>> one of the great inventions in history is called tivo. tivo. >> jeanne moos, cnn. >> tivo, tivo. >> new york. [ laughter ] >> it was the last shot that made it. thanks for watching. anderson starts now. good evening. we left you last night with the image of a father and young daughter face down in the water on the u.s. mexico border. tonight, we've just gotten another reminder of the human tragedy taking place there and runs as deep as the rio grand and as wide as the political differences over what to do about it. flows with tears as this new video shows. the bodies of that father oscar martinez and his daughter being put into a hurst in the border city of mexico.

angie only 23 months old when she and her father drowned. that photo of her bodies in the river, her arm around her father shocked not just this country but the entire region and added a new urgency at addressing some of the problems facing migrants and border enforcement alike. we'll have more on that shortly. we begin on the banks of the rio grande and learning more about them and spoke to the photographer who took that photo. michael, the picture is obviously horrific and sickening and heartbreaking. what have you learned about exactly what happened to this father and his daughter? >> reporter: yeah, just such a horrible story, isn't it, anderson? they came here looking for a better life for the family. they went up to try to apply for asylum. the place was closed, that's what happened. they got inpatient and came down here and walk along the river. according to oscar ra mi ra mir

wife. he got i'm patient. he goes across and starts to come back because he wants to get his wife and take her over. the daughter panics and gets in the river. he goes back to try to save her. these currents are much worse than they look. they got swept up in them and right here behind me is where those bodies ended up and where that photograph was taken. it's interesting just in the last hour, a lady came down, a local put that rose right there and said a prayer and crossed herself to mark the loss of these people. just such a staggering tragedy. >> i mean, from this vantage point and you know, i've talked about this before. the river there seems -- it doesn't look all that rough but obviously, it's deceptive? >> reporter: yeah, we're talking to locals about that because you're right. there is a current going down

here and you can see the vegetation going by. the locals say you got to get underneath that. it's uneven underneath and a lot of rips. you can walk across here and lose your footing and your feet get taken by the strength of what is going on underneath the surface and be pulled down and swept down very easily. so yeah, looks are deceptive. it looks like you can get across easy. it's not that easy especially if you can't swim well. >> you spoke to the photographer that took that picture that's been seen around the world. what did she tell you? >> reporter: yeah, she's a vibrant lady. she's also furious. she's photographed 25 bodies along the rio grand. she's aware of the significance of the photo she took and the significance it's taken on but says that is not enough. have a listen. [speaking foreign language].

>> translator: this is happening on the boarder of mexico and the u.s. and this should be an issue to debate and for the two governments to ask themselves, what are we doing for the immigrants or why in the middle of despair a father and head of a family doesn't care on risking his life and daughter's life to make it to the other side thinking he will find a better future only to find death. at what point do you lose your capacity as a father to protect your child? at what point crossing and being on the other side matter sos mu -- matters so much you risk even dying. >> reporter: that is the desperation there she's referring to. it would appear oscar ramirez was a migrant and we were on the boarder a couple weeks ago and spoke to many people who literally were fearing for their lives. notices pinned on their front

door saying get out or you're all dead. a lot of those people are making this jourp knney for a reason. they aren't doing this because they nez sarnecessarily want to home. >> yesterday there was a conditions children are living under at holding facilities. there was reports of no soap, toothbrushes or opportunities to bathe for the kids held there. authorities give nick valenciac now. what was it like? >> reporter: it's important to start out saying when these legal monitors visited the station last week, there was 250 children inside. today, there is 117 so i can't imagine 100 more children being housed until the areas thi housed in the areas we saw. they were urged into an area

with food, ramin needles and juice and we saw a total of nine cells, several of them over capacity and we're talking about between 20 and 24 child migrants being held in these cells with big glass windows that look out towards the processing center but no windows to look outdoors. looking at these children in custody, some of them looked like they had been through the worst days of their lives. they looked dishevelled perhaps wearing some of the same clothes they crossed in and some children had bloodshot eyes, one child had yellow eyes and app r appeared to be sick. there was another child quarantined because of the flu. some children were being forced to sleep on the floor on these one-inch-thick blue padded mattresses. the children when i looked at them were passing and braiding their hair passin time. we weren't allowed to talk to any of the child migrants but i tried to make eye contact and give them a thumbs up or thumbs down sign and i got a couple

shoulder slhrugs. we got to a part, this is where they are holding the teenage boys. a group of five children between 7 and 10 years old were playing soccer that they said they provided the soccer ball. it's important one of the more shocking things i saw and heard, i asked how much access do they have to the bathroom? there was an outside area with seven portable bathrooms for the young teenage boys. they said they have to draw chips from a bucket and if there are no chips left, they can't go to the bathroom. that's how they hold lines or access. it was heartbreaking to see this, to see these conditions. probably the most heartbreaking thing i heard is a teenage girl on a land line phone calls back home to give proof of life to her family, calling them. i over heard her say in spanish she's still alive. anderson? >> it sounds like they, i mean,

i assume they cleaned up the detention center a bit. obviously, there is fewer children there than there were when others went last week. did you get a chance to ask the authorities, you know, any questions about this? about them cleaning it up or about do they have access to soap? do they have access to tooth paste? >> well, i asked, you know, if they had cleaned up especially cleaned up for the tour. they said no. i can say that the facility smelled clean, sterile, almost like a hospital. we saw toothbrushes being put out. when we walked into the port area, there was a box of toothbrushes, single use with some small kind of fluoride gel pack they use for tooth paste. i didn't see soap. we saw a ready supply room half way full. they said there were other storage areas where there were more supplies but we weren't allowed to see that and it's worth noting, there so evis ano

building we weren't allowed to see. that facility or area of this facility is currently shut down and we were allowed to see every child migrant they had in custody currently. >> nick valencia, appreciate it. another view from someone that's been to the facilities and accounted it played a part in a making this a national story. director of the immigrant rights clinic at colombia university law school here in new york and we're glad to have her on the broadcast. professor, thanks for being with us. when you hear what nick is saying, what do you make of what his account is versus what you saw just a week ago. >> right. so when we arrived at the facility last monday morning, we were told by cbp officials and lawyers there were more than 350 children detained at that facility which has a capacity for just over 100 and designed for adults and not children. >> is that the same facility nick is at? >> exactly in clint, texas. we demanded an inspection of the

entire facility. we wanted a tour. and cbp flatly rejeked our requests. >> on what grounds would they not let you, if there is nothing to hide, would they not let you go around? >> if there is nothing to hide, why not let us inspect? i did monitoring visits before and in all of my previous visits, i have been able to go on tours and tours were made available to inspectors like me. >> i mean, it's odd i guess that it's after basically a -- when were you there? >> last week monday through wednesday. >> so it's basically been about a week there is fewer children although you're saying more -- it's still over capacity and clearly, now they feel comfortable enough for whatever reason to show a limited -- report es limers limited access >> right and it's easy to put out tooth brushes and offering a soccer ball after having days to

clean up in response to outrage from americans about the conditio conditions. >> you're part of a lawsuit over the detention of these kids. what are you seeking? >> so the lawsuit is about to be filed. we are seeking a temporary restraining order requiring that a public health expert has access to all of this cbp facilities where immigrant children are being held. we want that expert to have access and power to order remediations so that the facilities are safe and sanitary. we want independent doctors to have access to the facility and triage emergency medical needs. we also want children to be released from these facilities as quickly as possible as required by law and finally, we're seeking to hold the government in contempt. two years ago, the federal court found these same violations of

the flores agreement and instead of improving conditions two years later we're seeing things as worse as they have ever been. >> i don't understand a lack of soap and toothbrushes which is what the reports were last week. i mean, you told me before that we went on air the federal government actually argued in court. what was their position? >> the position of the department of justice of the united states of america is that safe and sanitary conditions does not require the government -- means that the government is not required to provide soap, toothbrushes, tooth paste or beds for children to sleep in. this is what doj lawyer sarah fabian argued before the ninth circuit court of appeals last tuesday. >> you can have safe and sanitary conditions for children without soap or at that time bru -- toothbrushes or beds. >> exactly. >> that's extraordinarily. >> it is shocking. it is shocking. that is the government's

official position. >> i mean -- >> we saw the consequences of that when we went to clint. >> it reminds you of decades ago when administration was talking at ketchup is a vegetable, that seems gracious by comparison to this, you can have sanitary conditions without giving kids soap and the ability to bathe. >> especially when there is a flu epidemic in the facility and a lice infestation. the previous week my colleagues went to mcallen and investigated the conditions there. the team of doctors and lawyers who went there found five babies so sick they needed immediate hospitalization, all five of those babies were admitted to the nicu. over the last year, there are been multiple reports of children dying in federal immigration custody and this compared with a decade previously of no reported deaths of children in federal immigration custody. >> appreciate you being with us and we'll keep following this.

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tonight. it's really something. "the washington post" reporting federal asylum officers, the people carrying out the president's policy have just asked a federal court to end it. they say the policy of forcing migrants to remain in mexico while awaiting immigration court hearing is putting their lives at risk. these are federal asylum officers alcohchallenging their policy calling it fund mentally contrary to the nation and international and domestic obligations. that's on top of the breaking news made by our guest in the last seg tment that says attorns

are asking for a restraining order in the class action lawsuit on behalf of children in federal immigration custody. attorneys are seeking access for a public health expert to inspect all cpb facilities for doctors to see children there. the release of certain categories of kids and for the government to be held in contempt. also breaking, house and senate border bills are on the table so the question now is what if anything will happen next. that and of course how critically the president likes to invoke the idea the entire solved in a 45-minute uld be - negotiation he sometimes says 15 minutes, sometimes he says instantly like he did on twitter today. the reality is this is embroiled in a political process during on election year. there is another factor, human beings dying and many more suffering, many children whether it's risking their lives in the rio grande or trying to sleep with the lights on 24 hours a day in detention facilities or back in central american countries living in fear of gangs and getting killed which

is driving people to risk the river because they believe it's better than the alternative. that's the reality in the political arena. i want to talk about it with chris coons and a member of the senate foreign affairs committee. senator coons, i want to get your reaction from "the washington post" about personnel who are actually asylum officers saying the policy has to change. >> well, i think those asylum officers are advocating for the core values of the country. we have signed laws and international treaties in this country that say when people are fleeing violence and persecution, they have to have a chance to present themselves in our country and seek asylum rather than being held off from entering the country and forced to another in another country. i think the riveting, the heartbreaking story of oscar ma

t martinez ramirez and her daughter that drowned attempting to reach our country has got a lot of attention the last few days and everyone should take a moment to think about the d desperation that must have been in their hearts to risk their lives and lose their lives trying to come this to country. i hope folks that reflect on that desperation will recognize these asylum officers are making a claim that is rooted in the best traditions of our country. >> it's extraordinary to hear asylum officers, you know, speaking out against the policy that they are being asked to execute and should be pointed out is a different policy than previously that this administration made it tougher in many ways to apply for asylum. the criteria of what you -- why you have left, that, too, has been made tougher. >> that's right. we've seen two things change. you know, first is that this

administration has frozen or cut back on funding that the previous administration had invested in stabilizing the three northern triangle countries, honduras, guatemala and el salvador and contributed to a sense of hopelessness and increased violence and disorganization in those countries that has driven more parents to come here. they have also made the standards for applying for asylum in h dothis country and method where and how and difficult in a number of ways and your previous guest pointed out painfully, we've now got government lawyers arguing that safe and sanitary conditions for children in our government's custody don't include things like beds, soap, tooth paste, tooth brushes. we're in an "alice in wonderland" world where those

fleeing percent kurgs are being turned on their head. >> giving kids soap and the ability to clean themselves prevents the spread of disease, prevents kids from ending up in a hospital that will be paid by taxpayers many that's -- i mean, if that's the only concern you have even on that basis, it makes no sense to not have soap and toothbrushes for children. just in terms of what's going on in congress right now, speaker pelosi told her caucus while the senate bill was good and house bill is better, is she right? >> she is. we took up both bills today in the senate. first we considered the house bill which they had passed and sent over to us. i voted for it. most of my colleagues voted for it but many republicans voted against it. and it did not pass. we then took up the senate version that came out of our committee, the appropriations committee and voted for that as well and it passed. there is a few key differences, anderson, the most important one is that the house version has

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and they had texts back and forth. >> how come we haven't seen it all? you gave william barr -- >> he terminated the emails illegally. he terminated all of the stuff between them. robert mueller terminated their text he messages together. he terminated them. they are gone. and that's illegal. he -- that's a crime. >> so just reality check, fact check, mueller had nothing to do with any of that. the idea that he terminated these messages and inspector general's report in december blamed various technical reasons that existed across the fbi, not like it was just those text messages and president trump claiming they were terminated just not the case. some were recovered and made public. joining me now is garrett graph, cnn contributor and author of

"the threat matrix" and jeffrey toobin and rick santorum, the political commentator. so jeff, the president saying these things now, i guess, you know, we can only imagine what they say next month when mueller is on television even if it's just repeating what is in the mueller report. >> i'm sure it's going to be more of the same but i just think it's worth pausing for a second to point out that the president of the united states in this interview accused robert mueller of committing crimes of committing crimes in a furry of lies. everything the president said was a lie about mueller and, you know, we shrug our shoulders the same way when a woman accused him after rape, i don't know, maybe it happened. this is sort of what our national dialogue has degenerated into and i just hope we have n't entirely lost our

capacity for outrage? >> have we? were you concerned about the president accusing or not accusing but saying robert mueller committed a crime? >> yeah, i don't think we've lost our capacity for outrage but we've lost some of the energy behind the outrage because it is a constant drum beat. i've said it many times. i think this president would -- should be 20 points ahead of anybody in the election now and would be based on the policies and what his administration has done but he's not 20 points ahead because of incidents like we've seen on this radio interview. it's -- yeah, i wish i could say that it's going to change. it's not. but it's -- i think it has -- it continues to have a lot of people in this country very disturbed. >> disturbed. to jeff's point, it's bizarre, it does seem like this is just

what -- it's easy to say this is just what he does but i mean, he was just lying and now accusing mueller of a crime. like what -- it's -- i hate to compare it to like some desk bot but that's what they do. they lie and accuse people of crimes. >> and i think that's what we're going to continue to see over the next three weeks which is donald trump is legitimately terrified of what robert mueller is going to go before capitol hill and say even if he's just reading his existing report. his existing report is pretty devastating for the president. and donald trump's goal over the next three weeks is going to be to muddy that water as much as possible which is what he's been doing for the last two years throughout this investigation. >> do you know more about mueller and everything he said and read it all, you think mueller is basically going to stick to as much as possible just what is in the report because obviously, republicans

on the committee are going to try to, you know, move this in all sorts of directions. >> yeah. i'm sure he will feel the variety of questions. mueller is an experienced pros k -- prosecutor and cross-examined a lot of people more talented than the house judiciary and intelligence and this is a case where even just mueller speaking the words of his own report allowed, carry a lot of weight which we saw in his very brief statement where he basically came out and said, you know, america i wrote it all down for you, could you at least do me the favor of reading it now? and that was for many people the first time they actually learned just how devastating some of what robert mueller had gathered was really for the president. >> senator, the vast majority of americans have not read the mueller report and jay swouldn' say whether the president

himself has read it. it would be surprising if he read the single space typed. is this -- shouldn't this be a welcome opportunity to have mueller layout the facts on television? >> no, this is -- look, give bob mueller credit. he's been a workhorse through the process. he's been diligent. they put a lot of time and energy in producing the report and house democrats want to turn him into a show horse and have him go and prance around and make accusations and saying things that are in the report but the reality is, the public knows what's in the report. they know the sum and sum. no, they don't know 430 whatever pages but they know the substance of whatever is in the report and having bob mueller say it again and again, the democrats think it will spark some sort of outrage for impeachment. i just think and this is why the president is frustrated is because they won't let go. they won't accept the fact that

the american public moved on and they haven't. >> jeff? has the american public moved on? >> i hesitate to speak for the entire american public. i think the job of congress is to exercise oversight on the executive branch. and we now have a major report that says the president of the united states committed serious crimes in office. that's -- and i -- you know, it seems to me so obvious that the democrats should simply say should you -- can you tell us about the crimes the president committed? and then let him talk about don mcgahn, the former white house counsel and evidence in it. you know, will that spark impeachment? i doubt it. will it change public opinion? i doubt it. i think congress has a job to do regardless of what the polls are and this is a very serious matter. >> jeff toobin, garrett graph, senator sthank you. our political team weighs in

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trump and able to take him on more than anybody else. are they going to talk about more -- they can't all just be talking about donald trump tonight. >> no, they can't but first of all, this is like probably the most consequence speed dating episode in terms of everybody will get such a short period of time. they have to make it count. elizabeth warren is important because she did something different. she said i'm not going to spend my time talking to rich donors. i'm going to spend my time -- i'm not going to talk to any of them. i'll talk to ordinary people. her message is different not because she's the best speaker but listener in this party and you're going to see that tonight. she knows how to deliver these plans and stuff and usually really wonky stuff. she can make that stuff sing. she's going to have a great opportunity tonight. you got eat evother people if t don't perform, they are done. you will never see them again. so tonight, you know, beto, live or die for beto tonight.

cory booker, he's somebody, everybody has such high expectations for. he's probably the most likely to have a breakout moment but if she doesn't, you want somebody who has a great future behind him. the only veteran i believe on that stage with this march to war, she does have an opportunity to speak. she's a peace candidate in a country that forgot we're in a war. so she could have a moment tonight. but look, i've been very sad about this migrant stuff but i'm -- tonight we finally get a chance to hear these people talk about ideas and solutions. i'm fired up. >> it is -- when you start to see people on a stage together, it does change how you see them even when we have that town hall meeting with back to back. >> where they started responding to each other but not next to each other. this is a turning point. no doubt. it's also coming just days before the second fundraising quarter closes. we are at a real pivot point in this race. there has been sort of the

preliminaries for the first six months. people introducing themselves getting out there and now comes the contact sport in this and so, you know, van is right. the window is closing. this is -- the most crowded field in the history so the window is closing for the great majority of the people across these two nights of debating and they got to make the time they have no matter how limited it is count for something and it doesn't have to be a viral moment. i don't expect that there will be knock down dragout bunches. the goal here if you talk to a bunch of these campaigns is give democratic voters something that they go google later. they are like that's interesting. maybe i'll give $5 to the candidate or search more of what that person said. it's that introduction and giving democrats something to grab on to. >> each one of them is being told or has been told, are you going to look for that little breakout? that's the word. have a breakout moment, not necessarily viral. you have to have something that says i'm different from the rest

of these people or i've got a sense of humor, maybe. i'm quick on my feet. maybe. something like that. you've got a bunch of people here tonight who are from the congress and they are not very good at short and humor so we'll see. >> do you -- van, do you envision them going after each other in any way or at this stage, is there -- >> no, i think delany will. because elizabeth warren is such -- she's just the massive star of the night. she's center stage. it could not have worked out better. she slipped on banana peels early. the grit, determination and character, she's center stage. >> she is -- i've only -- you see her on tv. i've seen her in a room. she's very good in a room. >> very good in a room and under estimated but you start to see why did donald trump want to knock her off? why would the pocahontas? why? why? she's the other popular.

she's going to have her moment. you have to have somebody try to get some elevation by going after her. >> congressman ryan, maybe. >> yeah, say listen, you're going too far. i know the heartland of this country. you're going to lose. i'm the guy. people will try to come after her but, you know, from my point of view she's the person to watch not just tonight but going forward. >> we're going to talk to them and others tonight at 11:00 p.m. for a special post debate program. stay up with us. still ahead right now another public beef with another high-profile athlete. the back and forth between president trump and soccer star megan rapinoe. corner of your growing business. from using feedback to innovate... to introducing products faster... to managing website inventory...

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cup, megan rapinoe said i'm not going to the f 'in white house if we win. the president said megan should never disrespect our country, the white house or our flag, especially since so much has been done for her or the team. be proud of the flag that you wear. the usa is doing great. i guess nobody should be surprised he responded and turned it around and made it about the flag but you don't have to respond to everything. although i got to say you kind of respond to everything on twitter. >> that's not true. that's not fair. and i'm not president of the united states. >> that is true. >> he is the biggest man in the room and never acts like it.

everything about his behavior is anathema to being the biggest man in the room. he respond to every threat. rapinoe has a legitimate gripe about her rights. why don't the nba players come in they haven't because they believe this president represents things that are bad for them. she feels the same way. he wants to respond, that's on him, she has the same right. >> what do you got tonight? >> huge. look, the debate is on when i'm on. my feeling is if you've got political fatigue, you don't want to watch, fine. i'm not going to cover politics when the debate is on. if you want to watch politics, there it is. we're doing the whole hour on

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time now for the ridiculous. the president is playing one of his favorite games. >> i name is trump. >> the game, where you deal for everything you wanted to own. it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you win. >> no, no, it's not that old new gym, trump the game. it's an older game he's played for decades, though now that he's president, he's playing it way more than he ever has. it's sort of like that game where you pick petals off a floor and saying you love me, you love me not? it's more like saying i don't like him and saying he's a loser. the president is distancing himself from someone he put in

office, jerome powell. here's the president today making his morning zoo crew call to fox business. >> we have a man that doesn't do anything for us. nobody ever heard of him before and now i made him and he wants to show how tough he is, okay? >> so, first of all, just consider the fact that it's now normal for the president of the united states to routinely call in to morning shows and play skeet shoot with the american economy. also consider what the president said about mr. powell when he himself nominated powell. the president sang his praises, the same guy the president now says no one has ever heard of him. >> jay has earned the respect and at dmiration of his colleags and respect of congress straight across party lines. he's strong, he's committed, he's smart. >> wow. kind of seems like people had heard of him, congress, his colleagues. if the president's approach to

the federal reserve is seeming like a boot leg version of monopoly and the president insists on being the car and you don't trust him to be the banker or real estate broker, you might be on to something. >> my new game is trump, the game trump. >> where you deal for everything you ever wanted to own. it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you win. >> yes! >> yes! losers! >> i know i already played that but only losers play it once. who among us doesn't recall rainy afternoons spent with your sib blinlings playing trump the? when you won, you scream at your dad, "you're a loser," you too, mom. in terms of who the president allegedly does or doesn't know, he couldn't even keep is straight in the quaint old days when he was pretending to be his

own publicist. >> he treats everybody well. he's a good guy and he's not going to hurt anybody. >> yeah, that was citizen donald trump posing as himself fictional publicist, john miller, not to be confused with his other fictional publicist john baron. that was not part of his board game or a verse of "eyes wide shut" it was how he rolled in the game of life back then. remember when the president nominated matt whitaker to be acting attorney general? it seems like a long time ago. this is what he said in october before he nominated him and then shortly after november. >> i can tell you matt whitaker's a great guy. i know mat whitaker. >> i don't know matt whitaker. >> what? it was a month apart. not even. i don't -- i think both weren't true. you know, he does have the best memory. he himself has admitted that. i know that was hard to pull out of him but he finally admitted

he has the best memory so how to explain this des krep iscrepanc. the president has known everyone until it becomes inconvenient and if they don't like it, tough luck. they can take it up with him or john miller or john baron on the ridiculist. i'm going to hand it over to chris cuomo. >> thank you, my friend. welcome to a special primetime report. if you have some political fatigue and you're not going to watch the debate, give me an hour of your time, please. we're going to confront something that is wildly important, the most ignored kind of illness in our society is also the most prevalent, and it is mental illness. one in four ofs