joining us from washington with a look at axios am co-founder and ceo of axios jim vandehei.'re looking at how overrated money is in presidential politics. obviously it keeps you alive early on but it's not a great indicator of who is going to have success. ask jeb bush, hillary clinton. a big reason for that is social media. you can get so much coverage for free. i would contend trump might have been able to win the presidency spending 10% of what hillary did because he got so much prekfree coverage on cable tv. so it's sort of that echo of free coverage that probably matters a lot more than money. >> so if these fund-raising totals are overrated, as you are finding, why the push by so many of these candidates and putting it out there how much money they're raising? >> at this point in q1 it's the only indicator you have of whether or not somebody has traction. and it does take money to stay alive early on, particularly in a crowded field. i'd pay more attention to how well these candidates do in being orthen particulauthentic connect on social media. people aren't that pers

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yet the president moves forward. >> jim vandehei, this would be much like the democratic part deciding, you know what, in 2020 we're going to be the party of pro-life, we are going to go out and making pro-life our top issue. i mean, health care, again, it was a nightmare in 2018, the largest landslide ever in terms of vote totals. and donald trump has so many broken promises from 2016 that are going to be highlighted already that actually draw that fight there where he's broken -- well, he's lied about, you know, health care for all, universal health care. he's lied about not cutting medicare. he's lied about not cutting medicaid. he's lied about lower deductibles, he's lied about lower premiums. he's lied about everything involving health care. how bad of a situation is this for republicans if that is where donald trump decides to fight? >> when you talk to republican leaders on capitol hill, it's really bad. it's not just the last election, it's almost every election if you had to bet on what topic is the most important topic, it's health care because it touches everybody. one of th

. >> jim vandehei, comment on this politically. again, the president concerned going into the election he doesn't have a wall, plus he has all of these migrants coming up to the border and trying to cross the border. and, you know, on top of that, as far as his policies go, democrats can attack his policies as well because he wants to defund aid going to el salvador and other countries that actually would do a better job of keeping those migrants at home. >> politically he's calculating immigration will be a winner again. you're not going to get a soft are line. you're going to get someone running homeland security that takes a much harder line than someone who already had a pretty hard line. the president wants somebody who will stretch what legal authority they have and push to ultimately shut down the border. he tries to portray this as a crisis of historic proportion. it's definitely a problem. even obama administration officials say we had a problem at the border. it's complicated to solve because so many people coming here co

>> this is a piece by jim vandehei and our experts on both coasts.that data begets data. the great fortunes of the future in part are going to be built on how you're able to collect, package up and remarket data. for example, the information of anything from our phones, anything from our cars, like that's going to make it possible to power the prediction engines that are going to be big in the future. another one is that size begets size. you get more hefty, the biggest players in the market now are able to gobble up the best robotics technology, the best a.i. technology, the technology for our last screen as "the wall street journal" called it this week and that's our dashboard to make our vehicles the best they are. >> we talked about this during the show, herman cain is not getting much shore in washington. what are you hearing? >> it's looking like 9, 9, 9 is bye, bye, bye. looks like republican senators said they would sink him. even before the president nominated hmm, looks like it's not happening. yesterday senator mitch mcconnell, here's some

joining us from washington with a look at axios am, jim vandehei.out axios's "1 big thing" today. >> mike allen is popping a scoop as we speak. michael bloomberg, who said he was not going to run is now telling advisers he might run, especially if these allegations of joe biden damage him and convince him at some point not to be in the race. blo bloomberg has always wanted to run but has always seen biden as a big roadblock. he felt like they'd be fighting for the same voters. now that biden is having some trouble, in some ways this says as much about biden as bloomberg, they're seeing this is making him wobbly, they're wondering if he'll be able to survive it, then bloomberg sees that centrist part of the electorate as his base. >> one man as miser to -- one man's misfortune is another's opportunity. >> there's been four or five days now constant coverage of biden, none of it positive. a big debate about whether his touchy feeliness is appropriate or inappropriate. that's never good for a politician. everything we're hearing, he's still going to ru

and co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vande h j jim vandehei. mika has the morning off. it's never been quite this dramatic, never been quite this extreme. we may, in fact, have a constitutional showdown that will only be played out in the courts. >> president trump said in an interview yesterday that the mueller report is the final, final decision. he believes the case is closed, and he wants to move on, obviously. willing to block anyone in his current white house or former employees of the white house from testifying. hours after anonymous sources told the "post" that the trump administration will fight congressional subpoenas, like the one sent to ex-white house counsel don mcgahn, the president himself went on the record, telling robert costa of the "post" that he believes additional testimony is unnecessary. the president saying, quote, i allowed my lawyers and all the people to go testify to mueller. you know how i feel about that whole group of people that did the mueller report. i was so transparent. they testified for so many hours. they have all that informati