the president changes his mueller report tone. >> i'm having a good day, too. >> crazy and bs are his thoughts now after an initial we'aive of happen p happy. democrats demand the full report. >> congress requires this material to perform our constitutionally mandated responsibilities. >> some want to talk impeachment. >> that's a conversation we need

to have now. we need to figure out how we're going to hold this president accountable. it's biden time. the democratic frontrunner is about to join the 2020 fray. >> we will take back this country. don't give up. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." o i'm john king. thank you for sharing your sunday. we will get to the mueller report and the president's angry reaction. we begin with a series of deadly easter sunday terror attacks in sri lanka. eight blasted are confirmed. 160 people were killed. more than 500 injured. statements of condolences and support coming in from leaders around the world, including from pope francis, as he led easter mass at the vatican. cnn's will ripley is live in

hong kong. >> reporter: we know the attack is clearly coordinated. eight explosions targeting christians and foreigners in sri lanka which has become a tourist hot spot in the decade since the end of its civil war. three churches, four high-end hotels and a house have all been scenes of the explosions, gruesome scenes being described with body parts thrown around, sometimes out into the streets of the buildings. the death toll continues to climb. 160 people at least right now, including around 30 foreigners, according to the sri lankan government. 560 people have been injured and are being treated at hospitals. the timing does bear the hallmark of a terror attack. authorities are going to look at a number of possibilities. sri lanka does have splinter groups that remain after the end of the civil war in 2009. analysts that i have been speaking with say the timing of this and the way it was carried out seems to indicate something

more ssophisticated. the question is, who and more importantly if there is anyone else in the country, any other attacks that could follow. there's a curfew in place. schools are closed for the next couple of days. solidarity pouring in from all over the world, including the van c vatican where the pope is expressing great sadness and solidarity with the people in sri lanka, including christians worshipping on easter sunday and were tragically killed. >> appreciate the live reporting. to the mueller report and a question. why is the president so mad if the report is the total exoneration he and his allies insist it is? for the record, the president insisting in a morning tweet, i have never been happier or more content. those around him though or on the phone with him describe an angry president. it's true and important that robert mueller does not allege a criminal conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russians

interfering in the 2016 election. the special counsel did find repeated communications between team trump, russians, wikileaks and others helping the russians. mueller did not say there was nothing to see on the collusion question. what he wrote was, quote, the evidence was not sufficient to support criminal charges. it is also not true mueller found no obstruction. his report says this. quote, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. mueller then goes on to list ten examples of possible obstruction in great detail and how he does so is the source of the president's easter weekend fury. it's mueller's report, but the central characters are the president's closest aides and advisers describing how the president lied, how he asked several of them to lie and how he constantly looked for ways to shut down the mueller investigation.

nine different aides detail how they refused to carry out the president's requests to interfere with the investigation. it includes his doeputy and the attorney general and the director of national intelligence. the president called it total bs but he didn't use the shorthand. the president's attorney says this. >> it's a ridiculous burden of proof. you have to prove your innocence? i thought we were in america. they assumed him guilty. if you read that report, that's like a one-sided view as if they proved all that stuff. they didn't prove any of it. they can't prove half of it. half of it is false. a lie. >> with us this sunday to share their insight, julie hirschfeld. let's start with rudy giuliani. they want you to not read this. for those of you at home, if you

are inclined to listen to the president, read this yourself. when you read this report, it's stunning the level of detail. is rudy giuliani saying the president hired liars? >> what's remarkable is throughout the investigation, one of the talking points of the administration of donald trump was, we are going to be open, we're going to have all of our people talk to the special counsel because when they talk to the special counsel, it will prove that he did nothing wrong, there was no collusion and no obstruction. that's exactly the point. those are the very people who form the basis of those ten remarkable sections in which they lay out exactly the obstruction that the white house said would not be proved by talking to these people. >> this is why the president tweeted this morning he has never been more happy or more content. if you talk to anybody around the president, they say he is angry. why is he angry?

because the mueller report does this. we stole this graphic from "the new york times." i want to put it on the screen. this is not mueller. this is a "new york times" graphic about who is quoted most in the report. the president's former national security atd vidviser, former communications director. these are people employed by businessman trump, president-elect trump, president trump who if you go through the report in their own words describe a white house that is chaotic, to be kind, but full of a series of lies and schemes by the president to shut this down. >> right. one of the big things that comes through in the report while they do say they did not find evidence of collusion, that they couldn't prove that there was obstruction, they do -- the recurring theme is that the president does not want to be seen as illegitimate, he can't stand the idea that people would somehow think that this happened, that they would believe the predicate for these

investigations. that's why he pushes back so often. that's why he says at the outset when the special counsel is named that he is screwed, that he is in trouble. these are all the reasons that he seems so worried that something is going to come of this investigation. that's the reason now that he is so angry. right? it makes it -- it certainly makes it seem when you read all of these accounts of people who lied on his behalf or the lies he tried to tell himself, it looks like an illegitimate president. that is the one thing that he cannot stand the public to believe. so i think that's part of the reason why you -- even though he does maintain that this is an exoneration, he still can't stand the idea that people are going to see him as a lying president, illegitimate president, a president who had something to hide. >> again, it's just -- if you haven't read it, you should read it. don't trust any of us, although we're telling you the truth. but read it. then decide if we're telling the truth. it's the president's aides just describing a culture of dishonesty led by the president. you were very kind there. the mueller report says this.

when sessions, the attorney general, told the president a special counsel had been appointed, the president said, this is terrible, this is the end of my presidency i'm -- insert expletive. you can understand any president being upset a special counsel investigation was underway. what you can't understand is when you read through all the instances of what robert mueller details in the aides' words what he did. >> it reinforces what we have seen the president do. the president himself publically pressured jeff sessions to un-recuse himself. he went after jeff sessions. why would he want him to un-recuse? to be in charge of the investigation, to tamp down an investigation into him. we see what -- mueller lays ou t out the facts. but the president's actions reinforce what mueller is saying here.

it shows what -- a president that would stop at essentially nothing, even potentially break the law for self-preservation. >> a lot of the aides that you see them lashi ining out -- >> giuliani said the account was inaccurate. don mcgahn, the former white house counsel, he specifically detailed things where the president told him to go to rod rosenstein, to tell him, fire robert mueller. he refused do it. >> mueller makes clear the president's aides, those -- the people he is mad at, saved him. it's clear in the report that the mule -- mueller said in plain english, if they carried out the instructions, would you have clear obstruction.

the attorney general doesn't see a case. congress, we will get to that in a minute. to that point, we're almost 72 hours since the release of the report. not one of the aides, not one has come forward in the 72 hours to say they were misquoted or taken out of context by special counsel. that's an important point to make. >> to add on the graphic that you showed, there are some of those people that were in the big bubbles where they talked a lot who were part of plea agreements or were under legal pressure to talk. but there were a lot of people like don mcgahn who were not. when the president lashes out, he is famous for lashing out at people who were cutting a deal. but there were a lot of aides who did this voluntarily and not until legal pressure. >> these are substantiated things that are said. it isn't just relying on one person's word. mueller puts -- they put things in there they know they can prove such as james comey had said that the president asked him for loyalty. the president publically denied

it. that account says they established that he did, in fact, say that. that's one thing that the white house has to contend with. >> not only have they not backed down, in don mcgahn's case, his lawyer put out a statement saying what he said was accurate. he is not backing away from this. this is the true account. if you look at that report, special counsel spoke extensively with don mcgahn and some of the other people and had a consistent narrative of what happened. >> we will get to what happens next. it gets to congress. special counsel said he found the president's written answers inadequate. the president, who during the campaign said anyone who says they don't remember -- he was referencing hillary clinton. anyone who says they can't remember belongs in jail. he said they are guilty. the president could not recall hearing about the 2016 trump tower meeting in advance, being told that any foreign government wanted to help his campaign, being told of russian efforts to hack or usual social media, communications with his team with wikileaks, any

communication between his attorney michael cohen and the russian government, he didn't recall. >> it's interesting because the attorney general came out and said in his press conference, there was no collusion, no obstruction, the white house and president, they basically cooperated with this probe, well, mueller in his own words contradicted him over and over. that was one example saying that mueller said he wanted to talk to the president but he felt his answers were not sufficient. he wanted to go back to him and demand an interview. he felt he didn't have the power to do so. there was one of the many contradictions between barr and mueller. >> it's a great point. there are sometimes legitimate differences. you can read something and have a difference of opinion. to go through what the attorney general said and to read the mueller report are parallel universes. you can n the democratic call to begin impeachment proceedings. will it impact nancy pelosi's hope to take a more cautious course? six months, six pushups ready.

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now to congress. and the fundamental question for us is, is there going to be some accountability here? we cannot be an america that says it is okay for a president of the united states to try to block investigations into a foreign attack on our country or investigations into that president's own misbehavior. >> senator ee llizabeth warren s the special counsel lays out a case for impeaching the president. nancy pelosi is trying to corral liberal anger and make the case for caution. there is zero evidence of republican support for impeachment. >> we were elections on issues related to lowering health care costs and infrastructure and improving the lives of middle class americans.

so nothing changes that approach. we do recognize that we have a constitutional responsibility to be a check and balance on an out of control executive branch. >> many of us think the president is unfit for office. unless that's a bipartisan conclusion, an impeachment would be deemed to failure. i continue to think a failed impeachment is not in the national interest. >> the speaker calls them the presidentials, the candidates, they are out there running. sometimes the influence, the candidates are talking to the base, will there be influence when you have senator warren saying it's your job, start it? >> not with just one or two. if this became an overwhelming, every presidential candidate out there saying it's time to impeach, maybe that would be difr different. democrats are divide on this. with as many as -- who want to see impeachment move forward there are people who are worried about blowba back in 2020, it wl

undercut their opportunity to take out trump in the white house. pelosi, she's been tamping this down. her leadership team in the days after the mueller report, they were all over the camera. impeachment is not the answer. the answer is investigation. so they have this strategy where they will investigate, investigate, investigate, present negative findings about the president to voters and say you decide in 2020. they're not going to touch it. >> it's a challenging issue for the party. there's a fervor within the base to do something about what are stunning revelations in this report. what also concerns people is that mueller made clear he was not going to move forward with any charges in large part because of the opinion of the justice department that a sitting president could not be indicted. if you are a democratic voter who wants to go after the president, why don't we go after the president, because mueller said he couldn't. he left that question to congress. as raf the leadership is concerned about blow back and republicans

are showing no signs they are willing to vote to convict and remove it. it puts them in a difficult spot. >> the dynamic between the people on the presidential campaign trail and the congress is really so interesting because normally a leader like speaker pelosi can insulate her caucus from kind of was going on out in the country, because there isn't that two-way communication. during a presidential primary, you have that. you have the potential for the candidates to go out to town hall meetings, to events and getting that feedback from these constituents who are the most liberal part of the base. that's who comes out. those who shows up at a house party in iowa. if, as you say, that dynamic builds and builds and more of these presidential candidates begin to start calling for this, it's a lot of pressure on congress. >> the question is, does elizabeth warren get traction with it? the candidates have a different

approach. congressman swalwell said we should look at it. you have the mueller report. it raises serious allegations about the president. now what? >> i think it would be perfectly reasonable for congress to open up impeach ment pment proceedin. we can walk and chew gum at the same time. >> i believe there's room for that conversation. right now, what i want is i want mueller to come before congress to testify. >> congress hasn't seen the report without redactions. >> he may well deserve it. my focus, since i'm not part of congress but part of 2020, is to give him a decisive defeat at the ballot box. >> that's the mix from the candidates who all say this is serious and have a nuance of difference how fast you go. do you just investigate? a democratic congressman from kansas city, if we impeach donald trump, he would never be convicted in the senate and he would campaign all around the country saying i have been acquitted. saying there are no republicans

for this. therefore, we would do the president a favor, even if he deserves it in the democrats' view. we reinforce his teflonness by buying into the idea that that debate would help the president. which is it? >> this is why this is a difficult question. why democrats are so divided about this. you don't hear a lot of democrats saying there's no foundation for impeaching the president, there's no cause. almost every democrat who has talked publically about this would acknowledge that they think that it should happen, that's something that -- particularly now that we have the mueller report or parts of the mueller report, they think there's a predicate for it. what they are arguing -- the judiciary chairman, jerry nadler says it's a political process. it is a political process. the argument they are making is a mrpolitical one. would there be blow back with the country -- have a backlash against this?

that's a legitimate question. what's getting lost is that they are all almost all uniformly arguing this is something that there is a foundation for. this is -- the evidence that they see is an argument for impeaching the president. the only real question that they are divided over is whether that is politicalliey ed advantageou >> they are pushing impeachment, the story line shifts to impeach or not impeach. the story line continues about the allegations in here and those become the headlines. that's what democratic leaders hope, they want to point out the findings in the report rather than get into a process debate that could backfire. >> it's a generational divide as well. those around last time, including nancy pelosi, bill clinton articles of impeachment passed by the house, he was not convicted in the house. two republican speakers lost their jobs. nancy pelosi remembers that. next, will it be worth the wait?

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joe biden is set to join the 2020 democratic race this week. his official announcement will bring the blessing and burden of being a frontrunner. two big bets by the former vice-president and his team are about to be tested. one is that democrats will see him as the best choice to challenge president trump. two, is that his early lead in the early polls is not just name recognition. they believe it's a foundation, not a ceiling. let's look at the party as joe biden prepares to join the race. his first run for president was in 1988. look since 1994, the democratic party has become twice as liberal from 25% who describe themselves as liberal to 51% now. biden has lived the evolution of the party. the question is, is he in sync with the voters?

joe biden looks at this research about democratic voters in last year's midterm elections and says i like this terrain. 61% of democrats were white. nearly 60% non-college. a majority over the age of 50. a third of democrats non-college educated white voters. joe biden thinks, i can play in this terrain. he leads in iowa right now. it's early. he leads the race in iowa. see the other candidates. where does joe biden's support come from? he does better than any of the other candidates among democrats who describe themselves as moderate or conservative. does he b he does better among democrats who don't have a college education. he thinks he has blue collar appeal. he has to prove himself out of the gate. this is a zero for joe biden first quarter fund-raising because he was not in the race. second quarter, three months from now, once joe biden gets in, he better prove he can keep up, if not lead when it comes to raising money. the big challenge for the vice-president, we have seen him at rallies, he thinks when he

gets into this race he can focus on the economy and convince democrats the best way to beat president trump is with blue collar appeal. >> workers are not being treated across the board with dignity. they're not being treated like they matter. let me get something straight with you all. wall street bankers and ceos did not build america. you built america. we built america. ordinary middle class people built america. this is morally wrong what's going on around this country. and i have had enough of it. i'm sick of it. and so are you. >> well, i mean, that clip is interesting because even though we know that joe biden isn't in the same place from a policy perspective as bernie saner e s is, he is tapping into the same sentiment. it's almost an echo of empty big bank, empty 1% message. the question is, can biden

fashion a message that sounds more like where the party is, as you showed the numbers, while at the same time having a record over the last three, four decades that doesn't really match that rhetoric? you are going to have 18 other democrats pointing that out. >> it's a great point, because i want you to listen. joe biden spoke at the funeral for the late senator haulings of south carolina earlier this week. in the you'eulogy, you can hear people procession that they will remind people i was against ending forced segregation. i was not at my best. you can hear joe biden saying, look, people evolve. >> he knew how to change as well. he changed. he learned. as he learned, he changed. recognizing people can change

with every breath, we have hope that we can learn from the past and build a better future. your dad learned from the past and he built a better future constantly. he was constantly evolving. >> their big hope is democratic voters so like him and respect him that they will accept that. that he has evolved and made mistakes but we can trust him sf. >> this happened to a number of candidates who said, well, that position that i had ten years ago is not the same as i have now because i have changed. gillibrand being one of them. she represented a district in upstate new york and said i became more liberal as she became the full new york state senator. he has that to his benefit. the challenge is going to be electability. can he convince voters he is not going to make major mistakes in the general election, could beat trump, the right person. the last few weeks have not been good for him. see if he can convince voters.

>> that evolution argument is easier to make with the more than 50% of voters who are over 50. people who have been familiar with joe biden and have watched the evolution happen in front of their eyes. the bigger challenge will be a generational one with the younger voters who are really driving a lot of the change in the party and drive the primary in many ways. whether he can convince them that he is today the kind of candidate that they would want to electilecelect. >> he was obama's vice-president. his candidacy was about change. let's have difference. that's up with of bione of bide challenges. do they say, we want a new, fresh face to represent the change message we want? listen to pete buttigieg, the sound bend, indiana mayor. listen to this comparison. the race has been polite. as joe biden gets in, he has to deal with this. you don't know these guys.

listen to pete buttigieg. >> the anger and dissatisfaction that seeing unemployment is law, all that, gdp is growing and yet a lot of neighborhoods and families are living like this recovery never happened. they are stuck. it kind of turns you against the system in general. you are more likely to want to vote to blow up the system, which could lead to bernie or somebody like trump. that's how we got where we are. >> he is offering caution against bernie sanders. sanders is raising a ton of money. he energizes the far left wing of the democratic base. the problem is, if he were to win a primary, can he win a general election? there's a lot of voters, independent-minded that the democrats would need to take trump out of the white house that may not like the president but democratic socialism and it scares them. they could lose those people in a general election. >> the sanders people would say, everyone said donald trump

couldn't win the presidency and he is president. that's what they would argue. they would argue the mood in the country is not be timid. it's interesting to hear a democrat sort of -- without being critical of bernie saying, you don't want to do this. >> it's going to get worse. that was about as -- very gentle. he compared him to trump. boy, we're going to get to debates and then as we get closer to iowa and new hampshire -- >> especially people in the single digits. they need to figure out a way to distinguish themselves. that's when the knives come out, particularly in the debates. see if anyone gets traction. that risks blowback f back. >> he puts his finger on a challenge for him and some of the other candidates. you do have a lot of voters who want to blow the system up. democrats, republicans, independents, that's one uniform thing that you see across the board.

certainly, democrats who are contending for the nomination have to speak to those voters in some way, even if he is saying that bernie sanders is the wrong way to go, he understands, i think, you can tell in that clip, that there are those people out there and we have to figure out a way to make them vote. >> you better find a way to talk to them. you are right, it's hard to argue -- to make the case the system is working. the republican reviews of the mueller report and the question of whether it's no big deal if the president is aliar. . visionworks can do more than just make you see great. the right pair of glasses can make you look amazing, too. get two complete pairs of single vision glasses for $59 or two progressives for $99. and choose from over 500 frames. visionworks. we're here to help you.

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if it told the truth that there was no collusion, it told the truth there was no obstruction. that's a good day for america. >> no collusion, no obstruction. i think it's darn definitive when we look at the full thing and we look at the conclusions. >> again, read it yourself. no matter how many times the president and his allies say the mueller report did not say there was no obstruction, the president and his allies can say no obstruction, that's not what the report says. mitt romney among the few republicans willing to challenge that. i am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness and mishonesmisho. the president then attacking mitt romney with videos reminding the american people he lost. >> videos of you, too, john.

>> thanks. i have not aged as well as i would have liked. who is right? you can argue with mitt romney's spin if you want. he does give you a more honest read of the report, which says some pretty damning things about the culture and character of the president of the united states and his white house. >> the case of what happened with romney is the reason why more republicans aren't speaking out. i can think of maybe two off the top of my head sitting republican senators who have said the report showed damaging information. the reason is the base is behind trump 90% approve of him. you have the president using his twitter account to basically attack romney and say, if he would have criticized president ou be obama the same way he criticized trump, he would have potentially won. this is the reason why you are not hearing more republicans speak out. it's surprising. there are incidents of president

lying, clearly trying to undercut this investigation. if this were obama who had done these things, you know they would call for impeachment. >> democrats circulating these clips -- it's fair to do so -- of republicans in office now with a different opinion now than when bill clinton was the issue. >> he doesn't have to say go lie for me to be a crime. you don't have to say obstruct justice for it to be a crime. you judge them on conduct. >> i'm smart must have to know the president has done wrong. i want the people to know that. i want history to know that. we don't want a president lying in office, we don't want obstruction of justice. >> we also had the flip side of that 25 years ago. only five democrats in the house voted in favor of articles of impeachment. no democrats in the senate voted to convict the president. there's been politics. >> no question. >> but those two guys are still in the senate. >> their theme is, let's move on. republicans don't want to get into details. he wasn't charged with anything.

this vest has happened. move on. it shows how significant it is about elections. republican-led senate is not going to begin a deep dive investigation into the allegations. the democratic house is. while they want to move on, democrats aren't going to let them. >> even as they say let's move on, you have senators -- grassley specifically saying, we need to investigate the origins of this. republicans are talking about investigating the investigator, which is not moving on. it's going after the doj and attacking law enforcement. that's what we're going to see. >> the president who began the morning saying he has never been more happy keeps tweeting about the report. the report quotes people who worked for him extensively, repeatedly, over and over again. >> he keeps vacillating between i'm happy, i've been exonerate and i'm angry that this makes me look bad. the reason we see republicans step forward and say we need to investigate the investigators is they need an answer for this. democrats are not going to drop

this. they're going to keep going at it and trying to raise more questions, perhaps through new investigations, perhaps through testimony by people who were involved in this one and republicans have to have something to say other than let's move on. that's going to be their answer. that's the answer i think that president trump has been pushing is that this whole thing was crook and corrupt from the beginning. it was a hoax. we need to actually hit back. >> therefore, it was okay to lie and ask people to shut it down. got it. more democratic probes into, yes, the trump white house. ♪ pardon the interruption but this is big! now at t-mobile buy any samsung galaxy s10 and get a galaxy s10e free!

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let's head one last time around the inside politics table to ask our reporters to share from their notebooks to get you ahead of the big political news around the corner. >> this wednesday is the deadline for stephen miller, the president's senior policy adviser to respond to the house

oversight committee -- house overnight committee's request for him to come testify in front of the committee voluntarily about the president's immigration agenda, some of his more controversial moves, the family separation policy, the idea of dumping asylum seekers in sanctuary cities. it's pretty unlikely that steven miller who has been very much in the background and by preference that way will respond voluntarily to this invitation, but there's a lot of turmoil at the department of homeland security following the news of the secretary's ouster and some of her underlings being pushed out, forced out after refusing to comply with some of president trump's more controversial ideas on immigration. i think we can expect to see congress to hear from stephen miller. >> it would be must-see tv which

means it probably won't happen. >> this week the house oversight committee will bring in carl klein involved in the security clearance process. he no longer works at the white house. this city hall part of the house oversight committee's investigation into how the security clearance process was handled, whether the president improperly overruled security officials and allowed his son-in-law, jared kushner, to get a security clearance, ivanka trump as well. the white house has been fighting this very hard almost every step of the way, not giving democrats what they want. they are also threatening potentially to exert executive privilege in his testimony this week. also, this is just another sign that the investigations are continuing, not necessarily all about robert mueller and what's happening there, but a whole set of other issues that will be controversial to keep the white house -- the democrats hope will paint a bad light on the white house in the months ahead. >> important to see what he does answer and doesn't answerment mike snl. >> presidents often try to go into the lion's den, speaking to

people who don't necessarily agree with them. this coming weekend we'll get two pieces of evidence to suggest that president trump has no intention. on friday he'll speak to the national rifle association annual meeting. that's something he's done before. there will likely not be a single mind in that audience that has to be convinced to support the president, the next day on saturday, he'll go to green bay, wisconsin with his big-time supp pours. at the same time, the white house correspondents' dinner. it's no surprise the president would want to dis the fake news media. it is remarkable even as he's facing election campaign, he doesn't feel a need to repair that relationship or any of the other relationships with his adversaries. his campaign thinks he can win without doing that. and i guess we'll see in about a year and a half. >> worked once. he thinks it will work again.

we shall see. rachel? >> back to house democrats oversight. the treasury department has until tuesday to hand over trump's tax returns. the house democrats are deploying this clever strategy to get trump's financial information by going around the white house and around the administration. they have reached out to a number of financial institutions that trump worked with as a businessman and basically they've handed at least one of them a subpoena, two i should say, and they may be doing more. from lawyers that i have talked to, former house counsels i have spoken with, they think the democrats have a good shot at getting this information because even though trump world has tried to thit en these institutions and say do not hand over the information, they don't want to ignore a congressional subpoena and are likely to comply. >> one of the many fights. i'll close with weekend inbox chatter that underscores the pressure on joe biden to come out of the gate gang busters. there's no doubt the former

president trump is liked, even treasured among democrats. his bad campaign history is creating skepticism. joe's name is not coming up, that's the take of one iowa democratic county chairman saying the new faces are getting more interest. the chairman made a note of pointing, a book by mayor pete buttigieg sold out. new hampshire has a more blue collar and democratic electorate. it has bernie sanders and liz wealth warren. a question to a seasoned democratic operative there was answered this way, quote, i see both an open lane and a closing window if that makes any sense. i think it sort of, kind of does. that's it for inside politics. up next, don't go anywhere, "state of the union" with jake tapper includes an interview with the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. thank you for sharing your

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