all of our viewers out there. remember finish the memorial day we could with collin quinn and red state blue state, monday night, 9:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. thanks for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. >> outfront next attempted coup, the president making wild accusations as he vows to get to the bottom of how the russia probe started. the in new weapon sweeping powers for the attorney general bill barr. plus a republican speaking out in the first television interview after calling for trump's impeachment. the former congressman says now is the time he is my guest and why elizabeth warren's dog is front and center today on the campaign trail. let's go outfront. and good evening, i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight trump end runs the cia. granting the attorney general bill barr sweeping powers. powers to put the cia, the fbi, the rest of american intelligence community under barr when it comes to

declassifying intelligence related to the russia investigation. >> he is a great gentlemen and a highly respected man. so everything that they need is declassified. and they'll be able to see how this hoax -- how the hoax or witch hunt started and why it started. it was a -- an attempted coup or attempted takedown of the president of the united states. >> well, let's just be clear. of course we know why the russia investigation which resulted in 34 indictments started. it's right here in the mueller report in the introduction. a foreign government contacted the fbi about a may 2016 encounter with trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos. papadopoulos suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the trump campaign in received indications from the russian government that it kwo assist the campaign through the aanonymous release of information damaging to democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton. okay. well, trump doesn't want to hear

those facts. what he does want to hear is that something else happened. he is going to give sweeping powers to a person who so far has been essentially a yes man to his every whim. a person who seems to agree with the president. >> what i'm most interested in is getting started, gettin started on going back to the origins of exactly where this all started. >> the first step is find out exactly what happened. >> they spied on me. they spied on our campaign. >> i think there is a spying did occur. yes, i think spying did occur. >> well, as barr knows since he worked for the cia, the word has spying extra legal connotations and a definition and what happened as trump's hand picked fbi director. trumped hand pic fbi director explicitly said in testimony under oath to the american people, what happened was not spying. >> well, that's not the term i

would use. >> not the term he would use because legal surveillance of people is not what they call spying. but if the president is really declassifying material and putting everything out there, you know just because he wants people to know the truth, right. let's just say maybe that's it. why is he blocking every congressional subpoena in why he appealing them in court fighting them with every single thing he can to prevent the american people from seeing anything about the russia investigation that he does not want us to see? maybe it's because he thinks if he says this enough people will believe the lie. >> and just so you know i was the most transparent and am transparent president in history. >> katlyn colins is traveling with the president, outfront live in tokyo. katlyn, obviously many people are not happy with the president's decision here, which of course is going to help one person, the president. >> yeah, and it's not just

democrats or critics of the president that are skeptical about this. it's members of the intelligence community as well, erin. and you could haerp the weariness in dan kot's statement when the director of national intelligence was talking about the decision the president made to give bill barr the sweeping powers. he said in quote, i'm confident that the attorney general will work with the intelligence community in accordance with the long established standards to protect highly sensitive classified information that if publicly released would put our national security at risk. now, you didn't hear the president talk about the potential national security implications when he was defending his decision to reporters before he left to come here to tokyo. but instead the president was saying he trusts the attorney general here. another the thing the president framed it as earlier says he is not trying to get payback even though you have to keep in mind that hours before the president signed this directive giving bill barr the powers in front of the reporters at the white house he accused the officials once again who led the investigation

of treason. >> all right. . thank you very much katlyn. and outfront now exactic congressman luke carria sits on the house judiciary committee. i appreciate your time. you hear katlyn giving the context here. the president is gichg the attorney general bill barr sweeping powers. what do you say to that. >> first of all this is all about the rule of law. and the concept that nobody -- nobody, even the president is above the law. we in the judiciary in congress have to do a job which is oversight make sure we know what happened in 2016 and what's happening in 2020. we cannot let the president throw throw us off our game or our job which is to make sure we investigate what happened. we have to continue to investigate, continue to go to the courts, issue subpoenas. we're going to move forward, because nobody -- nobody is above the law. >> but, congressman correa when

push comes to shove the president has to ability to declassify anything he wants. that's part of his powers as president. attorney general bill barr spent more time in government than the president has. so ostensibly would have more experience with these decisions. does that in any way make you comfortable with barr making the decision we it comes to this investigation? >> well, what we want is full trerptcy we want the full mueller report unracketed redact angled are you fine with in full transparency what whatever they want to put out about the report or even though mueller concluded or no. >> the president is going to do everything he can to throw us off the job which is oversight and we have to focus on getting to the truth. he has stopped us. he shockingly has ignored congressional subpoenas. we have gone to court last week. the judges actually sided with us. and have essentially said we have the right to mizar

financial records. the deutsche bank financial records. now he is appealing but thank goodness the courts are saying ner going to expedite the marryings so we can find out what is going on make sure we can get the records very, very quickly. >> so when dan coates puts out the statement obvious the protector of national intelligence mo has been completely blind-sided in the past and admitted so by the president, he puts out a statement about this sweeping power saying i'm confident the attorney general will work with the intelligence community in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly sensitive classified information that if released would put our national security at risk. does a statement like that from dan coates make you feel calm? or does it worry you seems to need to put that out there to make a threat or a reminder to barr that such a statement would be required? >> i'm very concerned because when it comes to our

intelligence community, i think the president would rather side with the russians than with our intelligence folks. so to me, i'm very concerned. >> your committee wants bob mueller to testify. when you talk about transparency on the mueller report. >> yes. >> and the president weighed in on that today. here is president trump. >> they have to get over their anger. and nef to get into infrastructure, drug prices and things like that. because they want to do a redo even the fact they're asking bob mueller to come and testify. he just gave them a 40ever 434 page report which says no collusion, which leads to absolutely no the obstruction. he just gave that report. why does he have to testify? it's ridiculous. >> of course there's many reasons for him to testify. write right? we know that. why did mueller not make the decision on obstruction. >> everybody everybody tries to

tell us what mueller meant. i want to hear from mr. mueller what he men. clearly what mr. barr is the four-page summary didn't tell us what mueller meant. and i want to hear it from mr. mueller himself. and i'll remind the president that we can do drug pricing. we can do infrastructure. and our job as congress in terms of oversight and investigation all at the same time. we can do it all. >> right. of course he said he will not do those things unless you stop investigating him. the chairman of your committee jerry nadler says mueller is willing to make opening statement but he wants to testify in private. would you be okay with that, the opening statement in public but the question and answer being in private and then of course filtered through political lens when you kwom out and talk about it. >> i think that's a good first opening. i want to hear from mr. mueller. i just want to make sure that he answers our questions that our experts are there to work with him to talk with him. and that our full committee is there to ask him questions. if he thinks there is some things that maybe he needs to

keep private, i'll respect that. it's congress people every day we hear top secret information and we're pretty good at keeping secrets. >> thank you very much. congressman correa i appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you very much. next trump retweets an edited video of house speaker nancy pelosi. it was edited and made to make her look terrible like she is slurring her words. how does he explain this? >> the video that are disseminated that's going too far. >> i don't nope about the videos. >> plus the trump administration by passing congress to sell weapons to saudi arabia on the same day he nouns troopts to the middle east. why is the president burying all this news about saudi arabia on the friday before memorial day. plus a former kmds says trump needs to go. he is outfront tonight. on a john deere x300 series mower.

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an edited from fox business of pelosi having trouble speaking. he didn't just retweet it. he typed in all caps pelosi stammers through news conference. tom foremanen is outfront. >> listen for yourself, here is speaker of the house nancy pelosi talking about president trump. >> and he had a press conference in the rose garden with all this sort of visuals that obviously were planned long before. >> and here is the same sentence as seen by millions online. >> and then he had a press drchs in the rose garden with all this sort of visuals that obviously were planned long before. >> the video has been slowed down making her look drunk or impaired. that version was quickly shared millions of times on social media and on fox and friends this morning, the conspiracy theory got more oxygen. >> we're all questioning her

mental capacity. she slurred her words rambling over her words. >> a bit later the show admitted not a real video. >> it's doctored. >> but they are not alen in spreading it. after pelosi suggested trump was unhinged. >> i wish that his family or administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. >> did you hear what she said about me long before i went after her. >> trump again pushing the same claim about her. >> look, you think nancy is the same as she was, she is not. maybe we could all say that. >> and he is backing that by tweeting another manipulated video. a fox mashup of awkward moments summed with the banner pelosi sfamers tlutss news conference. >> making zsh dsh sending snls the u.s. mexico, canada, if that's not the accurate character -- some people call it after nafta some call it nafta 2.0. working together to make -- >> she could not put a subject with predicate in the same

sentence. >> so facebook and twitter, and youtube all took heat from people who said, look, you can't let these fancy he had it's, these deceptive videos be pushed out as this they are real and do nothing about it with varying degrees of response from people. to be fair, erin, you know there were videos online where the same thing has been done to criticize president trump and make fun of president trump. the big difference is this, though. nobody has the platform that he has. and this is the president of the united states. and people close to him pushing out these videos that they know are fake. that's the main complaint some people have here. and it is promising to be such, such, such a nasty election next year. >> it certainly is. and of course amplified by the cable news organization that wants to say that they're in the news business. thank you very much tom. a and outfront "new york times" columnis frank brunny and april

ryan. so frank, the video. clearly doctored. yet it took a life of its own. people believe what they want to believe. any see something and it got amplified how did it happen sfl it intersecretaries with the agenda you press, you just embrace it and go with it. that's how it happens. this is so much scarier and big are than a fight between the president and nancy pelosi. this is a harbinger of what's happening in the 2020 presidential. in says everything about the sophistication and quickness with which disinformation is created and disseminated. i mean, this is sort of what we saw in 2016 coming back amplified exponentially. and i don't think if rerealize in in 2020 if facebook and twitter don't come up with policies that are more rigorous we are going to be sorry in a lot of trouble. >> april, questioning the speaker's mental state is what the president is trying to do. and in fact sure he tweeted out

the video last night. but he has been very direct about it in the past few days. here he is. >> she is a mess. look let's face it. she doesn't understand it. and they sort of feel she is disintegrated. crazy unanimous. i tell what you i've been watching her. and i have been watching her for a linc period of time. she is not the same person. she is lost it. >> you think as she was? she is not. maybe we can all say that. >> he is planting the seeds, april that's what he is doing. he is not being shy about it. >> no, he is not. erin, let's say the president is practicing street psychology. you know, i'm going to throw on you what they throw on me. and let's see if it sticks. what's unfortunate is the same thing that he is saying about nancy pelosi i have heard people who were friends of this president who lived in trump tower in new york who actually rented apartments. i'm talking wealthy people with major names who say this

president is not the person that they knew 20 years ago when they lived in trump tower. you know, yeah, yeah, he is doing the same thing happening to him. we could say it's -- it's so interesting. we could say the same thing about in president. i mean we have seen it over and over. i mean, nancy pelosi is saying mr. president or emperor you have no clothes and he wants to believe he has -- he has clothes on. and she is calling it out. and we have seen this, erin. we have seen this jim acosta. this is not china. this is not russia. we have seen propaganda video come out with jim acosta our own jim acosta on the courts got back him in the white house because the video was brofen a lie and what they tried to say was a lie. we have seen this also with congresswoman frederica wilson with the sergeant david johnson issue when they tried to say she was unhinged and eaves dropped on a conversation when in fact the master sergeant put the phone on speaker toe phone for everyone in the car to hear the president speaking. and then the white house tried

to perpetrate a lie on me saying something that i never said about sarah huckabee sanders. she and her father went on fox news saying this. this is what the administration does when people tell the truth and stand up for what's right. >> so let me just say, frank. one thing i find interesting about this is that as april points out, you know, the president -- remember when kim jong un called him a dottard. this upset him and he turns this against other. you have a group of people in the 70s. nancy pelosi and joe biden and bernie sanders and donald trump. and donald trump is turning that against all of them. here he is. >> i don't know what the hell happened to biden. what happened to him? i'm looking. i said that doesn't look like the guy i know. >> i think we're calling him sleepy joe i've k is not the br bullable in the group.

>> i "a" a young vibrant man. i don't know about joe. i know they're making me look young in terms of age and i think in terms of energy. >> now, of course calls bernie sanders crazy. but this is- this is an interesting strategy. >> this is classic trump. and it's not difficult psychology to parse. he thinks if he calls people things first por louder or more frequently people will think that can't be true of him because he wouldn't do that if he had doubt. >> so biden looks old and declining but trump vigorous. >> even with my ridiculous hair i'm vigorous. that's person is sleepy i take more vacations and play more golf than any president in history. i know what you but what am i that maybe you do or don'ter remember in the the school yard but it's now in the white house. >> it is certainly the strategy he uses. he is taking away the age issue and turn it as a power for him when they're all about the same

age. >> yeah, ner all about the same age, just a few years difference. you know, this president has a tendency to throw rocks and hide -- well no he throws boulders and hides his hands. he has to understand that when you hurl insults at people you have to look in the mirror. and sometimes when you look in the mirror it's not so pretty. he is talking about joe biden. joe biden never said his father was born in germany when he was born in new york. i have never seen joe biden write a tweet saying kafeffe. or i've never seen a joe biden or bernie sanders pick up a glass of water with two hands. he has to stop the bull yard bullying. he thinks he is bullying into submission and it's not working. it's not. >> thank you both very much. and next president trump sending more troops to the middle east. >> we're going to be sending a relatively small number of

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american journalist jamaul khashoggi was murdered in the consulate in istanbul. >> i hate crime i hate what's done. i hate the cover-up. i will tell you this, the crown prince hates it more than i do. >> king salman of saudi arabia could not have been kinder. and i will tell you he is a very wise, wise man. >> trump heaping praise on the saudis. siding with the saudis over his own cia when it came to the crown prince ordering the murder of jamaul khashoggi which is the cia conclusion. the president announcing more troops going to the middle east. barbara starr is outfront. and barbara, look they are trying to do this big thing, put it in go around congress do it before the holiday and hope no one notices. >> well i think everyone ises inning. this is a very unusual move by the white house rarely done if

at all to declare an emergency that the situation with iran so serious that they can't go through the normal notification process to congress for billions of dollars in arms sales, especially for saudi arabia. for saudi arabia we are talking millions, hundreds of millions of dollars in things like aircraft maintenance but also precision weapons. and the big concern of course is the saudis have been dropping the bombs in yemen causing simple yan casualties, something now that congress is really concerned about about why the white house thinks it's necessary to go around them and the reason is pretty clear. if they go around them, declare this emergency, they don't have to get congress approval for the arms sales they can go ahead and start shipping. a lot of controversy here about what the administration is really up to, erin. >> thank you very much, barbara. i guess i would point out again this administration is seizing more power for the executive branch and ending around the other branches of government.

outfront mark hertling for the a general and juliette kayyem assistant secretary of hoemtds under president obama. juliette let's start with saudi arabia here. we have in happening. they are dlarpg the molden to avoid congress signing off. why? the president made history went to saudi arabia for the first trip. his son-in-law, sfon in law, crown prince. the saudi turned an entire black with the stay at the hoe pel tp spending hundreds of thousands at the trump hoe knell washington after the election. i could go on and on. saudi money matters. >> saudi money matters to trump as president and to trump as businessman. before i go on i want to thank the general and his colleagues and all those who served before this memorial day weekend for what they do to protect the united states. what the president is doing right now undermines u.s. security. he is in fact preferring or by

passing through the exceptions to the arms control act -- allowing for a sale to the saudis that had already been essentially prohibited by the senate and why is he doing that? he is doing that because they are trying to lay a foundation or framework to begin to increase the fears in the american public that the iranians are up to no good. they deploy troops. and then they give money to the saudis. this is -- they are not hiding it. this is a precurser to some military action. and that's essentially the way we are heading. if anyone thinks otherwise tell me what that story looks like. but at this stamg you deploy troops and giving arms. that's the precurser to convincing the american public the iranians are a threat. >> general, what's your reaction. you have the tom republican congressman mike mccaul. making a point republican.

democrats chris murphy say going you do this and go around congress -- if you say there is emergency in the middle eastworthy of ending around congress to do this there is always mccormick in the middle east. you have completely, you know, disabled an entire important arm of government op the arms sales. how sig is the decision to do this general. >> it's very specific. erin, spending a significant amount of time in the middle ea a lot of the foreign military sales to other countries, that's a delicate dance in terms of input from military commanders and the state department, seeing what the country is doing and how it interacts with others within the region. it's a long drawn out process. i have never seen this coin kin emergency delegation of arms to other countries in the world without substantive approval by congress. and qb again, it's overlooking not only the budgetary

requirements that go with foreign military sales -- in this case it's billions of dollars -- but also looking at a country that has been known, saudi arabia, to conduct operations that don't quite live up to the values of the united states. we have seen that in yemen and what they are doing in terms of dropping bombs with u.s. markings on them and it comes back to haunt us and suffer our reputation in the middle east and we can't afford that truthfully. >> let me just ask you, in the background of in you have the troops, right, the troops going to iran. general when you heard juliette say this is a precursor to some sort of conflict -- they have said all the evidence that iran is doing things. yet they end around congress at. toed send arms sales to the two biggest enemies of iran in the middle east. sending maybe deminimum must troops but yet troops in. and yet no proof. do you have concern that the proof doesn't add up to this? >> i'm concerned a little bit

about that, erin. but i'm also concerned that we are doing more messaging than substancing. what i mean by that, you know, there were reports of the number of troops going there that were overblown don't know where they came from. now general mackenzie has submitted the request for 12 to 1,500 troops. when you start breaking that down, that's not a big deal. that's a force deployment package that is very small. >> yes. >> the patriot battalion, they are actually extending in country and reinforcing. that's 600 of the 1,500 soldiers or troops going over there. the rest of them allegedly, general mackenzie has asked for in terms of force protection. that could be anything from operators to uavs to mechanics. but small number but the advertising of in is unfortunate. and doesn't quite fall in line. >> juliette, but -- you have concern that some of in comes down to the president's personal amition bigs, personal

pocketbook. >> i think there are two issues. the first is let's not forget the saudi would love for us to have a military conflict pch not saying war with iranians we don't have the pawn. we used the united states that could control saudi -- saudi behavior in some ways because of the arms deals. but there is also an issue on the outside of this, which is whether it's russia, saudi arabia or wherever else in the world, the intersection of the trump family and what they get from the saudis in this particular case, whether the saudis staying at the hotels, business dealings between the kushner family and the saudis, whether it's dealings in the gulf, it's hard not to begin to view what trump is doing in light of the potential that he is no longer president in 2020. in other words is he positioning himself to benefit the trump family after he is president? and when you look at his relationship with the saudis, and the fact that he is not complaining about yemen, he is

not -- he is a dupe on the khashoggi thing, you have to believe there is a motive that goes far outside of war and national security >> i appreciate both of your time very much. as juliette makes that point you can learn more about in much more about trump doing business with the saudis and others. is he profiting himself or the american people? the trump family business tonight an in-depth look at how the president runs his companies. it's airing at 11:00. please watch. and next a former republican congressman speaking out in his first television interview since calling for the president's impeachment he is my guest. plus the fight for 2020. will the economy keep eloi voters loyal to trump. >> it's been a democrat town forever. >> but no more. >> but no more. even your feet.. the (new) amopé pedi perfect with diamond crystals gives you smooth results in just seconds that you'll fall in love with instantly. available at walmart in the foot care aisle.

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tonight a former republican congressman says it's time to impeach president trump. writing in his home state newspaper, president kansas city star. tom coleman was a warning for democrats if they don't launch impeachment proelgd he writes i believe the public would conclude democrats are no better nan republicans than the past two putting party above country. failure to pursue impeach sumit condoning wrongdoing. tom coleman of missouri outfront and appreciate your time, sir. thank you so much. congressman, what is the main reason? why are you calling for

impeachment now? >> calling for impeachment now because the mueller report is out. and in it he describes ten obstructions of justice charges that he could not bring because of the department of justice rule and regulation that says you can't diet a sitting president. that's number one. number two, i believe this is an illegitimate president because he welcomed help and influence from the russians in his campaign. for example, his chairman, paul march, met with a russian intelligence asset in new york and shared with him their polling information and a strategy on how to win the midwestern states. and that's where trump won the election and the electoral college. is it a conspiracy to did he fraud the voters?

apparently mr. mueller couldn't find the conspiracy of a crime. but it's wrng and needs to be handled and looked at by the congress, because i believe it's an impeachable offense. >> all right. but your point is that it may not be legally dietable but it is wrong by the measure of what a president should be. >> right and i think there is some confusion that it has to be a crime to be impeachable. you know, abuse of power, lying to the american people were two grounds for nixon's articles of impeachment before he resigned. so you don't -- it's not a crime to the lie to the american people but if you do it every day 10, 20, 5 times you're in the area where you should be impeached. >> the only republican in congress right now, congressman, willing to impeach is justin amash. and he has been skewered by his part. skewered. he is getting primaried and could lose. why do you think so many as in all but one republican in congress see this either

differently than do you or are afraid to say what you say? >> it's very disappointing. i know a lot of the people personally in the senate especially where many of my house colleagues ended up in the senate. and really the republican senate is where the power is in this impeachment process because the democrats control the house where impeachment starts in the judiciary committee. and wla called for is not impeachment tomorrow. it's a start the process to have hearings, to have live witnesses, to be covered by tv. this is just like watergate. people watched it every day. any learned, became informed and that led to the republicans in the senate going down to the white house and telling nixon, he had to go. we're not anywhere close to that right now. but that's what would happen once you start the process. and i don't believe that speaker pelosi is wrong in suggesting what she is doing. people just have to know the hearings will end up resulting

in creating facts and creating opportunities for impeachment in the future. >> so the president always says this is about a do over. i got to be honest you're a republican and you got a lot of republicans you are close to but you didn't vote for the president. you were one much 30 former republican members of congress and took a wrot a letter taking a standing opposing him people say you are a never trumper. what do you say to them. >> i'm doing this for three people for sure my three granddaughters because nef a right to live in a country that's free in a democracy. this president is dismantling our democracy every day brick by brick. his actions, his lies, his abuse of power. your whole show was a build up to impeachment, erin because of what he does. it's become almost normal. that's the problem. once it becomes normal people are not dealing with it process. >> all right. >> i am so concerned about the risk to our democracy that i'm speaking up. and i would hope that the people

in the congress who took an oath of office to uphold the constitution would get that constitution out again and read it and find out what their responsibilities are as the first article in that constitution. and nas oversight and to conduct business that the president can't do by himself but he would really like to do it by himself. that's what autocratic dictators do. we don't need that in this country. >> congressman thank you so much. >> thank you. >> next the fight for 2020. can democrats win back liechlg democrats who voted for trump? >> alg comes donald trump and says, i see you. >> plus jeanne on the dogs of 2020.

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working. it was staafely democratic unti trump. >> lifelong democrat. >> right. >> still a democrat? >> no, i actually changed in 2016 in the primary. >> so you could vote for donald trump? >> absolutely. >> reporter: look what you could do in the bastion of the democratic party. >> reporter: gino defabio joined president trump on stage in youngstown months after he took office. he says when trump speaks, he hears someone standing up for working people. >> when you hear him go after china, what do you hear? >> it's about time. being in this business, i've been here for 25 years. and there are mills i used to go to that are torn down. >> reporter: once heavily industrial north and east ohio has struggled through decades of decline. in 2016, frustration with broken political promises boiled over. of nine ohio counties flipping from obama to trump, eight are in the northern part of the state. trumbull county hasn't voted

republican since richard nixon in 1972. >> good morning. republican headquarters, this is connie. >> connie now volunteers for the mahoning county republican party. >> it's been a democrat town forever. ever since my father and mother were alive. >> but no more? >> but no more. >> she says nearly 50 democrats a month want to change their registration to republican. this year, when the general motors plant shut down in nearby lordstown, shedding thousands of jobs, it underscored the dilemma president trump like his predecessor faced in stopping industrial decline. >> people are getting tired, regardless of party, that the politicians don't work for us, they just work for corporate america. and what corporate america tells them to do. >> reporter: bill amoshy, a lifelong democrat supported bernie sanders in 2016. he isn't thrilled with trump, but says it is possible the president will have his vote in 2020. >> and along comes donald trump

and says, i see you. you're not forgotten by me. >> okay. >> reporter: david beechus recently stepped down as chair of the mahoning democratic party after a decade on the job. he says if democrats want to win back voters here and across ohio, they must go back to their roots. >> these workers here, they don't want a government handout. they want to go to work and have a job. they want to dirty their hands and they want to be respected for it. >> so when you ask democrats and republicans who used to be democrats here, who might best connect with working class voters, a lot of names come up. sanders, buttigieg, ryan, klobuchar, but the one name that comes up more than any other, joe biden. erin? >> all right, miguel. thank you. and next, jeanne on why elizabeth warren's dog is making headlines. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances.

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tonight, elizabeth warren tweeting this image of her golden retriever caught behaving badly. here's jeanne on the dogs of 2020. >> reporter: there's something about a candidate having a dog that seems to scratch an itch, whether you're pete buttigieg with two shelter dogs or senator elizabeth warren. >> say hello, bailey. say hello. yeah, yeah. >> reporter: more than happy to talk baby talk to her golden retriever. >> that's our bailey. >> reporter: who she's been introducing along with her husband. >> i thought i would bring the two guys in my life, bruce and bailey. >> reporter: supporters can't keep their hands off. >> oh, hi, you sweetheart. >> reporter: candidate and spouse stroll off, holding hands and a leash. but there are perils to when kerstin gillibrand posted her labradoodle, maple, someone tweeted, but if maple isn't a rescue, i take issue.

someone else suggested a new collar, "trump, take a walk." beto o'rourke has two dogs, artemus and rosy. among the dogless contenders, amy klobuchar, bernie sanders, and kamala harris, though she tries to make up for it by posting canine supporters. cory booker got put on the spot by a kid. >> did you ever have a dog? >> reporter: no dog, but booker made a quick save. >> if i should become president of the united states, would you help me get a dog? would you help me? >> reporter: president trump says he doesn't have time for a dog. >> how would i look walking a dog on the white house lawn? would that be -- feels a little phony. >> reporter: he prefers to call his opponents dogs while would-be opponent joe biden posed recently with a shelter dog, major, that he adopted to keep his old german shepherd, champ, company. >> he's a talker. watch this. hey, champ, do you want to play golf? >> reporter: even president

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