are, i think, part of just a general pattern that we've seen that is -- would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. >> huckabee wasted little time firing right back. a spokesman issuing this statement. "what's ridiculous and sad is that president obama does not take iran's repeated threats seriously. for decades, iranian leaders have pledged to destroy, annihilate and wipe israel off the map with a big holocaust." our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is traveling with the president in ethiopia right now. jim, why did the president jump into this political fray right now? >> well wolf i think this might be the beginning of the surrogate in chief role that the president may be playing over the next 18 months. he has stayed out of the 2016

campaign fray. even the white house has tried to do that. when we asked questions at the press briefing josh earnest tries to steer the conversation in a different direction. i talked to a top democratic advisor who said these comments from mike huckabee were just so offensive, so over the top that the president had no chance but to respond. as i heard from one white house official yes, that's in part why the president had to say that but also the president karsz very much about the iran nuclear deal described this deal as his baby and that he want this is debate to be on the facts. >> the president also singled out donald trump today at that news conference. i want to play for our viewers what he said. listen to this. >> in fact it's been interesting when you look at what's happening with mr. trump when he's made some of the remark s remarks that for example, challenge the heroism of mr.

mccain somebody who endured torture and conducted himself with exemplary patriotism the republican party is shocked and yet that arises out of a culture where those kinds of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and get circulated non-stop. we're creating a culture that is not conducive to good policy or good politics. the american people deserve better. certainly presidential debates deserve better. >> strong words from the president, jim. mentioning donald trump specifically by name this time. i guess that's part of this theory that as you say he's going to be surrogate in chief? >> just recently i tried to

press josh earnest to comment on donald trump and "earn esearnest would not use the word trump. so to hear the president go after trump the way he did was remarkable. but at the same time this is a president who has tangled with donald trump before. remember back in 2011 when donald trump was demanding the president release his birth certificate and he finally did, the president referring to donald trump as a "carnival barker" at the time. so the president you can tell i think he's been storing up a lot of these campaign comments over recent weeks. he went after senator ted cruz saying the iran nuclear deal would make the obama administration a leading financier. he went after tom cotton who described secretary of state john kerry as playing the role of pontus pilot. you get the sent that this president is fed up and as you know wolf this white house is coordinating with hillary clinton's campaign for her election campaign for the white

house in 2016 so it's not surprising to hear the president come out forcefully but i think wolf from here forward the bear is loose as they like to say at the white house. >> it certainly is. jim acosta traveling with the president in ethiopia. safe travels over there. despite criticism from president obama and some of his republican rivals donald trump comes out on not a new cnn/orc poll. trump is at 18% nationally. form florida governor jeb bush comes in with 15% followed by wisconsin governor scott walker at 10%. none of the other republican candidates -- and there are many of them -- with in double digits. let's bring in david chalian and nia-malika henderson. donald trump, it's fair to say, david, he's the front-runner among republicans right now. >> no doubt. and he's solidifying his front-runner status. we've seen this rise. remember this is the first national poll conducted by a telephone survey which we trust

that was done entirely after the controversial comments he made about john mccain. so it's teflon trump. there's no -- there's nothing sticking him right now that we in the press get worked up about or the republican establishment gets worked up about. it doesn't stick to him. he is clearly sort of defining the rules of play in this republican -- >> so those pundits, very quickly, who were saying after the john mccain statement that donald trump made that this is the beginning of the end of donald trump, those pundits, at least so far, have proven to be wrong. >> we don't see evidence of that here at all. >> do you see evidence of that? >> no evidence of that. pundits said that republicans said that and in some ways for republicans i think it was a hope and a prayer this would be the beginning of the end for donald trump. i think he's tapping into what we've seen a lot over these last couple of years, this tea party movement folks who don't like the government folks who feel left behind left out of the democratic administration. so he's been able to channel that. he's dialing back the more harsh errett rick we've seen so far

but it's wokking for him. >> a lot of his rivals would like him to go away but 5 2% of republican voters according to our poll want him to stay in the race and continue his run. 15% want him to run as an independent. about a third say he should drop out. is when you assess those numbers, what do you see? >> all movement ahead for donald trump. i mean if a majority of republicans are saying let's stay in this race, if the most enthusiastic republicans who are most animated and engaged in this election are saying, hey, you're you're my guy, all signs point to him being with us for a while. i'm not sure about the 15% who say he should run as an independent. most polling shows the election would guarantee the election gets handed to a democrat. >> trumps unfavorable rating pretty high. among democrats not surprising 80%. 53% of independents 42% of republicans have an unfall riverable view of donald trump. potentially does that spell trouble for him? >> he's still riding high in

terms of people who do like him. he's second to huckabee in terms of favorability ratings there. so relative to the field, in this republican field he's doing okay. you're right, when you take it to the general, he's got problems there in matchups against hillary clinton doesn't do so well. >> 80% of democrats, independents certainly don't like him and those are the kind of swing voters that will be so crucial in a general. >> exactly. that's why we see theage da with the republican establishment over the trump candidacy. although he's running strong and tapping into a vein of support inside the republican nomination race, he has a lot of work to do as a general election candidate. he's losing to hillary clinton in the matchups. 59% of the overall public see him as unfavorable. that is not the -- those are not the numbers of success for a general election candidate. >> guys, we'll continue to dissect these numbers alot to assess. david chalchalian, nia-malika henderson, thank you very much.

the new poll numbers don't look good for the john. there's also troubling numbers in there for the democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton. we'll ask the chair of the dnc if the party is worried about the front-runner for the nomination. stand by. and turkey joining the fight against isis in a major way right now. could that country have its own agenda in this war? that and more coming up.

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like several other jewish organizations, the adl, anti-definition league is condemning a comment by mike huckabee comparing the iran nuclear deal with the holocaust. in a statement, the adl national director jonathan greenblatt said "comments such as those by mike huckabee suggesting the president is leading israel to another holocaust are completely out of line and unacceptable." he went on to say "to hear mr. huckabee invoke the holocaust when america is israel's greatest ally and when israel is a strong nation capable of

defending itself is disheartening." joining us now from manchester new hampshire, is congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, chair of the democratic national committee. i want to quickly get your reaction congresswoman, to mike huckabee's comments that this iran nuclear deal po( ten usually, in his words, opening the door for israelis to the oven. >> well i agree with aid yell and their sentiments wholeheartedly. it's outrageous and unacceptable for any presidential candidate, any politician to make cavalier references and analogies to the holocaust, no matter how people feel about the iran deal no matter where anyone comes out on it they are entitled to their opinion. they should dissect it. we should debate it. be to make the suggestion a, that there is some comparison to the six million jews that lost their lives and millions of other non-jews in the gas

chambers to preventing iran in a deal from achooefzing a nuclear weapon is an outrageous unacceptable analogy and mike huckabee owes the jewish community and the american people an apology. >> are you going to vote for this iran nuclear deal? you're a member of the house. >> i'm in the middle of really reviewing it and looking at all the moving parts to the iran deal. i've had many administration briefings. i've talked to experts on both sides of the deal and i'm going to go home and speak to my constituents who have been weighing in. i'll reach a conclusion on what i'm going to do with my vote once i feel like i've been able to thoroughly review the whole deal. >> so the president and his supporters haven't yet kwunsed you -- convinced you it's a good deal? >> well i think there's merit to the deal. there's a lot of merit to the deal but there's also a legitimate cause for concern and i think this is a decision that

no member of congress should make lightly. you know i found it particularly outrageous that you had some republicans clearly who had not read the deal who had not thoroughly examined it who came out in less than 24 hours from its being announced in opposition to it. that's just not responsible. nor would it be responsible for me to come out in favor of it that quickly. i want to take my time my constituents at home have very strong opinions. it's a very well-educated pro-israel district and i have respect from them and their opinion and i want to seek it while making sure i though roily understand all its implications. and as a pro-israel legislator myself it's very important to get this right. >> because without, obviously, making any comparisons, analogies to the holocaust and hitler and ovens or anything like that based on what you see right now, do you think this deal endangers israel?

>> i think we need to make sure that iran never achieves its goal of attain ago nuclear weapon. that has clearly been president obama's top priority from day one in initiating and pursuing this deal. that's what the deal actually says that iran will not be allowed to attain a nuclear weapon but, like i said wolf, there's moving parts. as far as the analogies to the holocaust, what i also find outrage jous that not a single republican presidential candidate running has called out mike huckabee's comments as unacceptable or outrageous. this is par for the course consistent pattern where we are willing to make -- huckabee is not gaining much traction in the primary and is trying to get some attention bringing the holocaust into a very serious discussion that requires our attention and our careful deliberation is unacceptable insulting, deeply hurtful for

the jewish community and, like i said he owes the jewish community and the american people an apology and i also would call on all 15 other candidate republican candidates for president to repudiate what mike huckabee said because it's outrageous. >> on cnn's "new day" earlier today, a spokesman for donald trump, michael cohen, he defended huckabee's comments miking that comparison to the holocaust. i want to quickly get your reaction to our latest poll numbers and the cnn/orc poll. hillary clinton's unfavorability number right now is at 49% nationwide. 49% of the american public have an unfavorable opinion of hillary clinton. donald trump's unfavorable number nationwide is 59%. so they're not all that far apart. here here's the question for you as the chaur of the dnc and hillary clinton is the front-runner. why do almost half of the american people have an

unfavorable opinion of hillary clinton? >> well wolf number one, not surprising that donald trump would defend mike huckabee's comments. donald trump is the king of outrageous comments and we'll see on august 6 the republican field busily trying to outrageous one another: as far as polls, you know we've had this conversation you and i, so many times. we're 18 months from election day. polls are going to show some candidates up some candidates down. what's important the that the candidates both sides of the aisle, get out and communicate the direction they would take this country. whether it's hillary clinton or any of our democratic candidates for president. they would continue to make sure that we could continue the economic recovery we've been through 64 months of job growth in the private sector after we were losing 750,000 jobs a month when barack obama took off. what the republican field would do is end medicare as we know it turn it into a voucher system move towards privatization of social security and continue to cut taxes and

take care of the wealthiest most fortunate americans at the top and to heck with the middle-class. that's the contrast we'll have, the debate we'll have throughout this election cycle. i know on our side of the aisle we look forward to that debate because the american people are with us when it comes to continuing to move our nation forward. they don't want to go backward which is where any of the republican candidates would take us. >> debbie wasserman schultes is a congresswoman from florida and the chair of the dnc. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> for the latest in politics by the way, go to cnnpolitics.com for all the most important and best political coverage out there. coming up, the latest in the war against isis. turkey now joining in the fray and it could be a game changer potentially. what this means for the u.s. the allies and a whole lot more in this war against isis. it wouldn't make sense if you turned on something in one room and it turned on everywhere else. but that's exactly how traditional cooling and heating systems work. so you pay more than you should.

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president obama didn't miss an opportunity today to defend his administration's nuclear deal with iran. congress was given 60 days to review the deal and the secretary of state john kerry says it would be embarrassing for lawmakers to reject it. president obama believes it's the best chance to stop're from getting a nuclear weapon. >> there's a reason why 99% of the world thinks this is a good deal. it's because it's a good deal. there's a reason why the overwhelming majority of nuclear scientists and nonproliferation experts think it's a good deal. because it's a good deal. it accomplishes our goal which is making sure iran does not have a nuclear weapon. in fact it accomplishes that goal better than any alternative that has been suggested. >> the united nations security council has already endorsed the deal with iran. they voted unanimously at the u.n. security council in favor

of the deal. nato ministers are set to meet tuesday after turkey called for emergency talks. the turkish government says it plans to address its growing security threat. turkey has ramped up its efforts to fight terrorists launching air strikes on isis positions in syria and bombing kurdish positions in northern iraq. it comes during a wave of violence in turkey. joining us is barbara starr, michael weiss the author of "isis, inside the army of terror." nick, what kind of security threat in turkey right now, what kind of threat is it facing or how significant are these latest turkish moves. >> it changes the dynamic in northern syria and in southern turkey irreversibly. the you areky has long been accused of sitting on the fence not getting involved in the u.s. coalition against isis. perhaps some say because it's

worried about what it may see in the months ahead, that's retaliation against targets in southern turkey. one attack like that initiated the attacks as well but those critics of the turkish government say they've been soft on isis because they've wanted to see them in play against their other adversary who they're also bombing here, the kurds. this is where it gets complex. the kurds are, in fact fighting isis and assisting coalition air power and strikes against isis but they're the enemies or certain parts of the kurds are enemies of turkey. the kurds and isis arresting over a thousand we're now hearing in sweeps across southern turkey. and with this desire to meet at nato and express its concerns and hear offers of support from other members, too, massively widening its involvement here, potentially dragging in further resources from nato and i think there are many looking at this and the potential cause for both american and turkish officials for a chunk of the border along

southern turkey in northern syria to be turned into a safe zone. unclear how that's really going to work. massively changing the dynamic in northern syria. this is the beginning of a new chapter, zbloflwolf. >> barbara the fact that turkey will finally allow the u.s. to use the f-16s to launch air strikes from the incirlik air base other air bases against targets in syria, what are officials saying about that? >> well from the u.s. military point of view it gives them a good deal of additional flexibility. they're that much closer to targets in northern syria, in northern iraq. that means warplanes can stay up longer they can stay on station, they can look for additional targets and they can strike more. all of that is translating into what everybody is now talking about, this new isis-free area on the ground. by all accounts a very narrow strip along the border. not a no-fly zone but if you have u.s. warplanes up there

it's just that much more ability to keep an eye on the border and try and keep both the rebel fighters and civilians safe from isis. but i have to tell you, wolf, the pentagon today very much scrambling to keep up with all of this and try and explain what is in play here. president obama and the turkish leader agreed to a framework to talk about it, to discuss cooperation. now it's up to both militaries to atry and put detail to all of that. it's a great idea in the view of the pentagon they haven't figured out how to make it work. >> very quickly barbara, i know the u.s. is pleased that turkey is launching strikes against isis in syria but what's the u.s. reaction to turkey launching strikes against kurdish positions in northern iraq and elsewhere? >> you know as nick was just saying very complex. you have two groups of kurds. one called the pkk in northern iraq, a terrorist organization. the u.s. has called for them to renounce violence and the turks

have been striking them. the u.s. pretty much would like to stay out of that. they want to keep focusing on isis. but the kurds known by their translated name, the ypg, these are the most capable fighters in northern syria that have been pushing isis back. that have been having success in putting isis elements on their heels in northern syria. so the u.s. doesn't want to do anything to lessen the support for that group of kurds in northern syria because they think they're effective against isis. how this will all sort out with the turks, what exactly the turks will let those u.s. warplanes do still remains to be seen wolf. >> michael weiss, give us perspective on what's going on. as barbara and nick pointed out, it gets complex over there. >> look the pyd -- the pyd is

the syrian arm of the kurdistan workers party which is a terrorist organization. so what you have wolf, is this operation inherent resolve consists of the u.s. providing close air support to a turkish designated terrorist organization which turkey is bombing alongside isis which that syrian affiliate has been at war with. i mean this is something out of "alice in wonderland" truly. the u.s. concern is look at the way the messageing has been going on. turkey came out straight away after it suffered the worst terrorist attack on its soil at the hands of an isis affiliate and said look, the u.s. has agreed to give us a no-fly zone. pentagon state department officials are quick to down play that and say we have absolutely nothing like that in the cards but we are considering a so-called safe zone. the question is safe from whom? we are billing this -- meaning the united states -- as isis-free. turkey means not just isis-free,

assad free and, no doubt, kurd free or at least to prevent what is their greatest national security fear the establishment of roe java the syrian statelet that could well be creeping up on the northern border as the pyd has been so successful. so ankara and washington are still at cross purposes and i think they're trying to split the difference. we're giving them something in exchange for them giving usair base which is will put u.s. aircraft only 250 miles away from isis' de facto capital. now compare that to the 1200 miles u.s. bombers and drones have had to fly from either aircraft carriers in the persian gulf or other bases in the middle east. i think the turks will try to get the most out of it themselves. >> thanks very much for the latest developments michael weiss, barbara starr, nick paton walsh. a horrific tragedy from gun violence in the united states is now crashing into the politics of the 2016 presidential contest. controversial comments from

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mike huckabee wasn't the only candidate making eye raising comments over the weekend. fellow candidate rick perry spoke to jake tapper about the tragic shooting in lafayette, louisiana. he said there's no reason to ban guns from places like theaters. >> these concepts of gun-free zones are a bad idea. i think you allow the citizens of this country who have been appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded know how to handle and use firearms to carry them.

>> funeral services for two victims of the theater shooting mayci breaux and jillian johnson are being held in louisiana. mark kelly is joining us, a former space shuttle commander and his wife, the former u.s. congresswoman gabrielle giffords is -- was wounded in an incident injured severely, the co-founder of americans for responsible solutions. captain kelly, thanks for joining us. i want to get your quick reaction to what we just heard from former governor rick perry of texas. >> wolf i've flown in combat more than 30 times. i've been shot at a lot, it's not what people expect. i would suspect if you have a dark theater with multiple individuals, even people that think of themselves as the good guy with the gun and one person starts shooting and then there are others and instead of -- in this case instead of two dead individuals, you know maybe that's four or maybe that's ten.

just consider how difficult the police have in handling somebody with a firearm. how often the police make mistakes. i appreciate that governor perry thinks that maybe under some circumstances this could help. but the majority of the time i don't know everybody is clint eastwood. hard to understand, where to point the gun, who you're shooting at. and often i think we'd see more bodies. bodies. >> what do you think about the shooter had mental problems was convicted of criminal things yet he can go ahead in alabama and buy this .40 caliber handgun. >> well my reaction is the same as other times that this

happened. we have a background system where you could literally drive a truck through it. 40% of all gun sales are done without background checks and in a case like this individual who should have failed the background check, often you see their information has not been shared with the state which then goes to the national instant criminal background check system. so we have holes in the system but we know that the system works a lot of times. we've stopped over 1.7 million felons from getting a gun when they failed a background check. why do we allow them to go somewhere else. so if we don't make changes in our laws -- and i appreciate governor bobby jindal who after this said we really need to make sure that people like this can't get guns and all states should be looking at their background check systems. so i'd be -- as an organization i'd love to partner with him and figure out how we can make this better in the state of louisiana. >> are you going to reach out directly to him? >> yeah yeah. we'll do that. >> and to others as well who you think may be beginning to come around a little bit to your

perspective? >> well we've been working -- currently we're working in 12 different states. we have a lot of work we do in washington, d.c. but around the country in a dozen different states we've helped pass strengthened background checks in eight different states and it's something we continue to work on. background checks gun trafficking is another major issue. how we deal with domestic abusers and domestic violence and stalking. we're not 15 to 20 times worse than any other industrialized country for just one or two reasons. it's complex but over time and with some common sense laws we can make our country safer from this gun violence. >> mark kelly, thanks very much for joining us. >> you're welcome, wolf. up next, the u.s. automaker is facing a massive fine after mishandling years of recalls on millions of vehicles. we'll have details coming up.

it's been a very rough day for investors in china. the shanghai index, the chinese equivalent of the dow jones plunged 8.5%. the biggest one-day drop since 2007 and with such an influential market dropping that much it will be felt around the world. let's bring in paul la monica from new york. he's cnn money's digital correspondent. china's markets have been struggling for a while now. the chinese government has put a lot of effort to into making sure they didn't fall off a cliff. what's going on? >> what's going on is that it appears there's renewed skipped schism about the help of china's economy because you had lousy profit reports. that seems to be scaring investors. chinese stock market have rebounded in the past week or so because of the big steps the chinese government is taken to prop up the stock market and stem the leading but now it

looks like everybody is worried once again. >> what about the markets here in the u.s.? how are they doing today? >> fortunately the markets in the u.s. are not down that much but the bad news is they're down again and this is often a bad week last week so the trend for the past week or so has been having stocks in the red and they're following china down today. >> dow jones down 140 points. fiat chrysler has been slapped with a record $105 million fine. u.s. federal safety regulators say the automaker mishandled 23 recalls involving some 11 million vehicles. our government regulation correspondent rene marsh is with us right now, has the latest on what's going on. huge numbers. >> this is huge. federal regulators are coming out hard against the auto maker saying it failed in several ways. it failed to protect american drivers, regulators also say it failed to come up with effective remedies to fix defects on its

vehicles and it failed to give the government information it needed to make sure that drivers were safe. now, this is a record fine. $105 million. this stems from the mishandling of 23 recalls involving 11 million vehicles which included but not limited to the jeep grand cherokee 1993 to 2007. the jeep's faulty gas tanks, they had this potential leaking that could cause a fiery explosion if there was a rare impact. now people who own those cars they can trade in the suv for above-market value or they can get cash to fix it. also owners with vehicles that have defective suspension part which is can lead to loss of control of the vehicle. they can now sell their vehicle back to fiat chrysler. besides the hefty fine, we know chrysler will be under the watch of a third party auditor. so that is something else that

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the world. earlier today, cnn received a really special honor. the u.s. secretary of state recognized cnn for its critically important work shining its light on international human trafficking. >> closer to home from the united states mr. tony maddox. mr. maddox we congratulate you for your sustained campaign to raise public awareness and understanding of human trafficking on a global scale. your advocacy on behalf of victims and dedication to ensuring that survivors and trar. >> tony maddox our cnn managing director is joining us now. he spearheaded our freedom project. he's joining us from the state department. congratulations to you and all of our cnn team that began this froj equity five years ago.

for those around the world who are not familiar with what we are trying to do give us a brief update. >> we decided that we could use resources to highlight levels of slavery and human trafficking. just like five years ago, i don't think this story was as mainstream as it is now. to shine the light on the stories, distribute to over 250 countries around the world, take into account our websites and the audiences that we have the domestic audiences that we have and we realize that if we were to tap into the great work that was being done we could really make a difference. we just put the word out to staff and talk about the freedom project. i expect about 30 people to come to the first meeting. we had around 100. the next one had over 200. it's absolutely remarkable the extent that people have taken this on board. you and i have worked on cnn for

a long time wolf. it's important to some people and not so much to others. but not this one. they have experienced nothing but goodwill and support and that's a key reason why we have the recognition for cnn that we've got today. it's very humbling and we're also very proud. >> all of us are extremely proud of what our entire team has been doing led by you. five years later, our network has done over 400 investigative stories from dozens of countries and crews and correspondents around the world have been involved and, get this as you well know more than 1,000 survivors have received assistance. millions of dollars have been raised. so here's the question. where does this project go from here? >> well i think we're really just getting started. i think everybody recognizes that human trafficking and slavery is something that everybody can take action on. these things often feel a long way away. we have the recent documentary that jada pinkett smith

highlighted it inside the u.s. but also in the choices that we make the products that we consume and places that we travel and behaviors that we do. when you have a choice that can really impact on how this dreadful evil wicked business develops. bus after all is said and done it's still a business. and if a customer decides to turn away from that business then it will impact that business in a negative way. we want to keep shining the light on that and also highlighting the successes, there are a number of people that do extraordinary work and before cnn got behind the project and they were the vital people. the people i was on stage with today, their stories bring tears to your eyes. you realize the chances that they are making and really really fundamental change that they are affecting. we want to continue to work with those groups. we're just getting started on

this. >> and it's a problem, human trafficking, that doesn't just exist in one part of the world. it exists all over the world, right? >> it does. one of the ways i got into this story, i was taking my son to college and we were driving from atlanta to savannah and alongside auto shops and fast food outlets, they were advertising thai massage, an asian massage and young girls. and i thought, how could young asian women possibly find themselves in that place at that time? it's well worth investigating. and the people who choose to use those services need to think about that. who are the people who they are visiting? what circumstances have been kept and are they consenting to that? from the back of that we've been able to build it into something that is truly global but also personal as well.

individuals can make a difference here. we're going to keep bringing these stories to them to help them do that. >> are these world leaders, they know about this crisis involving human trafficking. are they doing enough? >> that depends on the country and many of the countries that human trafficking is a really big problem are failing countries, they are failing states and it's a question of priority. some of these countries don't put enough high priority on this and we believe when cnn as well as anyone wolf when cnn decides to look at a story, that will attract world leaders' interests so we can use a cnn effect to say, we're highlighting this. what are you doing about it? if you want to be a player on the world stage, what are you doing about this problem? >> tony maddox, thank you for leading this project for us. we're proud of what we've achieved. there's a lot more that needs to be done. i think i speak for all of us when i say we're only just beginning. thank you very much. >> thank you, wolf.

thank you for talking to me. >> to learn more about the efforts to fight human trafficking, go to cnn.com/freedomproject. cnn.com/freedomproject. before i let you go i need to reflect on the passing of one of my producers, joe connelly passed away suddenly over the weekend. he joined this network almost 20 years ago. he worked with me and i got to know him very well. i learned that i could always rely on him 100%. joe was an inspiration to all of us. he simply had it all. he was smart, dedicated, funny, humble. and someone who any of us could talk to about the news or life in general. he was a very dear friend and a loss that we will feel for a long time. our deepest condolences to his wife lisa and joe's family. he was only 52 years old.

that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. for our international viewers "amanpour" is coming up next and for our viewers in north america, "newsroom" starts right now. wolf thank you so much. i'm brooke baldwin. even while traveling in africa it's clear that president obama is paying close to the race for the candidate who may secede him. mike huckabee talked about signing the deal with iran and a holocaust reference has caused quite a stir. we'll get into that. also it adds to the raw