he's saying he's tried to keep his other promises, the democrats have got in the way. >> thank you very much, friends. the news will continues and we'll hand it over to kwis right now. >> i'm chris cuomo and welcome to prime time. the president is relaunching his re-election bid as we speak. we took some of the rally in the last hour. his plan is obvious, more of us versus them and them is basically everybody not in that florida arena, including the media and certainly undocumented immigrants. potus had a new promise of mass arrests, millions in the next week all across america. that won't happen, and that probably doesn't matter. the question is, what is the counter for the democrats? how can they back the house and the polls? we're going to bring in a senator hoping to face off with

the president next year, democrat amy klobuchar is here wuchb one of her colleagues in the house, alexandria ocasio-cortez, set off an outcry accusing the administration of running concentration camps at the border. plus, was electing an african-american pay back for slavery. the senate majority leader seems to think so. why mitch mcconnell is ripping on reparations. what do you say? let's get after it. ♪ let's call it more maga or maga 2.0, whatever you want. the amway center in orlando is filled with a throng of cheering trump supporters as this president tries to generate enthusiasm for his re-election bid. polls show him trailing top democratic candidates in crucial battleground states. but, remember, he was trailing

in the polls in key states last time and won. amy klobuchar is trailing too. the senator just unveiled the actions she would take in her first 100 days in office. she joins us now. always good to see you, senator. >> thank you, chris. >> one simple question, why don't the democrats pack stadiums the way this president does? >> we do. we have a lot of stadiums we're packing at the same time with so many people rubbing. i think you've seen our candidates throughout the years generate that energy and you saw it in 2018 when we had -- took back the house, made it the people's house again, number of governors' races in key states we won, a lot of excitement, high voter turnout, young people turning out in a midterm. i am not one bit worried about the excitement on our side. we just have to unite behind a candidate and that's what these debates are about. >> plans are big with the

democrats right now. you're one upping one of your competitors, senator warren. you've got a plan for the first 100 days. what's the thinking before putting -- behind putting out this initiative. >> this is about urgency, chris. it's about getting things done immediately and there are a number of things you can do without worrying about congress. you can, for instance, stop the assault on the affordable care act in terms of pre-existing conditions. i was listening to the president's rallies, you can put that to a stop. you can make sure that the dreamers are protected and stop these court cases that they're bringing. you can sign us into the international climate change agreement on day one and bring back those clean power rules. i list on my website about a hundred things you can do, over a hundred, in just the first hundred days. why am i doing this? because i think years of donald trump has worn people down. they want to see action now and i think it's important for

people in this country to understand there are things we can do immediately to bring back the heart and strength of this country. >> all right. let's test some of that. look, i think the areas are certainly ripe for discussion and there's need of those issue areas of analysis that you cover. the people should read the plan for themselves. you have criticized this president for overreaching executive action, many senators, congress members have said you got to take power back. you've said you're going to be trumpier than trump -- >> no i have respect for trump. he shouldn't be talking about anything with iran without going to congress, without getting an authorization for the use of military force -- >> fair point. congress has been giving that power. it would be good for you guys to take it back. but you want to sign onto the

climate treaty -- >> you can do that. >> obama was grilled for doing that. >> but you can do that without advise and consent. it's very clear. and i don't think we can wait on your climate. when you look at what's been going on, the flooding in the midwest, rising sea levels, we can't wait. forest fires in colorado. other things you can do, close that boyfriend loophole in the gun laws while introducing legislation. you can do the same thing when it comes to health care. you can introduce big bills like immigration reform while also reserving a number of these things that he's done. and the big takeaway from me from this rally as you pointed out is just more and more divisiveness. going after the media. not seeing that the freedom of the press is important as an amendment, as one of your constitutional rights in this country that we have the freedom

to aassemble, that we have the freedom of the press, treat each other as citizens and he doesn't even do that in terms of how he goes after people of color, how he goes after immigrants. he does it every single day. >> senator, doesn't a return to decenty also include a rush to compromise. i know some on the left don't like that right now. if you're going to show that you're better than this president, doesn't that have to include the ability to work with congress and not within the executive. >> of course it does and i'm someone, as you know, one of the things i did with this plan was show a hundred bills that i passed where i'm the lead democrat and it's everything from drug shortages to work on that, to doing something about getting the $300 million for election security. >> right. >> those are -- >> there's still nothing on that, right, senator? >> we got that money before the

last election and now we're trying to pass the secure elections act which would require backup paper battles in the 14 states that don't have them. >> any word from mcconnell? >> no word yet after he stopped that bill. i have passed bills. i have worked with congress. i work across the aisle. you have to have results that work for the american people. >> true. >> where you have their back, bringing down pharmaceutical prieg prie prices. people hear the president gloat about the economy and they say, what's happening to me. i can't find a bed for my kid who has mental health problems. i can't get my child and their insurance to cover their addiction. i can't -- i'm worried i'm going to be thrown off of my insurance for a pre-existing condition when think child has down syndrome. those are the people of america that are speaking out, that don't believe that everything is as rosy as the president is

saying at that rally. those are the amount of people who are going to turn out to vote. >> you're fighting the good fight, you put forth something that's bipartisan to fix the elections. that is a big deal. i wouldn't let it go just because mitch mcconnell says i'm not putting it on the floor. >> that's what we're doing this week. >> i think what alexandria ocasio-cortez is talking about at the border, she wants to call them concentration camps, fine, the reality should be even more upsetting and democrats are not jumping up and down about getting funding for those kids. they say they want to help but then it doesn't happen. i think fighting the good fight matters, results or not. >> and on election security, we're going to make a big fight about this. that money we got last time was 3% of the cost of one air carrier. as you know, people are working on getting humanitarian aid, i'm

going to look at the agreement that senator leahy made. >> the only reason i push on it, because it's an exigency. i understand that the appropriation season is upon us, but it's not something that can go through the normal process. there's too much risk. but senator amy klobuchar, you are always welcome on this show to argue your points of merit to the american people. good luck going forward. >> thank you very much. there's no reason to hide from the facts. it's about understanding what they mean. there's a big crowd for the president. i would actually differ with the senator, i don't think democrats are packing any place the way he is. and size does matter. but we have to look at what matters about the size. there is a lesson to be learned, next.

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democrats are playing these little clubs in iowa and new hampshire, donald trump is playing arenas. >> we're draining the swamp. the greatest witch-hunt in political history. crooked hillary clinton. no collusion. no obstruction. >> by the way, those words, no collusion, are nowhere in the mueller report. facts matter. yes, this is a sitting president and the democratic field is largely lesser knowns, but people were lined up for more than a day in the florida heat for this rally tonight. we need to see the disconnect between a rally like tonight and reality. this is the only modern president to never see his popularity hit 50% and yet he has the biggest crowds at his events. he's held almost 60 of these rallies since he took office and it might seem like the anything he's done more than these rallies is tweet or play golf. now there are lessons in these legions.

deep, but not wide. that is the main takeaway. this president has gone for a deep connection and enthusiasm that comes with the kind of thing he is selling, when you divide, you necessarily are cutting off part of your potential support and intensifying the other part. so this president has gone for such intense us versus them that he's boiled down his base to the most ardent. first it was about the wall, then it was lock her up. now it is massive i.c.e. roundups in the millions. all are about a hostility toward a common enemy, us versus them. animated animus that sometimes put potus as an apparent ally with some dark figures. his retweeting right wing hate pushers is a product of his pandering.

his rivals have to spend their time chasing even though, heachr the place, he's setting up in florida. he has a challenge, he's not the other this time. he's the status quo. he's no longer change, but what many, many more than fit in that arena may want to see change. hence the fact that he's trailing several top democrats. he has more money, but he's been ignorant to the reality to the business akium that every entrepreneur knows, grow or die. he lost worse in that election, all across the country, red, blue and purple, bigly, yet while conventional wisdom says this president is making a bad bet by packing that reality by pandering the things that won't build a full base to win.

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when we're talking about democrats and impeachment, you got to keep your eye on the playing field here. most of the democrats pushing for impeachment are in relatively safe blue districts. that's why you have a relative minority, about a quarter of the caucus is in that position. and polls do not have a majority view out in the country in favor of the move. but you have about two-thirds of democrats saying they are in favor of the move. my next guest is making a move of her own. california's katie porter is the first democrat ever elected in her district. congresswoman, good to have you back on "prime time." >> thank you.

>> why is impeachment the right move? >> this is for me really about taking the time to wait for special counsel mueller to do his investigation, to issue his report, and then to have the opportunity to read the report and study the constitution, to talk with colleagues, and have done all of that i've come to the conclusion that based on the facts in the mueller report which are that president trump engaged in at least four acts of obstruction of justice and there's substantial evidence that he engaged in those four acts, i felt like it's appropriate to begin an impeachment inquiry. >> but you can't remove him from office, so you will leave the people who want this unsatisfied and there's political risk, especially for you, why do it? play it safe? >> i didn't come to washington, d.c. to make the easy decisions. i came to make the right ones. and there may or may not be political consequences to supporting this impeachment inquiry, but that's not my job. my job is to do what's right. it's to weigh the evidence, read

the facts, understand the law, and then it's to do what those things require. so we don't know what the future is going to hold in terms of the political consequences of this. but i know i did my job in terms of analyzing the situation. >> okay. so do your job but do it the way you're doing it now. you have legitimate oversight. you got about a dozen different investigations and committees looking at it. let it work this way. go through the courts when you have to and you get to the same result, you did your job. why not that way? >> i think it's important that when we have substantial evidence from the special counsel that the president of the united states broke the law four times, four counts of obstruction of justice, and then that president at each and every turn has continued to obstruct congress's oversight, that for me was a very important factor. so because he's not -- he's directed people not to appear, we have subpoenas that have been ignored. we've had to hold people in

contempt. and so this continued pattern is very troubling and i think it's important that the president understand that these are series charges, that the evidence against him is substantial, and that we are serious about doing our duty to the constitution and the american people. >> so impeachment inquiry or are you al ready for articles of impeachment. >> i'm at the time where it's time to start an impeachment inquiry. >> you must do your duty this way. good, let's see if you apply the same rational to another issue. i don't understand democrats jumping on the opportunity to show they have heart and not just harshness when it comes to the border. alexandria ocasio-cortez says the president is keeping kids in concentration camps. is that the wrong term to use? >> i think that the terminology can cause people to react very strongly. obviously, it's an important and sad part of this world's history

that we had the holocaust. but the reality is throughout the world's history, we have had this kind of unlawful, extra judicial detention and that's what's happening at our border. what i would ask the american people to do is focus on what is happening and not on the term that's applied to it. and i think the stories that we're hearing about families being ripped apart, about children who are continuing to be missing, about the lack of basic medical care and health conditions at the border are troubling for this nation and i think it's time for us to begin to push very, very hard to change the conditions at the border. >> why has it taken so long to get help that dhs has been begging you for for months? >> the congress has allocated resources to dhs and also additional resources for border security. but this is also about how the executive branch gets its job done and what it's doing. and some of the president's actions, like withdrawing aid

from central america, making statements that our border is closed to everyone has had the effect of ratcheting up the number of folks at the border. he's been making the situation more difficult for dhs, his own administration, to respond to. >> fair point. but he doesn't control the pursestrings, you could argue he does somewhat, and he doesn't want to use that declaration to this point to help with the actual accommodation issues down there but you can. and i don't understand why the democrats don't see opportunity in this. he is the harsh guy when it comes to the border. you heard him tonight. build the fence, keep them out, throw them out, get i.c.e. harshness. that's his sale. what about heart? i don't understand why the democrats haven't taken the opportunity to say, here's more money. if you're going to use it for the kids, we don't want them sick or dying on our watch. here. >> i think it's difficult to trust that this president will do what the money is appropriated for and we've seen this before with this president

time and time again when we've made appropriations and he's gone and not used the money. my first days in congress were a government shutdown in which the president was shutting down the government and hurting workers and americans saying he wanted money for a border wall when he hadn't spent the money he had been given. i think this president has to do his part and we have to rebuild trust between congress and the president. and when the president is saying things like he's not going to cooperate with congress on issues like infrastructure and prescription drug pricing because of the mueller report, it's very difficult to have that kind of trusted relationship. >> what would you set as a timeline in your understanding right now about when something will happen to help those kids? >> so we are continuing to work on appropriations as you know. i think that the number of members who are traveling to the border to visit things themselves, as we're learning more, i know we're working very hard to come up with something. but each day and each kid who's

hurt or damaged or separated from their family, who's sick, lives are being lost and it's important that we honor our best tradition in this country of treating those who arrive at this country in accordance with the law and international obligations. >> since i've gotten to know you here in your new role as a member of congress, i have admired your sense of purpose and the integrity that brought you to the task. we will be watching to see what you do on these important matters and i appreciate you coming onto discuss this with us tonight. >> thank you so much. you heard us talking about alexandria ocasio-cortez. she's not backing down. she defines it a little differently than others may, but she's taken heat. a new response from her and we'll use it as the start of a great debate, next.

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congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, once again drawing the ire of the right with these remarks. take a listen. >> the united states is running concentration camps on our southern border. and that is exactly what they are. they are concentration camps. i want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that we should

not -- that never again means something. >> all right. here's the issue. is she right in defining concentration camps? yes, but do they have a feeling of usage stained with what happened with the nazis and the genocide of the jews, yes, and that's why it's a great debate. steve cortes, with the new definition from her, i'm not equating with stigma of the nazis and the jews, leave that part aside, satisfied? >> no. that's a ridiculous excuse for a couple of reasons. we know what the connotation of concentration camps is. if we went on the streets and asked the definition, they would give us a definition of nazis.

and she demeaned the victims of that horrific tragedy. he also demeaned the american soldiers that smashed the evil perpetrators of that human tragedy. and she also demeaned the current american citizens who do the very hard and dangerous work of guarding our borders. she equated them by association to nazi ss guards and that is disgraceful. aoc should apologize and probably resign. >> you did not have similar problems with the phrase america first or the word nationalist, which is equally stained. >> no. >> yes, as a matter of fact, but why doesn't it bother you the same way. >> you and i have had this discussion before. i totally disagree -- >> you may, but you're wrong. >> i'm not wrong. you don't get to define what nationalism means for me -- >> yes, i do.

steve, let me know what movement defined itself as nationalism that was positive and not oppressive to another. >> american nationalism, and it was -- >> there's no american nationalism. >> yes there is. american nationalism has nothing to do with race, it's not blood and soil, it's about our shared ideals, our flag o, our beliefs >> i know what you want it to be. it's called patriotism. it was a loaded term and was it the right term? >> what i think is most important, chris, is we do so often in these great debates, i think it's critical that we define it. i am a kid who as a point of privilege, i had a set of

encycle le encyclopedias that i loved to read. i would like to share the definition. center for political prisons who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order. and they are concentration camps at the border. whether we call them concentration camps or detention, they are problematic. when you talk about a frog being put in a boiling pot of hot water, the frog will jump out. but if a frog is put in a pot of cold water and you slowly turn up the heat, it will die. what i'm saying to you today is we sat through this president calling mexicans drug dealers at the beginning of this campaign. today we sat through him during build that wall. and we went from outrage to

disgust to dismay to it's a shame. and i'm telling you that we are irresponsible at this point. her point remain and is the right is threatened by alexandria ocasio-cortez because she tells the truth, whether they can digest it or not. and our bottom line here is, there's a inhumane crisis happening at the southern border and it is because of how these people look. it is because there's a fear that white people are losing their power in the country. that is the bottom line. it is white fear. that is what is driving this. it is racism at its core. it's what the foundation of this -- >> let's let steve respond. >> that's completely untrue. >> it's not untrue. do not call what i said untrue. >> if we were -- >> it's the encyclopedia, sir. >> if we're placi-- these are n

american citizens. they took them out of their homes, stripped -- >> you're going to justify this by what citizenship these people have. that's sick, steve. >> we have foreign citizens who are trespassing for economic reasons and we know that to be true because the director of i.c.e. just told us 90% are not showing up for their hearings, they're not legitimate refugees, they're economic migrants who have decided on their own when and how they can be american citizens and that's not the right away. it's not about race. my father came here the legal way and when he became an american he didn't suddenly become white, he was still hispanic. it's not racist or xenophobic. it's just sensible. >> i don't know when we decided

that a humanitarian crisis could be defined whether or not someone is carrying a green card or someone has their papers. but i'm going to tell you this. before we are american, we are human beings and it is not okay, it is a damn shame what is happening at this border and the fact that you're going to justify it by economics, let me tell you, there are a whole lot of people making a whole lot of money by having these people in detention centers. we want to shift the attention as we should off of mass incarceration of black and brown people of this country, but those monies are being transferred into detaining migrants at the border. it is a crisis, steve. it is not okay just because they don't have their papers. i hope that at some point you wrestle with yo-- >> i concur that it's a crisis. >> in 1941, they were death camps and that is where we are going if our consciouses are not pierced -- do laugh it off.

>> barack obama, this is what he said in 2014. refugee status -- >> you are the king of red herrings. >> refugee status is not granted just on economic need or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood or poverty, end quote. >> there is no question about that. the obama administration wrestled with the same problem -- hold on a second. we've been wrestling with this problem for 30 years. anybody you want to go to, we've been fighting about these same issues. but you've always wound upcoming to same crisis points, you got to reform the rules, congress never gets to that, there's a million reasons why. the urgency becomes on how you treat the humanity. in 2014, we went nuts about what was going on with the unaccompanied minors during the obama administration because it was wrong. they didn't have the resources set up, they didn't have the right procedures and these kipds

weren't being treated the right way. and the one thing that should unite you guys, you all say this is wrong, what's happening at the border and not a damn thing has been done by either side to fix it. the left says we don't trust them to spend the money the right way, and the right says the democrats don't want to do anything. and the president says, even though i have an emergency declaration, i only want to use it for the fence and don't forget, my wholesale is being harsh on these people, i'm not going to open my heart to them. doesn't that sicken you, steve, that something that you admit as wrong and you identify with on one level is being ignored by your own party as part of this problem? >> i don't think we're ignoring it at all. i love legal immigration -- >> what is being done to help the kids? they keep asking for money and you guys have not put anything forward. mcconnell won't even put it on

the floor. >> i'm not answering for mcconnell -- >> the hell you're not. he's in your own party. >> i don't answer for him. and the senate should pass something because they can. and i agree. paul ryan when he was speaker should have done something and i will say to the gops great discredit, they did not address immigration and they should have and i believe it's one of the reasons we lost in 2018. >> when you guys had both houses you didn't do a damn thing about it either expect put all of your money behind the fence -- >> i just said much to their discredit. let's get back to aoc, where we started, the fact -- >> now you want to get back on topic. >> we believe in border control. if her logic holds, then barack obama who deported more people than all other u.s. presidents combined -- >> remember that. >> then barack obama is a nazi. >> are you kidding me? i don't believe that's where you end up. >> remember when it comes to enforcing the law that this

president is nowhere clear to being close to the last administration. what he's done is encouraged a flow that we see right now. i got to leave it right now there. both of you go home with this, neither side has fixed a problem that everybody acknowledges is happening. we got to do better than this. quite a week for mitch mcconnell. and i know that they say next week it's going to get done, why the hell did it take so long? now he's taking on advocates for 9/11 victims. now he's taking on the issue of reparations with slavery. we have a controversy we're going to take up next. ♪

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african-american president. i think we're always a work in progress in this country. but no one currently alive was responsible for that. >> does the reasoning hold up to you? >> i just -- i feel like i don't want to even discuss how simple-minded his assessment is of that. to say no one is alive, that's an argument. but no one minds taking advantage of the benefits they got from slavery and from jim crow. maybe you should give back your grandfather's college degree, your great, great grandfather's land that you were given and on and on and on. people weren't there, but people reaped the benefits from it and that is the whole point of the matter and social programs are not reparations. he is conflating the two and

again misleading the american people as has so often been done, especially within the last couple of years. his argument is simple-minded, it's stupid. i would say it's -- it comes from a position of privilege and probably one of bigotry as well. >> he seems to be saying, we gave you obama, shut up. >> maybe he should have worked with obama. if he was so happy about having the first black president of the united states and he thought that that was in some way a reparation, maybe he could have been more willing to work with the first black president of the united states if his words -- >> in fairness you remember how mitch mcconnell was at the suggestion of the birther movement and how he came out and said this is wrong. so i'm making that up. not a word. even if you want to adopt this as progress, as somehow penance

for the original sin, they tried to sabotage obama, he did it personally. >> he's the biggest which is this current president right now. speaking of reparations. the debt that is owed to the people of color in the country. robert e. lee. a descendant will be onto tel us how he feels about reparations and the answer may surprise you. also we'll talk about the central park 5. we have a group to talk about it. and how the president is saying it's a both sides issue. we talked about that sunday. >> reminiscent. good people on both sides. another ugly situation that he's trying to make a moral equivalence on. i'll see you tonight.

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twice. she believes by the same man. burned with a cigarette. terrible. i remember my brother flying in the direction of where it happened praying he would come back and i was hearing stories like this. the city was afraid. the president then concerned citizen saw opportunity in the an mouse. and went all in trying to make a name for himself 6789 he took out a full page ad in the times. bring back the death penalty. bring back our police. who did he want it for? five black and latin teenage boys. he tapped into a lot of fear and anger that was very real. sound familiar? it was a horrible rape that actually happened. in the park at night. it was part of the criminal phenomenon at the time. called wilding. groups of thugs preying on innocence. a young woman almost died in this horrible sex crime. the facts were damming. the boys were accused of

attacking other male joggers that night. they confessed to that ask raping this woman. they were tried and convicted. the problem was it was wrong. prosecutors knew at the time that none of their dna matched the victim. today maybe it would be different. the central park 5 claim the confessions were coerced. products of duress over many hours with teenagers. they were in jail for years. what happened? the man who actually raped the woman confessed. how do wo know it was him? a dna match. he never implicated the boys. he acted alone. years of civil suits followed. still, despite all that new information, the president today said this. >> you have people on both sides of that.

they admitted their guilt. look at linda fairstein and the prosecutors they think the city should have never settled that case. >> that is leaving it at prejudice. there are people on both sides here. one side was wrong. maybe intentionally so. maybe not. here's what we know. the boys didn't do it. the dna doesn't lie. i know that absence of evidence of dna doesn't necessarily mean that you weren't there. i get it. i know all about it. the judge vacated the decisions. the judge says they didn't do it. people lie. dna doesn't. the dna that was there belonged to none of them. it belonged to a man who admitted to the crime. alone. those are the facts.

and i say today there would have been a different process because of the strength of gha value. we can't be sure because there's a problem with prosecution that produce wrong out comes especially when we're talking about black and brown young men. the president says he's all about law and order. i make this argument. but he's going to cling to a proven injustice. while the case against the prosecutor is for prejudice was hard to make. they settled the case. in this op-ed in 2014, the man who would be president actually wrote that even if they didn't do this, they didn't have the past of angels. that is as a as a matter of fact prejudice. and so, on this day, the president relaunches his pursuit of office. and doubles down. he won't admit he's wrong

despite facts. it's not just what the candidates say and do now that matters. character is over time. as clear as it is he was wrong about the central park 5 and clinging to his belief. it's clear he's never learned from mistakes. strong and wrong. is a dangerous combination. and one we see from this president back then and today. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight" right now. >> he always gives -- the benefit of the doubt to. and who he doesn't. ever notice a pattern? >> starts with himself. i'll give you that much. >> he wants to give it to everyone connected to him. who is charged with something. facing a crime. facing prison. facing jail time. they're a good person. my son is a good person. whenever it's a black or brown person he doesn't give them the ben if the of the doubt. even if the evidence is