welcome to "inside politics." i'm malika henderson in today for john king. thanks for spending part of your sunday with us. ahead, democrats moving forward with their impeachment probe at light speed, issuing a flurry of subpoenas last week and scheduling multiple depositions in the days ahead. days to go before the cnn democratic debate. is elizabeth warren ready for the onslaught that is sure to come her way and can bernie sanders reassure voters he's healthy enough to be president? and some of president trump's top allies in congress are furious over his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from northern syria, allowing the

turkish mi turkish military to attack our allies. >> i don't think our soldiers should be there for the next 50 years guarding a border between ter turkey and syria when we can't guard our own borders at home. i don't think so. it's a long ways away. we killed isis, we defeated, we did our job. we have to go home. we did our job. >> but we'll start with the impeachment debate. we've learned a lot over the past 48 hours about what led to president trump's controversial july call with the new ukrainian president when trump asked him to, quote, do us a favor by investigating the 2016 election and a state-owned gas company. on friday, the u.s. ambassador to ukraine told congress she believes she was removed last spring after a concerted campaign led by rudy giuliani

and supported by the president himself. democrats who were in the room for the closed-door testimony say she painted a damning picture of trump administration foreign policy. >> every fact that comes out and every credible witness like the ambassador who comes forward courageously, corroborates the core facts that paint a very devastating picture of abuse of power. when mr. giuliani showed up representing the interests of now indicted private citizens who were trying to make money and representing the political interest of the president, who was trying to gin up an investigation against the bidens, that's when she had to be removed. they had to get her out of the way. >> and then last night the washington post reported a key witness is ready to clarify a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with ukraine, u.s. ambassador to the european union sondland was heavily involved to

announce the investigation trump was seeking. you'll remember sondland's text exchange, as i said on the phone, i think oots he crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign, wrote bill taylor, and sondland responded several years later, i believe you are incorrect about president trump's intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. now the post quoting a person familiar with sondland's planned testimony says sondland will tell congress it's only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth. the post says sondland would say he doesn't know first hand whether it's true or not. he's of course scheduled to testify behind closed doors on thursday, one of several planned depositions this week, which also brings sidelines for administration officials to turn over subpoenaed documents to congress. so buckle up. another wild, wild week is ahead of us. and joining us now with their reporting and their insights,

we've got julie pace of the associated press, the washington post, rachael bade and josh to sayy of the washington post. thank you all for these here. >> this has been a wild three weeks so far. josh, i'm going to go to you on this. talk about what we learned from the closed-door testimony from marie yovanovitch and what we may see going forward. >> so what we learned from yovanovitch, the ambassador that was deposed, was essentially what we thought happened all along, but we heard from her dre directly that there was a concerted campaign to push her out of a job, to convince the president that she was disloyal and she did not need to be overseas for the administration. what giuliani accuse is she was

blocking witnesses from coming forward to them to give evidence that they wanted for their investigation. she of course has denied those accusations. and her picture showed a foreign policy that was run outside usual channels, run by the president's lawyer and other associates not run traditionally. we expect sondland to back away from the text message and say i'm conveying the words of the president. i can't say were those words actually true or not. this is just what the president told me. that's a key revelation. he has been caught up in this because he was the ambassador to the european union and then he was working on a statement that was promise investigations. he was working with curt volker and rudy giuliani. he is a key witness in all of this. i think what we're going to see from him this week are a bid to show that his actions were a

little more nuanced and complicated than they may appear and make sure he doesn't become the fall guy. >> we'll see how the president reacts to this reporting that's coming out about what he's going to say. what we do know is the president essentially has the same strategy with this investigation that he had with the mueller investigation. friday he was talking about what he thinks of this impeachment inquiry. >> they know they can't win an election day, so they're pursuing an illegal, invalid and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment. >> sorry about that, some vulgar language there. my mom will not be happy to hear that. how long can they do this? this is a tactic we saw laid out in the eight-page letter to nancy pelosi, as well as the chairman of the other committees and it's also a familiar tactic that we saw from the mueller. >> i don't think you're going to see much change from the

president. his lesson is attacking works, try to discredit the investigations, try to discredit whoever your opponent is and paint it as politically motivated. i do think if you strip away some of the vulgarity, one piece of what he's saying may have resonance with some more moderate republicans, which is the idea of democrats trying to use a political process to invalidate an election. that is something that democratic lawmakers on the hill have to work on in their argument, making the case that what the president did is so serious that they have to take this step. it's not just because they don't like him. >> and the other thing you hear republicans saying is why don't they take a vote on this to make it more official. you saw that laid out in the letter. still not a sense that they would necessarily cooperate, the white house, if there was a formal impeachment inquiry vote. rachel, is that something you expect nancy pelosi to do? >> not at this point.

clearly the calculus here is to try to divert attention from the substance of the allegation to the process. past poichlts of american presidents, there was an official vote to begin the impeachment inquiry. but the house sets their own rules. and unless we see a federal judge say otherwise, they are arguing that they should get all these documents that the white house is withholding. if a judge says you need to have a vote in order to get those documents, then i think they would do something like this. other than that, they think this is trump and the republicans diverting attention. >> something else they have to decide is how narrow to keep this. some democrats i've talked to have said, listen, make it big and broad rather than making it a narrow decision. and here was john favro talking about what he thinks democrats should do. >> if the argument for impeachment is that this is a serious abuse of power and it's not the first time he's abused his power, it wasn't an accident or whatever else, i think it's

important to build a case that trump has been abusing the power of the presidency over and over for personal and financial gain. >> it seems like more information is coming out even beyond ukraine, the democrats have to decide what their tactic is here. >> i think the scope of how broad the democrats want to go on this will be something to look out for. if you are on the campaign trail, when you talk to voters they actually understand the complexity of what happened with the ukraine investigation and they kind of bring up the mueller investigation on their own and say how that got sort of out of control and they couldn't keep up with it. this seems more clear-cut. this seems something that voters can actually follow. so i heard from a lot of undecided democrats saying that they were actually in favor of the democrats in the house pushing forward on a narrower scope. >> republicans having to decide how they respond, they're of course home in their districts

and they'll be back this coming week. this was senator lamar alexander out of tennessee. he said it is inappropriate for the president to be talking with foreign governments about investigating his political opponents, but impeachment would be a mistake, an election which is just around the corner is the right way to decide who should be president. and we also heard from cory gardner locked in this tough race in colorado. >> this is what we're going to get into. the senate intelligence committee is having a bipartisan investigation. >> but is it -- >> i've answered your question. >> no, you didn't. it's a yes or no. >> here's what we see in the house of representatives. you see a very partisan process taking place. >> but the question is is it appropriate for a president -- >> i think we're going to have an investigation and it's a nonpartisan investigation. >> senator gardener not wanting to answer the question. >> i think it was really interesting is those are two republicans in very different positions. lamar alexander is retiring, cory gardner is up for reelection in a competitive

state. and their rhetoric is slightly different. alexander saying what trump did is wrong but not impeachable, gardener doing everything he can to avoid the question. neither of them is walking away from donald trump and that's all trump needs to know right now. his party is still with him. >> are the republicans willing to say this is bad conduct but not impeachable. even mitt romney who got repeated attacks from the president did not call for the president's impeachment. and the president is sending a signal the way he attacked him, if you criticize me on this, 85%, 95% of the party is with me. >> and you saw tucker carlson lay this out saying there's no way to defend this, saying it's bad but not calling for impeachment. >> would trump actually go along with that? of course he won't. when it comes to the republicans, i think this is one of the reasons why the dems want

to focus on ukraine. the more they investigate, the more that republicans can say it's a witch hunt. if you look at the past ten months, mueller didn't move the needle, hush payments to women did not move the needle, having military members and vice president mike pence staying at his own resorts, padding his bottom line, didn't move the needle. this ukraine scandal specifically does. >> we've seen the polling on this, that more americans are favoring the impeachment inquiry and favoring removing the president from office, movement among republicans, democrats as well as independents. we'll keep watching. coming up, the commander of kurdish led forces in syria tells the u.s. you're leaving us to be slaughtered. where republicans say the administration isn't doing enough to stop it.

>> president trump last night defending his decision to remove u.s. troops from the turkey/syria border, a decision

that's drawn bipartisan criticism. they say president trump gave turkey approval to launch a military operation against the kurdish allies who helped the u.s. defeat the islamic state put who the turks called terrorists. the president says not our problem. >> it's a long ways away. we killed isis, we defeated. we did our job. we have to go home. we did our job. and if the kurds do back up, and i hope they do, because it's hard to beat a force that has planes, where they have weapons that the kurds don't have. we paid a lot of money to the kurds over the years, and don't forget they're fighting for their land. that's good, but we've helped them. >> here's how the kurds see it according to a memo obtained exclusively by cnn, the demander of the kurdish-led forces told a senior u.s. diplomat last week, quote, you have given up on us,

you are leaving us to be slaut fr -- slaughtered, you have sold us. this is immoral. nick, tell us what you're seeing on the ground there. >> reporter: trump's statements, that will make many here sick to the bottom of their stomachs, because the collapse of the territory which they hold is happening fast. we saw ourselves how extra order day forces backed by syrian rebels and it seems the turkish military themselves are cutting in half the area held by the kurds from the west to the east. we drove down the main highway, the international road, and on that we saw the wreckage of an suv that was actually where a female kurdish activist was shot dead allegedly by syrian rebels. as we got further down the road there was panic because they heard gunfire and they didn't know what was ahead. i understand from a u.s. official that down that road

syrian rebels backed by turkey had come in and set up a checkpoint, cutting that road off, essentially meaning that if they want to travel from the outpost, they can't use that road. it's the only real main road between east and west at all. later on we saw some americans, a convoy leaving one of the towns and they were buzzed by a turkish jet that flew over them, you could see the underbelly. an extraordinary message to send to the americans. they circulated around the area for 20 minutes or so. we drove back down the road and i have to say people in the area are terrified because this is the main highway that connects all the territories, particularly the city of kobani. but on the main highway there was turkish armored personnel, we saw dozens and more coming out of the desert.

they are there to close entirely the main highway and that's an extraordinary move by the turkish military and the rebels. they're supposed to be at least 18 miles into the corridor and this is 30 down the road and it shows the disregard for what understanding they had with the americans and i'm startled by how wide their scope seems to be and using out rebels to carry out their mission for them. >> are the kurds telling you that they feel a banded by american? >> reporter: worse than that. they actually blame america for this. not all of them. they understand that donald trump sometimes is a little bit more than miss military planners would think. but one man said to me may god end america. they feel america has abandoned them and that's why this is happening, it's the only reason this is happening because

america kept the peace before. now donald trump said he thought this was something that may happen and to get out of his way. turkey rolled in with great abandon skpn it's startling to see the syrian rebels who are backed by turkey and doing a lot of the fighting, how terrorizing they are. >> thank you so much for the extraordinary reporting. chaos there, right, in some ways expected, given the president's decision to withdraw american forces. no regrets from this president. i'm sure he's watching this. we saw him yesterday stand before that crowd and defend this decision. julie, what do you make of it? >> no regrets so far. we'll see as this plays out how the situation on the ground looks from the president's perspective here. what's so interesting about this whole situation is that trump just has a fundamental difference of opinion about the role of the united states around the world.

certainly there has been deep frustration among voters in both parties about long entanglements in the middle east and endless war. but ultimately presidents of both parties have believed that the united states does have special responsibility because of our democracy, because of the strength of our military, and that that responsibility includes protecting vulnerable populations. and what this did president is essentially just pick up and go and opened up a vulnerable population to slaughter. that is the decision he made regardless of -- >> and he's opened himself up to criticism from many republicans and evangelicals as well. here is pat robertson talking about the president. >> i am absolutely appalled that the united states is going to betray those democratic forces in northern syria. the president of the united states is in danger of losing the man made of heaven if he permits this to happen.

>> losing the mandate of heaven, that's big stuff. >> well, what this has done is shown the criticism that he doesn't usually get from folks like lindsay graham, who has been vociferous all week. his usual allies here have really been repeatedly attacking him over this decision. it starts last sunday night. this has been a week so far. the president takes this call from erdogan, he agrees to let them go in. lindsay graham wasn't consulted, a number of senior folks in the white house weren't consulted, and by tuesday you have this playing out in pretty violent and terrible form, watching overseas. the president has vacillated some throughout the week. he's talked about maybe doing more. he's gotten a lot of pressure, extraordinary pressure from congressional republicans, from military advisers, from secretary of state pompeo who wanted some sort of an intervention. but the president so far seems fairly unmoved.

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marry one woman. i'm cool with that, assuming you can find one. >> mayor pete buttigieg, the first openly guy candidate, was asked about how some say their christian faith requires them to deny service to lgbtq customers. >> i have to say when religion is used in that way, to me it makes god smaller. it to me is an insult not only to us as lgbtq people, but it's an insult to faith to believe that it could be used to hurt people in that way. >> the estate of lock legend prince blasting president trump for playing one of his songs at a trump rally in minnesota. ♪ i only want to see you laughing in the purple rain ♪ ♪ purple rain, purple rain

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>> the democratic race for the president is coming to ohio, a record-breaking 12 candidates will share the stage in westerville on tuesday tonight making this the biggest primary debate ever. and this time around democrats will take the stage amid a dramatically changed environment. joe biden's front-runner status is now very much in question. national polls since the last debate show that biden is now in a back and forth fight with elizabeth warren. another major change, the impeachment fight that's now dominating the headlines. democrats have wanted to keep the campaign focused not on president trump, but on bread and butter issues like health care. the ukraine scandal has made that virtually impossible. every candidate on tuesday's debate stage has publicly backed the inquiry in the house, including joe biden who for the first time this week said president trump deserves to be impeached. >> his words, his actions,

president trump has indicted himself by obstructing justice, refusing to comply with the congressional inquiry. he's already convicted himself. in full view of the world and the american people to preserve our constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached. >> joe biden really late to this, elizabeth warren i think was probably first out of the gate calling for this. how does this impeachment fight change the calculus of what democrats are talking about on the campaign trail? >> so far, we've seen most democrats actually keep focusing on the issues. they're talking about health care and climate change. the one candidate we've seen sort of adjust her message is km kamala harris. she's talking about holding the president accountable and talking about corruption.

we're seeing that most democrats are staying focused on the issue. the one impeachment related thing that could come up that i think everybody will be watching for is how much hunter biden becomes a part of the conversation. the other democrats really have not gone there yet in terms of questioning joe biden on this. i assume he will get pushed by moderators on hunter biden and his connections, but it will be interesting to see if any of the other democratic opponents sort of jump in and push biden on this. >> and we've seen some of that a bit, but they've been tentative. here are a few of them talking about this issue. >> there won't be any confusion about the ethical expectations that i will have for the white house and the real story here is the president of the united states confessing on air to an abuse of power. >> i would not allow a family member, anyone in my cabinet to have a family member to work in a position like that. the focus has to remain on donald trump. and the crimes that he's committed. >> and some reporting this morning out of bloomberg saying that hunter biden announced that

he's going to step down from a private equity firm that's gotten some attention and also not do any business with any foreign businesses should his father become president. >> and you sort of wonder why it's taken the biden campaign a couple of weeks to get there. i was covering the obama administration in the second term when this happened and it was confusing, why hunter biden was on the board of this company at the same time that his father was active in ukraine. it doesn't mean that there was corruption or anything illegal bit, but certainly the optics of it didn't look good. it is going to be really interesting to see how other democratic candidates grapple with that issue. do they want to take biden head-on on that, or do they try to keep the focus on donald trump? >> if they go after biden on this, they're basically helping trump. >> absolutely. if biden is the nominee they're going to be on stage, potentially a gop campaign ad a

few ms. down the line attacking their very own potential nominee. >> you've are kamala harris and cory booker say leave joe biden alone on this. democrats are clearly worried because they have faced blow-back for going after biden before. >> they have not given much of a defensive, it's kind of off bounds, the president is terrible for bringing it up. but the trump campaign strategy is not going to let this go away. we have a long number of months. and this morning he's saying he would not be taking the chinese position again. but i think they're going to have to give a lot more answers on just because president trump and rudy giuliani are going to demand it. you can imagine at some point democrats are going to ask more questions about hunter biden's entanglements. is issue is not going away any time soon. you have a president who between him and rudy giuliani think this is one of the most effective

ways to attack joe biden. you see it over and over again. whatever the facts may be, the attacks are going to continue. >> and i think the other clashes we'll see on that debate stage have to do with bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. bernie sanders out there trying to say that he's healthy, nothing to see here with the heart attack that he had. here he was on elizabeth warren. >> i think she is a very, very good person, but there are differences between us. she has said that she's a capitalist through her bones. i'm not. i am i believe the only candidate who is going to say to the ruling class of this country, enough, enough, with your greed and with your corruption. we need real change in this country. >> i don't think we know yet what this means for how voters view bernie sanders, the fact that he's had this health issue. but we're certainly going to see a clash up there most likely between him and elizabeth

warren. >> he's resisted so far in really targeting her and going after her, but he is starting to make the differences between the two campaigns clear. and even when the candidate himself, when bernie sanders hasn't done it, his aides have done it for him. we recently saw elizabeth warren calling medicare for all a framework, and we saw them tweet it is a bill, it's 100 pages. so we're seeing his aides kind of make clear the differences between the two campaigns even when the candidate hasn't done that. and you'll see this week if bernie sanders himself actually goes there now. >> and some of these other candidates, and you wrote about this already, julie, the idea that they can't get any oxygen if you're a lower-tier candidate, pete buttigieg. what does he do? does he go after elizabeth warren? what do you make of it, rachel. >> that's the time to shine,

going after the front-runners. i think also the location of this democratic debate is really interesting. ohio a always seen as a swing state and it's become increasingly conservative, a lot of trump fans in ohio. i've spoken to voters there and it's going to be interesting to see how it plays. they're going to be debating things that will not sit with independent voters in the swing state. >> part of the argument if you're biden and buttigieg, is that you can appeal to folks in states like ohio, so we'll see how this sort of changes the dynamics of the debate on tuesday. up next, is giuliani in or is he out? ally, our unitedhealthcare medicare plans have renew active. a gym membership and more- at no extra cost. no excuses now. renew active. only from unitedhealthcare medicare.

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president trump is going out of his way to show he still supports his personal attorney, rudy giuliani. this comes after the rest of two

of giuliani's associates were allegedly funneling foreign money into u.s. elections and "the new york times" reports that giuliani is under investigation for whether he broke foreign lobbying laws. saturday the president had lunch with giuliani at his golf club in virginia. later he offered glowing praise during a phone call on fox news. >> he's a great gentleman. he was a great mayor, one of the greatest, maybe the greatest mayor in the history of new york. he was a fantastic prosecutor. i know nothing about him being under investigation. as somebody said, i heard a report today. i can't imagine it. he's a man that looks for corruption and whatever he does, i really believe he's a totally -- i mean i know he's an honorable man. >> giuliani i'm sure certainly pleased with that account of who he is from the president.

rachael, how much trouble do we think giuliani might be in legally? there was talk that folks on the senate side wanted him to come before congress. >> yet to be determined how serious and deep this legal trouble is for him. keep in mind even though the president called in to defend him last night, he did the same thing with his former attorney, michael cohen, who obviously now is in prison and will be there for the next three years because he was part of the scheme in paying off men about affairs. we'll just have to see how he handles giuliani. no, in fact, republicans are still looking to giuliani to potentially come into the senate to sort of paint this picture of the biden scandal and what he was doing in ukraine and why he thought it was legitimate and okay. but obviously with his two associates being arrested for funneling money into a u.s. election, foreign money, this is like a jing asset right now.

you pull one block and the two people who put him in touch with the ukraine prosecutors are arrested. it undercuts their entire argument they were making. >> giuliani said that federal prosecutors had no grounds to charge him with foreign lobbying disclosure violations, because he said he was acting on behalf of mr. trump, not the ukrainian prosecutor, when he collected the information on miss yovanovitch, and the others related to the american government and the news media. josh, do you want to jump in? >> so many people in the white house have very significant issues with rudy giuliani and wish that he was not the president's lawyer, do not think he's helping the president. the president continues to see him as a val yabl defender. he's said no collusion or obstruction for many months, he has been a ready and loyal servant for the president i think he's going to stick with

rudy giuliani for a while. what we haven't seen yet is the two gentlemen who were arrested this week were rudy's investigators, were setting up meetings for rudy giuliani in the ukraine. they were paying him for business advice and he was getting information, was getting meetings, was getting talking points from these gentlemen. they were key to his investigation of what happened in ukraine. and there's going to be a lot more that comes out on how they set up those meetings, what they were doing for him overseas. and the president has been known over time when someone is constantly getting bad headlines, he doesn't always stick with them. >> and the bad headlines, there's a political article about this, rudy giuliani needs to stop talking, i think he's massively hurting the president. his tv appearances are so confusing, he's creating an impression of internal chaos. one official described it this way when asked what trump's strategy against impeachment should be, hopefully rudy will

be on the space shuttle. >> to josh's point, there are people in the west wing right now who think that so much of what is happening right now is because of rudy giuliani. he has been running around in ukraine, having meetings, he's been talking about it publicly with reporters, on television. but the key to this is he, it appears, was doing this -- >> at the president's request. >> with the president's full knowledge. it's not as though this was happening and suddenly one day trump woke up and said, rudy, what are you up to? he was well aware of what was going on. they're trying to focus their anger on giuliani, but really the president is tied up in the middle of this. >> next week is going to bring a lot more information. next up, our reporters share from their notebooks, including whether the president's last-minute trip to louisiana paid off for republicans.

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. time now for our great reporters to share a page from the notebook to help you get out ahead of the week ahead. julie, we'll start with you. >> democrats have to wait another month to find out whether they'll be able to hang on to their only governorship in the deep south. in louisiana last night john bel edwards, the democratic governor failed to get 51% in a race against two republicans which means he now has to go head-to-head with a gop candidate making his prospects much more difficult. >> that is going to be tough. >> and edwards is the perfect profile for a democrat in the deep south. he bucks his party in certain cases and got lucky. another democrat to watch who is

in a similar circumstance is alabama doug jones and they need to hang on to that seat to get the senate back. tough prospect. >> can you get enough white people to vote for the democratic party. that is tough in this south over the last cycles. >> i'm looking out for how senator warren responds to questions about medicare for all and health care. this is an issue that her primary opponents have really been questioning her on. on how she'll pay for medicare for all. a person familiar with senator warren's thinking has told us there is not a cost associated with medicare for all that they know for sure. so that is why she isn't responding to whether it will lead to an increase in cost. different plans have different costs so they're still trying to figure that part out. >> that is a big subject of the debate in the slash i imagine on tuesday. rachel. >> so the courts are starting to come to house democrats rescue when it comes to oversight of the president. he has blocked a bunch of their

investigations, dozens for the past ten months, ignoring subpoenas and clogging up oversight in the courts but we saw this tweak two judges both a new york judge and an appeals circuit court level in washington, d.c. rule with the democrats so subpoenas were okay and they should be upheld. the problem is the president of course is going to appeal and all of the digss wi -- the digs will end up in the supreme court and they will drag this out. adam schiff told me the chairman of the house intelligence committee told me they are looking at legislation that would require the courts to move faster so they could actually get these subpoenas litigated quicker. >> good look. getting that to pass. josh. >> the president hos to pick his fifth homeland security secretary in three years on friday he replaced kevin mcaleenan his acting secretary who had been able to curb some border crossing and implement some of the administrations most harsh policies but yet at the

same time never developed a trust with the president and was out. it is the core issue of his presidency. the president hassin talled a number of hard-line aids like ken cuccinelli and whoever now will have to get senate confirmed so the president has to find the fifth person in three years and key for the re-election. >> we'll keep an eye on that. and i'll close with this. while tulsi gabbard is considering boycotting over tuesday's debate which she calls a rigged process likelihood is she'll be on the stage and if july debating is a few people on the stage should be concerned. gabby is a wild card in the democratic primary where she's polling at about 2%. got the best of senator kamala harris in a previous debate and

tuesday is a chance for a rematch and for gabbard it is a chance to go after another lower tier candidates like pete buttigieg, cory booker and amy klobuchar as they vie to move up while they look to make gains by the candidates in the middle of the state and be ready for the far ends of stage where the sharpest attacks have been launched by candidates with little to lose. that is it for "inside politics." hope you could catch us week days at noon eastern. up next, "state of the union" with jake tapper and his guests include presidential candidate pete buttigieg. thanks again for sharing your sunday morning. "fine. no one leaves the table until you're finished."

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