police say the teens stole a backpack. the police officer was trying to retrieve the bag when he was stabbed. one teen told the judge he didn't know the man was a police officer and thought he was going to hurt him. ererin burnett outfront starts now. biden rebounds, a major shift in momentum as the 2020 candidates prepare for the first of debates. donald trump chooses a loyal lawmaker. trump playing the race card again. will his strategy with his base win reelection? let's go outfront. >> and good evening. live outside the fox theater in detroit for the cnn democratic presidential debate. outfront tonight, biden is back

big time. huge surge for joe biden as he prepared for the most important night thus far in the fight for 2020. according to a brand new poll, biden is at 34%. when i say surge and big time, that is up 12 percentage points from earlier this month after the last debate. that's a really big jump. biden's rebound is coming ahead of this crucial debate here and in part coming at kamala harris's expense. the senator who took biden on called him out on bussing. now dropping to third at 12%. harris telling reporters that her game plan for regaining her momentum is this. >> what is your vision specifically? >> to not mess up. my mother raised me to be polite. i intend to be polite. i will express differences and articulate them and certainly point out where we have

differences of opinion, because i believe that democrats and the american voter have a right to know that. >> obviously, a crucial night for her. meanwhile, the progressive left, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are preparing to go head to head, side by side on the stage defending their progressive agendas including medicare for all which tonight is actually at the center of a very bitter back and forth between the candidates. kamala harris unveiling her new medicare for all health care plan that allows people to keep private insurance. that's not just a change for her. it is a plan that sanders is slamming in a statement saying call it anything you want, but you can't call this plan medicare for all. you have spent a lot of time on the trail with senator harris. she has sort of switched her position on this and now being hit from all sides. >> reporter: she is taking it both from the left from bernie

sanders saying this is not a medicare for all plan. and then she is also taking it from the right. joe biden saying that what this plan essentially does is tear down the a.c.a. that's what his team is saying. what this plan does is it puts her right in between joe biden and bernie sanders. that is where she wants to be. so let's take a look at the plan. what is the harris plan? it essentially scales up medicare as we know it. medicare in 2019. it calls for traditional medicare. there is that public option that will be government run. but there is also that option for private insurance. so if you get your insurance through your union, through your employer, that may still exist at the end of the scale up, but it would all be regulated by the federal government. she envisions it would like a lot like medicare advantage today. medicare advantage is something

that one third of medicare enrollees take part of. it is still a very popular part of medicare. it works right there with the government-run plan for medicare. harris does believe that this would work. one other thing we should point out that the timing of this can't be ignored. she's doing this right before the day one of the debates. >> thank you very much. outfront now, democratic strategist who served as white house counselor to president clinton and former dnc communications director. and former michigan democratic gubernatorial candidate who served as the health commissioner here in detroit. paul, let's start with the joe biden surge. joe biden's last debate was not a great one. he knows that. everyone knows that. a lot of people said so much is riding on this. he didn't have another debate yet and he has surged. 12 percentage points is a big jump. >> it is. it will put a bigger target on

joe's back on debate night. i think uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. any other democratic has the right to go after him. i think it's driving almost all democrats. this is a single issue election, who can beat donald trump? maybe he is a right choice and maybe he is not. that's the only issue. i'm a jfk democrat. ensure the defeat of donald trump. that's what driving biden's popularity. >> which is an interesting point trying to describe the field. to the right is joe biden. that shows the shift here in the democratic party that joe biden is described as to the right of where they are. harris's numbers are really down since that debate performance which was widely -- people thought that was a strong performance. >> i think coming out of that debate everyone was saying she

certainly won the night and raised a lot of money off of it. her numbers surged for several days after that. i agree with paul. i think that people kind of came down. who knows if this is going to take. it's still really, really early. the single most important issue right now in democratic voters' minds is who can beat donald trump. i think the last several weeks where donald trump has once again shown what he's going to do to try to win re-election which is really focus on the racism and the bigotry goes back to the reason why joe biden says he jumped into this race. his vision was one of this is a fight for the soul of america. i think people are really feeling that right now. so of the moment i think he is really taking advantage of that. >> i do want to say a few things. it is hard to interpret any one poll. joe biden does benefit from

having been vice president for eight years. >> he has the name recognition. bernie sanders has name recognition. >> and good support. the other point i don't want to forget is that hillary clinton was the most electable candidate in american history. she lived in the white house for eight years. she had been a senator. she had been secretary of state. nobody was better prepared. this electability argument that says that joe biden is the one doesn't make sense because the reason he appears so far right is because our electorate is looking for something more. you can point to unemployment numbers that look really low. under employment is at an all-time high. it's not paying to have a job anymore. unless he is willing to go to a moment where we have to say this is not working, we have to ask what's the plan here. it doesn't seem like he has anything. >> one thing i have noticed. when you say it is all about beating donald trump. that is what it seems to be about for democrats. they want to say ymp going to give you a reason to think i can

be this person. bernie sanders has successfully moved something perceived as socialism to the mainstream. now they are talking about medicare for all. kamala harris comes out with this plan. i'm going to play a little bit of her in the last debate. it's unclear. it looks like she has changed a lot. here she is. >> who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan? >> medicare for all, my vision of medicare for all includes private insurance where people can have supplemental insurance. >> so i don't know what really was going on there. was she sure what she wanted? now we have this plan. is she going to now show i'm going to stick with it? >> i think she has to now. i think it was smart for her to come out with this plan now because i think they understood that she was a little adrift because it wasn't just that in

the debate. even before that she had told jake one thing about where she was on medicare for all and then completely went back on it. this is very smart of her. she needed to do it. frankly, she has to be ready for attacks on both sides. but if she is in a place where she is kind of in the middle of people who think that joe biden is way too right on this or people who think that elizabeth warren is way to the left, that might be the right place for her to be. >> joe biden slamming her, this new have it every which way approach -- >> that's fair. i'm not going to disagree. i will say joe biden hasn't given us any approach. i'm not that old, but i'm old enough to remember when medicare for all meant something. it meant single payer health care. people realize it is the best way to address infundamental failing of our health system which means we are relying on corporate health insurance, make

overhead super expensive and we pay more for health care, mediocreoutcomes. we can see canada from here. >> paul, when you look at -- medicare for all is one issue. i'm not trying to equate that fully with socialism. you have bernie sanders write policies that to the democratic base socialism is popular. people think that makes since. to the overall american electorate, it is not. do they go too far left at their peril? >> yes. the first rule of a primary is don't say anything on that stage tuesday and wednesday night that will kill you in november 2020. the last debate ckamala harris one. donald trump won the last debate because too many democrats took positions that they cannot sell

in november of 2020. >> you mean like raising your hand when talking about free health care for undocumented immigrants. >> let me push back on that for a second. we are in downtown detroit. you can walk a mile in any direction and these are folks who have been left behind by the debates that we're talking about. and if we want to win, it's going to be because we do a couple of things right. most of all, it's going to be because we pull out our base in communities like this. unless we are advocating for solutions that affect people's lives, we're going to miss that opportunity. if we are having the same debate as 2016 about is the a.c.a. good or not, we have to make sure that democrats coming out of this primary are fired up over ideas that will effect their lives. >> they turned out like never before in 2018 and you know those -- >> that's exactly right. >> and in fact, the base isn't all for socialism. if you believe the base is

latino voters and african-american voters, they are not there. next, republicans not exactly embracing the president's pick for the next director of national intelligence. how significant is that? >> donald trump is not above the law. he's not. he damn sure shouldn't be below the law which is where volume two of this report puts him. >> and that won the president over. is congressman john ratcliff ready to be the head of american spies. go after a black guy and that helps with the black base. 2020 candidate on his debate strategy outfront. here's your buick sir. actually, that's my buick. how are we gonna fit in your mom's buick? easy. i like that new buick. me too. i was actually talking about that buick. i knew that.

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russia has been the most aggressive foreign actor, no question. and they continue their efforts to undermine our democracy. >> this is what the president said just three days later. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me, and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> it was a statement the president tried to correct by saying he meant to say wouldn't. then there was this moment when coats was told that the white house announced putin was coming to the white house to visit the president. >> i do want to say we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again. >> after a few laughs, that was

all coats could say, and then this. >> okay. that's going to be special. >> well, that was not something the president appreciated. and then the two also disagreed on whether or not north korea is denuclearizing. >> we have made a lot of progress as far as de-nuclearization is concerned. >> we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities. >> taking out trump has not been a successful strategy for professional longevity in this administration. the surprise to many is who coats' replacement is. republican congressman john ratcliff of texas. sources tell cnn this was sort

of a last minute thing, trump calling him a quote, warrior. >> i agree with the chairman when he said donald trump is not above the law. he's not, but he damn sure shouldn't be below the law. >> outfront now, former cia counter terrorism official and a lobbiest who has worked on behalf of energy defense and transportation companies. you're here with me. let's just start with you on this. the president comes out with this. obviously, there was a lot of speculation coats was not long for this administration. >> him being here two years and 150 days. >> now you have mcconnell. neither are quick to say we're behind you. they're not doing that. why? >> i think the senate has the a very important role here. congressman ratcliff has been a

member of the house intelligence committee for six years. he has done very well by himself in terms of -- by the way, he also worked on the counter terrorism task force. he doesn't come to this -- >> they should be jumping on board. >> he still has to make his case that he is going to be independent. i think people see the video. they hear the narrative and want to know do you believe the russians interfered? i think if he answers those questions in the affirmative he'll see it through. >> what do you say? coats had 20 years in congress, congressman, ambassador, senator. ratcliff doesn't have that depth of experience but prosecutor, terrorism prosecutor. is he qualified? >> i don't think that's the question i would ask. i'm almost -- and this is miraculous half way with david. he has some experience. it does not match people like

james clapper in terms of people who have had this position before. it's not even close. you can learn the job. from the inside that is not the question i would have. the question i would have is given the partisanship on this member on the issues the intel community has with the president, north korea, iran, russia, saudi arabia, can you guarantee that this individual will not only speak the truth to the president? i'm not sure i would believe that. also, there will be public situations. the fbi director doesn't speak that much publicly. this job does. will this person go out in public and say regardless of what the president says about north korea and russia, i've got a different view. i'm not sure. >> as phil knows, the director of national intelligence directs nothing. he has little operational control. he has no say. he is the king of an empire of his own staff. >> the senate job doesn't matter? >> i think phil would be the

first to admit the dni doesn't direct, the director doesn't direct anything. >> it's an important job. >> coordinator. >> we used to say this is big hat, no cattle. in other words, you've got a job but you don't have a lot of people. the difference i would say in addition to the public persona, the opportunity to speak to the american public is this is somebody who will have access to the president which means the ability to say this is what we think about iran and north korea. i agree, not a lot of influence but the opportunity to go face-to-face with a man that is the president who doesn't believe so -- >> theoretically. >> this is important. if you are mcconnell and thune, something has been the murder of jamal khashoggi. republicans took him on on this. the cia says that is what they concluded. the president of the united states is wrong and have not supported him on other things

with saudi arabia. when this guy goes and is asked the question, do you accept the cia's assessment that the crown prince of saudi arabia directed the murder of jamal khashoggi? >> interesting to see what he says. >> let's say he says no and the -- he says yes, goes against the president, what does the president do? >> the president can withdraw his nomination if he deems it unacceptable. he has to make the case. he will be independent. he will speak truth to power. >> so what happens at that moment, that moment that the president -- i'm just giving one example for a specific reason. what does ratcliffe do? >> he will try to thread the needle. i'm not geeg into the hearing saying i would vote him up or down. i'm saying i am interested in his answers. if he threads too carefully i would say we will hear that and

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new tonight, trump again slamming the house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings saying baltimore has the worst crime statistics in the nation. so tired of listening to the same old bull. trump's tweets continuing a three-day attack, trump attacking the powerful head of the house oversight committee. cummings oversees no fewer than 12 investigations into the president and his family and his business. referring to cummings' district overwhelmingly african-american

as quote disgusting, rat and rodent infested, places no human would want to live. don't take my comment as a guess. the "washington post" reports that trump's advisers concluded that attacks like these are quote good for the president among his political base resonating strongly with the white working-class voters he needs to win reelection in 2020. they said it. they think slamming minorities, black congressmen, will resonate with trump's white voters. that is a deeply ugly admission. and that is a word the president uses when it comes to plaqblack brown people telling four women to go back to the countries they came from. this one, democrats don't care about crime and want illegal immigrants no matter how bad they may be to pour in and infest our country. and congressman lewis should focus on the burning and crime

infested inner cities of the united states. infest is a loaded word throughout history. and when people defending trump say literally there are rats in baltimore, that shows a painful willingness to look the other way. abby, the president's advisers clearly see this as a re-election strategy. and they see it as something that will resonate with their words his white working-class voters. >> reporter: that's right. in some ways they have no choice because this is a strategy that president trump has set out on. when president trump first attacked the squad, his campaign reframed it as an attack that was really about patriotism and nate civis nativism. here as you are seeing president trump attacking elijah cummings his advisers are coming to his aid. we saw him telling supporters

that sharpton hates whites and hates cops. he said if the democrats are going to defend the radical left squad and king elijah's baltimore fail, it will be a long road to 2020. president trump is making it plain that this is his path to re-election. the question is can they reframe the cummings attack as a nativist attack that is about patriotism? that i think remains to be seen. >> thank you very much. democratic congresswoman brenda lawrence of michigan, member of the house oversight committee chaired by congressman cummings. so you heard the reporting which i thought was quite profound, because it was team trump saying that they think that things like this resonate with trump's white voter base. they said that. they put the word white in

there. does it surprise you that they will admit that this racially charged talk they think is effective. >> if you look through history in times of jim crow, times when we were struggling with the civil rights movement, there was always this effort to separate white america and black america tlmpt was always an effort to dehumanize black people. if you call them infested. >> a place no human would want to live. >> if you are living there, you're not human. i just really don't want america, especially black america to be sucked into this rabbit hole, because this is a dlibt attempt by this president to get us distracted, to start looking at our white neighbor and saying are you one of those people who think that way about us? in america we have history lesson after lesson where people come together. this president is really trying to divide this country and

suppress the vote. because if he gets black people to say this country doesn't care about me, it's no good. >> they don't vote. the latest fbi -- the president is saying this is actually -- let's look at the facts. the latest fbi data shows baltimore had more homicides than any larger city but it has a lot of crime problems. we know that. that is a fact. in one tweet trump writes there is nothing racist saying what most people already know. dems always play the race card when they are unable to win with the facts. shame. your response. >> the president, again. he is the president of the united states of america. baltimore is a part of the united states of america. if he was a true leader, his comment would be what can we do to fix this? even if he felt that elijah cummings was not a good leader, what do you offer, sir? as the president of the united states, what have you offered to

bring this country together? what have you offered to reduce crime? what have you done to enrich this country? everything is about dividing. the tax cuts, then you don't want to raise the minimum wage to $15 so that all ships can rise and everyone can take part of the american dream. >> you were at michael cohen's hearing back in february. there was a moment there that i thought was -- cummings defended republican congressman mark meadows. mead meadows was essentially called racist because he brought one african-american woman out and said this proves michael cohen's wrong, president trump isn't a racist. >> it was ignorant. >> cummings jumped in to defend mark meadows. i just wanted to play that moment. >> you are one of my best friends. i know that shocks a lot of people. >> and likewise, mr. chairman.

>> you are. and i can see and feel your pain. i feel it. >> i have not forgotten that moment, because i thought that was a moment where you can say elijah cummings, mark meadows who is completely on the other side, that they can say they are one of the best friends. the president of the united states isn't just slamming cummings, he called him a racist saying because your sdriblth di isn't doing better, you are the racist. does mr. meadows need to speak out publicly for his friend? >> he has a lot of demons he has to address. i know meadows, as well. i have known him to be in the right place on so many issues. and to be silent and to try to support this president as so many other republicans are doing, it is shameful. there has to be accountability for this because right is right,

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debate? >> i spent much of the last few years working here in detroit. detroit is a ground zero for the automation of so many manufacturing jobs over the last number of years. we're going to use this debate as an opportunity to call out the economic transformation and then propose real solutions like freedom dividend of $1,000 a month. >> and you have laid out -- i know obviously -- last time you didn't get a ton of talk time for whatever reason that may be. what are you going to do differently this time so you make the point? >> we're now one of the eight campaigns to qualify for the debates, not just this week, but also in september and october. so we have a real great opportunity not just this week, but throughout the coming weeks to make this case to the american people. we are in a fortunate position where we are not in desperation mode where many campaigns are in a bit of a hail mary situation.

>> lob a bomb just because? >> that's one of the unfortunate dynamics where it tends to degenerate into rehearsed attack lines because you were in a situation where you feel like your back's against the wall. that's not where our campaign is. >> when it comes down to obviously talk time isn't what it is all about. it was three minutes. kamala harris had four times that amount. joe biden got a lot more than that. do you want a lot of time? >> rather more time than less. >> you're making the point on universal basic income. there is a lot of curiosity about that. do you want to be defined only by that? >> it is not a length of time talking contest. you have to use your time to make points to the american people. the fact that we are in the midst of the greatest economic transformation in american history. we will make those points i'm

sure this week. we're just thrilled to be here to have another opportunity to make the case to the american people. >> you spent time in detroit. you helped rebuild detroit. you can see downtown detroit as a place they spent a lot of time. a lot of time has been spent. people like you. and you see that in some other cities. baltimore is one of them. >> yep. >> baltimore harbor, you look at things over by johns hopkins, i grew up in maryland. there are problems in baltimore. the president says of elijah cummings that baltimore is disgusting, rat and rodent infested. you also worked in baltimore. what do you say? >> there are problems in detroit and in baltimore. at the same time there are incredible individuals and organizations trying to make things better. that's the challenge we have, but it is not helpful for someone to say look at all the problems. the reason why i have been

working in thecommunities is because i believe we can do better. >> when the president says rat and rodent infested? is that just blatant racism? >> we have to stop running around after trump's tweets. if he verifies he is donald trump for the 1,000th time, it's not a game changer for us. he is who he is. we have to try to solve the problems on the ground that got him elected. that's the focus of my campaign. >> andrew yang, i appreciate your time. thanks very much. very good to see you. don't miss it democratic debates here on cnn. the first of two is live tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern. the 2020 candidates on the issue they believe is key to beating trump. and face off. jeanne moos on what the smile behind the words may really mean. ♪

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>> reporter: he took individual donations from oil and gas executives. but he swore off their money this time and vows to spend $5 trillion to get america off of oil and gas. he favors outlawing >> we want to use invasion, entrepreneurs and new technologies or wind, solar, bio fuels. >> but pete buttigieg and john delany would pass carbon tax money directly to you. >> the greatest challenges we face in the future will be over technology and intel lproperty. >> he floated a middle ground approach and while his 1 p$1.7 trillion plan is vague, he has obama's green legacy to run on. elizabeth warren is in for $2 trillion and wants to force corporations to report how much

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tonight while the candidates are getting ready for the debates, they should not forget one thing, here is jeanne moos. >> sometimes the faces debate candidates make are debatable, and who better to dissect them than the guy who wrote the book actually several books on facial decoding. dan hill has some advice for the dems based on their previous performance, what not to do. >> stair and be full of grima s grimaces, you have to come

across as someone that will occupy the white house, not burn the place down. >> he points the finger at bernie sanders, oh, yes, you, burn knee. >> nothing will change. >> president george w. bush once looked so kacranky during the debate, dell cmocrats turned ito a negative ad. >> faces of frustration. not too annoyed but not too smiley, either. >> the biggest thing you shouldn't do is big cheesing grins like this. >> it may look like pleasant smiling to us. >> immigrants, they do not diminish america, they are america. >> hill says it took a lay from amy and joked about not exploiting. >> my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> joe biden has plenty of experience but our facial decoder sited hesitation. >> during the he is take, the

mouth would fall open a little bit. >> you did not raise your hand. did you raise your hand? >> i did. >> kamala harris got props for her oununusual use of sadness. >> you can't attack someone using sadness. biden had no place to go emotionally. >> there is that face not physically present on the democratic stage but ever present. >> our facial expert says it's not so much the funny faces president trump makes but signature expression. chin pushed up, a sign of disgust and sadness. >> donald trump shows the largest percent take of sadness of any president we ever had. >> so sad it makes you want to rub your eyes and blink. jeanne moos, cnn new york. >> like a born actor. thank you for watching. our special coverage here in detroit outside the fox news theater continues now with anderson cooper.

good evening from detroit in addition to hosting the cnn democratic debates, detroit like baltimore is part of the united states, both are very important american cities, which may be news to president trump who continues his attack on baltimore and the african american congressman that represents a big part of it. house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings. and as he did with four non-white congress women two weeks ago and many other non-white elected officials, ordinary scitizens before that he's trafficking a racist stair owe type and giving voice to some of the most shameful prejudices in our society. tomorrow night here in detroit the first ten of 20 democratic candidates will take the debate stage. all of whom say they want to restore civility to washington. we begin tonight with the question that follows from all of this presidential be