welcome to "inside politics." john king is off. the day after the president returns from a historic trip to dmz, the trump administration is pushing back against reports that it's considering a possible deal that would accept north korea as a nuclear power. members of the congressional black caucus so far are split on who they have endorsed for president. senator kamala harris or former vice president joe biden. and mayor pete buttigieg first out of the gate with his second quarter fund-raising numbers hoping to make a big splash and send a message that

he's a serious presidential contender. but he's still got a day job as mayor of south bend where he's facing criticism this morning from members of the african-american community over a police shooting. >> now, we're also going to say some things that may be a little -- thank you very much. provocative. we're not here to bash anybody. never once did he say i repent. and we know that repentance will come and then renewal will follow. >> we begin the hour with today's big number. $24 million, and its meaning that pete buttigieg is more than a one-month wonder. buttigieg went from 0% and virtually unknown to nationally

recognized. today we have evidence that new name recognition is paying off big at the bank. buttigieg's campaign says it's raised $24 million in the second quarter. we don't know right now how much the other candidates have raised, but $24 million is more than any other candidate raised in the first quarter. the fund-raising haul from nearly 300,000 donors shows deep support and the money the campaign has on hand, some $22 million, shows buttigieg is prepared to carry his message deep into the fall. >> hundreds of thousands of people from across the country have helped us raise over $20 million this quarter. from holding grassroots fund-raisers to spreading the word about our campaign. you've inspired us every step of the way and we're just getting started. >> here with me to share their reporting and their insights, we've got jeff zeleny, julie pace, heather kagel with

politico and sun min kim from "the washington post." fresh off a plane, thank you for being here. jeff, i'll start with you. $24 million. i think everyone knew pete buttigieg was a master at fund-raising and would likely have a big fund-raising number, but $24 million, my goodness. >> it's a lot of real money. the reality is that most of the candidates combined with the exception of the top two, joe biden, bernie sanders and maybe one other will not hit that altogether. so that is how significant it is. as julie and i were just talking about, it is barack obama kind of money as well. i was going back to look at the 2007 figures from '12 at this period and barack obama raised $25 million in his first quarter but he started in january. so this is basically the equivalent. he's doing that, pete buttigieg is doing that through a combination of small dollars, peeping sending in $5, $10, $20 and the big money.

that is the important part. he's raised so much in los angeles, san francisco, new york, so that's the combination there. the average i think is $47. but i think the question here is, is he going to start spending this money. >> and where does he spending it. >> he is far behind in terms of organizing but it's a good problem to have. now he has the money to put it to use. >> and people are taking notice. the biden campaign already responding and they say that they -- this email says they blew our fund-raising goal out of the water for their first quarter in the race, but they did not disclose their final numbers. we'll wait on those. julie. >> jeff and i, again, have the same reaction which is this is barack obama style money. the reason that was important is back in 2007, the early days when hillary clinton was seen as the front-runner, it was the money that solidified obama as a contender. polls at this point really aren't a great metric, just general energy that you might be seeing on social media is not a

great metric. pete buttigieg can now go out to more donors and voters and say, hey, i have staying power. i'll be around through the summer and into the fall. you can take a chance on me. i'm not just going to be the -- >> sort of fly-by-night candidate. >> of the summer. but to jeff's point, he has not spent a lot of money. that cash on hand means he hasn't built out an operation. his challenge is to harness the interest, the energy and the money around his candidacy into a real campaign. >> and if you look from this first quarter, the comparisons here, sanders a master at fund-raising, harris $12 million. don't know what her numbers are going forward. we keep talking about this being obama money. in some ways it literally is from obama bundlers and people who liked obama. this is from a "wall street journal" story, a half dozen former top fund-raisers for

president obama decided in march to help elect mr. buttigieg. taj sedgwick said he founding it easy like with obama to fill an event with 150 people at his home in washington, d.c.'s georgetown neighborhood. this is good news for pete buttigieg. who is it bad news for? you think about all the other candidates in this race, people like warren, maybe like beto o'rourke who was making the generational argument. who should be worried? >> the one person we should watch for is beto o'rourke because he did do a very respectable job in the first quarter, but he does -- they're both trying to take that mantle of that generational change candidate. so does pete buttigieg take sort of the thunder of beto o'rourke and we'll see in the coming days once he releases those numbers. i'm really curious about elizabeth warren's numbers. she raised $6 million in the first quarter, it was fine, but her surge in the polls and her message of being i'm the one

with plans and i've got a plan for everything really took off in the second quarter, so do her fund-raising numbers reflect that? she also had a pretty high burn rate because she has a lot of staff. >> she really does. >> she's getting a lot of great attention. she's obviously getting a lot of grassroots support. but are there resources there to keep up the 140, 160 people on the ground in all these states? that's something we should watch. >> heather, what does it mean if you're joe biden that a lot of these former obama bundlers and folks who raised money for him are now looking attribu buttigi >> it means they want a fresh face and you should be a little worried. buttigieg made a point of coming out first and saying i am a front-runner too, show me what you got everybody else. the interesting thing i want to point out is this caps a really good week for him. he wasn't the breakout star of the debate, that was kamala harris, but he did answer those questions about the killing of the african-american man by a white police officer back home. he received pretty well reviews for how he handled that.

he answered for his shortcomings and that's something biden hasn't been able to do. he doesn't really apologize, he gets defensive. that's another interesting thing, these numbers really cap a pretty strong week for buttigieg. >> he was at a prayer event today and part of that came up. bernie sanders, the sort of former king of fund-raising, this is what he had to say on instagram, sort of a weird instagram post. we'll put it on screen there. it's sort of a mash-up of something that happened with trump and the caption there is want to really scare trump? help us show the strength of our campaign to defeat him. chip in before our fund-raising deadline at midnight at the link in bio. that was weird. >> it was weird. look, i think bernie sanders has always had money sort of pour in but never really had the competition. now he does have competition. there's no question about it, elizabeth warren is on his heels, may be eclipsing him. but bernie sanders number and

elizabeth warrens number will be fascinating to see. they don't have big fund-raisers. we'll see if bernie sanders is remaining as popular. i think it will be hard for him to match his first quarter number. if this is a decline for him, that's going to continue the narrative. but back to the biden thing for one second, i was talking to some democratic donors this morning who say that his poor performance in the debate is going to potentially freeze his fund-raising and donors now on the outside are going to sit back and watch how he does, so that is not good news for joe biden. yes, he probably raised as much or maybe a little more than buttigieg in this quarter. that was all preplanned money. how much of it is coming in organically -- >> you feel like he has to beat him. >> biden is in a tough spot because his whole campaign is built around the idea -- >> that he's the most electable, so look at the polls, look at my money, look at my performances in the debates, look at my crowds, look at my support.

in ig th anything that chips away at that is going to be damaging. he has almost no room for error. especially in a field that is crowded with as many talented candidates as we have. >> and if you're buttigieg, where do you see your opening in terms of sort of a path? do you want to invest in iowa? do you feel like maybe that's fertile ground for some other candidate? what's your sense of what buttigieg should do with this big haul of money? >> that's the problem right now, he's trying to figure that out and that's why he hasn't spent all that money. you look at where people haven't built up ground operations yet too much. but i have to look at iowa first but that's clearly a problem they're trying to figure out right now. >> and obviously, heather, struggled with african-american voters. in some ways he was able to turn a corner, but still if you're biden, you feel pretty good that you're sitting on by the last polls like 50% of african-american voters backing biden. who is sort of in your sense the

voter that buttigieg should be going after and can really make in inroads with this kind of money? >> i think he is trying to figure out how to win over african-american voters, especially younger african-americans who don't have the loyalty to biden that a lot of older african-american voters do, who saw him serve under barack obama and have a lot of reverence for that. obviously he's still struggling. we saw the backlash that buttigieg had at home with the town hall after the fallout from the shooting. but what we've seen with these numbers i think is that maybe national voters, it didn't impact their view of him as much. >> and in some ways, the poll numbers, he's at 7%, 5%, i think he was doing a little better in iowa. in terms of other candidates, we talked a little bit about beto. what does this mean for beto? he had that terrible debate where castro really went after him. he seemed to be nervous at times. right now we want to show you

live pictures out of hong kong where police are firing tear gas. cnn's nic robertson joins us live from hong kong, he's there in the middle of it all. nic, tell us what you're seeing. >> reporter: i've been in the middle of the protesters. there were about two or three minutes ago, you could see indecision on the face of the protesters. they knew the police were coming. they could hear the police were coming through the government buildings, through the legislative council buildings and they were gathered in this area down here and then there were waves after waves after waves of tear gas coming in. i'm just going to try with christian, my cameraman here. we're going to pan around. what you can see is police officers here advancing through the parkland where the protesters were, clearing this area. they fired tear gas before they came in. the protesters streamed away with their hands raised high. the protesters left the area

peacefully, without a confrontation with the police, with their hands in the air walking away. many of them just young teenagers. i saw girlfriends and boyfriends hand in hand standing there wondering what to do. but they have moved away. and now this has entered a new dynamic. now for the first time today the police are on the offensive. a massive use of tear gas that we've seen. several locations at the same time. the police are clearing this area around the government building. now, they may come here, we may have to move, but at the moment i'm counting perhaps in this group of police officers here 50 or 60 police officers marching into the park area. i can see tear gas pouring out from canisters that have been fired from in front of them. the police you can tell here, by the way, because they all have these red lights on the backs of their helmets, but the police walking through this area now, clearing out the protesters.

it's not clear what they're going to do next. but they're forming a line here, forming a line. these officers have orange lights on the backs of their helmets. the other ones had red lights on the backs of their helmets. but the police clearly organized to clear out the protesters who have walked away. we've seen this protest all day. the protesters finally breaking down the doors of the government building, getting into the legislative chamber. and now the police are on the front foot. the protesters have fled the area and now the police are regaining control. >> nic, thank you for that reporting. we'll continue to follow this story from hong kong. we're going to take a break and we'll be right back. oh my, this heinz mayonnaise is so creamy, one day you'll tell your grandkids about it. and they'll say, "grandpa just tell us about humpty dumpty". and you'll say, "he broke his pelvis or whatever, now back to my creamy heinz mayonnaise".

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we want to return now to those protests in hong kong where police have fired tear gas on protesters. c. in -- cnn's matt rivers joins me live. matt, tell me what you're seeing and hearing as well from these protesters. >> reporter: nia, the first thing i'm seeing is the police raising a banner that they usually do. you won't be able to see it because it's all the way over there. the police line about 100 meters back from where i am right now. what they do before they fire tear gas, they put up a big sign

saying warning. i've got to move a little bit. they just fired -- they just fired some tear gas, we need to move back. this is all part of what's been going on in hong kong today. can you see the tear smoke? this has been going on all day in hong kong but it only got this violent right now. this was after protesters made their way into what's called the legislative council building. that would be like protesters made their way into the u.s. senate, u.s. house of representatives and actually occupied that chamber for a slight amount of time. that's where we just came out of. and you can see right there, there's police with pull riot gear on having just shot tear gas. they're moving in. this has been part of weeks worth of protests here in hong kong. today there was a march, hundreds of thousands of people were out in the streets. after two weeks ago, there was 2

million people in the streets and it was very calm, very peaceful. and now it seems decidedly less so. you can see all the riot police. let's move back a little bit, justin, so we can get out of the way just in case things get violent again. this is one of the main areas of hong kong. this would be like fifth avenue in new york city. a city of 7 million people that has been undergoing massive protests because of a certain extradition law. basically people are upset about a law that the hong kong government passed that would allow -- or tried to pass that would allow hong kong to extradite suspects to mainland china. people thought that would give china the ability to extradite people that it doesn't like, political dissidents, democracy activists, human rights activists, and so that sparked these protests about a month ago. ever since then once every week or week and a half you've had massive protests in which the city has turned out in a major

way. tonight, however, they have gotten more violent than they have so far. you can see if you pan to the right there, just 10, you can see all the people in the street. this would be an eight-lane highway usually and now all the protesters are out in the street. this is something the united states is certainly paying attention to. hong kong has been something the united states has supported because there are democratic-style freedoms that don't exist in the mainland but the events here are obviously quite intense this evening here in hong kong. >> thank you, matt. i'm going to turn to kirby here. you see the images here. i'm not quite sure yet if we've gotten any sort of reaction from the white house. this is a story that's obviously still unfolding. what do you make of what's going on here? a lot of the protesters here upset about this extradition bill. they want to see the chief executive there, carrie lam, out of office and resign. >> i think it's important to keep this protest in context. it is about this extradition law

and the chief executive, it's not necessarily about overthrowing xi's influence or overall democracy. that said, i think it's pretty clear that xi will have to start taking this a lot more seriously. he has kept himself at distance from this. after today's events he's going to be asking himself how much longer can he stay away from this and how does he react? does he overreact and cause this to go more violent? i am a little concerned that we haven't seen the white house react to this at all, even before today. you would think that they would want to say something about democratic rule and about the rights of the citizens living there in hong kong. >> we'll continue to watch this story. you see the images there now. tens of thousands of protesters in hong kong out on the streets. tear gas being fired by police. up next, president trump says he scored a massive geopolitical victory this weekend on the korean peninsula, but his critics don't necessarily agree. bla my insurance rates are probably gonna double.

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president trump is back in washington today after a historic trip to asia touting his, quote, very successful trip to the g-20 summit. the president says says good things can happen for all after his surprise trip to the korean demilitarized zone where a meeting with kim jong-un may have led to a potential major policy reversal from the trump

administration. "the new york times" is reporting that, quote, for weeks a real idea has been taking shape inside the trump administration that officials hope might create a foundation for a new round of negotiations. the concept would amount to a nuclear freeze, one that essentially enshrines the status quo, and tacit tee accepts the north as a nuclear power, something administration officials have often said they would never stand for. president trump was quick to get out in front of criticism while still in the dmz saying nobody is rushing into anything here. >> we're not looking for speed, we're looking to get it right. in the meantime, there's been no nuclear tests, there's been no ballistic missiles. there's been a lot of good will. and there continues to be. maybe if anything, better. i think probably after today, better than it was even before. >> cnn's kaitlin collins joins me live from the white house. what is the white house saying

about this "new york times" story about a possible shift in terms of their approach to north korea? >> reporter: essentially they're saying thanks to the president's impromptu summit, these talks that were largely stalled have restarted. of course the question of what those talks are going to look like in light of this "new york times" report is another question. john bolton has responded to this story specifically saying he read it out of curiosity and that neither the national security council staff nor i have discussed nor heard of any desire to settle for a nuclear freeze. he says this was a reprehensible attempt by someone to box in the president and he says there should be consequences. but of course he says the president sounds like he's being boxed in. but it could be john bolton being boxed out, nia, because we reported over the weekend he was not at the dmz for this summit with kim jong-un, something that is pretty stunning, given that he is the national security advisor. an aide said he was on a flight to mongolia for a prescheduled trip and the president's trip was something that happened at

the last minute. now, if this "new york times" report is true and something the administration is going to go forward with, it is a far cry from what we've heard from the president and even the secretary of state mike pompeo who once set a goal of january 2021 for denuclearization. now if they're going for this nuclear freeze, it's going to look a lot different than what they have been talking about for the last 20 to 30 months. >> indeed. the last 20 to 30 years in terms of u.s. policy towards north korea. thanks for that report, kaitlin. cnn diplomatic and military analyst retired admiral john kirby joins our conversation. we will get to you in a minute. i first want to go to you because you were there for this historic moment. this real sort of some people call it photo op diplomacy. what was it like being there for this moment? >> it was in the words of ivanka trump surreal. what was really fascinating to me throughout the day was that

he just -- we know the president is a showman. he know he's the reality show president. we know he's a producer and just how much he just kind of built up this moment throughout the day. you know, we -- i wasn't quite sure on saturday whether this meeting would actually happen. the north koreans had said there hasn't been an official invitati invitation. but he said we're in the final stages hinting that it would happen and announced it at the press conference at the blue house. it's still seeing that moment. seeing the president of the united states walk across this concrete barrier, knowing that you're watching the first sitting u.s. president step onto north korean soil, it really is a remarkable moment. now what does that get the white house and what does it get kim jong-un? there's a lot of propaganda images being spread across in the north korean media. the president seems to not have gotten much out of this meeting except restarting the talks that he himself walked out of in hanoi in february. >> chairman kim certainly got a lot out of this meeting. for one, just praise from an

american president. >> this is my honor. i didn't really expect it. we were in japan for the g-20. we came over and i said, hey, i'm over here. i want to call up chairman kim. and we got to meet and stepping across that line was a great honor. a lot of progress has been made. a lot of friendships have been made. and this has been in particular a great friendship. so i just want to thank you. >> yeah, that word "honor" really sticks out in that sound, kirby. >> i think that's rhetoric i wouldn't have recommended he use with a guy like kim jong-un, a brutal dictator who literally massacres his own people. but look, there's propaganda value to this. kim will take advantage of this. it's more legitimatization of him and his regime by donald trump. if this does actually mean a restart to the talks, because it has been thrown off rails lately that's a good thing, but we're a

long way from -- even if "the new york times" report is right, from a freeze or any method to denuclearize the peninsula, there's a long way to go and big differences between both sides. i don't have a problem with the meet. i'm not crazy with the honor rhetoric and photo op, but what now needs to happen is a serious discussion about trying to bridge the gaps between the two of us and move the process legitimately forward in tangible ways. >> and "the wall street journal" a pretty critical assessment of this meeting. mr. trump is betting, as he always does, that flattery and personal engagement can persuade mr. kim to give up his nuclear weapons. personal diplomacy has its uses, as george h.w. bush in particular showed as president, but mr. trump doesn't need to flatter tyrants as if they are great leaders. these hard men will make decisions based on raw national interest, not because they like mr. trump. this has been his way with many

dictators in some ways and autocrats. but it's hard to know what the deliverables were at this point in this kind of series of meetings that we've seen. >> beyond, as john said, seems to be restarting talks, i don't think there were any deliverables. trump is basically -- it's a risky calculation, and one of the reasons other u.s. presidents haven't done things like what we saw over the weekend is because there is propaganda value for the north. in north korea having these images of an american president smiling next to a north korean leader, there's real value there. so american presidents have said we're going to hold off on giving them that until we get something tangible, not just talks. trump is trying to flip the calculus on this. we don't know if it's going to work. this kind of thing not in the dramatic fashion that we saw has been discussed in previous administrations and the calculus is always no, they want that too much for us to give them that without getting something real on the nuclear program. >> a really important unanswered question right now is what

exactly happened inside that bilateral meeting with kim and trump, because all weekend the president had said we'll just meet for two minutes, it will be a handshake, it seemed like nothing but a quick photo op. they were in there for 53 minutes. we asked repeatedly on the plane ride home to white house officials who was in the room? who were the senior officials in there? it was a very small room so there was not a lot of room for other senior officials. we don't know what happened and that's going to be a question we have to keep on chasing. >> jeff, something that did emerge from this 96 hours with the president overseas there, you did see him kind of cozying up to dictators, whether putin, an autocrat, or muhammed bin salman from saudi arabia. mitt romney tweeted this, the president's praise for mbs, the man who u.s. intel says ordered or authorized the heinous murder of a "washington post" columnist sends the wrong message to the world. it's past time for congress and

the administration to impose sanctions for the murder of jamal khashoggi. a very remarkable tableau of the president praising enemies really of the united states and not similar praise for traditional allies. >> we've seen it every time the president goes overseas on every one of these trips. if it's to a nato or the other g-20s. this, i think, was just framed in a book-end. really in a weekend period as americans were enjoying a summer weekend here, their president, our president, was watching -- was doing things he's done individually but sort of this 100-hour block of what he's done, it is a vast departure from american foreign policy in any recent time. you've heard mitt romney, one of the only real republicans of stature out there speaking. you know, it is a summer holiday but that does not mean that things should take a break. so i'm a little bit surprised again by what is, a, becoming this republican party. this is not a republican party that even looks the same as the

reagan administration or either bush administration in terms of how they interact with other leaders. i think that photo op, we'll see if it actually brings something tangible, it's a good thing. but up until now we have zero reason to believe that it will. >> kirby, typically an american president wants to tout american values, highlight human rights and highlight and criticize other regimes for human rights violations. that's not what this president has done and probably will do. >> it doesn't have to be a zero sum game. he looks at it in a very binary way. if i bring up human rights, that's going to undo other diplomatic achievements i'm going to make. that's just not the case. sometimes our allies or those nations not necessarily aligned need to hear we stand for something, that foreign policy is about values, it's not just about hard, cold national security interests. and so i think many opportunities were lost at the g-20 for him to advance american values, not just our interests.

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kamala harris -- the kamala harris campaign is pushing new endorsements from two congressional black caucus members saying she's the candidate who's gotten the most backing now from the cbc. endorsements are the latest chapter in this ongoing harris versus joe biden dynamic that's been playing out since thursday's debate. >> do you think joe biden is out of touch? >> i don't -- no, not necessarily, i don't think that necessarily. i just think that he and i have a difference of opinion about the significance of who those people were and our perspective on perhaps how we think of them in terms of their reputation. >> race and the role of busing aren't the only topics exacerbating this democratic riff. harris also takes issue with biden on immigration. >> you said that you thought the obama administration was potentially out of step on some of these immigration policies. do you think joe biden understands what has changed

since then or not? >> i think the voters are going to have to decide. i'll tell you where i am on it. i do not condone or support any policy that is about picking up, arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants who have not committed a crime. that was where i disagreed with that policy of the administration. >> heather, you've done a lot of reporting on particularly the cbc aspect of this, which really is a debate about who's going to get african-american support, who's going to get momentum and if harris is the one to take it away from joe biden. is this where harris wants to be? what's your sense of what's going on here? >> yeah, i think she has definitely courted the cbc. we saw another senator, cory booker, who's also a member of the cbc, he's went to cbc meetings since he's been in the senate, things like that. harris more recently started showing up.

they have weekly wednesday meetings last year. more often than not she would bring an entourage. that turned off some members and a lot of them have loyalty to joe biden because a lot of them served with him, including jim clyburn, who is a king maker in south carolina. he hasn't come out and endorsed. he said he won't endorse before the primary but he talked very lovingly about biden. he was one of his strongest defenders after his segregationist comments so i think harris knows that biden is probably her strongest competition within the cbc. >> and you have biden obviously trying to push back against this focus on his record, his focus on busing. here's something that he had to say in terms of his civil rights record. >> 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 want to be absolutely clear about my record and position on racial justice, including busing. i never, never, never, ever opposed voluntary busing. >> jeff, how worried is the biden campaign about this? this is a story that has been going on since the debate. what's your sense of how they're seen and whether they are afraid of blowback, particularly from african-american voters? >> the biden campaign right now i think realizes that this presidential campaign is not going to be won or lost on busing. i think the bigger challenge is, is this an example of something where joe biden simply represents the past not the future. that's their biggest worry, that he is cast in this view of history not going forward here. so anything that is an example of that, and this is. the question is so many supporters of biden, admirers of biden wonder why he can't pivot on this and say, look, the

country has changed. thank god the country has changed and have an example like gay marriage or something where he was a leader in terms of the obama administration. why can't he make that pivot. but he seems very set in his ways and stubborn on this. but there is a sense and the biden people are pushing this. we'll have to see how this plays out. that some of his black supporters in south carolina and other places will stick with biden through pretty much anything and they are pushing the notion through some surrogates like senator carol moseley braun who's going after harris. but she is with joe biden through thick and thin. >> ride or die. this is what she had to say in a political article. we can be proud of her, talking about harris, but her ambition got it wrong about joe. he is about the best there is. for her to take that tack is sad. that was from carol moseley braun.

jesse jackson was speaking in front of his group the rain poe push coalition and he said he's for voluntary busing, i'm for court-ordered busing. well, everyone's for voluntary busing, jackson said. the federal government had to order the abolition of slavery, the right to vote. what do you think harris is up to here and when will we know if it's actually working? >> jeff is right, the campaign is not going to turn on busing, but it does speak to this broader idea that biden on both his policies and his rhetoric is out of step right now. and what i have heard from a lot of people who are really thick to joe biden is they just don't understand. you come into the race with a 40-year record, you know it's going to get picked apart. biden's instinct is to defend that record. he's really struggling not just to pivot rhetorically but to show that his vision is forward-looking.

to show that he doesn't want to fight these fights of the past, that he's got a proactive, forward-looking agenda and the attention is all backward leaning. a lot of that is because of him. that's where he keeps going on this. >> even when he tries to dig out, he sort of makes a miss step. when he was out in seattle talking about the evolution of acceptance and tolerance for gay americans, it didn't go so well. he got booed. >> look, with joe biden you do have to accept there is going to be a certain amount of rhetorical gaffes that will come with him. the problem for his campaign is if it becomes overtaken. >> i'm going to have to end it there. up next, ivanka trump attended the g-20 alongside secretary of state mike pompeo and president trump. but did she steal the show, like her father said? >> has anyone ever heard of ivanka? all right, come up, ivanka, come on. she's going to steal the show. what a beautiful couple.

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one of president trump's advisors is returning home from the historic korea trip to a mixed reaction. "the new york times" with ivanka trump tests her diplomatic chops and riles a legion of critics.

"the financial times" reading ivanka's g-20 performance puzzles world leaders and in the uk, frosty glances as ivanka trump joins g-20 chat. ivanka's unusual role was never more obvious than when the u.s. and south korean delegations lined up for a photo op and left alone, pacing looking for his place was secretary of state mike pompeo. >> sun min, you were there. awkward. >> a little bit, to say the least. for me it was one thing. a lot of the theme of the g-20, a lot of the forums touched on the issue of women's empowerment which is something ivanka has taken up since she joined the white house as a senior advisor so she spoke at a forum based on

that. so that's one thing. but she was sitting in on a lot of critical meetings. she was in the bilateral with chinese president xi jinping. not sure that trade policies and the tariff war are necessarily in her portfolio. also she was part of a lot of critical meetings with the south korean president, moon jae-in. this was hours before the president's historic meeting with kim jong-un. so what was her role there, what were you doing? just a reminder that aside from the president of the united states, ivanka herself and her husband, jared kushner, also stepped into north korea. >> this is a statement from the white house deputy communications director. it is sad but not shocking that the haters choose to attack ivanka trump, a senior advisor to the president, when she is promoting u.s. efforts to empower women through strategic partnerships with world leaders at the g-20 and visits or substantive and historic thanks to president trump's leadership. our country is more prosperous and secure. not a lot of transparency in

terms of, a, what her portfolio is, b, what she brought into those meetings, what she got out of those meetings. she's not a cabinet-confirmed position at all, unlike somebody like mike pompeo. this is strange. >> there's always this funny thing that happens when you question ivanka trump's role in the white house. it's the haters. this wol never happen to anybody else. >> of course it would. >> she's a senior advisor to the president and she's holding her own meetings, what are the accomplishments? what's her role? what did she bring to the table there? what were the questions that she asked? what did she offer there? if she's going to be a senior advisor, yes, she's the daughter of the president, but she should be questioned and held to the same standards, we would be asking the same exact things about and we do about mike pompeo, about john bolton, about any other senior member. >> and frankly, she should be answering these questions herself. i can't recall another senior advisor to the president having a low-level spokesperson essentially putting out a statement defending her. if she's a senior advisor to the president like valerie jarrett was, like karen hughes was in

the bush world or whoever, they talk to reporters directly and said what their meetings were. so you can't be a senior advisor and also treated like daddy's little girl up there. that's what he was doing at that rally. so that's why this is just unusual. >> it is very unusual. but in some ways not unusual for this white house. it does seem to, you know, have a policy where it's almost every day is bring your daughter to work day. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." brianna keilar starts right now. i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now, the first debates are over and the money is rolling in. a new group of democrats may be

elbowing their way into the top tier. a pregnant woman was shot in the stomach and indicted in her unborn baby's death. the woman's attorney is taking action to dismiss this shocking case. plus ivanka trump advisor, daughter and diplomat? why her prominent role at the high-stakes g-20 summit is raising a lot of questions. first up, those crucial fund-raising numbers in the 2020 election and the powerful impact that they could have on the race. just this morning mayor pete buttigieg reporting a huge haul. he posted an impressive $24.8 million in fund-raising for the second quarter. then senator kamala harris is boasting a $2 million boost just 24 hours after her fiery debate performance last week. this is a sign that the democratic primary may have just broken wide open as the candidates are preparing for the next debate right here on cnn in just a few weeks.