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Trump: It's Up to Whitaker Whether to Curtail Mueller Investigation; More Than 900 People Missing in California Wild Fires as Death Toll Rises to 77. Aired 7-7:30a ET

Aired November 19, 2018 - 07:00   ET

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[07:00:02] SEN. JEFF FLAKE (R), ARIZONA: I don't know how in the world my colleagues don't see this as a priority right now. I just don't understand.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Hopefully, this is going to be the last of these, because this was a really, really bad one.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is a daunting task. We are still trying to bring order to the chaos.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I went and gave her a hug, because I'd been looking for her body.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It hurts a lot in my head to see that actually happening.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can't do anything but one day at a time.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY.

President Trump talking about the Mueller probe and suggesting he will not sit down with the special counsel. In a new interview, the president said he probably will not sit with Robert Mueller, but he says he will submit written answers to those questions about alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia this week.

As for the acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, President Trump said it's, quote, "going to be up to him" whether to curtail Mueller's probe in any way. The president also using middle-school humor to target Congressman Adam Schiff in a, well, scatological tweet.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Middle school's generous.

CAMEROTA: Yes. We can go fourth grade. He said -- Representative Schiff will be the likely incoming House intel chairman, by the way, and has said Democrats will investigate Matt Whitaker's appointment.

BERMAN: All right. In that interview the president did, the president made shocking claims about the retired admiral who led the Osama bin Laden raid. Admiral William McRaven had criticized the president earlier this year, and the president fired back, falsely calling him a Hillary backer. And he suggested he could have caught bin Laden sooner.

The president also says he will not listen to a recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, adding that despite what his own CIA says, he still doesn't know if the Saudi crown prince is directly responsible.

CAMEROTA: Joining us now are "New York Times" opinion columnist and CNN contributor Frank Bruni; former federal prosecutor and CNN chief legal Jeffrey Toobin; and "Washington Post" opinion columnist and CNN political commentator Catherine Rampell. Great to have all of you.

Jeffrey Toobin, no surprise. We -- I think that even though there have been the rumors that President Trump had wanted, himself, to sit down with Robert Mueller. We had heard from Giuliani and lots of people that they didn't think that was wise and weren't going to do that, and the written questions are going to be the best they are going to do.

JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST: That's certainly been the expectation from most of us who followed the case, that given the president's predilection for not telling the truth, the idea of putting him in front of Mueller with the opportunity to speak extemporaneously was a bad idea.

This does, of course, raise the question of what will Mueller do in response? Will he issue a grand jury subpoena or try to force the president --

CAMEROTA: But the written questions are supposed to circumvent that, right?

TOOBIN: There's a reason why grand juries operate they do and that they don't operate, you know, with open-book take-home exams. They operate with a question and answer. It is something, but it is well short of an interview.

Also, the president's lawyers have said he will not discuss anything related to acts that he took while he was president. The only thing he will even do written questions about is the pre-presidency collusion questions. All the obstruction of justice questions, there will be no answers at all, in writing or in person. Mueller certainly wants to know about that, especially since the president's intent in firing James Comey is so much an issue.

BERMAN: I've got to say Jeffrey, raises the possibility of a subpoena coming from Robert Mueller. However, that would have to be approved by now acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker. That doesn't seem likely. And if it was fought, it would go all the way to the Supreme Court, where the president now has yet another ally on the bench, you know, Brett Kavanaugh. So that doesn't seem likely.

The president commented directly about Matt Whitaker and the possibility that maybe he would get involved with curtailing the investigation in this interview with Chris Wallace. Let's listen to that.

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CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: If Whitaker decides in any way to limit or curtail the Mueller investigation, are you OK with that?

TRUMP: Look, he -- it's going to be up to him. I think he's very well aware politically. I think he's astute politically. He's a very smart person, a very respected person. He's going to do what's right.

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BERMAN: He's a very smart person. He's going to do what's right, Catherine.

CATHERINE RAMPELL, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR: Does anybody actually think that Whitaker wasn't chosen because he was a Trump loyalist? I mean --

BERMAN: The president claimed it. The president claimed that he didn't know what his views were.

RAMPELL: That's just bogus. Yes, right. And I think this is probably the one and only level of screening that Trump did of this guy. Right? He didn't screen his sketchy business dealings. He didn't even screen the possible constitutionality of the appointment.

But Trump has said in the past he wants his Roy Cohn. Right? He wants an A.G. who will view his primary role as defending Trump himself, not the White House, certainly not the country. And of course, he chose this guy out of the normal line of succession with questionable constitutionality, because Whitaker has gone on record on this network, in fact, defending the idea of hobbling the Mueller investigation.

[07:05:09] So I think it's just totally outside of the realm of possibility that Trump chose him for any reason other than the fact that he's likely to cripple Mueller.

CAMEROTA: And yet, Frank, one of the things that the president said in the interview was "I could have done it sooner. I could have done it before now. I've had however long the Mueller investigation has gone on -- 16 months, longer? I've had 16 months to do this. If I'd wanted to, I could have put an end to it. I haven't. I'm answering these questions. So I'm not going to interfere."

FRANK BRUNI, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR: Well, he has tried to put an end to it. We know that he twice tried to get rid of Mueller, and he was foiled and stopped by aides. So the idea that he has never done anything, I mean, he got rid of Comey, and he admitted to Lester Holt that the reason was all of this Russia stuff, et cetera.

I think everything Catherine said is 100 percent right. I just want to draw attention. The president keeps saying that Whitaker is a very respected person. When the president goes into a broken-record phrase like that over and over again, it usually means the opposite is true. And the idea that he chose Whitaker, because he's a very respected person, very respected person is ludicrous. He has such a slimy background and no business in this job, and it just -- it doesn't pass the smell test.

BERMAN: So if you're keeping score at home, Matt Whitaker, a very respected person, very respected. Admiral William McRaven, the president has different things to say about that. This is one of the more remarkable bits in this interview that Chris Wallace did with the president of the United States. He was talking about Admiral McRaven, who's a former -- you know, supervised the Navy SEAL in the bin Laden raid. The fact that McRaven had criticized the president for the president's attacks on the press, this is the exchange in the interview.

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WALLACE: McRaven, retired admiral, Navy SEAL, 37 years, former head of U.S. Special Operations --

TRUMP: Hillary Clinton fan.

WALLACE: Special Operations --

TRUMP: Excuse me, Hillary Clinton fan.

WALLACE: Who led the operations, commanded the operations that took down Saddam Hussein and that killed Osama bin Laden, says that your sentiment is the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime.

TRUMP: He's a Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer and frankly --

WALLACE: He's a Navy SEAL.

TRUMP: Wouldn't it have been nice if we would have gotten bin Laden a lot sooner than that?

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BERMAN: OK, Frank. Aside from the incorrect claim that he was a Hillary Clinton backer, which McRaven cleared up, and aside from the fact the incorrect claim McRaven had anything to do with intelligence. He wasn't the one finding bin Laden. He was the one capturing and killing him. What do you make of that exchange?

BRUNI: Well, it's absurd. I mean, Trump lives in and perpetuates the idea of a morally inverted universe. I also -- it's so offensive the idea that to say somebody's a Hillary Clinton fan or a Barack Obama fan, to just say they're a Democrat means you can nullify anything good about them. I mean, that's -- the president does that over and over again.

CAMEROTA: Well, yes, he sees people through that lens.

BRUNI: That's right.

CAMEROTA: It is a purely partisan lens. Don't tell me about their heroism. Don't tell me about their personality or anything else. Just tell me who they voted for.

BRUNI: And it's a really dangerous lens at a time in this country when we have gotten so partisan we can't -- we can't find common ground. We can't get anything done. He perpetuates it with interviews and comments like that. He perpetuates it very, very much.

CAMEROTA: And so, I mean --

TOOBIN: I've got nothing to add to that. That is totally correct.

CAMEROTA: Yes, I mean -- I mean, I think that it was really telling. I think that it's really telling, because we've seen the president do this over and over again. It's a very simplistic view of the world, which is, "I can put people into two baskets. Did you vote for Donald Trump or did you vote for Hillary Clinton? That's all I need to know about you, basically."

RAMPELL: Well, I think that's not the only galling thing about those statements, right? I mean, President Bone Spur is mocking a revered military hero who took down bin Laden and claiming, well, he should have been done it earlier. You know, Trump is someone who, like, dodged the draft himself. Who is he to say that this, you know, again, revered military hero didn't do his job? Not only should we write him off because he's not even a Democrat but allegedly a Democrat --

TOOBIN: But we don't whether McRaven would have had the courage to stand in the rain at Arlington Cemetery -- Cemetery to honor our troops. That's the thing.

BRUNI: Donald Trump has built up to this remark. Let's remember, "I prefer people who weren't captured." How that was a --

RAMPELL: Or mocking a Gold Star family.

BERMAN: It is interesting that you bring up Arlington, though, and the visit to Arlington, because the president did something this weekend with that that I have not seen him do before, which is admit that he made a mistake or say he regrets something.

CAMEROTA: Yes, he regrets.

BERMAN: He did not visit Arlington National Cemetery last weekend during Veterans Day weekend. He's been criticized for that, and this is what he told Chris Wallace. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: I should have done that. I was extremely busy on calls for the country. We did a lot of calling, as you know --

WALLACE: But this was Veterans Day.

TRUMP: I probably -- you know, in retrospect, I should have. And I did last year and I will virtually every year.

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BERMAN: So Jeffrey, he knows it was such a bad look that he admitted a mistake.

TOOBIN: Which he almost never does. And that was worse because it was -- it compounded the embarrassment of not going to the cemetery in France when he visited there, and also, you know, he's never visited the troops in any battles.

BERMAN: He said he probably will at some point.

[07:10:07] TOOBIN: He probably will at some point. But you're right. It is an extraordinary thing for someone who prides himself on never apologizing, who you'll be shocked to learn elsewhere in that interview, gave himself an A-plus as president. The fact that he admitted a mistake was remarkable.

CAMEROTA: Yes, that was remarkable. But he also said that he was just too busy making calls.

BERMAN: "I did a lot of calling."

CAMEROTA: He did a lot of calling for the country.

RAMPELL: Live tweeting FOX, having 25 midterm rallies. Really, those are the priorities here.

CAMEROTA: Well, absolutely, because we know that the president has a lot of executive time, as it is called in the White House, and we know that there is a lot of watching of FOX morning shows. And so the idea that -- somehow other presidents have made time.

RAMPELL: Yes, this is just not a priority for him. I think that's pretty clear at this point.

BERMAN: Talking about executive time, and talking about decorum, which is the subject that the White House raised last week, this tweet, this statement he made about Adam Schiff, and we can put it back up. I don't need to say it out loud this morning. But he created a new nickname for the man who will be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and it's a name that rhymes with Schiff. If we can find it and put it up so I don't have to say it -- there we go.

CAMEROTA: It's so creative. I haven't seen something this creative since fourth grade, Frank.

BRUNI: We have a very verbally dexterous president. I mean, the funny thing is, not only is it probable that that was deliberate, but he's such a bad -- his grammar, his spelling, his command of the English language is so bad that we do have to wonder whether he hit the wrong keys or whether he meant to do it.

And remember, the president who has talked about unprecedented things and tweeted "covfefe," whatever that is.

TOOBIN: And also, remember, the president -- the White House is now in the process of writing regulations about decorum at the White House related to the removal of our college, Jim Acosta's press pass.

He is going to have -- he had said we want better behavior and Jim Acosta, he violated that behavior, because he didn't exhibit proper decorum. How does that tweet fit with any definition of decorum that he is likely to put out? Don't think that CNN and Acosta's lawyers will miss that if they argue that -- if they continue to argue that Jim can't serve there.

BERMAN: Do you think Jim will actually show up in a courtroom?

TOOBIN: Absolutely. Absolutely.

BRUNI: Decorum is a one-way street with this White House. I mean, he talks all the time about the respect that we owe the office and how you should behave in the White House. What about the respect he owes the office? What about the way he behaves in the White House? Whether he's on his, you know, smart phone tweeting or whether he's saying other vulgar things.

CAMEROTA: I mean, luckily, the first lady does have that cyber bullying campaign.

RAMPELL: Right, right. Be best. Let's all be best.

I think the broader context here is that Trump can tweet as many puerile insults as he wants. It's still not going to distract him from the core problem that he faces right now, which is that Adam Schiff is going to have a lot of power, whether you call him a silly, childish nickname or not, and trying to, like, cyber bully him is not going to get him to back down. He's still going to have subpoena power. He's still going to be able to investigate the Whitaker appointment, the Russia stuff, lots of other things that the taxpayers are interested in.

BERMAN: And Adam Schiff could say, "Let me show you my four-letter word. It's subpoena." Get it? All right.

CAMEROTA: I didn't know where you were going with that.

BERMAN: Catherine.

RAMPELL: Fifth grade.

BERMAN: Thank you very much.

CAMEROTA: Right, yes. Thank you guys very much.

OK. So now to those fires in Northern California. More than 900 people are still unaccounted for in the California fires at this hour. And the death toll has risen from the Camp Fire. It is now up to 77 people. All but ten of the victims have been tentatively identified. And CNN's Kaylee Hartung is live to Chico for us with the latest.

What's happening this morning, Kaylee?

KAYLEE HARTUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Alisyn, while hundreds of families wait on news, the fate of their missing loved ones, authorities delivered the gut-wrenching news that this fire is not even halfway done burning yet. They say it won't be for another 11 days until they have this fire fully contained.

And so the search for and recovery for human remains is an ongoing process. Nine hundred and ninety-three names are on the list of those unaccounted for. That number is striking, but it's actually down 283 names from the previous day. Authorities cautioning that this list is dynamic, the numbers will continue to fluctuate sharply and suddenly, because they're working through multiple sources of information to account for all of those missing.

Authorities are having to balance that responsibility with the process of returning some people to their homes. Yesterday a handful of folks near the paradise area returned home, an incredibly shocking and emotional process for those, even those who found their homes still intact.

President Trump was among those this weekend that got a firsthand look at the deadliest and most destructive fire in California's history as he visited Paradise and conveyed his sadness and his shock at the site. People here telling me they want to put politics aside, but they don't want his consolation. They want his resources.

[07:15:07] John, here in this tent city that has popped up outside of a Walmart, that need is very apparent. But with rain in the forecast coming here,

BERMAN: All right. Kaylee Hartung for us in Chico, California. Kaylee is at that Wal-Mart where that tent city has been. And it's so painful to see the families there and what they've been going through. And when I was talking to Kaylee on Friday there, there's the a smoke and haze covering the people and it's miles from the fire.

CAMEROTA: Yes, it has physical affects for those not in the fire zone.

BERMAN: All right. The president is celebrating his party win in the Senate, but when it comes to the House, he has a new message for everybody. How he's explaining the shift in the balance of power. That's next.

CAMEROTA: Did he say shift? BERMAN: Shift.

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[07:19:57] BERMAN: President Trump singing the praises of Republican senators who held the majority, actually increased the majority in the Senate, but when it comes to the House and the 37 seats lost, at least, by the Republicans, the president had this to say.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I didn't run. I wasn't running. My name wasn't on the ballot. There are many people that think I don't like Congress that like me a lot. I get it all the time, "Sir, we'll never vote unless you're on the ballot." I get it all the time. People are saying, "Sir, I will never vote unless you're on the ballot."

I say, "No, no, go and vote." What do you mean? As much as I try and convince people to go vote, I'm not on the ballot.

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BERMAN: Joining me now is Symone Sanders. She was the national press secretary for Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign; and former special assistant to President George W. Bush, Scott Jennings.

So the president just told Chris Wallace, "I wasn't on the ballot. I'm not on the ballot. But let me play you just very briefly what he said before election day. Listen.

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TRUMP: I'm not on the ticket but I am on the ticket, because this is also a referendum about me.

Get out and vote. I want you to vote. Pretend I'm on the ballot.

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BERMAN: So I don't know how they say it, tried to have it both ways. Is that how they say it?

SCOTT JENNINGS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Yes, that's how they say it.

I think the president isn't wrong about one thing. I do believe there are a group of voters out there who did turn out for him in 2016 that may not feel close to either party, but for whatever reason, they decided they liked Donald Trump. They liked that he was not part of either political establishment, and they turned out for him. And in this particular election you, didn't have that same element.

But the reality for the Republican Party is they have a lot of work to do ahead of 2020. The president has to be worried about the suburban drain. It's not just the yoga moms. You know, there's a few yoga dads out there, yoga husbands that drained away.

And for the Democrats, of course, they have to be unhappy about the prospect of trying to put together 270 electoral votes without Ohio, which I think is going away for the Democrats and possibly without Florida, which is a hump they couldn't quite get over, as we learned over the weekend.

BERMAN: Let's just stay on the president for one second here, Symone, because it seems that he clearly was, to an extent, on the ballot and you had 61 million people voting for Democrats voting in this election, which is really an incredible number. Almost --

SYMONE SANDERS, FORMER PRESS RELATIONS PERSON, BERNIE SANDERS CAMPAIGN: It's unthinkable for a midterm. Unthinkable for a midterm. Look, I think Donald Trump is on the ballot, but the agenda of the Republican Party was also on the ballot. And I think that's important. And the agenda, the buck stops with the leader of the party; and that right now is Donald Trump.

Democrats across the country, they ran on health care, John. They ran on an economy that works for middle-class folks and not tax cuts for corporations, and it worked. And it didn't just work when we talk about the House. It also worked in these governor's races. I'd like to remind folks that Democrats now control the governors' mansions -- sit in the governors' mansions in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, places that, if you all remember in 2016, were very key for Donald Trump's win.

So look, I think going into -- coming out of midterm elections Democrats should be thinking about, OK, this is what we ran on. Now how can we get things done?

And going into a presidential, a potential presidential primary on the Democratic side, I think folks have to stay laser-focused on talking about the issues, and making sure you talk to every single voter, because that's how we got these gains across the country.

BERMAN: What about Ohio? Because Scott brings up Ohio, and it is interesting. Because among the states you did not mention --

SANDERS: It wasn't Ohio.

BERMAN: -- with Republican governors now, Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Georgia --

SANDERS: Florida. Yes, I'm so hurt about that one.

Look, I think that -- we have to do better. We have to do better. But we did -- there were really great races that were ran across the country in this midterm election, but that is why we have to talk to every single voter.

You have to knock doors. It is not enough to sort of, you know, put ads on television and do some digital. We have to make sure we are doing digital organizing but also real in-person organizing, knocking on those doors. And I think that's what's going to make the difference in places like Ohio, and Florida, and Georgia, frankly.

I'd also like to note, Florida, the ballot initiative, Amendment 4, passed. One point -- over a million new voters are now eligible to vote, folks that previously lost their right to vote due to felony convictions. That's important. Georgia, 1.2 million voters in the electorate. I think that bodes well for the democratic process, maybe even Democratic Party.

BERMAN: So Scott, when we talk about governing, which is a word that we I don't think we talk about nearly enough, now that the election is over, how will these parties choose to govern come January 3 or whatever day it is when the House, the new House is sworn in? Do you think the president will see this as an opportunity? He loves making deals. You know, he could reach across the aisle and make deals. Is that opportunity genuinely there or is that a pipe dream?

JENNINGS: I think the opportunity absolutely exists. I mean, a lot of presidents take a bath in their first midterm. They regroup. They triangulate. And they go on to win reelections. Barack Obama took a bath in 2010. Bill Clinton took a bath in 1994. And they figured out a way to put a coalition together to go on and win reelection.

[07:25:00] For Donald Trump, this largely centers on reconnecting himself with the people who stuck with him in '16 but then went away with him in '18. And I think the core issue there is the economy.

The president decided tactically to go away from the economy in October. That turns out to have been a tactical mistake. It may also, for the people in the upper Midwest, be something in the realm of infrastructure, rebuilding the nation's road, bridges, highways and airports. The president loves these kinds of issues. He just has to be disciplined enough to talk about them every single day.

I mean, I recognize it's boring to go out every day and remind everybody unemployment is below 4 percent, but I think embracing the boring here and doing what he hates, which is to stick with a script, instead of create original programming every day, is the right answer for him.

The question for the Democrats is do they want to give this guy any win at all, or do they just want to investigate him into oblivion? My sense is they'll investigate him into oblivion, and that will be seen as overreach by the new Democratic majority.

SANDERS: You know, look, I do think, though, that Democrats understand, particularly in the House, that they were elected to one, put a check on the president, but also two, to actually get something done. And so I don't think -- I think investigations and oversight is part of Congress's job, a job frankly, they haven't been doing while they were under Republican control.

So I think the Democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time in the House of Representatives. So we will see oversight hearings, but we'll also see work getting done.

BERMAN: Who is leading that walk? Look, I've been dying to ask you this since the election, because I asked you this prior to the election many times, and it wasn't a discussion you wanted to have prior. A discussion about Nancy Pelosi you thought was inappropriate before the election.

Well, now the election has happened, and now the Democrats have to choose a leader in the House. How do you assess this battle for leadership?

SANDERS: You know, look, I think it's interesting. Nancy Pelosi does not have an announced challenger, and so right now she is the only person on the ballot. And so the challenger that did -- the person that did have an announced challenger was Jim Clyburn, who I think now has gotten the necessary votes. And so I really think the real battle is for the House caucus chair. So I'm pulling for Barbara Lee there. But look, I understand what people have to say --

BERMAN: What those 17 Democrats are saying is that, when we get enough numbers to topple Pelosi, then we'll pick a name?

SANDERS: Look, this is what I think. I think if someone -- and I think leader Pelosi has said this. She said come on in the other day. The water is warm. I think if someone would like to challenge Leader Pelosi for the speakership, they should. We are in a democratic process. This is part of the process. No one, in my opinion, has the hold on the speakership.

But I will say that if somebody wants Nancy Pelosi's job, they have to demonstrate they can do it just as good as her if not better. That means you have to be able to hold the caucus together. That means you need to be able to raise the money. And that means you need to be able to get things done and move it along.

I don't know if anyone has emerged that can do that. Maybe you all know something I don't know, and there's a challenger out there.

But I think for now, the choice Democrats have to make is what is the agenda we're going to put forward? The who is just as much important, but the what. As the what here, John. And the what is, I think, what will hopefully propel us to victory come 2020.

BERMAN: Scott, last word: do you want, as a Republican, Nancy Pelosi in that chair? The president seems to be trolling and suggesting he'll get her the votes if she needs them.

JENNINGS: Yes. Look, Pelosi being in the chair is good news for the Republicans, because she's one of the most disliked figures in America. She will immediately become an issue in the 2020 elections.

I do think one of the best things Donald Trump has going for him is this division in the Democratic Party. You've got these new, young, diverse progressive Democrats who got elected all for the purpose of getting Nancy Pelosi back into the speakership? I mean, I can understand, given the way they ran their campaigns, why they're raging against the machine. But I suspect here the machine is going to win out. And what I wonder for the Democrats is how much deeper is this going

to drive the divisions in their party? The old guard versus the new guard. It reminds me a lot of what John Boehner in the Republican Party had to deal with after the 2010 midterm. A lot of new Republicans came in. They sort of raged against the old Republican machine. There was a lot of divisions in the Republican Party, and Barack Obama got re-elected. So I think the Democratic divisions, other than the economy, are one of the best things Trump's got going for him right now.

BERMAN: Now, John Boehner is now enjoying a nice glass of merlot.

Scott, Symone, thank you very much for being with us. Appreciate it.

JENNINGS: Among other products.

SANDERS: And marijuana, if you want to be frank.

BERMAN: He is supporting the marijuana lobby. That is what Symone means here.

All right. Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: All right. Thank you very much, John.

Now to this. There's this deadly outbreak that is blamed for the death of an 11th child in a New Jersey rehab center. What is going in there and what parents need to know, next.

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