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>> hell, yes, we're going to take your ak-47. >> john bolton is out in another trump team shakeup. >> he made some very big mistakes. >> "inside politics," the best story source by the best reporters now. >> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. we begin this sunday with raw new tensions between the trump white house and tehran after a stunning attack on saudi oil facilities that will cause a major supply disruption in royal global emergency markets. explosive drones were launched at the heart of the king's oil infrastructure. yemen beeftd a big hit in the long-running and bloody regional war. but the trump administration is upping the ante by blaming iran.

pompeo said tehran is behind 100 attacks on saudi arabia while they pretend to engage in diplomacy. he said for all the calls for deescalation, they've now launched an attack on the oil supply. he accused secretary pompeo of deceit. remember just days ago there was talk that president trump might sit down with rouhani. now hawkish voices are pushing something different. it is time for the united states to put on the table an attack on iranian oil refineries if they cresson richment. he went on to say iran will not stop their behavior until the consequences become more real. nic is live. some very tense talk here. what next?

>> reporter: john, startling to see the escalation in tensions simply this morning as a result of these tweets really. the u.s. secretary of state quite clear who he thinks is to blame, but no evidence in those two simple social media messages. i should point out that the response went on to refer to how the maximum pressure campaign as the u.s. has been levying against iran has now turned to max deceit. he went on to say that the u.s. and its clients are stalking them because it will lead to military victory. he means how they're backing saudi arabia. but the big question, john, is about the facts and the evidence here. the houthis, the rebels have said they were behind this and they launched ten drones, but it's a long distance from their territory to the saudi facilities that have been quite remarkably damaged. the u.s. is briefing on back ground saying southern iraq is maybe where this was launched from. that might make more sense, but there are many analysts saying

the houthi rebels in yemen have come leaps and bounds in the technology they have. could these drones have gotten through saudi arabia's multi-billion air defenses and hit the refineries? that's unclear. given the escalation and given how days ago secretary pompeo was talking about maybe diplomacy and how donald trump himself shied away from launching air strikes in retaliation for the drowning of u.s. drones, are they closer to diplomacy? far from it. now we have possibly one of the worst cases of military con f confrontation in front of it. >> also with me, margaret of axios and retired admiral john kirby. let me start with you in terms of the details and then the bigger picture. if as some u.s. officials and others familiar with the incident are suggesting, they

came from iran and not yemen. the united states has dirty hands in this war, too. it's our weapons being used. if the dynamics on the ground have changed and the attack came not from yemen, but from iraq, how does that change things? >> major escalation because it implicates the iranians involvement in more of a way than for instance if they provided the arms to the houthis. so a dramatic escalation and what i worry about is that, a, there is no clear evidence and this administration doesn't have a reputation for credibility, and b, that as they talk about this they close down the decision space for the president. so diplomacy can still be had. there's no reason to let this broaden out into a larger conflict. >> i want you to listen -- this is the president of the united states, this is what makes this so stunning. just days ago the president of the united states himself saying maybe it's time to sit down and have a conversation with

president rouhani. >> will you meet with rouhani? >> it could happen. it could happen, yeah. no problem with meeting. iran should straighten out, because frankly, they're in a very bad position right now and they should straighten it out, because they can straighten it out very easy. >> we know in the case of north korea and others the results are questionable, but he believes in the power of personal diplomacy. the iranians had said we won't talk to you unless you ease sanctions. we were at this moment where we thought there might be an opening, and now this. >> the fact that there might be an opening was one of the things that we know that president trump and john bolton argued about in john bolton's waning hours at the white house. and we know from people close to the former national security adviser that it was his discomfort, perhaps dialing back some sanctions in order to paev the way for the meeting. that was one of his final considerations in his decision to go very promptly.

so this probably just got a lot harder as a result of this, although i suppose there's a counterintuitive argument for saying it's why president trump will want to do it more. but politically inside the united states it got harder in terms of the signaling we're sending to the rest of the world. also let's put the politics and the context of the timing. the general assembly meeting is like a week way, the israeli elections are tuesday. there's no national security adviser. we're working with an acting director of national intelligence. there's a lot of balls up in the air right now in terms of the white house and who is in charge of the policy chain. and this is a very difficult time for the u.s. to be grappling with this, and also secretary pompeo for a long time relied on john bolton to be the guy who said no. and pompeo is going to now have to be the guy who steers the guardrails. >> we talk about the confusion here in the united states, the turnover in the trump administration, the competing voices. we've talked about this and you cover this personally all the time, about does iran speak with

one voice here? is there a sense in iran of whether they actually want to sit down with president trump, where they see a possibility for a trfruitful opening, or do the believe that's bluster from the white house and they're not interested? >> i think on the street here you want iranians to see the sanctions lifted. as we arrived, most people would say what does the departure of john bolton mean? that's key in their minds, because bolton's main theme has been to opt as much military pressure on iran as possible. this government does not always speak entirely with one voice. there are those that want to see iran exercising its ability to put political pressure around the region. remember, before the trump administration pulled itself out of the deal unilaterally, iran was at its peak across the middle east. and there are those who staked their career on the diplomacy

possibly winning through. zarif, along with john kerry, hatched the deal with painstaking diplomacy. this took months and years to put together. so the idea that a sudden flash meeting between hassan rouhani and president trump itself might fix this all back together again, a tough sell frankly at the best of times. and i think many people woke up this morning and saw the accusations over the saudi oil attacks and thought things have changed again. >> admiral, i want to close the conversation with just a little more on the complexity of this. for americans who maybe don't follow this on the daily basis, this is a long-running civil war. the saudis have been involved, often using american weapons and intelligence to conduct the operations. murphy responded to pompeo saying you're oversimplifying. the aud cease and houthis are at

war. iran is backing the houthis and has been a bad actor but it's not just as simple as houthi equals iran. >> he does have a point and this could just be that the houthis could have gotten the capability and done it on their own. but the iranians have been back with the houthis for a long time. they've been using them as a proxy element not just to wage war inside yemen, but to attack saudi arabia. this is a significant tack on sovereign state facilities for saudi arabia and they have a right to defend themselves. so it has become a bit of a proxy war. we have been supporting saudi arabia and iran has been supporting the houthis. what is really important is that this doesn't broaden into a larger regional conflict and i think that's why i say that even though this is very tense and a major escalation in tensions, that the administration should be looking for options short of military action. i found senator graham's tweet and comment about putting on the

table strikes on iranian facilities not a good idea at this time. >> this is such a dicey moment and we'll watch as we go forward into the week ahead of us. next to us, the democrats debate health care, the biggest policy fight and efforts to chip into joe biden's lead get personal.

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presidential race that is turning more testy and as joe biden maintains the lead, it is hardly overwhelming yet is proving stubborn. health care is an important divide. the big debate, how much of the party's past belongs in its future. >> i know that the senator says she's for bernie. well, i'm for barack. i think the obamacare worked. >> for hard-working families across this country, costs are going to go down. >> we need a health care systems that guarantees health care to all people as every other major country does, not a system which provides $100 billion a year in profit for the drug companies and the nationainsurance compan >> julian castro questioned biden's memory and booker questioned the president's focus

or stamina, suggesting he would fumble away any chance of beating president trump. biden laughed it off. >> people are raising questions about whether you can carry the ball over the finish line. how do you overcome this? >> carry the ball over the finish line. >> is it fair for your rivals to play the age card? >> sure, it is. last night was the closest we came to a debate. we actually had an open debate on health care and i felt very good about the debate on health care. >> would you release your medical records to address concerns? >> what concerns, man? do you want to wrestle? >> joining our conversation now, cnn's malika henderson. the voters will tell us the real answer. this was round three. biden again at center stage.

a health care debate, which is both about the sks of health care and the direction of the party, do you go bold or stay pragmatic. as we sit here sunday after a thursday debate, anything different? >> no, i don't think this debate will change anything. i think biden probably had his strongest debate. some of the undercard folks like cory booker had a great performance. in some ways i think warren probably didn't make the best case vis-a-vis biden in terms of the argument for why she wants to do what she wants to do with health care. bernie sanders took a lot of heat. >> she kind of let him. >> i think it's on purpose. she doesn't have her own health care plan. maybe at some point she will. but we'll see. the age thing i think was surprising. you saw them sort of try to back pedal and clean it up, but this is a fair question. i don't think they necessarily handled it well. i'm reminded of bill clinton

running against bob dole saying i don't think you're enough to run for president. it seems like these folks probably need to make more of the generational argument and much more subtly than you're too old. >> let's come back to health care, because warren was the rising star throughout the summer. a lot of people thought we would get a biden-warren clash. one of the questions for senator warren after was why didn't you answer a direct question, you want medicare for all like sanders, if you read the sanders plan that raises taxes on the middle class. she did not give a direct answer. she was asked about it after. >> you didn't answer the question about the middle class tax hike on your health care plan. >> sure, i did. i talked about how we're paying for health care in america. >> but will there be a tax hike on the middle class? >> what matters is what people

pay and how much they're paying. middle class families are going to pay less. >> what matters, as you know, if a medicare for all supporter is nominated, the republicans are going to say they would raise middle class taxes. is she trying to be cute or is she saving some flexibility for down the road, because right now go to her website and you see a plan on everything. she does not have a unique warren health care plan. she says i'm with bernie. is she saving herself room to move? >> i think that would be smart if she is saving herself room to move. my instinct is she does not want to be on camera saying i'm going to cause middle class taxes to go up because that is a ready-made ad for any republican or president trump or anyone else. i will say i agree with nia that that debate, we were basically looking around after the debate and it was what was the headline and i think nothing really changed. we have to remember a lot of people tuned into that debate

and that was the first debate they tuned into. post labor day, both elizabeth warren and kamala harris used it to reintroduce themselves. the health care debate they've had is a health care debate we've seen between these people before, though not on stage together. it was very reminiscent of everything else that i've heard. this is new to some people, they're reintroducing themselves and the iowa caucus is not until february. >> it is 140 days away. some of us count. 20 weeks, which if you think about back to school, halloween, thanksgiving, christmas, it will be here before you think. to your point and to what julian castro or cory booker were trying to to do, were they trying to plant seeds to voters out there, is it about age, is it about your ideas are out of step? there was an answer, the former vice president asked about race and he kind of went all over the map and back in time.

>> triple the amount of money we spent from $15 to $45 billion a year. give every single teacher a race. we have one psychologist for $1,500 kids today. we don't quite know what to do, play the radio and make sure you have the record player on at night. make sure the kids hear words. in venezuela we should be allowing people to come here from venezuela. i know maduro. >> his team said he was frustrated and talked foreign policy. record player, i owned one. i don't want at the moment but i have owned one. but his team says that's just joe biden, and yes, he is 70 something years old. that's just who he is. >> i also had a record player in my home at one time. it is in some ways -- the answer was all over the place and worse than that, i think for some people it smacked of some racial

stereotyping that was damaging. he was talking about poor families and uneducated kids and how to sort of rebuild from that in a way that was clearly about race but he wasn't actually saying that. and the question was about slavery and the legacy. so there's some problems there. but i think that castro and booker, this was the moment. if you're going to bring this up in a frontal way, i think they both felt like this was the time. and it's not clear that biden has a great answer or approach to come back at that. but i think he can get there. and the fact that they pulled back so quickly after having raised it, tells me that they don't actually -- they haven't settled yet on what is the best way to bring this up in a way that's going to matter to voters. that's the key thing. clearly he is a lot older than the rest of the field, but is it going to matter to people. can that be the prime issue that takes him down in the field? and i'm not sure it can be and

i'm not sure that they've figured out how to do that. >> we're looking at three leading democrats and the president who is running for election all being in their 70s. is there a difference between young elizabeth warren at 70 or the older statesman bernie sanders? it's all a major paradigm shift in american politics. the fact that biden is willing to do a medical records release early, at least it suggests to me that he thinks he's going to come out okay in that exam. if he does, they all will have to and that will maybe become part of our politics now as we have older people running for office. >> warren and sanders both also saying they will release their medical records. they said they would release pretty comprehensive records before iowa votes again in 140 days. now a republican win in north carolina and what it tells us about the 2020 landscape.

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the republican dan bishop won barely, a 2 point race in a district president trump carried by 12 points. in a district that's been in republican hands since 1953. so the republican should have won bigger. what have we learned? number one, i want to show you charlotte and into the suburbs. look what happened in this race. back in the 2016 campaign, president trump carried that part of this district by a little more than 3 points. last year dan mccready was on the ballot again and it was never certified because of fraud issues. he won it by 10. the other day he won it by more than 12. the democrats are getting stronger in the suburbs. democrats benefit from that. but as democrats celebrate that, even in defeat saying we'll carry that over into 2020. look at this county in the district. the president won it by 20 in 2018 the republican can't won it by 17. a match-up, republicans are

holding their ground in more rural areas. that's a problem for democrats if you want to compete in a state like north carolina in 2020. here's another example, robinson county, the democratic candidate back in the 2015 election won by 15 points. again, the election was never certified. this week the democrat won it but just barely. again, the president won it in 2016, republican support in rural areas still very, very strong. this is fascinating when you look at it and think about 2020. north carolina one example of this. in the big city the president struggles, one-third approval rating. in the suburbs and smaller urban areas, 37% approval rating. but then you start moving away from the populated areas and the president is at 50%, rural america 54%. not the strongest numbers, but this tells the president as you look to 2020, make it about the base. >> we also need to prepare for the coming fight, because the practice additions and beliefs that have made the american

dream possible are under attack like never before with the grim spec tore of socialism descending on the democratic party. we're fighting for this country and we're fighting for what we grew up with, the values that we want. >> as we continue this conversation, if you look at the north carolina race and you just start thinking about 2020, with 2016 in mind and what happened in 2016, look at this poll match-up. trump versus clinton in 2016, the president won the suburbs by 4 poins, but republicans if you go back in time, the suburbs used to be critical. he won rural areas by 27. look at him in these match-ups. biden crushes him and the president holds an advantage in rural areas. trump versus sanders, same dynamic, versus warren, versus harris, versus buttigieg, all run stronger than trump's

performance in the suburbs. so if you're the president, whether you're looking at immigration, guns or anything, aren't you thinking at this point i can't move the suburbs, therefore i'm sticking with my people? >> yes, and i think that's what we saw, that's the formula that we saw be successful for republicans in this district in north carolina where i was a couple days before this election. and it's the formula that we see driving a lot of what president trump is doing. you do not see him trying to pivot toward the middle or trying to dial back the rhetoric on immigration or any of these other things. we see it now in the debate over guns. he's not pivoting and it's because he is afraid of losing that base in the rural areas, the conservative base that is sort of the key to his coalition. democrats are getting stronger and stronger in the suburbs and we saw that in this race. but they have not been doing a good enough job in elections in turning out their base. there was a huge push in this district by the democrats to get

fr african-american voters to come out and vote. it's a special election and it's a limited prism to look at to sort of project into other races, but that does not bode well for them. >> you say it's a special election, but you're right because the trump people were quite happy. he did a rally and used the text messages. it was a laboratory for turning people out. it was a test of both parties. to your point about how does this affect the president's thinking, he's the incumbent president. he said quite clearly after some of these mass shootings i'm for ex span expanded background checks. now we have seen a retreat. between high-level calls between the justice department friday evening, bill sent a signal that talks have come to a grinding halt and prospects for presidential support for background checks appear to be

dimming. his first instinct was do something and his political team is telling him you cannot do anything that might possibly annoy your base and suppress turnout because we need every single one of our people to come out or the math doesn't work. >> exactly. as you've shown, the rural base, many of them like their guns. beto o'rourke kind of played into that in the debate last week. i think the suburban think, you're seeing the texas republicans saying i don't want to run. that is because 2018, suburban districts started to turn blue in texas. they don't see a way for them to go forward in 2020, so they're saying this isn't worth it and i think the trump team also sees that and they say i've got to focus all of my attention on rural districts and get people out. >> if you think about who lives in rural districts and you talk about folks who like their guns, also white evangelicals and they're among the host hawkish on immigration.

we sort of don't necessarily think about that group in that sense, but that's one of the reasons -- he's obviously an immigration hawk himself, but that certainly energizes the base. and you saw him when he went to fayetteville, he essentially told those folks democrats want to change your way of life and he said that he's the only person standing in the way of democrats taking your way of life from you. it's an identity politics play and it works. it very much energizes this group and it makes them have an emotional attachment to this president. and it's very powerful. >> which is why you saw him celebrating the supreme court ruling that allows him to go forward with the asylum policy, which is why you see the administration promoting numbers, border numbers have dropped. help from mexico has helped. and this is why the president is doing everything he can with military construction projects, take that money and put it in the wall.

he wants wall built so he can fulfill a campaign ad. >> that is on the affirmative side what he can do to try to amp up the base vote. the suburban republican side, there are really two issues and even then it's not clear how much he can maximize them. it's if he can keep the economy going. and it's health care, because the divisions that we saw in the debate about preserving private insurance versus a revolutionary change that would give everyone coverage but could raise taxes or begin to unravel the private insurance system, that's something that makes a lot of suburban voters, independents, democrats, very uncomfortable. they have insurance coverage and even if it's expensive or they don't love it, they have it and know what it is. the president wants to try to exploit that and make it so that there are people who maybe don't want to see him for another term, but they would rather vote for him than the great unknown. that's where the democratic

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sanders. a veteran with $14,000 in medical debt makes a desperate plea. >> how are you going to pay off -- >> i can't. i'm going to kill myself. >> stop it. you're not going to kill yourself. >> i can't deal with this. i have huntington's disease. do you know how hard that is? you probably don't, do you? i can't drive, i can barely take care of myself. >> i'll talk to you at the end of the meeting, okay? >> the candidate kept that promise and had a long conversation with that veteran after the event. he also said he is now in touch with nevada's senators to make sure they keep in contact with the man. sanders says if elected, he would wipe out all such medical debt. if you know a veteran in crisis, please reach out, 11-800-273-8255. we'll be right back. -800-273-8255.

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beto o'rourke needed to make a debate splash thursday night and he did. >> in odessa i met the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was shot by an ar-15 and that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that ar-15 in odessa, there weren't enough ambulances to get to them in time. hell, yes, we're going to take your ar-15, your ak-47, we're not going to allow it to be used against fellow americans any more. >> many democrats were not happy one of their candidates used the national stage to push a mandatory gun buyback. republicans were thrilled. >> that clip will be played for years at second amendment rallies with organizations that try to scare people by saying democrats are coming for your guns. >> leading candidates for the

highest office in the land talking about taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens. well, the american people deserve to know this president, this vice president and these house republicans will always stand for the second amendment right to keep and bear arms. >> it's a fascinating conversation to the vice president's point there. there was one candidate on the debate stage and he's struggling, beto o'rourke. some of the others have said they're open to the idea of mandatory buybacks. the question is, when you listen to the congressman's passion, this happened in his home town. it is a flip from just a year ago about a mandatory buyback. can the democrats sell it or would it be safer ground to push for an assault weapons ban. not the mandatory we're going to take your guns. >> i think the safe position is how you outline it. you saw weapons ban, voluntary

buybacks. but i think no matter what the democratic nominee is you're going to have donald trump say they want to confiscate your guns. if you're beto o'rourke and this happens in your home town, it's almost like if they're going to paint democrats as gun grabbers anyway, you might as well go for it. >> the texas republican party making your point, if you look at the tweet, they have a beto t-shirt come and take it. there was a back and forth with the representative saying come forward, which sounded like a threat. if you look at the polling, 69% of democrats support it, only 36% of independents support it and the number of republicans is even smaller. it is risky business, even if you think it's right, you're trying to win a general election. it is risky business. >> but he's not trying to win a general election. he's trying to actually place in a primary right now and he was in his home state of texas where this happened. no offense to beto o'rourke, the only reason he's getting some attention is because of the

passion he showed after el paso. it felt like the guy everybody saw in the 2018 senate race. there's nothing else he has to compete with the people at the top so he's going to go for the sort of darn the rest of the party. if they're going to paint you with this brush anyway, he can go for it. the other democrats can let him do that, keep the conversation with guns going and let's see if anything actually happens in congress. but beto o'rourke has his issue, might as well shoot the moon. >> the other democrats on stage, all of them applauded his passion, but amy klobuchar century said you have left, you have right and me. >> if you feel stuck in the middle, the extremes and you are tired of the noise and the nonsense, you've got a home with me. because i don't want to be the president for half of america. i want to be the president for all of america. >> it distinguishes her, but to your point, it's a primary

campaign. can you sell this? trump was not an i'd logical republican and he blew up the party. >> she's clearly trying to stake out the territory and part of the message is you have to pick someone who is going to be able to go up against trump. but if you want the energy and enthusiasm you need to get to the top of the democratic primary, that would seem to be less the path to get there. it is interesting, on the guns issue what you see happening in congress is very different than what you saw happening on the debate stage. the democrats in congress are very much trying to unite around much more universally popular ideas like universal background checks and things that are less divisive and that poll much higher than things like mandatory buyback. >> we're going to see all this play out this week in terms of what everyone expects to happen, which is probably not cool. >> the republicans aren't going to budge unless they get

specifics from the president and it hasn't happened in the past. i'm not saying don't bet on it happening now, but if you look at the north carolina results and the attorney general's calls up to the hill. next, whether the democrats have an actual plan for impeachment.

"inside politics" table and share something with the notebooks to get ahead of the big political news around the corner. margaret. >> i'm looking forward to a state dinner which might sound

unfamiliar because he's only had one state dinner and this is number two. it is with australia. and there are so many interesting to things to look at. imagine you couldn't have done this two years ago when he took office. remember the leaked cables about he didn't want to take the refugees but there is a new prime minister, a different relationship and a lot of common interest. everything from dealing with iran to china which is really important, huawei and joint military exercises and talk on trade and maybe even space. so from the pomp and circumstances of a state dinner to sort of the nitty-gritty, i'm looking forward how this plays out. >> you're a little bit of a geek but that's okay. but i'm with you, especially on the china stuff, stacey abrams didn't win in senate for georgia to the dismay of democrats but she does want democrats to focus on georgia as a swing state in 2020. it is got 16 electoral votes and she sees her race in 2018 as a

playbook. she lost the race by about 50,000 votes but got more votes of a democrat in history of georgia elections. she sees that democrats should focus on unlikely voters and they focus on swing voters that are easier to get and she wants to focus on unlikely and african-american voters. that state has a third of african-american voters so she's making a play to say democrats pay attention to georgia and if you want to expand the map that is one way to do it. >> interesting challenge to democrats and republicans. which states do you pick to command the map. seana. >> the state court said the districts were unconstitutional but the big thing is they are being transparent and broadcasting live through the process and they have to deliver the maps by september 18th. >> census decisions and redistricting. i love the idea of transparency and open and live hearings. julie. >> get ready to hear about the word "emolument" and that says

that the president cannot profit off the presidency and we've heard a lot from the democrats as they look toward whether they should impreach president trump and about the mueller report and russia. but this is more politically palatable and it is about corruption and self-dealing and they think this is also a very rich vain because there is something new every day that is not appropriate, which is having the g-7 at his own resort or foreign leaders or his own administration tay at trump properties when they travel. so look for the congress to be much more engaged in investigating that issue in the days to come. >> i'm looking for the next national spelling bee. emolument. and offering another assist to benjamin netanyahu this weekend saying he hopes to negotiate a joint defense agreement with his friend after tuesday's vote. that is another trump effort to sway a close election. and netanyahu was quick to tweet thanks. but the white house has been silent on another bigger netanyahu pre-election gamut.

an announcement he plans to annex the west bank and he has hinted he has white house support but france and germany and italy and spain and the united kingdom warning in a joint blunt statement that netanyahu's plan is, quote, a serious breach of international law and awaiting to see if president trump ignores that and them. again, the election is tuesday. that is it for "inside politics" week days as well. up next with jake tapper and his guests include pete buttigieg and andrew yang and republican senator rand paul. thank you for sharing your sunday with us. have a great day. erate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved... ...90% clearer skin at 4 months... ...after just 2 doses. skyrizi may increase your risk of infections... ...and lower your ability to fight them.

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generational divide. the top 2020 democrats meet on the same stage. >> i'm getting more and more comfortable with the way the debates are moving. >> i'm going to make the differences clear. >> did the debate raise new questions about the front-runners? >> it is a competition. it is supposed to be competitive. >> i'll speak to candidate mayor pete buttigieg next. and will they act? while americans worry about the next mass shooting, president trump once again considers new gun legislation. >> i can speak for republicans, they like to do something. >> is that true? republican senator rand paul joins me exclusively