Retreat involves ivanka trump, the Vice President , Senior Republicans in congress, and theres even one report the first lady. Also we have a rematch. The lineups are set for the cnn debates. Former Vice President joe biden will share the stage with senator Kamala Harris again. Will he be ready this time . The other night, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, they go he would to head. That will be interesting. First what democrats are planning for Robert Mueller when he testifies on capitol hill. Lauren fox has all these details for us. What have you learned . Reporter a big week ahead and democrats really banking on the fact this shifts Public Opinion. Now, the House Judiciary Committee planning to focus on five areas of alleged obstruction of justice including the president telling don mcgahn to fire special counsel Robert Mueller as well as mcgahn denying publicly he told him to fire mueller. Trump telling Corey Lewandowski to tell Jeff Sessions to limit the investigation and telling lewandowski to sell sessions he could be fired if he didnt. As well as alleged witness tampering of paul manafort, the president s former campaign chairman, and others. The house intelligence committee, theyre going to focus on contacts with russians and wikileaks. And republicans and democrats havent been wasting any time behind the scenes. Theyve held separate mock hearings trying to prepare for how theyre going to script questions and question Robert Mueller. Quote, i have been involved in a hundred hearings and we have never prepared for one the way we have prepared for this one. Obviously a lot riding on next week as House Democrats are hoping that this shifts Public Opinion in a way that the written Mueller Report just couldnt. Thank you so much for all that reporting and prevug it for us just now. So lets talk about it and so much more. Joining us are errol louis, frank bruni, and carrie cordero. So its very interesting to see how they are tackling this, errol. You know . Theyve been busy behind the scenes, it turns out, these different committees. Because theyre having these mock hearings where somebody is playing Robert Mueller and theyre figuring out their strat zwri strategy to illicit something from him because hes pretty stoned faced. Heres what they plan to highlight in the judiciary. The time he told mcgahn to fire mueller. The time he told mcgahn to publicly deny he told him to fire mueller. Telling Corey Lewandowski to tell session ifs he does not meet with lewandowski the president will fire him. And then alleged witness tampering of manafort, cohen, and others. I get a queasy feeling about it, to be honest. Theyre trying to bring the public along. They know most people didnt read through the Mueller Report. They know most people dont get into the nuances, the back and forth. What did the president do, is it illegal, and so forth. Can he be held accountable for it . On the other hand, most hearings if youve ever sat through one are deadly. I appreciate them attempting to make it more palatable to people. I just dont know if its going to work. There will be a lot of people outside of the modern age. A lot of people might get involved. The people aligned with the president might get involved. The republicans on the committee are going to try to disrupt everything they do. Its going to be quite a spectacle. At least theyre trying to make it seem like they have a game plan and they are rehearsing. Thats new. I havent seen that from members of congress before. I cant remember the last time that happened. Carrie, the interesting thing to me that alisyn called for a interesting. But also the notion that the democrats will ask Robert Mueller the question, if an ordinary citizen had engaged in these activities, would he be indicted . Because thats the big question here. That may be the singular question here. But how will Robert Mueller answer it . Well, i mean, that is the big question is how hell answer that question. All indications based on his Public Statement so far is that he may not answer that question. He didnt answer the question in the report. He said that based on a doctrine of fairness and because a president cant be indicted were for those reasons they would not make the recommendation in the report. He has said publicly that he is not going to go beyond what is in the report. So the question is is, number one, are they going to really ask that direct question and risk him saying im not answering the question, im not drawing the conclusion. Or are they going to simply go through the different specific acts of obstruction that you guys have listed that theyve released and then say, okay. Well, then this is the information that the committee has to make a decision as to whether theyre going to open an impeachment hearing. I think they have to ask the question. You know, well see whether or not he goes anything beyond the report. So far it looks like he wont. But you never know in a live hearing at the time. One more thing i find interesting and perhaps clever if the democrats really are going to do this. The fact that several of the questions they want to hone in on deal with Corey Lewandowski to me. That might be clever, because Corey Lewandowski is one of the few people who cant claim any kind of privilege at all. If democrats want him to testify, he has to. He never worked in the white house, period. So if they can get more color surrounding him, that might provide them with some opportunities later on. He is someone that could potentially come in and wouldnt be subject to any other prifr ledges, but i tend to think if they were going to do that, they should have done it first. Its going to be hard to overcome whatever happens in bob muellers hearing. I think that the mueller hearing is the one that is either going to change minds. Both among democrats on the committee and potentially if theres one or two republicans who are thinking about it, whether or not to authorize an impeachment inquiry going forward. I have a hard time seeing that they, you know, might draw out a little bit more information about lewandowski. Then well see what happens if he comes to testify. This is the big decision maker. Weve got to move on, but quickly will these hearings reanimate the russian scandal for americans . Im doubtful because of the distance from these hearings from when the attorney general did a masterful spin for the president. The rematch, Vice President joe biden, senator Kamala Harris. There was a big draw on cnn last night you might have seen. I did. It was our colleagues who did this. It was so exciting, actually, to watch it. And they were masterful in how they did it without screwing it up as i might have. Exactly. And the knicks still arent getting zion williamson. Even after this drawing. Frank, the rematch. How big of a deal is this for the former Vice President facing senator Kamala Harris again . What does he need to do . Well, i mean, its everything. Its an enormous deal. What he needs to do is not seem so hapless and surprised and meek as he did last time. But i think its a tough debate for joe biden. If he goes after Kamala Harris, i dont think thats a good look for him. But if he is as passive as he was in the first debate, i think the questions that have been raised about him are going to intensify. I think its a huge debate for him. But its a huge debate for her too. Everyone was so excite d, noticd in such a big way that moment. How does she follow that up . How does she do that again . And of course on the other night almost as interesting is what happens between senators warren and sanders. They are going after many of the same voters. App lot of voters dont understand the distinctions between them. What are you seeing in these lineups . Its going to be interesting to see in that second panel what the other candidates do. Everybodys going to want a Kamala Harris moment. Bill de blasio is not going to sit there and hope he gets a chance to speak up. I think theres going to be a lot of back and forth. Theres going to be a lot of people trying to stage those moments. People are going to say, look, if i come in with a designated target, a great line of rhetoric, a line of questioning leading me to this point. If i can get them to break format a little bit, i can get a Kamala Harris moment. And theyre practicing for that. You, sir, are no Kamala Harris. If they do that they get their time docked. Its going to be different. Does warren differentiate herself from sanders . You mean has she or will she . Will she . I think she will, but i dont think people understand exactly what the differences are. I think Bernie Sanders is to the left of elizabeth warren. I think there are people that think she would be a better general election candidate. One of the best things she can do in this debate is quiet the concerns whether she has just enough moderation in her, just a little bit enough of the center in her to go onto that phase of the contest. If i were her, thats what id be trying to do. But i think its a squabble over the most progressive wing of the party. All right. Thank you very much. This morning a dangerous and potentially deadly heat wave. About 2 3 of the country will suffer temperatures of 95 degrees or higher over the next few days. Cnn meteorologist chad myers with the forecast. Chad . You showed the lid just like putting a lid on a pot, john. It is going to be hot. The heat and humidity will not be able to go up into the atmosphere because of this heat dome. And we have millions and millions. Over a hundred Million People in this warning area. Feels like this afternoon 117 in kansas city. It felt like 114 in omaha. And the heat now is to the northeast. New york had a good day yesterday, but it is not so good today. Feels like e9. Get away from or into the cities, your temperatures are going to feel more like 105. 20 or more cities will break record highs today. Not even heat index. When you add in the heat, its going to feel like 105 in new york tomorrow. And well push 110 in d. C. This weekend. Good news at the end of the tunnel. There is cooler air coming in next week. To the tune of 20 degrees feels like temperature cooler. Just get through the next couple because its going to be a hot and dangerous weekend in places. Everybody needs to be careful. Thank you very much. The Vice President even reportedly the first lady melania all connected to the president s retreat over the send her back chants. So we have the inside scoop for you on how this went down, what they said to him. Maggie haberman from the New York Times joins us next. Prestige creams not living up to the hype . Olay regenerist shatters the competition. Big hype . Big price . Big deal Olay Regenerist hydrates skin better than creams costing over 100, 200, and even 400. For skin that looks younger than it should. Fact check this ad in good housekeeping. Olay regenerist. Now try olay hydrating eye. Hydrates better than the 1 prestige eye cream. This is not just a headache. This is not just a fever. This is not just the flu. Its meningitis b. And youre not there to help. While meningitis b is uncommon. Once symptoms appear, they can progress quickly and can be fatal. Sometimes within 24 hours. Before you send your teen to college. Make sure you help protect them. Talk to your teens doctor. 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He didnt start speaking very quickly. Thats a lie. He didnt try to stop the chants. Thats a lie. Well show it to you in a second. More importantly we have new reporting on how it came to pass that the president backed off like he did because its very interesting. Joining us now Maggie Haberman from the New York Times. Youre part of the team writing how this came to be. The president sort of buckled to some pressure . What happened here . He did. Its important to underscore weve seen him do these kinds of retreats repeatedly over the last three and a half years, four years. And it allows everybody to read into what he said, exactly what they want to hear. In this case this has been going on for several days. The chant was the culmination of it. And you had a couple of people including the Vice President who was hearing an earful from republicans including ivanka trump and a couple other top aides after the chant who said something to the president. You know, he said what he said. And they were expressing to him that this was becoming problematic. Top white house officials were hearing from republican elected officials and other allies of the administration saying this is a problem. This one is not going away. Youre going to have to deal with it. Others in the president s orbit have been trying to talk to him about this since the tweet. Among the people who told him this was going to be a problem, kelly an conway, a couple of others who said they didnt like the tweet and thought this was too far. The president was supposed to start walking this back on monday and he didnt. He refused to say anything. He stuck with it. He doesnt like admitting a mistake. He doesnt like walking something back. You had white house officials trying to make clear to other advisers dont say this is a strategy. This is not part of a strategy. This is just something that happened. Others started to embrace this as yes, this is what we were intending to do. And so you have had this which is reminiscent. President trump likes this. He believes this. He does think they should go back to where they came from. Hes said it more than once. He said it convincingly. So getting him to then disavow it is where theres all this cognizant dissonance. Its very its hard to believe him now. Because of this one thing . It was easy before this . I think that look. I think that you have the president we were being told first when he did this tweet, i dont know whats in his heart. Right . None of us do. However, we know what was on his twitter feed. Not just that one time but several times. He went on to say a version of that again. Even as aides including the Rapid Response person for the Trump Campaign was frantically tweeting on sunday. Reporters are lying he went on and said it again. Again, this is a pattern we have seen over and over again where people try to publicly defend him. Then he throws them under the bus. What he does believe, just to speak to what is in his mind, he does think that the squad is these four congresswomen are a good target for him. Particularly congresswoman omar. He sees her as a useful foil. However, what his advisers have said to him over and over is let their words speak for themselves. Dont do it in this way which is ugly and which is just not how a sitting president should be talking about a congresswoman let alone citizens of this country. Very quickly, lets play this video so you can see for yourselves how the president did not step in to quiet the crowd at all. Least of all quickly. Omar has a history of launching vicious antisemitic screeds. Send her back send her back send her back send her back send her back send her back send her back he pauses, he nods, he glances, he waits until it dies down. Then he starts talking again. So hes lying wh enhe says he stepped in to stop it there. Whats interesting to me here is is this evidence republicans often say theres nothing we can do. Hes going to do what he does. We cant stop him. Well, enough leaders spoke up, his daughter spoke up, maybe even the first lady according to cbs news. So people can perhaps shape his behavior if enough start saying something. They can shape it for a moment. I dont know how much durability this has. They did get him to do something, but again, i think we have