julie: secretary of state mike pompeo making his first public appearance after iran shot down a u.s. drone. he brings those incidents up, we will bring you his remarks. mean time, it is now time for campaign trail mix. today we have 2020 democrats heading for big fish fry. plus, elizabeth warren announcing a plan to ban private prisons. mary anne williamson facing backlash for her stand on vaccinations. peter doocy is live in columbia, south carolina, watching this all for us. reporter: they ve got 4500 pounds of fish ready for the fryer. just about every single democratic presidential candidate is here in the palmetto state for the jim clyburn fish fry which will be joe biden s first appearance
dana: all right. we ll switch gears. time for campaign trail mix. we have joe biden standing his ground, cory booker announcing a plan for clemency. peter doocy with an update on joe biden. reporter: i just talked to senator kamala harris about biden s comments. she s the one that said if segregationist senators had their way, she wouldn t be in the senate at all. now she s deciding whether or not she wants to bring that up when she sees the former vp at the debate. you gonna bring it up? if i see him, i might. yeah. i said how i feel about his comments. i think that they were misplaced and, frankly, misinformed. i ll say how i feel about it. i might when i see him. reporter: biden is not back track. he told reporters outside a closed door fund-raiser that he s not gonna say sorry just because cory booker wants him
back in 2007 actually, you have the obama team kind of getting grassroots support from very young people in iowa. college kids back when facebook was mostly a thing for college kids, people in their early 20s. that has changed an awful lot. user growth on platforms like facebook, among older folks, more skeptical of getting there news, they are living facebook as a way to get news filtered to them by their friends. you are going to find an awful lot of your supporters are very easily reached on a platform like facebook these days. dana: thank you, christian. love having your perspective. it is time for a campaign trail mix. revealing massive casual. turning her back on champagne and caviar. uninvited. making friends off of the debate stage. peter doocy is live. he told people ponying up this much money, that they were
world. so i m excited about being able to help the president put his agenda in place and make sure american energy is having great impact all around this globe. it s a great time to be the secretary of energy. dana: all right. if that changes, give us a call. secretary of energy rick perry, thank you. you re welcome. dana: time for our campaign trail mix. first up, former vice president joe biden blasting amazon for not paying enough taxes, tweeting, i have nothing against amazon, but no company pulling in billions of dollars of profits should pay a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers. we need to reward work, not just wealth. amazon fired back saying we paid $2.6 billion in corporate tax since 2016. we pay every penny we owe. meanwhile, senator gillibrand announces that massachusetts congressman seth molton signed her pledge to not use any stolen or hacked material during the
occasions as he launches the federal review into the genesis of the fbi s 2016 russian probe. he describes him as very dialled an n and asked the right questions about alleged surveillance abuse. dana: thank you. i know we re anxious for that. are you ready for campaign trail mix? today we have rivals joining to support a losing candidate. a new front in the war against coal. and 2020 long shot packs her bags and moves to iowa. doug mcelway is live in washington with more. doug? reporter: what better place for pete buttigieg than in atlanta georgia. georgia is the state where democratic candidate stacey abrams still says voter suppression denied her a win and she has not let up since. buttigieg hopped on her bandwagon and so has joe biden. voter suppression. we saw it first hand.