situation room. follow me on twitter and instagram. you can always tweet the show @cnn sit room. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. outfront next, breaking news presiden trump defends pressuring israel to ban two sitting members of congress, an unprecedented snub. why is israel doing trump's dirty work. but president trump about to speak in new hampshire. will he ruffle republican feathers by supporting cory lewandowski for senate who rode with him on affairs one. radioactive material has been discovered more than 1,000 miles away in russia. how dangerous is this? let's go outfront. >> and good evening, i'm erin burnett, outfront, the breaking news. prurp admitting that he told israel not to let two u.s. congresswoman into the country.

this despite white house denials all day he did it. we're talking about congresswoman ilhan omar and rashaada tlaib. two congresswoman critical of the president and who he slammed. again white house says he didn't get involved. but here he is telling you he did. >> did you talk to prime minister netanyahu. >> i don't want to compensate about who i spoke to. but i think my social media statement pretty well speaks for itself. but i did speak to people over there, yeah. >> okay. he did speak to eem over there, yeah. okay pl o. well he admits it. as for the social media statement it made it clear. on twitter it would show weakness if israel allowed omar and tlaib to visit. they hate israel and jewish people. he says that and makes call to people over there. it's clear, right. let's be clear about this too. it's unprecedented for the president to intervene to ban sitting elected representatives from visiting another country. and tonight israel is now trying

to spin this whole mess to make it look like it's above board. prime minister netanyahu putting out a statement on his facebook page saying the ban is because quote's israel's law prohibit the entry of people who call and operate to boycott israel. but that quite simply is not why congresswoman tlaib and omar were banned. here are the facts. last month the israeli ambassador ron the car myrhh to the united states said the two women were allowed into israel. here is his quote. out of respect for the u.s. congress and the great alliance between israel and america. they were allowed in. and as for boycotting israel, right, maybe he didn't know about that. well he did. omar and tlaib's views on that were public long before the ambassador said they could come into the country. sheer congresswoman elect omar in february. >> i have not only supported and called for boycott of israel -- >> and here is congresswoman elect tlaib in december of 2018

she said i personally support the bds -- dsh boycott movement. they support the boycott they say to support palestinian human rights. but the thing that matters here is that they supported back in 2018. publicly. so just to be painfully clear the ambassador said they were welcome for the visit in july of 2019. well after they knew that. this excuse they were banned because of calls to boycott skral is a blatant lie. what did change in the past month when israel said okay you can come? well one thing that we started hearing also in july of 2019 is trump's racist attacks against the two congresswoman. >> these are people that hate our country. hey, john. they hate our country. they hate it, i think with a passion. these are people that in my opinion hate our country. and all i'm saying that if they're not happy here they can leave. >> and of all the great irony

there is this. do you remember the tweet? i mean the tweet where trump told tlaib and omar to go back to where they came from. well here is the irony. congresswoman tlaib is of course born an american citizen tp but on this visit to israel she was going to visit her ancestral home and her grandmother who lives in the west bank. trump called some people took to twitter and stopped her from doing what he told her to do. pretty ironic on that front. kaitlyn collins is outfront traveling with the president in berkeley heights, new jersey. kaitlyn, trump obviously got really upset about this. >> yeah, he seems quite pleased with israel's decision that they have made today. but erin, the time line here is pretty clear. israel made the decision after the president urged them publicly on his twitter account as you showed to do so. even after last month the israeli ambassador to the united states said that, yes the two democratic congresswoman were going to be welcome to israel.

and now we're seeing bibi netanyahu change his mind issuing the statement. and of course we know the president and he have a long history and had a warm relationship since they've been if in office. this is something that politically could help both. you see the president frame the women as his foil in the 020 election and netanyahu is facing an election of his own in just three weeks. now, the president would not say whether or not he spoke with netanyahu directly about this. but he did concede he spoke with israeli officials even though the white house press secretary stephanie grisham insisted earlier in the day that israel could do what it wanted and that the reports that the president was weighing in on trying to influence the decision here were inaccurate. what that all this reveals is that this president who is known for disrupting the status quo throughout his administration, this might be the most significant way he has done so yet by telling a country overseas, ally overseas that not only should two u.s. citizens not be allowed to visit but two members of congress should not be able to come visit.

now that's going to set some kind of precedents. that's what experts say they've been worried about. because members of congress travel all over the world. and to see the president using this to punish his political rivals back here at home is something that critics say they are increasingly worried about the president's and his influence on this move today. >> all right. thank you very much pb kaitlyn collins. i want to go outfront to brad snyder, democratic congressman. he returned from a rip to israel. you know a lot about what is happening here right now. sir, look, i want to start with this. at the heart of this, for people who may not follow the specific details of a boycott movement. you have been critical of some comments these congresswoman have made about israel, the support that they have for the b.d.s. movement boycotting israel. you have called that movement anti-semitic. introduced a resolution. >> it is. >> opposing it. i'm just making it clear. you don't agree with them. you don't agree with any of their point of view on this. but you think they should be let into israel, right?

>> absolutely. i've been critical of their attacks on the u.s. israel relationship, support for the boycott divestment and sanctions movement process. i called that movement anti-semitic for two reasons. first because it's absolute diadem of jewish aspiration for a state in israel. and its revisal to support a two-state solution that will bring peace for israelis and palestine bes. the b.d.s. movement is against that peace process. that's why last month you saw 398 members of congress. 209 democrats and 189 republicans vote in support of condemning b.d.s. and support for israel. israel has always been bipartisan. but that don't change the fact that two members of congress going to israel. a month ago we heard from the ambassador of israel to the united states a promise they would be allowed to visit israel. and today the government reversed and went back on the promise and said they can't

come. i think this is unforced error, unnecessary and will do more damage than any chance of protecting israel's reputation. >> all right. and i mean i guess from a very basic point of view if you don't go to a place to learn anything about it you're not going to change your mind. but can i just ask you about this trump's role in this, i mean the white house tried to say he didn't have anything to do with it but then he said he did. obviously making the point of view very clear and then he said he called people and talked to people over there. >> right. >> and ambassador, dermer he is incredibly close to prime minister no one hue and people here. have you spoken to him today about in. >> not today. i spoke to the ambassador yesterday. i expressed my concern about the pending decision. i told him i thought it was the wrong decision, that it would do more harm than good for sure. and that i felt the israeli government should live up to the promise made last month that the

two representatives would be allowed to visit israel. >> did trump embolden them? i mean -- >> i think trump not just emboldened, he ez pred the the government and prime minister newtown had you. he injected himself in the process. nothing changed, the positions of the two representatives was clear long before ambassador dermer made the promise last month. they weren't going to have their mind changes changed. they weren't going to make an effort to see the multifacets and israel and palestinian conflict. i i just came home as you mentioned with a trip with more than 70 members of congress where we not only visited israel. went to ram pachlt lla. had a meeting with prime minister abbas. i was disappointed he refused to meet with republicans this week. but we had a chance to see the

challenges israel faces in the region but the importance of the u.s. israel relationship. and it's unfortunate -- go ahead. >> you're saying people who have supported a movement you see as anti-shuttic should be allowed to go even though as you point out they had put the location where they were going as palestine. they have a clear political point of view on this. >> right. >> but just to be clear. when the president says in his tweet they hate jews that's what he said. i'm looking for the the exact wording. >> they hate jews. -- they hate israel and all jewish paem. do you think that's true? >> well, i've had conversation was tlaib and what i've said to her is she and i are going to always have a different narrative. i'm not going to change her mind. but i am confident that the work we did -- i mean, i spent several months working with my colleagues trying to build support for house resolution 246. we had 398 members vote in support of a strong u.s. israel

relationship. in support of israel's security. and that the ultimate outcome down the road will be a negotiated agreement between the israelis and the palestinians. and 398 members of congress bipartisan condemning b.d.s. a as antagonist ini can and unhelpful. representative tlaib and omar have a different perspective. i'm not changing their mind but it doesn't change the fact that the overwhelming majority of the house of representatives of the u.s. congress both sides and support israel and israel's security. >> i'm trying to g get a direct answer regardless of the appropriateness of the president saying what he is saying. it's inappropriate. but is there any merit in what he is saying you know her she knows you is what he is saying totals b.s. or not. >> what he is saying is b.s. what he is saying i'm not getting into name calling, put myself in the heart or minds of my colleagues. but what i do know is that the

united states congress supports israel's security, has for the entire 71 years of israel's existence, invested in the security that we mutual beneficial outcomes of the relationship between the u.s. and israel. and we will pursue that. the actions of the president what he did today, has been doing for a while by creating a wedge between democrats and republicans, that doesn't help israel's security. it actually diminishes it. and we need to make sure we preserve that bipartisan support in the congress. >> all right. well i appreciate your time very much. i want our view he is republicans did speak out also against the decision, including influential senator marko rubio foreign releases and others. thank you i refresh appreciate your time. >> thank you erin. >> president trump though throwing support behind cory lewandowski saying go for senate. but a lot of republicans are standing up. plus one 2020 candidate is now out, another making it clear he is all in. and president trump says his trade war with china could be fairly short.

but that is not what china sees. how bad could this get for

americans? all right. these are live pictures out of marchts, new hampshire. president trump is about to speak at a campaign rally interest. he is holding it obviously, coswing state, a state he lost.

but by less than 3,000 votes. trump landing in marchts moments ago. and joining him i know air force one and at the rally is cory lewandowski his former campaign manager. hours after trump encouraged cory to run against democratic senator gene shaheen. >> yeah, i think cory is a fantastic guy. and i don't think he made that decision yet. ly say this, if he ran he would be a great senator. if he ran a senator he would be great to for new hampshire, great for the country. >> all this in the same day the house judiciary subpoenaed lewandowski as part of the impeachment inquiry over what the president according to the mueller report told him to do, which he rchzed to do. outfront. a adviser to bill clinton and bob berns, thanks very much to both of you. paul, let me just just start -- we saw corey lewandowski not

only did he say he would make a great senator. not only on the tarmac. he was on air force one. couldn't be more clear with what the president is trying to say. what is your reaction. corey would make a great senator. >> what the president is trying to say don't tell the congress the same thing you told mueller. which is the president asked corey to obstruct justice and trying to get mr. mueller out as the investigator. >> what's that the report said and corey didn't do that. >> he fired corey lewandowski. such a great guy to hire why did trump fire him? >> oh, come on. >> if he runs he has a rough row to hoe. the i talked to new hampshire democrats today. bob i'm curious as to what you think about this. they are going to say. >> corey tp -- >> they are going to attack him -- excuse me for talking while you were interrupting mr. burns. while they are attacking it

won't to be trump it's swamp. lobbyist lewandowski is why they run against him and that has more power. >> bob, is this all coated. >> he was -- he was briefly a lobbyist. and then i mean honestly he and president trump have had a great relationship ever since he was removed from where he was at. i mean, the firing or the removing of corey lewandowski is amicable. >> you don't think it has anything to do with the impeachment inquirying going on he is a key element. >> corey has always had his eyen ohhen office and higher office. i think he sees an opportunity with president trump being in there and the backing of it. and then quite frankly every republican in new hampshire will have a wind fall of having somebody like corey on the ticket. it's going to bring a lot of attention and money into our stoet. and corey is a great guy. he is really a personable working class kind of guy, blue collar guy from just south of

massachusetts which not everybody in new hampshire loves. but half the people in new hampshire family members including my father came from massachusetts. he is a blue collar working class guy he talks to the people here and excites the trump base. the democrats are terrified corey lewandowski. >> let me ask you about this because when you say excites the trump base i want to point out former republican senator from new hampshire judd congress greg says lewandowski is a thug. a part of the trump thugs if he ran and became a nominee it would be an outrage. to remind people of perhaps what judd greg may have been referring to here is corey. >> this is 12 yeerg ago the audio tape does not reflect or bring to mind the donald trump i spent 18 months with traveling with. we are electing a leader to the free world. not a sunday school teacher. >> i read today about a 10-year-old girl with downs

syndrome taken from her mother and put in a cage. i read about -- >> when a when a. >> what i said is you can pick anything. >> how dare you. >> do you know what i find interesting is now democrats are now holding up judd greg on a pedestal when they wouldn't allow him to take the job that barack obama had offered him earlier because he was so evil. to be a -- a cabinet member for the obama administration. but, you know, it's -- this is judd greg. this is the establishment just doing what they do. and honestly, corey lewandowski is no different than a candidate like jean shaheen. she was a political hack for quite frankly a failed presidential -- not a failed presidential candidate jimmy carter did become president but he served one term and is considered one of the worst presidents we have had in recent history and she went on to become governor and united states senator. you know, this is totally ridiculous. >> okay what i'm curious about,

you know when you say judd greg and refer to him as a republican establishment but there have been a few people coming out recently. and standing up to truch and saying the republican party has to change. obviously we all know anthony scaramucci. but here is senator mcallister from nebraska. john mcallister. senator from nebraska here is what he said, paul. >> the republican party of today is hardly anything like i knew when i was growing up. it's unconscionable they don't become more involved in some of the republican activities. and call out president trump when he makes so many hateful comments. >> does that gain steam here, paul or is what we see with corey proof that no blind loyalty to the president matters, and the president is putting him on air force one and going to back him and they're seeing that as the modland? >> well it certainly works that blind loyalty to mr. trump which

is a one-way street blind loyalty to a guy who fired you is a high bar. but process works with this base. but the problem is the primary as mr. burns knows well is on september 8th. less than 60 day was 58 days before the eek. if corey wins he might well win the primary he'll have to reunite the party. the judd greg character he is tramping used to be the governor, senator. a lot of republicans like judd greg they have to stitch the party back together in meanwhile senator sha reason who has never been a shadow lobbyist in washington is hammering on that theme. lobbyist not cory lewandowski. >> outfront next president trump solution to stopping mass shootings, build more mental institutions. >> a lot of our conversation has to do with the fact that we have to open up institutions. we can't let the people be on

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new ton, a democrat is out. the democratic field narrowing. john hickenlooper, the former governor of colorado dropping out this afternoon. but the field remains 23. beto o'rourke despite calls to drop out is defiant. >> i owe my family, my community, my country, my very best and that is taking this fight directly to donald trump. >> outfront now, democratic governor andrew cuomo of new york. and governor, i appreciate your time. you know a lot of people in the field and you know governor hik hickenlooper well, many others. as i said still 23 running in the primary that could be a whole another slough of two debate nights. is it time for people to start getting out? >> well, you know, erin people will make their individual choices. i know governor hickenlooper.

he is a good man. my guess is each person is going to assess their own options. it's a big field. you're right. and not everybody can win, obviously. so i think you'll start to see individual candidates who have options making other decisions, you know, some people are term limited. some people running because it's good exposure and for the future, et cetera. it's candidate by candidate. and everybody will make their own decision. >> i want to turn now if i may, governor, to your new proposal today. in the wake of the multiple mass shootings you are proposing a law that would allow new york to prosecute mass casualty hate crimes as domestic terrorism. what explicitly would this allow you to do now, governor -- i'm sorry you to do that you can't do now? >> yeah, i think we are at a point of transition, erin. we have our terrorism law that was written right after 9/11. and the national phenomenon on

terrorism has been that it's about a foreign entity or a foreign entity that radicalizes an american citizen. we are seeing a different type of terrorism now. we are seeing domestic terrorism defined as hate crime motivated terrorism by americans. americans who may be radicalized but not by a foreign entity. they are radicalized by hate. what we saw in el paso was a mass murder hate crime. and i'm saying that should be considered terrorism. when you have a terrorist attack, a mass murder based on a person'ses race, religion, creed, et cetera. that is truly domestic terrorism. even if you don't have a foreign entity involved. and it should receive the same penalty. >> so this comes as cnn has reported that the trump administration rebuffed efforts by d.h.s. more than a year to

make combatting defect terror tlefts including white supremacist as greater priority. when the document came out they didn't use the words white supremacy. here is what trump said after the shooings in prepared remarks from prompter. obviously the shootings i'm referred to in dayton and el paso. >> in one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. these sinister ideologies must be defeated. hate has no place in america. >> governor joe biden says we have a problem with the rising tide of white supremacy and we have an president encouraging and emboldens it. he referred to him as sleepy in the prompter, insulted the way he read it. do you believe president trump condemns white supremacy? >> look, i think the president says one thing on monday. he says something else on tuesday, right. for the president to get up and say hate has no place in america is just wholly hypocritical.

he is divider in chief. for him to say we condemn white supremacy after charlottesville, saying there are good people on both sides of the discussion, it's purely hypocritical. i mean, he just -- he changes what he says. and there is no doubt that from his mouth and from his administration they have fomented hate. they talk about an invasion of immigrants. we're shocked that people go out and buy an assault weapon and there is an el paso shooting after we have people saying we're being invaded by the border? so of course he is fomenting this. he does it for political reasons, i believe. i believe he appeals to his base. i believe it works for him politically. i believe this is the old strategy of divide and conquer. it's how he ran for president. i want to build a wall. that's not a unifying message.

that's not a positive message. he has never had a positive message for this nation. it's always been negative. it's always been divisive. and what he said in that clip, what he had to say or the speechwriters wrote after dayton and el paso is wholly inconsistent with everything else he has said and more importantly what he has done. and continues to do. and his administration. i mean, we just had them saying basically take down the statue of liberty, right? >> well i want to ask you about that in just a moment. i do want to play for you something the president said moments ago about gun laws. he made it clear he thinks it's the person that pulse the trying are, mental health is his main focus. here is what he said that he would do specifically. >> and i think we have to start nlding institutions again, because if you look at the 60s and 70s, so many of the institutions were closed. and the people were just allowed

to go onto the streets. that was a terrible thing for our country. a lot of our conversation has to do with the fact that we have to open up institutions. we can't let the people be on the streets. >> what do you say, should you be building more mental health hospitals? >> i don't think the president knows what he is talking about. with all due respect. what does building mental health institutions versus community-based residences which we do have, first the whole concept of restitutionlization is exactly opposite of everything we are trying to do, right? there was horrific conditions in institutions. we now build community-based residences. but put his knowledge on mental health aside. how does that stop a mentally ill person from getting a gun? that is the issue. and that if you want to do that then you have to have a background check to make sure the person is not mentally ill.

and that's why you need universal background checks so you can see if the person is mentally ill. we have it in this state, six years ago we passed the best gun laws in the nation after the sandy hook massacre which was in connecticut, the school shooting. and we set up a mental health database. erin 139,000 people could have bought a gun in new york but cannot now not now buy is because they are in a mental health database. what the president should be saying is by his own theory i want background checks. i want mental health background checks. and if you are seriously mental mri ill and you are on that mental health list you should not be allowed to buy a gun. but to do that we have to do background checks. that would be the logical extension of what he is saying. >> i want to turn now to immigration. you mentioned the statue of

liberty. the statue of liberty is right here in new york state when i asked the acting director of immigration services ken cuccinelli which he said should be rewritten to include only people standing on their own two feet. he had something to say to me about it let me remind what it reads give me your tired, poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free. i asked him if he thinks that is what america stands for or not. here is he said. >> well, of course that poem was referring back to people coming from europe where they had class-based societies where people were considered wretched if they weren't in the right class. >> what's your response? >> i think he must have a direct connection with emma lazarus who rewrote the poem just for him. that's not what the poem says. the poem says what the poem says. i don't know if the cuccinelli

family came here rich. the cuomo family didn't come here rich. most families didn't come here rich because if you were rich you stayed wherever you were, right. you didn't venture forth to a new land where you didn't speak the language and didn't know anyone because you were doing very well where you were. the immigrants by definition were looking for opportunity because they didn't have it where they were. there was no caveat that said europeans only need apply. the word poor is on the poem. i think what it says is they don't accept the founding premise of in nation. they don't. >> all right, governor couple o thank you for your time tonight. i appreciate it, sir. >> thank you, erin. >> and outfront next, president trump defending his trade war with china. >> i think the longer the trade war goes on, the weaker china

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tonight, president trump defying what the markets know to be true, which is that the trade

war with china has hurt. >> are you worried a pro longed trade war with china will pitch the economy into a rezbleegs no, i think the longer the trade war guess on the weaker china gets and the stronger we get. we are taking in massive amounts of money. billions of dollars, steve as you know. i think the longer is goes the stronger we get. i have a feeling it's going fairly short. >> okay. mark sandy chief economist for moody analytic. and we have a senior political reporter. needless to say it's hurting the united states. and they're not -- there is no bags of cash and stuff as he said at other times coming in. mark, trump said he thanksgivings it's going short. but obviously china is now runs countermeasures against the latest round of tariffs i which he blinked on part but still going into effect in december. how dangerous could it again? >> dangerous it's doing

significant damage to the u.s. and global economies. some big economies are in recession of the because of the trade war. germany, british, italian economies, singapore, south korea, brazil, mexico, the global economy is having a difficult time digesting this trade war. if it continues on for much longer it will drive the u.s. economy into recession as well. the president needs to figure out a way to come to some kind of arrangement with president xi pretty quickly or he has a problem. we all have a problem. >> to your point once you have so many places in recession that's the way the world is it is impossible to avoid recession even if you fix the china thing fast hypotheticalically. >> we are in a globalized economy. rely heavily on the rest of the world. our exports to the rest of the world are declining. and that goes to the soft global economy and strong dollar. mix that with weak business investment, which ises are so nervous about what's going on they're sitting on their hands.

business investment has flat lined. the economy is really starting to weaken here. it's going to start asking the consumer side of the economy which has been the bright spot soon because job growth is now slowing. and if job growth slows further unemployment will row rise and the consumer will know about the trade war. >> it's a dark and grim scenario and should be scary for people. but nia when trump was asked about the economy late today here is how he sees it. >> the fact that i won lifted our economy greatly. and if i didn't win it would go down. and frankly, if for some reason that happened in the 2020 election you'll see this economy go down the tubes. i will tell that you right now. >> all right. so nia it's obviously all about him. but does he think that this is the -- the voters will buy that that if he loses it goes down the tubes. >> he certainly has framed himself as, you know, america's

great savior on any number of issues. not surprising that he is framing his role in the economy in the same way. you look at how voters feel about him on any number of issues. he -- he doesn't do so well. like on immigration actually. but on the economy he does well among voters, 53% of voters approving had you he does on the economy. overall approval rate something something like 44%. this is where i think his strength lies. it's always a strength of an incumbent president a incumbent. you have a higher chance of getting re-elected being sitting president. >> is he worried. >> i think there is worry. i think there is worry. and that's why you hear him sort of beating up on the fed, beating up on jerome powell, trying to bully them into cutting rates again. i am certain he is worried. he is worried about where the economy goes. he watches the stock market. remember, and he sort of ties his success to the stock market

right opinion the rye higher it goes he takes credit. we saw a selloff this week and rebounding. but sure any incumbent president would be worried about something like this and a softening economy. >> certainly would. and if as mark laying lazes is out someone has to buy things and things go up somewhere overall or you have a recession. i mean it's the business iks math of it thank you both very much. and outfront next new concerns about what russia is building. nuclear material from a deadly explosion has now been found more than 1,000 miles away from a deadly nuclear accident. plus, jeanne moos on why elizabeth warren is on the run again. just a chair. that a handle is just a handle. or -- that you can't be both inside and outside. most people haven't driven a lincoln. discover the lincoln approach to craftsmanship at the lincoln summer invitation.

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and certainly you have a read on this that people need to hear. unfortunately we're talking about something like this. how worried are you now that we're seeing this -- the nuclear fallout now north of a thousand miles away? >> sure. i'm very concerned. and if i were russia's neighbors like norway, sweden and other places nearby, i'd be worried as well. it's really striking to me the similarities if you go back to the chernobyl catastrophe that happened a number of years ago, the similarities are really breath taking. you had the russians denying essentially and then saying, don't worry, we've got everything under control. you have injured and people who are killed being treated bid doctors who then themselves become infected or affected by the radiation so much so that their scrubs are radioactive and have to be treated differently. people being flown back to moscow and all of this we see with russia and putin continuing to deny it. and that's the worst part of it, is that the lack of transparency. russia has an absolute sri horrific track record on nuclear things.

just about being up front about what's happening. >> you're saying simply we don't know the magnitude of what really happened, what the mistake was, what the explosion was, how many people were killed, that that isn't even known? >> right, we don't know. and what's even worse is it comes at a partly bad time because we have a president of the united states in donald trump who believes what vladimir putin tells him over what his intelligence services, who, by the way, are telling him what's going on in this particular fwhuk leer situation. that's a bad thing. you have a president who doesn't believe or understand the science of things. for example, climate change, he doesn't listen to scientists about that. he's not going to listen to scientists -- he believes cancer is being caused by wind turbines. when he asks the nuclear question, how bad is this, who is he going to ask, kellyanne conway? if he asks kellyanne or vladimir putin, these going to get the big thumbs up, don't worry, everything is fine. that is a great concern as well. >> i appreciate your time, steve, as always. pretty sobering, especially when

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elizabeth warren isn't just running for president. she's dashing. her latest dash across a new hampshire field has gone viral, inspiring comparisons to the energizer bunny. >> still going. >> reporter: and the prancer ciser lady. remember her vaguely horse-like exercise routine? elizabeth warren sprints spawn memes. me running for the bathroom when the movie is over. me showing up two hours late to the family cookout that i'm going to leave in ten minutes. me, running to the edit room to get this piece done on time. we've seen warren run before. >> i'm running for a train. >> you're the only presidential -- you're the fastest presidential nominee. >> reporter: she moved 23569er than his mouth could, barrelling into new york's penn station. we've seen her zip around boston's gay pride parade.

but running at parades is almost a requirement. >> what do you think? >> reporter: for candidates age 70 and up worried about being called -- >> sleepy joe. >> reporter: or the dreaded -- >> low energy individual. >> reporter: why a president who has only been spotted running a few paces maybe once or twice as democratic candidate andrew yang put it. >> gosh, look at that guy met me at, being a slob? >> reporter: can't call warren a sloth. someone said just wait till she climbs the stairs three at a time on air force one. a leisurely climber, president trump, has dised president obama for hopping and bobbing all the way down the steps. so inelegant and unpresidential. a conservative meme maker tried to dash warren's energetic image. but even when she's tumbling, she's still an energizer bunny on a roll. >> keep going. and going. and going.

>> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> and thanks so much to all of you for joining us. don't forget you can always watch the show anywhere. you just have to go to cnn go. anderson cooper 360 starts right now. /s >> good evening, thanks for joining us today. we learned the president of the united states urged the head of a foreign power to take action against two democratic congress women, american congress women who are critics of his and the head of that foreign power did just that. and in a truly trumpian twist late today, the president denied having pushed the foreign power, while also seeming to admit that he had. it bears repeating this is certainly not normal, except abnormal is kind of now normal. it's also a classic trump distraction play, a way to turn the media and the public's attention away from yesterday's disastrous stock drop and fears of a recession. so keep that in mind. nevertheless, it is worth looking at what the president ju