A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. reporter: good morning, martin. that s right, president trump is spending the week at new jersey amid the stwirl of unanswered questions surrounding that now infamous meeting at trump tower and his son and a russian lawyer, leaving the twhous yesterday, president trump refused to take questions of his former attorney michael cohen that cohen had advanced knowledge. trump and his legal team denied. they say trump is privately furious about the legal scrutiny facing him and his circle. trump is trying to fire off a series of tweets attacking democrats and making remarks yesterday at the white house about the economy because this is all coming at a backdrop for the successful trade talks and what was able to taught strong growth in the second quarter of this year after the numbers came out on friday. russia has continued to pull focus from the president s economic message, washington was fixated yesterday on an incredibles coincidence. donald trump jr. was spotted waiting at the gate in this photo him despite the social media frenzy. a spokesperson for mueller says the two men didn t speak to each other. thank you very much for that. cnn politics reporter, cnn political analyst josh rogan and cnn legal analyst paul cowan with us here. paul also a former new york city prosecutor. thank you gentleman for being with us. we certainly appreciate it. paul i want to go to you first, so if trump u president trump did know about the trump tower meeting in 2016, has there been a crime committed? it s an interesting question. you would think is president having, it s true if he knew he s publicly lied about it on previous occasions. however, we now have information from michael cohen his personal lawyer who says the president did, in fact, know about the trump tower meeting. now i think that puts the president in a difficult meeting. he was lying about it. it puts his son don, jr. in a worse decision. he testified before congress that the president knew nothing about the meeting before it took place. if that is true, it is possible that don junior has committed the crime of perjury by lying before a congressional committee under oath. so don junior has the big problem here that was created by the president, really. when you talk about cohen the thing is, he has no corroborating evidence of this, the allegation that president trump knew and approved of this meeting. there are no recordings, no documentation as far as we know. but we do know that the meeting hammond. with that said,otalk to me about the importance of the intention of that meeting, whether it was known or not the intention is also in question here. right. we know from donald trump junior s revealed communications he expressed an interest about receiving dirt about hillary clinton from these russian nationals who had links to the russian government. we also know that this proffer turned out to be largely false the information they actually had wasn t true. it was related to their overall lobbying campaign against russia sanctions in exchange for a push to release russian reinstructions on american adoptions. so whatever you want to call. that can you call that attempted cohen once on abc on may 6th and then with chris cuomo just this week. the man is an honest, honorable lawyer. i expected something like this from comey, he s been lying all week. he has been lying for years. the two completely different sides of the spectrum here on con. what do you make, first of all, how how much credence anybody can put into cohen at this point? i think what this shows is that there are problems with the nar raters on all sides of this rudy guiliani, he is praising cohen. he will tell the truth. all is fine. we hear him this week, he is a lierk everything he says is a lie. you put on the flipside, though, don t forget, michael cohen is saying donald trump knew about this meeting. i was there when donald trump junior told him about it. go back to his testimony before the house and senate intelligence committee, which again is a lie to congress. we know he didn t say anything about donald trump knowing. so he is also as much of an unreliable nar rater in this story as the president is. now, someone here is lying. we don t i don t think yet know who that is. but that s going to be without that, you know without a tape or some other corroborating evidence, it s going to be hard to figure out who that is. paul, what kinded of evidence would they have to have to prove intention or to prove that president trump did, indeed, know and approve of this meeting and how much does it matter at the end of the day? well, if you focus back on don junior s testimony before congress, few wanted to prove he committed perjury in saying the president didn t know about it. you would need corroborating evidence. it s called the two witness ruchl it doesn t have to be live or circumstancele evidence suggesting cohen s new testimony is, in fact, accurate about don junior. i think getting back to a legitimate point that josh ra raises. the meeting is important not because they colluded with the russians. they got dirt on hillary clinton in the meeting. it would show an intent to cooperate with russian sources to sabotage the hillary clinton campaign. now, if there were other acts later on, this would be the intent and the other acts would fill out the collusion theory. so you can t rule this out as evidence of collusion. it could be the start of collusion the there is other evidence. josh, the president tweeted this yesterday, i did not know of the meeting with my son don junior. it sounds like someone is making up stories to get himself out of an unrelated jam. that does not sound like someone who can count on a pardon anymore. is there a risk for the are the there? there are a lot of people saying, he will pardon cohen. cohen will not cooperate. this does thought sound like that pardon could happen. is there a risk for president trump in kind of making that known in. well, i would say yeah he issing a only inning the risk that already exists. he didn t make the risk. the risk started when michael cohen decided to turn on the president. it s a race to the bottom between, you know, all of these guys and they re all losing. okay. the whole idea that his most closest personal fixer and lawyer for all of these years is leaking horrendous details true or not to the press as bait to get him out from his own legal troubles. it s a disaster for the president legally and he is lashing occupant. so, yes, i think the pardon is off the table for michael cohen. he is clearly pursuing a different strategy now. i heard paul say on tv and lots of other cnn lawyers, it doesn t seem like michael cohen s strategy is that good. the he was looking for a deal, he wouldn t be leaking to the press. it s not really the best way to gain the trust of all of these prosecutors, envelopes, they re all desperate and failing from i have 15 second left, palm said the real legal risk comes for donald trump jr. how strongly, what do you think president trump is willing to do to come down to it? it s a good question. we seen trump lash out more and more and more as this investigation comes closer to his inner circle. if it gets to donald trump jr. that s as close as it gets. i don t think we should see should it come to that down the road. always so grateful to have the three of you on with us. thank you. thank you. the car fire in northern california has already claimed two lives. now a family in northern california is calling hospitals, archbishop of newark, new jersey and washington, d.c. in washington, he became probably the premiere broker between america and the nation s political establishment. he played an incredible important role in the late years in the john paul ii tape unseeding pope benedict xxviing and he was instrumental in getting pope francis elected in 2013. the accusations is that he is guilty of a variety of acts, sexual misconduct and abuse including in at least one case with a minor. of course, pope francis has pushed himself to a strong policy on sexual abuse. today the vatican announced that i have accepted his resignation from the college of cardinals. as of today he is no longer a cardinal and the pope has suspended him, which moons theas not able to act as a priest. he cannot celebrate mass. he cannot do confirmations. so on. while a church investigation against him is unfolding. so what we have is fairly dramatic and rapid papal action against the highest rung of the catholic power structure. this kind of thing is really unprecedented since the early 20th century. we should point out he is innocent. the 88-year-old cardinal is one of the highest ranking american leaders to be removed because of sex abuse charges. all right. there was a number that everybody was buzzing ability. this 4 ontario 1% really strong economic growth number for the u.s. the strongest in four years, in fact, it fulfills one of the president s big campaign promises. the question is what is it telling us about u.s. economy and where do we go from here? mark, kristi, the economic growth, there are details, top line, it grew, 4.1%. that is the strongest increase in 2016. president trump took no time holding a press conference to tout the numbers. this is only one report. his predecessors hit high remar remarks. the president said on friday growth is sustainable and the he s right and strong growth remains, it can mark a high point. right now, economists are predicting a slower growth. in part because of one time factors in the second quarter, like a boom in exports, which surged %. some of that driven by orderers for soybeans. business investment was also a bright spot. many executives i talked to were feeling good, because of reduced tax cuts and concerns over trade and geopolitics could threaten that optimism. consumer spending and government spending increased as well, bottom line, these numbers are ro bust and will be a talking point tore republicans headed in mid-terms. it s not guaranteed the year will be strong. especially with the ongoing trade negotiations. thank you. a family in northern california this morning, they re calling hospitals, they re calling shellers, because they re svenlg for two children and their great grandmother who had been missing the challenges ahead for the fear fighters working to gain an upper hand on this fire in california. you might take something for your heart. or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. our new, hot, fresh breakfast will get you the readiest. (buzzer sound) holiday inn express. be the readiest. welcome to saturday. it s just about 28 minutes past the hour. i m krischristi paul. firefighters are battling a car fire in northern california. it has destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses. there are two firefighters who have died trying to stop the flames. this morning it s 5% contained. it s in that area and i can t help but look at what s behind you, what is left behind you, palm, for this family. yes, and it s heart breaking and let me just show you a little of thisle it tells the story the corona family lived here almost 30 years. we were speaking with chris corona, he and his wife. they were reflecting on the times he has here. to give you a sense of what it s like to return to a house like this, extremely thrilled, relieved his parents mad it out, evacuated. still you look at what s left of the laundry room, for example, you can help but have your heart go out to a homeowner and someone who lived here. let s listen. it s unbelievable. you know, my parent bought this house when they moved up from san jose when i was born. then everyone else that put so much work into this house. i can t believe it s gone. you tow. all those memories, you know, childhood memories. you know, all the stuff that parents say that, you know you build it for your mom. i m glad we got, my mom got all the valuable stuff she wanted out. also, something else found in all this, chris pointed out that there was one green spot left of this entire piece of property. that was a bush and inside it they found the family cat missing and they were euphoric over that. burning down this house tells the larger tale. we have several major wildfires in california right now. in the over arching picture. some 89 large fires, most of them burning in the west. more than 900,000 acres. this is strapping resources, because you can t put all the crews, of course, this one or two places. firefighters are really up against it with this so far menacing fire season. thank you so much. a great point to make of how thin the resources are, for those people out there. as we said, two firefight verse already died, meteorologist alisyn chinchar is here. weather plays a role to some degree? we were helping, there was some good indication for the firefighters out there. martin, i wish i had good news for you, the forecast maintains that hot dry conditions for not just, but for much of the west. that s the key here, california is thought the only state dealing. 13 to be compact are dealing with large fires. nearly 90 of them. this is just the large fires. this does not include the smaller fires spread out throughout these estates. car fires, 5% contained, ferguson fear 29% contained. those numbers are important the containment numbers you want as close to if not at 100%. unfortunately, we haven t seen much movement in the past few days. again, because you have those hot and dry conditions. what you are looking at. you are actually seeing those pyrocumulus clouds form and take off. it s a fire cloud as it s often called is a cloud performed because of that fire, sometimes even volcanos can produce the same thing the key this inc. to note here is that the forecast is allowing these fires they have in the mast and will continue in the future to allow them the perfect conditions to spread. we have already have low humidities. strong winds and localized spots. again those temperatures will remain in triple digits for at least the next three-to-five days. allison, thank you so much. we will tell you russia is hosting international war games, dozens of countries, including china, is showing off the military might. the president met to discuss cyber security. yet there isn t a concrete plan to combat the russian threat. more on that add. please don t, i m saving those for later. at least you don t have to worry about renters insurance. just go to geico.com. geico helps with renters insurance? 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reporter: well, frankly, not really. these would be i think the sorts of conditions that international diplomacy would expect. i think the russian would like to see progress on a level that they say were raised by vladimir putin and donald trump during that two hour secret meeting this helsinki some they would want to see official progress. we ve seen hints on talks about syria, arms reduction, so that if there is a summit down the line, possibly after the mueller investigation has been concluded, there would be something substantive to talk about. i think, frankly, even from the russian perspective, the bromance between the two presidents is beginning to look a little awkward and from the russian perspective, they actually want to move it to substantive rules as a result of what this very warm relation would ipeer to be. sam, i want to ask you, there is more, let s go onto the war games, what is exactly going on here? reporter: well, this is a kind of annual arms bizarre sedation of international military prowess, a bit like a kind of arms fair but on the hoof, there is even i think attaching biathlon, tank racing around the course the chinese will be bringing their latest aerospace investments, some of the planes they d like to be selling to the sorts of what would have been in the olden days the eastern bloc countries, really a competition tore buyers between russia and china, principlely, and an opportunity to remind the world that russia is expanding its military capably capability. the russians are demonstrating new technology way ahead of nato and advancing the idea that they should, indeed, be having the sums with u.s. presidents and others precisely to talk about about arms reduction. that plays in this, into that. sam kiley, i always learn something from you, thank you. the president held his first meeting focused solely on foreign interference, it discussed ways to help state and local elections officials as well. it didn t offer any plans to counter the russian plant that has interfered with the congressional campaigns. reporter: facing growing criticism, he hasn t focused enough on the election cyber security threat from russia, the president met with his national security team in the white house situation room to discuss election interference, so far, vague on the details. rest assured, there are elections or to expose any external, by anybody, external efforts to influence the american public, it shows false news, that sort of thing. reporter: it comes as missouri s senator claire mccaskill accuses russian operatives of hacking into her office last year. saying in a statement, while this attack is not successful. it is outrageous if they will think they can get away wit. i said it before and again, putin is a thug and a bully. mccaskill is one run running for re-election this year. people have been targeted targeting democrats in 2016. they were people because of their positions might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint. reporter: the hackers used sfauld phishing attacks. they are on high alert for similar pages they say they take down when discovered. it s the campaign rather than the voting systems among the most vulnerable targets. i think the fact is the campaign staffer will neff get to the level of these adversaries and staring them down. we re talking about the most sophisticated intelligence the russian intelligence, the iranians. reporter: the white house is coming under fire for not thwarting cyber threats. i think it s an aembarrassmet and the attention and focus on it we need. reporter: in may the national security council was eliminated. national top officials are comparing the total state of danger to the months before the 9-11 attacks. i m here to say the warning lights are here again. today the digital infrastructure u structure that serves this country is literally under attack. reporter: they oversee the country s defense on the voting structure. on offense, it s less clear with the nsa, fbi and military taking roles. we need more connective tissue, between people doing law enforcement and people charged with protecting our different assets in the digital realm. and last night senator mccaskill talked to our affiliate about the attempted hacking. we discovered because microsoft contacted the senate and the senate personnel let us know. so we have been aware of thissest for months. is everybody in your office taking passwords at this point? we have any many steps. i have said many times putin is a thug and a bully andb who does not allow the people of russia to have freedom. that missouri senate race is considered the tossup. mccaskill is seeking re-election in a state that went for president trump in 2016. 55 box remains, u.s. service members handed of by north korea. but this peace offering may come with strings attached. and look at this, a bear gets stuck inside a pick-up truck and this is what he left. vice president mike pence will head to hawaii wednesday to form alily receive what are believed to be the u.s. remains in the war with korea. cnn s will ripley reports. faye may soon give well into demand. reporter: just one week after his singapore sum with leader kim jong-un, president trump made this triumphant announcement. we got back our great fallen heroes the remains. in fact, today, already 200 have been sent back. reporter: but it took five more weeks for 55 sets of remains to arrive at south korea s osan airbase on the korean war armistice. pyongyang didn t approve it for hours keeping u.s. officials thanking. i want to thank them for keeping his word. reporter: this confidence building measure would take more than six weeks, raising serious questions about the far more complex contentions over the de-nuke clearation. this week mike pompeo told the senate intelligence committee, north korea is still producing fuel for nuclear weapons fresh off a trip to pyongyang, little if any key issues and a widely perceived snub by kim jong-un, the u.s. was later criticized tore making what they called gangster-like demands. in may, north korean officials took cnn to what they claim was the destruction of this new test site. these new images show they may be dismantling a launching station. u.s. intelligence believes they are upgrading key facility, including a missile plant and nuclear reactor. to the plans to not give up nukes any time soon. they have not done it a positive. if they have another ballistic missile test, that s a positive. they agreed to a concept of its own definition of de-nuke clear saegs, whatever that means and freezes it to let the heat go down. an official says north korea wantings sanction relief and a peace treaty or kim jong-un my consider walking away to the talks emboldened by his increasing relationship with allies russia and china. he could make it impossible to continue the max much pressure campaign. will ripley, cnn, seoul. i want to tell you about a bear that got stuck inside a man s truck. what can possibly go wrong with that, right? 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David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. change the narrative around this meeting. i want to step back and give us an understanding of how michael cohen was his confidant, his fixer, this relationship has turned dramatically here. yes. i m most interested in how this plies with voters. i m seeing a parallel to what rudy giuliani said this summer. michael cohen was honest with the utmost of credibility. i would hear the same thing from house sources in particular, today talking to people, what is kind of the read on your members after this week, ahead of midterms. they say, you know what, michael cohen has always had credibility issues, at this point swrees vis-a-vis the don junior meeting until the senate committee subpoenas him to come back and testify once more, to say under oath that liz father did not know about this meeting. i don t see the political implications of this at this moment. we have seen this play out with flair and flourish this week. starting with the playing of that tape on national television. realtime. lanny davis, michael cohen s lawyer there we listen to it with him, with chris cuomo and lanny davis in realtime. to elena s point there, there have been points of real drama here this week, what s your sense of the effect that s having politically. certainly, those in the president s base will be unmoved by this. in part because of the nature of our politics today, you have such tribalism. over that, you have the cult of personalities surrounding the president. that said, you do get the sense that there is this fear and sense of frustration surrounding this overall cohen investigation, that does not exist with the overall russia investigation. in part, because where as the president could shut down if he wanted or narrow the russian ya investigation or perhaps even getting rid of rosenstein. he can t really do that with such ease with the cohen investigation since it s being carried out by the prosecutor s office in the southern district of new york. that s why you get the sense that the president himself senses that there s a more direct threat here, posed by the cohen investigation than by the overall mueller investigation. let s dove tail this with the president s effort to have a sequel to his summit in helsinki. we heard from john bolton saying it would be advisable for that summit not to take place until the new year, then we heard this from the president of russia himself, let s take a listen. we are ready to invite president trump to moscow, be my guest. he has such an invitation, and i told him that. i am ready to go to washington as well. i repeat once again, if the right conditions for work are created. let s focus on that last clause if we can. this was the second big summit where there was a lot of attention, a lot of emphasis on the fact that the meeting was taking place. what is this back and forth, this invitation from president putin here at the end of the week. tell you about the point of the second meeting that would take place? vladimir putin has a different vision of a potential second person to person meeting with president trump. it was extended by john bolton just last week. it was rescinded by the white house claiming they didn t want to do it while the mueller probe was on going. the white house knew the probe would be on going when they initially extended this invitation to putin. their explanation doesn t make sense. what does make sense, however, is putin s perspective on all this. and from his perspective, this sure looks like a naked power play on his part. an effort to say, i don t need to go to the white house, but president trump, why don t you come here to moscow, in a sense vladimir putin, it looks like, is trying to summon president trump to moscow, to bring him to his turf. he said, i ll go to washington, but only if the conditions are right. president trump is certainly well here. we heard from sarah huckabee sanders yesterday, that president trump would indeed ener if taken a visit to moscow if the invitation was forthcoming. this could be something in the offing, in the coming months. there was so much back and forth after that meeting in helsinki, the degree to which the administration takes seriously. 19 months into this administration, the national security council finally sits down and discusses the threat of russian interference. just window dressesing what do you make of that? ultimately, russian interference in this election was for good. what the russians revealed was ultimately true and good for the country because it got us a leader who isth to fight for the united states. i think we haven t reached the point where something is able to be spin noor this administration. it s interesting to try to find when that line will be drawn. people are happier, think it was beneficial that the russians intervened back in 2016. 18 charges, 35 potential witnesses and up to 10 years in prison. 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stemmed from paul manafort, so he s very familiar with them, and his accountants are familiar with them, because they prepared some of them. but it gave enough time for his lawyers to really become familiar with them since he changed lawyers. his other lawyers would have been familiar with them. i expect the trial to take two parts, the first part will be showing what his expenditures were, and he had a very lavish lifestyle. he spent $850,000 for suits. $850,000. and almost as much for landscaping. he spent a half million dollars to landscape one of his many homes. we re going to see how much he spent. and then we re going to look at the tax returns and how much he reported his income. obviously he didn t have enough income reported to cover those expenses. then the next part will be to show that he had all this unreported income that went into foreign bank accounts. and then we ll look at where it came from, and it came from his work in ukraine. working for the pro russian forces who are trying to undermine the independent ukrainian government. he s going to look bad in terms of how much he was spending and how unrelatable that is to the average person. and then also in terms of the kind of work he was doing. that s what i expect to see, and ultimately what if shows is the kind of people that donald trump sur rounded himself with. he proemsed us the best and he produced paul manafort, michael cohen, rudy giuliani. these are the best people, and that s what people will ultimately see. the president, his legal team are going to be watching this closely. rudy giuliani was on cnn last evening, let s take a listen to what he said about this trial. they re putting manafort on trial in order to get him to break. may have they ve succeeded ede cracking this guy and getting him to lie. i m not sure about that. i m not sure, i shouldn t say it. then don t say it. sound words there. i want to ask you about how unorthodoxed this case is, you have a judge who s drawing clear lines about what s supposed to be discussed in this trial. he doesn t want russia to be discussed, prosecutors say they don t intend to bring up russia or allegations in the course of this trial. how difficult is that going to be? you ve been a prosecutor, how hard is it to stay within the lines when you have dualing trials like this? it s not hard at all. i think they have such compelling evidence of his guilt that they can really limit themselves to his expenditures and his income, and to the sources of his income, they do have to talk about the pro russia government that he was supporting, only because it helps to understand where he got his money and why it was such large sums. i also want to address what rudy giuliani said, he was not put in solitary confinement, that is just a made up fact. he was living very luxuriously, if you remember in prison i m talking about, he explained or liz lawyers complained that they couldn t prepare him for trial, they wanted him moved closer, then he said, oh, no, no, no. i want to stay here, because it turned out that he had quite a nice setup with computers and all sorts of televisions and he was living very well there, and so he didn t really want to be moved to d.c. where it would be easy for him to work with his lawyers, but where he would not be living except in a normal prison. so i don t think it s fair to say anything bad about how he was being kept. he was being kept in a very, very almost as lavish as his own private life, at least for a jail. before i let you go. people turn to you for your incisive legal pins, they have also come to love the pins and brooches you wear as well. you have quite a following on instagram. what are you wearing today? tell us about the pin today? it came from a twitter follower, it is a very beautiful blue wave. it s a big blue wave, that s what i m expecting in november. it s the only thing that s going to save our democracy from what is happening, from children being separated from their families, from a 6-year-old girl being assaulted and told that she had to sign a document. this is a 6-year-old who is guatemalan and probably doesn t read english, saying she was responsible for staying away from her assaulter. these are things that we cannot have continue. we cannot have the president saying facts don t matter. i believe what i heard on the tape, he said cash. and he knew about the payments, so i think we need to be focusing on that, and that s what should motivate democrats and republicans to support the candidates who will not allow this to continue. jill wine-banks, thank you very much as always. the eye of the storm, allegations of sexual misconduct against the head of cbs that stretch back decades. next. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. so what s next? seeing these guys. don t stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as 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those are mistakes and i regret them immensely. the author of the king of conte content, kim masters is an editor at large for the hollywood reporter. provide some context for me, if you would. about the role that les moonves plays in entertainment broadly. he rose to the top of the company in the last few years. he is the head of cbs. and he s a giant in the entertainment industry many he s an amazing show man he s a guy who projects incredible confidence. he s at one time an actor. he s managed to navigate cbs at a time when the broadcast industry is challenged. he started a streaming service, he maintains a dominant position in broadcast, so it s a big, big individual in the hollywood landscape. i want to ask you, how momentous this is, this reporting, and i m going to read a line from a piece in the wall street journal today. he was befelled beginning last winter. what does it mean when you see the details of these allegations in the new yorker. we ve been hearing about this for months, he had been reporting it for eight months. we knew something was up, and everyone in media was looking, and it s a credit to him he found all these women to speak. and if was a devastating report, we ve been expecting something, i was really shocked at how detailed it was and now cbs said they re investigating. and it does not look good for les moonves. it s about the company and culture there, more broadly. 30 current and former cbs employees according to the new yorker described harassment, gender discrimination. many said that men accused of misconduct were promoted. even after the company was made aware of those allegations. cbs said it s mindful of all work allegations. talk about the culture of cbs. cbs is it s got the largest overall audience. considered to be an older audience, and it does have a bit of an old hollywood feel, les moon vez is one of the last creative show man type executives. the culture is a little bit like a men s club culture. he s had very high level executives. working at a top level there, it s a kind of. there s a little bit of a paradox in that women have had opportunities at cbs. and at the same time, there is that boy s club feel that s part of the culture there. the way this piece begins. talking about women in the workplace, i want to get your perspective as well. how out in the open has he been talking about this? he s been talking about it as has the head of every major company. when somebody like kathy kennedy pulls together a group to address the me too issues, the head of every studio, she demanded that each one come and appear. les moonves is by any means not the only man in the world with questionable history. there s a lot of chatter about the guys showing up at these meetings, some of whom had to be in discomfort. i m going to read a quote here from the hollywood reporter. his most recent challenge. that entity holds sway. is trying to dilute les cherry. sherry red stone in a statement after this report came out said, she s not responsible for it, she has no role in it, she resents the insin u taking that that happened here, help me understand this moment. the timing of this piece is extraordinary, it comes in the middle of this lawsuit and cbs. there s going to be a trial in october. and either her family s control is going to be stripped away or she s going to win and he s probably not going to be working there much longer. so that was already happening for this to drop in the middle, i thought that cbs s statement yesterday saying, isn t it timing strange. it was essentially insinuating that she was behind it, and we ve seen more whispers of that in the last 24 hours that are pretty extraordinary. i want you to weigh-in on that as well. his wife issued a statement. she s standing by him. to that point, les moonves s position in this company was very much in jeopardy before this report hit. i know for a fact that people believe that sherry red stone had les moonves investigated. ronan farrow started reporting this story, well before this lawsuit blew up and the confrontation over the two companies blew up. it s possible people were putting things into the water, and i believe internally, sherry was pressuring for an investigation for les moonves, it serves her purposes as he was resisting a merger of the two companies. kim masters in los angeles. follow the money, does president trump have a john edwards problem? when we come back, we ll compare donald trump s hush payment. your society was led by a woman, who governed thousands. .commanded armies. .yielded to no one. when i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. my name is courtney mckinney, and this is my ancestrydna story. now with 2 times more geographic detail than other dna tests. order your kit at ancestrydna.com. tell your doctor about dental problems, as severe jaw bone problems may happen or new or unusual pain in your hip, groin, or thigh, as unusual thigh bone fractures have occurred. 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strategic communications. let s start with this parallel laid out there in relief by lanny davis. comparing what we re seeing here to what happened with john edwards. how good is the comparison. i don t see it valid at all any more. what standard politicians are held accountable for these days. and the guy in office has done things that most candidates a are would have been lost. we re looking through totally different eyeglasses these days. i want to dig into that a little more. catch and kill how involved is this? how common a practice is it. we ve been throwing it around over the last many months, give us the history, how involved it is. it goes back to the fact that the owner of the company has a portfolio of properties and win of the benefits of being a media owner, you can decide what s published and what isn t in the properties you own. you want to take care of people you are friendly with. when the karen mcdougal situation comes up, they paid her $150,000 to take her story and in exchange for that, they were going to offer her other roles within american media publications. the kill part, as an owner you can decide what makes your book and what doesn t. and obviously, in this case we believe it was a favor, but often times when these stories are killed, they re to protect a friend of the owner of the company. i wanted to ask you about that. john edwards was in tabloid after tabloid after tabloid. the mainstream media as well. what accounted for that, how does one get a story killed? is it always based on a friendship? i would say it is. you have to look at the john edwards story, how it broke. . once again, a totally different world, if we held trump accountable to the kind of personality things that edwards was thrown out of office for or lost the campaign rather. trump clearly would not be in office today. his base as he often says he could stand on the corner of fifth avenue and shoot somebody, it wouldn t make a difference. it s a totally different world now. how pivotal was that moment? this came out in the tabloids, it s something the media ran with. how important was that? i want to say, it s kind of ironic how topsy-turvy the world is right now. we have a president who calls out any media company, yours, cnn that criticizes him as fake news and here he is in bed with the publication that started fake news, that was fwhoin for it many years ago, i just had to put that on the table. i think it s bizarre we re having this conversation. thank you for the time. president trump calls the economy under his leadership amazing. that was his message after the commerce department released new numbers on friday. centering around the gdp increasing 4.1%. a number like that is just the beginning. these numbers are very, very sustainable. this isn t a one time shot. i happen to think we re going to do extraordinarily well in our next report next quarter. i think it s going to be outstanding. prediction from the president, but experts do not see it that way. these numbers have been pumped up by mr. trump s brewing trade war, they re not going to last. trade tensions have caused experts to surge with foreign buyers, rushing to stock up on u.s. products this would make these numbers a unique blip rather than a true indicator of future growth. the president yesterday continued. if economic growth continues at this pace, the u.s. economy will double in sizemore than 10 years faster than it would have under president bush or president obama. many economists predicted exports will decline in the next two quarters, dragging down gdp as they fall. the president and experts do agree on one thing, though. these numbers are likely to be good news for mr. trump and the gop. joining me now is matt greeley. matt, let me start with you here and a meeting that took place between president trump and the european commission. the wall street journal wrote about how they came to an agreement on this. if you want to be stupid, he told mr. trump, i can be stupid as well. backing up his points, he flipped through more than a dozen colorful cue cards, each card had at most three figures about a specific topic, such as trade in cars, or standards for medical devices, we knew this wasn t an academic seminar, it had to be very simple. on the heels of that meeting, on the heels of that agreement. you had wilbur ross talking to reporters on air force one. this is a real vindication of the president s trade policy. you hear secretary ross crowing about this what changed this week when it comes to trade. president trump did something right in that he realized his threatened national security tariffs was a bad idea. it was only going to lead to another trade battle where europe was going to turn to us. i mentioned the trade was a component of the data point after data point after data point. how did trade affect all of this. one place where the united states economy is uniquely vulnerable, we grow a lot of soybeans and support them to china. the consumer product is hogs, the input was u.s. soybeans. the challenges that were not the monopoly supplier of soybeans in the world, brazil supplies soybeans as well, they do more than we do. so we ve always been vulnerable on exactly this. now, the challenge is, brazil has known for a year that these tensions are coming, and they increased their acreage over the last year, they seem to be more prepared for this than we have. when you look at the gdp numbers, what s happened is, after china imposed a 25% tariff on u.s. soybeans, suppliers rushed to make sure they got their orders placed ahead of time. that all said, the gdp numbers don t look awful even without the trade bump. they re still above 3%. what stands out to me in these gdp numbers is that there doesn t seem to be a ton of business investment. one of the things the tax cuts were supposed to do is encourage businesses to buy more stuff. we saw it in the first quarter, less of it in the second quarter that was a surprise to me. i want to get into the politics of this here. we re right back where we started from thinking about deals like this, the u.s. for a long time was trying to broker a deal with the european union when it came to trade. what s been agreed to here is not what s going to happen when president obama was in office. it seems to me you have another situation that s going to happen or likely to happen. this is a lot less. we were negotiating tee tip. now they re talking about just reducing tariffs on auto and trying to put together a free trade agreement for industrial goods which is not permissible under wto rules. last question to you, here, i mentioned the political code there at the end of my intro. i should say, it must be subject to revision, we could see that here. how important was it for the president to get this, as we look ahead to november. is he in the clear now when he goes and talks to voters about where the economy is? yeah, it s incredibly important. we ve been talking about getting the economy above sustainable 3% growth for a long time. for a time on the campaign, he was arguing with jeb whether it was going to be 3%, 4%, 5%, the reason they are silly made up numbers, it s difficult to get the economy under any president or any congress to grow more than 2.5% right now. any predictor you look at says if you look at the imf estimates of long term growth, anybody who makes predictions, nobody has it near 3.5 or 4%. almost nobody has it near 3%. it s unlikely this will be sustainably a year long result. that said it doesn t really matter, i can say as mr. times as i want, that a one quarter result isn t an annual result, he s going to go out on the stump and say this number, 4.1%, and it s going to be a valid number. great to speak with both of you. i m sure there will be more opportunities to talk with you in the future. social anxiety, up next, what facebook and twitter s woeful week on wall street tells us about the company s viability. and 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million of its market value and twitter also taking a beating, shares dropped more than 20% on friday. joining me now, john hermann. john, great to have you with me. you ve written about this evolution from questions to companies to institutions. i want to take that and apply it to facebook here. when you look at this quarter, was it facebook having to reckon, maybe not for the first time, but really when it comes to finances, with willing an institution with having to invest more in privacy and security and all of that? yeah. there s no doubt that facebook doing, you know, quote, unquote, the right thing here is going to cost them, but i think that s almost an easier story for them to tell than the underlying financial story, which a lot of facebook critics have been hinting at for years, which is that facebook s core product, like facebook proper, the big blue site, is slowing down a little bit. in its most mature markets, people aren t using it like they used to and they ve been throwing everything they can at the service to get people re-engaged. all the nagging e-mails and notifications, that note that two of your friends liked a status and you should check it out, that s a sign they are fighting slowdowns, so that s a story they d almost rather tell less than this big flashy scary political story. so is it an existential debate companies are having? as you say, facebook is a site, we know it s a way to connect with friends and family and all of that, but it is an engine for creating revenue, as well, or has been an engine for creating ad revenue, as well. what kind of evolution is going on in silicon valley with some of these companies? a long epic decade or so? the problem with something as big and comprehensive as facebook is that it s a different thing to everyone who uses it. it s a multi-sided platform in an economic sense. it brings people together to transact, but a user thinks this is the site where i talk to my friends, where i get my news and chat, it s where i found people i used to go to school with or work with, and at the same time you have advertisers and other people on other sides of the platform thinking this is a way to reach customers. then you have the shareholders thinking this is a winning stock, and what happens now at a moment like this is, we have to reckon with what facebook really is. it is all of these things at once. some of these identities are more important than the other ones. no one is signing up for facebook in 2005 or 2006 thought we d be where we are today, including the people who run it, but the people who need to make us think and feel this is normal, that this service should have this central role in our politics and lives, they run facebook. the rest of us feel this is surreal and kind of wild and, you know, we shouldn t be made to feel crazy for thinking that s the case. there was a bit of a report of shadow blocking going on on twitter, a story caught fire, the president tweeted about it, twitter shadow banning prominent republicans, not good. we ll look into this at once. many complaints. shine a little more light on this, some republicans weren t coming up in the auto filling in the site, no shadow banning was taking place, but my broader take away from that, john, these companies are now thrust into debates over politics and whose opinions are being prized more than others. they couldn t have envisioned that in the beginning, now they have to be playing in these debates. how comfortable are they doing that in light of the concerns over privacy and competition? are they more willing to, or resigned to, playing in those debates? they never see them coming, which we can take as a sign of their readiness and their ability to sort of engage with these difficult issues. you know, when it comes to dealing with politics directly in this visceral human way, they are incredibly ill equipped and don t want to do this. it s important for these platforms to appear to be, if not neutral, then sort of invisible or automatic. they want to be something that just works. that we don t think about too much as we use it, and even the simplest and sometimes, you know, badly motivated questions expose this massive void in how we understand these companies. even if if ted cruz can ask a bad faith question about twitter censorship and blow this apart, that s a sign you haven t really established yourself in an honest way. you haven t told an honest story about what you are as a service, and that s something you re going to pay for and not something they can correct very easily. great to speak with you, thank you very much. still ahead, joined live by tom steyer. he s been one of the loudest voices calling for president trump s impeachment. does he have interest in running for president in 2020 himself?
The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. have had to evacuate all of the hotels that are full, and some of the evacuation centers have reached maximum capacity, and so you have people out of the home, and many of them wondering if they have a home to come back to. ana. dan, what are the biggest challenges right now for firefighters? well, really, it is the elements, and another hot day. i just check ed the temperature and it is about 105 degrees out here, and so battling this heat of course is very difficult can just when you are past 7:00 or 8:00 at night, that is when the winds will pick up, and thisoin red flag warning, and the winds could push the fire more, and we s saw firefighters a moment ago, and they keep coming back and there are flare ups at times and they come in to pick up a piece of debris to ignite the homes in the neighborhood that are are thursday, the carr fire jumped over the sacramento river to put it in the west end of redding. fry a day night into saturday, it doubled in size. so with the conditions right now, and the embers are jumping ridgetop to ridgetop, but it is the canyons and the steep slope, and whatever the degree of the slope is, the more severe, and the faster the flames are blowing and you can get them up to 50 miles per hour, and this is the severe slope. and now, across the states, the air pollution, and air quality is going to be bad, and we are starting to see the respiratory issues. the carr fire at 90,000 acres in a little while. and firefighters fighting this with a squadron of 17 helicopters a helicopters dropping retardant. and unfortunately, we are not seeing good news coming to temperature, the wind and the drought. no rain in forecast. this is crazy and we have seen already this year, ana, 4.3 million acres scorched in the u.s. now, that is below last year s number which was a crazy year, but it still above the ten-year average only here at the end of july. the numbers up to seattle and the normal high is 77, and they are in the low 90s and boise is in the triple-digits. i dont n t know how the firefighters do it, but we don t give them enough credit. yes, the firefighters and the emergency personnel, and the red cross and those responders working so hard to help those evacuated. we did some checking, and no month has passed without a wildfire since 2012, tom. yes, and we are seeing more and more each and every year. that is a big concern for those that are talking about the change in the climate that we will see more wildfires. it is a crazy month around the globe, and talking about the 80 fatalities in greece, and sweden has fires burning for two weeks near the arctic circle, and at the canyon and a terrible year for the u.s. and other countr s countries. thank you for helping to walk us through it, tom sater. this hour, we are just getting started. tampering with the tapes. the president s attorney rudy giuliani is claiming that the michael cohen tapes were altered. and then the president weighing in to attacking the credibility of the special counsel, and calling out robert mooueller by name. and border battle as the deadline is passing. can children are in limbo, and this is as president trump threat threatens a government shutdown. and kidnapped as a baby. a woman finally gets to meet her biological mother 36 years la r later. you are live in the cnn newsroom. crest gum detoxify works below the gum line to neutralize harmful plaque bacteria and help reverse early gum damage. and, now there s new crest gum & enamel repair. it gives you clinically proven healthier gums and helps repair and strengthen weakened enamel. gum detoxify and gum & enamel repair, from crest. gums are good, so is my check-up! crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life. sharper vision, without limits. days that go from sun up to sun down. a whole world in all its beauty. three innovative technologies for our ultimate in vision, clarity, and protection. together in a single lens. essilor ultimate lens package. purchase the essilor ultimate lens package and get a second pair of qualifying lenses free. essilor. better sight. better life. just for a shot. but why go back there when you can stay homefice with neulasta onpro? 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we have determined the fact that he tampered with the tape in the sense that he abruptly mid conversation turned it off. now we know that he did not do that for a good reason. cnn white house boris sanchez is live in new jersey near the president s golf club where he is spending the weekend. and giuliani is claiming that the one tape is dock toornd we know that fbi has more tape, and does he believe they are doctored, too? we don t know quite yet, ana. rudy giuliani has gone through the spectrum when it comes to talking about the president s former attorney michael cohen from calling him an honorable man to the flat out now calling him a liar, and taking to the sunday morning talk shows to dispute exactly what the president said in his conversation that recorded conversation with his former attorney, and the president and his legal team clearly on the defensive here following the explosive claims made by michael cohen and namely the idea that president trump approved the meeting of june 16th with don jr. and other campaign officials, and russians, and to get dirt on hillary clinton, but something that the president has denied knowing anything about. this is rudy giuliani. we know something about 183 unique conversations on tape. one of them with the president of the united states, and after three one-minute involving the mcdougal payment. there are 12 others, maybe 11, 12 others out of the 183 in which the president is discussed at any length by cohen, and mostly with clearly corroborate what the president has said in the tweets that he did not know about the payments to either one when it happened and only found out later, and these are the tapes that i want you to read them and hear them. giuliani is a long time prosecutors and making the case that as the president s defense attorney that michael cohen would not help the prosecution and he points to previous statements that essentially as you is sort of heard there c corroborated positions that the president has held in the past. it is going be interesting to see exactly what michael cohen says to the federal prosecutors the and how it plays out in court, ana. and giuliani talking to the press this morning, and the president speaking for himself on twitter on the attack. and what is he saying? yeah, the president launching some fresh attacks on the special counsel, and the most direct attacks yet naming wbr id= wbr9562 /> robert mueller, and these are the tweets coming in under an hour /b> ago and the president is writing quote, is robert mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with president trump including the fact that he we had a nasty an contentious business relationship, and i had the fbi one day before he was appointed before the special counsel, and comey is his close friend. and also, why is mueller only appointing ainngry democrats an some working for crooked hillary and others have worked for obama, obama, and why isn t he looking wbr-id= wbr9883 /> at the criminal activity and the inclusion on the other side, and podesta and the dossier, and plenty to fact-check in the tweet, ana, and for the sake of brevity, the president s own departme department of justice has been looking into the claims of the conflict of interest for robert mueller, and ethics lawyers have been looking into this, and a spokesperson for the department of justice put out a statement writing, the ethics lawyers determined that the participation for him is appropriate, and in private at least, sources have been talking about the alleged conflict of interests before, and golf fees disputed between him and the virginia golf club, and ro robert mueller, and spokesperson for the special counsel says that it was not an issue at all, and it was not part of the reason that robert mueller decided to leave that golf club, but as i said, that the department of justice has reached the conclusion that robert mueller is appropriate, and the president is calling the investigation illegal, ana. thank you, boris sanchez. i want to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi supervisor agent josh campbe campbell, and also, opinion columnist catherine. and now, start with you, josh. you know comey and mueller was mention ed ed in the tweet, andt are you making of the president s claims? well, sit by czar behavior a it is bizarre statement, and one way to move the attention away from the investigation is to continue to perpetuate this lie that robert moouler who is a decorated vietnam veteran who is with a long decorated career would all of the sudden change is a lie. but the problem is that the more you repeat a lie, more people remember it. and he is peddling the conspiracy theories and nobody knows if he actually believe its it, but in regard to the beliefs, they distract, and deflect and trying to undermine mueller. so you are saying zero credence to the tweets about conflict of interest? right. we know that the department of justice went through, you know, if you are going line by line and not only the ethics lawyers looking at this, but who appointed robert mooul nor the office and it is someone that the president, himself, had appointed, and he mentioned that mueller served undert president obama, and long term which is true, but also served under george bush, so it is not squaring with reality. and we know that mooul ser a republican, and rosenstein who appointed him is a republican, and jeff sessions is also a republican, and we could go on and on, but catherine, seven tweets attack iing mueller and e investigation, and are you sensing that something is perhaps going to be that the president doesn t like? possibly. i don t know what could give you that impression. i mean, this is reeking of odesperation, and trump is trotting out all of the greatest hits of how the world is out to get him, and everybody is biased, and the golf fees thing seems pretty desperate as well. but look, he is in an escalating feud with michael cohen and maybe something else is coming out from that trump is not looking forward to, and we don t know what that is, but cohen has floated some test balloon s ts he has more incriminating evidence, and you have mentioned that giuliani is arguing that the tape released by michael cohen s tape was doctored. and so, it seem s ths that trum worried about what the next shoe is going to be to drop. i want to ask you about the tapes, josh, and how reliable are the recordings that cohen made, and abruptly, no way to tell if they were take n out of context, so what do the investigators do with it? determining the authenticity of the evidence is crucial aspect of the case. we have to remember that this is not investigative evidence. what we are seeing is one party unilaterally releasing a recording they made via the press and not a curt of law. so you have to keep that in mind, that you don t have investigators who have weighed in on this, but i am assuming that down the road this does make its way into the court of law, it will be scrutinized by a team of fbi down in quantity, and i have used them on my case, a and they can look in to see if it is doctored or altered or simply incomplete, and that all part of it. but looking through the investigative lens, and obviously, concerned about what is on the tape, but aim curious and concerned about why the tape exist exists in and of itself. you know, the lawyer taping the client is not something that is, ethically they are trained to do. but the fact that cohen had to capture the moment that his client would respond to something that is a serious allegation lead nose believe that he didn t think that the response would be innocent, and he needed some evidence or cooperation or something to blackmail or cover himself down the road, and the whole thing smacks of malfeasance. i have to leave it there, catherine and i owe you a question first next time. thank you, catherine and josh. up next, moves of a threat of a government shutdown by the president if his border wall is not funded. and what has been happening with the kids at the border that have not been reunited with their families. that is next. i m really into this car, but how do i know if i m getting a good deal? 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mexico. and well, now apparently, president trump expecting congress to foot the bill for the wall, and meaning the american people, and threatening a government shuttown if he does not get his way, and tweeting that i would be willing to shutdown government if the democrats don t give us enough votes for border security. we need a system of merit and great people coming into the country, and meanwhile, more than 700 children at the border separated from their parents have not been reunited with their families after the court order expired friday. kaylee hartung is in mcallen and you have been talking to the families in limbo, and what are you hearing from the families in limbo? well, in the past few days, the the government is patting itself on the back saying they reunited all eligible families by the court deadline, but 711 children at the government s last sle tally are separated because they are saying they are ineligible to be unified. reporting on this story, and the impact of the president s zero tolerance, no two families stories are the same, but the common threads is frustration and chaos in communication, and so today, we will talk about a woman we will call alejandra. a month and half ago, she and her 6-year-old daughter crossed the border fleeing gang violence in honduras. they were detained, and then alejandra were told these are the documents for release and she would reunited later in the day, but it did not happen. and today, she is sitting in a detention facility in texas the, and her daughter in new york and while she is looking for answers in limbo, this is what she is being told. are. translator: the first thing they ask can is always, do you know when it will be that my girl will be coming here to be reunified with me. no, i don t know anything they say to me. reporter: her daughter s attorney has been told that a red flag has been raised in the child s case by hh, is that is holding up the reunification. and hhs is saying that they won t comment on the specific case, because spokesperson told cnn that parents in i.c.e. custody not reunited with their child have a issue of safety or parentage. and so the department of orr is working with dhs to evaluate if a parent is eligible for reunification on a case-by-case basis and will continue to put the safe toif children first during the process. and the mother said that she would not have come here if she knew they would have been separated. and another woman who crossed the border after coming here are the from el val isador, and they were not separated and they are on a bus to meet family members together, and awaiting their first hearing. so much more to the story to, this issue. and we will stay on top of it. kaylee hartung in mcallen, texas. thank you. fresh attacks from president trump from his favorite targets, the news media. and four separate tweets aimed at the press just today s. this becoming a dangerous trend? 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well, the pattern clearly of trying to be as nontransparent as they can be. i mean, that i are throwing up the roadblocks everywhere. they are not releasing what the president says to foreign leaders. they are not releasing the laws the logs of who is visiting the white house, and few briefings and no press conference, and so it is the whole of it, and at the same time, you have the president still claiming that the media is the enemy of the people. and you know, that is a loaded phrase, a really dangerous and loaded phrase. and the cnn and catalan kcollin is doing her job, and the questions are completely appropriate, appropriate, and to make that kind of the call is showing that a, they are thin-skin canned and trying to control message. how significant that outlets like fox news are standing in solidarity to call out the move by the white house? well, it is significant, because fox news is sick ckocoen tick towards the president, and what he does. but this the past, they have had issues with the obama administration, and other news organizations stood up for them and said, no, they have to be included, and so there is a feeling among the professional journalists there, and of course, shep smith is one, and this is a fundamental question of doing a job and so everybody has the right to access to the president who let s face it is a representative not just of, you know, his party, but of the whole country, and all of the people in the country, and this is a government of and by the people, and he does not have the right to shut down a free press and we put it in the first amendment for a good reason. and just again, to reiterate, collins was not in the room as somebody who was representing cnn, and she was there as the pool reporter to represent all media networks. explain why that is important. well, that is important, because that is a longstanding tradition that each time that there is a presidential opportunity, there is a pool reporter that. reporter represents everyone, and will give any information they get to all outlets so they are in fact a representative of all of the media, and the questions that were questions that anyone wanted to ask and everybody wanted to know what his feeling was about cohen which is what she asked about that day, and for her to be disinvited to an event after that is a chilling message if you want to be the pool reporter that you can t ask questions they don t like. so it is extremely bad precedent. i think that the blowback has been pretty strong, and it is going be very interesting if they can keep it up. but, you know, this guy, this president goes after the press every opportunity he gets. and they support him on it with the base, and they are not paying attention to the constitution, and they don t oppose the first amendment, but that is what this is. and there is a new poll that showed that 90-plus percent of the supporters believe him even e over their own family members when it comes to the information sources, and i want to ask you about the new york times publisher a.j. salzberger, that they had a meeting that trump put out there, and trump put it out there, and he says that the language not just divisive, but it is increasingly dangerous, and he implored him to reconsider the broad attacks on journalism. is that statement, and that conversation with the publisher of the new york times and the president, does it help or hurt the president and the press? well, i don t know anything that is going to help the relationship with the president and the press, but it is something that needs to be said. i happen to know that he is a very impressive young man, and he has the right idea that he wanted to confront the president. he is being criticized for some circles for meeting with the president, but it is an opportunity for the president to misrepresent what he said, which is what happened, so he had to come out with the statement even though it was off of the record, and the president then put it on the record, but the point is clearly the saint point that we were making. you keep abusing the press and saying that they are the enemy, and you opening the door the all kinds of danger, and not just in our country, but around the world. people in the media are being attacked namely by tyrannical regime, and this president prefers that, and he prefers that control. it is clearly dangerous, and mr. salzberger was right to bring it up and defend himself as ing a gres zifly as he has today. bill carter, thank you for joining us. all of the pleasure. good to have you. and coming up, russia is flexing the military might today. we will show you how much of the new firepower is aimed at matching the u.s. we are live in the cnn newsroom. crest 3d white removes. .95% of surface stains in just 3 days. .for a whiter smile. that will win them over. crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life. your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. i love you, but sometimes you stink. febreze air effects doesn t just mask, it cleans away odors. because the things you love the most can stink. and try febreze small spaces to clean away odors for up to 30 days. breathe happy with febreze. you shouldn t be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia s add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. cnn s fred pleitgen is there, and he says that it is carefully choreographed to show how the russian military compares to the united states. fred? reporter: a display of orussia s naval pow ner in the heart of st. petersburg. vladimir putin inspect iing the vessels from his own presidential boat. and then touting the advances of the country s naval forces. translator: the russian fleet successfully resolves the task of the country s capability, and makes a significant contribution no the fight of international terrorism, and plays a important role of strategic parity. reporter: and strategic parity means with the u.s. and allies. he showed a submarine nicknamed the killer to spy and find american vessels. on this day, vladimir putin s message was clear, even though the russian military may not be as big or well funded, kit still be a threat to america, and the nato allies. last week, russia also showing off new missile technology, and including a hypersonic missile that it can beat other missile systems according to the kremlin. this after the president was discussing with vladimir putin to decrease arms in helsinki, and point that was reiterated. russia and the united states and the whole world has a stake in that of not starting a arms ra race. reporter: but while russia is interested in preventing the arms race, they clearly want to the show america and the allies that their forces are stronger and more advanced than at any time since the cold war. are fred pleitgen, c nshnn, rus an american woman waited 36 years to find out the relationship with her birth mother, and she didn t know what happened to her and her mom on the day she was born. coming up, hugs, kisses and tears of joy when she meets her birth mother for the very first time. first, nearly 1 in 4 rural american children grows up in poverty. actress jennifer garner has teamed up to make a difference. i have grown up as i have often told people one generation, and one holler removed from poverty. for more than a decade, jennifer garner has stood up for america s poorest kids can as a save the children am bbassador. the playing field for kids in america is not equal. we have been working in primarily rural america for the last 75 or 80 year, and focusing on education, and making sure that kids are entering kindergarten ready to learn. we have a home visiting program and working with the parents in the home the make sure they are stimulating the kids socially and emotionally. reporter: save the children also offers a two-week intensive program for students heading to kindergarten like elena who has autism. some the stuff that he has learned over the past year is really just, really blow iing m mind. i wish that you could have met her at the begin dg of la beginning of last year. we are run jessica babb s son, levi entered the program four years ago. he just took off. he has a desire to read that i love and admire about him. we all talk about kids of the future and we re not doing anything about it. we have to be out there aggressively helping them. my mom washes the dishes. .before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? 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[speaking non-english]. reporter: she says she had a very difficult labor and nearly died. [speaking non-english]. reporter: during that time, she and other employees of the state run hospital asked about their daughter but they never saw her again. chile was living under the military dictatorship and her family feared asking too many questions would put them in danger. with the politics at the time and adoption not being regulated until years after i was adopted, we re looking at the social worker who processed my adoption, there are a lot of things, elements of it that were just incomplete and inconsistent with what i was told. reporter: chilean government officials say there were so many questionable documents back then authorities now have a name for babies like alisa. they re called children of silence, babies taken away from their biological parents in the 70s and 80s, in many cases without their consent or knowledge and given to their adoptive parents. those children are now in their 30s and 40s and asking about secrets that were kept from them for four decades. adoptions like these including travis toliver who didn t meet his biological mother until he was 41 years old. i wasn t given up willingly like i thought all these years and that makes me heart feel wonderful. reporter: in 2016, a prosecutor was given a list of nearly 600 families. he heads an organization that helps families find each other and has an even larger list. we have 3,000 people looking for them. these are adopted people and families looking for these babies that were now were stolen from them. reporter: she says, during those decades there were entire mafia stealing babies from impoverished families to profit from their sale while the government looked the other way or simply ignored victims. doctors, mid-wives and social assistants looking for poor people to stole their kids because we need to understand these kids were sold. it s not for good. this wasn t for a good thing. they were a mafia selling babies to the outside chile. reporter: there will always
help reform the u.s. prison system. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m george howell. cnn newsroom starts right now. good day. we begin with the controversial plan to relocate thousands of migrants. starting on monday, migrants who arrived in greece from turkey after march 20th win sent back. and in exchange, e.u. nations will accept an equal number of vetted syrian refugees from turkey. migrants now in greece are protesting that plan. human rights groups say turkey is not safe enough for these refugees. among those to be affected by the deal, the thousands of migrants who are now stranded in greece. on saturday, migrants blocked the highway demanding the macedonian border be reopened. for months now, migrants have been living in poor conditions at camps in the city. some residents have not been able to work their lands due to the camp. they re demanding the government speed up the relocation of migrants to shelters and other camps. refugees are begging not to be forgotten. translator: we are asking what is going to happen to us. i m asking all the countries, what is our fate. no one understands what we are going through except us. we who ran from our country, not because we were hungry. we didn t leave because we were hungry. we left because there is a war. is it our fate to i ddie here a? no one is paying attention to us, absolutely no one. we re joined by a journalist live in athens via skype with us. elena, it s good to have you. this deal that is set to take effect monday, it s callsing a great deal of panic among the so many people, the families who risked their thrives get to europe. reporter: absolutely. panic is the right world for how people are reacting now. they re trying to see if they can leave the camps. they re saying that they do not wanted to go to turkey. as a result, there s a lot of tension in the existing camps. there have been fights between different groups, specifically between migrants and refugees. [ inaudible ] those who can qualify and those who do not qualify to be able to be readmitted, people have been leaving camps. they ve been in one particular island, one of the main entry points into europe for thousands of these migrants and refugees. people left the camp, went there for two days now, just protesting saying that they will not get on the boats. the agreement itself is quite controversial. those who do not qualify for asylum will be turned back. but at the moment, greece itself is saying it does not have the facility, is not able to process these asylum applications. we hear that on the other side, turkey is not really ready to receive them. and we re looking at something that s about to start in less than 24 hours from now, george. the protests that are playing out, when it comes to migrants who are there, trying to make their way forward, they finding ways around the barriers, finding ways to possibly get around the new rules set to take effect? reporter: i mean, this is just the thing. we hear that some new routes are about to open. people will try what they can in order to get to their final destination. we seem to have part of that flow being diverted to italy as much as possible, and what is certain is that people who have traveled such a long way, who are so determined to have a new life will do what they can. and this means that they re an easy prey in the hands of smugglers. we understand that the prices for the journey so now that the route is more difficult, it s harder for them to get anywhere. the prices are going up, as demand goes up. and what we expect to see in the days ahead is that this phenomenonesq esqucalates as mo desperate people try to make it to europe. reporting live from athens, ele elena, thank you very much for your reporting. we re joined by leonard doyle, spokesman for the international organization for migration. and joining us live via skype from geneva. it s good to have you to talk about this, as well. let s start by the criticisms out about the deal. several human rights organizations have expressed concerns. indeed, there are many concerns mostly which have to do with the vary nature or lack of such and arbitrary decisions. i think a lot of the scrutiny that the magistrates going there are going to make sure they give proper hearings to the migrants. there s a lot of global scrutiny at least from cnn, as we re seeing now. there will be a lot of interest on the part of the europeans and making sure it s done appropriately, i think. when it comes to turkey, is turkey safe for migrants who are returning there? there are concerns that it s not. it kind of depends on how you re looking at it. if you want to look from a legalistic perspective, indeed there have been challenges, concerns. amnesty international put out a report over the weekend. on the other hand, it has to be recognized that in reality, turkey is an extraordinary welcoming and generous country. it s hosting almost 2.7 million refugees already from the war in syria. we do not hear daily reports of problems. in fact, the turks have opened their hearts to these people. the church has been a lot more welcoming than europeans have been the turks have been a lot more welcoming that europeans have been to refugees. another important part whe it comes to turkey and discussions with the e.u., how critical is that for this deal? will. extremely so. turkey wants to join the the market and to have it wants to have free movement for its people throughout europe. something that s been promised for so many years and been denied by narrow self-interests of certain european countries. it s part of the bargaining happening now. perhaps that s the big win for them. i ve seen reports, for example, from some of the islands where the migrants are going, that they re looking forward to the soon to the arrival of turkish tourists. there will be a lot to win from having free movement of turks across europe, particular in the greek economy, extraordinary benefits. and so we ll see. it is certainly part of the discussion. i want to ask you this question, and it just goes to the heart of what people will think about this when it comes to a family there. a family that s in greece that does not want to go back. a family that risked their lives to get to where they are right now. what recourse do they have? what can they do to make sure they continue to move forward despite the new rule that is set to take them back? sadly, they don t really have a lot to fall back on. i think the reality is that everybody knows that the majority of these people are coming from refugee-producing countries, be that afghanistan, iraq, or syria. and the europeans to some extent, some europeans, los angeles merkel in particular, has angela merkel in particular, has been generous and opened the gates of her country. so many have come in the hope of safety. in the meantime, there s been a political backlash across europe. we ve seen this in recent elections. the reality is that that position has been unsustainable, the position of keeping europe s borders open to these large flows of migrants who are in grave danger. and what s happening now is that the europeans are trying to contain that and control it. and that unfortunately means that for a lot of those already en route there will be no destination in europe, and they will be sent home. while you re talking, we re looking at images of the families, children, just you can only imagine the plight of these families after what they ve gone through. the rule set to take effect on monday. leonard doyle, thank you very much for your insights. we ll stay in touch with you, as well. to find out how to help syrian refugees, head to cnn.com/impact. and there you will find a list of nonprofits, vetsed nonprofits by cnn vetted nonprofits by cnn and other resources to help you get involved. turning to brussels and what is being called a sign of hope in the belgian capital. the city s main airport is partially reopening to passengers for the first time since the suicide bombers struck that location and a metro station just last month. just brief flights will be departing sunday. security is high. cars arriving at the airport are being checked. travelers are being screened before they can even enter the airport facility. tensions remain high there on the streets, though. there are protests and arrests in the belgian capital. let s go live to cnn s alexandra field following this from the brussels airport. it s good to have you. so what is the mood there as this airport reopens after what happened there? reporter: well, it s been 12 days since the airport was rocked by those bombings. and in just about an hour or so, passengers will begin to arrive. there s the checkpoint that s back behind me, being closely guarded by police officers. they ll have to show officers that they are, in fact, flying on those three flights going out today. other than that, access is still being limited to this airport. these are the necessary first steps in order to get the airport back up and running. they want a much smaller crowd. they ve dpotd to be able to en got to be able to ensure the safety and security of people flying today. you will have a smaller group, stricter security measures in place. we re told that passengers will be received at new temporary check-in structures. there will also be screening in a different area before they proceed to their flights. it s going to be a different experience to fly in and out of the airport. but authorities thought it was essential to get the airport back up and running, to give people this sense of security, and also this is an airport needed in this community. this is a place that used to greet 60,000 passengers every day. we re talking about much smaller numbers than that to start. in fact, the airport says that they are hoping really to get up to full capacity again, probably not until june or even possibly july, george. it is a small start, but it is a step forward. a small start but, yes, an important start, alexandra. i d like to talk about what s happening in the streets in brussels with the protests and arrests. reporter: right, george. all weekend we saw police doing crowd control. frankly, sometimes in riot gear, and with crowd control vehicles in place. there had been a ban on public demonstrations ordered by city officials last week. they were hoping to avoid any conflict in the streets over the weekend. they were hoping to avoid tensions and any clashing while they continued to devote security resources to the ongoing investigation into these terror attacks and trying to find anyone connected to the attacks. that s why they told people not to gather. there was also a planned right wing march, a group that said they were going to do into an anti-islam demonstration in the heart of the community. that s demonstrations that police said don t gather, don t demonstrate. people did not heed the instructions. in two locations, we saw large crowds. that s when police stepped in, enforcing the ban on demonstrations, pushing people out, making them disperse. those who refused were taken into detention. we re told they were given administrative charge and will have to pay a fine. it was some 140 people. a moment of hope there at the airport, but tensions still my brussels. alexandra field live for us. we appreciate your reporting, as always. the united states air force is deploying 12 f-15 fighters and several hundred personnel to iceland and the netherlands. their mission is to support nato surveillance and conduct flight training. the flight rotation was initiated amid heightened tensions between nato countries and russia after moscow s annexation of crime extra. the planes are scheduled crimea. the planes are scheduled this hour. presidential candidates ratcheting up attacks on each other. ahead, why hillary clinton and bernie sanders are debating about debating. plus, donald trump has an out-of-character moment you could say, making what some might call an apology. stay with us. rough night? 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(shush, shush, shush) america s choice 2016. the race for the white house and democratic presidential candidates are devoting all of their time and energy now to swaying voters in the state of wisconsin ahead of the primary that is set for tuesday. 86 democratic delegates are up for grabs, and on saturday, hillary clinton responded to criticisms from bernie sanders that she has supported trade deals that have taken jobs away from the united states. we need a president who doesn t just rail against trade or who doesn t enforce trade, but a president who knows how to compete against the rest of the world and win for america and for american workers. in return, bernie sanders said he is the only candidate who could prevents a republican who could prevent a republican from winning the white house. listen. there has been some concern upon the part of my opponent and others as to whether or not bernie sanders could win a general election. we love you, bernie! [ applause ] let me tell you, let me tell you that the last cnn poll had us 20 points ahead of donald trump. bernie sanders there. clinton and sanders head to an even bigger primary in a little more than two weeks from now, the state of new york. the two democrats have been stepping up their attacks on each other. now they re debate being debating. reporter: bernie sanders and hillary clinton campaigning hard in wisconsin in the northern city of eau claire today. before either candidate hit the ground, they were throwing mud at each other. the clinton campaign accusing the bernie sanders campaign of rejecting three dates to debate in new york in april, saying this the sanders campaign needs to stop using the new york primary as a playground for political games and negative attacks against hillary clinton. the spokesman for the sanders campaign firing back saying, unfortunately the dates and venues she has proposed didn t make a lot of sense. the idea that they want to debate in new york on a night of the ncaa finals with syracuse in the tournament no less is ludicrous. we have proposed other dates which they have rejected. we hope we can reach agreement in the near future. it s important to remember how this all started. after bernie sanders had a big weekend sweeping wins in washington, alaska, and hawaii, he challenged hillary clinton to a debate in her adopted home state of new york. for about a week, hillary clinton was rather noncommittal. yesterday, her campaign saying they re trying to work out the dates with the sanders campaign. today, the clinton campaign going after the sanders campaign saying that they re playing games with these dates. the sanders campaign denying it. and the reason why this new york primary is so important. many people expect that bernie sanders will be able to win in wisconsin. to be able to close the gap in delegates that he has, he s lagging clinton by 240 delega s delegates. he needs to upset her in new york. there s a huge cache of delegates available in new york state, 250. second only to california. if bernie sanders can pull a win there and upset hillary clinton in her adopted home state, he comes close to helping close the gap against hillary clinton. sanders and clinton hashing out when they ll have the debate is very important. when and where could have a big impact on that april 19th primary. we ll continue to watch that here in wisconsin. cnn, eau claire, wisconsin. and now as to republicans, they are also fighting it out in wisconsin. the front-runner, donald trump, is not favored to win that state. instead, he is trailing rival ted cruz there. with john kasich a close third. it is not clear how much that has to do with the rough week that donald trump had. he appeared to change his stance on abortion several times, and his rivals have pounced on that. cruz in particular insists that donald trump is not one of the republicans to represent their party. donald trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with hillary clinton. if we nominate donald trump, it elects hillary clinton. she wins by double digits. if hillary clinton is the next president, it s a catastrophe for this country. trump maintains a healthy lead in the delegate count. but reaching that magic number of 1,237 will be a tall order. if he gets close, an open convention has the potential to radically change the entire picture. john kasich told our reporter that a contested convention is indeed going to happen. and that he likes his odds once they get there. i can t win enough to get to the convention with enough delegates, and neither can cruz. he d have to win 90% of the remaining delegates. and donald trump would have to win, you know, probably better than 60%. as you know, his he s never gotten close to that. we re going to go a convention. when we go, there s going to be two things that will be asked one, who can win in the fall. i m the only candidate that consistently beats hillary clinton in the fall. secondly, michael, delegates take this seriously. they gun feel the weight of big they begin to feel the weight of big decisions and will ask who has the record, who has the accomplishments, and who can be president. even with donald trump s recent troubles, he isn t backing down from what s gotten him this far. as he explains it, the controversy surrounding his comments wasn t really his fault at all as our jason carroll reports. reporter: as donald trump addressed the crowd in racine, wisconsin, at his town hall, he touched on a number of issues that s plagued his campaign throughout the week. two issues namely. that was abortion, the other, foreign policy. first to the issue of abortion. he told the crowd it s a complicated subject saying no matter what he does, how he answers, he says, the press is always going to twist his words. he says when he does get his words out, no matter what he says, it s an answer no one will be satisfied with. the truth is you can t, no matter what you do, what you say, because they can take something you say and turn it around, like i ll be on cbs face the nation. what i said was perfect. what i said was in fact, otherwise, honestly, i m going to be on tomorrow, and i taped it yesterday. what i said was so good. it was so perfect. and then they looked, oh, maybe he should have added a word actually, the beltway came out, they took words out that i said. reporter: trump talking foreign policy, responding to the president s criticisms about trump and his knowledge of foreign policy. as you know, during the nuclear summit, the president was asked about trump s suggestion that u.s. allies, south korea and japan, arm themselves with nuclear weapons against north korea. to that, trump had to say this i mentioned this deal and i mentioned the fact that it s the fact that america can t afford it. the united states can t afford to do it, and they ll will have to pay more. i didn t say anything about letting japan nuke, but i did say perhaps if we can t do the right deal, we ll have to let them take care of themselves. if that means they ll have to someday get nuclear weapons, in all fairness, folks, i know the way life works, eventually they ll probably want to do it anyway. anyway. i don t say that s aed if thing or bad thing that s a good thing or bad thing. we can t lose the money we re losing. reporter: trump reminding those who came to see him in racine that he is self-funded, not taking money from special interests. and he s not beholden to anyone kpels except except those trying to get him into office. the latest polls showing cruz up by 10%. jason carroll, racine, wisconsin. thank you. of course, remember to joins us here on cnn all day tuesday for complete coverage of the critical wisconsin primary only here on cnn. 4:26 on the u.s. east coast. still ahead this hour, calcutta, india, looks to rebuild after a disastrous highway bridge collapse. cnn spoke to witnesses who are struggling to even sleep after seeing what you see there happened. plus, a teenage murderer goes from the streets of the u.s. to the halls of power. now pushing for prison reform. live this hour in the united states and around the world, you are watching cnn newsroom. kolkata. welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. are you watching cnn newsroom. good to have you with us. i m george howell. the headlines message from migrants in greece, no one is paying attention to us. many blocked the highway there on saturday demanding the macedonian border be reopened. it is presently closed ahead of a controversial e.u. plan set to take effect monday. migrants who arrived in greece from turkey will be sent back. in brussels, a sign of hope this day. the city s main airport is partially reopening to passengers. this for the first time since the deadly terror attacks nearly two weeks ago. the airport s ceo says just three flights are taking off sunday bound for portugal, italy and greece. there will be no arriving flights. in syria, government forces discovered a mass dprgrave with least 40 bodies in palmyra. many of the victims were women and children, many showed signs of beheading and torture. indian police have arrested four top construction executives connected with this week s deadly overpass collapse in kolkata. all charged with attempted murder and mischief. rescuers pulled three more bodies from the debris on saturday. now bringing the death toll to 27 people dead. in kolkata, the streets are getting back to normal. those who witnessed the bridge collapse told cnn the very memory of what they saw will haunt them for years to come. reporter: from the ground, it feels like any other day. life is back. people, cars, chaos. amazing to think just 48 hours ago, this entire area was full of rubble, concrete and cement, some of it several floors high. from above, lives will never be the same again. it was like a movie. it just felt like this. the whole slab at once. below there wereto cars, taxis,y the time i blinked, the overpass had collapsed, she says. in just a few seconds, a 100-meter-long chunk of concrete and steel came crashing down. i pray to god i never have to see such a thing again. i can t sleep. i can t eat. people were shouting, help me, help me. there was blood pouring out. i could see feet sticking out, hands dangling. there was blood everywhere, she says. from a room with a view, the their family has watched the city grow. this was one of the busiest parts of kolkata. tailors, traders, the homeless jostled for space, opening makeshift busy undiness under t overpass. so many people died. so many. i can t bear the pain. imagine the people who lost their loved ones, she says. her daughter-in-law shows me the window from where she saw the overpass crack. they had just poured concrete that morning around 11:30 a.m. then an hour later, it broke, she tells me. the 2.2-kilometers-long overpass built to relieve the congestion below has always been controversial. spanning almost the entire width of the street, the people say no one liked in the overpass because this, they say is, no way to live. cnn, kolkata, india. a recent terror attack in pakistan is highlighting the danger of being a christian there. the suicide bombing at a park killed more than 70 people on easter sunday. it wounded hundreds more. a taliban splinter group has claimed responsibility. that group saying that it was targeting christians. this of the latest in a string of attacks that saw cities bombed and homes burned, families living in fear. cnn takes you inside this small community to see how it is coping. it is an exclusive report. you ll see it monday only here on cnn. the former president of brazil joined about 100 protesters at a pro-government rally on saturday chanting there will not be a coup. the demonstration came a day after anti-government protesters rallied in sao paolo calling for the impeachment of president rouseff. da silva is under investigation for corruption. he was recently sworn in as chief of staff. thousands of colombians say their president is a traitor and are calling on him to resign. they staged demonstrations in more than 20 cities across the country saturday. they are opposed to president juan manuel santos, saying he s failed to deliver on policies like education and employment. the colombian civil war has lasted more than 50 years. a convicted murderer has picked up some unlikely political allies. ahead, the man who went from solitary confinement to the halls of power to push for prison reforms in america. stay with us. you won t see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m george howell. as a teenager, shacka sengor committed murder, but behind bars he found purpose. now he s a leading voice for prison reform in the united states and the author of this book, righting my wrongs: life, death, and redemption in an american prison. cnn s poppy harlow saw down and talked about his life, his mention, and his unlikely political allies. reporter: shaka senghor will always bear the name convicted felon. at the age of 18, i shot and killed a man. reporter: he didn t start out that way. you were an honor roll student. what happened? once i started going through things at home, i stopped taking interest in school. it s one of those things that now when i look back especially working with young people, i think about how we sometimes fail as adults to pay attention to what s happening to children. i literally went from honor roll student to like barely showing up in class. you say no one ever stopped to say what s wrong. yeah. why are your grades falling off. not one person? not one person. originally, it felt kind of like the ideal middle-class family. a lot of siblings, fun times, but also a lot of hurtful and painful times dealing with the abuse of any mother, dealing with the dissolution of my parents marriage. reporter: he served 19 years, seven in solitary confinement. you knowingly chose the street life. no one pushed you there. nothing forced you there. why did you choose it? i was looking for love and acceptance. and i ran away when i was 14 years old. and you know, i was naive like most 14-year-olds and thought that somebody s parent would take me in and shelter me from abuse. that didn t happen. so when i got introduced to the drug trade, it came under the guise of love and acceptance. when you re a young vulnerable teenager who s been hurt and damaged, you re looking for that emotional connection to anybody that s saying, hey, i love you, i have your back. so i chose that lifestyle. reporter: you felt accepted there? i felt accepted, definitely. reporter: he told crack by age 14, was shot himself at 17, and murdered a man by 19 in a drug deal gone awry. i realized that not only had i tragically caused somebody s death, but that i devastated somebody s family. and that i couldn t take that back. i got a letter from my son while i was on that 4.5-year stint in solitary. he said, dear dad, i know you re in prison for murder. please, dad, don t kill again. jesus watches what you do. as a father, i realized that i had not only faileddmy son, but that i was failing a generation of young men who were growing up in the neighborhood. i realized that i needed to do something different in my life. first thing was taking full responsibility for the decisions i made that landed me in prison. but also to figure out a way how i can utilize the experience to help other young men and women avoid the path that i had taken. reporter: the aunt of the man that senghor murdered wrote him a letter of forgiveness while he was serving time. she told me she loved him because god loved him. i think viewers watching will ask, you are a former felon, a murderer. you took a man s life. why should people listen to you no now? because i think in order to solve a problem you have to be in closest proximity to it as possible. and the reality is that gun violence is a large part of what s happening in american society. and who better to understand how to solve it than somebody going through it. reporter: in righting my wrong, he asks the question, how do you emerge in a society that is so unforgiving? there is a lot of discussion now in washington about prison reform. are you hopeful? i m very hopeful. i think that we re at a space now where the american public is a lot more aware because i feel like, you know, if you re footing the bill for this and to not get the return on investment that s been promised to us, i think it s unfair. and our prison system operate as a big warehouse. reporter: a warehouse? a wealthier house of misery to be a warehouse of misery to be specific. you can help or further hurt them. then you can wake up and say, okay, i m not surprised if that they get out and come back. reporter: a 2014 study from the bureau of justice statistics followed inmates from 30 states for five years. it found nearly 70% of former prisoners returned to prison within three years of being released. american society, we have a choice what kind of men and women we want to return. either you want healthy men and women ready to re-enter as contributing members of society, or you want broken men and women who s going to come out and wreak havoc on society. reporter: today he works with the cut 50 initiative. a bipartisan effort to reduce the u.s. prison population by half by 2025. who s your biggest ally in this fight? we have multiple allies. newt gingrich has been a great ally. people from the republican party, different politicians. i think it s a time in the country where everybody is realizing that we ve done this thing wrong for a long time. i think if you think about what the cornerstone is of faith is forgiveness and redemption, i think that when we look at our country, that s the foundation of the country is built on faith. different faiths. no matter what faith you come from, background you come from, that s a deep part of that. sadly, it hasn t been extended to those who are incarcerated. reporter: are you an anomaly? i don t think so. we re throwing away a lot of greatness. we re basically dismissing people s humanity. i think we failed particularly inner city kids. we re quick to throw them away, quick to judge them more harshly than other kids are judged. it s a reality of the racial dynamics and class dynamnix america. we re not always honest about that. the path of a prison reformer. poppy harlow there for us. switching to weather. the calendar may say that it s spring, but in the northeastern united states, hey, it feels a little bit like winter again. karen? yes, a one-two punch. if you are viewing us from new york city or washington, d.c., yes, there is some snowfall to report. also in boston, some of the latest computer models suggesting maybe as much as eight inches of snowfall. that s going to be blown around by winds gusting to 60 or 65 mile-per-hour or 1 you don t know this 115 kilometers 115 kilometers an hour. we ll see bottmbogenesis meanin low pressure will deepen as it gets off shore. that will enhance the moisture and create winter conditions up and down new england. you can kind of see the path from the great lakes into the eastern great lakes and then toward new england, kind of that center line stretching along the border between pennsylvania and new york, extending on over toward massachusetts and into connecticut. we re looking at perhaps some of the heaviest snowfall bands that we will see over the next 48 hours. drive carefully. road conditions are going to be especially treacherous. don t be surprised if there are delays at the major airport. they should be brief, but nothing less with the poor visibility and blowing snow, that could be problematic. we see a moderating trend by midweek. we ll see the double digits again at least celsius in new york city. perhaps temperatures in the low 50s, running well below where they should be for this time of year. in china, one of the central provinces had poor visibility thanks to rainfall. take a look. you see this multivehicle pileup that actually claimed two lives and sent 29 people to the hospital. there you see it was because of the slick roads, the poor visibility due to some of the fog and mist in the air, and traveling too fast on those roadways, as well. a very dangerous and scary situation. and then we re watching the tropics, yes, the tropics, in the southern hemisphere. a low probability, but around fiji, it looks like the cluster of thunderstorms could possibly turn to something a little more sinister as we look into the next several days. we ll continue to monitor the tropics there. kind of a crazy weather scenario right now, george. back to you. karen maginnis, thank you very much. still ahead on cnn newsroom, a lion attacks a man on the outskirts of nairobi. ahead, the attack, the aftermath, and the growing fears as african cities expand into wildlife habitats. stay with us. a lion attack outside of kenya s capital is raising concerns about wild animals living near big cities in africa. lions have, in fact, wandered off from nairobi s national park three times this passed month alone. ian lee reports the animals are terrifying citizens and alarming wildlife officials. reporter: a group of men surround an escaped lion from nairobi national park, taking pictures and throwing rocks. the famous feline known as mohawk lashes out, injuring one person. wildlife rangers arrive on scene, but without tranquilizers, they shoot and kill the big cat. the action taken as a last resort out of concern for public safety, say officials. kenyans were outraged, many criticizing the wildlife service and using the hash tag #justiceformohawk. this is the fourth time a lion has escaped nairobi national park in a month. the 117 square-kilometer park butts up to the city of over three million, home to an array of animals including zebras, giraf giraffes, and antelopantelope. despite the escapes, you re hard pressed to find line in the park. will will only 35 roam the fields, but when they escape, they can be dangerous. oh, god, why all this? reporter: a lion attacked michael adore while he was on his way to work. i saw it sticking out its teeth, coming to maul my face. reporter: the feline fled, but not before crushing his shoulder. the claws ripping his flesh. activists fear encounters like this could grow more common. as the city of nairobi continues to expand and develop around the park, it s encroaching on the habitat of not only the lions, but the lions prey. conservationist say this will increase the likelihood of lions leaving the park and encountering humans. the city has expanded tenfold since the 1940s. the land surrounding the park is privately owned and prime real estate. a recent road cutting through the park has also reduced habitat. some lions leave the park searching for food, mainly livestock, putting them in direct conflict with humans. then, there are the migratory routes. lions migrate to the particular areas, and the areas are settled. when they come out, they get closer to people. reporter: if a plan isn t developed, officials might be forced to fence off the park, turning the nairobi national park into the national zoo. ian lee, cnn, nairobi. and as we close this hour, we would be remiss not to tell you about this internationally recognized day. it is a day when anyone can be a kid. all you have to do is grab your pillow. so people around the world, they battled it out doing this the seventh annual international pillow fight day saturday. dressed in pajamas, participants in berlin, germany, also blew off steam, having fun with this. look at that. and in hong kong, the feathers are flying, too, as well. people of all ages took part in the festivities. some even wore superhero costumes, even batman and spider-man were spotted in the crowd there. good to grab a pillow at this point. thank you very much for being with us this hour. i m george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. i ll be back after the break with more news from around the world. thanks for watching cnn, the world s news leader. reopened but not fully. the brussels airport plans to partially resume flights less than two weeks after the blast that ripped through the main terminal. stuck in limbo. a deal to send migrants back to turkey is set to go into effect amid protests and concerns over poor preparation. and this either they pay up including for past deficiencies, or they get up. donald trump ramping up criticism against america s nato allies with an important primary vote hanging in the balance. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m george howell. cnn newsroom starts right now. good day. we begin in the belgium capital. people checking in at the airport under tightened security. that airport resuming passenger flights on a limited basis for the first time since suicide bombers struck the location and a brussels metro station 12 days ago. cars are being checked as they arrive to the airport, and passengers are being screened before they can even go inside the building. the airport s ceo says sunday s reopening brings hope to belgium. a restart of the operations even only partially as quick as this is a sign of hope that shows our shared will and strength to resurface and not to let people down. i want to thank every member of the airport community and all the partners involved. they ve all made this possible. in getting back to normal, our main concern will remain the safety of our passengers, staff, and the police. we have always been working in order to guarantee an optimum safety level while providing passenger comforts, as well. cnn is live in brussels. alexandra fields joins us from the airport there. what is the mood given that this airport is about to reopen, but at this time, the security is much, much tighter? reporter: sure, if you think about the fact that two weeks ago, george, they were doing 600 flights a day in and out of the airport, and are you down to three, it s owbviously an alterd and changed experience. very few people going into and out of the airport. they just started letting cars through. people were met by police as they drove into the airport earlier. they re seeing security before they even check in. they ll be screened again. so there is really a heavy presence. we were able to get back there and see the security presence that was in place outside of the airport. i think that people might feel calm to see that there is this added layer of protection and security. but certainly this will likely be emotional for many of the passengers who are going to take these first three symbolic flights, as they are being called. we know it is still going to be some time before the airport is operating at full capacity. we re told it would be perhaps two months. they re hoping to get up and fully running by the end of june or possibly early july. in the meantime, it was important to get the place open. so they do have some temporary check-in facilities. that s where passengers will go today. and in the coming days, they hope to add more flights to the schedule. they hope to get more people through the doors. it is important to keep that number small at least to start, they say, because they want to ensure that this extra security is certainly sufficient. that people feel calmed and comforted by it. and they re able to handle the capacity that they are taking on, george. let s also talk about what s happening in brussels itself with these protests and the orders for people not to protest. there were arrests in the past few days. reporter: that s right, george. this started when a right wing conservative french youth group said they planned to hold a march in molenbeek, a community mostly inhabited by immigrants. officials from the city were concerned that this would create chaos, that it could cause an eruption of tensions. they told people not to demonstrate. but throughout the city yesterday, we did see large crowds gather. and police responded swiftly, trying to break up those crowds. at one point, going to mall week in molenbeek in riot gear to disperse clouds to protest or counterprotest. they came in with crowd control vehicles. we saw the same thing at the area where the victims have been memorialized for nearly two weeks now. about 140 people were taken into detention for refusing to disperse despite the police orders. we re told this is an administrative charge. it meant several hours of detention and a fine of up to 250 euros. it underscores the point officials were trying to make earlier in the week when they said they do not want the demonstrations now. they do not want the tension or chaos. they need to provide security and support services for the ongoing investigations that are happening related to the attacks that took place in the city. george? alexandra field live in brussels. thank you so much for your reporting. we ll stay in touch with you. now we move to the controversial plan to relocate thousands of migrants. starting monday, migrants who arrived in greece from turkey after march 20th will be sent back. in exchange, e.u. nations will accept vetted syrian refugees from turkey. advocacy groups fear that turkey will not protect the human rights of asylum seekers. among those to be affected by this deal, thousands of migrants who are stranded there in greece. and on saturday, many of them blocked a highway demanding that the macedonian border be reopened. for months now, migrants have been living in poor conditions at makeshift camps, refugees are begging not to be forgotten. translator: we ve reached this point and are asking, what is going to happen to us? i m asking all the countries, what is our fate? no one understands what we are going through except us. we who ran from our country, not because we were hungry. we didn t leave because we were hungry. we left because there is a war. is it our fate to die here also? no one is paying attention to us. absolutely no one. many people in turkey are also against the new e.u. deal. hundreds of demonstrators rallied in the coastal city. preparations are underway there to register asylum-seekers when they re returned from greece. some in the community say they don t want the rejected refugees housed in their town. translator: first of all, the city is not ready for this. if you gather a large number of refugees, it is almost like a punishment. this would trigger a change in this town that is a tourist spot where people live in comfort. the people do not want this. for more, we re joined from our journalist live via skype from athens. good to have you again this hour. this deal that is set to take effect on monday, it s already causing a great deal of panic among people. families who risk their lives to get to europe your risk being sent back. now risk being sent back. reporter: precisely. they thought they had made it to europe. they thought that they re safe, that they re able to start a new life. away, in many cases, from war. now there s a sense of fear and confusion about what will be sent back and when. some migrants and refugees have tried to leave camps, particularly on the island that s one of the first enry and exit points from europe to turkey. people have broken the fence. they have been asking to get on ships through athens to get to the northern border. they re hoping from there they ll continue their journey to europe. the border has been closed for several weeks, but people are not believing this. they think that as long as they get to the greek boreder that they ll make it to europe. the authorities on the greek side, they have enforced riot police on some of the islands. they re saying they understand that the migrants are in distress and understand why this is happening. at the same time, they re trying to pacify the greek citizens, the islanders also complaining that this with this cannot go on. the main question for everyone here is, is this actually going to work. greece has about 50,000 people stranded. the number of boats, people that have been arriving from turkey, from the turkish coast to the greek islands has gone down since this agreement came into effect. if this doesn t work and tomorrow really is the first dy that we ll see if the agreement can be implemented, the question is what is going to happen if more people are trying to still cross into greece and europe. the politics aside, as nations try to figure out policies, you know, to reach some sort of solution use look at the images, think about the people, the families, the children in the middle here, many human rights groups are concerned about what happens to people when they are returned to turkey. many of them believe that they would not be safe in turkey. what are you hearing? reporter: this is exactly what we ve been hearing, as well. a number of countries have a hard time recognizing turkey as a safe country. and amnesty international published a report saying some of the refugees are being sent back from turkey to syria. so this is obviously an issue of concern. what we don t know at this point is that, yes, these people will be returned to turkey, but what next. the e.u. has not gone into details of explaining will these people stay in turkey, will they be sent back to their respective countries? this is a point that remains unclear, george. reporting live via skype in athens, thank you very much for your reporting and perspective on this. you can find out how to help syrian refugees. head to cnn.com/impact. there you will find a list of nonprofits that are vetted by cnn and the many other resources to help you get involved. to syria now where government forces have uncovered a mass grave in palmyra. this yearly a week after recapturing the ancient city from isis. syrian media reported at least 40 bodies were discovered, many women and children. many of them showed signs of beheading and torture. the victims are believed to be among hundreds killed by isis after it seized palmyra in may. a decades old dispute over territory between armenia and azerbaijan has flared up. both countries claim the nagorno-karabakh region, a landlocked area surrounded by azerbaijan, but mainly occupied by forces backed by armenia. at least 30 people from both country were killed in clashes between armed forces on saturday, should say, in 1994, the cease-fire ended in armed conflict that had lasted for six years. the u.s. and russia are urging diplomatic solutions. it was a violation of the cease-fire between the international law, international humanitarian law and the nations because of what the official has done in the zone of the azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh conflict. the conspicuous intervention in tourists and policy. at the same time, azerbaijan blame the armenians for starting saturday s clashes. to a possible new clue in the mystery of the mystery malaysia flight mh370. a piece of debris was found an island nation and may explain what happened to the plane. hotel workers found the piece of wreckage on a beach on thursday. you ll remember 239 people were on board when the flight disappeared in 2014. cnn s aviation correspondent, richard quest, has more. reporter: from the pictures that we ve seen, this one seems pretty clearcut. it is obviously part of an internal panel. it s believed to be from the business class section. the pattern of the wall is distinctive. it s got a type of flower pattern. and if you compare this piece to pieces that have been known about already and look at what s on the planes, you see it is actually similar in fact, it s identical. so this would suggest that the piece did come from mh370. and it would also tell investigators that the plane did indeed break up either in the air or when it hit the water and didn t manage to land or do a gentle ditching in the ocean. how much more it will tell investigators, of course, is somewhat suspect. it s unlikely to tell them exactly where the plane went down, and it s not going to give any secrets away about what happened on board the aircraft. but the more pieces of debris they find, the greater the picture they will get of how the aircraft came out of the sky. by looking at compression, fractures, rips and tears, they ll be able to determine the forces that the plane went through as it went into the water. they re still a long way from that, but this is one more piece of a very complicated puzzle. richard quest, cnn, new york. you are watching cnn newsroom. and still to come this hour, witnesses to the deadly bridge collapse in kolkata, india, say they are still haunted by what they saw. translator: i pray to god i never have to see such a thing again. i can t sleep, i can t eat. you ll hear from people when watched it happen firsthand. plus, when to debate, where to debate? the u.s. democratic presidential candidates, they can t decide. and get this they re blaming each other for the confusion. you re watching cnn newsroom. get ready. to show your roots. with root touch up from nice n easy it blends with leading shades, even salon shades. in just 10 minutes. so pick your shade. and show the world your roots. .with root touch-up. duracell quantum lasts longer so kevin jorgeson can power through the night. sfx: duracell slamtones and i want to remind you that no one s the same without the game. like @flagdad28, who tweets, in a recent flag football game with my family, i ran up the score, pick-sixed my daughter 3 times, and 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attacks that has seen church bombs, homes as well, and people living in fear. an exclusive report monday on cnn. now kolkata, india, the site of a deadly bridge collapse that s killed at least 27 people. many people saw this bridge fall firsthand. and some told us those memories will never leave them. reporter: from the ground, it feels like any other day. life is back. people, cars, chaos. amazing to think just 48 hours ago, this entire area was full of rubble, concrete and cement, some of it several floors high. from above, lives will never be the same again. it was like a movie. it ju it just fell like this. the whole slab at once. below there were cars, taxis, by the time i blinked, the overpass had collapsed, she says. in just a few seconds, a 100-meter-long chunk of concrete and steel came crashing down. i pray to god i never have to see such a thing again. i can t sleep. i can t eat. people were shouting, help me, help me. there was blood pouring out. i could see feet sticking out, hands dangling. there was blood everywhere, she says. from a room with a view, the their family has watched the city grow. this was one of the busiest parts of kolkata. tailors, traders, the homeless jostled for space, opening makeshift business under the overpass. so many people died. so many. i can t bear the pain. imagine the people who lost their loved ones, she says. her daughter-in-law shows me the window from where she saw the overpass crack. they had just poured concrete that morning around 11:30 a.m. then an hour later, it broke, she tells me. the 2.2-kilometers-long overpass built to relieve the congestion below has always been controversial. spanning almost the entire width of the street, the people say no one liked in the overpass because this, they say is, no way to live. cnn, kolkata, india. america s choice, 2016, and the democrats running for president are focussed in on two important primaries coming up in the states of wisconsin and new york. the attacks between hillary clinton and bernie sanders, they heating up, as well. we report the two candidates are debate being debating. reporter: bernie sanders and hillary clinton campaigning hard in wisconsin in the northern city of eau claire today. before either candidate hit the ground, they were throwing mud at each other. the clinton campaign accusing the bernie sanders campaign of rejecting three dates to debate in new york in april, saying this the sanders campaign needs to stop using the new york primary as a playground for political games and negative attacks against hillary clinton. the spokesman for the sanders campaign firing back saying, unfortunately the dates and venues she has proposed didn t make a lot of sense. the idea that they want to debate in new york on a night of the ncaa finals with syracuse in the tournament no less is ludicrous. we have proposed other dates which they have rejected. we hope we can reach agreement in the near future. it s important to remember how this all started. after bernie sanders had a big weekend sweeping wins in washington, alaska, and hawaii, he challenged hillary clinton to a debate in her adopted home state of new york. for about a week, hillary clinton was rather noncommittal. yesterday, her campaign saying they re trying to work out the dates with the sanders campaign. today, the clinton campaign going after the sanders campaign saying that they re playing games with these dates. the sanders campaign denying it. and the reason why this new york primary is so important. many people expect that bernie sanders will be able to win in wisconsin. to be able to close the gap in delegates that he has, he s lagging clinton by 240 delegates. he needs to upset her in new york. there s a huge cache of delegates available in new york state, 250. second only to california. if bernie sanders can pull a win there and upset hillary clinton in her adopted home state, he comes close to helping close the gap against hillary clinton. sanders and clinton hashing out when they ll have the debate is very important. when and where could have a big impact on that april 19th primary. we ll continue to watch that here in wisconsin. cnn, eau claire, wisconsin. the republicans are also campaigning in wisconsin. but front-runner, donald trump, finds himself in an unfamiliar position in second place. he is also taking heat from every direction lately, including president obama lambasting his foreign policy acumen. trump, however is, sticking to his guns, including his controversial take on nato. listen many countries are not paying their fair share. that means we are protecting them, and they are getting all sorts of military protection and other things. and they re ripping off the united states and ripping you off. i don t want to do that. either they pay up including for past deficiencies or get out. if it breaks up nato, it breaks up nato. donald trump there. and the republican candidates are also focusing in on swaying delegates in the state of north dakota this weekend. though the state only offers a small number of delegates, they are crucial in what is a tightening rice tightening race. the state does not hold a presidential primary or caucus, meaning there is no public vote. instead, party officials select the total of 25 delegates plus three party leaders to attend the national convention that is set for july. the key here is that the delegates do not have to commit to any candidate before that convention. they are effectively free agents and could make a major difference if no candidate secures enough delegates to clinch the nomination on the ballot. trump s lead is fairly secure. the possibility of an open convention could make anything under that magic number of 1,237 a moot point. cruz and kasich are focused on denying trump that figure and not figuring it to reach themselves. cruz picked up another six in colorado today as part of their complex delegate selection process. a brokered convention isn t totally without precedents, but it is certainly a departure from any election we ve seen the past few decades. our tom foreman delves into what it would mean for the candidates chances to win the white house. there s a reason they call it a floor fight if no candidate can get the magic number of delegates necessary to clinch the nomination before the convention begins. let s look at the delegate count now. donald trump is the close. but if he doesn t get the number before the convention starts or, say you actually get to the convention and have a floor full of people here who have trump signs but on the first vote he does not get enough to get the nomination squirrelled away, then we have a real problem because a floor fight is underway at that point. why? because after the first vote, many of these delegates become unbound. that means they can voted for whomever they wish, not necessarily the person chosen by the people back in their state. people who are holding trump signs may suddenly be holding cruz signs. or maybe kasich signs. maybe signs for somebody else altooth. every state has its own rules. the convention will have its own rules when it starts. it s not clear which rules override other rules. you can bet all three campaigns will be doing all they can to twist arms, to bend the rules, and to push the referees to try to get an advantage. it could get bitter and very nasty. there is a reason the party does not want that to happen. overwhelming reason. look at this from the pew research center. these are the numbers. in the republican party if the nominee is chosen on the ballot, 64% of the time the nominee will go on to win the white house. second ballot or later, only 50% of the time. these numbers are even worse for the democratic party. there s a real cost to be paid by a party that goes into its convention undecided. thank you. and of course, remember to join us here on cnn all day tuesday for complete coverage of the critical wisconsin primary only on cnn. it is 1:28 p.m. in dubai. 5:28 a.m. on the east coast. still to come this hour medical marijuana being used to treat children. coming up, why one israeli family says the controversial drug is the only thing that s left to help their toddler. the news continues live across the u.s. and around the world this hour. you re watching cnn newsroom. m map. welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom, and it is good to have you with us. i m george howell. the headlines we re following this hour the main airport in brussels partially reopening to passengers this day for the first time since the deadly terrorist attacks nearly two weeks ago. the airport company s ceo says there will just be three flight taking off sunday bound for portugal, italy, and greece. passengers are being screened before they ender it the terminal. syrian enter the terminal. syrian forces have discovered a mass grave with at least 40 bodies in palmyra. this follows the recapture of the ancient city from isis last week. many of the victims were women and children. many showed signs of beheading and torture. the president of niger was sworn in saturday for another five-year term. he was elected in a runoff vote last month that was marred by low turnout. the opposition boycotted that election due to their candidate being hospitalized days before ballots were cast. no one is paying attention to us. that s just one of the messages from migrants who blocked a highway in greece on saturday. they are demanding the macedonian border be reopened. it is closed ahead of a controversial e.u. plan set to take effect monday. migrants who arrived to greece from turkey will be sent back. last hour, i spoke with a spokesman for the international organization for migration about the new deal and how safe turkey will be for migrants who return. indeed there have been challenges, some concerns, amnesty international, for example, put out a statement over the weekend. in reality, turkey is an extraordinarily welcoming and generous country. it s hosting almost 2.7 million refugees already from the war in syria. we do not hear daily reports of problems. in fact, the turks have opened their hearts to these migrants. so i think one has to look at it in context. the turks have been a lot more welcoming than the europeans have been toward the migrants and refugees. and then another very important part when it comes to turkey and its discussions with the e.u. how strict that for this deal how critical is that for this deal? will. extremely so. turkey wants to join the market and to have free movement to its people throughout europe. something it s been promised for years and being denied by narrow self-interests of certain european countries, let s put it that way. that s finally part of the bargaining if you like that s happening now. perhaps that s the big win for them. i ve seen reports, for example, from the islands that the migrants are going that they re looking forward to the arrival soon of turkish tourists. there will be a lot to win from having free movement in europe and particularly the economy. it warrants discussion. i want to ask you this question, and it just goes to the heart of what people will think about this when it comes to a family there. a family that s in greece that doesn t want to go back. a family that risked their lives to get to where they are now. what recourse do they have? what can they do to make sure that they can continue to move forward despite this new rule that is set to take them back? sadly, they don t have a lot to fall back on. the real sit that everybody knows that the majority reality is that everybody knows that the majority are coming from refugee-producing countries, be that afghanistan, iraq, or syria. and the europeans to some extent, some europeans, angela merkel in particular, has been extraordinary generous and has opened the gates of her country. so many have come in the hopes of safety. in the meantime, there s been political backlash across europe. we ve seen this in recent elections. the reality is the position is unsustainable. the position of keeping europe s borders open to the large flows of migrant who s are in grave danger migrants who are in grave danger. the europeans are trying to contain and control it. and that unfortunately means that for a lot of those already en route, there will be no destination in europe. and they will be sent home. that was leonard doyle, spokesman for the international organization for migration. the former brazilian president joined 100 protesters at a government rally saturday chanting, there will not be a coup. the demonstrations came a day after anti-government protesters rallied in sao paolo calling for the impeachment of the president. he is being investigated for corruption and was recently sworn in as chief of staff. thousands of colombians say their president a traitor and are calling on him to resign. they staged demonstrations in more than 20 cities across that country on saturday. that are opposing the president s efforts for peace after decades of guerrilla conflict. protesters believe there santos has caved to much to rebel commands. the former president led one of the demonstrations and says he wants to bring awareness to the country s corruption. translator: we want this march to create consciousness regarding the damage created by the impunity for narcoterrorism. impunity is being given to a particular group and another comes forward. colombia will not escape the violence. the colombian civil war has lasted more than 50 years. this is cnn newsroom. ahead, a controversial drug is being used to help treat children. coming up, why one family says marijuana is the only medical remedy that works for their toddler. stay with us. ayla reminds me of like a master chef and emiana reminds me of like a monster chef. uh oh. i don t see cake, i just see mess. it s like 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m used to being stabbed, in the back, not in my eye. reporter: one of thousands in north carolina affected by the private securities privacy act and stimulate that requires trans people to use the public restroom related to the gender on their birth certificate, not how they identify. this law affects us because it puts us in danger and is open discrimination. it s no different than the jim crowe laws in the south. you look mwah. reporter: at home, she and her husband, adam daniels, say that now that she s required to use the men s room, they worry she ll be physically assaulted or worse. i would say most of the attention is because people do not understand what the bill actually does. reporter: state house republican pro tempore paul stamm is one of the sponsors. he says the law is not limiting the protections of the lgbt community but rather not giving them special rights. we have lots of accommodations in the bill for those in special circumstances. we re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9% of our citizens who think when they re going into a restroom or changing room that they will be private. reporter: 19 surgeries, two trips to thailand, and more than $100,000 later, cox is post-op transgender, though her birth certificate says she s a man. she s what the trans community would call passable as a woman. she says that doesn t make it any easier. we re literally the same and are fighting for the same thing. we want to be accepted and to know that we re not going to be discriminated against. thank you! reporter: nick valencia, cnn, raleigh, north carolina. we move on to israel and the issue of medical marijuana. a family is using the controversial drug to treat their son s chronic health conditions, and it s their last hope after other treatments failed to bring the toddler any relief. cnn s orrin lieberman has this report for us. reporter: for 2.5-year-old levity, moments of joy are all too brief. diagnosed with severe epilepsy andsational palsy from birth leaving him with brain damage, he suffered seizures, dozens a day. now they re nearly gone, w just a few drop a day of medical marijuana, cannabis oil, mixed into his food. we saw a difference immediately. after a few weeks, we didn t see any seizures at all. reporter: other medicines didn t work, his father says, or worse, caused severe side effects. levity h levity has been on te cannabis for a year and a half. it s high in the pharmacological ingredient in cannabis and flow thc, the psychoactive ingredient, the drug that makes you high. there s little research on the effects of medical cannabis on babies, but this father has all the results he needs. his son hasn t had a seizure in months. he takes the cbd oil daily and a second oil of thc only when levit is having a bad day. when you give him the drop of thc, that s the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, it makes him high. in the beginning, we were pretty anxious about it, i guess. then we thought, well, what are we seeing? we re seeing this kid that was before in distress, and now he isn t. reporter: at home, they play with their son and daughter. the difference is stunning, she is ten months old, one-third of her brother s age. she can hold toys and play with her parents and much. th this, one father worries, will be too much for his son. instead, he hopes one day to hear his son say dad. we turn to weather around the world. in portions of the united states, it is a lot colder than it should be for april. our meteorologist, karen maginnis, is at the world weather center. what s happening? reporter: it is colder. and it s snowier and blustery-er, if you can have a word like. that we ve got snowfall stretching from the great lakes into the eastern great lakes and finally across new england. we ve got back-to-back storm systems, both are very fast moving. so it s high impact, short duration. cold comfort, no pun intended. winds around 60 or 65 miles per hour, around 100 to 110 kilometers per hour. and we ll start to see the next wave of this move in toward monday. the snowfall is going to be fast and furious. there you see in some of the coastal areas of massachusetts and into rhode island and connecticut, we re mostly seeing it as wet weather. western massachusetts, the snowfall has already begun. also washd. dulles reported snow flurries an hour or so ago. there was the first wave. we ve got another behind it, a clipper system that actually develops and deepens as we go into the next 48 hours. the temperatures will reflect the cold air that s going to be in place. take a look at new york city. not until midweek will we expect temperatures to start to cream back up again. it will be the wind, it will be the blustery conditions. we are looking at snowfall totals maybe in boston four eight inches certainly possible. take a look at this video coming out of china. it s a combination of speed, poor visible, as well as slippery roads. there were 56 vehicles involved in this deadly crash that claimed the the lives of two people and sent 30 to the hospital. it goes to show on the slick roads you never can be too caref careful. this happened in the past 24 hours, two fay salts associated with that fatalities associated with that. and i mention for two reasons because of this broad area that we ll watch for tropical development, but also in the past hour, there was a report of an earthquake, 6.9 magnitude, 20 miles deep. george, no tsunami warnings have been issued. that is no tsunami warnings issued for the basin. that is important to make a point of. thank you very much. we ll stay in touch with you to continue following that, as well. next on cnn newsroom, hear what donald trump thought about running for president more than ten years ago. that s right, more than ten years ago. stay with us. living with chronic migraine feels like each day is a game of chance. i wanted to put the odds in my favor. so my doctor told me about botox®, an 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Aryna sabalenka was beaten by 17 year old russian mirra andreeva. earlier in the day the 2022 women s wimbledon champion elena ry bakina went out to italy s jasmine paolini. joe lynskey reports. six months ago, she might ve laughed off the possibility, but for jasmine, this is been the break after year. she had not been passed around two and now rolling, she faced on a champion. tells the first point of a quarterfinal against her, a former wimbledon victor not being outmaneuvered. she came here not having lost a set in when she took the first, she found her shots in the first, she found her shots in the dream run that stalled. 28 from