david chalian, gloria borger, david axelrod, sabrina siddiqui. thank you all for joining us. iate it. good to see all of you. very interesting watching the draw tonight. we'll talk about that. let's get to the subject at hand. david chalian, the president claims that he disavowed the "send her back" chant, trying to distance himself saying he is not the one who said it. come on. isn't this a direct result of the president's original racist tweets? >> yes. i mean, the simple answer is yes and come on is the right reaction, don. what i think politically the president tried to do today -- because anybody who can read his tweet on sunday, listen to his words on monday, can draw a direct line to what occurred at the rally in north carolina last night. i -- he's asking the country in his remarks today to sort of not believe their lying eyes to some degree, but what he's doing politically is giving republicans who are being questioned about the president's remarks the ability now and, you know, many of them don't want to shun the president at all, he now is giving them the ability to

so david axelrod mentioned suburban women, he got 52% of the white women's vote.ge is very bullying. so women around the country of all colors are trying to teach their kids about anti-bullying. you've got the leader of the free world saying bullying-ish knee and row thal comments and you could be friends with a guy and disagree with what he's saying. at the end of the day, i hate the litmus test, you have to be 100% switched on for trump or otherwise you are not in his camp that is a bunch of nonsense. so it reminds me of mayor koch if you agree with me nine out of ten times vote for me but if he agree with me most of the time you need a therapist. but you know better and you're tweeting now they are not racist comments but you're snickering to yourself when you are tweeting them in the first place because you know it is going to trigger people on the left and it is frankly going to trigger people that like you, like myself, that want to support you but are not going to stand there after what happened to my grandparents a hundred years ago or 90 years ago and put

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joining us is exfiles host, david axelrod. they are pretty close in terms of poim issues and surroulicy i. >> that's why i don't expect them to go at each other. i think what you'll see and i'm hesitate to predict because we're so close to the debate but i think you'll see the moderates saying to bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, how will you pay for everything you want to do. they're going to try to differentiate themselves that way. the moderates who are at maybe 1% in the polls from the liberals saying i also don't think you are the people who can beat donald trump. that's the friction i really expect tonight. >> david, do you think that too. warren and sanders are supposedly friends. >> they are friendly. they do agree on most. the differences between them are really tiny and narrow than between them and the rest of the stage. as gloria was saying the outside folk, the more moderate may make policy differences but i think it's that electability piece that will be so much more. they are stepping on this debate stage as t

david axelrod.you anticipate between them? how do they thread this need zblool they say this they will be friendly, allies. they may be forced to be allies tonight because the moderate left on right on the stage -- you have the two progress he was center stage. that's an oxymoron. but they are trying to lead the debate in the democraticic party. could big and bold way more liberal than barack obama and more than bill clinton and win the election. they say in the age of trump the rules are broken. do medicare for all. new green deal process. free college tuition. do more on the liberal agenda. trying to sell any one of those things, barack obama would have said can i win? david axelrod said o would have said sir i don't know if you can win. they bet the rules change. one of the moderates needs to break out does one pile out or they all break out? but sanders and warren defend the progressive agenda a big untested risk for the democratic party. doesn't mean they are wrong. but there is no data to back

joining us now katelyn collins, david axelrod and susan glasser, staff writer at "the new yorker" and cnn global affairs analyst. david axelrod i want to begin with you in what we are told is the new or different joe biden we are going to see on this debate stage. we are told by his campaign staff that biden watched video of his performance from the first debate and realized he needs to be more aggressive. so two questions. one is his analysis right? and two, what do you make of the mere tell graphing we're getting from biden in his campaign that he's going to be more aggressive? >> yes, i think his anal s is right. everyone came to that conclusion on the night of the debate. and after he seemed unresponsive to the attacks of kamala harris. he didn't seem very energeting in that debate. and that's particularly important for a candidate is up in years. i think joe biden needs to prove he's up to it. it is vitally important he bring a different kind of countenance to this debate. he was trying to rise above in the last debate, but you also have to show when people come at you you're goi

like david axelrod is a senior political commentator.e is a pattern here from this president. i mean, there is -- you can argue people will argue about how to define the words but this is part of a pattern. >> it is. here is the thing. trump attacks everybody. he's mean. he's rude. you say okay, why are you guys upset? he attacks people of color in a particular way. you know, if it's an s-hole nation. it's a black city, it's a crime infested city. if it's a leader of color, go back where you came from. listen, he's rude, he's mean but there is a particular kind of pattern here and i think that's why people are so upset. part of the danger we're in now is you can't let this stuff go and can't spend too much time talking about it because i think he likes being seen as this racial provoker standing up to these people. it's a lose lose situation for a country to have a president like this. >> senator santorum -- >> i don't see it that way. i agree with van that the president is crude and rude and combative with anybody who attacks him and he

just listen to obama strategist david axelrod lay out his theory.e a look. >> if you listen to what other strategists are talking about they want to paint a portrait of the democratic party as a far left socialist party for open borders and so on, so these women, these young members of congress have now taken that place.ak and i think that he saw a chanca in the fight between pelosi and them to elevate them. and i think that they believe votess out there that they did not get in 2016 in their base and that if they turn up the temperature that they can mobilize them even further. >> sean: also get this congresswoman ocasio-cortez tonight is also out there promoting her radical green agenda. using this summer's heat imagine that, heat in summer as evidence of climate change. you can't make this up. i take a look. >> there a lot of times that people will say climate changege does not affect me as we are sweltering hot. [laughter] in the middle of d.c. summer. in new york, we are about to -- and when i head back to new york, we are about to landnd in on

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we are joined by david axelrod. gloriaer. and john king. we haven't heard from you.interesting listening in the run up to this all the division and expectations put on vice president biden. he has to look forward and be able to defend his record. he has to to be able to attack but attack trump also. there is a lot riding on him. >> there is a lot riding on it. deep in the rear view mirror but joe biden run twice before and both times sputtered at the cross road. s in a giant test for him. he has to know that in his personal history. i would argue last night raised the stakes. the stakes tonight were already high for biden. last night raised them more. here is why. first the performance challenge. in the first debate he was lackluster. kamala harris outhussled and debated and it was about crime and race issues. set that aside a minute. is he big are than that in the heir apparent to barack obama, he has the graph i tas. taking on trump. if the new or younger candidates debate you how do you make the case you are better than trump? he has to perform tonight. the issues

former top obama advisor david axelrod and tara served as communications director for republican congressmanavid, this seems like very dangerous waters and i'm sure it's only going to get worse as we head to the election. i keep going back to history, you can imagine donald trump a l leader then telling jews to leave and the irish to leave and telling italians to get out and the chinese they aren't wanted. this is the same language, archie bunker people were laughing at it on tv in the '70s. >> it's a well worn ugly political tactic. we have to recognize -- we've had these discussions many times. he said something, everyone says that is so outrageous he could never get away with that. >> i'm not saying that -- >> i understand that. >> the thing is, he is repeating the pattern of his political, brief political career which is he throws these incentives out to divide in a way that he thinks will be useful to him polit politicly. he wants to elevate these four young members of congress to make them the emblem of the democratic party and be outrageous to force all democrats to embrace them and s

we even her deal we are david axelrod say that he seemed not to be the person the last time he testified of the lesson we signed six years ago. why do you think it is, when he was asked about future gps, his answer was that he didn't know what it was? >> leslie: i don't know. it bothered me, quite frankly, when i was watching what he was choosing how to answer. there was things that were privilege but things that were not. he could have answered about the steele dossier. >> harris: but he didn't even know what fusion gps was. that makes you wonder if he had anything to do with it outside of the interview. >> katie: democrats call the run yesterday. they called robert mueller to the table to testify because their argument was the american people don't read 400 plus page reports, and robert mueller will be able to tell us what's in it. >> harris: did he? a speaker it's very obvious that i, having read the report twice, knew more about what was in the report that robert really did yesterday. and that's saying a lot. that brings into question, who was running the investigation? was he in cha

i'm joined by a columnist and david axelrod, former senior advisor to president obama.ion. i want to start with something you touch on in your column. i want you to listen, we sat down with four undecided african-american voters. i asked them about this city and how it's doing. >> how is detroit doing? >> i think better. i really do. i think we've made some gains. i moved back about a year ago and i've seen a lot of progress. but i think the question is who is the progress for. i want to see it for people who have been here, who have been here through the recession, have been here through the bankruptcy, who have never left. like my parents who have been here, lifelong detroiters and i think too often people who are in the neighborhoods get left out of these conversations. >> that's part of your point too. >> right. >> we look around. it's great to be back in a downtown detroit that is vibrant, but we are at sweet potato sensations and they're worried that the new prosperity here is not going to reach them out there. >> no, john, we are sitting right now in what i call

democrat david axelrod, senior advisor to president obama, treated out at the end of this hearing, "this is very, very painful." let's bring in former independent counsel kenneth starr. he's also a fox news contributo contributor. ken, you are mentioned a couple times in this hearing. your thoughts on this day's testimony? >> one of the critical things, guys, is the very idea of book n exoneration is very unfortunate. bob mueller should not have written book 2. that came out very early on in the hearing. congressman ratcliff from texas was extremely clear in saying, "this is not your job." it's not just the focus on exoneration are not exoneration. it's the very idea they were going to lay out all this evidence with an opportunity to respond on the part of the president. that it's fundamentally not only unfair, and the fact that it's fundamentally unfair is why this report was read dramatically tot over again, it simply not appropriate. so i'm going to be very blunt -- bob mueller did not give a good reason for why he wrote, and his staff wrote, the second volume. which is what this hear

david axelrod took me to a museum where i saw posters that sit in the museum now. apply." ed not the only jobs irish immigrants could find was janitorial jobs because no one would hire them. , that isn 30 years where the example of courage and organization lies. within 30 years, they elected the first irish-american president of the united states, john f. kennedy. [applause] mr. khan: it is that fast. i have seen throughout my travels to your districts, to many states, to many places how encouraged, how enthusiastic this nation is to get rid of this unconstitutional, illegal rhetoric, un-american practice. last election, 2018 election, you saw record number of people showed up to vote. and look at the result, look at the result. this is what is going to happen in 2019. [applause] mr. khan: i come from charlottesville, virginia. we are going to elect. theeed only one vote in virginia assembly. we are going to the virginia assembly majority. we are going to elect in 2020, we are going to repeat 2018, we are going to elect a majority in our senate and throw the demagogue out

. >> david axelrod noted harris's change in rhetoric tweeting it sounds like kamala harris is now taking something more like the joe biden position on school busing. what was the whole thing of the debate about? harris criticized biden at the debate for his comments about working with segregationists in the senate. she is also in iowa this july 4th. >> that was the subject of conversation for days on end. if he and his team weren't prepared for the topics i don't know what to say about that. >> biden admits the confrontation caught him offguard. other 2020 candidates are staying far away from the feud hoping to focus on beating donald trump. >> a public forum last week and haven't reached a resolution. this is one way folks talk about it so i'm running for president. >> a little before, biden, harris and other candidates on the debate stage and in detroit, july 30, 31st, the election 16 months away. a long time. those debates continue and arguments -- >> senator warren in washington cut it out. >> stand back and be an observer on the sidelines. fox news alert, shaky start to the fourth o

one more example, i was in chicago david axelrod took me to a museum where i saw posters the irish neednot apply. the only jobs immigrants could find was the janitorial jobs because nobody would hire them but within 30 years that is an example of courage they elected the first irish american president of the united states jfk. [applause] it is that fact that i have considered and i have seen throughout my travels to your districts and too many states and places how encouraged, how enthusiastic this nation is to get read of this un-american practice from the area 2018 election. you saw a record number of people showing up to vote. and look at the result this is what will happen in 2019. coming from charlottesville virginia, he will one - - we will elect the virginia assembl assembly. we will elect in 2020 and repeat 2018 and elect the majority in our senate and throw the demagogue out of the white house but that will require all of us to contribute to each and every campaign and i know among us i have met candidates. you are the hope. the organizers at the grassroots level. that is how w

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it's been said by david axelrod if president trump doesn't win in 2020, this might be seen as one of those moments. is this one of those moments? >> it's a significant moment, but based on my reporting, it's also notable that congressman cummings early on in the trump administration tried to build a relationship with president trump. he was at the white house numerous times. this is not someone who is totally at odds with president trump at the start. even having spoken with congressman cummings a couple years ago outside the white house chamber, he said he was trying to build a relationship. as we see, any relationship has fallen to the wayside as they've become political combat anants,t it's a sign how it could have gone a different direction. they worked at least a little bit on certain policy issues. and these kinds of attacks, whether on the four minority freshmen of congress at the house, or a veteran member of congress like mr. cummings, these could jeopardize the white house's ability to continue to build relationships this fall as they try to go after issues like prescriptio

yes david axelrod called his approach cold and hard.l, you know what, the future of the country is at stake and all of our futures with our families is at stake. i expect the president to be cold and hard in making sure that americans know exactly what is going. he's done that, it was chaos on the floor, and it's an indication of the chaos that democrat leadership brings. >> tucker: really remarkable story to watch unfold. >> it is. >> tucker: i have to ask you speaking of stories unfolding live, late breaking news, planned parenthood has fired its president, on the job just ten months n a statement she suggested that she was pushed out because she wanted planned parenthood to focus on being a healthcare organization instead of political outfit focused on promoting abortion. we're learning tonight that apparently according to buzzfeed she was unpopular because she refused to use, quote, trans-inclusive language and referred to women as women rather than people. >> what a shock. she also in her letter leaving, her resignation letter open

malika henderson, cnn political reporter, david axelrod, cnn political commentator and host of the axeiles and pharmer commentator and executive director of black caucus. the president is continuing to tweet this morning about bot and about congressman elijah cummings. angela, isn't the president of the united states the president of all the cities in the united states or only the ones he likes? >> rhetorical question. >> it's sort of rhetorical but it isn't. he thinks he couldn't do anything about baltimore? if he thinks baltimore is so bad, he thinks he's power respect to do anything in baltimore? >> no. i think he thrives more on sowing seeds of discord as he's done since long before office. those are the facts. what we've seen is the president in some way experienced some carnal benefit to attacking people of color. last week he started with the squad. this week congressman elijah cummings, who has done a task helping us to understand all the responsibility to be chairman of oversight reform committee. the other thing disgusting that's gone beyond congressman cummings but now attac

as david axelrod said earlier this is not the first time for president trump. the "access hollywood" was as bad if not worse than this and the white house and president have just brushed it off two years later. so we'll see what kind of political impact this all has. >> thank you all very much. so another republican is considering challenging president trump in 2020. we'll let you know who that is, and we will talk to him about why he is now considering diving into this race. [ birds chirping ] you ever wish you weren't a motaur? no. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. for those who were born to ride, here, hello! starts with -hi!mple... how can i help? a data plan for everyone. everyone? everyone. let's send to everyone! [ camera clicking ] wifi up there? -ahhh. sure, why not? how'd he get out?! a camera might figure it out. that was easy! glad i could help. at xfinity, we're here to make life simple. easy. awesome. so come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. >>> president trump's cell of the republican party is on full display t

david axelrod framed the question. the big question is if he's up to this thing, if he's vigorous and if he is engaged. that was the knock on him in the last debate. will he do that tonight? >> i think he will definitely do that tonight. immediately after the last debate, we saw the joe biden after the debate. it caught him by surprise. he's a statesman. he didn't expect a friend to attack him. that being. he came back stronger. he's been strong and it is the joe that we know. the more he speaks about his policies and not focus on the attacks, the more he will continue to resonate with voters. >> how much do you expect him to try to focus on president trump which is in his address, in his video coming into the race, announcing his determination to run? it was really focused on president trump and what he believes president trump has done to the country and how joe biden wants to change that. >> trump is the enemy. it won't be other people standing on the stage. this is about winning in 2020. and we've talked about this

david axelrod took me to a museum where i saw posters that are in the museum now. irish need not apply. jobs irish immigrants could find were janitorial jobs because no one would hire them. where 30 years, that is the example of courage and organization lies. they elected the first irish-american president of the united states, john f. kennedy. it is that fast. i have seen throughout my travels to your districts, to how states, to many places encouraged, how enthusiastic this nation is to get rid of un-american practice. the last election, you saw a record numbers of people showing up to vote. look at the result. look at the result. this is what is going to happen in 2019. i come from charlottesville, virginia. the virginiato assembly majority. 2020, going to elect in we are going to repeat 2018, we will elect a majority in our set it and throw the demagogue it out of the white house. [applause] it will require all of us to contribute to each and every campaign. i have met several of the local candidates. you are the hope. you are the organizers at the grassroots l

david axelrod, one more time. here are the republicans, only four of them who joined with democrats to officially criticize what the president's said. will hurd of texas. he had also vocally spoken out in the hours after thouse tweet. brian fitzpatrick, fred upton, susan brooks, justin amash who is now an independent. so this was a symbolic vote, of course. it's for posterity. and so what's the significance in your mind in terms of our kurn current climate? >> i'm not sure. i have a bit of a feeling this is deja vu all over again. because we've -- how many times have we gotten together here and elsewhere and said, man, he can't -- he has gone too far this time. he can't get away with this. and then we find out that he has gotten away with it. yes, he was rebuked by the house. i think in the long run, if donald trump loses, it's going to be because people are just exhausted by these kinds of anti antics. but in the short run, he owns this republican party and the only way this vote would have been a disaster for hi

david axelrod again over the weekend saying, i don't know if this guy can make it to the end based on all of the flip-flopping. in the end, what is the point of having a moderate lane in the democratic primary if joe biden will just continually change his position? if he gets to a general and becomes the nominee, which is not inevitable, by the way, what will he actually run on considering he's changing his position? i apologize what i said a couple of weeks ago. well this is a position over the course of 30 years of your career in the senate. are you apologizing for that too? what is his platform? i'm not sure. >> greg: he's turning moderate lien into lombard street. >> dana: running out of road. okay, this new political climate does not seem to suit him well. so he's been running for office for 40 years. when you are running as a vice president on a ticket where president obama is popular, you are running on a ticket and he was a good vice president. i'm not saying he wasn't. that doesn't necessarily mean you wear them the best candidate for this political moment that we are in. thi

>>julia, on that point, david axelrod has been tweeting about this, in real donald trump loses in 2020this will be why. every single day he subjects the country he was elected to lead to a stream of ugly, divisive bombasts. do yaw agree with that assessment? are people keeping up with all of this and will it affect the way they vote in a year and change? >> well, it's really too early to tell right now because we are over a year out from the election, but i think to daniel's point, a lot of independents and moderates are getting frustrated with the president and this rhetoric. i think a lot of republicans are as well because the president has a growing economy under his administration. i think any other president, any other republican president, would be repeatedly touting that and really underlining that going into a presidential election. but clearly in at least trump's mind he's trying to keep his base in mind instead of getting the moderate swing voters that he really needs to win in 2020. it's clear he's feeding off of the energy he's getting from his base and going after elijah c

david axelrod said that basically his campaign had him -- what was that, candidate protection programsee why. anybody objectively watching, he was not strong. he looked like a a week candide i think most of us would admit we don't think joe biden is a racist. so i don't necessarily think it was the line of attack, but the fact that he looked week. he was flat-footed. attacks have been out of the public domain. he wasn't prepared, he had given up midway in trying to defend himself. quite frankly, he looked old and out of shape compared to the rest of the candidates. >> jessica: he did look very strong in this, it's the number one issue for voters, health care. his defense of obamacare, he said, "i oppose any democrat or republican who opposes obamacare." voters like that. be free but it matters, you know this. it's not just about the issues. it's the candidate. you have to generate excitement. i just don't think joe biden will be able to generate excitement. i think he looks like a week candidate. >> jessica: i welcome you into the democratic primary voting, lisa. [laughter] >> lisa: w

his biography is a huge part of his campaign, when he learned from david axelrod and obama that tellingin. this is a very interesting part of his biography because we've never really had a presidential candidate rise this high who is openly gai. and to talk to the mayor about this and how he struggled, this is really interesting, because this was a time, this kind of micro generation in which he grew up, people my age who are like between 35 and 40 where things were changing so rapidly with gay rights and he's really, i think, an avatar for that generation and how acceptance has become much more broad. >> first started talking about this with rachel maddow, which was fascinating and again now with you in a much broader way in "the sunday times." then we have kamala harris, joe biden, with mika, margaret, being asked by mika about those moments on the debate stage where he really just was almost struck silent, giving up some of his time when kamala harris started going after him. >> i cede my time back. >> let's play a little bit of this. >> your performance was panned. would you do some

david axelrod tweeted that if donald trump loses 2020 this will be why he's subjecting the country toeam of ugly bombastic -- that's advice from the other side of the aisle. >> again, we've had this conversation. i want trump to focus on all the good things he's done. obviously, i think the economy is going very, very well and rashad made this point, too. if trump would focus on the economy, his approval numbers would be up. i think it's one thing coming into 2020, if he can focus a little bit more on positive messages and reminding people of the benefits he's done over the last three years for everyone, regardless. hispanic, african american, women, all of these things. i think he's got a very good chance and i would remind you democrats are running against history. only five presidents lost their re-election bid since 1900. if trump can focus on this, economy keeps going, he'll win. >> rashad, the last word, quickly. >> very quickly. president trump is an anomaly. he's also the only president in modern era who has an approval rating as it relates to the economy over 60%. but an over

michelle obama and david axelrod have been negative too noncommittal, respectively, and a former obama staffer is less than impressed with former vice president. >> i think everyone is expecting bigger fund-raising numbers from him. i think he's in trouble with these numbers. >> martha: 's or all that and then look at this. as obamacare today faces a very big hurdle in the courts. joe biden is putting a lot of his chips on the health care program that his fellow candidates are basically saying is so yesterday. >> the quickest, fastest way to do this, build on obamacare. to build on what we did buried him the idea were going to come along and take the most significant thing that has happened that any president is trying to do is it got done. it makes no sense to me. >> top five people in the balls right now on the complete opposite side of you. >> look i'm starting over with the i think a sin. >> martha: in moments, charlie hurt, ari fleischer, first we begin with chief legal correspondent shannon bream, she is also of course the host of "fox news @ night," later this evening, we will a

. >> david axelrod, you wrote if the president loses next year in 2020, this will be why.hy do you say that. >> it goes to the point jeff was making. i think there is a limit to what people are willing to tolerate. even if they like some of the things that he's done, there is a recognition that this is -- to live at a ten all of the time with the president of the united states issuing these divisive, racist kind of grenades, launching them time and time again, picking fights with tantrums on twitter that engulf everyone. it makes it very, very tough as a country to get anything done. and i think that the real question people -- reagan said are you better off now than you were four years ago. the question people will have to ask themselves in 2020 is can we take another four years of this? >> but the economy is very good. >> but that is -- >> that is an important issue. >> it is a very important issue and an asset for him but instead he's talking about this. and i think that frustrates a lot of republican politicians. but i think one of the things we should note is that his

. >> david axelrod tweeted something out that it was really -- i thought interesting to point out.is deliberate racist outburst he wants to raise the profile of his targets, dive dems to defend them and make them emblematic of the entire party. it's cold, hard strategy. >> i see that but we have a leader in nancy pelosi who i like to have her in the room when the boys are meeting to cut up the piece of pie, right? i like to have her there. i think she represents our interests. he's able to bring everybody together. i saw how she came together with those same young women. >> there was a fight that spilled quite publicly -- is there she's a pro and held us together when government was shut down and the president tried to come in and impose his state of the union and said you can't come in. she is a real leader and she will bring us together. i have confidence in her and confidence in those four young women. >> congressman, thanks for being here. thank you very much. >>> coming up next for us, joe biden unveiling his health care plan today drawing a contrast to his democratal rivals'

former obama advisor david axelrod says trump's constant feuding with lawmakers could ultimately backfiredaxelrod, after the initial attack on elijah cummings, tweeting the following. "if he loses the election 2020, this is why. every day he has a stream of ugly, divisive bombast. it's exhausting, unworthy of a potus, and it would only get worse. four more years? this?" 2020 democrat julian castro weighing in as well. saying that the benefit is basically stoking racial tensions. listen. >> this guy is the biggest identity politician we have seen in the last 50 years. he engages in what's known as racial priming. basically, using this language and taking actions to try and get people to move into their camps by racial and ethnic identity. that's how he thinks he won in 2016, and that's how he thinks he's going to win in 2020. >> julie: meanwhile, the democrats appear to be putting up a more unified front amid the president's criticism. at least in photographs, anyway. here's how speaker nancy pelosi with new york congresswoman alexandra ocasio-cortez all smiles after their face-to-face meet

david axelrod tweeting now the two years of impeachment ads make sense.the case, oh, it was part of the plan all along. raise your profile and get a lot of names on a petition that you reach out to and hopefully they'll support you. >> it is interesting what's driving him to run. you're right, he said earlier this year he would not and now he's saying there are issues not being addressed. he mentioned the issue of climate and corporate influence in politics. but those issues are being brought up in the democratic primary. maybe not as prominent as the news of the day but they are certainly discussed. >> buttigieg, $24.8 million, biden $21.5, here are the top five. the question is does a billionaire reach deep into his pockets and try to change the race by spending more than that? >> he certainly could if he wants to, but the dnc has set up rules for the debates that will make a self-funding candidate not necessarily guaranteed of being on stage. >> and he'll get scrutiny for the first time which he hasn't done. if he starts taking off, look for others to

david axelrod seizing on that. he's a lot of fun to be with, mr. trump said at the time. it's even said he likes beautiful women. he quotes the president there and then connects it to the labor secretary. cut this creep an extraordinary deal, disgusting. fair political commentary? >> it seems that this was potentially an open secret with many people and this is why epstein managed to have those connections. this is the whole swamp thing whether it's in miami, new york or connected to people in d.c. it comes back to roost, though, with acosta most directly in terms of the political figures that were surrounding him. you could make a separate argument about the people who enabled this activity. because he was the prosecutor that was actually negotiating with the lawyers and seems like on the books he had an opportunity to come down really, really hard and throw this guy into jail for the rest of his life. as it turns out he was in prison for 13 months and spent 12 hours a day six days a week going to an office and seemed to get off fairly easy. in an environment in which ev

. >> a lot to talk about, i'll only do this one, former top obama advisor david axelrod and nia mallika henderson and gloria boringer and jeffrey toobin and corey cordero and kirsten powers and former trump campaign strategists and cnn political commentator david urban. if democrats were looking for, you know, we heard nothing from democrats other than if all he does is read from the report, that will be great. >> of course, he did read from the report. listen, i think what ted lu said was interesting. we'll have to wait a few days and see what the american people say. the reality is the last poll i saw was the "wall street journal" nbc poll last weekend that said 21% of americans favored impeachment and that was down from 27% in june. the question is did what we see today move the needle? there is no doubt there was damaging blows landed in this, but was it enough to actually move the needle in a way that would create a climate where impeachment makes sense? if i'm nancy pelosi thinking, you know, 21% is a bad number, i got 31 people in districts that donald trump won and sitting on th

one of them the former senior advisor to president obama, david axelrod which we did at one point duringul. let's bring in our panel. byron york, chief political correspondent, mollie hemingway, amy walter, national editor for the cook political report and "washington post" columnist marc theissen. molly, your take today? >> the whole premise of today was the movie would be better than the book, that the mueller report didn't do what they wanted it to accomplish in book form so if they had visuals that it would help people understand the case against the president. what i don't think anybody expected was that mueller would present himself as doddering, lacking command of anything to do with the investigation and thereby raising a whole host of questions about who actually was in charge of this mueller investigation. a lot of people just gave it leeway because they respected him and seeing today, i don't think anybody things he was in charge. it had been previously part of that 13 of the 17 associates were democrats, zero were republicans, nine were democratic donors, six were hillary cli

. >> joining us now legal and political team and host and former top advisor david axelrod and gloriad assistant attorney general elliott williams and cnn political analyst kirsten powers and chief of staff and cnn political commentator, we were reporting mueller requested this and department of justice pointed that out so why is congressman nadler saying this is unwarranted? >> not me. yeah, i think barr is making the point that mueller requested it and the reason and wants someone sitting next to him is because he wants to be on solid ground and i think he's being cocooned into a degree because he wants to turn to his right hand person and say okay, correct me if i'm wrong on this little detail and he wanted the guidance in writing from the justice department in case he gets he can and not cannot say. it's more about mueller in this particular case than the justice system. >> i don't understand why it's such a last-minute thing. >> it's not clear. there seems to be some debate but suggestion. people ought to chill out about it. nobody cares about aaron. >> i'm sure he has friends an

even david axelrod admitted saying it was very painful to watch him in a tweet.id today he was able to conduct and conclude his investigation unhindered. third i think the substance of the investigation was really called into question, particularly even looking at the facts that aaron zebley was sitting next to him, a i guy who represented justin cooper a top hillary clinton aide who both set up the private server and destroyed evidence, also what representative rad cliff pointed out is the fact that president trump was denied his presumption of innocence by mueller and his team. so for those three reasons, mueller did a lot of dodge democrats' impeachment narrative snail sure looks that way. thanks for that explanation, lisa boothe. >> i always appreciate being on. thank you. >> thank you. in a resurfaced interview from 2018, i will and omar told al jazeera that america ought to engage in racial profiling of white men who she blamed for most of the deaths within this country. in the same interview omar said american shouldn't worry about young muslims leaving he

but we also saw -- years david axelrod, formerly of the obama administration, saying he wasn't used to be six years ago. the last tyrese i'm speak like this publicly. lost a step in some regards. what happened yesterday? he was asked several questions over and over. didn't even know what fusion gps was. >> the reality is there should be more focused on the content of the report the results of the investigation. >> harris: you didn't need him to get that, that was my point. that was a man that was put up there. you can argue whether it was preparation, you can't argue participation, congressman. he even shared with us as a public, he was barely part of that report. >> i disagree. i think mr. mueller competed a very thorough investigation. i think he relayed the important information to the american people yesterday. i think we should not get lost on style and really focus on the substance of his findings. the report contains damning and frankly overwhelming evidence of misconduct by the president. he was the first witness to come before the committee and walk us through it. he reports i

obama's former chief strategist, david axelrod, said, this is very, very painful. the conspiracy theory is over there at braswell maddow's ms dnc, they even called the hearing boring, confused, then admitted, even chuckie todd admitted it was a disaster. well-known schumpeter lawrence todd also called the hearing a disaster. cue the violence, because the witch hunt is dead. the media mob is in morning. this is probably the most depressed since they've been since election night 2016 when they got those exit polls. by 15 showed, oh, my gosh, donald trump did not win a single state. they started their coverage at 6:00, they were happy, gleeful, giddy, excited, they could not believe it, and then the night unfolded and reality caught up. kind of like today. take a look. >> there were times in the hearing when he was sharp as a tack.n but we can't avoid the fact that there were times in the hearing that he was not. >> today, he was a witness. and he frankly wasn't a really good witness. they needed to bring the report to life. >> there you go. >> well, it didn't come to