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Was a Sit Down with oprah. Its not a Press Conference the way it was not a Press Conference . Yes. Speaking of words. Okay. Thank you guys for joining us. Happy friday. Thanks to all of you for being with us as well. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now party has a new scandal on its hands this morning, cnns kfile uncovering explosive online comments made by the republican Nominee Running for North Carolina well, in a governor, republicans trying to distance themsel...

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By Jessica Lussenhop and Agnel Philip, photography by Jaida Grey Eagle for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. When Cheyenne Hinojosa saw her husband, Jose, and her mother charging through the doors at the gas station where she worked, she assumed something terrible had...

By Max Blau, photography by Lucy Garrett for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. This story was produced in partnership with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism and co-published with the Commercial Appeal. On a brisk morning in the winter of 2019, at a standing-room-only...

Not running. there was a toilet, but no running water for people to drink. in fact, one of the women said that she was told by an agent to drink water out of the toilet. these are the conditions -- these are the conditions that have been created by the trump administration. >> according to propublica, several posts from the secret facebook group referred to the visit by members of the congressional hispanic caucus including congresswoman ocasio-cortez and veronica escobar. one member encouraged ...

Appears current and former border patrol agents joked about the death of migrants and made derogatory comments about latino members of congress. propublica first reported the group and nbc news has not yet independently verified the group and has not seen the posts directly. according to propublica, the facebook group is created in august of 2016. it has about 9,500 members and is called im in 1015. 1015 is border patrol code for aliens in custody. propublica received images of several discussio...

To anything good. so the question now is how is congress going to respond to this? because the problem here is really what the members of congress are trying to highlight which is theres a lack of accountability. a lack of oversight. we now know according to propublicas reporting that these accounts are linked to real border patrol agents. people who they could tomorrow go and get and punish and punish publicly in order to try and staunch this culture that is being created in the institutions so...

Congress. i will say the republicans do want border security. the democrats want open borders. open borders means tremendous crime. >> so heidi, if you read through some of the posts on the facebook page as reported by propublica, again, we havent independently seen those at nbc news, but theyre obviously disgusting an obviously reprehensible the way they talk about the people in the facilities and members of congress. but this is members of congress getting their firsthand view and not having t...