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from the campaign trail to the everglades not just to wrangle as many pythons as possible. the grand prize of $10,000. wildlife expert jeff corwin is here to talk about it welcome to laura coates live. i'm audie cornish in for laura tonight. vice president harris delivers what's long been promised and economic policy of her own, the stakes could not have been higher republicans are trying to tie the economic anxiety of bidennomics to harris by pinning her to the inflation spike that happened under president biden's watch so she went to hotly contested north carolina. she pitched her vision and many of her proposals sound a lot like bidenomics others appear kind of like a more amped up version geared towards converting the economic frustration people are feeling into populous enthusiasm so for example, her plan calls for constructing 3 million new housing units. a

new tax credit for families with newborns and a federal ban on price gouging for food and groceries she made her case by emphasizing her personal story i grew up in a middle-class household for most of my childhood we were renters. my mother's saved for well, over a decade to buy a home later in college, i worked at mcdonald's to earn spending money well, some of the people i worked with were raising families on that paycheck they worked second or even third jobs to pay rent and buy food that only gets harder when the cost of living goes up. when i'm elected president, i will make it a top priority to bring down cost and increase economic security for all americans? >> so there are a lot of questions here, like first, how would a harris administration pay for it? second, what's the

likelihood that this wishlist becomes a reality? and lastly, how do the merits of her plan stack up? trump tonight seized on harris is proposals. he claims harris wants quote, soviet style price controls but while he knocks virginia, trump has yet to release details of his economic plan, despite holding two speeches this week on the economy is going to give it another shot on monday when he counter programs the democratic national convention in chicago. so perhaps the third time's a charm. joining me now, congressional reporter for axios juliegrace brufke, trump 2020 press communications director erinperrine, and cnn political commentator and democratic strategist, maria cardona so thank you all for coming in tonight. and first i want to start with our reporter because you have seen some of these proposals before, right? so it's not as though a new congress would be like what expanding a tax credit for families? >> what does it mean for

whether or not this is more or less just biden policies. >> does it actually feel new nothing both sides, both trump and harris are kind of leaning into this populist messaging and some of the things they talk. >> they're talking about, the no tax on tips and things like the 6,000 now their child tax credit, which was kind of similar to the $5,000 tax credit, child tax credit that j.d. vance talked about, which are similar, but i mean, i think you're really going to hear a lot of republicans kind of hammering home. how are they going to pay for some of these proposals like things like the $25,000 first time homebuyers proposal that harris put out there and what she i mean, these have been in broad stroke proposals that she's put out there and whether she'll tackle that if she ends up getting getting elected via executive order, whether it'll be a legislative which might be a tougher lift with a tight majority is remains to be seen there. and we're saying populist in a way i kind of think popular. >> maria riley, people are mad right now that they're rents or high alert like these are issues that have been percolating for a time. so can you talk about how she is

trying to distinguish herself? >> absolutely. i think what she has done is incredibly savvy audie because she has been part of the administration and frankly, it's an administration that has put forward economic proposals that actually pull off the charts they're incredibly popular what the frustration from the biden administration has been that people aren't really feeling it because of inflation, because of the high cost so here comes kamala harris she is expanding what the biden administration has done in terms of expanding opportunities for the middle-class. but she's talking in a way where people really feel it. the increased cost at the grocery store. >> so the reason messaging that's different not the bylaws, it was very like, hey, the numbers are actually that's the difference. >> and frankly, on a macro economic level, the numbers are great, but that doesn't really matter to people if they're not going to feel it in their own economies. and so incredibly savvy for her to do that it is something that is very relevant

to people and the contrast with donald trump, who through his project 2020 because he hasn't really talked about anything else. economists have said that if he imposes what he wants to do, it's going to explode inflation impose massive taxes on the middleclass. and that's a great contrast for her. >> let me jump in here because erin, i think that republicans have been saying for a long time, you can't just say the economy is good if people aren't feeling that it's good. >> but checking your tweets, your social media you are calling this agenda. >> you said we've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before. venezuela, argentina in this soviet union, it leads to shortages. i don't want to take you out of context, but where is this line of criticism going for republicans because we are hearing it. >> one i will say that's a retweet that's not a direct directly. yeah. i mean, read tweets aren't endorsement endorsement of days, but you know what it's showing, what republicans are trying to say here, which is they've used it

before is as a messaging tool to say this is communism, this is socialism. you saw trump talk about that in the 2020 cycle. you saw him use that aggressively as a political message, especially in florida where there are a lot of immigrants who came from communists and socialists, nations. but this is the work beyond the base. you know what i mean? it's kind of like when you hear people say they're going to be fascists and it's like, yeah, there's someone who definitely understands the definition of fashion prism and his very moved by that. >> whereas i feel like if you feel like the cost of milk is high and then someone says, what don't do anything about that, your communist, it makes, it feels like a bigger lead. there are better ways to republicans to message the economy then to use verbose over the top language about venezuela. but this is where the messaging is going, which is why i was highlighting okay. >> but what i will say is the better way to talk about it. and i do agree with you here, is that make it personal i was listening to npr the other morning and they had a woman on who was saying that. now, because the price has gone up so much, a bag of chips is now a luxury item for her at the

grocery store. that's how you message how the biden economy has failed. people you make it relatable, you make it something that is tangible and yes, there are people in certainly sex of a swing population of votes that trump is going to want to bring on board were the venezuela and russia and communists kind of language will work. that is not the broad strokes we should be brushing with when you're trying to talk about the economic failures that the american people feel under the biden-harris the sri, know one thing to remember is that people actually have lived through a trump administration. so they have lived under his economy and seeing some of his policies harris was criticizing some of his current proposals. she's talking about his plan to raise terrorists. in particular on imported goods, ten to 20%, which people will remember a lot of that tariff talk from the trump, the trump years. let's take a listen it will mean higher prices on just about every one of your daily needs a trump tax on gas a trump tax on food, a trump tax

on clothing a trump tax on over the counter, medication i haven't heard terrorists called the trump tax before. >> like i felt like i was hearing the debuting have some new talking points. i don't know who wants to take it, but it was a notable moment. >> i do think it's effective because people don't really remember the bad things that happen under the trump economy and he likes to tout it, but let's remember what happened. it's rich when republicans look at democratic proposals, who want to benefit those who need it the most working class voters, middle-class families. and they just green communism, yet when trump past billions and billions of dollars in tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. and the biggest corporations, they're like, oh, we don't need to pay for that. that's fine and it did explode the deficit and it didn't help middle-class voters. and it actually hurt

working class voters. and so that's what she is getting at. that's what she's going to remind people about her. >> and i want you to jump in here because i do think like language matters. so when you hear that language, should the trump campaign worry about the trump tax? >> yeah. >> no, i don't want to say easier to say tax than terrorists. hundred that doesn't make sense. more relatable, but you don't necessarily think that that is going to be the ultimate winning economic message for kamala harris going into this election cycle, going through this election cycle but with the trump tax cuts, this is something he should be messaging more on to the american people because no matter what, no matter who wins and juliegrace knows this 2025, there's going to have to be some work done on taxes in congress because the 2017 tax cuts are set to sunset or requires so they're going to have to do work on that. there will be a legislative vehicle and he can say we doubled the child tax credit. let's do it again. we made sure you took home more of your money and that your paycheck got a little bigger. there was a 2019 analysis done by the new york times does that said the

majority of americans saw attacks under the trump tax cuts? he can tell people you brought home more money under me because we did these tax cuts. you've seen i've done it once before they do it again, leaning his record in a way that biden was thought to be stuck doing right now in a way it's like he's the one having to explain you know, juliegrace, i want to talk to you actually a little bit about debate prep because it's hard to believe, but like what this kind of like, you know, heightened jordan campaign cycle, we already need to be thinking about that. what have you learned about how they're conducting their prep? >> well, tulsi gabbard has kind of been brought on board, so that helped trump prepare there and we kind of saw her already take on harris back when she was running on the democratic ticket for the democratic nomination, she was able to get vendor vice president harris is skin and i think that the trump team is looking to harness that. i mean that being said, i mean, it's a different climate now, i feel like trump, we saw how much biden had to lose

during the last debate and i think it's a whole different climate then when we saw a month ago, so we know that both sides are definitely heavily prepping there well, i guess we'll watch and see how it all pans out and whether he's going to be able to stay on message there maria, there was also like preparation for hillary clinton in 2016 with felipe rina's i think who's going to be doing that this time around reprising his role as trump in mock sessions. can you talk about those mock sessions like what's the goal, right? >> is it a pantomime? is it nideli? king? is it? because democrats don't want to go through what they went through with president biden shore and i think it's a very different situation for all of the obvious reasons, right. >> but i think in terms of the prep, it's going to be all of those things audie because they're going to practice for every single version of the trump that could show up. and what we have seen thus far is that he doesn't know how to run against somebody as

qualified and as prepared and as experienced as kamala harris, who also represents, in my view, the biggest political kryptonite for donald trump, meaning a strong woman, a woman of color, a woman who is black and asian descent, learned daughter event, pretty tough experience there. can you talk about what this means donald trump? from does have a history of looking like a bully. yes. >> but he did really well in that first debate and debates, i believe politically don't pick winners, but they certainly pick losers. terry mcauliffe in the last gubernatorial race, made the comments about parents not being needed to be involved in children's education and that the government should do it. boom, the youngkin campaign it was immediately up with an ad on it and that was a big winner for them. they do pick one the debate is why joe biden off the ticket now, nobody can argue with that fat but for donald trump here he does well, he does generally well in debates because he's pretty good. he's quick on his feet and that kind of thing is really

what makes somebody a good debater. but i will say, and i believe don junior tweeted this as well after the first debate versus biden, that the muted mics and the no audience were really good for donald trump it kept him very focused. it kept him measured and that was really what made him very powerful in that debate, very, very different opponent. >> this is very different, but he's faded but it's on the preparation is interesting. preparation is everything mom, you were right standby, everyone. just in to cnn, former new york congressman george santos is expected to plead guilty to multiple federal charges on monday, the disgraced republican was expelled from his house seat last year. after being indicted on 23 federal charges, including allegations of fraud related to covid-19, unemployment benefits, misusing campaign funds, and lying about his personal finances on house disclosure reports. santos was only the sixth lawmaker in u.s. history to be expelled from the house of representatives ahead, donald trump continues to go

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and el paso during prior migrant surges that just by driving to certain in spots. >> i can tell that migrant apprehensions are low right now. just take a look beyond the border fence in this hotspot south of the border wall, you see rows of razor wire and piles offensive a huge difference from when i was here more than a year ago, when hundreds of migrants in a makeshift camp are waiting to turn themselves into border patrol during another migrant surges, migrant families with children slept at the airport. and large groups of migrants rushed the international bridge towards el paso. some of them in tears about the cumbersome u.s. asylum process this is sibling go babil, or second rule one of the biggest indicators that migrant apprehensions are low, are the streets around this church. >> take a look you don't see large migrant camps on sidewalks and on the streets.

>> but during migrant surges, hundreds of migrant families called the street home in garcia. >> the priest has seen the cycles of migration before. >> there's become a big political issue. >> garcia says migrants stopped showing up in large numbers in june when president joe biden's executive order bar to asylum for those who cross illegally and ahead of the election, he doesn't expect the democrats to let up politically. >> it's not a good thing to do the humanitarian thing to do, but it's not politically the drop in migrant apprehensions is not just happening in el paso. >> it's happening all along the u.s. southern border. i wanted to show you this spot because this is one of the illegal crossing hotspots. we're actually in new mexico sometimes when you look beyond the border wall, you can see smugglers on the other side. i talked to a source familiar with the government data who says that last month, about

57,000 migrants were apprehended at the u.s. southern border. compare that to 250,000 in december of 2023. does that i mean, that the migrant flow has stopped absolutely not. >> velazquez garcia from the international rescue committee says another reason for the drop in migrant crossings is that more than 1 million migrants are stuck in mexico as they wait to enter the u.s. in what he calls a carousel or mexican authorities busing migrants to southern mexico over and over again, you more aggressive policies, but by the mexican government, cnn has reached out to mexico's foreign ministry for comment and did not hear back so the days when hundreds of migrants were camped outside sacred heart church are a thing of the past, at least for now. take a look at the mt ally around me, but if covering the border has taught me anything, it's that the situation can change very quickly. rosa flores, cnn, el paso, texas excellent reporting

from rosa there and i have my panel back with me it was actually really striking to see those kind of before and after images. >> i also wanted to pull some numbers so that we could talk how about what we've seen in terms of the shifts, especially from the trump administration 2020 also biden administration as rosa mentioned, those numbers going down you know, erin, one thing that's interesting is that there was so much pressure on the biden ministration to do something that i think they did. and then number sir town. so you still talk about it? >> you've talked about it as an aggregate. you talk about it in totality. you talk about the fact that there was an average of 2 million illegal immigrants entering the united states every year for the first three years of the biden administration. but then you humanize the conduct it's a crisis of the open southern border that republicans have spoken about. >> so is that why we're seeing more emphasis on victims of migrant crime rather than images of caravans well, yes, because i can't show a big

people. right. so there are a lot of people in mexico as the reporting said, that are looking to cross in the united states. >> but the way that they continue to talk about this, republicans for political messaging is to humanize it. like i said, to talk about the consequences, to talk talk about communities, to talk about victims, to talk about a woman in boss. i'm pregnant woman in boston who was raped by an illegal immigrant for her, for her family, shutting down the working to shut down the border, working to bring down the numbers is a day late and $1 short again way you the way you move a message in politics as you have to humanize it, you have to feel what i feel you, i have to be able to sell you that this is that this is really a crisis and that this is so hard for every american because as much as americans hate negative advertising and they tell pollsters and they say it all the time. negative advertising is what gets people to get activated. >> and maria, to her point when i think about the criminalization of abortion, it's the stories of women who have been affected that has been so effective for democrats and swing states.

>> but can you i want you to actually listen to how j.d vance trump's running mate has been talking about this. he weighed in in unexpected way does anybody ever seen the movie gangs of new york. >> that's what i'm talking about. we know that when you have these massive ethnic enclaves forming in our country, it can sometimes lead to higher crime rates. what we want is an american immigration policy that promotes assimilation. that no matter where you come from, you can become an american so i'll let you both tackle this, but i thought it was interesting because you're literally pulling from the 1830s to talk about this but to you, is there an opportunity there? >> again, for democrats who have really gone for a lot of fancies said absolutely there is an opportunity to frankly tell the truth and as an immigrant, this the whole way, republicans talk about this makes my skin crawl and i think that it is not something that is going to resonate with the vast majority of americans. and

i'll tell you why they used trump used fearmongering xenophobia as a political weapon in 2016, it worked for him. i think a lot of people didn't really understand what he was going to do with it. and then came family preparation, then came trump imposing a policy that literally ripped babies from the arms of their mothers. i can hear the stories here the last, and he has said, and he has said that he will do that again through project 2025, through the mass deportations. >> that is not a solution. americans want solutions and democrats focused on solutions which is a common sense balanced approach of strong border security. and we're already seeing it. yeah. >> let the others well, as expanding legal pathways for people who want to come here because juliegrace famously, there was an immigration bill and this is another line of messaging. i'm hearing from democrats, which is look, there was a bill republicans for onboard i think senator lankford was in the new york times telling the will be gone story of this bill but

immigration, it's still remains a live wire congressional red meat issue so how were they like up and down the ballot talking about it. >> now this is traditionally just been a very difficult topic. like for both parties to kind of come around and be able to pass anything on that being said, i've talked to a number of republican operatives and lawmakers and border policy is going to be a key thing that they're going to continue hitting democrats on. and i think you're going to hear a lot of the line of attack of for vice president harris talk about how she's going to be harder on the border, but i think they're going to point to her her role in helping with that policy and say that kind of point to the executive order in june and say if they'd kept those trump policies in place, that maybe things would have panned out differently that's going to fall flat if they are the ones who said who said no trump said, don't pass this. they're the ones who negotiated it. so if they really believe that border security was so important, you clearly see the hypocritical nature of this issue for them,

they don't want to solve it democrats are the ones that are really focused on solving well, having covered congress for a long time, i've seen a lot of bipartisan deals come and go. and so both parties have struggled tremendously. i'm sure we're going to hear this criticism you're bringing up certainly at the convention literally, well, i want to thank thank you all so much for coming tonight and spending time with me. i thanks next, we're going to talk about black women who have been a key demographic for democrats. the numbers show it's black women who are playing the critical role in driving kamala harris is surge. we're going to talk about that next comedy u.s. coming to cnn. what could go wrong i got news for you for me or saturdays september 14 at nine on cnn. >> here's why you should switch from google to duckduckgo on all your devices. duckduckgo comes with a built-in search engine like google, but it's private and

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numbers and when you look at it, black women, it's clear who they support since 2000, the democratic nominee for president has received at least 90% of the vote from black women according to exit polls. >> but they often only play a supporting role in the party infrastructure until now, with a woman of black and indian descent leading the ticket black women are lining up to support the vice president. the first zoom fundraising call for kamala harris was organized by black women. and the hours after ascent to the top of the ticket raising 1 $1,000,000.5 at the dnc in chicago next week, black women will also play a prominent role. one of those voices join me now, joins me now. bishop lee adultery, who was ceo of the dnc in 2008 and 20 2016, and bishop, it's important to note that you were there for those years because you are like so many of those women who have been part of the backbone of the party infrastructure does it feel

like there's a shift go good evening, audie. >> and thank you for having me it feels to me less of a shift then in a cent a continuation of the work that we've been doing for very long time. you mentioned that i was the ceo of 2008 and 16, but before me in 1992 was alexis herman who was actually the first black person to run a convention. so it's a continuing ark of history that we are glad to be a part of. but really it's not because of someone's given it to us, but because black women and i have earned the seat at the table, we put in the work. we turn out the vote, we show up, and we've been loyal to this party and it's an investment that we've made over years and it's paying off polls are also showing this growing gender gap in this election and that dovetails with harris's gains, right? where, where she has a lot of support coming from

women. meanwhile, there are a lot of men who are supporting trump, including it's been made much of black men can you talk about how the party balances those interests, right, supporting these women who are all in verses trying to maintain a connection with men who may feel like they're no longer the focus yeah. >> it's been an ongoing part problem within the electorate. black women tend to vote 10% higher than black men. and the challenges are many. i think black men don't feel the same kind of investment and don't see the point of engagement in the electoral process period where the party has to do and so grateful that the work is happening now, is talk directly to these men and understand what the particular concerns are. and not see us as a monolith the issues of black women are not necessarily the issues of black men and vice

versa understand the impact of the voter, the issues of the vote, or talk directly to them and then come up with policies and procedures. and get out the vote strategy that meets men where they are to gain their vote. you've got to gain the trust of the voters in order for the voters to show up for you. >> what can we expect at the convention next week? will there be a kind of framing around the legacy of women like you, like kamala harris in the democratic party well, you will see on display next week the full diversity of the democratic party we've seen it in what kamala harris's supporters have done from white dudes to come and live the karen's for camila, black women for camila, you've seen the diversity of the party on display. you'll see that nick next week in the speaker's, in the music in the presentation, you'll see who the democratic

party is. he will talk about the ark of history from fannie lou hamer, who in 1964 was denied a seat at the democratic convention right through jesse jackson, who in 1984 who's 1984 campaign opened the door really for so many of the gains and brought so many of us women to the table, including me and maxine waters. you name it. and so now here we are all these years later seeing the fruit that was born out of the seeds of fannie lou hamer of surely chisholm, of jesse jackson's campaign i'm so glad you mentioned fannie lou hamer, who of course, was blocked from being a delegate. >> we actually have a moment from that democratic now but mom of a pretty of the half of the break, we have to about a

phone back but we human being it's incredible to hear oratory from that time of what do you think this moment means for women in the party, black women in the democratic party? you know, we stand on the shoulders of fannie lou hamer, who gave us the example of challenging this party of pushing this party while we champion unit. and so it's quite a different party than it was in 1964. but look where we are today and we continue in that legacy too. pushed the party to challenge the party while we champion the party, that's our role that's the legacy we stand on and that's what we will continue to do they shoved artery thank you so much for your time. i appreciate it thank you.

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israel israel-hamas war gripped the campus. >> katrina armstrong now takes over as interim current president. she'll be dealing with a returning and fractured student body and did change in leadership does not guarantee the university will avoid similar protests to the west once we saw in the spring, cnn's julia vargas jones was on campus that the knights students barricaded themselves inside hamilton hall we are right outside hamilton hall. i'm going to step away so you can have a better sense of the thing this is the building that protesters have been occupying for almost 20 20 hours now, honestly, all of these students will be in a corner once, once police comes in, there's nowhere for them to go. they're moving protesters out of the way the way julia vargas jones joins us now, jones joins us now. >> thanks so much i want to

talk to you about this incoming freshmen class because i can't imagine what it was like for them this spring watching all of this play out, watching the school be the center of this national dialogue have you spoken to them and if so, what are you hearing? >> i have audio and i have throughout the summer, what we're hearing is that basically they were holding their breath, watching that knowing already at the time these protests were happening, people had already made their decisions to come to colombia or not, right? so they were preparing themselves for this and some had very mixed feelings watching the way the university city behaved, watching the way that honestly the president was behaving. gave them pause. some people that i met for the first time we're asking me immediately tell me about the protests. what was it like? what was it like for you as a student in we had a pretty tumultuous summer, you know, it wasn't only manusha fiqh's stepping down. we had the other three deans stepping down after allegations of text messages that were touching on anti-semitic tropes from the administration. it's

been tumultuous ever since summer, wasn't really a break for columbia. and i think they will be picking up right where we left off in may. i want to just bring to you an excerpt? from a an op-ed on the columbia spectator that really puts it i think really well, they're saying we can't commit ourselves to columbia unless the administration renews its commitment to its student body. in particular, the palestinian muslim, arab, jewish, black and brown students left to fend for themselves. it is a very divided community. it's so fragmented. i think the parts don't really trust each other anymore, and that's what the new president will be facing as she steps in audie i want to come back to this in a second, but have there been any it is changes when it comes to students security, for example, or anything around the conversation of a safer

environment on campus? >> one of the schools bigger concerns, biggest concerns from last term was outsiders on campus, i think will remember those kinds of conversations. it's not just students. they said there were a lot of people that were arrested who weren't members of the columbia of the columbia student body, at least. so they are again, putting in those measures to allow only students on campus or people who have been pre-registered. a lot of the entrances, the iconic columbia gates will be again shuttered and there will be people looking at your i.d. before you go into campus and some of the reaction from new students to that, they said it feels like a lockdown. another student said to me, you know, there haven't been a lot of statements to us from the school directly on how this is going to operate. i think it's also very new in this pixel that timing of shafik's stepping down, it's only about 23 weeks before classes are in full swing. there's a lot to be worked out

with this student audie now, including the safety measures, i was surprised to hear you say all of these other people who left as well in the college leadership, i understand that pro-palestinian student groups at columbia, where we're happy to see president shafi go. but where does this movement at least on campus go now what are their current demands i'll say there are also jewish groups who happy to see her go. >> who think that she didn't do enough to get to make sure that students were feeling safe on campus a lot of these groups, they were calling for her resignation. there are videos of the moment that they heard about it where people are just celebrating, but they're also saying that shafik's resignation is not the end. it's not time to celebrate because what they're asking for is for the school to look at its investment and financial and academic ties to israel. they say that being part actually working with israel is being part in complicit with the war on gaza. they don't

want police on campus and they want amnesty for students who were not expelled, but that were put on probation during those protests. basically, their message to the new president is that if she doesn't listen to these demands, she will also be forced to step down. >> it's a lot to unpack before the first school bell rings. julia vargas jones. thank you. >> next, florida tries to get rid of its python problem by calling in snake hunters. >> we're going to have a wildlife expert, jeff corwin to talk talk about this surfing showdown, like a net you 10,000 brand first i want to introduce you to this week, cnn euro. he's a venezuelan violinist and conductor. he moved to sweden in 2015 because he wanted to help when you saw crowds of refugees arriving in that country? and he created his dream worker struck that

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the florida everglades, the hunt is on for the burmese python, right? so we're looking at about 30 pounds in about nine feet. >> it sounds about right. one of the larger ones dance. i say this so an average of what you're going to find out their experts, we spoke to have seen snakes as long as 19 feet, weighing 125 pounds. the invasive species of snakes have few natural predators and are known to consume praying as large as alligators, not today, i still get the rush though every time you say no, you're like python noise. >> i finally get another one out of here because that's the mission essentially, it's to get them out of here. >> quentin is a professional python hunter. we joined them at night deep in the florida everglades. but there were no snakes and site hunter's can go days without spotting a burmese python a you cross paths with 100 pythons, you might just see one to five of them joining me now, a man who's handled these snakes before jeff corwin wildlife and conservation expert and host of wildlife

nation expedition florida jeff you've actually taken part in this yourself. >> we saw an images there people using gloves and six, but what's it like? hunting down these pythons? >> well, first of all, you have to try to imagine life in the everglades. it's sticky, it's steamy. their buggs, you're wet, you're getting scratched by the sod grass and you're looking for a creature that could be upwards to 15 feet in length and armed with hundreds of razor sharp teeth and makes a living by squeezing other creatures to death. so it's thrilling your little nervous and you're hoping for that ultimate payback of catching one of these invasive pythons and removing them from this ecosystem to try to stop the devastation that they've caused on the everglades ecosystem can you talk about that devastation? how exactly are they de-stabilizing the ecosystem? there great

question. so they've not been here long. it's not like a predator that it's evolved over millions of years in this ecosystem. they've only been here since around hurricane andrew. some of them they've been negligently released into the environment or they escaped during the hurricane but in just a few short decades, we now estimate there are hundreds of thousands, if not 1 million of these pythons and incredibly the sobering stat is this. they have consumed 90% of all the mammal, wildlife living in the everglades. we were there doing a documentary on this program with the mickey suit you tribe of indians. this indigenous community depends upon the everglades for the survival of their culture. >> and these pythons are literally squeezing them out from the resources that they need to survive as a community what do you do with a python carcass? >> well, there isn't much you

can do with the python so there have been attempts to make leather out of the skins, use the meat to create everything from dog food but these animals are living in an environment, an environment where they're often scarred up. they have lots of parasites this, is an area with a lot of heavy metals like mercury, which exists in the everglades so what you end up doing is just really euthanizing them. it's not really because of the snake, it's not the snake's fault. these are creatures that are just trying to eke out a living. but here they find this incredible frontier, this new ecosystem, where they come in as a pioneer that has no native predators. >> they are literally eating wildlife to extinction because all the other creatures around them have not adapted for such an overwhelming challenges. >> these pythons well, jeff corwin, i hope you've been careful out there and thank you

for your work with this ecosystem and good luck next year thank, you very, much and thank you all for watching. stay with us because anderson cooper 360 is next tonight, on 360 after donald trump says its civilian award is better than the military one because civilians are and wounded and alive to receive it will look look at his history of comments about troops have been wounded or captured. >> also, vice president harris unveiled her economic vision named, she says it helping the middle class will look at what it does whether it work, and what voters make of her on the subject. and later cnn's nick paton walsh inside russia with ukrainian forces who've been letting vladimir putin know what it feels like to have your country invaded good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight, keeping them honest about something the former president said last night at his new jersey club while attempting to praise one of his megadonors, miriam adelson. she's the widow of sheldon adelson, who was also republican megadonor. trump