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The impeachment issues. >> watergate, they attacked dean for obstructing justice. i wonder, carrie, if you think theyre trying to send a message to robert mueller himself, who is reluctant to testify, if theyre trying to say to him, you know, mr. former director, if you come up here, this is what youre going to get. >> i dont know theyre trying to send that message directly, but certainly someone who observes the hearings new york city y-- you come away thinking i wish i was hearing from the peo...

>> i think hes the weakest mentally. obama took him off the trash heap. hes even slower that he used to be. hes a loser. >> reporter: the president has continued phoning aides and allies early in the morning, with one key question. is biden a threat to his presidency? sources say the president was frustrated after internal campaign polling showed him lagging behind biden in states that will be critical to a 2020 win. and at one point, even doubting if his own campaigns numbers are real. though h...

Socialists and of course hes also going to try to destroy his opponent, whoever that is. its part of a political strategy. she threatens him, deny him what he wants and refuses to flatter him. that led up to this incident. >> so susan, how much of this fight is about needing a foil here because nancy pelosi is one of the people he pulls out when he needs a foil, you know, rolling up -- royaling up, i should say, his party ahead of the 2020 election. >> absolutely. i think that almost everything ...

Fight is about needing a foil here because nancy pelosi is one of the people he pulls out when he needs a foil, you know, rolling up -- roiling up, i should say, his party ahead of the 2020 election. >> absolutely. i think that almost everything trump is doing at this point we should be looking at in a pretty explicitly political context. you know, the congressman is right. the president doesnt really engage in substantive policy debate or discussion and so hes rarely motivated by that in terms ...

Something? i believe that if people stopped using or subscribing to at&t they would be forced to make big changes at cnn. the presidents use of cnn as a political foil is, of course, not news, and, remember, as a candidate he vowed to block the at&t/time warner merger but once president he lost that one in court. more now live from lobbedon. i guess there are not norms anymore and its not normal for the president of the united states to urge a major boycott of an american company? >> absolutel...

The future and about trying to really cement the special relationship which is under quite a lot of strain at the moment with disagreements about h uaw ei and other items. >> max is right. youll see a president who is differential to his royal hosts. you will see him enjoy the pomp around the visit as we have seen. the ceremonial aspects of being president appealed to him probably more than anything. i dont actually expect there to be major fireworks. as we have noted repeatedly, the president m...

Him. so pelosi and the democratic leadership are concerned that the president could use that and say, complete and total exoneration. and theyre very aware of that. >> and the president loves to have a foil. anytime the president can have a foil on the campaign trail, thats where hes at his best, where he can punch against something, and impeachment certainly could be that foil heading into 2020, and it certainly would motivate trump voters. the question is, would that ultimately make a differen...

Shes opened up government in away that was very constructive. but shes become a foil for the republican -- certain wings of the republican party, i think the entire republican party. >> and so, you know, shes taken the place in some ways of nancy pelosi. but it is, its bizarre that they would use her in fresno across the country from where -- and shes powerful in her mvement, but shes not really that powerful in washington. so its kind of a very strange use of her, obviously, and completely inap...

Career, though, was much deeper than that one play. bay area native bill buckner has died at the age of 69. he died after a long battle with dementia. today the as honoring buckner with a moment of silence. buckner was born in vallejo before moving to napa and graduating from napa high school. he grabbed national headlines for this critical error in the 1986 world series right through his legs there. the red sox lost that series to the mets, and many boston fans blamed buckner for years, in fact...

Collective element of it that they dont ever have to respond to. were so conditioned to move on to the next story. thats why he has been able to maintain this base of support this entire time. things that would have otherwise driven people away, we move on to the next controversy. >> how does it play with independent voters? >> i think it matters in the sense that theres an unease with president trump as president. i think with the right kind of democratic challenger, that can be a huge thing. i...