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goosebumps, watch that film. the news continues this hour. i'll hand it over to chris cuomo for cuomo "prime time.." >> welcome to "prime time." we have some very big things to discuss. this president says he only asked how many might die at the last minute. that didn't occur to him as relevant before then? that's why the constitution puts declaration of war to congress. will they stop this from happening again? we're going to ask a senate armed services democrat. nearly all the major democrats who want to be president are making their case tonight in south carolina. which one will win the night? we'll watch in realtime. and rob reiner is here. he says if you won't read the book on the mueller report, he will show you the movie. a new film that he says can change the election. plus new disturbing details emerging on the deteriorating

conditions at the border. babies now taking care of babies. congress, where are you? let's get after it. ♪ the president says he stopped an iran air strike with just minutes to spare. he admits he didn't ask about what damage the strikes would do until minutes before the assault. his questionable call was arguably not his to make. why didn't the president take it to congress? now this president is saying this. >> i'm not looking for war. and if there is, it will be obliteration like you've never seen before. but i'm not looking to do that. but you can't have a nuclear weapon. >> the president's words and near deeds beg for congressional involvement. what happens if there's another provocation? let's bring in senator doug jones, alabama, democrat on the armed services committee. good to see you, senator.

>> good to see you, chris, thanks for having me. >> it's good to be here with you. so the idea of what happens the next time, i don't see the justification for the president going alone. i don't see which of the criteria for unilateral presidential action this would meet. what is your take? >> i don't disagree with that at all. i think we're taking a very hard look at this. you're going to see some efforts i think next week as the senate takes up our national defense authorization act, the ndaa to try to inject itself a little bit. i think what happened over the last 24 hours should be a wakeup call for all members of congress that we need to keep a close hand on this and not watch and listen to our classified briefings. we need to have a little bit more active involvement here. >> how do you do that? let's say the house -- through some miraculous act of bipartisanship, the house removing the current aumf

happens? so now there's another provocation, good forbid and the president says we're going to bomb, what could you do? >> i think we have to work toward another authorization. i think what has to happen here, leaders need to talk. they have to insist that congress be allowed to do its duty ooin any foreign relations that involves military action. it's really going to take the other side of the aisle. i think it's going to take the republicans to stand up and exert themselves. you're going to have democrats talking about that. but i think we're going to have some republicans taking the step as well. there's going to be a lot of talk about that when we return next week. >> are you good with the president deciding not to bomb in this situation? >> absolutely. i mean, what's a little frightening is that he waited until the last minute to just

ask, could there be civilian casualties. i think any response has to be somewhat proportional. so i'm thankful this didn't come off. if there had been those casualties, if we had gone through with this, it would not have only raised a ruckus in congress, but disrupted things around the globe. >> you don't need the law here. the facts demand congressional involvement. even at his own reckoning, even if we want to believe what he's saying, and i don't, he's openly admitting he didn't think of the most important questions, unless there are going to be american forces in danger that you ask in a situation like this. that's why the constitution doesn't leave this to one

person. you guys have a history of giving this power to presidents. >> no, i think, chris, you're absolutely right. whether it is on the issue of military force or whether it's on the issue of tariffs which is also a big issue we're facing right now, i think over the last number of decades, congress has seated a lot of authority and as we see what is happening with the administration, on both of those issues, people are beginning to talk about taking some of that power back. at the same time something stopped. there's got to be other people surrounding him that also raise these issues and raise these flags. i got a lot of confidence in a lot of our military people. i saw today where the secretary to be nominated as secretary of defense. i think he's well thought of on the hill. there's got to be more voices in the room than just the secretary of state and mr. bolton.

>> roy moore deciding to run again. good or bad for you? >> we have been focused on the job at hand, the kitchen table issues that we talked about and i really mean that. we have not worried or even thought about that much about who might be the republican nominee. i knew the minute i was elected that every republican in alabama would see stars in their eyes. now they're starting to line up. we'll see how it goes. it's going to be a long, hot summer for those guys, it's going to be a long fall for them. we have an early primary in march. we'll know fairly early how this all shakes out. >> how confident are you that you're going to get it again? >> i feel very good about where we are in this race. i really do. we're traveling the state far and wide and we get so -- such a good response. the record we're building in the senate is one that alabama can

be proud of. it's not one that everything is going to agree with all the time. we said that going in. but the fact of the matter is, whatever we're doing on health care, especially rural health care, education, those kinds of things that mean something to folks as they sit down at their kitchen tables, that's what we've been working on and using as a bully pulpit. the office of the senate we're been working on things in legislation. i got a lot of legislation pending and we got a lot of things in the works that the people of alabama should be very proud of. >> how big a deal is it for you contending with which way your party seems to be moving on the presidential level. i know your good friend, joe biden, has to deal with this. they say 80% of your party is center left, but not in this primary. he's getting beat up because he's not speaking the language of the new left. he doesn't talk about these race issues in a way that they want them spoken about today. how big a deal is it for you and for him?

>> well, look, i think right now everybody needs to look at folks' records as well as what they're saying. i think there's a lot of loud voices right now in the democratic party but at the end of the day i think the needle is going to move back to where we're going to see -- look at somebody's complete record, where things are. people like joe biden and so many others that we got running for president have always been there in civil rights and human rights, with basic respect and dignity and civility. that's what folks are going to be looking for. i'm going to be talking that same language in my race. i did it in 2017, chris, in a trump state there 2017 and it elected me to the united states senate. it was a close race, but it elected me in a state like alabama. and that's a message that has to go across all 50 states. not those that just lean so heavily blue. you got to reach people in every

one of the states. >> absolutely. you're welcome to come on this show as will be your opponent to make the case to all of america and to your state specifically as a reflection of what's going on with the election season. >> awesome. give me a call. i love to be on your show. >> thank you for taking the opportunity. when we're talking about what iran did, there's no question it was a bad act of aggression. what's the appropriate response? let's get some insight from somebody who knows how things go in that country. a former cia operative who spent years in the middle east who knows the likely outcomes and the reactions. we'll get his side next. join t-mobile. more reo 1. do you like netflix? sure you do. that's why it's on us. 2. unlimited data. use as much as you want, when you want. 3. no surprises on your bill.

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war with iran would not look like what we saw in iraq and afghanistan. iran has reached far beyond its borders. one man who knows and has seen them in action is former cia operative bob bear. it's good to see you. let's start with why they would do this. we know the screws have been put on them with sanctions. what is their disposition in terms of how to react to duress? >> they respond. we push them into a corner when we withdraw from the nuclear treaty. they truly are suffering

economically and they're not going to sit still for it. i do believe that they were behind the tanker attacks. i believe they're behind the attacks from yemen against saudi arabia and i do believe that they shot down that drone. they knew exactly what they were doing and they intend to push this president into a corner. and he has no clue what he's up against. this is probably one of the most disciplined, well-trained, battle-ready forces in the world. it's going to be nothing like when we hit saddam in 2003. >> you don't think they're an even match for the u.s. military. what would he actually have to internalize? >> he doesn't understand asymmetric warfare. we could invade part of iran, but they can hit back against the oil facilities in saudi arabia, the uae, all of their rockets are very accurate,

they're deep in caves. there's no way that our air force could take them out in a couple strikes. haul these things out, take out 20% of the world's oil consumption in minutes and then we also have hezbollah and lebanon, hundreds of thousands of rockets. they would respond against israel, tel aviv. >> and they have a lot of bad friends too -- >> a lot of proxies. >> these guys have money, good will, and manpower with a lot of -- whether it's shia militias, they have a lot of reach that way too, right? >> they know exactly what they're doing. you go to syria, i was there a couple of years ago, and they're everywhere. it was the iranians and hezbollah who won that war. they're in south america. the fbi's most important threat inside this country are

hezbollah-connected cells. it's a true threat to us in terms of terrorism. now they're not using -- they're not planning anything right now but in the event of an all-out war, you can count on it we would see something in american cities. >> what works well for the united states in a situation like this? >> well, what worked well was the nuclear treaty and is slowly normalizing relations. now it's too late for that. we don't have the trips to fight a full-fledged war in the middle east. our navy is in danger. they have this ability to swarm the fleet with small boats and do major damage. they wouldn't go up in the air. we could control the air. but they're prepare asked they've been prepared for decades of taking on the united states and it's going to be much more dangerous than the '80s when they warned prepared during the iran/iraq war.

>> what's the best course forward? >> the best course forward is to get this national security advisor out of the white house. taking on iran right now, this country is not ready for it. we do not want to start a war that will look a lot more like world war iii. we have to back down. right now they've got -- they've got trump in a corner. hitting these tankers, they keep doing that, and they're going to end up controlling the gulf. they like to call it the persian gulf and it will look like the pers gulf. >> it wasn't until the last minute he asked the best question, how many might die, and that's why he didn't do this. if you were to respond and take out the weapon that did whatever the damage is, take out a drone, take out the battery that did it, some ship, you blow up their assets there. if you could do it without human costs, is that a smart move?

>> no. because, look, iran is controlled by true believers. they believe in the apocalypse, the leadership of the islamic revolution guard corps drops post its in the well and they think they're commuting with them. it's a cult, chris. and they're not -- they're going -- what we would think is overreact. and that's the danger of this. we are a minute away from midnight on a major, major conflict in the middle east which no one in this country wants. but then again, these people don't understand iran in the white house. >> one of the biggest problems here isn't just the president's competence in a moment of crisis, it's that he doesn't have the team around him.

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getting sick. the administration response? they literally are arguing in court that they don't need to provide toothbrushes or soap to create sanitary conditions. and now there is a threat to launch i.c.e. raids that would add more people to an overcapacity situation. how does the trump administration justify this? that's the start of tonight's great debate. bless you both for coming on a friday night. i appreciate it. patrick, i start with you. i.c.e. raids now, i know they look strong, enforce the law, dhs is begging for relief from overcapacity, these raids can only make it worse. why do it? >> well, i think, chris, this goes back to donald trump being donald trump. part of his brand is to be a strong man. at least that's the way he projects himself. immigration has been a seminal

issue to this president in his campaign. whether you agree or don't agree with him, i think it is the thing he believes from the day he took that elevator ride in trump tower to announce his presidency that got him elected. he continues to drive this thing. this is not just a crisis on the border. these are a series of crises that are all related to america finally having to deal with a problem that's been neglected by democrats and republicans for a long time. does it make it better, chris, i don't think so. but it had to be done, at least that's what trump believes. >> if it's not going to improve the situation, how is it something that has to be done. >> i don't think this is something that trump believes. we have seen so much reporting, seen so many stories, seen the faces of all the undocumented immigrants that were employed at

trump properties until very recently, scores and scores of them in many states. we have seen the family chain migration taking place from melania trump's parents and her family. i don't think it's something he believes. i think it's something he is using to pander to a base. it is something that he used in 2016. he believes that driving this wedge, using immigration as a wedge issue to get the base out worked for him in 2016 and he's going to do it again. i think, look, it's not a coincidence that this is all happening the week that he launched his campaign. the day he launched his campaign, he announced raids. he went -- you know, he announced no aid to central america. he said he wasn't going to apologize or take back anything regarding the central park five. this guy is going to go on this same path that he's used before, divide and conquer.

pit americans versus others. it's a horrible, horrible tactic. >> i don't get the calculus. the idea of expanding the base, you have to grow, grow or die, just like in business. and i remember when this administration started, do you remember the efforts called dgt 100, trying to get him to 100% popularity. if they do these raids, i hope that you don't wind up stuffing people in who are sick and you have a catastrophe, how do you get anything near a center-right voter to be for you if you make the situation worse? >> well, i think -- look, this is a general election, chris, and the base politics thing on both sides only takes you so far. someone has got to win voters in the middle. there aren't many left. but at the end of the day trump believes that what put him over the edge was that he appealed --

and this is troubling, quietly to a group of americans who will not go to upper east side cocktail parties and talk about their feelings on some of this stuff. but i think he believes some of the cells in parts of the countries where audiences at those rallies cheer because they feel as though the immigration system has been broken for a long time, that there are people in this country, the country's infrastructure can't absorb and there are enough of them angry about it and trump has stoked those fears and stoked them on the way here that it's an easy applause line for -- >> i get what the sell it. you're one of those conservatives that should be troubled by this. the administration arguing in open court that toothbrushes and soap are not necessary to be provided for sanitary conditions. do you believe that or no? >> first of all, chris, i agree with you. i think it's a terrible optic, it's a terrible humanitarian

position for us to see ourselves in as a country. but i think what's happened is, this policy has overwhelmed the system. homeland security, borders and customs folks, they are not equipped to deal with this stuff. i know that sometimes the government has a hard time delivering mail, it's also not ready or prepared to deal with this humanitarian crisis -- >> but that's the thing, you know what that's called -- >> right. >> look, pat is right. we know that they're overwhelmed. they're saying we can't take care of these people. i was down there. their assessments are accurate. you're not going to hear dhs argue back about the assessments. when is the last time that that happened? if it is made worse, what about, you know, the anna navarros, the

center-right people, how does he grow with them? >> he sure as hell ain't growing with me. i would rather vote for a stump than for donald trump. >> i've seen the hashtag. >> however, to my great dismay and disappointment, i saw this week people like lindsay graham and mark kco rubio who worked o immigration, who had a heart, who know what the conditions are like in central america, why these people are fleeing, who did so much for immigration reform, i saw them cheering on and laughing and clapping at a campaign launch when they know that this administration is doing cruel, inhumane things to children. it's -- i'm apoplectic about it. i cannot believe that evangelical leaders are calling

donald trump the most biblical president ever. i can't believe when congressional leaders stand there clapping like seals at this guy and it's because it is cultish, it's because they're afraid of him, it's because he throws them bones. but you know what, what we are seeing right now, it's inhumane. it's un-american. we are a country that has a moral high ground. we tell people all over the world to respect human rights, to treat people with dignity. we worry about the conditions in syria and refugee camps. we worry about the conditions of dogs and animals after a natural disaster hits somewhere. we are those kinds of people. those are american values and that is why we must defeat donald trump because he is an existential threat to those american values. and the face we are showing the world right now is this, children that are sick, that are lying on the floor, that have no adequate food, adequate water,

that are piled up like bags of potatoes on a floor, we would not allow that for animals and we're defending it when it comes to children flees distress and political violence and murder. we need to solve the issue. we need to solve the root cause. >> true. >> it's true. there is a border. but what's happening right now is inhumane and unacceptable and whether you support donald trump or despise him as i do, whether you support more immigration or want it to stop completely, everybody should be shocked. everybody's hearts should be breaking as what we know is happening at the border with these children. >> i'm out of time on this, but it's okay, let's hope that this is one of the devices the president likes to use which is called the false deadline. it's going to happen, he usually says, you'll see. here they're saying 48 hours. i hope somebody says i get that you got to be harsh, you're

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jim clyburn's world famous fish fry. you may never have heard of it, but it is huge in politics. it's perhaps the most crucial event for any democratic presidential hopeful to attend if they want to win south carolina. of the 21 candidates there tonight, joe biden probably has the edge. he has years of inroads and working and travel to see voters there over the years. and when he ran along side president obama, of course. here's the question, did this

week's remarks touting his work with segregationist senators and the boys, sons, did that put a dent in his chances? one man who is rooting for the former vp is director rob reiner. he also made a very interesting film about the mueller report to educate voters. welcome to "prime time," sir. >> thank you for having me, chris. >> so, here's the knock. you had john lewis today, you've had clyburn, you've had greg meeks was on the show last night, senior members of the cbc say i'm all right with biden. he's got to think about what he says. those are the old-timers though. the young guns are saying you don't know how to talk, biden. you talk about stuff we don't want to talk about that way anymore. you're not with it. how big a deal to you? >> i don't think it's a big deal at all. we're so far out from the election day or even the nomination of a democrat.

but right now he's way at the top of the polls and this is par for the course. this is what they do. try to take down the leader. and they'll be doing that until it gets a little even and then they go after it. it's unfortunate because we got a real cancer over there in the white house and we got to stick together and not knock each other down over this stuff. i know this is part of what you do in the leadup to a nomination, but it's unfortunate. i don't think this is going to play at all. >> why biden is the best choice for you? >> for me, we have been destabilized. we have the single-worse president that has ever been in the white house. he's a criminal. he's got no morals. he's a pathological liar, he's completely incompetent. and at this point we need somebody to right the ship. our allies are flees.

they're frightened to death of what we have in the white house. we need somebody who on day one can right the ship, put us back on the world stailk and say to the world, america is stabilized and that's why i'm for joe, plus i've known him for a long time. he's not perfect. and i think he's going to have a lot tougher problem working his way through the democratic primary than he will if he winds up with the nomination and having to go after trump. i think he has the best chance to beat trump. >> that's a big indicator for you. you believe he's the best chance to unseat this president? >> yes, i do. but that's not to say that others don't have a good chance too. i like elizabeth warren, kamala harris, even pete buttigieg. i like a lot of the candidates. i just think he's positioned because of his ability to reach out to disaffected working class white voters in the rust belt states, i think he has a way of connecting with them. if you look at the polls, he's

way ahead -- >> a lot of that could be name recognition, rob. >> yes, yes. >> senators aren't usually the best choices for president, if you look at the pattern. but this old-new thing -- >> except for kennedy -- >> kennedy, true. >> barack obama. >> you want clinton, you had both bushes, carter. usually governors have a shot there because you see executive experience. the idea of old-new, you're brushing it aside, why? >> because to me it's who's the most qualified to run the country. who has the most experience. you talk about a senator, he was also a vice president. >> sure, he was. >> he does understand how the white house works, how foreign policy works. he understands how to get legislation done, these are things -- we need a steadying hand right now and i think that's why i go for him. but, again, whoever gets the

nomination, i push all my chips in on them. >> understood. so now one of the big issues coming out of the mueller probe, certainly something i was arguing for months, is people aren't going to read this. there are too many expectations that this is going to end the presidency. sure enough, everyone still headlines for themselves and we didn't see that people are digesting the information. you decided to do something about it and make a film to tell people the high points for their own etification. here's a taste. >> this was one of the meaning meeting where they shared the data, especially the targeting of midwestern states. >> let me say that again. trump's campaign manager shared trump's election strategy with russia. >> that's the textbook definition of collusion. >> now, this is a reference to paul manafort, campaign chair,

giving internal data with or without the knowledge of the campaign to the gru. and here's the challenge, how much are you concerned that the people who will watch this and will resonate with them are already in your camp and the ones who aren't, you won't get? >> well, at this point what we're trying to do is get -- we've seen it today. i think we're up to like 78 members of the house who are now in favor of impeachment. we just need to move the ball forward in such a way that we can get people on camera. people haven't read the report. they don't know what's in it. what we know, there's more evidence -- damning criminal evidence against this president than any president in american history. if we are able to present that to the public by getting

witnesses on camera, under oath, in front of the american public, it will be very clear what needs to be done. so everything i'm trying to do is to educate people as much as possible. even people who agree with me, you know, in terms of my politics, they haven't read the report. they don't know how bad it is. they don't know that this report is loaded with collusion. you hear the president say no collusion, but that's not true. >> nowhere in the report does it say the words no collusion. right at the beginning, he said i didn't look at collusion, and there's a lot of stuff that qualifies as a collusion. i wish you well with this, rob, and i give you an invitation to continue the dialogue. >> we have another one coming up in about -- next week, another one on obstruction. >> good. give me an advance on it and we'll talk about it again. i would love to have you on and i appreciate your efforts to inform the country as long as

it's fair and accurate. my headline on what just happened with iran is that a potential crisis was averted. i don't think bombing iran was a win for us in this situation and i don't think it was planned out to be a win. however my concern is this, was the president being straight with us with how it went down and why didn't he go straight to congress before making a move as law arguably requires. and then my biggest concern is, why isn't congress saying what i'm saying to you right now, we have an argument for all of that next. -guys, i want you to meet someone.

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all right. the good news is that there was no strike. okay? we didn't need to do that in iran. not without a plan for a win. it seems that the planning wasn't there. this president's red sense works to our collective benefit in this instance. never theless this exercise has revealed two concerns. we have new reporting that the president was told earlier in the day about potential casualties with the retaliatory strike on iran. so if that's true, why did he say this?

>> they came and said we're ready to go. we'd like a decision. i want to know something before you go. how many people will be killed? they said approximately 150. and i thought about it for a second. they shut down an unmanned drone. plane. whatever you want to call it. and here we are sitting with 150 dead people. that would have taken place probably within a half hour after i said go ahead. i didn't like it. i didn't think it was proportionate. >> not arguing with his conclusion. i'm questioning the credibility of the process. it seems cheer like the president wants us to think he saved the day. it was his call. and he had reportedly already been told about the estimates. so this is likely untrue. the wa he's depicting it. even if we accept this is how it happened, remember he tweeted

ten minutes to go. if that's what it was. he admits to us that he didn't think about asking how many people would be hurt until the last second? making up crowd size and economic projections is not right. credibility in a crisis matters. this president's credibility is a known problem. the other issue revealed in all this is a an urgent matter. this decision to bomb is arguedly in defiance of congress legal authority. the left said he needed to come to them. republicans were talking about taking back power from the executive during 2016 election. where are they now? this president certainly needs the help in the matters that must be clear to all of us after this. it is congress's job to declare war. not his. what would be the basis for authority? the war powers act says a

president may launch an attack when there's a declaration of war. there isn't. or authorizization. and a national emergency created by a attack upon the united states. territories or possession. or armed forces. they attacked a possession. there was no national emergency. there is no immeant threat to us. no attack. by shooting down a drone, what does that trigger in terms of law? that goes to statutory authorizization. to use military force. it's to fight terror from 2001. that's what we're operating under. it empowers potus. to determine when the use of force against countries that harbor organizations that helped the 9/11 atalkers. does anyone think that's what this is about right now 18 years later? here's my argument. congress can't let this happen again. they must demand this president explain why he was minutes away

from a strike without authorize. nancy pelosi said he never mentioned an attack. it's not how the constitution that powers the process. the house makes the argument obvious they had o a vote wednesday to repeal the old amuf. and language that quote nothing in the act maybe construed ov authorizing the act of force against iran. the gop seems anxious to give another president power he should not have. senator rubio says the president doesn't need congressional authorizization to defend our nation death sentence attacks. how is our national security here presented with an imminent threat? shooting down a drone there that may have been in iranian air space. how is that something that warrants killing 150 iranians?

if that's how he feels, let's see him and his republican congressional colleagues own a decision like that. debate and vote and own the bombing and killing of people in retaliation for shooting down a drone. that's what the constitution requires. the left is too quiet and the right is come police sit. it's not as simple as you ask or i or members of congress feel about how we should react to iran's bad act. it's about how we decide something this grave. and we saw a proversion of the law. it almost resulted in something that country would have had to poen oz a whole and almost surely alone. think about that. he admits to us this president he was minutes away from the decision to bomb before he asked is anybody going to die here? the constitution didn't leave a decision like this to one person

on purpose. and certainly we just saw why it's better to have all of congress involved with this president. so for love of country, for the love of safety of this country, congress do your damn job. and don't let this president make a call like this one on his own again. so, how good was the president's intelligence on iran? let's go into what the backing for the decision was. to shine a light into the process of how we got here. two fema who bring military per spect i have from the war room. to the cockpit. a very important brief for all of us. next. lear. not thick, not hot, not messy, just clear, cool, protected. coppertone sport clear. proven to protect. welcome to our lounge. enjoy your stay. thanks very much. ♪ ♪ find calm in over 1,000 airport lounges worldwide.

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