. you know, one of his problems is that we saw earlier in the week kamala harris enter the race with a message that was not dissimilar. they are in the same lane with the same theory of the case that if you do well in early primaries you turn the corner into diverse states where the african-american vote is meaningful. but it's unlikely that both of them can execute on that strategy. that's one of his issues. the other is that booker is a very inspirational guy. sometimes he can get carried away. we saw it with his spartacus moment on the judiciary committee during the kavanaugh hearings. he can move from being an inspirational figure to kind of a motivational speaker. sometimes it comes off a little tinny. that's a discipline he'll have to deal with. clearly a formidable guy and not to be dismissed in this race. >> that's an important point about what we saw in the hearings. nia-malika, cory booker getting a lot of attention which he wanted in that moment. not all of it was the positive attention he was going for. >> i think that's right. part of the issue was there are so many peop

the people involved in the democratic race. listen to what he said and how he assessed kamala harris, her rollout. it's a graphic not a sound bite. he says, i would say the best opening so far would be kamala harris, he said, pronouncing it kamala. i would say in terms of the opening act, i would say would be her, he added, a better crowd, better crowd, better enthusiasm. we all noted the other day that the president no doubt noted it because that's what he point out there. what did it sound to you he was saying in the pronunciation of her name that jumped off the page? >> i didn't think the pronuns aftion her name was intended as bewilling, i thi belittling. that's just how he pronounced it. i think he was aware of her kickoff and crowds are something he takes interest in and she's on his radar. whether she is on his radar today or biden who i heard from several people is somebody he focuses s focuses on is unclear. but he's aware she could be a threat. >> we'll be watching. fascinating interview. thank you for getting up to walk us through a little bit more and, again, it's in the times

candidate to jump into this democratic primary after senator kamala harris and is he putting that harris tag front a heritage front and center not only because he will be targeting african-american voters but it's a key part of his own personal story. in the announcement today, booker nods to that history. his parents struggled to buy a home in a white, affluent neighborhood and a white lawyer who helped them to do so because he was inspired by martin luther king and the civil rights movement. booker says in his announcement that courage is contagious, it's part of the optimistic message he's hoping to bring to this presidential primary. i want you to look at his announcement video. >> i believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind. where parents can put food on the table, where there are good-paying jobs with good benefits in every neighborhood. where our criminal justice system keeps us safe instead shuffling children into cages and coffins. where we see the faces of our leaders on television and feel pride, not shame. it is not a matter of can w

she talked about paying for college. and kamala harris doing the same thing saying she's not a democratic socialist. they very well know the tag that democrats are too far left. they are flirting with socialism. it's something republicans will use and we have seen them do it with obama to less effect back years ago. you saw the president in his state of the union address basically shout out socialism and say the american folks are going to battle socialism as if it's a real argument. in talking to people who worked for sanders last go around they talk about his campaign as a movement. they feel they can pick up the movement. you will find a lot of folks backing his campaign in 2016 aren't necessarily going to back it going forward. they have other choices. people who are younger who can put together a multi racial coalition than bernie sanders was able to in 2016. >> a couple of things, chris cillizza. it sounds like he wants credit for building this lane and who can blame him? he says i started this political revolution. i started talking about raising the minimum wage. i'm th

. you see from him as well as kamala harris who used a very similar language, this idea of an attempted modern day lynching, you see them now essentially saying they don't really want to comment at this point until all the facts of this case are known. you definitely had lots of democrats basically come out and take jussie smollett's side of the case without saying, you know, this was an alleged or this is reported to have happened. and part of it is they are in this kind of i think environment where it's expected that people kind of come out and rush to judgment. certainly if you think about what the narrative around this was, the narrative of being that this was basically prompted by people who were trump supporters, it was meant to accepted a message to this gay black famous man, that are this was maga country, yeah, i think they played into that narrative. and i think they're going to have to learn from this. i mean, remember, at least kamala harris harris and corkor book, he are they are lawyers. >> frankly, kamala harris should have exercised some caution. >> i think tha

saying that the attributes that he's strongest on are most important for their vote. >> kamala harris still number one. you're talking we could see what happens with amy klobuchar. kamala harris's lawn sch still getting positive marks. >> i would say that kamala harris had the best launch and we can look at this in a number of different ways. one of which is the net favor ability ratings which is favorable minus unfavorable in the poll before she launch and the poll after. in december she was seven points behind elizabeth warren on her net favorability. but look at february in her latest poll, she's seen a 12-point bounce versus elizabeth warren who only has a three-point bounce. >> and the other metrics show the same thing? >> right. let's look at the national polling average. this is hair ray's aggregate. and look where they were on june 1st. kamala harris and elizabeth warren were tied at six. booker at 3, klobuchar at 2, gillibrand at one. but now kamala harris doubled her support to 13% while elizabeth warren saw a point bounce, cory booker so a two-point bounce and the other two didn'

left is the democratic field? elizabeth warren and kamala harris and kirsten gillibrand whose agenda shifted more to the left in the last few years. a lot of passionate supporters. >> he was runner-up last time and that generally means something in both parties. people know him. there are a lot of passionate supporters. tell me what you think. what space does he occupy in this democratic field? >> i think he is mainly going to be a voice for the left. it's hard to mention who the voter is at this point for bernie sanders other than we know what the bernie sanders voter has been, somebody a bit younger, whiter, i think, than the overall democratic primary process usually is in those voter groups. it's hard to see what sort of lane in terms of building some sort of multiracial coalition. it is interesting. he clearly is mindful of that. he has moved the party left on any number of issues, medicare for all and college tuition. he himself has been moved left on issues of race by himself. very uncomfortable in many ways talking about race in 2016, some uncomfortable interactions with a bl

what the democratic party is becoming is kamala harris, in the sense of a professional woman among college educated white woman and also has potential to be very strong among african-american women. women are two-thirds of all voters in the african-american voters. the issue is how many straws are drawing from each pool and which candidates w candidates can consolidate their lanes faster is important deciding this race. there is a significant block of older voters and moderate voters. >> two points i want to make. counter intuitively, everyone says the democratic party is getting much much younger. that's not really the case, is it? >> no. 60% are over 45 in 2016. that's true across every group, white women, black men -- it still tilts older. millennials are growing as a share and may be larger in 2020, overall, there are a lot of older voters and someone like joe biden who may be targeted toward them will have that as a potential base. >> you look beyond the primary and electoral college map, what do these new maps tell you where democrats may want to target votes? >> the shortest

news here or breaking 2020 action. i can see you're excited in your face. california senator kamala harris was doing an interview this morning on i heart radio. she talks about legalizing marijuana which she has supported in the past in her book and before that. listen to how she describes it. >> legalizing weed. >> that's not true. >> i know. >> and, look, i joke about it, have joked. half my family is from jamaica. are you kidding me? right, no, no, i do not. no, no. i have had concerns -- the full record, i have had concerns, which i think -- first of all, let me make this statement very clear. i believe we need to legalize marijuana. now that being said, and this is not a but, it is an and. and we need to research, which is one of the reasons we need to legalize it. we need to move it on the schedule so we can research the impact of weed on a developing brain. you know, that part of the brain that develops judgment actually -- >> so two things going on here. legalizing marijuana, which is a position she's held and is not alone in the democratic party. bernie sanders was talking

the race. senator kamala harris striking a unifying tomorrow and an obama-sized crowd. >> the united states of america is not us versus them, it's about we the people. >> reporter: senator cory booker is invoking the obamas. >> i miss obama, and i miss her husband, too. i'm grateful for the leadership he provided our country. >> reporter: and sherrod brown saying -- his primary fight with hillary clinton was just beginning even if he didn't win the iowa caucuses. the architect of the obama campaign said rebounding for moments of crisis was the most important test for obama and any presidential candidate. >> presidential races are gauntlets. in a rough way, they're supposed to be, where you simulate the kind of pressures people will face if they become president and people get a chance to judge you in those moments. >> reporter: at the dawn of one of the most wide open campaigns in memory, predicting the next obama is fool hardy. >> i did not know how he will handle the pressures of the race. we don't know that now about any of these candidates. >> reporter: the former presiden

field. that could be a challenge. can he win over the older voters. joe lockhart, now, what kamala harris said yesterday rings true even more. she perhaps had a premonition bernie sanders was getting in the race yesterday. look what she said talking to a reporter. >> the people in new hampshire will tell me what's required to compete in new hampshire. but i will tell you i am not a democratic socialist. she says she is not a democratic socialist, bernie sanders is. >> the democratic socialist movement in the democratic party is the single most overblown in this cycle. you have a couple of high profile people who have gotten into congress on a liberal democratic socialist out of 235. i don't think there's much to that. bernie sanders came in second last time. he also came in second to last. there were only three candidates and he lost. the left progressive lane is much more crowded. i think he will have a hard time getting traction this time. there are many more -- i think, much more dynamic candidates that will appeal for these younger voters. he does have a base and will be a play

2020 democratic candidates including kamala harris, cory booker, and kirsten gillibrand. the list including the names of skbrour journalists as well. 15 firearms and 15,000 rounds were found in his argument. in addition to a stockpile of steroids he was using to increase his ability to conduct attacks. in e-mails hasson called himself a white nationalist and was inspire bid a manifesto written by a norwegian terrorist convicted of killing 77 people in 2011. roughly a month before his arrest, hasson googled topics including are supreme court justices protected? where do most senators live in d.c.? and civil war if trump impeached. prosecutors are pushing the judge to keep him behind bars because of the major threat he poses. alisyn? >> major threat to say the least. planning a mass killing on a scale they have not seen in this country. >> and stockpiling the weapons. it moved beyond the just thinking about it stage. >> robert mueller's report could drop in days. how much of it will lawmakers and the american people see? we have differing opinions next. staying at hampton for a work

. those further to the right, tuland those like elizabeth harris and cory booker are -- kamala harris and cory booker are well to the lowest of those in the 60s and these are to the left in the 30s and 40s. >> interesting to me how far to the left elizabeth warren is. >> that's right. elaborate warren's folks say we want a real liberal that will create an ideology call contrast with donald trump and elizabeth warren could make these numbers and amy klobuchar says, i'm more moderate and can sell myself as the candidate and she is more moderate than al gore. >> this is based on how they voted? >> this is based on how they voted. this is one way of looking at it, right. how they speak their positions on the campaign trail may be different than so far. >> and some things may be hankie, kirsten gillibrand and cory booker. some people say she changes with the wind. there is some support of that. she's at 35, pretty far to the left. look where she was when she first came to the congress representing upstate new york. she was at an 81, even more moderate than amy klobuchar is. she has very much s

candidates who are strong in california, particularly kamala harris. >> very quickly, the republican governor of maryland, larry hogan, is considering a primary challenge -- >> he hasn't ruled it out. >> he's planning a trip to new hampshire, i think, soon. >> which tells you everything. >> which tells you all you need to know because who gees to new hampshire in the winter? >> ever. >> come on. >> here's what he has to say about fellow republicans. typically they try to be fair ashtors of a process and i've never seen anything like it. in my opinion, it's not the way we should be going about our politics. tpt undemocratic and to say we're not going allow a debate, we may not say primary and the question is what are they afraid of? he thinks that republicans are closing ranks around donald trump. >> yeah. and they are afraid of a strong primary challenge to president trump when you talk to people in the rnc's orbit, it's more about the prospect that trump could be weakened in the general election than he might actually lose the primary at this point given his strong rating

the other foot. can you imagine the trump campaign coming up with a dossier on kamala harris or cory booker or amy klobuchar and starting a counterintelligence investigation against someone who's running for president? >> just to be clear, that's just -- >> that's the kind -- 0 sow, yes, members of congress would be upset about that, you could be upset about that. >> the dossier was not the beginning of the investigation. that is been debunked a million and a half times. >> it's not been debunked. it was the basis for these -- >> it wasn't the basis for the investigation. >> of course it was. >> it was used as part, but the papadopoulos thing predates the use of the dossier. >> it's been used and was used for -- >> you know that's -- >> i don't know that. that's been used repeatedly. >> that's not even pertinent morning, senator. what i'm asking you is if devin nunez in may of 2017, after james comey had been fired, when andy mccabe is briefing them on the counterintelligence investigations at that point were new into the actions of the president of the united states, should he

unbelievable haul. put it into perspective he raised more money than kamala harris did in her first day. it makes sense. he had a big presence in 2016, high name i.d., high enthusiasm and he went out and called for donations and volunteers. and boy, did people respond. it's a reasonable sign out of the gate that his momentum hasn't dissipated since 2016. >> a few more details. the bernie campaign says that the donations came from every state, about 150,000 individuals gave more than 4 million total. and mirrored the 2016 campaigns average donation of $27. this says that there is still a lot of enthusiasm for bernie. >> absolutely. i think the people who are going to be the bernie loyalists are probably always going to be the bernie loyalists and unclear if the $4 million that were raised actually constitute support from the hard core loyalists or if it also is money coming from people who are still undecided but looks at bernie favorably and it is prone to giving probably small dollar donations to a number of the candidates. but as we talked about yesterday, this is bernie sanders, this

warned against. say in five years, in eight years, if there's a president kamala harris, a president elizabeth warren, they look at global warming and climate change, they see sea levels rising in florida where there are u.s. military bases. u.s. military personnel at risk because of climate change, what's to keep them from declaring a national emergency on the very same basis that the president is doing it today? >> well, those hypotheticals are usually based in strange facts that you'd have to look at some time in the future. what i look right hie right now what is the emergency -- >> congressman, it's very similar. in that case we're talking apples to apples there. if the emergency is the perception of the president of the united states, which is what is at question here, if the president decides it's an emergency, can he or she invoke these executive powers? >> these are not apples to apples that we're talking about. we're talking about a very specific question about whether or not we have an emergency at our border today and whether the president has the authority under the law

. kamala harris looked exasperated as did kirsten gillibrand who used her eye roll as a fundraising appeal and took it down after critics said it violated house rules. speaker pelosi's daughter christine tweeted, oh, yes, that clap took me back to the teen years. she knows and she knows that you know. all we know is all that clapping was the speaker's "seal" of disapproval. [ seal barking ] >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> our thanks to jeanne for that. >>> democrats with a new investigation into the trump administration crossing the red line saying they want to look at his money. looking at his tax returns. what is in there? we have a new response from the president. "new day" continues right now. >> the american people have a right to know that their president is acting on their behalf. >> it's called presidential harassment. it's unfortunate. >> we can't allow the administration to stonewall us. we came in, we mean business. >> reporter: we are having a moment of reckoning. this will be painful to both parties. >> the democratic party has to speak with moral clarity. >

-cortez as well as a number of 2020 democratic candidates, including senators kamala harris, cory booker rabd kirsten gillibrand. the list also contapiins the li of people from cnn and cnbc. they found several thousand rounds of a.m. knew missing in his apartment. in addition to a stockpile of steroids he was using to increase his ability to conduct attacks. in e-mails outlined in court filings, hasson calls himself a white nationalist and was inspired by a manifesto written by anders breivik. they say a month before his arrest he had topics including our supreme court justice is protected, where do most senators live in d.c. and civil war if trump impeached? and he will be in court this afternoon in maryland for a detention hearing. prosecutors are pushing the judge to keep him behind bars because of the major threat they say he poses. john. >> all right. jessica snyder for us in washington. i want to bring in lisa monaco, the former assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism under president obama and you were also a career federal prosecutor. i want to

. cory booker, kamala harris, all of them have liberal records. so she might be able to stand ought as someone to appeal to those democrats. and finally electability. this is very important to the vote and the three times she's run for the senate in 2006, 2012, and 2018, she's had above-average performance in all three of those outrunning the average congressional candidate in minnesota by ten points or more. >> on the other hand. >> on the other hand, by the way, notice she's smiling here. and then look here. >> she's sad. >> she's a little sad. why is that? because we're talking about her weakness dollars. number one, look, the democratic field is huge, huge, so it's going to be difficult to become known. and only 31% of democrats right now have an opinion of her. and more than that, when they say there's a scandal or something bad that comes out, the way that she treats her staff that might be the first impression that voters get of her. less liberal than about 75% of all democratic senators, the fact is that when you have a democratic party that's moving further to the left, that c

errol and waiting for someone to stumble. they are waiting for kamala harris to stumble before they get in. and if she doesn't, maybe they won't. they think they need some kind of entry point. this is politico's reporting. would that be smart to wait? >> it would be risky, at best. the last time i can think of where something like that had a plausible shot of success was like in 1968 when bobby kennedy sort of waited and then jumped in. and it just doesn't work that way. ballot access alone requires that you have a well paid, well-staffed organization that has lawyers, that can get you on the ballot in all of these different states. it's just a different kind of a game. didn't work out for rudy giulia or ted cruz. waiting to see if there's some way in, some opportunity, some place to strike, catch fire and then all of a sudden win, it hasn't been really that way since '76 when jimmy carter surprised everybody by tramping around in the snows of iowa. that's where iowa became the big state and he just kind of quietly organized. that's the way that you win the early states. and as we k