seriously? embrace the mischief. say "get pets tickets" into your x1 voice remote to see it in theaters. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. talks continue but the white house is filing the legal papers today so it can start imposing new tariffs on mexico come monday. it would a big gamble for the president. a new jobs report out just today shows a slowing economy as he heads into re-election season. plus a giant joe biden flip-flop on abortion policy. it puts him on the same page now as the 2020 rivals but it was handed horribly and reminded him of past campaign failings and as

the president flies home here's his big takeaway from his visit to the united kingdom. >> the meeting with the queen was incredible. i really got to know her because i sat with her many times. we are automatic chemistry. you have that feeling, good feeling. there are those that say they have never seen the queen have a better time, a more animated time. >> we begin the hour with a new and dramatic warning from the president from the american economy he hopes to ride to re-election. the government says just 75,000 jobs were created last month, way below expectations. it's the latest sign the economy is slowing, and it comes as the president is just hours away from a big step that could slow it more, announcing new tariffs on all mexican imports to the united states. now tariffs are normally a weapon in trade wars. as we see in the high-stakes white house confrontation with china, but in the case of mexico they are a presidential bludgeon in an immigration dispute. talks continued today, and there

is a chance that the president pulls the plug before monday if mexico meet his border demands. today job numbers give him reason to think twice about injecting more uncertainty on an economy showing serious symptoms of stress. cnn's christine romans walks us through the sluggish numbers. >> reporter: john, this is a rare stumble in what's been a very slow job market. when you look at march and april, the government actually subject tracted 75,000 from those two months and shows us a soft page. february was only 56,000. what's different there? this was weather. this is concern about tariffs. a lot of companies are starting to say they don't know what their supply chains are going to look like and what their costs are going to look like and they are concerned about the multiple prongs of the president's tariff war. the good news the unemployment rate stayed at 3.6%, basically steady. 176,000 people coming into the labor market in the sectors. broad-based kind of growth slowdown here.

business was positive and healthcare was positive but not as robust as we've seen. last month it was 30,000 and manufacturing only added a few thousand so there's something going on here so why isn't the stock market concerned about this? because the world is upside down on wall street. this is bad news and it is good news. wall street thinks that the fed, the federal reserve will be forced to come in and undo the damage from the president's trade war with rate cuts, maybe by the end of the summer. >> christine romans breaking down the numbers. with me to share their reporting and insights our guests from "the wall street journal" and "the washington times." is this a slow month and things will be fine or is this another sign that the economy is slowing in a significant way and with the threat of mexican tariffs around the corner on monday a risk for the president to keep going? >> it's a sign the economy is slowing.

75,000 is actually roughly how many jobs we can expect the u.s. economy to create over the long run given that ours is an aging population with low population growth so i think the likeliest interpretation of today's data combined with other information, for example on the number of people filing for uninsurance claims, the economy growing at a very fast rate is the slowing around to a 2% rate. >> the slowing to a 2% rate which is what the president, again, we're having an economic conversation with political ramifications for him because he's talked about%% or 4% or more. the questions is -- you can find a lot of data that says it's okay and this is why the president can do these things. there are some warning seibs, retail sales were off recently. factory orders fell. china tariffs are on the horizon, mexico tariffs and the international growth rate has slowed. sort of where are we? >> i think that part you just emphasized is perhaps the most important thing that you said. the international picture has gotten a lot worse over the last

couple of months and quarters, and i think taken in context the slowing in the u.s. economy is really something to be concerned about. you have to take this in trend. the three month moving average on job gains is 151,000 so, you know, that's not terrible compared to what we should be expecting but taken again the backdrop of slowing growth this will make the federal reserve worried. >> let's just show the dow right now. normally 75,000 sluggish job growth. you think the markets might take a hit, but the markets are actually up, 250 something points that you can see there. how much is that that they think the president is going to blink and not impose the tariffs and how much, and i suspect this is more, jerome powell on the record this week saying we're watching all of this, and if necessary even though a couple of months ago this was not their policy now he's saying if necessary, and let's listen to the president who wants this, we'll cut interest rates. >> i built an economy that's incredible. we're up $14 trillion in value.

look what's going on in the stock market. who thought he was going to raise interest rates and if we didn't have all of that we'd be at 5.2 and the stock market would be up 10,000 points more. we can talk to particulars there and go into the fact check machine. i don't think he built the economy. he's gotten better while president. the idea is, is the president going to get what he wants here out of this? the interest rate cut? >> i think the fed is looking at two things. first of all, the trade war is one of those kind of exogenous events that the fed has no control over and doesn't know how it's going to play out and there's a very important summit meeting between president trump and other world leaders at the end of this month at which point the -- we'll know a lot more about whether this is just a threat or whether it will really hit the economy. that might be a reason not to deliver the rate cut right away. on the other hand, there are signs underneath the data even

if you set azize the trade warning. construction employment was athemics, not because of the trade war. that's the thing that has to get the fed worried. >> you have a slowdown. an america first president and the president says these tariffs will help american manufacturing and convince companies to come on. maybe in the longer term we can think about that. in may 3,000 manufacturing jobs in may and 30,000 added in 2019. still going up, but not at the rate we saw right after the tax cuts and the like. some of that stimulus out of the economy. for some of the people watching out of the country, when had you look at the jobs data. what do you think they should be looking at about this economy out in america? >> one of these average everyday american families is that wage growth slowed down and came in well above expectation at 3.1% on the year and i think that's so important because what we haven't seen this cycle is wage growth that really equals what we saw at the peak of last cycle despite what has been a really

strong stock market. there's not a lot to get you back to the wage growth and that matters a lot to your average family. >> what would be the impact if we get to monday and the president goes forward, 5% would be the first round of tariffs on all mexican imports and those tariffs would go up on the road. you see american importers are warning the white house and members of congress a logistical import could unfold, not something that the company could be familiar with. the idea is that if this happens the complexity of the u.s. and mexican trade relationship not only will you have tariffs, but you also have some chaos. >> if you look at the dollar values of the tariffs, that's not huge but that understates the impact because there's a whole uncertainty element. the manufacturers don't know if tariffs are going to go up or down or whether they will hit china or mexico and when they face that kind of uncertainty, you don't pull it back or make that kind of commitments. if tariffs go into place i think

uncertainty gets worse. >> i think that's the case. >> we got a collection of anecdotes from around the country and they foreshadowed today's jobs report in the sense that you saw a lot of companies saying they were facing great uncertainty because at tariffs, especially because of the intermediate grade, things that they use in their end product were going to be tariffs and they weren't hiring as a result and there's some ability to map what we're seeing in the data straight back to the tear. >> i was pulling back to wait this out to see what happens because the one thing they wait is uncertainty. >> next, the white house companies that we just discussed. anyone who doesn't like it, his words. should be ashamed of themselves.

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with because people don't want to be tariffed for coming into the united states, they don't want that, and frankly if they go on you make a fortune because all the companies will move that back into the country. >> isn't this congress for not passing asylum reform? >> yes. >> why does it seem like mexico is bearing the brunt? >> it's their fault also because they are letting millions of people walk up through their country. >> elian johnson with politico and cnn's phil mattingly and jackie kucinich with the daily beat are here to share their insights. to a degree he has a point. these migrants are coming through central mexico and to hear the president of the united states say tariffs is a beautiful thing. a confounding couple of days. sure, it clashes with the republican party ideologically and clashes with economic history as it regards tariffs and one of the things i've been struck by with tariffs, long running conversations since these issues since he's tried to

use the tool many times, the question what if it actually works in these negotiations? they know that on the table are potential asylum changes that the administration has been speaking for a long time and haven't been agreed upon yet and two slots to it. what if it works and he believes now that this is absolutely something he should be doing on a regular basis from here on out which goes to the core about how he feels about tariffs for a long time and the second, even if they works, even if they pull off. you guys had a great conversation about the economy in the last block. the u.s. economy and how allies view us in the future. i think those two questions remain unanswered. >> you can hear that from the president. he thinks the bludgeon of tariffs, used in a trade war and in this case in an immigration dispute, he thinks it work with a big trading partner like mexico, it just might. will mexico do enough. the last 24 hours we've heard progress and not enough and mexico comes back and says we'll deploy national guard troops and mexico comes back and says we'll do more at border with guatemala.

can we reach a deal with people being held north in guatemala or being held in mexico. listen to mark short. used to be the president's liaison to capitol hill so he gets the objections in congress. >> it's a legal notification that goes away today with the ban to implement tariffs on monday and i think there is the ability if the president is going to turn them off. it has to be noticed today so you shouldn't anticipate that happening. >> we have from day one of the presidency that mike pence says this on capitol hill and now we have a day when the deadline to file the executive order is there. secretary pompeo, the lawyers and the peel people involved, he has to sign off on anything they do, and his inclination so far is to say not enough, i want more. >> right. it does seem as if these mexican officials are in there negotiating the subsequent increase from 5% to 10% rather

than to fend off the increase to 5% that would take place on monday. you know, tariffs are the president's preferred negotiating tool. we've seen him deploy them and not just with respect to mexico and all over the world on -- on medal, aluminum tariffs that he put in last year. the president is insistent that tariffs hurt the country they are imposed on and doesn't seem i think fully cognizant of the fact that they hurt american consumers. he's resisted -- we's resisted the advice and caution of his economic advisers when they tell him that these are -- these tariffs are going to hurt the american economy, and it's not republican members of congress who are going to be hurt when the president imposed tariffs. it's voters in their district. >> another thing that's going on there is congress is kind of enabling this because they passed legislation to put a band-aid on what's going on with farmers, that farmers are receiving more subsidies right now because of what's going on

with china, and -- and that -- you can't, you know, give a band-aid to the entire state of texas, for example, so the point is what's congress' breaking point and fill has been interfewing all of these senators this week ringing their hands from from this and they rightly so want to talk to the president themselves. they know at this point that they have been so many timed that they have to go to the guy. >> to that point, the question is would the president say to them in that meeting, if they got that meeting, john cornyn called this a tax and said it's horrible, would the president say to their face what he said to fox news which is essentially members of congress just don't get it? >> i have senators and others and pelosi coming out saying how horrible. what they are doing is they are hurting a deal. they should be saying we're with the president. we'll to whatever he wants to do, and mexico would fold like

an umbrella. now i have these people, and i'm saying there are some republicans, too. i think they should be ashamed of themselves. we have schumer and all these people. they come out and they talk about tariffs are there. you know, they hurt my negotiation. >> they should be ashamed of themselves for oppose him. >> grahlaura ingram actually as the president why he's not shifting the onus on this to congress and not as mexico and he's fixated more on mexico and not as much on congress. >> would the president be willing to say that, they want him to come in and make this presentation. would i flip that. republicans need to want to come to the president face to face. history would say they are not. it's a lot easier to talk about and kind of bang your fist on things when the president is in

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>> joe biden has a new position on taxpayer funding of abortions today. suddenly abandoning a position he held for more than three decades, that in the wake of searing criticism from his 2020 democratic presidential rivals. the flip-flop executed last night at a democratic event in atlanta. >> i can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right. if i believe healthcare is a right as i do i can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependant on someone's zip code. >> that's the vice president and his campaign spin, that the about face came as the democratic front-runner got into the fine print of healthcare policy and as he took stock of abortion rights retreats in states led by republicans, but think that through. the campaign said just wednesday, just wednesday, that biden stood by his longtime support for the hyde amendment. that's a ronald reagan era

prohibition on using taxpayer money to pay for abortions and on that same day wednesday it sent one of its national co-chairs on cnn to plant the flag of conviction. >> his record on this has never wavered. what we don't want to do is mislead anybody, and i think that that's been joe's track record to always be a man to stand up and own what he believes, and so we want to make sure that we did that. >> that was wednesday. this is friday. it's a deja vu moment for democrats old enough to remember the prior two biden presidential runs. >> it was a flip-flop flip which is never a good thing in politics, and it raises questions about his own performance and his own steadiness and his campaign's performance, so this was not a -- beyond the issue itself, this was not a reassuring episode for the biden campaign. >> so how big is it? how he's on the same page with

his democratic rivals? when he's on the debate stage in a couple of weeks he won't have to deal with at least the substance of this, but is david axelrod right? for those of us, i covered the 1977 and '88 campaign and joe biden ran again. he's a candidate whose own instincts have been doubted at times and when his own instincts are in question he's always had had the question of was his campaign ready for primetime and in this case they weren't? >> that's action lieuly right in. and of itself this may not be a big deal but in terms of a window in terms of how biden is prepared for issues,ing it suggests they are really not. the first window into this was the way he handled accusations from women that he made them uncomfortable, and he took five or six days to come out and talk to the press. with this he had cedric richmond, his campaign chairman, came out and gave one position. biden came out and gave another position. it was a campaign that was not ready for primetime and the trump campaign's theory about all of this is biden is not going to be able to survive a primary because he'll be pulled

to the left. this suggests that their theory is right. biden took a lot of criticism from the left on this, and in the end he -- he buckled, and it does suggest that that -- if that's a recurring theme, it suggests that he will go into the general election if he does survive the primary as a different candidate than he entered the race. >> or he learns from it or the field is not strong enough to take him out, and then we do get the question answered when he's in the general election campaign, but to see this played out. this is how lisa lehrer of the "new york times" puppet it the in a tweet in march. biden's staff told me they had no comment on hyde beyond his decades long support. this week his campaign says he misunderstood the question and did support it and now he's against it. head-spinning. this is not just an issue that just popped up. this has been an issue back to the ronald reagan era, a bigger issue now in democratic party candidates because of the rise of women candidates and leaders

and issues and what's hang in the states on abortion rights this. cannot be a surprise where we got to page 77 of the healthcare plan and said oh, we have a problem. >> and over in the house there's a pro or an anti-abortion rights democratic member who is a dccc, initially going to fund raise for and now they are not. if you're a democrat that believes in abortion restrictions, you've got a problem right now in this party because of everything that you just laid out, and joe biden coming into this race should have known that. this looks politically expedient and i think you're going to really hear him being attacked on the debate stage over this. can you trust joe biden on abortion because look at his long record. he's going to have to answer that question on what changed his mind and it can't be because oh, everything has changed in the last 24 hours. >> so you have that question. can you trust joe biden on abortion? you used the term political expediency. i want to go back a decade or so in a moment. can you trust him on abortion which is an issue for democratic primary voters, at least a majority in these states will be women voters, should matter to

men as well and then the bigger question, his calling card is i can beat trump. if you start to seem a campaign that doesn't seem ready for primetime, can't execute a flip-flop, all politicians change their mind, bernie sanders and kirsten gillibrand, a different position on guns now and it's how you do it that matters a lot. political expediency, joe biden back in 2007, like cedric richmond was trying to do, planting the flag of conviction saying we know people disagree with us on this issue, but we're going to stand by it. i'm sorry, i'm stuck -- i'm stuck to my middle of the road position on abortion for more than 30 years. i still vote against partial-birth abortion and federal funding and would like to make it easier for scared young mothers to choose not to have an abortion. i've made life difficult for myself by putting intellectual consistency and personal principle above expediency. the next version of the book might take that out. >> well, this is clearly going to be a problem for joe biden. i mean, it's not just political

expediency argument. it is, as you mentioned, not just an issue for years but clearly in the last two weeks on, you know, front and center, and this is something that the campaign should clearly have been prepared for. i think it will be interesting to see how much democratic campaigns are willing to attack him by name at this point, whether it's for the political expediency argument or for his position himself. >> it's tough to work for a campaign at one of these moments when you have to go out and try to explain things. senior biden adviser saying no big deal, nothing to worry about. >> there's nothing to reconcile. >> made a very logical decision. >> if the vice president was bending to the whims of a number of my democratic friends he would have came out for medicare for all tonight. >> yeah. >> symone is doing her job. >> there's a reason why joe

biden has been there and why hyde is in every appropriations bill that moves through congress for all the nerds in congress. it's no longer the safe harbor that you can say on this issue that's my out on this. that's how i'm going to address this. the party demands you have a better answer and you have a more fulsome answer and kind of a different view on the issue itself and address it more thoroughly. what other issues are there on that, and how many times is he going to get caught on this? >> maybe this is a one-time thing. maybe from here on out he's got it, to symone's point, he's there. is this a harbinger of a lot of things to come where the party has moved in a different place and he realizes based on outside pressure and advocate pressure and competitor pressure that he's got to move as well and to elliana's initial point, where does that leave him if he wins and where he goes in the debate? >> he's counting on donors to think he's the grown-up guy that

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on the political radar today, it's british prime minister theresa may's final day as the conservative party leader, but she will stay on as caretaker prime minister until a new leader is chose. may's resignation follows nearly three years trying but failing to deliver brexit. britain's withdrawal, of course, from the european union. a remarkable reset for charles

ckoch's political action committee. the committees will support incumbents including democrats who side with koch and his conservative allies on trade and other issues. koch's american for prosperity network which has distanced itself from the gop brand in the trump era will back candidates who, quote, lead by uniting with others to pass principled policy and get good things done. trump's america first action is struggling. new numbers show the group has been racking up some big bills, very big bills, while failing to deliver for the president politically. joining me is cnn's michael warren breaking down these numbers. michael what, jumps out the most? >> reporter: a number of republican donors and operative, pro-trump republican donors and operatives, are telling cnn that they are concerned about the direction of america first which started in 2017. some of these numbers, these spending numbers are one point that these people are concerned about. let's go through them. $33,000 for a single event with

vice president mike pence at a steakhouse here in washington. $120,000 delivered to two firms connected to former milwaukee cher f-david clarke associated with america first until the end of last year and more than $460,000 spend at trump-owned properties, primarily the trump international hotel for events and meals. america first says this is all the cost of raising money on behalf of the president's re-election campaign, but some of these critics of america first say the fund raising numbers have been underwhelming as well. $39,000 -- $39 million raised in the laced cycle. $75 million combined between america first and its sister organization. that's a lot of money but fell well bloat $100 million goal that america first had set for itself. republicans are looking at the new leadership at america first, linda mcmahon, the former small

business administration chief who has taken over the group. they say they hope that she can help with these fund-raising problems. >> interesting to keep an eye on this as the campaign cycle continues. let's bring into the room, this is not new, superpacks have existed before this president but this is not the first time in recent weeks a pac led by people who say they are helping the president, david bosse, for example, have been questioned about, well, what is this about? is this about raising money and spending it to help the president and republicans or about raising money to pay some salaries and have really nice event at steakhouses and the like? >> over the past 10, 15 years we've seen come pascam pacs proliferate, particularly on the right and they are very, very difficult to regulate because they technically operate within the bounds of the law. america first is not a scam pac but it does raise the question of america first as a superpac can ask for unlimited contributions from donors and it -- a piece like this will

certainly get these donors thinking about how their money is being used i think when they see a number like $33,000 for a dinner at a steakhouse and how -- how effectively that money is being used, particularly when one fact that jumped out at me from the cnn reporting is that the rnc, which does have contribution limits on it out-raised the superpac which has no limits on what a donor can contribute. >> interesting point. >> problems with america first have just been building. in the 2018 election i had donors and republican operatives tell me they were frustrated because america first at the time was sitting on millions of dollars and not spending it to help republicans. they did end up, you know, spending a little bit of money closer to the election, but these problems have only gotten worse since tommy hicks who was helping the superpac raise money left for the rnc and now everyone is looking at linda mcmahon to see if she can step up and fill the role. >> the question will be how the president reacts because david

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some new tweets from the president as he flies home aiming at nancy pelosi, and

we're learning now details about one house democratic chairman's push to open an impeachment inquiry into the president. speaker pelosi remains steadfastly opposed, but new cnn reporting details efforts by the judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler to change her mind and to win other democrats over to his point of view, but nadler's way could take some of the investigative thunder from the other committee chairmen and centralize it into judiciary . d what is he up to here? you have just today the chairman of the oversight committee saying i'm going to go forward with contempt probably against the commerce secretary, the attorney general over a census issue. jerry nadler wants it all? >> a couple of things to point out. first and foremost, he's reflect being the members of his committee right now, the judiciary committee. more democrats on the committee -- there are a sizable

number of senior democrats on that committee that are at this place right now, and often that's what moves the chairman or the leader towards the position, but the other is there's real turf battles going on behind the scenes. when you have multiple committees launching multiple investigations each trying for the headlines and each trying for the administration's attention and each trying to kind of prove their own case, i think there's been a lot of frustration not just from chairman nadler and the house overwight committee and the house financial services committee that perhaps some of their thunder has been stolen and perhaps some of their bandwidth and ability to complete the investigations has been moved out of the limelight or blocked to some degree and that's why you see the idea if we centralize all these in my committee we will be able to actually move forward in a more fulsome manner. this is a reality on capitol hill. i think we saw this before they took the majority that there were already turf wars breaking out and i think it's bolstered or it's exacerbated by the fact that there's rank and file members who are at that place, turf aside, and he can utilize now to try to make the case.

>> outside of the capital building where it sounds like egos are at play, shocked at that in politics. speaker pelosi is trying to manage this and it's a difficult thing to manage. nbc and pbs news hour, marist polling, just among democrats. what should we do on the impeachment? start proceedings, 36%, continue investigation, short of impeaching, 37, krens you're the president 6 and investigations 15, so that's the democratic country. you've got a divided democratic party. that's what she's trying to manage. as she's trying to markings as i mentioned, the president is tweeting on the way home. i'll get to those in a second. while he was in europe, sitting for an interview in the sacred american war cemetery, nancy pelosi, a frequent target. >> people like nancy pelosi that honestly, they don't know what the lell they are talking about. i think she's a disgrace. she's incapable of doing deals, a nasty, vindictive horrible person. agery, people like nancy pelosi who don't have what it takes. they don't know what's going on. they get angry.

she's a terrible person, and i'll tell you. the name, it's nervous nancy, because she's a nervous wreck. >> now, they disagree a lot to begin with, but what offended the president, politico reporting this first behind closed doors, i don't want to see the president impeached, i want to see him in prison and we can put the tweets up on the screen. in the president's twitter feed. nervous nancy is a disgrace to herself and her family for having made such a disgusting statement since i was with foreign leaders overseas. >> yeah. the irony is rich, you know. >> really concerned about appearances. >> yeah. >> so the president obviously still over international waters when he's tweeting this and called nancy, said all of those things about speaker pelosi while he was overseas and, you know, on ground very sacred for americans. he said that right before the ceremony to commemorate d-day,

and speaker pelosi's comments were technically private. she didn't go out and say those things publicly about the president, so -- but this is an interesting moment i think because president trump has been relatively reserved in his criticism of pelosi, and i think this does mark something of a turning point where these two are going to go at each other pretty aggressively, and i think it's because he sees that we're at something of an infliction point about impeachment, and if she does decide to go forward with investigations, this is going to be a nasty brawl. >> nasty, and i guess his nickname, finally, we'll see if this one sticks. how crowded is the 2020 campaign trail? well, candidates are bumping into each other everywhere. including the airport. taken overnight in atlanta, maybeto o'rouke and mayor pete buttigieg. ♪

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a little friday fun to end the program. a quick look at some 2020 trail moments this week. one, mayor pete buttigieg doing -- is pete buttigieg doing enough to attract a racially diverse vote base? >> i mean, you're in atlanta. there should be -- we should have a lot of black people in this room, right? that's -- >> buttigieg acknowledged the issue and says his challenge is to build trust at, quote, lightning speed. here's one up orthodox way to try. it aired last night on showtime, two comedians from the bronx want to show the real side of the 2020 candidates. >> you're hood certified.

>> they say in new york you're not allowed to have a thing called open containers, but apparently if you put an alcoholic beverage inside a brown bag, the cops don't see it and it's good. >> a fog of war. >> i need to come here more often. >> when in rome. >> all right. >> keep it lower. >> a little bit off, sort of. >> look, having watched the whole thing, i was a little worried when they came to the end that the guy wearing the suit without the jacket maybe wasn't quite prepared for what he was getting himself into, but i thought it worked. his face was priceless. >> whenever you can laugh as yourself as a candidate, i feel that that's a plus in your favor, particularly when you have such a wide variety of candidates. to be able to put that on yourself and laugh at it. >> also something that the president doesn't do.

>> right. >> he is funny, but he's not funny in a self-deprecating man, and he is certainly not somebody that you can see laughing at it the. >> one of the longer shots in the democratic field, marian williamson, spiritual adviser to oprah winfrey, is moving to iowa. chris dodd did it back in the 2008 cycle. her campaign share says she has moved to des moines and she's fully committed to the iowa process including the other states including new hampshire and after the caucuses we'll plaque on moving to weeksy. >> i like the smiley face at the end of that statement. but, yeah, i mean, a lot of candidates are practically going to be moving there and she's going all the way. >> a few days left. three democrats have yet to qualify for the debates, governor bullock and mayor massen and bennett.

>> there are is some frustration among the lower tier candidates as to the polling. you'll see a lot of hot fire at the dnc the last couple of days. we'll see if they make it. they might. >> thanks for joining us for "inside politics." get up early sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern. don't go away. busy news day. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great day. >> i'm briana keilar live from cnn washington headquarters. under way right now. the president's significant weapon, his signature. will he use it to make good on his tariff threats despite all the warnings he's getting from his own party. confrontations growing between the u.s. and russia including a new near collision caught on camera. plus the front-runner backtracks on a major abortion policy. we'll talk to a top aide to joe biden, and the plot on gotham. why a man allegedly wanted to attack the