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scandal. sole captured children may experience in custody and many others are. the latest development addresses but doesn't fully answer a question that we raised last night why would the president publicize these raids before the fact announcing when they were to begin destroying the element of surprise and potentially jeopardizing operations or the safety of the people carrying them out. the answer is from an operational standpoint, there is no answer. the senior administration official describing the actions as quote head scratching however, there is an answer if you view this through the lens of politics and power. namely if the point of the exercise is not operational success as such but sewing fear and a chance for the president to prove to his base he's tough on undocumented immigrants. the fear being zoing sewn is no among those being deported but among their families, being broken up or losing a parent and spouse and fear of children being sent to facilities, foster care.

administration has long been down playing and trying to hide conditions in some holding facilities. today vice president pence toured a location at donna, texas and no surprise he concluded children there are being treated in his words very well. cnn's pamela brown confronted him on that before air time. you'll hear what he told her in a moment. meanwhile, here is what a law professor told the house oversight committee today about what she saw herself in some facilities. >> the toilets are open. there is no privacy to use the toilet. children try to use those foil wrappers that you see to cover themselves when they are toileting and this leads to problems. in clint we talked to girls who were so embarrassed boys could see them while they were using the toilet. we talked to a boy who tried not to eat because he was so embarrassed to use the toilet. >> here is how one democratic

committee member responded. >> i don't really care what their motivation was, whether it was asylum or economic betterment. they are not to be treated as subhumans. this is not an american way of dealing with the stranger that comes and seeks secure. you can talk all you want about whether the poor border control is overwhelmed. that makes no excuse for how we are treating children. if there is one basic value the democrats and republicans as americans, it's how we treat children. their children, our children, it doesn't matter. that's a fundamental value. >> another witness. i.c.e. director took exception

to that saying he seen pledty of dead children on the job telling the committee they quote died at the hands of people that crossed the border because we have an open border. there is shouting on all sides of this issue and border and we've seen so far caged kids and overcrowded cells and families being separated. what we haven't seen is real effort to come up with a comprehensive policy that can once and for all address this issue that continues to divide families and divide this country. before getting to what the vice president had to say to pamela brown in a facility today, i want to show you some of the video that she took on her cell phone at the adult detention facility in mcallen. it's crowded and men are wearing dirty clothes, the spench we're told horrib -- stench horrible. pam tells us what she saw in the interview. pam. >> reporter: anderson, i'm here in mcallen texas in a facility that holds single adults and i

can tell you we walked in there showing that video and immediately, the men in the cell began pleading to us, first they wanted to tell us that they have been here for 40 plus days. then they talked about not being given access to showers, not being able to brush their teeth. the molt i walked in that room, i was taken a back by this horrible stench. in fact, it smelled like urine inside and the men just kept wanting to talk about that they weren't being treated humanly. one of them looked at me and said this isn't human. i am not a terrorist. it was very hot inside of there, as well. they were sleeping on pavement. there were no cots for them. the only thing they have were these blankets that are handed out to all of the undocumented migrants that are taken to the facilities and that's all they really had. i was told by a cbp agent they couldn't be given cots because there wasn't enough room for all

of them so instead not all of them could lay down. they were packed in so tightly so that was the case here and the vice president pence, he was visiting this facility. he also saw it firsthand. i did not see him talk to any of the adult migrants but before we were here, we went to another facility called the donna facility and that exclusively houses families, family units, fathers who come over with children or men who come with children, women who come over with children and there it was a completely situation, that seemed like there was a different level of care frankly. this is a brand-new facility. it was just built in may to help with the overflow and there was a lot of space. several different what they call pods where different families were placed depending on gender and age and the vice president talked to a couple of the kids there asking if they were well taken care of and they nodded yes. i pressed the vice president on the difference in the level of care that we saw here today and

whether he is comfortable with what we saw at this facility with the migrants packed in pleading for help. here is what he said. >> we went to two different pa sill -- facilities today and there is a big difference where the families were being housed and the one here where there are single adult migrants. when i went in there, one of them said to me, i'm talking about the second facility, this isn't human the way we're treated. it was -- there was a horrible smell. i'm sure you smelled it. you were in there, as well. they were sleeping on concrete because there is not enough room for cots we're told. i was hot. some of them claimed they were hungry. is that acceptable to you? >> no, it's not. it's the reason we demanded that congress provide $4.6 billion in additional support to customs and border protection. look, for the last six months, democrats in congress have been saying this is a manufactured crisis, but as you saw firsthand

today, here at mcallen station where our cells are overflowing and now that temporary facility you just saw had to be established and then the first facility that we saw where nearly 1,000 families with children are being detained ought to be a very clear message to every american the time for action is now and the time for congress to act to end the flow of families that are coming north from central america to our border is now. >> should there be a different level of care for the families versus the single adult migrants? >> i think it's all the same standard of care -- >> what we saw today was very different for the families >> pamela, what you saw today was a very clean facility where people were being detained indoors and then you saw a temporary facility that was

constructed because this facility is overcrowded. and we can't keep people in a cell beyond what the rules and regulations allow for but everyone even in that temporary facility, pamela, is getting three meals a day, health care, they are getting hygiene and the customs and border protection is doing their levelled best in an over corrocrowded environment t address this issue but congress has got to act to make it possible for us to reduce the numbers of people coming into our country illegally and that's going to require us to change the loopholes, reform our asylum laws and my hope is today that two things, i hope two things today, pamela. i hope first and foremost that we put to the lie this slander against customs and border protection. i mean, people saying that the families and children are being held in concentration camps is an outrage. the nazis killed people.

our customs and border protection as you heard today are saving lives every day and you saw the profound compassionate care for those families and children in the detention facility today. the other thing is i hope we also move past this rhetoric about a man pack toufactured cr. the president wanted me to come down here today to look how families are being treated but also to be able to show the american people that this system is overwhelmed, it's overcrowded and congress has got to step up to end this crisis of illegal immigration at our southern border. >> the first facility we went to with the families, is that really a fair representation of how most of the migrant families have been treated under cbp care? >> you're at the epicenter here in the rio grande valley of this crisis of illegal immigration. 60% of those that are being detained coming across our

southern border are coming through this sector. so i think what we saw today was a very fair representation of how families are being treated. i understand -- >> this was one of the facilities. >> i understand americans are troubled. >> to handle the overcrowding. >> americans are troubled by what they have read in the newspapers about families not being cared for. >> look at it like this, when you look at that, what do you see? >> i can't account for that. what i can account for is the facility -- >> how do you not account for this? >> it's a facility you saw today represents the level and the standers of care that we are working to bring to all those caught up in this crisis. remember, it was just a few short weeks ago that congress finally acknowledged the crisis and gave us an additional $4.6 billion in humanitarian aid. now, we're going to continue to improve, we're going to continue to provide care at the standard the american people expect but

pamela, remember for the last six months, democrats in congress said it was a manufactured crisis and it was all we could do to finally get the democrats in congress to agree to give us additional funding to deal with this crisis and so we'll continue to provide the level of care the american people expect and we'll do it with compassion and with the generosity but ultimately, we have got to demand that congress take the next step reform these asylum laws, close the loopholes and end this unprecedented migration. >> dhs ig says some children under this administration's watch didn't have access to showers of hot meals. did administration take any responsibility for that? democrats are not in the white house. where does the buck stop? >> i read the reports and they are being thoroughly investigated. there were also lawyers who were

here who presented what ultimately became unsubstantiated allegations but make no mistake about it, any allegation of people not receiving the standard of care that the american people anticipate is thoroughly investigated. the recent allegations of abuse are being thoroughly investigated but what you saw today, i hope is an encouragement to millions of americans that even before congress funded the temporary facility, we built that temporary facility to house families who are caught up in this crisis of illegal immigration and you saw not just three meals a day, children with snacks, there were diapers, there were high geygiene produc changing tables, children sitting in a comfortable air conditioned environment watching television. this is how the american people expect us to treat people who are caught up in this crisis. we're going to continue to work

to make that a reality. >> and anderson, this right here, this is a picture from the dhs ig report i showed vice president pence as he toted the conditions. i said it doesn't align with this picture from the report. this picture is from may. what i can tell you is that the situation of overcrowding with family units has gotten a lot better because of the supplem t supplementing funding from congress. they moved the children held for over 72 hours into these other facilities. we didn't get to see the height of the problem because of that and border crossings are down because of the heat and because mexico is helping more. that said, we saw tremendous overcrowding at this facility where i am now with these single adults and i spoke to a cbp chief what i heard from many of

them inside of there. he said just yesterday, the day before the vice president visited, trailer was brought with showers, with eight showers for these migrants. before that i'm told they didn't have access to showers. he did say that once a day, they are allowed to brush their teeth. they have disposable tooth brushes. he said restaurants provide hot meals three times a day. he did dispute some of when we heard and he also said the longest time period anyone has been here that we saw today was 3 two days. that is less from what we heard from them. as far as these tinfoil-like blankets, we're told they replace cloth blankets with these because they are hygiene friendly and don't have to wash them. this is what we're seeing in various facilities and we only saw the tip of the iceberg of what is taking place. >> pamela brown, thank you very much. appreciate it. you heard from an activist and

attorney, she joins us now by phone. professor, you hear the vice president say some of the claims by lawyers that visited clint are completely unsubtstantiated and when shown a picture, he said he doesn't know how he can account for that. how do you respond? >> the trump administration is in no position to call anyone a liar. "the washington post" has documented more than 10,000 false statements by our president. we went to the -- detained for four weeks. we collected hundreds of pages of sworn testimony and submitted them to the federal court. these allegations are substantiated. they are substantiated by people who work for the government.

the department of homeland security office of the inspector general notes that the situation is a ticking time bomb. there is another agency that also corroborates the allegations that we are making about children not taken care of prop properly. the staff at human services department made 30 serious incident reports about children suffering harm while being detained. >> it was interesting -- >> the question is -- >> sorry -- >> i was going -- go ahead. >> who are the liars? is it the people who said that there was no child separation policy? is it the people who claim to be shocked border patrol officers were part of a hateful facebook group when it turned out they not only knew about that

facebook group but the acting head of cbp participated in that facebook group or people like me and the children who are associated with the flores case who have time and time again proved their case in court? we live in a democracy. we're supposed to live in a democracy. the executive branch cannot make false claims and abuse people in our name. the courts must stand at the check against the worse abuses of this administration and congress must exercise the oversight authority. >> it's very interesting to me to listen to the vice president that speaks in a way that's calming and smoothing and seems rational but what he's saying when shown a photograph from the government, from the department of homeland security inspector general report, he says he can't acouldncount for it. that's not true. he can pick up a phone and

account for that photo quickly and rapidly and he says the reports of children not having soap or toothbrushes, those are being looked into. those reports are weeks old, they have already been investigated to the limited ability reporters and lawyers like yourself are allowed in and you're not allowed to go to all of these facilities and have free access to them. the idea he's saying it's being investigated, i mean, that's just really not an acceptable answer. >> not only is it not acceptable but it's false. just last month the united states department of justice argued before the ninth circuit that safe and sanitary conditions for children does not require the provision of soap. does not require the provision of toothbrushes. does not require the provision of beds. this is administration's own

cruel policy position. administration won't let in independent doctors into these facilities. this administration will not let in public health experts. this is a crisis of cruelty and the children of the border are suffering in response to the national out cry, the outcry of the american people across party lines, this administration has decided to empty out many of the facilities. >> professor laura, apressuapre your time. >> robert mueller's testimony is being delayed. we'll have the latest when it's rescheduled for and the latest on the serious storm moving towards the gulf coast at new orleans. a lot ahead. stay tuned. i've never been in one of these before, even though geico has been- ohhh. ooh ohh here we go, here we go.

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news from capitol hill, it was made by the democratic chairman and let's go to cnn correspondent for details. what are you learning? why was this delayed? >> to get more time for mueller to testify, democrats on the house committee and republicans had been criticizing the deal that had initially been cut for him to appear on this coming wednesday. that deal would have allowed him to appear for two to two and a half hours and 22 members of the committee of 40 individuals could have been allowed to question the special counsel. the objections had been growing from democrats and some republicans who were not going to be allowed to question. so as a result behind the scenes, frantic negotiations all day long between mueller's team and jerry nadler's team and adam schiff, the house intelligence committee who will have a chance to question the special counsel and they have agreed for the special counsel to come in for an additional hour.

the house judiciary committee, he'll testify if two hours and take a break and appear before the house intelligence committee afterwards and that will likely be a two-hour session because there are fewer members in the house intelligence committee and they will get to question mueller and mueller at his request according to the statement wanted to delay the testimony forred a ed an additk so democrats agreed to get the extra hour of questioning. we have also learned this, anderson, democrats wanted to question those individuals but there is resistance from the justice department and at the moment those deputies will not be appearing for that closed session. democrats are still trying to bring those individuals in separately, they did hear from one senior fbi official before the house intelligence committee behind closed doors yesterday but at the moment, that closed session is not happening but the public session will occur on

july 24th, a week later and robert mueller will have an additional hour. all the members will be able to question him for five minutes each. the ultimate question, how much will the special counsel reveal? will he go beyond the four corners of the report and shed new light we don't already know? >> thanks very much. appreciate it. joining us is john dean and former obama deputy assistant attorney general elliott williams. john, you testified before the same committee not long ago. i'm wondering what you make of the delay in mueller's testimony. >> i can understand the members being upset that they weren't getting enough time to get their television time and i've never been a fan even when i was counsel of that committee of the five-minute rule. i think it's very difficult to work with and clearly under the five-minute rule they could not get all the members in. i think they should just take blocks of time and have key members do questioning and not try to have everybody in the

show. >> well, elliott, the other option too is not having each member make minutes long statements which seemed more like kind of grand standing often than just eats up time that could be asking mueller questions or hearing mueller's direct testimony. >> so like john, i worked up on the hill as well and the problem is they care about the underlying enterprise and getting to the truth but they also care about their moment and they care about speaking to their constituents. they care about their own needs as elected officials and at the end of the day, that often means giving speeches and so on. the problem is look, the house just didiciary committee, just democrats, there is 24 of them. they will give each of them by five minutes and major members of the committee. at least in the current structure, a lot of the more interesting members of congress sit at the bottom of the day, the more junior, more dynamic

frankly sometimes better questioners. and so it probably made sense to either get more people time to question or like john said, the problem this happens in supreme court hearings, as well, where they -- there is not effective questione questioners. they are elected officials and act like it. they are always going to run into problems like this around these high-profile hearings. >> it's a strange system that, you know, it is designed with i'm p impediments along the way to have effective testimony. >> it is and odd, anderson, because the rules of the house and committee really don't require them to do it the way they are doing it. they could agree to have certain membe members do the questioning. they could agree to have members have more time occasionally you will see members give their time to others who are good question nears and i -- as elliott

mentioned, some of the best questioners on the judiciary committee are newer members. they come from trial attorney backgrounds and former prosecutors and u.s. attorneys and assistant u.s. attorneys and good at questioning. so they would be healthy to let them have a run at it. >> also, elliott, it will be interesting to see one can -- i mean, if past is pro-like you can only assume this is going to be two separate hearings, the republicans are going to be pursuing completely different line of inquiry than the democrats are. >> absolutely are. the democrats sole goal here and ought to be simply getting robert mueller to put the report in the public record. one of the most powerful things we've seen over the last two years was his doing a press conference where he said the words, i mean, were i able to exonerate the president i would have but couldn't have. that was actually far more powerful than seeing it on paper

and if he doesn't stray from the report, just get him to say the words and layout the allegations and the charges but no, it's two hearings. if the democrats do it well, it's laying out the allegations of the report and if republicans do it well, they need to call it a deep state conspiracy and everyone is in cahoots out to get donald trump. that's what you're going to see. they are far more -- to be clear, the republicans are far more co-h co-her rent than democrats are. >> john, clearly, for dell camo, this is about getting people to see mueller where republican opinions are not with standing as credibility in many people's minds saying the words they haven't read because the vast majority of them haven't read the report but aren't most people's opinions of the investigation pretty much baked

in already? >> well, i think they are to a degree although they are pretty much captured by just headline knowledge and not much more. anderson, one of the things that's going to happen because of this delay i can tell you from personal experience it will build up more interest in the hearings. my hearings were canceled for example and held over for another week because watergate. here we have a situation where there is a delay, it's going to create more interest in the hearings. the flap about them today and the people were expecting them, that all builds interest in what is going on. >> john dean, elliott williams, appreciate it. thank you. coming up next another member of the trump administration heads and why alex acosta didn't last the week. he's leaving. the sex offender declined to take to court. details ahead. my experience wita has been excellent.

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court documents alleging he paid $350,000 to people, i'm quoting from the filing now close to hill during the tihim during the time period and might be witnesses against hill at a trial. the prosecution siting records they received from a financial institution. the former miami u.s. attorney who gave him that deal left administration. alex acosta becoming the 14th official to leave. not to mention the departure up and down the organization chart. it's actually an extraordinary number of departures under very interesting circumstances in many cases. accoosta was replaced by an actg secretary, one of many acting top officials including homeland security, the u.n., small businessed ed administration an faa. so jim, the president publicly praised acosta today on the

south lawn. is that the case privately? >> reporter: no, anderson. i'm told by a senior administration official, the president had been stewing over this for the last 24 hours and there are officials in the white house that were concerned there would continue to be disclosures in the jeffrey epstein case and this would continue to make alex acosta look bad here in washington and the campaign trail. you saw a slew of democratic contenders weighing in on this this afternoon and in the words of the senior administration official echoing watergate, he said what did alex acosta know and when did he know it. >> it's not good when the person himself comes forward to give a press conference to basically kind of put this away as an issue and really doesn't apologize, doesn't really kind of show much humanity and only seems to kind of make it worse and add to it.

>> that's right. and, you know, i talked to this administration official who said it appeared oh acosta stabilized things but when you talk to officials across the west wing you hear muted praise that he stopped the bleeding and gave information to defenders to counter his critics and so on but there wasn't full throated support that alex acosta would stay on the job. >> and was it more the political optics of the controversyacosta epstein that bothered the president because clearly the president or at least people in the white house knew about his role in the epstein matter before he was made secretary. >> right. anderson, they were certainly worried about the revelations and potential for more to damage alex acosta further into the year and campaign season. there is another element to this and that is internally alex

acosta was not viewed as being sufficiently loyal to the president's agenda. senior administration official said he was not moving swiftly enough on his deregulatory agenda here in washington and they are saying all sorts of things inside the white house, you can imagine where alex acosta was giving them information they needed to essentially cut bait by the time this morning came around but according to our sources, anderson, alex acosta was not a favorite cabinet member and took the jeffrey epstein case unfortunately to force him out. >> jim acosta, thanks very much. a live report from the new orleans and the latest forecast for the tropical storm that's expected to strengthen when it hits. we'll be right back. direct messages have evolved. so should the way you bank. virtual wallet from pnc bank. just one way pnc is modernizing banking to help make things easier. pnc bank.

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there is breaking news out of louisiana as the state prepares for the first hurricane. they updated the predictions just moments ago. as we look at the view on the mississippi across from the city, the bulletin confirms it's expected to make landfall tomorrow as a hurricane along the central coastline of louisiana. officials have directed those areas to evacuate and others to be off the streets in less than an hour as responders prepare for a dangerous storm surge,

heavy rains and high winds. i want to check in with tom sater tracking developments from atlanta. let's talk about where the storm is now and exactly when you think it will make landfall. >> well, anderson, it's interesting. the 8:00 p.m. advisory adjusted the position. at 5:00 p.m. the advisory had it 70 miles offshore from morgan city and now it's 85 miles. they had to reposition or two hard to find the center. it's hard to organized. the brighter colors are higher, colder cloud temperatures but the rain plaquemine's parish. the 250 calls to emergency services. now it's all the way eastward and to tampa north of jacksonville but with this center still hard ocho fito fin think 8:00 in the morning give or take an hour, we'll have landfall in south central areas.

it could handle a hurricane. if it makes it to category one, the marsh lands are sparsely populated but starting to see the flow from the southeast. that is the storm surge we'll talk about. it does change its trajectory yesterday making it up the ohio river and this time it makes its way towards st. louis. they had two major crests on the mississippi this year. so that's astonishing by itself and all that rain makes its way back towards louisiana again. >> so the biggest threats right now are what? >> heavy rainfall for the entire region, and the surge. even though we're looking at maybe three to five-foot surge this is not like hurricane isaac back in 20 -- what was it, 2012 where we had of course a nine to 12-foot storm surge. this three to five foot surge will be enough to impede the flow of the mississippi that's expected to hit 19 feet.

yesterday the height of the river in of course new orleans was 16. we're almost at 17 now. so a closer inspection of the graph tells us here this little peak, this is the surge anderson that southeast wind backs that river up going to 19 feet. that expectation that was yesterday at 20 down to 19 is significant because the levees are at 20 feet. we could have had over topping everywhere but you get in closer and all of these red dots along the levee system are areas below 20. over topping could take place. this is unprecedented. we're not sure how it will turn out but you have to believe in the core of engineers and they say will make it through. 10, 20 inches concerned about the entire state of mississippi because 911 calls could be from lafayette to baton rouge to the north. maybe even east of little rock to memphis. it will be a wide spread event. the category means nothing.

>> tom sater, appreciate it. we'll watch for a ground's eye view and landfall, let's check in with gary tuchman in the lake view area of new orleans. how is it? >> reporter: anderson, the outer bands of berry are hitting us. the worst as we just heard will come in the morning. we're here in the lake view district of new orleans. this was devastating during hurricane kawakatrina and where standing is where it illuminated. this is the largest drainage canal in new orleans to the left and to the right is the levee. 20-foot levee. these are 20-foot levees. these were constructed after hurricane katrina because the levees before failed. a 450-foot gash on the left side was split off the levee to the east side and that led to water pouring into the neighborhoods from lake pontchartrain.

1800 total dying from hurricane katrina. right across from this canal is this water pumping station. as we speak, we hear it. there are people inside. the purpose of that building is to pump water, pump flood wadder into lake pontchartrain right behind that building. officials here in new orleans feel that that pumping station, the new levee system constructed since 2005 will leave everybody safe in new orleans at least that's what they hope for right now as the rain is about to come down heavier than 30 minutes ago. anderson? >> some people you're talking to, what are their thoughts about this storm? how concerns do they seem to be? >> reporter: as you know, anderson, this neighborhood was so heavily damaged and construction is new. less than 14 years old. there is no mandatory evacuation order. most don't feel this will be so

bad, that it will be okay. that excessively worried. nevertheless, it's a very ir ry feeling being here. >> glad you're there. thank you. what lawmakers did today to help 9/11 first responders. details ahead. uh-oh, looks like someone's

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is now gone. he gave you his badge, do right. left, right, reasonable has to get behind that. we're also going to look at this footage from the border. the first one, it's good for people to see it. don't look away. absorb it. not you, you've lived this. but for people at home. now, we want to start listening to the politicians. i'm glad they've discovered a reality that they've been told about for six months. i'm glad this white house says they want a fix that they've never tried themselves. we have to give people an education tonight. and i have david crosby tonight. how cool is that? >> that is very cool. i'll see you about four minutes from now. the news in the struggle to get permanent funding for the heroes of 9/11, battling illnesses from those terrible days. we'll be right back.

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quote, to continue to experience going forward. the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> thank you, anderson. i'm chris cuomo and welcome to "prime time." special information for you, we have new video inside detention facilities at the border. what you see is going to border you and it should, and you must not look away. our vice president, mike pence, saw it as well. heartbreaking scenes, but he had a different spin. you need to hear that as well. members of congress have been down there recently. they're treating this like this is all new information. they testified about it today but they left out the most important point, we'll take that on together. and we have to check in on new orleans. it's too late to leave, i'm sorry to say. the command is shelter in place. we have the latest information on what to expect and when. we have a check on the preparations and concerns. and you probably