these two actresses. kate. >> it is amazing these cases, thanks so much, brynn, we'll see what happens. we appreciate it. thank you all so much for joining me at this hour. "inside politics" with john king starts right now. thank you, kate, welcome to "inside politics, i'm john king, thank you for sharing your day with us. democrats demand the mueller report in full and fast. the house judiciary committee authorizes a subpoena demanding the report and the work product. >> that before the attorney general weighs in on how much he says should be made public. plus the democrats blue it on healthcare, he blames gop congressional leaders not himself. a little known businessman makes a splash in the democratic race, andrew yang is raising

lots of money. he thou vows to make his mark on the debate stage. >> we've raised millions of dollars, the average donation is bernie's tisan fight on capitol hill over the demand for the mueller report, the full report, nothgut full report. this morning t a scrubbed version promised by attorney general william bar senior not clear. they say the new attorney general cannot be trusted and it cannot be decided for what the congress and general public get to see. >> this committee requires the full report and the underlying job, it is our job not the attorney general's to determine whether or not president trump has abused his office.

we require the report because one day, one way or another, the country will move on from president trump. we must make it harder for future presidents to behave this way. >> that subpoena, another demonstration of what the new democrat make majority can demand and how far it is prepared to go to make the mueller report public. a republican committee member today suggesting this novel idea. why not forget the attorney general? go straight to the source? >> if we're going to issue subpoenas today, let's not issue a subpoena for the mueller report. let's issue one for bob mueller. >> would the gentleman yield. >> let me finish the thought. let bob mueller come. let's ask bob mueller whether or not he thinks that the report that he created should be disclosed without considerations for redactions of classified national security information or with without redactions for grand jury information or other

information relating to ongoing investigations? >> cnn manu raju is on capitol hill, tracking this hearing. they have this subpoena, will he hold it or send it? >> the question of the hour, i tried to ask after this contentious meeting. he would not say. all he said it will come out in very short order, essentially what he is trying to do to comply with his demands to provide the full mueller report and those five former white house officials to provide records they may have received from the white house as a part of tear preparation in the their meetings with the special counsel, after the meeting when i spoke with jerry nadler, i asked him, are you opened to any middle ground over redactions, will you negotiate in anyway? his answer was no. >> reporter: are you willing to negotiate any middle ground in terms of redactions of the mueller report? >> no. >> reporter: you are not?

>> no the committee must see everything as was done in every prior instance. the committee is entitled and must see all the material and make judgments as to what can be redacted for public release by ourselves, we're not willing to let the attorney general, who after all is a political appointee of the president make that judgment -- substitute his judgment for ours. >> reporter: now, i asked him toward the end of that whether or not he would be willing to go to court without the justice department to demand the release of grand jury information, people testified before the grand jury? he said, absolutely. that was one area of debate in this meeting today, john, republicans tried to prevent grand jury information from going to capitol hill. democrats beat back that effort, but a real sign here that a court fight could be drawn out if the justice department does not comply with the democratic demands. john. >> court fight appears more likely by the day, we appreciate the live reporting. with me in studio to share the reporting and their insights,

cnn's abbey phillips and mollie wall with time. contentious here. the chairman has his subpoen. does he wait for bill baar? see what he gets and say maybe we get a better deal than we thought and yield it? >> at this point they are waiting for some response from the justice department. an indication of whether there can be some cooperation on this. i think a couple things are getting muddled here, perhaps intentionally. there is the issue of releasing the mueller report to the committee and there is the issue of releasing some version of the mueller report to the public. the chairman here is talking about only having the full thing released to the committee. there is grand jury information that cannot be released to the public, but the democrats are not proposing that that be publicly released. they are saying we on the committee want and deserve to see that it is analogous to the

water gate road map is the analogy they would draw, which was produced by the going in the watergate investigation. that report went to the congress. it did not go to the public. it remained under seal until last year. >> republicans are argueing it has been, the special counsel from watergate to ken starr and bob mueller. democrats are saying final. we have a constitutional responsibility for oversight. we get to see it in private. >> absolutely. i think there is an element on the timing of nadler's part of sort of having this in his back pocket. i think there is potentially a thought if barr knows the subpoena is out there, that maybe the whole process of the redaction of this report, the release of the report the team is going through right now might come out differently. in the end, nadler wants it known he is going after the entirety of the report, at least for his purposes of the report and the committee if not for a

public release. that is a strategic move on his part. it's clear they don't trust the attorney general to carry out this process in a way that is going to be fully transparent. they already think the letter he wrote overstepped his sort of mandate here. so they want to make it clear they're not leaving there to him. not that they left it to him before. as their first step, they're going to say, we are insirsing on our prerogatives here. so you should know that going in. >> i know that going in, in addition to the report, they issued subpoenas for witnesses, that included the former white house counsel and hope hicks, steve bannon and reince priebus and ann donaldson. they want mueller's work product to say he has a focus. we might see something else we want to talk and and investigate. >> there is an element of timing if you want to be cynical in assessing the democrat motives,

you know, it is in their interest to drag this out. so if there is a big long court fight, if there is something that takes it up to the supreme court. if there is a fight over the grand jury information. if there is a fight over whether or not these officials come before the courts to testify, over before the hearing to congress to testify, it all drags out something president trump and his allies would love nothing more than to put behind them. the democrats recognize that to the extent they can drag this out and push it closer and closer to the election it gives them headaches to deal with, with the election and the rest of his party they say the democrats were happy. they say bob mueller is the best guy for the job, the ranking republican on the committee, a colorful guy, imagine he says when robert mueller was appointed, he says, that's the best guy. if there is a fishing pole he will find it.

now he says the democrats want to cast a huge net. >> it reminds me of the old guys back in my own town when they wanted to go fishing and nothing was biting. they'd take a big fishing trip, go out. nothing was biting. one day this old guy got tired of it, instead of catching anything the way he should, he reaches in his back pocket and pulls out a piece of dynamite. i can't find anything, so i'm going to blow up everything, maybe something will come to the top. >> maybe that's the whole theme of this committee they keep looking, i'll try, i'll try, at the end of the day the president is still the president. >> this is to the campaign part every passing day we are closer to the 2020 election. that's not exactly the president's language, that's the president's message. >> in some ways i know the republicans want to move past the russia investigation and the underlying idea that the allies colluded with the russians. son only level the campaign doesn't mind having this argument that democrats are

overreaching, they're trying to go on this crazy fishing expedition. they don't care what kind of damage it does to the rest of the country, they're trying to hurt the president. i don't think they mind that argument. in some ways, that's why the white house has gone from saying, and the president has gone from saying, well, we don't care what is in the mueller report, let's release all of it. i have nothing to hide to saying if you give them an inch, they're going to take a mile. they are pushing back on democrats at this point in part to make this argument that democrats are going beyond their mandate. the president if he is going to have to deal with the remnants of mueller, he'd like to deal with it on those terms. he'd like for it to be a case of him being persecuted by the democrats, not the democrats are looking for legitimate potential issues that mueller might have found that didn't rise to the occasion of the president charged. >> it's important to note, the president says he would like full transparency, he says things he does not mean.

the other question for me is bill barr, democrats in the senate voted against him, democrats said they were happy the president picked a veteran, experienced, trusted, established republican guy. you are starting to see from the democrats after reading that four-page letter, maybe not. maybe this guy is more trumpy than we thought. >> i think when they saw the letter, they saw the degree to what he saw, they don't know what he saw in the report and draw a lot of conclusions at least in their mind bob mueller never meant for barr to draw on. maybe he meant for his own team to draw. democrats changed their view of the way he was going to comport himself when they saw the sort of the conclusive nature of that letter and what the president did if response. >> although, i they lot of democrats will tell you privately, it could be a lot worse, you could have a potential pawn in there going much, much further to cover up for the president if that's what they wanted to do. >> the attorney general says he

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. >> democratic presidential hopefuls are a calling liberal activists in align with the national justice network. criminal justice reform and voting rights, get a lot of things from beto o'rourke. >> we put more of our own people behind bars per capita than any other countries on the face of the planet. we will not be able to achieve real justice in this country by only ending the prohibition on marijuana. though there must be accountability for the force of law and accountability for use of force. >> the other texan in the 2020 fray, julian castro spoke about education, healthcare and emigration.

>> we need universal pre k for 3 and 4-year-olds in our country so everybody gets a strong start in our life. we need to improve our public schools, k through 12 education. there are too many forgotten right now. i grew up in one of the poorest school systems in texas. i know we can do a lot better. i know we need to invest in our public schools. >> jeff zeleny is live up in new york. it's a big voting block also a test run if you will as these candidates get ready for the spring and summer debates. >> reporter: john, there is no question about it. it was head-to-head texas candidates, the former san antonio mayor julian castro acknowledged he's not the front runner in this race. he says he was not a front runner either though, that inspired some people in the crowd here, they rose to their feet at the end of his remarks. there is no question over the next three days more than a dozen democratic candidates will be here before article sharpton's network talking to

african-american leaders in the country. there is not a more important voting block in the democratic primary. so it is a chance for them to introduce themselves. it's a chance for these leaders here in this room than to go back out to their smaller groups and we talked about this large democratic field, but there are some themes emerging, of course, voting rights, also reparations, al sharpton who ran for president in 2004, he is asking all of the candidates here if they would, indeed, support a committee to study reparations, shela jackson lee, a congresswoman from texas is supporting, beto o'rourke said he would indeed support a commission to study reparations, julian castro said as well. it's not a litmus test, it's a theme, a seduction fought heard in previous democratic primaries. john, certainly a chance to get to know you. we are keeping an eye on beto o'rourke. he is flying to iowa later today. a lot of candidates are

scheduled to release their fund raising over the next week or so. we'll see if he does today, john. >> nice to get a look at those numbers, the first day was impress ev. jeff zeleny in new york. enjoy the next couple of days, just start, more than a dozen. so a lot of americans are saying, dear god it's april of 20 fine. if are you in a race of maybe 20 democratic candidates and especially if are you the lesser known, so there are younger faces trying to break through, are you trying to raise money, make friends? you are testing policies, all of these candidates maybe at home you don't like them, maybe you love them. we're starting to have a good policy debate. >> these candidates as you say are desperately trying to make an impression. so i think it is less about a particular policy litmus test as trying to give people something to differentiating the candidates from one another. what you hear when you go out particularly to the early primary states where people are

quite engaged, democratic voters aren't going, ug, get away from me, especially in iowa, they're saying, we're excited, particularly for a campaign against the current president. they like all of them at this point. a lot of the democratic primary voters i have spoken to say, yeah, there is a lot of good candidates to choose from, they just haven't really seen reason to go for one versus the other. there is a lot of uncertainty, a lot of ambivalence. so these candidates are still going to have to find some way to differentiating themselves from each other. whether that means going negative or a breakout or town hall performance, we shall see. >> or all of the above in the sense of a crowded field, you are looking for space. i'm going to read to you from an active it's in the monthly about brooke, he's running in the race as a progressive candidate, a younger candidate, he is trying to take away some of bernie sander's space. joe biden at the top of theback pack, they threw that energy

into the beto o'rourke. now it's split. where they want to divest their energies bernie sanders separated healthcare, money, politics, prison reform. that's not lost on a lot of people so your 2016 loyalty is being tested as we move into this new campaign. >> yet, bernie is still major front runner in this race, even though there are a lot of people in the race pulling support from him. so it actually speaks in some ways to bernie's resilience he has been able to survive warren, beto and others who are basically trying to be in the same lane as him. but, yeah, i think in some ways bernie has changed the race -- i mean i think he's changed the race probably in more ways than not. he's forced the democratic party to think about energy and activism. he's changed the way they think about raising money and where this money should come from, which you can see had totally dramatically changed the dynamic. you have candidates focusing on the small dollar contributions,

a shoe in for now, but at the end of the day, i think bernie is going to have to bring those people back into the fold if he's going to win this thing and it might be more difficult than he thinks, he is doing better now than he was doing against a hillary in '16 at this point, but he has a long way to go. >> they are both blessings and curses, often it's a curse, it can be a blessing, but to that point, you know, ask the clinton people, underestimate bernie sanders at your peril. >> well, that's true. i also maybe it's just because i cover the president and i'm not out on the campaign trail as much. but it does seem to me that like ultimately even the democratic primary is going to come down to a sort of how people feel like these candidates are engaging with president trump. right? like right now, trump is sort of absent from the conversation mostly. it's mostly about sort of differentiating among the democrats, themselves. but you have to imagine that as

we get closer to some sort of choice that the democrats are going to make. as we get closer to president trump realizing and engaging with that, that part of that differenciation is going to be voters, democratic voters assessing, how do these people stack up against president trump? how do they respond to the president's attacks? how do they sort of deficaftall manage this guy in the oval office they want to take out. >> that's a good point, the last democratic winner was about iraq, george w. bush, but he was done. it was an open seat. it is different when you are running against an incumbent. do i love these policy ideas, yes? but can he beat trump? >> he said bernie sanders may have like created a lot of space for some of these other candidates we are seeing rising now. the big question is whether they come in and occupy that space and sort of get, freeze him out of it. a lot of that i do think will be how they engage with president trump. how trump engages with them.

do they get a nickname? does he hammer away at them relents willy? does he seem like a personal threat to him? we only seen him go after a few candidates by name. but that will continue as they rise and fall. >> one of our tests, if you get a nickname, it may make you laugh, that means he is paying attention, somehow you made his radar screen. coming up, the afor mentioned president gives republicans their healthcare marching orders. >> you will get elected, it's a great incentive for voters to vote for you. instead of a healthcare question, no, i'd rather not answer that question, what about pre existing? alice, take me home, alice. they're asking me about pre-existing conditions, alice, please take me home. want to fs rather than worry about how to pay for long-term care. brighthouse smartcare℠ is a hybrid life insurance and

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the president today, once again, trying to rewrite his healthcare history. here's a tweet here, the president insisting he never intended for republicans to develop and vote on a new healthcare plan before the 2020 election. the fact is republican leaders lad to talk the president out of that idea remindig him they don't have a consensus republican proposal, not even close, the democrats control the house anyway, any healthcare legislation would be a non-starter, now a new pitch

delivered at a fundraiser for the campaign committee. the president says he needs to win re. he lex, the republicans need to retake the house in 2020 before trying again on healthcare, he acknowledges healthcare played a big role in last year's big democratic win. >> what really lost it and really helped us was it was healthcare. we didn't have an alternative. republicans should not run away from healthcare. you can't do it. we will get clobbered. we blew it the last time. man, i was fed a bill of goods. i want to tell you. some of you i am angry, not all. it wasn't even your fault. but we should have done it when we had the position. but we will get it back. >> the whole thing was interesting, if you love politics, go watch that speech, it was interesting, his displeasure, he says he was sold a bill of goods. he is trying to say this isn't my fault. this was the president who had a rose garden ceremony for the past healthcare bill and within days called it mean.

but it wasn't his fault. what are we to make about this evolving and maybe it will evolve this hour trump position on how and when to do healthcare in. >> i think in that instance se is telling the truth. i think after obamacare was passed, they told the american public they had an alternative. they weren't going to get rid of this law. they were going to repeal and replace. that was the campaign mantra, people believed it. donald trump, average american voter believed it. he was sold a bill of goods. they didn't have one and president trump found out once he got into office and there was a comedy of errors of the first two years of trying to pass something that could resellable replacement, even though everyone voting on it knew it wasn't a full fledged replacement created and implemented by obama care. and that's still the case and you can hardly blame the president for being frustrated by that. so. >> you could say he's been president for two years by now,

once he realized they didn't have one, he could have come up with one his own. >> he absolutely could v. he's not wrong about the politics of it either. >> he said this is a strong issue for the democrats, a weak issue for republicans, it will continue to hurt them if they don't change the way people see them on this issue. >> i think it speaks to how little he understands how this whole process works and the fact that i think he does get the politics now and what was extraordinary in this sort of back and forth was to see that for maybe the first time i can remember, he took the advice being given to him by republican congressional leaders saying, back off of this we actually don't want to do this, this would be bad for us. he gets that this is not good terrain for them as a party. but his impulse is still to say, i'm going do give you something great. i will give you a great deal. this is going to be easy peasy, we're going to deliver. we have to stop running away from it. he doesn't understand the depth of the divide in his own party on this issue and how perilous it would be for him to promise

that. that's why we saw him going back and forth. that's why i think we heard him last night when he thought he was off the record. he is being honest how much he wishes they could tackle. >> he isn't ideological, he doesn't under the divide in his own party, he thinks split the difference, get it done, send me a bill. it's interesting, it's a fascinating speech. you are right the president said at one point, someone will leak it. this is a fascinating take, the president of the united states is thinking about the campaign ahead. listen to where he thinks republicans are strong, including himself and republicans, including himself, have a problem. >> we have the border. we have if you look at it, we have the immigration, but we have the crime. we have the police, we have the military. we have so much. they have healthcare right now. we have to take that away from them. the republican will be the champion of pre-existing conditions. you have to do it. i will be asking that this be my

first vote immediately after the election, we are going to regain the house because of healthcare and other things. >> that's what he thinks, that's what he thinks, he is as transparent as they come on these things. >> absolutely the run-up to the 2018 mid-term showed exactly what he thinks is his strength and his party strength, the immigration stuff and the border stuff. i think there is a sense he has and some in this party have the democrats will save the republicans on healthcare by going too far for universal healthcare and medicare for all and that will backfire, the public will react coolly to that. i think he gets that the republicans are not in the best position on this. >> and to poll the republicans, the free market republican party which says leave it up to insurance companies whether you are covered or no the conservative state out marketplace, the president is pulling them there.

the president still says we will see, his own aids are trying to get him to back off. he said last night i may well close parts of the u.s.-mexico border. >> i agree, it's going to be a big toll. but trade and commerce and making money for a country, it's all very important. but to me the most important job i have is the security of our country. even more important than those other things. >> it's interesting after the reporting all day yesterday that his own people were scrambling to get him to pack away from this threat to close some of the ports of entry. he still wants to talk about it last night especially think it was a bargaining chip. first it was a bargaining clip for mexico. now for congress. the problem is this is a democratic house we are talking about. nancy pelosi is not very responsive to threats like this. the president thinks, though, this is how he can get her tow the table. what might eventually happen. i think what his aids will tell

him, he will take a hit for the big toll he talked about on the economy, it's not going to have much of an effect on democrats. democrats didn't have a role in closing the border. this is how the president thinks about deal making. it's just that his aides disagree with him on strategy. frankly, it's plain to see, this is not going to be a positive thing for him. there is no upsides for the united states in closing the border. it probably won't address the immigration issue he says he wants to address in the first place. >> he says, that hurts him headed into election and take the politic out of it, we will see. up next, the secretary general warns congress of quote a more assertive russia. comes miracle-gro performance organics. organic plant food and soil that finally work... for twice the bounty. guaranteed. miracle-gro performance organics.

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topping our political radar today, the head of the republican party north carolina says he will give up his day-to-day running of the april plaert. robin hayes, the former five-term congressman among four people in the scheme in alleged campaign contributions, hayes and the other defendants deny the allegations. provocative new remarks from the 2020 democratic hopeful on faith, politics and president trump. in an interview with usa today mayor pete buttigieg says he may call himself a christian, he doesn't act like one. i find it hard to xhernt on other's faith. it's hard to look at this president's actions and believe that they're under god. he says at least my understanding of the teachings of the christian faith. just this morning the nato

secretary general addressing congress, making a case for deeper cooperation between the united states and its european allies, warning lawmakers about the growing threat of what he called a more assertive russia and adding the different 52s in the alliance are not a sign of weakness he says instead a sign of strength. he noted president trump's calm for more military spending by nato allies is being heard. >> military allies must spend more on defense. this has been the care message from president trump. this message is having a real impact. of the years of reducing defense budgets, all allies have stopped the cuts. >> up next for us, full steam ahead aides say for joe biden even as his team has to play damage control.

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joe biden is set to be undeterred, wondering if he is out of step with today's political climate. today's new york post highlights the biden challenge. several women now say he has offended them or made them feel uncomfortable touching them over the years, his response has been in writing, not in public. he says his intent was never meant to be inappropriate. his aides are debate figure he needs to speak soon or grant an interview. they say the vice president is planning to enter the race and he welcomes a character debate. they put it this way to the "new york times," he can reign in his exuberance, but he is who he is. he can discipline himself to some degree, but you are not going to put this guy in a

straightjacket. you might think this issue is off limits after the president was caught on that access hollywood tape about groping and assaulting women. >> our former vice president, i was going to call him, i don't know him well, i was being to say, welcome to the world, joe. are you having a good time, joe? are you having a good time? general, give me a kiss. i felt like joe biden. >> ah, one way to start of the conversation could be the president has not barriers and he's president, the rules don't apply to me, the normal rules, anyway. the bicker question is, how do the biden people get through this? i talked to self yesterday, they all said, look, joe biden gets this, he understands this i'm not trying to minimize their processing, he says, let's have a character debate. they think he's that candidate. can they get through this?

>> well, i think they're literally watching and waiting to see how this plays out. that's what you've seen. you've seen an increasingly aggressive response from the vice president's camp. . you have seen them making the case as you said in writing, without putting the former vice president out there to address things himself. and i think a part of that is he doesn't quite know what to say. this has caught him a little bit flat footed. i think part of it also is, if he has made up his mind 110% he was running, he would have declared by now. he is not 100% there. i don't think he wants to speak publicly until he has gotten to the point where his intentions are crystal clear to himself. >> i don't think le wants this to be the determining factor, though, right? this is -- it came at you know an awkward time, he was going through this process of really weighing whether or not it made sense for him to get in and how much he wanted to do it. i think there is a sense if he's not going to do it, he doesn't want it to be because of this.

it is somewhat rich coming from president trump to have him targeting joe biden like this. in a way, what he said last night was almost like a warning. this is what it's going to be like so welcome to this world here. as ironic as it is to have the president and his team criticizing joe biden for things that are absolutely completely different from what the president himself was saying on that tape and not nearly as bad, i think that's actually the point here is that democrats want to have a clear shot at donald trump's character and if they have a candidate who has any questions like this in his history, then they're going to have a harder time doing that. oh, look, ironically it makes it harder, not easier. >> so how do you deal with it? they debate the vice president doing a couple interviews, sure, i'm a tactile guy.

you can take snippets, women that work for him speak so highly of the guy. that's true across the board, former press secretary, i saw him at his best and worst, in quiet moments and on the world's largest stages, through it all, it sometimes matters even more, he was, is and always has been a champion for women and equality. it's not hard to see time and time again whose side he's on. i hope he runs for president, because i'd like to see america's women and men get to know joe biden the way i do. he will have to answer for this. >> this is serious in the democratic primary. you can't blame the biden camp for saying, wait a second, let's let the voters decide how important this is to them. in actuality, in 2016, donald trump's character was on the ballot. all of these things about the president were out there. to voters, it seemed to fought matter, so for biden's camp, you

don't i don't blame them for letting the voters decide how important this is to them and whether they think that joe biden's behavior stacks up, they would argue for voters, there are other things as important to them and people look beyond what they owe they look deeper than the headlines on this, they say, is joe biden's intention the same as donald trump intended? >> you are exactly right on this specific issue. but joe biden's discipline as a candidate is a big question mark for democrats and how he handles this will be telling to the second question about his discipline, up next, the 2020 candidate that wants to put a $1,000 in your pocket. is he on the rise? >> hi, everyone, it's more cameras than i ever seen in my face before.

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that wants to give everyone $1,000 a month. and all of those things are true. it's law in alaska. it came this close to being law here in the united states. we need it more than ever. >> little known, scrappy democratic contender, what he is talking about there is his proposal for universal basicing in, you get $1,000 a month. he says daylight savings time should be all year long, you should have free financial counseling as an american citizen and free marriage counseling and ncaa should pay athletes. a crowded field, yeah, whatever, but -- >> he claims he's met the debate threshold, if that's true, he will have a chance to put these rather set of cent trick ideas in front of the democratic electorates and force the other candidatess, if are real to have

a better chance. >> fair of you. >> with all respect to andrew yang, that gives him a chance to introduce these ideas into the bloodstream and get the other candidates talking about it. >> in a crowded race, he can get one, two, three in the crowded states could have an impact even if are you not the guy. >> so many other parts of our society have been disrupted by technology, changing media, lowering the barriers to entry, so why wouldn't politics be one of those? we've seen it over the years, the shift from these big megadonors to raising the money online. he's using the same kind of tools, same kind of high-tech tools that other people are using in media and in other venues to sort of have an outsized voice. he's doing that effectively. whether that goes anywhere for him in a system that's still pretty dominated by the big campaigns is anyone's guess. >> he showed you the map. he's been to 17 states so far.

in a crowded race, you are right. who knows, see you back here this time tomorrow, breana keeler starts right now. have a great day. [ music playing ] i'm breana kieler live from cnn's washington headquarters, right now, house democrats flexing their muscles and try to force republicans to take a position on one of president trump's controversial threats. will he or won't he? president trump gives his own party on whiplash to close the border and replace obamacare. a stunning new report on the ethiopian airline crash, pilots followed boeing's instructions and sti