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Welcome to inside politics. Im john king, to our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you. The first look at cnn brand new polling, looking at nevada and South Carolina. We begin and well spend most of the hour ahead on the darkening impeachment cloud over President Trump. House democrats now fast tracking their inquiry and there are several important new developments. A subpoena demanding cooperation from the secretary of state, mike pompeo, the sudden r resignation of ukraines lawyer. A Washington Post report that President Trump back in 2017 told russian officials he was not concerned about the kremlins interference in the 2016 u. S. Election, and new cnn reporting that it was not just the president s call with ukraine that was handled outside normal procedures. White house aides also restricted access and took other steps to keep secret the president s calls with Vladimir Putin and saudi arabias crowned prince. The president on constant attack from democrats and the whistleblowers complaint is now a roadmap for the impeachment inquiry. But democrats say the president s own words and actions are their best evidence and they say it proves the credibility of the corruption allegations laid out by the whistleblower before the memo was released. The full congress now on recess for two weeks but the House Intelligence Committee plans interviews and possibly hearings. This activity, this pattern of behavior were to prevail and the president continued to ignore that article two does not say he can do whatever he wants, then its over for the republic. We will have the e equivalent of a monarchy. They will take the course of integrity, deliberation and fairness, as i think we have done all along by not just responding to people who thought he should be impeached. With us this sunday to share their reporting and their insights, jackie cue sin itch and vivian of the wall street journal, cnns manu raju. Just as we were coming on air, cnn released a new poll. How serious of a problem is it that fruchl encouraged the ukraine to investigate joe biden. 43 say very serious, 21 say somewhat serious, 19 not so serious, 17 not serious at all. I mention the polling because the impeachment is not a criminal trial, its a political trial, if you will. You heard nancy pelosi saying were going to do this deliberately. What are we going to see in the next week or two . A lot of behind closed doors, the House Intelligence Committee is staying back as the rest of congress is on recess over the next two weeks to begin this investigation. Youre probably going to see a lot of letters going out demanding records from the white house about these efforts to allegedly conceal this transcript and other transcripts the president was involved with, asked for interviews, not just with the whistleblower himself or herself, but also other people who may have been involved in this phone call. We already saw subpoenas going out on friday for five state Department Officials to be deposed, to sit down about what they knew about the ukrainian conversation, as well as a request for records. Democrats are telling me, john, that they are not going to put up with a prolonged court fight, prolonged battle. Weve seen this all year long where the white house has resisted turning over documents, providing testimony. This time theyre saying if you dont provide agree to comply with our subpoenas, we are going to use that as evidence of article of impeachment of obstruction of congress. Democrats are moving rapidly. Well see what evidence they glean. But we want to potentially move forward with articles of impeachment by this fall. And the last part is a test because the Trump Administration on any other inquiry before congress has essentially said, no, go away. Theres been almost zero cooperation, no matter what the issue. Theyre saying we want these documents and witnesses and the white house has adopted an unprecedented stance. This is in the subpoena to mike pompeo, the secretary of state, it ends with your failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena shall constitute obstruction of the houses impeachment inquiry. Essentially laying down the marker were not going to court this time. Cooperate or we make that part of our case. They dont want to have the whole fiasco that we saw with the mueller investigation. The president has been adamant this is a witch hunt and he is not a big fan of any kind of disclosures. He used that in his Business Life and he brought that into the white house as well where he feels essentially that his staff gets nondisclosure agreements, but he also feels that this is part of the whole charade that is framing him. In a way, his campaign especially has been using it because they see that it mobilizes the base and it kind of encourages them to get revved up behind him. But on the other hand, theyre actually worried about the potential for this backfiring on him. So theres a lot of hesitation about how to handle it. One of the things theyve said is theres no war room. The clinton impeachment there was a war room and the messaging that theyre putting out is also kind of backfiring on them. Saying its hearsay and the whistleblower report was wrong. Actually the white house is the one that keeps confirming what the whistleblower account has said, things like the transcript that we saw, other comments theyve made of actually putting the conversations between the president and other World Leaders into this very classified server. The white house essentially confirmed that as well. So the messaging discipline that comes from having a war room perhaps theyll assemble one later. It turns out facts are facts. So we focus in on the details. The depositions, how fast will the democrats go, who cooperates. If you look at the witness list, the attorney general william barr, i wouldnt bet on cooperation from him. Rudy giuliani who has gone back and forth. You see these names nau dont know at home, people who were on the call and part of this, curt volker who just resigned, ive talked to people who are nervous about him. Hes no longer in the administration and he had a reputation before hand. Youre looking at an impeachment inquiry. Is there a voice that becomes a strong witness. We sometimes try to step back and get the moment and molly, you captured that well in the cover that shows the president painting himself into the corner. There has been such sustained chaos throughout trumps term that it can be hard to determine which outcries to worry about and which to ignore. The ukraine affair has caused something to snap, and not merely because trump has supplied enough final straws to fill a lhayloft. Not that the other issues werent serious, but the oversight issues are critical to the balance of government and the legitimate right for congress to look at things but something did snap this past week. And with the public as well. I think the poll you showed earlier in the segment is fascinating because the talking point we have always heard from the administration and the Trump Campaign has been this isnt a Kitchen Table issue, the public doesnt care. This is technical and abstract to joe and dane doe at home worrying about their lives. But actually the American Public, twothirds of the American Public thinks this is a serious issue. And that is the messaging challenge for the Trump Administration, is can they move the needle by continuing to work the reps and blame the media and do the typical shuffle of witch hunt and so on, or is this a clear enough picture . And thats part of why democrats moved forward with this. Of course they do think this is serious. They thought the other stuff was serious, too. This is a clear and easy to articulate thing that they think they can bring to the public, so the messaging challenge for the democrats is going to be when you have a twoweak break that congress isnt here, when you have these hearings happening behind closed doors and subpoenas flying in a confusing way, can they build the narrative that continues to look bad for the president , or are they thrown off their game because it all gets muddled . And well come back to the president strategy in a minute and what republicans say about this. The president s strategy is just attack everybody. But to your point about the democrats, you talked to a couple of the democrats that are nervous about this for political reasons. They may think theres a solid case against the president but they have to run in difficult districts. Could you vote for articles of impeachment right now . Not yet. I think that while i find many of the statements in the whistleblowers report disturbing, theres a lot more information thats out there and i think we have to talk to some of these officials that they have listed in the report and see where it goes. I would vote no right now because we havent seen all the facts. We have to presume that people are innocent, dont we . And so the question is, again, well come to the president , but can democrats handle this in a way that their own members come along with. If theyre going to vote to impeach, and were on that track right now, can nancy pelosi get an overwhelming vote . Shes probably not going to get any republicans. Can they handle it seriously . You heard the speaker at the top of the show saying i was against this for a long time. I got there for a reason. The facts have changed and were going to do this deliberately. But you have some members selling tshirts, were going to impeach the mf. You can figure that out at home. Its sunday morning. That may be fine in her district, but the democrats are trying to have a conversation, including with republicans and independents, and that doesnt help. No, it doesnt. And they want to keep this narrowly focused which is why nancy pelosi has made very clear that she believes this issue will resonate with the public. You hear democrats say the more we talk about this, even though polls may show people dont want the president impeached, that could change dramatically if its made clear this is a National Security issue. Thats why you hear it over and over. But ultimately the question is can they get 218 votes on the floor. Fascinating moment. Up next at times, angry at times and sullen in others. The president is facing the very real prospect of impeachment. It was the president who decided this week to release the white house memo detailing his july call with the ukraine president and President Trumps blunt effort to get foreign election help. And it was an Inspector General appointed who deemed the whistleblower complaint alleging broader trump corruption to be both credible and urgent. But the president wants you to see him as the victim here of a smear orchestrated by democrats and the deep state. Its ridiculous. Its a witch hunt. Im leading in the polls and they have no idea how they stop me. The only way they can try is through impeachment. So many leaders came up to me today and said, sir, what you go through no president has ever gone through and its so bad for your country. And it should never be allowed whats happened to this president. And so here you are, i covered a white house when the president was impeached by the house and whatever your politics at home, it sends a chill through the white house. Aides are worried about seeing subpoenaed and legal costs. You mentioned before do we have a war room. We have seen in recent days not just the president s anger at democrats trying to undermine the credibility of the whistleblower, but talk that hes mad at his chief of staff for not having a plan to deal with all of this. His Campaign Says were raising a boot load of money but no president wants to be impeached. Molly was just talking about the shift in Public Opinion on this. Im sensing a shift from white house officials on this definitely compared to the mueller investigation. Im talking to officials who are nervous and debating whether or not releasing the transcript was a wise idea. We know that thats been an argument now for the last two weeks and even after it was released theyre still debating it. I spoke to one person who is a former White House Council official from this white house, career republican, and he was telling me, you know, this is bad. This is really bad. And the issue is we keep on talking about a quid pro quo, did President Trump offer a quid pro quo and i think that was a big part of the defense of why we can release the transcript, they felt like it was fine. This official was saying its not about that, its about abuse of executive power. The memo of the call is one piece of a monthlong puzzle. There was an early yerl call when the ukrainian president won the election. This was a call after he won parliamentary elections. So the white house can say there was no quid pro quo, not direct, but he raised the aid several times. He talked about recipro indication. One of the arguments that youve heard from republicans is that the president is the one that brought up joe biden first in the call. The call transcript does show that the president did actually say that joe biden, he asked him specifically, the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden and his son. The first person he mentioned was biden in the transcript. It underscores the challenge that republicans have had in messaging and defending the president s conduct in the aftermath of the release of the call memo, as well as the whistleblower complaint, initially running into before the president released the transcript he was getting urged from the Senate Majority leader, im told and others to release the call transcript because the president defended it as, quote, a perfect call. But when it came out it made things a lot more difficult to message and thats why youve seen republicans running away from this. Thats a great point because the democrats are going to proceed once Speaker Pelosi decided to make this an official impeachment inquiry. Their base would implode if they didnt take it to the finish line. The question is do any republicans crack. Some republicans it doesnt matter, and we have a lot of republicans saying i dont think this is impeachable but there are questions that need to be answered and those are the republicans we need to watch. The president trying to keep them loyal as he always does. More than 100 tweets in the past week. We can just put some of them up on the screen about the investigation. This is what the president does. And hes not dealing that often with the substance. Its mostly president ial harassment, trying to make this a democrat republican issue. And making an argument that other things arent going to get through because of this, things like gun control. Lets be real, that was never going to happen anyway. But the other thing, republicans also were kept in the dark about why the ukrainian aid was being held up. They know that happened and now we know why. So that also has presented a bit of how they explain that, because they were urging it to be released. So thats problem attic. And the president doesnt really drop things, so hes going to keep bringing this up over and over again, whether or not Public Opinion is with him. He is in some ways the most transparent politician we have p is tribal, the senate, theres a lot of republicans who are for trump, but theyre afraid of him. They dont like him or agree with him, but theyve seen his power with the republican base. But they have to run statewide. They dont like when the president walks into a room of u. S. Diplomats, brings this up and calls a whistleblower who is trying to file a complaint against the United States government, thats allowed under the law, calls him a spy and then says this. Basically that person never saw the report, never saw the call, heard something and decided that he or she, whoever the hell it is, almost a spy. I want to know who is the person that gave the whistleblower, who is the person that gave the whistleblower the information . Because thats close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right, with spies and treason . We used to handle it a little differently than we do now. Everything is president said about the whistleblower was wrong. What we have so far, maybe something the whistleblower filed will be proven not to be true. But on the big issues, the ukraine call, the transcript released by the president backs it up. On the idea that they take Sensitive Conversations and hidity a different server, the president s own staff has confirmed the whistleblower is right. Whistleblowers are patriots. The president calls this one a spy, treason, says we handled it a different way in the old days. I keep hearing from white house officials that in the last couple of months the president has been em bolnd and theyre tag it in his actions because he believes he was exonerated in the mueller investigation. So its something that everybody around him is noticing and concerned about. Its a different president than last time. This president is not going to be quiet. Bill clinton was sometimes quiet during his. The democrats have the idea that the president cant be held accountable is part of the reason they feel they need to move forward on impeachment, because if there is no meaningful check from congress or anywhere else, they fear that the president s lawlessness gets worse and worse and thats underscored by the fact that this call happened the day after the mueller hearing. Twitter didnt exist back in those days. Up next for us, the first look at brand new cnn polling on the 2020 race among the democrats in nevada and South Carolina. music plays throughout as your second cousin and number one broker. Youre welcome. Remember, carl, we havent been investing with you for a while. Hmmm . Because schwab makes planning for things like this easier. Yeah, with schwab we get automated investing and integrated planning help. For a low Monthly Subscription price. 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Largely because of the former Vice President s support among africanamerican voters. Bernie sanders is second at 13 , you see the numbers here. Among white voters a tie between biden and warren there. The rest of the candidates fill out. So i want to pop ahead and look at what weve learned. Last sunday we were talking about the cnn iowa poll, sanders, biden close race there. Monmouth had a poll this week in new hampshire, warren, biden, close race there. Now we have nevada which goes third, close race there. And South Carolina, a biden lead. Studying the history of president ial politics, joe biden has the South Carolina fire wall right now, but these results in South Carolina are often influenced by what happens in the early states. So you look at this race right now, a much more competitive statebystate democratic race. So it is fascinating as we go forward. Up next well talk about how the 2020 democrats navigate this new impeachment terrain out on the campaign trail. Good. 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We have never had to navigate a president ial race in the thick of an impeachment investigation. Discipline that will be required of anybody running for president is to speak to the news of the day and speak to the urgency of the processes happening in washington and at the very same time focus on whats going to impact peoples everyday lives. There are a whole lot of issues that people want to talk about, they want to talk about health care, education, they want to talk about foreign policy. This is the chance to hear from them about what they want to talk about. This is quite personal for joe biden as we learn more and more about how the president and his team lobbied ukraine for dirt on biden and his son hunter. After 70 straight polls have shown me beating him, i think [ cheers and applause ] it is not surprising that i become the object of his attention. Its not about me. Well overcome this. This is fine. My family will handle this. But im worried about all the families and all the lives that are at stake in this election because of his failure as a president in terms of the substance of what needs to be done. We do have a roadmap for this but lets start there. Joe biden says, and its true, that a lot of things said by the president , said by Rudy Giuliani and trump allies about hunter biden are not true and they get the timeline of joe biden asking for the ukrainian prosecutor to be fired wrong sometimes. But hunter biden was a consultant making money overseas as many people with famous last names do. I would note as they make these attacks as Rudy Giuliani does, makes a lot of money and is consulting for a Security Firm overseas. That part is fair game. How does joe biden navigate this . This has been a debate inside the Biden Campaign as we reported in the cover that you showed, and theres different camps. Theres some camp of biden advisers who are hopeful that this actually sort of causes democrats to rally around him, something we know about joe biden is he is very well loved by the democratic party, still viewed with a lot of affection. So do democrats look at this and say this is our beloved uncle joe, we cant let this happen to him, but its certainly also possible that the opposite happens, that this sort of cloud of dirt starts to surround his candidacy in the same way that the email situation became something that Hillary Clinton couldnt shake and that no amount of facts could dissuade people from seeing as this ambient stain of the swamp. And i think that was a risk with Hunter Bidens business dealings before this became a trump scandal because of all of the enterprises that bidens family has been involved in. So when you have the president trying to make that the issue, when you have the words biden and corruption in the same headline over and over again, do voters start to say well, even if this isnt his fault, lets try to go for someone who doesnt have to deal with that issue. And thats i think what were going to see in the sort of next round of democratic polling and democratic debates, is biden able to put this at rest in a way that actually helps the campaign . Its a great point, because politics is about winning and the other candidates, theres a lot of affection for joe biden, even people who are voting for other candidates among the democrats. The question is what do the other candidates do. And i ask it in the context of theyre competitive people. In 1988 the first person to mention willy horton was al gore, not the bush campaign. An issue here . The president has gone after joe biden and his son. Do you think his conduct, his business dealings, Hunter Bidens should be off limits in this campaign . I believe that this issue is about donald trump and thats where we need to keep our focus. He is the president of the United States and he has solicited a Foreign Government to interfere in our 2020 election. Very direct answer there. Kamala harris asked a similar question yesterday, she said she would probably not was her answer, allow her Vice President s children to be involved in any international consulting, but she quickly said this is about donald trump. Elizabeth warren in particular has been very careful not to attack joe biden. It might be because shes seen other people try it and it sort of backfire on them long term. So right now we are seeing the democratic field step away from this because i think theres an awareness that if they get miered in this attack on joe biden, and they decide they want to protect them, they could end up having a political problem themselves. What is the broader context of how do you do it . Especially if youre a struggling candidate or somebody in the middle of the pack. Bernie sanders is going to be in the race the duration because of his entire base, but hes running third. He had a pretty clever way to do this over the weekend, he says were going to beat donald trump or mike pence, whoever they put up. Bernie sanders put a tweet out about that. How does a candidate, if the National Conversation is all about impeachment and youre in nevada and South Carolina and youre in new hampshire, how do you deal with it . Its a challenge because the Democratic Base wants President Trump impeached and removed from office tomorrow. They dont thats one reason why Elizabeth Warren has been successful, shes one of the first people who came out aggressively for impeachment. She got a lot of attention and voters like that kind of fire power from a candidate, but at the same time as weve seen from polling, more moderate voters, swing voters, people in other parts of the country are not there yet. So it is going to be a constant balancing act for these candidates to appease to the base and also not show that theyre just only focused on one thing, impeachment. Theyve got to talk about the issues, too. Its going to be a challenge as this eats up all the time here in washington. Potentially one that could backfire, because when they become more unified in their message as we lead up to the primaries, all of a sudden you start to forget why these candidates are different in the first place. If the one unified message is lets impeach donald trump, how are you different from him . A lot of voters are just chiming into this campaign in the next couple of months and theyre going to want to understand the candidates for their individual policies and not just this one message. The one thing, also, is views are so baked in about trump that a lot of democrats will say if youre on both sides of the aisle, so if youre pushing for impeachment its probably not going to change how voters view you. You always have to remember theres two dramas playing out at ones. The democratic primary comes first and then youve got to win a general election. Youve got to hopefully maybe win over some 2016 trump voters, that makes it interesting as we go forward. Up next, Rudy Giuliani Rudy Giulianis outsized pole in the ukraine scandal and a lightsout moment for Pete Buttigieg, literally. But thanks to new Technology Like cell phones, the speech keeps going. This is how they used to do politics. 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Beyond the president himself, two of his most trusted advisers now central to the impeachment inquiry, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and the attorney general of the United States, william barr. Barr, democrats allege, takes a see no evil approach. Even when the Inspector General raised big concerns. Giuliani is central to the foundation of the impeachment case. He has admitted pushing ukraine for election dirt and admitted to pushing the state department to help him. 18 years ago, you see him on the cover of times person of the year, as new york city mayor after the horrible september 11th attacks. Now hes on the new yorkers cover in a very different context. Turn on cable tv and you will see giuliani always animated and almost always twisting the truth. Shut up, shut up, you dont know what youre talking about. You dont know what youre talking about, idiot. Joe biden can be involved in bribery and joe bidens son can get 1. 5 billion from china and you wont cover it and you want to cover some ridiculous charge that i urged the Ukrainian Government to investigate corruption. Well, i did and im proud of it. I just want to note again, he twists the truth about Hunter Bidens business practices, hunter biden was involved in some business deals in china. Rudy giuliani himself forgets to mention he makes a lot of money off international clients, some of them use the internet, not exactly people you might invite to dinner. Lets get back to the ub stance. Hes the president s star representative, if you will, on television. Is he helping or hurting . A lot of people believe hurting, but the president seems to think that hes helping, otherwise the president probably would have severed ties with him. The question for me is how do democrats approach Rudy Giuliani, given his central role here in this whistleblower complaint, and its obviously a big interest for democrats. Do they bring him up for a public hearing, which of course could turn into an absolute circus and something that democrats may want to avoid. But they also need information from him. So theyll probably ask for information, but how hard is another question. Does he have a compass, if you will . He was going to give a paid speech this week, he had to cancel it when it became public, in a kremlin group, putin was going to be there. Rudy giuliani in the middle of all of this was going to take money from russians and be in the presence of putin and hes saying hunter biden is correct. Hello . One of the things that i think the president and Rudy Giuliani see in each other is a sense of shamelessness. If they cared how all of this looked they wouldnt be where they are today and that is something that makes a lot of other republicans nervous, one of the weve been asking the white house for months what are you doing to prepare for possible impeachment and theyve basically laughed in our faces like the democrats say theyre not going to do that. And that means that now a lot of people in the Republican Party fear that theyre being hung out to dry by a white house whose strategy for messaging consists of having Rudy Giuliani go on tv and yell at people, which might be insufficient once things get more serious. And you know giulianis position is also a very strange one. Hes not a public official in any kind of nominated, confirmed or even hired by the government position. Hes supposedly the president s lawyer but hes been acting pro bono which may not be legal. It may or may not get him a privilege. Exactly, because when he wants to keep things quiet he says its privileged but when he doesnt he says im not being a lawyer here. So theres a lot of questions about giulianis role and the question is going to be is he someone who also gets called in and held accountable as a part of this process, or does he at some point get thrown under the bus . In the Public Opinion he confuses people, he throws out allegations that are simply not true or proven, and that works, confusing people. And if the democrats are disciplined in an impeachment case and put him in the chair where they can counter him with documents and witnesses, thats a whole different place. Rudy giuliani in his past life was also a skilled prosecutor and he may surprise democrats and may kind of come out swinging as well. And so i think the democrats should probably be cautious in their efforts to kind of corner him, of course like you say if its just a matter of facts then theyll probably be okay. One issue, though, i want to touch on something molly said, Rudy Giuliani, the president and even people in the Administration Whenever giuliani, his conduct strays from the ethical norms of the administration, they say well, hes representing the president in his personal capacity, but at the end of the day, hes been acting in ways that are really concerning a lot of people within the administration, stretching National Security protocols. And the use of taxpayer funded prag funded operations, hes not operating on his own and hes operating with help from the government. Were going to talk about the democratic president ial candidates on a lastminute dash for cash this weekend. Gordon ramsay . Handing out samples . Seems like just an ok use of your culinary talents, dude. Yeah it is smart guy. Almost like having a brand new iphone but not pairing it with at t. Thats true. Gordon ramsay. Oi, fingers, its not a buffet use the cocktail stick. Use a cocktail stick. Get the most from your amazing new iphone 11 pro on at t, americas Fastest Network for iphones. More for your thing. Thats our thing. One last time around the inside politics table ask our great reporters to share a Little Something from their notebooks. Jackie . So front line downs have been told to focus on ukraine when talking about impeachment but keep it simple, keep these town halls that are already on the books in their districts and so far were seeing that they are. Of the 70 plus town halls that are scheduled over this recess, only nine are republicans and only one is a republican senator. And more broadly House Democrats have really embraced the town hall format which have kind of gone by the wayside since the tea party days. 98 have had town halls since they were elected and 51 of republicans. Well see if this hold as 2020 continues, but now it seems to hold. What happened last week, the u. N. General assembly, in case youve forgotten. And one of the big story lines going on there before all the impeachment lines came out is whether or not President Trump would meet with president rouhani. He was proposing all kinds of options including having trump approve a european credit line to iran, having him hold off on sanctions, all the while have iran promise not to do any Nuclear Enrichment for five months and that way we get them to the table. These talks are ongoing and important to watch because it would be very important in the nonimpeachment kind of news. President trump seems open to the idea, although the white house saying theyre never going to renege on sanctions. Well give him an a plus for trying and see if he can get to the finish line. Theres been no bipartisan legislating this congress and weve seen bipartisan things such as guns and that falling off the radar on capitol hill. But theres still the possibility of getting one bipartisan bill done this congress, thats the u. S. Mexico trade agreement, the new nafta agreement still being actively considered by House Democrats. On friday there was a meeting held by the house ways and means chairman richard neal and its been described as a positive meeting. There was a major push among these members in the house to get something done. The speaker herself is keeping open the option of moving this intime these year and a number of democrats now open to the notion of impeaching particularly ones who come from trump districts need a bipartisan win. And the time line almost coincides with impeachment, so you can almost see a split screen here of the president being impeached by the house. So well see what happens. We live in interesting times. Well, this week, tomorrow in fact is the Third Quarter fundraising deadline which could be a real makeorbreak for a lot of the 2020 candidates. This still enormous field of democrats could be winnowed by this deadline depending on whether theyre able to raise enough money to stay in the race. Weve had some campaigns notably cory booker setting a seemingly low target maybe intentionally in order to seem to beat expe expectations. But some of these campaigns its more than a barometer to show how much enthusiasm theyre getting. In a real sense its going to determine whether they could keep their campaigns alive. We could see a winnowing of the field and also have a sense i think also for the leading candidates, for a candidate like joe biden, can he keep up the fundraising pace . Are the donors still committed to him given there are some signs his campaign may be faltering in other ways. Costs a lot of money to run for president. Im going to close on what has been an interesting week for the mccain family. Said its possible in her view that a democrat carries arizona for president in 2020. In that same interview with politico ms. Mccain also made clear her affection for joe biden. Daughter megan mccain also spoke of biden. Curt volker, now a star impeachment inquiry witness because giuliani says he has Text Messages to back him up where giuliani sought dirt on that same family friend joe biden. Look for an announcement from Arizona State university where the Mccain Institute is headquartered as soon as tomorrow about volkers fate at that institute. Up next dont go anywhere. A very busy state of the union with jake tapper. His guests include hakem jeffries, gym jordan and cory booker. Thanks for sharing your sunday. Have a great day. Do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging . Prevagen is the number one pharmacistrecommended memory support brand. You can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. music plays throughout if you have moderate or psoriatic arthritis, Little Things can be a big deal. 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