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bernie and i have been friends for a long, long time. >> are democrats drifting too far left? health care is exhibit a in that fight. >> the time is now to expand medicare to every man, woman, and child in this country. >> there would be no private insurance. if you like your plan with your employer, it's gone. >> "inside politics", the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. >> welcome to "inside politics". i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. we begin with the lessons of an ugly week in politics. tweets from the president opened this wide door. his actions make clear he has no intention or shutting it. >> these are people that hate our country. hey, john, they hate our

country. >> send her back, send her back, send her back! >> why didn't you ask them to stop saying that? >> i think i did. i started speaking quite quickly. i disagree with him. but, again, i didn't -- i didn't say that. they did. you know what i'm unhappy about? i'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can hate our country. >> you just can't talk about our country that way. and when people are angry at them, i fully understand it. >> to see race baiting and prejudice flowing like a water from the faucet is shocking. yet it is sadly somehow not all that surprising. the "new york times" has a fabulous, detailed account how the president has used race in his business, in reality television, and now in politics. just remember 2016. the president lost the popular vote, remember, but flipped pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin to win the electoral

college. 88%, 88% of his voters back then were white. his goal is recreating that map in 2020. >> does it concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist, and that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point? >> it doesn't concern me because many people agree with me. >> with us this sunday to share their reporting and insights, eliana johnson, manu raja and molly ball. the president shows no signs of backing down. even this morning he is disputing a story in the "washington post" that said aides had to explain why they were racist. he said, no, the only conversation was about the size of his crowd. >> to me, it seems the president has gone back and forth. he initially sent the tweet. when the rally crowd in north

carolina began chanting "send her back," he said that was wrong. they were chanting that because he himself had said it in his tweet. now he seems to be reverting to his original position. so the president does seem to be trying to have it both ways. i think what his ultimate goal here and something he has not backed away from is he is trying to make these four women the face of the democratic party. rather than campaigning against any one of the two dozen democratic candidates, he is trying to campaign against ilhan omar more than any of the other three women. . >> to that point, i showed you the 88% of his vote was white. he needs to recreate that. he is most likely going to lose the popular vote again. he has done very little to expand his support among college educated women, people of color. this is from the pew research poll. look at this divide between democrats and republicans.

america's openness is essential to who we are. america risks losing identity as a nation if we are open and more diverse. 6 in 10 republicans worry about that. those are the voters the president is trying to stoke here. >> it tells you something it is only 57%. if you view that as how willing is the rank and i'll the of the republican party to follow trump down this quite dark road. i think no matter what happened the 2020 election was going to be a referendum on american identity at a point not to be too grandiose where we were in flux. this is an inflection point and trump is underscoring that in the nastiest possible way. it was very interesting for me. i was talking to a lot of congressional democrats this week, and there was a real divide in how they viewed the political ramifications for the

party for trump going this way. you heard the argument by elevating the so-called squad and turning them into the face of the democratic party, trump had done something brilliant for him because, to the extent that he can turn the democratic party into something that is most represented by their sort of extreme positions, that's good for the republicans. on the other hand, you know, the idea that overt racism is an effective is disturbing and cynical thing to think. and this came at a time when, you know, the whole reason that this came up is because there were these divisions because tempers were very high between the squad and the progress if's and the mod rats and so by wading in, what trump did is unified them. he brought everything together. all the democrats in congress could agree to denounce racism as they proceeded to do.

>> ocasio-cortez had a townhall yesterday. she said look at this past week. if you thought the president was not a racist, forget about it. >> once you start telling american citizens to, quote, go back to your own countries, it tells you this president's policies are not about immigration. it's about ethnicity and racism. and his biggest mistake is he said the quiet part loud. that was his biggest mistake. because we know he has been thinking this the entire time. >> and so we have a replay of 2016 with immigration, identity, culture wars from the president front and sister. it worked for him in 2016. he lost the popular vote. he put together the electoral win. it backfired on the republicans in 2018. the president's calculation is, i'm on the top of the ticket. i'm leading this debate. i will win it again. >> and you can make the argument, too, the electoral college is a very different election than what we saw in

2018 with various house districts. there will be analysis looking at the fact that some of this identity he has been stoking does play well. pointing out it was effective amongst the obama trump voters that flipped. it would make the argument that he could win the electoral college while losing the popular vote. >> the best way to push back against the president, there is an ongoing debate about exactly how to do just that. do you go all out. in this distance they did because they saw this as completely overbounds. racist tweets. at the same time, democrats that i talked to, too, were concerned, as molly was saying, distracting exactly from what they are trying to do. their agenda, what they believe won them the election in 2018,

health care, for instance. when they met behind closed doors in the house democratic caucus immediately after that resolution passed to condemn the president. nancy pelosi said we need to pivot to these other issues. when the president does things to rile up his base, how do democrats respond and what is the best way to rile up their base. . >> and the interesting part about it he is without a doubt trying to motivate his voters. he's also trying to turn turn the election into a gutter, make it more toxic. had hillary clinton is corrupt. hillary clinton is this. look at this polling from the exit polls. if the president is trying to convince you they are socialists, raise your taxes, community and everything else. if he turns it into a toxic environment, voters who thought hillary clinton had an unfavorable opinion went for trump. voters who thought neither was

honest, went for trump. neither were qualified, they voted for trump. neither has right temperament, they voted for trump. >> and it is the turnout amongst democrats as well. >> they said that was their strategy at the time and i suspect it will be again. we spoke to the president's campaign how they plan to execute a similar strategy to what they do in 2016. but, you know, the election is really a long ways away. it's more than a year away. trump always needs a target. he always needs a foil. he has found one. it may or may not be working for him. but there's going to be a democratic nominee a year from now. this may be a preview of how he is going to treat that democratic nominee no matter who it is. but it is going to be different when there is a democratic candidate who on the one hand has to answer for these kinds of

occurrences. but on the other can fireback at the president from the stature of being the candidate actually opposing him. >> and even among those who told him they thought he had crossed the line. it allows them to test it. they have the money, resources. whether this works or doesn't, as you mentioned, we're early. up next, a closer look at the four mechanics of the so-called squad. they are outspoken. ey? it's racquetball time. (thumps) ugh! carl, does your firm offer a satisfaction guarantee? like schwab does. guarantee? (splash) carl, can you remind me what you've invested my money in? it's complicated. are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is being managed? if not, talk to schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. yeah...yeah, this is nice.

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i want to make sure every single person who is in this country who is aspiring to be part of the american fabric understands that nothing this president says should be taken light. we are americans as much as everyone else. this is our country. and we are where we belong. >> ilhan omar pushing back against the president. he insists race has nothing to do with his attack on the squad. >> these are people that in my opinion hate our country. >> i have a list of things here said by the congresswomen that is so bad, so horrible that i almost don't want to read it. >> when i hear the hatred they

have for israel and the love they have for enemies like al qaeda. >> when they call the people of our country and our country garbage, they can't talk about evil jews, which is what they saw. >> you see the four there, eye yann ya pressley, ilhan omar, rashida tlaib and alexandria owe ca ocasio-cortez. >> israel has hypothetical taoeuzed the world, may allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of israel. it is a trope you can find. all about the benjamins. words drawn harsh bipartisan condemnation. talib is harshly critical of the government.

she's on the president's radar because of this. >> when your son looks at you and says, bullies don't win. and i said baby they don't because we're going to go in there and we're going to impeach the -- >> no one in the squad, as the president said, call the people of our country garbage. this was said rejecting moderates. >> i think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are. but where we are is not a good thing. and this idea of like 10% better from garbage shouldn't be what we settle for. >> so where are we in the sense that everything you just heard there is of course open to debate. that's what makes america great. democratic colleagues have criticized some of the things they have said. the president criticized some of the things he says.

but he often twists their words and takes them to a place that is not factually correct. >> yeah. he said they can't criticize the u.s. he spent years railing when president obama was in office but all that aside he is clearly trying to elevate the four and make them the face of the democratic party. the reality is they are four freshman democrats in the house. they do not have the power to control the agenda in the house. they don't control the agenda of the house. nancy pelosi made clear they are only four votes. they are. they vote a certain way. they have a voice. they are more prominent than other freshman in the past and currently. but they don't have any real influence to drive what's happening on the floor. that's nancy pelosi.

>> as he makes his socialist case. there's no escaping the fact that they are four women of color. he is not making the case against bernie sanders. he's not attacking other white male candidates in the race. the president, if you think he will die back, he tweeted just moments ago, i don't believe the four congresswomen are capableable of loving our country. they should apologize to america and israel for the horrible hateful things they have said. they are destroying the democratic party but are week and insecure people who can never destroy our nation. the whole idea is you get to protest. you get to say things. you get to be critical of your leaders and your country. the president seems to be ignoring that unless it's him. that's part of his thing. he does not like debate if it's against him. >> yeah. i think that's one of the big

problems with the president's approach to this. it's come in a highly personalized way. the way to grapple is not to say go back to where you came from but to take issue with what their views are. >> and to do it accurately. >> as you ticked off in your introduction there is plenty to grapple with and contend with there. that's what republicans would like to see him do. what's his issue with what omar and talib had to say. what's the issue with ocasio-cortez stating about the government. you heard lindsey graham say this this week would like to engage in rather than personalize attacks or the president saying they can't criticize the u.s. >> mr. you brought this up earlier. most are completely unanimous saying this is over the line, this is racist, there has been a rally around the squad among democrats. here's a sign that democrats are

a little bit nervous. caucus chair jeffries, co-chair, new democrat coalition chair. house democrats are diverse, robust and passionate family. we will remain clear-eyed with respect to our unity of purpose. every single voice within the how democratic caucus is an important one. we have a shared mission. >> you say we're fine when there's tension in the family. and there is. >> yeah. that came in the aftermath of the immigration border spending package that led to a very ugly back and forth throughout the caucus. so they felt compelled to say they're going to stay on the same page. sure they can say that publicly. once they get back to the same issues, you will see a division. the members are very passionate about these issues and they're divided. so we probably will see this happen again. >> even if they can't control

the debate at all is the degree to which their ideas are percolating into the 2020 campaign, right? we have seen every major presidential candidate to have take stance on the green new deal. they may have to appear to be on the fringe. >> push a debate that speaker pelosi would prefer be done inside. can't always work that way biden/harris rematch. cory booker stops by comic-con hoping to make his campaign live long and prosper.

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the die ma'amic are fascinating from a biden harris rematch to sanders and warren pairing. let's take a look at the lineups for next week. night one, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, leading candidates in the race. medicare for all. free college tuition. center stage, klobuchar, buttigieg. if y this will be an interesting dynamic. also interesting to see do they spar with each other. they say they are friends but they are rivals right now. she has emerged as a significant threat. night two, the rematch. bobbi and kamala harris went at it over bussing. she gained from that.

we'll watch for a rematch there. cory booker has given some indication he wants in on this saying the vice president has been insensitive to that issue. he was the front-runner. he has come down since the first debate. he's a leading candidate now. front-runner no more. the former vice president expects he will be a frequent target. >> i'll be prepared on all the issues that are asked of him. i guess you are implying, and you're probably right, that others will be able to fire some cannon balls at me and we'll see. >> are you going to be the aggressor this time? >> no. i know what i'm for. i'm going to talk about what i'm for and why i think i am the best qualified person. >> i want to put up this polling graphic and start on the left of the screen with the four leading candidates here. warren and harris, the two women are at the bottom. come over the last months to july. look how much they have

improved. both senator harris and warren passing bernie sanders. vice president biden coming down. so you have a close race at the top of the pack here. but the two women senators right now, they are the ascending counties heading into round two. >> that's right. these debates will be really interesting to see. i think the biden -- what happened with senator harris and vice president biden at the last debate really got under his skin. and he is probably relishing the opportunity to be able to reengage with her. we saw her in particular surge after that debate after being able to create a couple high-impact moments. so many democratic voters still don't feel they were a lot of these candidates. they're interested. they just don't really know them. as this top tier starts to break out, it makes it easier for people to be able to get to know the candidates, go deep on them,

start to make decisions. part of the season it has been so influx, isn't any particular thing that's been happening, it is voters going around kicking the tire. >> and trying to get to know the candidates. nbc/wall street journal poll asked which most impressed. 47% of democrats said harris. 32% says warren. your issue, if you are joe biden, 15% said they were impressed by joe biden. your calling card is i'm the guy you want next to donald trump, you can't place fourth as impressive in the debates and make the case that you are the strongest guy to go against donald trump. >> no doubt. he will have to sharpen his performance from last time. voters were shaken by his performance last time. if he turns around, able to fend off attacks prepared as he said

he is going to be. but also being able to punch back effectively. that could stabilize his campaign and prevent any real significant erosion in his support. but if he differs that unsteady performance and when he gets attacked, which he will and gets into a long laundry list of his accomplishments and meandering response, it will unnerve a number of democrats when they look at is he really the best person to take on trump. >> what about night one? sanders and warren in the middle. a number of mod rats on stage. i suspect they will be allies to a degree saying we're right. the country is ready for medicare for all, the green new deal, free college. that is untested in a national election. but warren has emerged as a giant threat to sanders, who thinks he is a movement leader.

look at this here. 40% of the vote in new hampshire between the two candidates. both are leading contenders when they say second choice. for this to be settled this warren/sanders fight has to happen eventually, right? >> it does. part of what is something is as similar as they are ideologically, they don't always seem to pull from the same voters. i know it's early. eye dee logically you're right, they are similar. but elizabeth warren seems to pull from a more establishment wing of the democratic party at this point, which is really interesting because i don't know that's where everyone thinks her opinions seem to align. she seems to win over more and more of the finance sector crowd you have been hearing, which given her policies is really interesting.

and i wonder if that is a quirk of being early in the election cycle. as much as they will be battling it out with each other, it will be interesting to see whether or not elizabeth warren is pushed further to the left. >>. >> i think this is a high-stakes debate for sanders because he didn't make many waves in the last debate. certainly from the perspective of the trump campaign, while joe biden may have seemed like "the biggest loser", they thought bernie sanders lost a lot of ground because he didn't make many headlines. he needs to agrees in some sort of way. if he comes out of two debates with not too many headlines, that's not great for him. >> i want to show you the sunday "new york times" magazine, pete buttigieg on the cover. a lot of pressure since he was the surprise early candidate.

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mueller testifies on capitol hill this week. we got a claims of the current state of play this past week. al green forcing a vote on an impeachment resolution. it was tabled, meaning it failed on a lopsided vote 392-95. 137 voted to kill the impeachment proposal. but 95 democrats voted for it. mueller said his testimony will be limited to what is in his 400-page plus report. >> the president, the attorney general, have been lying about what was in the mueller report, no obstruction, no collusion. it was simply not true. we have to show the american people who was there. >> you want him to tell you the report in front of the cameras and the american people. >> to an extent. hopefully it will go further. but yes. >> do you think you can get him

outside the four corners of the report. >> i don't know. >> this could increase pressure for impeachment. >> it could. some have been holding back, waiting for that to exactly happen. 95 votes on this impeachment resolution that had nothing to do with obstruction of justice but the president, according to al green, being a racist had 95 votes. actually many more democrats support that. democrats have decided they want to limit the questions, limit the areas of focus to five potential obstruction cases of justice. because they think that is what is -- the american public will really be able to understand what is the most egregious of the report. instead of going into every single detail, focusing on those areas and the russian interference part as well as specific areas. whether that shifts public

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health care ranks first when democratic voters are asked which matter most. they settle the question of how far left the party platform will shift in 2020. this debate has played out between joe biden and bernie sanders. sanders wants medicare for all mandatory for all. what the vice president, former vice president would like to do is build on obamacare, a public option on the exchanges and broaden the public option in the exchange program. sanders medicare for all virtually eliminates. joe biden said keep your private

insurance if you like it. how much would it cost? it would cost you nothing under the sanders plan. no premiums, deductibles or co-pays. the former vice president said he will have higher subsidies to bring down the costs. 30 to 40 trillion dollars with a t over 10 years. and $750 billion over 10 years. how do you pay for it? senator sanders said higher taxes for everybody. you would get your money back because of no more insurance premiu premiums. and biden sz you can raise taxes on the rich. senator sanders has the high ground. more than half strongly favor medicare for all. 26% say they somewhat favor medicare for all. on the surface, senator sanders carrying the debate. kaiser asked to get a sense of

how much democrats understand this. 76% understand everybody would have coverage under medicare for all. 71% taxes would increase for most people. but only 42% understand that doctors and hospitals would be paid less. this is critical as we head into the debates next week. only 25% understand if you have medicare for all you can't keep your employer-provided health care program. sanders and biden will not be on the same stage. but it played out all over this week. >> the system that joe and others are trying to prop up is the most wasteful on earth. >> medicare goes away, as you know it. all the medicare you have is gone. sit a new medicare system. >> that is obviously absurd situation. >> he says, no, you can't have any private insurance if you're there. it's a legitimate position toic ta. i just disagree with it.

>> this is number one, the defining issue in terms of the divide of health care. it is exhibit a, the vehicle for the bigger debate over how have they go to the left and still compete in a national election. >> yes. it's interesting that this has become the issue that is the focus of most disagreement. incident was biden who really started this attack this week. that was the issue that he chose to come out on and to stake his first real difference with the other candidates with senator sanders specifically. there is a big lean in the democratic primary for the modera moderate. but the question is do democratic voters -- is joe biden that person, first of all? and will democratic voters be convinced by the kind of moderation that he is pitching and the kind of criticism that he has of senator sanders and others wore h further to the

left. and then the hand wringing, the classic bed-wetting democrats is what if the candidate we end up with isn't joe biden and biden has attacked them and characterized their policies in this way, how does that affect the eventual nomination. >> democrats won 2018, a big part of the midterm arguing health care. the concern among democrats is you may lose that if you go too far to the left, if you embrace things the public may not agree with, such as getting rid of private insurance. that's one reason we have seen kamala harris really trip up on that question, whether she supports it or not. that will be a big general election issue. >> two governors in the state's trump flip. the democrat ics saying biden i right. >> well, i think the fear is around being pragmatic at the end of the day. i think the people in wisconsin want to see issues resolved and

pragmatism i think will carry the day. >> would you wipe out private health insurance companis? >> no. >> why not? >> we should be working toward universal health care, not defining exactly how people get it. >> privatism sometimes works in a general election city. it is hard in a primary. >> he did talk a lot about expanding health care. this is for democrats that tricky conversation of what exactly do you mean when you talk about medicare for all. a lot of people want expanded coverage. even moderate democrats. you could argue even some within the republican party want expanded coverage. i don't know that democrats have done a great job of defining what they mean medicare for all. nor do i think all candidates agree on that. >> that's why we have debates. we will see if they continue to evolve their positions as we go, including next week. our reporters share from the notebooks yesterday. trump isn't done tormenting jeff

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let head one last time around the politics table to get you ahead of the political news around the corner. >> i'm watching the august 1st deadline when the state department will decide whether to issue another set of waivers for iran's civil nuclear program. the sate department continued issuing them for international cooperation on this program that allows for international projects ongram and there is a lot of pressure from iran for administration to stop issuing these waivers. if it does, that will further

inflame tensions between the two nations. it's basically these waivers are the last of the iran deal that the administration continued to this point. >> given the tensions this weekend over the seized tankers, those hawks might have a stronger case. manu? >> top officials tell me they don't expect jeff sessions, the former attorney general to run for his old senate seat in alabama next year and there is one reason why, perhaps that president trump does not want him to run again. he actually had a conversation with richard shelby who told me last week that the president told him he's quote not on board and that shelby said to him that you're -- he would be a formidable candidate. of course, the president is still angry about sessions as attorney general and recusal from overseeing the russian investigation that led to the special counsel's that he blames for the problems but the primary concerns for republicans is getting the seat back controlled by democrats, roy moore the republican candidate running in

the primary, republicans are doing everything they can to prevent him from running and believe all candidates could beat moore but if sessions runs, the president harbors deep grugs. >> deep grudges. >> we'll head to two different conventions this week that will specifically reach out to african american voters, that's the naacp convention and urban league. one is in detroit and one in los angeles. there is talk how democrats of 2020 could win back the midwestern states and one is about boosting african american turnout that wasn't there in 2016. two candidates i'm curious to see how they do are joe biden and put buttigieg. there are questions how much they can reach out to voters and that will be really important for den democrmocrat in 2020. >> interesting week.

before we get to the interesting debates. molly? >> for all the drama we've been covering on capitol hill, the biggest challenge facing pelosi is not how she handles the squad but can she get a budget deal working with the white house and congress. she's been talking to treasury secretary steven mnuchin once a day, multiple times a day hearing of testimony mhear hearing hear hearing optimism on both sides. the potential legislation hasn't yet been agreed to much less unveiled and it's a question of can pelosi get her caucus on board something congressional republicans need some kind of white house buy in but the biggest question mark always is will the president go along or will he end up at the last minute as he wants to do? >> a fun week ahead. i'll close with a harsh reality check for those struggling at

the bottom of the democratic pact. the cnn debates next week are a cross roads, perhaps a chance for a new beginning or perhaps the beginning of the end. let's look at this. six candidates, biden, sanders, buttigieg, warren, harris and o'rourke are qualified for the next round of debates. that's in september. three others are within striking distance of making that threshold. yang, booker, and jewel ongyo c. the others well short of the criteria so we could go from 20 to 10 or fewer candidates on the stage and while some struggling contenders vow to fight on, fundraising will be even more difficult. it's inevitable the field will shrink, some soon and perhaps significantly by labor day. that's it for "inside politics." i hope you can catch us on weekends at noon. don't go anywhere, "state of the union" is next, dana bash fills in and her guests are cory

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