The president next year, democrat Amy Klobuchar is here wuchb one of her colleagues in the house, alexandria ocasiocortez, set off an outcry accusing the administration of running concentration camps at the border. Plus, was electing an africanamerican pay back for slavery. The Senate Majority leader seems to think so. Why Mitch Mcconnell is ripping on reparations. What do you say . Lets get after it. Lets call it more maga or maga 2. 0, whatever you want. The amway center in orlando is filled with a throng of cheering Trump Supporters as this president tries to generate enthusiasm for his reelection bid. Polls show him trailing top Democratic Candidates in crucial battleground states. But, remember, he was trailing in the polls in key states last time and won. Amy klobuchar is trailing too. The senator just unveiled the actions she would take in her first 100 days in office. She joins us now. Always good to see you, senator. Thank you, chris. One simple question, why dont the democrats pack stadiums the way this president does . We do. We have a lot of stadiums were packing at the same time with so many people rubbing. I think youve seen our candidates throughout the years generate that energy and you saw it in 2018 when we had took back the house, made it the peoples house again, number of governors races in key states we won, a lot of excitement, high voter turnout, young people turning out in a midterm. I am not one bit worried about the excitement on our side. We just have to unite behind a candidate and thats what these debates are about. Plans are big with the democrats right now. Youre one upping one of your competitors, senator warren. Youve got a plan for the first 100 days. Whats the thinking before putting behind putting out this initiative. This is about urgency, chris. Its about getting things done immediately and there are a number of things you can do without worrying about congress. You can, for instance, stop the assault on the Affordable Care act in terms of preexisting conditions. I was listening to the president s rallies, you can put that to a stop. You can make sure that the dreamers are protected and stop these court cases that theyre bringing. You can sign us into the International Climate change agreement on day one and bring back those clean power rules. I list on my website about a hundred things you can do, over a hundred, in just the first hundred days. Why am i doing this . Because i think years of donald trump has worn people down. They want to see action now and i think its important for people in this country to understand there are things we can do immediately to bring back the heart and strength of this country. All right. Lets test some of that. Look, i think the areas are certainly ripe for discussion and theres need of those issue areas of analysis that you cover. The people should read the plan for themselves. You have criticized this president for overreaching executive action, many senators, Congress Members have said you got to take power back. Youve said youre going to be trumpier than trump no i have respect for trump. He shouldnt be talking about anything with iran without going to congress, without getting an authorization for the use of military force fair point. Congress has been giving that power. It would be good for you guys to take it back. But you want to sign onto the climate treaty you can do that. Obama was grilled for doing that. But you can do that without advise and consent. Its very clear. And i dont think we can wait on your climate. When you look at whats been going on, the flooding in the midwest, rising sea levels, we cant wait. Forest fires in colorado. Other things you can do, close that boyfriend loophole in the gun laws while introducing legislation. You can do the same thing when it comes to health care. You can introduce big bills like Immigration Reform while also reserving a number of these things that hes done. And the big takeaway from me from this rally as you pointed out is just more and more divisiveness. Going after the media. Not seeing that the freedom of the press is important as an amendment, as one of your Constitutional Rights in this country that we have the freedom to aassemble, that we have the freedom of the press, treat each other as citizens and he doesnt even do that in terms of how he goes after people of color, how he goes after immigrants. He does it every single day. Senator, doesnt a return to decenty also include a rush to compromise. I know some on the left dont like that right now. If youre going to show that youre better than this president , doesnt that have to include the ability to work with congress and not within the executive. Of course it does and im someone, as you know, one of the things i did with this plan was show a hundred bills that i passed where im the lead democrat and its everything from drug shortages to work on that, to doing something about getting the 300 million for election security. Right. Those are theres still nothing on that, right, senator . We got that money before the last election and now were trying to pass the secure elections act which would require backup paper battles in the 14 states that dont have them. Any word from mcconnell . No word yet after he stopped that bill. I have passed bills. I have worked with congress. I work across the aisle. You have to have results that work for the American People. True. Where you have their back, bringing down pharmaceutical prieg prie prices. People hear the president gloat about the economy and they say, whats happening to me. I cant find a bed for my kid who has Mental Health problems. I cant get my child and their insurance to cover their addiction. I cant im worried im going to be thrown off of my insurance for a preexisting condition when think child has down syndrome. Those are the people of america that are speaking out, that dont believe that everything is as rosy as the president is saying at that rally. Those are the amount of people who are going to turn out to vote. Youre fighting the good fight, you put forth something thats bipartisan to fix the elections. That is a big deal. I wouldnt let it go just because Mitch Mcconnell says im not putting it on the floor. Thats what were doing this week. I think what alexandria ocasiocortez is talking about at the border, she wants to call them concentration camps, fine, the reality should be even more upsetting and democrats are not jumping up and down about getting funding for those kids. They say they want to help but then it doesnt happen. I think fighting the good fight matters, results or not. And on election security, were going to make a big fight about this. That money we got last time was 3 of the cost of one air carrier. As you know, people are working on getting humanitarian aid, im going to look at the agreement that senator leahy made. The only reason i push on it, because its an exigency. I understand that the appropriation season is upon us, but its not something that can go through the normal process. Theres too much risk. But senator Amy Klobuchar, you are always welcome on this show to argue your points of merit to the American People. Good luck going forward. Thank you very much. Theres no reason to hide from the facts. Its about understanding what they mean. Theres a big crowd for the president. I would actually differ with the senator, i dont think democrats are packing any place the way he is. And size does matter. But we have to look at what matters about the size. There is a lesson to be learned, next. 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Giving you the power to actually lower your cost. Unfortunately, it cant do anything about that. Now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . Arena in orlando, theres probably 20,000 people at the rally tonight for the president. And thats bigger than what democrats are getting. Is the size of the rally suggestive of the 60 million plus votes needed to win the next president ial election . Maybe not. But it has to mean something. Democrats are playing these little clubs in iowa and new hampshire, donald trump is playing arenas. Were draining the swamp. The greatest witchhunt in political history. Crooked hillary clinton. No collusion. No obstruction. By the way, those words, no collusion, are nowhere in the Mueller Report. Facts matter. Yes, this is a sitting president and the democratic field is largely lesser knowns, but people were lined up for more than a day in the florida heat for this rally tonight. We need to see the disconnect between a rally like tonight and reality. This is the only modern president to never see his popularity hit 50 and yet he has the biggest crowds at his events. Hes held almost 60 of these rallies since he took office and it might seem like the anything hes done more than these rallies is tweet or play golf. Now there are lessons in these legions. Deep, but not wide. That is the main takeaway. This president has gone for a deep connection and enthusiasm that comes with the kind of thing he is selling, when you divide, you necessarily are cutting off part of your potential support and intensifying the other part. So this president has gone for such intense us versus them that hes boiled down his base to the most ardent. First it was about the wall, then it was lock her up. Now it is massive i. C. E. Roundups in the millions. All are about a hostility toward a common enemy, us versus them. Animated animus that sometimes put potus as an apparent ally with some dark figures. His retweeting right wing hate pushers is a product of his pandering. His rivals have to spend their time chasing even though, heachr the place, hes setting up in florida. He has a challenge, hes not the other this time. Hes the status quo. Hes no longer change, but what many, many more than fit in that arena may want to see change. Hence the fact that hes trailing several top democrats. He has more money, but hes been ignorant to the reality to the business akium that every entrepreneur knows, grow or die. He lost worse in that election, all across the country, red, blue and purple, bigly, yet while conventional wisdom says this president is making a bad bet by packing that reality by pandering the things that wont build a full base to win. Pandering the voters fears is always a powerful proposition. So thats tonight. We also have news on the democratic front. Part of the new guard of democrats in the house, but coming from a republican district. Shes been reluctant to jump on the impeachment train, but professor katie porter says she can no longer stay silent. Shes hear to make the case and be tested, next. Earn unlimit miles and well match it at the end of your first year. Nice im thinking about a scuba diving trip. Woman ooh gasp or not. You okay . Yeah, no, im good. Earn miles. Well match em at the end of your first year. [ text notification now that you have]d. New dr. Scholls massaging gel advanced insoles with softer, bouncier gel waves, youll move over 10 more than before. Dr. Scholls. Born to move. What shes zip lining with little jon . Its lil jon. Even he knows that. Thanks, captain obvious. Dont hatelike their trip, book yours with hotels. Com and get rewarded basically everywhere. Hotels. Com. Be there. Do that. Get rewarded. Were oscar mayer deli fresh your very first sandwich,m. Your mammoth masterpiece. And. Whatever this was. Because we make our meat with the good of the deli and no artificial preservatives. 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Californias katie porter is the first democrat ever elected in her district. Congresswoman, good to have you back on prime time. Thank you. Why is impeachment the right move . This is for me really about taking the time to wait for special counsel mueller to do his investigation, to issue his report, and then to have the opportunity to read the report and study the constitution, to talk with colleagues, and have done all of that ive come to the conclusion that based on the facts in the Mueller Report which are that President Trump engaged in at least four acts of obstruction of justice and theres substantial evidence that he engaged in those four acts, i felt like its appropriate to begin an impeachment inquiry. But you cant remove him from office, so you will leave the people who want this unsatisfied and theres political risk, especially for you, why do it . Play it safe . I didnt come to washington, d. C. To make the easy decisions. I came to make the right ones. And there may or may not be political consequences to supporting this impeachment inquiry, but thats not my job. My job is to do whats right. Its to weigh the evidence, read the facts, understand the law, and then its to do what those things require. So we dont know what the future is going to hold in terms of the political consequences of this. But i know i did my job in terms of analyzing the situation. Okay. So do your job but do it the way youre doing it now. You have legitimate oversight. You got about a dozen different investigations and committees looking at it. Let it work this way. Go through the courts when you have to and you get to the same result, you did your job. Why not that way . I think its important that when we have substantial evidence from the special counsel that the president of the United States broke the law four times, four counts of obstruction of justice, and then that president at each and every turn has continued to obstruct congresss oversight, that for me was a very important factor. So because hes not hes directed people not to appear, we have subpoenas that have been ignored. Weve had to hold people in contempt. And so this continued pattern is very troubling and i think its important that the president understand that these are series charges, that the evidence against him is substantial, and that we are serious about doing our duty to the constitution and the American People. So impeachment inquiry or are you al ready for articles of impeachment. Im at the time where its time to start an impeachment inquiry. You must do your duty this way. Good, lets see if you apply the same rational to another issue. I dont understand democrats jumping on the opportunity to show they have heart and not just harshness when it comes to the border. Alexandria ocasiocortez says the president is keeping kids in concentration camps. Is that the wrong term to use . I think that the terminology can cause people to react very strongly. Obviously, its an important and sad part of this worlds history that we had the holocaust. But the reality is throughout the worlds history, we have had this kind of unlawful, extra judicial detention and thats whats happening at our border. What i would ask the American People to do is focus on what is happening and not on the term thats applied to it. And i think the stories that were hearing about families being ripped apart, about children who are continuing to be missing, about the lack of basic medical care and Health Conditions at the border are troubling for this nation and i think its time for us to begin to push very, very hard to change the conditions at the border. Why has it taken so long to get help that dhs has been begging you for for months . The congress has allocated resources to dhs and also Additional Resources for border security. But this is also about how the executive branch gets its job done and what its doing. And some of the president s actions, like withdrawing aid from central america, making statements that our border is closed to everyone has had the effect of ratcheting up the number of folks at the border. Hes been making the situation more difficult for dhs, his own administration, to respond to. Fair point. But he doesnt control the pursestrings, you could argue he does somewhat, and he doesnt want to use that declaration to this point to help with the actual accommodation issues down there but you can. And i dont understand why the democrats dont see opportunity in this. He is the harsh guy when it comes to the border. You heard him tonight. Build the fence, keep them out, throw them out, get i. C. E. Harshness. Thats his sale. What about heart . I dont understand why the democrats havent taken the opportunity to say, heres more money. If youre going to use it for the kids, we dont want them sick or dying on our watch. Here. I think its difficult to trust that this president will do what the money is appropriated for and weve seen this before with this president time and time again when weve made appropriations and hes gone and not used the money. My first days in congress were a Government Shutdown in which the president was shutting down the government and hurting workers and americans saying he wanted money for a border wall when he hadnt spent the money he had been given. I think this president has to do his part and we have to rebuild trust between congress and the president. And when the president is saying things like hes not going to cooperate with congress on issues like infrastructure and Prescription Drug pricing because of the Mueller Report, its very difficult to have that kind of trusted relationship. What would you set as a timeline in your understanding right now about when something will happen to help those kids . So we are continuing to work on appropriations as you know. I think that the number of members who are traveling to the border to visit things themselves, as were learning more, i know were working very hard to come up with something. But each day and each kid whos hurt or damaged or separated from their family, whos sick, lives are being lost and its important that we honor our best tradition in this country of treating those who arrive at this country in accordance with the law and international obligations. Since ive gotten to know you here in your new role as a member of congress, i have admired your sense of purpose and the integrity that brought you to the task. We will be watching to see what you do on these important matters and i appreciate you coming onto discuss this with us tonight. Thank you so much. You heard us talking about alexandria ocasiocortez. Shes not backing down. She defines it a little differently than others may, but shes taken heat. A new response from her and well use it as the start of a great debate, next. Quick, the quicker picker upper bounty picks up messes quicker and is 2x more absorbent. Bounty, the quicker picker upper. Yesss, im doing it all. The water. The exercise. The fiber. 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They use stamps. Com all the services of the post office only cheaper get a 4week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again. Get a 4week trial plus postage and a digital sc le ahhhh were here. Congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez, once again drawing the ire of the right with these remarks. Take a listen. The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border. And that is exactly what they are. They are concentration camps. I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that we should not that never again means something. All right. Heres the issue. Is she right in defining concentration camps . Yes, but do they have a feeling of usage stained with what happened with the nazis and the genocide of the jews, yes, and thats why its a great debate. Steve cortes, with the new definition from her, im not equating with stigma of the nazis and the jews, leave that part aside, satisfied . No. Thats a ridiculous excuse for a couple of reasons. We know what the connotation of concentration camps is. If we went on the streets and asked the definition, they would give us a definition of nazis. And she demeaned the victims of that horrific tragedy. He also demeaned the american soldiers that smashed the evil perpetrators of that human tragedy. And she also demeaned the current american citizens who do the very hard and dangerous work of guarding our borders. She equated them by association to nazi ss guards and that is disgraceful. Aoc should apologize and probably resign. You did not have similar problems with the phrase America First or the word nationalist, which is equally stained. No. Yes, as a matter of fact, but why doesnt it bother you the same way. You and i have had this discussion before. I totally disagree you may, but youre wrong. Im not wrong. You dont get to define what nationalism means for me yes, i do. Steve, let me know what movement defined itself as nationalism that was positive and not oppressive to another. American nationalism, and it was theres no american nationalism. Yes there is. American nationalism has nothing to do with race, its not blood and soil, its about our shared ideals, our flag o, our beliefs i know what you want it to be. Its called patriotism. It was a loaded term and was it the right term . What i think is most important, chris, is we do so often in these great debates, i think its critical that we define it. I am a kid who as a point of privilege, i had a set of encycle le encyclopedias that i loved to read. I would like to share the definition. Center for political prisons who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order. And they are concentration camps at the border. Whether we call them concentration camps or detention, they are problematic. When you talk about a frog being put in a boiling pot of hot water, the frog will jump out. But if a frog is put in a pot of cold water and you slowly turn up the heat, it will die. What im saying to you today is we sat through this president calling mexicans drug dealers at the beginning of this campaign. Today we sat through him during build that wall. And we went from outrage to disgust to dismay to its a shame. And im telling you that we are irresponsible at this point. Her point remain and is the right is threatened by alexandria ocasiocortez because she tells the truth, whether they can digest it or not. And our bottom line here is, theres a inhumane crisis happening at the southern border and it is because of how these people look. It is because theres a fear that white people are losing their power in the country. That is the bottom line. It is white fear. That is what is driving this. It is racism at its core. Its what the foundation of this lets let steve respond. Thats completely untrue. Its not untrue. Do not call what i said untrue. If we were its the encyclopedia, sir. If were placi these are n american citizens. They took them out of their homes, stripped youre going to justify this by what citizenship these people have. Thats sick, steve. We have foreign citizens who are trespassing for economic reasons and we know that to be true because the director of i. C. E. Just told us 90 are not showing up for their hearings, theyre not legitimate refugees, theyre economic migrants who have decided on their own when and how they can be american citizens and thats not the right away. Its not about race. My father came here the legal way and when he became an american he didnt suddenly become white, he was still hispanic. Its not racist or xenophobic. Its just sensible. I dont know when we decided that a humanitarian crisis could be defined whether or not someone is carrying a green card or someone has their papers. But im going to tell you this. Before we are american, we are human beings and it is not okay, it is a damn shame what is happening at this border and the fact that youre going to justify it by economics, let me tell you, there are a whole lot of people making a whole lot of money by having these people in detention centers. We want to shift the attention as we should off of mass incarceration of black and brown people of this country, but those monies are being transferred into detaining migrants at the border. It is a crisis, steve. It is not okay just because they dont have their papers. I hope that at some point you wrestle with yo i concur that its a crisis. In 1941, they were death camps and that is where we are going if our consciouses are not pierced do laugh it off. Barack obama, this is what he said in 2014. Refugee status you are the king of red herrings. Refugee status is not granted just on economic need or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood or poverty, end quote. There is no question about that. The Obama Administration wrestled with the same problem hold on a second. Weve been wrestling with this problem for 30 years. Anybody you want to go to, weve been fighting about these same issues. But youve always wound upcoming to same crisis points, you got to reform the rules, Congress Never gets to that, theres a million reasons why. The urgency becomes on how you treat the humanity. In 2014, we went nuts about what was going on with the unaccompanied minors during the Obama Administration because it was wrong. They didnt have the resources set up, they didnt have the right procedures and these kipds werent being treated the right way. And the one thing that should unite you guys, you all say this is wrong, whats happening at the border and not a damn thing has been done by either side to fix it. The left says we dont trust them to spend the money the right way, and the right says the democrats dont want to do anything. And the president says, even though i have an emergency declaration, i only want to use it for the fence and dont forget, my wholesale is being harsh on these people, im not going to open my heart to them. Doesnt that sicken you, steve, that something that you admit as wrong and you identify with on one level is being ignored by your own party as part of this problem . I dont think were ignoring it at all. I love Legal Immigration what is being done to help the kids . They keep asking for money and you guys have not put anything forward. Mcconnell wont even put it on the floor. Im not answering for mcconnell the hell youre not. Hes in your own party. I dont answer for him. And the senate should pass something because they can. And i agree. Paul ryan when he was speaker should have done something and i will say to the gops great discredit, they did not address immigration and they should have and i believe its one of the reasons we lost in 2018. When you guys had both houses you didnt do a damn thing about it either expect put all of your money behind the fence i just said much to their discredit. Lets get back to aoc, where we started, the fact now you want to get back on topic. We believe in border control. If her logic holds, then barack obama who deported more people than all other u. S. President s combined remember that. Then barack obama is a nazi. Are you kidding me . I dont believe thats where you end up. Remember when it comes to enforcing the law that this president is nowhere clear to being close to the last administration. What hes done is encouraged a flow that we see right now. I got to leave it right now there. Both of you go home with this, neither side has fixed a problem that everybody acknowledges is happening. We got to do better than this. Quite a week for Mitch Mcconnell. And i know that they say next week its going to get done, why the hell did it take so long . 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Maybe you should give back your grandfathers college degree, your great, great grandfathers land that you were given and on and on and on. People werent there, but people reaped the benefits from it and that is the whole point of the matter and social programs are not reparations. He is conflating the two and again misleading the American People as has so often been done, especially within the last couple of years. His argument is simpleminded, its stupid. I would say its it comes from a position of privilege and probably one of bigotry as well. He seems to be saying, we gave you obama, shut up. Maybe he should have worked with obama. If he was so happy about having the first black president of the United States and he thought that that was in some way a reparation, maybe he could have been more willing to work with the first black president of the United States if his words in fairness you remember how Mitch Mcconnell was at the suggestion of the Birther Movement and how he came out and said this is wrong. So im making that up. Not a word. Even if you want to adopt this as progress, as somehow penance for the original sin, they tried to sabotage obama, he did it personally. Hes the biggest which is this current president right now. Speaking of reparations. The debt that is owed to the people of color in the country. Robert e. Lee. A descendant will be onto tel us how he feels about reparations and the answer may surprise you. Also well talk about the central park 5. We have a group to talk about it. And how the president is saying its a both sides issue. We talked about that sunday. Reminiscent. 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And went all in trying to make a name for himself 6789 he took out a full page ad in the times. Bring back the death penalty. Bring back our police. Who did he want it for . Five black and latin teenage boys. He tapped into a lot of fear and anger that was very real. Sound familiar . It was a horrible rape that actually happened. In the park at night. It was part of the criminal phenomenon at the time. Called wilding. Groups of thugs preying on innocence. A young woman almost died in this horrible sex crime. The facts were damming. The boys were accused of attacking other male joggers that night. They confessed to that ask raping this woman. They were tried and convicted. The problem was it was wrong. Prosecutors knew at the time that none of their dna matched the victim. Today maybe it would be different. The central park 5 claim the confessions were coerced. Products of duress over many hours with teenagers. They were in jail for years. What happened . The man who actually raped the woman confessed. How do wo know it was him . A dna match. He never implicated the boys. He acted alone. Years of civil suits followed. Still, despite all that new information, the president today said this. You have people on both sides of that. They admitted their guilt. Look at Linda Fairstein and the prosecutors they think the city should have never settled that case. That is leaving it at prejudice. There are people on both sides here. One side was wrong. Maybe intentionally so. Maybe not. Heres what we know. The boys didnt do it. The dna doesnt lie. I know that absence of evidence of dna doesnt necessarily mean that you werent there. I get it. I know all about it. The judge vacated the decisions. The judge says they didnt do it. People lie. Dna doesnt. The dna that was there belonged to none of them. It belonged to a man who admitted to the crime. Alone. Those are the facts. And i say today there would have been a different process because of the strength of gha value. We cant be sure because theres a problem with prosecution that produce wrong out comes especially when were talking about black and brown young men. The president says hes all about law and order. I make this argument. But hes going to cling to a proven injustice. While the case against the prosecutor is for prejudice was hard to make. They settled the case. In this oped in 2014, the man who would be president actually wrote that even if they didnt do this, they didnt have the past of angels. That is as a as a matter of fact prejudice. And so, on this day, the president relaunches his pursuit of office. And doubles down. He wont admit hes wrong despite facts. Its not just what the candidates say and do now that matters. Character is over time. As clear as it is he was wrong about the central park 5 and clinging to his belief. Its clear hes never learned from mistakes. Strong and wrong. Is a dangerous combination. And one we see from this president back then and today. Thank you for watching. Cnn tonight right now. He always gives the benefit of the doubt to. And who he doesnt. Ever notice a pattern . Starts with himself. Ill give you that much. He wants to give it to everyone connected to him. Who is charged with something. Facing a crime. Facing prison. Facing jail time. Theyre a good person. My son is a good person. Whenever its a black or brown person he doesnt give them the ben if the of the doubt. Even if the evidence is