the fact that you have an opportunity to repair what's already been damaged, it's amazing. i think my go-to toothpaste is going to be pronamel repair. the democrats debate. joe biden promises round 2 will be different. >> i was probably overly polite in the way i did respond. >> plus, did you actually totally exonerate the president? >> no. >> the special counsel and the impeachment debate. >> i think it's a disgrace what the democrats are doing. >> and the president attacks another african-american in congress. >> i saw this country elect its first black president and then turn around and elect a racist

to the white house. >> "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. a packed hour ahead, including a big win for president trump and his plan to build a border wall. and another controversial twitter attack on an african-american member of congress. we begin with a defining week for the democratic party and its crowded 2020 presidential field. over two nights this week in detroit. a perfect middle-american venue. from big ideological divides over health care, a fierce competition for african-american votes, and the question of who among these might appeal to the white blue collar workers. the debates could be the last act for many of those struggling at the bottom of the pack. and it is a moment of truth for

the man at the top. former vice president joe biden began this race as a front-runner but saw his standing decline after a shaky first debate. so biden enters round two promising to be less polite and knowing senator cory booker is among those hoping to gain by targeting the leader. >> i'm disappointed that it's taken joe biden years and years, until he was running for president to say he has made a mistake. he unveiled his bill f, this is raging crisis in our country. >> the predebate numbers suggest biden stabilized some. fox news national survey put biden a top the field at 33%. three senators, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, and kamala harris are next but well back. mayor pete buttigieg runs a distant fifth. in south carolina, which votes fourth next year, the same top four in a monday mouth survey

shows a commanding biden advantage at the moment among black voters. us this sunday cnn's m.j. lee, jackie kucinich, stan her man of the new york sometimes and carla demirjian from the "washington post". former vice president, center stage, after a shaky first performance. he said he is going to push back, senator harris, senator booker pushes back on race-related issues, crime issues. how big is this week for joe biden. >> it's huge. he has to show he wants this. it seemed like he thought he could make his case and get out of there. this times he knows that senator booker is going to be coming at him. he i think expects senator harris also might have something to say if he attacks her. joe biden needs to show why he's in this. and this is an opportunity to do that.

>> and so i want you to listen here a little bit. when candidates in the days before a debate, you hear their briefing books. they start talking to reporters and start saying things, you get a sense of what they are preparing for. cory booker saw that. he is struggling in the polls. he wants to get into into the same ground. listen to him saying mr. mayor in come at me, be ready. >> cory knows it's not true. if you look at the mayor's record in nuclear, his police department was docking mostly african-american men. if he wants to go back and talk about records, i'm happy to do that. >> a warning shot back. if you want to go there, i have my talking points, too. number one, the distance. number two, the energy. his heart did not seem in that. heart is very important. you made the point, joe biden

calling card is you want me on the stage against donald trump. i can take him on. where's the passion? >> i feel like this booker/biden battle is going to be so fascinating. booker came in with this feel-good politics can be optimistic, let's all unify kind of mental. a message that really hasn't worked. i think he knows something has to change for the trajectory of his candidacy to change. clearly he is seeing this opportunity as a big opportunity to make a move. but he's sort of telecast exactly what he wants to go after biden owe. and i think that's a risk. that gives biden the opportunity to study up and prepare to be exactly ready for this punch that booker is going to throw. and i don't know that it's necessarily a guarantee that booker's punch is going to land as well as kamala harris's did last time. >> you got at the question,

energy. that's something that you can't overplay it. it could backfire. but like jackie was saying before, you were making the point, he needs to show he is more vivacious. this is disconnected in a way. people were asking similar questions about another figure who is prominent from that generation. that was the mueller hearings. there's a big debate about what was energetic enough to stand up for trump. generally speaking we're asking these questions of are the statements of that generation, the ones ready to come to a fight against the president, we assume they are but they have to, as jackie was saying, show it. >> there is his support deep? he has the name recognition? 30-plus-year career in the senate. he was coming down fast after the first debate. the fox news national poll and more importantly go state by

state, south carolina poll shows he has stabilized. he has the lead among african-american voters, which after iowa and new hampshire is critical. the question is, is it real? >> that is the power of what senator harris did not just on the point about bussing but the general feeling that joe biden was out of the moment. the strategy of being above the fray in the primary was punctured. that is what he is going to have to try to overcome in the second debate. standing wedged in between two black senators and the fight for the black vote, as you mentioned. it will not just be about the specifics. can he project he is the person for the moment. that goes kind of beyond the one-on-ones, but can he have the energy that we are talking about. that is the thing that is still unclear. his staff was shocked. they were looking for a more energetic joe biden. >> let's flip the coin and talk

about senator harris. opened walt of eyes. okay. she is passionate, aggressive. who can beat trump? she has had issues. not giving a clear answer. she's gone back and forth does your private health insurance disagree. here's how she explains in. i'm not trying to restructure society, ms. harris said. i'm just trying to take care of the issues that wake people up in the middle of the night. part of the difficulty, ms. harris said, was her impulse to take any given question and start running through, in my head, all the scenarios about how it would actually work. it sure? is she wiffly-waffling? or whatever, ms. harris said. but it's just, i really do think through these things. >> she has been all over the

place. i have a hard time believing she is not going to be called on that. so in terms of what's important to voters -- they're in michigan. health care was the number one issue in 2018 why voters were voting for democrats. that was the number one thing they were concerned about. i think also that reflects in the country. so that's one of these -- health care is one of these things you have to have kind of nailed. so it will be really interesting to see what she says on the debate stage and how she tries to square what she has being saying the last couple of weeks. >> it means she now has this good problem of the bar having been set much higher for her this time. the number of voters i talked to immediately after the first debate at warren events, not even harris events, said she made such an impression by taking on biden and i can really imagine her taking on donald trump in the general election. i think people are eager to see

that kind of passion and that kind of fighter in the democratic nominee. i think the trick for harris, the tricky position she's in this time is she doesn't want to come off looking like a one trick pony. she probably can't do what she did the last time with biden. she has to find a different way of setting herself apart from the former vice president. >> the policy debates, the punch slinging over issues like medicare for all, we are still at a split debate stage. as you just said, it is the one event you heard somebody say positive things about harris. that's the matchup. you will have to see her with these issues and have the same sorts of moments harris had with biden. what divides them. >> we talked about night two. we will talk about night one. bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, the two progress if's who want the party to go bill and go bold. the democrats want to strengthen obamacare or ditch

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president trump won a big court victory friday on an issue that is plans his sharpest policy contrast with the democrats. supreme court ruling the white house can redirect pontiac gone funds to build sections of a wall along the u.s./mexico border.

instead of gaining temporary access to the united states by making an asylum claim at the u.s./mexico border. democrats say the wall is unmess and say the policies are cruel. but it raises a joint issue. are the views of liberal activists too far to the left for voters the democratic nominee would need to win the white house next november. among the democratic candidates you will see debating this week, these are among 2% of a recent national poll. booker, harris, sanders, warren and yang favor medicare for all. joe biden, buttigieg, castro, klobuchar, o'rourke and hickenlooper, you can buy-in if you want but keep your private were insurance if you want don't. another issue they will debate. should it be decriminal sized? if you cross illegally, should

it be a big crime or like a traffic ticket? you see the seven of them right there, buttigieg, castro pushed this issue in the first debate. opposing decriminalization, this is among the democrats. what about when we get to a general election? what will the nominee be asking to support? among democrats, should medicare be for who all who want it? off the chart. 7 in 10 say if you want it if you describe it that way. should the government regulate prescription drug prices? 80% of democrats. what if medicare for all replaces private insurance. 64% of democrats, only 40% of regular voters. that's a warning sign for democrats. pathway to citizenship, 84% of democrats support that. democrats are safe ground there.

allow those who are here illegally to get health insurance in the government, 60% of democrats say so. 32% of the broader electorate. they haven't made the case for the broader electorate. decriminalize illegal border crossings, 45% to 27% of the broader electorate. they might be popular with democrats, tougher sell to the country. many say we can't do this, can't go too far left. bernie sanders said ignore them. go bold. >> so our job as a people is to think outside of the box. not accept what the media tells you is reality. you know what reality is. you know what we can do as a country. so, brothers and sisters, what we are engaged in is not just a political campaign.

we are engaged in a political revolution. >> michael sheriff joins the conversation. senator sanders and senator warren will be center stage the first night. they believe you can sell medicare for all. free college tuition. maybe decriminalizing border crossings. giving health care to the undocumented. they think you can do that in one big election. there's no election in the past that says they can. it doesn't mean they can't. but it's a huge risk. senator sanders said it is the he'd ya. only 32% of all registered voters support giving health care to the undocumented. can democrats make this case or are they playing into the president's hands. >> i think it depends on the issue. you raise the issue of immigration. i think there is one where the democrats are treading on dangerous grouped in particular parts of the immigration debate. when they focus on the treatment

of the migrants in the decrepit conditions at the border, they are on stronger ground. they have an issue to push back against the president's demonization of migrants. they have owned the health care debate the past few years in terms of popularity with the voters. they risk losing that. i remember covering the early health care obamacare debate in 2009 and 2010. the country was barely -- the president abandoned the public option because even that was perceived to be too far left of where the country is. it's unclear to me that the country has moved so dramatically that the voters are going to accept the 34ed care for all kind of proposal. >> so let's stick there for a second. former vice president biden will be with senator harris and

senator booker. she has given different answers about private insurance. you hear the briefing books. here's the former vice president saying his opponents, he wants to build and protect and build on obamacare. he said opponents who are more liberal don't get it. >> i find people who say medical care for all, come on, is this a fantasy world here? . >> it could be senator harris, booker or bernie sanders. bernie sanders said you raise taxes on the middleclass but more than make it up through lower premiums and other effects like that. that is the debate we will have some week. >> senator harris wants this to be medicare for all. when you think about this, warren and sanders, the types of numbers about the general election wouldn't surprise or scare them. their argument is they are going to convince people and make that kind of case. they understand the kind of

history of political actions is not in their favor. if they were going to be elected to the white house, grassroots ground well energy that is up ending washington similar to what we saw president trump do two or three years ago, convince people to their original ideological point. but when we think about the second debate, senator harris is going to have pressure to articulate a medicare for all plan. m.j. is right on this. democrats have enjoyed her reputation as a fighter and tough. the question is about ideology. the question is about can she have a democratic progressive boxes checked. that's the biggest box she must overcome. >> the boxes in the primary sometimes get you in trouble by the time you get to the general election. let's show the first debate night. these two progress if's said

they will have to have a fight with each other at some point. it will come to each other. senator sanders and senator warren center stage. governor bullock, delaney, hickenlooper, absolutely buttigieg, senator klobuchar saying wait a minute. we can't sell all of this to the country in one national election. they think some of it is too liberal. this is going to be a defining night about how big, how bold, how left do the democrats think they can do. >> yeah. medicare for all offers us sort of the perfect snapshot of two big choices facing voters this time. do we want a candidate and nominee offering up big structural change like a bernie sanders or elizabeth warren or are we going to be content with somebody who is fighting for improving upon what we already have. joe biden saying he wants to improve upon obamacare, for

example. those are the two big choices facing the democratic voters. some recent polling shows people are more excited about the big change and the idea of bigger change and bigger scope change than tweaking around the edges. but i think the bigger change is the narrative changes. the mind-set potentially changes once you get closer to a general election. plenty of voters will be okay with big change now. but they could look ahead to a potential matchup with president trump examine think maybe this is too risky. maybe it is not the time to push for a candidate who wants the bigger picture. >> to joe biden's point, speaking to folks that were involved. some of the members pushing medicare for all were involved in the fight. people down getting into the nuts and bolts and what had to get through the house are looking at the medicare for all debate as it was -- with

confusion. it was hard to get done what was done with the aco. nothing short of a miracle, the time that i actually got over the finish line. that's one of the things you're hearing from joe biden's camp. this is hard to do functionally. >> let's be realists or practicing ma activities. sometimes you get in trouble when you say it in a primary. that's why michigan is such a great stage for the debates this week. democrats have to sort this out. it will be a lot of fun. >> up next, a weekend tradition for the president, sadly. over 90% of americans agree that we should have

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president trump is again being labeled racist by leading democrats after attacking an african-american member of the house. elijah cummings is this weekend's twitter target. not long after fox & friends critical of chairman cummings the president launched a series of tweets claiming it is more dangerous than the southern border and considered the worst in the usa. he called it a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. and very dangerous and healthy and said no human being would want to live there. he is clashing on a number of oversight issues with a tweet of his own. it is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch. but it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents. note the pattern in the president's attacks. two weekends ago he told four women they should go fix the

crime infested places from which they came. when he attacked john louis he said his district was horrible and falling apart not to mention crime infested. we all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast leadership, said nancy pelosi. the president is tweeting how dare you suggest it has anything to do with race. but it is, again, part of the pattern. he tweets about a person of color, talks about crime, talks about infestation, talks about filth. and then back tracks and said i'm talking about his competence or whether he's been good for his district or whether there's been political corruption. but it begins with something that speaks for itself. >> yeah. i think the president's track record and pattern is clear. you laid out the case on that

before. back to 2016, the president himself was someone who campaigned on fixing urban crime, campaigned on stopping carnage, quote, unquote, in these cities. he has totally abandoned once he gets into office. he used these struggling american cities, baltimore clearly has problems. others were admit forth right. he used them as political talking points rather than see his role and responsibility and relationship there. when we look at his tweets it is incredible how the president sees an american city as someone else's responsibility and not his. it fits into a wider pattern of the president using lawmakers of color as the targets. it speaks to what he was saying a couple weeks ago about criticizing america. he clearly has no problem doing so when it is targets in which he finds unworthy. and we have seen that just historically before his career

in office. >> and i thought the tweets about baltimore were pretty reminiscent of his comments about s-hole countries when he was frustrated about this idea of immigrants trying to come to the u.s. from countries in africa, for example. except that he is talking about, as pointed out and so obvious, an american city and american people living in this american city, right? but he's talking about them as though they are the other. as though they are not a part of us. this whole thing illustrates yet again that the president, in his heart, has this image of what real america is and what the better america is. it's clear that for him that better america is white-skinned americans. >> he is tweeting today. someone please explain to nancy pelosi called racist by her own party. she was not. there is nothing wrong with bringing out the fact that

chairman cummings has done a very poor job for his district. if you want to have that. this is the trademark. they go back to the original tweet. filth, rodents, no human would want to live there in a majority african-american district. >> you would call it a dog whistle to, you know -- except we can all hear it. dog whistles you cannot hear. as m.j. said, he's not calling, you know, kind of a rural community in michigan or working-class mostly white community in pennsylvania rat infested or -- you know, he's -- and this morning when he shifts the focus on pelosi's district, he's doing so in part to be able to, like, you know, prove not only talking about majority african-american cities like pault, but it is still a liberal city. it is still not part of his

base. he only launches these attacks as a way of signaling to his base these are the kind of people we don't really want in this country. and i'm going to be the president for you, not for them. >> right. and he spent much of -- two weekends ago that he had to go back. i'm sorry, go back to it's just racist. you can back away from that. always start with the first tweet. he starts to retreat or tries to move it to a different place. about you go back to the beginning. his campaign putting out a video, doubling down, the liberal democratic members of the so-called squad. they clearly think -- i don't know what the right is. tkpaeupb for them politically there. if you do look at the fox news poll, trump's attacks were acceptable political attacks, 27%. crossed the line, 63%. more than 6 in 10 americans, a lot of republicans think mr.

president dialed back. >> you saw clearly he attacked fox news over this pause he wasn't -- you know, for all that fox news is supportive of his agenda, once they read it -- >> and his campaign, his campaign is trying, understandably. they look at the unemployment rate. african-american employment is down. latino unemployment is down. he is not going to win the black vote, hispanic vote. they are trying on the margins to improve his standings. and then he does things like this time after time after time. the 2020 democratic field jumped in on this. she is speaking for the rest of the candidates. >> he says to the people of america if your life isn't going well, if you feel stretched financially, if you're answer about your future, blame them. plame people who don't look like you.

blame people who weren't born where you were born. plame them, plame them. >> i'm sorry. you were going to say something? >> no. i was just going to say there's always been this phenomenon, though. the trump administration opens the envelope. lots of people thought that crossed the line, too, and still voted for him. there is this ability to form a disconnect if you want to support republicans or want to support trump to tune out the stuff that is offensive. tune out the stuff that you would never endorse or condone yourself. and i know that a lot of people just brushed it aside. the president just has this brash meanness. his approach goes back to the original conversation we had about the tweets. his approach to districts that are beset by opioid issues. it belies the argument that this is just the way he is, how he

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a little sunday trail mix to get a taste of the 2020 campaign. senator gillibrand taking a swing at her rivals. without naming names, she claims some of the democrats in the race don't have proper respect for women. >> we have democratic candidates running for president right now who do not believe necessarily it is a good idea that women work outside the home. no joke. we have presidential candidates running right now who thinks the me too movement has gone too far. >> cnn asked the gillibrand campaign who she is talking about. they wouldn't give us an answer. also, a startling comparison from senator bernie sanders at a fund-raiser in detroit bringing up skyrocketing prices of some prescription drugs. then they said this.

>> what happens -- what happens if someone runs a pharmaceutical industry and artificially jacks up the price? >> and you can find candidates almost every day in iowa, new hampshire and late night tv. a half dozen staying up late after debate prep this week. >> jimmy, what our campaign is about really is saying we need a political revolution in this country. >> this campaign at its best has a do it yourself ethic and spirit. >> we need a leader that is not going to call us to the worst of who we are but call us to the best of who we are. >> amazon is closing 30% of america's stores and malls and being 0% taxes. >> you get rid of the law that allows people to separate parents and children. >> up next, the impeachment

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robert mueller delivered his long-awaited congressional testimony this past week. the substance was beyond damning to the president and those around him. democrats looking for a magic made-for-tv moment to crystallize impeachment were disappointed. >> i can't answer that question. >> i'm not going to answer that. >> i can't answer that question. >> i'm going to pass on that. >> speaker nancy pelosi said democratic investigations and court fights for witnesses and documents will continue. but with the house now gone for six weeks and lawmakers looking to shape the 2020 campaign terrain, while home the speaker is happy to change the subject to health care and more. >> democrats intend to own august to make some of the money

that we passed too hot for handle for republicans in the senate not to raise minimum wage and gun violence by common sense gun violence prevention measures. equal pay for equal work. this goes on and on. >> the president can't seem to let mueller go. >> this was treason, this was high crimes, this was something, as bad a definition as you want to couple up with. this should never be allowed to happen to our country again. this was a legal takeover as you would say in the business world. this was a coup attempt, in my opinion. >> that just breaks the fact-check machine. but he likes to have a foil, enemy, a pinata if you will. is the president going to miss robert mueller? >> in a way. the numbers have shown this goes

both ways. sometimes he gets a boost out of it. in this case he feels like he can control the conversation because it was not the bombastic moment we have been waiting two years for. it is interesting listening to the words he chooses. some are the words of impeachment. high crime. and escalates it to coup, of course. he is trying to bury this as much as he can, be buried at this point. it seems democrats are in a spot where they can't go impeachment runny harder. >> the speaker thinks it's a bad idea. it just plays into the president's hands. let's look at the democrats supporting impeachment hearings. back to may when the mueller report first came out, we were at 38. now we're at 101 democrats. my question is when they come back. is that number still around 101? there are 235 house democrats. or does it keep going up?

has speaker pelosi successfully put the genie back in the bottle? >> i think democrats will be very wary of starting impeachment proceedings. the clear sign of that we have seen out on the trail with the 2020 candidates even though some of them have definitely called on and support impeachment proceedings beginning in the house unless they are asked about it oreck accomplice italy provoked by question from a voter. it is not a topic that they talk about. and i think this whole time sort of the political risk that they did not want to take was putting all of their chips on robert mueller. and i think particularly after his testimony last week, there is growing sort of weariness even though the numbers ticked up about not making that political bed because they don't have something to pin that on from mueller's testimony. >> and if you look at the democrats who have called for impeachment, 59 come from democrats. hillary clinton won by 30 points

or more. she won 10 to 29. 12 from districts she won less than 10. only one in a district carried by president trump. you get a sense if you're a cent terrorist you don't want to touch this. or a moderate. >> you would have to see a ground swell of democratic voters pressuring the lawmakers to when they come back being able to be more vocal, feeling like they have political cover to be more vocal. that has not happened on the trail. even the candidates are asked rarely about this. they want to see democrats put on their affirmative vision to take on trump and not just be responding to president trump's attacks. but i don't know if this is a strategy from president trump. i think he feels upset. we have seen him use those moments to air his frustrations. i don't know if it's calculated. >> right. and we're still waiting to hear from the inspector general and the own investigation into the origins. we shall see if the president gets more material or next.

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one last time around the inside politics table. asking the reporters to share something around their notebooks. m.j. >> so i'm looking ahead to the third quarter fundraising. we just had the second quarter fundraising which is revealing but i think the third quarter could be in a different way. for bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, they were able to show they can raise serious money even without holding fundraisers and sort of the traditional ways that a lot of presidential candidates have raised money so we'll see whether they can sort of keep up that kind of momentum. and then for biden, kamala

harris and pete buttigieg, we're going to see in the third quarter whether they can keep building out the war chest, even when some of the biggest donors have already maxed out to their campaigns. so this is going to be a real test that we see in about two months from now. >> summer fun. michael. >> speaking of summer fun. all presidents like our -- are sensitive about taking vacations. this president is no exception. when he was asked recently whether he was going to take a vacation, he was defensive and made it clear that he wasn't just going to play golf, he said in the oval office that asked whether he would be gone for an extended period he said i hope not because i like working, i'd rather be right here but probably over a short period of time. the white house has not said when he will leave for the summer vacation but i think one thing is clear given the president's propensity to tweet anywhere and everywhere, being on vacation is not actually that different from executive time at the white house. >> he's different.

that is the word. >> i just came from the naacp national convention and urban league and two collections of black voters and i was thinking about how there is universal calls for impeachment in both of the places and it made me think when the house is making those calculations, nancy pelosi is thinking about those moderate districts and places in which they won the majority but the base or liberal side, those urban districts they've been universally there for a while and looking for democrats, especially in the wake of the robert mueller testimony to kind of ramp up those accountability measures against the president. >> speaker is hoping that fades over the summer. we shall see, i'm going to watch the case coming up before the senate on tuesday. there is a confirmation hearing for the person to be the second highest military officer and a reckoning point for lawmakers about sexual assault. both in terms of how they adjudicate accusations made against nominees and what it means for how the military

handles it. another person we are not watching that closely has been accused of sexual assaulting someone under his command and this is the first time we've seen this come up as brett kavanaugh and how do lawmakers decide how they're going to assess these sort of cases and also are they going to revisit whether you should take these sort of cases out of the chain of command when the military looks at it. we've not addressed that for a while but it will come back full force on tuesday. >> keep an eye on that. and i'll close with three numbers from the house and what they tell us about the real state of play in the house. here they are. 219, 65 and 3. 219 equals the number of house democrats who voted for the spending and debt ceiling deal. that is 219 of 235. 65 is the number of house republicans who voted yes. 65 out of 197. so to thirds of the house republicans went against their

president on the spending compromise and 90% of house democrats stuck with their speaker. so much for the presidential tweets suggesting nancy pelosi has lost control of her caucus. now the final number, three. as in three morehouse republicans announcing they will not run for re-election in 2020. we're now up to five gop retirements and it is early in the cycle. track that number and watch it in the months ahead. the more it climbs the more you'll know about republican frustration and whether gop-ers see a path to retake the house next year. that is it for "inside politics." up next on "state of the union" with jake tapper, 2020 candidate bernie sanders, jerry nadler and the michigan congresswoman rashida tlaib and tune in tuesday night for the democratic debates. thanks for sharing your sunday. have a great day. from the new ultimate crabfest trio with three kinds of wild-caught crab to the return of crab lover's dream! grab your crab crew, hurry in or order it to go!

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