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Office, an absolutely truthful tweet that set the record straight on Hurricane Dorian and alabama. Im going to talk to the former noaa official who predicted last night on this show that Something Like this would happen. Also just how bad will the final toll be in the bahamas . An official warning people to prepare for the unimaginable as the death toll rises to 43 with hundreds or thousands still missing. Were going to take you to one of the hardest hit communities. What is the true cost of the president s family separation policy . This is a story that we dont want to get lost. The government report on the heartbreaking trauma suffered by immigrant children separated from their mothers and fathers. And could a lawsuit in minnesota change the way schools handle racist bullying . Parents say their children were subject to blackface, the nword, and threats of violence. Were going to get to all of that in this hour, but right now i want to talk about the president. The president spending his week digging in his heels and refusing to back down over his false claim that alabama was in Hurricane Dorians path. Thats our big picture tonight. Lets discuss with brian stelter, susan glasser, and former congressman charlie dent. Good evening to all of you. Charlie, im going to start with you. What do you think about how the leader of the country and the leader of your Republican Party spent his time this week . Well, again, this is just simply inexplicable. Im kind of oldfashioned, don. I always thought the words of the president were policy. Thats not been the case with this administration. Obviously hes certainly not the sharpest sharpie in the sharpie box based on what he has stated. I mean why cant the man simply own up to a mistake . He made a mistake when he mentioned alabama being in the path. He should move on, talk about his governments response to this hurricane, which from what i can tell has been fairly effective. But hes not doing that because this is always about him. Its always about him instead of the people who are in the hurricanes path unfortunately. And its sad that were talking about this because we should be talking about things like his trying to diversity military Construction Funds without the consent of congress. There are all sorts of things. So im not sure if this is an attempt at a distraction. I dont think its a very good one, though. You say that this calls into question his fitness for office. Tell me why. Well, i said that during the primary of 2016. I called into question his fitness. You know, look, don, i mean you watch stuff like this, you get the sense theres a lifetimes worth of work for a therapist here. What can you say . Hes so obsessed with all of this. Its absurd that he would be so focused on Something Like this when there are so many more important things he could be spending his time on. So i havent spent a lot of time talking about his fitness. Im not a therapist. I shouldnt be making medical diagnoses, and i wont, but theres something seriously wrong. Scaramucci knows him well, and hes said much stronger things than i have. The president and the white house, various offices in the administration focused on making the lie true. Can you imagine what theyd be able to get done if they focus on actual, real emergencies . Susan, you first. Don, i mean thats the thing is that were living the unimaginable, right . You know, you asked to imagine. What im struck by right now is that theres almost nothing that you could tell me right now that the president just tweeted that wouldnt at least have a certain plausibility to it because hes taken us so far down the road of the unimaginable, right . You know, we are actually talking about the president doctoring an official Weather Forecast with a sharpie pen in order to make a false tweet true. And thats where we are in september of 2019. You know, so theres sort of a fantasy element to the whole thing, and yet i think we have to step back and say, its a measure of the success of President Trumps project that we are all now living inside of this narrative. Interesting. I think we are talking about the absurd as if it is real here in this nice cnn panel framework, you know . I say that every day. Susan, youre channeling me. We have to talk about the absurdity as if it is not absurd, as if its logical, as if its normal. Right. We fit it in this frame. Its crazy. Its really crazy. He cant read a map. Thats a serious problem for the United States, not a problem for trump but a problem for the United States. I think what weve seen in the past few months is this sense that the president s getting worse. Thats the uncomfortable part of the past few months, whether its racist attacks against the city of baltimore or against democratic lawmakers, whether its any of his other antics lately, hes getting worse in some fashion. This week with alabama is another illustration of that. Now, whats the underlying cause . I dont know. Nobody knows for sure, but hes barely been in front of the cameras this week. Hes mostly only been on twitter, and hes wasted yet another week. When hes in front of the camera, hes doing the sharpie thing. Hes trying to reinforce his lie. This is your bailey wick because media is your expertise. Hes trying to use the media to make a lie true because he tweeted out a forecast from this very program four days yeah, from your show, wednesd wednesday, august 28th. But then the Trump Campaign tweeted out, put the actual date on it, which still doesnt make his lie and the sharpie thing true. Then he tweeted out, left the date off, which still doesnt make it true. But hes trying to use the media to make a lie true. Hes trying to use true information in a way thats twisted to prove his lie is correct. Look, on august 28th, there was a slight chance that maybe alabama would be affected in some small way. Obviously by sunday when he was saying alabama was threatened, alabama was not threatened. The National Weather Service Knows that. The incredible workers there that have been keeping the public safe note that. Thats why its a shame today noaa, this government agency, put out a statement trying to support the president s lie. Thats really disturbing. Whenever we see Government Agencies doing this. Our taxpayer dollars are being wasted in this way by the White House Press secretary who is out there misleading the public, by these Government Agencies that are trying to prove trumps falsehoods true. Thats ultimately why this story matters. It doesnt matter that, you know, the president got it wrong three times on sunday. It matters that weve spent a week seeing Government Agencies employed with our taxpayer money trying to prove it right. This is charlie, this is my gosh, this goes to susans point and i guess to your point, and i guess to everybodys point on this panel. But the absurdity of it all, the Trump Campaign is promoting, charlie, this marker that you can buy from their website. And this is as our fact checker daniel dale put it, this seems to be a first. The Trump Campaign selling memorabilia of its dishonesty. That is a whole new level. Right. Well what do you say to that . They must see some political advantage. They must see some political advantage to sharpiegate. Im just sitting a couple miles from the crayola factory. I prefer crayons, which may become the writing instrument of choice in the white house if this continues by the way. Again, i get asked to explain the inexplicable. I simply cant do it. The sad part is it just seems that the president has you know, he seems to be at war with the truth and fact. The serious question is, you know, how do we recover from this someday . I just hope that this doesnt set a precedent for the future that others will think they can go ahead and manipulate facts and the truth and just hope that well just all support them because hes the president or shes the president. Susan, meanwhile, cnn is reporting that National Security adviser john bolton and secretary of state mike pompeo rarely speak to each other outside formal meetings, recently went weeks without talking at all. I mean these are two people that are really crucial critical to our National Security. Is the administration falling apart while trump focuses on alabama . Well, right, its time to turn down the lights on the circus. That was the phrase that mike pompeo used in 2016 when he was campaigning against donald trump before he was for donald trump. And, you know, its interesting that report. I think its very significant. A few weeks ago in my piece about pompeo, i reported that they were not on speaking terms, the National Security adviser and the secretary of state. And, you know, this is at a moment where while the president is enmeshed in sharpiegate, were talking about the meltdown of the united kingdom, and the president was supposed to visit europe this week. He canceled that to monitor the hurricane, and to apparently engage in sharpiegate. Were talking about the administration seems to be having a big internal feud and possibly feud between these advisers and President Trump over a possible peace deal in afghanistan. This is americas longest war. Have you heard the president address that in any substantive or meaningful way . No. Youve had a complete breakdown in that process. The president meanwhile appears to be withholding aid from ukraine. Hes once again demanding that russia be readmitted to the g7, another source of tension with john bolton, his National Security adviser. Youre talking about questions about the trade war with china and are we going to have a new round of negotiations or not . The prospects for the u. S. canada mexico free trade agreement, any other president would be lobbying to save that where the prospects for passage are getting dimmer by the moment. Not a word from the white house that ive heard about that. Questions about the economy and hospital in charge of Economic Policy in the white house and what is it, were not talking about any of that because were talking about magic markers. Yeah. Were talking about magic markers. Magic markers is about lying in an emergency. The point is if the secretary of state and the National Security adviser arent speaking to each other and its not clear on what terms, if at all, theyre dealing with the president , meanwhile the president has sent Vice President pence to europe, and its not even the first foreign trip that he canceled in a months time. Its the second foreign trip that the president of the United States canceled in order to stay at home and watch tv and tweet. Yeah. Brian, i want to ask you about this because the president might as well be on the fox news Marketing Team for the opinion folks, right for the protrump talk shows. There are folks on the network who are calling him out, but he doesnt really tweet out about them because its an attempt to drive people who are favorable to him, to drive viewers to people who are favorable to him on fox news. Yes. That is ultimately what a lot of these stories are about. What he focuses on is what he hears on the protrump talk shows on fox, and that is to the detriment of everybody from alabama to california and everywhere in between. The country suffers when the president is obsessed with what he hears on tv. But that is why sharpiegate or emergencygate has been a big story this week, because he was angry at the fact checks on television. Notice those were on channels other than fox, but even on fox, news anchors were correcting trump on this fact and others. He only wants sycophants. He started the week by saying his main opponent is not democrats. Its the fake news media. That is what he wants. Thats why hes putting out a video today with the cnn logo being driven off the road. Hes creating that kind of environment on a daily basis. If i were the democrats, thats what i would be talking about all the time, the kind of behavior that is so outlandish, so beyond the pale. Its really just what a world. Upside down, don. Charlie, lets switch gears because i want to talk about this. According to a letter obtained by cnn, the House Oversight committee is investigating money spent by the u. S. Military at the airport closest to trumps turnberry resort in scotland. The letter from Elijah Cummings says 11 million was spent and the airport offered cut rate prices on rooms to some crews and free rounds of golf at the trump resort for americans, specifically military crews. Does this sound like a conflict of interest to you . Well, as a former chairman of the house ethics committee, i can tell you it certainly smells very bad, and it appears that it looks like so much of this seems to be selfdealing. You know, the whole issue with the Vice President in ireland staying at the president s hotel. The whole issue about bringing the g7 to his resort down in florida. I mean how blatant can he be . This would get you investigated if it were a member of the house of representatives doing this sort of thing, it would immediately come under investigation by the house. Its that simple. I think this is very problematic. I think cummings is going to have a field day with this. Hold on. Youre going to come back. Thats the tease. 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Now, we have heard the chairman of the committee, jerry nadler, make clear in recent weeks both in Court Filings and in public statements that they are conducting formal impeachment proceedings. But what does that look like . Thats been a big question Going Forward. Now we are learning that theyre drafting a resolution detailing exactly how that investigation will look like. What theyre saying is that among other things in this resolution, i am told by multiple sources familiar with the matter that the chairman will be authorized to call full committee and subcommittee hearings in connection with impeachment deliberations. Also it would allow the committee to have hearings, allow staff attorneys to question witnesses at hearings. Thats something that is not typically allowed to be done. Members of the committees are typically the ones who ask the questions, but this will allow staff attorneys to question witnesses. Well also see some language in there saying how the president s attorney can respond to questions in writing, also discussing how grand jury secret grand jury information can be handled by the committee in a classified setting. Now, what im told, don, is that this will essentially mirror the precedent set by the 1974 nixon impeachment proceeding under the House Judiciary Committee. They are essentially going to be following a similar process, but they expect a very full Fall Schedule starting with midseptember hearings with corey lewandowski, the former Trump Campaign manager who is mentioned in the Mueller Report in connection with the suggestions allegedly to thwart the mueller probe. We could see other matters that could come to a head over potential emolument violations under the constitution, questions about whether the president is enriching himself, also questions about whether the president dangled pardons to officials to break immigration laws. Those are some of the matters that we could see these procedures really play out, but expect on wednesday this first formal vote by this committee to make it clear what an impeachment probe actually looks like, don. All right. Manu, i want you to stand by. If youre just tuning in, again, this is the breaking news here on cnn. A house panel to make formal steps on impeachment probe starting next week. Manu said look for that to happen on wednesday. The House Judiciary Committee is prepared to vote next week on a resolution laying out the procedures for its investigation now that is actively considering moving to impeach president donald trump, a major step towards formalizing its sweeping probe. Thats according to multiple sources familiar with the effort. Manu, i have a couple questions for you here. Its saying that this sources are telling cnn that this resolution is expected to spell out that chairman jerry nadler has the authority to call hearings to either the full committee or subCommittee Levels in connection with its impeachment deliberation. So what is this . Is this a look at how impeachment proceedings would work . Reporter yeah. Before they actually get to the process and into the nittygritty . Reporter yeah. It will actually be as part of their information gathering, evidence gather before they actually recommend articles of impeachment. What theyre essentially saying here, don, is that jerry nadler will have the authority Going Forward to say, hey, we want to look into potential Campaign Finance violations involving this president as it relates to the hush money payments that occurred in 2016. Thats going to be in connection to this impeachment probe. Theyll call a hearing saying this is tied to this impeachment deliberation. Also they could say, for instance, that the president his efforts to pitch his miami golf resort as a location for the g7 summit in 2020, that could be a violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, which essentially limits foreign influence on a president tries to limits the president s ability to enrich himself in office. They could say that is also part of the impeachment probe. Theyre trying to make it clear the things theyre doing in the committee, tie it all back to impeachment, and ultimately make the decision, vodon actually the next step after these hearings would be to decide whether to vote to actually impeach the president. That would occur on the Committee Level and then the full house would have to vote. Manu, i want you to stand by because i want to bring in the group of folks we have assembled to talk about it. Charlie dent, im going to bring you in. Thoughts on the breaking news, what youve just heard. Well, its pretty clear that jerry nadler is trying to lay down a predicate for potential articles of impeachment. And given the president s referral, referral of business to his properties or trying to refer business to his properties, as manu said, this raises issues of the emoluments clause, selfdealing. There are problems. Now, as a political matter, im not yet convinced that nancy pelosi or those democrats in swing districts thing impeachment is a good idea. There may be a lot of merit to what nadler is doing, but as a political matter, im not so sure this is where nancy pelosi and many of those district democrats want to go right now. Susan glasser . Well, look, i think what is happening is that congressman nadler has made it increasingly clear in recent months since the delivery of the Mueller Report that, you know, he was going to be pursuing the investigations, call it an impeachment inquiry or not. So in effect, what manu is reporting right now is the codification of what was already under way in ways that set more clear parameters about it. It doesnt lock the house or even the House Judiciary Committee in to actually moving forward with impeachment. What it does is to set the terms and rules and conditions under which this investigation would proceed. So i dont think its a final determination of a political decision in how theyre going to move, but what it says is that theyre going to keep that option open. Im sure that its going to make President Trump furious because it means that, you know, theres no clearing of him despite his many, many efforts to claim complete and utter vindication. Its something that hes very likely to head into this election season with this threat hanging over him and, in fact, by setting a structure around impeachment, youre in effect making it a permanent political reality for the president even if democrats havent resolved their own internal fight over whether its good for them or not. Yeah. To move forward. Follow up on that, brian, because, you know, if just this part of the proceedings, right, will be the news. Yes, absolutely. It is significant to americans all around to hear that there is another step in this direction. Cnns adding new details about this right now. But what this is going to look like next week, what it looks like to formalize an impeachment probe because it has seemed up until now the democrats are investigating, but to what end . It is clear most democrats want to see this president impeached, but there is this fear about the political ramifications of such a move. Nancy pelosi just said a couple weeks ago that she does not think there is public support for impeachment. Well, what are democrats doing to gain public support . What are they doing . Pelosi not necessarily doing a lot. Maybe thats going to start to change now. I think historians will look at the Trump Presidency and say every week there are news stories that are about impeachable conduct, but its all about politics. Its all about the democrats and what they want to press. And timing as well, charlie dent. What do you make of the timing . Of the timing . Well, i think the timing probably isnt that bad. I mean just given what happened this week, given the selfdealing, nadler is smart, i think, to drop it. Now, that said, if i were nadler, you know, he probably has he probably has those articles of impeachment already written. Theyre drafted. Hes just waiting for the goahead from up high from the speaker to move forward, and i just dont see that permission slip coming. I dont see it coming anytime soon because the American Public simply isnt there on impeachment. But who is trying to persuade the American Public to support it . Thats my point. Who is out there in the Democratic Party loudly leading this charge . I dont see anybody leading this charge right now. Nobody with a loud voice like trump has. Go ahead, susan. If you go back and look at the watergate precedent, in fact it was the impeachment inquiry and the investigation itself that created the narrative and created and built a story for the American People to engage. And it really its fascinating to look at that history in the context of where we are right now and to see how peter rudino from right where i grew up in new jersey took that committee and basically turned it on as a way of getting the American People to understand the story of watergate that up until that time they had tuned out. And it involved actually having real people and a real investigation too. Up until now, thats something i have to say that congress has really lost a lot of investigative capacity even that was there when congressman dent first came into office. I mean, you know, there used to be legendary investigators on capitol hill. They werent just sending political letters to people. They had people who could actually turn up new information and new facts and get witnesses who could build a story in the way that great investigative reporters can. And i havent seen any of that really coming out of this congress. What we talk about as a congressional investigation is basically like a political letter that is tweeted out the second that somebody writes a news story. Yeah. Thats got to be the last word. Susan glasser, thank you for helping us with the breaking news. Charlie dent, brian stelter. Manu, thank you as well. I appreciate it. If you look at your screen, the house panel to take up formal steps on impeachment probe next week. 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Noaa releasing a Statement Today trying to back up the president s false assertion that alabama was going to get a piece of Hurricane Dorian, saying this. The information provided by noaa and the National Weather center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical stormforce winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact alabama. That statement doesnt match noaas own guidance from its birmingham, alabama office, that alabama would not see any impacts. So Monica Medina is here. Were glad shes here. Shes a former noaa general counsel. Appreciate this. Good evening to you. You said last night on this show that in the future, the white house could intimidate the Weather Service into not correcting the president s false claims about weather emergencies. Well, today noaa actually went a further step. They actively disavowed the National Weather service in birmingham, alabamas correction. So what do you make of this . Its a stunning development. It is shocking, and im going to lose a lot of sleep over it. I have to tell you this is an unprecedented move, and i cant imagine a prior noaa administrator ever agreeing to change the forecast this way and to undermine all those workers who have been working around the clock for days to come up with these forecasts and make sure theyre as accurate as possible. Its just shocking and unbelievably disappointing that the people around the president and at noaa, in the leadership, didnt make this stop, didnt say no, didnt put their foot down and didnt threaten to quit if the president wouldnt back down. Does this damage, monica does it damage noaas credibility when it comes to the next storms to come . Absolutely. Totally. And, you know, ive been like you, following this story all week for our daily planet, the publication i write. And it is just unbelievable. Each time the president has gone out with a new statement, it has taken a huge whack at the agency and undermined its credibility, and tonight was just the last straw. You see it in the news media, in twitter. People have lost faith in noaa, and its just sad to me. So many great people who have worked so hard around the clock, flying through hurricanes, trying to bring these forecasts to the public as accurately as possible. And then the entire Weather Enterprise of all the forecasters on Networks Like cnn accurately giving those forecasts out to the public to make sure that people are warned and can be safe. And that the president would undermine that is just unbelievable. Its out of control, and im speechless, and im sleepless over it. Yeah. Well, you say that you would have quit noaa if you had been directed to put out this statement. Should leadership at noaa resign . I honestly think that it would be hard for them to look at themselves in the mirror after having undermined the entire National Weather service and the Hurricane Center and still lead that agency. I dont know how they can do it with credibility. Monica medina, appreciate your time. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Thank you. Thank you. The Trump Administrations family separation policy at the border taking a terrible toll on immigrant children. A report by a government watchdog outlines the devastating trauma theyre facing and how facilities are struggling to cope. Steak and sh more shrimp and you know what goes great with that shrimp . Steak and unlimited shrimp and this year, with two freshly made sides, youll get more than you imagined. Hurry into outback now for our steak and unlimited shrimp. Outback steakhouse you can stream and scroll through other peoples vacations, or you can be the kind of person that books their own vacation. A booker. 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But its important that you know what family separation has meant to immigrant children held in terrible conditions and suffering heartbreaking trauma. One Program Director quoted in the report saying every single separated kid has been terrified. I want to discuss this now with professor warren benford and dr. Julie linton. So good to have both of you on. Thank you so much. Professor benford, im going to start with you. You detail these dangerous and neglectful conditions happening at the u. S. Border facilities. This was back in june. I want to read some of the excerpts from this report. It says some separated children expressed acute grief that caused them to cry inconsolably. Others who believe their parents had abandoned them were angry and confused. A 7 or 8yearold boy was separated from his father without any explanation as to why the separation occurred. The child was under the delusion that his father had been killed and believed that he would also be killed. Much of this is consistent with what you saw, right . Yes, and it wasnt just on the june visits that we saw this. We actually had previously interviewed separated children, and they told us horrific stories of being put on buses in the middle of the night and being driven across state line to locations that were hours and hours away from where their parents were, having siblings dropped off at other locations, not knowing where they were going and being just terrified. So this is consistent. Dr. Linton, can the psychological trauma these children go through turn into can it be shown physically, some physical symptoms . Absolutely. What we know about trauma that is as serious as this, known as toxic stress, can have symptoms like headaches and abdominal pain and also manifest in a number of ways. Kids may really have difficulty eating, sleeping, toileting. They may have behavioral symptoms or developmental regression, things like speech delay or going backwards in the things they had already learned how to do. Yeah. Professor binford, you say there are foster care homes available under contract with hhs that are really just sitting empty right now. The law even requires children to be placed in the least restrictive situation possible. How is the Trump Administration getting around this . You know, we have no idea. I think this is one of the examples of how this administration is breaking the blackletter law. The Trafficking Victim protection reauthorization act clearly requires that children be placed in the least restrictive environment possible in the childs best interest, and theres no question that the facilities that ive seen, 1,500 kids being kept in a walmart in texas, another 2,000, over 2,000 kids being kept in a tent city in tornillo, texas, that these are not in the childrens best interest. And we need to start to place these children in appropriate environments for the short period of time until they can be reunited with their families here in the United States. Dr. Linton, in your congressional testimony about the administrations policy on family separations, you said that the harm that this is causing can be irreparable and lifelong. Talk to me about the consequences of that. Absolutely. What we know about trauma, particularly when its as serious as Something Like forcible separation of a child from a parent, is that the buffer for stress is essentially stripped. And everything that that child is experiencing is done in terror, in absolute terror. And that kind of serious stress with hormones that are meant to be only used when youre fleeing a tiger, going through the body in an ongoing way can cause short and longterm health impacts, things like the shortterm effects ive already shared, pain, suffering, depression, anxiety. And in the long run, can really place children at very serious risk for serious short and longterm Health Problems such as diabetes, depression, cancer, posttraumatic stress disorder. I know this is important for you, professor binford, can you tell us about the amplify the children project . Yes. Next week well be launching project amplify, and the intent is to educate the public about the childrens experiences in these facilities. As dr. Linton has explained, not just the separation of the children from their parents is traumatic for them, but being kept in facilities in which theyre being accused and neglected layers adds another layer of trauma to their experience. And so we have asked for actors, artists, songwriters, musicians, theater performers all across the country to come together and organize events that can share these childrens stories with the public. And so we have people from los angeles to portland to chicago and new york all organizing events in the coming months in order to share these childrens stories because we want to make sure that the American Public knows what this administration is doing to these kids because its causing longterm damage. Warren binford, julie linton, thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Well be right back. Powerful signal everth out all for just 30 bucks a line for 4 lines. And for a limited time, get free smartphones too get 4 new lines of unlimited and 4 free phones for just 30 bucks a line you know that look . That life of the party look. Walk it off look. One more mile look. Reply all look. Own your look with fewer lines. Theres only one botox® cosmetic. Its the only one fda approved to temporarily make frown lines, crows feet and forehead lines look better. The effects of botox® cosmetic may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. 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