>> captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> this is abc 7 news at 11:00. >> every time you offered an opinion, you been wrong. >> and attacking me is not an agenda. >> up first, the final face to face show down before voters head to the polls. president barack obama former massachusetts governor mitt romney. the two talked tough about each other predominantly over foreign affairs. this debate was particularly important consider the recent attacks overseas including the bombing that includes u.s. ambassador. abc 7 is with complete coverage. scott david is live to break down the issues. >> of all the debates, there was perhaps the president's will house. governor romney was effective in trying to play down characteristickizations that he would be a war hog. perhaps a bit passive at times. but still plenty of barbs between these two. there were no finger pointing this time. but the tension and distaste for each other took only minutes to surface. >> i have to tell you that, your strategy previously has been one that has been all over the map. >> my strategy is pretty straightforward. >> the president aiming far win was aggressive, pushing romney for more clarity on plans for a stable afghanistan and iraq. mitt romney insided national security depends on a good economy. >> for us to promote those principles of peace requires us to be strong. >> perhaps the only agreement of the night iran cannot obtain nuclear weapon. but how? >> during the course of this campaign, he's often talked as we should take premature military action. that would be a mistake. >> a military action is the last resort. >> over all the president did and should have done well here. i spoke with robert gibbs about this earlier today. we talked about there's and inherent advantager the sitting president. he handles foreign policy daily. he deliver this zinger referencing his experience and mitt romney's lack of it. >> a few months ago when you asked what was the biggest geopolitical threatening america, said russia. >> russia, i indicated is a geopolitical foe. excuse me, it's a geopolitical foe and i said in the same paragraph, i said and iran is the greatest national security threat we face. >> now on the flip side, this is where governor romney is doing well with voters. talking especially had in virginia with military voters. he evoked a little bit of ronald reagan there talking about peace through strength. >> our navy is smaller now since 1917. the navy said they needed 313 ships. >> governor we also had fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our mull tear -- military change. we have ship that's go under water, nuclear submarines. >> for the take away for tonight, romney did a fine job as predicted pushing economy at every opportunity. the president showed a confidence and knowledge that really only a commander-in-chief can. >> i wanted to see how you reacted to the debate. >> abc 7 partnered with react lab to see what you thought about the candidates by allowing you to vote. this is not a scientific poll. the majority of those who took part seem to lean more to the democratic party. here's what we saw tonight. >> a huge numbers here what president obama had to say when he was asked about egypt, talking about democracy and women's rights in that country. >> bob schieffer just asked the candidates what is america's role in the world. governor romney's answer talking about promoting peace. you can see he's getting a lot of positive response from our viewers. scott mentioned this earlier and our viewers responded in support of president obama when he called out governor romney on calling russia our biggest threat with that quote that the 1980s. romney received a host of agreement when he said we can't kill our way out of this mess when he was talking about the threat of terrorism. >> we turn our attention to the race here in our your. the battle in virginia. the eyes of both campaign remains glued to two local counties. talking about prince william. tom? >> reporter: republicans lost here in principle william -- prince william for the first time in ages in 2008. now they want both of those counties back. virginia is a battleground and prince william county is one of the front lines. >> so neat to see how excited people are about politics in general. >> reporter: prince william used to be a republican stronghold but after george bush won it by 6% in 2004, 4 years ago, barack obama won by 16%. but republicans watching tonight's debate in bristo say they got an enthusiasm that wasn't there in 2008. >> there are a lot more romney bumper stickers than there were mccain. >> probably 2008 was more exciting because it was the first. >> reporter: democrats they are seeing signs some of the 2008 momentum is still there. >> it maybe a closer margin this time than last time. but i think we will win it. >> reporter: democrats are also fighting to hold louden county. bush won by 12% there eight years ago but obama took it by eight last time. volunteers with both parties agree it's exciting to have such a close race. >> that's why i do it as much as i do because i know i'm making a difference. >> reporter: the republicans who gathered tonight here at prince william and louden, know their county mirrored the whole state of virginia. virginia has not done before for a democrat since 1964. live tonight, abc 7 news. now tonight tough battle. also, parents and teenages need to see accusations made by a family. first a hero is honored after he took a bullet to save lives. only on 7 when he says about the experience when abc 7 news returns in now it's a story you'll only see here on 7. an emotional ceremony for a security guard. >> i'm going to recognize but it's a little embarrassing. >> now even after he was shot, johnson wrestled corkins to the ground. police say his actions that day likely saved a number of lives. today's private ceremony johnson was accompanied by his mother and 102-year-old grandmother. we have two big stories tonight involving beverages who says that the ban on big soda maybe on the way. tonight a new bombshell revelation about a popular energy drink. the alert you need to see. attack in suburban maryland sparked fears. i will tell you about all about it in a moment. cool morning but more warm weather ahead. i'll tell you about that and the latest on the how does it brew such great coffee? 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>> reporter: after this brutal attack, a warning from a authorities tonight for those women who use the capital crescent trail, don't go there alone. as these women ran along the capital trail tonight, something stalked them. fear. >> it's scary out here. >> reporter: sunday night some time after sun down, a 21-year-old woman jogging here, stopping for a deer on the trail. authorities say a man sneaked up behind her and hit her over the head and knocked her out. >> people running all the time. >> reporter: tonight police patrolled the trail. so far no suspect but for the women running here, the officers are a almost sight. >> we saw the police walking. i hope they continue to be here during the time of the night. >> reporter: we saw a lot of cyclist but few returners and very few women. these women say until yesterday, they might have gone running here alone but not ymore. >> i want to come by himself after i saw it. maybe in the day but i would definitely -- >> reporter: because there are so many cyclist on the trail, shortly after sun down in the early evening, people coming home from work, this could give a false sense of security. as far as the suspect in this case, very little information other than he was in his 0s, he had on dark -- 20s and dark clothing. reporting live from the montgomery county mobile newsroom, steven cheetah, abc 7 news. a disturbing new revelation around monster energy drinks. after a maryland family filed suit against the company. the fda says commoners has been cited -- monster has been cited in deaths of five women. the parent of a 13-year-old girl claimed the two energy drinks she consumed were a major factor in the december 2011 death. our news partners reporting several members are in favor of restricting the size of sugary sodas sold in the district. this will fall in line with the similar restrictions recently passed in new york city. this revelation came out during a recent debate between candidates. no official action has been taken on the idea. it was a star studded nuke at the kennedy center as ellen degeneres received the mark twain prize. >> it's flattering. it's big and it's prestigious and at the same time, i just keep doing what i do and i do it because i love it and not because i'm going to get award. >> the mark twain is for comedians who have significant impact. >> there were a lot of laughs in that room. it is a wonderful time of the year. one of our weather bug sites and bethesda country club. no prettier in the whole wide world. that's how the sky looked. let me take you out in space. look at all of that color. that's out west and in the suburbs, and the blue ridge out to our west now in the peak color. what a beautiful day out there. not a cloud in sight. now with the dry air we have around us, temperature in intown, 58 degrees. you folks around gaithersberg and fred i can, cooler degrees. once again it will warm up rapidly during the afternoon. looking out our west, temperatures in st. louis right now, even if you few tears, temperatures are into the 70s. meanwhile down to the south, believe it or not, the tropics are not done. that is now tropical storm which may become hurricane sandy. the more likely track as here in the folks from the hurricane center, would be to keep it out to the east. later on in the week and toward the weekend and early next week, it possibly could be recurbing and moving in toward spots in new england as even a little touch. wintertime. in the meantime as we go through the next 24 hours, nothing but sunshine here and south westerly winds and really warm air coming in. our high temperature tomorrow, i think 80 degrees. i know it's a taste of almost summertime but low humidity. when you get up tomorrow morning, temperatures will be into the 40s to the low 50s in town. delightful cool refreshing morning. lot of color, beautiful day. then warmer during the afternoon, south to south westerly winds, temperatures near 80s and more of the same as we head into the latter part of the week. some clouds during the afternoon. the next chance for anything will be falling from the skies, would be some rain showers at weather front comes our way and no sign. >> no sign any of that unusual tropical storm will be coming our way. there's a blog about it. we'll keep you posted about anything that happens in the atmosphere in the sky, any place anywhere. >> we'll enjoy this warm weather. thank you. world series almost set. the giants hold the cards. the world series is just about set. everybody seems fired up about the rush of chris cooley. who's stepping up for rg iii and the rush of chris cooley. w[ male announcer ] jay likes it when his mobile phone helps him depososit his check. jay also like it when mother nature helps him wash his car. mother nature's cool like that. mobile check deposit. easier banking. standard at citibank. okay. 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if republicans still spending hundreds of billions on healthcare is mean, tell me what constitutes nice? it's still covering people with pre-existing conditions is heartless, what shows heart? if keeping kids on your policy longer matters when democrats do it, how about republicans? if democrats bemoaning the republicans about paying for it, makes then clueless? if barack obama calls it a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, wasn't he the one that started this transfer in reverse exploding costs on the poor and the rich? no, this is not about a massive transfer of wealth. it's about a massive departure from reality. i'm the geek here. i've done the math. what is mean, my friends, is doubling premiums you promised would stay low. what is mean is limiting options for care when you promised they would have plenty of options for care. what is mean is saying you can keep your doctor when you can't keep your doctor. what is mean is forcing young people to pay up for coverage when maybe they can't afford that coverage. what is mean is saying government subsidies will help when they won't or plenty of state exchanges will have their back when they can't. what is mean, premium increases. keeps soaring. coverage that keeps shrinking. what is mean the telling folks healthcare is like money in the bank even if it means there's no money left in their pocket. that's what's mean. that is what is heartless. not republicans introducing democrats to something called math, but democrats that concocted this mess ignoring that math. it's deplorable to do things in secret. remember the closed doors? they're not pretty. but chuck schumer lecturing anybody on keeping them open? that is pretty stupid. what is heartless is when the same chuck schumer says this senate measure will send costs soaring while refusing to see those costs are already soaring. what is heartless is saying republicans are killing people. they actually said that. when in fact what is really heartless is year after year of obamacare lemming, lying to people, all the people, about deductibles pricier than some premiums and more than they can afford. if that is compassion, what counts for clueless? if that shows heart, how to explain this present day healthcare bill? that is what is heartless. that is over the top hypocrisy on the left. that is what is mean. it shows the cavalier disregard for facts the left chooses to ignore and a phony interest of folks for liberals couldn't care less. those republican plans are not perfect. i've said so and reported many times. they're out there because the law they hope to replace is not remotely close to even passable. you could argue, republicans aren't doing any favors by replaying one healthcare program with a slightly less big old healthcare programs. that does not mean that republicans are moral sinners. i just find it odd that the same folks that feared republicans would repeal healthcare have in fact gone to great lengths, those republicans to security healthcare. oddly keeping the one thing that they said they would rip apart. god knows it's not helping the grand old party, but don't you find it somehow that they're getting the blame for the disaster of obamacare? that's not party. there are facts. not president obama himself who is getting the blame who seems to have forgotten the empty promises behind obamacare. he made the promises. now they're lecturing republicans about breaking promises? there's enough blame to go around for program that promise too much. for democrats to call on republicans for doing too little. we need a stethoscope all right. to confirm whether democrats have any heart at all. i'm very sorry to ramble on to kickoff the show but this narrative of blaming republicans for this mess, it is way off. more than a bit much. i just gave you the facts. i just broke down the numbers. i just told you the good and bad on each. but for one party to claim the other party is all bad? that republicans are the one who concocted a mess they're trying to fix? that's a bit rich. to betsy mccoy, author of "beating obamacare", the first to seize on developments that didn't add up then, she joins us now. betsy, i heard this mainstream narrative and it was identical. identical. >> that's right. >> it's appalling. >> it's divisive at its height. this bill doesn't transfer wealth from the poor to the rich. it transfers money from the government to the economy where it's intended to boost jobs and land in the pockets of working people. that's the trump agenda. rewarding work. dignifying work. so repeals the job-killing employer mandates and repeals about $600 billion in job-killing taxes including the 3.8% surcharge on investments. the republican will be a booming economy. in many ways, this repeal bill is the beginning of the economic recovery. >> we can argue over the particulars and whether this will do that and deliver the goods, but i just found it shocking in a lot of very popular newspapers today to say republicans are to blame for the mess that is the healthcare now as if they created this. as things stand now, the problems are with the law itself exists. when americans are asked, we don't like the republican plan, first of all, they've not been given on honest assessment. we just got this one. the point in the dissatisfaction and the frustration with healthcare coverage is what is out there and available right now. a lot of americans are very anxious about it. right now. >> also, the democrats are demagoguing the issue of putting some sort of frame work of controls and responsibility on medicaid. medicaid was intended as a safety net. now 74 million americans are enrolled in medicaid. 20 million more than in medicare, the program for the elderly. in fact, here's an astounding fact. half of all the women in the united states that give birth have medicaid paid for. half. that's not a safety net. >> it's an unsustainable one. you could tax the rich at 100% to keep this going and couldn't possibly keep up with this. so to acknowledge the faultiness of the math misses the bigger points that it's not a republican or democratic issue, it's a real issue. we get into this talking point nonsense and crap to go off on a tangent that has nothing to do with the reality of the numbers that are not sustainable. >> that's right. you'll hear in this divisive demagoguery, the talk of blood money -- i'm quoting elizabeth warren -- >> neil: can you believe that? >> it's astounding. everybody enrolled in medicaid is grandfathered in. so the concept of losing coverage, that's a total lie. it is true that this bill will slow down future enrollment in medicaid. that is desperately needed. what obamacare did is to say that the states to the governors, enroll as many people as you can and the federal government will pick up the entire tab. so of course, they irresponsibly expanded medicaid way beyond what is affordable to rake in all of those federal dollars. not only that, but they didn't even pay attention to how the money was spent. astounding, 9.8%, 10% of medicaid spending are wrong payments. any business with that record would be out of business. >> neil: the bottom line, when it's characterized as mean -- i see it in the media. there's not an attempt to balance it out. a great sense of this person will be deprived of this or this person is deprived of this. we're all stuck with the costs that have accelerated because of this. when people are sold a bill of goods, it's incumbent on us to step back, look at the numbers. i don't care if you're right or left, republican or democrat, look at the math and the math isn't sustainable. to fix this -- you can have plenty of problems with the way republicans are going about fixing it or now a fifth senator that is considered about this measure, is a sign that it's doomed. the fact of the matter is none of this would be attempted right now and none of this would be considered right now if it wasn't such a crappy measure in the first place and people were losing money hand over fists and costs were rising at trip italian rate they were. we wouldn't even be in this position if it was working like a charm. it wasn't and it isn't. >> obamacare is also weighing down and depressing the economy. we can't get the 1% growth to 3% growth, the president's goal, unless we repeal the parts of obamacare that are killing job creation. that's what this senate bill does. it repeals the employer mandate and the taxes repressing job growth. >> neil: thanks, betsy. i apologize for getting so worked up and i hope you folks at home that he see me getting worked up. i could care less. the president doesn't come on the show, doesn't flip over me. i have no agenda here. my agenda is the truth. you're being sold a bill of goods based on the notion that people are trying to make one party look heartless simply because it sees a program and an initiative and a healthcare measure that has proven clueless. the facts are there. this can't work. this cannot be sustained. it's got to stop. into this break, socialize. more after this. 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what are you telling us for? >> i wish you were [bleep]. >> a nebraska official fired after that rant against steve scalise. in the hospital, only taken out of intensive care. a new report this 30 republican lawmakers have been threatened or attacked since may. al alex griswold has more on that. >> i couldn't believe it either. honestly, i thought it would be one, two or three. i looked at the threats after the scalise shooting. when i realized that there were four, it was mind boggling. it's 30 total for nine or ten incidences. the scalise shooting skews things because there's 20 or so republican lawmakers targeted there. this is happening all over the nation, happening to republican congressmen everywhere. >> neil: i can understand. they don't flip over donald trump. they cannot fathom how he won the election. so they cling to the russia thing and everything else, the collusion thing. anything they can. whether you like him or not. and all right. i can see the hatred or -- fine. run with it. man, oh, man, they're crossing a dangerous line with this sort of talk with these kind of threats. if it were done in reverse, which was the consensus before the election that it would be the trump folks you had to worry about, nobody thought it would be these folks you'd have to worry about what do you think? >> almost had a preview of what happened in reverse. the media assumed that it happened in reverse during the gabby giffords shooting four years ago and hammered republicans. they acuesed them of fermenting this environment of hate. turns out, they weren't even responsible. here you have 30 gop congressmen that have been threatened in two months. there's no narrative about it. >> neil: even after this scalise incident, it was taken, depending on the channel you watch, enough strong language there, but it's fair to say that sense the president's inauguration, a lot of that anger and fermenting hostility has been on the left, not too pleased with him and expressing in all sorts of ways, including protesting the day of his inauguration and continuing nonstop ever since. now it's extended hollywood types including johnny depp saying it's time for an actor to take down a president. it's nuts. >> it is nuts. probably the worst that we've seen since the civil war. politization of this factor. it's been fermenting for years. this is the first time it's gotten as violent as it has. we have 30 people being threatened, a republican congressman in tennessee almost driven off the road by someone because they didn't like his stance on the healthcare bill. it's nuts. >> neil: there is sort of -- in the dna to have a tolerance for all points of view, all sorts of issues, races and creed, which is fine, then practice it, believe it, illustrate it. show it. >> that's what almost hurts me the most. this is not a left wing way of thinking. i know most liberals are better than this. so we talk about the media calling this behavior out. liberals, it's on you, too. you should be calling it out. it's not part of your tradition. this is nothing -- it's not liberal at all. it's not even american. >> neil: i guarantee you, if someone add a trump rally punched someone, that would get crazy coverage. this sort of thing, not so much. man, oh, man. really is affecting my appetite today, by the way. that's just me. alex, thanks very much. very good seeing you. >> thanks for having me. >> neil: get a load of this trump supporter in texas that got so fed up with the media coverage, he built a billboard calling out abc. wait till you hear this after this. usaa gives me the peace of mind and the security just like the marines did. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you're a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children. we're the williams family, and we're usaa members for life. wenit gave me a leafput in the names almost right away. first. within a few days, i went from knowing almost nothing to holy crow, i'm related to george washington. i didn't know that using ancestry would be so easy. >> neil: let's say you don't like the way the media is covering president trump. would you make a billboard about it? this guy did. he made this billboard in response to something that he saw. kyle, good to have you. thanks for coming. >> thanks, neil. i'm a big fan. >> neil: very good to have you. what happened? what got you to do this? >> neil, like i said, i had a press release that went along with the billboard. i've been watching abc news since i was a little kid. the only channel on tv. my parents watched it. it's just what we did when we ate dinner, that's what was on. you know, they're part of the family. i believed what they said. they used to be news. they used to be journalists. unfortunately 18 years ago, that started to change. started to look like a little bit of something else was going on. in the last three or four years, it started look like propaganda. it hurt. those people were part of my family. i don't have somewhere to go to news anymore, so we're through. it's as simple as that. >> neil: what is it particularly about abc that your goat? you could make an argument, it's part of the mainstream media, they sing for the same choir. >> you're right. i don't watch them either. i singled out abc news because they were my friends. they were the point i believed in. did not watched cnn, nbc. >> neil: was there a tipping point? to put a billboard. they're not cheap to do. the president trump coverage, the russian collusion coverage? what? >> neil: it started when they started telling us to hate george bush. i didn't hate george bush. i started back then but i continued to watch. you know, just didn't turn the channel. i read the newspaper every day and i watch the news. i want to be an informed citizen. as an american, as a human being, you need to be informed. so i watched. >> neil: when did abc say, kyle, to hate george bush? was it the criticism of him or. >> that you got tired of the coverage -- >> it was the day-to-day thing. looked systematic to me. then they handed us barack obama on a silver platter. i don't have anything against barack obama. i believe in the two-party system, in the proper change of power in our country. but it went from george bush was the anti-christ and barack obama was the savior. that's the way they portrayed it. night after night, that's how they handed it to us. i kept watching. and then when they started this trump is a russian thing, it was too much for me. just too much. >> neil: what kind of reaction have you gotten to the billboard? >> unbelievable reaction. it's been overwhelmingly supportive. >> neil: has the abc affiliate or anybody at the abc network called you? >> they have not. they have not. i have probably gotten 40 or 50 different interview requests from different media sources. and my e-mail is blown up. i'm net a facebook game. what facebook page i do have is off the charts. my daughter is handling that for me. >> neil: she's handling the social media stuff. >> she's good at it. i'm 58 years old. i'm not that social. on the media side. >> neil: it shows what an individual can do on his or her own part to play a role and just let their grief and angst be known. kyle courtney, thanks very much. i appreciate it. >> you're very welcome. thanks for having me. >> neil: speaking of things about the media, more about this story that loretta lynch may have tried to interfere with this clinton e-mail information. we know that for a fact and now the senate judiciary committee is asking for answer. i'm waiting for a lot of coverage of this tomorrow. a lot. really? 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>> thanks for having me on the show and thanks for standing up for veterans. the new legislation signed by the congress is an opportunity for the v.a. to move forward and change the history on how they treated whistle-blowers in the past. in fairness to the secretary, i met with his new management team for that office. they share their thoughts about how the office will help whistle-blowers. i was candidate about my thoughts where the v.a. has failed whistle-blowers in the past and i said i would keep our mindset. >> neil: you talk to people and the mood of people and there's some promising developments here, like the sinking health department records, those with the v.a. a lot of promising stuff going on. what do you think? >> you make a good point, neil. we see advancement in certain aspects of the v.a. as far as technology. what a lot of people at v.a. are saying, whistle-blowers, we hear the good rhetoric but we can't we better track systems so when v.a. managers submit false reports about how they're serving veterans, the secretary for health can go in the system and see the real wait time from a centralized system, see how the calls are being on hold from the veterans crisis line. things like that. >> neil: are things improving there? are you getting that the wait times are less or there does seem to be a smoother process? i know it's a gigantic institution. i can appreciate that. what is the latest? >> i think we get the impression that managers are starting to ask better questions. i was able to meet with a senior v.a. official this week. it was a productive conversation. there's still things that obviously need to be fixed. i think at least now under the president's direction, senior leaders are now starting to question the reports that they're getting from mid level managers and hospital directors. if they continue down that route and they create the appropriate systems to track performance measures, that can lead to real progress at the v.a. >> knowing your story, a lot of the changes owed to the nuisance, and i mean that in a good way. you became a pain in the butt and wanted to stay that way. how is it now? >> well, recently they said they were going to get rid of my department. they notified everybody in the department but me. still will not meet with me to discuss it. there's plans to change my work assignments. already went through there. started assigning my work to other people. i spoke with senior leadership. they put the reorganizational plans on hold. we'll see what happens. if my department continues to seek or if i have to seek another role in government or find another job. >> neil: that better not happen. you come back here the moment it does. thanks, scott david. did a lot for veterans and for this country. scott davis, the v.a. whistle-blower that got the ball rolling. back to this argument that the gop healthcare bill is a middle finger to america. that guy coming up. >> call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever. that was critical to get anything to pass. i- [sound of wrench] [intricate guitar riff] [engine starts] [guitar continues] ♪ dynamic performance, so you can own the road. track-tuned handling, so you can conquer corners. aggressive-styling, so you can break away from everyone else. experience the exhilaration of the bold lexus is. experience amazing. will you be ready when the moment turns romantic? 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>> the . >> neil: wait a minute! i'm not stupid. now he was asked about the way that senate republicans just crafted their own held care plan. >> this is a middle finger to representative democracy. >> neil: carrie sheffield. what did you think of that? >> well, representative democracy would not embrace a man like jonathan gruber who said the lack of transparency was instrumental in passing obamacare. this is par for course for liberal elitism. totally out of touch. if you want to keep losing elections, keep talking that way. keep going on. >> carrie, it's not as if -- we're not stupid in this. we have tape. or digital -- what is it? digital. something on digital. anyway, we have it. we can retrieve it. it comes back to haunt people because on the right and left when we -- they don't like it. but this is easy to pick apart. this same guy bragged about the very things that he's condemning republicans for now. by the way, that was chuck schumer and nancy pelosi yesterday. completely forgetting about the way this whole thing was cooked up. >> oh, absolutely. this is utter hypocrisy. and it's just false. republicans have been debating these principles for a decade now. phil kline at the examiner has a book on conservatisconservatism. this has been out in the open so long. jonathan gruber, keep doing it and keep running candidates like jon ossoff that are out of touch. that's what obamacare is about, rejection of common sense. people like m.i.t. professors like jon gruber know better. >> neil: the one thing i notice here, there's a sudden case of amnesia on the part of those that created this to forget how it was created and the dare criticize republicans. i'm not forgiving one side for the other. but communication is communication. if you did things in secret, don't be surprised if republicans return the favor. nobody creates what is an ideal situation. you cannot forget that this whole thing they're cooking up, that is republicans, is in response to the affairs after what you did. >> that's what representative democracy is. republicans swept the house, senate and the white house that is the power of the people. jonathan gruber is ignores the fact that they reject the bill that he wrote. so i don't know -- i have personal experience with -- i have an obamacare plan. when i shifted from my cushy wall street job, i lost my doctor period. jonathan gruber, you did that to me and i'm so glad republicans will make it right. >> neil: thanks, carrie. >> good to see you. school is out. a lot of teens are not getting summer jobs. they can't be bothered. not all but a lot. better not be mine. after this. ♪ all across america more people are choosing nissan. ♪ it's america's best sales event at nissan the fastest-growing auto brand in the u.s.a. take on every day get 0% for up to 72 months on 13 models. ♪ ♪ >> neil: there was this was described by one viewer as an old fart with young people. fewer teens are working over summer vacation. why that is? i have no idea. my audio wing man joining us from fox news headlines. carlie is a big start here. and mike gunzelman. what is going on here, guns? not work something. >> a combination of two things. one, there's lesser jobs because shopping malls are all by falling apart and nonexistent anymore. i used to work at the malls. i was a lifeguard. got help us. >> neil: oh, my god. >> and i used to put sunglasses on and fall asleep. and for kids these days, there's the entitlement mentality. the parents are babying them so much they don't have to go to work. >> i agree. there's a work ethic going on. people -- when i was young, i wanted the job. i was 15. i got my first job. i remember getting the work papers and going out. that was the big thing. make your own money. now they live with their parents over the summer and they don't have to pay rent or bills. >> i disagree. i think that work ethic and being able to communicate with other people is obviously very important. so is being a kid. sleep in. read a book. volunteer somewhere. >> neil: where would you do that? 15 or 16 you can start working. >> yeah. lasts so long. perpetuated adolescence. that's why we so so many kids in college that are whining rather than actually able to engage -- >> neil: right here. right here. this guy. >> and not that -- they may not have the traditional job scooping ice cream, lifeguarding but taking internships -- >> neil: nothing wrong with scooping ice cream. loved it. >> we baby them so much, kids these days, everybody gets a participation trophy. >> and i think that you also have like some of those jobs aren't there because you have older people staying in those low-paying jobs. >> there's not a lot of jobs these days. >> neil: you can't be bothered. meantime, more millennial men are going under the knife to improve looks. one of the main reasons they want to please their partners. what's going on? >> it's insane. almost like -- there's the theme with younger people i sometimes see as impulsiveness spontaneity. i would question the relationship where the girl asks him to change, that's how i read it. this guy was insecure and he wants to change himself for that. >> i'm all for it. >> i'm a heart throb natural. >> i really want to know how many women are asking their men -- >> that's what i'm saying. >> or a perceived thing that oh, i don't look good in this selfie. social media has a lot to do with it, which is a feminine thing. women only compare themselves. it's extending to males. >> neil: this is not a sexist rap but a lot of this has been associated with women. now men are doing it. >> depends on how bad your face is. if there's something really wrong and maybe -- >> it is a weird thing that -- >> neil: i thought it was involving other things. apparently -- >> younger people going for -- i've known people for a graduation where they get breast implants instead of a car. >> it's a social media aspect though. the pressure -- >> neil: why do you go there? >> a 20-year-old getting -- >> it's all the kardshian's fault. >> neil: absolutely. and wedding season is in full swing and costs are on the rise. but guests could spend close to $900 per wedding. that's before you get to the gift. >> that's totally true. just from my own experience -- >> destination weddings. >> neil: not all the time. >> not necessarily. part of it is that people are getting married older. so when you have more income than you did when 20, 22 -- >> if it's not a destination wedding, what are you spending it on? >> bachelorette weekends. gifts. so many pressures -- >> peer pressure. >> yes. >> i was in chicago for a gay wedding this weekend. >> you must have been a hit. >> yeah. they loved me. a hell of a party. still recovering. >> neil: how did it get this way? a lot of these are before gifts are factored in. >> definitely the cost of a flight, the hotel room. if you want a new dress, suit. >> neil: are you invited to a lot of weddings? i never had any friends. >> i was on both sides of that. my wife is from england. we had to have people come here. i was on a destination wedding. you feel bad when you force your friends. they have to go here, pay for a flight. >> neil: if i have to fly to you, it's coming out -- >> here's my receipt for the delta flight. >> i love that. >> i'm here. that's enough. >> damn right. >> neil: by the way, amazon, as you heard, buying whole foods. launching prime wardrobe. it's going to be streamlining football games. are they taking over the world? >> i think they are. i'm afraid when companies get bigger before better, it's their eventual demise. i'm wondering if that's what's going to happen with amazon. they're really good right now. how big can you get before you start sacrificing things like customer service and convenience? >> neil: now they're doing it with clothing. virtually every part -- >> look at 75 or 100 years ago, you had like macy's and sears replacing the mom and pop stops. >> and they're going dry. >> amazon is like the digital walmart. how walmart was 10 or 15 years ago. the thing is, will it hit a breaking point? possibly. probably. now they're going to try to roll out drones. how well is that going to work? >> amazon's success is based on american laziness or their desire for convenience. nobody is going to malls anymore. they want things but they want them sent to them. >> nobody has summer jobs. >> and the stock has soared. think of the markets wiped out. grocery store competitors and -- just because amazon uttered -- >> that happened 15 years ago with the department stores -- >> neil: you worry about amazon that they will take over the world? >> not necessarily. i do worry that more automation will take jobs. i don't think it will take over the world. >> i'm not sure if i have stock in amazon right now. if i have stock -- >> whole foods and -- bezos owns "the washington post" as well. they can -- >> trader joe's is better than whole foods. >> trader joe's all the way. >> cheaper. >> neil: hickory farms. >> neil cavuto brought to you by -- >> love when we end on food. >> on that note -- >> neil: how do they put up with you? >> it's like a gift. >> neil: it is a gift. >> for him or you? >> both of us. >> neil: guys, thank you. have a good fun weekend. obviously they all work this kid. more coming up including latest on the markets this week that seem to be focused or more good news than bad news. why is that? more after this. looking from a fresh perspective can make all the difference. it can provide what we call an unlock: a realization that often reveals a better path forward. at wells fargo, it's our expertise in finding this kind of insight that has lead us to become one of the largest investment and wealth management firms in the country. discover how we can help find your unlock. >> neil: all right. don't forget monday, fox business, we're going to handicap these duel investigations going on. one on loretta lynch and then one on the whole collusion stuff. back and forth. do they cancel each other out? 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continued icbm tests and other u.n. rules violations. the sanctions go after north korea's money, cutting exports and limiting business and banking deals with other countries. after the vote, just yesterday, i spoke with u.n. ambassador nikki haley. watch. >> north korea now has to look at the rest of the world and see that they're all telling them to stop this reckless activity and they need to respond to that, and respond in a good way. we want to see peace and security on the korean peninsula. we want to see swonresponsibilio come back in. >> international correspondent alexandra field, and international security analyst and former c.i.a. head of russia operations, steve paul. first to seoul and alex. any reaction yet from the north on these harsh new economic sanctions? >> there's a threat that the u.s. will sink into a sea of international fire if the united states continues its, quote unquote, hostile policy toward north korea. that's a typical respond from north korea. the kind of thing we see published by their state-run news outlets. at the same time we have to see if they will respond in a more bold way, not if, but when. they've launched at least 12 tests since the start of the year. a regime that said the two recent launches were a direct response to extreme sanctions from the u.s., and also stepped up military pressure. so the chinese foreign minister is at this point calling for a calm response from north korea. there was a conversation that took place just this weekend at a diplomatic meeting where the chinese foreign minister was able to speak to the north korean foreign ministry. that was the message that he passed along. china, of course, had to get behind these very tough sanctions in order for this to get through the u.n. security council. that happened after some weeks of negotiation. we do know, obviously, in recent weeks, while china and the u.s. say they share the same goal, they've differed in the best approach for achieving that. what we're hearing now from the region is the chinese foreign minister saying that these sanctions were necessary, but that the end goal here for china remains getting everyone to the table for negotiation which they feel is the only way to begin to get to denuclearization. >> i want to ask you about china's role on this. as president trump pointed out in a tweet just this past weekend on wednesday, trade between the two have continued, between china and north korea. it's surged, up 37%, i believe, in the past little bit. so rex tillerson, of course, is at that asia summit right now. what can he do to keep china's position aggressive against north korea? >> i think, anna, it's the carrot-and-stick approach. secretary tillerson met with chinese foreign minister wang today in manila at that asean forum. i think it's a little bit, as alex said, trying to get the chinese onboard. and i think credit does go to nikki haley at the u.n. and also secretary tillerson for getting china to sign on. these resolutions are never easy to get china to sign on, especially when it comes to sanctions. and as we said, these are the toughest so far. but i think it's also, you know, implicit, president trump has made no bones about this, that if china does not cooperate, the u.s. is going to pass secondary sanctions on chinese banks, on chinese individuals that are doing business with north korea. and president trump could get tough on trade against china. i think we were expecting some kind of announcement this week that president trump is going to ask the u.s. trade representative to launch an investigation against what he thought were unfair chinese trade practices. and it looks like they held off to get this chinese cooperation. so i think that that is always going to be a kind of threat in the u.s. hands, as they do try to seek this diplomatic solution. >> now, it wasn't just china, but it was also russia who joined the u.s. to pass these new sanctions in this unanimous vote. we know that the relationship between the u.s. and russia is very fragile right now, back to the president tweeting that our relationship with russia is at a dangerous low. you're suspicious about these sanctions against north korea. why? >> well, suspicion might be a little strong, anna, but it's probably not far off. if you compare the role that, for example, china plays in this, which is a significant role, and you compare that to the role that russia plays which is a much smaller role, you have to ask why russia decided not to get in the way or veto this. it is a significant diplomatic accomplishment, but though it's tempting to think this is one of those overlaps where u.s. interests and russian interests do link up, the real russian interest i think is simply that russia can play the role in international relations in power. that's what it wants to do. that's why it has inserted itself in this whole process. that's really important to them from a foreign policy perspective. >> so put a value on rex tillerson's challenge, the secretary of state, in terms much the diplomacy when it comes to russia right now. president trump tweets, relations that are at an all-time low, sanctions against russia, there's the expulsion as we know of american diplomats, that's in the process of happening in russia right now. but you point out there's the common goal, like keeping pressure on north korea. do you see any changes in u.s.-russia relations in the short term? >> not in the short term. i think russia's goals have not changed. certainly, president trump's comment was that -- was to lie -- or lay at the feet of congress the actual relationships between the united states and russia. but there were some interesting things that happened during the recent meetings between lavrov and secretary tillerson. the nomination of a sort of official channel to discuss things like ukraine, for example, where you have former ambassador, the former ambassador, mr. volcker, who will now meet with his counterpart to discuss ukraine, that's an important thing. there are things that can be moved forward on with regard to the russians. but you always have to keep in the back of your mind, why are the russians doing this. they are not unhappy with how things are going in the ukraine or the korean peninsula, but it's about keeping russia on the international stage. >> how much has the special counsel investigation coloring russia-u.s. relations right now? it's obviously big news here in the united states, but is it impacting the diplomatic world? >> i think it's the elephant in the room, anna. even though secretary tillerson and foreign minister lavrov are talking about north korea, there are certainly some irritants in terms of the u.s. beefing up its defenses in the region with that thaad missile system. they want to work together on syria. i think that these investigations and all of the rhetoric and all of the discussion about russia and its meddles in the u.s. election cannot color the relationship and interaction between these two leaders. that's why secretary tillerson and lavrov har tried to get rid of the underbrush in their relationship. i think some of these things, like the diplomatic compounds, like some of these sanctions are what he's talking about. if you remember, secretary tillerson didn't want those sanctions against russia because he said it would hurt his, quote, flexibility in negotiating on other things. so as long as you have this hanging over the white house like a cloud, it can't but help hurt diplomatic relations between the u.s. and russia. i think it's going to be really hard for these two countries to improve relations in a significant way until this is behind them. >> thank you all. still ahead this hour, pence 2020? 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>> the vice president just like everybody else who works in the white house or in the west wing is always performing for an audience of one. this is clearly meant to send a message to president trump that in no way is the story correct. maybe the story's not correct in terms of how the very capable reporters have laid out this case. but i think it's very plausible. but i think the vice president took it a little bit too far, if you will, in protesting. but i understand why he did. in my discussions with people close to the vice president, what they have said, is that given the fact that the president really is not of the republican party despite the fact that he was nominated and elected as a republican president, what they've started to do is lay out an architecture for raising money, and supporting people down ballot in a way that trump really wasn't ready to do, in that by starting a leadership pact as opposed to a super pact where they cannot raise unlimited amounts of money, a lot of that is really to fund the travel that is required. especially when you're flying around on air force two and the security required for that. they've set up this fund so they can support the travel that the vice president is going to do, that the writers in the story, again, capably pointed out all that is happening, i think this all gets back, though, at the end of the day, the fact that the vice president is weak, that there's a lot of distrust between republicans on capitol hill and president trump. vice president pence is always the biggest thing that they talk about, in terms of what they like about the west wing. >> that's what i wanted to ask you about, eugene, is it possible that this rumor that's out there is really just wishful thinking on behalf of more establishment republicans who have grievances with the republican himself? >> i talk to republican voters who would like to see mike pence have a more prominent role in this administration or at the top of the ticket in 2020, because he is from the establishment, he is vetted and trusted in ways that the current president was not. because he was so new to politics. and they believe that many of the problems and challenges that exist right now, they perhaps would not have with mike pence. one reason i also think that pence pushed back so hard and so aggressively is that this white house can't afford any more tension within the house, right? there are so many people in the white house who appear not to be on team trump. which is why we see the type of aggression taken with the leaks. so i think pence was perhaps saying, president, i am on your side for now. >> one guy who's been on the president's side has been very loyal to him, but not inside the white house, is new jersey governor chris christie. the president happens to be in new jersey this weekend as we speak. but chris christie was on our show with jake tapper this morning in the "state of the union." here's what he had to say about the meeting in trump tower last summer between don jr., paul manafort and jared kushner. >> this meeting was ill advised. this is not something that should have happened. and i believe they had reached out to the campaign attorney, the white house counsel now, he would have told them that. i think everybody in retrospect knows this was a bad idea. >> so, david, he is a loyal trump supporter. but he's saying something that's opposite of what we're hearing from the white house. >> well, first of all, what governor christie is correct. the first thing that don jr. should have done is when he was e-mailed with the offer is go to don mcgann, who is a sharp election lawyer, understands the law well, knows how campaigns should operate and said, how should i handle this. with the campaign to fall back on when they get caught in problems like this, they're saying, look, we're new to politics and we don't know what we're doing. the governor makes a point, which is they have been in this for a year, and however inexperienced some of the principals may have been, they had enough people on staff, mcgann in particular, that they would have told them what to do. beyond this, they're going to have to watch this investigation unfold, that what mueller is doing is pretty standard practice. >> yeah. he said let the facts come out. why are we seeing this daylight between what chris christie is saying and what we're hearing from president trump and his administration that continues to say this investigation is a total fabrication? >> i think chris christie, what he displayed in that interview is showing just how different he is from so many of the people that are close to donald trump right now. i couldn't help to look at that interview and remember chris christie was removed as the head of the transition team, and maybe there's a little, this wouldn't have happened under my watch. so i think you're watching someone who has far more experience addressing these types of challenges, running a high-profile campaign, pushing back on some neophytes. >> congress is home, it's the august recess, and of course, they go home after failing to do the health care reform. now they say they're moving on to tax reform. mcconnell saying it is likely to go to the path of reconciliation. meantime, the president, we learned, has reached out to some red state democrats to try to bring them onboard, or bring them into the fold on tax reform. what are the chances that tax reform happens without it being a bipartisan effort? >> it's going to be slim to none for bipartisanship is what i would say. look, the president can reach out to red state democrats all he wants. i don't think he's developed enough of a relationship there, and red state democrats are going to need the fund-raising and activist support of the left and working with trump on tax reform is not going to cut it. and for them, i think, also, if they really felt they could do this, i don't think mitch mcconnell would be signaling reconciliation, which means 51 votes, no filibuster, but probably no democrats was the way they're going to go. one of the mistakes the president made after being elected was that he kept up the harsh, sharp attacks on the democratic party and democrats in general. democrats in washington. he didn't develop the kind of relationships with them that on some issues may have paid dividends, taxes being one of them. and as we saw over the past ten years, whether it was republicans in the minority, democrats in the minority, we sort of passed an era when you can beat each other over the head and then go to states, red states for democrats, blue states with republicans, and think that you're going to get a lot of support. trump is just simply too toxic on the left to play ball with the democrats. >> trump has to focus on keeping all the republicans on team trump. >> that's what i was thinking. they couldn't even do it with just republicans for health care. if we could flip the switch on them. it makes me skeptical. you just heard it moments alle ago, rumors swirling over the 2020 race. sending a bold message to washington when it comes to money in politics. live in the "cnn newsroom." ess." step one: point decisively with the arm of your glasses. abracadabra. the stage is yours. step two: choose la quinta. the only hotel where you can redeem loyalty points for a free night-instantly and win at business. finally partner. our own hmmhmmmmmm. selfie? 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>> tim and i co-chair a national organization which is the reformers caucus of issue one. over 180 former members of congress have joined our group, kind of telling the truth about how much time current members spend raising money, how addicted both parties are to the process of raising money, how motivated they are by politics as opposed to giksing the country's problems. what needs to happen to change this. i've got to tell you, the two-party system is in decline. the confidence rating in the congress is at an all-time low. if they're not careful an independent movement is going to crank up and basically compete with the two parties, because it's not working anymore. and the obsession with money causes members of congress to spend 40% to 50% of their time raising money. so things need to change and we have to do it in a bipartisan way, because this is not one party or the other. people are disappointed now every time a new election happens that no one does anything, and everybody is really partly to blame. >> i have a feeling a lot of people at home are agreeing with you right now. there is a lot of bipartisan agreement when it comes to money and the power that money has. and to your point, i do want to put up the poll that shows just how low the approval rating of congress is right now. it is at a dismal 10%. now, this is the latest poll which notes that historically, people still tend to vote for their incumbent congressmen.r t going to fix the problem. that all big things need to be addressed in a bipartisan way. neither party has an exclusive on integrity or ideas. and frankly, those days are like behind us. who would have thought that the clinton-gingrich years would have been the good old days. but as al gore says, and as roamer said all over this country, you know, the two parties don't work together anymore. and so, frankly, we're trying to forge a new way. >> congressman roamer, throughout the candidate trump said he wasn't controlled by special interests like his rivals. let's listen. >> the politicians are going to destroy this country. they're weak and they're ineffective. and they're controlled by the lobbyists of the special interests. you better get rid of the super pacs because they're causing a big problem with this country. not only in dishonesty and what's going on, but also in a lot of bad decisions that have been made for the benefit of lobbyists and special interests. when they go in to vote, i don't think they say i'm going to vote for trump because he's not going to be influenced by lobbyists and special interests. >> the president ran on a promise to drain the swamp. now that he's almost seven months in, how would you grade him so far? >> anna, thanks for having us. i'm delighted to join from my friend in tennessee. we don't agree on everything, but we love our country and we think our democracy, our great republic is broken. as you cited, anna, 6% of the american people have great confidence in government. 90% democrats, republicans, independents, they think our government is all about special interests and the big people and not working for the little person. the second point i'd make is that here at issue one, we believe that a smaller group of people with a lot of money with super pacs as was just mentioned by former candidate mr. trump, are controlling more and more of the money and more and more of the messaging, and funding their candidates and determining who gets elected. you asked about the grade for mr. trump. he campaigned, anna, on saying, let's drain the swamp. and he recently called it a cesspool. empty the swamp. yet that has become an empty promise for mr. trump. he has not done enough about it. republicans that run the senate and the house, they haven't done enough about it. and democrats just announced their better deals the other week. they need to prioritize this issue, returning government to the american people as their priority. >> congressman roemer, if the viewers watching right now at home agree with you, how are they supposed to be part of the change you speak of? >> great question, anna. and one is, come to issue one. issue one.org. help us return the american people's voice to running their government. it is we the people, of the people, by the people, for the people. it's not super pacs, it's not the special interest groups. two, go to your town meetings. go talk to your senator and congressmen, ask them to cosponsor legislation to cleave off lobbying from giving money to campaigns. ask them to make the cop on the beat, the federal election work. we have a bipartisan bill introduced by representative kilmer, and mr. renace from ohio, a democrat and republican to put a cop back on the beat and enforce our laws, and three, we are working on small donors. mr. trump got a lot of small donors. senator sanders got a lot of small donors. let's give a tax rebate to those donors across the country that get involved in campaigns and keep them involved. let's fight for our government and return it back to the american people. >> gentlemen, thank you both for joining us and sharing your ideas. we appreciate it. >> thank you, anna. >> thank you. president trump taking plenty of flack for comments he made about the drug epidemic in new hampshire. cnn cuts through the controversy and takes us to the heart of the opioid crisis. don't miss this. you're live in the cnn newsroom. she's nationally recognized for her compassion and care. he spent decades fighting to give families a second chance. but to help others, they first had to protect themselves. i have afib. even for a nurse, it's complicated... and it puts me at higher risk of stroke. that would be devastating. i had to learn all i could to help protect myself. once i got the facts, my doctor and i chose xarelto®. xarelto®... to help keep me protected. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner... ...significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. it has similar effectiveness to warfarin. xarelto® works differently. warfarin interferes with at least 6 blood-clotting factors. xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor interacting with less of your body's natural blood-clotting function. for afib patients well-managed on warfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto® compares in reducing the risk of stroke. don't stop taking xarelto® without talking to your doctor, as this may increase risk of stroke. while taking, you may bruise more easily, or take longer for bleeding to stop. it may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. xarelto® can cause serious, and in rare cases, fatal bleeding. get help right away for unexpected bleeding, unusual bruising, or tingling. if you've had spinal anesthesia, watch for back pain or any nerve or muscle-related signs or symptoms. do not take xarelto® if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. tell your doctor before all planned medical or dental procedures... ...and before starting xarelto®-about any conditions, such as kidney, liver, or bleeding problems. it's important to learn all you can... ...to help protect yourself from a stroke. talk to your doctor about xarelto®. there's more to know™. i ...prilosec otc 7 years ago,my doctor recommended... 5 years ago, last week. just 1 pill each morning, 24 hours and zero heartburn. it's been the number 1 doctor recommended brand for 10... ...straight years, and it's still recommended today. use as directed. ♪ never stop ♪ never ( ♪ ) ♪ over your head... she needs to go to college. i don't know how we'll do it. ♪ never stop ( ♪ ) ♪ 'til we get there ♪ ( ♪ ) ♪ 'til we get there ♪ ( ♪ ) a trip back to the dthe doctor's office, mean just for a shot. but why go back there, when you can stay home... ...with neulasta onpro? 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>> i think there are a couple of things. the most obvious is the president is on the tail end of a pretty significant failure in health care reform. that is not just the president, it implicates the entire republican party at the federal level. i think coming off the tail end of that failure really hurts the president's approval ratings. i think despite the fact that the economy is doing pretty well on a national level, if you look at the top line numbers, one of the things we do continue to see are certain regions of the country lag behind other regions of the country. and the regions that are doing the best in the current economy are not necessarily those that voted for donald trump. so i think you combine that how it's unfolding with the fact that you have bad news because of the health care reform failure, i think that's why you're seeing that number drop significantly. >> we're seeing more and more republicans, members of his own party, pushing back against the president. john mccain, susan collins, lisa murkowski. these are just some of the senators who have been outspoken. why do you think they're feeling emboldened to break with their party's leader? >> it may actually be because of the declining approval ratings. obviously politics can sometimes be a bit of a limited game. when it seems like the president is a little bit weaker politically, that gives folks an opening to disagree with him, and to set their own course. but if you look at the list of the republicans who have really broken with the president, the issue on which they've broken most significantly is health care reform, whether senator murkowski or the other senators who opposed that legislation. i think that highlights something that's really critical about the next few years of republican governance under president trump, which is health care reform continues to be on top of the mind of a lot of folks' set of issues. unless republicans figure out a way to address that problem, i think it will be a real political heavyweight hanging around those republicans' necks. >> i want to ask you about another problem that is growing in this country, an issue that you are passionate about. ending the opioid epidemic. it's been a week since the opioid commission issued a pressing statement to the president. i quote, the first and most urgent recommendation is direct and completely within your control, declare a national emergency. of course, the idea is to get more funding behind this idea to draw more attention, to try to force congress to act on this issue. the president has yet to act on this recommendation. what are your thoughts on that? >> yeah, i'm a little perplexed about why the president hasn't yet taken that step. it's obviously a pretty big psychological step. if you look at the amount of funding that's needed to probably address this opioid crisis in any significant way, declaring a national emergency doesn't solve that problem. you really need congress to get involved in a very direct way, to provide the funding necessary to really go after this issue. but it is a really powerful psychological boost, the issue really focuses the attention of the nation on what is the very worst public health crisis we've seen in the country, in at least a few decades. i'm a little surprised that the president hasn't taken that step. of course, it's early. it wouldn't surprise me at all for the next few days, at least the next couple of weeks we see the administration come out and say this is a true national emergency. >> one of the states that's been hit very hard is new hampshire. here's what then candidate trump had to say about it on the campaign trail. >> we're going to work, and we're going to work really hard to get those people that are so addicted off the habit. we're going to work like hell to take care of the situation. it's a huge problem in new hampshire. it's a huge problem all over our country. we're going to have borders again and we're going to work with you people to help you solve that very big problem. and we'll get it done. >> now j.d., fast forward to trump as president. we learned in a leaked transcript this week that he told mexico's president, quote, i won new hampshire because new hampshire is a drug-infested den. how do you think that's resonating with voters? because we know in a number of states that went for trump, this is a hot-button issue. >> absolutely. i think in a lot of states that went for trump, this is the big issue that's on a lot of voters' minds. obviously the president probably would have, if given the opportunity and certainly should have chosen his words a little bit better, in his conversation with the mexican president, but i really think that one of the genius insights of the president's campaign is that even back in 2015, he was talking about the opioid crisis when no one else was talking about it. or if they were talking about it at all, maybe they were putting abstract policy favorites on their website. the fact that the president saw something that not a lot of other candidates did is a big driver of why he's the president of the united states right now. and i think if he fails to deal with this, either rhetorically through conversations like the one you just discussed, but more importantly through the real substance of the policy, this is something that could really affect not just the president, but republicans politically down the road. i think this is possibly the big issue that will drive voters' sense of satisfaction. president trump's voters' dissatisfaction have gone. >> not just politics. it affects our communities, too. they need to do something about it. j.d., thank you so much for joining us. i want to bring in a woman who you know too well, poppy harlow. you have really delved into this opioid crisis. you have a special report coming up, called hooked america's addicts. i want to talk to you about what struck you the most in this crisis. >> we spent a good time in the state of ohio, and j.d. vance is doing some work in ohio to curb the epidemic. hats off to him. the reason that i and our team wanted to go is we feel like america doesn't necessarily get it. i think so many people feel like this is tragic, that it's happening, but not happening in my neighborhood and not happening in my home. that's just not true. we found that no one is immune. here's part of the story. >> it is ravaging every single segment of our society. this is a chemical, almost warfare on us that people don't know how to control. >> the high school cheerleader, addicted at 15. the 20-year-old baseball player dead. these fathers, now inmates, because of their addiction. and even the sheriff's former wife, addicted. this is the real picture of america's opioid crisis. where drugs don't discriminate. it's affecting neighborhoods across the heartland and from coast to coast. >> how does a 15-year-old cheerleader from ohio start doing heroin? >> i think it started my freshman year. and i was cheerleading. i ended up not going to school as much. and i ended up getting kicked off the cheerleading team. >> i tell my kids when they come to my treatment court, you have three options in my court. you graduate from treatment court, go to prison, or you'll be dead. >> death, jail, or recovery. the only options for the millions of americans now addicted to opioids from prescription pain pills like oxycodone, to street drugs like heroin and fentanyl. >> since the end of december, 2016, we've seen an amazing, alarming increase in accidental overdose deaths. >> i do still think there's a feeling across the country thinking that it's so tragic, that that can't happen to me. and that's not in my neighborhood. and that's not in my house. and that's not in my family. >> it is. >> you're naive if you think that. because it's everywhere. >> reporter: these are the families living heroin's hell and watching their dreams and their children's dreams slip away. >> you know, i think our goal, and the goal of all the families that opened their doors, let us in their homes like the family who lost their son bradley, and just to tell people that you need to be aware of it. you need to talk to your children about this at a very young age. you need to realize that your family, no matter where you live, what school your kids go to, no one is immune. and this is destroying the country. and it may be focused a lot of attention in west virginia and ohio right now, but a lot of parents, like you, for me, all the parents out there, this can happen to you. something has to be done. >> that was so touching. as you point out, it can happen anywhere. i remember when i was in colorado where we were covering the marijuana legalization movement, we talked to people who said, it's not marijuana the problem, it's actually painkillers, when we talked to health experts. >> yeah. >> but to your point, we're now becoming very aware of the problem. yet it seems like it's still getting worse. >> that's what was confounding to me. i asked the coroner, for example, whose morgues are overflowing with bodies. they have freezer trucks that they have bought in case they have no more room for the bodies to put outside of the morgue. that's how bad it is. i said, i don't get it. we're covering it, it's in the paper every day, it may be declared a national emergency. here's what's happening. it's not just heroin. there are new heroin analogs, drugs made on the street, fentanyl and something called car fentanyl. that is an elephant tranquilizer. 50 to 100 times stronger than heroin. this is what the kids and young adults are now taking, and it's killing them instantly. that is what they told me is making it so much worse despite all the attention. it is stunning. i was shocked by what we found. >> powerful story. you have a series of reports. don't miss it. cnn's special report "hooked: america's addicts" tomorrow morning at 10:30. you can also see much more of poppy's great reporting at c cnn.com/rer oh win. we're back in a moment. moms know their kids need love, encouragement and milk. with 8 grams of natural protein, and 8 other nutrients to provide balanced nutrition. moms know kids grow strong when they milk life. and 8 other nutrients to provfixodent plus adhesives. there's a denture adhesive that holds strong until evening. just one application gives you superior hold even at the end of the day fixodent. strong more like natural teeth. why? 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(upbeat dance music) (bell ringing) here's cnn's alison kosik with this week's "before the bell," allison? >> hi, ana. the flood of corporate earnings begins to slow just a bit this week. more than 70% of the companies reporting so far this earnings season have beaten expectations. those strong results are driving stocks higher. the dow drove through the 22,000 mark last week for the first time ever. it's up more than 3600 points since the election. this week we're going to hear from some big retail names including macy's kohl's and j.c. penney. department stores have been struggling as more shoppers go online. macy's reporteded a 7.5% drop in sales. shares have tumbled more than 30 years this year, but it's not just retail having trouble. snapchat will deliver its quarterly report card to wall street on thursday. the numbers have not been pretty lately. the company has seen much of the market value disappear since it went public in march. last quarter it lost 2.2 billion. thursday could be a moment of truth for the struggling photo sharing app, though. we'll keep an eye on it. alison kosik, cnn, new york. ♪ ♪ you are live in the cnn "newsroom." so glad you could be with us. i'm ana cabrera in new york. congress is taking the month off, but not every office is dark, and that's the group the president insists is on a witch hunt. according to the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, developments over the past few days seem to show that the investigators led by former fbi chief robert mueller has something solid enough to move on. >> instead, if these allegations are true, it's moving into a new phase with the empaneling of a grand jury so that special counsel can subpoena witnesses and documents. that wouldn't be taking p
administration. it is a unique time with unique needs for disclosure. if we want to understand the facts and move forward after this probe, and we must do that, we need disclosure. disclosing is a warning. when you don't provide full disclosure, you diss the prospect of closure. you see what i did there? if the president wants this to go away, he should make the a.g. help him by releasing the report. all right, thank you for watching. the news continues here on cnn. thank you very much. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. you just watched our cnn town hall with senator and presidential candidate kirsten gillibrand. she answered questions from the audience in the nation's capitol for about an hour talking about immigration, apologizing for a hard line stance in the past and talking about medicare for all, criminal justice reform and on and on. so we've got a lot to talk about tonight. about the attorney general william barr before congress today. did you see that? for the first time since he wrote his four-page letter, which he says lays out the principle conclusions of the mueller report. he got quite a grilling from democrats demanding the unredacted report, but you've got to wonder just how much of it we'll actually be able to see. >> we will color code the excisions from the report. and we'll provide explanatory notes describing the basis for each redaction. so, for example, if a redaction is made because of a court order in a pending prosecution, we'll state that. and we will -- we will distinguish between the various categories. this process is going along very well. and my original timetable to release this by mid-april stands. >> color coded decision. expl explanatory note. >> my intention is not to ask for it at this stage. i mean if the chairman has a good explanation of why 6e does not apply in his need for the information i'm willing to listen to that. i'll discuss these issues in greater detail after that occurs. >> he doesn't even intend to ask. so his priority is to get a public report out, but it sounds like we should expect page after page of redactions. compare that to what he said during his confirmation hearing. this is in january. >> all i can say right now is my goal and intent is to get as much information as i can consistent with the regulations. >> and listen to the attorney general's reply, frankly, stone walling when he was asked today whether the white house got a at mueller's report at any point. >> did the white house see the report before you released your summarizing letter? has the white house seen it since then? have they been briefed on the contents beyond what was in your summarizing letter to the judiciary committee? >> i've said what i'm going to say about the report today. i've issued three letters about it, and i was willing to discuss the historic information of how the report came to me in my decision on sunday. but i've already laid out the process that is going forward to release these reports hopefully within a week. and i'm not going to say anything more about it until the report is out and everyone has a chance to look at it. >> like i said, stonewalling. he's not going to say anything more about it, but he did have something to say about why he did notary lease the summaries mueller's investigators prepared for their own work. >> i suspect that they probably wanted, you know, more put out. but in my view i was not interested in putting out summaries or trying to summarize because i think any summary regardless of who prepares it not only runs the risk of, you know, being underinclusive or overinclusive but also would, you know, trigger a lot of discussion and analysis that really should weigh everything coming out at once. >> let's unpack some of this. first of all, let's remember that according to sources mueller's investigators expected the attorney general to release their summaries. so it really wouldn't have been a big ask for him to put out summaries that were already written and pretty much ready to go with minimum redaction. you can't blame the members of mueller's team who even barr admits probably wanted more released. he said it right there. of course they did. that's why the wrote the summary. and i think the investigators who actually did the work for almost two years probably have a pretty good handle on how much should be included. so the risk of being underinclusive or over inclusive as he says is minimal. then there's barr point that he didn't want to trigger a lot of discussion and analysis that should wait until everything comes out. too late for that. and given what the a.g. said today, doesn't look like he intends for everything to come out. and there's more. i want you to listen to what the attorney general said today about his march 24th letter about mueller's principle conclusion. >> as i've explained my march 24th letter was meant to state the bottom line conclusions of the report, not summarize the report. and i tried to use as much of the special counsel's own language as i could. but they were just stating the bottom line conclusions, and there's nothing to suggest to me that those -- you know, that those weren't -- >> no obstruction, it's over. it's done. it's over. >> the letter speaks for itself. >> as much as the special counsel's language as possible. wouldn't that be the summaries? i'm just saying. summaries would be what the special counsel's team summed up. seems to me he could have used a whole lot more. in his four page letter he included a total of 101 letters from the report. and that's including the title of the footnote. it seems to me when you've got a report somewhere between 300 and 400 pages and you've said you want to make as much information public as you can you can probably include more than 101 words if you really tried, if you really wanted to. maybe that's just me. but the attorney general wasn't the only member of the administration on capitol hill today. he wasn't the only one caught up in what you'd have to call the white house whiplash. just listen to the grilling that the treasury secretary steve mnuchin got today over the president's will he or won't he -- his dance. >> the president of the united states told the american people that he would release his tax returns. and he's done it at least 16 times. that he would release his tax returns. he made a promise to the american people. now, shouldn't the president of the united states be a man or a woman of their word? >> well, let me just comment that -- >> yes or no, mr. mnuchin. >> i'd like to answer the question. >> it's a yes or no question. >> again, what i've read in the press he should release his returns when he wasn't under audit, but i'm not privy to the specifics of that. >> you think that was explosive, you ain't seen nothing yet. mnuchin got into a verbal sparring match with congresswoman maxine waters. watch as he tries to man-splain to the chairman of the committee. >> i've sat here for over three hours and 15 minutes, i've told you we're going come back. we'll follow up with your office. how long would you like me to come back for next time? i told you i'll accommodate you. >> i appreciate that and your reminding us the length of time the secretaries have been here. this is a new way and a new day and a new chair, and i have the gavel at this point. if you wish to leave, you may. >> i would just say that the previous -- when the republicans, they did not treat the secretary of the treasury this way. so if this is the way you want to treat me, then i'll rethink whether i voluntarily come back here to testify, which i've offered to do. >> mr. secretary, i want you to know that no other secretary has ever told us the day before that they were going to limit their time in the way that you're doing. so if you want to use them as examples, you have acted differently than they have acted and as i have said, if you wish to leave, you may. >> if you'd wish to keep me here so that i don't have my important meeting and continue to grill me, then we can do that. i will cancel my meeting and i will not be back here. i will be very clear. if that's the way you'd like to have this relationship. >> thank you. the secretary has agreed to stay. please cancel the meeting and respect our time. who's next on the list? >> you're instructing me to stay here and i should cancel -- >> no, you just made me an offer. you made me an offer that i accept immediatech. >> i did not make you offer. >> i said you may leave anytime you want, and you said, okay. if that's what you want to do i'll cancel my appointment and i'll stay here. so i'm responding to your request. if that's what you want to do -- >> that's not what i want to do. >> what would you like to do? >> what i told you is i thought it was respectful you let me leave at 5:15. >> you may free to leave any time you want. >> please dismiss everybody. i believe you're supposed to take the gavel and bang it. >> please do not instruct me as to how i am to conduct this committee. >> he wasn't ready. that may not be the last time we see fireworks on capitol hill especially with the mueller report due within the week. i want to bring in now democratic congressman mike quigley. he sits on the house democratic committee. i appreciate you joining us. let's talk about the attorney general william barr. he got hammered by your democratic colleagues for his handling of the mueller report so far. do you think he understands or cares about the criticism he's getting? >> absolutely not. i think he applied for there job by writing a memo basically outlining the theory of law that would allow him to believe there was obstruction was unfounded in this case. so he was hired to exonerate the president no matter when about the report said as it relates to obstruction, and he swas hired o keep as much of this report hidden from the american public. and as much as he possibly can hidden from congress. so he's doing his job. nobody in congress can fire him, so i don't expect him to change his path. >> adam schiff wholz your chairman of the house intel committee told cnn that barr was acting like the president's roy cohn, that he was betraying his pledge to be transparent. do you agree with that? >> absolutely. but, again, i don't think that's his purpose. i don't think that's what he has in mind. i think there's other parallels to people in previous administrations like mr. borke. they all have their moments in history. this one i think infamously. unfortunately, it's going to be very difficult for us to get the full report and the underlying information, which is absolutely critical. >> more about congressman schiff now. chairman schiff says he also requested counter intelligence information gathered by the special counsel, which may or may not be part of the mueller report because it's important to learn whether the president is compromised. should the committee go to court for this if they have to, if necessary? >> absolutely. this began as a counter intelligence investigation questioning whether the president of the united states was compromised. i think there's a lot of evidence that he was. i think the second part of getting all this information in the report is to find out where the gaps are on the counter intelligence side. such as money laundering. as you know, we know a lot about deutsche bank laundering russian money illegally. they get fined $600 million for it. we also know they were the only bank willing to finance trump operations for a decade up until he became president of the united states. there's a lot of information in the report that may not have been relevant to the decision as to who to bring to justice by the special counsel. but it could be particularly valuable to the house and senate investigators determining whether or not the president is compromised. >> so congressman, barr refused to answer whether the white house has seen the mueller report. when asked by representative chris if anyone other than the doj reviewed his summary letter, barr first said that he didn't recall and then he later clarified. watch this. >> i checked with my staff and was told that just before the letters were out, a month after they were finalized and just before they went out, we did advise the white house counsel's office that the letters were being sent, but they were not allowed or even asked to make any changes to the letters. but we notified them before we issued them. >> did they get to see the letter, however? >> i think it may have been read to them. they did not get to see the letter. >> congressman, does that raise concerns to you with coordination with the white house? >> look, i've seen coordination with the white house ever since this investigation began. my concern is power corrupts absolutely. i don't think my republican colleagues in congress appreciate that. they've worked hand in glove as special counsel to the president, protecting him politically and legally. the president has surrounded himself with people who don't understand the importance of the independence of the justice department or for that matter the independence or the integrity of the intelligence community, the far ranging damage this president has done to the reputation and independence of both of those entities is extraordinary and extraordinarily damaging. >> listen, it was a really unexpected answer he gave when asked why he didn't include any of the summaries already prepared by the mueller team. basically saying he didn't want to give too much or too little information. does that seem like a credible answer to you? >> no. here's what he should do. he should release the full report with all the underlying documentation to congress. you know, my committee of intelligence gets the most sensitive classified information on an ongoing basis. we know how to handle this information, and frankly we need to do it to complete our part of the investigation. look, mr. barr's out to protect the president. >> barr also said today he tried to include as much of mueller's words as he could. but his conclusions didn't include a single full sentence from the report. again, does that pass a smell test? >> all he has to do is release the report. he has a hard time saying the president's been exonerated and not releasing a single sentence from the report. again, he's -- i believe he's following orders. i don't know exactly when these were all given to him, but it's clear the job he was applying for wasn't to act as the independent attorney general. >> congressman quigley, thank you for your time. >> any time, thank you. >> now let's turn to more on the attorney general's testimony today. dodging a whole lot of questions about the mueller report. let's discuss. good evening to both of you. thank you so much. boy, had an eventful day again. i want to break down the big question that came out of today's testimony. but first barr would not say whether he spoke to the white house about mueller's report. let's play the clip again and watch this. >> did the white house see the report before you released your summarizing letter? has the white house seen it since then? have they been briefed on the contents beyond what was in your summarizing letter to the judiciary committee? >> i've said what i'm going to say about the report today. i've issued three letters about it. i'm not going to say anything more about it until the report is out and everyone has a chance to look at it. >> why would barr choose not to answer that question? >> i think he didn't like the answer. i think william barr is undoubtedly, we were talking about this before a very splart experienced savvy attorney. when he wanted to answer something, when he knew the answer and didn't feel like it made him or the president look bad, he'd give a very clear direct answer. when he got asked a question like that when that he did not want to answer we saw this trap dance routine break out. by the way, if he did run it by the white house, that's not a crime. it looks bad politically and i think it exposes some bias which i think is coming out more and more on william barr. but to just say i'm not going toser that anymore, why there? >> it was a multipart question, and i think the concern there is if he started to answer some parts of it, then the question would be, all right, so if you talked to the white house, when did you talk to the white house, who did you talk to at the white house, what did you say, what did they say? and i think his point is, look, i'm doing my work here, i'm trying to get it gun. i'm trying to get it done fast and i'm trying to get information out to the public. >> those are logical follow-up kbegzs. what's wrong with answering those question snz. >> i think his point was, look, i'm doing all the work. i'm going to get the information out. i'm going to get it out to the public. then we can talk about it, then we'll have at it and i'll answer questions about it. >> that was one of the most suspicious things that i heard. as you said just say yes. no i didn't show it to them in the beginning but since the report came out and i've released the letter i've spoken to such and such about it. >> look, i've shared this concern and voiced this concern about william barr's impartiality. he prejumgdged this case. he said before he was attorney general that the obstruction theory of robert mueller in this case was fatally misconceived. and also told "the new york times" he referenced what he called, quote, this so-called collusion. that's before he became a. g. >> well, we knew that before he was nominated, after he was nominated, during his set confirmation hearings. >> he takes almost a 400 page report, boils it down to four pages where he selects little snippets here and there. he on his own clears the president of obstruction. so there's a pattern that i see here. >> okay, let's tauk about that then because in that letter he said, well, i tried to include as much of mueller's words as possible. he used 101 words. that includes, ross, words from the a single footnote and a title. the entire report is nearly 400 pages. and also if he wanted to include as much of what mueller said as possible, wouldn't he use the summaries? >> so the answer is we don't know how those summaries were prepared. we don't know what's in them. i think what he's doing in fairness to him is a systematic approach. the first thing is to tell the american people did the president commit crimes, did robert mueller conclude that the president was a criminal? that was the first thing, and he answered that question. the next thing he's trying to do is go through these 400 pages and address lots of complicated issues and get as much of that 400 pages out to the public as possible. it's sort of a systematic approach. and then after that if congress wants more to then work with congress. if they're entitled to more, if it makes sense to give them more, to give them more. >> listen, i think we are being fair to him. i'm just wondering, i think most people wonder wouldn't it have been better for him to do it that way, let mueller's words speak for themselves, and the parts where mueller said i did not make a judgment on that, then he could come in and talk about why. i don't understand how is that not being fair? >> i'm not saying it's not being fair to him. see, i think the question is maybe in those summaries there's grand jury material. and i think we've heard some reporting that every page of this report including the summaries stamped may include grand jury material. so the first thing he's got to do is go through it and identify grand jury material. >> in summaries? >> it's possible, the whole thing. the there may we grand jury material in the summaries. there may be classified information. we haven't seen it yet. >> he went on his own and said i find no obstruction. and on the grand jury question i understand it's a closed question of law, but i find it interesting today when barr said i'm not even going to ask a court for permission when he could if he wanted to. this is guy who promised maximum transparency. president trump is falsely blaming former president obama for trump's own zero-tolerance separation of families at the border. obama's longest serving senior advisor joins me to respond. there she is. next. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines, and if you're pregnant or planning to be. ready to treat differently with a pill? 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>> that's the whole point is we have a legal system, jow can't instruct people not to follow the laws. you have to follow the system, and it's designed to be reflective of our values as a country. and i think staying true to those core values is very important. >> this past weekend the former president barack obama was asked about potential pit falls in challengers in 2020. >> one of the things i do worry about sometimes among progressives in the united states, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say i'm sorry, this is how it's going to be. and then we start sometimes creating what's called a circular firing squad, where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues. when that happens typically the overall effort and movement weakens. >> do you share the former president's concerns about that? >> yeah. you know, i've met, don, with several of the candidates who were running and i've said this. i said be authentic and true. have an affirmative vision for where you think our country should go and then explain why we should trust you to execute that vision. so that should be focusing on yourself. and the concern that i have is that take the long view. the long view is winning the general election. if we beat each other up so much in the primary and go into that general election in a weakened state, then we're going to weaken our chances of winning. so an athentuthentic message, se on why you could be the person to lead this country. and the other point i guess i would make on this, don, is that there's a big difference between campaigning and in governing. and in governance you have to compromise. it can't be a dirty word. in a country as big and complex and diversion as ours you can't just say my way or the highway or you run the risk of not getting nothing done. there are many people who wanted a public option. we didn't have the votes for a public option, but now 20 million people have health care, many who didn't have it before. so you have to figure out how to avoid letting perfect be the enemy of the good. >> you had to deal with race relations a lot when you were advising the former president. a new poll find 65% of americans now believe it is more common to express racist or racially incentati insensitive views since president trump was elected. do you hear that from people you talk to? >> i do. i think what i hear is consistent with the new poll that came out. people are troubled by this toxic tone in our environment where we're talking at people with labels and as opposed to actually getting a level of understanding and empathy so that we could move forward. i mean we have a very painful history in this country of racism and discrimination. and i think one of the reason why president obama was so attractive and why he ran and won two times and why he's still so popular now is he focused on what can we do to bring ourselves together, where we're not focusing just on our differences, where we're looking for a better understanding of each other so that we can move beyond this -- these racist and discriminatory practices. don't we want to be a better and stronger country? and it's hard to do that in an atmosphere that is so charged. >> let's continue on with this theme because race is huge factor in your story. you talk about that in your book now. you detail a conversation that you had with your mom when you write this. you say my mother was particularly concerned after our country had taken what she had considered an impossible leap forward by twice electing a black man as our president, it felt like we were now quickly regressing. you have the optimistic belief we are almost at the mountaintop, but i believe we are dangling over the precipice. do you see trump as a backlash to president obama or a white lash as my colleague van jones put it? >> i don't know how to explain what happened, but what i do know is troubling to me is that 43% of eligible voters didn't vote. and i think if there's been a wake up call beginning the dale after the inauguration with the womens march, we've seen renewed activism and engagement. the number of women and people of color who won, which is terrific. i think that puts us in a stronger position to reflect the values of our country. and so the question my mother put to me i had to really think about. and i thought are we really dangling over the precipice or am i right, am i really at the mountaintop. we're at this pivotal moment in our nation's history and the direction we take depends upon whether ordinary citizens are going to exercise their most important duty of citizenship, and that is to get involved and to vote and to demand better of their elected officials. we can't give anybody a pass. we have to say that democracy can't be taken for granted. we have to fight for our values. we have to fight for those core principles that bring out the best in us. and unless we do that, then we really can't complain about what happens, right? so encourage people to get involved and that we do push hard and that our country does reflect our core values. and we need leaders all across america on the ground speaking up. we can't just look to who's in office today. those folks have to be held accountable by we the citizens. >> listen, i've got to get this -- i wonder if you have the same advice or you want to add to that because you also write since the night donald trump became president of the united states i've been going through the five stages of grief. in the beginning denial and anger were high on the list. i still haven't embraced acceptance. as we gear up towards 2020 what's your message? is it what you said, to vote and to -- >> well, it's to vote and also let's look for candidates who we think are going to bring out the best in us, who are going to unify our country, who are going to recognize they shouldn't be putting theirshirt-term political interests ahead of what's best for our country. and one of my biggest fru frugtrations was to see time and time again republicans do just that, choose their interests over our interests. and i'd like to see a candidate emerge who's going to really take the long view, make tough decisions. not just run a popularity contest when they're in office but do what's best for our country in the long-term. and so that's the candidate i'm searching for. and i'm optimistic that there is a level of opmism right now if we can keep it going submit can deliver us someone who really does reflect those important core values of our country. >> let me just say on a personal note i've shared with you before about seeing the first lady and the president after i kamg out. and they looked me square in the eye and they said, don, you made the right decision. and i know you were pivotal in their evolution on same sex marriage. and i thank you for that and i do have to thank the administration. even if you were a republican sitting here and under your administration same sex marriage became the loll of the land. i thank you very much. >> don, thank you. so i will do that and i will tell you the night we stood out on that north portico and watched the sun go down and see the rainbow reflected on the white house was one of the highlights on my eight years in washington. >> thank you, valerie. the book again is "finding my voice, my journey to the west wing and the path forward" by valerie jarrett. we're going to dig into that next. ♪ pardon the interruption but this is big! now at t-mobile buy any samsung galaxy s10 and get a galaxy s10e free! you're having one more bite no! one more bite! ♪ kraft. for the win win. a business owner always goes beyond what people expect. that's why we built the nation's largest gig-speed network along with complete reliability. then went beyond. beyond clumsy dials-in's and pins. to one-touch conference calls. beyond traditional tv. to tv on any device. beyond low-res surveillance video. to crystal clear hd video monitoring from anywhere. gig-fueled apps that exceed expectations. comcast business. beyond fast. new poll from pew paints a complete picture of race relations in america. almost two thirds of americans say it's become more common for people to express racist views since president trump was elected and 45% of americans say it's become more acceptable to express racist views since 2016. that as a democratic congresswoman calls a top white house advisor a white nationalist. here to discuss david swerdlick, scott jennings and tara setmeyer. you say the poll is evidence to back up what you've thought all along. why do you say that? zblrks wrash i ivall it every day, and b we can just see based on reporting, based on statistics that there's been an increase in hate crimes. there's been, you know, just the language that comes from the president of the united states and some of the things that's been said by other officials, people that seem to be more emboldened by their bigotry. under obama people thought race relations worsened also but not to this degree. and it's not a good direction for the country to be going in. and it just highlights what we've been saying, it's more than just antidotal now. it's empirical. >> what you bring up, race relations in america, this just reinforces we've been grappling with race relations for a long time. it doesn't seem to be getting better. but i think the take away from this poll is that people feel more emboldened now than they did before under the previous president and others. not just obama. scott, the same poll found that more than half of americans say the president has made race relations worse. they pin it on him. why? >> i think for the same reason that people may have pinned race relations getting worse under obama. people are ascribing, you know, the things they don't like about america to a political party that they don't like that happen tuesday be in power. and i look at this poll and i'm disheartened by it because we've had two consecutive presidencies where people say things are getting worse. and i'm starting to wonder and ask myself is it time we stop looking to presidents and politicians to solve this problem. and we look inside our churches, schools and workplaces and in our own hearts i think we're more likely to find progress there than looking for politicians in our broken politics to solve this problem. i think it's on every single person in a community to get this right. i think it's on every single parent especially parents of white children. i have four at home. i need them to understand they're going to have a different experience than if they were black, and they have to remain vigilant in their peer group and call it out and stop it when they see it. to me that's a better place to look than a president or politician -- >> listen, i give you credit on half of that. i think people should be doing exactly what you're saying but i think the president of the united states should be an example -- >> agree with you. but clearly presidents aren't capable of solving this and it is regrettable -- >> not solving but their capable of being better examples. and so the church needs to be a better example, too. that's a great message, scott. >> david, i want to get you in here. as i said two thirds of americans have said it's become more common for people to express racist views since trump was elected. two thirds is a lot bigger number than you would expect to see if it was purely a partisan response. >> first of all, congrats on the engagement. that's great news. i agree most with everything scott is saying and tara is saying. in eight years as president i recall one statement he made that i think was over the line and inflammatory. right before the 2010 mid-terms he made comments to the effect latinos should go out and vote to punish republicans who were their political enemies. he wound up apologizing for that, and i think that stands out as an isolated incident. contrast that to president trump, scott, who in 2015 told the republican jewish coalition that i'm a negotiator like you folks. he said total and complete ban on muslims, came down the escalator and said mexicans were rapists. too many insults to black people to count, and we don't have time for it right now. president trump, i think the reason, don, you see a 65% in this poll is going back to that first number which is that president trump makes race baiting comments so caverly that people feel freer to make those statements themselves. >> that a very valid point, but i think most people will agree the president also sets the tone from the top. and it would be helpful overall if the president could engage in trying to tamp this down and bring people together. thank you all. appreciate it. polls are closing in israel's elections and votes are being kounlted. but so far it is too close to call. will prime minister netanyahu stay in office? 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>> reporter: don, we've been watching the results come in all night, and now more than 90% of votes have been counted according to the central elections committee and it remains too close to call. more than 4 million votes, prime minister netanyahu separated by his rival by less than 13,000 votes. that's why as it stands now, this race is too close to call. there are a few days more of counting votes including from soldiers and diplomats whose votes are counted in the coming days. we'll see how that changes things. but as it stands now, netanyahu appears to have the advantage when it comes to forming a government, when it comes to forming a governing coalition. his right wing bloc has 65 seats, what is viewed as his rival's center left block has 55 seats. so it seems that if those numbers hold, and unless there is a surprise in how this all shakes out, netanyahu has the advantage when it comes to putting together a government and may well be on his track to a fifth term in office. >> president trump, jared kushner big netanyahu supporters and have done a lot to bolster him even as he faces a likely indictment for corruption charges. how much of a difference did that support make? >> reporter: don, i don't think it would be a surprise to tell you that there were people, supporters of netanyahu at the likud headquarters where we were all night holding trump signs, holding america signs there. trump is more popular here than he is in the united states. and netanyahu is more than happy to play that up. trump, it appeared, openly campaigned for netanyahu and gave him major political gifts in the last couple of weeks, including secretary of state mike pompeo visiting, u.s. recognition of israeli sovereignty in the golan heights, as well as u.s. designating iran's revolutionary guard corps as a terror organization. all of that strengthened this idea that it's netanyahu and trump together. it's difficult to say how many votes it affected, how many votes it changed. but what is clear is that it certainly didn't hurt netanyahu in this election. i came out with more votes and more seats, it looks like, than he's ever had before in 13 years of governing. >> oren liebermann, thank you very much for that. before we leave you tonight, i want to remind you that we have got two more cnn presidential town halls this week live from washington. there's governor jay inslee tomorrow night at 10:00 moderated by wolf blitzer. then i'll be right after that at 11:00 p.m. then i will moderate the town hall with former hud secretary julian castro thursday night at 10:00 p.m. only here on cnn. thanks for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. ♪ don't get mad, put those years to work with e*trade. they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! the attorney general promises it's almost mueller time. william barr says the special counsel's report will be out soon but with many redactions. and democrats say that's not good enough. israel's closely contested race. as the results come in, it appears to be a virtual tie between the prime minister and his challenger. but both have already claimed victory. theresa may is looking to brussels for another brexit delay, and there's a chance she will get more than she bargained for. hello and welcome to o
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