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Already tense time because of trade differences. And just an august snapshot, but a new poll shows Elizabeth Warren on the rise among democrats and it shows President Trump running well behind all of the leading democrats. He insists hes not the least bit worried. You have the best unemployment, you have the most successful state in the history of your state and in the history of our country, and then youre going to vote for somebody else . Oh, great. Lets vote for Elizabeth Pocahontas warren. Back to 2020 politics in a moment, but we begin this hour with a 180 from freshman democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib deciding she will not visit israel. That after the country granted her permission on humanitarian grounds to visit her elderly grandmother. Tlaib tweeting in part i cant allow the state of israel to take away my light by humiliating me and use my love for my grandmother to bow down to their oppressive and racist policies. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything i believe in, fighting against racism, oppression and injustice. She explains herself well there but just last night congresswoman tlaib was making the impassioned plea to be allowed to visit and vowing to fight for that right. You know, my grandmother is in her 90s. Her granddaughter is a United States congresswoman. She should have to be able to see me, to touch me, to hug me, so im going to continue to fight back. Now, the question of just visiting her grandmother came up yesterday after israel took a dramatic step barring tlaib and ilhan omar from making a broader visit to israel, citing the congresswomens support of a Boycott Movement. President trump had taken the remarkable step of urging israel to say no to that planned visit. Tlaib asked to visit on humanitarian grounds. And in a letter to the government, promised to respect israeli restrictions on such a visit, including a promise not to promote the Boycott Movement while visiting her palestinian grandmother. Israel granted permission under those terms. Now the interior minister in israel not happy. I approved her request as a gesture of good will on a humanitarian basis. But it was just a provocative request aimed at bashing the state of israel. Apparently her hate for israel overcomes her love for her grandmother. Tough words all around. With me today to share their reporting and their insights. Dana bash, michael share and terani parti. Where is this now and where is it going in the sense that it seems everyone has decided to go to their political corner and make the case that they think most helps them. The congresswoman in the end deciding im not going an im going to blame israel. Israel saying, wait a minute, we did exactly what you asked and now you wont come. What kind of point were you making . I mean, you know, look, the sad part here is putting aside her grandmother, who is elderly, this was political from the beginning in every on all sides and every step. It was political for the two congresswomen who were clearly wanting to go to israel to make a political point. Thats certainly allowed. It should be allowed. It was political for our president who wanted to send continue to send the message that hes been sending about casting these two congresswomen as sort of the face of the Democratic Party and it was political for Benjamin Netanyahu whos got an election that hes running and is going to come in about a month. So everybody was acting in political ways. And i think what is so sad about it is you would think that this would be a moment that all sides could sort of rise above the politics and say whatever whatever everybody wants to do in the kind of political sphere, these folks should be able to go to israel and make their point and everybody can react to it then. In the context of congresswoman tlaib, she says, well, her family pushed back and said do not accept these circumstances. Do not come if its just to visit your grandmother and youre essentially not allowed to speak or not say anything political when you come, dont do that. Weve had interviews with her family from our folks on the ground there. Critics say, no, what they see is an effort that she said yes, let me see my grandmother. She didnt get a bigger issue so decided to walk away. We have to take her at her word, but nobody trusts anybody. Nobody trusts anybody at all. Just from a political point of view, this time yesterday there was widespread condemnation of israel and the trump administration, the president himself for denying a duly elected member of congress obviously from america to go into what is supposed to be americas most trusted ally, israel, in the middle east. And that was widely condemned. Now that israel things have changed a little bit and now the response that the congresswoman has had saying, no, im not going to go because i cant speak, that has leveled the political playing field, if you will, rightly or wrongly. Look, there is blame to go on both sides. There is also understanding on both sides. It is an incredibly, incredibly difficult situation. But just on a personal level, if she did want to go see her grandmother, its hard to explain why she didnt just say yes and come back and then say what she wanted to say politically about the fact that she thought it was absolutely horrible that she was silenced by the israelis. To your point, this decision, israel saying yes and then shes saying never mind essentially has changed the topic for a day because the bigger conversation yesterday was why would the president of the United States, its just unprecedented, saying, yeah, i disagree with these congresswomen. But israel, if youve ever been to israel, they have a loud, vibrant democracy. Two more voices making a stink in israel is not going to change a lot actually and it should be viewed as a good thing. If you have issued with israel, go make them there and Prime Minister netanyahu sit down with them and say heres why we disagree with you. So youve had a lot of friends of israel, former senator Joseph Lieberman who was al gores Vice President ial running mate says believes netanyahu made a big mistake here. This is a loss all around. Im afraid its really most threatening to israels standing in the United States. This decision probably helps the boycott of Israel Movement more than the two congresswomen ever could themselves. Its an interesting perspective in the sense that the Boycott Movement, their views are getting a lot more attention because of this dustup than if they had been allowed to go and israeli officials said sit down at the table, we disagree with you. We heard from Joseph Lieberman but weve also heard fairly unanimous consensus amongst a number of the 2020 democrat president ial candidates. And to me whats been interesting is if we look at 2016, weve seen a shift on the overall Israeli Palestinian issue. As the conversation has shifted to health care and economy, hes shifted the conversation on some of these issues as well. And nothing is clean in this town anymore. Nothing is clear in this town anymore. As this plays out and democrats were trying to make the case and even some republicans, Prime Minister netanyahu, youre wrong. President trump, you should not have intervened. This is a democracy, let them make their case. Democrats defending the two congresswomen stirred up even more trouble. This is congressman ted lieu. I wish President Trump would resign. I dont think hes going to do that but certainly i can call on ambassador friedman to resign. His allegiance is to america, not the foreign power and to the constitution of the United States, not to the president. If you go back in time, one of the controversies about congresswoman omar back several weeks ago was her raising this dual loyalty which is viewed as an antisemitic trope. So ambassador friedman, they normally dont engage in political conversations, they try to back off and be diplomatic. But ambassador friedman saying Congress Passed a resolution condemning the bds movement. My head is spinning from the hypocrisy. Congresswoman lieu had to delete the tweet. Everything about this has been political from the start and it continues to be political as this back and forth continues. I think democrats are in an interesting position. They have the views on israel and palestine have evolved. Different democrats are talking about it in a different way and are stumbling clearly as we saw with the congressman and using his choice of words. And i think going forward, President Trump is going to try to take advantage of that and point to those errors or stumbles in the way theyre talking as a way of showing that he is the clear ally and friend of israel and democrats are not. Thats an interesting point because the senior leadership, from Speaker Pelosi on down, has tried to marginalize the views of omar, tlaib or tried to educate them or saying youre newer members of congress. Congresswoman tlaib, you may have a palestinian perspective. Congress m congresswoman omar, you have the refugee perspective. Now when netanyahu does this and trump does this, it raises their stature among democrats because of the politics, Everybody Needs to go to their corner. And Joseph Lieberman said it beautifully, that the whole notion of the bds movement and these two congresswomen being outcasts was completely helped or maybe even hurt, i should say, by the fact that these two great democracies didnt feel comfortable enough in the Democratic Institutions and the notions of democracy to have a real discussion with these two members of congress. And its still stunning to me. I cant wrap my mind around it. And its a big change, right . Not that many years ago support for israel was seen as a very bipartisan issue. It wasnt politicized the way it is now. You know, people sort of came and went and often co dels did trips to israel to go express their support for israel and that seems to have devolved into a much more partisan situation. The fascinating thing to me, netanyahus calling card has always been strength. He looked like President Trumps puppet yesterday. Does that impact the elections a couple of weeks away in israel . Does it help him . Does it hurt him . He clearly thinks this is to his benefit. You cant answer that here in washington but thats something to keep an eye on. She surged to second place in the democratic polls, now Elizabeth Warren returning to a very sense sieitive issue. This time with policy plans. B feels like im taking flight. [sfx poof] [sfx squeaking eraser sound effect. ] i am who i wanna be who i wanna be who i wanna be. Im a strong individual feeling that power im so original, ya sing it louder. I am, ooo ooo ooo ooo Ehhh Ehhh Ehhh preorder and get more. Get up to 150 samsung credit, plus 6 months of Unlimited Music with spotify premium. And i recently had hi, ia heart attack. It changed my life. But im a survivor. After my heart attack, my doctor prescribed brilinta. Its for people who have been hospitalized for a heart attack. Brilinta is taken with a lowdose aspirin. No more than 100 milligrams as it affects how well brilinta works. 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Team warren believes her detailed policy positions are a big factor in her gains. But todays revisits what has proven to be tough terrain from the senator. Warren is outlining two policy plans specifically targeted to native americans. Whats more, for the first time in months she will discuss native american issues at length in a conference in iowa. Next week warren, you might recall, had to apologize after releasing a dna test designed to back up her claim of distant american native heritage. Mocking warren is a trump staple and the president added a note about her rising poll numbers. I did the pocahontas thing. I hit her really hard. And it looked like she was down and out. But that was too long ago. I could have waited. But dont worry, we will revive it. It can be revived. It can be revived, right . It will be revived. And it can be revived very easily and very quickly and were going to have some fun in the state of new hampshire. Thats a mocking tone, many would say racist, but that means the president is paying attention. M. J. Lee joins us from new york. What do we know about these new warren policies . Certainly this is one of the most significant plans senator warren has put out both policywise and politically speaking as well. Let me walk you through this quickly. Part of this plan is a draft legislation that shes put out with congresswoman deb holland. Shes of course one of the first two native americans elected to congress that would boost funding for critical native american programs and shes proposing an oliphant fix. This has to do with the Supreme Court ruling that ruled tribal governments had no jurisdiction over nonnative americans on tribal lands. So allowing native americans, according to warren, to seek justice in cases like rape and other kinds of crimes. And a lot of the plan has to do with tribal lands and resources, including revoking some of these permits that have been given as a part of the keystone and Dakota Access pipelines. Now, john, what i think is interesting is that senator warren put out a lengthy media post to go over these proposals. Theres no mention in that post about her own family ancestry. That issue is of course the reason there was so much political controversy around her campaign earlier this year. Its the reason that she decided to put out this dna test showing that she had distant native american heritage. This is an issue that shes going to have to work through and i think the campaign knows that she will have to continue to confront, especially now that we know shes going to be participating in this conference in iowa next week where she is going to be onstage with tribal leaders and will certainly face questions about substance and perhaps about her Family History as well, john. Fair to say, m. J. , they think the timing works for them here in the sense she is ascending in the polls, is in a stronger place. So if you need to deal with something, the earlier, the better, but from a position of strength . Thats a good point. I think her approach and the campaigns approach has been to try to keep talking about substance. They dont want to revisit the family issue. She has of course apologized and wants that apology to stand. But the focus really is about these substance proposals and really let people know that these are issues that she cares about and i think particularly with the endorsement from somebody like congresswoman deb holland, that gives the campaign an opportunity to get out there with somebody from the community and say im focused on the policy and focused on making lives better for the native American Community in this country. M. J. Lee live in new york, appreciate the reporting there. Lets bring it around the table. This is a dicey area for her because she had missteps in it in the past. But i want to start with the president , because he doesnt come after you without a reason. Now, the way he does it, the pocahontas label, its offensive, some say racist. Its certainly not president ial, but its the way he does this. But he did go after her early. And she was struggling early on. And he used to boast that he was responsible for that. The fact that hes coming back and cognizant of her polling, he watches the democratic race as closely as anybody. That tells me that he knows. He knows that she has ascended in this race. Its pretty clear that shes been on the rise consistently for the last few months. I spent a week in iowa, and everywhere you go, the reception that shes getting has been pretty stunning. I spoke with several county democratic chairman who said they have never seen this level of organization at this stage in the caucus process. You know, they said that even voters said that theyre hearing from her staff. Theyre getting phone calls to discuss the issues with them. One thing that voters pointed out is the pocahontas thing has been mostly forgotten and the fact that she did do that dna test, but they do bring it up sometimes when theyre talking about defeating donald trump and someone who can be on the same debate stage as donald trump. They bring that up as a potential concern, but at least most of the voters i talked to said that they feel like the substance of Elizabeth Warren, the policy proposals that shes come up with and her performances in the debates so far does lead them to believe that she will be able to somewhat stand up against the president. And part of the solution to that is to start winning, which would help. If you could start winning, that answers some of the doubt. And this is not just about writi righting a political wrong or potential misstep early in the campaign with that dna test, its about getting voters. I mean, you know, i havent looked at the specifics about the native american vote in key primary states, but if she does start winning, she has to right any potential wrong that the native American Community sees in her candidacy and her you know, her history here and thats obviously poked at by President Trump. But what better way to try to bring everybody together and bring herself more into that community than bringing her calling card, which is a policy proposal. Crowded field, every vote counts too. And part of why shes been so ascendant in the polls is to your point, she has been extremely, extremely well organized. You talk to her Campaign Staff and they believe youre beginning to see the fruits of what they laid early on. Part of why she hasnt ascendant is people werent paying attention to the grassroots that she was building not only in iowa but new hampshire. The use of the term pocahontas is offensive but the issue does come up to the point about electability you were raising and not just in republican circles. This is senator warren doing what many of the Democratic Candidates have done, gone on the Breakfast Club Radio Program to try to make your case. Heres the question. When did you find out you werent . Well, its im not a person of color. Were there any benefits to that . No. Boston globe did a full investigation. Youre like the original Rachel Dozier a little bit. She was a white woman pretending to be black. This is what i learned from my family. Now they try to be provocative on the show. Thats the point of the show. But its a topic shes still not totally comfortable with. I spent half an hour on a wideranging interview with her and i did ask her this question about some folks, even some democrats, do question whether your judgment on race may be off. I will say the entire rest of the interview she was completely comfortable moving to policy positions. Her response to that question she shifted again to a policy position. I think thats where shes comfortable and i dont know that she feels fully comfortable yet in terms of how to answer these questions that even democrats have about whether her judgment on race might be off. The test of all candidates but especially one that is growing is to learn the lesson so you can keep growing. Learn how to get comfortable in the areas where you may have a weakness or blind spot or where youve stepped in it before, had a misstep before. If you look at the fox poll numbers, 4 in march, 20 in august. Thats a nice line. You like that line. You want your 401 k to look like that. If youre a candidate, you want to look like a great stock on wall street. If you compare it, if you view her as one of the leading progressives in the race, the downtrend is bernie sanders. The uptrend is Elizabeth Warren. Not exactly the same pool of voters, but the same kind of voters. Which i guess just to put a little bit of skepticism here in, it does make me wonder whether when youre on that kind of trend and youre having the kind of success that youre having, whether it makes i mean, you know, the issues of native americans in the country are im sure very incorporatmpot i dont know that the Democratic Party is clamoring for a massive policy position on it and she could well have decided why poke the bear, right . Why be why put this so out front that President Trump can come in and raise this again and shes going to have more interviews like the one where she wasnt very comfortable. Maybe they have a strategy and they want to get past this as soon as they can. But the question of like sort of right when youre right when youre having people talk about how successful you are, you except its not necessarily a bad thing if youre one of 20 people running for the democratic nomination and he singles you out. Its a little risky, but its interesting to watch a candidate youre right. You could just say hey, were doing great, dont touch anything. Or were doing great, lets clean some things up. Its a risk and well watch. Thats what make campaigns fun. Up next for us, what doom and gloom . President trump says the economy humming along. So well, you have no choice, he says, but to vote for him in 2020. Applebees handcrafted burgers now starting at 7. 99. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood you dont need to go anywhere dad, this is your home. The best home to be in is your own. Home instead offers personalized Inhome Services for your loved ones. Home instead senior care. To us, its personal. 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That is certain to anger beijing as the already delicate trade talks resume. Aides describe the president is concerned about the market volatility and about talk of a potential Election Year recession. But at a Campaign Rally last night, optimism from the president and you might call this a warning of sorts. The United States right now has the hottest economy anywhere in the world. Wages are rising, and you know whos the biggest beneficiary . Blue collar workers. This room is a lovefest, i know that. But you have no choice but to vote for me because your 401 k s down the tubes, everything will be down the tubes. So whether you love me or hate me, youve got to vote for me. Trump 2020, love me or hate me. Hes different. But yeah trump 2020, love me or hate me. Help me there. Its no make America Great again, but the fact that hes going for it. He knows that there could be some concern about the economy. Thats why hes saying love me or hate me. But he is still trying to take credit for the stock market, which some republicans now think could be a concern because he has associated the health of the economy so much with the way the stock market is doing. Given the way the stock market has been doing this week, voters could get concerned. And a recession or even just a significant slowdown short of a recession is a giant risk for any president heading into a reElection Year. And this president , this president , he wants you to believe, and i get it. President s are supposed to brag about the economy under his tenure. He brags about it in a way as if there was no economy when barack Obama Left Office and he flipped the switch and all this happened. One thing he says when people challenge him on that, he should get credit for november, december and january, right, after the election because the markets did spike right after the election. So we decided to give him that credit. We went back and now well say give donald trump the jobs created not just in the 30 months hes been president but the final three months of the obama administration, excepting for the president s case. Look what happens. 6. 4 million jobs if you factor in november and december, 2016, after the election and january 2017, 20 days of which he was not the president of the United States. Still then you go back to the 33 months before that, obamas economy still created more jobs. So the president has this impression that we were dead and he became president. Its just not matched by the numbers. That doesnt mean the economy hasnt been good under President Trump, that the Unemployment Rate hasnt continued down under President Trump, for which he has every right to brag. But his comparison to what is before him is just dead wrong. All that is really important for fact checking. That was really interesting to see. But what matters is how voters feel. And what matters is whether or not the Blue Collar Workers he was just talking about at that rally yesterday really do feel like he kept his promise and they have a better life and have bigger pocketbooks than they had before. The jury is still out on that. The jury is out forgive me for one second because i want to get this in. The jury is out but you know Peter Navarro very, very well. Hes one of the people who has encouraged the president to have this trade war with china. Other advisers are nervous about that. Number one he blames the fed. He says its not the president s fault or his fault for the tariffs but listen to the end of this. I didnt write the book on the inverted yield curve but ive actually written several books about that within the context of the business cycle. We dont have a strict inversion of the yield curve. What we have is a flat curve, which is much less a sign of recession. The problem is that the Federal Reserve raised rates too far and too fast. So lets not do the doom and gloom. Its all good. That last line, if the economy slows or goes in a recession, lets not do the doom and gloom. This is another one of the president ial norms that this president an his people have absolutely busted through. You know, john, the assumption had always been for previous president s that you dont want to have your rhetoric about the economy be mismatched with what americans are really feeling, right . Like thats thats political death if you do that. If youre out there talking about rosy scenarios. We turn the corner, you cant turn back. 2004. You can go back to all president s. You like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. This president just takes credit every time he wants to take credit. He doesnt worry about there being that sort of disconnect. And well see. The political rules have not seemed to apply to him. So can he talk in those kinds of rosy ways even though people are not feeling it . Heres an interesting point on that. Heres a president whos had a distant relationship with the big players in the economy. They didnt respect him in new york and doesnt of great relationships with them. He spoke with the head of jpmorgan, bank of america and citi. That is a president who is nervous about the economy, as he should be. Whatever his name is, whatever his party is, if you look at the data heading into reelection. So hes reaching out and talking. You made the point what did blue collar voters think, thats the interesting point. I want to show you what the farm bureau produced. The president is counting on them. But heres their point. We remade this graphic from the farm bureau that the damage to the farm economy is way beyond soybeans, which the chinese promised to buy a bunch of soybeans and have not delivered on their promise. Grain sales down, cotton and linters down, tobacco, dairy down, Livestock Sales down. If theres a recession further or further trade war that deepens that and youre calling Maggie Haberman at the rally, kevin steele a trump supporter says this. Listen, im hoping to god he closes with china, just get the deal done. All of my money is in stocks. That is the sense forget the cable tv chatter. The president needs to answer the questions of his base. We were talking just a second ago about senator warren. Paur part of her argument has been, no, the economy is not doing that well. Shes been warning folks about an impending recession which speaks to part of her rise could be attributed to the very fact that some folks are feeling very differently about the economy. If theres a slowdown, the democratic arguments i think will get greater hearing too. If unemployment stays at 3. 7 , then its really hard to say things are bad. When we come back, a new development in an old story, the clinton email investigation. I cant believe it. 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A warning from senator Lindsey Graham has President Trump prepares to meet with his National Security team. A statement from graham says in part, a bad agreement puts the radical Islamic Movement all over the world on steroids. The plan aimed at ending americas longest war would significantly cut the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan. While it would include a u. S. taliban cease file its not expected to have them control their fire on the Afghan People or military. Senator Chuck Grassley said the alleged investigation into the hack of Hillary Clintons email server by china is now complete. Joining me now is evan perez. Evan, whats the result . Well, john, you know, we hear a lot about no collusion. This is a case of no intrusion. This is what the fbi has been saying since 2016. Chuck grassley, senator grassley and senator johnson have been looking into this issue of whether or not there was any evidence of a hack by the chinese. Now, what they did is they interviewed a couple of staffers from the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community who had raised concerns about exactly this, about some activity that they believe indicated a possible hack. They were concerned really about how the state department was handling this information, whether they were downplaying it. According to grassley, they do believe that the state department was downplaying the importance of this information. In the end, though, the fbi maintains that there is no evidence of an intrusion by a foreign government, either the chinese or any other. This is what they said in 2016. This is what they said in 2017 when we asked. And i looked into this again in 2018. This is the same thing. So in the end, it appears that theres still no evidence of this. But theres definitely some concern on the part of the senators that the state department did not handle this issue very well. Evan perez, appreciate that. Its been a longrunning drama. 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You gave yourself until labor day, i think. Have you reached a decision . I have not yet. A couple more ts to cross and is to dot. But i am at this point growing ever closer in that direction. Ever closer. Okay. So hes saying his big issue is bringing up deficit reduction and its honestly unclear if the Republican Base even cares about that as much as it did several years ago. So his decision he claims might be dependent on bringing back that topic in a discussion. It used to be a very sexy issue for republicans. Hes bringing sexy back. Lets move to the president last night at his rally in new hampshire. He sees a man he thinks is a protester and this happens. That guy has got a serious weight problem. Go home, start exercising. Got a bigger problem than i do. Got a bigger problem than all of us. That guy turned out to be frank dawson, a trump supporter, who was actually ripping signs from the protesters and helping the president. Frank dawson says he didnt see me rip the signs away. He said everything is didnt, i love the guy. Hes the best thing that happened to the country. The president called him and didnt say im sorry but he tried to make peace. Can we just take a step back and note that the president and the people around him were okay with him mocking the person as being fat when the person was a protester, but when it turned out that he was a supporter, not so much. And the fact is that i was told that thats exactly what happened. That he actually had already taken the sign away from the protester and thats why the president called him afterwards, because he is a supporter. If youre not insensitive hes a little self aware. Hes president now, not real estate developer, but still looking to make a splash in the real estate market. The o rs, run hopelessly in their cage. Content on their endless quest, to nowhere. But perhaps this year, a more exhilarating endeavor awaits. Defy the laws of human nature,at the summer of audi sales event. 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That is an actual official statement from greenlands government after reports in the wall street journal that the president has asked aides to look into the possibility of buying massive island that sits mostly within the arctic circle. So people are making light of this, people are making jokes of it. If you understand the giant u. S. Military presence thats already there, if you understand the rich natural resources, if we were back in the days of, say, seward and alaska or the Louisiana Purchase this might make sense, right . Am i being too kind . Like bring back coloniaism. Heres from the wall street journal story. This person described the question less as a serious inquiry, but as a joke, im so powerful that i could buy a country. Since he hadnt floated it at a Campaign Rally yet he probably wasnt seriously considering it. It just says this whole thing just says so much about the president , the way his staff views him, the way he views his own legacy, the fact that hes looking at his legacy not as president obama did with obamacare but with a real estate purchase is how hes looking at it. If youre steve bullock, democratic candidate for president , started a website to try to have fun with this, isgreenlandforsale. Com. So this becomes, what does this become . The way to end a cable show . There you go. Yeah. Well see. I think to your point if he brings it up at a rally, then well know. Then well know . Then well know that at least theres something that hes going to continue to talk about. Greenland is nice. Why not . But its not why not the Galapagos Islands . Judgment call. Thats it for inside politics. Well see you sunday morning at 8 00 a. M. Dont go anywhere, Brianna Keilar starts right now. Im Brianna Keilar live from cnns washington headquarters. Under way right now, thanks, but no thanks. Israel lifted its ban of a democratic congresswoman in exchange for conditions on her trip. Now the muslim congresswoman says she wont go after all. As the economy gets a bit shaky, the president spreads fear in the name of getting reelected. Plus, you can take the man out of real estate, but you cant take the real estate out of the man. Why the president wants the u. S. To buy greenland. And a mystery deepens after disturbing video surfaces of a Truck Driving into