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Dozen more. Could an earthquake in mexico cause problems for the world cup match . Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Lawmakers are set to vote on two immigration bills and the white house is trying to deflect the growing out rain rage of the ze tolerance policy. Here is why, the president tweeting over the weekend, democrats can fix their forced family break up at the border by working with republicans on new legislation for a change. This is why we need more republicans elected in november. Democrats are good at high taxes, high crime and obstruction. Sad. The president adding the democrats should get together with the republican counterparts and work something out on Border Security and safety. Dont wait until after the election because you are going on to lose. Some chose fathers day for the tour of the southern texas border and Detention Centers and got a first hand look at the zero tolerance policy. We have m in texas. Reporter dave and christine, this is the stop on the fathers day tour of the facilities. They wanted to highlight the immigration policy i mplemented by donald trump. After they saw the facility, they said this is zero humanity. There is no longer to the policy. The administration is arguing by inflicting this harm on children and parents, this stress, they are sending the message for people not to seek asylum in the United States. It is completely unacceptable under anymo moral code to infli trauma on them in order to send some political message to adults somewhe somewhere overseas. The president argues this giving him political leverage. Hurting kids to get political leverage is unacceptable. It is evil. Reporter one of the democratic lawmakers on the tour was pete welsh of vermont. He says there has been 2,000 children separated from families over the course of the last six weeks. I asked if he heard of any plans to reunite children with parents. He said right now there is uncertainty. Dave and christine. Nick there in texas. Homeland secretary Kirstjen Nielsen taking to twitter accusing the press and members of congress of quote irresponsible and unproductive reporting. She falsely claims we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. She goes on to say there is no reason to illegally cross between ports of entry for anyone. Cnn has a first hand look at the processing sender in texas. Inside a cold and dark scene. Families are brought by a facility and separated by gender. Dianne gallagher has more from texas. Reporter dave and christine, this is the Rio Grande Valley Processing Center. They have a greater intake here than any other on the border in texas. At this point, more families have been separated leaving this facility than any other since the zero tolerance policy went into effect last month. 1,774 children left the facility separated from parents. That is why senators merkley and other members of the house came to tour this facility. We did the same. I went inside and ill be frank with you. It is a de facto prison. It is a holder area. It is a pen. You have the 12foot change linked pens holding families. If it is a father, it is a large pen. There are 600 unaccompanied minors held in the facility. That number changes all the time. They are moving people in and out. This is a processing facility. They are supposed to be here for 72 hours. Some of the people i talked to in here, they were here for four or five days. Thats does vary. When i talked to border patrol, they said the zero tolerance policy is requiring more paper work because of prosecution. Things we were not doing before. There is more paper work. It is creating a little bit of a lag. We have people, but were strained. The senators who came here, they went to another fa secility in texas. Dave and christine, they hope this political pressure, describing what is happening here, will put pressure on the president and he will rescind the policy. Dianne gallagher, thank you. The president says this is a democrat policy and the democrats have to fix it. The first lady is entering the immigration debate. Melania trumps spokeswoman says she hates to see children separated from the families. We need to be a country of laws, but govern with heart. She is hopeful both sides of the aisle will come together to achieve reform. Laura bush lashing out for the Trump Administration for separating children. Rare for the first lady to criticize the ofce. In the washington post, she writes, quote, i live in a border sta i appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international borders, boundary, but this is cruel and immoral and it breaks my heart. Kellyanne conway claims nobody in the white house likes the policy of separating Migrant Children from parents. But the Trump Administration is using the practice to force democrats to the table on Border Security. As a mother, as a catholic, as somebody who has a conscious and would not say the junk that somebody said apparently allegedly. I would tell you nobody likes this policy. Congress has to act. He can end it on his own. Chuck, Congress Passed a law it is a crime. This is a congressional law from many years ago. It is a crime to enter this country illegally. If they dont like that law, they should change it. Separating migrant families is a policy announced by the Trump Administration this spring. The white house cannot identify any law that requires the separation of children from their parents once they enter the country illegally. Tragic highway crash not far from the u. S. mexico border. The sheriff says u. S. Border patrol was chasing a vehicle at 100 mi an hour and flipped. The vehicle was packed with undocumented iimmigrants. Four people died at the scene. A fifth died in san antonio. Global stocks falling overnight as u. S. And china inch c closer to trade war. China tariffs are back on for stealing tech and u. S. Trade secrets. A plan to slap 25 billion on exports. Xi jinpings made in china 2025 initiative with aerospace and robotics and manufacturing and cars. They accused the u. S. Of launching a trade war. They are targeting soybeans and crude oil. It is hitting states that support trump. It could cost farmser farmers. American chip makers will be hurt by the tariffs. U. S. Companies send finished chips for testing. Tariffs hurt companies that do big business in china like boeing and cat eerpillarcaterpi. It expects to make 1 trillion in china over the next 20 years. And an earthquake during rush hour with deadly results. We will have details next. Welcome back. 13 minutes past the hour. Three people are dead and 70 injured after a 5. 3 magnitude earthquakeosaka, japan last night. We are getting reports of travel delays in the region with Train Service suspended across osaka. The fbi agent removed from the russia probe for antitrump text is willing to testify before congress. On friday, the House Judiciary Committee propcessed a subpoena to compel peter strzok to testi testify. The subpoena is not necessary. Strzok who President Trump calling on trwitter a sick lose will testify. And roger stone tells cnn he met with a Russian National in may of 2016 and offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton in exchange for 2 million. He now claims the meeting was part of ager effort by Law Enforcement to set up the trump campaign. Both accusing the Russian National of being an fbi informant. Stone has denied contact in the past and said no information was exchanged and the offer was turned down. Rudy giuliani says President Trump will not issue any pardons during the russia investigation. He is not ruling out the possibility once the investigation is over. Here is what giuliani told jake tapper. The president has issued no pardons in the investigation. The president is not going to issue pardons in the investigation. He retains his pardoning power. He can pardon in his judgment based on the Justice Department counsels office. Not me. Giuliani continues to insist the russia investigation is compromised. He said produardons could be usf someone was treated unfairly. President trump defending decision to suspend joint military exercises with south korea after the singapore summit. He said they were costly and provocative. He calls them war games. How is that playing out in south korea . We have Nic Robertson with the latest. Nic, the defensive drills are meant to show the american and south koreans are ready for combat in that region. The president calls them war games. How is that playing in seoul now . Reporter you know, there have been a lot of questions asked of the military here. There were rumors over the weekend that there was perhaps some new north south korean agreement on the pull back of possible heavy weapons around the dmz and border area. That the mary here says is not true. There is push back on the rumors there will be agreement with the south korea and United States on the joint military exercises. The word in south korea here, official word, there is no deal yet. This is something they dont want to speculate or comment about at the moment. They are not saying if the deal can be reached by the end of the week. What we are hearing and south Korean Foreign minister spoke to mike pompeo last night. They spoke for about 20 minutes. We understand to make sure that the communication and coordination is going well to appraise each other of the steps taken since the summit last week and also on the south korean side to reiterate they want to remain engaged in a stepy step process with the United States on the decisions it makes which affects south korea. Are hearing no agreement on the stopping of the joint military exercises. The expectation that is going to happen. South korea sending the Deputy Foreign minister to washington this week. Christine. Nic, thank you. In seoul this morning. Thank you. So many interviews with the president over that. You wonder the language. Where did he get the language . No one in the Administration Calls them provocative war games. No one. He said friday this is my term. This is what the North Koreans call it and adversaries. He said no, i made it up. Ahead, a history making win at the United States open. Something we have not seen in nearly three decades. History next. Im a small business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. So how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. Feel like 50 . How can i share new plans virtually . How can i download an efile . Virtual tours . Zipfile . Really big files . In seconds, not minutes. Just like that. Like everying. The answer is simple. Ill do what ive always done. Dream more, dream faster, and above all. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Angelina jolie visited iraq over the weekend. Mosul to be exact. She met with displaced families. She urged the International Community to not forget mosul and take care of its people. And for the first time in 29 years, a repeat champion at the u. S. Open. 28yearold brooks koepka, the last man standing sunday at shinnecock hills. Koepka is the first golfer to win backtoback since Curtis Strange in 1988. Koepka is the seventh player ever to win consecutive u. S. Opens. He takes home a prize of 2. 1 million. World cup soccer fans in mexico celebrating so hard they may have triggered an artificial earthquake. The only goal in the game, two monitoring stations detected the ground shaking. So did a station in chile. The artificial quake registered a 2. 0 on the richter scale. 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The Trump Administration fires back blaming democrats and media insisting there is no policy separating migrant families at the border. Breaking overnight. Deadly earthquake in japan kills at least three people and injured a dozen more. Will welcome back to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Two first ladies weighing in on immigration. Republicans are set to vote on two immigration bills as they argue over the zero tolerance policy. Administration critics accuse the president of separating Migrant Children from families for political leverage. Here is wh the president tweeting democrats can fix the forced family break ups by legislating change. Democrats are only good for three things. Taxes, high crime and obstruction. Sad. The president adding the democrats should get together with the republican counterparts and work something out on Border Security and safety. Dont wait until after the electi because you are going on to lose. Some chose fathers day for the tour of the southern texas border and Detention Centers and got a first hand look at the zero tolerance policy. We have more from nick valencia in brownsville, texas. Report, this is the stop on the fathers tour of the faties. Their intention was to highlight the immigration policy currently implemented by President Trump. After they saw the facility, they said this is zero humanity. There is zero logic to the policy. The administration is arguing by inflicting this harm on children and parents, this stress, they are sending the message for people not to seek asylum in the United States. It is completely unacceptable under any moral code to inflict trauma on them in order to send some political message to adults somewhere overseas. The president argues this is giving him political leverage. Hurting kids to get political leverage is unacceptable. It is evil. Reporter one of the democratic lawmakers on was pete welsh of vermont. He says there has been 2,000 children separated from families over the course of the last six weeks. I asked if he heard of any plans to reunite children with parents. He said right now there is uncertainty. Dave and christine. Nick there in texas. Homeland secretary Kirstjen Nielsen taking to twitter accusing the press and members of congress of quote irresponsible and unproductive reporting. She falsely claims we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. She goes on to say there is no reason to illegally cross between ports of entry for anyone seeking asylum. Remember, the president says it is the democrats licy. The president admitting there is a policy. He admits it is a democratic policy. She said there is no policy. Thes not speaking with clarity. Cnn has a first hand look inside the immigrant Processing Center in families brought through a Warehouse Facility separated by gender. Inside a cold and dark scene. Families are brought by a facility and separated by gender. Dianne gallagher has more from texas. Reporter dave and christine, this is the Rio Grande Valley Processing Center. They have a greater intake here than any other on the border in texas. At this point, more families have been separated leaving this facility than any other since the zero tolerance policy went into effect last month. 1,774 children left the facility separated from parents. That is why senators merkley and other members of the house came to tour this facility. We did the