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good evening. chris "o" bhcuomo is off this w. i'm anderson cooper. police have released the video of the ohio gunman and a minute by minute account of how the aftermath unfolded leading to the deaths of 9 people. they sealed their first arrest

in the investigation. gary joins us from dayton. gary, explain what we learned from police. >> reporter: well, anderson, the surveillance video we've seen for the first time is both dramatic and disturbing, but it has taught us quite a bit. we've seen what the killer was doing for about two hours on the street beginning around 11:00 on saturday night two weekends ago, and continuing shortly after 1:00 in the morning. most horrifying moment, 1:05 a.m. when he started firing shots right across the street from me, killing nine people including his sister, wounding 17 people, including a friend. 32 seconds after he started firing the shots you see on the video, he is shot himself, killed by police who were on the scene very quickly. the killer started the night going to two bars on the str ne police today tell us what happened right after he left this bar. >> the shooter actually comes out of ned pepper's and walks right in front of the police. he was aware of where they were. he's traveling eastbound and you'll see that he has the back

pack, long sleeves, and the back pack is weighted down t' not empty. there he goes. we know that he's been firing for a second because just past this umbrella is the taco stand on this street. that's where our first three fatalities occur. his sister. she heard the gunfire. you'll see on the right-hand side the path he walks. so he's engaging right now. that was the shooter that just went by. >> and, gary, are they saying whether the murder of his sister was intentional or -- do they know at this point? >> reporter: all right. so here are some of the key things we've learned including that, anderson. they do not know if he intentionally shot at his sister and his friend, killing her and wounding him. they don't know the answer to that question. it sercertainly is a puzzle. another thing we learned, perhaps the most important

thing, this was a deliberate and planned act. this wasn't a spur of the moment thing. he was in two bars on the street. he came with his sister and his friend. he then ditched them and he walked across the street, went into a parking loflt. he was wearing casual clothes. he then changed. the camera shows he changed into a hoodie. he brought out the back pack which had the weapon with him. he passed a police car while he was walking down the street with the police man in it to get this stuff. and he came up the street and he started firing. so that's clear. one other thing we don't know at this point, and this is really important, anderson, we don't know what the motive was. we do know from the investigation that police have done that this man liked violence. that they say, quote, he was obsessed with violence, but they don't know why he came here and when he came here and what he did. they don't know why it was chosen to be here at this time. >> the dayton police have been very up front about response times and things like that. obviously they're being greatly praised not only for their quick response and also for their

transparency. i'm wondering what the latest from el paso is because there's a lot we still don't know about the time line, the police response. we know the first police officer arrived six minutes after the first calls were received. but we don't even know when three officers were there, if that is what it took to go in. we don't know if they went in and how the killer was able to get in a vehicle and drive away. >> reporter: right. i mean, el paso has not released any such video like the one we saw today here in dayton. that really is much information. an important fact, the accused killer, he wasn't shot, he turned himself in. one thing we have heard, that over the past several months, there's been a lot of complaints in the city of el paso, the police force isn't large enough. the head of the union said they needed 20% more police officers to serve the city the size of el paso. i talked to a police officer on the phone this afternoon in el paso here in dayton. i talked to him on the phone. he told me that is a problem, that there is still this shortage of police. he would not say -- could not say, he didn't know if it affected that day when police

got to the scene or if it's affected -- sorry. affected the investigation. we just don't know at this point. we may learn, but is that there is, through many people, the police and people who live in the city of el paso, a shortage of police in that city. >> thanks very much. democratic congressman tim ryan joins me now. congressman ryan represents a district in northeast ohio, currently running for president. he's also criticized the president's response to the massacres in dayton and el paso, demanding senate republicans and the president pass gun control. there is silence, basically, from senate republicans on this. you can argue mitch mcconnell is essentially trying to slow walk this as much as possible so that people will lose outrage about it, they'll lose focus on it. the president is already out tweeting conspiracy theories about jeffrey epstein. do you -- do you think that's what republicans are trying to do? >> no question. this has been the strategy for the 17 years i've been in congress and long before that.

slow walk it, potomac two-step. a, let's have a conversation about it, let's have a conversation about something else. president says the same thing. and then nothing happens. and the news cycle changes. i think it's different this time. the american people are fed up. moms demand action, for example, is one group that is totally fed up. there were going to be rallies this saturday across the country. they're not giving up. i'm not giving up. and i think what happened, anderson, two things. one is it's been an accumulation over time. people say what's different now? we went to bed with el paso, and the first alert we got on our phones in the morning was dayton. and i think that lit a fire in the country. and when i was in dayton, we stayed a couple hours after the vigil. i had more republicans come up to me and say, congressman, get our party on line. i don't know what they're doing on this. this has got to stop. so when you start seeing republicans move like that on the ground, you know you're going to be able to -- >> just look -- just to, you know, argue the counter on that,

that's what people said after parkland and there were demonstrations across the country. you saw kids mobilize in ways that no one ever had before on this issue, and the president talked about the same things he's talking about now, to your point. i think back then he was talking about even raising the age of someone being able to buy a long gun. >> yeah. >> and then that just disappears, and now he's talking about meaningful background checks. we don't even know what that means. >> yeah. if it does president happen, there will be consequence at the ballot box. there's no question -- >> do you think this is going to become an issue -- traditionally while this has outraged people and affected people, it's not an issue that it was top of the ballot for many people. >> i think parents, kids are afraid to go to school. i'm hearing that from a lot of people i know. they're afraid to go out. i think the video from times square a week or two ago when the motorcycle backfired on multiple times and people went fleeing, i think that is the

state of anxiety in the united states today. an inaction is not acceptable and so the president could ignore this at his peril. republicans can ignore it at their peril. the suburbs are already moving away from trump electorally because of his behavior, because of his actions, because of his incompetence, and you throw this into the mix, a bunch of moms who are really upset their kids can't be safe in schools and kids that are upset about it, i think it's going to move the needle on the election. >> there are a number of folks i've talked to, democrats who believe that, look, the nra has all these internal problems, there's infighting, budgetary issues, allegations are flying back and forth, lawsuits. do you believe they are still a power to be reckoned with that can basically squash this? >> i think their power is diminished because of their internal and external problems. but the anti-groups are so much stronger than they were when i started congress 17 years ago. and even five years ago.

when you see moms demand action having rallies all over the country, when you see gaby giffords out there every town, sandy hook, it is now built itself into its own machine that can combat the nra. and gun, trump is alienating these voters on a variety of other issues. the way he behaves, tweets, inaction. they think people are stupid. that's why we brought that caravan to louvre. >> ohio is an incredibly important state. if the economy, if there is not a recession and there is -- and the economy continues as it has been and, you know, trump has much to take credit for and certainly he will take credit for that and maybe much more he shouldn't take credit for, will that -- is that what this election is going to boil down to, economic issues? >> i think economics is going to be a huge issue. trump is making a mistake. the vast majority of people in the country are living paycheck

to paycheck, about 75%. people are still struggling to keep their head above water. we lost the general motors facility, 4,000 jobs in the last two years and all the suppliers. and people, people can't get ahead, anderson. that's the reality of it and i think trump is making the same mistake that hillary made and democrats made in '16. they kept saying the economy is going well. let's keep it going. vote for the democrat. most people are going, wait a minute, it's not going well for me. i can't keep my head above water and they voted for trump. trump, of course, is going to say how great the economy is going. it's not going well for people. people are still struggling. ment middle class is still eroded. they can't get ahead. if trump runs down that lane, he's going to have a lot of trouble. >> it is also amazing two years in, whatever, there's still no health care plan from the republicans -- >> no. >> for all the talk of trump during the campaign about it's going to be done simultaneously, it's just -- >> everything he said during the

campaign was a lie. i mean, he said he was going to raise taxes on the rich. he cut taxes on the rich. he said he was going to do an infrastructure bishlgs infrastructure, $1.5 trillion. he cut people from the health care bill. we're not going to do the gun issue, but this is a health issue. why do you have plans to cut 20 million people from enter health care which includes mental health coverage. it shows how disingenuous he is. we have to go another direction. the country has to heal. we're so divided. when you hear slogans, america, love it or leave it, we heard that first during the vietnam war and we're literally having the same culture wars. people are like, i'm done. >> we're having culture wars used against immigrants the turn of the century. go back home, which is sort of just the definition of a racist sentiment, bigoted sentiment. >> it's not just somebody on a bar stool saying. it's the president of the united

states. >> yeah. >> so we're looking for change. i've been saying it's not about left or right, it's about new and better. and we've got to get past this left/right divide in the country or we're not going to be able to move forward, not going to be able to do guns, get et economy going, equality. go to tim ryan for america.com. if they want to break this left/right divide, offering big solution s to try to solve those problems. >> congressman tim ryan, appreciate it. thank you very much. >> yes, sir. >> the rietz of elizabeth warren in ohio, we'll see how her debate performances have impacted the campaign, one of the most crucial battle sites this election. straw dogs, the president using issues he can to divide and conquer. we'll explain why plastic straws have become a part of his reelection attempts.

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telling four congress women go back to the country they came from. his supporters don't try away from. he embraces them. i'm quoting from straws to wind turbines to socially conservative issues, trump is deliberately amplifying public tensions seizing on topics to energize his base according to campaign aides and white house advisors. joining me now to talk about that cnn political analyst and "washington post" white house reporter who shares the by line on that article. also with us is political consultant and former romney campaign advisor stuart stevens. your piece is fascinating. you make the point other political figures have leveraged cultural flash points before. george w. bush, freedom fries, sarah palin. no one really has done it on this scale before, and so kind of nakedly. usually it might be, you know, some commercial that popped up from some organization that insinuated things.

this is the president, you know, allowing chan allowing chants of send her back to fester. >> that is exactly right, anderson. this president is really using these cultural issues as a center piece of his campaign. it's not just sort of a side issue. it's not something to add to a broad policy agenda that this president has. this is the agenda, cultural issues, divisive issues, everything from immigration to climate change, trying to paint the democrats as extreme on all of these issues, and try to galvanize his base. he realizes that in 2016 he won by putting together a coalition of people who were very, very excited to vote for him, his base voters. but also people who just didn't like hillary clinton and, in part, they didn't like hillary clinton because the president spent so much time trying to drive up her negatives and paint her as someone who is corrupt with the nickname of crooked hillary. at this point the president is trying to use those same types of divisive issues to galvanize the people who really like him, who may be not benefiting from the economy but they like what he's doing on cultural issues while trying to paint the

democrats extremely far to the left so the people on the fence about the president will back away from thinking about voting for any democrat and hold their nose and vote for him again. that's the strategy we're seeing. >> he's sort of trying to make the democratic party be represented by the four congress women who he went after. does this -- do these wedge issues sort of prying us apart into groups, does that work? >> well, if you look at the last election, trump got 46.1% and was able to win. romney lost with 47.2%. so the central question here is if trump got every vote that he got last time, would that be enough to win? i would argue probably not unless there is some strong element of a third-party that pulls from center left. 46.1 isn't going to get you to glory. so i think, you know, the key for the democratic party i think is turnout, and for the first time in 20 years african-american turnout decreased in 2016. and i think if we got together,

democrats got together and tried to come up with a plan to generate more enthusiasm for african-american and non-white voters, it would be difficult to come up with anything better than what donald trump is doing. he's absolutely mobilizing these voters. he asked in the campaign, what do you have to lose? and he seems dedicated to proving it every day. >> it does seem like the trump campaign is happy to seize on the president's more divisive moments, even going so far as to develop marketing strategies around them. it's not like they're running from them. >> yeah, that's exactly right. if you look at the straw campaign, they realize that the fact that there are cities and companies that use paper straws in part to try to protect the environment is something that his voters and even some democrats are not happy about. so they're leaning into this trying to use it not only to raise money, but also to paint democrats who are going against him as someone who would export some of these policies, not only in major cities, but take them all the way across the country. so they are leaning into some of

this. there are some issues where they feel a little bit less comfortable where the president kind of crudely entered some of these cultural divides like race and talks about things like send her back, or congress women should go back to their countries. they're not as adept at trying to figure out how to package that issue for the broader public. but there are some issues where they feel like they're able to take a message on a cultural issue where they don't have a policy issue to talk about and focus on how to export that to the entire country. >> stuart, can you make buying a plastic straw with a candidate on a patriotic issue a sign of the times. when you look at how the president is courting voters, it does seem like he's employing a lot of the same tactics frankly he did in 2016. >> sure, sure he is. i think there's a trap we fall into trying to attribute some great strategy to what donald trump does because otherwise you kind of have to come to grips with the fact he may be a

blytherering idiot. nobody said this is a way to get more voters. ultimately politics is about addition and not subtraction. but donald trump really, he is a racist, and so eventually you're going to see this side of him. it keeps coming out and keeps coming out. if you're inside that trump campaign, it's very frustrating to you because they're smart. they've got really good people over there working for him. they're going to put together a better campaign. and they don't want to be the people out there trying to defend a lot of what trump does. and stuff like straws, i mean, it's a great con to get people to give money to a billionaire. but to get people to give money to protect paper straws may be the ultimate con. >> or to go against paper straws in this case. yeah, talk about paper tigers. stuart, thank you very much and tolu, thank you very much. appreciate having you on. the first time, appreciate it. the 2020 race is heating up in iowa. the stakes, of course, there are

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two dozen candidates paraded in iowa this weekend. elizabeth warren drawing some of the largest crowds. monmouth poll had a big surge for her. she is 19% with sanders slipping from april. his number slipping. cnn's jeff zeleny is in iowa taking a look at senator warren's ground game and what it means less than six months out from the caucuses. >> hello, iowa state fair!

>> reporter: elizabeth warren is making a big summer splash in iowa. but beyond the teaming crowds, her campaign is building something that's even more impressive to many democrats here. a muscular ground organization with a person to person network growing by the day in backyards like this. >> and it's great to be here at someone's home. i want to say a very special thank you to drew and carol. where are you? there you are. >> reporter: drew and carol kell sew have been following but not until one of warren's organizers reached out and asked if they would host the massachusetts senator. >> it was awesome to have her here. the neighbors, everybody was excited that she was here. >> reporter: do you plan to volunteer for her at all? >> i think we'd entertain the idea. i definitely support her enough to do that. >> reporter: across town, kerry is already a dedicated volunteer in warren's army. she hosts organizing events here in her living room where she even painted a campaign logo.

>> once i found warren's campaign, here's a place i can feel like i'm making aid difference. >> reporter: how many hours a week do you think you spend trying to elect elizabeth warren? >> me? probably more than most people. probably 12 or 14 hours a week just doing different things. >> reporter: the warren campaign started building an iowa operation before any of its rivals with eight field offices open and more to come. the campaign has held organizing events in all 99 counties. >> is there a chance you and your wife might be interested in helping us out? >> reporter: volunteers made calls for future events. emily is a senior advisor for warren. 12 years ago this summer she was political director for barack obama. >> because we built the best grassroots organization on the ground here in iowa. people power from the bottom up. >> reporter: who's winning iowa campaign is still the aspiration for this crowded field of democratic candidates. >> in my experience doing the iowa caucus, you need to be here for a year. it's going to take time.

and the interesting thing about this campaign -- and i don't think it's unlike the obama campaign -- there's a real focus on building a community of supporters. >> reporter: of course, so much has changed since that summer of 2007 when barack obama had his rise here in iowa. social media in its infancy now is a critical tool in organizing campaigns. elizabeth warren, of course, first on the ground here. others now may be catching up. pete buttiegieg, kamala harris, joe biden, all investing considerable time and money in organizing their campaigns here. anderson? >> jeff zeleny reporting. foremore on the intensifying race, i want to bring in former clinton campaign manager robby mook who serves as house democrat super pac also political director jen sake. you helped senator clinton win the iowa caucus in 2016. she came in third in 2008. what is the most important thing to keep in mind right now as, as folks at home are watching this and as the candidates are working that state?

>> well, you heard a lot of it just on the segment before this. you know, iowa is about two things. it's, first of all, building that universe of supporters that you turn out to those caucuses, but then there's what happens in that caucus room. you know, the iowa caucuses are not a popular vote. you actually have to physically get people to stand with your candidate group and then you're allocated a certain number of delegates based on that. this year a big change is that some people can decide to caucus early in a certain number of delegates will be allocated there. other delegates will be allocated on caucus night. so every human being that's coming -- that's showing up at these caucuses is strategically important. and training, motivation, commitment, loyalty, all these things matter so much, and that really comes down to the relationship that the campaign has built with them. so the number of organizers you have, how talented they are, how

they've nurtured those relationships, all these things matter so much in a way that they just don't in a big primary. >> jen, i know you echo that. you say you don't win iowa through a, quote, campaign commercial or by being around for a long time. the fact that elizabeth warren has not only organized field teams but gone out to voters and done all those town halls with voters off camera, she's done a bunch on camera as well with cnn and others, but has vice-president biden -- what is his ground game like? >> well, he's a little later, surprisingly, into the iowa game this cycle, it seems. elizabeth warren as we just heard in that piece did something very smart, which was she not only visited iowa quite a few times, but she's also kind of built this movement army. it's not just about the candidate appearing, you it's also about creating volunteer base and a base of people who are going to be your ambassadors when you're not in the state. so biden, there's a lot of affection for him in the state.

if you look at the polls, monmouth poll and others, there is a belief across the state he is the one most electable that can defeat donald trump. that's a good base to start on in september. but he clearly needs to be doing more organizing on the ground, needs to open more campaign offices and really needs to be more present, not just him as a candidate, but with more volunteers. he needs to call more, you know, the activists who have been there for decades who i knew when i was there for obama and even for john kerry. that's something that needs to pick up from his side. but there's certainly time to do that. >> robbie, if you're advising the warren team right now or the biden team, how do you answer the question on 0 so many democrats' minds, which is electability, and more specifically, who can beat president trump? >> yeah, i mean, this is a concern that a lot of voters are stating. i think sometimes we're over analyzing that and not thinking enough about momentum. iowa and new hampshire matter so much, and we can talk about how the delegates are really in other states.

but the issue is that super tuesday comes so fast. and by the time you get through that, over 40% of the delegates in this whole contest are already allocated, i think it's over 60% by mid-march. if you're not succeeding in iowa and new hampshire, you know, you can be electable in conventional theories, but you can fall behind. we saw that in 2008, how hillary's numbers just moved so quickly in those later states purely based on how president -- later president obama did in iowa. >> yeah. >> um-hmm. >> jen, obviously iowa hasn't been the easiest state for biden. he finished 5th, less than 1% of the delegates after losing there. >> that's true. i think there are a lot of lessons to take from the past races that some of which robbie mentioned. the electability argument which obviously biden is holding solid on is one where back in 2008, hillary clinton was ahead of barack obama by 30 or 40 points on the electability argument.

it didn't actually switch back to see barack obama as the most electable according to national polls until the march super tuesday time line. so it doesn't necessarily lead to where voters are going to go on caucus day. and as robbie kind much touched on in the beginning, you need people not just to be saying they're with you. you need them to be dedicated. >> right. >> people who are going to be volunteering ten, 15 hours a week because caucuses are hard. >> like that lady who is hosting staff in a room examiand painti the floor. >> exactly, she's going to be fighting for warren on caucus night. those are the people you need on your side. >> thanks very much. appreciate it. new fallout after jeffrey epstein's apparent suicide, changes at the jail after he was taken off suicide watch and left alone his final hours. plus a new reported on epstein's disturbing views, sickening views of sex and rape of minors.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ a shake up is underway in the federal jail where convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein apparently took his life. he was awaiting trial on sex

trafficking charges. the warden at the metropolitan correctional center is being reassigned to employees who were on his unit are being put on administrative leave. meanwhile epstein's disgusting views are being revealed the first time. columnist james stewart met at his mansion for an unrelated story. stewart now reports, and i quote, epstein said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. he pointed out that homosexuality had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world. randi kaye tonight has more on the outrage from women who once again feel victimized by epstein. >> it ended with sexual abuse and intercourse and a pat on the back. you've done a really good job. like, you know, thank you very much, and here's $200. >> reporter: virginia giuffre

was just 16 when she said she was recruited to given steen erotic massages. she shared her frustration that epstein will never answer for his conduct. we've wrorkd worked so hard to get here and he stole that from us, too. her lawyer represents at least eight clients. he says all of them hoped epstein's trial would provide vindication and closure. but epstein's death has enabled him to escape having to confront his victims in court. before he was investigated for child sexual abuse and trafficking under age women, epstein was a hedge fund manager. the multi-millionaire worked on wall street for years at bear stearns before opening his own investment firm. back in 2006, the fbi began investigating his alleged activities with young girls, who today are in their 20s and 30s. some spoke to the "miami herald." >> he would want us to stand next to him and he would

masturbate while he stared at us, touched us. >> all jeffrey cared about was, go find me more girls. his appetite was insatiable. >> reporter: dozens much them all with stories of sexual abuse, even down to the details of what epstein's genitals looked like. here at epstein's palm beach home is where much of the alleged abuse took place. according to court documents, as far back as one, it is believed epstein began luring under age girls here with the help of those who worked for him. most of the girls ranged in able from 13 to 16 and came from disadvantaged homes. they had never before seen the exclusive palm beach island. >> the training started immediately. everything down to how to be quiet, be subservient, give jeffrey what he wants and, you know, before you know it i'm being lent out to politicians and to academics. >> reporter: years later in a 2014 court document, one of the women claimed she had been an under age sex slave to epstein,

claiming he forced her to have sex with some of his powerful friends, including prince andrew, the duke of york once at an orgy on epstein's island. she would have been 17 at the time. buckingham palace has strongly denied the accusations. florida attorney spencer kubin represents one of epstein's victims who has not been identified publicly. >> she went into the massage room and was convinced to give mr. epstein a nude massage at the time that he was being given the massage by her, he reached out and he would touch her and feel her in various areas of her body. >> reporter: what is your client's reaction to jeffrey epstein's death? >> i think there is a mixture of satisfaction that this person could never perpetrate a crime on a young lady again, knowing that he's gone forever. and secondarily, she's been robbed, i think, of true justice, so there's a level of frustration with his suicide, apparent suicide, you know.

they've been robbed again of that chance to face their accusers in open court. >> reporter: court documents say epstein often ran with the rich and powerful. donald trump, bill clinton, and his two high-profile defense attorneys. ken starr and alan dershowitz. in 2002 trump was quoted about epstein, he's a lot of fun to be with. it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as i do, and many of them are on the younger side. that same woman who accused prince andrew also claimed in that court filing from 2014 that epstein required her to have sexual relations with dershowitz on numerous occasions while she was a minor in florida, and aboard his private plane. dershowitz denies all of it. >> she said i had sex with her on jeffrey epstein's airplanes, the flight manifest will prove conclusively i was never on any airplanes with her. i never met this woman. i never touched her. i was never massaged by her. >> reporter: more than a decade

ago, federal investigators had identified at least 36 girls and were still building their case when suddenly in 2008 epstein made a sweetheart deal. that deal allowed him to plead guilty to a lesser charge. he did have to register as a sex offender and serve 13 months in a county jail, but it shutdown the fbi's investigation. the deal also granted immunity to his coconspirators. the deal was signed off on by then u.s. attorney in miami, alexander accosta, who then became donald trump's secretary of labor. >> we believe that we proceeded appropriately. >> reporter: accosta resigned last month, facing growing scrutiny of his handling of the epstein deal. still, if epstein's original plea deal goes away in light of his death, his coconspirators may be in trouble. does your client still hope to gain justice from epstein's coconspirators? >> all of the people that were involved should be held accountsable for what occurred back then. mr. epstein could have never

done what he did on the sheer volume that he did, when he perpetrated these crimes, and taking these under age women and abusing them in the way that he did without the people around him that allowed it to occur. >> reporter: he says his client also wants to know why jeffrey epstein, whose sources said may have attempted suicide in jail already, was no longer on suicide watch. >> someone failed. someone failed astronomically when it comes to bringing this man to justice and allowing this to occur. either he should have been on suicide watch and this would have been prevented or alternatively, why would they ever make the decision to take him off suicide watch, or finally, someone was paid intentionally to look the other way. >> reporter: so you're not sold on the fact that this was, indeed, a suicide. >> not yet. not until a full investigation of this is undertaken. all of those jailers are interviewed. all of their bank accounts are

looked at, you know. i would not be surprised if someone within that jail has an offshore bank account somewhere that just got a lot larger. >> randi kaye joins us now. it sounds like his victims and their attorneys have a lot of questions about what really happened here regarding epstein's death. >> reporter: so many questions, anderson. i spoke with three lawyers who all represent epstein's victims, and they all want a thorough investigation by the department of justice. one of those lawyers actually deposed epstein twice back in 2008 during the original case, and he described him this way. he said he was snark yrk, he was arrogant, didn't show any remorse and blamed everything on these young women. for him in particular, he has real questions about someone like that who didn't show any remorse, would they really harm themselves. that's what he wants to know. we, of course, have learned here at cnn there were budget cuts at that jail facility. many of these guards were also working overtime. so it's unclear what really happened. but certainly these lawyers and

the victims have a lot of questions, their clients. the bottom line is, anderson, these women want justice. they say this is not over. they plan to sue epstein's estate. and if his coconspirators are named publicly, they plan to sue them as well. justice, anderson, is their priority. >> randi kaye, thanks very much. we'll continue to follow it. there was chaos in one of the world's busiest airports as protesters clashed with police. we'll tell you what sparked the confrontation ahead next. we're pretty different. we're all unique in our own ways. somos muy diferentes. muy diferentes. (vo) verizon knows everyone in your family is different. there are so many of us doing so many different things. (vo) that's why verizon lets everyone mix and match different unlimited plans. sebastian's the gamer. sebastian. this is my office. (vo) and now with more plans, everyone gets what they need without paying for things they don't. new plans start at just $35. the plan is so reasonable, they could stay on for the rest of their lives. aww, did you get that on camera? thanks, dad! (vo) the network more people rely on gives you more.

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it has been a chaotic, sometimes violent 24 hours at hong kong's airport. pro-democracy protests began there five days ago and have escalated to massive disruption. cnn's ivan watson has the latest. >> reporter: overnight confrontations in hong kong turning violent. as thousands of pro-democracy protesters flooded the country's busy international airport, paralyzing it for a second day. as the growing tension played out on live television, police moved in carrying shields and wearing body armor, pushing the crowd back. at times it was hard to tell who sided with whom. we were there as this group of protesters turned on a man

they suspected of being a chinese agent. some tried to protect him. as others kicked him. medics eventually succeeded in taking the injured man away. he's since been identified as a reporter for the chinese state news outlet "global times." other protesters blocked passengers from reaching their planes. >> i don't have bottle! i've got today i'm job finished! >> reporter: forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and stranding thousands of passengers. >> we can avoid this. it's unavoidable because we fight for our final goal. that is our freedom. >> hong kong's leader, who's effectively appointed by the chinese government, admits she's losing control. >> translator: hong kong society is not safe or stable. the rioters have pushed hong kong to the brink of no return. >> reporter: the protests here

began peacefully two months ago as millions of pro-democracy demonstrators took to the streets to oppose a proposed extradition law with mainland china. but some hardliners who don't want this former british colony to be controlled by communist china has grown increasingly violent, clashing week after week with police. at times leading to showdowns with tear gas and night sticks. protesters were spoiling for a fight. and now they've got one. tonight the central government in mainland china is sending increasingly ominous warnings, showing off security forces close to hong kong. what's not clear is if china will use that force to quash the dissent or if protesters who seem motivated for a fight for their freedom will back down. president trump tweeted about intelligence reports that china is moving troops to the border and appealed for calm. but this is the worst political crisis this city's seen in

decades. >> ivan joins us now from hong kong. what's happening right now? what's the latest? >> reporter: it's pretty striking. within hours of practically seeing the protestors get close to lynching that chinese reporter, the airport here is back up and running. they've covered over the spray-painted graffiti. they've cleaned the leaflets up. and they've put in new measures to try to stop protesters if they show up again in large numbers from blocking passengers from trying to fly out of here as they've done for the previous two nights. the bigger, question, though, is about long-term stability in the city. the government shows no signs of compromising. some of the demonstrators are more radical and more desperate and violent than ever. and it just seems like the city is more polarized and divide than i've ever seen, it anderson. >> ivan watson, be careful. thank you very much.

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