country. [ crowd chanting ] reporter: the rally coming one day after every house democrat plus four republicans and an independent voted to condemn trump s racist attacks on the four lawmakers whom he labelled visual young socialist congresswomen and a message he hopes to help him win in 2020 sources say as he hopes to cast the democratic party as left-wing and unamerican. this is what is happening to the party and feeding in our hand and i hope they keep on doing it. reporter: the president s son made the strategy clear today. and the reason my father is going to win again, this isn t the party of jfk any more, this isn t the democratic party. this is literally a radical socialist party that does not relate to every day americans. reporter: but the women trump will portray is the face of the democratic party are pushing back. this is a distraction. this is a person that really wants to vilify and demonize not only immigrants but communities
support prince harry in a charity polo match. i m ana cabrera, thank you for joining us. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. we soon will know, maybe, where every congressman and woman stands on the matter of impeaching president trump. the lead starts now. breaking news this hour, the house of representatives could vote on an impeachment resolution against the president. what are democrats saying constitutes grounds for impeachment? also this hour, president trump on his way to a campaign rally as we find out that his trump card in 2020 could well be the race card. plus, trump s tell. the one word that our fact-checker said is a tell tale sign the president is in the middle of a whopper. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with breaking news. this hour we expect a vote on the house floor over whether to
immigration. he claimed that human trafficking cannot happen through legal ports of entry and it is women in the back of cars and taken over unwalled areas of the border and much does happen through ports of entry and claims that his wall is being built quickly and propagated about the government in guatemala and honduras and el salvador saying they are forcing caravans on the united states and so false claim after false claim and i expect that to continue tonight. and as someone that is a learned disciple of president trump s lies and mistruths and fibs and all of the rest, you ve noticed a tell a specific thing the president does and when you hear it, you re like, here comes a whopper. yes. and it is the word sir. so you may notice the president tells story in which he recounts someone telling him and i found that the stories in which that unnamed person usually doesn t have a name calls him sir, that story is almost certain to be inaccurate in some way. and a take a listen
that is a hard argument for democrats to counter. i think what surprised me is despite trump unifying the democratic caucus over the past couple of days, it is till clear that and i m surprised by it, that pelosi doesn t have a lot of control here and this impeachment vote is another sign of that. i would not predicted that when the house democrat over and i thought she would rule with an iron fist like she does and it gets worse the more high-profile the squad becomes and this fight is elevating them which is not trump s strategy because he has no strategy but it is a consequence of the fat they re having and democrats will have to come to the aid loudly of folks who are policy-wise not in the mainstream with american voters. so that is going to be an issue for them, while trump continues to suffer from his own very big problems. one house democrats told me speaking on anonymity that what trump has done is brilliant and he s won this one and what he s established is first of all
president. the only black republican in the house, will hurd of texas. the tweets are racist and xenophobic. they re also inaccurate. it s behavior that s unbecoming of a president of the united states and a leader of the free world. george conway, washington lawyer, trump critic and husband of kellyanne conway wrote, quote, sunday left no doubt naivete, outright racism royaled in a toxic mix have given us a racist president. now the women trump painted as the american hating face of the democratic party are pushing back. we have more from white house correspondent caitlyn collins. reporter: yeah, dave and jessica, not only is the president not backing off over the remarks he made, he s escalating the attacks against the four democratic congress women accusing them of hating the country and saying they do not like living here, then they should leave. he was at an event on the south lawn of the white house when he