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cummings or stay focused on issues? >> first of all that is an issue it's important for every american to respond. mr. mulvaney said something very interesting. he was talking about what elijah cummings said, he said what he said was wrong. now, mr. mulvaney did not say it was inaccurate, he said what he did was wrong. so, really this is demagoguery. we use words like racism, every american needs to understand the president september out warning shots. you criticize me i'm coming after you. that's why certain republicans chose not to run again now he's doing that. i thought that was fascinating, what you did was wrong, it was wrong to come after me. >> brennan: you are running on a platform with some proposals that involve massive restructuring of the u.s.

government. one of the things you're floating that idea of creating department of children. highway is this different than what the education department does and what is it that you'ren department gets about $68 million. then the hhs, children and families that gets about $48. education is important but we have children who are traumatized before they reach preschool. we have a relatively high infant mortality rate. we have problems that go beyond the things that are already covered. we have problems with the fact that children have ptsd, millions of american children have ptsd that is severe as returning veterans from afghanistan and iraq. millions of american children going to school every day asking their teachers if they have food for them. they cdr, if the childnnot learn to read by age of eight, the high school

graduation possibility, probability is drastically decreased the chances of incarceration are drastically increased. we need a holistic perspective. we need more than education ma'am we need to deal with the nutrition, high poverty rate. violence in our schools. the trauma informed education there are so manyish hughes for the whole child that need to be addressed. >> brennan: when it comes though to even public education, not even level social services you're talking about, a lot of this is controlled at the state level. how do you get republicans to govern states in particular to erything y're ad tth trh of thes we're only that basis or owed occasional funding on property taxes. a child in a financially advantaged neighborhood stands

good chance of getting high quality public school education, but if a child is not grow up, not live in a financially advantaged neighborhood then opportunities are far less for higher quality education. >> brennan: how would you fund it? >> a federal mandate. two things going on. some states have the money to do better and they choose not to. some states simply do not have the money. when -- if i'm president the idea is that every school in america should be a pallet 6 learning and culture and the arts. this is the way to create a peaceful society and prosperous society years from now that's what we should be doing. >> brennan: pay teachers more, $13,500 raise, is that the dollar amount -- >> time not looking at a specific dollar amount. we need to pay teachers a lot more. that is one out of so many things that need to be changed. that is just one thing. we have to talk about what even

happens in these children's lives before they get to school. i also want to feel standardized testing is not important, but so much more than -- as important as it is that we pay our teachers important we have to look at the whole issue of how america neglect millions of chronically traumatized children. >> you mentioned how you have clarified in recent days your position is not one of an tie vaccer. >> what's happening in the world any kind of tasks is knotted with big pharma is called that. i am pro vaccine. i am also find -- >> brennan: you don't object to the antidepressants. >> no. i do not like the predatory practices of big pharma. i don't know why people when we are seeing what is going on now with the opioid crisis, where

attorneys all over are indicting these big pharmaceutical executives for what we now know to be their role. i find the odd that people are assuming in every other area there's just paragon of pure intent. >> brennan: as commander in chief what do you think america's role in the world should be? >> more leadership. our grandparents would be rolling over in their grave to see something like for instance for sake of $350 billion arms deal, we are giving aerial support to a genocidal war. tens of thousands of people have been starved including children. i'm not saying that america was ever perfect but there was time on this planet when other nations and americans ourselves saw that when it cam came to international policy we tried -- >> brennan: cut that -- >> it's not just about putting funding to military i want military to have whatever it needs for legitimate security.

political decision that have more for do with short term -- we need to wage. even donald rumsfeld said we must wage. i want -- we need to support far more our peace building agencies. >> brennan: we'll hear more about that on the debate stage this week. thank you very when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. choosing my car insurance was the easiest decision ever.

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>> brennan: our political panel for some analysis. michael crowley for the "new york times." eliana johnson covers white house for politico. joel payne appears frequently on our digital network and ed o'keefe on all cbs networks. we keep him very busy. joel, i want to start with you. the president sent 13 tweets in 24 hours about congress nanny lie gentleman cummings, it changes the news cycle. it forces the question to be asked of all democratic candidates how they respond. what does this mean politically on the campaign trail when conversation comes back to divisive issues that are often perceived as being about race. >> certainly distractive. forces all the candidates to have this come to jesus moment, that is the question that

everybody likes to ask. i actually think it's rather obvious you can look into his soul when you look at his twitter stream. but the bigger point here is the president is talking about thing that normally are reserved for things that the far flung reaches of the party. people who are political advisors like lee at water or jessie helm we have not had a president that spoken like this. the challenge it creates for democrats when you look at things like impeachment and all of the other things that they're contending is, whether or not they're going to challenge this president to going to be satiating. >> brennan: does it replicate in some way the conversation from 2016 about labeling people? the deplorables moment with hillary clinton when the conversation turns to the president's language being racist. do people say that, i'm with him because i think i'm being called a racist?

>> totally. that's the risk they run in spending too much time talking about the president's words and intent. why so many candidates like lawmakers and republicans for that matter are frustrated because they don't want to answer for everything he says. that is going to be -- continue to be the real challenge. do you talk about him and what he's doing and saying, what he's trying to do or say or focus on what you would be for if you are the democratic nominee. if itw for democrats last year running for congress, see if those running for president can remain focused on everything else, he's being constant that is always there. the elephant in the room that everybody knows about. it's tricky. we've seen some frustrations, he does this to distract you and she pointed from talking about the issues we are trying to raise, health care, educational funding all these other issues.

she has a point. >> eliana now is the trump campaign feeling about all of this? we had some economic numbers thiseek y saw gdp actually come down about 2.1% less than many had predicted s. there some soft nipping or reason for worry that would cause the need for a distraction or is this just the president popping off? >> the one single thing that could really cause alarm in the tram frump campaign is a downtown in the economy. one off statistics, economic downturn over one month is not cause for alarm but persistent and is. we're not there yet. i don't think you can link it to the president's comments. however, i do think the comments are something of a strategy. they serve dual purposes. the comments directed at cummings are, a, a pushback on oversight. they originated from an african american republican operative appearing on fox news in a

discussion about elijah cummings' role in oversight. the president is saying way to s base and part of a sort of long shot attempt to gin up african american voters by saying that person who served in congress over three decades is more focused on investigating the president than serving his own district. that at the very least the argument that the president is making. >> brennan: what is happening inside the white house around this? you heard the chief of staff saying none of this is racist. he understands why it's being interpreted that way but it's the president rejecting basically, he says, ill illegite attempt at oversight? >> i think it's very reactive. as throughout the trump presidency. we know on the ' aoc and the squad a week or two ago

that white house aides did not see those tweets coming. i don't know fess i have i cannily about the cummings tweets. plan to get the president to dial them back to say they have been misinterpreted then he doubled down. the white house was trying to put a strategy around these tweets the president didn't want to follow it. as we've seen throughout this presidency, trump is there, basically in the residence frequently watching fox news, responding to fox news you almost can't over state how much his public commentary is driven by what he's seeing on fox and friends, tucker carlson, sean hannity show. his aides are just trying to reverse engineer from the tweets that they see, what did he mean, what is the strategy. when they trite to put strategy together for the second day the president ignores it. >> can i add, too. i think there is this popular thought, this strategy is super change the base. get baxcite

i don't know if the proof the s is there for that. i looked at a poll, 87% approval ratings from the republicans. when romney was there, he was as at 87%. i don't know if there is any proof that this republican party is more loyal to dumb donald trump than other republicans have been. but i don't know if this strategy is pushing await moderates or swing voters and -- i wonder how much that is linked to the president's language of late. >> some truth to that. i don't think there's strategy but instinct with trump. they are often politically sav savvy. your point on romney misses something in that he was conventional republican who the party thought do conventional things. the thing that caught people's attention, the republican party has followed him and stuck behind him to far more

conventional out rage us places that i think the country never really thought that the party and politicians would follow somebody who had never been in politics before. >> brennan: where is the democratic party is headed this week with this round of debates? >> a big moment. anyone who doesn't think think these things matter should look at surveys taken in the last month since the first debate. were we talking about jewel january castro or kamala harris? were there doubts about elizabeth warren still there? somewhat diminished. you have two interesting society ups this week, focus on the two people probably, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. essentially, when it comes to the liberal wing and ideas trying to push. do they go after each other, how much incoming do they take with

them that are trying to break into that top tier hoping that they get a moment that buys them time. then of course wednesday night, kamala harass and joe bid en, you wonder where that goes. the other x factor is cory booker who still can't find any traction but continues to be the guy who starts -- sort of forces conversation about some issues from the past. definitely a critical moment. the stakes are raised now going from july to september you got hit higher, those that are struggling have to use tuesday or wednesday night to make that happen. >> brennan: did having special counsel backfire for democrats? >> i think that is going to be a popular spot. that old saying if you listen is a debate on the radio you might think that democrats, but if you watched it, the political

theater the special counsel did not necessarily perform quite as well. the real take away, second happiest person in washington might be speaker pelosi. her thought, her way of approaching impeachment probably wins out the week because now her caulk sus a little more in their thought of moving forward. we saw adam schiff earlier this week saying very likely to only way to remove is at the ballot box. that is significant for the speaker. >> brennan: there was some reporting in the "washington post" writing about robert mueller is a peer of the president. but suggesting that there were real doubts and conversations behind the scenes about whether he was up for it. the kind of questioning that he endured. is this a below the belt hit on a public servant or legitimate question? >> i don't think it's below the belt. i think it's a job of reporters to bring out to the public the stuff that we reporters are

privy to mind the scenes here in washington. and those are the things that mueller allies had been saying in green rooms and in the hallways of congress and i think it was important for the public to know that these are thing, it would have been fair had mueller been 65 or 54 or 44 he happens to be 74, but these are the things that had been a real concern, yes, they had been whispered his his critics. but also please close expressed real concern that he was not up to this testimony. i think the american public saw that bear out. it was pretty painful. >> brennan: michael, the president said he had a few wins this week on the immigration. one he also cowped what happened overseas, forest johnson ascending to become the prime minister of the u.k. he described him as resembling himself. >> well, this is going to be an

may maizing relationship to watch. spin ways, these men are very different. boris johnson is a classical scholar errudite, biography of winston churchill, loves to quote great literature. pretty different approach than the president. these are both entertainers who have put their fingers on something in the pulse of our political moment in the world right now which is a kind of populism, a kind of anything goes style, boris johnson used the word "dude" in his first public speech. breaking the old rules and projecting authenticity that people seem to be craving. i think it's hard to know how to relationship works out. the special relationship is probably going to improve. >> brennan: we'll be back in a moment. hey mom, i can't wait to tell you about today.

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general frank. david's report begins at the air base in saudi arabia. >> traveling with general, the top u.s. commander for the middle east was a journey across the landscape of past, present and potentially future conflicts. at an air base in the middle of saudi arabia, 500 american troops protected by battery of patriot air defense missiles are laying the ground work for the worst case scenario against iran. it look like this is beginning of troubles turned into a war. >> i prefer to say it's like this. it's the signal that we're not going to be -- >> i have been here before. in 1990 on the eve of the first gulf war, when this base was chock-a-block with american war planes ready to put out the lights in baghdad. now nearly 30 years later he was taking the first steps in

another build up only this time to put out the lights in take ran. how many planes can you bring in here? >> a lot of planes in the past, i don't get into exact details. >> it hasn't come to that but u.s. and iran rerain on commission course. within two days as he flew over the persian gulf to afghanistan, uss took down two drones that came too close. the iranian revolutionary guard hijacked a tanker. >> scently bordered. >> exactly the kind of incident that could spiral out of control. so mckenzie cut short his visit to afghanistan where they are still fighting america's longest war and moved to qatar where the u.s. and state-of-the-art command center to run the team. general mckenzie is the top military commander not just for

the war in afghanistan but for iraq and syria as well. but ten days of getting on and off airplanes with him has made it very clear his number one mix is war with iran. how to head it off failing that how to fight the. next, he flew to desert base in southern syria in a scene straight out of a mad max movie. the american special forces are part of the 1,000 u.s. troops still here hundreding down the remnants of isis. knotted by coincidence this base also sits astride the mainland which connects iran to syrian allies. we're in the middle of the highway and base is right in the middle of it, certainly a major channel of communication. it carried us out of syria, in place refueling. for a visit, which was taken down those iranian drones. nobody wants war but as captain

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