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>> 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. new hampshire holds the first in the nation presidential primary on tuesday. and it is a critical test for the 2020 democratic field. their first contest monday's caucuses in iowa. well it was mess say to say the least but it did prove the appeal of pete buttigieg and the resilience of bernie sanders and it revealed the weaknesses of joe biden and elizabeth warren. they will face very real viability questions if new hampshire democrats agree with iowa's stacking of the candidates. we have a brand new look at the race our latest cnn university of new hampshire tracking poll, let's look at the numbers at. if you look right now we're in the final week, senator bernie sanders is on top with 28% support. mayor buttigieg at 21. the former vice president struggling again at 12% and elizabeth warren at 9%.

sanders and buttigieg at the top of the pack here. we took a poll in the middle of january you see this. sanders up a bit. buttigieg up even more. vice president biden slipping and elizabeth warren slipping. klobuchar an gabbert static as we come through. here's a big look at the race. what's important. turnout is going to matter here. look at the big sanders lead, 46% of the voters under 45. older voters once a biden strength and now mayor buttigieg leads there. klobuchar up a bit at 9%, but that big deal. pete buttigieg now increasing his appeal among older voters who tend to turn out. fascinating to watch this. remember elizabeth warren had a great summer and the trend among the new hampshire democrats who describe themselves as liberals,

look at that slide down to 13%. one of the reasons that sanders is up is because warren is done among progressive voters. you see mayor buttigieg 10% in october. up to 23% now among new hampshire democrats who say they're moderate to conservative. look at vice president biden. static in the fall and into the winter. now heading down from 20% to 16%. klobuchar coming up among the groups as well as the former vice president struggles and the mayor is enjoying a bit of a surge. friday night's contentious debate underscored the new hampshire stakes and included some sparring between the two candidates atop the poll. >> i don't have 40 billionaires, pete, contributing to my campaign. coming from the pharmaceutical industry. coming from wall street an all of the big money interests. >> we need a politics defined by not who we reject but how we bring everybody into the fold. ly not pursue politics by

telling people they can't beat our side if they're not with us 100% of the time. this is a time for addition not rejection. >> with us this sunday to share their reporting, katherine lucy, michael scherer of "the new york times," jackie kucinich and jeff zelnick is live. the campaign was chippy. they understand the stakes of new hampshire. >> no question, john. joe biden let's start with him is not operating out of oa position of strength. i was with him yesterday. i was so struck by the fact he clearly knows he needs to "a," reset his campaign, shake up his campaign. do a variety of things different. you have this fight, you have it in you. so he was showing a new side of him.

but it's risky going after mayor pete buttigieg. but there's no question that buttigieg is the person everyone is trying to stop. he is on the rise after iowa. he didn't get a clean win out of iowa. he and bernie sanders split the difference as iowa still tries and figures out exactly the delegates there. but the reality here is that joe biden is trying to slow pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar is trying to get into the mix there. the dynamic, if bernie sanders wins new hampshire as he should, he won it four years ago by 21 points, certainly not likely to do that this year, but that's the story. but if pete buttigieg can surpass bernie sanders or even get right with him there that's a huge story coming out of this state. the question is can joe biden survive another big defeat here? that's why he's trying to mix it up. >> to jeff's point about biden trying to block buttigieg jeff

asked him a question yesterday. some people compare him to barack obama and joe biden took offense. >> come on, man. you think -- this guy is not a barack obama. barack obama was the united states senate over a large state. when i spoke, everyone knew i spoke for the president so the idea that somehow that there's any such experience, he's not a bad guy. what i'm saying is that i'm responding to the assertions that have been made repeatedly. >> biden seems on the having a hard time blocking buttigieg from -- the democratic party as a history of the new fresh younger face. >> yeah. look at the polls that you just pointed out and how biden is slipping. especially among moderates, among older voters and buttigieg is taking away he vote. the rise in buttigieg over the last couple of months has been exclusively taking votes away from biden so biden seems

threatened and there's a new young fresh face. they have only run a small city, they don't have the experience to go up against trump and show they can be commander in chief. i don't know if it works at this point but the democratic party is trying to figure out what path it wants to take. it looks like it's willing to take a chance on someone who doesn't have the washington experience. washington experience is not in vogue especially in the age of trump so i'm not sure if that strategy is sure to work. >> we elle see. buttigieg is being tested right now. you take more harpoons, and a lot of them are regretting they didn't get more aggressive. one of the smart things he did after iowa, you know, candidates are exhausted. they went on to new hampshire, pete buttigieg was everywhere. he was on cbs, he was on tmz, the podcast. you come out of iowa with momentum. keep your name out there.

and yesterday he knew what biden said. biden put up a new digital ad attacking his experience and last night, pete buttigieg said exactly. >> now i know some are asking what business does the south bend mayor have seeking the highest office in the land? you don't have decades of experience in the establishment. the city you're the mayor of isn't even the biggest city in the country. it's more like manchester, new hampshire. to which i say that is very much the point. >> they're going to criticize you, hug it, right? say, yeah, i'm not from washington. >> well this is the outsider argument that we have seen as very effective on both sides of the aisle. look who's president. people don't want traditional washington experience. and this is an effective response here. i mean, i think the other thing you have seen with buttigieg, you're seeing it in new hampshire and in iowa he's trying to show that no one can

outwork him. he made effective use of the time when others were stuck there in washington for impeachment. he really worked the small towns, the suburbs and the rural areas and that's part of the reason you saw him have a surprise outcome there. >> this has been his strategy the entire time with the media. flood the zone with the media. we saw him on absolutely everything after the beginning of his campaign to get his name out there. now, even their pitches, even their stump speeches it's very stark. biden talks about trump a lot. and with buttigieg he talks about trump, but it was more -- it was definitely a more forward looking pitch. at least in iowa. at least the things i saw. that said, we don't know how buttigieg is going to handle going into places like nevada and south carolina where the voters get less white. >> yeah. >> that is going to be -- that has been his problem even going into this race and that from what we're seeing in the polls it continues to be.

>> he's hoping that winning opens doors for him. we'll see in that's the case. a very important point in the contest. let's not forget sanders. underestimated in 2016 and now. he won new hampshire four years ago. you mentioned pete buttigieg trying to take advantage of the outsider thing and bernie sanders is still talking revolution and he says it makes people nervous. >> the establishment is beginning to get nervous. how do we stop bernie sanders and his movement? oh, my god, the people are standing up. fighting for justice. how do we stop that? working people want decent wages, decent trade agreements. people want health care for all. how do we stop it? well, they ain't gonna stop it. >> a very confident candidate. bidech and klobuchar realizing we have to try to stop him.

>> bernie says that you have to bring people together. and we have to have medicare for all. what bernie says and he says he wrote the damn thing but unwilling to say what it's going to cost. >> bernie and i work together all the time but we won't outdivide the divider in chief. >> look at iowa, look at a lead in new hampshire. you look at $25 million raised just in the month of january. bernie sanders is in this to say and if he can get a new hampshire win he would be in a powerful position out of the box. >> one of the challenges for sanders has always been that there were two candidates that essentially were espousing the same very liberal progressive ideas. him and elizabeth warren. that also though is the opportunity because taken

together they had virtually half of the primary vote locked up and he knew if elizabeth warren started to fade he stood to capture much of that vote and while the other side of the party was split up between klobuchar and biden and pete buttigieg. >> look at the poll numbers, among the voters who describe themselves as liberals sanders is doing this and warren. biden takes a much more personal tone of a fourth place gut punch in iowa. speaking of iowa politicians say the darnedest things, math edition. >> it is really sad that the democratic party of iowa if i may say so screwed up the counting process quite so badly. >> new hampshire has a huge role. you're the first primary. you'll be able to count the votes. >> one reason i'm pumped to be here in new hampshire is you are all going to vote february 11th

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it tells you something when a candidate changes his stump speech and into. joe biden's is much more emotional and personal. >> i have lost a lot in my lifetime like a lot of you have. i lost my wife and daughter in an automobile accident. i lost my son to the long bout with brain cancer when he came home from iraq, but i'll be damned if i'll stand by and lose this election to this man. we cannot let it happen. we cannot let it happen. the character of this country is on the ballot.

we must defeat trump. there is no choice. >> it brought a biden team shakeup and the candidate is bracing for another bad night on tuesday. >> this is a long race, i took a hit in iowa. i'll probably take a hit here. traditionally bernie won by 20 points last time. no matter what i'm in this for the same reason. we have to restore the soul of this country and bring people together. >> jeff zellny, biden lost his calling card. he has been saying in the beginning the national polls backed him up that he was the strongest candidate against donald trump. but who has the best chance to win in november? new hampshire democrats say bernie does.

biden has an 18 point drop, can he fix that? >> that is the big questions here. look, joe biden cannot wait to get out of new hampshire. the question is what shape will he be in after the new hampshire primary? it's very much an own question. he has been making that electability argument again and again. we asked him what is your different about your message now and he says he believes that voters still want a more realistic plan. he said that, you know, they really will settle in on the fact that the bernie sanders medicare for all plan doesn't work but it's clear that -- unclear that his experience equals electability in people's minds. sure, he's framed the entire candidacy around the premise he's the strongest democrat to take on president trump.

it's unclear if it's true. voters in iowa didn't think it was true. voters in new hampshire won't think it's true. that's why it's so eerily reminiscent here. it sounded so much to me like what bill and hillary clinton were doing 12 years ago against barack obama. but hillary clinton won the new hampshire primary that year and she beat barack obama. she stunned their campaign. anything can happen in new hampshire. we have people firing at each other from all different directions here. we don't know how all of that works but we do know that the biden campaign is in the fight of their lives. they can't wait to leave here to get on to nevada and south carolina. hoping that southern firewall holds. but again, it depends on what shape he's in when he leave here's. >> 2008 was a long, fun night for me. and the senator from neighboring

massachusetts, elizabeth warren was the democratic star of the summer. she has been struggling in the winter. third in iowa. that's okay if you do very well in new hampshire but she's third in new hampshire as well. she said not to worry. >> i have been winning unwinnable fights pretty much all of my life. there are a lot of people who talk about what races aren't winnable or what kind of people can't win. the way i see it, they're going to keep saying that right up until we get in the fight, we persist and we win. >> fourth in new hampshire i should have said in our poll behind the former vice president and sanders and buttigieg. can she run third or fourth again and stay in the race? does she have a nevada/south carolina firewall? she's well organized in places but that has to translate into victories at some point. >> and new hampshire is in her neighborhood.

if she's not competing successfully against bernie sanders in new hampshire, what's the argument for other states where she's going to be able to get that liberal vote and it showed in a poll that just was released a few minutes ago that the liberal vote, the progressive voters, self-described, are casting their lot with bernie sanders. they're leaving elizabeth warren behind and it a difficult map for her statistically, even with all of the rhetoric. >> and a difficult map for everybody financially. look by the end of november only 4% of the delegates will be chosen by the end of november. four states, nevada and south carolina follow iowa and new hampshire. you move on here by super tuesday, early march, then up to 40% of the delegates. look at the states involved california, texas, new york, some other big -- yeah, some other big ones, michael bloomberg is waiting with a checkbook. then you get to the end of march you're at 60% of the delegates by then. you're competing in a lot of places by once. you can't be in all of the places at once.

so if you have money, unlimited money like a bloomberg who is starting to inch up in the polls then you're a threat. >> i'm sure someone like elizabeth warren would rather run at a michael bloomberg because her message is the polar opposite. you're right, elizabeth warren is well organized. her iowa operation was massive. her nevada operation was a monster. but the fact that it's not translating into votes is a problem. and financially, and from a momentum perspective. because, you know, you can organize, you can knock on doors, but if you can't win where does that leave? >> it's still fluid, a lot more movement before we get to closer to the candidate -- and some things can happen. someone exits the race. dis -- does pete buttigieg do the attacks affect him?

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for the few republicans foolish enough to believe president trump would somehow adopt restraint as a lesson of the impeachment saga, the giant clue to the contrary came thursday. the president staged an event in the east room at the white house calling it a post trial celebration. but most of all, it was an airing of grievances. >> we went through hell. unfairly. did nothing wrong. did nothing wrong. we were treated unbelievably unfairly. little did we know we were running against some very, very bad and evil people. lieutenant colonel vindman and his twin brother, right? we had some people that really -- amazing. adam schiff is a vicious, horrible person. nancy pelosi is a horrible person. it's been very unfair for my

family. very up fair for the country. >> from vindictive words to the firing of two impeachment witnesses. alexander vindman, and the ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland. add in a weekend of tweets and retweets and others who supported impeachment, democrats warned of a chilling effect on speaking out. >> i thought it was disgraceful. it was clearly retribution for them telling the truth and a signal to others to discourage or deter or prevent them from doing the same. >> you know, i hope that the senators who said that this was a minor matter or that the president has learned his lesson, no, he hasn't. >> cnn has learned that several republican senators urged the president not to fire sondland. but a trump aide said it was necessary, describing them as flushing out the pipes. anyone who thought the president was going to show restraint after this was foolish.

that's a kind word. will there be more? will we expect more? >> i think there might be. you know, not only did the president, you know, deliver that kind of grievance filled rant in the white house, not only did he take action, but the white house more broadly has signalled his press secretary said people will pay for waging this impeachment campaign against him. i think, you know, any restraint that you would normally think a politician, a president would have, certainly bill clinton when he was in essentially the same position after his acquittal in this impeachment trial went the other direction. you know, tried to offer some contrition and apologies and that isn't this president. and i think as you've said, john, like anybody that expected that from him is ridiculous. >> in this case, vindman had given word that he would

probably leave at end of the month. sondland according to some sources had indicated he understood that he was not the president's favorite guy anymore and they was looking to move on. you write about the pug listic response to impeachment has been adopted likely that vengeance will be a key theme of the re-election effort. we'll have a year of this? >> yeah. if we go through the president's realities, he's the most powerful map in the world, but he paints himself as a deep state bureaucracy. he believes by attacking other people, by showing he's fighting against the government, he can connect with every man and every woman in small town america. i think you expect that he's looking at other people he may want to fire. you have to remember he was impeached and acquitted and he

feels unrestrained. what are they going to do, impeach me again? it's possible but i think he does believe at this point he's gone through the worst and now he can do basically whatever he wants. >> vindman ousted, yovanovitch, before this, recalled. bill taylor resigned. mike pompeo didn't want to take a photo with taylor so he left. fiona hill resigned earlier. kurt volker resigned. you have the state department officials and laura cooper said the defense department, the inspector general of the intelligence community there. some other people that he vented at are still around. >> a lot have moved on already. so certainly we're watching to see if anything else happens. but a number of the people i have spoken to those to this white house, really did describe this as something that should have happened long ago.

these are people who are loyal to the president. they're defending these a necessary move meaning you won't see a shift in this kind of behavior or into. >> there was one republican, mitt romney, who voted to convict the president on one of the counts. he said i know what's about to happen to me. >> corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that i can imagine. i'm sure to hear abuse from the president and his supporters. does anyone seriously believe that i would consent to these consequences other than from an unescapable convict that my oath before god demanded of him. >> so he was in a twitter fight over the weekend with joe manchin. so the president was talking

manchin and manchin was firing back which i found strange. but manchin is fighting back. nancy pelosi tries to shake his hand at the state of the union address, he turns his back. she rips it up. the two of them not friends. >> nancy pelosi is a horrible person. and she wanted to impeach a long time ago. when she said i pray for the president, i -- she may pray, but she prays for the opposite. but i doubt she plays at all. >> he's talking about things he knows little about. faith and prayer. i don't need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the united states, about dignity. i feel very liberated. i feel very liberated. >> and the two most powerful people in american politics, polar opposites in a very high

stakes campaign year. >> yeah, the president feels vengeful at this point. this is is a president that attacked john mccain even after he died and anyone who shows disloyalty is in for attacks relentless attacks, personal attacks. that's what with we expect. >> sorry, before the president made those remarks at the white house, there was -- even by today's washington amazing scene at the national prayer breakfast. >> right. >> which is typically a nonpartisan event. you know, multiple faiths. and the president was there with nancy pelosi seated a few seats away. as he railed against, you know, democrats complained ago impeachment clearly referencing her comments about her praying for him. so this was sort of a particularly searing moment i think in this debate. >> the president will weaponize anything that he thinks anyone else is using against him which is why you heard him attacking

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step this week in picking their 2020 nominee there's one undieniable twist. first to map in a minute. but right now you would say that the president starts at 204 electoral votes. here's the president's greatest gift. the january jobs report came out this week, 225,000 new jobs created just last month. the jobs growth of the american economy continues. the expansion continues. wage growth starting to head up some. the president can talk about that on the campaign trail. you see the effect on his numbers. this president has struggled, his personal -- his job approval rating sometimes under 40%. and when you ask people just about the economy how is president of the united states handling that economy, look at that trajectory, 63% give the president a good grade on the economy. and the lines are moving this way as we head into the campaign

year. good news for a president seeking re-election. the nbc news/"wall street journal" if you break down the numbers here, yes, some of the democrats lead the president in the national polls. but that's not how we pick presidents. in the trump states, he's strong. but this almost will come down to the swing states. biden relatively strong against the president. and warren strong against the president. if you start here, and the president has 204 electoral states not that hard to get there because north carolina is a swing state. florida in recent elections. leaps red in presidential politics. arizona, democrats think they can win it this year, let's see. the history is it leans red. just those three states get the president to 259. look at the map. he can get there easily by

winning pennsylvania again. let's say that goes blue. he can win michigan again. he can do it with a combination of new hampshire and wisconsin. if you look at the map now the president has a viable path even if he loses the popular vote again. a viable path to re-election. one of his calling cards -- the economy. >> jobs are booming. incomes are soaring. poverty is plummeting. crime is falling. confidence is surging. and our country is thriving and highly respected again. i say to the people of our great country and to the members of congress the state of our union is stronger than ever before. >> whatever you think of the president especially those of you watching at home or around the world you have to look at the numbers. if you're democrat you should be nervous.

if you're a trump supporter -- a long way to november. you should be encouraged. i showed you the basic approval and the job and the economical approval. this is from gallup poll. are you satisfied with your personal life? 90% say they're satisfied. 62% economic conditions are good or excellent. if you feel good about your life you're not inclined to change things. right? >> every incumbent president would die for numbers like this on the economy, on personal satisfaction. president trump is a unique president and he has not ever had an approval rating above 50%. he's been divisive so he has some unique challenges but the numbers in terms of the economy are the wind at his back and the fact that democrats are struggling to find a standard-bearer makes him a presumptive front-runner. >> one of things that the president's successful fund-raising and the building of a massive campaign operation is going to let him do, that the chaotic trump campaign of 2016

wasn't as able to do is targeting the message. so in the swing states you manage to sort of target your red meat to your base to keep that with you. but then, you know, if you're the trump campaign you talk to some of those suburban voters, some of the voters of color that maybe have been less happy with your behavior. with some of the kind of, you know, grievance, you know, that the president always offers. you tailor a message around the economy. a feeling that things are good. >> you may not like me. >> exactly. >> so with that much money all of the voters don't see that same image. >> they can afford to make mistakes too. because they can test things now. >> you saw the scale of that operation too this weekend in iowa as the democrats were sort of struggling, trying to find out the results, they weren't clear, the president's campaign sent in 80 surrogates. in a race -- it was -- they

wanted to show strength. they wanted to i think, you know, sort of create some, you know, drama on their own side. but they sent in 80 people including the president's, the sons. cabinet officials, lawmakers, they went all over the state. they put on a huge show. >> a lot of people don't like each other on that plan. look, the president's gloating right now. he's poking at the democrats. he's tweeted this before. but this image of trump 2020. trump 2024, it goes on and on. a president forever. >> he's trolling. >> he enjoys trolling the other guys. >> he does. the democrats we do not know who we are going to be talking a about next month, next week, frankly. but i think that's what democrats are banking on maybe we won't be talk about the economy come november. it's always a possibility but there's a long time between now and the election. we'll see if -- who the democrats put up against him. >> let me say that one more

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last time around the inside politics table. ask our great reporters share a little bit from their notebooks. katheryn? >> yes, john. one of the things i'm looking at this week is going into new hampshire. obviously the big question is does it clarify this very messy democratic race? another thing to think about is what the democratic turnout looks like. ahead of iowa caucuses there was a lot of expectation that there would be record high numbers. we didn't see that. in fact, the numbers were a little above what they were 2016 but they didn't come close to the 2008 numbers when nearly

240,000 people came out. in the race that put barack obama on his path to the white house. this has some democrats worried. out of the mid terms in 2018 they saw record turnout. they think this is what they need going into the fall to take on president trump and so there's a couple reasons that could be contributing to this. iowa, for example, has been trending more republican. there's a lot of undecided voters and that might be playing a role. certainly we're hearing from candidates and we're hearing from top people in the party that this is a worry. this will be another chance to see if this is a trend that continues. >> enthusiasm gap. we shall see. michael? >> in between all of the impeachment and 2020 news. another big story is the emergence of coronavirus. it's a political health problem but it provides some political challenges for this. the first americans who died of the virus emerged this weekend. that will put pressure on the

president to act more aggressively. the border security approach has been to initially block travel of foreigners who have been to china but not limit american travel. public health experts say that's unlikely to have much of an effect on the virus. what you need to do as a president is to listen to those public health experts, the members of the bureaucracy who have experience in this. the president's well known disdain for what he calls the deep state is unlikely to really help that issue. the other issue is distraction. will the president focus on this in 2014 when president obama was dealing with the ebola situation, he really made it a central focus of his administration for a time. so far this president seems more focused on retribution for impeachment than on focusing on playing a central role in this issue. >> scary. >> president trump was in iowa a few days before the iowa

caucuses. tomorrow he's going to new hampshire before the new hampshire primary. he'll be in nevada before they have their caucuses. what is this all about? the president, the republicans want to medal in the democratic primary. there is a republican primary, but they want to soak up some of the media attention and also show dissension within the democratic party. try to have the democratic primary go on as long as possible having it as nasty as possible saying it was rigged against bernie. i would expect more of that as we see the primaries continue. >> mischievous president. >> as i was traveling around iowa talking to people about why they were supporting different candidates, some voters weren't going to support vice president joe biden because of the -- of president trump's smear campaign against biden and his son hunter. now they weren't mad at joe biden. they actually like joe biden, but they were worried about that

issue muddying the waters much like other issues did for hillary clinton in 2016. his rivals have stayed away from that issue. in fact, pete buttigieg the other night defended him, and there isn't a whole lot of polling on this, but some voters are taking this into consideration as they're weighing who to ultimately support. >> 2016 members. four years after it gave him his first win as a presidential candidate, new hampshire looks ready to make a very powerful statement about president trump's grip on the republican party. a cult is what former congressman joe walsh calls the gop. he said that as he dropped his 2020 challenge this past week after getting just 1% support in iowa. that leaves the former massachusetts governor part of the never trumpers. the last two times america had a one-term president that incumbent was wounded in the new hampshire primary. ted kennedy got 37% against jimmy carter in 1980.

pat buchanan received 37% of the vote and bruising president george h.w. bush in 2002. they were a harbinger for carter and bush. president trump has plenty of obstacles to winning re-election, but he is counting on the state that began his 2016 win streak to make very, very clear his grip on the gop is beyond rock solid. that's it for "inside politics." very busy week ahead. up next. state of the union with jake tapper whose guests include the new hampshire front-runner bernie sanders, pete buttigieg and the democratic national committee chairman, tom perez. thanks for sharing your sunday. have a great day. - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the pressure cooker that crisps.

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picking a president? in new hampshire democrats look to stand out in a still-crowded field. >> we cannot risk dividing america's future further. >> this guy's not a barack obama. >> who has the momentum going into the primary? the two front-runners, senator bernie sanders and former mayor pete buttigieg join me in moments. and iowa bust. a week later, still no official winner. >> this was unacceptable. >> as the party weighs how to address new inconsistencies. democrats worry about what the caucus turnout means for november. i'll speak to the chair of the democratic national committee, tom perez. plus, presidential pay back? he fires