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and after what was done to the congregation he loves. his name is rabbi yisroel goldstein. on saturday his congregation outside of san diego became the second mass shooting at a synagogue in the last six months. the rabbi was wounded as were two congregants. another, lori gilbert kaye, put herself between him and the gunman and was fatally wounded. the rabbi called her angelic as you will hear him say in a moment. even as she probably saved his life and as an army veteran ran towards the gunfire to help federal authorities in los angeles, federal authorities in los angeles had another former soldier in custody who authorities say was planning what might have been the next mass casualty attack on a place of worship. he was, they say, and these are their words, consumed with hate and bent on mass murder. today they went public with new details. our jessica schneider joins us with breaking news on that new terror plot. jessica. >> reporter: anderson, this is a 26-year-old former army soldier who authorities say had that desire to attack any number of people.

he considered targeting jews, churches, and police officers, but it was just days ago that he settled on plotting against a rally that was being organized by a white nationalist group in long beach, california. so authorities say this suspect took all of the steps to execute his attack. he worked with an fbi informant to gather all of the materials for a homemade bomb and he even purchased three-inch nails to be used as shrapnel. now, this complaint details very specifically how this suspect wanted that nail size in particular because he believed that they would be long enough to penetrate the human body and puncture internal organs. but really the joint terrorism task force is to thank here. they stepped in to thwart this attack on friday night, right after the suspect staked out that long beach rally site and even received some of these bombing materials from the fbi informant who was working on this case for weeks. but, anderson, there was a lot concerning about this case to federal authorities, even though they caught him on friday.

this was someone who seemed to be radicalized very quickly online, saying he would pledge allegiance to isis and he wanted revenge for those mosque attacks in new zealand last month. also concerning is the fact that he had weapons registered to him. he talked repeatedly about using his ak-47 style rifle to drive around and shoot up cop cars and businesses in l.a. and, of course, anderson also that military background as well. he served for several years in the u.s. army. >> all right. jessica schneider, appreciate that update. again, even as that suspect was being taken into custody, a killer was preparing to attack the chabad synagogue in the san diego suburb of poway, california. there was breaking news on that as well. it turns out the fbi was given word of a threatening anti-semitic post by someone using the killer's name. on the message board 8-chan. sadly, the tip came five minutes before the shooting. saturday during a sabbath service rabbi goldstein had just

finished comforting lori kaye who was there mourning the death of her own mother. that's when the white supremacist gunman opened fire. we're not saying his name because it gives no purpose to give him recognition that he may have been seeking because it means spending less time learning about the woman whose life he took or the rabbi she died protecting. i spoke with rabbi goldstein earlier this evening. >> rabbi goldstein, i want to thank you for taking the time to talk with us tonight. how are you doing physically, emotionally? how are you moving forward? >> i'm not sure myself. it is -- i'm just in a state of numbness. losing a limb, losing a finger, i'm not sure if this finger is going to survive, is the least of my issues. i am dealing with a lot greater issues. i'm dealing with what happened on saturday morning at my house of worship.

i'm dealing with what -- witnessing a long family friend, pioneering member, lori kaye, being gunned down in our home of worship. she came there to pray. she came there to memorialize her mother who recently passed away, and she lost her life due to the act of a terrorist, of pure evil, pure hate that has no place in america. this must stop. >> tell me a little bit about lori kaye, if you will. i understand she was really a founding member of your congregation. >> lori kaye, if i could personify her in one word, she was an angelic woman, a woman who acted like an angel. kind, giving, vivacious, always there by everyone's life cycle event. a contributing member of society

to none extent. she used to work for wells fargo and we needed a construction loan. this was back in 1995, to begin building our campus. we couldn't secure the loan, but she made it her business to climb up the ladder at wells fargo and to secure us a loan so we could begin building our building. it was that same building that she's instrumental in getting us built that she was killed in. >> and i understand she was at your daughter's wedding just two weeks ago in brooklyn. >> she and her husband came to be at their wedding. she was so excited to be there, and she was dancing so joyfully with our daughter that our daughter just -- the bride just showed me that picture yesterday, and we are both looking at it in tears, seeing one moment such joy and the next moment she is gone. >> can you -- i don't want to

ask you to relive what happened, but i think it is important for people to know what had happened to -- to you, to your congregation, to us all as you told me before in the break. what do you remember about what went on? >> sadly, it is a memory that i will never forget for as long as i live. losing the finger is a scar. the finger is never going to grow back, but i'm going to grow stronger from it. saturday morning we'd come to services. it is the last day of passover. we just had seven days of celebrating our jewish freedom and independence. at 11:00 i'm getting ready to prepare for my sermon and to read from the prophets. i go to my office to freshen up. i come back out. i see lori.

she asks me what time is the memorial service, letting me know that her daughter, her only daughter, hannah, the only child, is coming from l.a. to sit with her for the special occasion. i come out of my office. i see her once again, which would be the last time i see her, and we smile at each other, nodding at each other. and i'm walking towards the bowl room where the washing sink is. as soon as i turn my back, within seconds i hear the blasts of these four loud blast noises. i don't know what it is. i think it is a table turned over. i turn around and i see this gunman, this young teenager, standing eye-to-eye with me, his gun -- his rifle facing right at me.

i know that in the bowl room behind me are the children playing, my two grandchildren were there. my grandson was sleeping in the stroller. i turned around to save them and the gunfire erupts again right at me. my hand in reflex flies up and my fingers get shot out. i run and i grab the children and i shout at the top of my voice everyone should evacuate. i bring the children to safety. i come back and there's utter silence and i'm fearing the worst. i'm fearing that every member of my family congregation were just murdered, but i come back to discover that the gunman, the shooter, the murderer, the terrorist has fled the scene, and that most of my congregation was alive with the exception of

lori kaye, is laying there on the floor. her husband, dr. howard, is trying to resuscitate her. he passes out and faints. their daughter, hannah, comes out, leaning over her parents on the floor, a sight out of the -- a sight out of the holocaust kristallnacht. this does not belong in america. we have the constitutional right to be free people, to practice religion in freedom. we came here running from the darkness of the holocaust to a safe haven, to be free people, and now we're being gunned down in our house of worship. this is wrong. i go and i assess the situation and i see how distraught my congregants are. i see where they're all huddled in shelter. i get up on a chair and i scream

out loud with my finger dangling and bleeding and i say the most powerful words, the nation of israel is alive! and do not fear and do not falter because god is protecting us and we will survive and we will grow and we will get stronger and stronger. no terrorist will take us down! no darkness and evil in the world will take us down. for thousands of years there's been holocaust, genocides, pogroms, anti-semitism has rosen again in america. in the overt. this man wrote the manifesto, two months he was planning this massacre. he had hate and evil in him. this must stop, and i'm hoping that the tragedy that happened at our congregation would be the impetus to rethink what is the problem, why have we gone wrong. america was built on religious values. in god we trust.

our founding fathers of america wanted our children to grow up with god in their lives, with a spiritual life to them. why did they take prayer out of the public schools? when ronald reagan was shot, a campaign was launched that public schools should introduce a moment of silence. i'm hoping to get legislation to reintroduce that, that children when they start their day should take a moment of silence to think about themselves and to realize that they are children of god, that they have a soul, that they are created in the image of god, to value life, and to value more of life than just the materialism, that there's a spiritual dimension to life. i want to conclude that people should realize and recognize that god has given us a blessed country, united states of america. amazing values which we are so grateful for.

let's go back to the basics. let's bring back the religious freedoms that we have. let's give our children opportunity to have a moment of silence. let's embrace each other. i have to tell you, the love that i have had from all religions has been incredible. the togetherness, the unity all across the board that came to us in poway is the american spirit. i had a phone call yesterday from our president, mr. donald trump, who spent 15 minutes with me, comforting me, consoling me. he shared my pain. and for me, that was such a blessing. it really brought comfort to us, that the united states of america would take 15 minutes of his day to review what happened and to bring comfort and consolation to us. we are very blessed and thankful for that. >> what do you do to stand up to hate? what can we do to stand up to

hate? we've seen it in charlottesville two years ago, people marching through the streets with torches, chanting jews will not replace us and blood and soil. we have seen it at the tree of life synagogue months ago, and now we're seeing it here. how does one stand up to the hatred, to the hateful ideas that are percolating? >> to me it is all about actions, not speech. positive actions create light. random acts of kindness and goodness, love, care creates light and pushes away darkness. it is a war. it is a war out there. it is a war of darkness and a war of light. our job is -- your and my job is to go out there and do random acts of kindness. just create positivity in the world. that's the only way we're going to win this war.

>> and how do you move forward in your faith with your congregation after something like this has happened? i mean it is unthinkable, somebody coming in to a house of worship and, unfortunately, we have seen it time and time again, but how do you continue to move forward and believe that there is meaning or there is -- that any of this makes some sort of sense? >> my very first response was i sent out a request to all of my jewish brothers and sisters, this coming weekend let's fill up our buildings. what this murderer tried to do is to frighten us to come to our house of worship. how do we counter that? let's march into synagogue. let's fill up the synagogue as if it is rosh hashana and yom kippur. let's fill up our buildings this week. let's shout out loud, let's

shout out, let's sing. that's how we conquer, with strength, with power, with courage. we learn what happens in israel when there are terrorist attacks there. the next morning we're back in business. we don't let them deter us for one second because terrorism will not win, but we will win. goodness and kindness will win. we have a torah, we have a god, we have morals and ethics that we teach, that we follow. random acts of kindness. be positive. be optimistic. yesterday is all history. tomorrow is yet a mystery. today is a gift from god. that's why it is called a present. live in the present and look forward to greater and better times, and we could all do it together. we are all in this together. this was our tragedy. this is not my tragedy, my congregation. this is an american tragedy, and we're going to rebuild from this tragedy and get stronger and better for it. >> rabbi goldstein, i appreciate your time and i wish you and

your congregation peace and strength in the days ahead. >> thank you so, so much. i really appreciate it. an american tragedy, as he said. a lot more ahead starting next with senator bernie sanders, his thoughts on the tragedy, and i will ask him about a new trade pledge he is asking the president and his fellow candidates to make. later, a democratic member of the house judiciary committee on his panel showdown with attorney general barr over testimony this week. two questions, will barr show up and what will democratic lawmakers who control the committee do if the nation's top law enforcement official defies them. "anderson cooper 360", brought to you by the all new 2019 ford ranger. the only adventure gear built ford tough. a bash plate for... that.

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air time. >> senator, i want to get to your new trade pledge in a moment, but first i know you tweeted about the california synagogue shooting over the weekend. i just spoke to rabbi goldstein, head of the congregation. he was adamant it should be a turning point, that america has to have some sort of a reckoning over violence and hate speech. do you see that happening? >> it is what must happen, you know. i was at the synagogue in pittsburgh where 11 people were killed. we're seeing a nation today, anderson, where the number of hate crimes are going up, hatred against muslims, against jews, against african-americans, against gay people and it has to come together. we need a president -- one of the reasons i'm running for president is we need a president who brings people together as americans, not tries to divide them up. so obviously we need a turning point. we need to reach out to our brothers and our sisters and to

the minority communities in this country and just try to tamp down that horrible hatred which is growing every single day. >> i want to talk about your new trade pledge. you're asking president trump and all of the democratic primary candidates to sign on to it. just explain what it is. obviously beyond the substance, which is reducing the trade deficit and scaling back job outsourcing, do you think it is actually realistic your chief rivals, whether it is warren or biden, would sign on to something of yours or put out their own plan? >> well, look, mostly this is directed to president trump. what we have seen over the last many years is one disastrous trade policy after another, and that is nafta which i helped lead the effort against, cost us about a million jobs. it is pntr with china, cost us approximately 4 million jobs.

it has led to a race to the bottom, anderson, where companies now understanding that they can go abroad and hire people for a buck an hour are cutting back on wages that american workers receive. so what i am saying to trump and everybody else is, look, we need new trade policies which protect the interests of american workers and not just the ceos of large corporations. i will give you the thrust and the heart and soul of what we are talking about, is that we have profitable corporation after profitable corporation shutting down in america, throwing american workers out on the street, going abroad, and then they line up at the federal trough for contracts. what i am saying is if you want a contract and you are a major corporation, you know what? don't think you're going to get a contract if you lay off, shut down plants and layoff american workers.

don't think you're going to get a contract if you don't allow workers to organize into a union, if that's what they want to do. if you are cutting back on their health care, you have to be corporate citizens, good corporate citizens. i think one of the ugly things we're seeing in america today is while the rich get much richer, while corporate profits are soaring, you are seeing tens of millions of workers struggling to make ends meet, people working two or three jobs, and corporate america now has got to understand that they've got to pay attention to their workers, not just to their stockholders. >> you talk about unions. former vice president biden was in front of firefighters union, obviously organized labor is a critical support in a democratic primary. are you concerned that biden can make inroads there, that biden has a leg up there? >> well, look, i'm running against, i think, 19 other people, so i'm concerned about everybody. but i think when people take a look at my record versus vice president biden's record, i

helped lead the fight against nafta. he voted for nafta. i helped lead the fight against pntr with china. he voted for it. i strongly opposed the trans-pacific partnership. he supported it. i voted against the war in iraq. he voted for it. so i think what i hope, anderson, what this campaign is about -- and i have to tell you, i like joe biden. joe is a friend of mine. but i think what we need to do with all of the candidates, have an issue-oriented campaign, not personal attacks, but talk about what we have done in our political lives, what we want to do as president, and how we're going to transform our economy so that it works for all of us and not just the 1%. >> just finally, i want to get your reaction to something the president tweeted over the weekend. he said, quote, the democratic national committee, sometimes referred to as the dnc, is again working its magic in its quest to destroy crazy bernie sanders for the more traditional, but not very bright sleepy joe

biden. here we go again, bernie, but this time please show a little more anger and indignation when you get screwed, end quote. insults aside, do you know what the president is talking about? >> not usually. i think most of us don't know what the president is usually talking about, but our response to that anderson was, yeah, i do feel indignation and anger against a president who told the american people -- you remember this -- he would provide health care to everybody and yet he worked overtime to try to throw 32 million americans off of the health care that they have. he was a president, a candidate who said he would not cut social security, medicare and medicaid, then he brings forth a budget with massive cuts to medicaid, medicare and cuts to social security as well. so our indignation is at a president who lied to the working families of this country when he said he would stand up for them. >> i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. well, stay with us.

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more breaking news tonight. rod rosenstein, who was appointed -- who appointed robert mueller to investigate russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and then oversaw the nearly two-year-long probe is resigning in a couple of weeks. laura jarrett joins us with more. laura, it has been expected for a long time. explain what is going on. >> anderson, it has been something of a months-long goodbye for rosenstein over at the justice department. of course, he has become a household name even though the deputy attorney general is usually pretty obscure because, as you said, he appointed the special counsel robert mueller to lead the russia investigation. his tenure at doj and relationship with the president has proven to be one of the interesting parts of the ordeal. his critics will point to his role in the firing of fbi director james comey and suggest he has been a little too solicitous of a president who refuses to honor any of the

traditional norms between the justice department and the white house. but his defenders say what is most important is that he always made sure that mueller was protected over the course of this two-year investigation and when he withstood attacks from the president and to make sure that mueller could cross the finish line. >> what was he trying to get across in his resignation letter? >> it was curious but true to form. he is trying to emphasize the rule of law. most important, he uses that term all the time. while never mentioning the mueller investigation directly, he says this, quote, we enforce the law without fear or favor because credible evidence is not partisan, and truth is not determined by opinion polls. we ignore fleeting distractions and focus our attention on the things that matter because a republic that endures is not governed by the news cycle. at the same time he has some glowing words about the president and their personal conversations, depicting a chummy relationship with a man who has previously dismissed him

as just the deputy and a democrat from baltimore when in reality he is a republican from philadelphia. anderson. >> he also is talking about the man who according to the mueller report tried to get him to hold a news conference and lie to say that he was the one who wanted comey fired and the press office did the same thing. >> something he refused to do. >> he refused to do it. laura jarrett, thank you very much. >> thank you. the mueller report will be front and center later this week as attorney general barr is set to testify about it before the house and senate judiciary committees. barr is supposed to appear this wednesday before the republican-dominated senate judiciary committee and then the next day the democratic chairman of the house committee, jerry nadler, is seeking to allow committee staffers, attorneys to question barr in addition to anything the actual members of congress might want to ask. now, a spokeswoman for barr says he objects to that format and will only agree to be questioned by members themselves. if barr doesn't show up, nadler says he will hold a hearing anyway with possibly an empty chair standing in for barr.

just before the program i spoke to eric swalwell about what is next. swalwell, we should note, is running for his party's presidential nomination. >> congressman, the standoff between congressional democrats, the attorney general, what is your sense where it stands now? who is going to brink first? >> we will hear from the attorney general, anderson. i don't understand why there's a standoff. america was attacked in the 2016 election by the russians, we are undergoing informational warfare. all we are asking is that he comes in, tells us what the russians did, who in america they worked with. bob mueller laid out 200 pages of links between the trump campaign and the russians. then what should we do to make sure it doesn't happen again, and he's standing on process objections. we want to defend our democracy. >> the process objections, he says, i guess that he does not want an extra hour for -- for staff attorneys on both sides, democrat and republican, to be able to ask questions as well.

why would -- why would that be and why do you feel it is necessary to have staff attorneys? >> yeah, i guess is he telling us he is less capable than dr. ford was to weather staff attorneys on the republican side during the kavanaugh confirmation ask her questions. anderson, this happened during the watergate investigation. it was common practice. the members will ask questions and then just to kind of bring it all home, to clean up anything left outstanding the staff would ask questions. that's commonplace. again, the american people will know either he showed up and talked about defending america against russian interference or he didn't. i think he should show up. >> the justice department could very well just say, look, the attorney general is willing to testify in front of the senate judiciary committee on wednesday. he is cooperating with demand of the legislative branch -- not completely with demand of your committee, and that's all there is to it. >> yes. >> how do you respond? how would you respond to that argument? do you go ahead? >> it doesn't work that way. we will go ahead to get his

subpoena. we will subpoena him if we have to, and if he doesn't hold we can hold him in contempt of congress. it shouldn't even have to come to that. again, we are all on the same team. like the jersey we should be wearing is a jersey of team usa that doesn't want russia to do it again. if the attorney general shares the belief he should tell us what they did. if the president is 100% clear, he should tell his attorney general, go to congress and tell them i'm 100% clear so they can understand what the russians did. >> it would seem, i would assume, some of your focus won't just be on what the russians did, it will be on what did barr do in terms of how he wrote a summary and how he presented the mueller report. >> there are real questions about whether attorney general barr is acting as the president's lawyer because of his prior views of the mueller investigation, the way he applied for the job, the way that he accused our intelligence community of spying on the trump administration and the way he characterized the report.

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as talk of impeachment continues on capitol hill, one of the president's biggest allies, senator lindsey graham, is under fire for what he said about impeaching other presidents. here is what he said when he served in the house in 1999 about president clinton. as you listen think about what we learned from the mueller report. >> he encouraged people to lie for him. he lied. i think he obstructed justice. i think there's a compelling case that he has, in fact, engaged in conduct that would be better for him to leave office than to stay in office. >> well, keeping him honest according to the mueller report president trump may have obstructed justice multiple times. when asked about his past statements on face the nation yesterday he says he believed

this president did "nothing wrong." now democrats fumed republicans were pretty much silent. but in 1998 had a lot to say. >> the day that richard nixon failed to answer that subpoena was the day that he was subject to impeachment because he took the power over the impeachment process away from congress and became the judge and jury. >> so we invited senator graham on the program to address the obvious contradiction of past statements against the present day. we never received a reply. we sent a reporter outside of the cbs studio yesterday where the senator was doing an interview. he managed to avoid our cameras. we stayed at it and asked senior correspondent manu raju, and he did. what did he say when you caught up with him? >> reporter: he is defending president trump's behavior as document in the mueller report and he suggests he has been consistent because he points to

the fact he voted against one of the clinton articles of impeachment although he supported the other. he said repeatedly that donald trump did not ultimately interfere with the mueller probe, which is why he did not obstruct justice, even though the mueller report shows instances where the president repeatedly tried to enter -- tried to undercut the investigation. when i asked him about that past comment that you just played, anderson, about nixon defying those subpoenas, he said this. >> did i say that? >> you did say that. i have a quote from you here. >> okay. >> now the president says he is going to fight all subpoenas. >> i would if i were him. he cooperated with special counsel mueller. i guess nixon must not have cooperated with the special counsel. i consider what the house is doing a political exercise and they won't let it go. if they think he should be impeached, the house can impeach him. >> are you okay then with the democratic president ignoring

your subpoenas -- >> i'm okay with a politician fighting another politician. that's what this is, obstruction of justice in this case to me is absurd because the president cooperated fully. so if the house wants to keep doing this, if i were the president i would fight like hell. >> you think it is a constitutional crisis? >> no. >> he is ignoring a co-equal branch of government right now. >> no, these guys are political hacks. right now. mueller is the last word for me. >> i asked why don't you hear from bob mueller in your testimony, bring him before the senate judiciary committee. he said, quote, anderson, i don't care to hear from bob mueller. he said i heard from him through the report. it's over for me. >> so he's calling other politicians political hacks? >> reporter: indeed, he is. he went after democrats pretty clearly here and said that they are clearly out to get the president. he said that their policy -- he doesn't have any problems with politicians fighting other politicians, saying the

president should fight subpoenas like hell, which is different than what he said about nixon on the house floor just nearly more than 20 years ago. anderson, i tried to pin him down about the instances of obstruction. there were ten that bob mueller painted throughout the report. when i tried to get him to answer about that, whether he was alarmed in any way by trump's behavior, he side stepped the question. >> one of the things that he noted in his report, there were at least ten instances of the president trying to undermine the investigation. why is that acceptable behavior to you? >> well, if you think his impeachable behavior, impeach him. he didn't do anything to obstruct justice. clinton did. he lost his law license for five years. >> would a democratic president get this leeway from republican lindsey graham? >> my record is pretty clear. i voted against an article of impeachment where clinton clearly lied, but it was about a

personal matter. i thought it wouldn't be good for the office. i don't think it would be good for the office of the presidency to -- to impeach president trump when he fully cooperated with the special counsel. >> special counsel said it was inadequate, his responses to the -- >> no, he didn't. >> he said the written answers were inadequate. >> well, the president didn't have to talk to him. they chose to. if he wanted more, he could have gone to court. he chose not to. it is over. >> reporter: now, anderson, lindsey graham does plan to use his committee to investigate the start of the russia investigation, which he believes was nefarious in the way the fbi ax -- acted. of course, the president himself has made the same concerns and yesterday lindsey graham played golf with the president. i asked him, did the mueller investigation come up? and a he said, quote, he feels okay that it is over. anderson. >> it is so interesting how people avoid -- or sort of immediately pivot when you have a response to what they have said, which is not true. when he says, you know, the president fully cooperated, you

say his answers were inadequate according to -- to mueller, lindsey graham says no, they weren't. you said, yes, the written answers were inadequate. then he pivots to, well, he didn't even have to talk to mueller, he didn't even have to send those in. >> yes, because he is trying to make the case that the president fully cooperated in his view, which is not obstruction of justice, which is one reason why they're justifying not looking into this any further, anderson. >> of course, he didn't even ask -- answer any questions, written questions, meaning his lawyers didn't answer any written questions. they weren't willing to on the question of obstruction of justice. that wasn't even addressed in his supposed transparent answers. manu raju, appreciate it. next, democratic presidential candidate beto o'rourke, what he unveiled today when we continue. y plant scientists...

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as the field of 2020 democratic field candidates grew, attention for him waned. his poll numbers stagnating. >> do you worry what your own supporters call the beto buzz? have you missed your moment? >> oh, no, i think we're exactly where we want to be. we held now more than 110 town hall meetings across more than 12 states. more than any other candidate has done so with almost ten months to go before the first caucuses and the first votes, we have a lot of people to listen to and see. a lot to share with the american people. >> he is focused on getting more miles on the road and face time with voters over tv time speaking to a packed house in san francisco just this weekend. >> thank you for asking the question. >> as the former texas congressman looks to regain his momentum, he is leaning more into policy. visiting yosemite national park for the first time, o'rourke unveiled his major campaign

proposal aimed at tackling climate change. he wants to invest $5 trillion over a ten year span and he's calling for net zero emissions by 2050. a goal in line with the green new deal that's backed by many of the democratic candidates. >> climate change is a terrible problem. it's very important that we address it. >> do you feel like you needed that big roll out policy today? >> this country needs direction when it comes to meeting the single greatest threat that we have ever faced so we all need this. i'm just grateful to be apart of it. >> beyond climate change he's focused on criminal justice reform and climate change. healthcare and immigration. soon voters worry he lacked specifics. >> you're asking to be the leader of the free world. on the other side you should be able to back up what you say.

>> but o'rourke says he only scratched the surface when it comes to policy. >> will we see more policies with this much detail coming soon? when will we see more? climate change and immigration is big for you. >> yeah. >> or is there a plan for more specific policies? >> absolutely. and you have seen what i have published and what i have said on immigration specifically and all of this is connected and you'll continue to hear me share my vision for this country. >> and you know, we heard a lot of the democratic candidates talk about the green new deal. they're quick to back it but what sets this one apart? what makes him unique when it comes to the issue of climate change and policy is the level of detail and investment. you heard me ask him when he expects to have another policy. he didn't give me a time line there but he mentioned immigration and that's something that tomorrow we may hear more. if he heads to san diego, that's

right there on the border. so it wouldn't surprise me if we hear him talk about visa caps, refugees, asylum seekers and his stance on immigration after spending today talking about climate change. >> thank you. let's check in with chris. >> we'll take a look at how joe biden did tonight in terms of his positioning and that posture. he made it pretty clear i'm here to take out this president. i'm the guy to do it. how will that play with the other democrats? paul is who joe biden must have. anna navaro is who he wants to peel off from traditional gop. we know how she feels about the president. she represents a group he wants to get. and we have two defenders to make the case that we got it wrong about the president's feelings about right wing extremism at charlottesville and beyond. can he do it? we'll see.

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at age 24, he became the youngest person and first african american ever nominated for academy award for best director. that was boys in the hood. he went on to direct poetic justice, too fast, too furious and a reboot of shaft. he was gist 51 years old. i want to hand it over to chris for cuomo primetime. >> i'm chris cuomo and welcome to primetime. joe biden makes his first big rallying cry promising to restore the soul of the country calling out a president that he says is all about stoking hate. now the former vp showed his strategy, let's test it, versus what his main competitor in the polls, senator bernie sanders has to offer. his campaign co-chair is here tonight. why now? why is this president trying to change what the world heard him say about both sides needing to be blamed for charlottesville? why is he playing down the threat of right wing extremism? is this a winning strategy? it will certainly be a great debate and deputy attorney