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biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. happy mother's day. major global challenges, including an escalating trade war with china in a moment. we begin this sunday with a deepening confrontation between president trump and house democrats. to them, a constitutional crisis testing america's balance of governing power. >> it's an attack on the ability of the american people to know what the executive branch is doing and to have responsible government. it is an attack on the essence of our democracy, and we must oppose this with every fiber of our being. >> to him, a vendetta. >> after two years, nothing. no collusion. now the democrats are saying we want more. you know, it was going to be like we want the mueller report.

now they say mueller report? no, we want to start all over again. it is a disgrace. we've got to focus on infrastructure. we have to focus on lowering medical prices and medicine. >> the courts will decide some of this, as democrats ask the judicial branch to settle an unpresenu unprecedented staredown. the administration is using executive privilege denying access to materials don mcgahn shared with the special counsel, blanket nos to other requests on issues from the president's taxes and business dealings to white house security clearances and his meetings with vladimir putin. more and more democrats see that list and say the president leaves them no choice but to impeach. but the top democrat, the house speaker, believes that is just what the president wants. and she believes the better course is to lay out the case, but let the 2020 electorate be the jury. >> trump is goading us to

impeach him. that's what he's doing, every single day he's just like taunting, taunting, taunting, because he knows that it would be very divisive in the country, but he doesn't really care. just wants to solidify his base. >> with us this sunday to share their reporting and their insights, julie pace from the associated pace, michael bendinger, phil mattingly and laura barren lopez. and so to the speaker's point, the president is trying to poke them. one of the big questions is will robert mueller testify and when? another big question, when will don mcgahn testify or will the president try to block that? the president tweeting yesterday, again, if you're watching at home, read the mueller report. i was not going to fire bob mueller and did not fire bob mueller. in fact he was allowed to finish his help with unprecedented help from the trump administration. actually lawyer don mcgahn had a better chance of being fired than bob mueller. never a big fan.

the president attack the white house counsel. and it's not just don mcgahn who said the president was intent on firing bob mueller, doesn't that only increase the reasons for democrats to say let's have a chat? >> yeah, absolutely. don mcgahn is so central. you're not, he's not the only one who talks about trump wanting to fire mueller, but he's a really central character to the mueller report. he was in the white house for most of the major episodes that mueller is investigating, and so clearly what trump is trying to do is discredit him. but i think you're right, it will have the opposite effect. there's no way that democrats are going to back off in their desire to get don mcgahn to sit down before those committees. >> and the president is already tweeting this morning. grievances about the legal investigation, saying they were spying on him. the fact check machines will have a lot of problem with these tweets but this is constant. when will we see don mcgahn and when will we see bob mueller? not settled, right? >> no, it's not. on friday i was talking to some of the democrats before they

left for the weekend and they said it looks like mueller wasn't going to come on may 15th. they had hoped that he would be there to testify. negotiations are still ongoing. but they have no hard date for when they are going to hear from either of them. to what julie said, one of the members on the judiciary, jamie raskin said the committee members are mad, they're upset. inherent contempt is very much in the air. that's t >> congress can find you in contempt. republicans found eric holder in contempt and it becomes a negotiating tactic. let's sit down and work it out. they don't have a penalty for it. nancy pelosi joked that they do have a jail in the basement. this is adam schiff saying maybe than just a piece of paper that says you're in contempt, we need penalties. >> we in effect do our own judicial proceeding in the

congress, have a little mini trial in the congress and hold people in contempt and responsible and compel their production without even going to court. now, it used to be we imprisoned people but we can fine them $25,000 a day until they comply or some other number. that may be an even swifter remedy if we need to embark on it, and we may have to. >> is this where we are? >> what's interesting is this is something jerry nadler in a private phone call with democrats laid out as something they could do if they wanted to do but was never taken very seriously. over the course of the last couple of weeks, people are so frustrated they're looking for any mechanism to get immediate results. so this has become something people have talked about more. i'm still not totally clear that they ever get there or know the mechanisms in terms of how to utilize it but there's just extreme frustration with wall-to-wall defiance on all of their requests. from a constitutional crisis

perspective, this is not that. this is part of the process. what's different now as opposed to negotiations and posturing back and forth behind the scenes to get some document production, to get some people up to testify, they're facing blanket nos. i think that's why you're seeing the frustration and not just on inherent contempt but is it better for us to go for impeachment. >> i think the inherent contempt, which will become the new emoluments clause, is they're looking for a place to go, leadership, like chairman schiff, but more and more democrats say if the administration says we're not giving you the taxes, we'll find bob mueller's testimony, we'll fight don mcgahn's testimony, you leave us no choice. >> there's no question this level of obstruction constitutes a basis for impeachment. >> with his actions of simply denying every simple subpoena request, that may push us to a place that's our only option. >> what are we supposed to do?

we can't roll over and play dead, we have an obligation to protect this constitutional framework. >> for me, we're inching towards it. >> this is where nancy pelosi was or has been. she's walked right up to the edge of whether there should be impeachment hearings or not. you're seeing the caucus eagerly line up behind her on that one. i will say in the white house, people who are involved in these proceedings, involved in these negotiations say the president isn't quite as unflinching privately as he is in public. what they're waiting for is some sign for democrats that they're willing to narrow their requests. you know, that's easily said in private and anonymously, but we'll have to -- but democrats have the same complaints about the white house and saying that they're not hearing any give and take on that side either. right now that's where the energy is. you have a young, inexperienced democratic house. the energy wants action. and you have a white house being

led by someone who when he was a private citizen was involved in 1,900 lawsuits, either him or his business. both sides are moving towards this kind of crisis. >> will fight it out in the courts repeatedly, don't takes weeks and months and sometimes longer. then we head into an election cycle where the president thinks if he can make this all politics that it's a wash. everybody looks and doesn't like anybody. >> as long as pelosi can avoid starting impeachment proceedings, she's going to because she wants to protect vulnerable democrats, she wants to hold on to this majority. everyone knows what happened when republicans went after clinton on impeachment and suffered the political consequences. what's going to be interesting to follow is where those vulnerable democrats are. some of them sound as though they could also be inching the way congressman richmond said, they could also be inching towards feeling more comfortable with impeachment because they don't want to depress democratic turnout in their district. >> we'll watch this play out as they go. the last impeachment, the

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the president took dramatic action this past week to raise tariffs on an array of chinese goods keeping a 2016 campaign promise to get tough which could make his 2020 re-election odds tougher. the tariff hike from 10% to 25% covers products like household

appliances, clothes, seafood, furniture and parts that go into your electronic devices like your phone or laptop. the president believes the american economy is strong enough to withstand a temporary hit and is counting on beijing ready to come back ready to make significant concessions. he warned china the deal will become far worse if it has to be negotiated in my second term. if this becomes a protracted trade war, moody's warns it could trigger a recession next year and unemployment could spike to 5% or more and we could see a global stock sell-off. saturday's tweets urging people, these are the president's words, to just sit back and watch and predicting his friendship with china's president xi would ultimately bring a resolution. when the president tweets a dozen times about something and then comes back to it the next day a few times, it tells you it's taking up a lot of his time. he's making a big bet here that china will come back to the table. what they were prepared to sign, the chinese started to back away, the president said, no,

not taking a weaker deal. he is putting his own political standing at stake if this goes on for weeks or months. >> it's two big bets, that the chinese will come back to the table and if they don't, that the economy can withstand this. part of trump's calculus is he has heard these sky will fall predictions on countless issues, not just on the economy but all kinds of things that he said he would come in and do and he hasn't seen that happen. so his belief is that the warnings from places like moody's or even republican lawmakers is just scare tactics and that he has a better sense for the economy, he has a better feel for what's going to happen here. it's a huge unknown on something like trade, though. it's massive because of the size of the u.s. economy, the size of the chinese economy, the cross currents there. we're headed into uncharted territory. >> and china has said it will retaliate, it hasn't said how yet. the white house is banking that china's economy is struggling and make the chinese won't go

big because they can't take the hit, but we don't know. this -- trump has had success with this so far. they got pretty close. that was the consensus view on a trade team in the white house, but the bet here for trump is long term and short term. this has been one of the issues that has animated trump for his entire life. he was one of the rare candidates in 2016 talking about trade so ambitiously. but the short term here, trump is heading into the election in a very unusual situation of people generally like what he's doing but don't like how he's doing it. that makes the economy very, very critical. there's two wild cards here for the trump administration that they feel they can have some control over. one is the fed, which they have done a pretty good job of keeping a lid on. the other is this china trade issue. trump wants this settled immediately. >> and if you look at the map, you're right, the presidents discounts doom and gloom. but if moody's is right and the

economy turns down and even a possible recession and then you get to this, if you look at this map, these are the states the hardest hit. the darker the color, the hardest hit. there's a lot of trump here. those are not all red states when it comes to politics but that is trump country when it comes to a political map. the president is making a bet that his supporters are saying we're getting hurt by this, our farms, our businesses, but the president is keeping a promise, we'll stick with him and that's his bet. >> so there's research that has shown from uc berkeley that said republican-leaning counties are the ones the most likely to get hit the hardest by this trade war. that is not only a risk for trump heading into 2020 but republicans down ballot in the senate and the house. >> i also think it's this calculation that this is the strategy that's animated him forever. it wasn't a secret he was going to do this, it's always been the end game. lawmakers are very concerned. what they hear most from their constituents is we support the

president, we want this to work, we trust him to make a deal, but this is really hurting right now. one of the questions is, is how long can it sustain if there is no end game. when it's not just the china deal, it's the national security tariffs on canada and mexico and the eu, trade deals that haven't come to fruition right now, there's so much talk and there's so much kind of suggestion of a potential deal. when does the deal come to alleviate things? i think the question is will people believe the message if there's nothing to back the message up. >> and how long can your loyalty to the president, and again believing this is a fight long overdue. and many do believe that. the question is if you're a farmer in one of these trump states and soybean prices down 20%, wheat prices down 15%, corn down 12%, if that continues, when does your personal survival maybe influence your political loyalties? >> it's worth noting, particularly on china, there's a lot more support on capitol hill on what he's doing in china

because everybody knows the ip theft is very real. the president is doing something different and maybe different will work but people are very unsettled given what you're seeing pricewise. >> and david sanger puts it in an article, here's the headline, trump said he would tame rogue nations, now they are challenging him. he has a showdown with china but there are security issues at play, south china sea, et cetera, north korea firing projectiles. there's a u.s. carrier group going into the persian gulf in a message to iran. these are tense times. >> i would even add to that the situation in venezuela where the trump administration made this bet that supporting guaido would be easy and they could push maduro out. trump interestingly has found himself in his third year with foreign policy, national security really on the front burner. i think he's finding that some of his tactics, which are public pressure, direct face-to-face negotiations don't always work.

and we're going to see i think in this year what's behind that. is there another gear in this administration on national security, which has not been a top priority or an urgent priority. >> last sunday we were talking about a tweet where he was still standing with kim jong-un after the projectile launches. and then the other day he said he's not sure they're ready to negotiate. so the president in the course of the last week, his tone about kim jong-un did change. >> and on friday in the case of north korea trump told politico that those missile tests were very standard and he was trying to downplay them. even though in the last year he said they hadn't conducted any tests was a sign they were making progress and a sign these talks were working. >> is it just good cop, bad cop. mike pompeo and bolton sounding tough and the president saying, hey, call me, we can talk this through. i can't figure out if it's a

deliberate good cop, bad cop or a difference of opinion. >> i think there is a difference of opinion and he has acknowledged that and wants multiple opinions around him and wants to pick and choose what he likes to hear. what we're seeing here is all these different fronts. i mean these are all kind of in crisis right now. there's a reason why generals generally don't recommend multi-front wars here. and we're seeing the risk of trump's very ambitious agenda. these are all issues that could take any administration years of singular focus. regime change in venezuela, overhauling the economy in china, on and on and on and on. without more focus, this is what the risk is going to be. up next for us, back to domestic politics. numbers that make joe biden smile and perhaps signal some worry for bernie sanders. so, jardiance asks...

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biden, i love kamala harris. i like bernie, i like liz berth warren. i think elizabeth warren is probably the smartest but i'm going with who i think in the long run is going to present a vision. >> as democratic voters mull their choices, this is clear, the biden bounce is real. the former vice president's first 2020 campaign visit to new hampshire. this is his welcoming visit. a new poll shows biden with a big early lead in the state that holds the first presidential primary. biden's 36% is double the 18% support for senator bernie sanders. no other candidate was in double digits. it's just one poll and the primary is nine months away. biden also does okay when new hampshire democrats were asked their second choice, elizabeth warren and kamala harris have a slight edge there. anybody that says look at biden's numbers, he's going to win, that's nuts. but the biden bounce if you talk to people in other campaigns and

his campaign was a little bigger and seems to have sustained itself a little more so than people anticipated. >> it's a little surprising to some of the other candidates and it shows, yes, he's got name recognition for sure. it also shows there is a real affection for joe biden in the democratic party. he represents an era, the obama era, that a lot of democrats want to go back to. they feel much more favorably about that era than where we are now. there's also certainty with someone like joe biden. you know who he is and what he stands for, for better or worse. it is very early, though. there is a lot that's going to happen between now and voters going to the first caucuses, the first primaries. a lot of the democratic campaigns that i have talked to think that those numbers are still artificial. there's a lot of room for biden to fall. >> and then he's on a debate stage in six, seven weeks. is it a reflection, should senator sanders be worried?

is it because democratic voters haven't in love with bernie? >> i think it's partially because of biden but sanders doesn't necessarily want to be in first place like now. he likes that he has biden to bounce off of and combat with because he still is able to run as anti-establishment and biden presents that establishment foil for him. so i think that sanders likes the position he's in. he still is coming in second right behind biden in a lot of these polls. other candidates like warren and harris, warren is trying to stick to the plan that she originally had, which is roll out policy after policy. go places where the other candidates aren't going. we saw her in west virginia and she's hoping that's a good long game for her. >> and warren and sanders very similar. you know, go after the big banks. they're trying to get the liberal base up. bernie sanders even though he's in his 70s in the last campaign did well with younger voters. this past week, alexandria ocasio-cortez, one of the rising young stars of the democratic

party, did an event with bernie sanders on legislation that they are co-sponsoring. she was asked about what the presidential race, are you going to endorse? >> what i would like to see in a presidential candidate is one that has a coherent world view and logic from which all these policy proposals are coming forward. i think senator sanders has that. i also think senator woerch has that. >> so do you think you will endorse in the democratic primaries? >> i'm entertaining but it's not going to be for a while. >> she was a sanders volunteer in 2016. i think she was a cvolunteer, nt a campaign worker. i've got leverage, i'm going to use it. if you're sanders, you have to be concerned about not just being in second place. it's a smart point that he doesn't have to be in first place, but in new hampshire, he had 60% of the primary vote against clinton four years ago. that's got to be concerning. that second choice question he falls even further.

it's definite lly not happening sanders trump's involvement. trump's people see biden as the biggest threat. for a lot of democratic voters, their most -- their goal in 2020 is to beat trump. if they think that trump is worried about it, that just helps biden's case. >> so if you're trying to break through, you know the debates are coming up in june. they start in june. so you're trying to get traction until then. elizabeth warren has lapped the field in terms of specific policies. in terms of laying out policies, he has lapped the field. i have a plan for that, that's her national slogan. she has an opioid crisis plan and was in west virginia for that. trump backers applaud warren in heart of maga country. even a few cheers on a trip through rural west virginia. so again if you're not biden and you're not sanders with a built-in infrastructure, you're

just trying to stay competitive and wait for a debate breakthrough? >> i think that's right. you're trying to build an infrastructure that can sustain. i don't think people are paying attention, i think they have a general sense of things. when you look at super tuesday, look at florida, south carolina, i think a lot of work is happening that we're not seeing. what i'm struck by with elizabeth warren, three weeks ago the word was whatever happened to elizabeth warren. now she's having that moment. i think part of that was there was almost a caricature of who elizabeth warren was. then you watch her on the campaign trail and reporters who are with her on the campaign trail were talking to people who watched her on on the cnn town hall and thought she is far more relatable than a person who attacked bankers on a regular basis. that has started to catch on. the idea that you actually have policy proposals with real teeth, with real bite, i think

kind of works more than people thought. >> i've seen her on the stump. in the rooms that she goes into, there is a lot of warm affection for her and voters very much respond to the policies that she's putting out there. so whether or not she's able to translate that into a surge or able to pick off one of those early primary states, we have to wait and see. but voters are interested in what she's saying. >> and you watch candidates, one of the fascinating things, especially when you have a crowd like this, you watch who grows, who learns, who gets better. candidates that stay the same suffer. candidates who learn and grow with the crowds. kamala harris is pressing the attorney general. did the white house or anybody in the white house investigate things? among the things she wants to know is this from the president. >> john kerry speaks to him a lot. john kerry tells him not to call. that's a violation of the logan act. and frankly, he should be prosecuted on that, but my people don't want to do anything -- only the democrats do that kind of stuff, you know. >> again, there's some factual

errors in that. but kamala harris asked the attorney general publicly and now she's demanding an answer in writing about has the president or anyone around him told you to investigate people? >> that was a really breakout moment for harris. right when she needed one. she had a really strong launch and kind of faded to the background because other candidates got in. she's trying to use her position as a senator on influential committees and background as a prosecutor to show voters what she would be like on a debate stage with trump. when i've been out talking to voters, they bring that up all the time. i want to know who could take it to trump on the debate stage. that's a very real moment that they want to try to assess as they watch these democrats. >> so they're going to get a chance to take it to each other. they want to be polite but just the idea of the voters wanting to see who's come up here, that's going to add to the spice. up next, a republican family feud regarding president's eldest son and what rudy giuliani now won't be doing on his summer vacation. discover.

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sunday travel update. rudy giuliani is no longer planning a trip to ukraine seeking dirt on joe biden. the president's lawyer says he's cancelling a trip he arranged because he fears he was being set up. one more time, see if you can follow this at home. it was his trip planned by him. the meetings requested by him. and giuliani now says he fears he was being set up. >> it's all part of one large conspiracy that has about two or three parts to it. >> okay. >> so i've decided, sharon, i'm not going to go to the ukraine. >> you're not going to go? >> i'm not going to go because i think i'm walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president. in some cases enemies of the united states. i believe i was walking into a bunch of people, one of whom already has been found to be involved in this that i wasn't aware of. i think this was a setup.

>> don't look at me. i haven't the slightest idea. >> so he set himself up? >> right. >> somebody help me here. >> it's stunning. it's really stunning in a matter of days that he's changed his tune. when it was his idea, as you said earlier. he told "the new york times" i want to go there, i want to talk to the people in ukraine. and part of this was because he said that he wanted to gather information on joe biden, that they would potentially use in the 2020 election. so for him to then come back and say that he was being set up is just ridiculous. >> can i take the flip side of this, though? >> yeah. >> what if giuliani was successful and used some of the major media outlets in this country to broadcast a message to kiev that the president's personal lawyer is interested in this investigation. trip or not, i think that message has been received. >> it's broadcast to other foreign governments as well. it's not just ukraine. >> and to suggest that there's something there. hunter biden worked for a natural gas company in ukraine,

which is totally fair game. did the vice president's son use his dad's influence to make money somewhere in the world is totally fair game. but trying to say everybody is a bad actor here. everybody is a swamp creature. everybody else is horrible. >> it's so transparent in what they're trying to do. kind of the oddness of rudy is in "the new york times" he acknowledged yeah, i'm trying to meddle in all sorts of things. i don't think it's illegal but i am trying to meddle. that's what i was struck by talking to lawmakers, republicans who were dumbstruck about who was going on and democrats who were angry and wanted to ask questions. this is a foreign country, we do foreign policy. is the state department involved in this? the idea of having the sheen i'm the president's personal lawyer. i think a lot of us have had questions about it a long time, but making trips to foreign countries trying to meet with foreign leaders on behalf of the

president, on behalf of the campaign, on your own personal volition just because you want to help those things, that actually complicates, and this is a country in a part of the world that is a very complicated issue anyway for the last six or seven years. wandering into that and drying to bring campaign digging and dirt and all that stuff, it's more complicated than what the hell is he doing. >> your point is a good one, john. if you look back at the 2016 election, trump, his personal quality numbers were just abysmal. clinton's were in some cases even worse. that's how he feels like he won. he was able to muddy her, make her -- make people question parts of her background. i think that he knows he's going to go in with his numbers on honesty, trustworthiness just as bad as 2016. if someone else has higher and people say, hey, i kind of like this person. >> biden is viewed even by republicans as honest. they don't like his policies maybe. >> a question they'll have to

ask themselves is are they okay with the sitting president's lawyer broadcasting they want information on a political opponent and potentially using that in an election. >> and in our business when a guy goes on television and a lot of what he says is simply not true, let's try to sneak this in. there was a fight over donald trump jr. because the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee agreed to a subpoena to bring him back to testify. that happened after the senate republican leader said we're done here. >> the special counsel's finding is clear. case closed. case closed. this ought to be good news for everyone. but my democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief. they seem to be angrier at bill barr for doing his job than they are at vladimir putin. >> a lot of republicans are mad at richard burr, the republican chairman, for the subpoena. if mitch mcconnell wants to

close the page, why is the senate committee keeping a related investigation open. what's the damage here? >> if you read the entirety of mitch mcconnell's speech on the floor, and a lot of people only focused on the case closed. he actually gave props to senator burr for their investigation. for republicans rank and file, that investigation has been their off-ramp to every difficult question about the president, russia, collusion, obstruction, for the last two years. richard burr has been their heat shield. they can say there's a bipartisan senate investigation going on. there's a lot of frustration because there's a lot of pressure from the outside in don junior world about why this is happening. for the senate majority leader, they'll protect their chairman. they may not be comfortable but they'll protect their chairman for the broader good of their conference. >> so add don junior to the list of others. another democrat about to get into that lean, mean -- no, very crowded 2020 race. g into r want to follow your passions

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one last time around the inside politics table. i'll ask our great reporters to share something from their notebooks. julie pace? >> as hard as it is to believe, the democrat ikts presidential field is going to get bigger. steve bullock will announce in the next couple days. he's been waiting to make this official. he's pretty unknown to most americans and faces a real uphill climb in this big field with a lot of democratic stars. he thinks he has a case to make in a primary with electability

is at the forefront. he's comfortable speaking to trump voters. >> be interesting to watch. we could use more governors. mike snl. >> we've seen how eager president trump is to get this campaign started. at a rally last week, he all but crowned biden the democratic nominee. told his supporters he wants the race to start immediately. campaign manager hired a senior staff of political veteran, people with actual experience doing the things they're asked to do this time around. a regional political infrastructure built out of the midwest and florida. there are plans for 50 communication staffers in battlegrounds. four years ago i don't think there were five. what's this tell us? we're seeing a campaign becoming more mature around the president, more focused, more organized more professional. the question moving forward, of course, is whether the candidate has become one, too. >> that's a good question. >> there's growing concern on capitol hill that the largest

and most controversial ledge lay tooif fight is off to a sterile start. richard shelby several times said people on capitol hill don't understand the stakes here, how draconian the cuts should be, not just defense, but domestic programs. traditionally these deals are made because both sides get something that they want, wave the caps and move forward. i'm told behind the scenes the white house repeatedly told congressional staffers and lawmakers that they're okay with keeping the caps in place, okay with those major budget cuts and they believe they can find some other way to address the cuts to defense republicans care about so much. i'm told by congressional republicans this is implausible. p the white house doesn't want to come to the table and make the deal with republicans and democrats on capitol hill, there will be a major issue, not just because of the cuts, but the fiscal process. >> heading into an election year, awesome. >> more campaigns. north carolina's ninth congressional district. i'm taking a look at the special

election there which was called because in 2018 the state board found that election fraud had taken place. republicans have a primary on tuesday, hoping to avoid a runoff. already it's going to be an uphill climb against democrat dan mccready runs unopposed there. democrats shouldn't have a chance of flipping this seat which has been long red, but they do because of mccready's cash advantage. also as we see the special election develop both, both parties will be trying to read the tea leaves. >> i'll close by circle back to montana. one of the country's least populous states, two-term steve bullock poised to join the race. that's one of several shifts for montana. jean forty is sending signals he wants to run for governor.

auditor matt rosendale was in d.c., trying to line up gop support to run for that house seat if jean forty does not. he got 47% of the vote but lost to democrat john tester. remembers the trips to montana? that was important to president trump and he stewed about it for days. some want to see if other contenders emerge before committing to rosen dale again. some also say they're waiting to see if the president has an opinion. we'll watch that one. that's it for "inside politics." here at noon eastern. up next, an important "state of the union" with jake tapper. special guest senator kamala harris. thanks for sharing your morning with us. have a great sunday. ven this. but i don't have to clean this, because the self-cleaning brush roll removes hair, while i clean. - [announcer] shark,

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