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>> one would hope based on the experience of 2016 we're all better at what we do in watching for it in 2020, including not just reporters, including people when you log online. thanks for joining us. hope to see you this time tomorrow. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great afternoon. i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now, democrats can't decide on impeachment, and america is under attack right now by the russians. but is anybody even listening? and no more mr. polite guy. joe biden has had it with attacks from his rivals so he's changing hi...

What's his calculous going into the next one? >> he's going to have to respond to these candidates that are at him. he's going to be on stage with kamala harris and cory booker. everyone is telegraphing he's the main event and they're going to hit him on his record on civil rights on the crime bill, for example. but welcome to the 2020 campaign, everybody. your record is going to be under scrutiny, that's just how this works. >> what are the risks of his approach? >> getting pulled down into the fray. but on the other hand, it's kind of unavoidable. he's telegraphing what he's going to do, the...

Of justice who go to work each and every day with the motivation to serve our country in the highest manner. but they too feel threatened by the current leadership and so they can't be as precise and as bold and as aggressive as they normally would be under a different kind of administration. president trump has shown himself to be very temperamental, he's shown himself to be very vindictive. so i think we need a different kind of leadership in the department of justice that will hold president trump accountable. >> congressman andre carson, thank you for talking to us today. >> thank you for ...

Kind of reminds me of my grandkids when they were young and would sit in their high chair and beat on the tray with a spoon just to get attention. >> you do seem to be describing a toddler. i want to talk about saudi arabia now, because president trump has vetoed three joint resolutions that prohibit arms sales to saudi arabia. many lawmakers are worried that these are weapons that are going to be used in saudi arabia's war on yemen. if that's the case, would this make in your belief the u.s. complicit in these mass atrocities that we've seen? >> well, this has been an issue since when i serve...

Answered generally. quote, generally. what did you think about that response? >> well, it was interesting because i think it's the first time that a member of the special counsel's team or the special counsel himself has made the allegations. in the report itself, there's an appendix and that is what contains the president's written answers, which were written by his lawyers, of course, in consultation with him and he would have had to approve them. this is the first allegation that those answers might have been untruthful in some way. the special counsel in his hearing yesterday, he didn't ex...