xfinity xfi gives you the speed, coverage and control you need. manage your wifi network from anywhere when you download the xfi app today. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. china retaliates with tariffs of its own, and the markets drop. president trump says all will be fine, but many of his fellow republicans are nervous about a trade warheading into an election year. plus, joe biden makes his first 2020 campaign stop in new hampshire this hour. as the front-runner and the president refuses to cooperate with congressional investigations says it's the democrats who are causing a constitutional crisis. his attorney general calls it something different. >> that's a nicer reception than i get on capitol hill obviously.

i've been attorney general now for less than three months, and i haven't been able to get out of washington, but once i deal with this beltway silliness -- [ applause ] "you'll be seeing me. >> we begin the hour with world markets in turmoil. investors panicking as the trade war between china and the united states escalates yet again today. take a look at the big board of the right now the dow down nearly 580 points right there. that's more than 2%. just minutes before today's opening bell, china announced it will raise tariffs on $60 billion worth of u.s. goods. those new tariff rates go into effect on june 1. it's the latest tit for tat, that after president trump increased tariffs on chinese goods last week. trade negotiations flatlined between the two nations. this morning, president trump showing no signs of relenting in this fight with china tweeting

repeatedly about tariffs and trade promising, quote, china wants to make a deal so badly and the president vowing that china would, quote, hurt very badly if it doesn't make a deal. cristina alesci joins us live from the new york stock exchange. some modest drops today. >> reporter: right. investors clearly sending a signal to president trump. they don't buy his spin that tariffs are actually a positive for the domestic economy and the economy globally, and we see that today. it's right across the board here and what you see is investors pricing in the possibility of a protracted tit for tat. now, listen, that may change because right now president trump says the u.s. has the leverage. it's reporting great gdp numbers, but as we head into 2020, he'll start to feel the political pressure and he's not going to want this kind of a day while on the campaign trail.

we'll start to see these u.s. tariffs start to hurt the u.s. consumer. the u.s. consumer does pay for the tariffs. he might see that come through the economic data over the coming months which might put pressure on president trump. but one thing is clear. president trump loves to blame fed chair jerome powell for dramatic drops in the market. this is all trump's doing. john? >> all trump's doing. keep us posted as the day progresses. thank you very much. with me in the studio to share their reporting and insights, kaitlan collins and two members from "the washington post." >> nobody should get fixated on one day in the market, the president is fixated but not on this one. if you believe his tweets he seems to be in this for the long haul. >> privately his advisers are saying that these tariffs and

implementing them is not a long-term policy. it's not sustainable. can't keep it up even thought the president is sending the opposite message. they do know that and that's why the president's own advisers and larry kudlow saying, yes, this is going to hurt americans because it's the importers who pate cost of these tariffs and they either choose to pass it on to the consumers or they eat the cost themselves. they do not think this is a long-term policy even though that's what the president's message is. >> if you read the president's tweets, you read them and we often correct them. this is one area where he's consistently wrong, much like nato dues. nato nations don't pay dues into nato. it's what they spend on defense that's counts. the president says that somehow the united states therebiry is getting billions of dollars with these tariffs. the chief economic adviser begrudgingly acknowledging that. it's not china that pays tariffs. it's the american importers and the american companies that pay in effect what is a tax

increase, and oftentimes passes it on to u.s. consumers. >> fair enough. in fact, both sides will pay. both sides will pay in these things. >> it's u.s. businesses and u.s. consumers who pay, correct? >> yes, to some extent. i don't disagree with that. again, both sides -- both sides will suffer on this. >> that's the police way of saying the boss is wrong. >> yeah. not a message that i think president trump wants out there, but he's right, and i think consume remembers going to start to feel this, and i think that that's the gamble that president trump is taking with a relatively strong economy by other metrix. he's willing to put that a little bit at risk, and in the past this strategy has worked. with japan or mexico, other times where he's threatened tariffs, the other countries have come along, but china is sort of a different animal in terms of their strong economy hand how much damage they can do to the u.s. economy, and this is a little bit also through a 2020 prism where president trump has

talked recently about his opponents, pete buttigieg, imagine him negotiating with china and criticized joe biden on this, so you can see him sort of transitioning into re-election posture with the china negotiations. >> to that point, a dozen tweets the other day, more this morning. if you read them, it gets a little scatter shot sometimes, but the president is trying to make the political case for this. you write in the sunday paper it's interesting, you know, that the president has been talked out of this in the past by economic advisers who say, sir, it's not good for the economy. it's not good for you politically as we get closer to 2020, but during the first two years of his administration trump was hemmed in by constraints, including people who tried to limit his impulses and produce quick decisions. that's all changed. trump is surrounded by top advisers and gop leaders who applaud and embolden his instincts. we know dating back 30 years or more when he was a businessman, china is one of his reflexive instincts. he believes this fight is long overdue. >> earlier in the presidency, the president had people around him who would sort of speak truth to power and say no,

mr. president, if you put the tariffs on they won't be paid for by china. they will hurt the american consumer. now it seems like a lot of those people have left the administration, and the president is being sort of forced to make some of these decisions on his own, and he's doing it in a way that sometimes belies the facts and allows him to move forward without necessarily thinking about the consequences for the voters, and some of these voters will be for voters that voted for president trump in 2016 because china has been very shrewd in the way that they have retaliated, hitting agriculture products, places that president trump needs to win in 2020, and a lot of these farming communities are starting to have their patience wear very thin because they were thinking that this might be a deal that came to fruition very soon, and now it looks like it might be a long fight and that's something to watch, whether or not some of the patience of these trump voters starts to wear thin. >> and republicans in congress, because this is anathema to begin with in the sense it's not established economic policy to

have tariff wars in trade but he's very different. he's pulled his party here. the question is how long can you keep them? you're mitch mcconnell and you're trying to take the senate and you want to at least be competitive in the house races in 2020. if you look at your point about the political calculations from beijing, the new tariffs, cotton marks sheenry, grains, aircraft parts, optical instruments, certain types of furniture, corn flour, rare earth, medical equipment like mri machines. a farmer quoted by wcco saying the problem we need now, we've been dragging along here for a little while and we need something done sooner rather than later. we understand in agriculture no trade deal will be a perfect deal for everybody and some sack faces have to be made here, but the way it's been ag has been the sacrifice so far. how long until people start saying mr. president, we can't take this? >> as you point out, this is an area where we've seen top republicans on the hill break with trump in ways we don't

normally see, and who is hurt most by the retaliatory tariffs from china? it's farmers. who represents farmers? mostly republicans, and we saw the senate finance chairman chuck gressly who represents iowa saying, look, if you don't back off the tariffs there's no way we'll ratify your signature trade deal with mexico and canada and republicans are already digging in on this and trying to pressure him. will it work? we'll have to see. >> will he hold in the president believes this fight is long overdue. the president is right that china violates all the rules when it comes to intellectual property. the president is the right that china subsidizes a lot of its economy, that's one of the fights he has with the european union as well. will the president stay firm here if china doesn't budge and we get closer and closer to 2020? >> they are counting on china budging. that's essentially what they are betting everything on right now with this, and they think that china is not in the best place right now, that they will also want a deal. that's true. both sides do want a deal, so the question is will they be able to get to that because

we've seen in 2017 the president's economic team saying we're getting very close to a deal. they said it last year and said it as recently as this 11th round of the talks that did not end great. that's the question. they are banking on this, but what they don't know is what they are going to do if that doesn't work out. that doesn't seem to be something they are planning for, so they are really betting on china actually coming to the table, but the last week did not leave people very hopeful about that. >> and the president didn't seem very hopeful tweeting he thinks xi is trying to wait out the election to see if he gets a democrat with a different posture. >> and democrats are a little bit scrambled, because i think there are many democrats who probably agree with the tough on china stance. >> chuck schumer is the president's chief ally. >> elizabeth warren might have similar retik and joe biden, too. they just don't agree with the way that he's going about it, so it's a much more limited argument i think for them to make politically to criticize him for how he's doing it while still standing by the end to that means. >> fascinating to watch. again, the president follows the

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to the israeli-palestinian crisis before looking forward she looked to the past and listen closely. said this. >> and there's, you know, this kind of a calming feeling i always tell folks when i think of the holocaust and the tragedy of the holocaust and the fact that it was my ancestors, palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, the human dignity, their existence in many ways have been wiped out and some people's passports, just all of it, was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for jews, post the holocaust, post the tragedy and horrific persecution of jews across the world at that time. >> now, calming is at best an awkward word choice in any sentence referencing the holocaust and one readily made for republican critics, including the president of the united states. on twitter today, she obvious has tremendous hatred of israel

and the jewish people, the president tweeting. can you ever manage if i said what she said and she said republicans are twisting her words and twisting them into something they are not. the truth will always win, tlaib said, in her tweet. she did call the holocaust horrific and a tragedy so the republican focus on the word calming does twist the congresswoman's words out of contest, but she also fails a critical fact in context test. yes, she said, palestinians lost land in the creation of israel, but she ignored the fact that palestinian leaders at the time allied themselves with hitler and the total war is how the arab world reacted to the declaration of israeli independence. joining our conversation our global affairs analyst and former state department negotiator aaron david miller and sunlan serfaty. aaron, let me start with you in the sense is she can't rewrite that history and can't project revisionist history and why? >> first of all, i think there

ought to be the ban of the deployment of hole cast imrajry and met favor in washington politics. any time he is been deployed by republicans, democrats, it's wrong. genocide is not a unique event but the willful murder and systematic murder of six out of seven million jews and she also has her history wrong on two points. it's an arguably proposition even though there was no holocaust. most of the propositions of the current state of israel was in place before they killed jews and the international support, but i suspect with or without it the state of israel would have come into being and finally on this notion that policeians either negatively or positively helped create a safe havern for

jews, in nazi germany coordinating with the nazis of what would happen if rammel's third court had been successful, they were concerning about the total extinction and this is ill timed and it will polarize even more the already polarized debate. >> congresswoman tlaib, one of the freshman democrats, getting a lot of attention and most unfavorable. republicans are saying they are anti-semite. liz cheney tweeting it over the weekend surely now @speakerpelosi will take action against vile anti-semitism in the ranks. tlaib says thinking of the holocaust provides her with a calming feeling and to the bigger picture that aaron laid out and the history and why, is this deeper trouble for

congresswoman tlaib and the democrats? >> certainly, is and we've seen republicans really very earring to seize on those comments with it taken out of context a bit, of course, and really focused their fire not only on tlaib but we've seen them do this with other controversial freshmen, ilhan omar. they are eager to paint this as the new norm of what the face of the new democratic party looks like and liz cheney called it the new norm of the democratic caucus. very easy to paint this with broad strokes. this is what the face of the democrats look like now, paint them as out of touch, as extreme. not too long ago nancy please was the boogie man of the democratic party, very eager now republicans to paint this wing of the party, these views on israel as mainstream. >> i'm struck, not just in this case but again in this case, how closely this has followed in the israeli media in the sense that they see these freshman and in

many cases anti-semitic statements getting covered. you've got deeper experience than me and follow it more closely. is that right? >> there's a tweeting going on here, a sympathetic connection between benjamin netanyahu recently re-elected and president trump and i suspect the prime minister has made a judgment that in fact these progressive democrats and the base of the party are ammunition and advocates to try to essentially turn the republican party into the go-to party with respect to israel. that has electoral consequences and for the u.s.-israeli relationship, if this means that, the relationship over time will be the case. >> speaker pelosi said she doesn't see that way. she prefers to deal with these things privately. any indication she will deal with this pubically? >> she's not mentioned or commented about it. her office has not gotten back to us. we've asked for a comment. i think she will have to face

this when they get back to washington tomorrow, the fact that this is a controversy that's growing but this, again, puts democratic leadership in a very awkward spot, a spot that they have not liked to be in since the start of this new congress. only five months already these new members have been here and we've seen time and time again leadership have to answer for the controversial statements of the house freshmen, this small group in particular, knocks them off their legislative priorities, knocks them off what focus they want this week, and i think this, again, sets up to be that example this week. >> we'll watch as the week plays out. thanks for coming in. joe biden back in new hampshire. middle class joe wants you to think of him but in 1988 high iq joe, might have been a better fit. >> what law school did you attend, and where did you place in that class, and the other question -- >> oh, man. >> could you quickly. >> i think i probably have a much higher iq than you do, i suspect. i graduated with three degrees from undergrad ate schools and

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democratic front-runner. arlette saenz joins us from new hampshire. front-runner joe biden. set the stage for us. >> reporter: well, john, joe biden is going to be arriving here at the community event, a pizza restaurant here in manchester, new hampshire. people are waiting over by the doors to see him walk in, but as you mentioned, he's here on his first trip to new hampshire as the clear front-runner in the democratic field. we have a poll that came out last week that showed biden above his democratic rivals coming in at 36% followed by bernie sanders and a few others behind him, but biden is going to be here making his pitch to voters in this first in the nation primary state, and this event has the potential to be a little bit different than his previous events in states like iowa and south carolina where he stood on the stage and delivers remarks and hasn't really engaged in voter question and answered and here at this small restaurant he's expecting to

take a few questions from voters at the end. biden and his campaign are very aware of trying to maintain that authentic new hampshire feel here with chair events. now it's not just new hampshire voters who are here in hampton. i talked to several people who also crossed the state line from massachusetts to come see joe biden speak, and a majority of the people that i've spoken with here today told me that they are focused on selecting someone that will beat donald trump. right now they are trying to figure out if joe biden is that candidate. john? >> fun to watch. arlette, enjoy your time on the trail. a little jealous. if you read all the press in recent days, the common theme seems to be like, oh, it's remarkable joe biden hasn't messed up yet. i don't know if that's fair to him, but that seems to be because he has had a history of gaffes in prior campaigns. i guess, let me just ask, is that fair to him? >> he has a long history in his previous presidential campaigns and his 40-year life as a politician as making gaffes speaking off the cuff and saying things that get him in hot water so he's surrounded himself with

a number of handlers and people who have kept him away from doing that and people have been sort of surprised his ability to put together not only a campaign that's been mostly gaffe-free but also he's been able to raise a lot of money. he's been able to really shoot up in the polls in a number of early states and have shown a number of signs of strength early in the campaign that show he's not just one and the 22 people that's running. he's the front-runner and a formidable front-runner that's getting the attention of the trump campaign, so i think that's one of the reasons so many people are focusing on him is that he's shown on a number of different fronts that he's the leader of the back right now. >> it shows the low bar that we have for joe biden in terms what have constitutes a gaffe. you know, he has been relatively scripted. it's almost like his campaign has kept him a little bit in bubble wrap, you know, that they have surrounded him. he hasn't been subjected to that many questions, that many unpredictable moments where he can easily go off skrirngts and he has had a few missteps.

his remarks on china have opened up the door for criticism from republicans, but new hampshire is a different state, and joe biden has never even been on the ballot in new hampshire which is sort of striking. he's run twice and has already dropped out before it gets to new hampshire, and he's going to an area that is 40% undeclared as they call them in new hampshire. voters not associated were either party, which is sort of his base and what he's going after is that sort of centrist lane less. >> especially if the republican doesn't get a big republican challenge, the independent voters can go either way. if there's not a big republican race, you can expect they will come to the democratic primary. to the point about getting the president's attention, the president seems to focus mostly on bernie and biden, senator sanders and biden. the economy is doing great and would have crashed if my opponent and yours hillary clinton would have won and china

is dreaming that sleepy joe biden or any of the others get elected in 2020. they love ripping off america. most of his advisers i think the president to not try to meddle. put his thumb on the scale, but he cannot resist. >> that's not really an option. we reported over the weekend something interesting that's happened is the president's perception of something is so often shaped by how it's covered in the media and lately when the president has been turning on the television to see how something he's done is playing out, he finds one of the people who are hoping to run against him on his screen. the president has been lamenting that he says these democrats are getting better coverage than he ever did, even from some places that are reliably favorable to the president and he's been complaining about it, but he's been complaining about and focusing on joe biden in particular. we talked to multiple sources last week that we reported over the weekend that said before 8:00 a.m. the president had called to talk to them about joe biden and what he was doing. the president even though there's caution among other people about how joe biden is going to do. won't be guaranteed he's the front-runner, the president is

already treating him like he is one. >> anyone who thinks this is locked in is nuts. it's nine months until anyone votes so we've got seven and a half weeks to the first debates. that's interesting to see what happens, joe biden on a debate stage, the lesser known candidates. can they stand up there? do they look like equals? mark long, a democratic strategist with the sanders campaign in 2017 had a piece on nbc politics. with biden in the race it gives sanders someone to contrast with. i think one of bernie sanders' central challenges is being able to adjust to a front-runner position and ultimately building a coalition that makes him the nominee. that's his take on senator sanders. biden has the opposite challenge. he has the ability of building a broad coalition but can he consolidate core enthusiasm? a lot of people are for biden, but are they really for biden? can he hold it? >> i mean, that's the question everyone is looking at. i think biden has to be careful because he does have all these handlers making sure he only answers a few questions at press events. he doesn't go off the cuff, but the reason people love people is the same reason people love

trump is that he doesn't come off as a robot, comes off as your uncle joe at the party. he has to thread the needle between not making the gaffs that could sink his front-runner potential but also seeming like a person or humor. >> set the gaffs aside. when he gets into the more retail, how does he deal with medicare for all or fix obamacare? how does he deal with green new deal? what specifics, what would you push and how are we going to pay for it? elizabeth warren says let's do this. here's how they would raise taxes and what say you? worry about the policy before we worry about the gaffs. before we go to break, what you might call a battle of the trolls. new york mayor bill de blasio camping up at trump tower for his new green deal and president

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topping our political radar today, fresh reaction just in to new controversy surrounding freshman democrat rashanda tlaib and her remarks about the holocaust. the house majority leader telling cnn in a statement minutes ago if you read representative tlaib's comments it's clear that president trump and congressional republicans are taking them out of context. they must stop, and they owe her an apology. another 2020 presidential candidate is promising free college. the former housing secretary julian castro unveiling his education reform plan today. besides tuition-free public colleges and tech schools, it also calls for free pre-k,

student loan debt relief, higher teacher pay and infrastructure programs. secretary of state mike pompeo is cancelling his trip to moscow heading to bruce el to talk about threatening statements from iran. pompeo will then continue on to sochi, russia tomorrow as planned for talks with president putin and other top russian leaders. turning now to the supreme court where we're getting new insight into the mindset of the new justice brett kavanaugh. several things at the court today caught your eye. walk us through it. we're at the final turn of the court now. they are finished with arguments and furiously are writing opinions. today we got some interesting glimpses of the future of this newly conservative supreme court majority. first of all, with kavanaugh, today the court allowed a suit against apple to go forward. it was a 5-4 opinion, but what was interesting there is that kavanaugh sided with the

liberals. that's going to raise some eyebrows in the business community, but it also goes to show how little we know about kavanaugh. he hasn't been on the bench for the first full term yet, and so that was an interesting note. another thing is the death penalty. the supreme court has been squabbling in rare public opinions lately about the death penalty with conservatives saying that these prisoners are waiting too long, but today almost out of the blue we saw justice alito, gorsuch and thomas, the far right side of the bench, complaining about how kavanaugh and roberts had voted to put one execution on hold. it was so interesting because alito was writing and saying that this isn't good for the court whereas kavanaugh again wrote with roberts saying here's why we did it. we don't usually see that. finally, the court in general, we saw a separate case about precedent, and what was interesting briere, the liberal justice in dissent here. he sent a signal that he is worried about this court overturning precedent, so in the

next few weeks we're going to see a lot more opinions. today we got a little bit of a clue about kavanaugh and the rest of this court as we go forward, john. >> like reading a mystery book sometimes. appreciate those insights, and we'll continue to watch as we get more. remember bob gates, he was the cia director and the defense sent and now he looks in the mirror and looks at the presidential field and says he's worried. (paul) great.

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former vice president joe biden, you see him there, his first campaign event in the 2020 cycle. he's in hampton, new hampshire. we'll listen in on that, and see if the senator takes some questions from voters as well. as we watch, that one of the things the former vice president has said watch me on the campaign trail if you're worried about my age. he is's 76 and bernie sanders is 77 and president trump 72. the bob gates, the defense secretary back in the george w. bush administration and he's now 75 years old and he tells cbs had worries him having these older men running for president. >> i think having a president who is somebody our age or older in the case of senator sanders is -- i think it's problematic. the thought of taking on those responsibilities at this point in my life would be pretty daunting. >> that's an interesting perspective from a guy who served in democratic and

republican administrations. he's known as a republican obviously. thought about running for president himself several years back. is that going to weigh with voters? >> i think it do, and i think gates and biden have a history here. >> right. >> robert gates wrote in his book that joe biden has been wrong on every foreign policy and national security issue for the past four decades, so i think there's -- he may not be pre-disposed to vote for biden regardless of his age, but he is hitting upon a point that democratic voters speak to a lot which is a generational change. they want somebody different to challenge president trump and insight some new energy into the party and biden doesn't do that. >> he seemed to be answering the question of whether or not he can handle the duties and if you look at joe biden and donald trump and bernie sanders, all of them are pretty invigorating, they are not low-key candidates any of them or in office the president. but the question about what the age of the candidates is what views they represent. it's more of a generational

issue, not whether or not they can actually perform the duties of the office. >> we'll see. we'll see as it plays out. as we watch the vice president there, there's some other numbers out of new hampshire that involve the current president, current president. if you're going to challenge an incumbent you go to new hampshire, where pat buchanan ran and lost to george h.w. bush. here's a new monmouth poll on the republican race. will support president trump 72%, will support the former massachusetts governor bill weld, 12%, other or neither, 1% and undecided 2%. so nationally the president's support among republicans is in the high 80s so he's a little weaker, if that's the right word in new hampshire, but 72%, that's not exactly a huge opening for governor weld or anybody else. >> it's been pretty clear for several months now that there's not a big opening for someone to challenge president trump in a primary unless we hear from someone else besides the people who have raised their hands so far. that's part of the reason you haven't seen so many people like

the governor of maryland larry hogan sort not raise their hand and decide to run against president trump because he's relatively popular within his party, not popular nationally, but within the republican party which has really become the trump party. there's not a very big opening for anyone to really challenge him and take him on, and he's shown as he did in 2015 and 2016 when he was able to defeat 16 candidates, that he is a formidable candidate within the republican primary. >> chainsaw. twitter account chainsaw. >> as we watch biden, you wrote part of a piece of "the washington post," what about all the obama people who know him very well and what do they think? there's a split. some all in and others waiting on the shrines. here's one of the things mentioned in your piece. i think the question that we all have in our minds from an electoral standpoint is what the two 75-year-olds fighting against each look like said one former white house aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity. does that scream the future? does that scream contrast? is that an age question about

joe biden or just more, you know, if donald trump is in his 70s, do you want that younger, fresher face? like obama was, the candidate of hope and change? >> i think part of it is an age question, but part of it, too, the obama crew, you know, from 2008 in particular, they saw a generational candidate, an exciting and historic candidate, and almost in their dna is to look for somebody like that, and joe biden is the opposite of all of that, and that's really why he was picked to be the running mate is because he sort of fit the puzzle that they were trying to do electorally, so i think now they are looking at biden, and they don't have any ill will towards him. they personally like him a lot, but they are having trouble at least getting fully on board with a biden candidacy so they are intrigued at the moment with a pete buttigieg or a kamala harris or beto o'rouke. before maybe they come home and help joe biden in the end, but right now there's a lot of mixed feelings among the obama crowd. >> watch as it plays out.

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he'll run for senate so plame says she's decided to try her hand in politics running as a democrat. >> when i moved her from washington, d.c. over ten years ago i immediately threw myself into my community. identify lived all over the world. no place has felt like home except where i am now, santa fe and northern new mexico. what poem are concerned about access to he canary, quality healthcare and the unbelievable price of prescription drugs. >> see how she does as a candidate but she has the democratic playbook there. she's been studying clearly. >> surely, yeah, but she's kind of the last person democrats want running in the seat or winning primary because it's a very safe democratic seat so anyone in the primary will win the race most likely. she re-tweeted a very anti-amtic article and doubled down on that before backtrack and house democrats are already under the microscope for comments by two of their freshmen including tlaib. they don't want to keep carrying this in the race. >> to that point. that came up in the interview

where she tries to say sorry. >> i stupidly did not read the rest article and when i did i was really horrified. it's anti-semitic. that has no place any time anywhere and i'm embarrassed by that whole episode. i should not have been anywhere near social media or a computer at that time in my life. >> it wasn't just one time. she's trying to make the case it was right after she had to leave the cia and a lot of stress and anger and she should be forgiven because that have but if you want to get into politics. this is an issue, a current events issue because of other events. welcome to the rough and tumble. >> we'll see if democrats decide to sort of be hands off in this race or if they decide to meddle in the primary and get someone in there who can kwhal edge hch. the democrats want a unified approach in this age of trump where they are able to unify in the antipathy to president trump

but on other issues including israel and palestinian issues, there has been some disunity so it would be interesting to see if speaker pelosi and other democrats decide to not meddle in this election or if they decide to put someone up against valle plame that could potentially beat her and join the caucus. >> one other lawyer theresa legere and the county treasurer has been named a lot. if you win the primary, you're going to win the seat most likely, especially in a presidential year. 63%, 62%, 61% for the current congressman, a relatively safe democratic district. >> and heading into the next election year democrats kind of want everything to be on board. they want everything positive heading in to maintaining control of the house, so anything that distracts from that i think is a bad sign for democrats. >> she made some interesting comments. she was asked about the attorney general bill barr saying the trump campaign was spied on and whether or not she agreed with that, and she said she didn't.

she thought that bill barr was playing loose with the facts and talked about the high standard it is for an american citizen to be surveilled in that way so she made pretty strong remarks pushing back on the attorney general. >> likes the new world of politics. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great day. >> i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now, the president warned them don't do it, but the chinese just did it. how beijing's retaliation for u.s.-imposed tariffs is sending shock waves through the markets and the midwest. he's a former lawyer, the head of the senate judiciary committee and the man who once said ignoring a subpoena was impeachable. yet senator lindsey graham tells donald trump jr. ignore the subpoena from my fellow republican. plus, iphone users can now sue apple over apps. hear what the supreme court just ruled. and the