mayor buttigieg: oh, my goodness. ["freedom" playing] mayor buttigieg: you get back there much?w. nice meeting you. fellow hoosier. >> soud -- south indy. >> we're from indiana. great to see you. >> can i get a picture with you? thank you. >> so happy to have you around. tay in politics, please. mayor buttigieg: i think we need a different whistleblower protection. > i blew it. mayor buttigieg: thanks for being here. thanks for coming. thank you. indiscernible] mayor ernible] buttigieg: thanks so much for eing here. indiscernible] >> good luck. >> i love that you're trying to make college more affordable. what about college for all? mayor buttigieg: i believe it should be free for low and middle-income students. >> ok. thank you. >> thanks for coming. mayor buttigieg: first place to have indian country was south bend. >> there are a lot of people in the southwest without running water. > thanks for being here. >> welcome aboard. >> thank you so much. thank you for your hard work. i have a question for you. i heard you would ban fracking. would you ban any new oil, coal or gas? m

buttigieg: i talk about it a ton. we cannot allow the second amendment to become a death sentence for thousands of americans. [applause] mr. buttigieg: as i pointed out in the democratic national debate, did you see the debate by the way? [cheers] mr. buttigieg: if more guns were all it needed to make a safe, we would be the safest country in the world. commonsense gun safety, as a party, we have to get out of a defensive crouch on this. this is one issue where we have the most support among the american people. 90% think we ought to have universal background checks. 90%, including most republicans and gunowners. the fact we cannot get it done as a problem of democracy that is very visible in the daylight between the american congress and the american people. we know we need universal background checks. we know we need red flag laws that disarm domestic abusers. this is a common sense position. there are weapons, weapons like some of the things i trained on in the military, weapons of war, that have no place in americ

with a last name that was hard to pronounce. >> pete buttigieg. >> buttigieg. >> edge. edge. >> pete buttigieg. did i do it? >> close enough. >> campaign signs broken councilable by syllable, the 37-year-old candidate won the attention of late night hosts and the media. >> the future is here, america. i'm a little green, but i'm fresh, instagramable and ultimately good for you. i'm the avocado toast of the democratic party. >> my guest tonight is the mayor of south bend, indiana. >> what up, boys live from uptown. here here with the homey, mayor pete in the building. >> please welcome mayor beat buttigieg. >> when he didn't have campaign money. he used that time to go on tv, radio and podcast. >> that is why he caught fire. >> the young candidate has even caught an insult from president trump. who has compared him to "mad" magazine's cover boy. >> last night i watched alfred enewman. >> i had to be honest. i have to google that i guess it's a generational thing. >> ten weeks to after his announcement, he raised 25 million, outpacing his opponents, drawing from high end

buttigieg. taj sedgwick said he founding it easy like with obama to fill an event with 150 people at his home in washington, d.c.'s georgetown neighborhood. this is good news for pete buttigieg. who is it bad news for? you think about all the other candidates in this race, people like warren, maybe like beto o'rourke who was making the generational argument. who should be worried? >> the one person we should watch for is beto o'rourke because he did do a very respectable job in the first quarter, but he does -- they're both trying to take that mantle of that generational change candidate. so does pete buttigieg take sort of the thunder of beto o'rourke and we'll see in the coming days once he releases those numbers. i'm really curious about elizabeth warren's numbers. she raised $6 million in the first quarter, it was fine, but her surge in the polls and her message of being i'm the one with plans and i've got a plan for everything really took off in the second quarter, so do her fund-raising nu

can pete buttigieg actually close this gap?that he is 0% among african-american voters, a real problem for the mayor of south bend at this point. >> right. thanks, nice to be with you today, nia. it certainly seems that mayor pete is not conceding, despite that poll showing, is not conceding his efforts to reach out to black voters and try to get them to support him in his bid to be president. he was just at the rainbow push coalition today in chicago talking about his plans specifically for black voters. he plans to be at the essence festival this weekend in new orleans. the campaign would say this work has already been under way for mayor buttigieg. we saw him in harlem meeting with reverend sharpton, attended the national action network conference to talk about his plans, rolled out a douglas plan in south carolina ahead of congressman clyburn's fish fry last month -- this month in south carolina, has met with several faith -- african-american faith leaders, members of the black lgbtq community. what his campaign would say i

i mean, pete buttigieg put up an awesome number. the only one that could out-raise him is joe biden. and at bernie sanders movement, they print money over there anyway. >> he is here to stay and a force to be reckoned with. i think this is a message to the other candidates. >> absolutely. first of all, you're right. he is now done meeting debate metrics at this point. he would be guaranteed a place on the debate stage from this place forward, i would guess. when you're a senator, a governor, you have a fund raising apparatus that you built over time. you're the mayor of south bend, you don't have any of that going into this race. it takes money to raise money. they did it with none of that. if that's a sign of things to come and the sort of smart choices they're making along the way, i think that's a message to other candidates that they're doing this really fast and really well. now on the flip side, what we saw, you know, if this were 2008, 2012, the fund raising primary is a thing and it's real. what we saw in 2016 is that it was

what did pete buttigieg say? >> preface with this, kate, you can have all the money in the world and if you don't have african-american support of any kind, at least some of it, you're not going to brin a primary. with that said, mayor pete buttigieg are very keenly aware that this is an issue for them. this isn't a one pole snapshot. we've seen multiple where his support with african-americans is zero or right around that area. their solution to this from the campaign and buttigieg himself is dual pronged. one is policy and the other is presence. on the first one he's laying out a plan, kind of a system-wide plan that would address criminal justice inequities and try and kind of boost african-americans as well, and laying out the details of that. the other is actually being there. he makes a couple of key points when he talks about this that he's not very well known in the community. so you've seen him go to a number of events like the rainbow coalition today. you've seen him focus on radio and television with a

pete buttigieg addressing the rainbow push coalition in chicago. it gets a lot of attention in the news, but at the end of the day you look at his polls. in the low single digits and polling 0% african-americans. is he is viable a candidate he's talked about? >> look, you can't be a viable candidate in the democratic race if you can't poll black support. also white college educated liberals are relatively fickle in their support. the folks supporting buttigieg today were the folks supporting o'rourke. there's a real possibility the campaign is showing with how proactive they can be on this stuff. it's unquestionably true he has a name recognition issue that many others in the race don't and that over time perhaps that starts to come through. but eventually he's got to start seeing to chart with black voters if he's really going to be a viable candidate. >> i know we're going to be talking a lot about this with you going forward. >>> u.s. border patrol launching an investigation after reports of cruel and offensive posts from its agents. i'm going t

first and foremost, pete buttigieg is for real. i don't think that's been in question the last couple of months. he's been in the top four or five of the democratic candidates, both in polling and attention. you saw him in the debate last week. he's very clearly in the top tier of the field. when you break down the numbers, $24.8 million, that's more than triple wa he had in the first quarter. bernie sanders was at the top about 18.2 million, kamala harris below him at $12. it's not necessarily an apples to apples comparison. it underscores just how big this number is. there's also another key thing to look at and that's the number of individual donors. in the second quarter pete buttigieg boasting 294,000 donors in total about 400,000 individual donors. that's more than just kind of a bold headline number. that means in the debate criteria, he's essentially in for the fall debates. he's put in the work. unlike some of his democratic counterparts, he's been doing a lot of the traditional private fund-raising events. he's also been

on the first night tuesday, july 30th, pete buttigieg.e second night, julian castro, andrew yang, cory booker they join jay inslee, kirsten gillibrand, tulsi gabbard, michael bennet and bill de blasio. cooper, back to you. >> the panel draw is going to be extremely important because it's really those candidates that a lot of these, the first draw candidates and the second draw candidates are really kind of gunning for here. >> yeah, and what is shaping up here, if you look at tuesday night, it's like moderate night. i mean, you're going to have a real ideological difference will be on display between the two nights of these debates in detroit. i mean, klobuchar, bullock, ryan, hickenlooper, delaney, o'rourke, buttigieg. this is a night that's going to show one side ideological of this party, more centrist side, a little bit more moderate side. >> so far. >> so far. you're right. castro, yang, booker, de blasio, gabbard, gillibrand, inslee, michael bennet of colorado, has a bunch of liberals here he's going to be eager to contrast himself

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mayor pete buttigieg is at 4%.igieg has plateaued some, he's ahead of beto o'rourke. so the question is does beto o'rourke have to reclaim that space tonight or say i've already qualified for september and i'll just wait it out. >> i think it's a big risk to wait until september. as we saw in the last debate he's not a brawler by nature. it's not what he's good at. but it's going to be a long summer for beto o'rourke if he doesn't have a moment in tonight's debate. the base that he needs to get back went in large part to pete buttigieg and to some extent also to elizabeth warren. there was a great deal of enthusiasm for beto o'rourke among more educated women who have really swung hard in this race away from him. >> look at the fund-raising that buttigieg has been able to pull together over the last quarter, even after the last debate. he's shown that he is a powerhouse at least on the fund-raising side and continued debates like last time may help him continue to fill his coffers. if he does that, that will help p

just this morning mayor pete buttigieg reporting a huge haul. he posted an impressive $24.8 million in fund-raising for the second quarter. then senator kamala harris is boasting a $2 million boost just 24 hours after her fiery debate performance last week. this is a sign that the democratic primary may have just broken wide open as the candidates are preparing for the next debate right here on cnn in just a few weeks. dan is here. tell us how the new fund-raising numbers can change the landscape. >> it validates candidates. it also signals how they're resonating with people who are giving $5, $10, $20. pete buttigieg, this is a massive haul. this is somebody six months ago was largely unknown. launched in a windowless conference room in washington, d.c. caught a lot of momentum and that's paid off for him. $24.8 million could be possibly the top amount raised in the democratic field, at least in the top few. and that comes after $7 million in the first quarter. that does a few things for him. it validates him as a top tier candidate because it

pete buttigieg is in iowa today, unveiling a plan to push national service.been a theme for the presidential candidate who served in afghanistan. >>> supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, the second woman in history added to the premium court is praising her new colleague, brett kavanaugh. she spoke in washington on tuesday. >> there is a very important first on the supreme court this term, and it's thanks to our new justice, justice kavanaugh, whose entire staff of all women, it's the first time in the history of the united states that there have been more women working at the court than men. >> and up next, getting hammered by conservatives for caving on his administration's quest to put a citizenship question in the 2020 census, the president is saying on twiter that the fight isn't over, but democrats are celebrating and the lawyer who argued against the administration at the supreme court tweeted a barbed at secretary wilbur ross with a short "no soup for you." the nation's largest and most reliable network. the best network is even better? best, fa

and pete buttigieg might want to look to kamala harris.ut i also have to say that the number one issue with a lot of black voters right now is beating donald trump. so what you're seeing is not just a reaction to the policy. >> right. >> that's coming out from these candidates. what you're seeing is, wow, well, kamala looks like she really might be able to give trump a run for his money. you know, boy, biden didn't look like he was having such a great day. can he really handle this big bully in the white house? i mean, that's also playing out here. >> jason, pete buttigieg is now the fund-raising king, doing fabulously well, raising more money than bernie sanders, which is really extraordinary at this stage, but he does have this struggle. >> yeah, he does. look, cash rules everything. pete is going to raise money. he has got the media attention. he's a very, very good fund-raiser. the issue is at some point the money has to actually turn into people believing in you and believing you can be competitive. i think the greatest challenge that

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the road to the white house took the pete buttigieg. a new cnn poll shows buttigieg with zero support among black voters. buttigieg addressed those numbers just before taking the stage. >> when you're new on the scene and you're not from a community of color, you have to work much harder to earn that trust, trust is largely a function of quantity time. i'm committed to doing that work. the most important question is, will our policy benefit black americans and all americans, if that happens and i can show that, i think politics will start to take care of themselves. >> phil mattingly is with me, the mayor told the audience that tackling racial inequalities is his words. not only a matter of justice, but a matter of national survival. tell me more about his speech? >> i think what was most interesting about the speech, it it was wide ranging. it comes with the context of knowing where he stands in the polls. knowing what's happening back home in south bend where there was an officer involved shooting of an african-american man. he's been

clearly what buttigieg is talking about his perspective. he's talking about reducing incarceration rates.ti i think across the aisle there are republicans concerned who agree with this point. i think lots of people know we have over done incarceration how we are in talk about how we need to get back in society saying, hey, we want people who are contributing to our society. >> raymond: for the first time, it might republicans actually be -- trump certainly got the largest share of that african-american support then his most recent predecessors. >> outlook, i think the key for president trump, for all republicans, the question about is the economy doing better. and i think for voters, no matter what their heritage ethnicity, skin color, the idea the more economic opportunities the problem for mayor pete buttigieg, he is in a tough job spent a lot of time in south bend, the problem, he says, we should, we should, we should, he is the mayor of a town that has substantial racial strife that had big policing problems that has alienated the afric

pete buttigieg is the victim of a racism. huh, you say? true.ay buttigieg tweeted this, and we're quoting, as an immigrant and a citizen my dad cared deeply about this country. once when he was speaking at a campus protest against reagan's accommodation of apartheid, a passing student noticed dad's brown skin and unique accent and called out, go home. he answered, i am home. poignant moment. keep in mind pete buttigieg's dad, he was pretty european, really, professor at notre dame, elite college, yet even he couldn't escape america's all consuming racism. that's the most important thing for you to know. america is racist, says pete buttigieg, hateful and racist, he's been a victim of that racism. but you know what? you can atone for that racism by making him the president, that's his pitch. greatest story of the year, pete buttigieg a victim of racism. it's just another sign of the democratic party spiraling completely out of control and becoming something very different. in washington, the group led by ocasio-cortez appears to cement the agenda

they hit the campaign goal but they were not prepared for mayor pete buttigieg to post such a high number. they set the tarrings thinking the other candidates would be raising no more than $10 to $12 million in a quarter. that clearly wasn't the case. joe biden may be the democratic front runner but not leading the pack in the money race. the former vice president second quarter fund raising haufl totalling $21.5 million. that puts behind mayor pete buttigieg at 24.8 million but ahead of bernie sanders raking in 18 million last quarter. biden entered the 2020 race three weeks into the second fund raising quarter. but he did devote a substantial amount of time to raising cash. holding more than two dozen high-dollar fund raising events since launching his campaign. earning criticism from grass roots focused candidates such as sanders and elizabeth warren. >> well in in unprecedented campaign we are doing it very differently. >> biden's numbers come as many 2020 candidates did he screened on iowa this week. exactly seven months before the state's caucus sees. >> 99 counties here i come. >>

that includes pete buttigieg and bernie sanders. it's that conversation at that first debate there in which he went toe to toe with beto o'rourke. and i want to play with you a little bit of a sound byte because joe biden believes a current law in which one individual if they do cross, it becomes a misdemeanor. on the second attempt it becomes a felony. i want you to hear a little bit of julian castro on the specific subject. >> i'm disappointed that vice president biden refuses to understand that we need to repeal section 1325 of the immigration and nationality act. it seems like one of us has learned the lessons of the past, and one of us hasn't. and i've been very clear that it we want to end family separation, guarantee that no future administration can do it, we need to reveal section 1325. i'm just glad to see today that senator warren agrees with me. she put out her own immigration proposal. and a recent poll of democratic voters said that 75% of democratic voters agree with my position. >> there's a clear line between these

>> buttigieg.peal to african-american voters in a sincere, honest way that connects with them. >> really quickly, one of the things to that point, the criticism i hear and i think it's fair. if he couldn't deal with this policing and brutality and profiling issue in that small town, why on earth would we put him in charge of the country? >> and we keep looking to a president to try to deal with that. that's a fair point. >>> let's talk about there's one new person on stage tonight, steve bullock. i think he's in the waiting for biden to collapse lane. there is to be the ones that are kind of hoping i hope biden has another bad night and then there's room for me. if biden doesn't have another bad night, i don't know where we go. i don't mean that of just bullock, there's a whole bunch of people in that lane. >> i think they are well advised to position themselves there. i think more on one of them can contrast him or herself with warren or sanders. it's an obvious moment for bullock to say with all

harris up nine and warren up eight and sanders gone down and buttigieg down one there. we also see the success of kamala harris' debate performance because we asked about it, democrat voters that watched or tuned into the debate, we said who did the best job in the debate. take a look at this. kamala harris gets 41% of debate-watchers saying she did the best job. nobody else is even close. 13% for warren and 10% for biden. another good factor in this poll for kamala harris is people want to know more about her. we asked other thap the candidate you're supporting who do you want to hear more about? kamala harris scores on this front. 30% of democrats want to hear more about her and 24% for warren and 23% for buttigieg. so good news for kamala harris and that top line number concerning for joe biden. >> joe biden tried to paint himself as the front-runner as the most electable in the contest against president trump. what are the numbers mean for him now? >> well, you raise what is his calling card in this race. we asked democrats, wolf, what matters more to you, defeating

kamala harris with 15%, pete buttigieg, andr yang. >>> in alabama, biden has 31%, harris with 13%, buttigieg gets 5%. other in tennessee, where biden's lead is stronger but in the double digits, 33%, warren at 18%, sanders at 13%. and finally in mississippi, biden nearly takes the majority in this crowded field, 47%, sanders way back at 21%. harris at 8 and warren at 7% respectively. >> senator kamala harris plans to take her campaign to iowa after the second presidential debates. harris will begin a five day bus tour of the caucus state, marking the first in several planned campaign events throughout the country through early fall. harris announced she will make stops across the state from sioux city to davenport, and will include stops in three of iowa's congressional districts. after her performance in the first primary debate, her retail operation in iowa has begun to intensify, her campaign has more than 65 staffers in the state. >>> and a campaign stop in orange city, iowa, senator elizabeth warren had her town hall crashed by an unexpected visitor. >> we have an extra. hi sweetie, are

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yang or pete buttigieg or gabber? you got them, ♪ donkey derby ♪ everyone is part of wrong. pete buttigieg is answer. he joined facebook. >> under grad. >> that makes sense. open this them first. >> he want their money. question 6. who was only candidate to fail the second grade? williams son, ryan or michael who? >> bennett. >> oh, wow. fail second grade? >> bennett, willia williamson, . >ryan. >> it is michae mike bennett, hd second grade, dyslexia is -- cad him to write back wards. no one knows who he is. question 7. a great question. which candidate's last name means lord of the poultry? klobuchar? pete buttigieg? or kirsten gillibrand? ♪ lord of the poultry, here is how we do it ♪ la, lark , la, emily in second . it was pete buttigieg. in maltese, lord of the powel t- >> worked as a life guard at a public pool? cory booker, bernie sanders or joe biden? >> they are taking their time? they all gotti got it right. >> i can see him. >> tom sho -- you won, did you a beautiful job. congratulation on first win on the do

so pete buttigieg raises a lot of money but he needs more in the polls.o i think contenders can be proud of where they are but there is a weakness by how much they can raise and by how many people. >> the "new york times" had a piece saying the trump campaign is winning big dollars over small donors. are they saying the trump campaign is winning? >> part of the president's strategy to raise all this attention on twitter is a fundraising strategy. that will be a big difference between 2020 and 2016. on the democratic side, i certainly think buttigieg is the candidate with the most potential. we have to think about the fact that no one knew who pete buttigieg was just four or five months ago. today he's in the top tier of democratic candidates and has a lot of resources which will become important when it comes time to buy television time in states like iowa and new hampshire and south carolina. so biden is the strongest, he's leading in the polls, he has a well-funded campaign, but i think buttigieg is the most impressive when you look at these numbers. >>

pete buttigieg is trying to build that. i don't want to say they hold the same position in the race. >> kamala harris' performance i guess has gotten the attention of donald trump jr. possibly i don't know threatening them because they're putting out -- he retweeted sort of a nasty tweet about her. i'll read it because in the last hour, you told us what we need to look for when we see tweets like this. and that it is part of something more organized. here is what don jr. retweeted from a guy named ali alexander. kamala harris is not an american black. she is half indian and half jamaican. i'm sick of people robbing american blacks like myself of our history. it's disgusting. now using it for debate time. these are my people, not her people. freaking disgusting. what would you like us to see between the lines here? >> see the coordinated attack behind this. ali alexander is an actual person, a black american. but that exact message was written out on almost a dozen tweets immediately following the debate. so this was somethi

pete buttigieg says he's not interested in winning without black support.he matter is he can't win without black support. >> he absolutely cannot. once you clear those early states of iowa and new hampshire, they come into play. and in south carolina 60% of the voters will be african-american. so as a practical matter, he has to solve this problem or he's going to go back to south bend. and that is a problem. south bend itself is a bit of a problem for him because even though he has this very far reaching douglas plan to try and fight systemic racism in this country, there are troubling issues back home about police staffing, which african-americans dropped by half under his watch. and on city contracting where minority businesses have done rather poorly in sharing the business of the city, even though 40% of the city is black and hispanic. these are questions that i asked him. we had some interesting exchanges on it and, you know, he has to solve it. and i think ehis campaign knows he has to solve it which is one of the reasons why he was out there with an

first, south bend mayor pete buttigieg, macing a massive $24.8 million.an, congressman, we appreciate you taking the time today. >> jim, good to be with you. >> first, if i can, i want to start on the immigration issue. so many developments every day now. a funeral today, sadly for the father and daughter in that depressing picture. let's look at the numbers. in may, the number of people who were apprehended between ports of entry attempting to cross into the border up to 132 now, from 99,000 the previous month. there is a forecast that that figure will drop off in june, but still quite high. you're of course not advocating for open borders as the president claims, but what is your plan as a presidential candidate to address the increase in the number of people attempting to cross the border? >> i would say immediately try to take care of what's happening now. i would be calling every doctor and nurse that could come down and donate their time, social workers to donate their time to help plug the hole here until we get the supplemental bill and get more p

in the second quarter of this year, pete buttigieg raised nearly $25 million.ront-runner joe biden raised $21.5 million. bernie sanders raised $18 million. and kamala harris has a $12 million haul. those totals for democrats pale in comparison to president trump's fund-raising totals. his re-election campaign and the rnc collectively raised $105 million for the second quarter and he's tens of millions of dollars ahead of where president obama was at this point in the 2012 re-election bid. let's bring in my panel. sher michael singleton, a republican political consultant and a contributing host for vox media's "consider it" and doug thornell, former senior adviser to the democratic national committee. before discussing campaign finance, i want your thoughts on what we heard in my interviews with senator warren and mayor buttigieg. shermichael, let's go to you first. >> i think with mayor pete stated, dleerecognizing areas o shortcomings and faults and things that are ongoing in his city was very laudable, right? i think we can applause that. as you talk about th

a new poll has buttigieg at 0% among black voters. he my first question, why is bin beating everyone else with black voters. >> i don't think it is too hard, vice president of the first black president. he has a long history with black voters. i think there is a certain sense of familiarity, a certain sense of trust. he saw what happened in the first debate were kamala harrisg performance, she clearly put him on the defensive. and when she did that, i think she ate into the defense that she was the inevitable winner of this contest. >> raymond: when you look at these polling numbers, your thought on why biden is still commanding and even ahead of kamala harris? i would thought she would win black voters giving her strong stands in that debate. >> couple of interesting things in these polls, i would take these poll numbers that show biden a commanding double-digit lead among african-americans, going to the screen room, two prominent african-american candidates, kamala harris, cory booker, or black candidates, how is joe biden doing so

you endorsed mayor buttigieg and tell us why.ton of money but his standing in the polls hasn't really risen accordingly. why do you think that is? >> well, jeff, the statement on the ground in iowa, new hampshire, early states has been unbelievable. so you're going to see the polls move. it's early in the race, but let me tell you why i support mayor pete. pete and i both served in the military. you know, i lost 19 men in iraq when i served with the 82nd airborne division. as you mentioned, hardly mentioned last night at those debates about foreign policy. when just yesterday north korean launched those missiles, when just yesterday it was announced that two members of my former unit, the 82nd airborne division were killed in afghanistan, that we still have 14,000 troops over there, only mayor pete was the one that came out and said with clarity that we need to bring these troops home. we need to refocus why we're there. we need to repeal and replace the authorization for military force which congress has punted. they're not even

then sanders, warren, buttigieg and harris and now biden is neutral while sanders and buttigieg havemala harris have gained ground. what does that tell you about the state of the race right now? >> well, it tells me that harris clearly has capitalized on that moment from the debates that she not only -- were they able to turn that into multiple days of news coverage which probably helped her, so that shows if you can take a risk during the debate, then maybe these candidates want to because that is what she did. she created that moment for herself. it wasn't a specific question asked of her. and warren has been pretty much running this very steady race of consistently reaching out to communities of color, consistently releasing policy proposals that are very detailed and that is her bet and it seems to be paying off so far. >> do you think what joe biden has been doing, basically running this front-runner campaign where he doesn't do any interviews, he talks here and there, but doesn't really present any major policy addresses or anything like that, just raising a lot of money, it do

buttigieg in this plan wants to change that. he wants to allow independent contractors to collective bargain and to unionize. and i asked him, mayor buttigieg, are you really willing to go up against these big tech companies if it comes to that? and he said that, yes, he was. and finally, brianna, it's interesting to note that that big fund-raising haul that mayor buttigieg had in the second quarter, $25 million, a lot of those fund-raisers were actually held in silicon valley. a lot of those donations actually came from silicon valley executives. so this proposal taking aim at those people that he's directly raising money from. brianna. >> awkward, right? vanessa, we'll see. it's very interesting to see how they respond tojt that. >>> an american rapper detands in sweden, an american 18-year-old held by the u.s. why is president trump only speaking up about one of them. >>> and action taken against fraternity members that poed with guns at the emmitt till memorial. >>> and the new british prime minister moving into 10 downing s

pete buttigieg has all the money in the world right now. he needs to see if he can launch into the top three or four. and the other, the make-or-break moments. this could be it and they're keenly aware they won't meet the threshold for the next debate. they know if they want to have the money to keep their campaigns going, they need a moment tonight. how they're going to try to get into that moment will certainly be interesting to watch. >> thank you so much. so let's discuss more. here with me now is former democratic mayor of tallahassee, andrew gillum and andrea rosen and angela ray. all three cnn political commentators. let's have some fun. it's game day. let's play some games. angela, you will end tonight after the debate saying it's a great debate if what one thing happens? >> if i can remember three of their names. if i can remember three of their names and attach with their names they said something meaningful. i don't want to see shade thrown tonight. i want to see people come forth with good policy prescriptions that makes people

i was also impressed with mayor buttigieg.as bernie. >> reporter: it was standing room only tonight, and the person who got the most love throughout the night was senator sanders. >> trump is a pathological liar. [ cheers ] >> mayor buttigieg and senator warren also got a lot of love from the crowd in this room tonight. >> we should stop using republican talking points. >> reporter: who did you like tonight? >> warren, elizabeth warren, i really did. >> reporter: what impressed you about her? >> she has answers. >> i thought elizabeth warren did the best job tonight. she showed passion, empathy, energy, intelligence. you know, grit, toughness. >> reporter: some of the centrist democrats didn't do so well tonight in this room at least. governor bullock, the congressman, delaney and ryan, they got booed at certain points here. [ booing ] who did you not like? >> delaney's my least favorite by far. >> reporter: why? >> i don't think he has the solutions that america needs now. >> reporter: did anyone turn you off? >> i wouldn't s

mayor pete buttigieg, at 4%. this poll shows a trend of biden slumping a bit down 10 points since may and kamala harris surging, up 9. for his part, the president is showing jitters sitting down with tucker carlson in some unhinged tweets this morning. quote, as most people are aware, according to the polls, i won every debate, including the three with crooked hillary clinton. despite the fact in the first debate they modulated the sound on me and got caught. got caught modulating. i missed that. this crew looks somewhat easier than crooked but you never know. that tweet coming as twitter started to percolate with this reaction with this bizarre exchange with tucker carlson. >> coming where we are now in tokyo and the cities are clean, there's no graffiti, no one going to the bathroom on the street. >> it's very nice, isn't it? >> very different from our city. >> some of our cities -- >> new york city, san francisco, los angeles, they have a problem with filth. >> very sad. very sad. >> why is that? >> it's a phe

a chunk of buttigieg's last round of fund raising came from big tech.of the big tech companies something you would support? >> potentially. i think we see evidence of appoi anti-competitive behavior, and the federal trade commission needs to deal with that. i don't think candidates or presidents need to think about companies to break up. >> reporter: he is outraising every other candidate with a bank-busting $25 million just in the past three months. abc news' poll has him tied for fifth place. >> there's something about our message that matters. and i think what it is is people are ready for something different. >> reporter: do you think you're ready to be president right now? and if so why? >> i didn't think i would run for president if i didn't think i was ready. what we need now is leadership that can recognize the accelerating pace of change. if we're not dealing with the causes we're never going to be able to deal with the symptoms. what we need is a president who looks into the future and recognizes what implications those changes will play out a

i thought buttigieg did a good job, especially on campaign finance.ow is very high up on the list on voters' minds. >> joy reid, same question. >> there was a lot of them up there. i guess the good news is there are two lanes here, right? >> boy, did we see that. >> there is sort of a hope and future lane, and tomorrow we'll have more of those candidates who will be on stage. there are three lanes. the second one is obviously the clear progressive lane which warren and sanders share. i was surprised they didn't try to narrow that down. they did seem, as chris said, to be kind of on the same team fighting off all the moderates to their left and to their right on that stage. but among the moderates, the job was to then narrow it down and become the moderate. because right now joe biden occupies that lane of being the moderate. and the only alternative to him is going to be a governor or maybe mayor pete buttigieg. i was looking to see if one of them was going to stand out as the one guy who could be the last moderate standing. i'm not sure that any of t

beto o'rourke, maybe pete buttigieg.be some substantive differences that will go forward tonight. biden obviously is not in the debate tonight, he's in the debate tomorrow night. if he had been there, then there could have been a bit more fireworks. but i suspect that elizabeth warren and bernie sanders will try to be as cordial to each other as possible, even though on some of the substantive issues they disagree. she still calls herself a capitalist, as you know. he calls himself a democratic socialist. >> and again, we are watching live pictures there from inside the debate hall in detroit. bernie sanders is joined there to his right, to our left, by his wife, jane, as he is doing this walk-through ahead of this first of two nights. he'll be there in the center of the stage among ten candidates who are debating tonight. wolf, it is interesting to picture senator sanders and senator warren in the center of this stage and as you said make taking some of this ideological incoming from people who don't agree with them on

mayor buttigieg and three other candidates join us live. "new day" continues right now. >>> there's time to stop worrying about what the republicans will say. let's just stand up for the right policy, go out there and defend it. >> democrats win when we run on real solutions, not impossible promises. >> we need to have a campaign of energy, excitement, and vision. >> warren and sanders decided not to go after each other. it's not going to last. >> we are not trying to take away health care from anyone. that's what the republicans are trying to do. >> she was chewing up and spitting people out. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." john and i are live in detroit where we're getting ready for the second cnn democratic debate. it's half-time as you point out. and on night one, it was progressives versus moderates and there was no lack of energy on the stage last night. the candidates offered distinct approaches for america while wrestling with how to defeat president trump. elizabeth w

but for pete buttigieg, it is a resounding yes. the indiana mayor raising a staggering $25 million in the second quarter. cnn's phil mattingly has the numbers. and phil, the numbers are impressive, to say the least. but what does it mean for his campaign now and also in the long run? >> yeah, brooke, no question they're impressive. pete buttigieg in the first quarter raised $7 million. now more than triples that in his second quarter. what does this mean? money isn't everything, doesn't determine who wins the nomination, but does play a key role. pete buttigieg started six months ago where barely anybody knew who he was nationally and had a lean organization. what he has not just raising $24.8 million, but also having more than $22 million cash on hand, is he now has the resources to build out his full team. something the campaign has been doing in spades over the course of the last couple months. now in all those early states, they have the must be oney to h ground operation you need to actually be successful in those states. also

do you think buttigieg hits that bar? >> yeah, i do think so.'s refreshing to see plans specifically targeting black america because separate from the conversation about reparations, we need to really be serious about policies like mayor pete's plan seeks to do, close that racial wealth gap. white families have 10 times the wealth of black families in the country and that harkens back to an ugly history. this is a great first step. it's a great moment to say, look, i actually have ideas. here are the specifics. i think black voters may be skeptical just because he hasn't been able to produce results as mayor. we want to see that you were actually able to get it done when you were already in power. i do think it's a very, very important step caution you can't just use platitudes with black americans. we're not here for any of that. we would like to know how you're going to fix the problems we face every single day, discrimination, pay inequities, blatt antarctica racism we're seeing coming out of this administration in the form of policy and rhet

pete buttigieg had a good line.o not know if you hurt him, but he said, "i want to be i in the debate with donald trump because i want to stand d theres a veteran next to a guy who pretended to be disabled to get out of fighting in vietnam." chaiai thought was a g good lin, but then i remembered sadly, in 2004, john kerry, the great veteran, against george w. bush, the chicken hawk -- that did not work. >> elizabeth is absolutely right. if anybody here thinks corporate america gives one damn about the average american worker, you are mistaken. if they can save five cents by going to china, exit co., vietnam, or any place -- mexico, vietnam, or anyplace else, that is what they will do. , they wantline up military contracts. under my administration, they ain't going to get those contractcts and leave american workers out on the street. , if you couldyed respond to this. we will go around the table and see what you see -- what you want to see tonight in the debate. dr. el-sayed: we make this differentiation between for