in that exchange with senator kamala harris at that debate. and take a listen to what joe biden tried to say earlier today as he tried to more eloquently explain his position compared to last night. >> i heard and i listened to and i respect senator harris. but, you know, we all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds on a campaign debate exchange can't do justice to a lifetime committed to civil rights. i never, never, never, ever opposed voluntary bussing. >> now there are several instances in the past from decades ago where joe biden was on the record criticizing and laying out his opposition to federally mandated bussing. also today in his speech he was trying to clean up a little bit of what he may have said about state's rights yesterday and today he was stressing that the federal government should be involved when it comes to issues of civil rights and also when it

came to issues of integration. joe biden is going to be spending the weekend fund-raising and next week we're going to see him back out on the trail. we'll see if he decides to further engage in this debate in these coming days as this has become a hot topic. anderson? >> what is the campaign saying about how this has been playing out. they cannot be pleased about last night. >> reporter: i think the biden campaign is aware it wasn't his best performance. we're told that biden is aware that he needs to do better going forward and there are real questions about the former vice president and whether he is a candidate who meets the moment of the current democratic party. but one thing going forward that's going to be important to watch, what do real voters -- how do they feel about these comments from the former vice president? you saw last week when it kams to those comments he made about

segregation gn segregationist senators, a lot of voters didn't think that was going to harm joe biden in his campaign. we'll see if that moment, that exchange with senator harris and kind of these explanations that he's been giving on school bussing, whether that will impact him with voters going forward. >> appreciate it. >> the harris campaign visiting a detention facility for migrants in homestead, florida. you spoke to a senior campaign aide for harris today. what did they have to say about her performance last night? they've got to be the opposite of the biden camp? >> a total 180. what i'm hearing from the campaign is they feel very good about what happened last night. i was given a sports reference was it was a lot like steph curry shooting a 60. they feel this is a great performance and they are seeing the benefit in their fund-raising moments. they're seeing a boost of 67%,

an increase more than normal in online fund-raising. it is critical as this second quarter ends, they need this money, they want to have a good showing in the second quarter, they feel this debate performance certainly helped them. >> senator harris oddly was one of two people, the other was bernie sanders, who raised her hand when asked about abolishing private insurance, that's something she -- they would support, only two people raised their hands and harris was one of them. that runs counter to a position she formerly held and she's been all over the map on it. she had to walk that back today. >> she did. she said she simply misherd the question which is a little perplexing because that question was presented on the first night. we know that senator harris watched the first night and eating popcorn. but she says she misheard.

she interpreted of a question of whether she would give up her private insurance in favor of a government-run plan. that is something that she believes. >> there was a slight wording issue -- when i heard it, i felt i knew what the moderator meant, but i -- not to make excuses, but i thought the wording was a little problematic. >> and the campaign was certainly agreeing with you. that they believe it was vague and that she simply misheard and she was trying to be as accurate in her answer. and something we heard on whether or not it's resonating with real people. the campaign says they don't believe it is. they believe this tends to be a media obsession unless something that real people are going to care about. >> if you're -- anyway, we'll see what happens. moving onto what many observers thought was the standout debater

from night one, elizabeth warren. you're at a campaign rally for warren where joe biden was earlier today, what's the latest there? >> well, actually, anderson, that's where warren will be tomorrow morning where she finished up a town hall event here in chicago. just goes to show that as soon as the debate was over, warren went right back to campaigning. she made a note pointing out this was her 102nd town hall event and she said we're a couple of days away from the second quarter fund-raising and instead of being behind closed doors at a fund raiser, this is what i'm doing, i'm spending time with voters and supporters. so even though she didn't call out the other candidates by name, it was very clear that she was trying to draw a contrast between herself who has made a pledge to not do fund raisers, versus some of other competitors. and earlier today elizabeth warren put out yet another plan.

this plan is a plan to reform the state department. and she pledged that as president, she would not appoint donors to ambassadorship positions. this of course is a practice that goes back even back to the obama administration and as a part of her bigger pitch to root out corruption in washington, she says this is a pledge she's making. she also promised that she would as president double the size of the u.s. foreign service as well as the peace corps. and as to the rainbow push coalition, the appearance she will be making tomorrow morning, this is where biden defended his previous position on bussing. we'll see if she gets asked about that tomorrow monday. >> appreciate it. joining us to talk about what they saw is a cnn commentator, also white house press secretary in the clinton administration, also a cnn political

commentator. tara, you said joe biden needs to sharpen his answers especially on race. to be clear, you were supporting him, are you still supporting him? >> yeah, i still think that joe biden is the most viable candidate to beat donald trump. i think kamala harris made a good case for herself last night as well. but i also am concerned, i'm coming from a conservative republican viewpoint on policies and things, i'm casting a lot of my differences with these candidates aside, i think the number one priority is to get donald trump out of office. and my concern is that joe biden is allowing this race issue to get out ahead of him and he's not taking -- he's not ending it the way he should. this has been going on now, plaguing him for two weeks. and it shouldn't have. it's leaving an opening for the firing squad to take place and to undercut him on an issue that really has never been a problem for joe biden before. he was barack obama's vice

president, he just won a civil rights award a couple of months ago. his record is pretty clear for his support on civil rights and racial issues and integration and so this issue that kamala harris has now used to exploit with him, i think could have a devastating effect in the general election by suppressing the black vote. you have to understand that hillary clinton lost by 78,000 votes in three states, including michigan. and there was the -- the obama coalition of about 4 1/2 million people did not vote in 2016, including 36% of those people being black. that is a problem you don't want to undermine your front-runner if he ends up becoming the nominee and it suppresses the black vote. i don't think it's necessary. >> joe, i'm wondering -- does joe biden have a sort of too much of an inevidentability sense about him?

does his campaign to you smell sort of he just feels like this is -- he's the front-runner and there's this sort of grand pace. he's going to be fund-raising the weekend. senator warren out there doing another town hall today. >> yeah, listen, you know, inevidentability campaigns tend to lose. every once in a while it works and it makes it a lot easier for you. if that campaign and joe biden had an inevidentability complex, it's gone this morning. this is why we have these campaigns. i'm not worried about biden because this is june, not january, and he's not finished. there's a lot of, like, overblown rhetoric today about that. >> sure. >> but he's got to do better. i think he knows he's got to be better. and one of the things that is central to his campaign is he's the guy who can take it to trump. he needs to be able to take it to everybody within the democratic party first and, you know, again this is why we have

campaigns. we'll see what happens in the next one. >> yeah. >> if he comes more prepared and is sharper, this will go anyway. if he repeats the performance, then i think there is some validity to, you know, maybe he isn't the best standard bearer for the party. we got to take a quick break. later president trump's new buddies, all in one day. in 2 finishes: matte and poreless and dewy and smooth. 64 fits. ♪ fit me! foundation. only from maybelline new york. available at walmart.

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we're taking about fallout from the democratic debate including moments like these, joe biden interrupting himself on stage. >> we in fact allow people -- my time's up, i'm sorry. >> thank you, vice president. >> looking at those moments and his performance overall last night, were you surprised by what looked like -- was it a lack of preparedness, you think, was it just -- he's been out of this game for a while and dealing with all of those different people. what do you think the problem was? >> yeah, my guess is that it's rustiness. we'll find out in the next debate whether it's something more than that. you know, people with a lot of experience, remember, barack obama's performance in the first debate against romney when he was the -- running for re-election was terrible. i was part of preparing bill clinton for his first debate

against bob dole and until the very last minute, he was terrible because they just assumed, they knew more than the people they were going to be on the stage with and they forget about the stage craft part of it. my guess is, it was rustiness. joe biden has a very predominant stubborn gene and he's got to work on both of those things. >> you said clinton at the last moment, he was bad up until the last moment. what changed? what made the difference? >> well, i'll tell you the story, paul came over to me and said, let's write a fake "new york times" story about clinton losing the debate to bob dole and we showed it to him, and he got mad and he went out and performed. that wasn't only it, but i think people with more experience think that all they have to do is show up, biden found out he has to do more than just show

up. >> do you think this was a wakeup call for biden? it's very easy for people -- pundits to -- everybody runs and say joe biden imploded. this is very early on. >> i think it was a wakeup call. it should have been a wakeup call for him, his campaign and he needs to realize that his best assets are his experience and his -- you know, his electability. and they should capitalize on that. i was surprised that he was -- i think he was trying to be too much of a gentleman and not really going for the jugular and i think he was blindsided by kamala harris and he shouldn't have been. that may have been the fault of the people preparing him. he should have had a better answer to that. i've been in political communications for 20 years. it would have been a no-brainer that the only woman of color on this stage was going to bring up this issue with the bussing and

comments, and he should have had an issue to shut it down. but camekamala harris has prais joe biden in the past so i don't think he anticipated maybe that it was going to come from her. so he's going to have to realize that politics ain't bean bag. he'll be the first one to tell you that. and he's going to have to sharpen it up. you cannot be stuck in your ways. i understand he's been in this game longer than some of the candidates have been alive, but he needs to capitalize on the fact that he has experience, gotten things done and proved to people that he's still got the fire in the belly to do it. >> a lot of these other candidates do not have time because they don't have money. >> yeah, listen, i think, you know, i want to give tom perez a little credit for setting this thing up right. i think it clarified the race. there are a whole bunch of pretenders and shouldn't be in this race. there are some people who have a lot of offer, the governors that

spoke, but don't have a realistic shot. they're there to raise issues. and then there's five or six candidates, however you count them, who have a real shot of this by making it harder to get into the next set of debates, we will start to winnow the field. when it's all said and done, we're going to have the strongest candidate, kamala harris, joe biden, i'm for testing them now, not in the general election. next up, mohammed bin salman, vladimir putin, kim jong-un, and the love they all got from the president overseas. s efully stimulate the nerves in your colon. miralax works with the water in your body to unblock your system naturally. and it doesn't cause bloating, cramping, gas, or sudden urgency. miralax. look for the pink cap.

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if there's a theme so far to president trump's g-20 visit, it's his sunny relationships with dictators. most recently he praised mohammed bin salman. we've also seen him joke with vladimir putin about election interference and about how awful journalists are. but today he also said he hopes

to have a friendly chat with north korea's kim jong-un during his upcoming visit to south korea. just a short time ago he tweeted, after some very important meetings including my meeting with president xi of china, i'll be leaving for south korea with president moon. while there, if chairman kim of north korea sees this, i would meet him at the border dmz just to shake his hand and say hello. that actually was a tweet. joining me now live from osaka japan, jim acosta. it sounded almost like the bachelor about to present a rose to somebody. is it possible the president is actually, you know, thinking he'll just -- go to the border and just to say hi to kim jong-un? >> reporter: anderson, the president himself has talked about this as being a love affair between himself and kim jong-un and just a short while

ago he told reporters he was putting feelings about meeting with kim jong-un. i talked to a senior white house official who said there's nothing more on this other than what the president has tweeted out. but, anderson, keep in mind earlier this week, he was talking to the hill newspaper and suggested the possibility of having a brief encounter with kim jong-un. the white house asked the hill not to report that for security concerns. it seems something is very much in the works at this point. but they don't want to talk about that. i suppose for security reasons, either the president did tweet about that possibility, anderson. >> the president is meeting with putin. it emphasizes once again the president's -- again, his unwillingness to accept the conclusions of his own intelligence agencies making fun of election interference. >> reporter: that's right, anderson. and we've seen this consistently over the years. i remember asking the president then-candidate trump back in 2016 whether he would ask vladimir putin to stay out of u.s. elections and it was at that point that he said, russia,

if you're listening, please find hillary clinton's missing emails. you take that to helsinki where he accepted vladimir putin's word over his own national security. he has a much cozier relationship than he has with leaders with long-standing u.s. allies and it remains the status quo, the new normal when it comes to u.s. relations with russia. it's something we've never seen before from a president in our lifetimes. >> and the president meeting with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman nine months %-p. he was photographed next to him in a group photograph. they were placed next to each other, that seemed odd they would have allowed that, and the president praised him to his face saying you're doing a great job. >> reporter: yeah, he praised mohammed bin salman, the saudi

crown prince in front of reporters earlier today, keep in mind, anderson, he was asked specifically and so was the crown prince as to what they had to say about the killing of jamal khashoggi, whether they would talk about the killing of the journalist. at that point the president said, thank you very much and he did not answer the question. anderson, this comes a week after a u.n. report came out and linked mohammed bin salman to the khashoggi killing. this is once again an example of how the president is not exactly standing up for u.s. rights, human rights on the world stage, even though a white house official did provide a readout saying they talked about human rights issues. but it did not talk about jamal khashoggi. anderson, this is a situation where the president is specifically asked about the killing of a journalist that is linked to the saudi kingdom and we should also keep in mind this also occurred on the same day that the president was joking about reporters and what he

called fake news with vladimir putin and said to vladimir putin, you don't have this problem in russia, and vladimir putin, said we have this problem as well. but they don't really have a free press in russia because of the repressive nature of that regime. anderson? >> 25 journalists have died in the time that he's been in office. jim acosta, appreciate it. presidnt trump's first encounter with vladimir putin since the mueller report ended like so many others with controversy, this time rather than as jim was saying confront putin about election interference, he joked about it. >> president, will you tell russia not to meddle in the election? >> don't meddle in the election. >> that was it. the president also shared another joke with putin about the trouble fake news organizations cause him. >> fake news. you don't the problem in russia.

>> yes, yes. >> a good laugh was had by all. even the president doesn't know or care, 25 journalists have been killed in russia since 2000. we should also point out that one year ago today, a mass shooter killed five employees of the "capital gazette." let's talk about this with james clapper. >> director clapper, when you see and hear this kind of levity between the president and vladimir putin, i'm wondering what goes through your mind. >> i think for the president and his supporters, he was smoking and joking. for me it was kind of a -- i don't know stunning but not surprising to treat a profound threat to this country, like the russian meddling as cavalierly as that, i think it's very

disturbing. >> and then on top of that, you know, according to reuters, the president was complaining about fake news to vladimir putin of all people and then putin commiserates with him, this is after 26 journalists have been murdered during his time. putin says, yes, yes, we have them. >> i think if the president's instincts were allowed to prevail, he would've a similar system in this country as putin enjoys in russia. and if -- unless you're in the mode of disagrees with the president, you're the enemy of the state. because free and independent media is a hallmark of our democracy. >> one can't get in the head of somebody else unless you're a trained professional, i guess, but it does seem like the

president wants the approval of whoever is in front of him and will kind of go out of his way even if it's highly inappropriate to sort of get some sort of sense of, oh, we're in this together, it's -- you know, we have a relationship. >> yeah, it's -- you know, i want to be buds with everybody. and of course we didn't note that the advance criticism of some of our allies, which i think would kind of get their meetings off to an awkward start at least after publicly criticizing the likes of france or india or anybody. >> germany. >> germany, exactly. and then, you know, we sort of praise or refuse to criticize the likes of vladimir putin or mohammed bin salman in saudi arabia. >> and the president was seen with mohammed bin salman at this summit just nine months after the killing of journalist jamal

khashoggi standing no less center stage with the president of the united states. >> it's a -- it's disturbing and distressing that mbs, mohammed bin salman, is kind of getting a pass here for the murder of khashoggi, the journalist. and there's no doubt in my mind that he was implicated in this, that he not only nknew about it but i believe he directed it. it's bad that he gets the reception he's getting. >> there's no way a hit team goes into the saudi consolute in another country without high-level approval or the highest level of approval and brings a bone saw to what they initially allege was going to be an interview. it's -- i would have thought somebody in the white house would have asked, you know, a couple of people to be in between the president and mohammed bin salman. it's not as if they don't get

advance notice of this kind of thing. >> if this were a conventional administration, this administration is certainly not conventional, you would think you would think about the optics of the picture and their appearing together after so short a period after the murder. >> director clapper, i appreciate your time. we'll talk with the two former top justice professionals of what they think as robert mueller's testimony ticks forward. and stone through every season. ♪ behr semi-transparent stain, overall #1 rated. stay done for years to come. right now get incredible savings on behr premium paints & stains. exclusively at the home depot.

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staying with our breaking news, president trump has praised prince mohammed bin salman, the same prince who has been implicated by united nations investigation in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. that means in the space of a single day, he might light of russian interference in the 2020 election, praised the saudi prince who many believe was involved with the murder of jamal khashoggi and tweeted about seeing kim jong-un again, if only just to shake his hand, if only. joining me now is james baker, former general counsel for the fbi and elliot williams. as the former fbi counsel, what goes through your mind when you hear the president make light of russia's election interference while sitting next to the man responsible for it. >> it's shocking, but there have

been so many shocking things that have happened over the past couple of years, starting with firing james comey because the president didn't like this particular investigation. the russians -- the russian government and vladimir putin, they are the enemy of the united states, they are the enemy of the people. they are the ones who in director mueller's words, engaged in a concerted attack on our political system through military and intelligence elements of the russian government. they are the enemy that we should be worried about. it's good for the president to have effective working relationships with foreign leaders, but when it comes to somebody who has done the kinds of things that vladimir putin has with respect to our country and the fundamentals of our democracy, this should be just unacceptable. >> also, they're bonding over their mutual disdain for the news media. russia is a place where journalists have been murdered. >> exactly. the first amendment is one of the things that has distinguished this country from

all the other autocratic regimes that have existed for centuries and it's something that we should cher rich, especially in front of vladimir putin. >> elliot, we've already seen the president outraged over the fact that robert mueller is going to be testifying in three weeks. he's very clearly said he will not go beyond or does not want to go beyond what's in -- can he stick to that? obviously republicans have a different strategy than the democrats do. but clearly democrats want to hear more about his thought process which is not in the report? >> let me put it this way, congressional hearings are the one place in the world where the movie is actually better than the book. and we have this book in the form of the mueller report. but hearing a witness testify to only the information that's in it, so think about a couple weeks ago when he gave that press conference, that was probably some of the most riveting material that we've seen thus far because what you had was the person who had

drafted a major legal document saying to the american people for the first time i could not exonerate the president of crimes. he went as far as to say what he could not say, but it was still incredibly powerful. and i think putting him on the witness stand and really going through that, has a huge impact. even if he's not going to accuse the president of treason or any nonsense like that, it's going to be incredibly consequential testimony. >> do you agree with that? knowing what mueller said he would and wouldn't say, do you agree it's going to be powerful and how would you approach questioning him then? >> yes, i think exactly it will be very powerful. approaching him in terms of questioning, look, i plead with the democrats to not engage in speechfing in these hearings. it's a waste of time and it is

affirmatively not in the interest of the american people for them to do that. i would say, pick one or two members who have maybe a background as a prosecutor and who are good at asking questions, give all your time to them. let them tell the story by having more time to do so, rather than trying to get through everything in five minutes. and have a strategy like that to lay out exactly what parts of the mueller report they want to hit. but don't speechfy. >> it's easy to say don't, but this is what they always do. >> they're not bound today -- supreme court hearings are the best example of this. they all speechfy, when three or four of them are very effective questioners and it will make for a much more productive hearing. >> also the chair of the house intelligence committee said he will ask questions that are outside the report. will that waste time? >> mueller may not answer --

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this huge decisions handed down this week by the supreme court on gerrymandering and the citizenship questions of the 2020 consensus were both written by chief justice roberts, outraging liberals and conservatives. gloria borger now with an in-depth look at justice john roberts. >> reporter: in this class photo, one justice sit smiling front and center, although idealogically he's actually on the right. chief justice john roberts, thrust into the position 14 years ago, now leading a divided court as a divided nation

watches. >> no collusion. >> with a norm-busting republican president and an aggressive democratic house colliding. >> it's like two glaciers crushing together and anybody who's caught between can be crushed. there's high stakes and lots of tension. >> reporter: and where does that leave job roberts? >> right smack in the middle of things. >> reporter: on the docket, old questions once considered settled about the issue of abortion and new questions about the president's power and congress's authority. >> every generation has a moment where the supreme court seems to stand on the edge of the abyss. right now there are fundamental questions about the protection of individual liberty and about the basic structure of our government that are up for grabs in ways that thefwe haven't see decades. >> reporter: roberts has already declared the court's independence in a public broad

side, writing we do not have obama judges or trump judges. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges. >> roberts' push back was an example of what an artful politician roberts is, pretending that they are apolitical but giving himself the political space to continue to be the conservative that he's always been. >> reporter: with extraordinary impact. >> i don't think you can overstate his power in america. >> reporter: joan biskupic is the author of the roberts' biography. >> he introduces each case that's going to be voted on after oral arguments and deciding what knnew cases to ta up. he's in a position to steer the conversation. i think he knows people are looking to the supreme court to be neutral, to be setting a

certain tone. >> we do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle, we do not caucus in separate rooms. we do not serve one party or interest. we serve one nation. >> reporter: but there's no denying the court's majority. but progressives continue to hold out hope that given roberts' concern for the institution, he might swing their way once in a while. >> john roberts is not anthony kennedy. he is far more conservative on all the hot-button issues, on abortion, civil rights, voting rights, on campaign finance. but he is also someone concerned about the institutional reputation of the court and someone who does not want to see the court lurch quickly. but don't kid yourself about which way he wants to see the

court go, it's to the right. >> reporter: it's where he was always been, a product of the reagan revolution. >> there hadn't been a republican president -- there hadn't been an acceptance or involvement of the conservative movement. >> he was a special assistant to the attorney general. before that he was clerk to justice rehnquist and a very predominant court of appeals judge. he was in the judiciary then. then he was in the white house, the executive branch. >> reporter: when at 27, he went to work for ronald reagan's counsel. >> when you're in the white house counsel's office, you have to put in your thinking an ingredient of the political impact and the social impact of something not just the legalistic impact. and i hope that that was helpful to john in developing his own philosophies. >> he was for limiting voting

rights, he was for eliminating affirmative action, he was for restricting abortion rights. this was the reagan agenda and it was his agenda. >> reporter: and it's still his agenda? >> i think chief justice roberts doesn't his judicial agenda is consistent with values sp the policies he expouzed almost 40 years ago in the reagan years. >> married with two children, the son of an indiana steel executive and product of private high school. sp harvard law. the young roberts figured he would be writing history instead of making it. >> there were not ta lot of jobs for history teachers. >> he had plenty of offers as a lawyer and became a federal judge. in 2005, george bush catapulted him to the ultimate job at age

50. >> in public service and private practice he argued 39 cases before the supreme court. >> roberts was smooth. >> it's my job to call balls and strikes. not to pitch and bat. we are servants of the law. judges are like umpires. umpir umpires don't make the rules they apply them. >> he's trying to diminish his role. there is no strike zone in judging. there's judgments. and of course he knows that. >> he voted against to save obamacare. >> he said to republicans, look, you want to over turn obamacare, help yourself. i'm not going to do it for you. >> his vote in the afford care act case was not easy. he switched twice behind the

scenes. he had to have known how much conservative anger he was going to generate. >> kons tifrs had come to depend on him. when he voted to loosen campaign finance laws and oppose same sex marriage. and the majority opinion requiring federal permission for some states to change voting laws. a decision that horrifies the civil rights community. >> how can you keep up with every polling place change? how can you keep up with every purge scheme. how do you keep up with that and thousands of counties in states all over the country particularly in the south? it's exhausting. >> heading into more controversy. the question is how quickly. from abortion. >> we shouldn't expect a decision next year that over rules row. we should expect a death by a

thousand cuts that he engineered over the next decade. >> the power of the president. >> if i'm trump i feel very confident that john roberts will be with me at the end of the day. executive power especially the congress has been one of roberts core values since he got out of law school. >> trump and robert rs are stuck with each other. like it or not. >> we're asking the chief justice to guide us through the treacherous waters. even as they are under siege. everyone in the building has a sense a deep understanding these are times and they better get it right. >> a big thank you from me to someone who made this show and my life the best it can be for over a decade. but we see things. there are trails to blaze everywhere. on asphalt,

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i want to take a moment to say good-bye. but not farewell to someone who has been here and over seeing every as pelkt of my life for a dozen years. my friend and assistant. assistant is not the right word. he's been much more than that. a collaborator. the connective tissue for my schedule and life together. to cover breaking news to 60 minutes shoots and home again. he's done it all with a wicked sense of humor. a smile and a little bit of shouting on the phone. he a force of nature. unafraid to fell anyone exactly what he thinks about story or guest. or them. that includes me as it should. you're lucky in the this business to have a colleague who works so tirelessly on your behalf. he's been there for me and for my family and loved ones. and when i was assignment i could count on him to keep an

eye on my mom. his true passion is music. he was a producer before coming to 360. and it's what he loves. to use a phrase, joey is going to be following his bliss. his favorite singer is donna summer. today as we gather and try not to get gooey. and thanks joey. i couldn't think of the famous lyrics ♪ ♪ for the record. he would never let a cake get stuck in the rain. nothing gets by him. he has been the baker behind the

scenes everything i have done on cnn. i'll never have that recipe again. let the music play. i had to ask him to tell me who shannon was. the news continues. with "cnn tonight." >> this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. we have a night of big interviewing for you tonight. the drama of the 2020 race is really heating up. i'm sitting down with two democratic presidential candidates. mayor buttigieg and castro. those interviews are moments away. we'll be talking about the big moment from last night. senator kamala harris going after vice president biden on his record on race. and in a moment that seemed to take him by surprise. and threw the campaign into chaos. >> i'll direct this