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. billionaire democratic donor tom steyer says he will not challenge president trump in 2020 but will instead double down on his efforts to remove the president from office. as california senator kamala harris told cnns jake tapper that she will make an announcement about her 2020 plans very soon. >> i will make my decision soon, not at this very moment. we is to understand that the american public and the people of our country are smart people who will make decisions about who will be their l...

Loss. i couldnt negotiate the loss of a home. couldnt. >> reporter: across northern california, the fires in october of 2017 fueled by high winds and drought would kill 44, burn 8,900 homes and other buildings. as the burning ended, the burning question began. how did this happen? >> we had a number of fires that were the result of some type of ignition from power lines. >> reporter: cal fire investigators concluded that 17 of the 18 fires in october of 2017 were caused by equipment from pacific...

>> this area was my studio with big windows. >> reporter: this is all she has left of the home she lived in for 30 years, and a reminder of the day her world turned to ashes. she and her family had five minutes to escape the atlas fire in the fall of 2017. when they returned it was all gone. >> i couldnt negotiate the loss. i couldnt negotiate the loss of a home, couldnt. >> reporter: across northern california, the fires in october of 2017 fueled by high winds and drought would kill 44, burn 8,...

>> this area was my studio with big windows. >> reporter: this is all norma has left of the home she lived in for 30 years. a macabre reminder of the day her physical world turned to ashes. >> the fire was behind us. >> reporter: she and her family had five minutes to escape the atlas fire in fall of 2017. when they returned, it was all gone. >> i couldnt negotiate the loss. i couldnt negotiate the loss of a home. couldnt. >> reporter: across northern california, the fires in october of 2017 fue...

You know better. >> how does this end for donald trump? >> you know, that sort of gets into the whole investigation right now between the special counsels office, the attorney generals office, and you also have the southern district of new york. >> what? >> are we -- are we cutting this for cliff hangers, or is that what abc is putting out? >> who is responsible for that? >> yeah, what is happening? i hear a lot there. anytime you talk to generally victims of crimes, and hes in a different situa...

Statements not corroborating, saying i didnt know about it and then theres evidence he did. theres a problem for the white house they need to address and regain confidence. but i am less concerned about the campaign finance angle, because i dont believe its a violation. >> many were lying about what the president knew. >> you will see the rare opportunity to see a prosecutor and defense attorney agree. the key question is whether it was a campaign contribution or something else. was it designed ...

On, basically he says, he claims you are lying about him to protect your wife and your father-in-law. >> inaccurate. he knows the truth. i know the truth. others know the truth. here is the truth. the people of the united states of america, the people of the world, dont believe what he is saying. the man doesnt tell the truth. its sad that i should take responsibility for his dirty deeds. >> you lied for him for a long time. >> more than ten years. >> why? >> what? why? why, michael, why? maggie...

Congress. the prosecutor may have said you need to plead guilty to -- >> does that lesson the fact that michael cohen -- >> i think the question is whether or not theres a campaign finance violation. theres a former commission that says its not. you accept the prosecutors argument to get a reduced sentence does not mean the case has been tried. >> thats the argument my friend from lindsay graham made. its not really a tough case. the reason its not is because you have two independent witnesses t...

Court chief justice, john roberts, by name. he has rebuked john roberts over the last day but what is more extraordinary is that john roberts, the chief justice, has chosen to speak out against the president. let me read you one more time what chief justice says, we do not have obama judges or bush judges or clinton judges, but what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges. joining me now, joan, i was lucky enough to speak with you last night. the burning question, and we have seen ...

No sense of i can use the democratic majority to be more pragmatic and he talks about it in interviews, the president believes that what he does works and he doesnt believe there has been a political cost to it, so thats the next debate in american politics as we approach 2020, is will the country decide on a national level with a binary choice that the kind of politics the president practices is not the kind of politics they want. >> what does it mean for decorum? the burning question, rachel s...