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when was the last time you saw president obama's suave in beijing? and earth tones for crying out loud. >> he is a president coming out as such, a serious moment, we he should be addressing the country three on such a serious matter. and he looked like he was on his way to a party at the hamptons, only the democrats and only liberals could actually elect a guy with a tan suit, dark color suit when you're doing simple, we haven't seen or go for all out cyr second i want to talk fighting domestic terrorism look like you're welcome to focus on whatever aspect of the news conference you would like. but if you want to actually understand what the presence trying to communicate, i would encourage you to take a close look at his words while we're where jones well, in retrospect at all seems so tame compared to the flurry of political scandals these days. i mean, it was just a tan suit not to mention republican icon ronald reagan wow, he weren't the same suit obama actually honored the
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anniversary today posting this side-by-side >> aside photo of him and vice president kamala harris, the caption, how it new details about what happened when the former president visited arlington national cemetery. what we're learning about the alleged incident between the cemetery official on the campaign and parents know it's certainly a stressful job now, a new advisory from the surgeon general calls that stress a serious public health concern for the country surgeon general joins us tonight. to talk about it. good evening. thanks for joining us vice president harris and running mate tim waltz or closing out day one of
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a two-day campaign through georgia, the state that new polling just put out tonight suggests may be winnable for her in november, her opponent was not on the trail today, though. it was just two days ago that the foreign president's campaign was saying, we'd be seeing trump on steroids it's meaning more appearances of battleground states in the days and weeks ahead instead, with the exception of visits to arlington national cemetery in detroit on monday in a taped interview with dr. phil last night, the main place to find the former president has been on social media. yesterday, who was raging against the new indictment that jack smith security the election interference case today he took it to a whole other level. a former president, the united states, who wants to be the next president, is now directly spreading the slogans of the conspiracy cult qanon, as well as posting accrued sexist and misogynistic slur online. re-posting to be precise, which means he didn't come up with it himself, but liked it so much. instead, he wanted the rest of the world to see it which is both a gentle introduction and a warning. one
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posting of several uses to qanon catchphrases. nothing can stop what is coming, which refers to this so-called mass arrests of so-called deep state members, which in the warped world of qanon is basically anyone who is around donald trump. another post same shows president and hunter biden, nancy pelosi, hillary clinton, anthony fauci, bill gates, and vice president harris in prison and orange jumpsuits. dr. fauci's, bill gates, presumably there for their advocacy of vaccination. again, this is what the former president of the united states chose to rebroadcast to and amplify for his many followers course he did not look at this stuff, chuckles silently to himself. if that's what he would do and move on instead, he wanted to give it the stamp of approval of the 45th and perhaps the 47th president of the united states. and then there is this a photo of kamala harris and hillary clinton. the caption, which i'm not going to read out is demeaning of both women men, and contains a vulgar reference to oral sex acts. now remember, again, this is the republican candidate for
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president and the 45th president. the united states talking about two women who no matter what you think of their politics, are two of the most accomplished women in american political history. this is what he chose to amplify, which as extreme as it is, is not exactly out of character when it comes to him and women he was by far the nastiest to joe biden. >> there was nobody nastier than her. she was extraordinarily nasty to kevin, oh, if she was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing. she was probably nastier than even pocahontas by the racist attorney general of new york state letitia peekaboo, james. >> how about low iq maxine waters. >> omarosa is obviously the ultimate villain and add the nastiest. i think it's very nasty when you ask a continuing a very hostile, nasty towns, what a stupid question. but i watched you a lot. you ask a
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lot of stupid question which just moments ago, harris campaign spokesman put out a statement quoting him. now, donald trump is out of his mind if a family member posted with donald trump is sharing today, americans would rightly be concerned, but this is what donald trump and his project 2025 agenda offer america prosecuting political opponents using dangerous conspiracy theories to justify a harmful policies and dividing americans against each other. want to get perspective now from two cnn political commentators on the right and left respectively, david urban and ashley allison, also cnn newsnight anchor abby philip. i mean, abby i don't know why anybody would be surprised, but it is still i mean, the reason we are leading with this is it this is a guy who was the 45th president united states, very well could be the next president united states. and the stuff he's putting out, i mean, the qanon conspiracy stuff. i'm this is like this is a dangerous cold which really has infected a lot of people's lives was destroyed. a lot of families targeted a lot of people and then the sexual slur against
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his opponent hillary clinton. it's yeah. >> yeah. i mean, it's it's also trump. and i think at montage, you all played really lays out it's for part of his long history of doing this. i mean, there was even an omarosa clip in there that goes all the way back to the apprentice. so the early days of the apprentice the last sound bite him in salt into reporter was you, write. >> and so look a trump, especially when he is under pressure, that moment between me and him on the white house south lawn was a moment that he was particularly under pressure because of the muller investigation. and when he is in those moments, he resorts to i think his most base instincts which are conspiracies, personal attacks, a particularly personal attacks against women and people of color, but women of color in particular and this is exactly the kind of trump behavior here that his advisers have been trying in a lot of different ways to steer him away from to avoid they almost got there
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because the race was heading in their direction. but now that this has become a real contest, trump is taking the rack and going to the things that he understands and knows the best, which is attack attack, attack. but at this moment i think the harris campaign, i thought their response was really interesting because they didn't talk about the personal attacks. they talked about project 2025 and what they're trying to argue is that trump is just not all there and that regular people, when they look at these posts should be concerned about them. this is exactly the kind of argument that hurt him in 2020 and will hurt him in this election as well. >> david urban, the campaign said they were going to see trump on steroids. i don't know if the steroids have gone to his head. i don't know if they're injecting him with decca or how much they're given him but i mean, does it make any sense to you? is it defensible at all to go after your opponent with this like sexual slur. i know they do it on fox news. and as innuendos,
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but no andrew said, look, click clearly. i'd like to see it go in a different direction, right? i like to say president spend that time. look up, you want attack kamala harris, attack kamala harris, but attacker on banning fracking. attacker on wanting to end private health care attacker on wanting to confiscate americans guns attacker on all these crazy position is that she's had that maker defendant make sense as you suggest, i mean, we you and i talked about this. i don't know. a couple days or weeks. you said this face-to-face to the former president recently? >> i anderson i will share with him. i hopefully i'll see him again this friday and i'll share again with him. i think it's a lost opportunity, lost time. if if the trump campaign is going to win on november 5 we need the president needs to focus on those issues that people care about. people care about inflation. the economy border, all these things. kamala harris is very, very vulnerable on and she would much rather be, you know, trying to trying to make the
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project 2025 malarky to put it in joe biden parlance stick, then having to defend her own crazy positions. and so donald trump is by himself. he's letting her squirm out of these crazy positions. he's taken and not defend them by, you know, by him. he gone defense now, so i will again urge the former president to stick to the knitting here and talk about the issues that people care about their pocketbook issues at the border you know, you're eric, even even eric adams does immigration is killing new york city, right? we have democrats agreeing with them. so we just need to get president trump on message here. >> ashley i mean, you know what happened to the short-lived notion that trump is going to stay on message, focus on policies, stay away from personal attacks. that's certainly was i don't know if it ever lived even if it was short-lived yeah, i don't know if i ever don't ever believed it. >> look here's what i will say, is that the reason why donald
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trump continues to throw these attacks and not talk about the economy are not talking about immigration because that's actually not why he's running for president. he doesn't actually care about those issues. he cares about himself. and so the fact that he cannot untwist himself and be an adult in a grown man and have a real adult conversation is because that's who he is, and that's what he is doing. he is showing himself who he is. i'm fine with him doing that continues to do that reminder american people that we don't want that as a leader. but what i do what the harris campaign to also remember is that they do not have to meet him where they are. i often say the first lady used to say when they go low, we go high. let the vice president to stay high. i'll match the energy for donald trump and bring the heat towards him. the vice president is qualified, is capable all those americans who are sitting on the fence tonight and wondering who is going to fight for you. take a look at where kamala harris and tim walz for today. they were enrolled georgia. they were talking to students, some that looked like
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them and some that didn't. they were talking about the opportunities that they want for them. they want them to work hard and find the future the people they were talking to, you couldn't even vote for them, but they care enough about them to show up meanwhile, donald trump is on truth, social i fundamentally believe that americans will make the right choice in november. and there is a place for you, even if you don't agree on everything that the vice president or tim walz or even i say there is a police for you in our big tent coalition to take this country in a new direction and not where donald trump wants to do it with hate devices and derogatory comments. >> it is again, just that this person whether it's their backs, the wall, or they feel whatever that the line of attack is to sexually demean one of the most accomplished women in political life in the country eye on the national, in the national. i mean, i know
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women faces all the time and i don't think i can understand it. i don't think, you know, maybe men can't understand it, but it is extraordinary to me like at this level is no explaining it. i don't think i can't get into donald trump's head. i think we just have to look at i by the way, who is a father allegedly of daughters. i mean, my father of a daughter he put in the white house to advise him despite having no relevant experience to whether he had any involvement of their actual upbringing is beyond the point, but like he is their father, like that, he would look at his daughters and this is what is in his mind i think we can only go off of what he has done and said himself, the pattern is there and it's extremely clear here when it comes to women who are challenging him trump doesn't believe that they would ever be qualified. >> i mean, he called kamala harris dumb multiple times this week to david urban's point,
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he could be attacking her on a whole host of substantive things. but the thing that he attacked it's her on is something that is clearly very false because of the fact that she of all that she's accomplished her education, et cetera. this is who trump is. it's also exactly the thing that disturbs moderate independent voters the most about him. this campaign now is going to be fought on the grounds of fitness for office. they were they weaponize that against joe biden because of biden's age, biden has gone now. so now the question of fitness is going to fall squarely on donald trump's lap a. he is now the oldest candidate in the race, but be he every day that he presents himself as somebody who is who is divorced from reality, someone who cannot handle himself in a presidential way is a problem for him. and it's one of the reasons that voters they don't like the distraction. they don't like the headache, they don't like waking up in the morning and wondering what did trump do? last night you got sick of it.
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>> at the last the first time around. i mean, this is a sign. this is just going to be re-run we're out of time go ahead. i'm sorry i just want to say like as a black woman who was working really, really hard to be where she is today. >> i remember the moment when i would call my dad and talk about people who would say derogatory things towards me and talk about what to do to get past it. and for every woman who has ever been in a position that they have worked, their butt off to be you deserve to be there. we see you. we believe in you don't let these comments actually bringing down make it make them let you stand stronger and your power and know that we don't have to live like this. >> david, you wanted to criticism anderson. i just say really quickly. i think a lot of this is baked into the trump vote is abby was talking about, right? so, so people know donald trump, they know this is who he is and despite what the, these, these retruth things and him being off message, he's still in statistical dead heat
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with the current vice president, which says a lot about the biden-harris administration and the failures that the american people think they're sustaining on a daily basis. so if we get them back on if president trump gets on message, i think on november 5 will be it also says something about the way a lot of people view women or like the level of importance people put demeaning women in terms of other issues. >> and how much they care or they think that just guys being guys, whatever it may be missing. >> i said i'm not i'm not saying no, no. i'm not saying i'm not saying except i'm just saying it's it's you know, what abby was saying about like the people expect the level of presidential behavior out of trump. i think that parts baked in here, i think it's people pass. >> nobody nobody is surprised by this, but you know, but i'm surprised not more people aren't discussed it david urban, appreciate it. abby stick around, ashley allison, thanks so much next for us,
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more on that new polling from battleground states showing for the first time post convention numbers in a big change from where the race stood with joe biden in it. later, new reporting on what exactly happened to arlington national cemetery between the cemetery official and people with the former president on his visit there earlier this week anderson cooper, 360 is brought to you by sleep number sleep better together with a sleek numbers, smart, bad. it's the only bad that let you make each side firmer or softer whenever you like your sleep number setting only at asleep numbers store or asleep number.com. >> why do nfl players chooses? we've never smart thing. >> i like to sleep cool and i like it warm and cozy and i really liked it when we both get what we want. >> number does that have to be cools and warrants on each side during our biggest sale of the year, say 50% on asleep number limited edition sparked that and free delivery when you add any base knock, knock, number one, broker here for the number one hitmaker. >> thanks for swinging by carl. no problems. >> so let us for this is me, adjust the base, add more
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president is up by one percentage point again, inside the margin of error. no clear leader in nevada though vice president harris is up by two points and donald trump is up by one. one in north carolina, again, meaning no clear leader. cnn's priscilla alvarez joins us now from savannah, georgia. so what's the strategy behind this georgia bus tour, particularly where she's going in georgia well, the bottom line is that they want to lose by less than these rural counties in south georgia, ones that typically lean republican and they're employing an aggressive strategy in that region including through the bus tour today, to try to do exactly that. >> now it's a playbook that dates back to 2020 me too. that's when senator warnock had success doing this in december 2022, runoff, shaving off some of those votes for republicans also, also winning big in atlanta. and the person that was leading that playbook, quentin fulks is now the deputy campaign manager for the harris campaign. and when i spoke to him he told me that they think that they can pull off the same
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thing this time around and perhaps more given the anticipated higher turnout, given that it is a presidential election year, but it requires them to pay attention to south georgia just as much as they're paying attention to atlanta. they've opened up offices in that part of the state. and as noted today they they made visits the vice president and her vice presidential nominee, tim waltz, using their first trip after the democratic national convention to visit high school students and a barbecue joint in south georgia. now strategists that i've talked to in the state also say that there could be a good opportunity here for tim waltz. he has roots in rural america, he also has a background and football and the military, and those are the types of characteristics that could resonate with voters in that part of the state. >> and what's next on the bus tour tomorrow? >> well the vice, president going to conclude the bus tour with a rally in the savannah area. yet again, trying to gin up support in this crucial battleground state one that
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president biden only won by less than 12,000 votes in 2020. so clearly they're trying to be aggressive on this seat. but what today's visit told that's or showed us is what that strategy is going to look like. and that includes taking those votes from republicans where they can, while also winning big, where they anticipate there they have that democratic or that strong democratic base. anderson. so alvarez, thanks very much perspective now from democratic strategist paul begala back with is also abby, phillip, and david urban so john king is all he was talking about how important it is for the two campaigns to cut into each other's margins. >> this is certainly that strategy. it's interesting that the same person who seems to have devised that strategy for senator warnock is now doing this for harris. >> yeah, it's it's really important because i mean, warnock it first of all, democrats were able to win and two senate seats in a state that was previously not even really a battleground and so there is a playbook there and it's a playbook that involves running a little bit closer to the middle where you can and
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trying to cut into these margins where trump is going to run up the score and the rural parts of the state, the fact that georgia is now back on the agenda, we should just underscore that because the reality was that even though the biden campaign kept saying the georgia was competitive, it really wasn't. trump had a comfortable lead. they're going into his own convention at the rnc. now for harris to have made this a margin of error her race means that it really is in contention. democrats are also looking to see how they can increase the potential of they're upside in the urban areas, can they increase voter registration? can they actually get out their voters? some of these people who might have been thinking about sitting home when the top of the ticket had joe biden on it, who might be willing to come out? for her this is a real race in that state and it's going to matter because now the harris campaign actually has the ability to press trump. they don't need georgia to win, but it would make things harder for trump if
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trump loses, say, well, you know, a thing or two about bus tours when you're talking on bill clinton's campaign, what do you see going on? and here in georgia compared to holding large one off rallies in arenas yeah, it's about respect and for too long, democrats disrespected rural america. >> and this candidacy is not doing that. i abby's exactly right. you put tim walz on the ticket. you're going to get somebody who knows rural american when when i was with president clinton at the convention and he looked at governor walz and he said, he looks like home he does he look like for a lot of people in that great, it's so poetic, it's like if you grew up in hot springs, arkansas, you, the map from hope, if you grew up in sugarland, texas, he looks like home well, you can take himself georgia and he looks like home. and kamala harris going there. she showing respect for that culture and it's two things at once you know, there's a lot of black folks in rural south georgia and i always hate when people
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say urban, when they mean black or rural when i mean white, there actually are some white people in cities there's a lot of black folk in rural south georgia and quentin fulks the priscilla's report is exactly right. quentin is a guy who put this together. he went to by the way, georgia southwestern university is a great school in south georgia. >> he knows that and you doing two things, you're cutting the margins with these rural whites who had previously really turned out for trump by showing them respect and by telling them i can get you cheaper insulin in gets you to lower prescription drugs. >> i'll fight for you and you can boost turnout with african-americans in south georgia who in previous years had been ignored by presidential campaigns party david, we mentioned that new fox news poll that has vice president arab two points in georgia again, within the margin of error, the same polls as are leading arizona, nevada, trump, leading north carolina. >> all again, margin of error how tough will it be for the former president to play
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defense in sun belt states? while also making inroads in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin look, at the map has changed with the addition of kamala harris to the ticket. >> clearly and is paul and abby both said this is about, you know, campaigns are about addition one plus one plus one, right? and cutting your margins of loss, that's what we're going to do. two paul knows this and pennsylvania republicans tried to hold down their losses in philly in the suburbs. and we're going to run up the score and cambria and westmoreland it and counties. i'm you know, president trump is going to be in in johnstown on friday and working some of those kind of more rural areas. and so we republicans tried to drive up the numbers in those places and democrats tried to drive down their losses. so smart campaigning for the vice president to be there now, will that stick once voters actually figure out what she's four? because we really don't know what she's four. we know what she was four and 2019, but we
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haven't heard or articulate a plan of what she's for. she hasn't said she hasn't really talked about fracking or guns. and i'd like to see some of those good old boys and south georgia asked about whether she's going to confiscate their 30-30 and give an answer for me to see what she says, but and now that she's got to convince some of these voters of issues that matter to them. pocketbook issues. and the border, right? so it's nice to go there and kind of spread the joy message. but when they peel back the onion and actually get some facts we'll see how they end up voting paul, i want to talk about the interview tomorrow. >> it's going to be airing dana bash are doing it here for cnn it's it's harris and walz. harris is obviously being criticized by some for not doing the interview. solo. do you think she should have done on a averse major interviews since accepting the nomination alone? i don't know how long this interview is going to be, but obviously, two people, it does eat up the time that a reporter can ask her directly
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questions and follow up with her directly. >> i don't think there's a single voter who's going to say, oh gee, she's going to cut my cost of health insurance, but i didn't like the she appeared with her romi. this is one of the rare tickets. i think the only other time was clinton and gore, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. there's something here, some alchemy that don't think they knew each other well, that has really worked with kamala harris and tim walz and i liked that. they're doing it as a joint interview. i will say it. >> take you behind the scenes. >> there are introducing their interviews okay. >> mr. trump goes on. sean hannity, and that's puffery, not an interview. >> but he does do and i applaud this, these large press conferences the truth is, those are a lot easier than a one-on-one or a two on one. >> those large press conference i used to call them cluster gatherings they're easy because reporters don't follow up each other's questions, right there. all competitive your one-on-one, one onto with dana bash. >> she is going to hold your feet to the fire, is going to be a very important interview in a very tough one, i think she's up to it, but let's see
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paul begala, abby phillip, david urban. >> thanks very much coming up the latest on an incident at arlington national cemetery involving donald trump's campaign staffers and alleged violation of cemetery rules that ahead tomorrow. >> the most anticipated interview of this election, kamala harris and tim walz sit down with dana bash for the first interview. harris and walz, a cnn exclusive tomorrow at nine a.m. she has come down to you but who passed them to her those mom jeans are a big part of you ancestor deal. hey, can show you the people and places they came from discover the traits you inherited. the places where they started and the people you share them with your jeans are one of a kind, find out why with ancestry dna take airborne.
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story, there was a verbal and physical altercation between the campaign and someone and working with the cemetery today on the campaign trail, j.d vance weighed in thank god that we have a president who's stands with our veterans instead of one who runs away from him. >> where to talk about a story out of those 13, brave innocent americans who lost their lives. it's the kamala harris is so asleep at the wheel but she won't even do an investigation into what happened. and she wants to yell at donald trump because he showed up. she can she can go to hell the new york times, maggie haberman has a new story on this up, on the time he says website. >> it has the following detail about the cemetery official who filed the complaint according from maggie's report, the official who's not been identified later declined to press charges. military officials said she feared mr. trump's supporters pursuing retaliation in a moment, i'll talk with democratic congressman seth moulton, who liked senator vance as a marine iraq war vet first more from cnn's tom foreman we lost
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great, great people this campaign video produced during former president donald trump's recent visit to arlington cemetery is now at the center of a firestorm after trump's staffers verbally abused and pushed aside as cemetery worker a source with knowledge of the incident told npr or as a democratic congressman put it acted like bullies. cemetery officials will only say quote, there was an incident and a report was filed. others, including a former secretary of defense our saying more, i think it should be investigated. >> how did the confrontation come about? trump has been ripping into his democratic opponents over the u.s. military's chaotic departure from afghanistan, terrorists poured out of the prisons after biden and harris surrender bob graham and he wanted to visit the graves of service members who died in the withdrawal with his own video crew and photographer in tow. but cemetery officials say they
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specifically reminded team trump of a federal law for bidding politicking there. and quote photographers, content creators or any other persons in direct support of a partisan political candidates campaign, trump's staff disputes the nature of the confrontation and says the worker clearly suffering from a mental health episode is a disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hallowed grounds. >> is that a war hero the war half years, he's a war hero because he was captured. >> i like people that weren't captured, okay. >> still trump's relationship with the military has been fraught for years, for mocking the war hero john mccain to calling service members losers and suckers, which he denies to recently saying the presidential medal of freedom gave to a gop megadonor is better than the medal of honor because everyone gets the congressional medal of honor. that's soldiers. they're either in very bad shape
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because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead amid all this, the trump team says they just did nothing wrong. and the harris campaign is saying in effect it's donald trump. what did you expect? >> henderson, tom foreman, thanks very much. showed his now massachusetts democratic congressman seth moulton, who served four tours of duty with the marines in iraq. kirtzman. it's interesting to hear donald trump go talking about what happened three years ago on monday, the horrible killing of these 13 service members certainly the biden administration. it's understandable. the criticism of the chaotic withdrawal and that's for voters to decide. it was interesting. i talked to the h r mcmaster earlier this week, whose book is just out as former national security adviser, who was very critical the former president's policy toward afghanistan, who was the former president who actually made a deal directly with the taliban, cutting out the afghan government from any of those
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talks. and it was the former president who actually freed 5,000 members of the taliban from prisons in afghanistan andrew down u.s. troops, even though the taliban was continuing to attack and welcome back terror groups that's right trump made a deal with terrorists, something that we don't do in america. trump wanted to pull out of afghanistan sooner which would have resulted in more chaos. so it's only people who forget their history, who can think the trump would have handled this better. trump would have handled it absolutely worse. and by the way, anyone who knows trump's views on immigration knows that he wouldn't have rescued a single one of our afghan allies, something that veterans like myself worked tirelessly to do during that withdrawal the trump administration had insisted that the withdrawal all would be on may 1. >> the biden ministration actually pushed it back to august. obviously, still, it ended up being as we all saw in terms of what happened at
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arlington i mean, americans are obviously accustomed to seeing news footage of presidents visiting the cemetery, memorial day, and other solemn occasions can you explain why certain kinds of footage is permissible in specific locations, but it's frowned upon or bard and other parts of the cemetery because there's apparently you're not supposed to take video that's used for campaign purposes that's right. >> i mean, we all have we want to honor our veterans, not exploit them we want our honor our veterans not exploit that. and i will always hail the heroes of abbey-gate, those marines who risked their lives. so that thousands of others could be free. and of course, the 13 servicemen and women who lost their lives trying to save so many others. they'll go down in history as american heroes and i'll be saying that to the day i die because i was fortunate enough anderson to actually witness their work. right there at abbey gate. but then to take that sacrifice and
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twist it and exploited for partisan political gain as shameful. it's shameful, it's not only shameful, it's illegal and yet given what we know about donald trump and his fundamental disrespect for veterans for those who serve, he had him a draft. >> he is of course, a draft dodger himself. >> this really is just par for the course when it comes for how trump treats veterans. congressman seth moulton. i appreciate your time. thank you. up next, i'll see you, anderson, cnn investigation imagine discovering the home next door to yours is being used to grow. we'd for the black market marijuana industry i'm going to take you to california where police say this is a very real problem. >> washington crossing the delaware at a sit-in fits the lightbulb. >> the a practical joke to tbs it's history in practical jokers, all new thursday's attack on tbs set your pdr now, way there's labor day
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and this is cnn tonight. >> a new cnn investigation authorities across the country said that family homes and suburban us neighborhoods are being used to grow. we'd fueling the black market marijuana industry. it's creating a big problem for law enforcement, particularly in a state like california, where the grower first faiz little in criminal penalties. cnn's kyung lah has more this upscale california suburb is a glimpse into an underground world where authorities say a chinese crime ring feeds america's black market doors and windows, heavily fortified at three different homes on the same block in this bedroom community of san francisco when officers finally break through inside, it's a massive marijuana farm. >> these are family homes worth nearly 1 million. the interior
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unrecognizable every part of the home used to grow we'd from the nursery installed from the waves set up. windows, boarded up to control the light, a massive ventilation system running full blast intricate electrical setups to power lights and fans yes a generator in the laundry room. >> so many hold that mold can be seen growing on walls and ceilings. >> runoff into makeshift drains and room after room after room. filled with marijuana can. even tell this is a master bedroom. >> since easier to disguise it here, you're not growing outside your growing indoors. and as long as the house looks nice and the arts taken care of, nobody's going question what's going on inside investigators saved this bus snag more than $1 million worth of illegal wheat cultivated by unlicensed growers using chemicals without regard for
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safety that end up in the plant's despite the growth of the legalized marijuana industry, most pot is still sold on the illegal black market california produces about 40% of the nation's wheat. >> much of what's grown here will be shipped across the country and sold far cheaper than legal. we'd how many houses have you hit in antioch? >> about 50. >> how many more might exist in antioch? >> so are we to in one to 200 houses? >> up to 200, that they think they know of law enforcement says this criminal enterprise can operate in california more easily than anywhere else in the country. because california law says illegally growing weed is just a misdemeanor. in most cases, it's relatively hello, risk, huge reward. >> this whether you have one plant or truck full of plants, what is the penalty in california? >> it's a misdemeanor in california and, that offers an
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opportunity says law enforcement for organized crime inside the suburban grow houses on walls and doors. >> instructions in chinese. cnn reviewed antioch search warrants as well as online property records and found that in nearly every grow house busted an antioch almost all of them go back to a chinese owner or occupants, is related to chinese criminal syndicate that's dominant. >> why would the chinese cartel care about marijuana? >> because it's so lucrative is a very profitable crop. >> and it's not just in california. we are starting to see as we unpack this more, more ties between a lot of these growing operations and chinese organized crime 22 states have illegal bro, operation says senator susan collins on member of the intelligence committee he including her state of maine why are chinese transnational criminal groups here in the
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united states buying, these homes and growing illegal marijuana in them. it's difficult for me to believe that there isn't some sort of plot involved. how much of this bleeds into a national security issue? i believe it does pose a serious national security threat as well as a public health risk back in california, we learn there's even more financial incentive for illegal growers. >> it's been about two months since the girl houses were busted. we've learned that one of the houses is going back on the market and today is the open house. a manicured home with a for sale sign listed for just under $1 million flipped since that day, we watched law enforcement swarming. >> hello? >> hi, susanna, susanna wong is
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real estate agent listing this open house and the agent who sold three other suspected grow houses in this area, she owns one of those homes where authorities found more than $900,000 of marijuana last year. >> her attorney tells cnn a house she owns was busted by the state, but it was being rented at the time and she was not involved in any illegal activity, lines, killing law. and i'm a correspondent with cnn. we're recording here. i just wanted to talk hang did not want to speak on camera, but she did invite us to come inside this home. she's listed to record video one, our cell phone and take a look at this immaculately cleaned up space. there dramatic make-over seen in the master bathroom before and after the house is listed for $200,000 more than the owner paid for it. >> now they're going to make money off the houses as well as they resell bill tilson lives on this block.
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>> what's deterring them from setting up shop someplace else? they got to recover their equipment. so now they just picked another location and do the same thing oh, bomber, who got a misdemeanor and then they'll do the same in thing and on and on a line. so it's whack-a-mole one additional detail, one of the houses on that day that the raid took places owned by an oakland police officer, samson liu out law enforcement says that that home owned by liu contained 80 pounds of illicit marijuana trimmings. they were stuffed into garbage bags the home had been modified extensively in order to cultivate as well as being fortified from the inside. i'll cannabis controlled did not elaborate on whether liu was living at the home at the time or had rented it out to tenants citing an ongoing investigation we did reach out to oakland police department who says that it is cooperating with outside law enforcement. they are treating this as a personnel matter ever
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since the day of the raid says oakland pd officer liu has been placed on administrative leave and anderson, we did try to reach out to officer lee, both in person over the phone. one as well as email. we did not hear back anderson in l.a. >> thanks so much coming up the u.s. surgeon general joins me next to talk about his new warning about what he says is significant public health issue. the growing stress that parents face have i got news for you is coming to cnn this fall, pros and cons lists, pro hosted by roy wood, junior row with amber ruffin would likely in black, right. so what are the cons we could run out a news by then but in all seriousness i desperately need this to work out i'm in the middle of a divorce, so i loved it to the have i got news for you? >> premiere saturday, september 14th at nine on cnn and streaming next day on max. >> kinda riva support your brain health.
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exclusive tomorrow at nine today the nation's top health official is warning that parents are facing dangerous levels of stress and it's becoming a public health concern in a new advisory us surgeon general, dr. vivek murthy, who's he has two children himself says the parents are overwhelmed and burned out with the dizzying pace of the world and call for a culture shift in supportive parents and caregivers. dr. vivek murthy joins me now. thanks so much for being back with us. so what made you decide to issue this advisory and parental stress? >> well, anderson, as i was working on the youth mental health crisis one of the things that became quickly apparent to me was that wasn't just kids that were struggling. it was parents to and as i dug into the data around this, we found that 48%, nearly half of parents our saying on most days, they're completely overwhelmed by their stress. that is an extraordinary number that should alarm all of us. i also found that parents are struggling with loneliness at
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levels that are higher than other adults. and but only when you look at single parents more than 75% of them are saying they're struggling with loneliness. now, stress and loneliness together form a tough combination that can take a real toll on the mental health and well-being appearance is, do you think that's it's worse than i don't know if there's percentages for decades ago, but is with me why do you think it's as bad as it is now, what's contributed? so that's a really important question and there are few things that have contributed there are some of the traditional stresses that parenting has always entailed in a parent's rennervations have worried about kids safety. they've worried about their education. they worried about a whole host of things related to children, including how to manage the difficult teenage years. but there are some new factors anderson that parents are dealing with today that my parents, for example, in grandparents didn't have to contend with like, how to
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manage social media and technology and phones in your kid's life, how to contend with a loneliness epidemic in a youth mental health crisis. that's taking a profound toll on millions of kids and also how to deal with issues like gun violence, which are really a source of so much fear for parents and kids. keep in mind more than half of kids are worried now about a shooting taking place in their school. you put all of this together with one other critical factor, anderson and that's this intensified culture of comparison that we're all living living in. that's really a potentiated and fed by social media and the online environment where parents are looking around them and comparing themselves to sometimes hundreds of other parents and who may know some of them, they don't know, but they often come away feeling worse about themselves and they're falling short as parents. >> i mean, it's so interesting, it's the same thing. kids are going through on social for media in that regard, this comparison culture of everybody's life on social media seems so much better than, than, than your own life