lyon to demonstrate as we already have that he's violated the high crimes and misdemeanors statute, standard, but that we will get the conviction and removal in the senate, and that requires us to educate the american people. at the same time as i said this is not the only thing going on in congress. >> right. that's true. >> we just passed some major legislation. >> nancy pelosi listed a lot of that out right before she took questions. congressman, thank you for coming in. appreciate your time. >> thank you all. "inside politics" with john king starts right now. >> thank you, kate, and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. fresh fireworks between speaker nancy pelosi and president trump. he blames democrats for washington gridlock. she says he's the one who won't talk policy and questions his well-being. plus a new poll releasing right now shows a healthy joe biden

national lead among the 2020 democrats, but when you look only in the states that vote early, well, the race gets more interesting. also, thinking maybe we can all use a laugh today. how about we share senator lisa murkowski's birthday gift to herself. glad the senator had some fun. we begin with some serious business. the speaker of the house just moments ago telling reporters why she thinks the president is so mad. speaker pelosi calling president trump a master of distraction. she says his west wing temper tantrum yesterday yet another distraction in her view meant to dare democrats to cross the line on impeachment. >> the house democratic caucus is not on a path to impeachment, and that's where he wants us to be. >> that last sentence is pelosi's big message this morning. we're not on the path. her argument, one she made to

her top deputies this morning. the president wants impeachment she believes so pelosi is saying democrats need to stick with the plan and keep investigating, but pelosi's keep calm an carry on message comes even as the speaker argues the president in her view has committed crimes worthy of will impeachment. >> the president's behavior in terms of his obstruction of justice, the things that he is doing is very clear. it's in plain sight. it cannot be denied. ignoring subpoenas, obstruction of justice. yes, these could be impeachable offenses. the president is engaged in a cover-up, and that is what -- and how we deal with it is a decision that our caucus makes, and our caucus is very much saying whatever we do we need to be ready when we do it, and i do think that impeachment is a very divisive place to go in our country, and what we can get the facts to the american people through our investigation. it may take us to a place that

is unavoidable in terms of impeachment or not. but we're not at that place. >> not at that place. here with me in studio to share their reporting, julie pace with the associated press, jonathan martin with the "new york times," cnn's phil mattingly and torini portly with "the wall street journal." phil, i want to start with you. you spend your hours on capitol hill. yesterday, there were some thoughts after the president's tantrum and rose garden event a lot of democrats would say see, see, she seems to be confident this morning that she's got hem in the right place. does she? >> i think she does. if you base today where the democratic caucus was 48 hours ago, that there was momentum and people wary of going towards impeachment at least now we can launch an impeachment inquiry and they feel like in the leadership level they have tamp it had down. the speaker had a meeting with top deputies this morning and she walked through two very big thing where the court sided with democrats and one of the rationales for going for an impeachment is it gives you

stronger information in court. pelosi's point is we're getting the information. we're winning in court. this is what we need to make the case and to get the types of information you would need to make that case to the american people if you want to pursue impeachment. look, there's a long road here and clearly differences inside the caucus, but the speaker and her team at this point in time feel like they are in a better place despite the theatrics they saw the other day. >> theatrics go both ways. she viewed it as a stunt and as a temper tantrum and as the president trying to provoke democrats into impeachment and viewed it as the president trying to get out of any conversation about infrastructure because he's not serious anymore about that. that's her take. to have the speaker of the house stand there and question the president's well-being. >> yeah. >> say he needs an intervention. >> right. >> that's extraordinary. >> it's also buying her space with her own party and her own base. the tougher she talks about trump, the more progressives online like. you go, pelosi, with the gifts of her walking out of the white house with the sunglasses on.

the more they are talking about pelosi questioning trump's sanity, the less they are talking about why aren't you pushing impeachment, speaker? eventually she's going to face more questions about coming forward with impeachment and phil knows this from being at the capitol every day, some. more reluctant lawmakers that are now coming around. i can recall talking to emanuel cleaver, a house member, a couple months ago who did not want to impeachment trump thinking it would hand him a victory because he who is acquitted by the senate and trump would say i'm innocent. i'm acquitted and he's coming around. some think they are getting closer to impeachment. the more they come around, middle of the road politically, it will be harder for pelosi to fend folks out. >> middle of the road, pete buttigieg, one of the more moderates running for president, south bend, indiana, a red state, a state carried easily by president trump. listen to him this morning on the question of what the

president called the "i" word. >> as a young democrat i would think cautiously before i offer advice to nancy pelosi. what i would say is it is very clear that the president deserves impeachment and the case for for impeachment is being built each passing day by the white house. >> she calls them the presidentials, and her worry is much more, you know, the 200 plus in her conference. how does she keep them in line and satisfied? she said said diversity of opinion is great. sticking together, the unity is our power. >> pelosi, i don't think she necessarily minds what's happening on the campaign trail. you know, her focus to your point is these members that flipped districts where republicans were, held seats, and where trump won, and we have not seen any of those members come out. they may -- they may say similar things to pelosi in terms of, you know, concerning evidence, but they have not flipped and moved towards impeachment. i think it's unlikely that you

will see most of them move in that direction, so, you know, she's right now walking a tight rope. she's trying to give -- she's trying to give red meat rhetoric to her members to say, look, i'm taking this seriously. i'm not trying to give the president a pass on this, but she wants to drag this out as long as possible and can avoid getting into an impeachment process and that's by what she thinks is the best way, not necessarily to elect a democratic president but to keep her house majority. >> it will be interesting to see how the 2020 contenders handle the topic of impeachment because for a long time, the last few weeks, they have been taking more of the wait-and-see approach. they have been talking tough on trump, kind of similar to pelosi saying we need to wait. now we're seeing people like beto o'rouke who said this week that he was kind of leaning more towards democrats pushing forward on impeachment, so if more of those 2020 contenders come out in favor of moving forward with the process, i think we could see a bigger national debate on this. >> and if they can get some traction in the race, especially

those that are struggling. but to hear nancy pelosi, and she said it again today. she says to her members in private, look, let's be methodical and she has some facts on her side, the irs memo reported by "the washington post" that says we have to release the president's tax returns, the law is the law unless the president uses executive privilege. and the house is now turning over some more materials from the mueller report. that's some progress. let's not blow that up. two judge's ruling, most significant, in the last couple of days in favor of the house democrats on subpoenas for the president's financial records. now, those will be appealed. that appeals process could take weeks if not months, but pelosi's case is the senate is definitely not there. the american people aren't there, 56%, 57%, say don't impeach. let's lay out a lot more facts and let's see how the president responds to court orders before we get on the path. >> pelosi is basically asking

her caucuses, what's your end game here? you're not going to remove trump from office under impeachment proceedings. he won't be convicted by the senate, and you don't have the bulk of the american people pushing new this direction so she's saying use the process to put forward evidence that will be damaging to him in the 2020 campaign, and she has a pretty decent case to make over the last couple of days that the process is she is undergoing has a good chance of getting information that trump is desperate to keep private spilled out into the public space. >> another thing to keep an eye on that will help take some of the air out of the balloon that we saw inflating over the course of the last couple of days. when they come back from the congressional recess, this will be floor votes for don mcdann ignoring the subpoena. they are very clear, the vast majority of their members are mott publicly for impeachment right now and are not privately

telling them they are there, as long as that stays where that is, the speaker will reflect the caucus. >> her argument we can't give the president what he wants. it's hard to believe. a lot turned upside down in washington and elsewhere in the age of trump, but listen to speaker pelosi. she says the president wants us to impeach him. >> the white house is just crying out for impeachment. that's why he flipped yesterday because he was hoping -- somehow or other you all have a story that isn't real, and you want to believe that there's all this unease in our caucus. that simply isn't the truth. that's what disappointed him because he didn't see it as rush to impeachment coming out of our caucus. >> i know a lot is flipped on its head these days, but does a president of the united states want to be impeached? does he think it works for him politically? >> he doesn't want to be impeached. he wants to have the politics of being persecuted play out for the next six to nine months because he thinks that that

hands him a political cudgel to wield against democrats which is to say i'm trying to do policy. we have this great economy. he doesn't actually want to be impeached. he wants the issue and that's pretty clear to pelosi. democrats in 2018 in the mid-terms largely ran on a backlash to trump's conduct but the primary focus was healthcare. they don't want to run the campaign on healthcare and the aca and pre-existing conditions and he and his folks know that that's going to be the above board democratic message next year. >> to that point, what speaker pelosi tells her colleagues is if it's all about trump, look what happened in the last election, the presidential election, he won. when it's not all about trump and about his behaviors. >> substantively. >> in her view they will do well. up next a break from politics to get to the devastating scene that many woke up to after a horrible tornado hit missouri's capital city. e,

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>> we were standing outside because inside the basement it's hard to know what was going on. the sirens were going on. we listened to the wind and it got to the point that i knew it hit. it just gets different, and we -- we kind of all huddled down into the shelter there and flipped some couches there and made sure everybody was safe. >> the white house says president trump is closely monitoring the situation in those tornado-hit area. the damage and emergency response efforts as well. the white house says they are in constant contact with state and local officials. cnn's ryan young is right there on the ground in jefferson city. ryan, tell us about the damage and these tornadoes passed or still at risk? >> reporter: we've seen extensive damage and emergency crews are doing an overall assessment. look back this direction. already cleanup crews that are moving large parts of debris, but you really have to look up into the sky and this is our live drone shot right now.

we're going closer to some of the damage in this area. it's from here that we were able to see the extensive amounts of damage, and it's people who lived in this apartment complex who talked about the real fear of the shaking and the noise and the glass breaking and being fearful on the inside, and you can see this devastation as the light comes up, and you can see some of these buildings that have obviously been destroyed by the power of the storm. we've heard semis were turned over. we've heard cars were turned over, but it's here where you can notice that people were probably living in here who were really scared. listen to this one person talking about trying to get through the storm. >> the storm hit about a mile from me, but, of course, there was numerous warnings, including what they call a tornado emergency, so when you hear that, you want to put as many walls between you and the possible tornado. that meant getting into a closet. i was able to do that and then go down about a mile from where i live and then see all of the

damage that ryan was just talking about. >> john, as my photographer jake conditions to fly over this area. you're looking at some of the damage being assessed. we even so the emergency crews trying to get a look at the pictures. there's a massive cleanup picture here on the ground. you can see this group of people here at the uhaul. as they clean up one of the things we notice is these downed power lines, and that's something that obviously they are concerned about as well because you would hate for someone to get hurt at this point. here's the good news here. no one was killed in this storm. we did have 20 injuries where people did have to get emergency help and go to the hospital. we have seen also first responders using the canine unit to go through this area to make sure no one else is unaccounted for. >> ryan young on the ground for us. important reporting. appreciate the live report. up next for us here. back to politics.

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a closer look at the most important relationship in washington and the dysfunction. the president launched a twitter feed against democrats in congress for lack of legislation and despite what speaker please said. speaker pelosi today called it a tantrum and stunt and again saying she praise for the president. that's not the only time that she's suggested he needs some help. >> another temper tantrum. again, i pray for the president of the united states. i wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. >> what is your concern for his well-being? >> tough words. >> trying to assess the drama of the past 24 hours it's important, very important to remember the complicated history

at play in this most unusual relationship. >> he supports pelosi. he supports schumer. he supports clinton. >> got along with everybody. >> i feel sorry for him. >> i even prayed for him, but then i prayed for the united states of america. >> i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own obamacare. >> he's been a jobs loser, infrastructure, a number of issues, trade, et cetera. plenty of areas to find a lot of common ground. >> i give her a lot of credit. she works very hard. hopefully we can all work together next year to continue delivering for the american penal, including on economic growth, infrastructure, trade, lowering the cost of prescription drugs. >> i like her, can you believe it, i like nancy pelosi. >> i have the white house. the white house is done, and the house would give me the vote if i wanted it. >> you do not have the votes in the house. >> we believe that the president

of the united states is engaged in a cover-up. >> i don't do cover-ups. >> complicated is an understatement. at times begrudging respect. at the moment i would say complete dysfunction, correct? >> and you look back start of trump eats presidency where there was some concern from the republicans that he would work with pelosi and schumer. he was a democrat. i do think that there is an underlying respect that he has for her. she is powerful. she is in control. she has loyalty among her members and those are all traits that trump does respect, but just in terms of a functional relationship between a president and a speaker i think any hope that they could work on infrastructure together or some of the other policies that we've seen about it's pretty much gone. >> for the people watching out in real america, and washington

is often disconnected from the real america, there are some important issues on the table. a budget and the spending deal, kind of important. raising the debt ceiling. the treasury department said that has to be done and the disaster aid funding. just showed you the horrible scene in missouri. a trade deal the president wants very much, prescription drug deal. this is john thune, a member of the republican leadership and seems like we have a little bit of an issue. hard to figure out how much gets done around here unless the atmospherics get changed. all of these things need to get done but it's a heavy lift when you have this operating environment. >> the trump/pelosi relationship is fascinating for all the obvious reasons. they are both prakitivities, neith neither are idealogs, and when you show the list of what has to get done is the senate.

the house has passed a lot of bills actually. they are not being taken up in the senate and beyond funding the government and raising the debt ceiling which were the first two items i'm pretty skeptical that things will get done for 2020 election for the reason that neither side wants to give the other a victory. i don't think mitch mcconnell will bring up a bipartisan bill that will give house democrats something to run on in 2020 and the idea of any of those bills that you mentioned that are not must dos, ie, keeping the government open, i'm pretty skeptical right now. >> this hill reporter associates himself with the campaign reporter to my lift in terms of the other bills that are out there. the concern i was picking up yesterday, beyond trying to figure out what the hell actually happened from republican and democrat staffers is the must-pass issues. where do we go from here? you kind of go through them, the usmca is the stated number one priority of the trump administration. nancy pelosi decides whether or

not that goes to the floor. >> and the president lost ground on that front yesterday. she in her heart wants to do it. she's a free trader and gets into a caucus, trying to find a way to cooperate with the white house hand that shrunk yesterday. >> 120 billion in automatic cuts if they don't reach an agreement. mitch many conley and kevin mccarthy have been aligned that they need to forestall this and reach a broader agreement. had a great closed door meeting with the white house aides on tuesday thinking that there was a sign things were progressing forward. now nobody knows where that stands and the debt ceiling. you don't mess around with t.default is not something you want to screw with. how do all these things get done? if you don't know where the president is going to end up or if one to one relationships are so broken. >> to that point, the president said yesterday and tweeted again and his aids don't believe it, he said if you're investigating, you can't do both. >> speaker pelosi said you can.

>> of course. >> i do think we have a responsibility to try to find common ground. we're not saying as the president said if you don't -- if you don't stop investigating me -- if you don't stop honoring your oath of office, i can't work with you. that's basically what he's saying. maybe he wants to take a leave of an sense. i don't know. >> it's the last part. it's the last part. this is now a test of wills. she's saying sure, we can work with the president on these things and now she's going to make them blink in her view. >> the president made that announcement yesterday, but if you look back at his press conference immediately after the mid-term elections he said the same thing. in that clip he parades nancy pelosi. he said we can do, quote, beautiful deals but he said if you investigate me, i will take a war-like posture was the phrase he used and that's exactly what he's doing now, so he just kind of reinforced that yesterday and now like you said we're in this who will blink first moment. >> it's important moment given the lies of priorities for

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topping our political radar today, a quick look at the markets. the dow down around 400 points. stocks shudder at the trade war with china and trump trying to fix another side effect by bailing out farmers again, the white house announcing $16 billion in aid for farmers. the administration already gave farmers 12 billion in assistance

last year. senator elizabeth warren and alexandria ocasio-cortez teaming up for a second time this week. in a new video posted on twitter the pair calling out trump treasury secretary steve mnuchin and mnuchin's role with the bankrupt sears. listen. >> we've sent steven mnuchin a letter asking him what he did as a member of the sears board when eddie lampert proposed gutting the business, closing it and buying back stock rather than investing in workers. >> i think the american people deserve answers, and we're out there to fight for them. >> president trump with some choice words this morning for his former secretary of state. president trump tweeted rex tillerson, goat, is dumb as a rock and was totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be secretary of state. the president nominated tillerson as secretary of state, but you will remember they fired him last year. they had a strained relationship throughout and there are reports that tillerson called the president a moron. here's the current secretary of

state mike pompeo taking the president's side. >> he, meaning rex tillerson, was guided by, quote, american values such as democracy and freedom but he could not offer the same assessment for the president. what do you make of that comment? >> it's pretty outrageous, and it probably explains why rex tillerson is no longer the secretary of state. >> there are always family feuds in administrations. there always are egos and rivalries in politics and high-powered government jobs, but this one is pretty ed extraordinary. a, the president did hire rex tillerson and says he hires rex tillerson. rex tillerson is not dumb as a rock but if he were, why did he hire him and why is he up briefing members of congress this week? >> not only did he hire rex tillerson. he was pretty darn excited to have scored rex tillerson. big ceo, powerful businessman, exactly the kind of figure that trump imagined himself surrounded by when he came into washington and exactly the kind of figure he was trying to get respect from when he was a

businessman in new york, so the fact that this fell apart and that tillerson was insulting his intelligence that has gotten under trump's skin. still amazing to see this play out even more than a year after tillerson left washington. >> two fast points. the number of former trump aides that had a falling out with him keeps growing or growing. he's turned on them or they have turned on him or both. i look back at a focus group done last month for the house dem campaign committee that asked people swing voters about what issue do you think of when you think of trump, what policy issue? they didn't mention any policy issues. what they mentioned, this focus group warnings his conduct, his behavior, his twitter fights and his insult wars, and that to me is trump's biggest vulnerability is these kinds of things. he can't resist not swinging back at people when he sees them attacking him on the tv and paper and that's what defines his administration more than any

other issue with the voters he needs. >> temperament, temperament. >> right. >> when we come back, a poll showing joe biden with a big lead but if you are one of the other candidates or support one of the other candidates stay with us. an interesting opening. i've booked your shower, sir.

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the race is more competitive than the national polling suggests. the new numbers from monmouth, released at the top of the hour. national poll, democrats, joe biden, 33, is a for bernie sanders and 11% for kamala harris and 10% for elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg rounds out the top five. but then monmouth redid the numbers with just democrats and democratic-leaning voters in the early states, the states that vote before super tuesday. much closer race here, yes. biden still on top 26. senator sanders at 14 and senator harris at 14 and senator harris and 9 and buttigieg still at 6. in the places where candidates are seeing more of them, biden is on top but a more competitive race in the early states than you see if you just look at the national numbers. mayor buttigieg in the top five, says, sure, biden is the front-runner but nothing, nothing is decided yet. >> i think you earn the

nomination by winning it. nobody has earned the nomination in 2019. i think for the democratic party today, the other way you earn the nomination is demonstrating that you are the one who with death this president and win. some parts of the country where the very concept of a trump voter is treated as exotic, i think that the likelihood or at least chance that this president wins a second term is being underestimated in our party. >> two important points, number one, the underestimated parts. that's worth listening to. three two-term presidents in a row. hard to beat an incumbent president in a good economy. if you're pete buttigieg, look at the national numbers another great poll for joe biden. look at the early states, it reminds you nobody has voted yet, and in the states where they have seen the candidates more he's still on top, but.

>> it's a long runway here. we haven't had any debates. biden has not been really forced to perform under any kind of duress. he's had a nice rollout with a pretty light schedule to be frank. >> yeah. >> show there's a long way to go here, and, look, you've got candidates like bernie sanders who spend a lot of time in these early states who have, you know, deep support there. they may not add up to a ton but it's pretty firm and you've got other candidates vying for the same kind of voters that biden already has right now which is left of center, moderate, traditional mainstream democrats. he'll face real competition from those voters from mayor pete, kamala harris and others, and it's not going to be handed to him. what is fascinate being in that bite that you played, also kind of self-serving to say that we're -- that we're underestimating trump because he's from a red state, from trump america and he knows that crowd. >> we'll have these two sets of

debate. debates in june and july. i would posit we'll lose several candidates. how many is the question. their money will dry up and where does their support go if they do go. look at historic diversity in the field. look at the women candidates running for the democrats. take up 27%, senator harris, senator warren, senator clone barb, congresswoman gabbard and kirsten jill brand and williamson. when we get the dropouts that's when we'll have a reshuffling. >> that's what a lot of candidates are doing right now is building their own support and make themselves attractive if so and so gets out, and, you know, there are a lot of theories being banied about if a klobuchar gets out, a gillibrand gets out. where do those voters go? i think the debates are going to be really our first test of this field, and it will be tougher

for people to break through. it will be crowded out there two nights back to back. who you're on stage with is one thing that worries these campaigns a lot. if you have one night a bunch of the front-runners and biden gets his own night. if you're on stage with andrew yang, maryanne williamson, some of the people pulling up is%, do they have to go hard, and it's really, really complicated and the mistakes are incredibly high because there's so much democratic interest. >> huge room in the getting to know you part, even though we've been covering this campaign for months because it started so early. normal people in the real america. iowa, new hampshire, nevada, some. other states. and if you're a democrat you're paying attention. look at the favorable ratings here in the monmouth poll. biden 74% favorability rating among democrats. 1% of democrats have not heard of joe biden. i would like to meet that 1% actually, but -- and senator sanders, 2% of democrats haven't

heard of bernie sanders. look at senator warren and senator harris and senator booker and talking about pete buttigieg or beto o'rouke, higher numbers of democrats saying i don't know enough to have an opinion yet so that's a huge opportunity in the getting to know you. >> that's right, and the polling is reflecting that. i think another way to look at this field and kind of the alternative option is the grass roots money that we're seeing coming in. we looked at the first quarter money and a lot of the grass roots donors, the second option for a lot of them what is kamala harris so there were a lot of donors giving to three, four, five candidates and kamala harris was the one who had the most overlap and i thought that was another very interesting statistic to look at in terms of these voters trying find an alternative option in case someone drops out. >> i'll sneak one more. elizabeth warren passing bernie sanders among the more liberal voters in a q poll, quinnipiac poll. senator sanders clearly has the fund-raising network and the support from the last campaign

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planned fun raiser for daniel lipinski who is against abortion. he said he's deeply alarmed by the attacks of a woman's reproductive care and this will not change how i work as dccc chair to protect our big tent democratic caucus. >> the congressman told jonathan martin that, quote, shunning anti-abortion democrats was, quote, how we got president trump. people felt like they weren't welcome in the party. >> lipinski is an outlier in politics and now he feels like he's being picked on. >> post-alabama the politics got very hair for the chair to have that event in chicago. >> she says in her statement i'm still for the big tent. if you're for the big tent help the guy raise money. she's shrinking the tent.

>> she is not wanting to go far to be publicly for her which is what created the blowback when she was revealed to host this breakfast for him next month in chicago. she pulled back from doing that which is the best indicator yet of the changing politics of abortion in democratic politics. less tolerance for anti-abortion governors in the party and what's happening in the gop who is way on the right in the abortion issue. i was talking to progressive activists, and i'll tell you what, they are sick of this congressman who has opinion there for about ten years now. his dad had the seat before him. it is a seat that looks a lot like the ones that aoc won in new york and pressley won in boston last year.

historically cops and firefighters, working class and polish and irish and now much more affluent and diverse and the congressman is facing real challenges next year. he won by two points and face the same challenger next year, and the question is will democrats support somebody who on this central issue isn't with them. >> this is congresswoman jayapal making your point of how much the party has shifted. if you're not with us on abortion rights we don't want you. >> personally i do think that there should be a set of core democratic ideals that we all agree to and that you can't say you're a democrat if you're against immigrants, if you're against abortion, if you're against gay marriage and lbgtq rights, i'm not sure what it means to be a democrat if all of those things are true. hopefully there's not people that are like that, and if there are, then, you know, i think you'll see challenges, and

you'll see many of us supporting those challengers. >> i think this is where the democratic base is right now. they are not even talking about protecting abortion rights. they are talking about expanding abortion rights. they are on the other extreme. i was in alabama a lot of them are getting conclude into the 2020 race just because of this issue. clearly something that's driving a lot of conversation and probably bringing a lot of people into the 2020 session. >> always a source of tension, but there used to be a much larger group when the elder bob casey passed away several years ago, planned parenthood versus casey and now his son has a very different view on abortion and bart stupak, used to be a decent number, half dozen or more in the house, gone. >> the shift inside the democratic caucus particularly in the house over the course of the last four or five congresses is stunning. i think when you look at it.

where jayapal is where more democrats are. >> thanks for joining us on "inside politics." have a great afternoon. dana bash is in for brianna keilar, and she starts right now. >> i'm dana bash live from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now. in today's episode of season three, a president denies a temper tantrum, the speaker is concerned for his well-being and their feud may signal the point of no return. andolng the death of a sick migrant child in u.s. custody and he was the face of the enemy early in the afghanistan war, and today the american taliban walks free amid fears that john walker lindh is still