>> this is a country where we speak english, not spanish. >> reporter: tell that to your vp. >> hola, miami. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> all right. thank you so much for being with us. anderson starts now. >> good evening. it is just the opener. the debate is more fitting for a season finale. people are watching and talking about it suggesting they are already deeply invested in the presidential campaign. and with poll after poll of demps saying beating president trump is a kia tribute for their party's nominee, tonight's round will be a test of the man who right now, at least, is polling best against him, joe biden. tonight's lineup features the self-help author, two well regarded colorado politicians, small town mayor pete buttiegieg with a big-time buzz, sitting congressman with a national following, four sitting u.s.

senators including leading 2016 contender bernie sanders, california's charismatic freshman kamala harris, and joe biden. the former vice-president, current front runner, the one right now who as a candidate in this race has made comparatively few public appearances and has had comparatively little exposure to hard questions from voters, reporters and his opponents. he has, however, faced more questions about most about whether he has the discipline and at his age the endurngs to power through the campaign or for that matter to do well on the stage in miami tonight. we have late reporting on his plans for that. before getting to the larger discussion, i want to check in with cnn jeff zeleny who joins us now. so what are you learning, geoff? >> reporter: anderson, good evening. i'm told the former vice-president does not want to spend the entire evening talking about his past record. so one of his advisors tells me when he is asked about that, of course he'll explain it and defend it. he wants to pivot forward. that is a word they keep using over and over, pivot forward and really make the case that he is

trying to present a case for the future. that, of course, is one of the vice-president's biggest challenges here, to show that he is a candidate of the future. they are also, anderson, i'm told preparing a generational answer. of course, several of his rivals have already said, look, it's time for a new generation. it's time forays new generation of leaders. i'm told the former vice-president is going to say this. it takes all generations to come together for demps to win back the white house and repair the damage, in his view, that president trump has caused. so we'll see if he has anything a little more specific on that. but they are very focused on this generational question here. but anderson, he is going to also, you know, be standing right next to bernie sanders and bernie sanders, of course, is, you know, essentially the author of so many of these progressive ideas. look for the former vice-president with a smile to say, look, bernie sanders is a friend of mine, but to show why he believes he's wrong on proposals like medicare for all and others. anderson? >> it's interesting because last

night not a lot of sort of more centrist candidates really tried to push that hard against the more progressive candidates. are you expecting to see some of that tonight from joe biden and -- versus bernie sanders? >> reporter: we'll see if joe biden does it, anderson, but i do believe several others on stage will do some of that work for him, perhaps. michael bennett, the senator from colorado, he has been explaining that he believes med k care for all is wrong. abolishing private insurance is wrong. look for others on the stage to essentially handle some of the not necessarily on behalf of joe biden, but they may do some of his work for him. john hickenlooper, former governor of colorado, he has been having a moderate message as well. so it may be some of the other candidates trying to have ail moment with bernie sanders who may make that argument. but, anderson, no question it is the two people in the middle of the stage, bernie sanders and joe biden as well as mayor pete buttiegieg. he has a lot of things to answer for, about his time as mayor of

south bend. so he, of course, /on the big stage. he's not really debated much before. joe biden has debated so many times. anderson, this is a different moment in this democratic party. one question overall, is joe biden right for this moment in the party? he has to show that he is. anderson? >> jeff zeleny, thank you very much. biden communications director kate. thank you so much for being with us. what is the vice-president's strategy going into tonight? what do you hope he does? >> well, the most important thing for joe biden tonight is to keep being joe biden. he is going to layout his plans. he's rolled out progressive plans on health care, on climate change. he's going to make a really aggressive case directly to the american people about his vision for leadership in this country. but, you know, in addition to talking about his progressive plans, he's also going to do something i think is sort of unique in this field, which is he's really going to make the case for a government where consensus and compromise are not dirty words. and he's going to make the case

that we can do that without compromising our principles. because at the end of the day, running for president is about helping people and getting things done. and if you're not able to do that, well, then, what are we even doing? so i think you're going to hear him make a case that the american people are really hungry for which is that we can get past this hyper partisan moment in our politics and get back to government that actually has people's backs and that gets things done. >> he's obviously focused a lot on president trump and in some ways looking over some of the other democratic rivals who will be on that stage tonight. should people expect him to continue to focus on making distinction between himself and president trump? >> well, you know, he got into this race making the case about the failed moral leadership of the trump administration that, you know, what he saw in charlottesville when white nationalists were marching in the street and the president were saying there were fine people on both sides of that argument. that was a motivator for him. there's no question that he is

going to continue to hold president trump accountable for the moral failings of this administration. but tonight he's also going to be focused on making his case. again, laying out his plans, and also making this larger case about being able to work together without compromising our principles as somebody who has done that. he's somebody who has done that on the national stage. and he's done it in the trump era. there's people like to suggest that somehow this is a throwback to another time. but, you know, after president trump was elected in december of 2016, vice-president biden was able to get a bipartisan bill done to get a significant amount of funding for cancer research in this country. so the notion that he's not able to do this or that somehow this is a vision that is naive is just wrong. >> does the vice-president -- he said on the campaign trail that in his administration they will cure cancer. is that something he is going to continue to say? because i'm not sure how one can

say that -- you can certainly want to and make progress, but i'm not sure it's something you can promise, is it? >> absolutely he will continue to say that. he believes that as americans there's nothing we can't do. and, you know, he obviously has been personally touched by cancer. but when he's out on the road and he asks people in the audience, how many of you have been touched by cancer in your life? and nearly every hand in the room goes up. so it's something that he has dedicated his time and energy to doing with the cancer moon shot and the obama/biden administration at the end of their time in the white house. and then with the biden cancer initiative after he left office. we've been able to make significant gaines because he's been dedicated to this. so, yes, he will absolutely continue to push to cure cancer in our lifetimes. >> jeff zeleny was saying he's been hearing from people from the campaign saying the vice-president very much wants to look forward, but he will be probably called upon to defend his past as well and past votes and decisions he's made. how concerned are you that some

of the other folks on stage are going to try to pull vice-president biden into a conversation on the past, and particularly his votes? >> well, not at all. first of all, there are -- he has some incredible accomplishments in his record that he's proud of, things like the violence against women act. things, 25 year extension of the voting rights act, things like the affordable care act. he has accomplishments in his career that he's very proud to talk about. >> i don't think that's what the other ones want to talk about. >> but -- however, he's also going to make the case for, for what he would do as president. i think that's what people want to hear. this is a debate about the future of this country and he's going to be laying out a vision for that. i think the other -- i think the other issue here, the other point i would make here, anderson, is as we saw last night, these canndidates are ony going to get maybe ten minutes to speak across the course of two hours. so i think for other candidates, they're going to have to decide how they want to spend that

time. if they want to use their time to talk about joe biden, joe biden is happy to use that time to also talk about his vision for the future. >> i understand just finally, bid biden won't go to the spin room tonight to talk to reporters. i can't believe it's still called the spin room. the most honest thing in politics. i can understand never wanting to set foot in one. he as a candidate, why is he not going to go? >> he's going to have spent two hours answering questions on stage. he talks to the press everywhere he goes. i think there is no question the american people know where joe biden stands on issues. look, honestly, if at the end of the debate what we're talking about is whether joe biden went to the spin room, as a campaign i think we can live with that. >> kate benningfelder, thank you for your time. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> with us now, the team of political reporters, analysts and former participants who will be with us now and throughout the night all the way from 11:00 to 1:00 a.m. as we did last night, break out some chardonnay later in the night.

all right. i'm only going to do this once. former obama senior advisor and currently host of the ax files david axelrod. malika henderson, gloria borger, cnn political visor, josh macintosh for the hillary clinton campaign, senior political reporter. cnn political commentator van jones, cnn van jones show, and special advisor to president obama. and political commentator terri mcauliffe, former dnc chairman and former governor of virginia. david, what, as you kind of wait with anticipation and popcorn for tonight's debate, how does the -- >> the chardonnay i'm after. >> how do you think this plays out for biden? >> well, look, i think this is a big night for him, and i think he has -- it's interesting. the oldest and the youngest candidates are going to be standing next to each other. for both of they have age is an issue in different ways. for joe biden he has to show that he is active, engaged and

forward looking and not enfeebled and backward looking which is how some would like to portray him, some of his opponents would like to portray him. so this is a test for him. two hours, is he vigorous, is he engaged, how does he handle the -- if sanders comes after him, how does he handle that? that's a big story. for buttigieg, does he belong on the? is he ready to be on the big stage? how does he handle when the inevitable question comes about some of the events in south bend recently relative to a police-involved shooting, how does he handle that? people will be judging whether he has that kind of stature and mettle to be on the platform. so those are two big story lines. sanders, i think, and i said this last night, he is going to want to burnish his credentials as the leader of the left. he is losing some of that support to elizabeth -- elizabeth warren. one of the ways he can do it is to set himself in opposition to

vice-president biden and i think you'll see some of that. >> the thing about sanders, gloria, sanders has been in the game up into tonight, he's campaigning, he's in the senate. vice-president biden you can make the argument he's been out of the game for a while. >> he has. and sanders has also participated in big debates. sanders -- so he kind of knows that game as well. and i think sanders is going to try and portray biden as the establishment. i mean, that's not the word biden is going to want to hear, but it is true. he is part of the democratic establishment, for better or worse. i think what you're going to hear from joe biden is a lot of talk about barack obama, reminding people, reminding people what he and barack obama did together because that's very important at the democratic party. i want to echo what david said, he has to show his vitality here. he's standing next to buttigieg as you point out. there is a 40-year age difference -- 40 years.

so that could -- that could be a problem for him. let's see what buttigieg does with it. i don't think he has to do anything, but he does talk about generational changes. >> i want to talk about some of biden's past debate performances. he has a good track record. take a listen to him debating paul ryan in 2012 after obama did very badly in his first debate against romney. >> you can cut tax rates by 20% and still preserve these important preferences for middle class taxpayers -- >> not mathematically possible. >> it is mathematically possible. it's been done before. it's precisely what we're proposing. >> it has never been done before. >> it's been done a couple of times. >> it has never been done before. now you're jack kennedy. [ laughter ] >> you know, joe biden in a previous cycle, when he was a contender for the 2008 democratic nomination against barack obama and hillary clinton, i think he had sort of a rejoinder at each one of those debates. he was good with one liners - a

>> consistently good. >> what was interesting listening to you talk to kate benning field, his to do list is long about what he's going to do tonight. he's going to layout his plans for the future, defend his record as needed, make the case for bipartisan ship. that's how you can get stuff done. he's going to allow others to make contrast with him if necessary, and try to play that to his advantage. it just dawned on me last night, cory booker's was to introduce himself. elizabeth warren's to do list was try to own your rationale for a warren presidency. it just seems joe biden, not that he can't accomplish all this, but listening to the campaign, it feels like they have a lot they feel they need to get accomplished. >> or that's something they say because they have to say something. >> the real truth is, the real truth is i think they understand that the most important thing is to show that he is in command.

>> exactly. >> that he looks like a guy who is ready to be president. >> if you have been out of the game, i mean, it is a tough thing to suddenly catch up to. it's like if you haven't been on cable news for a while and you start in it, it's a certain pace that's not normal. >> and as we know, he hasn't been doing the kind of town halls, the kind of sit-down interviews that we've seen from elizabeth warren, from pete buttiegieg, everyone else in this field. and it's also true that i think the public hasn't seen joe biden and they probably remember the joe biden from that debate in the joe biden from 2008. and he is different. he is older. i've seen him out on the campaign trail. he is, you know, not as vigorous as i remember him being. so i think that is a challenge for him. this is going to be the first time so many americans see him and it will be a different joe biden. and the problem i think he has as well is donald trump has been sort of playing this up.

he's been himself, donald trump has been saying of joe biden. he's lost it a little bit. something is going on. he's a little slower. >> about the kate betting field interview, how many times she said progressive. we're expecting joe biden to make the case for a moderate to come through as the democratic nominee. instead, it seems like they're really going to try to paint him as somebody who has progressive policies that are just as progressive as the other folks on the stage and the folks we saw last night. >> he was vice-president to barack obama. >> absolutely. he's trying to say progressive policies plus bipartisan consensus. the other thing the obama administration failed to do was break the republican fever and make them work with demps. with the news that we saw today, with progressive activists being outraged at the senate capitulation to the republicans -- >> the house capitulation. >> and the border security, i just don't think today is the day to come out and say, we can work with republicans. this is possible and have that resonate with a democratic base. >> i agree. it goes deeper in that biden has

a different theory of the case than what is growing within the democratic rank tz. his theory of the case is very simple. trump is the problem, i'm the solution. that's it. for i think the growing part of this party, a broken corrupt system is the problem and major reforms are the solution. and so when he comes out there and says, hey, listen, trump is aberration and we can all get together, i think it's going to land badly. who is going to benefit if pete buttiegieg. i'm going to tell you the fact that we can all say his name is a miracle. this guy was nowhere three months ago and now we all had to like take speech classes to say his name. but he's going to pull the goldilocks strategy. watch pete buttiegieg. listen, biden is too cold. bernie is too hot. i'm just right. and he's going to come right down the middle. and i think he's going to be able to do very, very well with people who want real change, but who are scared of bernie. >> i couldn't remember if goldilocks was the had you ever

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turnoff a lot of demps as well. joe is going to try and carve that moderate space there. if some go after him from the left, as i said earlier, hickenlooper and bennett, they have to move up somehow. so they may go after bernie. you're going to have a lot of plays. i said last night i was shocked how little trump's name was used. i don't think that will be the case tonight. i think you're going to hear barack obama and donald j. trump a lot tonight. but listen, all biden has to do, and i think 2 1/2 hours we'll be sitting here, he'll have done what he needs to do. he's a very good debater. no one should under estimate him. he has a lot of energy. people will say he did what he had to do. he will go in as the front runner. he's going to come out as the front runner. the last thing i'd say, he's smart. he's not only talking to the democratic voter. he's going to try and talk to america. he's going to talk about k-12, he's going to talk about work force development, he's going to talk about infrastructure because he's trying to appeal to the country. and every time a poll comes out like last week shows him beating

donald trump in texas and in florida and north carolina, that helps his inevitability argument. so he's in a very good position. if they really go after him, it's an opportunity for him to shine. there's going to be a break out moment for a couple others. joe biden does not need a break out moment. >> you still have to win iowa. he can do well in all these national polls, but he's got to win in iowa. bernie sanders is somebody that he really has to pay a lot of attention to. i know sanders will be paying a lot of attention to him, but biden has been through this before. he's never won iowa before, as we recall. >> a couple things. >> when barack obama was vice-president either before. >> two things we need to talk about. kamala harris, i'm waiting. i want to see it. first of all, i've known kamala harris for 20 years. i spent a lot of my time in california. if kamala harris were united states, i would sleep like a baby. first of all, if putin pulled any mess, he might wake up in a body bag. she is not to be messed with,

she is not to be trifled with. she is tough as nails, she's smart. we haven't seen it in terms of the big break out moment for her in terms of the campaign. i want to see kamala harris. she's something. i have to tell you, that andrew yang, yang gang, baby, i'm telling you, the kids love this guy. he's this tech guy, he's talking about stuff like artificial intelligence and robots and stuff. i think the kids are going to like that. you're going to have some break out moments. people we aren't talking about now we'll be talking about. >> van jones, you go home with something. you get a participation ribbon no matter what. >> let me come to the garden party on that point. i think the way the draw is tonight, bennett, hickenlooper, swalwell and gillibrand, i think they have the shortened of the straw in a big way because there are so many heavy weights on the stage. last night since it was elizabeth warren, everybody had a fair shot. i think it's going to be very tough for those 1%-ers on this

stage with the heavy weights on top. >> it may encourage them to be pro progressive. swalwell said we don't need a candidate whose ideas are staler than donald trump's. >> he said of joe biden, he was going to be around to live the policies he enacted as president. he literally played that card today. >> that's going to hurt him more than it's going to hurt joe biden. >> but we're talking about it. but we're talking about swalwell and we hadn't talked about swalwell before this moment. >> but you talk about yang before you talked about swalwell. >> will swalwell have the guts to actually bring it up tonight? that's the question. it's one thing to say it on cable news. another thing to say it to his face. >> it's one thing to take a round house right and do it in the context of a message that advances you. it's another thing to say what you think will get you on tv. we saw people last night, you know, raising their voices. i don't know whether it was all necessarily to their advantage,

but the key is can you score in a way that's memorable that also advances your rationale for your candidacy. that's the harder thing. >> it's going to be a lot messier tonight. i said yesterday is going to be the brawl to end it all, the war to settle the score. you guys laugh, but it's going to be messy tonight. >> you're sticking with that? >> i'm sticking with that. >> a blast even more than the past? >> you've got to have people -- this is my moment. i spent my whole life trying to get here and i'm not going to walk away with only two minutes. you're going to have people trying to bust in. >> how great to spend the twday talking about policy. i worry we're going to spend the day talking about pot shots. >> i agree. we as a party -- i was a little dismayed last night. i wanted to see more discussion about -- people are sitting in home, they're stuck in traffic. they can't get the job they want. the kids aren't getting the quality education and we're talking about things that don't affect people at home. that's what demps have to focus on. anderson, everybody on the

debate stage except for the top three, it's not that your ideas aren't going any more. you just plain run out of money and what they have to do tonight is to spark some interest so that they can get online donors to keep them alive. that is the most important thing for these folks. otherwise they're out. they're gone. >> let's take a quick break. after the debate we'll be on from 11:00 to 1:00, but more coming up right after a quick break. bipartisan bill on border relief that should help the humanitarian problem on the border. hoe gressel inland valleys are upset. we'll talk to them to understand why. what sore muscles? what with advpounding head? .. advil is... relief that's fast. strength that lasts.

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billions of dollars in relief for the humanitarian relief at the border has now passed both houses of congress. the president tweeted, great job done by all. important on a timely issue and progressives are not happy about it. >> the problem right now and the question at hand right now is that mitch mcconnell sent us a bill and we're just putting a big checkmark on it instead of even trying to negotiate. >> we had an opportunity to put forth a humanitarian policy and

we wasted that opportunity and it's quite sad. and i hope that americans are as appalled as i am. >> 95, the 102 no votes in the house were demps, speaker nancy pelosi said her caucus had, quote, reluctantly passed the senate's version. progressives wanted more accountability for how the white house could direct that $4.6 billion. the horrible tales of inhumane conduct at one texas facility and obviously this photo of a father and his 23 month old daughter drowned trying to cross the rio grand into america, deeply upset progressives who held a moment of silence on the house floor shortly before congress voted. they couldn't contain their emotions before bowing their heads. >> the photographs that all of us saw this week should tear all of us up. for those of us who are parents, to see a toddler with her little

arms wrapped around the neck of her father, there is nothing that we wouldn't do for our children, nothing. to give them a better life. >> raw emotions were everywhere today with demps also lashing out at other demps. one coe chair of the house progressive caucus, congresswoman blamed senate demps who support and made any opposition among house demps difficult. they lacked, quote, spines. on twitter, the other coe chair wrote, since when did the problem solver's caucus become the child abuse caucus referring to a bipartisan house group. joining us with the congressman. thanks for being with us. a spokesman for problem solvers caucus, cochairman tom reid responded to your tweet. were it not for the bill passed today, congress would have gone into next week without passing

humanitarian aid. is he wrong about that? >> so, what we were asking really is to have 24 more hours. the senate's around. we could have stayed one more day before we went home, our congressional delegations to get a little bit better provisions in the bill. the house bill was better. the house had a bipartisan vote a couple days ago that had a bill that had stronger provisions for these facilities that have these horrific conditions where kids are literally dressed in filth, they don't have soap, they don't have toothbrushes, they're slippieep on a concrete floor with a blanket. we want to make sure if these firms continue to do that, they would lose their contract. it is not a democratic or republican issue. if we stayed longer we would have got those provisions. that's why we're upset. it's the trump administration policies we're aiming our fire at. but we wish we could have had the opportunity to make those bills better. >> do you really believe that the so-called problem solver's caucus more moderate demps did more to harm kids today than to

help? some would argue something is better than nothing. >> i think they mistakenly threat to vote down the rule for the house bill we were going to send today over to the senate that would have included those better provisions. instead they were on the clock, wanted to get home, and we had to finally capitulate and take up the senate version. it was a lost opportunity. again, it was a bipartisan vote out of the house with much better provisions that had better conditions for the children, and that's really what it should be about. and unfortunately they didn't allow us to take that bill up. again, i think if we had stayed 24 hourz, hours, we could have got it done. the fire is the trump administration policies. please don't be mistaken. i think people today could have done things differently to get it closer to making it a better situation for the kids. >> what do you say to speaker pelosi who says that in the wake of the condigs we're seeing at many of the border facilities and the horrible image of the father and daughter who died crossing the river, that children needed to come first and that the resources to protect them needed to be available?

>> and we could have done that easily tomorrow or even next week. in fact, people who voted no included the chair of the appropriations committee and the two lead negotiators from the appropriations subcommittee. so the people who actually knew what was going on voted no because we knew we had a better provision in the house bill that, again, i think it's not a democratic or republican issue to say a contractor who has these horrific conditions if they keep it up, they shouldn't have a contract. >> is that the main difference between the house bill which had more accountability than the senate bill? >> and it took some of the other conditions that some facilities have to abide by to all facilities. so you really wouldn't be able to get away with this no soap, no toothbrush, sleeping on the floor, concrete floor with a blanket. we would have had a better provisions for the children who are there. the best situation is not to have children detained this long in these facilities. so, again, the trump administration is really where the problem is created. we just had a better opportunity with the bipartisan vote or the house this week to have had a bill with better provisions that had people just been willing to

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a block, supreme court today said the court must stay out of battles concerning redistricting handing the victory to each dominant party in the state. at the same time the court dealt a significant blow to the trump administration blocking for now a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census. chief justice john roberts sided with the liberals, saying it didn't offer enough information to why it had to be inserted in the questionnaire. president trump reacted this way. seems tote lid ridiculous. he tweeted, i asked the lawyers if they can delay the census no matter how long. as a factual matter, the census and timing of it is enshrined in the constitution. now chief legal analyst jeffrey tubin. it's a big deal. both are a big deal. talk both about the census. can he delay the census? >> he can't delay it too long. the constitution as it says has to be every ten years, so it has to be during 2020.

there is some debate now about when the forms need to be printed. somewhere between july which is of course next week, and october. so there is a lot of urgency about this question. but just how urgent is not entirely clear. >> did roberts' vote surprise you? >> it did, because he is someone who generally sides with executive tower, don't interfere with any administration does with its power. but what was so striking about his opinion was that he basically said the trump administration just lied about how this question came about. and, of course, that's politically very significant because the trump administration said oh, this is sort of to help with voting rights and almost like a bookkeeping thing. but demps and the plaintiffs in this case said this was about trying to intimidate people of color, spanish speaking people from participating in the census, thus, not having them

counted for state and federal representation. so potentially very significant. >> let's talk about the other ruling, which is also incredibly significant. >> yeah. this is such an important part of our politics now that partisan gerrymandering, where state legislatures draw their on districts and the districts for the house of representatives so that one party controls each seat and basically the party in power gets to exaggerate its influence. >> right. they shift the way a district is in ways that are totally -- >> right. now that there is this powerful computer software, they can do this very precisely. and it's not just that the politicians are protecting their own interests. it affects polarization because when you have districts that are only democratic or only republican, the only election that matters is the primary. and there, often the most extreme candidate is going to

win. so moderates have a hard time winning in any districts anywhere, and that is what's really at stake in this decision. generally this helps republicans because republicans control more states than demps do, especially the big swing states like ohio and florida. they now have a complete green light to redistrict anyway they want. >> what was the justification for the court? >> the justification -- and roberts was actually -- he wrote both opinions -- was very candid about this. he said this is unseemly. this is not something that really looks good, but courts can't get involved in this. we can't draw lines in ways that even democratic and republican power. that's not the function of courts. we can deal with issues like race, but we can't deal with partisanship. elena keg an who wrote a very powerful dissent for the four liberals said this is what courts do. it's our job to draw lines. when you have so much distortion

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so it wasn't exactly a state secret that rex tillerson and jared kushner did not get along. now there are transcripts what the former secretary of state told the foreign affairs committee last month detailing their relationship. tiller talks of walking into a restaurant, tillerson didn't even know the mexican foreign minister was in town. he also spoke about kushner's

relationship with crown prince mohammed bin salman. he said there was, quote, a lot of communication between the two men and a lot of trips. quote, jared and the white house were coordinating with the state department. the problem is that rex tillerson couldn't figure out how to coordinate with the state department. yikes. >> that part you just have to dismiss. that's just typical trump being you took a shot, you get a shot. you have three categories. nonfeasance, misfeasance and malfeasance and kushner has trouble with all three. nonfeasance is when you have a duty to do something and you don't do it. like when the russians come knocking on your door and you don't tell anybody. you have potential business interests that come up in meetings and you don't report it until somebody asks you about it. and then you have misfeasance, like these meetings with these diplomatic types. then you have malfeasance and

that's the biggest concern, that even the secretary of state rex tillerson had questions about whether or not jared kushner was playing for america first or his own interests. that's a recurring theme. it could fall under the category of abuse of power. >> chris, what do you have tonight? >> we're going to look at what happened last night and project onto the debate. the numbers were huge last night. you'll probably hear more from the president tonight. we've got criss ruddy. we'll get a take from him what's going on over there. >> see you in about seven minutes from now. two women -- their recollections just ahead. cancer is the ugliest disease mankind has ever faced. we got the idea that if we took two dimensional patient imaging

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repeatedly he pulled down my tights. >> reporter: thetes lisa, long time friend of e. jean carroll's. >> the minute i was in there he shut the door and pushed me against the wall, and banged my head on the wall and held me over the shoulder and i was wearing a coat dress and tights. and he pulled down the tights. >> reporter: carroll says they were in the lingerie section when it happened. >> you're saying there was actual penetration? >> yes. >> reporter: her friend remembers her sharing that, too, all those years ago. >> honestly, you did say he put his penis in me. and i said -- my face just did

it. what? he raped you? and you said he -- he kept pulling -- he pulled down my tights. it was horrible, we fought. and i said let's go to the police. no. come to my house. no, i want to go home. i'll take you to the police. no. it was 15 minutes of my life, it's over. don't ever tell anybody. i just had to tell you. >> reporter: e. jean carroll said she went onto tell another friend. she too remembers the conversation. >> you were handling it as you handle things and so she doesn't break down easily. it wasn't like she started crying or nothing that was frantic kind of response to it. it was like i can't believe this happened. >> reporter: and while her friend suggested they go to the

police carroll martin had different advice. >> i said don't tell anybody. i wouldn't tell anybody this. >> i watched carol martin growing up. it's nice to hear her voice. why did she advise e. jean carroll not to go to the police. >> she felt donald trump was a powerful man with lots of lawyers and she was in a sense looking out for her friend. and as you know trump has denied all this. he said with great respect, number one, she's not my type. number two, it never happened. as you know e. jean carroll never did go to the police about this. and these three women who talked about this alleged incident all those years ago say they have never spoken about it since. >> more to come on that. we'll see you again at 11:00 eastern time tonight right after the debate. we'll be on from 11:00 to 1:00, full debate coverage with our entire team. i want to hand it over to chris

for "cuomo primetime." welcome to "prime time." we have new word tonight how the democratic front-runner plans to deflect inarrows coming his way. is joe biden going to be joe cool or jolten joe. and we have bernie sanders campaign cochair here to let us in on the plan for the first face-to-face dual. the current president is at the g-20 in japan. he is going to see vladimir putin. question, why is it none of our business what he tells the moskow meddler? trump's friend chris ruddy is in the far east with him. and also with us tonight, does he have insight on the sit down? and once upon a time we felt differently about those who came here even if they didn't have a legal right to be here. did this picture, a dead child floating in the water with her father, it's moved hearts. has it moved the arg