Stories sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. To vul eviewers in the united s earn around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. A Second Supreme Court vacancy just 17 months in. This one with the potential to rewrite american law on abortion rights, affirmative action and more. Whomever the president picks, its all too likely they are going to overturn Health Care Protections and roe v. Wade. We dont need to guess. President trump has said time and time again, he would appoint judges that would do those two things. Plus, disruption everywhere you look, General Motors warning the Trump Trade War will spike pri prices and kill jobs. We love the European Union and countries of the European Union but the european ion was set up to take advantage of the United States. Sometimes our worst enemies are our socalled friends and allies right. Immigration one issue driving antitrump fehr ver and gives this year of the woman a compelling millennial twist. We won because we had a very clear winning message and took that message to doors had never been knocked on before and spoke to communities that typically had been dismissed and they responded. Women are at a time when they are feeling em boldened and that we know that justice and we know that representation is not going to be handed to us. We have to fight for it. With us this sunday to share their reporting and insights, rachel bay of politico and Michael Sheerer and michael ward and we begin with dramatic images and the debate whether they show us just anger at the president or an anger deep enough widespread enough to change the politics of immigration. Tens of thousands out in force in hundreds of cities from coast to coast. Protesting white house immigration policies. Among the complaints, that the Administration First separated families and now too low to reunite those families who were separated when they were crossing the u. S. Mexico border. Another complaint that congress failed to take steps to protect the socalled dreamers. The actions of this administration towards children and families go against what this country stands for. Were fighting for humanity at this point. And Everybody Needs to start rising, they need to get involved and however they can. If i was separated from my family, the people i loved, i dont know what i would do. Its probably the worst thing that could happen to me. I dont understand why they are being so mean to us children. Dont they know how much we love our families . Dont they have a family too . The administration is no longer separating families as part of its zero tolerance enforcement but the anger at the white house is moving more and more prominent democrats to embrace a dramatic change. We need to rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom, starting by replacing i. C. E. With something that reflects our morality and when you have moms and children being ripped apart at the border and i. C. E. Standing by and sticking those children in places that have concrete floors with wire and cages around them, you know i. C. E. Has gone off the rails. Elizabeth warren and kirsten gillibrand. Where are we in this debate . If you look at the rallies yesterday and we show you on the screen, they were everywhere, the biggest crowds were in blue america, biggest crowds in big cities urban america in the coast where democrats do best. But there were fair amount out in red america as well. Donald trump is president in part because of his immigration politics. Are we at the moment where the democrats can take this as their issue or is it just a blue america is getting bluer and putting more pressure on the Democratic Party . I think they certainly had a moment to seize with the family separation issue. If you look at the polling, this is something that the more than 70 of americans opposed and obviously a larger swath of the Democratic Party oppose but the shift in the messaging here by some of the party to abolish the immigration and Enforcement Agency could be a moment where they give up the hold they had on immigration issue for last couple of weeks because that is a very controversial idea. Youre not going to see Democratic Leaders embracing that idea any time soon. And the problem with that messaging, the messaging or the messaging of abolishing i. C. E. , when you kind of paint it in a binary issue, have i. C. E. Or not, thats an argument President Trump wants to have. It just completely plays into exactly the message that President Trump has been building since his campaign, which is to paint himself and his view of immigration as pro tektding the country vis a vis open borders, has how he describes the Democratic Party. And to describe a policy of abolishing i. C. E. Without suggesting what would replace it, plays right into the idea of being open borders, just let people in. And i agree, i think there hasnt been an issue as powerful that in 15 months that the president has been in office as the family separations which actually made him back down. He had the issue an executive order essentially backing down on that zero tolerance policy. And it i think there is a question about whether or not the democrats have given that up. You see again, hats off to the protesters whatever the issue, if you turn out in the streets, thats part of the american ideal. You see pictures everywhere, the issue is does the party overreact when they see this in the base, to the sense that where has it been on immigration issues that the president has without saying it admit he was wrong and they overstepped in policy and change it and yet now he said he loves this issue if you want to argue about i. C. E. , bring it on. I certainly cant remember seeing protests like this sense the health care debate, the repeal and republicans trying to repeal obamacare, we saw a lot of energy on the left and there was a possibility that democrats could use that politically but this theyve got to be really careful on this. If youre trying to pick up two dozen swing districts that are currently held by republicans going out there and saying abolish i. C. E. , abolish this federal agency that enforces immigration law, thats not going to help them pick those up. It sort of reminds me of republicans used to say abolish the irs and sure, it really rubbed up people on far right. But people know you cant abolish the irs, it collects taxes. They might hate the irs but its not going to win any swing votes and this could alienate swing votes. I think rachel is right where democrats need to pick up seats. Its in suburb ban districts, they had the upper hand with the family separation policy. Then the president sort of stumbled into a policy getting out of this whole idea of family separation and zero tolerance into something which was much more politically pal atable while democrats are moving so much more radically on the abolish i. C. E. Issue. The question is not whether a lot of people turn out in deep blue cities, these protests are really the same probably group of people if youre not motivated to vote for democrats against President Donald Trump in the midterm elections, i dont know what another rally in the city is going to do for you. But those voters who are sort of on the fence in the swing districts, who might have been saying we really cant have any more of these republicans after the family separation policy, now they are back on the fence again. And its interesting, listen to john lewis here, veteran of the civil rights movement, leading liberal in the congress. Democrats understand theres a Supreme Court coming up and republicans like tax cut plan. Suddenly all of this talk of democratic advantages and john lewis thinking this year maybe immigration works for the dems. Its time for some of necessary trouble turn america upside down to stand rightside up. But again back to the i. C. E question, this quote from a white house official. This is a political sue site march for the Democratic Party. They have literally moved the immigration debate to the terrain of should the country enforce our immigration laws, yes or no. I dont want to handed a great political issue on family separation issue, one of which they have an advantage and turn it into one of which the president thinks he does. Its telling even the congressional caucus, a leading force of immigration issues within the democratic caucus, that this call for abolishing i. C. E. May be the best idea. People democrats in congress who are veterans and who have been through these fights before are much more pragmatic and thats the tension, the prag ma tix versus the idealism. Among millennials and younger people and among first time candidates, you know, they dont want prag matism, they want untilism and say what they believe. And thats where the i. C. E. Part of the energy idealism from the base they cant get anything done because they dont have power. Republican president , Republican House and senate, attempted legislation attempts have collapsed and president trying to rewrite history over the weekend with a tweet. Heres a tweet from wednesday, House Republicans should pass the strong but fair immigration bill known as goodlattxts e too. I never pushed the republican in the house to vote for the immigration bill because it could never have gotten through gotten enough democrats now he can make the case he didnt lobby them or twist their arms or demand their votes. So he can say factually he might be okay there but come on. I heard about this tweet from a House Republican who texted me screen shots of both tweets and said what gives. There were a number of House Republicans that voted for this thing and granted it only got 121 votes which is very embarrassing for Speaker Paul Ryan because the president said ill be on your back 1,000 . Never fully embraced this and they didnt know how to vote. In fact, they were at the white house right before this vote and about two dozen republicans there and one of them, austinscott, a republican from georgia, said mr. President , the last time you want d us to pass your spending bill and then you threw us under the bus and said how dare you send me a bill like this. They actually pressed him on concerns about this. He held a rally for the obamacare bill then called it mean. First one was in all caps. Come on. To the poirnt were making, the president in bed minister at his golf the democrats wants to abolish ari. , c. E. , well continue next here. A message sent, is it that one democratic congressman fell asleep or 245 the that the entire Democratic Party better wake up . Politicians say darndefendant thing with a geography lesson. I ask you, alexandria cortez, are you going to be nicer to the president . Well, you know, the president is from queens and with all due respect half of my district is from queens, i dont think he knows how to deal with a girl from the bronx. Oohwee, grab an umbrella kids cause dads gonna make it rain tre tres. Hes saying hes gonna score a bunch of threepointers on you. 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Shes 28, a first time candidate and the big winner in a primary against a veteran congressman viewed until tuesday night as the likely heir to nan city pelosi the democratic leader prefers to think of this as an isolated incident. The fact that in a very progressive district in new york it went more progressive than joe crowley is a progressive but more to the left than joe crowley is about that district. It is not to be viewed as something that stands for everything else. Ortasiocortez says maybe maybe not if she would support pelosi as a speaker. Insists her shocking win is part of something bigger and the Democratic Leadership she says must take note. I think were in the middle of a movement in this country. There are a lot of really exciting races with extremely similar dynamics as mine, not just one district. Whos right . Shes right, pelosi is differently has wishful thinching right there. This was a clear message to the top Democratic Leadership in the house that democrats want change and their hire arcry and they want the establishment out and new blood at the top and they are ready to see somebody else lead beyond pelosi. Consider this, there are 20 Democratic Candidates challenging republicans in swing districts where they have come out in ads or interviews and said i will not vote for nancy pelosi to be speaker if we take back the house. They will probably only have a majority of five to ten seats which means that pelosi could only lose a handful of democrats if she wants to maintain the gavel and if all of those candidates stick with their word and vote against her to become speaker, theres no way she can do this. She has a problem and shes she was speaker. She has been the highest ranking woman in american politics for a reason. Even this has a her a bit back on her heels. Try to listen to her explain this away. Lets see what she says a day and week from now. She says hey, wait a minute. Democratic party is increasingly younger, more female, more progressive. Should the Democratic House leadership look that way. Im female and progressive im and the rest. Whats your problem . Two out of three aint bad. Sometimes you go at your best answer. She has to do the math but to rachels point if theres a giant blue waves and democrats win the house by 20 seats, nancy pelosi will be okay. She still has a lot of loyalty in the caucus. However, if they just squeak by and a whole bunch of candidates promised in the tv ads i wont vote for her shes going to have to negotiate a temporary speakership or she may have to go look, it also says something not just about the leadership in the congress but about the country and where the party is and it reminds me of when eric cantor got beaten in his primary. He of course was the majority leader so similar kind of dynamic in terms of leadership and what we all wrote at the time was that it signaled and what it did signal was this intensifying conservative nature of the house of the Republican Party and the house conference of the Republican Party that created problems. It created a real tension between different factions of the Republican Party. I think thats where youre headed potentially with the Democratic Party here where part of the party is shifting far left to Nancy Pelosis point, maybe thats the really progressive districts but to the extend you end up having a majority, a bear majority but different factions that really cant get along, i think its going to bedevil this party for a long time. You watch whose maneuvering and who has ambition, joe crowley and nancy pelosi. Knock off another friend a few years ago, he now is looking at the house leadership saying im not giving the young guys a chance. I think its time for an entire new generation of leadership in the Democratic Party. We have to rel lies that trump may be terrible but if we cant beat him, if were literally in the worst position as a party since the 1920s, where we are today, weve got to make reforms ourselves. And i think a new generation of leaders will come from many different corners of the party. The question is, is it more about the generational issues or is it more about idealogical issues . I dont know the answer to that. I think that the one benefit that nancy pelosi has in a divided party is that you have people in the swing districts saying im not going to support nancy pelosi but those are districts where the democrats are going to be more moderate, trying to reach trump voters. And then you have people like alexandria Ortasio Cortez coming from the Progressive Side and that split. We saw this on the republican side of things and Mainstream Partnership in a way can be