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often the destiny of children is defined by the elgt of their families. >> i want an america that doesn't just work for a thin slice at the top. >> and 12 dead in virginia beach. >> we were all just terrified. >> another community shattered by gun violence. "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. >> welcome to "inside politics," i'm dana bash in today for john king. for two long years, the american people heard a lot about robert mueller without ever hearing from robert mueller. that changed on wednesday, his final day on the job when he stepped in front of cameras to deliver two messages, first that his investigation were no witch hunt. >> there were multiple systematic efforts to interfere in our election.

that allegation deserves the attention of every american. >> and his report did not exonerate the president of the united states. >> there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy. if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. under longstanding department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he's in office. charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider. >> most members of congress heard only the parts they wanted to hear. >> what was clear from mueller's remarks is the extraordinary misconduct this president has engaged in. >> what the department of justice was tasked to do was to determine if a crime was committed. they found inunfortunate fisht evidence. >> he's asking the united states

congress to hold an impeachment inquiry. >> we heard there was no collusion, no obstruction. it was the same darn conclusion. that to me was the takeaway. >> we're unveiling a new cnn poll right now. it shows 43% approve of the job the president is doing, no movement at all from a month ago and virtually no change since his very first week in office. a majority still do not trump impeached and removed from office. 41% say they do. that's up by four points since april but still within the poll's sampling error. with me to share their reporting and insights, eliana johnson from politico, cnn's jeff zeleny, shawna thomas from vice news and julie davis from "the new york times." good morning everybody, one and

all. first thoughts on our new poll. >> i think 43% approval rating for the president is actually pretty good and it has held steady. one of the reasons is he pushes back on every single thing that comes out. bob mueller speaks and the president speaks longer and louder and says no collusion. things are entrenched and dug out. i do believe this poll is -- we're going to have to seep in this summer about what bob mueller said and what congress is going to do about it. nancy pelosi is standing by that most people don't want the president impeached. this poll was taken last week, from tuesday through friday, just as people were digesting the mueller conversation. >> i think jeff is right that it's very early days in terms of how much -- what we've used discovered and what we just heard from mueller is in the bloodstream of this poll and in

the bloodstream of the public thinking about these issues. i did think it was significant that the number of people who are supporting impeachment and removing the president really hasn't moved beyond the margin of error on this survey. that is striking given that we've learned a lot in the last couple months about what was going on in the investigation and what they found. the other thing i think, if you look at the results of this poll, that's interesting, it really illustrates the dilemma that nancy pelosi is facing. of the small uptick you see in people who support impeachment and removing trump, it's coming from this groundswell of democrats. that number of democrats has gone up a lot. you can see those tensions playing out within the democratic caucus on capitol hill. that's why you're seeing such a give and take about whether they should move more aggressively toward impeachment. >> absolutely. we're going to dive a lot more into the democratic equation of this which is really key later in the show, but i want to get back to the trump v mueller

dynamic. we heard at the beginning of the show, a reminder of what mueller said, what he tried to get across with regard to what his investigation did and did not actually find, try to distill the 448 pages in that ten-minute speech. the president, of course, came out and had his own take on things. >> i think he is a total conflicted person. i think mueller is a true never trump per. hets's somebody that dislikes trump. despite $40 million, 18 trump haters including people that work for hillary clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. it's pretty amazing. >> your paper, julie, had an analysis that really struck us because it really condensed the dynamic here. here is what it said. headline "mueller plays by the rules, trump made new ones."

he said nothing and the president said everything. he worked in secret allowing the president to still the void with reckless accusations of a witch hunt. his damning conclusions were encased in dense legal jargon that the president distorted into a vindication. >> this is why, one, so many democrats want bob mueller to testify, but this is also why bob mueller testifying may not have the desired effect that they want. he will play by the rules. he got up there this past week and read from the report. if you read from the report, he said the things -- he did highlight the things he wanted to make sure everybody heard and that's fine. he's not going to suddenly become more flowery with his language, not suddenly going to answer the questions he doesn't want to answer. i was talking with someone who worked with him before at the fbi. he could recite the pages.

>> just because he's in public, it doesn't change the fundamentals of who robert mueller is versus the fundamentals of who donald trump is. donald trump communicates in a very stark way. >> you put them side by side, and peggy noonan got at this in her article in the wall street jury room, mueller said, if we could have exonerated him, we would have. for those of us who follow politics every day, it's clear what he's saying. we listen. for people who don't follow this, i don't think mueller was totally clear. you have to read between the lines. when you listen to trump, he's pounding home the same thing over and over again. muleer is a fraud, 18 angry democrats and people who don't follow this stuff every day understand what the president is saying. >> something that was pretty easy to follow was a very blunt

comment from the attorney general which i want to play. of course, he has a really key role here. the questions have been whether or not he's acting more in the interest of the country as the attorney general for the united states or as the president's personal attorney and whether somebody who came back into government, what this says about his legacy. here is what he said about that on cbs this week. >> i think at my stage in life it really doesn't make any difference. >> are you at the end of your career? >> i'm at the end of my career. >> it's a reputation you've worked your whole life on though. >> yeah, but everyone dies. i don't believe in the whole idea that immortality comes by having owed so much over the centuries. >> that was jan crawford asking a very good question with an interesting answer. that's obviously how william barr is approaching all of this. it's surprising a lot of people

on capitol hill and others who thought that he would be the adult in the room, he would sort of control things. look, i think for one thing has become clear now, as we essentially begin the summer, the mueller conversation may have been sort of confusing, but it got under the president's skin. look what he did in the days after that. we'll talk more in the show later about the policy implications with mexico, tariffs and other things. so mueller is in his head. as this moves along, i think that's very important to keep in mind here. >> everybody stand by. up next, the 2020 campaign trail runs through california. what makes the golden state so important in this year's primaries, and politicians say and do the darndest things. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez behind the bar in queens to bring attention to tipped workers making below the minimum wage. >> we're trying to make sure that everyone gets paid a

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california democratic convention, a breakfast for union workers and a progressive rally where each candidate was asked to present one big idea for the future. >> i got a lot of ideas. i'll share one of them with you. it's about equal pay. >> stop endless wars. we've got to cut military spending. >> one of the issues that is most threatening to our democracy which is wealth disparity. >> end lobbying as we know it. they've had enough power long enough. >> let's pay a national paid leave bill that actually works. >> we're going to hold police departments and police officers accountable in this country for excessive force. >> ensure that every immigrant who has come to this country was truly treated with the dignity and respect that they deserved. >> register every kid to vote in this country when they turn 18. >> in recent times california has been the blue state democratic candidates go to raise money and leave. not anymore.

now it's a crucial campaign stop. the reason is because in 20 to the golden state primary is some three months earlier than it was four years ago. california's nearly 500 delegates will be up for grabs on super tuesday. what did you think of all the performances yesterday? >> certainly interesting that those candidates are trying to break out and distinguish themselves. those 500 delegates are key, but important to keep in mind how democrats award their delegates, they're proportional. no one will walk away with a big trove. california will be important. the question is which candidates make it to california. iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, nevada, still important. all candidates won't have enough gas in the tank to get there. >> i think kamala harris, all eyes are on her. she put out a long list of endorsements before this big weekend in california, her home state. everyone thinks she should be do

well. can she actually corral a bunch of democrats. is it enough delegates, even though she's not doing well in iowa and new hampshire, she can make it to california and take that. if she can't show power in california, for her that's the problem. >> the person who was not there who was the elephant or donkey in the room, if you will, was joe biden. a couple of candidates were trying to bring him into the fold not so subtly. >> some democrats in washington believe the only changes we can get are tweaks and nudges. if they dream at all, they dream small. some say if we all just calm down, the republicans will come to their senses. >> he wins if we look like more of the same. he wins if we look like washington. so the riskiest thing we can do is try too hard to play it safe. >> i think what you just saw

there is elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg articulating the tension, the key tension in the democratic primary which is those candidates who think that donald trump is the problem in the american political system and if you beat donald trump, a reversion to, quote, unquote, normal see is the fix we need. those candidates like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren who want an entire overhaul of the political system, a more revolutionary view of things. i think when biden is not present and unable to defend himself and articulate what he thinks is the problem, that's a disadvantage. >> biden was on the campaign trail in the midwest and he was trying to distinguish himself, going after donald trump while at the same time talking about his record in pushing rights for lgbtq americans. listen to this. >> this president, this white house has literally a bully pulpit, callously extending his

power over the most vulnerable. implementing discriminatory policies, the current vice president uses religious freedom as an excuse to license discrimination. >> we need to send a clear message directly from the top of our government that prejudice is prejudice and humanity is humanity, period, no cultural reason or excuse. >> translation, i'm a progressive. >> absolutely. what you saw in knows two separate appearances, the california convention, they wanted one big idea. you heard all these dramatic ideas coming from cory booker and elizabeth warren and kamala harris. you heard him articulate in that comment there, and i think he's banking on -- i don't think it's so much that he feels he's being silenced, doesn't have the opportunity to offer those ideas, i think he's banking on

the opposite, which is he doesn't need to prove his progressive bona fides. you heard pete buttigieg say that's not enough. if we do that, we will lose. >> that's such a key sort of tension point and debating point, whether or not voters i think are going to articulate it or it's something that's kind of in their bones. do we want to go with somebody who we know keeps us calm or do we want to shake things up. i think draum wasn't exactly the safe choice. >> no. i think vice president biden, part of the reason he wasn't in california is he doesn't think he needs to do what everyone else is doing. he has the name recognition. he didn't get into the race until late. he did something totally different which then got us talking about the fact that he's not in california. so they are playing that in a different way. he thinks that -- he doesn't have to play by the same rules

as the other 22 people in this race. >> the whole question is whether or not the party -- especially the voting bloc have moved so far left, that there isn't a place for moderates. what you call joe biden we don't know. joe hick en bacher got the answer loud and clear. >> if we want to beat donald trump and achieve big aggressive goals, socialism is not the answer. i was re-elected -- i was re-elected in a purple state -- if we're not careful, we're going to help reelect the worst president in american history. >> that's not the worst boo if you're john hickenlooper. the reality is this. look at the results of 2018 and other things, the majority of the democratic party are not the

activists in california and not the people who live on twitter. they are voters in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina and oh ohio. i don't know if that was a choice or a plan of his, but it may have been. he's a smart governor. he was from a purple state. i think the reality to all of this is that's why joe biden is not at that convention. he might have gotten booed as well. he's marching to his own drummer here. >> to give john hickenlooper credit, there was a progressive woman who had a lot of energy behind her, but they elected a labor leader, russ hicks as the democratic chairman, which says there are still people? the party who kind of want to play it a little safer. >> before we go to break, we have to talk about the new debate rules that the dnc announced this past week. right now the rules are, to get on the first set of debate

stages, the criteria are 1% in three approved polls or 65,000 unique doaners. if we can put that on the screen, that has set up a very large field of people who are already qualifying. it could be even larger for the first set of debates. here is the change. the change is, the new criteria are 2% in four new polls after june 28th and at least 130,000 individual donors. right now, as of today, the reason those candidates are in shadows is because, if you had those criteria today, they would not qualify for the debate. >> it's significant in every way. it's a huge change. some of these candidates, frankly, won't make the debate. they are saying, look, the dnc is trying to tip its finger on the scale. again, accusations -- >> try to win the field. >> if you're joe biden or bernie sanders or others, you don't

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push back on the trump administration's undermining of america. we will go where the facts lead us. we will insist on the truth. we will build on an ironclad case to act because in the united states of america, no one is above the law, not even the president of the united states. >> house speaker nancy pelosi addressing the california state democratic convention yesterday. she was frequently interrupted by chants of "impeach," but she actively avoided using that word herself. fresh cnn polling this hour suggests pelosi may not be able to hold off much longer. take a look at these numbers. more than three quarters of democrats say they want the president impeach and removed from office. in the house, at least 51 of nancy pelosi's fellow democratic lawmakers favor at least

launching impeachment hearings. every one of them represents a deep blue district. you were talking about how much that poll struck you, julie. >> what it shows is it illustrates what she's facing in the ranks of her own -- the lawmakers on capitol hill. 51 democrats is still not the majority of the caucus, right? but they are -- these are final who are vocal about the way they feel, increasingly vocal, after having heard from bob mueller, after hearing the back and forth that went on between the attorney general and mueller and the details of the investigation. i think the drum beat will continue to build. they're certainly not at a tipping point yet. there are more democrats now, even people not in deep blue districts who think there's a strategic advantage to potentially launching impeachment hearings. the public may not make a distinction between that and going full bore toward

impeachment, but there is a strategic advantage there which means it may be the only way to do what nancy pelosi said there, building an ironclad case. it may be the only way they can do that is using some of the powers they have under impeachment. >> part of it is you have such a vast majority in the house am dong democrats. you have the more liberals and you have what nancy pelosi and others call her majority makers who tend to be more moderate and less inclined on impeachment. let's listen first to benny thompson of mississippi who is in the former category. >> i talked to a lot of people. to the person, everybody said what are you all going to do about president trump. up until i came home this weekend, i had resisted moving forward. i represent this district and i listened to the people and i

heard them. >> then you have alyssa slot kin, a freshman from michigan who is saying she's hearing different things. she told the "wall street journal" and said impeachment is not what people are talking to me about. they want to know when we're going to lower the price of their son's insulin. when we're going to get federal dollars in for infrastructure. >> pelosi has her eyes on 2020. the people -- the house members elected in 2018 who helped democrats win back the majority, were the more moderate members who did not win their seats making a case for impeachment. the thing that really jumped out at me in the cnn poll numbers were that now 41% want president trump impeached and removed from office. in december that number was 48%, and that was during the government shutdown. these numbers really can move, but it suggests to me that mueller is not what moves these

numbers, it's other of president trump's actions which was fascinating to me and suggests that, if democrats are going to make a case for impeachment, it may not be around the things contained in the mueller probe. >> you have, literally as we speak, the president continuing to try to influence people in the districts, these democrats in the districts where he won. as we speak, he's tweeting no collusion, some of the same things he said before. democrats are not getting any of their priorities done because they're so worried about investigating me. >> right. he's trying to play arole in this as well. the number spoker pelosi is looking at is not just among democrats. there needs to be a sentiment among the public as a whole for impeachment. 54% of americans say they do not favor it. we don't know how difficult her task is going to be. as of now she's done, i think, most people in her party agree, a masterful job balancing all

this. will that become more complicated largely with 2020 presidential candidates who are also beating the drum of impeachment? let's see how this long, hot summer ends if people are marching in the streets, if other things are happening, if she's able to -- >> i'm glad you mentioned that about pelosi and her leadership. that we have in cnn's new poll this morning. right now she's got 77% support among all democrats. 82 among liberals. 73 among moderate and conservative democrats, and that's up considerably from right before she got the speaker's gavel back. she's got running room. >> she does. the problem for her right now is at what point does it just become so political that it feels it's totally calculating and that the democrats aren't actually doing what people in 2018, some of which put them in office, to go after the president of the united states. i think it is a very difficult

balance, but you had that quote from alyssa slotkin, people want to talk about infrastructure. your poll says it's unlikely trump and democrats can work together on anything. they're not going to do anything about infrastructure. as we get closer to election, they're not going to work stog on anything else. what's the take dloet away? if it isn't impeachment inquiry, if it isn't going after a president that they say is not for fit for office, then what is it? we'll turn to virginia beach, the latest on the mass shooting, 12 dead in a workplace massacre. stay with us. we're working together to do just that. bringing you more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all. smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels and reminders to think balance.

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♪ ♪ flags at the white house, military posts and ships are flying at half staff until tuesday. president trump issued the proclamation after friday's mass shooting at a municipal building in virginia beach, virgini. the attacker, also a city worker, died in a fierce gun battle with police. cnn's brian todd is in virginia beach. brian, what are we learning about the gunman and the investigation? >> reporter: dana, a virginia government source told us dewayne craddock was a disgruntled plea of the virginia beach city government. he worked in this building behind me. that's the building he

methodically targeted on friday afternoon. we've been pressing co-workers and officials behind the scenes to give us more information. we're asking specific questions. was there a threat made by him in recent weeks? was there a particular conflict that he had with other employees? of course, were twl people specifically targeted in that building when he went in there. we're getting some indication there might have been. again, this is information we're piecing together and hope to bring it to you later. what we can tell you is this was by all accounts a methodically planned attack. he brought two.45 caliber pistols with extended magazines into the building along with a silencer. they found additional weapons in his home. we'll get a timeline later this morning of how long this gun battle with police took place. it is clear from every account we're getting, dana, this man came into this building methodically planning this attack, prepared to inflict carnage and do battle with

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a presidential tweet opened a new front in president trump's trade wars, the u.s./mexico border. here is what he said this week. on june 10th, the united states will impose a 5% tariff on all goods coming into our country from mexico until such time as illegal migrants coming through mexico and into our country stop. the tariff will gradually increase until the illegal immigration problem is remedied. what remedied means is anyone's guess. probably whatever the president decides it means. the announcement roiled the

markets. the dow closed out the longest weekly losing streak since 2011. economists as 2011 that maga might now stand for making abysmal growth attainable. >> this is actually a brill i don't want move by the president to get mexico's attention to get them to help us. this is a very modest approach. please understand we're starting at 5%, doesn't kick in until june 10th. the mexican government has plenty of time to begin to work with us. let's be patient, let's be calm and watch this. >> we didn't hear from the dissenters. behind the scenes -- "the washington post" headline trump dereporting that steve mnuchin,

robert light highser and jared kushner all privately counseled against the move. i should tell you just to give you a sense of how sensitive the president is, even on this sunday morning, between 7:09 and 7:53 a.m. eastern he's sent three tweets defending and explaining this new policy. >> well, tariffs are the president's favorite negotiating tactic, but i would put an emphasis on noepgting tactic. they have not yet gone into effect. the president has previously backed off of severe threats, so it will be interesting to see whether he manages to reach some sort of agreement with mexico, even if it's not stopping all illegal immigration. we've got about ten days before these are supposed to go into effect. he has put tariffs into effect on precious metals -- excuse me -- on steel and aluminum, not precious metals. he did that about a year ago,

but it remains to be seen whether these will go into effect or whether they're a threat. >> that's the key. i want to put on the screen what we're talking about in real terms, that consumers would have to deal with, imports on vehicles, vegetables, fruit, wine and beer. we're talking billions and billions of dollars. >> i would note the president based the situation on whether to put auto i'm port tariffs on, and he delayed that decision because of concerns of how it would impact the markets ahead of the u.s.-mexico-canada trade act. >> i think the difference here is he's merging it with immigration policy. we saw the finance chairman in the senate, chuck grassley saying he's exceeding his congressional authority here. the question is whether congress do anything about it? congress is the body that gave him the authority in the first

place. will they yank it back? unlikely. that's the different dynamic here. this is about immigration all the while he's negotiating the trade agreement with mexico and canada. it complicates all that. >> let's look at his trip coming up. he's going to leave tonight to the u.k. just ahead of that, here is what the president said about very, very intense british battle right now. >> i've always liked him. i don't know if he's going to be chosen. he's a very good guy, very talented person. he's been very positive about me and our country. i think boris would do a very good job. i think he would be excellent. >> so not an endorsement of boris johnson, but seemed pretty darn close to it. >> absolutely. this is one of his favorite people. he's not been shy about expressing that. again, we saw the president abroad in japan criticizing joe biden and having really rough words for him.

it's another example of how, you know, even american presidents usually try to stay out of the politics of other countries, particularly when they're about to go. he clearly doesn't care about that. he likes boris johnson. you heard him say he likes him -- he likes me, that's an important criteria for the president. he doesn't seem to be shy about putting his fingers on the scale. the question in britain is whether that will hurt or help boris johnson. >> stand by. up next, our reporters will share from their notebooks including the president gearing up for re-election. will his 2020 message be any different from 2016? high protein. low sugar. tastes great! high protein. low sugar. so good! high protein. low sugar. mmmm, birthday cake! pure protein. the best combination for every fitness routine. hey allergy muddlers... achoo! ...do your sneezes turn heads?

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time now for our great reporters to share a page from their notebooks to help you get out in front of the week ahead. illiana, i'll start with you. >> i'm looking at the marking of the 30th anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre. even as president trump has made china a central part of his economic and foreign policy, he has not focused on human rights, either when it comes to china or north korea where we saw reports this week that the regime may have executed somebody who was central to the negotiations with the u.s. so it will be interesting to see whether this becomes an increasing focus of the trump administration's foreign policy or not, given that it was such a central focus of american foreign policy for previous administrations. >> i'm looking at joe biden

again this week. june is one of the most important months for joe biden. why is that? he's still trying to maintain that front-runner's position. it largely depends how others treat him. other candidates in the next ten days are trying to get attention to make sure they make to it the debate stage. joe biden is going to new hampshire on tuesday to take questions of his own. he's facing some criticism for perhaps not campaigning hard enough or taking enough questions for voters. watch for him tuesday in new hampshire, and then next week, him and president trump in iowa on the same day. >> that will be fun. >> i've been covering a lot of abortion stories in the last couple weeks. i'm curious to see if we can see how justice cavanaugh feels about abortion laws. the supreme court will take up the case about doctors admitting privileges in the state. this wouldn't be one that would

fully overturn roe v. wade, but will give us a chance to see kavanaugh in action. i'll be watching the supreme court website. >> you and susan collins. >> i'm watching for president trump's re-election campaign launch which we know will come later this month. we've known for quite some time since before he was sworn in that he was going to be running for re-election. he's been having rallies since before his inauguration. how he sort of shakes up the democratic field and how he positions himself will be really interesting to see. my colleagues had reporting last week that they were going back and forth within trump's inner circle about how to do this launch, whether he should replicate the coming down the escalator when he announced in 2015. that captures the central question for him. how does he run as the insurgent when he is the incumbent. it will be interesting to see how he does and how the democrats respond. >> on that note, talking about

president trump, while democrats battle it out for the chance to run against donald trump, the president's campaign is quietly building bigly, as the president might say, the trump campaign at least according to his campaign manager says he just hired a firm to build a new ach which will be used to encourage people to sign up for trump rallies, to work harder to build the trump database. you want a better seat at the rally? sign up ten friends. a picture with the president? sign up a lot more. the goal is to take advantage of trump supporters' desire to get close to him. they're trying to harness connections to allow the campaign to data mine for votes. he hopes it will be ready later this summer. that's it for "inside politics." hope you catch us weekdays at noon eastern as well. be sure to tune in tonight for three back to back to back

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