get $100 back when you bring in an eligible smartphone. click, call, or visit a store today. welcome back to i-poll tifnlgts i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. president trump slaps new tariffs on chinese goods, and beijing promises tough retaliation. trade talks continue today, but no deal expected soon so you should prepare to pay more for a host of made-in-china products. plus, tensions with iran and north korea, too. the secretary of state has a blunt new warning to tehran, and the president changes his tune on whether kim jong-un is ready to make a deal. and reality tv meets c-span today on "keeping up with the subpoenas." >> do you have confidence that

mcgahn is going to come? >> he will come -- we will -- the answer is we don't know, and if we have to we'll subpoena him to come. >> are you confident. >> wait a minute, we did subpoena him. >> if we have to we'll hold him into contempt if he doesn't obey the subpoena. >> we begin this hour in the throes of a trade war between china and the united states. overnight president trump making good on his promise to hike tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese goods, taking the tariffs from 10% to 25%. china promises to strike back without saying yet when or how it plans to do that. this as negotiations continue here in washington. u.s. officials telling cnn they are not optimistic for a breakthrough. president trump on a veritable twitter spree this morning clearly proud of his escalating tariffs and what he calls a long overdue tougher approach tweeting at least nine times on the topic, including this. quote, your all-time favorite

president got tired of waiting for china to help out and start buying from our farmers, the greatest anywhere in the world. you can take a look at the big bofrmd the dow jones industrial average down 258 points, 259 points. not in free-fall, but if you look at the decline over the last five days, investors have grown more and more nervous over what could happen next. kaitlan collins joins us live with the white house take on this. kaitlan, negotiating teams saying they don't expect to reach an agreement today. the president saying there's no rush. what's the holdup in the talks, and why no brough? >> well, john, what we're seeing is the chinese delegation has now left the trade office. that was after about roughly two and a half hours of meetings this morning after those talks last night did not succeed in making any broourks and that's why you saw the tariffs go into effect at midnight. the people we spoke with this morning who were involved in this said they were not expecting any kind of agreement to be reached today. essentially these talks started to break down last week. they didn't make a lot of progress though the trade delegation came to washington

which they thought was successful because they weren't sure if they would after the president threatened the tariffs. u.s. officials are blaming this on the chinese pinning, pinning the reason why the talks have broken down on him and even though their chief trade negotiator was here for the chinese delegation, he essentially was communicating to the u.s. side that i can only do so much while i'm here, only what beijing has allowed me to do, but really to get this solved, it's going to be up to the two leaders, president trump and president xi jinping. now, right now the question about that is that there's no call scheduled between those two leaders. the president said he did get a letter from the chinese president the other day. he said it was a beautiful left, but, john, that was essentially as far as he got in that, and right now we don't see that they are about to talk again so it doesn't seem like this trade deal is anywhere in sight for right now, despite the optimism we had seen from the u.s. in the past several weeks. >> we'll track those talks throughout the day, kaitlan, but sounds pessimistic. with me in studio to share their reporting, margaret at alloff of

bloomberg, cnn's jeff zeleny, damian paletta with "the washington post" and seung min kim also with "the washington post." let's start with translating the president's tweets into facts in the sense this is the issue he's been most consistent going back into his days before getting into politics. he said someone needs to stand up to china and i'll be the president to do it. a lot of people cheering him saying this is long overdue. $500 billion directly to the u.s. treasury. not the way it works, right? >> the united states imports $500 billion in goods from china. those are goods that we buy every day that are part of the economy, part of our houses, part of our schools, part of our cars, and we buy those from china because they make them at a price that the united states consumers we like. we export $100 billion, $200 more million of our goods to china. just because we import more than we export doesn't mean it's unfair. plenty of things that china does that make the relationship unfair but the president is real fixated on the numbers to try to

prove his point, and i think that's what has a lot of people uncomfortable with the way he's approaching it. maybe he's focusing on the wrong thing. >> he says, a, the economy can take it. >> right. >> we have a very strong economy, if you're going do it this is time. his political advisers say we're heading into a re-election campaign and would like not to. exports threatened by tariffs. look at the states that are dark red, that means 10% or more extremely difficult damage to their economies, full. that's a lot of trump country, if you look at that. every state gets hit and hurt by this, so it is, whether you agree or disagree with the president's perspective, it's as bold and a risky political move to do it now heading into re-election at a time most of the economic numbers are great for him. >> and i think if you look at the tweets and the order in which they were tweeted which gets confusing because there were deletions and moving around on the board and then if you look at them in chronological order you see him laying out pretty explicitly his political case and weaving it fry know what i'm doing.

the economy can take it to if things go a little sideways i'm going to prop up the farmers so even in the midwest chill out to looping this in with the obama administration making a comparison between his foreign policy approach and the obama's approach to tying joe biden to observe ma. called it the like the sleepy joe administration, given it a new name and then ultimately by making the prediction that joe biden is the most likely democrat to face him in the general election contest next year and that it will be a contest about his approach to china versus biden's approach to china, so this was not like the president woke up in a bad mood and decided to like mess, you know, the talks. the timing of the tweet was very specific. it came early in the morning as morning showers, you know, were real kicking into gear around 7:00 a.m. and before those talks resumed, and the president was pretty clearly signaling you guys can meet today, but as far as i'm concerned these talks are over for now. >> the question for the past several administrations, will the chinese move on any of these big structural issues like intellectual property, like some

of the other business practices? and now some of the question is how long will the president hold out? again, this is from the trade partnership worldwide. this is a pro-trade group but look at these numbers. job losses. job losses estimated, florida, big state. these are all states that the president flipped from blue to red, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, iowa, will the president stay firm if this this goes on for weeks and months and those states and those republican senators from many of those states, republican governors in several of those states start saying sir, problem? >> that's precisely the concern that a lot of republican senators have voiced to the president in the last couple of weeks. i do think with this particular trade standoff there's been a little bit of nuance coming from senate republicans because even republican senators believe there is a political advantage to the president showing that he's tough on china, and i've even talked to democrats, for example, from you know, pennsylvania who say my constituents like that you have to approach, so there is a little bit of political thought

the other way, but writ large, you know, when you're talking about the onconcern with the steel and aluminum tariffs, proposed auto tariffs, no doubt it will hit the republican states hard and senators are sounding the alarm and when i talk to senators, how does the president make when you make the electoral argument in the president says look -- the farmers love me and they will stick with me and they trust me, and that's true for now. how long that lasts it's yet to be seen. >> he's making a -- he's betting that they will stay with him, and as -- i know you've been talking to people on the hill as well. i want to say again as this plays out, and you're watching at home and say how does it affect me in the average impact on a family of four already $776. that's only $800. for a lot of families that's a lot of money. that's your summer vacation. >> that's the trump tax cut. >> right, again, but somewhere in the ballpark of 1 million jobs over the next three years if this plays out that long.

again, it could be over in a couple of weeks or a couple of months, but the president -- he has been consistent on this for a long time and he says we'll see if they get a deal in the end. if he holds out and forces china to make changes. he said other presidents haven't done it. i'm going to do it. >> trump support verse said you know, what i think in the end he'll make this deal. there's always been kind of a split view of how a lot of the president's supporters view his business acumen versus, you know, the reality of some of his art of the deal, but they have been willing to be very patient, but the uncertainty, you know, which is coming at the same time which is planting season, soybean prices are horrible. the floods in the midwest, i was talking to a republican start said saying i hope there is an endgame. emphasis on hope because if there is i don't know what it will be. >> the uncertainty in all of this is what worries republicans, but it would be foolish to say that all of these

trump voters are suddenly going to stop supporting him because of this alone. so far they have been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. we'll see how long that lasts. >> you mentioned the nervous republicans including the top republican, the senate majority leader works wants to protect his majority in 2020 who thinks as of today he could probably do that. doesn't want uncertainty and doesn't want a bad economy. he says, mr. president, be careful. the president is trying to get us in a better place with china, and he's hoping that levying these tariffs will get that done. in the meantime, the -- the tariff wars, elsewhere, for example, against our friends in europe and our friends in canada and mexico it seems to me have not been productive. i hope the -- the president takes my advice sometimes but not others. i would have tried to unify the rest of the world against the chinese because we all have the same complaints about them. >> this is not republican economic policy that the president is implementing here, so his party is sort of forced

to go along. to leader mcconnell's point, the president thinks he can fix there. any indication on the table that china is ready to do the big things? >> there's no indication and one reason there's some anxiety is pause there's two different ways to play out. the president tried the same talks in canada and nafta talks and got them to exit late quickly because they were afraid of the economic blow back and republicans followed him out of cliff and said this is a disaster. they don't know which way this is going to play out. the chinese are very firm. they believe in things taking a long time and almost think they can wait him out as the economy starts to erode. he's so fixated on the stock market and jobs numbers that a couple of bad reports and maybe he flips. >> the games it has been for decades, you know, part of what made trump and his team want to walk away this week is they think the chinese have agreed to do some things and we're not

going to actually change the law. doesn't have to be codified. we'll all agree we're going to do it. wait, that's nothing if you do that, so is that going to change so fundament umtly the endgame to end to change that or a political endgame to show he was tough and get incremental progress. >> it's consequentially, economically, politically, costs on trade as well. next we come back to the same senator mitch mcconnell. can he keep everybody happy?

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anger will soon pass. >> i know the president's upset about that, but i think he ought not to worry about it. the chairman of the intelligence committee has already said the committee when it reports will find no collusion. i think we ought to take a deep breath and understand that there's -- this episode is coming to an end. >> melanie sonono from police key joins us. it's interesting to watch. always interesting to watch mcconnell who is kind of like a sphinx at times. case closed, but you can keep your case open. how does he manage the family feud? >> he's a master of his caucus, right. i mean, i think there's a lot of criticism that he made a mistake or error by going out and saying case closed when there was the subpoena by one of his own chairmen, but there's very

little chance that mcdonnel didn't know about the subpoena when it happened and i think he's h. navigating the treacherous political waters as he has been for the past two years and he's sticking up for burr saying i have faith in him and in public he's saying it's time to move on which is why he's probably the longest serving leader in the gop and the senate because he has backs of his rank and file. >> there's no doubt that there's deep division among the republican caucus, and we -- if you look at where a lot of concerns were coming, from a lot of senators who are up for re-election next fall. i mean, i thought the most interesting rebuke or distancing of himself i thought yesterday was senator tom tillis who is burr's fellow north carolinian and he proactively put himself out there and said in response to the subpoena news that i think it's time to move on. mueller did his job. you heard similar comments from senator john cornyn though he walked it back a little bit and even senator lindsey graham. we know him primarily as the judiciary committee chairman,

but he himself is also on the ballot next year, so wait to see how much that pressure builds. don jr. has shown no indication he's ready to comply with the subpoena just sent so how much hardball does richard burr play and does mitch mcdonnel back him up on that, and that's something we watch for the next couple of weeks. let's listen to a little bit more mcconnell where in the end he predicts everyone will be fine. >> i think this will have a happy ending. i understand the president's frustration here, but i think that this is just a blip. i think the case is closed. i think the controversy has been concluded. i think it's over, and i think it's time to let it go and move on and try to deal with the people's business. >> specifically is that your message to senator burr? >> that's my message to the public. >> he left out the chairman burr part, the senator burr part. i want to make clear because the president said this and tom tillis says in the tweet that donald jr. was cleared.

the special counsel documented a number of examples where he was in touch with wikileaks and was eager to get dirt on hillary clinton and took the trump tower meeting and said the government would be unlikely to prove beyond a reasonable doubt but the june 9th meeting had general intelligent that their conduct was unlawful. >> it's clear what senator mcconnell is trying to do which he often does is send a message to everyone. it's, a, to the president that i think it's closed and, b, to other republican senators to say, yes, the case is closed and to give senator burr a bit of wiggle room to say i'm not going to interfere yet, but, look, senator burr is not up for re-election. that's the biggest thing of all and a lot of his friends have already left capitol hill, have retired over the years so who knows what he will do once his time comes here, but he's going forward as he has done me nodically. he didn't talk about this yesterday on the hill as manu raju and others were trying to get him to talk about it. he's like look, i'm nog not going to discuss this.

so we'll see why senator burr wants to hear again from him but senator mcconnell is not surprisingly trying to do a bunch of things with those very consistent words that he's saying. >> trying to keep everybody happy in a situation where not everybody can be happy. >> like daddy does. >> that was him who called you daddy. not me. mr. zeleny over there. up next, president trump tolls iran call me and iran says no thanks. we'd love some help with laundry. spray and scrub anything with a stain. wash the really dirty clothes separately. new tide pods with upgraded 4-in-1 technology unleash a foolproof clean in one step. aww, you did the laundry! it's got to be tide. i had no idea why my mouth was constantly dry. it gave me bad breath. it was so embarrassing. now i take new biotene dry mouth lozenges whenever i'm on the go, which is all the time. new biotene dry mouth lozenges. freshen breath anytime, anywhere.

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we have one of the most powerful ships in the world that's loaded up, and we don't want to have to do anything. what i would like to see with iran, i would like to see them call me. what they should be doing is calling me up, sitting down and we can make a deal, a fair deal. we just don't want them to have nuclear weapons. not too much to ask. >> was this hour yesterday. a terse response today from iran. top iranian commander telling state media, quote, negotiations with americans will not take place and americans will not dare to take military action against us. this comes as more u.s. forces begin arriving in the region, and secretary of state mike pompeo warns those forces are ready for a quote, swift and decisive response to any attacks by iran or iranian proxies. cnn's kylie atwood joins the conversation as well as diplomatic analyst admiral john kirby. a lot of tough words which some people say are tough word, but

sometimes tough words lead to miscalculations. what's the endgame here? >> it could. i think the endgame is, a, to deter any act by the iranians. haven't seen any indications that the iranians have changed their posture yet, so we'll see what happens as the carrier strike group gets into the region and, of course, the bomb remembers there now so we'll have to watch that. certainly there can be miscalculations with the proxy militias that iran has some control over in iraq, which i think precipitated the large issue here, but what bothers me here, john, is that the -- this idea that they can bully iran into diplomatic negotiations and talks here. that's just not going to work. it hasn't worked in the past. it's certainly not going to work now. there doesn't seem to be an endgame for how to take the pressure down, how to de-escalate the tensions that this administration quite frankly needs to take the responsibility for escalating. when they designated the irgc as a terrorist group and upped the unilateral sanctions against iran, they have created in many ways the tensions that we're now

feeling. >> so there's two sides over argument, at least two sides, sometimes in that region there's more than two sides but from the iranian perspective it's the trump administration being blige refnlt the administration has said for several days now it's getting signals that iran is up to something, maybe about to attack u.s. forces, today a warning for commercial shipping in the area to be on alert but not a lot of specificity put out there by the administration. they are seeing dangerous signs. >> they do, and that's the question i think for a lot of people who have been watching this and watching this space for a long time now. i mean, brian hook just yesterday was on cnn and talked about the behavior of iran over years now being a little bit broad in his strokes about the iranian behavior, and because the administration hasn't put a specific figure -- finger on one thing that iran is doing provocatively saying they are going after u.s. military personnel, allied officials and also potentially the u.s. commercial shipping industry, members of congress are saying, hello, can you give us a briefing on this intelligence

because they haven't yet gotten that briefing yet, and they are asking for it. >> and some people look at why now, why is this happening, and some people trace it to the big changes. those took place a while ago. rex tillerson leaves and mike pompeo, more hawkish goes to the state department and john bolton goes to the state department and on this particular issue he has a history. >> the ayatollah khamenei's 1979 revolution will not last until its 40th birthday. >> there's a lot question do and we should do it. our goal should be regime change in iran. >> society ayatollah khamenei -- >> here comes iran and north korea and everyone else and to a large extent that's been true in

terms of posture and recommending to the president a more aggressive approach. the question is john bolton leading the president to the next step, or is john bolton advising the president on how to accomplish what the president wants to do? the president himself earlier this week was interestingly shouted a question on bolton, does he still support bolton and offered up the fact that the president feels that he moderates john bolton which kind of everybody was like whoa, you know, but, you know, so when the statement came out issued in bolton's name about the decision to move that carrier group, there were a lot of questions about what that merngts and as the administration officials have explained it to us, it was something that the pentagon had wanted. they say something the defense department wanted, and they wanted the announcement to be made that way to show that it was, you know, that it had a certain level and height of importance but it was not john bolton driving the train. from every briefing that we've had the administration suggests

that they are not trying to be the aggressors. they are just trying to act responsibly, that the president still wants to talk to iran, that they are doing these sort of methodical steps with sanctions, metal sanctions and that this carrier decision was real and was based on something, but because they don't talk about it. >> but because they have done this now, what's the off ramp? what are they look at that the they can say, okay, you're de-escalating, we'll pull back a little bit. what is it? >> one interesting element is that there are u.s. prisoners in iran who are wrongfully detained and iran says that that's the same for iranians in the u.s. now zarif a few weeks ago visiting new york threw out the idea of a prisoner swap and the u.s. essentially said that's not -- that's not a real offer because the u.s. has wanted to engage on that front for a long time, and i just reported that robert o'brien, who is a special enjoy for hostage affairs for the trump administration, actually sent a letter to the iranians just a few weeks ago

and saying if you release an 82-year-old ailing american, bakar amassi. if you release him on humanitarian grounds then we'll ngai with you on a conversation about prisoner swaps and prisoner releases. the iranians turned that down. they don't want any preconditions for talks, and so there's no real on-ramp right now. >> there's very little -- the problem is there's no decision space. the white house keeps closing down their own decision space here. now militarily, you get those forces into the region, the carrier, the bombers and iran seems to back off and intel suggests they back off you can moderate that force presence. i'm not worried about that off-ramp. there's no diplomatic off-ramp. there's nothing to encourage them to sit down at the table with the trump administration who they honestly believe is into regime change. >> it's the administration's stated belief that they can ultimately crush the iran can economy and force them to exit late and so far that hasn't totally panned out.

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today, stacey abrams says she's still thinking about a possible 2020 white house run. abrams made fighting voter suppression a focal point of her unsuccessful campaign for governor of georgia last year and told the political podcast pod save america if the current 2020 presidential candidates don't make her cause a priority, quote, i'll probably jump in myself. 2020 and can a date kamala harris sharing what it's like to be a step mom in "elle "magazine. she opens up about her relationship with her step-children and writes they are my endless sorts of love and pure joy and as the family embarks together on the new journey my heart wouldn't be full or my life full without them and looking beyond 2020 to 2024, that's the trump administration's deadline to return to the moon. to meet that goal the world's richest man showing off a new moon lander. jeff bezos saying the blue lander to carry people back and forth will colonize says it

necessary. >> vice president pence said it's the stated policy of this administration and the united states of america to return american astronauts to the moon within the next five years. i love this. it's the right thing to do, and we can help meet that time line but only because we started three years ago. it's time to go back to the moon, this time to stay. >> the house of representatives just passed its version of a disaster relief bill. let's go live to cnn's phil mattingly on capitol hill. phil, an important vote in the house, but there's a big but. >> yeah, the big but that this bill passed ended up being $19 billion in disaster relief for hurricanes and wildfires and significant flooding has no future at least on its own because senate republicans are working on their own proposal. they have made clear they won't accept the house version and more importantly the president has made clear he would veto the

house vefrmgts i any kind of what was most interesting about this vote, if you want to take the vote as it was. 34 republicans crossed over to join democrats to vote for this pack and what that underscores despite the president tweeting last night that republicans should not support this bill is that a pain threshold have been hit. there are republican members and senators who are hearing from their constituents, the real awful flooding in the midwest and parts of the south they need help now and the fact this has gone on for months, you include puerto rico which is obviously a significant issue and the wildfires out west, the fact this has gone on for months and they haven't been able to figure out how to thread the needle underscores how dysfunctional things are at the moment. here's kind of the baseline of where things stand. senate republicans float their own offer last night and puerto rico serving at the crux of that issue and trying to plus up funding to puerto rico and add financial controls to to try to akwaj the president's controls. there's hope that might be a starting point to perhaps a deal in the next couple of days, but we're still kind of at a standstill, and, john, as you know as well as anybody, when

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and don't let these people buffalo you, and it will be a massive scandal. you can't escape the facts. i've seen them. i've seen the corroboration. i've seen tapes uncertain, very big case. >> rudy, we've got to go. >> call us from the ukraine. >> even laura ingram is trying to cut him off. giuliani says none of this counts as election meddling. his explanation to cnn, how could it be election meddling because the election is a year and a half away. cnn's michael warren joins our conversation. number one, if he says he's seen all the facts and they are damning and horrible, why does he need an investigation, but this is ride being rudy. >> yeah, and he's obviously saying i can't reveal everything, but i'm trying to go to ukraine and trying to find out all this information to help my client, to sort of clear his name even now in this post-mueller investigation effort, and he says he happened to stumble on this juicy biden story but he claims biden may

not be the nominee for the democratic party so this is really about making sure not just the ukrainians investigate it, he's also said that the justice department should investigate it when i asked him if he's talked to the justice department and even referred it. he told me last night that's in the his job. he told me last week he was done with this whole biden story. it sounds though based on our conversation this morning that that's changed. >> let me read from this -- from the piece you wrote on cnnpolitics.com. while there's never evidence that biden acted unhe hadically, i said holy bleep what is is this all about. the "new york times" has reported on this, the cnn has done reporting and more reporting will be done because every family out there will have their family scrubbed. just freest mueller report you have the president's personal lawyer saying i'm going to go to a foreign government and ask to you do something to help me plainly for political purposes,

that's hock? >> this is the president's personal lawyer. he's a little bit more a free agent, so he can go out and do these things, but, look, this is part of the playbook. he's not going to produce a smoking ghaun will stand up in a court of law. he's trying to muddy the waters and he'll win in the court of public opinion. >> is anyone paying attention he's asking a foreign government to intervene in an american election? that was one of the whole issues, never mind the obstruction, et cetera. that was, you know, the one thing that was alarming, should have been alarming to everyone in both parties. you know, the russian involvement in 2016, so ukraine involvement in 2019-2020. shiny object that he's trying to obfuscate. >> from what's really going on. >> not the first time that team trump does something or is now planning to do something way outside the norms, like invite the russians into trump tower and direct message with wikileaks, a whole bunch of other issues that have nothing

to do with 2016 and the russians and they say what are you talking about, everybody does this. democrats are saying bad idea. >> did you hear rudy giuliani is inviting a different foreign nation ukraine to involve itself in our campaign by conducting an investigation of a family member of the rival the president apparently fears most joe biden? so they, again, are taking us down that destructive path. >> we've come to a very sorry state when it's considered okay for an american politician, never mind an attorney for the president, to go and seek foreign intervention in american politics. >> again, hunter biden did work for an international company. made a lot of money. all fair game. public scrutiny of how he did that, whether the vice president did anything improper, that's all fair game but how you do it is important, isn't it? >> exactly, and we'll wait to see if the president or somebody reels back giuliani a little

bit. it's fascinating how his role continues as the chief attack dog continues even after the mueller report. while he was naff gagt all of these issues he was more of a public relations important and as melanie said earlier really tried muddy the public view around the mueller investigation. gotten himself into trouble and none of us will forget like truth isn't truth when he was going out there and saying those things but clearly that role he's going to do is going continue for some time. >> i wouldn't bet on the president reining him in because he loves this state. >> another democrat qualifies for the debate stage and does the first to do so purely on fund raising.

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the va provides the care, t-mobile provides the coverage. president trump having a hill fun today suggesting the 2020 democratic race is down to two. looks like it's going to be sleepy creepy joe over crazy bernie the president says in a tweet. everyone else he says is fading fast. well, everyone else begs to differ, and at least 18 of them right now could get a chance to prove it. the first democratic debates are in seven weeks, and 20-plus candidates, 20-plus candidates, are battling for a spot on the stage or stages in miami. best-selling author marian williamson became the 18th candidate to meet at least one of the requirements. the democratic national committee set two initial qualification standards for the field. either register at least 1% support in three reputable polls, or receive campaign donations from 65,000 unique donors, including 200 donors

from 20 different states. if you're thinking about getting in, write all that down. it is remarkable marian williamson, oprah's best-selling adviser and author has made it and qualified on the fund-raising and done it quicker than six other people in the race. so you might say who are these people? she made it. >> she has on that grounds, but if the others are higher than her in polling, she won't necessarily make it. so we'll find out. at the end of the day here, if you do not make this debate stage, the first of which is the end of june in mime, very hard to be able to break out of that point. governor steve billick of montana is likely to jump in as well between now and then. we'll see if he makes it. others are really trying to get at least 1% in the polls, but the idea that this is over, that the president sort of sees two front-runners. others, you know, the voters have not reached that conclusion yet, and, of course, it's up to them, not his tweets. >> and when he first got in no

one thought he would go anywhere and he's president of the united states. we don't know how many will make the debate stage. if you have more than 20 candidates, which candidates have met both thresholds, polling and fund-raising and then candidates' average poll performance and if you make 1% you could still get bumped. have you to feel for the democratic national candidate how do you figure out who gets on the stage? >> and they are two away from going to the tiebreaker, and this could get messy. someone like a kirsten gillibrand is looking at marion williamson who made the 65,000 unique voters and gillibrand hasn't done that yet. the heat is the on for a lot of candidates to play these games. >> she was playing beer popping. >> with water. >> i think it was with water. >> that should be unconstitutional. >> i'm pretty sure it is. >> beer pong with water is not beer pong.

it's water pong. >> thanks for joining us today on "inside politics." we'll be back here at 8:00 a.m. sunday morning. if you want a wake-up call, let us know. don't go anywhere. busy news day. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great day. ♪ i'm brianna keilar live on cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now. trade war standoff. china says it will hit back as the u.s. jacks up tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese imports. toe to toe on taxes. house democrats tease an imminent decision on how they plan to lift the lid on the president's finances. rudy giuliani's fishing expedition. the president's personal lawyer is heading to ukraine on a fact-finding mission to help get his boss re-elected, and why a california teacher who is out on medical leave fighting cancer has to foot the bill for her own