Moving troops to the border with hong kong. Everyone should be calm and safe. This is coming as thousands of antigovernment protesters took over the airports massive departure and arrival halls, grounding flights now for the secondstraight day with riot police literally at the front door. Paramedics tried to push their way through to get to one man who protesters accused of being an Undercover Police officer. Some people reportedly hitting him as he just sat there lying on the ground. He lost consciousness and he was eventually evacuated. Right at the airport entrance, there were police in full riot gear. Protesters used luggage carts to try to keep them out. And at one point, fullblown clashes broke out. Some demonstrators and Police Fought each other, handtohand, protesters hitting an officer with his own baton. All of this as passengers have been arriving at the airport for their flights. There have been scenes of angry passengers confronting demonstrators furious, because they cant get on their planes. President trump speaking out on these protests there in hong kong just a little while ago. Well, the hong kong thing is a very tough situation, very tough. Well see what happens, but im sure it will work out. I hope it works out for everybody, including china, by the way. I hope it works out for everybody. Its a very tricky situation. I think it will work out and i hope it works out for liberty. I hope it works out for everybody, including china. I hope it works out peacefully. I hope nobody gets hurt. I hope nobody gets killed. Cnns will ripley is with me now. Actually based in hong kong. Hoping to get a flight back into hong kong tomorrow so you can be there tomorrow to cover this for us. But first of all, who are these protesters . What do they want . These are young people primarily who feel that theyre fighting for their future, the future of hong kong. They know that 2047 is the year that china takes back full control. Because one country, two systems was guaranteed from the handover from british rule in 97 to 2047. But the fear in hong kong amongst some is that chinas moving that deadline up and theyve built a bridge that connects hong kong literally to the mainland. Theres a highspeed rail line. And you have an increasing feeling that china is becoming more heavyhanded. And what triggered these protests was an extradition bill proposed by carrie lam that would have allowed china to extradite suspects back to the mainland, accused of crimes by beijing. The concern amongst people in hong kong that those crimes could include speaking out against the communist party, effectively stifling freedom of speech and freedom of expression in hong kong. Thats what started all of this, but it has now devolved into something much darker and much more violent. So is china stepping in and is what the president tweeted about the military on the border, is that whats happening . Im not sure what intelligence hes referring to, but what we have seen in recent days are a number of videos posted by some Chinese State media showing military armed police assembling in shenzhen, which if they drive on that bridge that was just completed within the last year, they can get to hong kong, military vehicles, chinese authorities in a very short period of time. A lot of analysts at this stage believe its still beijing trying to send a message, almost of intimidation, of wharng what could happen. But i think the Chinese Government is slowly building the case. And there might be people in hong kong that would support some kind of intervention, because they fel like the Hong Kong Police have been overwhelmed. But beijing has to be very careful. Once they make that decision, theyre not going to go in halfway. But these are optics. Some are already calling it Tiananmen Square 2. 0. Were not there yet, but getting you closer and closer. We wish you safe travels and will be talking to you from hong kong hopefully within the next 24 to 48 hours. Back here at home, wall streets recent wild ride continues today, but this time it is to the upside. Stocks rebounding shortly from mondays tripledigit decline after President Trump backed off a trade threat against china, at least for now. The white house announcing that a new wave of tariffs on items like iphones, tvs, video game consoles. Its an estimated 300 billion in chinesemade consumer goods will now go into effect in december instead of two weeks from now. The stock market is way up today for various reasons, including tariffs. Just in case they might have an impact on people, what weve done is weve delayed it so that they wont be relevant for the Christmas Shopping season. And heres some live pictures. The president there now in pittsburgh, where hell be giving a speech touting his policies and their impact on the economy. But a good day for the dow. Thats not the whole story here. Economists at several top firms now increasing the odds of a recession. And some of them appointing to trumps trade battle with china and the uncertainty that comes right along with that. Theres also the deficit, which grew to 876 billion through the month of july. That is a 27 jump from the same time last year. And the white house says the deficit will exceed 1 trillion this year. That is the first time thats happened since the years following the great recession. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is traveling with the president. So jeremy, we saw the president there up on the stage. Whats his message today . Reporter well, brooke, you can see the president has just arrived on stage. Were at shells petrochemical complex. And here you have several thousand workers who are working to build this plant out. Once it goes into effect, this plant will convert natural gas into one of the precursors for plastics. So what youre going to hear the president here talking about is his policies on the economy, his policies in terms of natural gas and energy independence. Thats something that he touts very frequently. Obviously, many of those policies are at the expense of environmental regulations. But make no mistake, brooke, a big message here for the president is going to be about politics. This may be an official white house event, but we are here in beaver county, which is one of the key counties in western pennsylvania that was crucial to the president s victory in 2016, turning pennsylvania from blue to red. And he is also pinning many of his hopes for 2020 in western pennsylvania this time around as well. However, he wont be able to take credit for this plant in particular. Shell announced plans to build this back in 2012. But perhaps what well hear from the president is that if they do reelect him to a second term, there will be many more plants like this. Certainly, the president standing behind the Natural Gas Industry in the United States. Brooke . Jeremy, thank you there in pennsylvania. Well listen in. Catherine rampell is an opinion columnist for the Washington Post and a cnn political commentator. So why do you think the president delayed the tariffs until december . I think there were two core reasons. One is that he was really worried about consumer blowback. He actually even said today that he decided to delay these tariffs because he didnt want them to effect the Christmas Holiday shopping season, which is a little bit at odds with his claim that consumers are not paying the tariffs, you know, hes trying to save china money for the u. S. Holiday shopping season . But the other issue, of course, is the risk of recession, right . That economists, politicians, business leaders, business Industry Groups have been warning that the introduction of this latest round of tariffs is introducing more uncertainty and more costs. And that that could tip the balance here. Do you think its a coincidence that he delayed the tariffs and then, boom, hes speaking in western pennsylvania on the economy . Its hard to say. It certainly seems likely that if he were thinking ahead, that he could have timed this announcement look at the markets. Right, so he could say, look, the markets are rising. We had a great day with the dow today. However, of course, the reason why markets are rising is that they had fallen before in response to the threat of tariffs. So again, its trump is sort of committing arson and taking credit for putting out the fire. Is there any incentive for china to back down from this, now that trump walked back his tougher talk . It certainly doesnt seem that way. Look, if anything, he has discredited his own argument that theres no pain for the United States, as a result of this trade war, which again, he has been saying pretty consistently until today. And china has now realized that theres a pain threshold that they can take advantage of and of course, we have an election next year, they do not. So if anything, it looks like that trump has basically been caught in a lie, hes been bluffing all along, which arguably china already knew, but this reinforced that. And beyond that, you know, it sort of makes him look weak. If china was going to cry uncle, they would have cried uncle already. Its not clear how announcing the tariffs and delaying the tariffs and announcing the tariffs and delaying them again because hes running on the strong economy, why gamble like that . I think hes genuinely confused about the wisdom of his trade wars. I think he really doesnt understand what accounts for the trade deficit. The fact that these tariffs do hurt u. S. Consumers, u. S. Businesses. Sometimes that message seems to get through. Again, he seems to have been responding to market declines recently that were reinforcing that response. But, you know, i think hes genuinely confused. And again, the economy is the only good thing he has going for him right now. Arguably, it was the right thing to do by pulling back, on at least some of these tariffs. Some of them still will go into effect on september 1st, by the way. Most of them have been delayed or canceled, but some of the damage has already been done here. Why would you hire investing a new factory given the uncertainty of the trade environment, given the uncertainty of the business environment. You need to know the rules of the road and its impossible to know that under this investigation. Catherine rampell, thank you very much. We have new details this afternoon. The case of jeffrey epstein. 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Im brooke baldwin. The fbi has been searching this estate of the uber rich sex predator jeff epstein. And we are learning just who was watching the 66yearold when he apparently hanged himself in his jail cell on saturday. A source says at least one of the employees assigned to monitor him was essentially a fillin guard. Not even someone part of the regular detention workforce. Epsteins suicide inside the mcc, the Metropolitan Correctional Center in new york city has robbed his victims of seeing justice against the man who violated them, so say their lawyers. And the detail here adds to this mosaic of regularity surrounding his death. The source adds that epsteins cell mate was moved out the day before epstein took his own life, that that went against protocol. That he was supposed to have a cell mate. The rules state an inmate just removed from suicide watch, as epstein had been, must have a roommate. Plus, the source says it was hours before anyone realized that epstein had actually killed himself, also against protocol, which mandates a check on him every half an hour. Michael daly is a special correspondent for the daily beast. He wrote this piece about epsteins prison, mcc, where he died, is a place that time forgot. So hello, friend. Youve been in there, youve been in the mcc more times than you care to recount. So you know this place. You know how claustrophobic it was. You said it was the first high rise jail ever. As far as i know, yeah. So how the heck could this have happened . Was it just seriously the lack of guards . Well, its not just the lack i mean, there were two officers there, but its a question of who were the officers and what kinds of lives had they been leading . More than a year ago, the Officers Union came forward and said, listen, theres a real problem at the mcc. We dont have enough officers. The officers we do have are being forced to work overtime, sometimes 16, 17 hours a day. And then when they get off of that, theres no one to relieve them, theyve got to work a couple of hours, they cant afford to live in manhattan, theyve got to commute, and some of them say, by the time i get home, ill have to turn around, so ill sleep in my car. They sleep in their cars. So then they go back to a place, and to be a corrections officer is a very tough job in any circumstances. I mean, youre basically doing time with people. And its a dangerous job, its emotionally draining, its depressing. And to add all of that on top of it, then you have that was one of the officers on duty. The other officer on duty was had been what they called augmented. That means that you received a little bit of training at the beginning of your career, but since then, youve either been a clerk, an engineer or youve done maintenance or kept the ventilation going. Your job is not to be a security guard. All of a sudden, you get told, hey, youre coming in and youre going to be a corrections officer. Not only a corrections officer, but the special housing unit, which is the unit for disciplined and protected people, right . So youre given the toughest assignment in the place, right . And on top of that, youre probably also working overtime. And then youve got to figure that thats been going on for a long, long time, which degrades the whole morale of the place, because there arent maintenance people, enough maintenance people, the place starts falling apart physically. And when youre in a place that falls apart physically, you start getting a little frayed mentally. I mean, falling apart physically, you describe it in your piece. You go in, theres mold, water leaks, roaches, rats. The ventilation doesnt really work. The cells are either broiling hot or freezing cold. Its a mess. And the one you know, theres always little telling details in you know, the lawyers are not allowed to bring in watches or phones. So they go up to meet with their clients first of all, it takes forever to meet their clients, because a lot of times there arent enough officers to get at the door and get them up. But then, there are wall clocks, right . So they look at the wall clocks, thats fine, but theres no batteries in any of the wall clocks. So it literally is a place that time forgot, because the wall clocks dont even work. I mean and then you say its a conspiracy. Its a conspiracy that people, like most things that happen like that, its a conspiracy of dunces, is what it is. A conspiracy of dunces. You open and you close your whole piece about attorney general bill barr and how he is calling and demanding like every three hours, how this man could have taken his life, given the fact that he was supposed to be monitored. And so it sounds to me that this is bill barr, but this is trumps jpd. Therefore, this situation falls under bill barr. It does he knew in april, he testified, that he knew about augmentation pb and there had been a hiring freeze before he got there. And to give him a little bit of credit, he ended that hiring freeze in april. But if youve got a longterm hiring freeze, you dont just all of a sudden get Corrections Officers the next day. But its been going on for years and its gotten worse and worse and worse. And that union more than a year ago, theres a magnificent woman who runs the Officers Union named serene greg. And she more than a year ago said this is a serious situation. And when i talked to her yesterday, she said, you know, it was inevitable what was going to question. It was just a question of who. A matter of who was going to be able to do what he did over the weekend. Michael daly, your reporting is excellent. Thank you very much. Thank you. Coming up next, a Police Officer on leave after this kkk document is found hanging on a wall in his home. Hear from the africanamerican man who actually found it and why its raising new questions about an old case. And no more huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Trumps top immigration official is rewriting the words of the statue of liberty poem. Its rukmini here from the new york times. Hey, you see this . So chantix can help you quit slow turkey. Rkey. Along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. With chantix you can ke