the fake news will never report it. but it could be true. no. that s what i heard. i don t know. i mean, who could believe a thing like that? no. i heard that peter strzok needed a restraining order to keep him away from his once lover. ah, lisa. i hope you miss him. you heard the president say, could be true. well, check this out. this is from lisa page and her tweet. this is a lie. nothing like this ever happened. i wish we had a president who knew how to act like one. sad. cnn national political reporter may reston is with me. listen, certainly not the first time the president attacked lisa page. now a private civilian. just to insert this lie about a restraining order. what was your reaction to hearing that? i mean, it s just absolutely outrageous, brooke. you know, certainly it s
this was 2016. donald trump is everything i taught my children not to can do in kindergarten. i taught my two little ones, you don t lie and make things up. i taught my two little ones, that you don t push people around and just tell them what you think should happen. and i told my two little ones to do exactly what marco rubio did in the last debate. when a bully hits you, you hit that bully right back. cnn national political reporter maeve reston joins me. incredible to look back where beam just a few short years ago. i was at that rally, brooke. sure you were. think about what she said to savannah, of all the things to defend the president on right now. truthfulness? really? well, i mean, it s just so fascinating the reason why her book and these interview have gotten so much attention is because for the last three years
carolina to iowa. we want to start with you in lawrence, massachusetts, where we have cnn national political correspondent m.j. lee. m.j., good to see you. what s happening there? reporter: well, kristi, we have elizabeth warren stunk already. but today is the day she makes it official with her presidential campaign launch rally here in lawrence, massachusetts. but let me give you a sense of where we are right now. we are outside of an old textile mill. and the reason that elizabeth warren chose this site as the official launch of her campaign are very symbolic. she is choosing this spot because this is the site of a historic 1912 labor strike where workers walked out to protest wage cuts and this was a labor strike that was largely led by women and immigrants. now, what we are told is that she will use this backdrop this mill as the backdrop to hit on some of the themes that will going to define her campaign
probably not coincidental that they re both about to get into the 2020 campaign. at least we think. joining us now, mj lee, cnn national political correspondent harrien ten, a cnn politics and senior writer. first these announcements this weekend. elizabeth warren has an exploratory committee i think will be exploring no longer after tomorrow and then amy klobuchar has this big announcement planned where they re handing out hand warmers, hot chocolate and warming stations. what s going on here? we expect both of these candidates to get in and especially with elizabeth warren this is definitely expected to be the official beginning of her presidential campaign. she s been campaigning for a month already. interesting with both these candidates, we ve been talking about some of the headlines that have plagued them even though they re not officially in the race. you know, if each of the candidates, though, john, were looking for sort of a silver lining in all of this, it is the timing of
post, warren filled out american indian as her race on a registration card for the texas state bar in 1986. it s the first document that appears to show warren making the came in her own handwriting. cnn national political correspondent mj lee has more details. mj, we ve seen this before, what s remarkable is seeing in her handwriting here. what s her answer to all this? that s right. and similarly fact is that she was not able to put this issue to rest. just another headline that s revived the entire native american controversy. the washington post reporting last night on a texas bar registration card from 1986 where she wrote the words american indian to describe her race. this is around the time when she was working at the university of texas law. a warren aide says they are not disputing the fact that this was, in fact, elizabeth warren s own handwriting, though i should