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welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. is it a when or if? a grand jury weighs to indict donald trump. law enforcement in new york and here in washington on alert now for possible protests. the former presidents allies in congress are attacking the manhattan prosecutor. plus a handshake watched around the globe. highly choreographed moment by xi jinping and vladimir putin sends a defiant message to the united states and to th...

At the end of the day when you start paying attention to some of the language it is not merely anti-israel. these are anti-cap tallists taking advantage. its like the antifa movement. you have the ones that escalate the violence and get what they portray to be an overreaction from police and the next day and next day and next day they start to see what they can do. they start to test it out. if the nypd in this case or police departments anywhere else, if they dont push back immediately for the ...

Republicans in nullifying the city of washington, d.c.s crime bill. so he was woke for an hour during the day and he was something else during the other hours of the day. to that point, he make it is hard to label him. >> i think this is a very underappreciated element of his presidency, but also his candidacy in 2020. hes very, very difficult pin down and kind of the traditional caricatures that the opposite party would like to tag him with. there are most effective things to animate their acti...

British-born singer Newton-John was an unabashed Japan lover and the sentiment was mutual. She also postponed a tour once due to her dolphin-related activism.

The president is giving and activists what they want and a member of the rack lives matter group, part of the younger generation saying, sorry, mr. president. were tired of words. >> we wish that the president would stay in d.c. and deliver this speech to the democratic caucus. we would have loved that the president used as the bully pulpit for the past seven, eight months while weve been fighting for voting rights and even getting arrest the outside of the white house begging him to do so but a...

Can do. the change that we have been marching, organizing and pushing for is within reach. we just have to take it. house speaker nancy pelosi seems to have taken a different stance. on friday, she drew a distinction. she has done this before, between being an advocate and being a legislator. whats your response? >> im both. im both. before i walked into congress after i won my primary, i started talking about being a politivist. i think that its okay to have both because when we legislate, yes,...

Im both. before i walked into congress after i won my primary, i started talking about being a po politivist. its okay to have both. when we legislate, yes, we have the power of the pen, the power of the purse. were able to write bills, co-sponsor, you need that. but the activist side of me, that advocate is the one who remembers what it was like to be in positions where i felt overlooked and neglected and unheard. and so many others in our communities -- im a nurse. i am always advocating. that...

Midpoint of that. we saw peaceful marches, millions of people. we saw tactical guerrilla style warfare by these activists. we saw peaceful sit in at this airport, which went to about 200 flights. today weve seen real clashes. there are tough guys on the activist side. they wear their black t-shirts, they are armed with batons. they are ready to do battle. we watch, in fact, as one individual we believed to be either an undercover policeman e civilian guys that the authorities sic on the proteste...

I dont know how polished and buttoned down a witness hope hicks will be. she is not -- has not done that much public stuff in the course of a whole life working with trump on the campaign and being in the white house she was not a regular face of the administration. she was not on camera that often. shes not done much public testimony. so the question i have at this moment is why the agreement that they reached was an agreement that allowed her to testify behind closed doors and i am certain the...

People perceive the economy and how people perceive what the government is doing about the economy. those are two different subjects. >> dana: i was going to ask you about this. it caught my eye. a new group called the black economic alliance. basically theyre saying its nonpartisan and formed by african american business leaders. they decided to endorse four democrats in four closely races. the group also endorsing incumbent virginia senator tim kaine. this is a group saying theyre nonpartisan,...