just another week in the trump presidency. a feud with denmark -- >> you don't talk to the united states that way. at least under me. >> and a promise he alone can beat china on trade. >> i am the chosen one. >> what will this weekend's g-7 summit bring? plus the trump economy on edge. the white house says it's nothing to worry about. >> we don't believe in the recession talk. i think the economy's very strong. >> and team biden admits you may not love him but insists democrats must still vote for him. >> you have to look at who's going to win this election and maybe you have to swallow a

little bit and say, okay. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm nia-malika henderson. john king is off today. we begin with a week of president donald trump making headlines around the world. from telling jews how they must vote to show loyalty to israel -- >> i think any jewish people that vote for a democrat, i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. >> to canceling a trip to nato ally denmark over rejected proposal about buying greenland. >> i thought that the prime minister's statement that it was absurd, it was an absurd idea was nasty. i thought it was an inappropriate statement. she's not talking to me. she's talking to the united states of america.

you don't talk to the united states that way. at least under me. >> he also ratcheted up his trade war with china, announcing more taxes on chinese goods and calling himself the chosen one to take on the asian economic super power. and throughout tariff threats to european countries involve german cars and french wine. >> those are great american companies. frankly, i don't want france going out and taxing our companies. very unfair. and if they do that, we'll be taxing their wine or doing something else. we'll be taxing their wine like they've never seen before. >> but once president trump got to the summit, french president emmanuel macron treated trump to a private lunch before the official g-7 arrivals. despite reports of disputes with macron, trump characterized it as the best hour and a half i've ever spent with him. trump's meeting with new uk prime minister boris johnson was

also congenial with a lot of joint praise and hint at a very big u.s./uk trade deal. the one thing that the two close allies, perhaps, didn't see eye to eye on, china. >> do you have any advice for boris johnson on brexit? >> he needs no advice. he's the right man for the job. >> mr. president, are your allies pressuring you to give up the trade war with china? >> no, not at all. i haven't heard that. i think they respect the trade war. >> i congratulate the president on everything that the american economy is achieving. it's fantastic to see that, but just a sheep-like motive of you on the trade war. we favor trade peace. >> joining us now with the latest from france, we have cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson. it's been a wild, wild week of trump diplomacy and culminating in the g-7 where you are.

how is the president actually being received, particularly around the china trade war? >> reporter: you know, i think everybody wants something from the. the. you heard boris johnson, who wants a lot from the president. he wants support on a post-brexit trade deal so he needs to tread carefully where he differs from the president over the escalating tension -- trade tensions with china. he describes it as rather having trade peace than trade war. you really get that in his language there. he says, you know, a faint sheep-like note. who has heard of language like that before? that tells you he feels like he's treading on egg shells here. you get that sense with the other leaders. however, that said, president trump also recognized the reality that some of the issues that he wants, for example, bringing russia back into the g-7, making it the g-8 again. of course, it was excluded over its annexation of crimea and

ukraine. the president has to accept how things would stay as they are because he has faced pushback. the other leaders are prepared to push back. it's how they do it, tempering it to get what they want. perhaps the strongest critics, like the european counsel donald tusk, instead of bringing russia back, let's bring the ukrainian president. he doesn't have a lot of skin in the game of wanting things from the u.s. president. he represents 500 million people in the european union. >> thanks for that report, nic. with us this sunday to share their reporting and insights, we have jonathan martin of "the new york times," vivian of t"the wal street journal" and cnn's phil mattingly. so much to discuss here. this last week seemed like it was a year in terms of so much going on and the president, there, of course, in frens.

vivian, you're the white house reporter at the table. how do you see the president being received in france at this point, after this week? he's got a day of diplomacy left under his belt. what have you seen? >> most of the world leaders are no stranger to president trump right now. after last year's g-7, they're definitely receiving him with some caution because of the fact he has the tepdcy to sort of up-end these meetings. last year he picked a fight with prime minister macron and prime minister trudeau. but when he was before them, he was cordial and tried to find middle ground. they expect that now from him. but, obviously, there's so many issues against the back drop of this meeting with the trade war, sanctions with iran which a number of european allies do not condone the u.s. pulling out of the jcopa, the iran nuclear deal and a number of other issues

where they're trying to get president trump on board. not to mention any kind of support to address the amazon rainforest fires, which are a major climate issue. president macron, in particular, very, very keen to do something. all of those issues and president trump really not on board with doing something. that's an issue. >> president macron very eager to not have a replay, as you mentioned, the dust-up last go-round with trudeau. here's what that looked like in 2018. >> tariffs are going to come way down because people cannot continue to do that. we're like the. iggy bank that everybody's robbing and that ends. >> canadians, we're polite, reasonable but we also will not be pushed around. >> and so what's your sense of houma kron -- how macron is doi we don't have a replay of what we saw in 2018 and focus on his issues? >> i think it's interesting to watch the posture shift over the years. you learn to deal with

personalities. you learn how to deal with world leaders. that's not exclusive to president trump. that's exclusive to everybody dealing with international relations. you start off with an hour and a half lunch. nic made a really good point. a lot of these world leaders, if not all of them, need something from the united states. whether it's economically, the jcopa, a number of things and it's become clear over the last 2 1/2 years you don't get anything from the president by brow-beating him. you don't get anything from the president by making public remarks. congressional leaders know this as well. if you want to get something to the president, you do it behind closed doordz, over the phone and you don't attack him publicly. i think you're seeing that play out on the world stage. if it's a lunch, to praise the united states economy. they're doing that because they feel that's the best pathway to get something going. he's a transitional president. they're trying to put in play that strategy. the big question, will it stick over the next 24 hours.

>> we know he changes his mind so quickly. >> world leaders want consistency. they want the same thing as farmers in iowa want. i agree that flattery is going behind closed doors with him, being one-on-one, making sure he knows -- everyone believes he's on the same level as every other world leader. this is the united states, and it's a superpower. but everyone is just looking for what is the one thing you want to do? even coming into this with the tariff issue with china, there's been no consistency over the last few days. so, it's -- it's hard to see where they're going to get with the g-7 in general. >> he came into the summit about russia, readmitting russia. other folks in the g-7 like macron, like boris johnson, not in agreement. here's what he said, seeming to back off. >> do you feel other members of the g-7 would encourage russia to join again the way you are? >> i think it's a work in

progress. we have a number of >> i think it's a work in progress. we have a number of people that would like to see russia back. i think it is advantageous. other people agree with me. and some people tonight necessarily agree. >> how do you expect to overcome those differences? >> maybe we will just leave it the way it is. >> he seems -- >> he doesn't seem terribly keen on coming down on the side of russia coming back in or not. phil is right. you watch the clip of his tough talk in the white house about putting tariffs on french wine. and then flash forward to a lovely lunch with macron. that is the trump way.

i don't know how many times i have heard this. he off reflects. so when he is leaving the white house, he's all fired up. going to come at macron. when he is with macron or some other world leader, perhaps those who don't want them back in the g7, he will reflect that. this is the trump show season 3. >> no consistency is what you're saying? >> that's fair to say. >> okay. >> and if you look at this week, very much a roller coaster week. he is sort of 40-minute, all over the place question and answer session in front of reporters talking about the danish prime minister. talking about repealing birth right citizenship. what do you make of this? this suggests sort of an in stability going on with this president has to do with his nervousness around the economy. >> that's basically his best card going into the election

season is that as long as the economy is strong, he has a staoepbt shot at re-election. so the fin that that kind of looks wobbly for him, it is obviously a major concern. the trade war is something he watches closely. it is almost an opinion poll. he acts very strongly to that. the more and more we see the trade war causing a number of negative impacts between the stock market, between farmers suffering in key states, that is something that is going to resonate with him, even if he doesn't admit it. it will resonate. we have been told tay after day this week is that advisers keep pushing saying you have to take this seriously. you have to do something about it. a number of them were not supportive of the last round of tariffs against china and yet he went for it anyway. he does believe this is a way to push them in compliance. >> that's what we will talk about next.

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to china, including bringing your companies home and making your products in the usa. he also vowed to raise tariffs even higher on $500 billion worth of chinese goods. this morning at the g20 what sounded at first like a rare admission from the president, regret. . >> just a few hours later, this clarification from press secretary stephanie grisham. his answer has been greatly misinterpreted. president trump responded in the affirmative because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher. so everybody clear now on what the president means there? this does beg the question now, phil, of whether or not the president is going to go forward and raise the tariffs even higher. .

>> since september 1st. we have a couple days to figure it out. when i read the comments, then saw them in context i was like t minus 15 minutes. >> he's watching. >> he's waffling. he's not sure there is 100% chance he was going to walk this back. what's interested about the importance of this is the electoral stature, and the importance just generally for him personally. it is where this goes from here, right? it is clearly escalating, showing no signs of slowing down. they made very clear they believe the u.s. economy is stronger and as such they can last longer and therefore they can win. and there are structural issues they can up end. everybody talks about recession. you heard the president say he believes the media is pushing for one by the headlines. there is some truth to that. it can become a self-fulfilling

tpr prophe prophecy. >> you see the allies and aides touting this idea that it is the media pushing the are he session. here they are. >> despite the irresponsible rhetoric of many in the mainstream media, the american economy is strong and u.s. economic outlook remains strong as well. >> believe in the recession talk. i think the consumers are leading it. >> the president agrees with the premise you are peddling that somehow we are heading into a recession. i know we had to go from russians to racism to recession. it's always something. >> literation there from kellyanne conway. can you talk your way out of this? >> non they will float it again next week or float something

else. maggie haberman has a great saying about trump. everything is incremental with trump. everything he says is relevant for 10 minutes. then after that the slate is wiped clean. as we sit here talking about this stuff, look, is he going to do tariffs next week? is he going to pull back? maybe. there is no predictability. that's part of the frustration a lot of people have, especially those whose lives are dependent upon predictability. that's why it is so frustrating. but as to the economy, look, that is the best thing he has going for him. people in this country who are not partisan, one side or the other, i don't like his conduct, his behavior. his tweets are a you'euphemism his conduct. if you're in the 30s it's pretty

hard. >> he frequently touts the stock market, dividends of what the economy looks like and what he has done. you see here there has been a real rise in the stock market. back to november 2016 and january 20th. this is where he started the conversation about tariffs. this is where he started the tariffs. and you see since then the stock market has flat-lined. it's a little bit lower at this point. this of course was a big selling point and not working out in terms of the stock market so far. >> exactly. one of the issues, though, is as we see the small selloffs. we saw it friday. we have seen it last week. will it continue to drop? how much does that spook everybody else. you get back to the self-fulfilling prophecy of whether there is going to be a recession. i'm not an economist. i don't know if there will be a recession.

but the fears definitely play into how people, at a certain level, vote. the question is do you stop seeing jobs being created. we were at the lowest of employment in a very long time for a lot of people. now, if companies stop hiring, if wages go down, though we haven't had a ton of wage growth, then people are going to feel it. i think the thing that gets loss of it being kind of a campaign strategy, he tweets about he can pull u.s. business out of china no matter how crazy that might seem. or i should have been tougher on the tariffs, stephanie grisham's correction. i had one correspondent in new hampshire talking to people at the trump rally. someone was like i love that he stands up for america. i love that he is other country's faces. when he tweets that stuff, it plays into that narrative and helps him solidify his base, putting aside whether it's good for the economy or not. >> it makes them feel good how

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to the 2020 race now and a look at where things stand as the summer winds down. a cnn poll continues a trade we have seen for many, many months. vice president joe biden leading the pack in the first place, and the same five names at the top of the democratic field have pretty much stayed the same. a majority of democrats say they prefer a candidate they think they could beat trump over what they agree with on the major issues. biden sees that as key to his victory and made it the subject of his first i've eiowa campaig ad. >> we know in our bones this election is different. the stakes are higher, and the threat more serious. we have to beat donald trump. and all the polls agree joe biden is the strongest democrat to do the job. battered by an erratic, vicious, bullying president, strong, stable leadership. biden, president. >> it's also a message of former vice president's wife tried to

convey this past week, though perhaps not as elegantly as the campaign was hoping. >> if your goal -- i know my goal is to beat donald trump. we have to have someone who can beat him. your candidate may be on health care than joe is. but you have to look at who is going to win this election. and maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say i personally like so-and-so better. but "your bottom line" is you have to beat trump. >> biden certainly leaning with those voters who think electability is the most important thing. but is that argument about electability and all the polls reflect he could beat trump in certain states. is that going to be enough for joe biden? >> it depends on his performance. if he performs on the campaign trail and the four or five debates before the iowa caucus in a way that reflects him as

somebody who could beat donald trump, i think he would vindicate and be a formidable candidate. if he makes mistakes, shows weakness and other candidates outshine him there will be questions raised whether he can be donald trump. he is leading right now with very little competition. >> we have a graphic here that shows that. thank you. 43% mod rats, 11% conservatives. 42% are liberals. this is part of the reason wipe you see joe biden doing so well. but you hear the other candidates in this race say, listen, this is time for big, bold change. it's not just a time for some of the bigger beating trump. >> joe biden, how much is it in

your poll? 30%? >> uh-huh. >> almost everyone recognizes who he is. he has name recognition. they know him. they don't necessarily -- still don't know who kamala harris is. a lot of people still don't know who elizabeth warren is. we will get there. but other than people in iowa, new hampshire, there is still a lot of room for people to grow. and i am curious whether there is room for joe biden to grow. yes, there are a lot of conse e conservatives and mod rats in the democratic party. there are a lot of progress if's who showed up last time around and voted for jill stein instead of hillary clinton. there's progressive energy that we saw in 2018. and, you know, the elizabeth warrens and the bernie sanders es are banking on the idea that they want to know the progress if's are fighting for them. that will be what energizes people to get to the polls. >> every progressive in the 2018

midterms was a moderate. the progressive energy last fall was overwhelmingly in the service of left leaning moderate democrats in the house to governorships. >> and also the fight with trump. >> the way last year at least it came out was left leaning moderate democrats, especially to the house. the 40 freshmen are largely mod rats. that he wants what the folks are banking on. biden challenges his performance of late has not been as somebody who is seen as the safe pick. the moment he isn't the safe pick any more, he's in real trouble. >> biden leading among mod rats and conservatives. put up a graphic here. the issue the other candidates have you were talking about, if you look here, biden isn't doing terribly among liberals.

he is splitting it between sanders and warren, the reason he is so far ahead. if you are saying there is a warren, you have to be worried because you are splitting that with joe biden and with each other. >> he ya. yeah. >> i think there's still time. the second somebody punctures joe biden, the bottom will follow out quickly. >> or he punctures himself. >> whether or not you share a vote. steve bullock. we will go with that one. but there's also a possibility that if you don't puncture it that he, 34% and where he stands in his lane right now, if that sticks, 34%. >> that's pretty good. >> that person is going to win, period, end of story. we look a lot one or two polls

and think it is the state of the race right now. it's august. people are on vacation. people are not answering the phones. people think the race is still fluid. the national polls don't need it -- >> speaking of iowa voters, and we will put them up on the screen, they parrot joe biden about electability. he's the most electable. doesn't do you any good if you can't get elected. 6 if there would be a horse leading right now for me it would probably be biden. stability and common sense. those exact words. in many ways he is parrot anything that early iowa ad. >> it boils down to this obama nostalgia that has built up as trump has been in office.

yes, he can go promote a number of policies that the obama administration had and voters will respond to that pause they like the policies. but there is another segment inspired by who barack obama was as a person, what he represented, the highest office. it say question whether he can win those people or whether they will grab voters. that will be one of the biggest challenges. >> or if that 0% is just enough in this vast field. we'll see. it is still early. >> up next, supreme court politics in the 2020 campaign. ♪ ♪ ♪

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2016 and apologizing for that now. >> he's a horrible human being. he's a bad, bad guy. trump is a bully. and he's a coward. and the only way you beat a bully and you beat a coward is to expose them, is to punch them. the only way you primary donald trump and beat him is to expose him for the con man he is. if i did it, john, that's what i would do, i'd punch him every single day. >> thrust into the spotlight after a spokeswoman revealed ruth baden ginsburg had been treated for pancreatic cancer. there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. president trump among those sending best wishes. >> i hope she does very well. our thoughts and prayers are with her. it is a very serious situation.

i hope she's going to be fine. she's pulled through a lot. she's strong. very tough. but we wish her well, very well. >> this is the 86-year-old justice's fourth bout with cancer. we certainly wish rbg well as well. you think about what lindsey graham said about this and the precedent that has been set. he said if an opening comes up in the last year of the president's term, the primary process is started, we will wait until the next election. >> meaning not seat somebody. what do you imagine happening? >> hoping and praying she's healthy. she's a pretty tough cookie by all accounts. they will fill the seat, period, end of story. mitch mcconnell has made clear in whatever rule or fake rule they were trying to make up to

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the democratic presidential field is finally starting to narrow. governor jay inslee and congressman seth moulton both dropping out of the race after

struggling to hit even 1% in most polls. that leaves just 21 candidates, most of whom are in the same boat failing to win over enough voters to register in any national or early state surveys. on his way out of the race, congressman moulton said that's a shame. . >> unfortunately it's largely become a three-way race for president. that's left out a lot of important voices. people like the only governor from a state that trump won are not going to be part of the next debate. warren and sanders 15%. biden twice that. but no one else even really close. >> so is he right about that? >> if that is how his campaign and that's how he sees it, it's hard to discount the top five people at this point knowing what the map for the primary is

and the fact that we have to get to california on super tuesday which could benefit kamala harris. i think it's five. but he has hit on if you are still at 2% right now in major polls, even though there is no national primary. i get it. i understand. i'm there. i don't know how you start to amass enough people who want to vote for you for president. trying on the wall. not going to happen. >> speaking of the top five, pete buttigieg has consistently been in the top five. >> we know we're in the mix. we know there are a lot of people who even now haven't

formed an opinion about us. you forget most people aren't dialed in to the process. they have to firm up the relationships that turn amount of sympathy and interest and goodwill into actual wins on the caucus. >> that was your interview. here's a pastor at one of pete's events. >> we were talking just for a quick moment. i said mayor pete, listen, you brought all of these white people to the black neighborhood. clap if you agree. we need some more blackfaces up in here. so you know what that mean, right? that mean next time you can't leave your black and brown friends at home. and if you ain't got none, you need to make some. >> that's major shade there. >> look, it's the crux if they want to last long term, that has to change.

it hasn't shifted yet. they have put a lot of effort into it. it hasn't shifted yet. >> zero percent in the last poll. >> he's had policy proposals rolled out. he's made an effort to talk to the community, meet with people. the reason i went to iowa, i wanted to know, you raised $25 million. pretty steady in the polls. 4%, 5%, 6%. what they are doing is building a campaign. they started with four people. they have more than 300 in the campaign. they try to build a ground operation. when people hear about pete buttigieg, they will come on board. 76% of the iowa poll knowing who he was, and that's down to 25%, they can move that even further. they believe they will gain traction. perhaps it's the case in iowa. especially when you have u that kind of money. the field seems fluid in august, september time period. but the pastor and i know you have written about this. it's a key point. you don't win a democratic

primary. >> kamala harris seems a movement and not in a good way in her polls. she shot up, fell back to earth, and now is lower. can she recover? how does she recover? >> it's not clear how she recovers? she has to find more moments like she had in the june debate. part of her challenge is she is trying to figure out where she is in the race. >> yeah. >> she clearly retkprets coming out the star and trying to be the progressive. i think she is trying to dial that back now. as long as joe biden is sitting on half the party, it is hard to see where she goes. but i will say this, though. kamala harris stays in the race. it is a problem for senator warren because she takes voters that otherwise would go to warren in the iowa caucus uses. i've talked to the voters. i know who they are. that could be a challenge for

warren going into iowa. as far as mayor pete, it is such a great very veal in the democratic donor class and this hunger for new people, new faces in the party. and they got a glimpse of somebody who they were so impressed with, gave him a ton of money. >> if only money could buy you voters in the early polls. but as you say, it is still early. the latest on the young kid hoping to follow his grandfather and two grand uncles into the senate. u. join the fight with the alzheimer's association. thinyou can earn more whenwab: you invest your cash. you can get a satisfaction guarantee. ♪

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now time to get our reporters note books. >> i spent time in the states that were kicking it off for the fall. the challenge will joe kennedy challenge ed markey? i spent about a half hour with ed markey and he would not take on joe kennedy.

but he made clear if kennedy did run, he was staying in the race. that would create a titanic match between two well-known figures. and kennedy thinks as long as he keeps the door open in this state, he will probably have to run because the pullback will show weakness for a future race. if you don't run now, the lines will not be shorter down the road in a state full of liberals. >> you saw ayanna pressley knock off an incumbent. >> exactly. >> so i'm watching senator bernie sanders this weekend. today he will be in louisville, kentucky. tomorrow he will be in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. shows a larger, broader, primary strategy which i think all of the candidates other than for the most part vice president joe biden have to do. in 2016 sanders basically tied in kentucky with mrn hhillary cn for the primary so he got a bunch of delegates there. but he also has to play on the

fact he's a senator and coming back to washington, d.c. and he can rail about that. it will be interesting to see how that plays out the next few days. >> vivian? >> my eyes are on hong kong. president trump talking with world leaders, trade is a major issue. but those hong kong protests should not be separated from this. it will be a defining moment for president trump to pull off the trade deal. we see today protesters are getting tier gassed thrown at them from police. it is really pressuring beijing and the more they get closer to the deadlines with the u.s. in trade talks, where they meet next week? will they not met next week? these protests will have a huge impact and how president trump responds, it could be a defining moment. will he emphasize our economic interest or the traditional role the president plays, which is promoting american ideals. >> which we have rarely seen in

these instances. phil? >> keeping an eye on what the kwhous does with gun measures. there's emphasis for what we have seen, not just because the past, but a, people don't know where the president will land and b don't think anything substantive will happen. but they believe there will be a package of something. minimal of what the president wants, probably a lot more minimal. but a hard stance senator on gun issues, he said why there's less than 50% chance something gets done, it's worth having the conversation. if the white house introduces a package like they say they're going to, the debate will come back. one of the big concerns was the debate would go away. if they put something on the table regardless of what it is, the debate comes back. nancy pelosi had a call on friday saying this is the most urgent position for them. where it ends up is the open

question. but first americans have to decide what they want. >> and america needs to have these conversations. we will see where it goes. and that's it for "inside politics." catch us weekdays at 8:00. up next, "state of the union." her includes include larry kudlow and presidential candidate bernie sanders. thanks again for sharing your sunday morning. are we supposed to dance? ♪ boy boy bands without dancing are just ok. get a better than just ok unlimited plan with spotify premium included on america's best network. only from at&t. more for your thing. that's our thing.

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