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this is a server that was in her home is she durning over anything helelse? >> it was in chappaqua, new york, when she was first becoming secretary of state. her advisors said she should have a private e-mail server. so she's turning that over and she's turned over a flash drive that has copies of all these other e-mails she had. this is something her attorney has been holding on to. it's something that have been so reluctant to surrender. we saw her say at the u.n. at this press conference in march 10, we both were there and she said "i am not turning over this private server." well, a lot has happened since then which led us to this point right now. >> we may not know the answer, i'm curious. are these pdfs on these flash drives or the actual e-mails? we're not sure, right? >> sounds like they are copies of e-mails. we have both waded through these copies that they've released bit by bit. >> so you have this e-mail controversy that's been
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following her throughout this campaign especially when potential voters are asked about trust. we've seen that, now she's trailing bernie sanders in new hampshire. sanders sits at 44%, clinton at 3% in this franklin pierce university and "boston herald" poll. how much do you think politics is playing into this decision to turn over the server? >> i think at least somewhat. there's no question the clinton campaign miscalculated how big of an issue this would be. is her trust and credibility numbers have fallen since she got into the race. that's been helped along by so much criticism of this. republicans have been piling on without a doubt but their refusal to cooperate with these things has played a role in this. so the clinton campaign says they are turning this over now because the justice department asked them to and they're more comfortable giving it to the justice department and fbi rather than one of these house committees controlled by republicans. the thing at issue here is the feds want to look at this server
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to see how it was protected, how it was secured if anyone could have breached it at any point but more importantly as well the inspector general of the intelligence community says that two of these e-mails at least were top secret. they weren't at the time. >> the highest classification, right? >> the highest classification of anything in the intelligence community so now they're labelled top secret. her defense is it was not classified at the time, just became top secret after the fact. but that's one issue will stick with her and it will ensure that this goes on and on and on throughout certainly the fall and i would guess into next year. >> thanks for breaking that down, jeff, very helpful, jeff zeleny for us. let's look at a monmouth university poll onner, the mail issue. 38% say hillary clinton has something to hide. look at the breakdown by party affiliation. 68% are republicans and 41% of independents but only 8% of democrats who think there is something to hide. that is a considerable difference. the e-mails are connected to the
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investigation into benghazi. earlier i spoke with congressman trey gowdy, the chairman of the house select committee on benghazi. >> chairman gowdy, i want to get your reaction to the decision by the former secretary of state hillary clinton to turn over her private e-mail server to the justice department. what do you think about this? >> about damn time was my initial reaction. we asked her in march to turn that server over to a neutral detached independent arbitor like the inspector general. i can't help but smile at the notion somebody is voluntarily turning something over to the fbi. they generally don't ask. they generally tell you to do so and i doubt very seriously that they asked her to turn her server over. if they have jurisdiction, they don't need to ask, they go get it. >> hillary clinton this week certified under penalty of perjury that she has turned over all of the e-mails related to her time at the state department do you take her at that word?
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>> well, i read that statement and it's easier to read egyptian hieroglyphics than it is to parse the words that her lawyer wrote in that statement. wherever you see the frayed "on information and belief" that should be a blinking red light for you to be suspicious of it. >> what do you mean that? on information and belief she believes this to be true. so explain to me -- with the legal perspective here, explain your concerns about that. >> i'll be happy to. did she go through the e-mails? of the 60,000 e-mails did she go through each one of them and separate them personal versus public record? no? her attorney did it. her attorney who has a fiduciary and ethical obligation to her, not the taxpayer, not the public but to her. so how in the world can she aver that the public record is complete when she herself did not go through and look at each
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one of those e-mails. we found 15 that she did not turn over to the state department so we know for a fact that that statement is not correct. remember the 15, the nine in whole and the six in part that sidney blumenthal gave to us that the state department never had? where are those? how did her lawyer miss those 15? so no i don't believe the statement. but statement wasn't to me, it was to a federal judge and i'll let him or her handle that. >> we've seen certainly some of the requests go from benghazi. there seems to be a concern about libya in general beginning with the invasion by the u.s. and its allies. is it committee expanding its purpose to include clinton's e-mail practices or just as they pertain to other issues you're interested in? >> just as it pertains to making sure the public record is complete with report to libya and benghazi.
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i have no jurisdiction over low li -- bolivia, i'm not interested in bridesmaids dresses or yoga routines. it's not my business and it's not my jurisdiction. but i am entitle to every document that relates to libya and benghazi and what our policy was in libya and whether anti-western sentiment contributed to the attack or a spontaneous reaction to a video as we were told at one point. i'm entitled to all those records and how in the world we can be assured that the public record is complete given this e-mail arrangement she had with herself, as curious as it was, that's going to be the challenge. >> i asked you that because a lot of democrats who support hillary clinton look at the committee and they say there's been mission creep on the goal of your committee. what do you say to that? >> i would say they need to look no further than their own putative 2016 candidate. i didn't advise her to have her
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own server or to rely on sidney blumenthal as her primary adviser on libya. i didn't advise her to keep her public records for 20 months after she separated from service and not turn them over to the department of state. i didn't advise her to say the record is complete and we find 15 e-mails where they weren't and i didn't advise her to say there's to classified information on the server when we know now that there was classified information on the server. so i get they're frustrated. i get they're disappointed her polling numbers are almost adds low as congress's but they need to look no further than her. they don't need to blame the republicans in the house. we're doing what we were supposed to do and i hasten to add, those other committees that looked at benghazi, not a single damn one of them figured out she had this e-mail arrangement with herself. so those investigations must not have been as thorough as we were led to believe. >> are you casting doubt on the findings, then? the other committees that found no issue with benghazi or
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certainly no coverup? >> give me a finding. those are two separate things. give me a finding you think a previous committee found and tell me whether or not they talked to every eyewitness who would have access to information. i can tell you they didn't. we have talked to 34 witnesses who have firsthand knowledge that no other committee talked to. so how in the world could the previous informations be complete when you're not talking to eyewitnesses, you're not accessing the documents and you haven't even bothered to talk to the secretary of state who was in charge at the time. how that is a complete thorough investigation into benghazi it would be laughed out of court and it ought to be laughed out of the court of public opinion. >> but you're raising questions about republican findings, too, right? >> that just proves how bipartisan i am, brianna. yes. republicans can run slip shot investigations just like anyone else can. >> trey gowdy there. we talked to him earlier.
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back to our top story, the decision by presidential candidate hillary clinton to turn over her home-based private e-mail server, the one she used while she was secretary of state. her spokesman says clinton will cooperate with the justice department and will answer any new questions that come up. joining me to talk about this is democratic strategist matt miller and probably you don't work for the campaign but it's best to describe you as a friend of the campaign, just putting that out there. you heard chairman gowdy say he has doubts that hillary clinton voluntarily turned over her server as her campaign says. what can you say to that? >> first of all you have to look at where chairman gowdy is coming from. he's chair of a committee that
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is the seventh or eighth -- >> but did she turn it over voluntarily or compelled to? >> she did turn it over voluntarily. >> she wasn't compelled? >> no, it's consistent what she's done since this issue came to light when she went to the state department and asked for her e-mails to be made public, something unprecedented in the history of senior cabinet officials. >> she had set before the server will remain private. now she's turning over the server. >> i think what happened when you see this bureaucratic wrangling between the state department and the inspector general at the -- for the intelligence community who said some of these e-mails might be classified, something which we don't know is true yet, the justice department had the responsibility, they were kind of jammed, i think, a little bit. >> but hasn't the inspector general for the intel community said that one of these e-mails -- didn't he tell congress one of the e-mails was classified at the time, may have been declassifiedeclassified.
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doesn't what run counter what she she said? >> i think anyone who works in the state department will tell you the intelligence community for all the good they do have a long history of claiming things are classified that aren't necessarily classified. they'll often tell you things you've read in the paper a week ago are still classified. it's not unusual for them to do this and the state department says they don't agree the information in these e-mails was classified. >> so i've heard this before, this argument about overclassification for sure. this is something that is discuss discussed the issue of these e-mails being top secret, is the argument that these were deemed top secret after they were sent or received? >> well, what we know, secretary clinton has said she never sent or received any e-mail that was marked secret, top secret, confidential, classified in any way at time. there's been no information to the contrary. now the inspector general has come back and said after the
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fact that this information was classified. but the state department disagrees with that. if you remember what happened when the senate -- the intelligence committee report was released, it took a year of wrangling between the intelligence community and the committee over what ought to be classified. so this is -- falls in line with what the intelligence community has long done. >> we see a new monmouth university poll that says 52% of americans think hillary clinton's e-mails should be the subject of a criminal investigation. this is a problem for the campaign and people who support hillary clinton. >> well, first of all, i worked at the justice department, the justice department doesn't make investigative decisions based on polls or what partisan members of congress say. >> but you have a plit l a background as well so i'm asking you about the politics of this. >> as people look more at this and see things like the interrue you just had with chairman gowdy really going overboard,
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demanding -- going far beyond the scope of his original investigation, turning it into a full witch-hunt, they'll see this for what it is, which is something blown out of proportion and pursued by republicans as a partisan agenda. >> so are there questions merited about the e-mail practice? >> of course. and i think the press has been right to ask those questions. i think some of it has been blown out of proportion but she answers those questions and continues to answer that. she is making voluntarily those e-mails public. something that is unprecedented. i don't think you could go back and find another cabinet secretary of either administration, either state, treasury, attorneys general who have volunteered to release their e-mails and i doubt any of the republicans who hold office would voluntarily release any of their e-mails. >> matt miller, appreciate it. still ahead, world markets in turmoil. the shock move by china that has stocks in a triple digit tumble.
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we are watching wall street right now. stocks have been volatile. there's a -- here's a live look at the big board. you see the dow jones there down about 103/102 now. huge slide coming after china cut the value of its currency, the yuan, for the second straight day. sent global markets into a tail spin. here to break it down is richard quest, the host of "quest means business." explain this to us, richard, why china's move is roiling the markets. >> most obvious ly and the simpe answer is the question of exto rts. any company, particularly in the united states, whether it's a boeing or a general electric or
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any company doing business with china will now see its products as more expensive and that will reduce the opportunity for exports going to china. of course it will greatly increase the opportunity in the opposite direction so chinese imports -- chinese exports to the rest of the world look that much better. but there's something else going on here, brianna, it's too simplistic, just to simply say this is about trade imports and exports. what's behind it is the chinese determination to get to grips, manipulate, whatever you want to call it their economy to put it back on to a former footing. they say to do this they need to make the yuan more realistically valued. that's what this does. >> what can you tell us about the u.s. companies that have been particularly is hard hit by this. >> it's fascinating. although you have the obvious candidates, you do have the bowings of this world that sell huge amounts into china.
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the other side, let's taken a apple. apple is a fascinating example. it goes both ways because obviously its source is in china, it exports from china therefore it should benefit to some extent from this currency devaluation with. but it also sends products back into china. so it's on both sides of the equation and when you see that sort of scenario you really are left with just simply saying uncertainty. we know the stock market's in trouble. we know there's property problems in china. the banking community, will show what's happening and they will save 7%. put all this together, with the moves we've just seen and you have investors saying we're not sure. >> well, some observers are talking about a currency war. do you think that's real? >> well, wherever a large trader
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devalues it's called a beggar thy neighbor policy and it works purely and simply. that's why not many countries do it because it really is a race to the bottom. and we're seeing it with australia new zealand columbia, brazil, you'll see all these other countries wonder whether they should let their currencies depreciate because they have such business with china. it's a very dangerous road a start down. one final point to make here, though, is whilst the doctor has devalued -- remember, currency is a frighteningly complicated stuff when you look at it at a global scale. while the dollar has devalued, the euro has gone up against the chinese currency. so you have these two massive trading partners absolutely at loggerheads and that's where you worry about a currency war. >> you're the best richard, thanks for breaking it down and
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to keep up with the work markets head to cnn money.com. still ahead, jeb bush's speech on iraq and isis. he took swings at president obama and hillary clinton and he barely mentioned his own brother. is that strategy going to work? plus, sensitivity to light and sound. excedrin migraine. wow, that was fast.
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jeb bush blames hillary clinton and the obama administration for the rise of isis and he outlines his strategy for defeating the terrorist group. he called for establishing a no-fly zone over syria, defeating the regime of syrian president bashar al assad, and embedding u.s. troops with iraqi forces. he says pulling u.s. forces out
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of iraq gave isis an opening. >> that premature withdrawal was the fatal error, creating the void that isis moved in to fill and that iran has exploited to the full as well. isis grew while the united states disengaged from the middle east and ignored the threat. and where was the secretary of state? where was secretary of state clinton in all of this? like the president himself, she had opposed the surge then joined in claiming credit for its success. then stood by as that hard-won victory by american and allied forces was thrown away. in all of her record-setting travels she stopped by iraq exactly once. >> let's bring in cnn senior political analyst david gergen and cnn political commentator and bush supporter ana navarro. so, david, this was a big speech. jeb bush's first major foreign policy speech of his campaign. how effective was it.
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>> it's getting lost in the stories but i think it's an important speech. it's being seen through a political lens ultimately. we'll look at it more substantive purposes. but politically there are two things that were smart about it. one, he picked a fight hillary clinton and not donald trump. there have been arguing that people on the republican side ought to go after trump. this was much smarter because you go after trump, it doesn't work for anybody, you keep him in the center of the story. this puts bush back in the center of the story. secondly the republicans are doing everything they can to undermine hillary clinton's chief claim to the white house and that is her time as secretary of state and, of course, the e-mail server story is playing right into the republicans' hands on that. that being said there's a considerable question among a lot of voters about -- excuse me? you're going to take on the iraq war and only blame president obama for how he got out of it? i think there are -- among foreign policy experts there is a lot of thinking that jeb bush
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is basically right on holding obama partly to blame but should not then give a free pass to his brother who actually got us into the war. and that's, i think -- that's where i think he's playing with fire. >> ana, both the obama administration and the clinton campaign reject this idea that they're responsible for the rise of isis. not surprisingly you have clinton's top policy advisor who says "this is a pretty bold attempt to rewrite history and reassign responsibility." and in a briefing back in may josh earnist said "we know isil was an outgrowth of al qaeda in iraq that did not exist prior to the fateful decision made by the previous administration to launch an invasion of that country and that is also a relevant fact." how tricky is this if jeb bush given his brother's decision to invade iraq and what you just heard david say there? >> well, look, i think it's tricky for jeb bush but i also think it's tricky for hillary clinton. the bottom line is that while
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jeb bush was governor of the state of florida and dealing with things like manatees and citrus kacanker, she was a u.s. senator who had access and saw the intelligence and heard classified reports on this issue and who voted for the war in iraq. so it's a tricky issue for both. it's smart for jeb to lead and be proactive bringing it up because it's going to come up. it's going to be part of this campaign. we've already seen it play a big role in some interviews. i think it makes sense for what was an important line in that speech which said rushing out of danger is just as bad as rushing into danger. i think that was an acknowledgment that both things were bad but what's getting lost in this blame game is the fact that he laid out specific proposals for how to deal with isis, how to deal with syria
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sand thank god for that. thank god that somebody is talking about the serious issues affecting the united states and our national security and we're not talking about the daily episode of the political mellow dr drama telenovella going on as the trump turns. >> david, some of those specific policies that he outlined for defeating isis, some of them are things the obama administration is already doing. do you think jeb bush drew enough distinction here between him and president obama/hillary clinton? >> well, i do. and i think he ought to avoid trying to make extreme changes in policy that will only give -- i think this was a more muscular speech than we have seen and a more muscular set of policies than we've seen from the obama administration about how to handle isis. and to integrate our special
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forces much more into the iraqi forces, take the fight to the enemy, no-fly zone in syria would be new. there are several things here that would go beyond where the administration has been and some of them -- hillary clinton was on the side as secretary of state of really beefing up our effort in syria and here's jeb bush coming along saying "well, we want to go beyond where obama has been." but i want to go back to the central political problem. there is such a thing -- there's a saying in leadership, when you have a problem, put a lantern on your problem. andn what that means is knowing that you have a problem as he done with iraq and his brother, fit a light on it, try to take a liability and turn it into an asset. on that point i think ana's got -- he's trying to take what could be a serious liability and turn it against hillary clinton if he can. we'll have to see if he gets away with it. i will tell you, the initial reaction of most people is going
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to be okay, it's fair to go after clinton but if you'll be honest you have to acknowledge your brother made mistakes. >> david gergen, ana navarro, thanks so much for that conversation. and for the latest in politics and all the presidential contenders check out cnnpolitics.com. ment. coming up, what's behind the massive appeal of bernie sanders and donald trump? will huge crowds and strong polls actually translate into votes? stay with us. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla's prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients.
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they are on opposite ends of the political spectrum but donald trump and bernie sanders are defying expectations in the polls. sanders leads hillary clinton in a new poll from new hampshire. trump is at the top of the republican field in national polls. not surprisingly he took aim after a sanders rally was taken over by activists. >> i would never give up my microphone. i thought that was disgusting. that showed such weakness. the way he was taken away by two young women. the microphone. they just took the whole place over. that will never happen with me. i don't know if i'll do the fighting myself or if other people will. that was a disgrace. i felt badly for him. but it showed he's weak. he's getting thes biest crowds and i'm getting the biggest crowds. we're the two getting the crowds. believe me, that won't happen to trump. >> well, let's bring in cnn politics senior reporter steven
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collins in and senior political reporter nia-malika henderson. nia, i mean, what do you make of these comments. >> it's hilarious. i don't know if i believe donald trump that he felt badly for bernie sanders when that black lives matter crowd -- protest movement took over his rally but sanders is attracting these huge crowds. over the last seven days it's been something like 100,000 people have shown up for these rallies. a lot of the attention and vibrancy of the democratic party is with bernie sanders. he's very much a movement candidate. he talks about taking out the billionaire class. it's sort of ironic, or maybe not, that you have this billionaire populous in donald trump and the populous on the other hand who wants to take down the billionaire class and that would be sanders. >> it's interesting. let's look at these poll numbers, they are fascinating, out of new hampshire. this is a franklin pierce
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university/boston "herald" poll and look at that. 44% sanders, 37% clinton and the margin of error is 4.7 points. so he's according to this poll beating her in new hampshire. this is huge. >> very interesting, new hampshire, of course, has always been a good place for the clintons. it was a firewall for them. bill clinton was the comeback kid there in '92. it was the place where hillary clinton won after she lost iowa to barack obama. >> both unexpected, kind of. >> right. having said that, if there was a place where bernie sanders could challenge hillary clinton it would be new hampshire. it's very close to vermont. he's known throughout the state. the burlington, vermont, media market bleeds over to new hampshire so he's well known. look at the demographics of new hampshire. he's -- it's on the democratic side it's an elderly perhaps older electorate, almost exclusively white. there are a lot of senior progressives there. that's exactly bernie sanders'
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demographic. that's why he can compete in new hampshire and may not be as much of a threat to hillary clinton in a bigger state where the electorate is more diverse, you need much more money to compete in multiple media markets. this is a sweet spot for him. >> that's right. if people expect that bernie sanders will win states, maybe new hampshire, maybe iowa. it would not make sense if hillary clinton was to run the board and win all of these states but democratic candidates haven't been able to do that. >> it didn't save her in 2008, though. she won new hampshire after being bested third place in iowa. >> but she has a different coalition now. she has the obama coalition. she's this firewall of african-american voters, that firewall of latino voters so they're very much competing for different crowds and i think they would look at a state like south carolina to see how bernie sanders would do down there. he's supposed to go down in the next couple weeks. >> maybe it doesn't matter as much as someone might think looking at new hampshire. but it would sting in you're hillary clinton. >> and especially hillary
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clinton is not doing as well as some people expected in iowa so if she were to lose iowa where bernie sanders has been getting good crowds and move to new hampshire it might cause a few worries and concern. >> you wrote a piece for cnn.com and asked a great question. can trump turn poll numbers into vote. i think you could ask the same question about bernie sanders. can trump turn poll numbers into votes. >> we'll see. moest pundits thought his campaign had imploded already. he's defied expectations again and again. so it's incumbent upon us to ask is donald trump for real? can he sustain this over the long term. it's six months before voters start going to the polls in iowa and new hampshire. is donald trump -- is his machinery going to be able to build a get out the vote operation, for example. is he going to need to have -- despite his vast wealth, will he raise money to do protective advertising? is he prepared to do the boring
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things that history shows you need to do to win an election? nobody's won the presidency using the tactics that donald trump is using right now. >> organization is the key, right? >> that's right. and that's something that hillary talks about, too, and that's what she's focused on and why she says oh, don't focus on the crowds and the media buzz. >> don't worry, i have this in iowa was her message. >> right. it's a boring thing you can see on the ground there. but you wonder, does donald trump show up to the iowa state fair and eat the fries snickers or whatever? we'll have to see. or in new hampshire, any of these states or does she just run this social media living off the land campaign and draw on his own bank account? >> we'll figure out if it works. nia, thanks so much. steven, appreciate it. republican presidential candidate john kasich has picked up a key supporter -- republican operative tom wrath joins the new hampshire campaign as senior national advisor and co-chair. he's a former gop committeeman and state attorney general. he previously backed mitt romney and he served as national advisor to george w. bush's
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presidential campaign. a new poll in the first in the nation primary state shows a post-debate bump in support for the ohio governor. cnn's dana bash sitting down with john kasich later today. that interview will hair in "the situation room" at 5:00 p.m. eastern. just ahead, china may be one of the world's biggest economies but it has a growing problem. we'll have a live report on the thousands of special needs children being left to fend for themselves.
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at the time there were 17 on bolder. all were rescued. china is home to a rapidly growing population of unwanted special needs kids. one case that attracted headlines was a baby pulled from a public toilet in beijing. that baby is out of the hospital. we're joined now live from beijing. i believe that baby was a healthy baby correct me if i'm wrong but it illuminates the issue of special needs kids being abandoned. >> exactly right. that's why we started looking into this. we wanted to know what happens next for this little baby who was left by her mother in a public toilet rescued by police and we were told she will be heading to a chinese orphanage will she will join sadly hundreds of thousands other orphans in this country who have been cast away.
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these are the faces of china's most vulnerable. surviving in a system overwhelmed. abandoned children like the newborn police pulled from a public toilet last week. her mother, long gone. the little girl likely becoming yet another chinese orphan. jaja's parents abandoned him outside a fertility clinic. he was 3 months old. surgery left him bar liparalyze the waist down. >> you lived here nine years. >> the oldest of 23 orphans, jaja is the big brother. no parents here. ♪ yes, jesus loves me >> only staff and volunteers like christina weaver. >> they don't deserve this kind of life. >> china's hundreds of foster
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homes are no longer full of healthy girls as they were at the height of the one child policy. today nearly all of china's unwanted children have disabilities. >> when i look in the their eyes i see stories, sadness and hurt. >> welfare experts say it lacks a social safety net resulting in hundreds of thousands of orphans. >> how big is this problem? >> huge. >> associate director says many parents can't afford to care for kids with special needs. >> it's very, very hard to find a family for jaja. we waited for nine years. he waited nine years. >> a family that promised to adopt him backed out. many of his friends found homes and move i away. now finally an american family is filing paperwork to adopt jaja. >> a mom, three sisters and grandparents. >> wow. that's a big family.
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>> the wilsons are trying to raise $36,000 in adoption costs. if i have parents he says i can live, i can have a life. jaja's new life is still likely months away. an eternity for a young boy waiting nine years for a family. suddenly no more words. only tears. pain felt by far too many children abandoned. >> it's okay. >> desperate to find parents. to have homes. to be loved. >> that's what really haunts me about this story is that jaja is not unique in china. we could have done a story about every single orphan in this foster home that would have been just as emotional. since we aired his story on cnn this is the go fund me page that his family set up after they received hundreds of e-mails from all over the world.
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in one day they raised $41,041. they exceeded the amount of money to cover the adoption fees and they say they're going to donate any excess funds to try to help some of the other children also find homes. >> that is so wonderful to see that, will. he's just one child and you see so many in need. i understand that there was this problem with abandoned children and chinese officials would open what they call baby hatches, places where people could turn in unwanted babies. many with these special needs. and many of them have overflowed right? there's been overcapacity? >> yeah. the chinese government started opening up these baby hatches five years ago because so many parents were leaving their children and they didn't have a place to leave them safely. so there were kids in trash bins.
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there was another incident in 2013 where a child was flushed down the toilet. the mother claimed it was an accident. and kids left in the streets or hospitals or in a fertility clinic. this one baby hatch that cnn profiled last year, in the first 11 days there were 106 babies, so many they had to turn parents away. what this says is that even though china has this new found warmth they don't have a welfare system in place. if they were to try to care for those kids they would be even more destitute and poverty stricken. these parents have no choice but to give their kids up. they end up in these orphanages, which is an awful situation. i'm glad worked shine a light on it and let the world know there are a lot of children here who need help and their parents and families need help to be able to keep and support them as well. >> it's such an important story.
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thank you so much for bringing it to us here on cnn. this is it for me. i'm back here at 5:00 eastern. in the situation room for international viewers amanpour is next and for our viewers in north america newsroom with brook baldwin starts right now. top of the hour. thank you so much for watching. this is cnn. we begin wefor a race for the white house. president bernie sanders or president donald trump. could the 2016 presidential ticket really come to down to democratic socialist from vermont and a billionaire reality tv star? both of these men now sitting on top of the polls in new hampshire. look for yourself. the critical first in the nation primary. bernie sanders at 44% surging ahead of hillary clinton at 37
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