they do in their country? just ask them. how did they do? did they do well? were they succeeding? just ask that question. somebody would say, oh, that's terrible that he brings that up, but that's okay. i don't mind. i'll bring it up. how did they do? their country? not so good. >> and the big week for 2020 democrats includes a new candidate promising to make climate change the top issue and the first rally by a familiar face who promises this time will be different. >> my experience as a child living in a family that struggled economically, powerfully influenced my life and my values. i know where i came from.

unlike donald trump, who shut down the government and left 800,000 federal employees without income to pay their bill s. i know what it's like to be in a family that lives paycheck to paycheck. >> with us this sunday, julie pace of the associated press, cnn's phil mattingly, and lisa lerer of "the new york times." we begin with the president. the biggest source of his anger and the latest remarkable display of his rage. he hugged a flag as he walked on to the stage at cpac yesterday and then spoke for more than two hours. that he spoke that long is proof that he has a lot on his mind and that he knew it was a place where he wins applause even when what he says lacks taste, truth or tact. >> so now we're waiting for a report, and we'll find out

whether or not and who we're dealing with. we're waiting for a report by people that weren't elected. unfortunately, you put the wrong people in a couple of positions, and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there. and all of a sudden, they are trying to take you out with [ bleep ], okay? with [ bleep ]. >> the report referenced there with choice language would be from special counsel robert mueller who is said to be near the end of his investigation. the biggest lesson is mueller is hardly's president's only worry. federal and state authorities in new york are investigating the president's business, his inaugural committee and chairman. and the new world order here in washington. democrats are demanding white house documents said to show the president lied when he said he had no role in his son-in-law's security clearance. a clearance granted over the objections of the cia and others. and democrats say a half dozen committees now have new threads to investigate because of the

scathing day-long rebuke that was the testimony of longtime trump fixer and attorney michael cohen. >> do you believe that the president committed a crime while in office? >> based on what -- looking at the text and listening to mr. cohen, it appears that he did. >> let's start there with the president's mood. and he is incredibly transparent for all his critics, we know what he thinks. two-plus hours. the longest speech of his presidency and a lot of grievances. >> a lot of grievances that i think were built up during this week because he was in vietnam for the summit with north korea. so he was on a different time zone, paying attention to what was going on, but this was his first chance to get this all off his chest. look, the mueller report has hung over this white house for months. but they are now having to come to grips with the reality that once that is done, that doesn't

end these legal questions around him. if anything, i think the southern district investigations are his greater problem. it seems to more directly touch his business, his associates and potentially trump himself. that doesn't mean there won't be something in the mueller report that won't be damaging to him. we just don't know. that's more of a political question probably for congress. but this is a president i think who is having to come to grips with the fact that the next two years of his presidency are going to continue to look probably even worse in terms of these legal questions than the first two. >> think about all the different crimes michael cohen alleged the president engaged in. bank fraud, insurance fraud, tax fraud, campaign finance violations and charity self-dealing. there are a number of areas where democrats can pull on those strings and decide how much they want to investigate. even after robert mueller wrapped up his report and says whether or not there was russia collusion, they'll have democrats in congress spending months if not years,

investigating all of those various areas, getting the president's tax returns which may provide more information about other things the president might have done as a businessman. so he's in for sort of a world of hurt when it comes to the democratic investigations. and what we saw yesterday was two hours of the president really venting knowing that there's nothing they can do. subpoenas flying all over the place. they'll ask for his most personal records and there's not really too much he can do. >> and knowing he was in a place he can twist facts, exaggerate some things, ignore other things. i find it remarkable that he focused so much on mueller as opposed to what most people think is the bigger threat. so is it that he makes mueller the repository of all of his ang ber investigations or does he know something we don't know about the mueller report because his attorneys are trying to keep in touch about that. to your point about michael cohen, why was the president so mad and so angry at the democrats in congress? because the democrats say they got a lot of leads from this. >> donald trump wrote you a

check out of his personal account while he was serving as president of the united states of america to reimburse you for hush money payments? >> yes, mr. chairman. >> you had a conversation with the president of the united states about your impending testimony before the house intelligence committee. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> who were the family members you briefed on the trump tower moscow project? >> don trump jr. and ivanka trump. >> did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company? >> yes. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump? >> yes, and again, those are part of the investigation that's currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> and so the anger, rage we saw from the president, i guess quasi understandable. not how he processed it, but the southern district of new york, michael cohen says, is investigating things we don't know about. and democrats on capitol hill

say that was a great oversight committee hearing meeting. now we'll farm this out to five or six or seven other committees and you'll all take a piece of that and have other investigations. >> this was the testimony that spawned a thousand other topics from potential tax evasions, his trump organization, to the president -- even to the president's alleged racism. i mean, this gave democrats plenty of fodder to work with. and it's important to remember in these moments this is a president who feels very invested in personal relationships. and this is a betrayal of one of his most intimate personal relationships. this is not like some low-level guy at the trump organization getting up there. this is his personal lawyer, the guy who, as he points out, was doing his bidding for years and years and years by his side, up there laying out all the dirty laundry that he can lay out in front of congress and the country and we don't even know what he said in the private sessions. >> i would just -- one of the

signs of a productive oversight hearing if you want to talk about waxman or dingel or go back through history is when you can see and know people are laying the groundwork for what's coming next. it's not necessarily fireworks or trying to get those headlines. there were plenty of them, but the most important points and questions asked were the questions that were leading to answers that are very clearly going to guide the investigations of the oversight committee, financial services xhrkts intelligence committee going forward. what that means is tax returns, you can see it from alexandria ocasio-cortez and several others, the push for democrats in the house to use the ways and means committee to get the president's tax returns. that was happening live for everybody to see during that hearing. the president's children, very much now in play because of some of the questions asked. allen weisselberg, one of the most central and key people in the trump organization. his name came up several times. elijah cummings made clear he's somebody the committee is thinking about talking to. that underscored the importance of the hearing. michael cohen's testimony was

explosive, and any other time it would have been completely surreal. today it was just wednesday. but i think that's the takeaway from he hearing. you recognize democrats, not every democrat was great or knew what they were doing, but there was clearly staff work behind the scenes to try and lay the groundwork for things to come and those will cause increasing problems for the white house. >> and separate from cohen because of "new york times" reporting this week, the democrats want white house documents. "the new york times" reported that both the white house chief of staff at the time and white house counsel wrote memos because they did not like the process or result of the president's son-in-law, another family connection, getting a security clearance. jared kushner got his clearance over the objection of the cia and other federal agencies. the president said he had nothing do with it. "the new york times" flatly says if the memos from his top aides suggest otherwise. congress is now demanding documents. they want to prove to the american people that this is a lie. >> you tell anyone in the white

house to overrule security officials? >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i wouldn't do it. i know there are issues back and forth about security for numerous people, actually. but i don't want to get involved in that stuff. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> not true. not true. what the president says is not true, what his daughter says is not true. and now that the democrats have power, they are demanding that john kelly and don mcgahn wrote contemrainuous memos raising concerns about this. this opens up this new world for the president which maybe yesterday's speech was proof he's beginning to understand it. >> i don't know how you can read what he was saying there as anything other than a lie if it is true he did overrule. it's also amazing now we have another top trump official, john kelly, who was keeping

contemrainuoconte contemporaneous notes. what else did john kelly see or what else does he have notes on? democrats have been on this for a while. they've thought there was something fishy in jared kushner's clearance process. now the fact they believe they can link that directly to donald trump himself is going to make this probably a top priority, maybe top five among their investigations this year. >> it's a remarkable moment. we'll come back to the president's speech and some of the political calculations later. no hanoi summit deal but praise for kim jong-un that stuns the parents of an american killed just after leaving a north korean prison. and no artificial flavors. enjoy 100% clean soup today. panera. food as it should be.

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treatment of american otto warmbier in prison. >> i don't think the top leadership knew about it. i don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen. just wasn't to his advantage to allow that to happen. and i really don't believe that he was -- i don't believe he knew about it. he felt badly but knew the case well but he knew it later. he tells me he didn't know about it and i'll take him at his word. >> those remarks caused bipartisan gasps in congress and this from otto warmbier's parents. kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son otto. kim and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity. no excuses or lavish praise an change that. thank you. yesterday in a speech at cpac, the president praised the warmbier family but again did not blame kim. >> we got our great people back. we got our great, great people,

and that includes our beautiful, beautiful otto. otto warmbier whose parents i've gotten to know, who is incredible. and i'm in such a horrible position because in one way, i have to negotiate. in the other way, i love mr. and mrs. warmbi er, and i love otto. and it's a very, very delicate balance. he was a special young man, and to see what happened was so bad. >> how is he in a horrible position? reagan negotiated with the soviets. he didn't say you're really nice people. i don't believe there are people in gulags, leave up that wall. sometimes you have to call out tru truths. >> i think this lays bare one defining thing about this president which is we talked about with the cohen testimony. he ran his business for decades

based on personal relationships. oh, we want to buy a building. we'll do a deal with this guy or this guy. now that's how he views these negotiations. but, in fact, it's not the same, right? he's not cutting a deal with, you know, his pal kim jong-un. he's negotiating on behalf of the united states of america. that's a very different thing and that does require this delicate balance between the personal dynamic that you may have with the leader and what's in the best interest of the entire country and the people who elected you to represent them. and that's a distinction we've seen get blurred. >> you can dodge the question. you cannot answer the question when the question comes up at your press conference but to stand there and say i don't think he knew about it, i don't think his top people knew about it, that's asinine. >> the relationship between the united states and saudis. you've had presidents of both parties who have meetings with

saudi leaders and simply don't bring up human rights, try to ignore the question publicly. this president chose, multiple times as you showed there, to say he believes that kim jong-un and the regime had nothing to do with this. that is a choice that he made. it goes beyond what other presidents have done in terms of human rights, and you're right. this is something that angered republicans and democrats because it does seem to go against american values that you couldn't just simply say, they were responsible for the death of an american. how does that disrupt these negotiations? how does that undermine everything else they're discussing? most feel it wouldn't but that's his choice he made. >> his choice and he continued again. this is in a fox news interview. the president continues and the negotiations broke down. they said they'll try to keep in touch. the president says kim promised not to be testing missiles and testing nuclear weapons. that's a better situation. it's not ideal. listen to the president describing kim.

>> he's a character. he's a real personality, and he's very smart. he's sharp as you can be, and he's a real leader. the relationship is very good. he likes me. i like him. some people say, oh, you shouldn't like him. i say why shouldn't i like him? i like kim. get along great. we'll see what happens. >> the issue is what has happened. this is victor char writing in "the washington post" today. experts believe pyongyang may have already made material for as many as eight new bombs in the period between the singapore and hanoi summits. the president can say he's a character. we'll see what happens. that is happening. >> the president stroking the ego of a brutal dictator and doesn't have much to show for that over the last year. the president and kim jong-un have been trading love letters to one another but during that time, yes, we know there haven't been missile tests but the north koreans have not broken down their weapons program. they've not allowed inspectors in. there's credible reporting they are continuing to develop their

program covertly, and the president is seemingly sort of casting aside all of the intelligence that he gets from our intelligence agencies to listen to kim jong-un and just believe or at least try to get the american people to believe he's done what no other president has done. we've not really seen very much progress. and i think that's why you see this statement from the warmbier family saying you can't have lavish praise for a dictator like kim jong-un, especially if you aren't getting anything in return for that. >> going into the summit, there was a lot of concern from republicans on capitol hill the president just wanted a deal. and the president was willing to accept anything. and the president was willing to accept denuclearization for one site in exchange for sanctions relief on all fronts and leaving the capabilities they currently have and the activities they've currently been doing untouched. and the president's willingness to walk away while it was clouded over about this statement about otto warmbier and kim jong-un gave great relief on capitol hill for republicans and hawks and in the administration as well. he was willing to walk away when he recognized and his top advisers told him this wasn't

something he could sign off on. there was a lot of concern going into that that he just wanted the deal. the big headline. shift attention away from something else, and he was willing to do that. but you've made it clear at the beginning. this president is the most tran transparent. he's making clear this is transactional. hi he thinks that relationship will eventually get there. he may have walked away now. there may be no tangible takeaways at this point but he believes if he continues with the flattery it will get them into a better position eventually. the real question is how at this point given what they've already done. >> and the slap to the warmbier family. next for us here, a big week in the 2020 democratic race, including a stop by several contenders today at an annual event marking a civil rights milestone. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory.

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live pictures of a breakfast in selma, alabama. it's the anniversary weekend of the edmund petis bridge crossing. hillary clinton from the 2016 race, several 2020 contenders at this race as well as they mark a key milestone. also a reminder that we're in march now. one year away from this, the democratic contest starts, of course, in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, but in march next year, 26 states vote, including one year from this week, super tuesday, a dozen states vote. including a number state ofs where the african-american and latino constituency in the democratic party are going to make a huge difference. let's look through these states. majority minority states. georgia and alabama. texas and california, latinos and african-americans. then at least one-third of the vote in north carolina, virginia, tennessee and colorado expected to be from the democratic base of african-americans and latino voters. the big issue here is just look at alabama where you see the

candidates today marking the selma anniversary. more than half of the democratic electorate in the 2016 primary were black voters. a big deal if you're a democrat trying to get momentum in the race. we know how this played out in 2016. hillary clinton got 91% to 6% bernie sanders. this is what the candidates are thinking about now. 2016 was a two-way. much more crowded now. who can establish relationships with the most loyal base of democratic voters? senator sanders struggled last time. in his first big rally for 2020, yesterday, he promised this time will be different. >> donald trump wants to divide us up based on the color of our sk skin, based on where we were born, based on our gender, based on our religion or our sexual

orientation. what we are about is doing exactly the opposite. we're going to bring our people together. >> it's a very different race because you have so many candidates. but there's no question senator sanders needs to prove he can do better with voters of color. what is his path? how does he plan on doing that? >> i mean, i think one thing that political experts, strategists will say when they look at a presidential primary is do the candidates get better over time? do they learn from their past mistakes? part of what we're seeing here is senator sanders did internalize some of the missteps of the last campaign. he knows he needs to woo voters of color. that's how you win a democratic primary as you so nicely point out at the wall. he also needs to tell more of his personal story, something he resisted for a long time. senator sanders resisted a lot of these things about presidential politics.

now he's embracing them. whether that's successful is an open question. it's a really crowded field. and it's particularly crowded among progressive, which -- progressives, which is where he defined himself last time and where he places himself in the race now. what is clear is that he'll have the money to go the distance. he's raised an unbelievable amount of money in his first week. he'll have the cash. does he get enough support? that's the question. >> i am intrigued by the fact when you look at some of the candidate s that have come out, they made clear they recognize the minority vote is huge. there's a recognition of that. and they've been talking about it. bernie sanders has been talking about prison reform and kind of the inequities in the country. there's a recognition of it. what's the difference between talking about it publicly and actually connecting and getting the votes? you see people like kamala harris who has got very close connections down in south carolina and kind of making a play there. cory booker as well. i'm interested with what is the

differential between talking about something versus actually closing the deal on a vote in the community as a whole. when the primary is this divided, has this many people it's not going to be one candidate figures it out but which candidate figures the best way to form a coalition and win in places like that. >> whether it's a national thing or i remember my first race '88, a crowded field. sometimes you pick a couple state ofs for viability. michael dukakis had the four corners, they called it. another dynamic in the race is the president, you know, yesterday we know he wants to meddle in the democratic race. one of his favorite targets is elizabeth warren of massachusetts. here's the president and senator warren talking to david axelrod about how she handles this stuff. >> i should have saved the pocahontas thing for another year because i've destroyed her political career and now i won't get a chance to run against her. >> you never let bullies run

over you, but we've got to get out there and talk about what we believe in. >> it's an interesting question for every democratic candidate. how much do you want to engage when the president comes after you? i think her own team would acknowledge she had some missteps early on. can she get her footing back? >> a number of candidates are saying it doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time talking about the president or make it just a small part of the campaign speech but don't allow him to be the focus of the campaign. you saw with bernie sanders yesterday, they want to use certain themes the president has pushed to push the idea the president left behind the forgotten voter that he's said he was campaigning for. you have all of these billionaires the president appointed to his cabinet. the tax reform bill that helped the corporations and wealthy. they want to use his policies and rhetoric to convince voters that he did not fulfill his promises that he left behind to voters that he campaigned for. >> one interesting thing about sanders' approach yesterday, she

talked about trump. a tloeft dlot of the democrats tried to avoid trump. they make bleak references but don't talk about him by name. sanders tried to make the case that i can beat trump. that's what democratic voters want in this campaign. there will be some talk about medicare for all, policy issues, but ultimately, they want to beat trump. they'll be looking at, can i see you on stage with donald trump in a general election debate, and how will you handle him knowing that trump is going to be deeply personal? he's going to be incredibly aggressive? will you be able to go toe-to-toe with him? >> it's a remarkable race, it's early on. because there's so many of them, let's get going, i guess. up next -- the president unplugged with 2020 and a whole lot more on his mind. >> you know i'm totally off script right now. and this is how i got elected by being off script. sugar in your family's diet,

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energy. and completely destroy america's economy through their new $100 trillion green new deal. >> the speech, though, wasn't just about the democrats. the president also had this for republicans who disagree with his decision to declare a national emergency so that he can redirect other federal money to a border wall. >> we're very concerned about setting precedent. i'm very concerned with having murderers and drug traffickers and drugs and drug cartels pouring into our country. that's what i'm concerned about. >> he busted a few fact check machines during the speech. a great article in "the new york times" about that. on cnn politics.com you can see another one. but we did get a sense of what the president wants to do. this is warming up. no matter who the democrats nominate, they'll be socialists. what else did we learn? >> this is not new, right? president obama was tagged as

socialist at cpac. what was interesting to me about cpac is how much it's the president's happy place. some people go to a spa. he goes to cpac. >> which was not always the case. >> it used to be, as i'm sure you remember, i was there on thursday. it was striking. used to be this free-wheeling conversation about the dynamics in the republican party and it was a place where activists sort of conveyed their views to the establishment. but now the activists are the establishment. president trump has kong kerred the republican party. there's not -- it's hard to see how a primary challenge against him would be successful, although you constantly hear these rumblings of one that could happen. and he really does have a very firm hold on the party's base. now whether he can expand beyond that is -- the open question. >> i've been around a little. cpac used to be where the republicans or conservatives -- they didn't always consider hems republicans, stood up to dictators, didn't like communism

or deficits or big government. that's gone. >> the president won't admit this but embedded in all this discussion about socialism is a real concern that there's a part of the republican party, not the base, but a part of the republican party, more moderate, more business minded that isn't happy with what he's been doing. so his argument to those voters in the 2020 campaign is going to be, hey, you might not like me but those guys are going to be even worse. they're so far left that you have nothing in common with them. you are going to be so unhappy with what they do. so i'm the lesser of two evils. the challenge for a democrat in the general election and really in the primary is to say to those voters, hey, you might not like everything about me, but i am more centrist, more business minded perhaps. that's not going to be something that every democrat is going to be able to argue. someone like an elizabeth warren, a bernie sanders is not going to be comfortable making that argument but it creates a potential opening for a democrat to pick off those voters. that could be dangerous for the president.

>> most republicans are happy with what the president has done. the tax bill, brett kavanaugh. that's what they're banking on. >> he could have a more optimistic message. 4% unemployment. he could talk about judges. that's more divisive out in parts of the country but good with conservatives. could be more optimistic based on the economy. could be a morning in america. like ronald reagan. the president is clear he wants to talk about immigration and socialism. this is the president talking about critics in congress who happen to be immigrants or from immigrant families. >> right now we have people in congress that hate our country. and you know that. and we can name every one of them, if they want. find out, how did they do in their country? just ask them. how did they do? did they do well? were they succeeding? just ask that question. somebody would say, oh, that's terrible that he brings that up, but that's okay. i don't mind. i'll bring it up. how did they do in their country? not so good.

>> it is terrible that he brings that up. he doesn't mind, clearly. but what was that? what was that? you can disagree with people, but what was that? >> that was the president really digging in on his nativist impulses and showing that 2020 is going to be a sort of knock down, drag-out fight with the president taking no sense of what's politically correct. this is -- if you look at what it takes to become a congress person, you have to become a u.s. citizen, especially if you leave your country and decide to become a u.s. citizen. you have to be elected by 700,000 other u.s. citizens who choose you as their representative. and for the president to say you hate america is really -- it shows how far we've gone from a sense of political decorum with the president sort lfding the way and leading the charge. he got a lot of applause for lines like that. >> you can say i believe in the case of congressman omar. i view the statements as anti-semitic. it's something she said. but how do they do in their own country? that's like, what are they doing here? they won elections. >> for the third time.

when you said, the president is very transparent with what he's thinking and where his administration is and where his top advisers are and the messages he thinks work. it got a lot of applause. we saw it throughout the campaign in 2016. doesn't make them right. doesn't mean they'll get 50 plus 1% in 2020, but this is where he is and where he's always been n it's just the reality of this administration. >> it's not morning in america. our reporters share from their notebooks next, including an interesting demographic twist in the race for president. when did soup become this?

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let's head around the "inside politics" table and ask our reporters to share something from their notebooks to get you ahead of the big political news. >> there's a wonky debate happening in the presidential primary. that's over the filibuster. this is essentially a senate procedure that means you'd need

about 60 votes to get big-ticket legislation passed. some candidates like elizabeth warren who say, hey, maybe we should consider doing away with the filibuster, going to a simple majority prpthss like bernie sanders aren't crazy about trying to change this rule. why does this matter? liberals are trying to set up the filibuster as a test of how serious these candidates are about not just talking about things like medicare for all or the green new deal. they don't think these are proposals that could pass with a simple majority so they'll be trying to push for candidates to commit to at least considering doing away with the filibuster if they were to become president. >> what would phil mattingly do if he didn't spend weeks and months worrying about 60 votes. >> you're trying to take away my j job? this past week, they passed the most significant gun law changes. some ran on gun control or gun restrictions which democrats were wary of doing.

it's interesting to watch going forward what they do next. one democrat told me this was the low-hanging fruit. expanding background checks and extending the waiting period. this could get bipartisan support on. no question outside of congress there's been a wave of advocacy over the course of the last couple of years in the wake of these mass shootings and lucy mcbath, a freshman who lost her son to gun violence, who ran specifically on that issue and has become a leading voice to this. when you talk to mike thompson, he's made clear this is a step by step process. they hear what's going on outside. they know people want major changes, but they also know that it's not just a bipartisan issue. it's also inside their own caucus issue. there's only so much they can do. they don't want to do anything that's going to lead to a loss. it will be step by step process, something they want to keep on the front burner but i'm told you'll probably not see any new gun legislation over the course of the next few months as democrats continue to focus on it in the wake of the violence they've seen. >> toluse?

>> the house passed a resolution last week about the president's emergency declaration over building the wall saying there's an emergency on the southern border. right now the bill is likely to go over to the senate where it has to come up for a vote, and right now there are already three republicans who have broken ranks with the president and will join democrats to vote against this. we only need one more republican to break ranks and this will go to the president's desk and being his first veto. several republicans are concerned about what the president did with this national emergency declaration and don't think it was worth it to spark a constitutional crisis over power of spending, and you're likely to see several of them officially break ranks with the president and decide to vote against -- vote against his position on the national emergency. the president sort of hinted over the weekend that those republicans would be in jeopardy if they did that. he talked about during his cpac speech how he'll be watching to see what happens in the senate. this is something that's splitting the party right before several republican senate members are likely to focus on

their re-election campaigns, and several of them are considering whether or not to stick with the president and potentially vote in his favor or break ranks with him and potentially upset a number of his primary -- a number of his voters in what could be a primary challenge for them. >> fun times within the republican family. lisa? >> we're exactly 11 months from the first round of voting in the democratic primary. but we already are in the second round of candidate announcements. the beginning of the year brought this historically diverse field. six women, african-american candidates, latinos. round two will be more of a white man wave. we have governor jay inslee of washington state. he got in on friday. we're expecting governor hickenlooper of colorado this coming week. beto o'rourke and vice president joe biden are closer to a decision. so what does all this mean? and then terry mcauliffe and sherrod brown. i won't go through the whole list because we'd run out of time for the show. what does this all mean?

it's going to be a crowded democratic primary. we already knew that. i also think we'll see a more robust debate over what the democrats want to be in the trump era. this wave of candidates, these guys are much more moderate on certain issues. they're more likely to talk about working with republicans and to see that as an asset in a presidential race as something that could make them more electable. so we'll start having more discussion about what democrats are within the candidates running for president and that's a conversation that will reach ahead or begin to reach ahead in january when we'll have that first debate given how crowded it is. it's going to be a back-to-back two-night event. so get your popcorn ready. >> going to approach 20. >> i think we could get 20. >> i'm going to follow up on that. it's way, way, way too early to talk about a campaign crisis. but senator elizabeth warren does have a clear problem. close to home. the university of new hampshire poll released thursday showed weak numbers for warren. the democratic senator from

neighboring massachusetts. now to be fair, only 5% of democratic voters in the state said they have definitely decided on a candidate. as lisa noted, the first in the nation primary nearly a year away. warren's numbers are down in several of the polls questions. in august she polled at 17% when new hampshire democrats were asked to pick from a list of likely candidates. in the new poll, she dropped to 7%. plus 13% said they would never vote for warren under any circumstances. that's higher than any other democrat. and only 3% of new hampshire democrats named warren as the most likable democratic candidate. warren is trying to set the policy pace in the democratic field with details plans for taxes, child care and more. but so far, there's little evidence she's getting traction in the state she likely needs it the most. that's it for "inside politics." hope you can catch us weekdays as well at noon eastern. "state of the union" with jake tapper is up next. his guests include john bolton and leading democrat, virginia's mark warner. thanks for sharing your sunday

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no deal. president trump fails to come to an agreement with kim jong-un. >> sometimes you have to walk. >> and faces backlash for side with kim over the death of an american. >> i'm in such a horrible position. >> is this the art of the deal? national security adviser john bolton responds, next. plus, taking a stand. the president's former fixer flips. >> he's a racist, con man, cheat. >> and president trump lashes out at the russia probe. >> they're trying to take you out with bull -- okay? >> senator mark warner weighs in next. and he's running again. democrats' 2016 runner-up still wants the