the democratic columns. i wonder what the effect would be if the democrats had six-year limits on being the chair or ranking member. aret: one of the reasons we seeing so many republican retirements is that there is this six-year limit on making members and chairs on the republican side. mike conaway was the ag chair. he is retiring. we are looking at historical data. saws going back to 2008, we six democratic retirements and 27 republican tyrants. -- republican retirements. at three, we are democrats leaving and 11 republicans leaving. we are on pace for something similar to 2008. i don't expect democrats to win as many of those open seats because we have a more polarized landscape. another side effect of this, a areof those old bulls getting primary challenges from the left. engel on foreign affairs, richard neal for massachusetts, jerry nadler on judiciary, one of the most liberal democrats in the house as a primary primaryer -- has a challenger saying he hasn't been progressive enough in pursuing impeach

democratic-socialist, and that is a term most democrats would not associate themselves with. and they look really different. they are younger, they are whiter, they are more educated than the general population with a different set of priorities. host: what is the percentage? how much of the democratic party of primary voters do they make up, these hyper engaged? guest: there are about 1/10 of the overall primary electorate . we are only looking at likely primary voters. this is not about getting to swing voters in the general election. this is just the primary. it kind of happens in every off year, that the hyper engaged drive the conversation, and then the primary voters actually come in and vote, and they vote for different candidates. we saw this happen in 2017, before the 2018 midterms, where all of these news reports that the left took over the democratic party, that our revolution were putting up all these candidates. when we came to voting in 2018, a lot of those folks lost their primaries. only 33% of them won their primaries, whereas the folks who are the new dems,

to democratic, 2020 cycle. and basically if you -- everybody individually also donated $10 that would get another $250,000. we can raise $600 billion by simply saying to democratic voters who are already donating, separately on your own, donate ten bucks and kamala harris and pete buttigieg and all the rest put your money where your mouth is right now. you're not going to become less competitive. i want a democratic candidate to say i am not against banning assault weapons. that's the way things get done. sam, start with you and tell me how insane i am. >> i think if the democrats want to go down this route from a national level it failed in 2016. you had michael bloomberg spend a lot of money. he had a fund. he put up a hundred million dollars and targeted four senators. i believe three republican senators, one re-election, including pat toomey. now, ironically, in pennsylvania pat toomey has proposed background checks, red flags. and i think that was one way he was able to get a lot of suburban voters. at thi

guest: the emphasis with democratic-socialist is about democratic control. ideas of a nationalized state that is from the top down -- from what they have told me, it is something they are very much against. they see a role for the federal government in ensuring certain principles when it comes to race and gender, et cetera. otherwise, when it comes to the workplace and when it comes to local economies, what they want to see his democratically consortiums. that is what they seem to be seeking and they are not at all interested in nationalized, top-down hierarchies and certainly not unelected boards that are going to determine various decision-making processes in the economy. i see that as a major difference in what you see from this younger, energized democratic-socialist left. you also brought up a point, if you were born in the 1990's or with, you did not grow up the soviet bloc versus western global and that bipolar world. were born before 1990 or so, that was the world you knew and how you still understand the world, as well. the democratic-socialists tod

michigan democrats are paying attention. they are engaged, and they are ready to get rid of donald trump. [applause] you all are ready, too. michigan has been at the forefront of the comeback states, but we keep things real here, and not all of us have benefited from the rising tide. we still have serious challenges with our schools and urban areas and rural towns throughout the state. our infrastructure is worried -- it rained the worst in the nation. the great states are under threats and the people of flint continue to go without safe drinking water. all the while, we still have people working two jobs to three jobs to make ends meet because minimum wage is not enough. it is not enough to survive on or to support a family, but real talk does not mean we are not on the right track. michigan is now truly on the comeback trail with governor governor,eutenant attorney general dana nestle, secretary of state jocelyn and senatortors, gary peters who will return to the u.s. senate. [applause] are great progressive leaders who kn

democratic caucus. there's a couple of races right now against steny hoyer and then millenial mel in san francisco, are those just quicksot nick and there's discussion blonder blonder the direct partyes reformable and if the effort right now to primary democrats and work with the democratic party should be a stepping stone to building a new party or just kind of going to remain this way and chang the democrats. >> whether or not -- you don't want to count anybody out. ocasio-cortez showed that people can shock you on election day. those particular challengers have extra long shots. butar in san francisco has to overcome all of the obstacles in primary but pelosi presumably will finish in the top two and goes to the general election and that makes it -- means he would have to beat her twice out there. also a third candidate running in san francisco which will dilute that. i don't want to discourage anybody from running but i don't have a whole lot of hope for that one. the one in southern maryland with h

if president obama is too conservative who will the democrats nominate? the origins of the russia probe. the news is not good for former fbi director james comey. we have senator michael e with a direct call when he joins us live. i am shannon bream in washington. live team coverage of what is really behind the progressive attacks on former president obama but we start with mike tobin at the latest rally tonight. >> the president seemed a little careful tonight to avoid those subjects and took over the narrative. the president did go after the squad saying the democratic party is being led by four left-wing radicals who reject everything we hold dear. he did not mention representative ilhan omar or spark the chant send her back, talked about wasted many inner-city but did not go after elijah cummings or baltimore, wasted no time going after democrats applying for his job. >> watching the so-called debate last night and the democrats spent more time attacking barack obama then they did attacking me practically. >> reporter: demonstrators interrupted the sp

donald trump's approval rating with democrats, 4%. so the fact that we spent more time talking about a wildly popular president and not talking about donald trump is just -- ceases to amaze me. and on health care we just won the house of representatives in large part because we wanted women voters across this country on health care, on going after trump's attempts to get rid of preexisting conditions and get rid of some of the protection thas obamacare give us. and instead of talking about that and staying on the offense with republicans, we're proposing pie in the sky schemes that will have us on the defense, just politically. you can argue substance all you want, but just politically we are better off staying on the offense on president trump, on health care, and on economic issues that make sense to voters. and i just don't fundamentally get the strategy of going after the most popular democratic president in modern memory, and by the way, you're dragging in michelle obama. her approval rating with democrats is like 1,000%. none of

yet democrats. want to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, on illegal migrants instead of supporting their own struggling communities, no good. hno good. the conditions in nancy pelosi's once great city of san francisco are deplorable. do you remember the world demore able? -- the word demor deplorable. do you remember what hillary used that word, she used deplorable and irredeemable right? i said, what a terrible mistake she used that word irr irredeem. it turned out to be deplorable, that was not a good day for hillary, crooked hillary, she is a crooked one, crooked. she is crooked . nearly half of all homeless people living in the streets in america, happen to live in the state of california. what they are doing to our beautiful california is a disgrace to our country, it is a shame. the world is looking at it, look at los angeles, with the tents, and the horrible, disgusting conditions. look at san francisco, look at some of your other cities, and then you have a governor, you have a governor

that's how the democrats did well in 2018.o right now i think the candidate who is going to come out of these debates on top at least in the polls isn't necessarily the one we and the media elect as the winner. it's the one who seems to be appealing to middle-of-the road democrats would want someone who's nonscary, who's familiaring and reassuring and they think can beat trump next year. >> that's why i always find iowa and new hampshire are just a little bit different than your typical political reporter. we'll just leave it there. up next, senator, kirsten gillibrand joins us. we are going to get her thoughts on last night. and what name-brand cleaning product she used to clean up washington. >>> and later they call him "moscow mitch," and he doesn't like it one bit. this new nickname that some opponents have stuck on mitch mcconnell has gotten under his skin. is this what has him unnerved? >>> but first one of the memorable moments from last night's debate. >> i believe you can draw a straight line from slavery through jim

: 93% of the house democrats did vote against the bds -- >> capri: that was my point. >> david: if democrats are going to win in 2020, they have to win states like capri's home state of ohio. they have to win in states like wisconsin. states like michigan. when you have these three democrats controlling message, whether that be about impeachment, whether it be about cortez driving amazon out of newark, the messages that are not going to win the swing voters. strategically, you understand why capri says what she says. the problem is, it's where most of the democrats are. >> capri: it's not, though. that's what it looks like because -- >> david: capri, most democrats -- >> melissa: we need to get those ladies to step back and off tv for a few days. >> capri: we need to be consistent. if we are going to say trump needs to apologize, we have to say our own need to apologize for things, too. >> melissa: democrats slamming president trump on a proposal to end the limits of detention of migrant families. critics say this is a continuation of the administration's cruel immigration policies. how the

these retirements will be seen as a huge opportunity for democrats, but only if democrats can get out of their own way, flood the zone, run good candidates with a >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> mr. vice president, there is a saying in my community, you're dipping into kool aid and you don't even know the flavor. >> round two is over. >> we have a predator living in the white house. >> tonight the big takeaways. >> i get a little bit tired of democrats afraid of big ideas. >> the competing visions for democratic leadership. >> i don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the united states just to talk what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for.

now, i plan on being that candidate. >> cory booker also saying democrats must rally around the democratic candidate and also he plans on being that candidate. joining us now is new jersey senator and democratic nominee cory booker. senator, thank you for being here. >> it's really good to be on, joy. thank you for having me. >> not a problem at all. let's talk a little bit about last night. you and senator biden really went head-to-head at certain points during the debate. you did drop the dipping in the kool-aid and don't know the flavor line which as a generation xer i appreciated. but the question you're going to have with senator biden is that he is very strong among african-americans. looking at this polling, steve kornacki sent this to me last night, voters 65 and older who are african-american, 58% support vice president biden. 27% among younger voters. it's the voters with the church hats that vote. the older folks vote. how do you chip into his record if he's the guy defending obama, who black voters love, and you're the guy contesting some of that obama/biden record? >> well, fi

the democrats need to pick up three seats. if there is a democrat in the white house, the vice president could break the tie. this is a very competitive situation. and just today, former colorado governor john hickenlooper announced that he is going to run in this competitive race for senate where you have cory gardner, the incumbent, and basically a tossup race. it has been rated a tossup by a lot of analysts. what do you think john hickenlooper will do entering this race for your candidate, and do you think you can hang on to colorado? steven: i think john hickenlooper's entry is not a bad thing for republicans. he ran a disastrous race for president. he managed to actually make joe biden look young and spry in that race. i don't see any sign that the democrats will step aside for a guy who turned in a d-minus performance for president. i think it could potentially complicate their primary. even if he emerges as the nominee, and i am not sure he does, hickenlooper has not been seriously tested. the last republican he defeate

>> introduce me to those democrats. i'm happy to disabuse them of that idea. 2016,e misnomer about while the trump campaign itself didn't happen to have an apparatus, it is clear that the rnc over the course of the previous four years actually did a good job at building infrastructure. he was also supported by a huge network of conservative organizations that have been on the ground in the states since the election of president obama in 2008. there's no question that president trump will have more money. the good infrastructure in more places. they are already advertising online and television. they are organizing on the ground. democrats have to match that. obviously, we have the primary. they will help us build our infrastructure, talking to our base, focusing on producing a good nominee. we can't afford to wait. even though we have a primary going on, priority is focused on general election states and messaging. we can't afford to give donald trump a head start when it comes to the general election. i encourage every

which just isn't true as i said that no no democrat to modern knowledge has been pushed out of the democratic party because their views were not in line with the party whereas. max max boot bill kristol george conway are no longer part of this party as we know it but i would say is that messy pelosi said very clearly in the midterm election run in your district run the values in your district and a lot of people won because they've they represented the values of their district there are people across this country who ran and who won in arizona and ohio and elsewhere because they represented their constituents so i don't i don't buy this that there's that everyone looks like the squad in the democratic party ok but let's go back go back to one something i just want to bring and jump in go ahead go ahead yeah. well one point remington made is you know people have been pushed out right max boot and george will for people who know them chose to leave the party and they're now independents people like bill kristol george conway who is married to cali and conway who is a white house adviser and mys

democrats, andhe i used to be a democrat. the democrats want to give you handouts.hey want to give you the fish for the day. republicans want to give you a helping hand so they give you the fishing pole so you can catch the fish when you're hungry. i'm so sick of the race card. for eight years we had a president -- that woman that says she researched trump and that garbage, i'm not saying he is god or anything. they made obama the messiah. i looked up -- i wanted to vote for him. terrorist andr tors, going back to reverend wright and farrakhan, his buddy farrakhan. all these people. ors, bergdahlt and the other when he helped. these are the people he wanted to help. host: thank you for that call. every miter, if you want to -- a reminder, if you want to watch our interview with president trump, watch it saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. that's followed by the first of the two cnn debates. our thanks to the network for allowing us to rebroadcast the debates in their entirety in case you missed them. 1030 one will be airing at a.m. eastern time on saturday morni

>> well, i think there's an interesting dynamic where democrats, some democrats decided attacking thegacy is more important than attacking donald trump. and being clear about the fact that donald trump is doing things to the moral fabric of this country that are unacceptable. on health care vice president biden is incredibly proud of the affordable care act and always going to defend it. i think he was in 2018 went around the country in the mid-terms making the case for the affordable care act. that's why democrats won the house back in 2018. it's something voters care about and want to hear about. what you heard from him last night was a very clear aggressive defense of a program, a piece of legislation that fundamentally reformed health care in this country, extended the peace of mind of health insurance to 20 million americans. again ensured people with pre-existing conditions didn't have to be -- could be covered. ensured young people could stay on their parents' insurance until they were 26. that was a tough fight. most people watching this fight in 2009, 2020 remember this. vice

it was democrat, it goes republican. is a broadoe swath of peoe with a lot of ideas, unlike liberals. i don't hit people with a political -- ideology difference to me. i talk to democrats in the gym all the time. i i've heard it too. people are tired of this. can we just be candid and go through the b.s. permit? liberals give up on america a long time ago. i have no problem at all saying there's nothing they like about this country. they hate freedom, they hate free markets, they hate public, safety, they hate giving parents school choice. anything that involves freedom or the constitutional republic as we know it theyst hate. is this wearingt, thin? of course it's -- that's why we got donald trump, because he wouldn't take it. he just fired back instead of apologizing every time someone taken the media disingenuously through the word of him. he fought back and americans said racism, listen, it's always going to be a problem but as a percentage of the population were racism is a systemic problem, it's infinitesimally sma

>> the democratic officials that i've been talking to say that democrats need to recognize most democraticresidents have never won the white vote. there have been very rare cases lyndon johnson, clinton in his second term. for the most part, democrats haven't been able to win white men in this country for a long time. they're very worried that people are not going to go after the people who feel scared in this country. i think what i've taken away from my reporting in missouri and ohio is people viscerally feel like their children and their parents and their families are under attack in this country and that the president's making that situation worse. i was just talking with people getting screamed go back to their country on their streets in dayton, ohio. this isn't just the president kind of making feel worried. it's people having to deal with it in local communities. i've been talking to trump supporters excited by the president's rhetoric. they're not saying i'm embarrassed. they saying we like he's telling people to go back to their countries.llworried. >> yeah, and i can tell you ti

a new cnn poll shows the majority of americans and democratic-leaning independents want a democratic nominee who will beat donald trump. 54% prefer a democratic party nominee with a strong chance of beating donald trump. 39% prefer a democratic party nominee who shares their positions on major issues. in that poll, joe biden continues to lead the democratic field with 29% of the vote. that is up 7 points since june -- since june and that cnn poll. the poll does not show significant gains for any other candidate. bernie sanders is at 15%. that's up 1 point. elizabeth warren is at 14%. that's down 1 point. kamala harris is down 5% and that's down 12 points since june. pete buttigieg is at 5%. that's just up 1 point. and beto o'rourke is still at 3% with no change since june. no other candidate gets more than 2% of the vote in that poll. there is good polling news for democrats in senate races also. in arizona, a new poll shows the incumbent republican senator martha mcsally not only running below 50%, which in itself would be a very bad indicator for any incumbent, but it shows her run

democratic leaders and most democrats are sticking with omar and tlaib in this case.hey have called it unprecedented for a president to urge a foreign government to block u.s. citizens, let alone duly elected members of congress from entering another country. we have not seen this in recent memory. they say it sets an incredibly bad precedent and leaders are saying this does damage to the whichsraeli relationship, steny hoyer and kevin mccarthy have said is the strongest in the world. just last week, meeting with netanyahu and uttering those types of sentiments. host: how so? caller: have so? to theaeli ambassador united states, according to steny hoyer in a lengthy statement he put out yesterday, had communicated and given assurances to hoyer that the two women -- that every member of congress would be allowed to enter israel and steny hoyer believes that trust has been violated, that he was misled by the israeli ambassador and put that in writing yesterday, which was quite jarring. that is one example of sort of the frayed relationship we see at the moment between t

this is democrats and republicans giving democrats advice, echoing president obama, who warned about this before the campaign even got going at a town hall in berlin earlier this year. >> one of the things i do worry about sometimes among progressives in the united states, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, ah, i'm sorry, this is how it's going to be. and then we start sometimes creating what's called a circular firing squad. where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues. >> well, that sentiment is being echoed now. cnn political commentator paul begala earlier today. >> this is my problem with the debate. i believe many of these candidates seeking to win the nomination are setting themselves up to lose the presidency to donald trump. >> he's arguing in the effort to win the primaries, democratic candidates are moving so far left they won't be able to win in a general election. senate majority leader chuck schumer said we shouldn't create a trap to fall into. no circular firing squads, he added

why that is important is because they're going to speak directly to democratic voters on democratic issues create moments that go viral that they want to push out to the supporters. it is life or death now because it is coming down to closing the sale. you don't have to close the sale to actually have somebody make the purchase, you just have to keep them still interested in you right now and i think abby is right about that. but you need to start making that close now. >> how do candidates tay in if they aren't going to be elevated to talk to voters in this way? can they? >> many of them won't is the reality of it. i think the deadline is august 28th, the end of the month to qualify for the next debate and if they don't, they have some really tough decisions to make. if they are self funding like john delaney, millions of dollars at their disposal maybe they could try to keep going and make the october debate but if you are a kirsten gillibrand, if you are one of the lower tier candidates who isn't using their own money to fund their campaign, they're going to have to make a tough decisio

but now the democrat lies lay bare. announcing a new role on family detention, keeping families together, president trump is drawing out the 2020 democrats true radical nature. brilliant. the new rule and the long-standing and absurd catch and release approach that basically lets illegal immigrants with children disappear into the country's inferior and ultimately avoid ever having to go before an immigration judge. now, families under this new rule will be held together. an improvised housing while they await their day in court. in children, of course, at the time will be protected from human traffickers. >> so president obama had separation. i'm the one that brought them together. this new rule will do even more to bring them together. but it was president obama that have the separation. very much i have the children on my mind. it bothers me very greatly. >> laura: reacting to this like moths to a flame, the democrats could not help but reveal the open borders fanatics that they truly are. >> instead of working to ke

this also p ts pressure democrats. we've seen some of t tension between nancy pelosi and her mention so i think this has a double benefit of exciting his base and driving democrats to distraction. robert: the white house and some close to thent presi may think this has a benefit to him politically but you look at the news today. will heard, 41 years old, t lone black house republican decides he's not going to seek n re-election 2020 and he said on the record part ofis decision is because the president's incendiary rhetoric. >> i think it raises questions out the future and direction of the len -- republican party. right, he was the lone black republican member in congress. they have very few women. there's esstially no diversity in the republican caucus right now and i think that is a big otncern for af mention. the other big concern is that without him and members like him, it's harder to get people like him in congress so it kind of has a domino effect. we could also see otherem mrs announce they want to rire. will h

virtually every democrat was opposed. i understand the white house's eagerness to make them the face of the democratic party. if you look at the polls, the generic ballot, who would you vote for for congress can act a democrat or republican connect the democrats today -- it's not working. donald trump will try to demonize people of color. it will be done today, people crossing the border tomorrow. and somebody else between now and election day. most of the public is tired of it. they just don't -- >> harris: i'm going to step in here. you hit the race button pretty early in the hour. i am surprised that you don't say that the president is dinging them on their policies and their ideas. by the way, melissa brought up the whole chasm, potentially, in your party because of the oxygen-sucking they are doing away from your 2020 presidential candidates. i know you are down to 22 or 23 now survey beads doodling to something you can handle. the bigger issue here is the box it puts democrats in who don't agree with these 2 to 4 wo

democrats need a strong leader. that can stand toe to toe with him and it wasn't just chris saying that. it was a very diverse panel. everybody seemed to agree. richard haass, they also agreed on something else, getting down in the weeds. jonathan alter said, stop leading with your chant. like don't talk about decriminalizing illegal border crossings because you're never going to get to that. like that's going to be like the 12th thing you get to. you put your -- you know, comprehensive immigration reform plan together. democrats should say we're for a comprehensive immigration reform. we think dreamers should be able to take part in that american dream. we're for universal health care. we don't know exactly how we'll get there. we just know we'll get there together as a party and we'll try to bring in independence and republicans and everybody and that's our goal. and stop fighting each other over these small exaggerated differences that they think might help them get one or two percentage points from the far left

if you're somebody who maybe voted for democrats and wants reason to vote for democrats again in '20 saw strength on that stage last night. >> we're glad to have you back on the broadcast. what was the after action reporting from the various camps that you picked up today? >> you know, i dprooe with a lot of what was just said. one thing that was interesting in terms of how the candidates appeared whether they could go toe to toe with trump, it looked at the beginning of the week where we could see a situation where a lot of debates would be dominated of talks of trump's tweets about baltimore and chairm chairman cummings. on the other hand i think this is something that democrats will have to wrestle with as they head towards the general election is how to come up against trump. do you argue with him on his level and get pulled into the tweet storms and the inflammatory comments. do you keep advancing an affirmative vision for how you would govern as president? for the most part they did criticize trump and did stay away from his rhetoric. we're making a mistake that hillary clinton

rob: blasting democrats for failing america's inner-city's after decades of control but i democrats tolame? jillian: the author taken for granted, how conservatism can win back the americans that liberalism failed. fox news political analyst gianna caldwell. you have quite a likely title. >> thank you so much. donald trump hasn't with this book. and coulter, ben shapiro, newt gingrich, brian kilmeade. i'm excited about this. jillian: let's talk about what is going on in baltimore and inner cities seeing issues. you heard the president make reference to this last night, he has been talking about it. a 25-year-old boy who is able to escape trouble in baltimore, and he ended up getting a college football scholarship and came back to baltimore and one of his social workers, and he was shot and killed last weekend, 24 years old in baltimore, 38 in july. what is the problem? >> that is pretty heavy. this is something, individuals don't take life seriously. they are taking so many lives across the country, talk about who is to blame for this, elected officials, they should have taken authorit

mccready is a democrat. he's actually very vulnerable on nonpartisan issues because he won't answer questions and it looks like he's hiding liberal views. and the voters are starting to sense that. so, i think in the one way, every election for congress has a local element. they have people they like and don't like. this one is starting to become nationalized. it's going to be, will a trump supporter, republican, be able to win what should be a republican seat against a democrat who tries to distance himself from nancy pelosi? tries to, but then has overwhelming support from radical environmental groups aligned with some of the new green deal and the most radical elements of their agenda. so, i think it's a test. will a mainstream conservative republican, who supports the president, win against a democrat who claims not to be a socialist like everybody else, but in reality is supported by the same forces? >> you tend to get involved more often in open seats, but you haven't been afraid to challenge republica

the democratic columns.what the effect would be if the democrats had six-year limits on being the chair or ranking member. aret: one of the reasons we seeing so many republican retirements is that there is this six-year limit on making members and chairs on the republican side. mike conaway was the ag chair. he is retiring. we are looking at historical data. saws going back to 2008, we six democratic retirements and 27 republican tyrants. -- republican retirements. at three, we are democrats leaving and 11 republicans leaving. we are on pace for something similar to 2008. i don't expect democrats to win as many of those open seats because we have a more polarized landscape. another side effect of this, a areof those old bulls getting primary challenges from the left. engel on foreign affairs, richard neal for massachusetts, jerry nadler on judiciary, one of the most liberal democrats in the house as a primary primaryer -- has a challenger saying he hasn't been progressive enough in pursuing impeachment proce

watch, for example, what happened when congressman ryan tried to remind his democrats that most democrats don't support open borders. ryan suddenly became the most unpopular kid at the party. watch. >> now, in this discussion, we talked about taking private health insurance away from union members in the industrial midwest. we talked about decriminalizing the border. and we talked. i quite frankly, don't think that that is an agenda that we can move forward on and win. we've got to talk about the working class issues. the people who take a shower after work who haven't had a raise in 30 years. if we focus on that, we will win the election. >> your response, sir? >> not a lot of applause. in fact, dead silence. it turns the democrats in the room didn't want to talk about working class issues or people, as tim ryan put it, who take a shower after work. progressives wrote those waters off as disgusting a long time ago. at the same time, they are deeply privileged. that goes without saying, they could be racist. every one of them. they have been excluded from the emerging al sharpton private

just cu democrats.sense for so many on the stage to be attacking the affordable care act and your attacks against his immigration policy? >> well, look, at the end of the day, you're right, president obama has been the statesman of our party and has the highest approval ratings, but i don't think any administration, as you and i both know have been in public life, nothing is without criticism. there's substantive issues to discuss. our immigration system is savagely broken. so many things are happening that just aren't common sense. during the obama administration, there were a lot of deportations. having a substantive conversation about that isn't distracting from a great administration before. it's trying to give a picture of what we want in the future. i try to go back time and time again last night on multiple occasions, for us to keep our eyes on the prize, which is unifying as a party and being able to keep donald trump, and do it in a way that doesn't further divide this country. the way to beat

secretary, for the next democratic debate. that's in mid-september in your home state of texas, in houston. what's your strategy to get there? >> well, you know, i think a month ago when we had the first debate that i got on a lot of people's radar screens. we have got more people expressing support, more folks going to our events, a little bit of a bump in the polls, great fund-raising. i had another great night last night if you read all of the feedback and the reviews, you know, since last night. so i'm confident that we're going to keep getting stronger and stronger. and i'm just going to keep my head down and work hard. we're adding staff and all of these early states, iowa, new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, so i think that we're going to make it. >> secretary castro, good luck out there. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> in another important story we're following tonight, democratic senators are vowing to derail president trump's pick for director of national intelligence, raising serious new questions

the chair of the national democratic party, my friend, tom perez. >> good evening, democrats. night two. welcome back to detroit for night two of our second residual primary debates. what a great debate we had last night. anyone hear a discussion about hand size last night? no. this was the arena. this was the facility where they talk about hand size. i kid you not. instead, we talked about the serious stuff. we talked about health care. we talked about good paying jobs. we talked about the issues that matter to working families. we will have another spirited discussion tonight in this wonderful city. i love detroit. i call it the opportunity belt. ,etroit, cleveland, buffalo milwaukee, pittsburgh, those are the opportunity belt. they are cities of hope. cities of accomplishment. in fact, we are just a few miles pennedom where dr. king his famous i have a dream speech. he was at the solidarity house. headquarters of the united auto workers. , every time iu come here to detroit, i think of that speech. i came here a lot because we did a lot of stuff together. and thank you for

with the addition of inner cities republicans are taking away a problem for the democrats, democratsg trump is racist. big divide. you can see the big difference. >> also making a difference jobs, the president talking about that last night. >> the number one economy on earth. we created 6 million new jobs since election day, 7 million americans have been lifted off of food stamps. 123,000 more ohio workers are employed today than when i was elected. think of that number. heather: republicans give the cynically independents to be, democrats enough. it is such good news. the problem is -- don't believe it is true and that is why they rate it so low. there is a huge divide. you can really see it. heather: republicans need to do a better job getting the numbers out talking about them a little more. but can you get the mainstream media to cover it. we expect more good news. 8 minutes until the top of the hour. if you have plans this weekend you might want to go shopping instead. >> fragrances. fine leather goods. the best day of the year. >> treat your self, states across the country, th

democrat mayor. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [boos] [cheers and applause] cincinnati do you have a democrat mayor? that's what happens. there are thousands of people outside and i said -- we set a new record tonight in this arena. [cheers and applause] but we could get a few more on the floors, a few more out here and there outside where it's 10. they weren't able to let us do it. and i said is that run by the democrats? the answer is yes. so you've got a lot of hot people outside. but we broke the all-time recor record. [cheers and applause] the homicide rate in baltimore is significantly higher than el salvador, honduras, guatemal guatemala, i believe it's higher than -- give me a place that you think is pretty bad. give me a place. the guy says afghanistan, i believe it's higher than afghanistan. in our country, think of that. we will check the numbers, if we are wrong, they will tell us tomorrow. it will be headlines -- trump exaggerated. i believe the rate is higher than afghanist

power away from democrats. i will probably be a very smart thing and it might kind of wise democrats up a little bit about this and stop taking people for granted. >> jason: kimberly and charlie, we appreciate it. i really do believe you have to talk about policing coming up to talk about schools, you have to talk about the breakdown of the family because if you don't talk about those three things, you will never, ever solve this problem and i hope that discussion continues on america. thank you both for joining us tonight. major breaking news on multiple fronts, straight ahead on this justice in america special, eight more coming kids are filing law suits for defamation. an trump victory for wrapper asap rocky. you are going to want to hear that story good i know you follow asap rocky. you won't admit it in pub >> jason: will come back to the special edition of hannity, justice in america. you remember the covington catholic students slammed by the left in mainstream media for wearing mega hats? well, they at.

also, democratic dilemma. is it enough to run against the president's character and competence, or do voters want a nominee who will radically transform washington? >> i think the biggest risk we could take is to try to play it safe. >> i'll talk to democratic candidate pete buttigieg of indiana. and team of rivals. an unlikely group of former trump allies. joining me for insight and analysis are you gene robinson, betsy woodruff, brett stefbs, and kristen soltis anderson of the washington examiner. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. for much of this week, we wondered whether we should take what president trump says seriously anymore. by the end of the week, we were reminded that the words and actions of the most powerful man in the world do have real-world consequences. in just the past few days, the president was not interested in buying greenlan

democrats need to be talking about donald trump.preme court existential threats to democrats like gerrymandering. existential like election security and they didn't have a chance to do that. >> should they have leaned into the economy last night? the president talks all day long about the economy. ten miles about the debate stage a gm plant closed. that is the bifurcated economy and they are barely talking about it. >> they hit fundamental economic anxiety that's impacting americans all over. >> in michigan. >> all over from all sectors. everyone worried about high college tuition, worried about the high cost of living. they are worried about their job security and clearly health care. no, i thought they could hit that a bit more. >> who drops out next? there's good senate seats. >> mayor of new york, he's my mayor, i don't think bill de blasio bought the auction he needs for the next debate. i agree what you said at the top of the segment, i think you'll start to see a consolidation of the field. >> de blasio is the next one out. w

is that merrick garland seat that got held before the election woke democrats up from the democrats to say oh my gosh, we've been losing on focusing on the judicial branch of government, how we can reshape government. and then the kavanaugh fight activated them. and then you have the 2020 presidential candidates come in and say why don't we have an open conversation about something that hasn't been done in centuries? it's really a reflection of how democrats have not been focusing on the court for so long and are now at risk of being out of power, the balance of power at the supreme court for years, maybe even a generation depending on retirements in the trump era that they're having this conversation of like, wait a second, we might lose it all right now. let's throw in this one radical idea to pack the court. >> it's the senate that has all these confirmation battles when it comes to the supreme court. amber, you're writing about georgia. two senate races in georgia next year now, two opportunities potentially for democrats but the biggest named democrat lately out of the state of