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elizabeth warren. >> she will be her and i will be me, and people will make their judgments. >> we're hoping everything comes out okay, but i'm kind of freaking out. >> "inside politics", the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. welcome to "inside politics". i'm manu raju in for john king. hurricane dorian is closing in on the bahamas. it is slowing down, lurking off the florida and southeastern coastline for much of the week. we will go to the latest forecast in just a bit. we have to start with yet another mass shooting, this time the west texas cities of midland and odessa. five people are dead, 21 injured. the suspect shot dead by police. authorities say it started saturday afternoon with a traffic stop on interstate 20

near midland. the man used a rifle to shoot at state troopers, then sped away, taking random shots at passing cars and pedestrians, hijacking a postal vehicle and making his way to odessa, still spraying done fire. the chase ended with a gun battle in a movie theater parking lot. >> there's a shooting going on in odessa, texas. oh, god they're shooting again. [bleep]. >> get down. >> oh, my god. >> are you down? >> are they shooting? . >> i don't know. i don't know. i can't see. >> in addition to the five dead, the list of injured includes three law enforcement officers and a 17-month-old girl, who is expected to survive. let's go to cnn's ed lavandara. ed, what are you learning on the ground? >> reporter: well, manu, this was a surreal and wild scene.

an odessa police officer just described as something they never anticipated and really had never seen before, nor trained for because of the sporadic and the widespread nature of where all of these different shootings took place. in many of these mass shootings, it all take place in one location. but this was spread over miles and miles across the city. and calls were coming in constantly of people being wounded by gunfire, which added to the chaos of the moment. this was, as you mentioned, a wild scene. five people dead. nearly two dozen injured. among those dead, a high school student here in odessa. and among the wounded is a 17-month-old child who was airlifted to a hospital in lubbo lubbock, texas. we are told now is in satisfactory condition. from people who were here on the

front lines dealing with this chaos, they described a frightening scene. >> i encourage everyone in every community, no matter what size, if you're in the middle of the desert, urban area, to prepare in advance. unfortunately, it may not be a matter of if, it may be a matter of when. it stops with knowing how to stop bleeding, how to do chest compressions. this is something that we as americans can do. >> reporter: and, manu, we have been told here this morning by odessa police, there has been a press conference scheduled for 9:30 central time. it has now been pushed back into noon central time, so 1:00 eastern before we get any more information as investigators here continue working around the clock to piece together how all of this unfolded and determining a motive behind the attack. . >> a lot of unanswered

questions. margaret from axios, i want to start with what mike pence said on his way to warsaw when he was asked about what happened yesterday in texas. >> heartbreak for the families who have loved ones who were injured. those who have had loved ones who lost their lives in the wake of this latest mass shooting. and the president and i and our administration absolutely determine to work with leaders in both parties and the congress to take some steps that we can address and confront this scourge of mass atrocity in our country. >> the vice president says they want to work with congress. but there's been virtually no action. there has been no action since the latest mass shootings that

occurred not even a month ago. the president has been all over the map about what he would accept on background checks. what do you think the president ultimately will accept here? >> i don't see any reason, unfortunately, to see that anything has changed the last 24 hours. we know in the month of augusta loan, there were more than 50 fatalities as a result of mass shootings in the u.s. but there is no indication there's been a turning point. and the president's political calculus or the republican party's political calculus in terms of congress. so when we get back, i think there's no more than there was before. and now there is a hurricane in the mix on top of it. >> just look at this quinnipiac poll from earlier this week. universal background checks, which is what the house passed and virtually has to chance of passing the republican-led senate, 93% of voters support that.

60% support an assault reps weapons ban. it appears there will be some discussion about red flag legislation. presumably it won't go as far as enough as a lot of people would like. would that satisfy the electorate if congress were to pass something that may be considered some response to it but not as far as what the majority wants. >> you are seeing increasing pressure on this issue. what has happened is not only that the public favors new gun control laws by a margin we have not seen in decades but also the intensity on this issue has increased. there are new activist movements. people are voting on this issue in a way that previously we had this impression there was a lopsided passion dynamic where it was the nra members to be single-issue voters. we see a lot of that on the other side. i think it has created more pressure. . >> yeah.

. >> you about the democrats, you know, this had debate earlier this august about whether they should come back to washington, pass more laws than they already have. and the argument was, no, we have done our part. let's keep the pressure on the senate, on mitch mcconnell, to do something with the law that we already passed. >> and listen to how beto ow rourke, 2020 presidential candidate, talked about this, as he mentioned democrats seem to be more engaged than in the past. >> i don't know what the motivation is. firearms that were used or how they acquired them. but we do know this is [ bleep ]. >> yeah! >> there is no reason we have to accept this as our future, or "fortune", as our faith. functionally, right now, we have. >> don't be afraid to talk about gun control. >> no, right. they're very confident in this area. they feel as the momentum, the

public sentiment is at their backs. this is something i saw on the campaign trail last cycle. the number of districts that flipped, gun control was a key issue there. you heard a lot of voters who said they had never been engaged before. but because of the mass shootings from parkland to now, they feel they needed to become more engaged, they were afraid about this issue. and that being said, house democrats, yes, had the debate about whether they should come back. they were supposed to come back next week but delayed it because of hurricane dorian. so they will fully return september 9th the segue to the next big breaking news of this segment. hurricane dorian a powerful category 5 hurricane and posing a threat from florida up to the

carolinas, forcing many cities along its path to begin putting emergency plans in place. i want to go to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. the bahamas will feel dorian first. when do you expect landfall? >> reporter: the latest update they just gave referred to this as a catastrophic landfall for the about ma'am has gusting. the eye of the hurricane has also expanded a little bit as well. this is concerning because this goes to show that the storm is still intensifying. we do expect as the hurricane hunters have gone out and taken some of the numbers, this will maintain a major hurricane as it continues its track off the west. it is headed towards florida. more of florida was added back to the cone of uncertainty, which was removed yesterday.

georgia, south carolina, north carolina are all still in the potential for a landfall from this storm over the next couple of days. >> we'll keep watching this. it changes every minute it seems. thank you for that. >> next for us, the trump trade war. new tariffs in effect as of today on thousands of chinese-made goods. ...after just 2 doses. skyrizi may increase your risk of infections... ...and lower your ability to fight them. before treatment your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. tell your doctor if you have an infection... ...or symptoms such as fevers,... ...sweats, chills, muscle aches or coughs... ...or if you plan to or recently received a vaccine. i feel free to bare my skin. visit skyrizi.com. yeah...yeah, this is nice. hmm. how did you make the dip so rich and creamy? oh it's a philadelphia-- family recipe. can i see it? no. philadelphia dips. so good, you'll take all the credit.

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in place on $100 billion worth of chinese goods. it includes clothing, shoes, sheets, pillows, sports equipment, kitchen ewear and diapers. it mean higher prices for american consumers. even top republicans worry the trade war could also trigger an election year recession. one of them is u.s. senator pat toomey of pennsylvania. here's what president trump thinks of that. >> so what does pat toomey want me to say? does he want me to say, let me put my hands up, china, continue to rip us off? let me give up right now, china, even though we're winning. let me give up right now, you continue, to take out $400500 billion, continue to do all the other horrible things you have been doing to us for 30 years.

>> consumer spending remains strong and unemployment is at historic lows. for the first time since he took office, the economy is getting worse than it is getting better. and more say trump economic policies are hurting rather than helping. now, i wonder, michael, you cover the whose fite house for "new york times". >> it is central to his argument is that the economy is good. he says it all the time in every setting. i think when i was with the president in france at the g7 last weekend, and i think one of the things that came out there was that the level of uncertainty that hangs over this subject area, that hangs over the trade subject, because the president isn't operating on a straight line. it is like the track of a hurricane. you can't look and predict what

he is going to do in a moment. just the few days we were in france he went back and forth. at one point president xi was an enemy, the next they were trying to restart negotiations over the trade stuff. so as bad as the impact is that people are feeling, the impact of the actual tariffs, i think in some ways hanging over the kind of whole subject is the question of you just don't know whether, you know, today's optimism that we are on a path towards resolution is going to be what we feel tomorrow or a week later or a month later >> it's clearly not the way the president has billed this trade war. he said they would level the playing field. both sides are digging in. china is saying they are not backing down. the president is not showing any signs of backing down. u.s. consumers may take the brunt of it. >> this trench of tariffs is different pause of how much it

affects consumers. we have heard amount in this escalating trade war about the affect on businesses, especially farmers. certainly they have felt the brunt of it. are consumers going to start to notice prices going up for things that you buy at target, right? because that really has been a little bit down the supply chain from where the tariffs hit previously. also, new tariffs on fuel, which has not been part of the trade war up till now. so there's a potential for i think a cascading effect if consumers start to lose confidence, if businesses start to cut back on investment because the uncertainty as well as because of the rising prices. that's when you may felt the fear i think on the part of the white house and others, you can get a cascading effect that becomes impossible to stop. >> these are some of the companies raised concerns about tariffs hurting them. major american companies, multinational firms.

yet the president when he was asked about the companies raising concerns, this is what he said. >> a lot of badly run companies are trying to blame tariffs. in other words, if they're running badly and they're having a bad quarter or they're unlucky in some ways, they are likely to blame the tariffs. it's not the tariffs. it's called bad management. >> is this tenable for the president to take? >> this is a nuanced issue. president trump doesn't nuance that well. here's the thing. the white house has always known and has always said in having a substantive discussion with somebody in the trade areas this is a long game, that the u.s. believes that it can afford to observe some of the difficulty in the near term to put the heat on china in the long term, but nothing will change if they

don't do this. they understand this is a real fight with repercussions. it is overlayed with our election cycle, not china's. which is not a thing. there is a different calculus and pace there. but for the president, in terms of his support, this message on sticking it to china is really powerful both with his base within the republican party but also some of that crossover appeal to sort of independent or even some democratic voters, union voters. he felt it is important to stick to this message, not just because it's one of the few ideological things he believes in. what does he believe in guns? we don't know? >> one of the things he believes in, he is trying to reenergize his base on is the wall, what to do with the wall. he is doubling efforts to try to build the wall. cnn, "washington post" and others reporting about him

apparently suggesting he would be willing to pardon individuals to break the law if commit illegal acts to move forward. trump, sources say, is searching for an accomplishment to run on in 2020, and realizing time is running short to fulfill some of the key promises he made to voters in 2016. trump has recently told aides he would pardon them if they committed illegal acts while fulfilling his demand to build a wall on the southern border. he said he was just saying it in a joking manner. if they don't move forward, will the base not come out? >> i don't know if i think they won't come out. a lot of people who are avid trump supporters appear to have been with him from the very beginning, are still with him, amongst the republican base, his numbers are still strong. but this is a key pillar of his re-election campaign from what he launched in 2015 until now, his major theme has been

building the wall. it's been about immigration, grievance politics. so i don't expect that that is going to change at all. . >> of course we will hear more about that in the days ahead. up next for us, the ideological showdown years in the making as joe biden and elizabeth warren face off for the first time. but first a message from ruth bayeders ginsburg after treatment for pancreatic cancer. >> all you can see that i am alive. and i'm on my way to being very well. i love my job. it's the best and the hardest job that i have ever have. and it has kept me going through four cancer battles. people, our sales now apply to only 10 frames.

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of them are white men. biden enters the debate holding steady, top of the pack. with one star on the rise in recent weeks, will voters finally see a showdown between her brand of liberalism and his more moderate approach. he down plays the possibility of fireworks. >> this is the first time you'll be on stage with elizabeth warren. is there a certain contrast you're looking to draw with her? >> i'll be me, she'll be her and we will make adjustments. i have great respect for her. >> biden still has the lead. warren is emerging as this threat. we have finally seen this one-on-one confrontation between them. what would it look like? >> i would not be surprised to see it in particular on economic issues. there's some history here. this isn't just about two different brands of politics or two different ideological dispositions.

warren has gone after biden very sharply in the past when she was working on bankruptcy issues. a hearing it got testy between the two of them. she targets him in one of her books as the sort of corporate democrat she sets herself against. so whether it's that issue or just economic issues in general, i would not be surprised to see a very sharp contrast drawn. and i think all of us are licking our lips and are excitinged for that. in part because they haven't been on the same stage before. they are in the top two, or the top three candidates. they have their differences. they are substantive people op policy. it will be interesting and potentially revealing to see the two of them discuss them. . >> how will warren take some of the incoming fire? also a big question, she's been -- she had the campaign and questions about her claiming native american ancestry.

she has been rising in the polls. she has not taken many attacks. here's a story from politico. the headline is warren love fest ending as 2020 competitors feel her rise. her economics are fraud and at some point someone is going to point that out. she is a multimillionaire professor at harvard. she can't rail against the 1%. she is one of the 1%. and bakari sellers the, the biggest credit oeufpl of elizabeth warren is her in ability to make her plans actually reality. there are a lot of voters, especially black voters, who will say a lot of this is pie in the sky and we want pie on the table. how will she respond to this? >> harris is also, for the first time, going to be on the stage with warren. they have never been on the debate stage together as well.

so whether or not harris decides to attack her as they slightly telegraphed on issues about her economics plan, warren so far, you know, has still been defending it very aggressively. if she goes for biden, i think she may initiate the attack. biden's campaign often says he doesn't initiate attacks. he takes the incoming and responds and pushes back. >> and the other person we shouldn't forget about, bernie sanders, who is on the stage as well. it may be if he wasn't, if it was elizabeth warren versus biden, they might tip toe around each other. in some sense, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders both have incentive to prove that they are the ones that are going to take on biden and sort of by default be the ones to take on trump if they were e to win. and you could see the flashing escalate because the two of them are trying to sort of see which can be tougher.

>> we have never seen a number of biden miss steps since day one of his campaign. look at the headlines. including last week, the big one for the "washington post". as he campaigns for president, joe biden tells a moving but false war story. he claimed he was -- the spirit of his story was correct, even though the details were mostly false. despite all of these problems, look at the polls. overall, just very -- when you look at the demographics, democratic-leading voters in this quinnipiac poll, liberal voters and 18 to 34 support two of the candidates, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. look at this. every other group, men, women, black, different ages, income levels, all support joe biden at the moment. in this world, the trump world, falsehoods and things the president says, if biden makes mistakes and commits gaffes on

the campaign trail, does it have much of an impact? >> that's also why he is not going after elizabeth warren. also it doesn't seem like a joe biden thing to do. the liberal base, all of that matters when it comes to turnout. of course the ongoing question in this early stage in the selection is once you get a nominee, whoever is running against donald trump, are democrats going to turn out in the highest numbers or in kind of like the numbers in some of the plates where it mattered the last time around, you know? and the thing that i think -- that i'm concerned about and looking forward to in this debate, the format, it is still a crowded stage. it may not allow for what we want to see, which is the deep differences among the candidates. but also that back and forth. the ongoing sustained back and forth, which is like how does elizabeth warren deal with biden?

how does biden deal with those two? if you add up sanders support and warren support, they actually give joe biden quite a run for his money. but they both can't emerge. so it will break at some point. i don't know if it will be sooner or later. >> yeah. and it will be interesting to see how the other candidates fair and the people on the stage who need that breakout moment. do they go the way of gillibrand, dropping out last week. next we will go live to the bahamas, which is now bracing for a direct hit. ♪ (music plays throughout)

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we're following breaking news. hurricane dorian just has been upgraded to a category 5 storm, with 160-mile-per-hour sustained winds. now, the slow-moving storm likely will remain a threat for the upcoming week. people in florida, georgia, and the carolinas are waiting to see if it will take aim at them or stay off the coast? it is headed for the northwestern bahamas. that is where we find patrick in free port this morning. behind you, it looks beautiful. but it is sure not going to stay that way, is it? >> reporter: no. absolutely not. it is a beautiful morning here. we know in the hours ahead, the weather conditions are going to deteriorate and very, very quickly. already 80 miles east of where i am they are beginning to feel

the effects of this incredibly powerful and slow-moving hurricane. that's particularly dangerous because the longer a hurricane of this magnitude is over you, the more damage it does, the more winds lash people's homes and places where they are taking refuge. you can expect to have a higher storm surge. some of the islands are low lying. many are just above sea level. people are being evacuated to where we are because it is higher ground. but it is only 30 feet high. an expected storm surge of 15 to 20 feet. so much of this island, many of the islands around us in the coming days and hours, will be under water. it is about as dangerous as you can get to be on a low-lying island and have a slow-moving cat 5 hurricane coming your way. unlike the united states where

there is still some doubt, there is no doubt here we are going to take a direct hit. >> when do authorities in the bahamas hope to get help after dorian moves out? >> reporter: the problem is we're on an island, of course. and the airport has been closed. we got one of the last flights on thursday. so probably not until mid-week. it just depends how badly damaged the airport is when they can get a boat in here. >> thanks for joining us. we'll keep monitoring this as the day progresses. next up for us, ex defense secretary jim mattis speaks out, but not about president trump, at least not yet. on it! staying active? on it. audrey thinks she's doing all she can to manage her type 2 diabetes and heart disease but is her treatment doing enough to lower her heart risk? [sfx: crash of football players colliding off-camera.] maybe not. jardiance is the number 1 prescribed pill in its class. jardiance can reduce the risk of cardiovascular death

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now here's something you don't see every day. a high resolution picture of the aftermath of an iranian rocket

launch pad explosion. you can see it is an image tweeted out to the world by the president of the united states. the president seemed to be taunting the iranians, adding the united states of america was not involved in the catastrophic accident, he wrote. i wish iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened. some are questioning whether the tweet revealed any sensitive national security secrets with the tweets. but the president is not one of them. >> we had a photo, and i released it, which i have the absolute right to do. and we'll see what happens. they had a big mishap. it's unfortunate. so iran, as you probably know, they were going to set off a big missile. and it did not work out too well. it had nothing to do with us. >> the president wants to have talks with iran. then he taunts iran. he puts out what may be classified information. what is the strategy?

is there a strategy? >> it's pretty clear that the president has, from the beginning, said he wants to put greater and greater pressure on iran and thought that the iran nuclear deal put in place by the previous administration didn't do that and let too much off on a regime that is, you know, particularly bad in the region and around the world. and so i think that's ultimately the grand strategy. what doesn't make a lot of sense a lot of times is the tactical moves along the way. and i think the question of whether or not the president was given this photo had a substantive conversation with his national security team and said let's all talk about whether this picture should be something that is releasable or whether he just saw it, grabbed the phone and took a picture at it. that is the real question. the difference matters. >> in fact, if you look at the picture, you can see the shadow. it's like -- when you're trying

to take a picture and you have that image of yourself on there. he's right. he has the absolute -- he gets to decide what is declassified. when he goes on about leakers, this is not a leak. he can declassify it. but there are implications to it. one of those is that it allows the foreign governments, the rugszs, the chinese, whoever, to understand what our capabilities are in the air over that area. what are u.s. surveillance camabilities. they are not images that are commercially available. at least the initial reaction from the intel community at large, people who have access to it, is one of real surprise and shock. . >> yeah. did the u.s. violate iranian airspace a big question. i want to talk about jim mattis who abruptly left the

administration and how he will speak out. he is sort of speaking out now. he says that the atlantic last week, the duty of silence. if you leave an administration, uh-oh some silence. when you leave an administration over clear policies differences, you need to give the people there as much opportunity as possible to defend the country. there is a period which i owe my silence. sit not going to be forever. >> he took a similar tact. he's more reticent, seemingly, in this book than he was in his resignation letter. it was clear he was resigning in protest and it was about his relationship with the president. the atlantic interview is very funny. the interviewer is pressing him. why aren't you being more forceful? why won't you criticize the president?

don't you have a duty to share it with the american public? he is steadfast in his view. it will be interesting to see does he decide to become a more outspoken critic of trump? and that's a big decision particularly for someone of mattis's stature who has always prided himself on being nonpolitical. he has taken pains throughout his career not to be seen as a political actor. that's a source of a lot of his respect in the community. >> he said it's not going to be forever. our reporters share from the notebooks yet, including a house race in north carolina. it could turn a dark red district blue. ...after just 2 doses. skyrizi may increase your risk of infections... ...and lower your ability to fight them. before treatment your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. tell your doctor if you have an infection... ...or symptoms such as fevers,...

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time now to let our great reporter share a page from their notebooks to help you get ahead of the week to come. margaret? >> manu, i'm going to be watching what the democratic hopefuls who drop out of the democratic contest are doing. it's labor day weekend, traditionally politicians come back from summer ready to reset or whatever. but for this group of folks, that reset will involve how to remain relevant when you get back. we know that seth moulton, for example, will be working on veterans' issues. we know to kirsten gillibrand will be working on how to remain relevant with women. part of it is just in case there's a spot somewhere for whoever emerges as the 2020 nominee, if there's a spot on the vice presidential ticket or a spot on the future cabinet. >> i suspect a lot of positioning in the weeks and days ahead.

molly? >> i'm watching health care. two new studies in the past month show that for the first time the uninsured rate is rising. that's an unusual thing to be happening in a strong economy with such low unemployment. usually people who have jobs have health care. we know the politics of health care are very volatile. obviously it was a boost to democrats in 2018. republicans would say what was happening was because of obamacare. but republicans know this is not an issue that helps them. and this development also i think lends some urgency to the primary fight among the democrats as they argue whether it's single pair or tweaks to the aca, when you see a decline like this, that lends urgency to the debate that says, there is something here that what to be fixed. >> michael? >> on september 10th the

president's top aides will be meeting to determine the maximum number of refugees that can be let into the country for the coming year. for the past 2 1/2, 3 years, stephen mill and her and his aln the administration have been pushing to get that number as low as possible, over the objections of people like rex tillerson, the former secretary of state, jim mattis, the former san diego, and nikki haley, former u.n. ambassador, all of whom favored a robust refugee program. this year of course all those folks are gone. and the expectations are that miller will be able to push that number as close to zero as possible, of course at a time that many people around the world are fleeing civil war, poverty, hunger, and the like. so as the president likes to say, we'll see what happens. >> it shows the power of stephen miller continues to grow in this white house. >> i'm keeping an eye on the special election in north carolina's ninth congressional district. it's the final stretch this week. republicans are pulling out all

the stops, because this district went for trump in 2016 by 12 points. but it's very close right now. democrats should not be competitive here, and they are. so the president expects to make a trip there in the final days, as well as vice president pence, donald trump jr. was there just this past week. so it's a big deal for republicans. and they want to avoid an embarrassing loss there. >> of course the president is pulling out all stops, you say mention. i'll close with this, the house judiciary committee has been laying the groundwork to potentially move to impeach the president as soon as this fall with several key matters about to come to a head. that includes subpoenas for former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski and two former white house aides, asking for them to testify later this month. if the white house takes steps to block their testimony, as expected, it would only fuel democrats' calls for impeachment. as the probe allegations of

injustice continue, democrats are speeding up their requests for testimony from don mcgahn. the democrats announced they would investigate the president's proposal to hold the 2020 g7 at his golf resort, saying it would violate the emoluments clause. plus the hush money scandal to silence his alleged affairs. all evidence, democrats say, to justify impeachment. will the democrats ultimately go forward? that's it for "inside politics." catch us weekends as well as noon eastern. up next, "state of the union" with dana bash. guests include democratic presidential candidate beto o'rourke. thanks for sharing your sunday morning. have a great day.

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