welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. the supreme court sidesteps two cases that would put abortion and transgender rights on its 20 to election year docket, but conservative justice clarence thomas writes the high court can't wait too long before addressing the scope of "roe v. wade." plus, the president due back in washington soon from a quick weekend hop to japan. a very different time zone but a very consistent twitter focus, joe biden. and montana governor steve bullock is a late entry into the

2020 democratic field looking to sell his red state credentials in iowa counties that flipped from blue to back president trump. >> i look at the county that you're in, and i'll be darned t.voted obama. it voted obama and then it voted trump. we've got to not say what's wrong with those folks that voted for trump? we've got to say to those folks why aren't we getting them to vote for us? with we don't win back some of the places that we lost, if we don't give people a reason to vote for us, not just against him, he could win again. >> back to politics in a little bit, to 20 politics. two moves by the supreme court today that suggest that the justices are wading too deep into the culture wars as the country plunges into a presidential election. the justices today let stand a lower court ruling that blocks an indiana law that tried to restrict abortion rights. the indiana provision that now remains blocked would have

allowed the state to prohibit abortions motivated by race, sex or disability. the high court also let stand a lower court ruling on transgender rights, and that case from pennsylvania. the justices decided they would not hear a challenge to a school policy that allows transgender students to use the bathroom associated with their gender identity. both abortion rights and lbgtq rights already flash points in the early 2020 campaigning as democrats make their case against president trump. the broader issue of supreme court picks also a pick campaign issue already. the court's reluctance to get into the middle of these debates in the middle of a campaign reflects the caution of the chief justice john roberts, but today's indiana ruling included this message from conservative justice clarence thomas. quote, although the court declines to wade into these issues today, we cannot avoid them forever, justice thomas wrote. having created the constitutional right to an abortion this, court is duty bound to address its scope. with me in studio to share their reporting and insights, julie pace with the associated pace,

cnn's court an lit and olivia knox and seung yun kim. >> he wanted to warn everyone that the right to abortion isn't mentioned in constitution as far as he's concerned, even though the supreme court in 1973 said indeed the right is there. at the same time, john, ruth bader ginsburg wrote separately to fire her own warning shot to say that even thought the supreme court rejected the law you mentioned about, you know, deciding on abortion race, sex, disability, it did allow part of that law to take effect involving fetal remains, and justice ginsburg writing only for her investment you know, we're all reading the signs here of who is with whom.

justice ginsburg says this actually does invoke the right to abortion and sort of fired kind of a subtle warning shot. only justice ginsburg and sotomayor separated themselves with the liberals to say you need to take a hard -- you can't do what you did today in terms of letting this -- this one provision, john, that they did let take effect having to do with burial of fetal remains, so i think we're seeing this majority inch a little closer to more restrictions on abortions, but to your point on the clarence thomas statement, he was by himself. neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh, our two newest justices who have sided with clarence thomas on other things, did not go as far as clarence thomas was going. >> did not go as far as clarence thomas. you have abortion rights and transgender rights. they have come up on the campaign trail as well which gives you the supreme court's caution of sort of telling and interesting. let's listen to a flavor some of the democrats. they have been watching whether it's missouri, alabama, the

indiana law in the pipe line, other states moving to restrict abortion rights. democrats saying we need to change presidents. >> we understand that women have a constitutional right to control their own bodies. >> as president i will make sure that every nominee and every federal bench including the supreme court understands and believes the 1973 decision "roe v. wade" is the settled law of the land. >> these judges have taken an oath to uphold constitution, and "roe v. wade" is constitutional. >> this is about basic human and civil rights that women as settled law have a constitutional right to decide. >> we don't know there. could be other court cases as they come up before the election obviously. we don't know what the courts are going to say on this, but already, also, we've seen this shift with the state laws making their way through to hear beto o'rouke and kirsten gillibrand was first. it used to be i won't have litmus tests. i support abortion rights and would never bring it up with a

supreme court nominee and now several candidates are saying i will ask a judge if you're appointed to bench will you support "roe v. wade"? >> this has been fascinating to watch the democrats talk about the litmus test. president trump said he would nominate justices pro-life and he did something very unusual of releasing a list of a dozen candidates that he would nominate to the supreme court that helped voters who were wary of him. you're right, kirsten gillibrand has been the most explicit on this front that said she would nominate justices that supported roe and eric swalwell, beto o'rouke out thereto saying that as well. >> part of the concern for the democrats is they are tired of what has become the game on capitol hill around this question about r o'which is precedence. justices like now justice kavanaugh who goes up to capitol hill during his confirmation

process and meets with swing voters on the supreme court confirmation fight like susan collins says he would uphold precedent. democrats are saying that's not good enough. you have to say text police italy. we don't want to talk about precedent because there's a lot of loopholes there. >> and the same thing on transgender decision. the pennsylvania policy they let stay in place is essentially who the obama administration recommended, school districts should say if you want we recommend what you do if you're a transgender, you use the bathroom the gender identity you now have. the trump administration tried to reverse, that and the court is saying this is what their policy is in pennsylvania, that's fine by us. >> without comment, they let that stand which is a signal that maybe our jurisdictions will continue to do that i respective of the reversal on the part of the trump administration. >> again, this issue has come up. a trump administration reversed some obamacare policies that the transgender community says discriminated against and housing policies that the lbgtq community said that invites

discrimination. here's what the candidates are saying about this. cory booker tweeting everyone deserves access to quality affordable healthcare and i along with many others will fight alongside you. one-third of transgenders already discriminating. the rollback would be an assault on transgender americans and their ability to receive healthcare. we must fight to ensure equal access. in terms of these cultural issues, abortion, transgender rights, gay rights, how are they playing into campaigns? do both sides just see this to motivate their base? does any side have an obvious advantage. >> >> pretty much base motivators for these voters. after a mid-term election in which suburban women helped democrats recapture the life, have you to wonder whether that will have an impact with the swing voters in the suburbs. i don't pretend to know how much of a factor, but i would imagine it would be a factor. >> what are we looking for from

the court docket perspective? the new state restrictions, none of them can make it before 2020. >> not on the merits. they won't come up there on the merits but might come up on an injunction. can something take effect or not take effect, but there are many other restrictions on abortion access that are in the pipeline. to go to your point about clarence thomas, he's right. there's no avoiding this. there will be versions of it by 2020, no matter what. it's going to be front and center at the supreme court. >> but thomas' position is critical clear. we knew that before today. reading it reinforced this. he wants it. the question is can he and other conservatives who want to reconsider or at least maybe restrict the scope, maybe they don't have the votes so completely reverse roe, but if they want to restrict the abortion rights, courts are above politics. how do you get enough votes on the court to get a case before you? >> that's right. i think what we saw today in the two parts of the indiana law that they acted on. you could see a little bit of deal-making, a harsh word to

sometimes use on the justices. that's what it's all about. who is going align with whom and on what parts of the law. it's not we're with roe or against roe. there's a lot in the middle and a lot will play how the in the campaigning. >> when you look at the polling works are you trying to motivate? this could go from state to state, help one party in one state and help another party in another state. 67% of americans say keep "roe v. wade." 28% say overturn t.republicans say 45% keep, it 48% overturn it and you look at those numbers, wait a minute, this is not a no-brainer for the republicans. however, the republican is trying to drive out base voters and already lost some of the suburban voters. >> it's who will use this issue to come out and vote and anti-abortion supporters will be more likely to want to come out. with democrats this time around and what they would argue is the energy among women, among liberals to try to uphold r o'will be perhaps even bigger when the balance of the court

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overnight dayton, ohio in the city of salina splintering homes and taking lives across the midwest for days on end now leaving miles of devastation in their path. survivors telling horror stories of walls and roofs being ripped away as they huddled in their homes. all of this happened within minutes, sometimes second. more now from salina. i've seen the pictures. it's just like whoa. >> reporter: it's really difficult especially when you find out the news that people lost their life. people had minutes to react when they heard the sirens nearby, but take a look at this rv. this was pushed across the yard. it was pushed back. we continue to see scenes like this. as we walk back with my photographer jake, you can see the damage that's here. look at the back of that home there. there's nothing really left there. the roof of that home was blown all the way down. people are already starting to put the pieces back together, but you have to understand that they are shaking.

in this home right here, a firefighter lived here. he have was on call last night trying to help out a fellow citizen on the inside. his family and his wife and his kids and their dog. they were able to make it through despite the fact that the kids are collapsed, and you can see that the house is basically bracing itself up. listen to the near this one woman's voice as she talked about this storm. >> my daughter was pretty scared. she was skiing, and it's like what do you do, you know. i can't -- i came out last night, and, i mean, the first thing i thought was a war zone because it looked like someone just took a bomb. >> as you can see from above, we'll show you the video that we showed you earlier, that's how we figured out how massive this was. more than a mile and a half of damage at some point and we were talking to some of the firefighters here. they were actually going house to house to make sure that they were okay. coming back down to the ground, you can see the area tossed over.

we talked to one man not only did the firefighters help rescue his pets, he learned about a neighbor across the street who was trapped in their basement after the storm, so you compound all the facts that the people felt this storm in their bodies because the pressure was so strong and it hit so quickly. you can understand why people are so fearful. but as you can tell they are starting to clean up and they overcast skies as we speak. >> appreciating the reporting as you watch this devastation. it's incredibly sad. not just ohio and not just the past few days this. onslaught has been relentless. more than 500 tornado reports in the past 30 days, more than 500 in the past 30 days. meteorologist chad myers is in the weather center to help us understand the magnitude of this outbreak. chad, how rare is this? >> not unprecedented, john, but only four other times in recorded history, and that's really only back since the '30s and '40s have we seen this type of outbreak, 500 in 30 days.

in fact, april 30th was a big outbreak day so we have to add that into may 2013, '04 and '01 and '11 with reported tornadoes like this month. 268 should be our number for this time of the year. for this month we've already had 442. that could be more than one person reporting the same tornado, so this number could actually go down. you know, like four miles north of boston and six miles south of plymouth, if you're looking at it from different directions, it could be the same storm. they just have to narrow that down when they go out and do their surveys. yesterday, 5 it tornadoes we believe touched down at some point. there is a chance of severe weather all the way to new jersey today. some of these storms across parts of pennsylvania could rotate today, so all the way up wilkes-barre, scranton, you could get storms all the way into new york city tonight.

now probably not the severity that we'll see out west from omaha to st. joe and st. mary's and back down to topeka, the tornadoes if they are out here would certainly be larger, f--2 and 3 possibilities out here. one day after another. it finally stops on friday. we've had a trough in the west which means very cold air out there. warm air on this side, on the eastern half of the mississippi, and that has caused all of this weather, 500 tornadoes. i don't think i can even stress how many that feels like to the weather office here and to the people that are on the ground that are now just saying uncle, please. let this stop. we're tired of it. we're tired of hearing the sirens and tired of watches and warnings and having to watch all the time. john? >> hope you're right. it's about to end soon. chad myers, important perspective. really appreciate it. up next, the president before heading home, a new attack on twitter. a familiar target. joe biden. run with us.

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biden owes role this ought oregon the 1914 crime bill. has sleepy joe apologized, no, the president tweeted before adding this. anyone associated with the 1994 crime bill will not have a chance of being elected. african-americans will not be able to vote for you. that's the president's take. also while overseas the president sided with kim jong-un's assessment of biden. the north korean government saying biden is low iq and in tweeting that the president nauseated some in/own party back here in the states. cnn's jeff zeleny joins our conversation. the president marches to his own beat. but, a, it was remarkable and many say way beyond the pale to associate yourself with a dictator who murders his own people and starves his own people attacking joe biden. whether you like or don't like joe biden while you're overseas standing in japan wisner vows about north korea right now, but -- plus, it's just the constant focus on jo biden. why? >> it's in the president's head, and this explains now. we're seeing it play out in realtime what a strategist of his told me would i say maybe

two months or so ago. the plan is to cause chaos so he's obviously focused on joe biden, but that one specific comment there on twitter clearly trying to remind african-americans and some people who have concern about the crime bill that he voted for, so in some respects he's doing the work that some presidential democratic candidates have been unwilling to do, but trying to soften him up a bit, bruise him up a bit but no question president trump so focused and fixated on biden, why? pennsylvania. it the boils down to that. he thinks he could win pennsylvania which could block the president from re-election. >> this has been an issue for joe biden on the campaign trail. he knows that not only president trump now more forcefully but some of the other democratic candidates that said that crime bill was a mistake and incarcerated too many people and had federal mandatory minimum and state mandatory minimum and this is joe biden which wouldp flunk a fact check but senator joe biden trying to explain it away in new hampshire.

>> 92 out of every 100 prisoners behind bars are in a state prison, not a federal prison. this idea that the crime bill generated mass incarceration, it did not generate mass incarceration. we don't need any more mandatory sentences period. i said it at the time on the floor of the united states senate, and so, folks, there are mistakes that remain. the biggest mistake in that bill was my view was making crack cocaine and powder cocaine a different sentence. they should not be mandatory mandatory sentences. >> now, the crime bill did encourage mass incars ray, both in federal policy and in the impact it had on state policy there, but this is one of the things that the former vrngts especially as we get into debate season, is trying to find the right way to say, yeah, he was wrong, but don't blame me forever. >> i had a strategist close with both obama and biden say to me that one of the challenges for the former vice president is

that he feels the need to explain a lot of these decisions. >> right. >> so far he has proven untable take a question on something in his past, whether it's the crime bill, the anita hill hearings or many other things and try to pivot. he wants to go back. he believes that he was right in the moment in a lot of these decisions and what has happened is simply that the country and the party have moved and so he's going to go back and try to relitigate those decisions, and one of his challenges though will be that the party wants to move forward, and they just want to know where he is now. trump though i think is smart in picking up on some of these things. he sees the weaknesses and is not afraid while the democrats are still trying to play nice to jump right in. >> the fixation on the '94 crime pill is the president actually does have his own accomplish not point to that is legitimate. he looked at the first step act that was signed into law back in december and it was widely bipartisan, up. lead authors of that law is actually cory booker, so it does create these strange bedfellows

and the presidential politics will be interesting to watch. >> has his own history. this is taken out by businessman donald trump in "the new york daily news" in 1989 talking about bring back the death penalty, bring back our police. there are roving bands of wild criminals in our neighborhoods, so you're right. the president has had a more recent achievement that he can, along with the economy, try to sell to the african-american community. he also has a history that many people would say is not so kind. >> democrats have talked about this a long time. called for the death penalty for the central park case. a lot of teams when he's tweeting he's watching "fox & friends" on dvr and responds directly to a segment or comment on that, but in this case, yeah, it's pennsylvania, and he's more than happy to sort of sow that little division. all these democrats have had to come in and apologize for something. people have gone after kamala harris for her time as a prosecutor and amy clone char. something that the democrats are

sorting as the president is fueling the fire. >> the question is if you're president trump and his campaign is trying to do this through facebook ads and other digital ads targeting african-americans and latinos mostly on economic issues, if you're president trump can you improve these numbers. these are the 2016 numbers, a post election poll, hillary clinton 19% and 6% and 28% of hispanic voters. the republican to win before, that you've got to get this up above -- you get that up above 10 and get that to 12, you get into the teens, then you're doing business in a state like pennsylvania, in a state like michigan and some of those big electoral battleground if you can get into double digits among african-americans and move towards the teens. >> even if you don't move that split overall, if you just tamp down enthusiasm among young voters and african-american voters and they don't show up in the numbers that they did when barack obama won, then that could be enough, and that's your path. trump's strategy tends to be more about that, tamping down

enthusiasm for his opponent as opposed to broadening his own coalition. >> he also seldom talks about president obama. president trump occasionally will, but not as -- as much as all as he has hillary clinton. i've always thought that was one of the reasons why perhaps he does want to get his african-american support up. one way to alienate folks is to start going after the former president so that's the risk there, but he talks about joe biden much more than obama. >> and he had this chance for a weekend to meet the new emperor, golf with the prime minister, deliberately said we're putting off trade tensions until july. could have just had a weekend. good pictures and instead he wanted to push this button. >> exactly. you see it constantly where it could be a very's kind of pr-managed moment or even when he has legitimate good news like the economy he's constantly standing on his own message. >> he doesn't view it that way. in our way it's like why daunt just take the nice free ride and happy weekend. he views it as constantly being in the mix, the chaos. >> he also stepped on his own foreign policy moment by playing

down these missile launches by -- by north korea saying he -- you know, it bothered my advisers, yeah, his national security adviser who said that they violated u.n. security council resolutions, but it didn't bother me at all, you know. it bothered his host. his host called them violations of the u.n. security council. his host, the japanese prime minister, is a little more concerned about short range ballistic missiles than say the united states is. >> right in the neighborhood. >> yeah. it the bothers military commanders, too, who have u.s. troops in both japan and south korea who don't like the manulife launches. german chancellor angela merkel answers whether she would call president trump a friend. last year, the department of veteran's affairs partnered p

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politics. benjamin netanyahu has until tomorrow to piece together a coalition governor to ensure his fifth term and he's trying to combine his party to work with the likud party and a new government could mean a new election. president trump tweeted out that he hopes that he and bibi can form a strong alliance. there is work to be done. that's the message german chancellor angela merkel had in a conversation with christiane amanpour when they spoke about the rise of anti-semitism and change of the political landscape. merkel's party over the weekend ceded some ground to the green party due to high turnout across europe. merkel responding to questions about her often contentious relationship with president trump.

>> you've been a bit of a punching bag for president trump. he's says quite some strong things, including your relationship with russia and all the rest of it. i wanted to show you this picture because that went viral around the world. do you consider him a friend? >> translator: i think we have close cooperation which simply results from problems we've had to resolve together, and this picture also shows that we are indeed grappling with an issue. the president has his opinions. i have mine and very often we also find common ground. if not, we have to keep on talking it and negotiating. >> so that was a not really, right? >> i think that was a night really. >> that was a reply, not an answer. >> merkel is a fascinating character. she among western leaders has been the constant. here for the end of bush's presidency and throughout obama's and now for trump. upheaval in europe and she's the one holding these western democracies together and doesn't suffer fools.

if trump thought when he came into office that he could push her around and i think he did a bit, he's learned that's not the case. >> he's not been happen we the undermining of the nato reliance and has called her migration policy weak and worse. it's a fascinating relationship. >> they will see each other again next month. look, i think it's -- julie has said she's worked with three u.s. presidents. i think if christiane would have asked to rank the order i'm not sure she would have said throw but that might have been her answer. >> okay. they will see each other at the twenty. every white house correspondent's favorite trip. isn't that right? >> a can't-miss trip. >> up next, meghan mccain hits the 2020 democrat says leave the legacy of my father's memory off the campaign trail. ♪ ♪

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senator's daughter poke a democrat here. we've seen the pictures, was seated next to him at the trump inauguration and clearly leaning over and talking during the nationration. was this story offense sniff. >> senator klobuchar traveled extensively with senator mccain. senator klobuchar was trying to express to voters in iowa there that she knew mccain and was trying to sort of burnish her own credentials but i don't see how that would be offensive. if john mccain were watching this campaign unfold now, what would he be saying day by day? it was a little odd of meghan mccain but she's showing that she's not afraid of getting involved in this dialogue. >> a cast member of "the view." one of the cast members of "the view." could have been an opportunity to continue this story. >> in the early days of barack

obama, in his 2008 campaign, he would often talk about his travels with republican senators on codels to burnish his own credentials and to show he worked across the & you don't see that in the presidential primaries, the idea of working across the aisle is frowned upon. klobuchar is one of those exceptions who wants to show he has exceptions and joe biden is the other notable exception. >> one time it does come up and it's interesting it is him with john mccain where several democrats have mentioned john mccain as they try to make their points but it's not about the bipartisanship but it's about trump and healthcare. >> that early morning hour in your united states capitol when the late great jop mccain walked in and with that thumb pointed it down and said no, enough. >> john mccain was a valuable ally. >> he showed a commitment to service above country and party that is absolutely mission at the highest levels of power said

so god bless john mccain. >> he maligns john mccain. that is a man of fear. >> at the beginning and the end there, more an attack on trump full in mentioning. >> trump refers to that vote but doesn't usually call out mccain by name. i'm interested in the fact that most of these the democrats, if they were voting on a peeves legislation, would probably not vote with john mccain on many of them. >> what's interesting, too, in poll, you saw among democratic voters, john mccain was more popular among democrats than he was among republicans, particularly after that thumbs down vote on the repeal of the affordable care act. >> meghan mccain criticized klobuchar but cindy mccain has been quiet. the last time she spoke out on politics saying joe biden is a wonderful man and a dear friend of the mccain family. however i have no intention of getting involved in presidential politics and she says i think

what's best for me is to stay out of it and make myself happy and presidential politics is not that. >> biden and mccain's families have gone through these horrific experiences with cancer, bonded got politics but about their families and about these health issues that they had and there was a question about whether that closeness would translate into politics. cindy mccain is saying something that's actually quite healthy, that you can have personal relationships and they don't have to necessarily also be political allies. >> if you think about that, that's a time that's gone, disappeared, in that biden and mccain think about petitioning iraq, boom, in the senate over many foreign policy issues were on many sides but when the committee hearing was over and the speeches were over they were friends and later bonded over the personal troubles of the family, but the president has -- the president has from time to time, you're right, sometimes

he's been told if asked, begged, not to use the name, but sometimes he can't resist. >> and i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted. i didn't get a thank. that's okay. we sent him on the way, but i wasn't a fan of john mccain. >> john mccain went thumbs down. he did the republican party a tremendous disservice and he did the nation a tremendous disservice. >> one man that after campaigning for eight years, he decided to go thumbs down at 2:00 in the morning. that's all right, but we'll end up with even better. >> and we know that meghan mccain has rejected repeatedly to that calling it classless and tasteless and more. >> as she, a and it's very sad that he can't spend time with his own family and talk about positive things. john mccain, whoever brings him up, perhaps both sides will brick him up. he's going to be one of the many pouring figures sort of hanging over this election, but if he was here and watching, he would want to be void of think here,

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schedule focused on fund raising is something that the candidate can show. a rising star in the iowa state party. he told jeff zeleny his he's a front-runner with quotation marks. his name is bigger presence than his campaign right now. they can't just bank on them being there >> people will have to see more of them. it's much more of a wide open contest to democratic voters than it is to strategists and pollsters. like don't believe the polls and history would show that that is accurate, but what the biden campaign is obviously trying to do is, you know, raise some money now and prepare him for the big debates one month away here, and there's no upside at this point of having him go all across the early voting state. at some point he'll have to. >> a lot of what you're seeing

most candidates do right now is they are literally introducing themselves to voters. joe biden doesn't have to do that right now, but if he's still -- i don't think he will, keep up this kind of light schedule as we look into late summer and early fall and into the winter that's a problem for him him. he'll have to go out and do this. i don't think democratic voters want this to be a coronation. the calling card is i'm the democrat that can beat trump. we'll see how he does in the debate. that could didn't that. >> his calling card is more democrats identify as obama democrats than any other category so in some way that quote knocks one of his biggest strength. everybody knows who he is. 3% of americans claim they didn't know who was in 2016 but going after one of his obvious strengths. name recognition. doesn't have to say i'm mayor of south bend, and people associate him closely with obama. >> but he has to take voters

through the transition. we talked earlier about the crime bill. yeah, i've been around a long time and i've made some mistakes. their take is they can raise money first and will have time to do that. is there a risk? >> voters in iowa and new hampshire particularly who are so used to seeing all the presidential candidates up close are going to demand much more access sooner rather than later but his sort shoulderness is why biden hasn't had major gaffs or missteps so far as he's entered the campaign because he hasn't given himself the opportunities to do that. >> and the others have been slowly getting around, whether it's bill de blasio or others on the crime issue and bernie sanders more than others starting to poke a little bit. >> joe biden wants people to focus on the general election. he said i can beat donald trump, and a lot of democrats want to hear him say that, but he'll have to show that at some point. this is no surprise to joe biden. he knows he those work for it and earn it but he would like to put that off a little bit.

>> democratic front-runners tend to get challenge. hillary clinton did in 2016 and survived but in 2008 she did not. a busy news day. stay right there. brianna keilar starts right now. ♪ i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now, from the midwest to the northeast, millions of americans on high alert as the risk of tornadoes climbs. chaos on the world's tallest mountain as the death toll rises. climbers are in the final hours of a window to reach the summit. plus, president trump attacks former vice president joe biden on the 1994 crime bill. could biden's weakness politically ben put it trump despite the president's checkered past on the issues of race and justice. and as the president considers pardoning war criminals a sitting u.s. congressman admits he took pictures with enemy corpses. first up, more than