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Lagarde, and leading what looked like, i mean, it was a pretty awkward moment. were also going to talk tonight about reports about a facebook group for border patrol agents. reportedly including cruel jokes about migrants deaths and lewd and insulting, vulgar comments about congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. but first, i want to talk about our new cnn poll and the shake-up in the 2020 race tonight. here to discuss, chris cillizza and nia-malika henderson. nice to see you both. ill start...

And former border patrol agent in a facebook group. they joked about the death and migrants and ocasio-cortez. welcome to the show, rob, i have to ask you even if it is a small number of people, these posts are mocking migrant deaths. you wonder can you expect people who have these personal believes to conduct themselves. >> they should be rooted out or disciplined strongly or fired for things like that. if it is against the policy or it is, they should have known the rules. when you are law enf...

>> reporter: good morning, the national border patrol chief and u.s. border patrol council were quick to condemn the posts. they brought added scrutiny as members showed up to tour the facilities along the southern border. u.s. customs and border protection under fire, and under investigation digging into what it calls disturbing and completely inappropriate social media posts, allegedly written by current and former employees in a closed facebook group. p the group reportedly named for a group ...

Daughter was taken away from her. she tweeted this. now i see the inside of these facilities. it is not just the kids, it is eve everyone. people drinking out from toilets. i brought it to superiors and they said officers are under stress and act out sometimes. officers are under stress and act out sometimes? whats your reaction to this defense? >> i would like to say that i am shocked. we are robbed. you need to weed out the bad apples. we cant normalize racism and whats going on in that facebo...

Vaccina aleviation there. she got her own agenda here and i am going to take of the grain of salt of some of the things she says is happening down there. it does not take off the hook. any of those agents who did those things and 9,000 people allegedly in that facebook group. i dont know how many. >> thank you to both of you. i got to let you go. thank you for watching our coverage. our coverage continues here on cnn. ...you can do no wrong. where did you learn that? the internet... yeah? mmm! w...

According to the facebook group page was formed in 2016 and has 9,500 members. its unclear how many of these members claim to actually be active agents. but we spoke with the chief operations about the posts. heres what he said. >> men and women of the border patrol are working very hard out there trying to protect the national security of america. its very difficult to do right now. when you are dedicating a large percent of the work force to dealing with a humanitarian crisis out there. and me...

>> reporter: the national border patrol council and border patrol chief both quick to condemn calling it a vile and reprehensible. what this closed facebook group did was bring renewed scrutiny to an agency already struggling with public perception. under fire and under investigation, digging into what it calls disturbing and completely inappropriate social media posts allegedly written by kurnlt and former employees in a closed facebook group. propublica first exposing, one post about the fathe...

So, cut toms and border protection officials are vowing to investigate reports of cruel and vulgar posts that were allegedly made by current and former border patrol agents. the comments were made within a closed facebook group. where people allegedly joked about the death of migrants and degraded members of congress. including congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. it claims it was able to link participants in the online conversation to legitimate facebook profiles belonging to who? border pat...

Her portfolio certainly covers many of the things that were discussed. womens empowerment, womens economic development, business development. but sort of the foreign policy aspect, scratching their heads. ivanka trump asserting her way in here. i think if the first lady had been there, we wouldnt see her in so many photo ops. but its that question, that fine line of the daughter versus the adviser. and which leads and shes taken some heat for, you know, just how much presence she had on this tri...