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hampshire, nevada, south carolina, so i think that we're going to make it. >> secretary castro, good luck out there. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> in another important story we're following tonight, democratic senators are vowing to derail president trump's pick for director of national intelligence, raising serious new questions about republican congressman john ratcliffe's resume. let's bring in our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. what's the latest? >> democrats have already been concerned that john ratcliffe was too political and inexperienced for this job, but now new concerns in the wake of reports showing that he may have padded his resume about his time while working as a federal prosecutor. according to his congressional website, that he listed that his job, he had put terrorists in prison, but his office has not been able to provide any names of individuals that he put in prison, raising questions about exactly what he was referring to. one democratic senator, ron wyden told me he would pull out all the stops to stop this confirmation from going forward.
at the fed for not cutting interest rates as much as he wanted to, to give him more of that cushion that he's just not seeing right now. >> does this mean the talks -- effectively, u.s./china talks have collapsed? >> it looks like they will continue. and at some point, you may get on paper what looks like closer to a deal. china may say that they're going to do one thing. but when the president himself says that they want chinese law to be changed and that is something the chinese are just not willing to do, anything less than that would look like something the president's caving in on. so i don't know how the administration would try to spin it. maybe they can drag this out longer. but it looks like they're not anywhere near a deal right now. >> let's talk about this rally the president is getting ready to do another huge rally in cincinnati, ohio, tonight. and he was asked earlier in the day if they start chanting "send her back," what is he going to do? listen to what he said. >> i can't tell you whether or not they're going to do that chant. if they do the chant, we'll have to see what happens. >> will you stop it? >> i don't know that you can
affordable care act through the united states senate in his first term and are not really grappling with the reality of what a republican-run senate and a democratic president or a sort of democratic senate with a few extra votes, how difficult it would be to pass on some of the legislation that's being talked about. >> everybody was waiting to see how former vice president biden would do last night after his relatively rocky performance in the first democratic presidential debate. how did he do? >> well, i certainly thing he had a stronger performance than in that first debate. that said, i don't know that the first debate harmed him quite as much as it seemed immediately afterwards. his poll numbers did dip, but they rebounded going back into this debate. i think it shows, joe biden is the fruont-runner, a very durabe front-runner, but there is not an anointed nominee from the outset. the democrats are having a serious primary and a serious primary that involves conflict over policies and ideas. and i think that in itself is
china. $300 billion worth of imports coming into the qulits. that's going to raise the price for a lot of stuff that americans buy from china. >> yeah, that's true. the president continues to say that it's not going to impact u.s. consumers. of course, u.s. consumers are the ones that are going to be impacted the most, regardless of what the president says. for whatever reason, he thinks that he can continue to bully xi jinping in china, and there's no doubt that this is impacting the chinese economy. that said, president xi doesn't have an election he has to worry about anytime soon. he's got a constituency at home that he has to uphold china's nationalism as well. the economy, though slowing, is still growing at three times the rate of the u.s. and at this point, the president seems to have boxed himself in, that if he seems to cave that, you know, democrats who are equally staunchly anti-china in many aspects, could argue that the president has caved in and is the weaker of the two. so you're in a situation where now, as you've seen, the president once again lashing out
>> while democrats, mr. secretary, were going after each other on the stage in detroit last night, president trump started tweeting, and he was blaming the obama administration for child separations. did all of this debate, all of this talk of former president obama give president trump ammunition? >> well, look, president trump has been telling lies about president obama and everything else, you know, since he became president. i mean, this president is a serial liar. you can't believe anything that he says. no, there's a vast difference between barack obama and donald trump when it comes to immigration policy. donald trump has a dark heart. he has based his political career, his presidential career on the backs of migrants, of scapegoating them, of creating more fear and more paranoia of the cruelty. he uses cruelty as a way to gin up his base. and so, you know, he took -- he weaponized section 1325 of the
which became a national model for the work that needs to be done. and i am proud of that work. >> now, tonight, there are some within the democratic party itself who have expressed frustration with the criticism of barack obama's record last night, arguing that democrats should be focused, wolf, on president trump's record, and how to defeat him in 2020. >> jessica dean reporting for us. thank you very much. joining us now, democratic presidential candidate, julian castro. secretary castro, thanks so much for joining us. appreciate it very much. so what lessons hasn't former vice president joe biden learned? >> yeah, thanks for having me, wolf. you know, let me just begin by saying that i don't think that you'll find a cabinet member from president obama's cabinet that has been more effusive in his praise of barack obama. and i did that last night. i talked about the great work that barack obama did to bring
were about wildfires and trade issues. >> i spoke with president putin yesterday. they're having massive fires in their forests. they have tremendous -- i've never seen anything like it. it's very big. i just offered our assistance, because we're very good at putting out forest fires. >> reporter: the president is also weighing in on the justice department's decision against prosecuting former fbi director james comey for leaking memos he wrote in 2017, revealing mr. trump's efforts to shield former national security adviser michael flynn in the russia investigation. >> reporter: i would frankly be surprised, because what james comey did was illegal. so i would be surprised, but i don't know anything about that. >> reporter: senate minority leader chuck schumer is accusing republicans of going soft on moscow. >> they want the russians to interfere, because they think it will help them. it's clear mueller made this clear that the russians wanted trump to win. >> reporter: with all of that on his agenda, the president is getting involved in the case of navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher, who was acquitted of war crimes in the death of an isis fighter. taking the navy s.e.a.l.'s side on the matter, there trump tweeted, he ordered the
immigration nationality act, unlike any other president before, so that is what is disrespectful to barack obama. what donald trump is doing, to even mention him in the same breath when he talks about these kinds of activities. >> on a political note, you haven't yet qualified, mr. secretary, for the next democratic debate. that's in mid-september in your home state of texas, in houston. what's your strategy to get there? >> well, you know, i think a month ago when we had the first debate that i got on a lot of people's radar screens. we have got more people expressing support, more folks going to our events, a little bit of a bump in the polls, great fund-raising. i had another great night last night if you read all of the feedback and the reviews, you know, since last night. so i'm confident that we're going to keep getting stronger and stronger. and i'm just going to keep my head down and work hard. we're adding staff and all of these early states, iowa, new
not giving them soap and toothbrushes, not giving these adults enough to eat in these detention centers, that hasn't deterred more people from coming. if we want to deter people from coming, we should follow my plan, which is to do a 21st century marshall plan with central america so that people can find safety and opportunity at home instead of having to come to the united states. that's how we can be smarter, more effective, and more humane. but let me tell you something, wolf. so i would say this to all american voters. if you elect me president, you're not electing me to follow. you're electing me to lead. and i will lead. even when things like this are not necessarily popular at the beginning. i'm not going to base what i do when we're dealing with wrong and right, like little children in cages, on whether something is popular right now. i am fully willing to go and make the case of why we need to do it. and i will make this case.
stop people. i don't know that you can. we'll see what we can do. i would prefer that they don't, but if they do it, we'll have to make a decision then. >> so what message does that send? >> look, the president's whole demeanor there was coy, wolf. i think he sends the message that he takes a lot of delight and glee in these chants, whether or not he is going to actually endorse them. and that's just where we are right now. >> he could just tell those folks to stop it. >> he could just say that, and he sort of said that recently, but then pulled back. he likes to play this kind of game, expectations game, turn it into a bit of a reality show. are they going to say it? are they not going to say it? and what motivates a lot of hard-core trump voters, it is pissing off their opponents, right? angering the media and democrats. >> and at the end of the day, what trump wants to come out of this rally is a headline. so the "send her back" chants, that's a headline and a script that he likes. it's certainly a better script than the headlines that as of today, a majority of the democratic caucus, you know, supports impeachment. there's a lot of stories he's