bash starts now. i'm fredricka whitfield. see you tomorrow. so i asked my doctor what else i could do, and i said yesss to linzess. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. linzess is not a laxative, it works differently. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have thanks, fred. more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give linzess to children less than 6, we and it should not be given to children 6 to less than 18, welcome to "inside politics." i'm dana bash. john king is off today. puerto rico's fragile recovery it may harm them. after hurricane maria will do not take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. likely be tested by a new storm. get immediate help if you develop dorian is now projected to unusual or severe stomach pain, become a major hurricane before taking aim at the u.s. east especially with bloody or black stools. the most common side effect is diarrhea, sometimes severe. coast. former defense secretary if it's severe, stop taking linzess and call your doctor right away. james mattis is giving his other side effects include gas, stomach area pain, and swelling. version of events since his i'm still doing it all. tumultuous departure from the trump administration. the water. the exercise. is the stage set? the fiber. and i said yesss to linzess new 2020 polls suggest half the for help with belly pain and recurring constipation. ask your doctor. candidates won't qualify for the next democratic presidential debate. steve bullock is one of them. he says he's not sweating it. >> these debates, people go up,

people go down. we have a long way to go still. any opportunity to be speaking to voters or getting our message out, we'll sure take a look at. i do think this early on, it's missing something by not having my voice but, you know, again it is what it is. >> we begin this hour with clarity from two new polls about what the next democratic debate will likely look like. we say debate singular because unless another poll drops before midnight that the dnc uses for candidates to qualify, it will be a one-night only stage, set with ten podiums. you see the names there on your screen. my mom washes the dishes... tom steyer, as of this moment, ...before she puts them in the dishwasher. will miss the cut. so what does the dishwasher do? he needs one more poll at 2% to cascade platinum does the work for you, qualify. so will tulsi gabbard. prewashing and removing stuck-on foods, the first time. the dnc's criteria have now wow, that's clean! cascade platinum. effectively cut the field in half from 20 at cnn's debate last month to 10 next month at the debate. now today's polling also brings right now, what could become

good news for the man who will hurricane dorian is approaching the eastern side of puerto rico. be in the center, and that is joe biden, the former vice it's now projected to become a president has a significant lead category 3 hurricane before where he has been in almost forecast models show it hitting every national poll since the the east coast of the u.s. on campaigns launched. monday. that's a lot of time for this storm to develop. the big question as more voters let's get straight to cnn's start to tune in, as summer meteorologist chad myers. ends, will biden stay there? chad, what are the projections let's get straight to cnn's telling us at this hour? >> that's a lot of time for it arlette saenz. to change its mind like it's what are you hearing from the done all along. dana, the models are telling us biden camp about the latest polling and how comfortable he is being in that center stage? this will run north of the turks >> well, dana, joe biden is and caicos through the bahamas going to appear here shortly, and either to florida, georgia or cleveland clinic as a holding a town hall in south category 3, 150-mile-an-hour carolina, as he continues to storm. ride high in these polls. last night the models were we're seeing biden as this new telling us it was going to be on this big red line here. quinnipiac poll, holding on to it's not on the red line. his double-digit lead over his it's not even close to the red closest rivals, at 32%, line. look what this model decided to elizabeth warren at 19%, bernie do, this computer decided to do? sanders at 15%. this is where we should have this mirrors pretty similar to a been. if you wiggle the storm like cnn poll that was released last that, that's an unpredictable, week, but it also comes after a absolutely unpredictable path.

poll from monmouth university where does it go from here? earlier in the week to show that in the short term it's going there was no apparent leader over st. thomas to just to the between bernie sanders, east of puerto rico proper. elizabeth warren and joe biden. they'll get rain and wind 60 monmouth called that poll an miles an hour but the u.s. vi outlier, something that the biden campaign has been quick to point out. will get worse than that. the campaign manager has also it comes into the bahamas, pointed out that biden is category 3 hurricane at 115 miles per hour, making landfall leading among most demographics in this new quinnipiac poll, from south florida to, for that matter, charleston. which includes among black some of the models even turning voters, biden coming in at 46% it to the right and missing the u.s. mainland all together. among support for black and turning it out to the ocean. democratic voters. one big takeaway, as you wouldn't that be a great thing? mentioned, from this poll, it the reason we don't know is appears we are only going to have one night in the next that's still five days away. we know what it's doing now. the steering currents five days democratic primary debate with only ten candidates and, dana, from now will actually be moving for the first time we'll likely be seeing joe biden and through california today. so, all of that will have to elizabeth warren face off. work its way all the way across the usa in order to get to the storm, in order to push it away. voters are eager to see how that will play out. that's the unpredictability of dana? >> such a good point, important it being so far down the road.

point, a dynamic we've not seen obviously, we'll be here to watch it for you. >> we sure will. that's a really important way to face-to-face. put it, how far away the steering currents are, all the arlette, thank you. way in california. there's so much time and sun min kim, katherine lucy of the wall street journal and unpredictability. thank you for that, chad. puerto rico is very much on the president's mind this morning. npr's franco ordonez. he is tweeting, in part, we are thank you, one and all, for tracking closely tropical storm coming. we heard from arlette of all the dorian, as it heads, as usual, people who will be at the debate to puerto rico. and people who likely -- we have fema and all others are ready to wait till midnight to know and will do a great job. for sure but likely miss the he continued with another tweet, a jab at the san juan mayor cut, everyone from tom steyer to earlier, and then he went on later to tweet, quote, puerto joe stesec. rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth. i'm the best thing that's ever happened to puerto rico. mari rosas is one of 3 million chr kirsten gillibrand, michael people, reminder, 3 million americans living in puerto rico. bennet, steve bullock. are they saying that because the president trashes puerto they have to say that or do we rico as it braces for another storm speak for itself. think it's possible for any of because you are on the ground i want to focus on what's these ten to climb back if

happening there. you weathered hurricane maria, they're not on a major debate and the devastation it left two stage? >> what's important to remember, years ago. too, obviously being on the dorian is approaching. you heard how unpredictable it debate stage gives candidates visibility. we've seen these very dramatic is. how are you, your friends and images in the first two debates family preparing right now? >> thank you, dana, for having changed the trajectory, thinking us here and for letting us kind back to the kamala/biden moment of express and focus on what's in the first debate particularly happening here. right now, i'm in san juan, and as a point where senator harris the sun is still out. there's no wind. shined and gained traction for her race, but a key thing to but the city is kind of a ghost town right now, because everyone remember is that there is a is really taking this seriously. debate after the september debate. it comes in october. two years ago, we had a what's important to remember is devastating storm, a hurricane that the criteria actually doesn't change, the with thousands of deaths as a qualification window for the october debate is actually consequence that the president longer and the donor threshold still refuses to acknowledge and, i mean, his tweets are is the same and whatnot. for candidates on that bubble of really an insulting kind of qualifying. people who perhaps have met the thing for us because corruption, donor threshold but haven't qualified for the polling i know that it's happened and people know what was happening, threshold. people like tom steyer, tulsi especially in the summer. but we took matters into our own hands and we got rid of this gabbard and marianne williamson. governor by protesting

peacefully. what we haven't seen really is >> it doesn't help if you're on the bottom end of this tier and the aid and the efforts that he with fund-raising, getting the says that have been arriving in support that you need to keep puerto rico for the last two going. another thing to think about, when you talk to voters -- i'm years, because only a very small sure you've heard this from fraction of that has actually shown up. people. democratic primary voters want to see this whittling at this so, two of the islands that were point. a lot of people i heard from are hit the most during maria are saying i can't really even tune getting hit again, and i don't in until this field narrows. think they're ready. i think there is going to be a >> that was going to be my next question for you, which is do push from the actual voters to you feel that you are getting see this become a more what you need? manageable group. i know it's early. >> let's take a look at the people who are going to be on and it is several days out, but the debate stage and the leaders given the experience that you've in this race. had, do you see a difference? what we've done is averaged the >> i mean, our infrastructure is last four polls that we have definitely not as good as before seen, that cnn considers two years ago, maria, so it's legitimate polls. very fragile. and that average, biden is 28%. a lot can happen. i think flood is going to be our well ahead. warren, 18. biggest problem, especially on sanders, 15. the east coast. kamala harris, 7 and pete and right now with small rains, buttigieg, 4. i just want to note that the whole island kind of floods included in that average is monmouth, which had a big dip pretty -- you know, not in a good way. earlier this week for joe biden. and we're still having a lot of this morning, the monmouth

polling director said that his own poll is an outlier. repercussions from the hurricane but still, that just gives you that context. two years ago. traffic lights still don't work. but all in all, if you look at the average, joe biden, even schools, hospitals in smaller municipalities are still not up including that, is still far and running. ahead of the others. so, i don't know -- it's a >> he's still t smaller storm, thank god, for us i think it's significant that he right now. but i have no idea what -- you does not have this sewn up, that he still is getting a lot of know, what it's going to bring. democrats who say they're open >> you were on this program two to other candidates. years ago as maria was hitting, you still see a vast majority of and you shot some video from democratic voters saying they're where you live or where you still making up their minds. he hasn't locked down those work. i can show our viewers some of people who may be telling that now, how ominous and how pollsters, yeah, if the primary obviously, we know how was today, that's who i would devastating it was back then. pick, but they haven't committed so firmly to him that they're you just mentioned how fragile not still shopping around. the infrastructure is still at democrats really do want this field to get smaller. this point. the fact that you're saying they don't want to be the ones to do it. traffic lights are still not so many people on the campaign working, schools are not trail are saying i wish they completely rebuilt. would figure out who the five how on earth can you guys deal are and then i'll start

with another potential storm watching. >> biden has suffered gafs in even if it is on the small side the earlier debates and there's compared to maria? been questions and criticism >> i mean, i think the people of about whether he can sustain. he has been able to do that, at puerto rico have shown the least so far. resiliency is our middle name, it is still early. first name and last name. he has been able to sustain. we'll definitely get back up. elizabeth warren is moving up and doing better, he has still small businesses are definitely been able to successfully make going to help each other. i definitely -- i have a the case he could put up an co-working space. we were one of the first to open last year, two days only after electability fight and really the hurricane, and we became challenge president trump. more of a community center more >> let's dig deeper into the than a work space. kinds of democratic voter our space is open again still outside there and what they're looking for. today and we plan to open it's very note worthy. tomorrow as long as we can. first, we look at the most liberal voters. that's how they describe i know all we're going to do is help each other whether the aid themselves. arrives or not. >> mari, thank you so much for warren is well ahead, 34%, joining us. again, we'll stay in touch with sanders, kind of the original, the godfather of this segment of you. let's hope because it is so far out that one of the models that the population back in 2016, is chad was showing us, that it just goes into the ocean is how trailing her 22%, biden at 15. it happens. and then the younger voters, thank you. up next, president trump sanders, who had a lot of people says the economy is doing just feeling the burn of 2016, he fine, but as he gears up for still has the young people, 31%, re-election, a new poll shows a

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when confidence in the economy starts to wane, that can snowball and turn into the economy actually getting worse because consumer sentiment goes south, because investors become jittery. there's the possibility that this is also and cater that bad things are on the horizon, recession fears we've been hearing about and that the president has been angrily blaming the media for. they're real. they exist in the minds of american voters. they exist in the premonitions of economists and forecasters who are really worried about, you know, between the trade war and the length of the economic expansion that potentially that expansion is going to end. >> i'm told that this isn't something we're all just seeing when it comes to public polling. i'm told this is a major and has been a growing concern, you know, point of frustration even inside the president's world

because, you know, again, this is not a new idea that the president picks fights on everything in the world, which drowns out economic news, which he has not been, from the perspective of a lot of people close to him, has not been touting enough. now the talk of recession seems to be getting a lot of headlines and he is still not getting traction on what should have been, according to people i'm talking to, in his world, the thing that he talked about nonstop instead of, you know, stepping on his own message for all this time. >> we've seen him venting about the economic news a lot. but yet, you're right, this new polling or this increased anxiety over the economy undercuts the argument a lot of his advisers were trying to make in key areas that were sort of trouble spots for him. the suburbs, women, undecided voters. a big pitch to a lot of those voters was and will still be,

but has been don't look so much at the tweets. really focus your attention on the economy. focus it on your pocketbook, your bottom line. and in talking to voters over the summer in some of those areas, i was out this summer in suburban detroit, suburban philadelphia. he definitely did talk to people who were sort of on the fence but they said still my 401(k) looks really good. the economic news has been good. and i think it's a big concern. >> this is one of the key questions about the president, then candidate, now president donald trump blasting and blowing apart every political norm. the right track, wrong track trend has really been the indicator for whether a president is going to get re-elected or not, whether the party in or out of power is going to take where they think he is a traditional president. it is going to determine whether

or not he will get re-elected. >> in trump's world, it is absolutely a big concern. as we're saying, this is something that they acknowledge that many moderate republicans would overlook some of the rhetoric. this would -- i was talking with one senior administration official who was telling me that the president has a lot of unfinished business, china, the usmca, trade agreement with mexico and canada. these are issues out there that haven't been completed. it's the economy that's the one thing that's kind of held them together, that kept the team together and group. if they lose that, they lose so much. >> there's been this persistent gap in polling if you look at trump's overall approval rating and his approval on when it comes to his handling of the economy. in our most recent washington post poll, it was in july. his overall approval rate was 44%. the economy was at 51%, which is pretty good. that approval of his handling of jobs issues, economic issues has kind of propped that approval

rating up. >> again polling this morning, his disapproval number is higher than the approval number on the economy, which was the thing keeping him afloat. >> you're definitely seeing that sense of panic come over the president now with tweets, with blaming us and whatnot. at his rally in manchester a couple of weeks ago, he was trying to make the point that you have no choice but to vote for me. if you vote for a democrat, your 401(k)s will plummet and whatnot. he is starting to sense that. >> right now, people are not buying that. you mentioned women. i want you to look at a couple of data points from this poll this morning. first of all, just in the match-ups between president trump and a series of democratic candidates, who are running to actually be the ones to be the nominee, they crush him. biden wins by 16, sanders, 14rks so on and so on. even pete buttigieg, who would beat the president by nine. look what it says about white women. biden would win among white women, 18. same with sanders. double digits across the board.

>> yeah. >> that's what you're seeing here. >> this is a key group that they've been trying to figure out how to target. you've seen them doing events with women, to push women surrogates out there. it is a challenge for them. these are what we saw in the mid-term mid-terms, a lot of women were not comfortable with the first two years. when you go beyond talking about the economy, you hear a lot of concerns about the environment, about immigration policy, about, you know, family separations. so there's a lot of issues where it's hard for them to connect with voters on. >> we talk, rightly so, about working class voters who helped get the president in the white house. women were also an important factor in the fact that he's doing so poorly is definitely notable. everybody, stand by. up next, senator is announcing he is going to retire and sets off jockeying for 2020. that's next. oh my, this heinz mayonnaise is so creamy,

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topping our pletal radar today, former united nations mbs nikki haley will officially be part of the president's re-election effort, speaking at a fund-raising event in october. this news comes after haley herself brought up and swatted away rumors that she's angling to replace vice president mike pence on the ticket, says that pence has her, quote, complete support. georgia republican johnny isaacson says he will resign his seat at the end of the year. in a letter the 74-year-old cites health challenges, revealing he fell at his

apartment in july while acknowledging that his parkinson's is progressing. his replacement will be appointed and a special election in 2020. the loser in georgia's gubernat rochlt ial race, stacey abrams, has already ruled out running for isaacson's seat. president trump is going after fox news. that's right, claiming that the network isn't doing enough to defend him. here is what he tweeted. just watched fox news heavily promoting democrats during their dnc communications director, with zero pushback from anchor sandra smith fox. saying the new fox news is letting a great number of people down. we have to start looking for a new news outlet. fox isn't working anymore. referencing an interview with the dnc communications director. listen. >> i think there's a lot of enthusiasm right now. you're seeing large crowd sizes for a lot of our democratic

candidates. i think that any one of these candidates will be a better president trump than donald trump. >> i mean, there's so much to unpack here. so much. not pushing back on a person who they're interviewing? hmm. i wonder where we've seen that before. maybe with the president himself when he has been on the network? but i digress. i'm told this is part of what you're seeing play out on twitter. the president is unhappy since he has come back from the g7. he's unhappy with coverage across the board, and that includes fox news. >> and he's literally saying -- he has this habit of putting into words the things that are only implied, right? in this case he's almost literally coming out and saying i expect you to be my propaganda organization. >> right. >> that's your job. your job is not to report the news, conduct intellectually honest polling that actually depicts the state of the american electorate, which fox has always done a very good job

of. their polling unit is very respected. the president doesn't like it. liberals accuse it of being the president's propaganda organization. even fox is not sufficiently committed to him for the president's taste. you know, he demands absolute loyalty. he doesn't like to hear any dissenting views. to the credit of fox's news unit they do offer opposing views and allow democrats to come on air and offer their perspective. the president would like it to be all pro-trump all the time. >> yes, he would. for the most part, at least with night, not with reporters we know, he gets that. that's why he's shocked, shocked when he sees they're not completely towing the line. former cabinet secret speaks out and tries to explain why he left the trump administration. it's new. we'll tell you about it after a break.

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former secretary of defense james mattis has released a statement. mattis writes about how he was recruited to join president trump's cabinet and why he left saying, quote, using every skill i had, learned during my decades as a marine, i did as well as i could for as long as i could.

when my concrete solutions and strategic advice, especially keeping faith with our allies no longer resonated, it was time to resign. now, this is a fascinating -- it will be an interesting book, of today's in your face politics, may be more subtle than we are used to. he is an historian, a writer, a scholar. i think that's fair to say about him and he considers himself that. people also say that about him. so, that's how he presents the very clear arguments when you read them. i'll just give you one more example. he says, alone, america cannot protect our people and our economy. at this time, we can see storm clouds gathering. role is not sufficient for a leader. a leader must display strategic acumen that incorporates respect for those nations that stood with us when trouble loomed. >> it's an expansion of some of the things that we saw in his resignation letter.

>> sure. >> and i think it's still diplomatic, it's respectful. it's an excellent read. and it doesn't directly name the president, but he talks a lot about alliances, the value of allies in the world. and so there are things in here that really read like commentary on the america first foreign policy that you've seen president trump embrace. >> and for context, you remember, the president loved him. he loved the fact that his nickname was mad dog. it was very controversial, because he had not -- he had retired not that long from the military, not that long before he was appointed as a civilian. they had to change the rules for him to do that. for a while, he was part of the glue that everybody was hoping would stick and hold the foreign policy apparatus together. and then, like many others, he lost faith in the president and it was vice versa, particularly when the president changed the policy on syria. >> i can't tell you how many times i talked to republican

senators over the course of the trump administration whenever there would be a foreign policy crisis or snafu or what have you, especially with president trump on the world stage and they would tell me, we do sleep better knowing that jim mattis is on the job. we sleep better at night. a lot of republicans -- i've seen republican senators concerned very often over the last 2 1/2 years, but never -- but one of the definite points of concern was when mattis resigned. senate mantle leader mitch mcconnell at the time had a stark statement. he said he was distressed that mattis was leaving sunday and those conditions and i think republicans will read that essay excerpt today and say this is why we had been concerned. this is the really private and sometimes public concerns they've had about president trump for some time. >> like many foreign military leaders who are not allowed to say anything about politics and then are allowed to do so, particularly after they, in this case he leaves the administration, he goes there on politics. he says all americans need to

recognize that our democracy is an experiment and one that can be reversed. we all know that we're better than our current politics. tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment. >> he really articulated issues that a lot of people in the administration are really weighing on. he talked about a breaking point. i talked to a lot of officials who tell me that they really question at what point are they contributing to, quote, unquote, the erosion? they come in, feel that being inside the tent, they can do more, they can protect the influence of the united states, but once you're kicked out, then you don't have that influence. i was talking with a trump official today who said, look, it really weighs on you. when are you helping and then when are you contributing to that erosion? when do you become a political actor? >> fascinating. stand by. up next, we'll look at joe biden. he is hitting back at the president, even shading some of his democratic opponents in a new interview.

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who took part in that sitdown, aaron hanes, of the associated press. aaron, as i ask you about this, i want our viewers to see where the former vice president stands with african-american voters who plan to vote in the democratic primaries and caucuses. he's at 46%. the next closest are warren and sanders, who are each at 10%, followed by the two african-americans in the race, harris and booker, at 7% and 3%, respectively. with that as the backdrop, take us inside the room about what your takeaway was of what he said and also the fact that they even gathered african-american reporters to sit down with him in the first place. >> sure. well, thank you so much for having me, dana. like you said, there were a handful of us that sat down with the former vice president and really, you know, he took questions from us for more than an hour on a range of issues related to race, suggesting that this is a topic that he is very comfortable with and this is something that he's very eager to discuss.

and i think that that's a good point for a couple of reasons. one, because we tend to really stress in conversation about why it is that joe biden is a viable candidate for the nomination. his strength with working class white voters, but what he wanted to remind people of is that he has a deep relationship with the black community as well. and so this is an important conversation to be having right now as he continues to have steady poll numbers with black voters and he was asked directly about that. you know, in the conversation and what he said is, you know, this is a community who knows me. i've been in this community. and i have never, in my lifetime, felt uncomfortable in the black community. and so that was really interesting, especially also given that he said in his own words that the catalyst to him getting into this campaign is the hyporacial climate, particularly charlottesville, that he sees as being fueled by the current president and wanting to address that is what makes him want to be president.

and so to hear from him, i asked him directly, you know, what are you going to do about white supremacy if you're elected? and what he said was, you know, whether -- regardless of the outcome, because, you know, that climate exists, he's ready to confront it head on. >> thank you, errin. unfortunately, we're out of time. thank you very much. thank you for watching. alex marquardt is in for brianna. he starts right now. >> i'm alex marquardt in for brianna kielar. under way right now, dorian heading toward puerto rico. the president under water on the economy. plus, he is reportedly so frantic about building his border wall that president trump is telling his aides he will

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