a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. joe biden says he is sorry for taking favorably about his past work with segregationists. the apology comes as kamala harris and others see an opening to make inroads with african-americans critical in democratic primary. plus the president wants to open border detention centers for more media visits as the

white house and other immigration officials acknowledge, yes, chronic overcrowding but deny reports young children are routinely denied showers and other things. and a billionaire indicted for operating a sex trafficking ring allegedly involving dozens of underage girls. jeffrey epstein faced similar allegations a decade ago but avoided prosecution in a controversial deal with a federal prosecutor who is now in president trump's cabinet. >> alleged behavior shocks the conscience. and while the charged conduct is from a number of years ago, it is still profoundly important to the many alleged victims, now young women. they deserve their day in court, and we are proud to be standing up for them by bringing this indictment. >> we begin the hour with that very breaking news. sordid charges leveled last hour against a politically connected

billionaire. federal prosecutors unceiling an indictment against jeffrey epstein alleging the finance tycoon operated a sex trafficking ring largely so he could abuse underage girls. last hour prosecutors detailing epstein's alleged conduct at a press conference and urging any other victims to come forward. if convicted, geoffrey berman says epstein would likely spend the rest of his life in jail. the big threat of jail time makes epstein a flight risk and the feds will ask a judge to deny him bail. the fbi at the press conference today calling epstein's prosecution important for his alleged victims and as a warning to those who see themselves as above the law. >> we are parents, we are community members, we are human beings. but as an fbi special agent and the head of this office, i have the privilege to represent and stand among many who make it our mission to put predators behind bars where they belong, regardless of the predator's power, wealth on the perceived connections. >> cnn was in the room as the

charges were unveiled. what's the big takeaway from this big headline-grabbing case? >> i think it's important and the prosecutors here and the fbi made it very clear is to focus on the victims and their whole goal was not to forget the victims. in that deal that you talked about that epstein had signed back in 2008 in florida where he essentially escaped any major prosecution, the u.s. attorney here said they were not bound by this agreement. there was a nonprosecution agreement that epstein and the u.s. attorney and the fbi there in florida at the time were in. the u.s. attorney here, interesting, we did not know this that the southern district of new york was not bound by that agreement and, therefore, that's what allowed them to bring these charges. as you said, these started in 2002 to 2005 when he's alleged to have committed these terrible, terrible acts. you think about dozens and dozens of girls prosecutors say some as young as 14.

he would recruit them. he would have employees -- in the indictment they don't identify these employees, but it seems some of them are cooperating with investigators. they helped facilitate some of these meetings with these underage girls. it started out as a massage and quickly escalated to sexual acts. he is due in court this afternoon. prosecutors here say that they're going to ask that he be detained. they're going to file a detention memo, and we should be getting that shortly. that's going to contain a lot of new details, so hopefully we'll have that for you. but nonetheless, i think the importance of today, as you can see from prosecutors and the fbi was really not to forget the victims here and to make sure that in the end, they were denied by the authorities in florida, that they, the victims, be able to come into court and have their day in court and talk about what happened to them. >> shimon, come back if any new details come out. paul callan joins us and aisha,

michael and lisa. paul, i want to start with you. if you're jeffrey epstein's defense lawyer, you're going to go in and say double jeopardy, this was done. does he have any way to make that case? or is it new york u.s. attorney correct when he says we're not bound by that, we feel secure here. >> no, i think the u.s. attorney in new york is correct. these agreements are drafted usually in such a way that only the federal district where the plea is taken is bound by the agreement and by the rules of double jeopardy. so i think they'll have a weak argument on the double jeopardy claim. i also think, john, the thing that's so shocking to me about these charges, they all involve the time period of 2002 to 2005. that's exactly the time period that the current secretary of labor, alex acosta, was investigating when he was u.s.

attorney in florida and he negotiated this sweet deal for epstein to be able to take a plea to some minor state charges. so he was looking at the same fact pattern essentially and came up with nothing, whereas southern district prosecutors have come up with this very, very tough indictment. >> that's a great point you make. if you were listening to geoffrey berman, he was essentially saying the decision made by someone years ago, in his equal position in a different jurisdiction, he was saying the guy made a horribly bad call and ignored the rights of the victims here. i want you to help me because you're a trained lawyer and sometimes hear things in terms of the language. they said in executing a search warrant they found pictures, nude pictures in jeffrey epstein's house that they believe to be underage women. so that tells you these charges are based on this short period of time, four-year period of time back 15 years ago, 17 years ago, the beginning of that period of time, but it sounded very much to me that they think they have an open case nand are develop new evidence?

>> it could mean that or it could mean that he saved old pictures from that 2002 to 2005 time period. i saw another suggestion there that because they were raiding his mansion on the upper east side of manhattan, the hint is that many maof the crimes occurd in this mansion. will they be looking to seize the mansion? they often do this with drug dealers where drug crimes have occurred in expensive cars and at expensive locales owned by drug dealers. it will be interesting to see what assets of epstein prosecutors seek to seize. >> we have somebody here who is well-known in the world of high finance, well connected politically, friendly with bill clinton, friendly with donald trump, an ex-president and current president of the united states. we have to be careful. as these people lay out the facts, one of the things geoffrey berman said was don't ask me about anybody else. you're going to get a no comment. you're going to get a no comment

if you ask if they're rich and powerful people. what do we make of this environment? >> this does not look good for anybody is what we can take away. bill clinton flew on the plane with jeffrey epstein, a plane nicknamed the lolita express. donald trump was quoted in a magazine story in 2002 talking about how epstein liked them, quote, on the younger side. so we cannot connect those dots. we know that he had some powerful friends. we know that he gave a fair amount of political donations to both parties. so it's part of pocks on both their houses. >> the president did say i've known jeff 15 years, a terrific guy. it's even said he likes beautiful women as much as i do. many of them are on the younger side, no doubt about it. that was the president of the united states a long time ago. david axelrod seizing on that. he's a lot of fun to be with,

mr. trump said at the time. it's even said he likes beautiful women. he quotes the president there and then connects it to the labor secretary. cut this creep an extraordinary deal, disgusting. fair political commentary? >> it seems that this was potentially an open secret with many people and this is why epstein managed to have those connections. this is the whole swamp thing whether it's in miami, new york or connected to people in d.c. it comes back to roost, though, with acosta most directly in terms of the political figures that were surrounding him. you could make a separate argument about the people who enabled this activity. because he was the prosecutor that was actually negotiating with the lawyers and seems like on the books he had an opportunity to come down really, really hard and throw this guy into jail for the rest of his life. as it turns out he was in prison for 13 months and spent 12 hours a day six days a week going to an office and seemed to get off fairly easy. in an environment in which everybody wanted to give this guy a pass except for the local

police chief who was looking at it, maybe not that surprising. but now his responsibility, his decision that he has to answer to. whether or not there's some sort of a formal process that would lead to him being culpable, it's just the specter of it all, especially at this time and the position that he's in. >> we're also in a climate where these kinds of behaviors by powerful men are tolerated far less than they used to be. >> correct. >> so open secrets, we're not in a place where people tolerate open secrets anymore, particularly in democratic politics. >> and to that point, ben sasse, republican senator of nebraska, is among those who months ago was outraged with "the miami herald" and blessed them for incredibly solid detailed investigative reporting that the attorney in new york said helped them start to build their case. these victims will now get their day in court. ben sasse saying he has wealth, power and connections but the children he abused have the law on theirs. epstein should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,

power and wealth be damned. it is a statement. they're essentially repudiating a member of the president's cabinet saying, pal, whatever you saw on paper, you cut a really bad deal. >> that is the question right now, what happens with acosta. can he survive in the cabinet as more details come out. these were heinous crimes. these were horrible things that happened to dozens of girls. to have this sweetheart deal where the man is still able to go to work at his high-powered job while he's supposed to be serving time, there are real questions about how do you agree to that. how do you let this slide. >> and if i can just bring it back to what you said -- asked at the beginning about sort of what are the possible sort of political implications for this, we've seen in the michael cohen case not that long ago similar

kind of context, same u.s. attorney, how when you give -- when you start an investigation that has subpoena power, that actually can start to dig into a situation in ways that journalists can't, that you do uncover things and who knows what's there. but politicians, whoever they are, in whatever political party, should be quaking in their boots a little bit. if there are things there, this investigation may well turn it up. >> we'll watch it play out. a court hearing this afternoon. we may learn more. up next, the 2020 democrats try to woo voters in south carolina, even the ones not yet old enough to vote. >> my first favorite team is the warriors. i'm from oakland. don't hate. don't hate. >> he's not a lakers fan, he's a lebron fan. >> oh, that's what that's about.

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welcome back. the democratic front-runner, the former vice president, joe biden, offering a rare apology to voters this weekend regarding his comments about his ability to work with segregationist senators back in the 1970s. biden previously said he had nothing to apologize for, but those comments were widely seen in communities of color especially as praising those

senators, even though biden insists that was never his intent. now, he's sorry. >> was i wrong a few weeks ago to somehow give the impression to people that i was praising those men who i successfully opposed time and again? yes, i was. i regret it. i'm sorry for any of the pain or misconception that may have caused anybody. >> that's notable. former vice president making that apology from a stage in south carolina where african-american voters make up a giant influential voting block in democratic primaries. biden says the location, chosen on purpose. >> the first opportunity i had to do it in a fulsome way. i'm proud of my past. have i made mistakes? yes. do we grow? yes. but the fact of the matter is that's why i chose here in south carolina and chose an audience that in fact would be the most likely to have been offended by anything that was said.

>> cnn's jeff zeleny is live in myrtle beach, south carolina. jeff, you're down there talking to voters in south carolina. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, john, there's no question that joe biden this weekend was trying to clean up a lot of things. you heard him there saying he regretted expressing friendship with the segregationists. he's not quite right when he said this is the first chance for him to apologize. of course he gave a speech at jim clyburn's fish fry a couple of weeks ago, spoke to the south carolina democratic convention here. the change that's changed is that he had a rocky debate performance and the polls are showing that kamala harris is rising. i am here at an event for senator harris talking with voters here and with the former vice president yesterday. there is a very mixed bag. almost no voter i've talked to said that this race is going to turn on busing. it's not about that necessarily. it's about joe biden, does he represent the past or the future. so some of his supporters were happy to see him simply move on. others are saying that they do not want this to divide this democratic contest. senator harris is also aware of

some potential blowback for her role in sparking all of this as well, john. one thing i'm also learning today that the former president, barack obama, whose name has been invoked again and again by joe biden has he wraps him and embraces him, the two men have not spoken since that debate a couple weeks ago. but the obama advisers are well aware that joe biden plans to use his entire record from his time in the administration and they say it's fair game for him to use that. obama advisers also point out and say that he is not going to weigh in at all and still has not endorsed anyone in this race. voters, john, when they talk to him may get the impression that barack obama is on joe biden's side because he mentions his name so often. the obama folks saying not so fast, he has no plans at this point any time soon to offer an endorsement or weigh in on any of this back and forth. john. >> jeff zeleny, on the ground in the south carolina. let's bring it in the room. so the debate brings the

front-runner back to earth. that happens. front-runners gets challenged. every candidate stumbles. the question is can you recover. is saying sorry a couple weeks later enough? >> i think we'll have to see if it's enough, but you point out it's a couple of weeks later. i think the reason why he had to apologize is that in this political environment, in this news environment, this issue was still coming up where things usually just kind of fade away. and so he had to address this. i understand why he continues to really tie himself so closely to obama. this has been helpful to him. i do wonder how far that will take him. he's the front-runner right now and it's still very early, but is it going to be enough to say i was with obama. obama is my best friend and so vote for me. will that be enough to carry him. >> to that point, just to that point, look, he served as a loyal vice president for eight years to a democratic candidate

who is still very popular, especially popular among african-american voters because he made history, of course. and so joe biden name drops a lot. >> barack, when he got elected president, everything landed on his desk but locusts. no, i'm serious. pennsylvania and michigan, wisconsin, minnesota and ohio and places barack and i won. as united states senator and then as barack's vice president, he gave me significant assignments in the area of foreign policy. i would immediately reinstate the limitations that barack and i -- the president put in place. >> they know he was barack obama's vice president, right? does he need to keep doing that? i guess is there a risk in overdoing it? people think why do you need the cloak of barack obama? why can't you be your own man? >> so far his support among black voters has been fairly durable, despite these things

we've been covering, these gaffes at least. you have this very risk-averse democratic electorate. they want to beat trump, that is first and foremost in their mind and they want the least risky person to do it. the problem with joe biden is if he starts looking riskier, if he keeps making these mistakes, if he has trouble managing them, if he looks like he's maybe lost a step or whatever, then he becomes not the least risky candidate, he becomes a far riskier candidate. at the same time, if other newer figures like kamala harris can prove that they can do it and reassure some of these concerns that you hear a lot when you're talking to voters. >> the next set of debates are three weeks away. so if you're another democrat, you say, whoa, biden did stumble a little bit. kamala harris did have a moment. you're all thinking what's mine, how do i get it. the question is if there's an opportunity, can she seize on it. she says good apology, mr. vice president, but. >> well, he says he's sorry. i'm going to take him at his

word. but again that doesn't address the issue of busing in america and the fact that he still -- you know, we have to -- we cannot rewrite history. i mean i think that he is right to recognize the impact of his words and i applaud him for doing that and having the courage to do it. there is still plenty of disagreement between he and i and that remains. >> so she wants to keep this conversation going. in some ways it's about busing, it's about biden seeming to talk favorably about working with segregationists. but is biden as strong az debater as we thought? are there holes in his record? is harris or somebody else going to grow to the point where democrats say, wait a minute. >> put aside the issue of race and busing. that's an issue that the party and the country will talk about. but to lisa's point on vis-a-vis trump, people in these primaries close their eyes and imagine somebody like biden and they imagine him going up against

trump. those kinds of situations where trump says something, if biden were to be the nominee and attacks biden, people imagine how would he respond? and what they saw play out over the last three weeks is an example of how he might respond. in a stumbling way, not apologizing right away, not cleaning up right away, letting multiple opportunities go by without really sort of seeming like he kind of knew what to do or what to say. and people imagined that that would be what it was like if he was to face trump and that's damaging to him. >> so we will see. you mentioned does he recover. every candidate, no matter how good you are, makes mistakes. the question is do you learn and recover. the next democratic presidential depatriots will take place right here on cnn in three weeks. on july 30th and 31st, live from detroit, watched in the united states and around the world. the debates will be moderated by jake tapper, dana bash and don lemon. 20 candidates vying for the white house will participate in those debates, ten taking the

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there's some new democratic drama on display today as speaker nancy pelosi slams some of the loudest left-wing voices in her party. the speaker telling "the new york times" this. quote, all these people have their public whatever and their twitter world, but they didn't have any following. they're four people and that's how many votes they got. interesting words. the four she's addressing, alexandria ocasio-cortez, ill han row mar, rashida tlaib and ayana presley. tensions still quite high after the fight over border funds which saw them break from their party rejecting it. that public whatever is called public sentiment, wrote ocasio-cortez and wielding the power to shift it is how we achieve meaningful change. omar adding you know they're just salty about who is wielding the power to shift public

sentiment these days. sorry not sorry. this is a great generational drama within the democratic party. some of these younger members who don't like to be told wait your turn, who are much more active on social media than the older traditional guard like speaker pelosi. you also have the most powerful woman in american politics dealing with an insurgency of sorts from four younger rising stars in the democratic party. is it just a drama? generational impact? ideological differences? or is it having impact on the democrats' ability to do business? >> it's not just a drama, but it is a debate that is playing out on a larger stage than congress. this is a question that's happening much more on the presidential primary circuit of where is the democratic party, where is the heart and soul of it. which direction should they be moving in, center or more to the left. these are big idea issues that they're fighting over. congress is about number counting. congress is about coalition building. congress is about getting past a threshold and what can actually pass congress is never the shift

in public sentiment that might be happening across the country. it's the reality check and the gut check of where we are now is in congress so it's interesting to see this playing out. they're really talking past each other. nancy pelosi's objectives are not the objectives of aoc andra she hadda talib and ayana presley. >> but she's not wrong if you compare these four young progressives on the left to the freedom caucus or the tea party, the one thing the tea party had was it did have the votes to block things, to push things, to really frustrate the leadership. they didn't just bring rhetoric, they brought votes. so far that could change, so far we haven't seen demonstrations that these four very sort of energetic, passionate liberals can actually bring votes to really frustrate the speaker. the border vote was an example of that. >> one place to watch it play out will be in the election, of course, because there are a lot of threats circulating of primaries that some of these

people would support primary challenges to some of the older members in congress. at the same time you have pelosi saying, look, the democratic path to the majority runs through moderate suburban districts. that's what won the party back the majority and those are the districts that the party needs to hold going forward. so i think the place where this -- you're right, the place where this big ideas contest could have actual real-life implications is in the elections, not only the presidential but congressional as well. >> you mentioned the border vote. they're back this week and they have a lot of spending issues to deal with. the democrats run the house. they promised they would not be like the republicans who had the freedom caucus, every time they tried to pass a normal budget, the freedom caucus blew it up so they had to do ongoing appropriations bills. talib said you want our votes, give us more respect. >> honor the fact that we were there, that 650,000 people are represented by each and every single one of us. that there is some sort of, i

think in many ways, something special about having a refugee, having a woman that has experienced what incarceration has done to her family. all of us have these experiences that i think have been missing in the halls of congress. honor that, respect that, put us at the table. let's come up with a solution together. but there is a better approach. it is very disappointing that the speaker would ever try to diminish our voices in so many ways. >> it's interesting. >> and i think what they are trying to argue is, look, yes, nancy pelosi is very good in congress and getting the votes and in building coalitions. what they're arguing is going forward, you're going to need people. you're going to need the young people, you're going to need voters to be energized. they're saying that they have the energy on their side. that they'll be able to get people to come out. they'll be able to in those places where things were really close for donald trump in the presidential election, if you had more of the democratic base

getting out, if you had more people getting out and young people and all of these people voting, it could make a real difference. and so i think that they are trying to say, look, we have some energy on our side and we can bring that to the table. >> that's true, but one thing is about is nancy pelosi actually afraid of that? i think this goes to michael's point, which is the freedom caucus did have more numbers, that's true, but republicans were much more obsessed with obeying the hastert rule. nancy pelosi is much more old school politician. she will -- and people respect her because she has managed to make things like the health care bill work. so before the very younger generation is successful in that way, she has a lot of buffer room and mentality about this that says i don't have to please every last member in order to get what our objective assay -- as a party are through the house. up next for us, new details on the billionaire accused of operating a sex trafficking ring. in one week...

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topping our political radar today, federal prosecutors in new york investigating a former top official for president trump's inaugural committee. elliott brody was the finance voice chair and former finance official for the republican national committee. u.s. attorney's office for the eastern district of new york investigating whether he attempted to peddle his influence with the trump administration. they are filing subpoenas for documents and records relating to broidy and several politicians associated with him. two familiar faces running for the senate. scott taylor is going to challenge mark warner in

virginia. also kris kobach expected to announce a senate run in kansas this afternoon. this morning just before his campaign gets started, paperwork filed for kobach for senate misspelled the candidate's first name. it was spelled chris. kris kobach is spelled with a k and without an h. the justice department saying a new legal team will take over the administration's fight to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. this comes after the president vowed to fight for including that investigation, after the supreme court objected to the administration's argument for keeping it. a consider department of justice official saying the man who previously handled the case for the department -- it would make sense to put a new team in charge. everything is up in the air. the white house is still weighing its options. up next, president trump disputes reports of squalid conditions inside border protection facilities and he wants the media to get in so

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today perhaps i hope the american people get to see what happens inside border detention facilities where thousands of migrant children have been held. president trump now plans to let the media get inside. it comes after a disturbing "new york times" report on conditions at the clint, texas, facility at the height of detainment.

the story in part said outbreaks of scabies, shingles, chickenpox were spreading among the hundreds of children who were being held. the stench of the children's dirty clothing was so strong it spread to the agents' own clothing. people in town where scrunch their noses when they left work. president trump responding to that report yesterday. >> i want the press to go in and see them. they're crowded because people come up, but now thanks to mexico it's slowing down greatly, and i think you'll start seeing some very good numbers. but it is crowded. but we want to have the press go in and see because "the new york times," it really is fake news. >> you have a fair point? i suspect the reporting is very good reporting. there is a very of how this is happening, why this is happening, the motive of it happening. is it a system that is just overwhelmed but the facts are the facts. >> the department of homeland security's inspector general, which is the independent

watchdog, went into some of these detention centers and described squalid conditions and all of these things, so this is not just coming from "the new york times," this is coming from the government itself and the people who are supposed to be looking at this. they're saying that these conditions are -- that these conditions are not good for these children who are being held. >> and within the administration, what you get is the position that, yes, there's chronic overcrowding. yes, we need more resources. yes, it would be nice if congress could have a plan as to what we should do here in the middle of all of this here. this is the chief border patrol agent in el paso responsible for the clint center which is in focus on cnn this morning. >> every two days these children are getting offered shower facilities. now, we cannot make them shower. we can take them to the shower and we can put them there, but we can't physically make them shower. it's the same thing with brushing their teeth. we encounter children who have never brushed their teeth. we've had a lot of agents had to teach them basic hygiene. this is no secret that all of these aspects, food, water,

hygiene, showers, launds ry, wee monitored in all of this. these things are documented. >> we're sitting here in washington, d.c. the political argument is from the president's critics, is sometimes this is on purpose. they horde these people into the centers and mistreat them because they don't care. there you have the border patrol saying we're overwhelmed. it isn't perfect but we're not trying to deny people anything, it's just overwhelmed. >> first of all, there has been in this administration a political push for deterrence of all sorts in all sorts of different ways, which i think does raise all sorts of questions about whether the administration was more than happy to let the conditions at the border become such that people wouldn't want to come and the president has said that. and then in addition, the question -- he said that they have been monitoring hygiene and what have you. there were reports at one place, i think, of two shower stalls for like 450 migrants in a

particular place. it's impossible to imagine that you could cycle that many people through two showers. so i think, you know, as you said, the facts are the facts. i think it's clear from the lawyers and everybody else that's been there that these have been really deplorable conditions. letting us in post facto after they have cleaned up and moved out most of the people, that's totally different. >> the acting homeland security secretary says, yes, things were bad. he said since the border deal was passed, things are already getting better. >> we're trying to provide as much space and as much -- as nice a setting as we possibly can while children are in our custody but the big point was to move them to hhs. on june 1st we had 2500 children in our custody. now that we have the supplemental from congress, hhs has additional beds and we only have 350 as of yesterday afternoon's report and only 20 of those children have been with us more than three days. >> i mean if the government was able to move that fast after

getting money good, for the secretary. but back to the president's point, you say it is post facto, there should be transparency so we can put all these numbers to the test. >> one thing that's been particularly striking about this to me has been the compassion the president showed when children in syria were getting hurt and how he jumped immediately. he started military action in syria, all these things. he does not seem to share the same compassion about reports for children within his own borders. it really is a striking thing and it does get to this point that you were making about deterrence, about this being both a policy and a bit of a political strategy, cracking down on immigration at the border was a major part of his campaign. he promised to build a wall, that wall has not been built. so you tie these threads together and it does seem like this is -- there is a strategy at play here. >> also it's a little surprising when you see officials going on the air and seeming surprised that kids aren't acting like

adults. they're children and they're children separated from their families. so whether it was deliberate or not in terms of deterrence, also if it wasn't deliberate, the idea that you would be surprised that you were managing children and that's difficult and requires other approaches is rather shocking. >> there is a fair point that this is not a system that was set up for children. that the nature of these migrants has changed and so now you have unaccompanied 3-year-olds that are 16-year-olds or 15-year-olds are being asked to watch that are not even related to the toddlers. you know, but you could do something about changing the conditions and dealing with the reality of the problem on the ground now. >> we shall see. again to your point about the president, maybe he should visit and see how that happens. remember tom steyer, the big democratic donor in all those impeachment ads who said he was not going to run for president? r , little thican be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently.

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today fresh evidence that in politics, no does not mean never. remember tom steyer telling us in january his team is best spent on impeachment, not on running in 2020. >> i am not running for president at this time. instead, i am strengthening my commitment to need to impeachment in 2019. >> well, he's reconsidering planning to announce he's running as soon as tomorrow. a source telling cnn he never fully ruled out running for president despite what you just heard him say back in january. is the democratic party

screaming for tom steyer's late entry? >> look, this is the benefit of having a lot of money. he doesn't have the same problems a lot of other people have in this crowded field of having to have the money to go the distance in this race. i think there's a little frustration about how his push for impeachment, the attention it's gotten once it turns out when you're not a presidential candidate, sometimes your priorities get a lot less attention. so it's a combination of resources and he definitely has an issue that he is focused on. >> you roll your eyes a bit. if he can get on to a debate stage, giant if, can his impeachment argument impact the other candidates who have been a little more skittish about it? >> the logic has been that's not what voters care b it could impact that debate, what happens on capitol hill and how front and center impeachment comes and if he proves nancy pelosi wrong or not. >> we won't reach 30 but thanks for joining us on "inside

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