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today on "inside politics," red, white, and blue political theater. republicans pound the pavement, put on their best every man polos, and look for votes between burgers, dogs, and fireworks. fourth of july provides a 2024 test, one donald trump bets hes fine just skipping. plus, a first amendment victory or a green light to conspiracy theorists? a judge calls a biden effort to stop disinformation from running wild orwellian while telling top biden officials to cut off contact with s...

Possible. one republican taking a very different approach right now, senator -- senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. running head on into it and putting money behind it with new ads on facebook. watch this. >> nancy pelosis in the clutches of a left-wing mob. they finally convinced her to impeach the president. all of you know your constitution. the way that impeachment stops is when a senate majority with me as majority leader. >> hes not wrong, but where are the rest of the republicans and ...

Absolutely it changes. and we heard one lawyer say they are representing multiple whistle-blowers. the republicans dont know whats coming next. and nancy pelosi has also very carefully by not having this vote kept a lot of information away from them. theres also what they told me over the weekend from republicans in both the house and senate, trump exhaustion. they are -- they dont, many of them, consider him a true republican. they are worried about the economy, and they said, one said its not ...

Pretty clear that by next weekend or early next week, they plan to raise the enrichment level. right now the fuel theyre producing you can only use in a nuclear reactor to make electric power, basically. but if you raise the enrichment level youre moving closer and closer to what it takes to making a bomb, then youre on the road to the agreement being completely prepared afractured. if they cant come to a negotiating solution, this is a reason for the united states or israel to take military act...

With, and i think theyre playing with fire. >> that was president trump with a warning for iran after teheran acknowledged it had exceeded its critical limit on nuclear fuel that was set in the 2015 nuclear deal, so joining us now with more information is david sanger, national security correspondent for the "new york times" and cnn political and national security analyst, david, great to have you and all of your reporting has been so helpful to us in the past two days. so they have exceeded now...

Yes. 59% say no. and why is that important? well, you remember on the debate stage when asked should undocumented immigrants get health coverage provided from the government, everyone raised their hand, so david chalion, the polls say the candidates want when americans dont want. >> youre playing primary politics instead of general election politics. that poll number if you look at it by democrats, its opposite, 6 in 10 democrats believe that undocumented immigrants should indeed have health ins...

Homophobia, transphobia. these things exist in america, and we have to speak truth that they do so that we can deal with them. but we have seen in the last two years that there has been new fuel that is -- is lighting that fire in a way that has been harmful. >> david, i thought it was interesting that was the first question she took on that matter. that fuel shes talking about, without naming him, is obviously the president of the united states. >> no doubt about it, don. she was drawing contra...

Going to have to talk about that, that republicans will pick up on. also something shes going to have to explain and will get lots of attention, she said no money for a border wall. she doesnt believe in the border wall. there are better ways. shes o-- shes not on board wih that. >> she was saying that to a daca recipient. a young woman who is a daca recipient who said she was tired of being a bargaining chip in these negotiations. but when asked if indeed she would be willing to provide more pe...

[ applause ] this is "cnn tonight." im don lemon. you just heard from 2020 candidate kamala harris. she is shaking hands with the folks who came out to seer in iowa. very interesting town hall. well be joined by david chalion in moments to talk about this and take us through what you saw and heard this evening. well over an hour of questions from audience members by the california senator who has a legal background, was once a prosecutor, answering questions in a very prosecutorial way. though...

And longer, really almost two years. lets bring you in now, david, good evening. interesting, how did she do? >> well, clearly the focus in the room here enjoyed a lot of the things she had to say. i guess that would be expected. these were folks who tell us that they want to participate in the democratic caucuses here. i think the key thing is she introduced herself to america, don. remember, a lot of folks dont know who kamala harris is. if youre paying attention, you do. this was an introduct...