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The house homeland security committee chairman calling for an investigation after two secret facebook groups linked to border patrol agents were found. >> those groups contained vulgar, racist, offensive posts and pictures. cnn also obtained e-mails that show border agents allegedly tried to humiliate a honduran migrant in their custody. natasha chen joins us live now from el paso. natasha, what more are you le learning about these groups? >> reporter: these secret facebook groups we know of at least two of them. the second one called the real cbp we learned about when our colleague nick valen...

Four cities are launching their own investigations. joining us now pulitzer prize-winning journalist helped break the story and expose the officer's offensive posts and he's co-founder of injustice watch. rick, wow. all these police departments now forced to confront these offensive social media posts. how did this all begin? >> it all began with a lawyer in philadelphia named emily baker white who found, in a case she was working on, offensive posts by an officer and started looking at whether it was widespread. she came to us with her research and we took it from there. >> and what did you d...

African-americans as animals or rabid while others are islamaphobic or promote violence. philadelphia's district attorney says he may have to bench officers from testifying on certain cases because of what they posted online. >> if you have someone who is or really anti-women sentiments in a particular case, it may be necessary to give that to the defense, and, frankly, it may destroy that witness on the stand. >> reporter: the st. louis circuit attorney facing the same situation. 22 officers identified as making offensive posts can't be called as witnesses. it's unclear how many cases that im...

Pants. some posts refer to african-americans as animals or rabid while others are islamaphobic or promote violence. philadelphia's district attorney says he may have to bench officers from testifying on certain cases because of what they posted online. >> if you have someone who is expressing very islamaphobic or really anti-women sentiments in a particular case, it may be necessary to give that to the deference, and, frankly, it may destroy that witness on the stand. >> reporter: the st. louis circuit attorney facing the same situation. 22 officers identified as making offensive posts can't b...

What they found out, let them explain what happened next. >> posted an apology after cnn identified and tried to contact him. he apologized for some of his other posts that were racist and anti-semitic. cnn is not publishing the user's name because of his apology, his removal of all the offensive posts, and his pledge not to repeat this behavior on social media. >> tucker: there is a lot to unpack here. first, one of the biggest news organizations in the world spend a ton of money and a ton of time trying to find out who made this video. you probably do not care who made it because why would y...