fire nancy pelosi. >> crazy nancy. she's lost it. >> today she's emerged as the president's most formidable rival. >> you said the most unfortunate thing. we came in here in good faith. >> it's a relationship like two boxers in a ring. >> she instinctively knows how to handle this guy. >> how did nancy pelosi hone the political skill that is allowed her to become such an enduring figure? on this "headliners," my one on one with the speaker of the house. >> is he fit to be president? ♪ >>> i'm neek ka brzezinski here in the u.s. capitol, where nancy pelosi has gone where no woman has ever gone before, becoming speaker of the house twice. a force of nature in washington, d.c., she has never been one to back down. whether the threat is president trump or rebellious members of her own party. >> we have certain values and principles that we cannot abandon. >> so you see this as a moment of opportunity? >> i do indeed. our diversity is our strength. but our unity is our power. >> i met with speaker of the house nancy pelos

nancy pelosi playing an uprising led by the progressives including congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez, what came from that. welcome to fox news at night, we begin with breaking news on immigration and a win for the president's efforts to build the border wall with military funds. trace gallagher is on the case tonight. >> a couple of big victories for donald trump but not without pushback, the president announced guatemala is signing an agreement to restrict central american asylum-seekers coming to the us, the deal being called the safe third country agreement says migrants from el salvador and honduras who cross into guatemala on their way to the us have to apply for protection in guatemala. in return agriculture workers from guatemala get wider access to temporary us visas. the hope is the new deal will ease the crush of migrant caravans coming north. >> we are sending a clear message to human smugglers and traffickers that your day is over and we are investing in the future of guatemala, the safety of migrants and their families. >> the group says the agreement is cruel and inhuma

he suggested nancy pelosi would be happy to arrange it. nancy pelosi rejected what she calls the president's xenophobic comments and went on to criticize the raids happening today. boris sanchez is at the white house tonight. there's little doubt who the president's tweet was referring to. why target them? >> president trump is trying to exploit a rift in the democratic party. these four progressive members have been critical of house speaker nancy pelosi, specifically saying that she caved to the administration with the passage of this immigration funding bill last week. pelosi has been frustrated with their use of social media, believing they are often too critical of other democrats. but the president's tweet appears to have backfired. these two sides now apparently

pelosi likes to point out perhaps the four, versus the moderates that nancy pelosi is trying to protect or the squad and others a trend that we will see going forward. all of that having been said, this is something that the white house i am sure is loving, and seeing this play out in the public ahead of these continued debates and the mueller testimony next week is something that i am sure that the president and others of his aides will be talking about and highlighting. >> aim sui am sure. david swerdlick, alexandria ocasio cortez is standing by controversial comments that the speaker is going after members of congress, freshmen members of congress who are women of color. >> yes, congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez is right to point out that there is a generational and ethnic, and gender divide within the party. she and congresswoman talib and omar and presley are the new stars and they are not traditional back benchers and the demographics does have something to do in terms of the democrat party, but in terms of the split, they are showing that there is a little bit of the pox on

liberty. ♪ >> are you speaking to nancy pelosi? >> our teams are -- >> shouldn't it be face to face. >> she is the speaker basketball, we are the new members. >> she is speaker of the house. she can ask for a meeting to sit down with us for clarification. >> i have been racial justice working in our country for a long time. when you single us out be aware of what you are doing especially because some of us are getting death threats. trish: pointed words directed straight at nancy pelosi. one of the members of the so-called squad getting a little personal. sharp elbows. yet they are all insist there is no quote fundamental fracture between the floor and the speaker. joining us, robert, what's going on with the democrats right now? nancy kind of took aim at them. they got aimed at by the president. then nancy defended them. then they came on national television to game at nancy. >> this is no different than the growing pains people go through. if you look at the republican revolution and the mid 90s you thought similar things. this i

nancy pelosi of course she is going to feel a certain way because she represents san francisco. and that's a sanctuary city where we know a young woman was murdered in front of her father years ago by an illegal alien who been deported numerous times and back in san francisco. also, we all see what's happening in san francisco under nancy pelosi and other democratic leaders, quote, unquote, watch. increase in homelessness, you see the syringes all over. a lot of the filth on the streets. i think san francisco is a beautiful city and should be restored to its greatness by getting a lot of these nonsense politicians out of the way who look the other way and pretend what they don't see. they have been looking the other way at the border while this president, my boss and our president has made this an issue for over the four years he has been running and being the president. it has been a central piece of his presidency and we finally got that aid. now we have to get serious about the national security crisis that people see. ainsley: kellyanne, thank you so much for joining us. >>

blake: what'd you make of him coming to the defense of nancy pelosi, and the defense was nancy pelosi is not a a racist, which i think everyone would agree with. it, though, was interesting that he was defending pelosi from alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> yeah. i mean, i think that's really a lot less about nancy pelosi, actually, and a lot more about this use of race and gender in the democratic caucus to, as a weapon, basically, when people disagree with policy agendas that they have. so now you cannot say anything about alexandria ocasio-cortez because she's a hispanic woman? i mean, that's preposterous. and i think that's the outrage, and i think donald trump is right to raise that, you know? and he's united with lot of people in the democratic party who think this is crazy. blake: real quickly, what does it say about her star power, aoc, because the president's comments today were not about the house speaker, but about this one freshman congresswoman? >> i don't think they were about her in particular, they're about the use of that weapon. you know, that weapon is being used against

and nancy pelosi met with the democratic caucus in the house of representatives today, she pleaded for unity at one point saying, quote, you got a complaint, you come and talk to me about it, but do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just okay. clearly there is a rift emerging between her and some of the more liberal younger members emerging. >> i don't blame her, quite frankly. she's a leader of the party in the house and what she is saying is not that you can't complain. sure, complain. but how about coming to me so i don't have to read it on twitter first. and i think she's -- she put out the word there, look, you don't have to stand in line behind me all of the time. but we have to have a united front because we're dealing with hugely important issues and this comes on the heels of her saying to maureen doubt in "the new york times," they have four votes and she was also right about that. they have four votes. and so i think she's kind of saying to them, i'm not going to roll over for you and you need to understand where i'm coming from. and how importa

nancy pelosi knows that. this is the beginning of a movement that democrats have to deal with the party being pulled further and further to the left to the point that they'll leave voters homeless. >> that's what the president is hoping for and the white house is hoping for. so nice for the leader of the democratic party to take time out of her schedule to meet with nancy pelosi. they want to pin this on aoc, the squad and the progressives. >> nancy pelosi is running the show. you know, to kelsie's point, it's taken in stride. you know, i think you're seeing the excellent reading of her kaw sus, especially on the impeachment front. hundreds of democrats want the impeachment. she's pulling the reins back. you saw a bipartisan deal struck with steve mnuchin before they went on the six-week vacation this summer. again, you're seeing her at the peak of her power. >> shannon: they say it's not vacation. it's working back in their home directs. just so we don't get confused. so the speaker sent out an e-mail, the d

>> this is not what nancy pelosi wants to do. as somebody married to a member of congress, no longer in majority, majority is precious time. she is wasting time. we will talk about the vote, they are wasting time doing stupid things like this, because she's so powerful, you are right, she has star power. >> harris: what do you think of the poll? look at favorability of nancy pelosi and her unfavorable statistic ties, you figure in the 4.5% differential, still ahead of alexandria ocasio-cortez. basically unknown and the other in congress for a long time. >> exactly. she's taken years to amass this kind of power and here comes this freshman out of nowhere, who is kind of close to her numbers. by the way, paul ryan had to deal with the freedom caucus, that wing of the party. those guys had had to ban together like 12, 20 guys and women in the freedom caucus. this is one woman, one young freshman, not even 30 years old, you are right. she's a star and has a lot of power. >> a lot has to do with what charlie is saying, the power of so

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mike: nancy pelosi says the asylum rule is a clear abdication of american humanitarianism. how do you respond and are there exceptions quick. >> there are. relates to trafficking primaril primarily. where the last 12 years in particular america has put a keen focus on interdicting human trafficking and taking care of the victims in this accounts for the c entirely. it also stops people who are fraudulently clogging the asylum systemem. we have a 300,000 case backlog of asylum and they are getting in the way of those who have legitimate claims and persecution claims. asylum is about safety not for him shopping. this regulation will shop - - stop that while preserving safety. >> and mexican flags blazed - - raised over a facility in colorado what is your reaction quick. >> i was pretty furious broker you could hear cheering at the same time but that is sorely disappearing to see any american who thinks that is acceptable. is also low-level violence. private i.c.e. detention ncfacility attacked with fire frankly. but the tacoma police department in washington had to intercede.

nancy pelosi is not in any way, shape, or form racist and i think you had tape earlier of alexandria ocasio-cortez acknowledging that. here's what's happening, wolf, it is not some news-worthy gulf within the democratic party. we are a huge and dwiiverse par. we have people from all over the country, gay, straight, white, black, jewish, christian, muslim, it's a little bit of a management problem.

. >> the vote itself was delayed nearly two hours amid a bitter partisan debate whether nancy pelosi a, the speaker of the house had actually violated house decorum rules by calling the president's tweets racist on the floor. now, this led to this moment with the congressman who was presiding over the house. >> we don't ever, ever want to pass up it seems an opportunity to escalate and that's what this is. we want to just fight. i abandon the chair. >> okay, congressman cleaver joins us now. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. >> why did you throw down your gavel and march away from the chair? >> well, because frankly i was embarrassed to remain as the chair presiding over what should have been a very shameful moment for all of us, and that is here we were in the house of representatives and every person who spoke violated the house rules. i presided -- i was asked to preside to try to make sure it was a fair kind of a thing and that's what i did. so i admonished every single speaker, democrat and republican and thought all i want to do is get through this ugly situation with

>> to nancy pelosi's comments. this is just a ridiculous media show at the circus for the democrats. there is no legitimate reason. it is common sense that if we apportion representatives in congress based on the number of persons defined as citizens we need to figure out who exactly is a citizen in the district and need to make sure we apportion correctly so this promotes free and fair elections and the information on the census is only used for statistical purposes to make sure the house of representatives is drawn correctly. so there's a lot of constitutional rationale for it and this is something that is kind of a mundane constitutional issue that have been overly politicized by the democrats, let's look at who benefits from this, they don't want to count the citizens that are here and they are for open borders and so many other things we saw in the 2020 debate. why wouldn't you want to ask this question. it's a very simple rationale. >> very good question especially with democrats, many of the 2020 candidates

the fact that you have black women coming to the rescue of nancy pelosi says everything that nancy pelosi is not a racist. as someone who travels this country almost every weekend, i care about preserving the majority. david: what do you think of president trump's comments about nancy pelosi? >> i think it's try age you laying by the president, and d try angulation by the president. there is a problem when you have one wing of the party accusing the new moderate to conservative democrats for being segregationists. >> pelosi laid it out for you and everyone else. they have four votes inning this caucus. women of color in subcommittees and leadership roles. we have disagreements aired publicly. >> you know, we never accused mitch mcconnell or speaker boehner of being racist. david: we have run out of time. thank you both have much. the liberal mayor of los angeles failing to get a handle on the city's homelessness crisis. now residents are taking matters into their own hands. wait until you hear what folks are doing. president trump issuing a stern wash to iran. president trump: iran better

i deal with nancy pelosi a lot. we go back and forth. it's fine but i think a group of people is being very disrespectful to her. i will tell you something about nancy pelosi that you know better than i do, she is not a racist. okay? she is not a racist. for them to call her a racist is a disgrace. charles: speaking to fox news last night, a long-time democratic congressman william lacy clay blasted aoc for her claims of racism against pelosi saying it was such a weak argument to say she was being picked on in that four women of color were picked on by the speaker. tells you level of ignorance on american history on their part as to what we are as the democratic caucus. my political panel, distinguished lecturer basil smikel, president of district media, beverly hallberg. don't start, won't be none segment, basil. it is getting hotter around hotter every single day. we're getting strange political bedfellows. william clay lacy, lacy clay, siding with nancy pelosi over the upstarts, aoc and the squad. what do you make of it? >> as it is w

is this how nancy pelosi and democrats wanted it to go? it got kinds of crazy for a couple of hours there where nancy pelosi herself ran afoul of this i think amazing house rule that doesn't allow anyone to say that the president used racist words. who knew that rule existed? and so it was a bit of a mess. and the outcome seems to be that president trump just is using these four congress women of color as a new foil and he likes to have a foil. is this what they were hoping for? >> you know, i think they walked into this knowing there was going to be some commotion on the floor. there was a private meeting with democrats yesterday morning where pelosi basically went back on some advice that her rules chairman was giving members which is be careful what you say on the floor. he was reminding them of the decorum rules. pelosi said i'm not going to worry about it. but she was serious. and i think she was trying to make a point. that she was going to call out these racist comments by the president, these racist tweets. forget about the house r

. >> nancy pelosi actually said that. the press likes to make a story that is more about democrats divided than the fact that mitch mcconnell doesn't care about the children. thanks to both of you. stay with us. you're watching "hardball." oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. oh! no increased risk? ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ ozempic® should not be the first medicine for treating diabetes, or for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. do not share needles or pens. don't reuse needles. do not take ozempic® if you have a pers

and nancy pelosi is there and she's been there a long time. i think what's missing here is mutual respect. you may not agree with someone, but nancy pelosi actually knows what he's doing. some of these new people that are coming in that are out there trying to do whatever they can, they're moving everyone to the left, be careful, because it ends up hurting their own party in the long run. >> a.b., do you agree? is there mutual respect? >> i can't believe i'm agreeing with president trump here. it is disrespectful what these four women are saying about nancy pelosi and to imply that she's a racist is what you're saying. this doesn't help nancy pelosi so i think the president is enjoying it. nothing would make alexandria ocasio-cortez happier than to say that the speaker is getting defended by president trump. but this is -- she's the new sort of boogieman of the right, cortez is. so i'm not surprised he wasn't going to pick on nancy pelosi. but he did recently call her horrible and vindictive, so even though i do think he has a strange respect

that's why he defended nancy pelosi last week. i have no some of you at all for all the identity politics they are now having to wallow in. nancy pelosi accuses people of racism all the time. she is being accused of the same thing. just have fun with it. you made the bed, get a line now. >> melissa: harris' point, there is reporting now that nancy pelosi is going to announce a resolution condemning president trump's remark. >> katie: but not ilhan omar's? >> melissa: i think you're getting confirmation, it's happening right now. that's putting them back to grandma on the same side again. what you are saying is defeatist about that. >> harris: that's with having under public and seven. no matter who it is, lindsey graham or whomever. you step in while they are a little domain is in flames you put out the fire for them by getting involved in -- >> melissa: i don't think so. >> katie: it forces nancy pelosi to put a resolution on the floor defending the extremist -- whenever they want to say -- squad. >> brian: i have a "seinfeld"-li

and we're listening to nancy pelosi even as we speak. so, as democrats spend the rest of the summer with their constituents, will they comeback to d.c. on the same page? joining me to talk about it, ma lany, mark leibovich is the chief national correspondent of the "new york times" and david jolly, former republican and former congressman from florida r also answer msnbc political contributor. and democratic specialist and former executive director of the new york stay democratic party. melanie, this is the speaker's parting message before the longest recess of the year for lawmakers. what do you think in reality her priorities have to be as she's heading into this six-week break? >> i think there is a real desire in the party right now to put on the show of unity. as you've seen with the meeting between aoc panned laosand po l has had a lot of tension. and i think the testimony of mueller has united the party around a common goal, and that's defeating trump in 2020. there are a lot of divisions when it comes to policy, strategy, or even

after the hearing, speaker nancy pelosi renewed her push to fight the white house in court. but in what allies see as a shift, she is sounding open to the possibility of impeachment. >> some of your democratic colleagues believe you're trying to run out the clock on impeachment. >> no, i'm not trying to run out the clock. let's get sophisticated about this, okay. okay. >> how long do you think the court fights will take? >> we will proceed when we have what we need to proceed. not one day sooner. they're advocacy for impeachment only gives me leverage so i'm willing to take whatever heat there is there to say when the decision will be made in a timely fashion. this isn't endless. >> reporter: democrats have voiced concerns that the window is closing on launching an impeachment proceeding. >> i would certainly like to see us move more expeditiously. >> reporter: the house judiciary committee said today it also may file a lawsuit as soon as next week to try and force former white house counsel don mcgahn to cooperate with its probe into potential obstruction of justice. after

nancy pelosi, as powerful she is, she's being played like a puppet. >> harris: nancy pelosi getting played by a puppet. you got the last word, you got 15 seconds. >> the leader of the free world, the president of the united states, and a couple of these people are member's -- >> harris: we are talking about nancy pelosi right now. she's also very powerful. >> but she's not the one who said it. >> harris: good to see both. what a discussion! moving on, reading president hassan ronnie says he's ready to begin negotiations of the united states. but he says president trump must first lift sanctions on iran. this, after iran said it surpassed the limits in the agreement. trey yingst with the reporting in jerusalem. trey? >> harris, that's right. iranian president rouhani said he's open to talks with the united states if the trump administration first lift sanctions on iran. first, they said they will continue to increase pressure on the islamic republic amid news that they will be breaking more key terms of that nuclear agreement every 60 days. iran broke two key commitments by surpassing the u

. >> are you speaking to nancy pelosi? >> our teams are in communication. >> shouldn't it be a face to face? >> i agree, yes. >> she

i agree with the criticism. >> nasty spat between alexandria ocasio-cortez and nancy pelosi and some of the other freshmen. president was asked about that, i mean, i was scribbling a lot of notes here and he had this to say. >> i think cortez is being very disrespectful to somebody that's been there a long time. i will tell you something about nancy pelosi that you know better than i do, she's not a racist, she's not a racist, but for them to call her a racist that's a disgrace. >> susan, is this trump playing commentator in chief and bit odd that he's coming to nancy pelosi's defense? >> i have a little bit of a problem with the story, i feel that we in the media have to be careful that we are not generating news or covering news. >> that ship sailed a long time ago. >> you need to be careful with stories like this when you're interviewing people on capitol hill, you're putting idea in the head, there's no organic feeling on capitol hill amongst anyone including the squad aoc and company that nancy pelosi is a racist, this was generated, i think in the media, pushed by the media bec

i have a lot of respect for nancy pelosi. i may not agree with her and i hope she is not the speaker next time but she is a capable, experienced and a very able legislator. she likes to say that herself but it is true. let's give her credit for it. this is something she is not used to. mutiny within her own ranks. >> jason: austan, what is your take on it? the idea there is no hatchet is laughable. they have been feuding and alexandria ocasio-cortez has a lot of power because she has a lot of microphone time. >> yeah, look, i think two things. the first is governor huckabee better watch out because that was recorded. we have that on tape. now we are going to keep it. [laughter] look, i think that this is the mature way to approach disagreements on policy is to have a meeting behind the scenes and work out the differences. i think they learned the lesson that the republicans followed throughout the 2000s when obama was there of how not to do it. which is you get ideologically safe districts. those people challenging in the pri

trish: a public spat between far left dems and nancy pelosi. she is being accused of explicitly singling out newly elected women of color. ilhan omar and rashida tlaib, and iana pressly. it was nancy pelosi trying to load her up with work to keep her out of the spotlight. >> 2000 i was assigned to four of the busiest committees and four subcommittees. sometimes i one der if they are trying to keep me busy. >> how they are interpreting and carrying it through another place is up to them. but i'm not going to discuss it any further. with all due respect. i said what i have to say on the subject. trish: caldwell strategy consulting. gianno caldwell. doesn't it start to lose its effectiveness if you keep running around saying everybody is racist and that's why they are not seeing eye to eye with you, because they are racist, and perhaps nancy pelosi and joe biden because he took heat from kamala harris. is nancy pelosi getting a taste of what perhaps the president has to deal with? >> democrats have used these tactics against republicans or anyone

house speaker nancy pelosi being one of them. here's what she tweeted. when president trump tells four american congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to make america white again. our diversity is our strength, our unity is our power. she goes on to say this, i reject president trump's xenophobic comments, rather than attack members of congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects american policies. stop the raids families belong together. the president's tweets were condemned by several presidential candidates. republicans remain, though, largely silent on this matter. president trump later appeared to double down on his tweet. he said this, so sad to see the democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our country and who in addition hate israel with a true and unbridled passion whenever confronted. they call their adversaries, including nancy pelosi racist, the many terrible things they say about the united states must not be allowed to go unchallenged. if the democratic party wants

we are right now to hear from house speaker nancy pelosi. what does she do about her own democratic caucus right now? more a question now than ever after a closed-door meeting with her party yesterday where she made a passioned pitch, i'm told for unity. here was part of her pitch. you've got a complaint, come and talk to me about it, but do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just okay. who was the speaker talking about? four very outspoken freshmen liberal democrats, alexandria ocascio-cortez, e lan oh mar, ra she'd da tlaib and pressly. and responses to what has been said, alexandria ocascio-cortez spoke to the "washington post," saying this in part, quote, it's outright disrespectful. so is that what unity sounds like this morning? does this threaten the democrats majority? we will soon found out. we will hear from nancy pelosi. we are watching two other moves from the white house. the president is expected to announce this afternoon executive action in the ongoing fight over the census and a government offici

. >> are you speaking to nancy pelosi? >> our teams are in communication. >> shouldn't it be a face to face? >> i agree, yes. >> she has every right to sit down with here at any time with any of us. she's speaker of the house. she can ask for a meeting to sit down with us for clarification. the fact of the matter is, acknowledge the fact that we're women of color. when you single us out, be aware of that and what you're doing. especially because we're getting death threats and being singled out in many ways because of our background, because of our experiences and so forth. >> juan: moderate democrat slamming the squad for threatening the primary him. here's texas congressman henry cuellar. >> this group called the justice democrats. they're not democrats. they're socialists. they want to impose their vision to texas and we know that in texas, our vision is different. their vision is not the vision of most americans. >> juan: this is so interesting. so here they are at a time when you think president trump has opened the d

speaker nancy pelosi is being cautious. while the house judiciary chairman, jerry nadler, favors impeachment, he's downplaying any divide between them. >> i don't know that there are real divisions with the speaker. i will refer you to her earlier comments in which she said that we must make the strongest case. if our committee is going to recommend articles of impeachment to the house, we must make the strongest possible case, both to our colleagues and the american public. that we're in total agreement. >> reporter: nadler calling it an impeachment investigation, but not a formal impeachment inquiry. julie? >> julie: so, mike, what are we hearing following the big meeting between the speaker and freshman alexandria ocasio-cortez? >> reporter: clearly an effort to clear the air. you have house speaker nancy pelosi tweeting out a photo of her with alexandria ocasio-cortez, all smiles in front of a camera. it's a rough stretch for them, with pelosi mocking alexandria ocasio-cortez for her twitter world ideas while alexandria

but nancy pelosi once lost a speichespeaker. he more moderate members lost their races to people leak m li, she does not want that to happen again. she said, i know you want to go socialist, but we have 27 democrats that hold trump winning seats, if we lose them, i lose gavel again, and republicans will take control of the house, she is trying to tamper down the squad on far left, but because of their media prowess, they will not be silenced. kennedy: no. >> they will primary moderate democrats with left wing candidates. >> let's take healthcare, some policy issues out. every time the 4 congresswomen go before the national camera, they raise a bunch more money. as you know money in politics is power. you have to run for your seat every two years, you are constantly in reelect mode that is a valuable resource. so, having money, means they can spend that money helping the like minded progressives they know and grooming, defeat more moderate democrats. >> right. >> that is -- the biggest issue between speaker pelosi and these women

nancy pelosi is kind of like nurse ratchet. residents of the asylum have taken over the democratic party. it's the party of open borders. full healthcare for illegal aliens. infantcide. >> you are about to fall out off your chair from drinking the kool-aid. you want this narrative about the democrats when the republican party is the one driving this party off the cliff. but i can reassure you that the same collective spirit you saw in 2018 when we breathe you all like a drum at the ballot box is the same you will see in 2020. david: i don't think it african-american unemployment rate would be as low as it is today. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez weighing in on the resignation of puerto rico's governor. >> i am so incredibly proud of everyone in puerto rico. they were so relentlessly creative in their protest. this is just beginning of a chief colonization process taking self government into their own hands. it's just a first step. we have a long way to go. david: chief colonization. >> you have to love aoc. she has got

they even called nancy pelosi a racist. so interesting sequence of events, i guess, to a certain extent, pelosi might know how it feels. the president announced on twitter this evening that there has been a deal on the budget and debt ceiling. he said i'm pleeftds to announce a deal has been struck on a two-year budget and debt ceiling no poison pills. success? >> absolutely. that's a tremendous success. i am glad to see we are able to work by part andly thank god. you will see mark stanford, republican former senator who will be saying this is anti-republican because it increases the national deficit. so there is an soming there for him. trish: i thought that's what democrats were saying these days. everything is backwards. i heard so many democrats sound like fiscal conservatives. thank you so much. lots coming up. it's the hottest movie this summer. take a peek. [♪] fired out how much "the lion king" earned on opening weekend. first president trump vowing to fix our immigration system. the administration will have more

you know nancy pelosi. what does she need to say when she stepped up to the lectern at any moment to get beyond this point, maybe even about her behavior on the house floor yesterday? >> i think she ought to address that because it wasn't us alone that such broke the rules. the majority leader is the one who actually took the chair because another democrat vacated the chair. the majority leader is the one who made it clear that she did break the house rules. she ought to own up to that in just a let's move on. let's be better than this. that's actually focus on policy. stop the drumbeat of bills on legislation, resolutions that aren't going anywhere that are just designed to attack people based on personalities. we have real bipartisan bills, things that can get down to lower drug prices. we just passed a bill out of committee earlier today to stop all these spam phone calls that come in by the robo calls or people get that annoy them every single day. there was a bipartisan agreement on that. those are the

last week nancy pelosi was having huge feud with alexandria ocasio-cortez. the president came to nancy pelosi's defense of the verse of reason thought that he would throw a hand grenade in the whole works on sunday and turn the attention back on him. now he is trying to make it look as though these are the four people who are controlling the democratic party and then if you vote democrat in 2020, that's what you're going to get, the band of left-wing socialism. don't know if you can make that steak but we'll see how he does with the vote tonight. >> neil: thank you, john roberts of the white house. vice president joe biden holding campaign events in iowa saying that the president should go home in response to some of those tweets. peter doocy with more. >> neil, as president trump vies for four moyers, joe biden saying he might tell the president to drop and give him ten if the president ever questions joe biden's mental or physical capabilities. >> come on, donald. come on. how manyush-ups do you want to do here? >> biden still has to beat a lot of democrat

pelosi does it a few days later, the left, not you in particular, make that clear come to nancy's defense, couldn't possibly be racist, she was simply attacking their ideas, the president is doing the same, the president is attacking mr. cummings for saying things that are not true about the border, i think it's right for the president to raise the issue, look, i was in congress for 6 years, if i had poverty in my district like i had in baltimore fi had crime like in chicago, homelessness like they have in san francisco and i spent all of my time in washington, d.c. chasing down this mueller investigation, bizarre impeachment crusade, i'd get fired and i think the president is right to raise that, has absolutely zero to do with race. chris: you say zero to do with race, there's a clear pattern here, mick, the fact is that before his -- before his inauguration, the president tweeted about john lewis, a black congressman, this is before inauguration, he said spend time in his crime-infested district, then two weeks ago, he goes after the four members of the squad all women of color and says

he was accompanied by nancy pelosi. the house speaker targeted for things like not pursuing impeachment and not embracing the green new deal and medicare for all. but the biggest gripe against pelosi was the fact that she dismissed the power of four progressive congresswomen. alexandria ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar, ayanna pressley and rashida tlaib and she went after them to fail to support a funding bill for the migrant places. the founder of the liberal blog said this about pelosi quoting "she doesn't act this way when blue dogs many conservative democrats stoop [bleep] about other democrats and the party and constantly criticized the party. for some reason she is singling out these four for a special brand of conflict" in a strange of president trump supporting nancy pelosi and bernie sanders did not, watch. >> do you think the speaker is being too tough on them? >> i think a little bit. >> in the meantime ilhan omar stirred controversy making light of anti-semitic comments and then questioning the patriotism of americ

so nancy pelosi standing up to liberals i think nancy pelosi thinks helps her, that she's trying to be more pragmatic and manage the caucus. you were about to jump in, as you do. this is another member of the squad, ilhan omar. our job isn't to make sure we have our colleagues voting a certain way. and i hope that leadership understands their role and understands what our role is. what is she trying to say there, that we want to be disruptive, we want to be insurgencies and it's nancy pelosi's to count votes and we'll do what we think is right? >> i think that the squad is struggling to figure out what kind of group do they want to be. do they want to be another freedom caucus where they try to whip votes against the leadership bill and tank a democratic bill to show muscle and actually influence change? it seems like they are really hesitating on that. they haven't even tried. and so her saying we're not trying to convince members to vote a certain way, i think that just speaks to how much, you know, inside the capitol pelosi really is still queen here. she doesn't have a group who's

last week, aoccalling nancy pelosi racist and wonderful infighting. it could not have been a better news cycle for the president and republicans, i don't know why he would go out and tweet something like this. that will distract from that. saying, go back to your country, even if you say come back to people who are not white, that has been used by people -- you cannot do that, you cannot. i don't know what good he thought would come of that, now we're not talking about this any more, he has managed to unify the democratic party that was not a smart move on his part. kennedy: i agree. presley said, i encourage american people to not take the bait. that is what they did with the press conference. >> that is right. kennedy: they took the bait. >> i agree with that kat said, one more thing, a joyous moment for me "new york times," a paragraph, can't people just disagree with each other politically on things like immigration without calling each other racist. we've been saying that for years on the right, now they are i doing it. you are right, now with th

and nancy pelosi is still willing to go down path, but she and other democrats are looking at the day to say it is better to make a policy case against this president to the american people, and there is a growing caucuses and democratic base who say they want more firm action on the part of the democrats in congress. >> one of the challenge, wolf, for the democrats is what al green told our manu raja earlier in day, this is not about anything that is uncovered in the mueller investigation, but it is about the president's racist comments or statements or action. that is a problem for democrats, because manu's next question to him was how are those high crimes and disme knne -- misdems and how do you have that with what impeachment is about, and it is going to be difficult to explain themselves. >> and now, the president says i do believe i am winning this political fight, and he says that he shenjoying it at the same time and what does that say to you? >> well, look, this is not the first test of that growing faction of the frustrated democrats will have at trying to impeach the presi

and shortly we will take you back to the capitol to hear from nancy pelosi and the chairs of the two committees but we will continue taking your phone calls. 202-748-8920 for democrats. 202-748-8921, that's for republicans and others. and for others. 202-748-8922. and of course the coverage reaires the hearings in entirety. let's hear from escondido, california,ed linda, republican line. >> just one comment that mueller did a good job evading to answer the questions of every republican regarding the dossier which was paid by the dnc and clinton administration which is the main, the basis for the russia investigation. and i am, lime really really frustrated when he tried to answer, he like -- he is lost. and cannot believe that the wholesale integrate of capability of answer of not knowing every detail, which he should be aware of everything. and i agree with president trump, that he thinks that mr. mueller is very conflicted. that's all i have to say. >> let's go to kapau, hawaii, and hear from donna on the others line. hi, there. >> hi, thank you for taking my call. i like what the

it wasn't just nancy pelosi. eric swalwell, the democratic congressman from california went onto the floor and read some of president trump's remarks, called them racist. again, house rules say you cannot impugn a member of congress or their intentions or the president of the united states. the rules were read once again. eric swalwell once again rescinded the words like nancy pelosi so they didn't have the long drawn out fight like they had with nancy pelosi, but it's been back and forth. it's gotten bigger than just the tweets. it's gotten bigger than just the four members of congress. it's turned very much into a partisan battle. i think one of the interesting things over the last 48 hours or so is the difference from yesterday to today where you saw a handful of republicans come out and make very clear they had problems with the president's tweets. they believed the tweets should have been detracted. that's where republicans started to voice their opposition. that has shifted today. it has turned into a very,