i want to bring in joe johns, who's at the white house now.etting more information about the status of this deal which the president announced minutes ago on twitter? >> reporter: yeah, not yet, not so far. and of course, it's a friday night in washington, d.c., during the summer, past memorial day. so, still haven't heard yet from the white house as to the details of this. what we do know, though, john, is those negotiations over at the state department have gone on as we've reported, for hours and hours and hours, and it's just not clear whether they're finished talking or whether they've dotted all the is, crossed all the ts or what have you, but still waiting for more information from the white house. >> one of the things we have to look for -- don't just look for movement of mexican resources, whether it be the national guard troops or checkpoints. i think what we all have to look for is if there's an actual change in the asylum law in mexico. and i think that's the barometer with which we need to consider how big of a deal this actually

as joe johns just said, this could escalate very quickly. that's the unfortunate part about all this. we can continue to place aircraft over the straits of hormuz, but iran is going to be watching for that and they are going to push the button and envelope if we continue to press it. >> it comes with this heightened rhetoric from iran. this is how we deal with our enemies, they're saying. as we wait to get a response , what are the range of options they realistically have? >> that's the interesting question. what are the range of options both sides have? when you're talking about a proportional response to a uav shootdown with what is it? is it destroying a patrol boat which allegedly the surface to air missile was fired from? is it attacking sites in iran? the question is, what is the requirement for both u.s. and iran. iran is trying to defend their territory. the u.s. is pushing the envelope in the straits trying to keep it open for the 30% of the world's oil. there's no real easy solution to what kind of proportional response between doi

on joe. johns one of the women there saying that no man would have been treated the way under analysis was treated what do you say to that. yes there is some element of truth in that it's a political party that has been dominated by alpha males as you might say a fairly older male members of the party and they are in fact the ones that have mounted to the attacks against her in recent days one has to say at the same time that i'm glad. this is personality is rather a brace of she tends to have a language that can be damaging or hurtful as well and in some cases not very thought through her statements are difficult to to some make by some members of the social democratic party so it's a bit of both it's partly because she is a woman and partly because of her personality. so kate where do we go from here what what's happening with the german government going forward but it seems that we're going to see the german government push forward and yet again there's been another close call here for the germa

joe johns is with us as well from the white house. joe. >> reporter: well, okay. first a little context on that call-in. it sounds like pretty much of a surprise for the folks at cnbc, the president called in. he's been selling both on twitter as well as on television in this interview his deal he struck with mexico to avoid the tariffs that the president himself threatened to put in place today. the big question and perhaps the news out of that entire interview with regard to mexico is that there's been some question as to whether the president essentially was touting deals that had already been made, concessions that had already been made by mexico and all this was, as "the new york times" suggested in a piece over the weekend, smoke and mirrors on the part of the administration in order to safe face. the president's argument that he articulated in that interview was that this deal was something that the government had been trying to work on for 20 years, that he was able to get it through by the threat of tariffs, that he himself personally spoke to the preside

back to you. >> joe johns at the white house. it's stunning to see any president of the united states in the oval office speak the words, i think i take it, when asked if he was handed information from a foreign country on a political opponent. >> particularly after the past three years. if you liked the past three years you're going to love the next four. if the president is re-elected. he says from anybody. russia. does that mean china? venezuela? does it mean iran? >> he brought up norway. he has a norway fetish. >> he said any country. >> the president announced he's basically a laundromat for stolen information. this is an issue when the president says it from the oval office. we'll talk more. we can't let this one slide by. something i wish i had let slide by. from last place to lifting lord stanley's cup, the st. louis blues are the stanley cup champions for the first time ever. coy wire has more. good morning. >> i'm sorry for your boston team, but i know even you appreciate this. the underdogs have their day. dead last i

let's get right to the start with joe johns who is live at the white house. do we have any details as to what these major new sanctions that the president is threatening here given that the u.s. already sanctions most iranian oil sales and a whole host of other behaviors. >> reporter: jim, they've been keeping us in suspends. the president tweeted it on friday. since then repeated questions to the administration as well as the treasury department in specific. just a minute ago i spoke to kellyanne conway here and asked what about the sanctions and she said that we'll know later today. what we do know is the sanctions in the past have been part of a so-called maximum pressure campaign to get iran to the negotiating table. well, the fact of the matter is, of course, the president confused the issue a little bit this morning when he put out this tweet, essentially questioning why the u.s. fifth fleet is protecting the shipping lanes of the strait of hormuz. obviously in part to try to protect the oil markets, which would be damaged if iran follows through on its

not expect a ferocious response from him but this is developing. >> as we wait to hear back from joe johns, let's talk about joe biden who has gotten himself back into hot water for these comments he was trying, i think, to say he's willing to cross the aisle and use the two most extreme examples in the '70s. he said i even had to work with these guys, basically. >> that's not what he said. that's what he was trying to say. >> right. and the didn't phrase it that way. that has gotten him into all sorts of trouble. and i think that you have pointed out that there is a bit of a trump strain when joe biden basically refuses to apologize and says this is my brand. you know? this is me. >> and demands that somebody else apologize to him as he did with cory booker which clearly wasn't going to go over well with cory booker. i'm not even sure the point of saying something like that if you're joe biden. but he is like donald trump north of 70. he is somebody who is set in his r ways. he believes he is who he is and shouldn't have to make calls to change. and the front runner candidacy is leaking i

back to you. >> joe johns for us at the white house. stand by. let us know if you hear from the president. we are waiting to hear if he will in fact follow the recommendations to fire kellyanne conway, although i won't bet on it. thanks, joe. >>> breaking overnight. king of the north, for the first time ever. a team outside the united states is the champion of the national basketball association. the toronto raptors dethroned the golden state warriors who ended the game with yet another superstar sidelined. andy scholes with all of the action in the bleacher report. >> the party still going in toronto this morning. what aer were for the raptors. last summer, fired their coach and traded for superstar kawhi leonard and those moves certainly paying off big time. kawhi solid in game six. in the third quarter, hits the bucket to go. plus the foul. now, moments later, just another brutal injury for the warriors. klay thompson having a fantastic game, goes down here after getting fouled. klay would have to leave the game with a knee injury and the warr

let's begin with joe johns. he's live traveling with the president. we'll see what he has to add to this. >> reporter: good morning. the president's campaign had to have a reset moment and this was it. but the implied message was they didn't see anything wrong with what they've been doing over the last several years, so they decided to stick with it. it was the same old story. the same old song and dance. the same grievances the president has aired over the last two and a half, three years. including some of his favorite themes that he's picked up along me way. robert mueller, border security, fake news, immigration. >> our immigration laws are a disgrace. we went through the greatest witch hunt in political history. no collusion, no obstruction. many times i said we would drain the swamp. we are building the wall. our radical democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice, and rage. tell sleepy joe we found the magic wand. sleepy guy. more than 120 democrats in congress have also signed up to support crazy bernie sanders' socialist government tak

>> joe johns at the white house. thank you so much. is this a bluff? the president called the tariffs beautiful. his aides say he can turn these off. what do you think? >> i think he's negotiating and i think if he reads his book, this is what he likes to do. i think he likes brinksmanship. i think the republican senators have helped him, because they've communicated to the mexicans, holy cow, he's serious about this. they're even worried about this. they believe it's going to happen. and it sounds thoeey want to ma a deal. on many levels, he's already accomplished what he would like to do. >> but there's border security implemented when president obama had -- there was the immigration crisis that happened when he was president. and i think the difference was, they worked with mexico instead of, you know -- and did this through diplomacy and increased border security, both on the mexican border and the u.s. border. now, it didn't address what the systemic problem was, which was happening in honduras and guatemala. >> two things about t

joe johns at the white house. thank you very much. joining us now, congressman hakeem jeffreys, a democrat, serving on the house judiciary committee, also chairman of the house democratic caucus. he's a leader in the house of representatives. thanks for joining us. >> great to be with you, wolf. >> let's begin with the growing feud between the president and the speaker. he called her statement that she would like to see him in prison disgusting. do you believe it's okay for the speaker of the house to tell her colleagues she would like to see the president actually go to prison? >> well, i wasn't in the meeting and so i'm not really in a position to elucidate clearly on the speaker's comments other than to say that she has maintained consistently and publicly that the house is going to do its constitutional duty but in a dignified fashion, we'll follow the facts, apply the law, guided by the united states constitution. and we'll see where that leads us. >> what do you believe, congressman? do you believe the president may have committ

that was joe johns reporting tonight trump's reelection kickoff rally in orlando is expected to featureflow crowd. >>and include vice president mike pence and first lady melania trump. former white house communications director hope hicks will testify behind closed doors on wednesday. lawmakers plan to ask for both about her time at the white house and with the trump campaign. her testimony will mark the first time a member of president trump's inner circle will appear before the committee during obstruction investigations hicks was subpoenaed last month as part of a probe into possible obstruction of justice corruption and abuse of power. white house could assert executive privilege so she won't have to answer questions about her time in the white house. one source says hicks is expected to address executive privilege issues on a question by question basis. >>the united states will send about a 1000 additional troops to the middle east as tensions escalate with iran, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan announced the move today saying the goal is to step up defenses against air na

he also says he wouldn't tell the fbi about it as the law requires we have joe johns with the story. >>we have information on your own. i think i'd want to hear president trump making a stunning admission telling abc news, he's willing to accept damaging information from a foreign power about political rivals ahead of the 2020 election instead of immediately informing the fbi i think maybe you do both i think you might want to listen. i don't there's nothing wrong with listening. the president also shutting down the idea that a foreign government like russia or china providing material about his opponents is against the law not in that affair and say have information i take it if i thought there was something wrong that you know maybe to the fbi if i thought there was something wrong. >>but when somebody comes up with oppo research try to come up with the upper-stage well let's call the fbi. fbi doesn't have enough agents to take care of it. >>mister trump's words clashing with his own attorney general if a foreign intelligence services halogen survey representative of a foreign gove

cnn's joe johns live at the white house with the latest. joe. >> good morning, john, it's pretty clear the president is sending signals on twitter overnight that he is planning on going back to the well to try to drudge up some of the very same feelings among voters that used to propel him into office, including on immigration, which arguably by many metrics has become a pressing issue since the president took office. nonetheless, you can expect the president tonight in battleground florida to try to declare his first years a huge success. four years after making this escalator ride down into trump tower. >> i am officially running for president. >> reporter: president trump officially kicks off his 2020 reelection campaign in florida tonight. in that first speech, then candidate trump made headlines with this incendiary statement. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crimes, they're rapists and some, i assume are good people. >> mr. trump's antiimmigration focus still a ma

joe johns is live at the white house. e were on together friday night when details of the deal were breaking. we were wondering how much would be in it. maybe not as much as we initially anticipated. >> reporter: exactly right, john. the administration's message is that this is all new. it's a big deal for the president. a demonstration of his negotiating skills. he got tangible commitments. but the president spent the last 24 hours or so pushing back against critics and reporting at "the new york times" suggesting it's smoke and mirrors, it's nothing new and they were things mexico already agreed to. still, the administration's top officials were pushing the idea that the president ought to get credit for this. listen. >> reporter: the president put a charge in this dialogue with mexico with the terror threat, brought them to the table. the foreign minister from mexico arrived within hours. he arrived the next day with real proposals on the table. this is the first time since we have heard of this number of law enforcemen

let's begin with joe johns. he is live at the white house. joe? >> good morning, alisyn.ng suggesting that the united states essentially telegraphed

. >> joining us now cnn's joe john live from the white house. joe, you're there and i know you've been speaking to administration officials this morning. is this a real plan and when does it start? >> reporter: anybody's guess, but i can tell you that's it in a nutshell. first you had the tweet from the president of the united states really sort of predicting or saying that next week we're going to have the kind of round ups or sweeps of undocumented immigrants that administration hard liners have been pushing for some time as a deterrent to try to dissuade people from coming across the southern border illegally, and then later this morning we got what was essentially a statement from an administration official not confirming, not denying what the president suggested was the plan for next week, but simply sort of reaffirming the harsh language of the president's tweets. so i'll just read some it to you. there are more than 1 million undocumented immigrants this administration official says who has issued deportation orders by federal judges that

let's begin with joe johns. he's live traveling with the president.this. >> reporter: good morning. the president's campaign had to have a reset moment and this was it. but the

joe johns is official at the white house this morning. are officials giving any details on these sanctions yet? >> no details so far. we've been looking for information for that since friday. what we are getting this morning is a little bit more on the presidential decision tree. how the president decided not to take the shot in retaliation after they shot down that unmanned u.s. drone. and the takeaway is it was not nearly as dramatic or dramatic as last second as the president even himself suggested on twitter. >> i'm not looking for war. and if there is, fit'll be obliteration like you've never seen before. >> reporter: saying his advisers did not provide enough good reasons for initiating the strike. >> i said how many people are going to be killed. they said, came, back said sir, approximately 150. i thought about it for a second. you know what? they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it. and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place within half an hour after i said go ahead. and

let's begin with joe johns. he is live at the white house. joe? >> good morning, alisyn. that "new york times" reporting suggesting that the united states essentially telegraphed what sounds very much like a robust military punch in reaction to the shootdown of the drone. and then suddenly pulling back at the very last second. also interesting to note that "the new york times" suggested in that report that the administration did not ask the newspaper to hold out -- hold off on putting that information out which suggests, perhaps, that the administration essentially wanted that information to go open source. but we have seen again and again from the administration now is some dual track messaging coming from here, coming from the defense department, coming from the state department. and the question, of course, is why. the president on the one hand has down play ed from time to time the provocative actions of iran iran. suggesting you'll have to see what happens. this is very much a trump style mark. but the question is will this be able to get iran to the table so sort of

. >> joe johns standby at the white house. in the meantime i want to bring in lieutenant general mark herting, and sarah izner, cnn political analyst. we just heard from joe. this is an expensive piece of hardware, over $200 million if you include the rnd costs and it's a provocative action as well, iran telling the world they did this to send a message to the united states. what are the range of possible responses? >> it's huge, john. you can go all the way from backing down completely to a full-scale war. that's what's dangerous about this situation. it's a provocative action to say we did this purposely to send a message. but i would respond to that by saying the united states has sent several messages to iran in the last several months. we're attempting to solve this as a short-term problem, when in fact the maligned actions of the iranian government are a long-term issue. they have been doing this for a while, and it's going to take more than just sound bite and tactical actions which we've seen so far. it's going to take

joe johns at the white house, thank you very much. want to bring in jane harmon. she's a former democratic ranking member of the house committee. now the president and ceo of the wilson center. in a cnn political analyst. let's throw those poll numbers back up on the screen so people can see the hole the president was in or is in according to his own campaign polling. but his own campaign verified the reality of them to abc news. so the president was lying when he said they were fake polls. i know it's a process story, but it's a process that reveals about his thinking. he's fired some of the pollsters behind this polling. >> right. i mean, it's just not surprising at all that trump would react this way to seeing these polls. you could certainly argue don't ca carry a lot of meaning full out. he understands these early snapshots benefitted himself when he first ran in 2016 can create a narrative that gets set and can take on a certain permanence. he's the one who's elevated joe biden even though there's a huge democratic primary. this solidifies that with the matc

. >> joe johns at the white house, thank you very much. barbara my sister, cnn pentagon correspondent, has been following this. what are you learning about what resources the u.s. had in position in the air and on the sea before, ten minutes before they were ready to strike and the president pulled them back? how significant do we believe this strike was going to be? >> reporter: well, the president's own tweet said they were going after three sites in iran. we know from our sources that what they were looking at striking were iranian surface to air missiles and radars, the kind of systems that would have been used to shoot down the drone. and it would have been very well understood from the beginning that these sites inside iran are not deserted, there are people there manning them. this would have been part of the calculation right from the beginning. there are u.s. navy warships that can shoot cruise missiles in the vicinity, and they were in the vicinity, as always, last night. there are aircraft capable of dropping bombs always on sta

before and in national news president treven there's already a shake-up when it comes to the polls, joe johns. >>as president trump prepares to kick off his reelection bid in florida tomorrow. cnn has learned the trump campaign fired several pacers after leaked internal data revealed the president lagged behind 2020 democratic front runner, joe biden and several key battleground states something mister trump denied in an interview with abc news, and it's really suppression polling is fake polling, but in that case was just made a polling. >>and i have made i had the same thing made up, i mean they give you phony numbers to give you numbers they said they they have access to numbers which don't believe they have access to they suppress they want to suppress the minds of people so they don't bother going out the trump campaign also rejecting the poll's accuracy riding in a statement these leaks numbers are adding. >>since then we've seen huge swings in the president's favor a person familiar with the matter tells cnn the president is fuming another source saying trump is nowthnum asking regular

>>joe johns explains. >>4 years after making this escalator ride down into trump tower. >>i am officially running. the president president trump officially kicks off his 2020 reelection campaign in florida tonight in that first speech then candidate trump made headlines with this incendiary statement. >>when mexico sends its people they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists and some i assume are good people. >>mister trump's anti immigration focus still a major part of his campaign. the president tweeting last night that next week ice will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the united states. a senior trump campaign official says president trump's campaign will focus on promises made promises kept president trump seemingly providing a preview of his upcoming rally speech after firing off tweets about the southern border, fake polls. the mueller report and once again mentioning his 2016 democratic rival, hillary clinton. mister trump telling abc news in a

>>we have joe johns now with the full story. >>4 years after making this escalator ride down into trump>>i am officially running. the president president trump officially kicks off his 2020 reelection campaign in florida tonight in that first speech then candidate trump made headlines with this incendiary statement. >>when mexico sends its people they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists and some i assume are good people. >>mister trump's anti immigration focus still a major part of his campaign. the president tweeting last night that next week ice will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the united states. a senior trump campaign official says president trump's campaign will focus on promises made promises kept president trump seemingly providing a preview of his upcoming rally speech after firing off tweets about the southern border, fake polls. the mueller report and once again mentioning of 2016 democratic rival, hillary clinton. mister trump telling abc news in an

joe johns at the white house, let us know if more heads roll this morning.he trump campaign confirmed to abc nuews that those polls were accurate they were just old. >>> this is in response to the attack that the u.s. blames on iran. a key senate ally of the president is calling for a retaliatory military strike. barbara starr live at the pentagon this morning. the secretary of state says the united states is considering a full range of options. >> reporter: a full range of options at this point, but sources are telling us don't look for ground combat forces. don't look for military strikes any time soon. the secretary of state laying out more of his thinking on this. >> you have to put it in the context of 40 years of behavior inside the islamic republic of iran. this is consistent with how they've reacted previously. we've seen four other commercial ships which challenged the international norms of freedom of navigation. the united states is considering a full range of options. >> so what are we looking at? sources are telling us look possibly for more pat

. >> joe johns at the white house, thank you very much. we have david sanger, and david, you and i have covered this region for some time. and the parallels to obama's infamous you might call it, red line on syria, are remarkable here. and one that, don't take my word for it, you're already hearing those comparisons being made by republican lawmakers that we saw liz cheney on the hugh hewitt broadcast making comparisons about what that does to the credibility about the president's threat of military action here. how concerning is that for this president? >> well, the parallels are great as you say. and the biggest concern for the president, i'm sure, is that he was the one who so frequently derided what was called the red line decision. now in this case, of course, as you just heard from joe, there were no american casualties from taking down this surveillance drone. and the president was bound to cause some casualties whether it was 150 or more or less, we don't know, from hitting ground stations out there. and i think there would have be

joe johns with breaking news at the white house, thank you so much. let us know what else you hear as this develops. joining us now, a cnn military and diplomatic analyst, and cnn contributor. david gregory, the president made this announcement on twitter of what would be a huge operation to round up as he put it, millions of undocumented immigrants. now the context of people who have been issued final deportation issues by a federal judge is still more an a million. it's just unclear where the resources, the money would come from this. >> this morning you have to look at it at least at first blush as more of the president's bluster, threats and attempts from the administration we've seen before, and the president may be going out on a limb here on the days he's going to reannounce relection on how tough he's going to be to send a message after threatening tariffs from central mexico after not doing enough on the border. and you see as we try to piece this together as joe has done it, white house aides are scrambling to keep up with the president on t

joining us now joe lockhart, kara cordero, and john avalos. robert mueller has given us a preview of what he will say or i should think what he won't say before congress. listen to what mueller told us he would speak to. >> there has been discussion about an appearance before congress. any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. and the report is my testimony. i would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress. >> so kara, what do you think that practically means for july 17th? what will we see? >> as a matter of practice, i think the big challenge is going to be for the members of congress to keep their questions narrow and give him time to answer. because the big challenge is not having him take up what is usually their five minute of time and get him to be able to describe the major findings of his report. if the members grand stand, if they suck up the five minutes, that hearing between one committee and then later in the day the second, that time can get eaten up very q

let's go to joe johns, he joins us at the white house this morning.ines, what rises to the top? >> reporter: for sure. and i think just because the president is headed out to the group 20 summit in asia later today i think one of the big head hines, poppy ssh is what the president had to say about china. mayes expected to meet chinese president xi. and one of the things on the plate at this moment is whether or not the united states is going to suspend the "morning express" round of tariffs aimed at china, the continuing trade war? there's been some reports around town the president might do that. however in his interview this morning the president indicating it's possible but he's not promising. take a listen. >> look, they know what we have to have, and if we don't have intellectual property theft protections, if we don't have the opening of china -- you know china is not open. we're open, but china is not open. so if we don't have the opening of china, if we don't have the things we negotiated and maybe even more than that. >> reporter: still very

personally >>that was joe johns reporting teams. weaver says he's considering legal action against the city of stockton. >>it might and they really did the just cannot get over the hump in game 3 of the nba finals tonight mark has the full >>there's been yet another their side of this time in rohnert park. >>take a look neighbor spotted this found there early this morning on lancaster drive a viewer sent us a video of a police car trying to go after the bear neighbors say the bear was not acting aggressively it did climb fences a walk through fields, this is actually the latest in several recent bear sightings over the weekend video from vacaville show to bear walking the ruined neighborhood, someone's driveway and then at u c davis wildlife officials captured a bear which had been sitting in a tree they i'm not really seeing that they're back into the wild and talking about there's there's a big problem in lake tahoe, especially during the tourist season car break >>and it's the fees that sheriff's deputies are concerned about but

joe voted for that. >> brennan: congressman john lewis, a civil rights icon, said this week that joe biden's comments about in the past segregationists wasn't offensive. why do you disagree? >> i think joe o's the country an -- joe owes the country an apology on that. it's one thing to work with have fundamental disagreements with. that's one thing. you do that. thing to extol those relationships. you cannot be extolling people who really were part of a disgusting system that oppressed and terrorized millions of african americans in this country. >> brennan: but don't you think he believes those things? >> yeah, if your question is do i think joe biden is a racist, absolutely not. not for a second. joe is a friend of mine. i like joe. i hope this campaign will be about the real issues facing the american people, and not ugly, you know, attacks. >> brennan: there are ice raids that it's estimated some 2,000 people or not will be targeted. is this appropriate? >> it is not appropriate. >> brennan: specifically on this point, the 2,000 who are supposed to be targeted haven't should be up for court dates. esse

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the president, joe biden, and cnn's jeff zeleny, live in des moines with the top story. jeff? >> reporter: hey, john. good morning. this is the day that joe biden has been waiting for, to take on donald trump in this critical swing state, where six electoral votes are on the line. joe biden must first get through the big democratic primary, but he is here today, as donald trump say rivalin ins arriving, go one on one in a match where they've been sparring, for now, from afar. it is a matchup both men have been craving. >> i don't see biden as a threat, no. i don't see him as a threat. i think he is only a threat to himself. >> president trump inherited an economy from obama/biden administration. that was given to him, just like he inherited everything else in his life. >> reporter: it's hardly a duel at high noon, but president trump and joe biden are both heading so iowa today, bringing their long distance feud into closer range. it is the president's first trip of the year to a state heavily inundated with democratic presidential candidates. he's not only watching that race closely, but he is work

host: i asked who you would support and you said joe biden. johncardle has an update on what is happening in washington on c-span2 in the senate. floor will see that the is being held open for votes right now, and i want to explain why. the senate yesterday passed a $750 billion defense bill. today they are voting on an amendment that would be applied retroactively to that bill if it passes. that amendment would prohibit any military action against iran without congressional approval. you will hear it referred to today as the udall amendment. the vote on that amendment 5:02 a.m. this morning, and it will be held open all day long to allow members who were in miami for the debate to get back and vote. perhaps congressional history be made today, this one from chad from fox news. if you are scoring at home, this vote officially started at 5:02 a.m. eastern. it would break the vote for the open, fivee held hours 20 minutes, at 10:42 a.m. eastern. republicans are reluctant to endorse this effort, not likely to pass, the publicans arguing it would send

known contenders in the last week alone senator cory booker has called out former vice president john joe biden's record on civil rights while senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are competing for the attention of more progressive minded democrats so how will the sinai mix play out on the debate stage returning to the stream to help us answer that question and survey the landscape republican party strategist and the founder of the women's public leadership network brad jenkins is a democratic party strategist and host of the fired up at a miami and correspondent for al-jazeera english however you really get to see let's just see if you can pass this test we have a radio app panels 24 candidates so follow who's missing who's missing from back here. and the news that are going into the race. i had no idea there was so many the question is we have 25 people. as wanting to run for president what is the point. and why so many why would you even bother i think look in their defense when donald trump announced his candidacy for president everyone laughed at them and i think in many ways

over the controversial remarks, it seemed notable to me, jimically clyburn, came out defended joe biden, johnis, a similar era, he defended biden as well. is there a generational opponent in the black political world on this? >> i think that that's too simplistic. i think that is a divide and those that have made the effort of trying to push for certain accountability and those that haven't. because joe biden has on his staff people that are of a younger jen rake, sacedric richmond, chairman of the professional black caulk kiss, sand worries came out of activism is not even 30-years-old. i think it's simplistic to make it generational. it is those that have always pressed and brooeeathed and pred and those who feel you can deal with other people and deal with it in a different way. that's always been, it has nothing to do with generation. it has something to do with approach. john lewis and others are 15-years-older than me. i respect their approach. they respect mine, i respect younger people's approach. it's all about trying to get to the same place. i think that was what was striking to me

and: mayor de blasio said in 2019 joe biden and... john delaney: that's just a sampling. ington post" columnist mark, and tom. >> well, the democrats are tearing their hair out because so many of them are hoping that joe biden would be the person that seemed the most electable against donald trump. trying to make a point that is widely supported, there should be more civility, he made himself look like a relic. that's the problem here. there has been a lot of questions whether joe biden could perform on the campaign trail. he ran twice before badly. this is an example of why. undisciplined and just talks about the past, distant, distant past. there are a lot of other examples he could have used. maybe one from the 1990s. >> bret: and the 2 senators he referenced were democrats. >> yes. >> the issues are what we is talking about. >> nobody has heard of talmidge in washington. >> that's the whole point. he had to go back to the stone age. >> bret: why not say i work with dick luger from indiana and we were great friends? >> this is what you have when you have a guy who arriv

echoes weeks ago and months ago and on that time to bring in our lead-off discussion group, joe colven and john howl and tim o'brien, executive editor of bloomberg and he's also the author of "trump nation." gil, i would like to begin with you. how do you play the status of his campaign, is there any way to view the status of his presidency or are the two directly linked? >> certainly undeniably linked. what's interesting about this kickoff, the president filed his paper work for reelection back during his inauguration day. the president has been holding his campaign rally, basically since the day he was elected into office and a ton of them into the midterm elections. he continues to do his usual campaign signage. they're trying to hype it as much as they can. they're trying to hype up the crowd ahead of time with the fair they're doing outside with food trucks and concert and performers and trying to hype it up and make it something different but it is unclear at this point whether the messaging will be anything than what we typically hear at a trump's rally. >> i would think it would be infr

reverend al and joe biden and then john lewis coming out and defending joe biden with his own personaltory. that was -- it was an extremely strong moment. how do you think the weekend played out for biden? >> well, you know, joe, i think vice president biden is learning for the first time what it's like to run as a front-runner. he's run for president twice before. he's never been actual front-runner and he's realizing that words have consequences even if they have unintended consequences they can have more of an impact on you than if you were running as a second or a third tier candidate. look, he made the point clear. he made it clear when he said boy he didn't mean it what other people said he meant when he said boy. but he allowed somebody like cory booker who frankly has gotten more press in the last week than he's gotten the entire campaign since he's been in, he allowed him to come in and draw a contrast and that's something you never want to do if you're the front-runner candidate. >> so reverend al, john lewis, jim clyburn all coming to the defense of joe biden. what impact do

john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. batt battleground earns its name today as joe biden and president trump will be there. and justin amash quits the house freedom caucus. the michigan republican helped establish that conservative group that his view that there's a case for impeaching the president is not welcome there. >>> nancy pelosi ducks a question about whether she said the president belongs in prison but answers one about his harsh criticism of her while attending d-day events at normandy. >> how do you work with him after he levels such an insult against you overseas? >> i just consider the source. >> what do you mean by that? >> my stock goes up every time he attacks me so what can i say. let's not spend too much time on that because that's his victory. the diverter of attention in chief. >> back to the speaker and that contentious conversation in a few moments, but we begin with a big afternoon in american politics, a competition of heavyweights in one of america's most competitive battleground states. president trump and joe biden will be on opposite end

john joins us from bangalore joe saying what happened is i thought the u.s. was trying to tighten its relationship with india as a counterweight to china. you need then i don't think there's any change in that direction that the ball countries are moving in but you should see these as minus the cups in the long journey and don't forget that the us today's a very different us of the 26 team elections there's a reset happening in almost every country's relationship with america and so do india so the should be seen as mine ok got actions that will that will happen. in the next few days and my own view is here to perhaps set the foundation for toffs leader this week in japan when i'm just not going to have all of the and donald trump meet there at the g. 20 summit so while this very said goes on what's india hoping to get out of the talks. so i did what india will be hoping to get is. a concept of common ground if you will where india and usa could eat what they want to talk about the united states has been very upset about the detail of places she ought to see

it's going to be a very difficult one for joe biden. >> john, in that bill joe biden actually did talk about it tonight because that is the bill where he got the assault weapons ban. and that's the way he's going to talk about that legislation. he also got the limit on magazines, the ammunition magazines in that same bill. and if he ever gets to tell the sto story cogently what it's going to be about and it's complex, the story of legislating in that arena and the united states senate, i had to give them, you know, this other hard tough guy -- tough on crime sounding piece over here, and he as chairman of the judiciary committee at the time was in the middle of all of that bargaining. there's all sorts of stuff in that bill that wasn't joe biden's idea and how he's stuck with all of it. >> it's true -- go ahead. >> that also had the community policing in it, which i was elected prosecutor at the time. it is how we were able to establish community prosecutors, community policing. it also had the violence against women stuff. he did all of that, and that is how we were table to establish

to what extent to all the candidates, maybe with the exception of joe biden, hickenlooper, john delaneyy have to make moves to left-wing proposes and introduce them to a national audience. connell: bernie night one. she is night two. she will get some attention. >> up to this point, both these candidates, "green new deal," national alizeed health care, "medicare for all," they always felt they have to make some acknowledgement in that election, more or less embrace it. now that bernie moved out here with free college tuition, total forgiveness for the debts how many will not sign on to it, say something that has to be done. connell: get your take on it. another story out there today, open letter from 19 billionaires, including one who sign 9 word anonymous, not his or her name, anonymous, urging 2020 hopefuls to hike taxes on richest 1/10 of the richest 1%. they say a wealth tax would be patriotic this is the likes of abigail disney. charles lon monger's daughter was on the list. george soros. take our money. i wonder if there is traction for this in 2020 no matter what? things like thi

>>a good job john joe biden i couldn't i'm so happy she did that. >>others have not been so impressed with the california sen saying she doesn't understand the crucial issue of criminal justice reform despite being san francisco's district attorney and the state's attorney general. >>now the popular thing to say. >>the national civil rights activist and writer shawn king helped host this watch party. he says he likes many of the candidates, but will continue to support bernie sanders, medicare free college tuition. and universities, elimination of student debt. so all those things are super important he's still fighting it out to get into those things so we're glad about that joe biden has been recognized as the clear front-runner in the race but some voters think he's not progressive enough. heart of the same holds vote democratic party and jewelry and if there's anybody that kennedy energize the democratic base and get you to trump. i think it's going to bite. >>king says people should research all of the candidates to get a better understanding o

joe: thank you very much. we appreciate you joining us. coming up, johnwords of support for fed chair powell and some concerns over mark zuckerberg. stay tuned for a full interview with the louisiana senator. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: president trump going after jay powell this morning, saying he would prefer ecb president mario draghi head of the central bank. earlierto john kennedy and asked him whether he thought that trump can remove the fed chair. answer to know the that. i have not researched it. here is my impression. the federal reserve is and it should be an independent agency. america, everybody is entitled to his opinion. i think jay powell is doing a good job. i think he calls it like he sees it. the economy in america is doing extraordinarily well. i don't think he is so worried about that as much as he is about the rest of the world's economy. europe is about to go into a recession. things are not going well in china. it is a tough job. i think it is very important that powell and the fed be allowed to do its job. now, does the president hav