amy walter of the cook political report a host of the podcast "politics with amy walter" on wnyc. tamara keith of npr. hello to both of you. so there's a lot to ataut. we've just been talking about, though, the emergency, the national emergency that president ump declared on friday that we are out with a poll just done over the weekend. this is the "newshour", npr and marist college, amy, and it shows and we're showing everybody watching the results laong republicans, very pop not surprising, 85% like what the president tid, suprt it. among democrats, unpopular, only 6% but among independents, it's also not a majority, d33%. whs this tell us about what the president did and what the public thinks? >> well, the president has had a challee for some time now. first of all the facts don't support the claim there is an emergency on the border, whether the number of people be apprehended, whether people are trying to cross illegally, drugs are comingn, ports of entry, they're not being taken at other border crossings, so the facts have been pretty well set that there's not an emergency

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amy walter and tamara keith join us to discs the growing field of 2020 presidential candidates. nversation with amy adams and adam mckay about their film "vice." and poet erica dawson shares her take on individuality. but first, it has been almost a year since kremlin intelligence officers tried to kill a russian defector in the british city of salisbury by poisoning him with a nerve agent. that attack, and subsequent death of a british woman last summer from the nerve agent, scared away tourists and shoppers. as special correspondent malcolm brabant reports, british authorities and the town's people are working hard to get salisbury's economy back otr k. >> reporter: at salisbury's twice wely market, lively sales patter and cheap prices are an irresistible lure. >> pound a punnet, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, seedless grape. pound a bowl. pound a punnet. >> reporter: stall holder shane gilkes is keen to coign the poisoning to history and projects an image of confidence annormality >> took three months to pick back up. but wee okay now. people are a bit more confident back o

i'm joined by our regular team, amy walter of the "cook political report" and tamara keith of npr. o to both of you. hey're off and running there are nine and we expect more to come, amy. >> yes. >> woodruff: what do we se here? amy klobuchar, clearly not i southern california, you know, in a driving snowstorm in minnesota. how is she setting herself apart is this. >> it was really interesting watching and listening to. >toelizabeth warren one day and the next to listen to amy klobuchar. elizabeth wa only way to make change is to make significant structural change. she says over and oagain, i'm not talking about going around the edges here people, i'm talking about blowing the system up and reforemanning it, lking about the system being rigged and bringing it back to structurally reforming it for regular, middle class peple. amy klobuchar talked about overcoming obstacles, not s blowing up thstem as much as trying to fix some of the observe stacks also within the system. so this is the clierchg growing now which is cub can you be a dynamic capt. and also price tag -- candidate and a

amy walter of the cook political report and tamara keith of npr.ight, let's just jump right into this difficult story. tam, let's start with the embattled democratic governor of virginia. what do these calls for resignations tell us politically, especially about democrats? >> democrats have taken a position of they have a zero tolerance policy. they have a zero tolerance policy on racism and things that are overtly racist. they also have a zero tolerance policy in that they showed about a year ago when we were talking about all of this #metoo stuff, including with al franken, the democratic leaders made a choice, we are going to be the party that says we wasn't tolerate this and this leads to moments we're in like now. >> desjardins: long term, short term, what's happening now? >> democrats are unified, there's no division at least within the virginia political establishment of anything other than northam should go and resign, and that happened pretty quickly. some were waiting until the press conference he held on saturday, but for the most part t

number 2 ven if he does i don't know how plausible it is or how long it will last. >> wodruff: amy walter, that is the skepticism that is out there, isn't it?. >> well, and it is well earned skepticism. but, look, there are actually the real things on the table here that have to be theoretically have to be figured t in the next few days here, especially -- >> thank you very much. >> with theutovernment down. >> woodruff: the president. >> madam president. mr. vice president. members of congress, the fir lady of the united states. [ applause ] >> >> and my fellow americans. we meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential, as we begin a new cngress, i stand here ready to work with you to achieve historic breakthroughs for all americans .. millions oz our fellow cis are watching us now gathered in this gre chamber hoping that we willve not as two parties but as one nation. [ applause ] >> the agenda i will lay out this evening is not a republican agenda or a democrat agenda. it is the agenda of the american people. many of ve keeped on the same core promises to defends american jd demand

amy walter, national editor of the cook political reporter. national political reporter for politico and jonah goldberg, senior editor at national review. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show invion. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. when president trump declared a national emergency on friday revealed another emergency for the president much closer to home, his own. it's a political emergency and one of his own making. mr. trump has united democrats against him and set up a court battle even he suggests he being lose. mr. trump seemed to admit that the emergency is more about protectioni protecting his base when he said he didn't need it to declare his emergency. he just wanted to build his wall faster. you have a democratic party that outpolled republicans in six of the last seven presidential elections by winning back it now finds itself though, challenged by an emerging inogressive left and the republican p once defined by free trade, strict cons

. >> woodruff: plus amy walter and tamara keith are here with a close look at a busy weekend of 2020 presidential candidates on the trail. all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour."

amy walters the national ed it to or the cook reporter. and eliana johnson.ah goldberg, senior editor at national review. welcome to you all. happy sunday. let me start with president trump's national emergency declaration and let me give you a financial breakdown. according to the white house, here's the money from where the proposed wall would come from. he gets $1.37 from the homeland security appropriations bill and from the military construction account. that's from the national emergency. 2.5 billion from the drug interdiction program and $6 million from the department. and the last two buckets not technically from part of the national emergency act. jonah goldberg, i'll start with you. from the small government conservative view, this seems to be anything but, but i found ron johnson twisting himself into a pretzel in trying to figure out how to both show concern and support the president. >> yeah, he's passionately concerned about something he doesn't want to be committal on. >> yeah. >> and look, i think it's an atrocity. i don't like these enabling

. >> amy walter from the cook political report. >> i'm going to go back in time to 2015 and a place like ohio and the debate over whether the success was about tapping into economic anxiety or the sort of cultural grievance anxiety. the political science seems to come down on the cultural grievance and was much more significant than economic anxiety so i want to bring that about you running in ohio and other places in the midwest addressing some of those cultural challenges and the idea not simply that they are the party of socialists but the party of ideas. it's the city is looking down on small towns with their value systems that don't align whether it is transgender bathrooms, pushing an agenda tha that the d is not value. >> are they part of the elite that we look down box >> the only ones that play on those fears and anxieties. >> is the economic message enough to win back those that voted by six or seven points. >> the principal economic message if the principal economic message absolutely is because you do it without compromising on justice. you talk about immigration and reject s

marc thiessen, amy walter, and vendor marc, this story has evolved through the week and it's been quiteh. >> this might end up as a pattern. first it was the covington kids that everyone jumped to believe that they were wearing maga hats and they are suing some of the news organizations that reported, falsely reported. there is this rush to believe jussie smollett because he said he was attacked in chicago by people yelling " "this is maga country" because we all know that chicago is maga country. these people jumped to believe him. why is that? it opposes the fact that the political left in washington has contempt not just for donald trump, but for donald trump's supporters. they assume donald trump's report is our as a 78 million trauma voters voted twice for barack obama. what happened is millions of americans who are not being listened to asserted themselves through the democratic process and instead of listening to them and taking them seriously, they continue to believe that these people are racists, bigots, have to be shunned. that's what we see in both of these cases. >> bert: t

amy walter from cook political report. >> i want to go back in time to 2016 for a minute, especially in a place like ohio and the debate over whether trump's success was about tapping into economic anxiety or the sort of cultural grievance anxiety, and the political science seems to come down on the cultural grievance was much more significant than economic anxiety. so i want to bring that up about you running especially in ohio and other places in the midwest, addressing some of those cultural challenges, the idea not simply that democrats are the party of socialists but that they are the party of these ideas and values. >> how do you define cultural? i'm not being difficult. >> i think it's in terms of the idea -- >> race. >> immigration, race, the idea of the elites, you know, again, cities looking down on small towns with their value systems that don't align, whether it's transgendered bathrooms, whether it is pushing an agenda that they feel like does not value -- >> are ceos elites? are they part of the elites? >> okay. all the elites that vote republican and play on those fear

amy walter says this, there are warning signs for him.e intensity of support for him doesn't match that of the other universally known candidates in the field. one, joe biden. let's bring in alex vogel, democrat strategist jason nichols. let me start with you, jason. back in 2016, senator sanders was the one progressive, now he's in a crowded field. what are his challenges? >> well, i think you stated one is that many of the people in the establishment have co-opted his ideas. he has to go up against elizabeth warren, someone who mirrors him in a lot of different places. i think he's going to have trouble there. also, he has an issue with african american voters. they don't necessarily trust him. he got s shellacked throughout e south. he lost south carolina by 50 points in 2016. i don't think much has changed. he's going to struggle there. his strong point was in the mid midwest. i think if sherrod brown gets into the race, he's really strong in the midwest, being from ohio. and then you have joe biden, scrappy joe from scranton, who i t

amy klobuchar becomes the latest democrat to believe she can beat donald trump. ryan lizza joins us now. the last democratic candidate from minnesota, walterd. how can she expect to win so many parts of the midwest that went to donald trump? >> hillary clinton came within 70,000 votes of winning the election. she flipped 70,000 votes in wisconsin, minnesota and pennsylvania, she would be president. it's razor thin. and klobuchar going at that electability issue in her speech today. smart consultants in the democratic party believe the upper midwest should be the focus for the democrats come general election time, not the southwest, not the sun belt but the midwest. and she has a track record of success there. so very different than mondale, who lost 49 states and only won minnesota. >> let's move on to elizabeth warren. you saw her blunt warning, that president trump might not even be a free person come 2020. maybe a change in strategy, taking him on so directly. >> yeah. >> what does that tell you? >> the cynical part of me says maybe she's been in a little bit of a tough series of news cycles over the story that has dogged her for a whil

than i do >> walter, two things about the story in particular have me scratching my head one, the richest man in the world takes compromising selfies and sends them to people the other that ami attempt, e-mails it. what does that say about where we are in use and pedaling of data >> haven't people been paying attention? i mean, first of all, taking selfies and sending them is never a recipe for a story that's going to end well and secondly, putting things like extortion attempt in e-mail, i mean, there's a lack of sort of common sense. and you're right those are two things cause you to scratch your head trust me, there are about 20 things in this causing me to scratch my head. >> again, cnbc has not been able to confirm the veracity of the e-mails. you're right, walter, it is almost as if people are behaving like there are no privacy concerns whatsoever sometimes. i wonder how much liability you think bezos has personally i know he is the founder of the company, but it has been pointed out if we did something like this, certainly if you work at a news network, we would be fired, plain and simple >> yeah. you know, this guy is an absolute genius. he has created something amaz