[Michaela Pereira, Cnn Anchor:] Those are your headlines. Over to you, guys.
[Chris Cuomo, Cnn Anchor:] Very important, a lot of people suffer from that or don't even know it and they are afraid to find out what it is.
[Kate Bolduan, Cnn Anchor:] Exactly, better know.
[Cuomo:] Thank you very much. A lot going on politically so we will take you "Inside Politics" on NEW DAY with Mr. John King. Is it true, you asked not to be on this morning so you could prepare for the World Cup?
[John King, Cnn Host, "inside Politics":] I was going to stretch my knees like those guys, we have to do that while on the set and move the knees up and get loose.
[Bolduan:] Exactly.
[King:] We can do "Inside Politics" and prepare for the World Cup.
[Bolduan:] Multi-tasker.
[Cuomo:] He's a both guy. I like a both guy.
[King:] You are both right that it's so busy. Usually a sleepy Washington summer but not so. So let's get right to "Inside Politics." So with me this morning to share their reporting and their insights, Julie Pace of the "Associated Press" and Manu Raju of "Politico." So the Mississippi votes were counted. Thad Cochran was the winner in the runoff against his Tea Party challenger, Chris McDaniel, who says no, I'm not ready to concede yet. He says he wants to have legal team to take a look. He thinks there were irregularities. What he was trying to say is he believes African-American voters illegally voted in the runoff. Listen to him last night, not only saying I'm not ready to concede, but taking a shot at the Republican establishment.
[Chris Mcdaniel , Senate Candidate:] We have people there that are willing to sacrifice every principle in the world for a movement of power or the almighty dollar. It has to stop.
[King:] There are others, including Rand Paul, Manu, who say it's good if more people vote, good for Republican race to draw African-American voters, but Chris McDaniel is not ready to give up.
[Manu Raju, "politico":] No, he's not and it remains to be seen whether he does mount this legal challenge. Still a lot of skepticism whether he could actually pull this off successfully, and if he doesn't do that, what does he do, does he do a write-in campaign, which could upset the balance here? But it really speaks to the larger debate within the party about how do you broaden your brand and reach out to new voters? Roger Wicker, the Mississippi senator told me yesterday very clearly, he said, we should be reaching out to Democrats, that's what we should do as the Republican Party, broaden our brand. There is nothing wrong what Thad Cochran did according to his supporters.
[King:] It's the state with the highest percentage of African-American voters in the country so you would think here's an opportunity for Republicans to learn the lesson. Thad Cochran had to go to these voters in a moment of need, but maybe he could start to build a relationship and maybe other Republicans could copy it, Julie, but then Rush Limbaugh weighs in. This won't help.
[Rush Limbaugh:] I wonder what the campaign slogan was in Mississippi the past couple of days. Uncle Toms for Thad?
[King:] Anything I say will make it worse, but
[Julie Pace, "associated Press":] You're going to throw it to me now.
[King:] If you find irregularities, fine, investigate them. You have that right after an election to look at things, but to say things like that and disparage people and forgive me, if that's not a racist statement, it's dancing right up to the line of it, how does that help anybody?
[Pace:] It doesn't and a lot of national Republicans just cringe when they see statements like that, when they see things like what McDaniel is saying. This is a party after the 2012 election that said we have to broaden the pace and now you have a ration where they have managed to broaden the base for whatever reason they managed to do that and they have this push and pull and maybe we don't want to broaden the base. It just sends a really mixed message.
[King:] If you look at the national demographics, maybe they can win in House races and Senate races. The Republicans will not be competitive at the presidential level until they improve their standing among non- white voters and Mr. Limbaugh is not helping the cause there. Let's move on to an embarrassment on the Democratic side, Lois Lerner, you remember here. We've talked about her a lot, lately, maybe if you find her e-mails, please give us a call. She's at the center of this investigation in Congress. Did the IRS unfairly target conservative and Tea Party groups when they wanted their tax-exempt status with the IRS essentially going after conservative organizations? We've been talking about her e-mails from the key period have simply disappeared and the administration says the computer crashed. Now this one is curious. E-mails that were provided to Congress show that Lois Lerner received an invitation for Senator Chuck Grassly to a political event and the organization apparently said, Senator, bring your wife and we'll pay for that. Lois Lerner decided to send an e-mail to a colleague saying looked like they were inappropriately offering to pay for his wife. Perhaps we should refer to exam, meaning perhaps we should audit, investigate a sitting Republican United States senator. One of her colleagues said can't do this, the rules don't allow. We need some evidence or some suspicion of illegal activity first, but this does not help her case, which is already pretty bad to begin with.
[Raju:] It fuels the suspicion that there's a political witch-hunt was motivated by politics going after conservative groups, conservative senator right now, a very high ranking member of the finance committee, which oversees the IRS, but we should note that in that the IRS never actually went through with the audit. There was a question about whether or not they could do that, but it does that's exactly what the administration does not want, which is more evidence showing that there was some political mess going around going after the Democrat going after Republican groups.
[King:] It makes it hard for the White House to say this is Republicans trying to make a big partisan issue out of a mistake?
[Pace:] Sure. And it raises the question of if this is something that's in the e-mails that we have, what's in the e-mails that have disappeared, that don't exist anymore and it provides some actual tangible fodder for these hearings that are going to be happening on the Hill.
[King:] One of the president's priorities this year and for the rest of his term is to get some action out of Washington on climate change. He knows he's going to have to do most of that through executive action because he can't get cooperation with the congressman. Listen to the president's tone here speaking to an environmental group, league of conservation voters here. Listen to his tone going after Republicans who he says simply flat refuse to acknowledge that man is contributing to climate change.
[Barack Obama, President Of The United States:] I'm not a scientist, which really translates into I accept that manmade climate change is real, but if I say so out loud I'll be run out of town by a bunch of fringe elements that think climate science is a liberal plot. So I'm going to just pretend like I don't know. I can't read. I'm not a doctor either, but if a bunch of doctors tell me that tobacco can cause lung cancer, then I'll say OK.
[King:] A tad scornful there of his critics.
[Pace:] When he takes that mocking tone, as he sometimes does with Republicans, it drives the GOP absolutely crazy, but on this issue, he feels like not only does he have public opinion on his side, but he feels like he has an executive action plan that can actually make a depth in climate change and sees this as a real part of his legacy. So I think you'll hear him saying things like that on climate change for the next two and a half votes.
[King:] He doesn't have the votes on his side.
[Raju:] No, he doesn't and it's interesting the fight on climate change that he does choose to wage, which is about the science, which is something he can portray the Republicans out of step and out of mainstream, but he's not talking about cap and trade, regulation, things that Republicans portray as job-killing regulations, job killing cap and trade. He wants to fight it on different terms about the science and that they think is a winning argument politically.
[King:] Climate change is one of the many issues where the president is using executive actions. The House Speaker John Boehner yesterday saying that he's had enough and that House Republicans, he wants to take the president to court and to sue him. Listen to the speaker.
[Rep. John Boehner , House Speaker:] You know, the constitution makes it clear that a president's job is to faithfully execute the laws, and in my view the president has not faithfully executed the laws.
[King:] Is this a serious constitutional challenge, the powers between the legislative and the executive, or is this I'm John Boehner, I'm heading into a mid-term election. I'm going sue the president. My base already doesn't like so the conservatives think, OK, he's on our side.
[Pace:] Well, if you look at what Boehner said yesterday and some of the documentation that they tried to back it up with, there's not a lot of specifics in there so it's a little unclear about what specifically they say the president is in violation of. There is a theory though that you do have some Republicans in the House who are actually calling for impeachment of the president and this could be a way for John Boehner to say I'm trying to take some action against the president.
[Raju:] When I go to the conservative rallies around the country, this is one of the things that really riles up conservative voters. They believe this president has been lawless, has not followed the law and what are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it, John Boehner? And now they can say we're going to sue the president and this is clearly an effort to placate that base.
[King:] Keep an eye on that. Manu and Julie, thanks for coming in. Mr. Cuomo, you do that when Kate oversteps her power, do you use executive action or you take order?
[Bolduan:] Overstepping my power. There is no overstepping when you have ultimate power.
[Cuomo:] Limitless. In this context, it would be limitless.
[Bolduan:] John, you know this, you're so silly.
[Cuomo:] John, thank you for trying to throw me under the bus. There's a new term to introduce into this discussion by the lawsuit, by the way, frivolous lawsuit. You can sue, but if the basis for the lawsuit has no real standing in law, it's frivolous, and I wonder if that might be something. Funny to see the lawmakers sanctioned for bringing a lawsuit in the first place.
[Bolduan:] Right, exactly. Coming up next on NEW DAY, a U.S. Marine jailed in Mexico for months is pleading for his release and has been as a veterans organization calls for a boycott over his arrest. A Mexican official is joining us to talk about the case.