Fairfax after a second woman came forward, a cuccusing him o sexual assault, something he denies. Many of the 2020 hopefuls are now calling on fairfax, the lieutenant governor, to resign. Lets start with cnns m. J. Lee, live for us in lawrence, massachusetts where Elizabeth Warren officially joined the president ial race and pledged her focus. Describe what it was like during her announcement. It is official, Elizabeth Warren is now a candidate for president of the United States. If you listen to her speech, you heard her say one word over and over again and that word was fight. This is going to be so fundamental to her candidacy and her campaign this idea that people need to come together to fight and take on a rigged system. Now, as much as fighting though, i have to know there was mention of unity and bringing the country together and healing when she said there is simply no room for bigotry in the white house. Take a listen to what she said. Whether its white people against black people, straight people against gay people, families against emigrant families, the story is the same. The rich and powerful use fear to divide us. Were done with that. Bigotry has no prailace in the l office. This is who we are. We come from different backgrounds. Different religions. Different languages. Different experiences. We have different dreams. We are passionate about different issue. Today, we come together, ready to raise our voices together until this fight is won. Her smeech offered a good blueprint of the policy positions that are most important to her. No surprises there because these are one of the issues she has talked about so convincingly. After she announced her Exploratory Campaign on new years eve. Her anticorruption bill taking on wall street. Her support for medicare for all. Her support for the Green New Deal as well. Her proposal to tax the rich which she just unveiled last month. I try to count the number of times she said the word trump in her long speech and it was only twice. When she was talking about the fact she believes this is the most Corruption Administration in living memory. However, even though she was reticent to say the word trump in her speech, make no mistake about it, this is entirely about drawing a contrast between herself and the president of the United States and this of course is going to be what we see in the next couple of months as more democrats jump into the ring. How different candidates can stand out and make the case for being the best candidate that takes on President Trump. Fred. All right. M. J. Lee, thank you. Meantime, President Trumps Reelection Campaign is already reacting to senator warrens decision to join the 2020 race. They did so preemptively before she took the stage. Lets check in with cnns White House Reporter sarah westwood. Sar sarah, what caught the trump campaigns attention . Thats right, President Trumps Reelection Campaign attacking senator warren before she started delivering that speech. Lashed out at her policy platform and of course recycled the text on the controversy surrounding her claims to native american heritage. Trumps Campaign Manager said in part, the American People will reject her Dishonest Campaign and socialist ideas like the Green New Deal. Theyll eraise taxes, kill jobs and crush americas middle class. Only under President Trumps leadership will america continue to grow safer and more prosperous. This is the first statement from the campaign against a prospective democratic opponent. Trump has not been engaging much with his potential challengers. But of course they are not also mentioning him. This has real been going on without President Trump being a topic of conversation. Trump has had a particular focus on senator warren. Hes directed nicknames like po pock hanness. Well see this rhetoric now that shes officially in the race. Another democratic president ial hopeful is out on the campaign trail. That would be cory booker. Hes out in iowa. Right now, joined by ron brownstein, Senior Editor for the atlantic. And the atlantics White House Correspondent elena plot. Good to see both of you. Warren did not hold back. Listen to a portion of what she said. We need to change the rules to clean up washington and end the corruption. We all know the Trump Administration is the most corrupt in living memory. But even after trump is gone, it wont do just to do a better job of running a broken system. We need to take power in washington away from the wealthy and well connected and put back in the hands of the people where it belongs. She went on to say trump is not a hes not the cause of whats broken. Hes just the latest symptom, quoting her now, kicking dirt on everyone else. Will that message resonate . Warren is the personification of the widespread view in the Democratic Party that trump uses racism in the service of this. He tries to divide along lines to advance an agenda that benefits the affluent. That is in fact a widespread belief not only in the Democratic Party but among Many Political observers. I mean, you could see her strengths and her challenge in this announcement today. Her strength is that she knows why she is running. She wants to run essentially a classbased campaign on restoring the middle class. Running into the rich having too much power. She has an agenda that relates to that rationale. On a debate stage, she is going to look impressive but she has two i think big challenges. One, historically, white liberal Democratic Candidates who cant get a reasonable share of africanamerican voters to vote for them dont win. That is just the absolute history from gary hart to bernie sanders. Thats the first problem. The second problem is that if sanders runs, which all signs are he will, as our colleague at the atlantic reported the other day, again, going to be moving closer to her, her lane could be very crowded. You could see assets on why she could be a strong candidate. Also see what the challenges will be. You could see, she does embody the fighter mentality, she was up there professing about she had very strong messages being a fighter, holding the powerful accountable and then saying, im quoting her now, race matters and we need to say so. Ron thinks that is going to be to her detriment. That may not resonate. How do you see it . I think ron is right. Its not just something Elizabeth Warren has to worry about visavis africanamericans but as we saw in texas, fred with orourke coming quite close to besting ted cruz in that senate race in november, there are a sizable number of white suburban republicans who are disenchanted with this president and may be very well looking for some reason to vote against him come with november. El Elizabeth Warren is not that person. Thats why you see so many observers waiting with bated breath to see if someone like biden does get in the race, to see if somebody like Sherrod Brown who does speak to working class americans quite effectively, to see if these people do get in the race. Once that happens and you have that progressive ring filled up and you have the more moderate ones start to get clustered, that i when i think this white house has to worry in effect that members in the, you know, on the fringes of the base will actually consider defecting come november. She made some pledges, you know, if elected president. She also made this pledge while on the campaign trail. We need to end the unwritten rule of politics that says anyone who wants to run for office has to start by sucking up to a bunch of rich donors on wall street and powerful insiders in washington. So im opting out of that rule. Im not taking a dime of pac money in this campaign. Im not taking a single check from a federal lobbyist. So, ron, you know, its become very expensive to run. How will she make the money . In order to stay in the race . It is amazing. The development of the small donor base that allows you to raise unprecedented look how much beto has we talked about beto orourke raised in texas from small donors. I think she will be able to raise money from a small network. Im not saying she cant get africanamerican voters to support her. Im say shing she must do it. Its been something thats been tripped up by white liberal candidates in the past. They havent been able to. Why you saw so much emphasis in her speech on racial inequities from Home Ownership to wealth building to criminal justice. That is the challenge for candidates like warren. Its been the bridge too far for them in the past. Its something she has to figure out a way to get over, to cross that bridge if shes going to really stay in this race, you know, for the long haul. And back to the money, i guess its not unrealistic, you know, in modern times. Barack obama, like it was 10 pledges online and, you know, really appealing to young voters. But elena, you know, Elizabeth Warren, how will she i mean, she has the name recognition. Shes been on the National Stage for a very long time. But how will she be able to be viable by not taking pac money, not taking lobbyist money . I really dont think the concern will be too much about how shell be viable, how shell have the funds shell need to run an Effective National campaign. Its more about whether this line that im not going to draw a single track from a lobbyist or take any donation from a super pac. Does that resonate in 2019 . This is of course being barack obama railing against the insider influence of washington. Donald trump did quite effectively as well. I think for a democratic candidate to use this message most effectively, in trying to rally support from the middle class, has to look at specific policies from the Trump Administration such as tax reform and really ways in which it was not helpful to the middle class but just to corporations and affluent people in this country. Just to put it out there youre not taking checks from lobbyists is not the type of message that proactively gets people to turn out. Go ahead, ron. You can see from the speech today she is likely to stand out in the debates. I mean, she is probably the furthest ahead in the, quote, ideas primary on the democratic side. A lot of specifics on a lot of subjects. I think that will help in her fundraising. Part of the map shes got is iowa and new hampshire. Only one of them will be viable after both and thats right on a collision course early on in this calendar. Ron brownstein, elaiena plot thank you. Senator cory booker, hes also out on the campaign trail. Hes making his case to voters in iowa today. Heres cnns rebecca buck. Were here in marshalltown, iowa, where booker is set to speak to a very crowded room of democrats here. Making his First Impression on his first visit to iowa as a president ial candidate. He had a full slate of events yesterday traveling the state from mason city, iowa, to iowa city in the evening. He finished up past midnight. Hes keeping a busy schedule. Harkens back to his days running for city counsel in newark and also for mayor, when he tried to knock on every door, meet as many people as possible. Saying no candidate is going to outwork him in the state of iowa. This is a first in the nation caucus state, where the primary process begins. Bookers team is hoping with a strong showing in iowa, they can get a burst of momentum heading into the later states. New hampshire, South Carolina and beyond. So this trip, theyre laying the groundwork for that. Bookers message, that he has a unique set of experience. Hes the only one who was a former mayor. The only senator, he says who lives in an inner city and can relate to those types of problems. Hes also bringing a message here in iowa of unity and love. Not going after the president. Not even going after republicans writ large. He says hes not in this race to beat republicans. Hes in this race to unite the country. Of course, its too early to know whether that optimistic positive message is what democrats will be huckhungry fo this election cycle. Back to you. All right, rebecca buck, thank you. Meantime, former starbucks ceo and potential 2020 candidate Howard Schultz will join cnn live from houston to talk about his possible independent run in the 2020 election. He joins our poppy harlow tuesday night, 10 00 eastern. Still ahead, democrats flexing their muscle, an oversight power opening new investigations into President Trump. Ill talk to congressman denny heck of the House Intelligence Committee about what they hope to learn next. The unknown beyond the horizon. That was once our frontier. But today, a new frontier has risen. And this is the vehicle crafted to conquer it. Introducing the firstofitskind lexus ux and ux f sport, also available in hybrid allwheel drive. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. The new Capital One Savor card. Earn 4 cash back on dining and 4 on entertainment. Now when you go out, you cash in. Whats in your wallet . Jamie, this is your house . I know, its not much, but its home. Right, kids . Kids . 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Soon various house committees will be Holding Hearings on trumps finances and russia among other things. Democratic lawmakers want to know if the president s financial interests are driving his actions. With me now is congressman denny heck, a democratic representative from the state of washington and a member of the house Intel Committee. Good to see you, congressman. Thank you. What did you feel you learned from Matthew Whitakers testimony before the Judiciary Committee that might help you when he is before the Intel Committee . I dont know we learned much of considerable utility from him. I think he was painfully aware as the top Law Enforcement officer in the nation that thus far theres been 139 criminal charges, 37 indictments or plea deals and four prison sentences meted out to People Associated with President Trump. Including mr. Cohen who is going to prison here in about a month for lying to congress. And mr. Stone who very well may go to prison for lying to congress. A part of your Committee Investigation will focus on the president s finances and trump says thats harassment and it crosses, you know, a red line. What are you concerned about . How do you expect to get access to those financial documents . First, i dont think the president really has much moral authority to make that assertion until and unless hes willing to at least sit down for an in person deposition. I mean, he wont even do that, let alone sit in front of a hostile committee for 11 hours and fred you know to what i specifically refer. But obviously i think its not just democratic lawmakers who want to know whether the president has financial entanglements will compromise him in his administration of the american government. Its the American People who want to know is he compromised. Is there a conflict of interest. Is there something being put ahead of Americas National security and americas best interest. So who specifically would you want, you know, to hear from . Who do you want to testify who can actually bring answers . One of the things that the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has indicate head would lid he woul are some of the records from deutsche banc. There was a point in time when american banks basically would not touch the president and he had to go to Deutsche Bank in order to receive financing. We also know that deutsche banc has been under some withering criticism, an allegation that they laundered money for the russians. Among a lot of things we would like to know is whos guaranteed all the loan hess s he supposed from deutsche banc. And potential conflict of interest. Coach that hearing with whitaker, saying the president blasted this hearing, y