president trump president trump? >> has the military on his side because the military and many leaders in the military who loved this nation and who love our constitution and who have put their life on the line. to protect the freedoms of people in the united states that they will never meet they chose president trump to be their candidate. so as long as he invokes the insurrection act before the inauguration then he's going to be reinaugurated, is going to be put back in the constitutional scholars that we spoke to you, by the way, also said what she said there was complete nonsense, but i think it's also important to remember that this is a person who is going to be controlling and $11 billion budget in the state if she wins that race and education priorities for the state's

$1.3 million. >> children, school budget, handling yes kids were there ever any consequences for her calls for violence against democrats? >> state party is supporting her. >> mark robinson, gubernatorial nominee at the top of the ticket. he's also supporting her and this is someone who not just called for for the execution of obama, but a lot of prominent democrats north carolina governor roy cooper, ilhan, omar andrew cuomo, hillary clinton, chuck schumer anthony fauci, bill gates, and barak obama, who she even said, quote, i want to see a pay per of him in front of a firing squad. now we did reach out to her campaign mean we asked about about this stuff and what she said. and they said they didn't respond to it, but they said what north carolina voters are concerned about is the education of our children. >> it's pretty extraordinary video in a pretty extraordinary record there, andrew kaczynski. thank you so much for your reporting. everyone of the kfile, great work on this have a great weekend. the news continues right here on cnn outfront. >> next, vice president kamala

harris, about to take the stage in the crucial battle oh, ground state of arizona, as donald trump heads to montana for his first rally in a week, plus a horrifying plane crash caught on camera a passenger plane more than 60 people on boards dropping out of the sky, crashing into a neighborhood no survivors tonight. >> what went wrong and ukraine on the move in side russia advancing further and claimed to take control of a town tonight. >> so how will vladimir putin respond? let's go outfront and good friday evening to you. i'm erica hill in for erin burnett out front tonight moving west just moments ago, vice president harris and governor tim walz stopping by their campaign office in phoenix to greet staffers, shake some hands before heading to a rally in glendale right? >> thank you. from the bottom of my heart when heading to the rally lots by this afternoon we got. >> a live picture for you

coming up of the venue there you see it on the left of your screen. harris will be taking the stage there within the hour. on the right, those are pictures from bozeman, montana. that's where donald trump will make his first appearance on the campaign trail since harris officially became the democratic nominee and yes, that's montana where he is tonight. and if you're thinking, hey, that's a solidly red state, you're right. he wanted by 16 points in 2020 and it's frankly in no danger of losing montana this time around. so why then be in montana, especially in the face of shifting poll numbers? well, here's what trump posted on social media when he led we have a very high rating in montana. >> we have a lot of popularity. i like them. they like me but i'm here to do some fundraisers and most importantly, to support tim sheehy, who's running for the u.s. senate there you go. >> the harris campaign meantime, is looking to capitalize on that choice, putting out a statement today which reads, quote, donald trump has not visited the swing state this week, and apparently

isn't visiting any next week either saying he's too lazy to fight for anything but himself or leave his country club, fine by us trump for his part, did note in his new video tomorrow he will be doing quote, different stops, different states, but didn't elaborate. so it's not clear as of now where he'll be as for harris, as i noted, she is in that battle brown, state of arizona tonight, a state that donald trump won in 2016, in which biden turned blue in 2020. our reporters are covering all of this for us tonight. let's begin with eva mckend, who is in glendale, arizona at that harris rally. the crowd is he's waiting at this point. what are you seeing and hearing there? getting a little loud behind you there eva it sure. >> is erica three inch of this arena fields packed to the brim and it's a diverse crowd here you had a leader earlier speak from indian country, but there are a lot of latino voters here. black voters here, gang voters, key parts of the democratic coalition. now, we are expecting the vice president tonight to talk about

reproductive rights but also address this issue of immigration in this border state. but how she does it is what we're really watching. she had an ad out today i really tries to characterize her as tough on the border she calls herself a border state prosecutor, referencing her previous career but at the same time, you have immigrants rights activists lots of them here in this audience. some of them standing behind her will be standing behind her. when she speaks they of course, advocate for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. so how she strikes this balance is something erica, that we're all watching and then i'll end with this. she's making a big show of showing the border state mayors that support her as well as the republicans. so really trying to emphasize the size that she's trying to leave no part of the electorate on the table erica, we've mccammond's the latest for us from glendale, eva. >> thank you. kristen holmes,

who has been of course, talking to her sources within the trump campaign, joining us as well. so what more are we hearing about this decision to be in montana to not be in a battleground state what could some of these? it's other stops be any more information well, in terms of other stops, we know he has several stops in the west coast, but they're all in red states and they are all fundraisers. >> it's going to be in wyoming as well. now i ask donald trump why he was going to montana instead of one of the many swings days, particularly now that kamala harris at the top of the ticket and these seem much more up in the air than they did when he was running against president joe biden. and he said that he was leading by a lot and then he elaborated on the fact that he had to be in these states to help these senate candidates now it is true montana is a very critical race that is actually now one of the most expensive races in the country. and if you look at it, it is one of the only races in which the democratic incumbent in this case, senator jon tester, is running for

reelection in a state where donald trump won by an enormous it's a mount, as you said, 16 points. so he's there to boost up tim sheehy, but there are a lot of questions still from the allies of his campaign, if not his campaign directly as to why exactly he is not out on the road and we still haven't gotten any kind of update for next week as to what his travel might be. i am told by advisers he will be on the road. he will do at least one event, but we still haven't gotten any insight into what that event looks like. is that also in a swing state, donald trump himself had told me that he was going to ramp up his traveling after the dnc. it sounds like he'll at least do one or two events beforehand, but right now, there are a lot of questions, particularly julie, among republicans as to why he's not out there courting voters directly. and just to give you one example of what his campaign is telling me is that they are reaching out to voters, but they're just not doing it in the traditional way. that's why he's sitting down for these various interviews with streamers, doing podcasts. he's been taping videos that he's going

to put out on social media. that's how they're reaching certain people. but that's certainly an unorthodox, particularly at this point. in a campaign to not be out there in those battleground states, those states that are going to decide this election. an interesting too for a person who really does thrive off of that energy of a crowd and gets so much out of those rallies. kristen, appreciate it as always. thank you. >> outfront. now, former democratic congressman max rose, who's now a senior adviser to vote vets, also new york times podcast host, lulu garcia navarro and david urban former senior advisor to the trump campaign. nice to see all of you tonight, congressman, we have some live pictures here from this event in arizona for the vice president at this new ad that you police today, which even mentioned focuses on the border and on immigration. let's take a look at it this president xi will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. >> fixing the border is tough. so it was kamala harris. >> so donald trump continues to dominate in the polls when it comes to immigration, they need

to get out in front of his issue. but this ad is this really enough to start the pushback? >> oh, it absolutely is. because what it does first and foremost is established the fact rightfully so that donald trump is the biggest opponent in the united states of america of a strong border policy. he was the one that stopped a bipartisan and actually extraordinarily conservative bill that was advancing in the senate to completely beef up border security. and he is so distraught that the numbers of undocumented immigrants prince moving across the border has gone down precipitously overall, he's rooting against the united states of america. he wants this country to be in disarray. he does not want things going well because all he cares about his his electoral outcomes to me that's the opposite of patriotism. >> so you think this is a good first start as they're trying to push back on that criticism, david, it's kristen was just reporting when we look at where donald trump is the campaign

telling her they're doing things a little differently. they're reaching out to people in different ways no plans right now for swing states in the coming days, at least four events in swing states, he's in montana as we know tonight trying to help. she said it bid. why not though, get out there a little bit counter those steps again, as i noted to kristen donald trump, we know he thrives on the energy of those rallies what's up erica donald trump's kept he'll do plenty rallies. i'm not worried he's not gonna do enough rallies. look, max rose is a good foot soldier for the democrats, is a good messenger. the problem is that ad that you just ran, kamala harris is the vice president. she's currently part of the administration that let over 10 million illegal immigrants crossed through a porous border. she's she's acting like she's not a part of the administration. somehow. she's elected, things are going to change, do it right now, madam vice president fixed the problem. don't let it happen. i don't understand how she's tried to divorce herself from the biden-harris administration that she's a part of. her name is a part of it. i mean, she

can't do it. so the ad is a first step, but it's i mean, it's laughable that she thinks that she's going to win over voters with ads saying that i'm somehow now going to be tough on the border. she has to answer a lot of questions. erica, about fracking, about taking away peoples it's guns, about the single-payer health care systems. and until the media starts, ask her these questions, she's going to skate and get favorable reviews and quite frankly playing the glove under she's had a phenomenal few weeks the rallies or going great, great roll out on her behalf. but at some point she's going to have to answer tough questions and i don't think she has the answers for him. >> while we wait for those questions as we know, there have been plenty of requests lulu, when we look at that, i didn't take it that way to trust me. >> but you know, us. listen, we're journalists. we like to talk to everybody all the time. i'm lulu when we look at other movement that we've seen today, i was struck by this. the league of united latin american citizens today endorsing the harris-walz ticket. this organization that's almost 100-years-old.

this is the first ever time time that they have made a presidential endorsement and also vowed to intensify efforts in key battleground states, among them, arizona and nevada, where we know the democratic ticket will be both today. for the weekend. put this in perspective for us of how big a deal if it is this endorsement i mean, it's certainly a vote of confidence in mola harris and in the democrats. >> the fact that they have done this for the first time is no small thing. of course, on the other side of this, republicans will say that organizations like this are in the tank think for the democrats and frankly, don't have a lot of sway with the latino electorate you know, what really works with latinos. and i've seen this myself. ivonne door-knocking covering groups in data and elsewhere is really the face-to-face contact. latinos often are hard to reach. that they really thrive on people coming to them and talking to them about the issues, trying to convince

them. and this is where these is have really been strong in the past. and so the fact that look has done this, i think is a really good sign for democrats. and i think they should be very pleased because this will be one in, through handshakes and through conversations david as we look at where things stand, puck's, tara palmeri reporting that donald trump is so unhappy with his campaign is actually considering bringing kellyanne conway back. do you think that's what the campaign needs no. >> let's listen. i think kellyanne's great. she's smart, but so are chris lacivita and susie wiles. a campaign has plenty of smart people with the campaign needs to do what the president trump needs to do is start talking about the issues that voters care about. its are talking about the border against start talking about inflation, start talking about things that matter. crime, what he's going to do to make americans lives better, that's what people want to hear about so i think that he's got plenty of smart people around them. he just needs to get back to the issues that people care about. talk about foreign policy, talk about fracking, energy

independence, all those things that trump did when he was president that made his administration very successful. what he's going to do to help ameliorate the problem on the border. he's got very good ideas. they've got plans to move forward, not project 2025. mind you. but he's got good plans and he's needs to talk about those things. let's not have if we're talking about issues we win for talking about personalities, we lose. so i implore the president, i know those around him, get back to the issues that's to talk about the things that matter. people around their kitchen table. >> and we've talked a lot for months about how they have been able to keep him on message far better than the last time around, but just really quickly, david really yes or no, do you think kellyanne conway would be more helpful in that regard at keeping him on message because to your point, it's not happening listen, i think the more voices he hears from the better kellyanne i know talks to him now so the more voices, the better listen. i have great admiration for susie and for chris jason miller, the people around him the candidate has to canada has to listen though at times. and so i implore the president get

back to the message that wanted the presidency 16. and let's talk about, let's talk to people about the things they care about president biden, we're hearing a little bit more from him shedding light on his decision not to seek reelection this is part of a new interview with cbs that was just released. >> take a listen to this i ran the first time. >> i felt it myself as being a transition president i can't even say how old i am. it's hard for me to get out of my mouth all the way it's a great honor. being president. i think i'm an obligation to the country to do what i the most important thing to do and that is we must, we must, we must defeat trump he has made that his message congressman from the very beginning he's about to make his first campaign appearance. >> with kamala harris is joe biden, given the enthusiasm that we have seen since this shift, is joe biden the best messenger for this ticket joe biden is a messenger for this ticket and he is the president of the united states. >> but what i would say right there, first of all, i feel bad for my friend david because one

day the republicans will have a candidate disciplined enough to listen to him, but certainly right now with this reckless extremist candidate, they do have, there's no chance that they actually focus on any policy whatsoever, at least a sane policy you see from president biden is the exact opposite of donald trump is someone who does not care about himself. that is putting the country first and is putting the constitution first. and all donald trump has done for a decade now is act with dangerous extremist recklessness. and we've course saw that on january 6, when he sought to orderly overturn an election, destroy the constitution. all in pursuit of his own gain and that's the opposite of joe biden. >> what do you think the impact is of joe biden on the campaign trail when it comes to some of these down-ballot races i mean, i will say that you had the answer there, that he is a messenger, not the messenger.

>> i mean, joe biden has not been particularly popular he had to step down and not go for reelection, which i think is indicative of the fact that he is someone who reminds americans who might be dissatisfied with the state of the economy and other things that they are indeed. kamala harris, harris as vice president so, you know, i think where joe biden is effective is that he does hold the most powerful megaphone in the country. he is still a, he does have plans for these last few months of his administration to do some things that i think will help the democratic ticket so it remains to be seen, but i think there'll be used using him sparingly we're going to have to leave it there. >> i appreciate you all joining just grit david out in time, right you're killing i mean, you're gonna get me in big trouble or guy, i promise you'll be back. you know, you'll be back here all the time. >> okay. thank you. >> all. >> a progress note, programming note as we said, donald trump in his press conference yesterday, you may have heard it. he talked about being in a helicopter that made an

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course, right outside of people's homes. my colleague isa soares is outfront these are the funnel moments of brazilian vote past flight to two-week, three as the plane and the 61 souls on board spiral to, they're fiery end crashing into a residential area in the outskirts of some polo when i heard the sound of the plane falling, i look out my window at home. and so the moment it crashed, the way you fell i ran out of the house and went to see where he had fallen and he had fallen into the house of a couple of elderly people i heard a very loud noise very close to me. >> i thought it was a drain. >> i looked up to the sky and saw the plains spinning in my head in a matter of seconds, i didn't realize that it wasn't the normal normal movement of a plane and i just had time to duck flight to 283, a twin

engine turbo prop departed from the city of cash cavell, bound foot wide. >> all use international airport in some powerful when it's signal was lost shortly before 1:30 p.m. local time. according to flight radar 24 data, the plane dropped around 17,000 feet in the space of a minute. one man who miss the flight told brazilian news outlet global that at least ten people were waiting at the wrong gate and miss the flight before it took off on monday, saviano, he said to me, mr. you're not getting on this plane because we're already past the boarding limits. even pressured them a little guess in a sub-document, me and my family legs are shaking only god knows how i'm feeling in a statement, the airline we're past that he had no confirmation of how the accident occurred, saying it was supporting those involved while atr the planes manufacturer said it was fully

engaged to support both the investigation and the customer authorities have located the black box flight recorder on a hoping it will provide some much needed answers brazil's president, who was attending a naval event when hearing the news held a moment of silence i would like everyone to stand up so we can observe a minute of silence because the plane has just crashed in the city of veneto and sao paulo and erica in the last 20 minutes or so president lula has announced, declared three days of national mourning in memory of those 61 victim's really that lost their lives in the most terrifying of ways as you can see, as we have shown our viewers, we've also heard from authorities in the state of some pile on the ground. >> we understand the medical teams are on the ground. and then the last few minutes

authorities have been able to move three bodies from the wreckage to the state of san paolo, but identifying them has been particularly hard. erica isa, appreciate it. thank you joining us now, cnn transportation analyst mary schiavo, former inspector general for the u.s department of transportation, and former atr pilot, steven frederik. he's also the author of unheated warning, the inside story of american eagle flight 41, 84. that flight involved the same type of plane that was involved in this crash in brazil. so steve, i want to begin with you here. flu, this type of playing this at all, playing for a number of years based on what we know in terms of information at this hour and what you know about this aircraft do you have any thoughts on what you think may have happened? >> well, the investigation erica is going to give us a lot more data once we get the cockpit voice recorder in a digital flight data recorder, back to dc and downloaded. however, there was reported severe icing in the area the

aircraft wing obviously wasn't will stall condition. the flat spin occurred and the pilots had probably very little if any chance of recovering the aircraft. the atr has long been problematic and icing conditions and had this crew entered severe icing conditions are seeing icing conditions on it that they've judged as severe the procedure would have been to turn off the autopilot exit the area as fast as possible. the biggest problem is you become a test pilot once you enter severe icing conditions and these folks may not have even had an instant to react before the airplane went out of control wow. when we look at the flight, was at marriott around 17,000 feet. as we understand it, when something went wrong, there were about eight minutes from that moment until landing, they were so low to the ground there we saw it in that flat spin. i know there was some variation in the flight pattern as you're looking at that, as you're looking at the video, mary, what are you looking for in

both the information that we have in the pictures that we have in this moment well, actually they're awful lot of clues that come out just from that video and from the information that we know. and of course, you mentioned the segment, the weather warning, but you can see that it is falling dramatically. i also looked at the radar tracings and there wasn't there was one small porpoise, meaning the aircraft went down and up and then it went straight down. so it was a significant aerodynamic stall event i agree that there was no or little chance to recover this aircraft once this happened because the aerodynamic stall means that you don't have some significant or sufficient airflow over your wings to continue flight. it can be due to a lot of things there's also a sound associated with that and we don't know if it's this aircraft or others in the vicinity, but it appears both engines were still running and that would give us a clue that maybe it was it was something other than engine failure. there's also another crash like as always looked at prior

accidents and other things that are similar cases that i've worked on. and there wasn't one in nepal where the pilot, instead of putting on the flaps a copilot actually, instead of putting on the flaps feathered the propeller, and that means change the way the blades orient towards the flight. and that caused the engines not to produce enough power and the pilots actually thought they had an engine failure, which they did not. so there are a couple things that you could look at that are very, very similar to this on that crash that was in nepal in january 2023 the stall pattern and how the plane fell from the sky looked very similar. but if you look at pure old statistics and what caused the prior crash, isn't i've looked at about 18 or so of them usually it's whether an often the stall is related to ic including a significant one in the u.s. where the united states said these aircraft need much better a more robust de-icing equipment so to that point,

steve, as i mentioned in your introduction, you right, you wrote about a flight that went down in 1994. >> same type of plane. i believe there were 60 eight people on board that flight. and you were suspended for questioning the safety of that plane 30 years later, those planes are still being flown in other areas. do you think it's a problem? >> i do think it's a problem at i never really fixed the situation that developed and there has been 19 losses of life on atr crashes, 19 crashes in since 2000 today's crash we all knew 41, 84 was coming back in october of 1994. >> and we just knew that it was going to be an ice relate to situation the problem was they didn't fix the problem with the airplane. the aerodynamic still remain the same they made a couple of minor changes to the deicing system but in my opinion, it wasn't enough. there's just been too many crashes, too many loss of controls for the airplane

eventually recovered by the crew. in fact, i had one prior to 41, 84, and nobody would listen to me until people died unfortunately, that's how things get fixed. people die it's just another tragedy. >> steve married really appreciate both of you joining me tonight. your insight, your expertise that's are invaluable here. thank you thank you outfront next a ukrainian forces pushing further into russia now claiming control of a town across the border and lodging massive drone strikes what could putin do next? plus cnn has exclusive rare access inside a site where the u.s. controls. its nuclear weapons down here inside the missile alert facility were very limited in what we can show you. it's because the heart of what the facility is all about the controls and consoles that manage the launch sites. all of that is classified the rise

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today breaking news ukraine claiming full control over russian town, amid reports that its soldiers are rapidly advancing even further into russian territory. that this is all part of a surprise. and frankly unprecedented incursion that russian military bloggers pay has now spread about 30 miles beyond that initial site of ukraine's attack. some of the video we have here shows what appears to be a column of burned out russian military vehicles littered with bodies. russia now declaring a state of emergency in the region where the fighting is taking place outfront. now, investigative journalist christo grozev, it's great to have you back with us tonight. so this is a a highly fluid situation, really surprising in a lot of ways. i do want to talk about the timing and the moment. but first, can you just bring us up to speed on what you're learning? i mean, this has been a very active few days. so where do things stand right now russian bloggers call it a fog of war situation. >> they cannot confirm exactly what number of villages and towns are under ukrainian control but there's a sort of

a fledgling consensus that about 100 square miles already are under ukrainian. that's not nothing that's more than the territory that ukraine was able to recapture during their search. the counter attack, counteroffensive. they did. that's a lot of territory, but it doesn't even matter because if they managed to stay there, even if they don't take any additional territory and we see evidence. they're entrenching, they're bringing overnight new equipment, engineering equipment to make sure that they are in defensive position, which is always harder to attack. if they retain this for even a month, there causing serious damage to the reputation of the kremlin. and this is really what they're trying to achieve. one of the things that trying to achieve this to cause sort of a feeling of followability at the kremlin or near the kremlin because i mean, i've talked to a lot of the kremlin insiders who are saying, well we're sitting on the fence and waiting to see if there is clear evidence we're going to win this war, will continue supporting putin there's no evidence we're going to win this war. we can't wait 25 years to get off sanctions

so we might do something about it do something meaning some sort of a coup. >> well, yeah, i mean, it's always been sort of in the cards, right? the collective putin around him has all the inventory to organize a call which would be in and of itself a huge deal. so that's from the russian side, right? but when we look at this from the ukrainian side i'm still curious about the timing. why now well, first of all, it was a surprise. >> so why now could have been a question we can ask any time, but now they're at least two reasons that i can see. and i've talked to ukrainian military officials who never shared this with anyone. they didn't share with intelligence services, not even with the united states for fear of this being actually asked not to do it, maybe. but there are two reasons. one is that they have now the equipment and in particular the drones that were extremely important for this, for covering the advance of this position that they've had a whole new generation of drones that are ai driven and they are supported and they only got those in the last two

months in june should i a lot of them are home drunk, home developed them in ukraine. but the second reason is that actually they want to make it impossible for them to be pushed into unfavorable negotiations in case there's a change of a cabinet in the united states in case trump comes to power, there have been very fearful that trump, they've forced them into force negotiation, which will end up settling the border at the current positions of the front frontline, which will be very unfavorable to ukraine. but with such an advance, even with small territorial russian territory was one of the than some russian territory there in a position to bargain a complete swap of territory's not limited to the number of kilometers or miles they've taken, but in general so it gives him a little bargaining power are a lot of bargaining power depending on the way you look at it. i know we're a little tight on time, but the way this fighting has been raging, what you told me about inside russia, what you're here hearing, what do you think the response from putin is going to be, especially if they're able to hold onto this territory. >> well, again, he's

scrambling to find an appropriate response and you have to understand that his reputation within the population has suffered because he hasn't been able to prove by even the logistical humanitarian support for the people to be moved out of those territories. and even today, after two days of inactivity, their offered $100 a family for all of their cost of allocation, which is obviously not sufficient what their fears that he might lash out and decide to finally try to use the nuclear tactical option. but again, something that a high ranking official told let me at the start of the war, a russian officials said, putin can only use the nuclear option if you sure that people will follow his command. and he can only use it if he's in a strong position, if he's winning the war because if he's not winning the war somebody is not going to press a button and then he is that's the end of putin. >> wow i mean, it is, there is so much going on in that region in that moment, it's really good to have you here and i appreciate it and thanks for sharing. >> instead, reporting to all of this, of course, coming just a week week after that historic

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>> russia just begin the next stage of its ongoing nuclear weapons it's exercise. russian president vladimir putin has repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons since invading ukraine. meanwhile, us officials believe iran is breakout time to a bomb is one or two weeks where we are now is not in a good place. what we've seen in the last weeks and months is around this actually moving forward with this program all while north korea tests its own array of ballistic missiles as certain remains about another nuclear test from pyongyang as we get other nations develop more and more capabilities, it increases their ability to work okay. >> at us. and potentially say, maybe today it's worth it for three minutes out that. >> cnn traveled to the northern edge of the continental us us to get an exclusive look missile alert facilities that control the icbm missile alert facilities located. fight on

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by prison biden for the asylum rule for practical and directly reduce the daily encounters here on the border. so these are things that we see that dynamics that we live and work here. you have to live and work. you just can't get a photo op so it can't just be a photo op, but the opportunity to sit down with him to maybe walk him through all that. do you think it would have been at the very least instructive for him well, i welcome anybody that comes as a candidate speak with me is similar to my meeting at the white house. >> any leader in my community hold were willing to meet with him and to discuss that's real solutions about the border. but not turn to attain the divisive rhetoric. and i think inappropriate situation that they say and to meet with senator vance unless you wanted to talk about solutions and our community at the border that is where it would be. that's where would we be at? i think that would be beneficial. >> and it was your sense that that was that is not the purpose? tough. his visit well, based on the rhetoric that he says, i think he has wrong

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vein. a. hey, come here let me show you how things work, but we don't necessarily have to do it with the cameras we would do that when they are focused on solutions. >> and i think we they have to understand the hearing laredo, we have been the number one port in the united states and one of the safest cities and without the need of a border wall. so this is a functional model. we do this by goodbye bi-national relationship, collaboration. and supporting our various law enforcement agencies. so they need to be on board with that focus and that mentality rather than the reticular that they're pursuing. >> mayor victor trevino really appreciate taking the time to join us tonight. thank you thank you. >> i appreciate outfront. next, china's censorship going to new lengths, actually cutting away from the olympics they're back verizon small business days are here. >> august 5 to the 11th they're free. tech jack and special offers like a free 5g phone

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where china's lose it will ripley is outfront one side of the taiwan strait celebration on the other side silence china and taiwan's epic badminton battle, ending with the island's first paris olympics gold in taiwan had millions moved to their screens in china state tv cut the live broadcast, only showing parts where it's team played well, no medal ceremony held, celebration. >> just a sudden switch to gymnastics taiwanese fans in the stands say they were forcibly silenced things out. >> now, that kind of ease. i made a poster cheering on taiwan in the shape of the islands before the match. >> it away. >> but do those signs like this was a very sad incident, a lot to the world with taiwan all the time. taiwan's foreign

ministry calls the incident a violation of olympic values. the ioc says banners with political messages are not allowed taiwan is one of three flags banned by the olympics, along with russia and belarus taiwan can only compete as chinese taipei largely due to pressure by beijing. >> china's communist leaders lay claim on the island. >> democracy despite having never controlled it, pylon as a small island of 23 million people so you can certainly understand the ioc's logic that if somebody has to be offended taiwan's going to be the one that has to be offended because they don't want to offend beijing long longtime cnn beijing correspondent mike chinoy says, olympic tensions between taiwan and china go back to the 1960 rome games when taiwan's government freeman agreed not to use the island's official name just so it's athletes could compete. >> it's one of the many uncomfortable compromises that taiwan has had to make in order

to carve out what little international space it has with the olympics underway china's people's liberation army, releasing this propaganda video let's trading a full scale attack on taiwan i want military releasing its own video in response underscoring escalating crime plus strait tensions on and off. >> the court and speaking of the court will what are we seeing in terms of what we see between the players, between the athletes? >> there is there any tension between the taiwanese? chinese athletes that's the interesting thing here. >> not at all. they speak the same language. they seem to have a very friendly report was actually kind of a heart warming moment to see them chit-chatting and interacting and showing good sportsmanship. this extreme sensitivity, erica seems to come from a much higher level. the fact that china, with its dozens of gold metals cannot stand to