a front-runner on the defensive. >> it's so easy to go back and go back 30, 40, 50 years and take it completely out of context. >> a challenger on the rise. >> his position on this, which was to work with segregationists and oppose bussing, was wrong. period. >> and a very, very late apology.

>> i regret it. >> plus, trump seizes the spotlight on independence day. >> our nation is stronger today than it ever was before. >> it claims he deserves a new title. recruiter in chief. >> and the growing crisis at the border. >> there's abuse in these facilities. there's abuse. this is them on their best behavior. >> they're running it phenomenally. >> sourced by the best reporters. now. welcome to "inside politics". john king is off today. we begin this sunday with the 2020 campaign and joe biden's effort to turn the page in the weeks since the first debate he has faced intense criticism from his 2020 rivals and growing fears his front-runner says it at risk. speaking in south carolina

yesterday, biden forcefully pushed back against his critics while also doing what his supporters wanted him to do sooner, apologize for his comments seeming to praise segregationist senators. >> i chose to work within the system, to make it better, to get things done for the least among us. was a wrong to do that? i don't think so. now, was i wrong a few weeks ago to somehow give the impression that i was praising those men who i successfully opposed time and again? well, yes, i was. i regret it. and i'm sorry for any of the pain or misconception that may have caused anybody. >> and defending his civil rights record from the crime bill to his issue on bussing. the debate stage fireworks with senator kamala harris. >> i'm going to let my record and my character stand for

itself and not be distorted or smeared. i know those speaking the issue today or saying what i said back then. but the better answer is to get to the root cause of segregation. i don't believe a child saof to get on a bus to attend a good school. there should be first-rate schools of quality in every place in this nation. . >> his message to competitors boiled down to this. it's time to move beyond focusing on his past and instead make the election about donald trump. >> america, in 2019, is a very, very different place than the 1970s. and that's a good thing. and, yes, i've changed also. i'm not the same person that i was at age 29. many people want this campaign

to be about my past, not theirs. my past. i get it. that's the game. but this isn't a game. >> joining us now with the reporting and their insights, julie pace of the associated press, rachel bait of the what post, jackie kucinich of the daily boast and martin jordan of the "new york times". a busy weekend. you saw joe biden down in south carolina speaking directly to an african-american audience making an apology. some might say it was a non-apology apology. do you think this is enough to turn the page for what had been a series of tough days for biden. >> i thought it was an excellent speech and one he probably should have given earlier. it was i think important to address his comments from last month about working with eastland and talmadge like he did. but i think it was also important for him to recognize

and to voters that this election is about the future. look, it's the oldest maximum in politics. keep it about the future. he has to make it about the future, not his past. it is important that he did that bit there about all of his opponents want to make it about his past. >> he also wants to make it about his past, too. that's the problem. >> not just his past in the senate but ignoring his time as vice president. it was important what he said yesterday, they want to focus my life before '08 because obviously that's not helpful for their campaigns. and i think the more he elevates his time as vice president, the more helpful it is in terms of connecting with democratic audiences. but he is never going to win this nomination. he's not talking about the future instead of the past. whether or not it's working for obama or working in the senate in the '70s. >> and you saw cory booker who had been critical of the vice president's comments.

here's what he had to say about biden's regrets. >> i'm frustrated it took so long but i'm grateful for him doing this. you can't have a leader who can't say i made a mistake. i apologize. i'm sorry. i'm sorry that he tried to shift blame to me. i want to say thank you. i'm never going to not accept somebody i respect and admire who finally has come to terms with this and apologized. >> jackie, classic cory booker there talking about grace. >> grace. >> do you feel like the other campaigns will extend the same grace, or will they make an issue of that? he hasn't apologized for his work with the segregationists, which was opposing bussing and integration. >> not only that, he has taken issue with work of the crime pill. there are people still in jail because of those policies.

and the idea you can't examine joe biden's record as a legislato legislator, a valid point of contrast between -- that's just how campaign works. it's not his personal life. it's his legislative record. yes, his term as vice president should absolutely be a part of that. the idea that it is not fair game and it's unfair, doesn't make a whole lot of sense. >> he wants to make the eight years under obama as the centerpiece. he did that most strongly in that speech with this line. >> when i talk about the obama years, my opponents talk about it as ancient history. when others talk about something i said in the '70s, they talk about it like he it's yesterday. kind of strange, isn't it? it was the honor of my lifetime to serve with a man who is a great president, historic figure and close friend. i will take his judgment about my judgment and character over

anybody else's. >> we saw him wrap himself in the mantel of obama, 2010, 2014, clinton in 2016. it didn't work for clinton in 2016. why does joe biden think this is good strategy. >> the reason is joe biden does have a stronger claim than any of those other people. obama advisers will say he was central to a lot of what obama did. if you like obamacare, joe biden has a piece of that legacy. and also for biden, those eight years as vice president changed the story of joe biden. before then he was, you know, a lawmaker with a pretty up and down record. mostly known for gaffes, failed presidential campaigns. he exited those eight years as really a beloved elder statesman in the party. he will try to remind people of the warm feelings they had for him and on a practical level,

president oba president obama, any coat tails they can ride will be to their benefit. >> biden essentially reflecting on that moment he had in the harris debate saying he wasn't really prepared for his record to come particularly from kamala harris. here's what he had to say. >> i was prepared for them to come after me, but i wasn't prepared for the person coming at me the way she did. she knows beau. she knows me. here's the deal. what i do know. it's good and bad. the american people think they know me. the idea that i would be intimidated by donald trump, he's the bully that i knew my whole life, the bully that i have always stood up to. he is the bully that used to make fun of me for stuttering and i would smack him in the

mouth. >> he said donald trump wouldn't walk behind me the way he walked behind hillary clinton. >> two thoughts. the first one being if he wasn't ready for that attack. that's absolutely foolish. he's the front-runner. he's the top target. and he's not prepared for that, his polls will continue to drop. there will be other instances where they will go after him. and talking about trump and pivoting going after the president. he's talking about his electability. that is his strength right now. when you look at polls that match up democratic contenders for 2020 and the president, he continuously is one of the only ones who can beat the president and by a lot larger margin than other democrats can. we had a "washington post" poll, and i know we will talk about this in the show later, he was, what, 23 points ahead of trump when it came to mod rats. 7 when it came to independents. that's the thing he needs to keep talking about. that's what people want first in a democratic candidate, one that

can beat trump >> we saw in that interview with chris cuomo saying it isn't the party of aoc. that is what he is banking on. >> the lesson of the 2018 midterms too. how the democrats took back the house was with moderates running and purple-to-red districts around the country. that's the case he is going to make. look, biden will talk much more about trump than his democratic rivals in the future. what happened yesterday was a concession to the political reality post that he had to say something. but turning away from yesterday, he will focus much more on trump. to your point, rachel, making the case that he can beat trump. the party ought not risk and imperil his chances against trump by pursuing policy says that could put that at risk. >> like on health care, immigration. >> absolutely. i think on health care especially. elevating obamacare does two things for him. reminds folks

wi he's with obama. and weapon to say let's not get too far out there. >> yeah. we'll see if he can sort of maintain that kind of discipline. because a lot of things that got him in trouble are things he randomly says. >> sure. up next, president trump takes center stage at a made-or for-tv fourth of july celebration. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely...

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president trump took center stage this fourth of july, a celebration in front of the lincoln memorial complete with a crowd of supporters, tanks, armored vehicles, and a blue angels flyover. trump skipped the usual lines that are favorites at his rallies, instead sticking to a speech full of america's military might and national identi identity. >> as long as we stay true to our coats, as long as we remember our great history, as long as we never, ever stop fighting for a better future, then there will be nothing that america cannot do. >> trump has wanted a large-scale military display for years, ever since he participated in france's bastille day celebration in 2017. plans for a veterans day parade

last year were scrapped pause of local opposition and a $90 million price tag. but trump finally got his made-for-tv moment and made no time distributing it, tweeting out this campaign style video promptly shared wider by his re-election team. that video fueling concerns from critics that the president was making a national holiday all about himself and shattering another norm by using it for political purposes on the taxpayers' dime. julie, this didn't up like people predicted, using the military as political prompts. it was a very different speech. a lot of people liked it. a lot of people liked the flyovers. we heard them here in d.c. but did it still come off as too capitol hill for some? >> there was a lot of consternation over the whole idea of trump doing this. he did skip to the script. he has done that on occasion. i wouldn't get comfortable with

that m.o. but the video that you pointed out, what was so striking about it, this is the national holiday where people from all over the country gather on the mall, watch fireworks, celebrate the country. that video was all about trump. so even though in the moment he was able to stick to the script and not take the political bait in his remarks, what he's promoting out of it is the trump show. that is the brand he knows. it is the world that he lives in. and even, you know, in that moment if he sounds like he is going in a different direction, he comes back to that same comfortable place. >> it was salesmanship. the crafting of the video is aimed at showing voters who maybe didn't like all of his high jinks that he can be presidential at times. in some ways, doing the speech that he did, was a rebuttal to people month said he couldn't do that kind of thing. i can do presidential.

he's trying to show something here. >> and you see his poll numbers. you mentioned this, rachel, in the previous block. highest approval ratings. overall approval is 44%. especially high on the economy. there you see 51%. not as great on other issues like taxes, foreign policy, immigration, health care especially at 38%. this is good for the president. is it good enough for his re-election? >> yeah. i think it shows there's a possible path to trump for re-election. a lot of people have been questioning the democratic takeover. is the energy on the left going to mean the end of his tenure in the white house? this shows people think the economy is doing well 5. 1% approving of the economy. even those who said he is not presidential enough. 6 in 10 said he is not presidential enough. one-fifth said they still approve what he is doing with

the economy even though they don't particularly like him. >> usually if the economy is this guy a president would be in better standing. the president himself is the one that undermines it by his words and by his policies. >> and you see another poll out of the "washington post". the person who does pest of all, joe biden, 53%. of course this is hypothetical. it is early. trump coming in at 43%. you dig into the incomes, one of the reasons he's doing well, biden, he does better folks among independents, mod rats and with men. biden is able to hold the obama coalition today and add to it. >> and i think one of the challenges for democrats is these numbers for trump are in isolation, right? stack up trump on economy and elizabeth warren, liberal economic message. stack up trump on democrats calling for blowing up the private insurance system. we don't really know what that is going to look like.

that's what republicans and the trump campaign are banking on. his numbers don't look amazing given how strong the economy is. you start stacking them up against the reality of a democratic party moving to the left, he will be on solid ground. >> this is why you have joe biden trying to hold the line. >> you are going to see even more as we get into more of these debates. they are trying to bring voters along to see that person next to trump on the debate stage like they are currently seeing biden. >> yeah. we'll see. still early. next, we turn back to the presidential race where kamala harris is seizing the 2020 spotlight. >> the fight of black women has always been fueled and grounded in faith and in the belief of what is possible. and that's wrosa and claudette sat. it is why maya wrote. it is why fanny organized.

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polling, while harris has gone up 9 points. her rival for the liberal left, senator bernie sanders, has gone down by 4 points. in harris's iowa wing this weekend, the prosecutor in chief took on donald trump. >> i prosecuted the big banks when they preyed on homeowners. i've prosecuted the pharmaceutical companies. i know predators. and we have a predator living in the white house. >> he has predator instincts and a predatory nature. predators are cowards. and we don't need a predator in the white house. >> and she also said that voters that want a woman in the white house should be excited in 2020. >> we are going to win this, guys. we're going to win this. it will not be easy. it will not be easy. it will not be easy.

but let's just be really clear. this is not 2016, this is 2020. and people are woke. >> people are woke, jackie. sure, i think she's right. there are racial issues in the democratic primary. they are certainly woke. but i think you've got voters who are also woke to another reality, which is that a lot of general election voters might not be comfortable with a woman president voting for a black woman. white voters might be uncomfortable with that. that's why you see hesitance with people rallying around warren and harris. >> which is why you see her taking it to trump. it is very, very strong language. it is one of the reasons, just in terms of the primary -- one of the reasons she went after joe biden was because of black voters. she's also targeted black women voters. the essence festival yesterday she rolled out $100 billion in

black home ownership investment as one of her potential policies. the way she is going at trump is to show she is trump enough and voters should disspell their uncomfortableness for voting for a woman again. >> she is lagging behind. buttigieg on top of everybody with $24 million. she needed that debate moment. she raised $2 million after that debate. >> one thing that strikes me about those fund-raising numbers, harris, when she launched her campaign, she launched with a lot of fund-raising prowess. oakland, professional campaign organization around her. it looked like she had all of those intangibles that you need to go the distance in a democratic campaign. the fund-raising numbers, though, showed how much she dropped off. the campaigns said she raised $2

million between the end of the debate and the end of the quarter. she's less than half of buttigieg, about less than half of biden. she needed a moment. we were talking about that at the break. she is coming from a position of weakness, not necessarily of strength. now, she delivered in that moment, right? she had a plan. she executed on it. and now she's got the momentum. but is she going to have that sort of falloff that we have seen with her? >> this is a question about senator harris. can she sustain. whether it's her speech, her performances on capitol hill. that's the question that looms over her. now we have a story in the paper today about the rise of harris and warren. and it is strike to go talk to people in iowa for july 4th. this campaign is so nationalized. and iowans like it in their personal attention. they still watch the same national tv, cnn here. they are watching all of these debates. you talk to them and person

after person i talked to matched her performance in that debate to this end, i can't wait to see what she does on the stage with president trump. it is the "spectre" of her taking it to trump on the debate stage. that is a huge factor in this primary. we talk a lot about policy, moderate versus liberal. a, they want to win and, b, they want to see trump be humiliated. >> they want to be excited about someone. harris, in that debate, gave people a reason to be excited about her. and we also talked about warren. she has more plans than anybody combined. she will release one soon. that's what she does. i have a plan for everything. this is her strength. look at this quinnipiac poll. who has the best policy ideas? warren 31%, sanders, 18%. it's a strength of hers, but also a weakness because she is

on the wrong side of some of these issues, if you talk about medicare for all. all of voters don't want that. 49% or something are against it. how does she square that being the person with the plan but being the person with the plans that are turning voters off? . >> clearly, her top priority is to win the primary. medicare for all popular with the base. again, as you were mentioning, it is the moderates. it is interesting to watch waurpb and heirs slowly gaining. joe biden. harris going after biden's support with black voters. you have waurpb slowly inching away. a lot of liberals backing bernie sanders.rren slowly inching away. a lot of liberals backing bernie sanders. >> and mary ann williamson

trying to make noise as well. someone photo shopped her picture in. it is pretty cool. they're an interesting figure to have in this race, jackie. >> one of the complaints i heard with all due respect to williamson is there were some contenders left out of the debates. yesterday you had marianne williamson in there. and she has been a serious candidate. we will have to see where she goes. >> people search for her, right? . >> harris and warren, they are starting to be in support of one another. people are now choosing between harris and warren. some folks mentioned booker.

for a lot of women, especially college educated women in iowa, man, that is looking like harris and warren right now. and for a lot of people it's agonizing. they love the plans. the "spectre" is awfully tempting. >> and in 2016, wanting to see a woman as president. but the agony after hillary clinton did not win. a major diplomatic embarrassment for the trump administration. as a home instead caregiver,

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material for nuclear weapons. also, a very unflattering look at what the brits think of president trump. they call him inept, insecure, and in competent. and seven 2020 candidates are in new orleans this weekend making their pitch to women voters at the 25th an seriousry of essence fest. kamala harris making a big splash, touting a $100 billion plan to invest in black home ownership. >> we must right that wrong. give families a real shot of home ownership. i will remove the barriers that black americans face when they go to qualify for a home loan. i will strengthen anti-discrimination lending laws and implement stricter

enforcement. and i'll invest, through the federal government, $100 billion to put home ownership within the reach for those who live in red lined communities, and it would help up to 4 million families with down payments and closing costs. up next, the crisis facing u.s. customs and border patrol as new reports show worsening conditions for migrants at the southern border. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.

intensifies, so does the scrutiny of u.s. customs and border protection. a second secret facebook group has come to light showing agents active live sharing derogatory posts as a government watch dog report included photos of the overcrowding and unsan tore conditions at some of the border

holding facilities for migrants. the president, however, is telling a very, very different story in defiancdefiance. >> people come in illegally, and then it's crowded. and i have seen some of those places and they are run beautifully. they are clean, they are good, they do a great job. border control is not trained to be doctors and nurses and janitors. that's not what they're trained to be. they're trained to be border patrol, and that's what they're doing. and they're doing a phenomenal job. >> priscilla alvarez, you were just down there. you were on the outside of the facilities. what is cbp doing with this problem? >> actually, the first report that came out came against the back drop of members of

congress, some who were mentioned in the facebook groups visiting the cbp facilities. what has happened the last week is that leadership, dhs leadership has come out against these posts. they have said repeatedly those that are found to have participated in some way will be held accountable. customs and border protection sent their verdict to them. and they are looking at it internally. so there is action happening within the department of homeland security to hold these people accountable. it certainly comes at a very difficult time for cbp, which is also overwhelmed in their facility. >> and it comes obviously as 2020 democrats are trying to stake out a position on immigration. really fascinating op-ed from jeh johnson this morning in the "washington post", the former director of homeland security under obama. here's what he said to say. we cannot, as some democratic

candidates for president now propose, publicly embrace a policy to not deport those who enter or remain in this country illegally unless they commit a crime. this is tantamount to a public declaration repeated and amplified by smugglers in central mark, that our borders are effectively open to all. for the same reason, he cannot formally decriminalize unauthorized especially try into this country, talking about julian castro. this is his idea. and you have seen maybe i think even the majority of 2020 candidates embrace this. certainly some of the major ones like kamala harris as well as elizabeth warren. biden saying no way. he is not going to go that far. what did you make of this op-ed? >> that is problematic for the democrats that embraced this more open border, what julian castro has recommended. but, listen, the obama administration got a lot of

criticism. the left leaning hispanic community was upset with him throughout the entire presidency. so jeh johnson saying that won't affect the aggressive branch of the party. but certainly puttin this in writing does create some friction. >> use it to the president's ears. he saw the folks on stage basically agree, raise their hand and agree with julian castro's idea to decriminalize border crossings. >> it is clear that the scenes we have seen from the border from some of these facilities have been -- will be damaging to trump if that's where the focus stays. what trump wants to do is shift this conversation and point to democrats who say, hey, we think it's not okay to come across the border. we're not even going to consider that a crime. it is not going to be broadly pop or la. it shows how this debate has changed because of trump. during the obama years, when the gang of eight, the group on the hill was talking about immigration, we were talking

about things like citizenship, right? do we do citizenship or legal status? that conversation is gone now. >> it is not just the argument to decriminalize coming to this country illegally. the question was would you give undocumented immigrants free health care? and everybody raised their hands. it is defunding i.c.e. there is an interesting contrast between the 2020 democrats and the democrats in the house who right now are fighting tooth and nail to get the standards of care to make sure a baby migrant gets his or her diaper changed or they have access to bathe, baths and freshwater. this is a totally different fight that's happening right now in congress. democrats can't even get that done. it is easier to talk heated rhetoric for 2020. >> i want you to weigh in. the i.c.e. raids were postponed. >> what is unusual here is we

are talking about the raids before they happen. that is something that happened in june when the president tweeted that the raids were going to happen. and we first reported in may that they were considering it, they were going to target migrant families who were ordered removed. and so now we're in that similar discussion. and whether -- when it happens really is going to be the question and whether the president weighs in before it does is the next. >> we'll see. this is an issue that will keep going and some people will see the president's advantage and democrats trying to make it to their advantage. our reporters share from their notebooks next, including the details about the criminal justice reform plan that biden was touting in south carolina this weekend. even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications haven't worked well enough. and it helps people achieve control that lasts.

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time now for great reports to share a page from notebooks to get you out in front of the biggest stories in the days and weeks ahead. julie, we'll start with you. >> so the democratic primary has mostly focused on domestic policy issue thus far but kraends are brushing up on foreign policy well aware it could pop to the forefront. and bernie sanders is thinking about taking a foreign trip and kplars has built up her foreign

policy with former high-ranking obama administration officials, elizabeth warren has rolled out one to strengthen the u.s. diplomatic core. one candidate who wouldn't mind if national security really moved to the forefront of this campaign, joe biden. he comes in with much more experience on foreign policy than any of his other rivals and he hopes to make that a centerpiece of not just the primary campaign but he hopes a general election campaign. >> and as you said, at any moment it could turn to foreign policy. rachel. >> speaker nancy pelosi is seeing cracks in her armor and faces a tough july ahead. lawmakers left for the fourth of july recess and suffered the first major defeat on a border package when she couldn't get her party to back a bill in the house and got railroaded by the gop bill. and she's facing defense authorization to approve programs for the pentagon and she wants to do a minimum wage

increase to $15 and the party is still at war about what to do on immigration and how to sort of address what we're seeing at the border. and right now, her party is super divided on the issues and she needs to get them through or senator mcconnell, the majority leader, will have the upper hand in negotiations going forward. so big test for pelosi. >> and you look at alexandria ocasio-cortez twitter feed and see the progressives getting much more bold. fascinating to watch. jackie. >> so the last couple of months i'm tracking the willingness of the 2020 contenders to introduce or to say they want executive actions or executive orders to solve some of the nation's most entractable problems just on friday elizabeth warren introduced one aimed at solving wage disparity for women of color. most of them have to do with immigration, which is telling. also abortion, guns, climate change. amy klobuchar introduced a package of more than 100 executive orders that she would

sign should she get elected. most interest gly, you're seeing members of congress introducing measures that would bypass congress. so this might be a sign of the times. we don't know how many of these proposals could become a thing should the individuals be elected. but it is a sign of a lack of hope that these divisive issues could be solved on a bipartisan basis. >> how to work with or around mitch mcconnell and still the senate majority leader. jonathan. >> i mentioned kamala harris and warren and how they surged post-miami and if you look at their similarities and differences and in the last week since the debates talking to folks at washington especially, you notice a key difference. and that is privately, at least, kamala harris is seen as more acceptable to the democratic establishment. you see this in the endorsements that she's getting from members of congress. but more privately, you hear it from lobbyists in washington.

from fundraisers, they kind of -- i think it would be more comfortable with kamala harris in a lot of ways. seeing her estimate to work with -- work with potentially. think nothing either candidate wants to dwell on at this moment but you hear it quietly picking up as the washington and democratic folks are talking about who in the long-term is a better candidate. >> they're both rising in the polls but probably for different reasons as you said. >> exactly. >> look for former vice president joe biden to release a criminal justice reform plan in the coming weeks. i'm told that biden has met with congressman hakeem jeffries and bobby scott and criminal justice activists to develop a plan that a campaign adviser said is research based and among the most progressive of all of the 2020 candidates. the plan builds on some of the work that scott has already done in congress. seeking to curtail over-criminalization and reduce recidivism and to create sentencing alternatives. biden has backed away from aspects of the 1994 crime bill

in this plan will likely try to serve as a corrective to aspects of bill. there is in ternal discussion about how to release the plan either with a speech or by video. also discussion about when to release it. with some pushing for release before the next debate at the end of the month. we'll watch for that. up next, that is it for "inside politics" catch us week days at noon eastern. up next is "state of the union" with jake tapper and his guest michigan congressman justin amash. thanks again for sharing your sunday morning. when you start with a better that's no way to treat a dog... ...you can do no wrong. where did you learn that? the internet... yeah? mmm! with no artificial preservatives or added nitrates or nitrites, it's all for the love of hot dogs. for hair color this stunning, and healthy-looking every time you color powered by 60% oils olia propels color deep into hair, and without ammonia. it's in the oils.

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