understanding that everyone's needs are just as essential as yours. the need for healthy living and safety, the need for care and human connection, and the need for a country willing to listen when you say, look at me. i'm here, and i live here, too. the u.s. president is demanding his own investigation. we will tell you what he wants the justice department to look into now. and in the u.s. state of hawaii, massive columns of acid steam as lava from the erupting volcano hits the pacific ocean. why this is causing new concerns for the area there. and the election result in venezuela that surprised nobody. we will look at the political and economic challenges still facing nicolas maduro. >> live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. this is "cnn newsroom."

u.s. president donald trump will officially demand an investigation into whether the fbi spied on his campaign. >> he announced his plans on twitter, and this follows reports that the fbi used a confidential source to ask campaign aides about possible ties to russia. the justice department is already responding. our ryan nobles filed this report. >> reporter: president donald trump busy on twit their weekend, taking aim at the department of justice and the fbi about their conduct in the lead-up to the investigation into his campaign and whether or not that campaign had any ties to russia. the president particularly upset about reports that there was an unknown source who tried to gain access to trump officials and learn information about the trump campaign. the president topping his tweet storm off with this tweet, "i hereby demand and will do so

officially tomorrow -- he was talking about monday -- that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi/doj infiltrated or surveilled the campaign for political purposs s and whether any requests were made by the obama investigation. there is already one under way. the inspector general for the attorney general's office has been looking into whether or not those applications for surveillance of members of the trump team were done so appropriately, and they did respond to the president's tweet on sunday, saying that they're going to expand that investigation to look into whether or not there were any political motivations for asking for those wiretaps, and the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein who is of course in charge of the russia investigation put out the following statement if anyone did infiltrate or surveil

presidential candidates we'll take action quickly. is this more about an effort to discredit robert mueller and his investigation? the president continues to call that a witch-hunt and wants to see it come to an end. of course, we are now just past the one-year anniversary of the launch of that investigation. at this point there is no indication when it's going wrap up. ryan noble, cnn at the white house. >> and steven erlanger joins us now from brussels. he is "the new york times" chief diplomatic correspondent in europe. good to have you with us. >> thanks, rosemary. >> so as we saw in president trump's tweet sunday, he is demanding his own justice department examine whether it or perhaps the fbi spied on the trump campaign for political reasons. what does that signal to you? and what will likely come of all this, do you think? >> well, it signals to me a coming constitutional clash or crisis, which is what a lot of people have worried about for

some time which is that the president is opening himself up again to charges that he is trying to obstruct justice or pressure the justice department into ending its inquiry into the behavior of his campaign, and that has now been broadened to according to a story in our newspaper. there were officials from the middle east, qatar and saudi arabia who also approached mr. trump's son during the campaign, offering various kinds of help. now help from a foreign country is illegal, and paethat's part the problem with the russia investigation too. mr. trump obviously wants it over with. his spokesman and lawyer mr. giuliani says he wants it over with before the midterm elections. i'm sure mr. trump would love to go into the midterm election was a big banner saying i'm cleared. but i'm not sure mueller is

going to be done with what he is trying to do by then. that's to me what it is about. it's about the president trying to intimidate the justice department into ending the inquiry into his own campaign before the elections. >> right. and i want to get on to that in just a moment. but first, we are asking whether the justice department asked its inspector general to expand its review to try to determine whether there was any impropriety of political motivation on the part of the fbi. where is that going, do you think? >> that seemed like a defensive move on the part of the justice department. they are doing this inquiry, they're trying to pacify the president by simply saying, you know, we'll expand the inquiry into this new complaint that you have, and it is interesting that the fbi would have chosen this

academic whose name we have chosen to conceal but you can look into it easily from earlier charges from the australian ambassador in britain that the russians were involved with a couple of young members of the trump campaign team. now why they chose this person and underground he was is a question, and also it's a question, you know, mr. trump allegations that this was done for political purposes. i imagine the fbi would say we were trying to figure out the nature of russian collusion. but it should be remembered that it was the fbi and the justice department under mr. comey who were digging into the trump campaign very early on the basis of this early knowledge, but never talked about it before the election. they suppressed it. >> right. >> and it was the clinton e-mail

scandal that came public. so in a way, mr. trump's cam planing about the justice department which in the end i think without meaning to aided his campaign rather than mrs. clinton's. >> right. i do want to go become to that point you raised about president trump's attorney, rudy giuliani. he said special counsel robert mueller could end his investigation of trump by september 1 if the president agrees to an interview. and he said the office shared its timeline with him about a month ago. how likely is that? how likely it is that mr. trump would agree to such an interview to bring this to a close? >> well, it would bring one part of it to a close, which was the president's own possible culpability, which i've always wondered about. i don't -- i'm not sure it ever got up that high. but it's also not clear mr. trump will testify. i mean, his lawyers who have now quit, most of them, quit because

they wanted him not to testify. and they thought he would open himself up to more vulnerability if he did so, not necessarily proved wrongdoing, but that mueller's investigation but that mr. trump could speak through his lawyers. trump wants to do it. he says he wants to do it. and giuliani is not sure which way to go. so, yeah, it could be mr. trump sits down with mr. mueller. the part involving the president himself could be over, it's possible. but there is a lot more to the investigation, and it will keep going into the campaign itself. >> right. all right, steven erlanger, thank you so much for your analysis. well appreciate it. >> thanks, rosemary. now to the u.s. state of texas. santa fe, texas is in mourning and new details are coming to

surface about a deadly school shooting. the sheriff says the entire incident lasted about half an hour, including the 25-minute shoot-out between the gunman and police. >> the teenaged suspect eventually gave himself up after allegedly killing eight students and two teachers. on sunday, a memorial service was held for the victims. and as it began, a rainbow appeared above the church. cnn's rosa flores has more details now from santa fe. >> reporter: we are finally learning more details about what happened inside santa fe high school during the shooting. now here is what we know from the galveston county sheriff. he says the shooting happened for about 30 minutes. four minutes into the shooting, he said that that's when officers engaged with the accused shooter. then he says that there was a 25-minute gun battle. so process this with me for a moment. inside santa fe high school, in the area where the shooting

happened, which he says happened in the art lab section of the school, there was a gun battle with crossfire between the shooter and police. now the obvious question here is were all ten people who died shot by the accused shooter? when we asked the sheriff that question, he said that we would not know the answer to that question until the medical examiner completed and finalized all of the autopsies. now from the probable cause document, we know that the shooter surrounded after that and that he told officers that he spared some students because he liked them and he was hoping that they would tell his story. rosa flores, cnn, santa fe, texas. >> and two attorneys are representing the teenaged suspect. they say they've only met with him briefly so far. >> they spoke with cnn's erica hill. >> we've had brief, brief

visitations with our client. 2:two 30-minute visitations. he hasn't been able to answer the questions. >> has he been responsive? are you engaging in conversation with him? >> we have had conversations, but we're telling him what he needs to do right now to get through the next few days. we're not asking him probing questions at this point. >> at this point we don't have the information with which to even start asking those questions. this happening on a friday and then a weekend where the information flow is really just what's in the media, nothing from the state. once we start to begin that discovery process we can start asking more intelligent questions. >> have you spoken with investigators at all? >> we've spoken to the d.a. >> we've spoken to the district attorney's office. >> the first assistant. >> so everything at this point has to wait until monday? >> it's going to wait until monday. >> a lot of this is based in the affidavit. in that affidavit, your client reportedly confessed to

shootinshoot ing and we're going to hear multiple people with the intent to kill. as he confirmed that? >> he has not confirmed that. and at this point we don't have the information to confirm what's in the pc affidavit. >> also in that affidavit is he intentionally spared people he, quote, liked. so he could tell his story. >> same answer. well don't know at this point if that is accurate or not. >> erica hill there on the story. a pakistani exchange student was one killed in the shooting. er body is being flown back home for burial. houston's islamic study stepped in and organized the transport home and a funeral prayer service at a mosque near santa fe sunday for the 17-year-old. her american host family was among those in mourning at the service. >> i started school, i didn't know anybody. i wasn't -- i didn't previously go to santa fe.

and it was very hard for me. and because i didn't know anything. and i met sabica, and she didn't know anyone either. and we both became very close. and she was the most beautiful, loving person i've ever met. >> and the victims of the shooting are being remembered outside texas as well. at sunday night's billboard music awards, host kelly clarkson opened the show with an emotional plea for an end to gun violence. listen. >> why don't we do a moment of action. why don't we do a moment of change. why don't we change what's happening. we're failing our children. we're failing our communities. we're failing their families. i have four children. i can not imagine getting that

phone call or that knock on the door. so instead of a moment of silence, i want to respect them and honor them with tonight, yule, in your community, where you live, your friends, everybody, let's have a moment of action. let's have a moment of change. >> clarkson herself a native texan. me as well. i have to say a lot of people in that state talking about this issue. the governor of the state, greg abbott, wants to hold several days of conversation to talk about what can be done to stop things like this. the question, though, rosemary, will the topic of gun violence and gun control come into -- >> is it likely for the state of texas? >> we'll see how that plays out. >> all right. let's take a very short break. still coming up, new danger from hawaii's kilauea volcano. why geologists in hawaii are urging people to stay away from parts of the ocean now. plus many venezuelans are struggling to find food, to find medicine, but president nicolas maduro, he has been reelected. how he is managing to stay in

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we're following the situation in the u.s. state of hawaii. the kilauea volcano is opening up more rifts along the east coast of the big island there. just look at those plumes coming out of the ground there, spewing lava bombs into the air, destroying homes in its path. and that's not all. >> take a look at this. rivers of moulton lava dumping into the pacific ocean. it is a spectacular sight. but authorities are urging people to stay away from it. that is because the steam clouds that are released into the air are filled with extremely dangerous acidic gas and debris. our stephanie elam explains. >> reporter: two heads of lava that were flowing to the ocean came together as one and breck apart, and they did enter the ocean, but the u.s. coast guard is asking people to stay away by about a thousand feet and a 360-degree radius and that is because of when the lava hits the ocean, it creates

hydrochloric acid, and little small particles of glass that can cause irritation to the eyes, the skin, the lungs. they're asking people to stay away. i want to show you what that lava looks like on land. take a look at this lava fountain that has been bubbling nonstop here. we can see from there, it oozes down into this black sea of lava that goes down towards the ocean. we know that there are a couple structures taken out by this flow as well as this has been bubbling up. it's been raining here all day, and that has no effect whatsoever on the lava that is flowing here. and beyond that, on the other side of me, there is a fissure, which sometimes you may be able to hear in the background from where i am, it's about a mile away. and that fissure, when the volcanic gases come erupting out of there, sometimes it feels like it is a jet engine right next to you or a plane taking off. other times it sounds like a cannon. one shot up rock and debris several hundred feet into the air that is another concern as we know that one man was hit by

a lava bomb as he was on his balcony. we understand that his leg is shattered. they're asking residents to be very vigilant as this is a very active eruption, and it doesn't seem to be ending any time soon. back to you. >> stephanie elam there in pohoa, hawaii. let's talk more about this with ken rubin. ken the chair of the department of geology and geo physics at the university of hawaii, live for us from honolulu at this hour. these images just are incredible, just to see the power of the earth playing right out in front of your eyes. let's take full inventory of what we're seeing here, the dangers. first, the free-flowing lava carving out a path of destruction, prompting evacuations. not to mention the noxious gases associated with it all. >> yes, so kilauea is a often accessible volcano. it's easy for people to get to, and it's a quite dangerous volcano.

the intensity of lava flow has really picked up in the last day and a half or so, which means that there is more lava coming out and it's moving more quickly. it's more fluid. and this presents various kinds of hazards. there has also been an increase in the suffer dioxide gas coming out by something of a factor of two or three and several of these fissures, this is associated with what we believe is a different pulse of magma coming down the red zone from the source further upslope and feeding a new type of lava, magma into the areas that is producing these much more vigorous lava flow. >> we heard this from stephanie a moment ago, but as the lava reaches the ocean there is this danger of lays, sending acid into the sky with steam and glass particles. >> that's one of several hazards at the ocean entry.

during the last 35 years of volcanic activity at kilauea, roughly half of the time there has been lava flowing into the sea, and the production of this noxious gas which basically comes from dehydration of seawater and the small particles are formed when the rock interacts with the steam that is produced in this process, breathing that in is quite hazardous there is also scalding hot water. the water very close to the ocean entry is very warm, and the land that is formed during this process, we call it the lava delta, tends to be very instable and can break off without any warning and cause waves of hot water to wash back up on the shore. it's very important that people stay away from that area. it's very dynamic and very dangerous. >> and you know the question, will there be any more explosions, as we've seen? so obviously we'll have to keep a very close watch on this. ken, thank you so much for your time. ken ruben, and we'll stay in touch with you.

>> aloha. >> aloha. >> all right. so let's get more now from our meteorologist pedram javaheri. pedram, we can't labor enough how critical it is that people stay away from this lava as it meets the ocean. and what are the consequences of all of this? and how long is this all going to go on for? >> that's the million dollar question, right? this is such a multidimensional and such a dynamic event taking shape. we've got multiple events in one. we've got the vog, the volcanic ash, the acid rain we've seen in recent days. now the lays, which is the lava and the haze. and images like this, this is the spatter we've seen, some of the debris that can travel many miles away. that's concerning. the sulfur dioxide levels are trip wrinkle they used to be a couple of days ago that is a concern as well. you see some of the images of residents on their porch.

can you imagine the rumbles you're feeling, what you're seeing, of course what you're smelling? and we know the earthquakes are still continuing on the order of potentially 50 to 100 per day every day or so across this region. so this is certainly a big event taking place across this part of the world. and satellite imagery, a fantastic job putting it in perspective. last night this is what it looked like from space looking down towards this region of areas around kilauea, of course the leilani estates. you look at this as the lava erupts, decimating the communities in its path. of course this is not something that you can stop. it is something you get out of the way. and frankly very little to no chance that you would ever be able to come back and ready in this particular stretch of line. look at this. we're talking a three-mile stretch from fissure number 20 that we've seen the lava flow that has made its way all the way to the ocean. where it collect connects with the ocean, where it enters the water, that's where the lays, the lava/haze sets up shot.

when you talk about hydrochloric acid, a very sharp, irritating odor but highly corrosive as well. if this makes contact with your skin or any materials, there it would instantly destroy that material. and of course this is something you find in batteries. this is used in industrial purposes to melt steel as well and process steel. so it's really an incredible thing taking place here, and very multidimensional. a lot of impacts to be had, and really impossible to tell how long it's going to last. >> wow. unbelievable. the images are extraordinary. thank you so much, pedram. >> thanks, pedram. it is an accusation the u.s. president has made before. but now president trump is planning to demand an official investigation into the russia probe and what he suspects is behind it. an investigation into the investigation, you could say. plus the u.s. and china have come to an agreement on trade, and we will have the details and a look of what it means for the economies of both countries. back in just a moment. my day starts well before i'm even in the kitchen.

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from the kilauea volcano. it's crossed a highway and spilled into the ocean now. officials are warning people to stay away. they say the lava creates a steam cloud of hydrochloric acid and particles of glass when it hits the water. sulfur dioxide emissions have tripl tripled. one man was injured when a chunk of lava hit his leg. president trump is launching a new attack. he wants an investigation into whether the fbi spied on his presidential campaign for political purposes. >> let's now bring in steve moore. steve a cnn law enforcement contributor and former fbi supervisory agent. steve, it's always a pleasure to have you on the show. let's start by reminding everyone what mr. trump tweeted earlier, quote, i hereby demand and will do so officially tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi/doj infiltrate order surveilled the trump campaign for political purposes, and if

any such demands or requests were made by people within the obama administration. steve, this comes after reports that the fbi sent in a confidential source to speak with some aides to the trump campaign to find out about possible ties to russia. what do you make of the president's latest declaration? >> well, again, i don't think this is necessarily the place -- twitter is the place to make those kind of accusations and demands. if the president has a concern, i think he has the right to talk to the department of justice about it, and the department of justice's answer i believe was just about as perfect as you can get. certainly if -- certainly they're saying that any political interference would be bad, but they're not saying that there is evidence of any. they're just saying if we find any, certainly we'll do something about it. >> mr. trump also says the fbi did this for political reasons. does that seem likely to you? >> you know, they would have to

barrel through so many safeguards. it just doesn't seem applause to believe me. i will say that it's fairly aggressive for my administration, department of justice to direct an informant in the opposite parties' political campaign. however, those are the kind of things agents want to do all the time. not because they're crooked, not because they're politically motivated, but because they see a crime or a potential crime and they want to go after it. so would this be an aggressive action by the fbi? yes. but i see nothing that indicates on the face of it that it was political. >> and certainly that is the implication of coming from president trump given the tweets

that we're seeing. also, the department of justice has asked the inspector general to look into weather political motivations played into how the fbi conducted its counterintelligence investigation. is this significant in your mind or is the doj following mr. trump's direction here? >> i think the doj is following down the line. there is nothing wrong with following up on his allegations, but at the same time, there's no smoking gun here. i mean, yes, the fbi was apparently working a source inside the campaign, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily going to be political. and the way to respond to this is certainly, we will look at it. certainly, if there is an issue, we'll do something about it. but nowhere in their response do they say there is more evidence that this ever occurred. >> steve, one other question. just the optics here. does it look as if the president is using these institutions to

go after political opponents? >> well, isn't it ironic if that's the case that he's saying -- his allegations are that another person used these institutions for political reasons. i am hoping that rosenstein and the department of justice have a -- have a pretty good course here, that they are focused on true north, and they will -- while doing what a president asks, do first and foremost what the american people expect of them. >> steve moore, we always appreciate your type and perspective. thank you. >> thank you. the united states and china have agreed not to engage in a trade war, at least for now. in a joint statement, the two countries announced china would significantly increase its purchases of u.s. goods and services. >> this comes after two days of

trade talks in washington with chinese officials. u.s. plans to send a team to china to hammer out details, which the u.s. treasury secretary spoke about earlier. listen. >> we're putting the trades war on hold. so right now we have agreed to put the tariffs on hold while we try to execute the framework. we are immediately going to follow up this with secretary ross going there with very hard commitments in agriculture, where we expect to see a very big increase. 35 to 40% increases in agriculture this year alone, and energy doub energy, doubling the energy purchases. i think you could see $365 billion a year of energy purchases. >> matt rivers joins us from beijing. matt, good to see you. what exactly is china saying about this? and what will its actual commitment likely be in the end? we've heard the expectations

from the u.s. >> well, china presumably is quite pleased. they did issue that joint statement. they are happy with the fact that there is no trade war. they certainly were not in favor of one. they would have stood to be hurt quite severely economically were these billions of dollars in tariffs that are now being delayed if not put off to the side all together. that would have been hurt quite badly by that so overall china is quite happy about this. but when it comes to actually understanding the specifics of this framework -- it's not an agreement yet, it's just a framework -- we don't have a loft agreements. china pledges to significantly buy more american products. what does that mean? is that $50 billion more? is that 200 billion more? how much does that reduce the overall deficit? we don't know that as of yet. the other things the u.s. said china agreed to would be to strengthen protections on technology and agreeing to make structural changes to its economy. what does that mean? does that mean greater market

access for u.s. companies? does that mean strengthened intellectual rights? it could be all of that or none of that. these are the kind of promises the chinese government has made in the past but without any sort of specific trial frame. so when this next round of negotiation happen, rosemary, that's when we'll get more specifics. >> lots of questions. still, as you point out, this puts off a trade war, for now at least. we don't know how long this will last. what will this mean for the economies of both countries? and global markets will be watching this very closely. it will certainly have an impact on whether it will go up or down. >> yeah, presumably a very positive impact given that if the two largest economies in the world are warring with one another, well, that's not going to have a very good impact. i think what you're seeing here and what a lot of people will take heart in is the fact there have been optimistic tones struck by both sides here. let me play you a little bit of sound with the chief trade

negotiator for china during these negotiations. let's show you what he said to state media. >> translator: this round of talks have been pragmatic, fruitful and efficient. we reached many agreements. we resolve some of our misunderstandings from the past. these meetings will not just help bilateral economic and trade relations and build overall ties, it's good for people in both countries. it's also sending a positive signal to the whole world. >> so the people who are nervous about a potential trade war are going to look at stliejts that and take heart in it. but i think what we need the wait for is this going to move in a positive direction away from a trade war is the next round of negotiations. wilbur ross coming to beijing to iron out the details of what this agreement will look like should it move forward. we need the wait for those details to really make any sort of judgment as to the success or failure of these latest rounds of u.s.-china negotiation. >> indeed, you're right. it's raised a lot of hopes but

still a lot of details to learn yet before people get too excited. matt rivers joining us live from beijing where it is 2:40 in the afternoon. many thanks. the facts on the ground in venezuela. people there are hungry. the economy is in collapse. but guess who got reelected? president nicolas maduro secured another term in power. how did he manage to get reelected? we explain as "newsroom" pushes on.

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in venezuela, and as predicted, nicolas maduro has been declared the winner of a contested presidential election, this despite a devastating economic crisis in that nation. officials say that maduro won 68% of the vote. >> the main opposition boycotted sunday's vote, calling it illegitimate, and voter turnout was only 46%. maduro's main opponent henri falcon is demanding a new

election, but president maduro is call it a popular victory. >> translator: today i am a president with more experience. i am a human being more prepared. i swear to you i will fulfill my promise and will dedicate myself entirely to recover the economic growth, to heal our economy, to prosecute criminal mafias. you will see me throughout the country, in the streets to activate the motors of the economy. >> maduro's election, though, comes as many venezuelans are struggling to get basic necessities, things like food and medicine. cnn's paula newton has more. >> reporter: in venezuela now, even the garbage has been ravaged, thoroughly picked over by so many who suffer the indignity of dumpster diving. the imf projects hyperinflation will reach 13,000% this year, a

number so high it's utterly meaningless. the measure of misery now, a venezuelan study shows four of five people live in poverty. many rely on government handouts. carmen says she is poor, thin, and fed up. nothing is normal, she tells me because the little bit of money that we earn is not enough to even buy a half dozen eggs. she asked me any other questions? of course we have more and they're about the election. i would like to see a change, she says, because at this rate we're not going to get anywhere. but even for those who want change in venezuela, there is no raucous resistance, no vows to fight on like last year's opposition protest. things are quiet now. not because anything is any better, but from despair and a crippling fatigue. for many, the election also be an after thought. >> paula newton with that report. and earlier i spoke the

situation in venezuela with brian winter. he is vice president of policy for the americas society and counsel of the americas. and i started by asking him how reliable the results are, given the low voter turnout. >> well, we've known for months now, really, this election was going to be a farce. you have most of the opposition candidates were barred from participating. you had government control of virtually all media, and things got so bad at the end that the government was essentially using food handouts, the promise of those, in order to coerce or coax people to vote. so this was really an election in name only. and the fact that's it now over lets us focus on what's next for venezuela. the only question is, you know, essentially, what the international community does now as a reaction. there is a real chance that president trump may announce new sanctions, perhaps directed at venezuelan oil. and the other big issue right

now in the region is this -- just this torrent of benzian migrants, hungry, unemployed, desperate, sick, pouring over the boarder in places like colombia and brazil and continuing onward through the rest of the hemisphere. and it's -- many of those countries are reaching a breaking point right now. they have absorbed hundreds of thousands of immigrants here over the past couple of months, but they've really reached their point where they can't handle that many more. it's unclear whether the point of rupture will come within venezuela or whether, you know, it will be tent cities alongside the borders or what. but it's just getting increasingly desperate. >> let's just take a look at what the country is dealing with right now. we can bring a graphic up that shows hyperinflation of nearly 14,000%. unemployment as high as 33%. a shortage of food and medication, and a collapsed oil industry. now that is president maduro's

legacy so far. but it's looking like the country will get more of the same going forward since maduro, as you said, is pretty much a sure win here. so what will this mean for venezuela and life in that country, and how will other countries outside of venezuela deal with this and punish venezuela perhaps? >> i mean, certainly the international community hopes that nicolas maduro will do something to at least make the fate and the suffering of his people a little better. but unfortunately there is no indication we've seen over the last two or three years that he is willing to do that. that level of hyperinflation you mentioned, that means that prices are doubling every month, which just boggles the mind. they're introducing a new currency soon. and of course the maduro government says this is all just a conspiracy being put forward or being caused by the country's economic elite as well as the united states, which shows you

he is in a total state of denial about what's causing this. he deny there's is any humanitarian crisis at all, which is one of the reasons why he refuses to accept international humanitarian aid in a country where 3/4 of the population are suffering from hunger right now. >> he is probably isolated from any of the impact of this anyway. what was maduro's main opposition rival henri falcon offering? and why didn't voters get out in force and vote for the alternative rather than abstain in they knew what the outcome would be, but at least have a voice in this? >> right. it's a really good question, and one that a lot of people are asking. and basically, it has to do with the fact that there have been more than a dozen elections going all the way back in the last 20 years since hugo chavez first took power. what you've seen is this gradual erosion of the fairness of those elections and of democracy itself. it's a little like the old peanuts cartoon.

it's a little bit like charlie brown rung up to kick the football and lucy dragging it away at the last minute. basically 80% of the population decided they didn't want to run up and kick the football. there was no reason to believe in any legitimacy to this election. so the overwhelming majority of people in the country decided to just stay home as a measure of their disbelief in the process and also as a sign of protest as well. >> right. brian winter, thank you so much for joining us. we will watch and see what happens next for venezuela. >> thank you. the happily ever after starts now for britain's royal newlyweds. the very latest on prince harry and meghan's fun-filled reception, still ahead. no bars. oh no! when i got unlimited, they told me they were all the same. well, verizon has the largest, most-reliable 4g lte network in america. honey, what if it was just us out here? yeah well, i guess, uh, didn't think about that. verizon did.

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