defiant white house know as democrats demand documents and witnesses. and the attorney general channels the boss. >> we should be worried about whether government officials abuse their power and put their thumb on the scale. >> i am so proud of our attorney general that he is looking into it. >> plus -- >> what do we? >> stand up, fight back. >> new state abortion restrictions guarantee big court fights and a big campaign issue. >> if this is a fight that president trump wants, if this is the fight he wants with america's women, it is a fight he will have and it is a fight he will lose. >> and the democratic front-runner makes a bipartisan

bet. >> let's stop fighting and start fixing. we can only do it together. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics," i'm john king. a busy hour ahead. we begin with the words of the attorney general and more importantly, what they mean in a washington overcrowded with confrontation. and in a washington that suddenly has one lonely republican saying the mueller report is a road map to impeachment. to listen to bill ywilliam barr hear president trump. >> if we're worried about foreign influence we should be worried whether government officials use power and put their thumb on the scale. i'm not saying that happened but i'm saying we have to look at

that. >> he's not saying that happened, but his boss says it did. a seasoned lawyer like mr. barr knows the traditional ag playbook calls for neutral words or no words at all about ongoing investigations. mr. barr also has no problem with witch hunt. those words, the president's bludgeon. in two plus years of searing attacks. his own appointees atop the justice department. >> if you were the president, i think you would view it as a witch hunt and a hoax because at the time, he was saying he was innocent and that he was being falsely accused. and that's -- if you're falsely accused, you would think something was a witch hunt. >> mr. barr's words the president no doubt has the attorney general he always wanted. they're also a new problem for the trump white house. the first republican member of congress saying the president engage the in impeachable

congress. justin amash starts with barr, saying, attorney general barr has deliberately misrepresented mr. mueller's report. now, amash is a tea party conservative who is often a lonely voice of dissent as a party he sees wrongly under president trump's spell. yes, as an outlier. as other top republicans say, case closed, let's move on, this is amash's view on a report he says few of his colleagues have actually read. mueller's report reveals president trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment. with us this sunday to share the reporting and their insights, maggie of "the new york times," jonathan martin, also of "the times," cnn's jeff zeleny. how much does this matter? it is one voice. let's not overstate it. it guarantees justin amash a trump supported republican primary next year. how does it change the conversation in washington, if

at all? >> i think the other question, and i'm going to defer on this, but i think the question is, does this then give democrats who have said they would only move forward if there were bipartisan support for impeachment, is one going to say this is bipartisan in amash has been a critic of the president for a long time, for many, many months but he is make a point that few have made to put it that starkly that these are impeachable offenses and that very few people have read this report. i think it continues on how much he continues to talk about it. >> it guarantees every republican on a sunday show this week, every republican if they're encountered out on the campaign trail somewhere, a town hall back home, will be asked about this. their hope was if republicans stayed in lockstep they could say, let's move on and pay no attention whether you think it's impeachable or not. the back half of the mueller report is a pretty damning indictment of how the president does business. >> correct. that's how it will complicate

things for republicans later this week on capitol hill. what this does for democrats especially because we've seen the frustration arising among some reagan file democrats who believe they really do need to go ahead and pursue something. we heard democratic lawmakers this week start making the distinction between a vote for impeachment and start impeachment proceedings. get that started and not vote on the resolution on the floor. nancy pelosi has continued to take a take it slow strategy. what justin amash's comments are going to do are really going to give an opportunity for those democrats to say, look, we do have a republican saying this, so why don't we move forward. >> on -- i want to get to the point you can put justin amash and nancy pelosi in the same sentence, tells you something about washington. in this republican party, this has been bottled up, this has been a keep the genie in the bottle. a lot of republicans don't like

the way the president does business. never mind the mueller report, whether it's the deficit, the trade. what happens now, is my question? jake tapper will sit down with mitt romney next hour on "state of the union." you have voices like ben sasse who have tried to bottle up thursday frustration, but on blinders and move on. does this say something? >> the reality is if nothing up to this point as we sit here in the middle of may, 18 months before an election, if nothing has happened now that has caused republicans to leaved reservation, i think this will not either. people are afraid. the ben sasses of the world -- how long has it been since he spoke out? he's trying to think of his own pry matter. the reality is every time these senators take a small vote -- look at senator roy blunt. he defied the republican party just a touch and got slapped by some -- of his own conservatives in missouri. the reality is, this will not

change much, but it does open the door to the conversation and it forces every republican to be asked about this. i think at the end of the day they're afraid of the president's base and they won't talk about it. >> to your point about speaker pelosi, she was a couple weeks ago way over here. don't do it. she's been forced by her own liberal base and in part by the white house. the white house counsel this week says, no, hell no, go away, take a hike to any democratic documents. they see bill barr. they thought maybe there would be an outlet to go to a more seasoned voice in washington ask say, are there some areas of compromise, if they want to compromise, i'm not saying the democrats do, but there was a potential avenue there. they listen to him and say no. so, listen to nancy pelosi. to your point, she's not saying impeach him but she's starting to inch up toward that line. >> they're saying unless you have a legislative purpose you cannot ask any questions. you cannot investigate unless you have a legislative purpose. but one of the purposes of --

that the constitution spells out for investigation is impeachment. >> almost saying convene the trial, start a dril because then we'll have better standing in the courts to say, give us the documents. doesn't mean we'll ultimately vote for impeachment. is that what she's saying? >> that's what it seems to me, she's trying to nullify some progressives in her base but at the same time not give trump the fodder he wants. it's such a fascinating moment where you've got this weird coalition -- speaking of weird coalition, you mention pelosi and amash, the aoc trump coalition here where both parties want impeachment proceedings for different reasons. the left wants them for reasons they believe are on the merits that this president has clearly committed impeachable offenses. trump and his allies like the idea of impeachment because to them it creates this idea of

persecution of a washington mess of democrats who won't work with him, who wants to investigate him. he likes this. we have a story in today, it's so striking to me the economic numbers are superb on many levels, but yet the president for a variety of reasons is not capable of talking about that. instead, would like to have this fight in which he denies democrats documents and invites impeachment. >> i don't think he wants to, impeached. i think that's an important point here. i don't think any president -- rudy giuliani has made this point, and it's true. i do think what they want do is make democrats say, yes, this is what we're doing. i do think you see pelosi inching towards that for the reason you said, we know this is going to court and they consider is easier to allow an outside arbitrator to make this decision and then they can say, look, they said we could go down this road. >> that's amash's point in his constitution. if you agree with him or disagree with him, he's

consistent that the idea is here, congress is here. he sounds like nancy pelosi and jerry nadler saying, we have a job, we're going to do it. >> saying the president is above the law, that congress has no right to investigate abuses of power, obstruction of justice and that's wrong. the implication of what they're doing would make the president atyrant, not answerable to congress. >> again, it's almost the impact point amash makes in his tweets, that congress has a job, the president isn't above the congress. saying them in the same sentence makes strange bedfellows. >> it does, indeed. we don't know. watergate started out very slowly. i think this is more a problem

for democrats. >> the political incentives have to be working towards that. >> and they're not. >> right now it's the opposite, exactly. >> but amash does open the door republican being asked about the ten examples robert mueller says are obstruction. if you read read that, thing about that, do you excuse that, accept that? >> for this week. what they learn from dthd truon trump, if you wait long enough, they move on. >> does he run for libertarian for president or not run at all? that's an important question. >> amash 2020 will be talked about. this is day one of this story. we'll see where it goes and how long it lasts. we'll watch the twitter feed. next, mixed signals on iran shift. >> i went to congress 23 women out of 435 in the house of representatives. two out of 100 in the senate. we made a decision, this has to change.

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>> translator: trade, immigration and iran. president delayed auto tariffs and making a deal with canada and mexico to end aluminum and steel fears. to allow a sharper focus on the bigger trade war with china. the president also unveiled a new immigration plan. not only is it a nonstarter for democrats, it was an instant dud with fellow republicans. and a week that began with muscular rhetoric about iran ended with word the president told his acting defense secretary he is in no mood for war. and with the president weighing in on reports of in-fighting involving his national security adviser and his secretary of state. >> they put out messages that i'm angry with my people. i'm not angry with them. i'm worse than they are. they're more militant. pompeo is doing a great job.

they make it sound like it's a conflict. everything is a source says. there is no source. the person doesn't exist. the person's not alive. it's bull [ bleep ], okay? >> there is -- there are sources. sources do exist and they do say these things but that's -- i'm not sure what to make of that. but that is, god bless him -- >> he's the most transparent president in history because that was transparent. >> on certain fronts, yes. >> yes. >> what is he trying to say there? there have been reports from credible people inside the white house that he gets nervous from john bolton, tries to get to far leaning forward. what is going on? >> he doesn't like the reports about -- two things he doesn't like. he doesn't like reports about in-fighting which have plagued his administration more than most. as you know very well, every administration does have some level of this.

advisers are not in the same place. the president is getting frustrated with intelligence but with trump it all leaks out and all leaks out as sort of this broader picture of an administration in chaos. that's one thing he doesn't like. he doesn't like the perception he's being led around on policy. there was a real sense for a while he was being pushed towards a conflict he doesn't want with iran. he's very well aware his base of supporters in 2016 were the ones who opposed the iraq war, who were against exinc. tended u.s. engagements in the mideast. i think he's trying to deal with that while propping up his people. he says, i love this person and then with the next hand taking out a bat. it doesn't mean anything. >> the public embrace, rex tillerson can tell you how that goes. the headlines, cnn is reporting trump heightened rhetoric, in "the new york times," the internal tensions have prompted fears the trump administration is spoiling for a fight even if

the commander in chief may not be. the issue now becomes, number one, the president himself tweeting, maybe -- iran doesn't know. is there a credibility for the white house, who do you believe or what do you believe? the other question is, iran says no negotiations. we're sending an aircraft carrier group into the region. no matter who's to blame, where's the off-ramp when you have more of a confrontation? >> it's a great question. one of the biggest things in terms of foreign policy is the uncertainty, just not sure what president trump is going to do. is he going to follow the routine, the norms, or is he going to do something else? there is clear -- all week long it was clear that either someone was trying to set up john bolton, which is totally possible, is he a lot of people inside the administration who do not agree with his views. so, the president, as johnson said, was speaking on friday to the realtors. he made a statement at a group of realtors. why not talk about the economy? that's why his supporters and advisers say, why does he not

say anything else? we're at a 50-year unemployment low. the bigger issue from republican senators i talked to look at some of the states they represent. south carolina, alabama, tennessee, other places. these are automakers that are really concerned and troubled by the trade war here. that is a real issue the president hasn't necessarily dealt with. there was some progress on a mexico and canada week. that was huge. the trade war going on, that is a big issue for -- >> and to that point, he did retreat some on the auto tariffs. as he retreated he bought himself six months and made clear in the document that he believes he can say it's a national security crisis to the united states and push back on foreign imports. toyota issued a strongly worded statement. we employ a lot of americans. walmarts said it will raise prices on tariffs. a lot of members of congress were happy in the sense that they were like, focus on china. even if we don't agree with you,

focus on china. we're still in an uncertain world. >> i think the uncertainty is how the president likes it, but it's certainly not how republicans and congress like it, whether it's on trade or foreign policy. going back to the foreign policy point for a second, i mean, the credibility questions are growing even among republicans. lindsey graham said this week on capitol hill that all of us are in the dark when it comes to iran and you have a lot of people protesting for briefings and wanting more information from the administration. certainly republicans are sighing a big breath of relief, especially as this kind of clears the way for congress to begin considering -- begin considering the u.s., mexico, canada trade deal. a lot uncertainty remains and that's certainly not what republicans like right now. >> what about the immigration plan? i mean, i don't get it. i don't get it. >> what i think -- honestly, it's a signal from the white house he has a problem on this issue for his own election prospects. >> it's a campaign -- >> yeah. republicans -- restrictionist --

immigration restrictionists have tried for years to talk about the number reducing the number of legal immigrants. this plan doesn't do that. it was noteworthy. it was dead on arrival. jared kushner doing all these briefings. republicans publicly and privately saying, why are we going ahead with this? the president when he delivered this speech in the rose guard, it was a very -- you know how you can tell when he's not into his speeches, because he's talking back. to it or not that engaged. i don't think you'll hear a lot going forward. >> there's not a lot of audience to sell it to. it's basically understood that mitch mcconnell is not going to bring up a major bill between now and next year. he's going to confirm judges and they're going to pass spending bills to keep the government open and raise the debt ceiling. they don't want to be able -- it's not going to happen.

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joe biden is the undisputed front-runner. his big rally saturday, yesterday in philadelphia, proof the former vice president thinks the first lap of the early primary states went well. >> some of these same people are saying, you know, biden just

doesn't get it. you can't work with republicans anymore. that's not the way it works anymore. well, folks, i'm going to say something outrageous. i know how to make government work. not -- not because i've talked or tweeted about it, but because i've done it. our principles must never be compromised but compromise itself is not a dirty word. >> well, compromise sometimes is a dirty word, or a risky word in primary battles. biden's critics suggest he yearn for a time that cannot be restored, at least not be now given the battle lines drawn by president trump. but making government work again is biden's brand and his 2020 bet. >> our politicians, our politics today, traffics in division. and our president is the divider in chief. >> if the american people want a president to add to our division, lead with a clenched fist, hard heart, to spew

hatred, they don't need me. they've got president donald trump. >> not sure making government work again will fit on a hat like making america great again. or at least they won't sell as many. a lot of people thought he was going to get in, sell this message, name recognition would have him up here and then he was going to start coming down. that hasn't happened. >> it hasn't happened. one thing is clear. we said it wasn't a policy speech. it was a policy speech. the beginning of every sentence of every policy will start with, i can beat president trump. that was one central, clear anthem. yes, he'll get policies. they won't be acceptable to progressives but the question for joe biden, he has had a good run, no doubt. he's also had the training wheels on. his staff has kept him away from people, as jonathan has written about, and he'll be doing a lot of fund-raisers in the coming weeks. he's going to try to maintain a lead. there's a sense from a lot of

voters out there they do want someone to defeat the president. the question is, when other democrats who are starting to not get oxygen, when they start going after biden, we'll see how he handles it then. the first month has been good. >> the biggest test will be on the debate stage. you have 20-plus candidates on the debate stage, they'll draw random lots. we are seeing bits of it here. here are some democratic candidates trying to chip away a little bit at the front-runner. >> i have a great deal of respect for vice president joe biden, but i disagree with him. that 1994 crime bill, it did contribute to mass incarceration in our country. >> he's going to have to say that we have to remove our reliance on fossil fuels and our electrical grid. i have not seen to date any suggestion that he can do that. >> i'm not going to weigh in on any of my competitors. what i will say is i was opposed

to the iraq war. i believe it was a bad idea. >> three issues right there you just heard. the '94 crime bill, the '03 iraq war and this question about climate change. they're all making a bet that they can move voters off biden with a policy argument. when biden's argument isn't policy-based. it's, i can win. by the way, you loved obama and i was his vp for two terms. that's the challenge. i think the biden bet is he has an obama halo with half the party and that the party's only test is can you beat trump? how son do we started saying, joe, you're too old or you're creating -- this is risky. >> let's say candidate "a" does

that. candidate "a" might take themselves out. if you look at these numbers, again, it's 8 1/2 months until anybody votes. i use these poll numbers and i tell you at home, it's early. we have no idea who's going to win this race. but you'd rather beat joe biden than anybody else especially when you look, 341. quinnipiac, 29. up to 39. again, that's where you want to be. the question is how do you -- do you just -- if you're the democrats do you just think over time the air comes out of the balloon or do you start to think, no, you have to get tougher, whatever it is. >> this is the problem. joe biden has been helped, and i jonathan and i wrote about this, too, the president has been focusing on him. i think the best thing that happened both to other democrats in the field and to trump in the last week was the entrance of new york city mayor bill de blasio, who the president does not see as a real target but a --

>> fun. >> tune-up bag. >> he got distracted. >> and his own aides are very happy to have him tweeting about bill de blasio and not about joe biden who is creating this aura. >> to the point of your story, do the democrats read that and pick up on what the president's argument is? trump can't stop attacking biden. the president believes he can portray biden as an ossified political class like hillary clinton enough that biden about collapse or stagger into the primary. will there be someone who says you've been part of the problem for too long. and he was the vice president to the most popular democrat in the country. but at some point is someone going to say, i have to take the risk. >> who it will be will be the big question but you see some

people dance around it. democrats so far have been so resistant to these kind of -- these sharp political attacks. that's why they're making the contrast on policy and not anything else. i mean, i don't know when other candidates would go after biden for, say, his conduct during the clarence thomas hearings. i don't know if that's something -- >> at the end of the day joe biden's biggest rival is joe biden. what he says. so, it is a high wire act. so far he's doing strong because voters are looking for someone who can win. can we? we don't know the answer to that question, of course, but i think joe biden's biggest poebt is joe biden. >> if he survives the first two debates in june and july and does not create a self-inflicted error or take on -- it's going to -- i had a democrat, a big hillary supporter. likes biden but not eager about biden say to me, look, the donors in this party, a lot of the act viss, too, they so desperately want to beat trump. if this labor day and biden has

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sunday trail mix to get more of a taste of the 2020 campaign. two new democratic entries in iowa, the montana governor steve bullock says he's the only democratic candidate to run for president who says he's won a red state. the other new candidate, new york's liberal mayor bill de blasio insists his big city background not a barrier to understanding rural voters in iowa and elsewhere. >> it's all about working people. it doesn't matter if you're in gowry, iowa, or new york city. and in the end, people should trust someone who's already done it. that's what i'm going to say. >> senator bernie sanders out this weekend with a new education plan. it calls for a minimum salary of $60,000 a year for public school teachers, an end of for-profit schools. an emotional town hall for pete

buttigieg, an 11-year-old girl who asked the mayor if he had any advice dealing with bullies? >> i had experiences with bullies when i was growing up. everybody who's different can be bullied. the secret is, everybody's different in some way. the person who is bullying you probably has something a little broken in them. i think it really matters we have a president that doesn't show that kind of behavior. that's one of the reasons i'm running for president. >> up next for us, then alabama and missouri. two more states move to restrict abortion and ignite a big national debate. you should be mad that this is your daily commute. you should be mad at people who forget they're in public. and you should be mad at simple things that are unnecessarily complicated. but you're not mad, because you're trading with e*trade, which isn't complicated. their app makes trading quick and simple so you can strike when the time is right. don't get mad, get e*trade and start trading today.

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do you us to overturn roe v. wade? >> if we put perhaps another two or three justices on. that will happen. and that will happen automatically, in my opinion, because i am putting pro-life justices on the court.

>> always campaign issues but big action in the states is upping the stakes as we gear up for 2020. this is the 2016 map. use this as your guide as we take a look at what's happening in the states. these are states where in 2019 new abortion restrictions. red means restrictions, have been enacted. all states carried by president trump, you see the new restrictions enacted in these states. we'll overlay it with states where new restrictions are pending. you see several more states. what's common among them? all states carried by president trump in the 2016 election. either enacting or debating new abortion restrictions in these states. we'll bring in a couple more here, you bring in these states here and you see three blue states. vermont, new york and out in nevada. three blue states fighting abortion protections. this issue is percolating in the states as we get closer to the 2020 presidential election. the one that's getting the most attention, let me move this away, is the new alabama law.

there's a missouri law the gov no are will likely sign in the week ahead but the alabama law gets the most aattention. this is why. it bans abortion at every stage of pregnancy. doctors could get 99 years in prison for performing an abortion. here's where it gets controversial. exceptions when the mother's life is at risk but not for rape or incest. that has even some in the pro-life movement concerned about that bill here. what's the issue here when it comes to the polling? let me stretch this out for you a little bit. most americans say, let roe v. wade stand. 43% of republicans say that. 73% of democrats. overturn it, only 2 in 10 americans say that. a little more than a third, approaching 40% of republicans. a sliver of democrats say that and so then you come to this question, though. you saw the president in that debate in the last campaign. only 20% of voters, 21%, said the supreme court was the most important issue in the last presidential election. but among those voters they went

lopsidedly for president trump. republicans in past kaemz have used the issue of the courts to motivate moaters, to bring them over. maybe you didn't like president trump on this issue or that issue but wanted to be with him on the judges. they are hoping the democrats can turn that tide in 2020. >> i believe access to abortion is a constitutionally recognized right. if this is a fight president trump wants, if this is a fight he wants with the american people, if this is a fight he wants with america's women, it is a fight he will have and it is a fight he will lose. >> they're coming after roe and they've been stacking the courts for years to try to make sure this would happen. what's happened is we have seen women's rights shrink and shrink and shrink. well, i think it is now time to fight back. >> will this change? will democrats be able to use this as a motivating -- several state laws will be challenged in the courts but we may be deep

into 2020 if not past 2020 before we can get the supreme court to clarify this. in terms of the campaign impact, democrats say, these states are helping them in an odd way, if that's the way to put it. >> i spoke to parties over the weekend about this. it's very clear to me that democrats are energized about this prospect of using this issue to mobilize their base, but also to kind of persuade those few voters that are still persuadable in america that, you know, you might like your lower taxes but this is a part of the gop that's a little too extreme up. don't like trump's conduct. here's one more issue to layer on the trump conduct issue. and the republicans, frankly, already have evangelicals locked in. there's not a lot of voters they can add in that coalition that that base loves trump already. they're super energized. they want to change the -- i'm not sure what this does. >> the president himself also tweeted about this last night.

>> very telling. >> after being silent. he tweeted he didn't actually comment on the bill himself but noted he personally favors, you know, rape and incest exemptions and life of the mother which many of these bills don't have. i don't actually think this is an issue where the president himself wants to speak out. you saw that in how he handled that. >> to your point. he put out, i'm strongly pro-life with three exceptions, rape, incest and protect the life of mother. he said radical with late-term abortion and left is exploding. we must stick together and win. >> he's saying two things. >> the issue is the alabama governor signed this law. the missouri gov no nor is about to sign a similar law. >> the last part of that tweet -- three-tweet deal was very telling. he's saying, stick together on this which is basically his way of saying, don't do the alabama route and have us seem as the extremists. have them seem like the extremists by focusing on

late-term abortion instead of making it about sweeping restrictions, no exceptions for rape and incest. >> i talked with a top republican strategist who works with the president a lot said, this is the last thing we need. so, they do not want this. the suburbs have seen this erosion of support. the question is, can democrats capitalize on this? we don't know because so many young voters have not been a awakened to roe being overturned. >> why not have a white house shop contact the governors and say, work with your legislature, dial this back a little bit? >> that's a wonderful question. >> to the democrats -- going back to the democrats. this is an opportunity for anyone, i would think this is perhaps an opportunity for gillibrand to break out of the pack. we've seen her struggle the polling and donations. she has leaned on her gender to day one to make her case to democratic primary voters. she traveled down to georgia to

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one last time around the "inside politics" table. ask our great reporters to share something from their notebook. maggie? >> president trump got a polling briefing with his campaign manager, his son-in-law jared kushner, the vice president on

on friday inside the white house. this is a polled 17 states done by his campaign. shows him struggling against biden and bernie sanders but they believe there are better figures for him deeper in the numbers. >> undervalued stock. >> incumbents are hard to beat. >> it's gotten overwhelmed and all this talk about impeachment in the 2020 campaign but future of two of the three gop house leaders is in question suddenly because you have two things going on. steve scalise is being wooed personally by president trump to run for governor of louisiana this year. the number three, liz cheney is thinking of running for the senate next year in wyoming. i'm heard scalise is 100% dead set against running this year. cheney is i understand she's being tugged, she's torn is the way it was described to me yesterday by folks that know her. what's fun about this is nobody is watching more closely than the number one gop house leader, kevin mccarthy, because those

two could be a threat to him at some point, maybe in 2020 or down the road if the gop does not get back the majority. >> interesting to watch. a lot of fun there. jeff? >> spending time with one of the newest people in the democratic race, montana's governor steve bullock. it's clear his bet, the bull lor bet, is based on the fact that he's based from outside washington. he'll be running against washington, which means some democratic senators. he's said again and again, i'm a governor, i get things done. does joe biden stumble and does that give an opening for him? ee >> outsider things worked for governors before. >> certainly has. >> worked for the current president. >> i'll be watching a key vote in the senate on disaster aid, especially for hurricane-hit states down south and the flood-hit states in the midwest. it's been complicated this time around by the president's resistance to increase spending

for puerto rico. now there's not even a guarantee the white house would support what the republican-led senate comes up with this week but the states are hurting and there's a lot of pressure on congress to get aid done quickly. >> no guarantee they support the republicans. i will close with what has become a washington punch line. this is infrastructure week, or the week we learn if there ever will be an infrastructure week. president trump told top democrats a few weeks ago he shares their goal of a $2 trillion package. he invited them back this week to share how he wants to pay for it. the chamber of commerce among the gop establishment groups pushing a gas tax increase to pay for this. top white house aides led by mick mulvaney ensured conservatives they won't let that happen but some conservatives are still nervous because president when infrastructure came up on fox news took a shot at mulvaney. can they come up with $2 trillion without taxes? if so, how the fate of

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