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biggest stores sourced by the best reporters now. welcome back to "inside politics." i'm nia malika henderson in today for john king. after a thanksgiving vacation, congress returns this week to a capital divided over impeachment. democrats have given themselves an unofficial christmas deadline to vote on articles of impeachment. the intelligence committee is finishing work on its final report on the ukraine scandal and plans to vote to approve it tuesday night. then comes the judiciary committee's first impeachment hearing on wednesday, and more hearings are likely before the judiciary committee drafts and votes on articles of impeachment, and if they're approved, a house debate and final vote comes next. a lot to do in just a few weeks. and the white house has a big decision to make this week, judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler was given president trump until friday to say if

he'll send a lawyer to cross-examine witnesses and make his own case to the committee. that's what richard nixon and bill clinton both did, but sources tell cnn that the white house is leaning against it. instead they want to paint the whole process as unfair and ill legitimate. >> a witch hunt, the same as before, and they're pushing the impeachment witch hunt, and a lot of bad things are happening to them. because you see what's happening in the polls? everybody said that's really [ bleep ]. the radical democrats are trying to overturn the last election because they know that they cannot win the next election. >> joining us now with reporting and their insights, we've got lisa layer of "the new york times," the washington post, and the "washington post" dan bolts.

thank you all for sharing your sunday with us on this holiday weekend. let's get right to impeachment. sun min, you have been all over this and obviously some big developments coming this week. what are you expecting from this intelligence committee, this report, any surprises, and as well do you sense that this is kind of ending the investigative portion of the impeachment inquiry? >> i think that's certainly the case. democrats have made it clear, particularly as we've seen these court decisions coming down, involving the former white house counsel and some of the other witnesses that have been refusing to testify, that while, yes, some of the investigations could continue, they are moving on. they are not waiting for the courts. they are proceeding ahead with this tentative vote on impeachment before christmas timeline, which is a pretty rapid timetable. but with the report coming -- or voted to be released on tuesday, it's a timetable that looks like they're going to be met. now the big question is how is the white house going to engage

in the next step of the process. there's going to be a big hearing on the 4th on wednesday, and you're going to see -- we've seen signs so far that yes, they may not fully participate in the process despite the complaints of being shut out of the process. and you've also seen congressional republicans also continuing to make that process argument. they're saying, you know, during a similar hearing during the clinton process you got 19 witnesses, there's only going to be four. we need some equality in that. so they are going to continue to fight back. >> and the president has been talking this process down. here he was talking about the impeachment process. >> there was no due process. you can't have lawyers. we couldn't have any witnesses. they're not allowed to even ask a question. because it's the minority. we have no lawyers, we can't question. >> morgan, what do we expect from the president? he's been saying there's no due process. in fairness, it isn't like the democrats are giving the president everything he wants. but is he expected to just

decline to send any sort of representative and keep up this idea that the process is just a sham? >> i think this is the strategic question that they face. but if they have concluded that they have no ability to stop the vote in the house and no real fear of, you know, imminent danger in the senate, their calculation is what is the margin in taking part in this? if we want to say it's not legitimate and then we legitimize it by participating, are we sending mixed signals? all of the political things come into play, which is like punch them back, fight back. but the way of fighting back so far has been to say this isn't real. and it isn't true that it isn't real, it isn't true that the democrats are making up stuff along the way. there's proceed set out. but if the argument is working with the base, which is what they're aiming for, and if any

pivot points don't happen until the senate, what is the upside? >> we saw him tuesday in florida talking about the base about this process. >> you're smarter, you're better looking, you're sharper. [ laughter ] >> and they call themselves elite. but if they're elite, then we're the super elite. can you imagine? they take this perfect call and they want to impeach your president. the failed washington establishment is trying to stop me because i'm fighting for you and because we're winning. it's very simple. >> and dan, this has obviously been this president's strategy with everything, to hug the base very tightly. they respond in kind. there's never really any sort of strategy to broaden. is this the right course for the president at this time? >> in his estimation it's been working since he ran for president and he thinks it's

going to work through the re-election. and one of the things we've seen certainly in the polling is that, while support for impeachment jumped up at the beginning of this ukraine scandal, opposition has begun to tick up as this process has gone on. and so i think if you are a republican or the president, you are saying whatever we're doing is working. we are dividing the country. there's not growing support for this. and the democrats are now on the defensive, because they had always said this ought to be bipartisan. >> and we can go here to the poll numbers you're talking about. you look back in march, it was 36%, and it has jumped up to 50%. but really since then it's pretty much stayed the same and levelled off. lisa, do you sense that democrats do think at some point that the numbers will change for them in terms of this? and before you answer, i want to jump in with another impeachment poll here. if you look at the numbers here,

46%, strong pro-impeachment, 32%, strong anti-impeachment, and then it's about 15%, 6% no opinion at all, and 9% soft either way. >> i think democrats think that this is a pretty risky process, particularly those in the sort of battleground districts that helped the party win back control of the house. i can say that when you're out on the presidential campaign, this is not something that comes up all that much. once in a while somebody asks a question, maybe there's a question per event, but for the most part democrats are far more focused on issues like health care, the economy, and i think the concern is the longer the impeachment goes on, they get away from talking about those issues. and there's certainly a contingent of the party that believes those were the issues that helped them win back the house and that is a successful message. so we'll have to say. it doesn't seem like this is really changing minds as the polling points out and dan pointed out, the numbers have sort of stagnated with about half the country in favor and

half the country opposed. >> and you see in some of these districts, these sort of swing districts, the democrats are being flooded with ads by republicans who are saying why are the democrats so focused on impeachment, when there are all these other issues that they should be paying attention to. >> and that's why republicans feel on the defensive rignow. i'm going to be interested to see the reaction of the moderate districts once we come back this week. a democratic freshman flipped a republican seat in new jersey. there's some reporting on her town hall this past week when she was back home, and while her previous town halls had been focused on kitchen table issues such as health care and prescription drug prices, there were a lot of impeachment questions at the town hall. she faced a lot of pressure. and i think that she was one of those people that really was receipt sent on impeachment when the mueller investigation was going on. but when the ukraine matter came

to the forefront she has a national security background and she felt compelled to lean into it. so it will be interesting to see her reactions on the process earlier this week. >> nancy pelosi and adam schiff have said all along they reluctantly came to this but had no choice. up next, long-simmering tensions between president trump and military leaders spill out into the open. >> announcer: "inside politics" is brought to you by salonpas. try it for your pain. for effective, non-addictive relief. salonpas lidocaine. patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu.

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rather celebrate this thanksgiving than right here with the toughest, strongest, best and bravest warriors on the face of the earth. we thank god for your help and all of the things that you have done. you're very special people. and you don't even know how much the people of our country love and respect you. and they do. it's why i'm here. i'm just bringing the message. >> president trump made his first-ever visit to afghanistan this week, traveling in secret and surprising u.s. troops for thanksgiving. he also met with his afghan counterpart and appeared to breathe new life into efforts to bring america's longest war to a close. >> the taliban wants to make a deal. we'll see if they make a deal. if they do, they do. if they don't, they don't. we're meeting with them and we're saying there has to be a cease fire. they didn't want to do a cease

fire but now they do. we're going to stay until such time as we have a deal or we have total victory. and they want to make a deal very badly. >> but the president may have gotten just a bit out in front of his skis. u.s. officials say there's only been some erratic contact with the taliban and they're still in the process of restarting talks. american and taliban negotiators appear to be nearing a deal in september to reduce violence potentially laying the groundwork for an eventual peace agreement, before president trump abruptly ended those talks after an american soldier was killed in afghanistan. a taliban spokesman so far says that as far as they're concerned, nothing has changed since then. the americans walked away from the negotiating table and now the ball is on their side. our positions remain the same. cnn military and diplomatic analyst john kirby joins the discussion. thanks so much for being with

us. why now, in terms of the president on making a big proclamation over in afghanistan, and when he talks about a cease fire in terms of the taliban agreeing to that, is that something real and on the table? >> it doesn't appear to be real and on the table now, particularly if you listen to the taliban react to his comments. why now? it could just be that he wanted a head line. it might be that he's ahead of his skis and he got more detailed than he should have been, or maybe he just wanted to make a headline and sort of energize the process that he feels is stalled. so i make an announcement, maybe that changes the game on the ground. i don't know. >> and margaret, if you think about the president and his foreign policy victories, there haven't been many. of course the baghdadi thing is a real one. the afghanistan peace talks stalled, the north korea nuclear deal, china trade agreement, this isn't one.

iran pressure campaign doesn't seem to be working. the syria withdrawal, still troops are there and the israeli-palestinian peace plan, which was jared kushner's big goal, right? >> so the president obviously wanting some sort of of victory. >> i think it's great that the president went to visit the troops over the holiday. it's a longstanding tradition that presidents all take part in at some point in their presidencies. and it comes during impeachment, at a time when the president wants to show that he is focused on other things. democrats are talking about politics, he's trying to make a deal with china. the democrats are going after him for impeachment, he's focused on military challenges and supporting the troops. and it also comes at a time when the president is trying to energize all of his bases for re-election. it's true that he has real problems with the military brass that are exacerbated by a lot of recent decisions, including

ukraine. but the rank-and-file are different, can be different types of voters, different constituencies and some of the polling, recent polling shows that there is perhaps even tick-up support for president trump inside the rank-and-file and that's some of the messaging you see. >> we've got some reporting from barbara starr talking about trump and the military brass. dismay in the pentagon has been building over trump's sporadic, impulsive and contradictory decisionmaking on a range of issues. top military leaders say they are concerned about president trump's divisive rhetoric. they also tell cnn they worry the president's management style, often expressed through tweets, may be undermining national security by making military planning increasingly difficult. kirby, i want you to weigh in on this. >> it's not about may be undermining and making decisionmaking more difficult. it is. just think about his abrupt tweet about withdrawing from

syria and the chaos that that caused inside the pentagon and central command in terms of how do you manage resources in the middle of an active fight. so it's clearly affecting their ability to plan and the military is a planning organization. you have to when you're talking about lives and resources of that value. i don't think that we're at a breaking point here in civil military relations. i really don't. he has been chipping way at the apolitical nature of the military since he became president. no question. i do agree with margaret, i think we're at an inflection point and these recent actions oefrs ukraine and the pardoning of the war criminals, i am very concerned about where it's going from here. >> and concerns about divisions between rank-and-file and military leaders. >> look, i mean, the military is a microcosm of america, so you have people of all political persuasions in the military. you have age differences, older veterans tend to feel differently than younger, and rural versus urban, and yes, they are encouraged to vote.

so you have democrats and republicans. there are no question that in the rank-and-file there's a lot of support for donald trump. but it's also true that there's also many veterans or many people in the military, active duty, who don't support him politically. but this is the key thing, they will all support him from an institutional perspective, from a mission perspective. they take that politics and they put it aside and they do the job. >> and trump has often had a lot to say about generals. >> i know more about isis than the generals. the generals have been reduced to rubble. it's embarrassing for our country. i like general mattis. i think i know more about it than he does. i gave our generals all the money they wanted. they didn't do such a great job in afghanistan. i stuck up for three great warriors against the deep state. people can sit there in air conditioned offices and complain. but you know what? doesn't matter to me whatsoever.

>> this has been a hallmark of his presidency, on the one hand going after leadership, in this case generals, but also he has surrounded himself by generals in ways that other presidents hadn't. >> well, he did early on. that's certainly the case. but what we've seen is there's been steady attrition over the three years of his presidency. and people like general mattis, who was his first secretary of defense, ultimately up and left with a very strong statement saying you deserve somebody who basically has your point of view. we have not seen a lot of that, of people who have served him who have gone out with some anger, but we did see it with the navy secretary recently, who was very upset about the intervention on the eddie gallagher case. >> up next, joe biden hits the road in iowa with a clear message for his 2020 rivals, don't count him out just yet. e d minivan three years in a row. the van just talked. sales guy, give 'em the employee price, then gimme your foot.

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swing through the hawkeye state just two months before caucus day. >> we'i think our campaign is gg fine and i think it's going to help. we've got to earn the votes, got to show up. that's what i'm doing. >> can you win the nomination without winning in iowa? >> yes, but i'm going to win iowa. >> that confidence might not be misplaced. despite consistent attacks from rivals and liberal activists, biden has proven to be a pretty resilient candidate. a poll last week shows him maintaining a double digit lead, while one of his biggest threats, elizabeth warren, loses ground. and when it comes to the early states, he's also in a pretty good position. dan, i'm going to go to you on this. if you look at the early state polls, he's basically tied for second in iowa with elizabeth warren and in new hampshire, kind of second there as well.

nevada leading, south carolina leading. i feel like there's a chattering class of pundits and strategists who say biden can't cross the finish line and voters who seem to be sticking with biden. >> well, he has certain attributes and those have been consistent within the campaign. one is he is well liked within the democratic party. the second is he has the broadest support in the party, and particularly strong support in the african-american community. that is very, very important. but i think the question is, can he sustain significant losses in those first two states. the national polling is fine, it gives them something to talk about. but what really matters is what happens in those early states. if he loses both iowa and new hampshire, then the question is does the black support that he has in south carolina begin to fracture and move else wrchlt we don -- elsewhere. we don't know the answer to that. >> i'm surprised by how bullish joe biden and folks around his campaign i talk to are bullish

on iowa. he said recently he feels like he can win iowa. the folks i talk to also say they feel like he can win iowa. they feel like pete has peaked to soon. talk about the iowa strategy from joe biden at this point. >> i think they think by projecting confidence they help build support and projecting weakness doesn't necessarily make people want to come behind you. i think what we don't know is sort of the mythical quality of momentum and how that plays out. this is a contest where democrats more than anything else, when you talk to the democratic voters, want to figure out who can win, who can beat president trump. electability is the dominant sort of characteristic that they're looking for. and whether you can tell that in advance, whether voters can accurately judge that. but that is what they're looking for is nothing makes a candidate look more electability and winning in some of these races. so once candidates are winning

the contests, is what we cannot know and it will have a huge factor in how this all shakes out. >> seung min, for a while warren was riding high. you look at her recent numbers, overall support taking quite a hit. overall support down by 16 in terms of being the best leader, down by 9, best possibly ideas, down by 17 in best chance to beat trump. what happened to elizabeth warren and can she turn it around? >> the down, the falling of the numbers is really striking because she had a platform of being the person with a plan, having ideas for everything and being able to communicate and execute the plans very well. and dan was on a story with two of my other great colleagues earlier this week on what may have happened to warren. and that's her position on medicare for all. and we've seen how health care has constantly tripped up essentially everyone in this democratic field, but more warren especially. especially when she started

rising in the polls and other people in the race started to attack her on how would you pay for it, how would you execute this. and she did not have great answers for them, and i think when -- when she was kind of put on the defensive and having to clarify her position and having to put those details out there, was really -- could be a really key point for her campaign. >> and pete buttigieg has been blasting the air waves in iowa and part of his focus has been warren and medicare for all. >> medicare for all who want it can work in a way that creates the public alternative, gets everybody covered, but unlike the medicare for all plan, it doesn't dictate that to the american people and risk further polarizing them. >> let every american have the choice to walk away from the corporate private plans. >> so progressives think she's backing off a little bit for medicare for all and then others feel like she's embracing it too tightly. she seems to be straddling both camps here and pleasing nobody.

>> health care is the central thing for democratic voters, like democratic voters care a lot about hoealth care. and everybody wants the coverage of medicare for all and nobody wants to pay for it and nobody wants to pay for their private insurance if they love it. therein you see the problem. health care has not really been a problem for joe biden, though. and what i'm curious about is this no malarky tour -- >> it just rolls off the tongue. >> so if you are going to recapture the essential biden, if he's going to let his inner biden out on this trail, i cannot wait to watch that and cover it. and it's been frustrating as someone who has covered joe biden for several years to see the stage managed biden to try to think carefully of what is the thing he was going to say. joe biden is beloved by so many people because he is a unique character with charisma and i think there are these two sort

of competing strategies in his campaign. one is like let's let him be full joe and the other is we need to get him there on time and not have him say anything that's going to be a gaffe. if no malarky comes up like hugging women and showing up late. >> close talking. >> i kind of think that has to be jour strategy if you're really trying to connect with people, then be yourself and connect. >> and lisa, bernie sanders, his supporters say the kind of folks that are sitting around this table don't talk about him enough. and if you look at his support, it's steady and folks who like him really like him. they have their mind made up. 49% of folks who back him say their mind is made up, 43% for biden and warren and buttigieg not so much. not doing so well in terms of attracting those voters who are just do or die. so what do you make of sanders? what is his strategy going forward? >> i think the question has

always been for bernie sanders whether he can expand his coalition beyond 2016 and we don't know whether he can. he has survived the heart attack, which has been remarkable. this is a big deal. >> he seems like a different person. >> he does seem to have a lot more energy, i will say. he had a heart attack while running for president and is still in the running is a pretty remarkable thing, i think. but whether he can build the coalition really will determine whether he can capture the nomination. what the sanders people would argue is that their voters turn out later, that they're people who perhaps are more working class, we're not as engaged as early in the process. we're working and balancing multiple jobs. we have to see whether that proves to be right. >> and he's certainly got the money to do what he needs to do in terms of ads and hiring folks, so we'll see what happens with sanders. next, a super pac backing cory booker takes shots at pete buttigieg. ♪ - [woman] with shark's duoclean,

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going the way we want, we sit and look at how to make improvements going forward. and that's a continuous process in every area of this campaign. and particularly for something as important as reaching out to minority voters. we will continue to look at what's working, what isn't, and how to make sure what's in my plans, but also what's inside me, is communicated the right way and we're listening as much as we're speaking. >> meanwhile, a super pac that's backing senator cory booker is on air with its first ad in iowa and it doesn't pull any punches. >> he's a road scholar, a successful mayor, a uniter? no, not that guy. it's cory booker. corey doesn't just talk, he brings people together to make things happen. this road scholar mayor has what it takes to beat donald trump. >> pete buttigieg said he hasn't seen the ad and he believes the democratic party must stay united.

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the 2020 democratic field is the largest and most diverse ever, but as fall turns to winter, just four candidates, all of them white, joe biden, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg, have significant support in the latest cnn national poll. kamala harris's fall from the top tier has been dramatic. she was at 17% in cnn's june poll after a widely-praised debate performance, good enough at the time for second place. now she's at 3% nationally and the picture isn't much prettier in the early states. the california senator is running out of money and has laid off much of her staff, but says there's still time for a comeback story.

>> when you look at at least three of the top people on the ticket, they've been on the national stage for decades. they're well known. they are, for that reason, familiar, and the challenge that those of us who have not been on the national stage or those of us who have not run for president for, is to make ourselves known. >> so she's been running since january, almost a year now. is the problem that she isn't well known enough? >> i think part of the problem has been messaging. we had a story yesterday detailing problems within her campaign, how the campaign was managed. a lot of her campaign came from california and most of their experience was running races in that state, which is really different than running a national presidential campaign, and certainly california looks very little like iowa. i think the question is going to be whether she can make a comeback story and get into the top tier of four or so candidates who have been up there for a number of weeks kind of fighting it out at the top. but she has a lot of

competition, senator cory booker is trying to get up to, amy cloeb mar is trying to get up there. and she feels she has a little boost of momentum. we'll have to see whether any of them can transition into that top tier, but time is ticking away and the clock is counting down. >> definitely. and part of her issue is money. she doesn't have enough money to put ads on the air in those early states. the brutal headline from "the new york times," dan, how kamala harris's campaign unraveled. in one instance after another, ms. harris and her closest advisers made flawed decisions about which states to focus on, issues to emphasize and opponents to target, all the while refusing to make difficult personnel choices to impose order on an unwieldy campaign, according to more than 50 current and former campaign allies, most of them who spoke on anonymity.

assessments involving the candidate, 50 people. that was stunning, i think, example of the turmoil in her campaign and how folks are worried about its future. >> that was a very good piece. i think when you get to the core of the issue, it is that kamala harris -- it's not that she's not well known. it is that she hasn't defined herself in a way that people really know who she is. obviously they've had intrigue in the campaign, clashes in the campaign. those are commonplace in a campaign that's struggling. but she hit turbulence in the debate in detroit with joe biden. she hit him in the one early debate and then he hit her. she's never fully recovered from that. and she's tried a variety of messages and ideas and it hasn't come together. in a race like this, you never say anybody is out of it because surprises happen, but when you go down like that, it's very difficult to come back up quickly. >> and consistency, seung min, in terms of the messaging, a

really difficult thing for her. and lately she has been arguing that she's in the best place to bring the obama coalition back together again. >> exactly, but in dan's point about not being able to define herself has been one of the big problems for her. we talked earlier about elizabeth warren's own issues with health care. kamala harris has had her issues with whether you fully embrace medicare for all. we saw the moment where she said get rid of private insurance. and i covered her before she started running for president when she had focused on other issues in the senate. she had talked a lot about immigration, justice for the daca kids and justice issues in general. she made herself known for interrogating trump officials. >> being a prosecutor, right. >> and you haven't seen that as much in the national stage. >> we'll see what happens with her. a couple of weeks ago before iowa. our reporters share a page from their notebooks next, including a preview of president trump's trump to london this week and why he won't be meeting with one of his bffs on the world stage.

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share a page from notebooks to get you in front of the big news this week. lisa, we'll start with you. >> this month we start to get the first signs of how impeachment could impact the to to race. while the numbers on impeachment have stayed stagnant for the last couple of weeks, they've moved since the spring but in races where democrats did well, kentucky and louisiana, internal polling from democratic committees showed that impeachment was a drag. that democrats feel that they lost -- won those races by a

smaller than had the impeachment hearings not been going on because the proceeding in congress encouraged trump supporters to get out there and vote against the democratic nominee for governor. they still won in both of the states but that is why you hear -- part of the reason why democrats are eager to move this process and quickly and get it done as far before the 2020 election. >> and for democrats maybe in the rearview mirror by november 2020. >> right. >> margaret. >> i'll be watching president trump's trip to nato this week. it is a short trip but a lot of crazy things could happen in a couple of days. but also mostly i'll bech whatting his interactions or noninteractions with boris johnson. johnson is one of the president's best friends in the foreign leader category. but he sent very clear explicit stay away instructions because in about ten days their important elections in britain

that will help decide the fate of parliament and whether boris stays in charge and because of that what is going to happen with or to brexit and president trump is unpopular in britain right now. so we know they will see each other at a larger foreign leader meeting but they do not have one of the one-on-ones where the news most often gets made. we did see the president do a quick phone call with boris johnson over the weekend to send condolences for the terror attack but the surest way to make president trump to do something to do something is to tell him to stay away. we'll see what happens. >> oh, boy. interesting. we'll see what develops there. sunlen. >> this week could see a new nafta deal come together that congress could sign off on but for months the president has been hammering democrats on the lack of movement on the u.s./mexico/canada trade deal but there were good signs last week when the top negotiators said there is no reason why the

three countries can't sign off on an agreement as soon as this week. negotiators say they are close. this is something that democrats do want to do. they have been holding out for more enforcement provisions to make sure that all of the provisions of the new labor deal are executed properly and as we've seen impeachment go on we've seen the president get louder and louder about the democrats inaction on usmca but now democrats say they are waiting for the administration to fine-tune a couple of things and they might be able to get that as early as this week. >> i feel like it is close for a while. >> everything is close for a while. we've talked about iowa. i want to pitch forward and talk about how what we could on the ace pate in the future. one of the things is to anticipate a roller coaster ride from here to the caucus. i looked back at the clear politics numbers in the course of the year in the top two people back in march it was biden and sanders who were the top two and in september it was

biden in warren and in october it was warren and biden and in early november it was warren and pete buttigieg and now it is buttigieg and everybody else behind. and seltzer who does the best poll said she says i will never say that iowa has gelled. she's taken polls in the final few days and seen dramatic movement in the final few days. so wherever things look today or the beginning of the next year, hang on. >> a lot more to come from iowa. and i'll close with this. keep an eye on georgia. governor brian kemp is expected to auns no his choice for replacement of johnny isaacson. the front-runner is kelly liftler who would be the second woman to represent georgia in the u.s. senate. yet kemp's possible choice is rankling republicans including president trump and his allies

who have been pushing kemp to name doug collins, a staunch trumpal yir. will kemp defy by naming leftler that could help with women voters in the peach state. one republican said that should he defy trump he could face a primary challenge in 2022. the next senator from georgia will face a crowded feel in 2020 as democrats look to make end roads particularly among white suburban women. and that is it for "inside politics." hope you catch us week days at noon eastern. up next is "state of the union" with dana bash including amy klobuchar. thanks again for sharing your sunday morning. ievers first... like salonpas patch large. it's powerful, fda-approved to relieve moderate pain for up to 12 hours, yet non-addictive and gentle on the body. salonpas. it's good medicine. hisamitsu.

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