>> that's a really good question. i think in our conversations with them to get their statement they didn't mention that. they still have to improve the way alexa works and needs conversations. >> thanks so much. >> thank you all so much for joining me. wild day today. "inside politics" with dana bash starts right now. >> welcome to "inside politics." i'm dana bash. john king is off today. white house officials are downplaying reports that president trump personally pushed for dumping undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities, specifically in congressional districts of nancy pelosi and other top democrats. plus, presidential candidate and mayor pete buttigieg isn't the only 2020 contender talking about his religious views. plus, i travel with vice president mike pence to the southern border where he made the administration's case for how to deal with the humanitarian crisis there.

i also asked him about the moment the world is waiting for, the mueller report being released any day now. how concerned are you that there will be information in this report that will be politically damaging? >> we're not concerned at all. >> not at all? >> not in the least. i mean, robert mueller engaged in a detailed review of all of the facts. he concluded that there was no collusion, and it wasn't his job to exonerate any particular point of view, but reviewing all of the evidence that he assembled, the attorney general and the deputy attorney general determined that there was no obstruction of justice. >> if you feel that confident about it, then should the american people see all of the evidence that went along with this report for full transparents toba transparency to back up what

they said. >> >> the american people are always entitled to have the facts but in this case it's important that we protect grand jury confidentiality. >> we begin this hour with the president who has long railed against sanctuary cities, jurisdictions that refuse to hand over undocumented immigrants into federal custody and new reporting fry "the washington post" and confirmed by cnn shows the president considered making examples of those cities. the idea to dump ing dumping my into sanctuary cities. the department objected loudly and created a -- >> the white house in the statement last hour, they are saying that the idea was briefly and importantly raised and

rejected adding that no one as i.c.e. was pressured by anyone at any time. but sources say the plan was personally pushed by the white house and specifically immigration hawk stephen miller, and this could help explain why miller wants to purge top officials from inside homeland security. now a homeland security source confirmed the policy pursued and the pressure to implement it was real, describing his bottom line feelings about the proposal, the sort source p-- the source put way. these are human beings, not game pieces. joining us is phil mattingly and a reporter with "the washington post," michael sheer are new york times and cnn's boudreaux perez. boudreaux, you've been doing reporting on this. i mean, it truly is bizarre and almost really hard to fathom that even in the most darkest of political corners that this is something that was really considered. >> it really, is and it shows

you what sort of damage frankly is being done to the department of homeland security by some of these policies that stephen miller is trying to push. this is an agency that you know has struggled ever since it was created after 9/11 to sort of find its foot out of political sphere and spotlight and try to just be law enforcement on par with fbi and other agencies, and that's one of the worries that people have is that -- that at the end of the trump administration the damage will be so great that it will take years to repair it, and you can see why the lawyers at the homeland security department and all the people who have -- who have law enforcement chops there were so against this because they know that they will be the ones that will have to clean it up and will have to be hauled before congress to explain it once something like this is done, and that's why they pushed back so hard against it. >> and it's very noteworthy that we're getting this information on the week that we saw the

homeland security secretary pushed out, that there is -- that there are rumblings about another purge going on. i mean, it's -- it's not an accident that we're seeing this pushback i think it's probably fair to say. a little bit more rep. i want to read the following. the white house told u.s. immigration and customs enforcement that the plan was intended to alleviate a shortage of detention space but also served to send a message to democrats. the attempt at political retribution raised alarm within i.c.e. with the top official responding that it was rife with budgetary and liability concerns and nothing that there are pr risks as well. yeah. how about basic humanitarian negligence. >> exactly. >> and worse. >> and we've seen multiple times how this white house, particularly when it comes under pressure over immigration issues, really does stretch the boundaries, you know, legally, politically of what -- what an

administration should be doing. it was only a few days ago that potentially shutting down the entire u.s.-mexico border to deal with the issue on the southern bothered. obviously the president has declared a national emergency which is in litigation right now, but i thought the fact that this was brought up, according to our reporting twice really remarkable, the fact that first it was surfaced back in november when the president, as we know, was furious about the care advance that were moving up north towards the border or towards the u.s.-mexico border and then again in february when we saw that democrats -- first of all, we were in a shutdown and democrats and republicans were really clashing over exactly the number of migrants to detain in u.s. custody, the number of detention beds that had become such a contentious issue so obviously a jaw-dropping report that we've seen, but, again, a parent of behavior from this administration that is really, again, pushed the boundaries of what they can do. >> look, the -- the -- there is no more central promise that

donald trump made to the american people than the one surrounding his wall and the border and his sort of anti-immigrant zeal, and, you know, i think what you've seen is over the last two and a half years as that promise has not been met, the wall isn't built. congress has stopped him. courts have blocked a lot of his initiatives that have been aimed at stopping the flow of migrants, and then what you've seen in the last few months with this real surge, which is real by the way. >> it is real. >> i was just down at the border in calexico and in san diego and in mexico. there are thousands of migrant families coming up, more than we've seen in many, many years, and that is putting a strain on the bothered, and so -- but it's also putting strain on his political promise and proving in numbers and images that people can see that he hasn't stopped, you know -- he hasn't stopped this immigration, and that's really frustrating him hand frustrating the white house and they are sort of turning to every which which that they can think and, you know, some of the

ideas are kind of bonkers. >> yeah, and it is real, and we're going to talk in the next segment about my trip to the border with the vice president to talk about that very issue. you had a great piece on that this week in the "times" as well, and what we're seeing here is very political, very ugly, but it also is borne out of frustration by this administration to find a way to deal with the reality. sometimes there's a crisis. sometimes depending on where you are in the past two and a half years it is manufactured. right now we're at a crisis point, but they are trying to deal with it with the existing laws that they have, and it is very hard to do. if you -- and what you're seeing is the combination of that and the raw politics and the ridiculous notion of mixing that with political retribution. >> yeah. i actually think this is a great window into kind of the heart and frustration inside the white house and the heart and frustration into some of the more hawkish advisers about how restricted they are by the current laws that kind of

dictate the immigration system. i know we'll talk about it in the next block in terms of why it's become a cries and why the floes have been surging to the degree that they have because of the laws currently in place. it's kind of an absurd outlier idea, but not only underscores the window into why they are frustrated but it kind of underscores the reality that there's only so much these agencies can do. there are lawyers at these agencies, career lawyers who are also politicals who understand that we're going to be here probably longer than this administration. >> exactly. >> whether it's four or eight years. >> and you probably hear this all the time. >> right, and that's why the president himself raised it with kirstjen nielsen, you know, for an idea that they claimed was briefly brought up and disregarded. this thing was brought up in november and then in february. the president himself pressured nielsen to do this. dhs is telling us that it never really got to her for a final decision, but it is clear that there was -- there were these conversations. >> yeah, and you saw that this is a window also into the

pressure that kirstjen nielsen herself was feeling. i mean, you can kind of see throughout her tenure she was trying to explain this zero tolerance policy and then she sort of stopped doing that and her rhetoric got real strong. you could see that she was trying to make way with the president. >> save her job. >> and get in his good graces and save her job and she gave up and now we're seeing these stories. >> look. there was a senior administration official who -- who briefed a bunch of reporters a couple of days ago about the frustration inside the white house that the bureaucracy -- the immigration bureaucracies in the country weren't moving fast enough to implement the hardline agenda. >> or were moving in the wrong direction. >> or were moving in the wrong direction. >> yeah. >> which is remarkable when you think of what has happened in the last couple of years that has already pushed as some have said the boundaries of what establishment washington thinks

is the right approach, and so the fact that it's not going fast enough for them is really striking. >> before we go to break, the house speaker nancy pelosi just reacted to this story. let listen. >> just another notion that is unworthy of the presidency of the united states and disrespectful of the challenges that we face as a country, as a people to address who we are, a nation of immigrants. >> and up next, my exclusive interview on the southern border with vice president mike pence. stay with us.

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and we got a bird's eye view of the rugged terrain at that location that both the migrants and the border patrol agents have to contend with. we also heard about the realities of a system that is beyond breaking point. last month there were more migrants apprehended at the border than any month since 2007, and the raw numbers are staggering of the last month more than 92,000 arrests of undocumented migrants for illegal entry on the southern border. last march a year ago it was 37,390, and a major part of the influx is adults bringing children. cvp apprehended over 53,000 family members just last month. these are adults are children coming largely from central america, many of whom paid smugglers a hefty fee to help them across the border. not to sneak in and hope to escape authorities but to look for a border patrol, many wanting to get processed for asylum, and because the system

is so overrun, not enough facilities to house them, not enough agents and judges to process their cases in a timely fashion, these migrants are released in the country with notices to appear later in court, especially those with children since the law doesn't allow the government to hold children for more than 20 days, so they are taken to bus stations, some to family members already in the country. some are taken care of by charities. at least until their court dates. it is a humanitarian crisis creed by a lot of contributing factor, including laws that should be adjusted and resources devoted if only there was the political will right here in washington to do so. i talked exclusively to the vice president about this at the border. >> cpb says family apprehensions have increased nearly 700%. the spike is incredible. can you explain how the administration that ran on this

wouldn't help got to this point. >> well, first, i think the president and i appreciate the fact that people around the country and even many people in the media are now beginning to recognize that we have a genuine crisis at our southern border. i heard about it again today here in nogales. on tuesday 4,300 people came across our border illegally across the southern border and its entirety. the vast majority of those people were families and unaccompanied minors being driven by human traffickers and drug cartels that are exploiting families and exploiting loopholes in our laws. >> we have information that the president has been talking about reinstating the zero tolerance policy. will you vow standing here at the border that family separation will never be reinstated? >> the president made it clear this week we're not rethinking bringing back family separation, but it's absolutely essential to end a humanitarian crisis that

really threatens the security of the american people and is creating hardship on both sides of our border. congress needs to act. >> the president tweeted last night the following. i think what the democrats are doing with the border is treasonous, all caps. their open border mindset is putting our country at risk. will not let that happen. i know you generally say that the president has his own style of talking, but do -- to use the word treason which is supposed to be punished by death, how do you get from that rhetoric to the kind of working across the aisle that you're talking about that's needed to fix things here? >> i think what you hear the president expressing is the frustration of the american people, that last month alone more than 100,000 people came across our southern border illegally. the a year ago there were a dozen groups of 100 or more tra tried to come into the country illegally. for six months this year there's more than 100 large groups that have attempted to come into our

country are. the fact that the democrats are celebrating their first 100 days while an avalanche of illegal immigrants that are flowing into our country burdening our system and making it possible for more drugs, more human trafficking and more dangerous criminal elements to come into our country -- >> but it's so partisan. how do you get to the point that you do something that is a solution to -- to these problems? >> i think -- i think it begins with speaking the truth to power. that's what the president has always been willing to do is to say to the congress, what needs to happen. he took the strong stand through the government shutdown to get the funding to secure our bothered, to build our wall. we declared a national emergency to do that, but -- but dana, you're exactly right. to end this -- what is an absolute humanitarian crisis flowing across our border every day, we've got to close the loopholes in our law. >> back around the table.

pay laner, shore with the associated press joins us now. michael, i'm going to start with you because you have a book coming out on this very issue. "border wars." you are can pre-order it on amazon, you're welcome, but in all seriousness, what we didn't get to in that discussion but is part of the discussion and people who are -- i've talked to republicans on capitol hill, the president's fellow republicans, border agents i've talked to say that part of the many issues that we're seeing down there is the president's rhetoric, saying build a wall because people are wondering when the wall will be built and they are trying to get in beforehand. that's part of the rise in -- in the flood of the migrants, and also his threat to close the border. that also contributed. >> there's a lot of reasons as you said in your piece, there's a lot of contributing factors in this, but when you talk to the sort of experts, one of the things that is happening is that, you know, smugglers are going down into the central american countries, honduras, el salvador and guatemala. they are telling -- they are using the president's rhetoric

as motivation to get people to come now. they are saying if you ever want to get to the united states, now is the time to do this because president trump says he's going to close down the border and build a wall and then the other contributing factor is that, you know, the vice president talked about this as a humanitarian crisis, but the president hasn't been treating it as a humanitarian crisis. he's been treating it as a security crisis and by slowing down the -- the slowly routes of entry, by saying that the asylum seekers are only going to be processed very, very slowly at the ports of entry, they are sort of shuffling what otherwise would be a legal flow into the country into more parts of the country and the border where they are coming across and that's contributing to the humanitarian cries, but the administration isn't doing anything to sort of deal with that part. >> and it's all about congress now. it's always all about congress, and congress has not shown a willingness to do anything on immigration at all, but the

question is this different because you're talking about this massive surge? you're talking about children being human traffic. >> yeah, look. it's an interesting question. i so we were standing in the hallways this week when jared kushner and mick mulvaney came up and met with senate democrats on the relevant committees about this issue, an initial discussion, i'm told there wasn't any type of headway made whatsoever, but there is a recognition in both parties along with the white house that this is a problem that needs to be addressed, and i think you've seen efforts to push more humanitarian aid towards both the border and also to the northern triangle countries. the administration has now cut $450 million this that humanitarian aid but the struggle here, and this is what is interesting about what were you talking to the vice president about, the divergence on the policy side and how do you ever marry these things given how so far apart this is. overall apprehensions still down based on the last decade. apprehensions of unaccompanied minors, of family units and of

asylum seekers, skyrocketing, and that's because the laws are different for those individuals and that's what frustrates the white house and steven miller and that's why there's such a divvy right now. >> the white hot rhetoric. everybody stand by. i'll get to you. up next, faith and the politics making waves in the 2020 presidential field. stay with us. you know that look? that life of the party look. walk it off look. one more mile look. reply all look. own your look with fewer lines. there's only one botox® cosmetic. it's the only one fda approved to temporarily make frown lines, crow's feet and forehead lines look better. the effects of botox® cosmetic may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness may be a sign of a life-threatening condition. do not receive botox® cosmetic if you have a skin infection. side effects may include allergic reactions, injection site pain, headache, eyebrow, eyelid drooping and eyelid swelling. tell your doctor about your medical history,

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today a big conversation about faith sparked by an old strategy paying new dividends for pete buttigieg and an almost 2020 democratic contender wants the discussion and spotlight that comes with it on what being a christian means and what policies are and aren't in conflict with christian values? his entry point to that debate punching up. the mayor of south bend, indiana is gay. he is married to a man and says vice president pence should reconsider his beliefs along with policies that buttigieg says attacks his identity and family. yesterday i asked pence the former governor of indiana who served with buttigieg what he makes of the democrat's comments. >> i just have to ask you about the mayor of south bend, pete buttigieg. he said i wish that the mike pences of the world would understand that if you've got a problem with who i am, your problem is not with me. you're quarrel, sir, is with my creator. what he's saying is he didn't

choose to be gay. his creator did. what is your response to that? >> you know, i've known mayor pete for many years. we've worked very closely together when i was governor and i considered him a friend. and he knows i don't have a problem with him. the i don't believe in discrimination against anybody. i treat everybody the way that i want to be treated and -- >> do you agree with him that it's his god that made him gay? >> the truth of the matter all of us have our own religious convictions. he has his convictions, i have mine and one of the beautiful things about america is that we have the freedom of religion. >> he argues that your quarrel is with him as a gay man and that he says. >> yeah. >> i was born this way and this is the way god made me. that's just not your belief? >> el,well, i think pete's quar is with the first amendment. >> how so? >> all of us have in the country have a right to our christian beliefs. i'm a bible believing christian.

>> the a.p. is reporting on that. >> my colleagues dug into their relationship and found in fact that the vice president has a point here in that he and buttigieg did work pretty closely together and pretty well together and not only that but at the core of this whole debate is a religious freedom law, quote, unquote religious freedom law that was harshly criticized as being unfair to the lbgtq community. but pence, you know, he wasn't really pressured personally by buttigieg to view it and he acknowledges in his book he passed up the chance to look the vice president in the eye and say this is wrong so it's a good moment for buttigieg to claim the spotlight by picking this fight. punching up never hurts when you're a wonderkin, but the record shows they were far closer than this animosity seems to suggest. >> the vice president made it pretty clear in what is going on here. he sees what's going on. this is not his first rodeo and the mayor is using the vice president as a political foil. that's continuing. the mayor was on "ellen show"

today and he talked more about this. let's listen. >> i'm not critical of his faith. i'm critical of bad policies. i don't have a problem with religion. i'm religious, too. i have a problem with religion being used as a justification to harm people, and especial lbgtq community. >> i find -- exactly. i find a really interesting development that we're starting to see in the democratic presidential field is the role of faith and how open and willing that a lot of these democratic candidates are willing to talk about this. obviously mayor buttigieg is the latest example of that, probably the most prominent example because of the back and forth with the president, but kirsten gillibrand at the town hall this week was very adamant and detailed about the fact that she attends two bible studies on capitol hill every week. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you. i want to get you on the other side of this, but we have actually sound of that and other candidates making your exact point. let's listen to that and talk on

the other side. >> of the religion of jesus is to hate the religion of the slave master. i stand before you today, clear-eyed about the fight ahead and what has to be done. with faith in god, with fidelity to country and with the fighting spirit i got from my mother -- >> as one faith leader reminded me this week, to pursue the good we must believe that good will prevail. i do believe it and so do you. so let's join together as one nation indivisible, under god and pursue the good. >> my family history is steeped in the black church, from family members who were ministers and deacons and choir directors to

my momma who taught sunday school in a small black church in new jersey. we have come this far by faith. >> it's such a fascinating development because for so long we've kind of sumd associated t republican party that's so 0 out spoken about the christian faith and you see so many democratic candidates using their faith to argue for democratic and progressive policies. cory booker who we just saw on the clip also told us that the bible speaks to the urgency of dealing with poverty, urgency of welcoming the stranger, clearly using that or making that religious case for these policies >> why do you think that is? >> i mean, look. >> in 15 seconds. >> probably because of the man in the oval office, right, who is probably on one level the least religious, you know. he doesn't sort of exude that. i mean, now his policies have been very supportive of some kind of evangelical community and what have you, but i think there's an attempt by the

democrats to contrast to finally say, look, we can actually seize this because the guy in the oval office is not -- has not got a great track record in that. >> absolutely fascinating. thanks so much for that. a lot more to talk about. up next, the 2020 presidential candidate has a plan with a hologram. mom! he's blinking too loud. sorry, is that too loud? you don't need any more hormones in your house. that's why you chose kraft natural cheese. made with fresh milk without the added hormone rbst. it's cheese as it should be. a cfp professional is trained, knowledgeable, and committed to financial planning in your best interest. find your certified financial planner™ professional at letsmakeaplan.org.

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topping our political radar on this friday, the former white house aide who mocked a dying john mccain has a new job. kelly sadler starts monday at the pro-trump super pac america trump action. sadler joins that group's communications shop and will hold a job similar to the one

she held in the white house. sadler is best remembered for an ugly episode during the cia director geena haspel's nomination where she dismissed the opposition saying mccain's vote didn't matter because he was dying anyway. 2020 presidential candidates are hitting the trails focusing on early voting stairs. elizabeth warren in new hampshire, beto o'rouke in south carolina and bernie sanders in wisconsin band former colorado governor john hickenlooper is in iowa along with washington governor jay inslee and senator amy klobuchar, and this is what presidential campaigning may look like in 2020, at least according to andrew yang. the democratic candidates says he wants to use technology to reach multiple audiences in battled ground states at the same time. the candidate says the technology will use trucks that can beam in a iii-dimensional replica of the candidate and even suggest that he could beam

in and take questions live, oh, and yang debuted what this could all look like on "tmz live" and did it by showing a hologram himself rapping alongside a hologram of tupac. >> you've got to watch it. >> it is you sort of performing with a tupac hologram, a very famous tupac hologram, performing "america's most wanted with." can you explain. i was asking the producers, what's the plan here? >> well, if you look closely at that footage you'll see that's actually not me performing with hologram tupac. that's a hologram of me. >> i mean, what are they going to think of next? i will say that i was almost a hologram in 2008. jessica yellen was covering obama and i was covering mccain. her hologram worked and mine didn't. i have to say it's no better

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just when you thought it couldn't get weirder here we go. we'll return to the top story of the hour and the white house this morning saying the idea to dump migrants in sanctuary cities was suggested, considered and quickly rejected. here's what the white house said then and this is a non-story, except i guess they forgot to tell the president of the united states because he has his phone. he's tweeting, and look what he just said moments ago. he said the following. due to the fact that democrats are unwilling to change our very

dangerous and immigration laws, we are indeed as reported giving strong considerations to placing legal -- illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities. only radical left always seems to have an open borders, open arms policy so this should make them very happy. >> um. >> it's hard to be speechless in the trump era, but this is remarkable. he is doubling, tripling down. he is taking the criticism that he is getting and owning it, and -- and never mind making the people who work for him even more uncomfortable and even more -- first of all, looking like they don't know what they are doing and not matching what he's doing and the notion that he's saying no, i actually am considering this, making this so incredibly political and so in the face of anything that is remotely humanitarian is remarkable. >> the white house officials that i talked to last night at

11:00 at night insisted that this was not going anywhere, insisted that the legal advice they had been given the second time, not to mention the first time that it had come up had driven a stake through this thing and so, you know, the idea -- look, what the president -- what appeals to the president i'm certain about this is not even just the substance of the policy but the political retribution that he clearly, you know, sort of seems gleeful about taking, and that's what appeals to him, and where this will ever happen is unlikely. >> so as you're talking and as we're digesting this on my television, i'm actually thinking about the fact that in some ways, although the content of what he's saying is so outrageous, this is classic trump. to be outrageous. to be the most outrageous he can possibly be in order to try to find something, some middle ground that may be more towards his liking but certainly less outrageous of this idea of

taking migrants and dumping them in sanctuary cities. >> we've seen it before as kind of a negotiating tactic. i think it's far more likely he's trolling everybody and that's something to remember when he says stuff like this and the important thing to remember here is lawyers at the agencies relevant to this matter made very clear this is not something they want to do, not something they should or can do. if the president wants to move forward with it, and i'm a little bit skeptical he actually does, he's either facing large-scale resignations or maybe bigger problems there. again, that's if you're taking it from a purely reality basis. >> and just the -- to be completely pollyannaish at the bothered. this is a real problem that needs a solution and when you're saying outrageous things about wanting to take people and dump them in sanctuary cities instead of saying, you know what, guys, come over to the white house and let's roll up our sleeves and let's fix this, it's -- it's just -- it's irresponsible, and it's been irresponsible on both sides, but it's on him right now. >> and i'll tell you what this

makes me think now. this is a grand opening of the door for these 2020 democratic presidential candidates to start talking about this issue in a serious and substantive in-depth way. we've seen them take shots at the president to be sure, but julian castro is the only one in the field that has his own immigration plan and you have to think that changes now because of the way trump is handling this. >> he was talking about this on cnn and had a town hall and took advantage of it. >> take a look at what has happened when it comes to immigration and sanctuary city policies. san francisco is where nancy pelosi the house speaker is, but it was also really where the debate this, really emotional contentional bedebate over sanctuary cities flared up because of the murder of kate steinle in 2014. this issue has been so sensitive and obviously the president really inflamed it some more. >> catnip for the base and certainly not the way to actually find a governing solution at -- in a place where you saw and i saw this week

firsthand needs a solution. you're talking about children who are being abused, and it's pretty horrible. >> everybody stand by as we gennady gest the fact that the president is actually considering this or at least he says he is. up next, a record card on house democrats because it's their 100th day in power. >> i'm very proud of this list of accomplishments, and we do intend that -- we are not going as slow as the slowest ship. his waterfall, honey. what do you think? ♪ woo! yeah! it's good! it's refreshing. ♪ at northwestern mutual, this is what our version of financial planning looks like. tomorrow is important, but she's only seven once. spend your life living. find an advisor at northwesternmutual.com.

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house democrats are celebrating 100 days in power today, marking the milestone by boasting about their wins over republicans since reclaiming the majority in the mid terms. >> we started with a reckless 35-day government shutdown. we were able to end that successfully. >> we have hr-1 waiting at the door of the senate. we've already passed the paycheck fairness acts. >> we authentically represent the gorgeous mosaic of the american people. >> that mosaic, the most diverse congress ever with the most women ever, is definitely noteworthy in its achievements, but some of the new members of that mosaic are exposing maybe even causing major riffs within the party, and a lot of high-profile bills they passed are simply doa in the senate. phil mattingly and sun ming kim are aficionados and here here to

assess the first 100 days. accomplishments on the house side. >> so i think they have ticked through as the democratic leaders hinted at a lot of their major accomplishments through the 100 days. hr-1, big legislation meant to combat corruption. their own message to draining the swamp. i thought being able to pass gun background checks was noteworthy. less than a decade ago the issue of guns really divided the democratic party but the party is mostly unified on the need for universal background checks and that was a really big accomplishment. >> the move against the violence against women act and expanded vision that they were able to get through the paycheck fairness act. hr-1 was being the primary and one of them that were blanks of their campaign. you make the key point. the republicans control the senate. mitch mcconnell made it clear they are all dead on arrival. >> and the other big thing they

campaigned on was being a check on the white house. >> yeah. >> what do we see there? >> the oversight is real. we see it in contentious hearings every single day and in letters to the white house, to various agencies. weave seen it in subpoenas. that is real. that is actual, and more than any legislation they have done up to this point i think that's probably the most effective thing they can point to. >> yemen, the war powers resolution, voting to block the emergency wall, requesting the tax returns, at least six years, so on and so forth and they have had legislative misses and political ones, too. >> a lot of growing pains whether it's putting together even a simple majority on passing their own budget which we saw that they failed to do earlier this week. a lot of internal infighting over comments made by some of their more prominent freshman members and republicans who worked in the governing majority for the last several years are saying to them like we told you so. we told you that was not that easy and mitch mcconnell had a

little bit of schadenfreude when he said they have their own house freedom caucus. >> there's bigger internal fights to happen. keep an eye on it. >> thank you both. i know you both will be like a hawk. thanks for joining us on i-poll six. brianna keilar starts right now. i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now, a revenge plot. president trump considers funneling people that he's described as drug dealers and criminals and rapists into cities run by democrats. her role inside the white house is still a mystery, but president trump considered his daughter to run the world bank because, quote, she's good with numbers. plus the feud between the vice president and pete buttigieg sparks a debate on which party is the party of faith, and he reportedly offered to wear a wear into the