bill weir:"we the people."ght:"and if you lose that then you know you get what you get and you don't throw a fit."but life does not pause for politics. and just as her group was exploding, kim's daughter was hospitalized -- and she discovered she has breast cancer.bill weir :"i mean i remember a few cycles ago the soccer mom was this formidable political symbol."kim drew wright:"i am a soccer mom." bill weir:"a soccer mom going literally going through chemotherapy which takes it to a whole different level."kim drew wright"right. okay so, i'm gonna cry. you know, when you get ill you think about what's really important to you, and you take stock. and i could have very easily said well politics don't matter. but the fact is that they do matter."so each day she puts on the wig and converts fear anger into action -- and she takes her wins one knock at a time. kim drew wright:"i thought i was the only democrat in my neighborhood. for real, think about it." for more information on the upcoming elections across the ba

i want to go back with bill weir, who is now joining me on the phone. bill, fill us in again on the latest where you are. what's happening with these people? what is the plan for them next? >> well, right now people -- the crowd has largely organized itself after moments of sheer mayhem and a few tear gas canisters. now an official on the mexican side shouted on a bull horn through the fence, form lines, women and children first, we will begin processing in an orderly fashion. so it looks like mexico is going to start letting the caravan across. it has been unbelievable watching this crowd, the mood shift from exuberance as they ran up to the gate, to then frustration as they were turned away and then anger for a moment flair flared when the tear gatt stas d to fly. now they're encouraging everyone to sit and wait. and the size of the gate they're about to open, a small sort of one-person passage, it could take hours or days to process this many people. the surge of people going across, we'll be lucky if everybody got out of this. in fact, i saw one man

correspondent bill weir has been following the caravan. he's joining me now from mexico. bill, thank you for being with us. this is a gathering storm and a humanitarian crisis. what are you seeing on a day-to-day, step-by-step basis there? >> reporter: christiane, just imagine if you or someone you know had taken everything you own and you could carry on your back and has walked hundreds and hundreds of kilometers. sometimes carrying your children. accepting food from people like this man handing out tortillas here, and 13 days into the journey, how would it feel? so it is a day-by-day, minute-by-minute pursuit for survival. that's what forced a lot of them initially to leave honduras there and walk for the last 13 days. they have about a month or so, at least, before they reach the western united states border as well. but i'm seeing mostly people -- i'm seeing a lot of scenes like this where the kindness of mexican strangers is helping feed and clothe these people as they make their way north as well, and, of course, the idea that there are hidden. muslim terrorists in t

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honduran migrants are continuing their journey to the united states and cnn special correspondent bill weirs traveling alongside what is being called a caravan at the mexican border. bill, are mexican officials letting these migrants pass through? >> reporter: no, ana, they are not, despite literally a wave of humanity that essentially broke open the gates of mexico. we're on a bridge that separates guatemala from the southern tip of mexico here. there's about 400 riot policemen, fedralis, and for some reason on the guatemalan side, there's this huge sea of humanity. children, toddlers. they came streaming up to the fence. at first they tried to form a single-form line because they were told they'd be let in one at a time in a humane, orderly way. but the crowd was too powerful. they were greeted by the cops. the policemen are forcing the gates back after firing either smoke canisters -- i didn't smell tear gas. an incredibly frightening scene to be in the middle of this scrum of people. now people have backed off, there's a little more space and you can see all the shoes that have been los

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of why this is such a relentless political knot for the united states, how to make this stop. >> bill weireciate you being there. bill, thanks very much, be careful. >>> two views now, the domestic politics of this. joining us is van jones, host of "the van jones show" here on cnn. former special add vie -- adviser for president obama. van, president trump is saying this caravan of migrants is somehow being organized by democrats to impact or tilt the midterms. >> i don't think that makes a lot of sense. first of all, democrats are having a hard enough time organizing inside the united states to do an election. this probably if anything hurts, because it raises this whole question, this whole specter of do we need a wall and are immigrants bad. i do want to say that these images are an ink blot test. some people like myself look at those images and see people first of all who are scared, who are desperate, and who need some help and assistance, whether they get it inside the u.s. border or outside the u.s. border. my heart breaks to imagine being stuck on a bridge for hours with my kid. ot

bill weir, cnn, chapalu, mexico. >> extraordinary images. >>> president trump is seizing on the crisisup voters heading into the midterms. listen to what he told a crowd in arizona. >> these are some bad people coming through. these aren't babies. these aren't little angels coming into our country. these are some hardened criminals coming in. and we're not letting them in. >> all right. joining us now, scott jennings, a former special assistant to president george w. bush and longtime democratic strategist joe trippi, good to see you both. all right, scott, you first. the president is casting these migrants as a direct threat to public safety and u.s. national security. you heard him saying these are bad people. then you listen to a number of people that bill weir spoke to and you're seeing children, you know, whose eyes are being washed because, you know, of contaminants that got into their eyes. the young man says with all due respect, we are not criminals. and, you know, going on to say we're workers and fighters. so might the president's strategy backfire or do you believe this is

>> reporter: seems easier. >> all right, bill weir with the caravan. thank you so much, we appreciate it. >>> coming up, one key messenger for the president w. >>> what did kushner have to say about his relationship with saudi arabia in the wake of a murder of a journalist? endless shrimp is on at red lobster. for just fifteen ninety-nine you get all the shrimp you want, any way you want them. and now savory parmesan shrimp scampi is back! new sesame-ginger shrimp is here, too. but hurry in, endless shrimp ends november eighteenth. up here at the dewar's distillery, all our whiskies are aged, blended and aged again. it's the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. dewar's. double aged for extra smoothness. ♪ come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. ♪ >>> welcome back, sticking with politics, the president is preying on people's fears. he said sadly the mexican military is unable to stop the caravan. criminals and middle easterners are mixed in with the crowd. i asked arizona's outdoor going senator jeff flake about the president's inflammat

bill weir is live in tapachula, mexico, with the latest. n, there's this incredible video this morning of a mother and her children after being stuck at the border for 24 hours going down a bridge on to a river. this shows some of the desperation. i know you know more about the circumstances of this. walk us through it. >> reporter: yes. she is from guatemala. we spotted her dangling from this sort of crudest of improvised elevators after being stuck on that bridge between mexico and guatemala for a full day. they were running out of food and water. some men pushed a hole in the fence and people were jumping the three-story leap into the shallow river and then they went into town, managed to get rope, a ladder and came back, rigged this thing up. she came down. then her two children, 3-year-old little son, her daughter, candy, 5 years old. she also had a teen boy with him who eventually had to jump. i had seen her little boy the day before after the fracas on the bridge. her little boy was fascinated with the riot gear from the police. one o

bill weir, cnn, mexico. >> and there's no end in sight at this point for those people. >>> still aheadr american university is ready to pay nearly a quarter billion dollars to settle sex abuse allegations against one of its long time doctors. there could be thousands of victims. but one of their lawyers calls this deal a slap in the face. that's next. (roger) being a good father is important to me so being diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer made me think of all the things that i wanted to teach my kids. (avo) another tru story with keytruda. (roger) my doctor said i could start on keytruda so i did. with each scan things just got better. (avo) in a clinical study, keytruda offered patients a longer life than chemotherapy. and it could be your first treatment. keytruda is for adults with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread... ...who test positive for pd-l1 and whose tumors do not have an abnormal "egfr" or "alk" gene. it's the immunotherapy with the most fda-approved uses for advanced lung cancer. keytruda can cause your immune system to attack normal organs and t

bill weir, thank you. >>> all right. at meetings, at rallies and tweets, president trump, victor mentioned it, taking aim at the caravan making its way north. >> these are some bad people coming through, these aren't babies and little angels coming into our country, these are some hardened criminals coming in, and we're not letting them in. >> so let's talk about it. t the car a van made it to guatemala. and then they made their way to the mexico, guatemala border there. some of these are annual events with religious roots, not a new thing. so what is new? the attention that president trump is taking on this. remember, in april we followed another caravan at the center of president trump's tweets. i followed them all the way to san diego. we introduced you to a mother who told us gangs threatened to kill her four-year-old son. a teen that showed us scars, rampant gang violence left on his body. again, they went all the way to the port of entry where they turn themselves in to seek asylum. that's the legal way to do so. t

cnn's bill weir is live with the latest. us what you're seeing there, bill, because you know how it's being portrayed here. what do you see mixing among those people heading north? >> well, that's the thing, jim. from the drone shot, it looks like this massive desensitized humanity. but as you wade through the crowd, you find so many touching human stories. we're in the town center and people enjoying maybe a last half hour of rest. word is they're going to start walking again in a half hour. they spent the night sleeping out here. the luxurious setups are tenlts, but most people just have, you know, a blanket, maybe a tarp of some sort. and i wanted to really get to understand sort of the tenacity of the people. remember, they have anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 miles to go yet before they reach the u.s. border. and so what kind of grit, what kind of desperation would motivate such a thing, and we met one mother dangling from a bridge on the guatemala/mexican border, and her story speaks volumes about why these people are doi

let's go to cnn's bill weir. have you seen any evidence to support the president's claim there are middle easterners, members of this caravan? >> reporter: of course not, anderson. no, it's a charge that's ludicrous. and it would be funny if it wasn't so insulting to this human tragedy we're seeing. what we did see today was a man attempt suicide, unsuccessfully, thankfully. and then his honduran country talked him into giving life another chance. i saw a frightening woman pass out on the side of this frightening highway until they flagged down an ambulance to save her. i saw incredible sign of generosity from the mexican people like these folks who are just handing out clothing to passing migrants who might need it. and we see trucks full of freshly cooked tortillas and incredibly christian gestures of welcoming a stranger. when you have thousands of really umpov really impoverished people streaming through your town. for the record i've confirmed these clothes were not provided by george sorros. >> you've been

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reporter bill weir was there and spoke with those who made it across the border to mexico. --reporter pkg-as follows--at high noon. . the bridge over the border was empty.but then for some reason. . guatamalan police threw open the gates. nats"cerrado. it's closed. it's closed."the first tried to form an orderly line. . but that lasted only seconds as thousands surged behind them with a mixture of exuberance. . frustration. . and determination.natsafter a fraught half an hour. . the crowd calmed itself. . even turning on the few troublemakers.some couldn't take the heat though and the crowd so they jumped into the river.orlean herrera/ horduran migrant:"our message is we are not criminals. we coming here cause we want to work. better life. that's why we're here." reporter:"do you understand that president trump is going to use the pictures of thousands of people surging to the gates against you. he's going to point that to people and say this is scary."orlean herrera:"it's his politics, you know. we respect he's the president. he's the president of the united states, and wi

bill weir is with the caravan in southern mexico.e us a sense, who is in this caravan that is traveling at about i guess 20 miles per day. >> you're cutting out a little bit, erica. i think you said who is in the care van. we're seeing folks from el salvador and the mexican government is saying that they are seizes on the strengths and numbers of idea that has fueled the growth of this. there is a piece unconfirmed in the "daily beast," that there was a rumor that people would get paid for this a. yesterday a honduran man fell to his death from an overcrowded truck on the highway between here and the last city. they're pausing to respect him and say they'll hit the road again tomorrow. by the time american voters go to the polls in two weeks, this caravan will still be south of mexico city and from there a long way to tijuana, which is the route but considered safer by these folks. but just to get a little sense of what it's like to carry everything you own and your child on your back through searing heat, we spent yesterday with the

bill weir has been following the caravan.ne for us tonight in mexico. >> give us an update. >> reporter: we're walking with the group, some of the stronger youth men who are out in front of the group. women and children pushing strollers behind us. we're about 20 miles north. they'll probably put 30 miles in today. we have not seen any unidentified middle easterners i saw a failed suicide attempt. a man jumpped off the roof. i saw a pregnant woman faint on the side of the road. i've seen examples of pure human desperation, all friendly, easy going, proud hon durans, the mexican government says thousands of mexicans may be joining the caravan as a point of opportunity. but to make -- put a hammer to the point i think jeff cuban made earlier, if you were a terrorist, why would you fly to southern mexico and walk 1,000 miles in this searing heat when you can buy a ticket to jfk? >> how long will it be before the caravan reaches the u.s./mexico border? >> it all depends on whether you jump a freight train here or there, or you're

bill weir has been covering this caravan and filed this report. >> reporter: after 24 hours stuck on a bridge between nations, the caravan finds another way. most go back to the guatemala side and pay a few pesos while others pry a hole in fence jaumpband jump. a few of the strongest manage to get a ladder and rope and help others get down. including a mother and her child. the migrants gasp and cheer as she is lowered to the rafts. yes, we can. after a slash of relief from the heat and the thirst, she looks up anxiously for her babies. a 5-year-old daughter named candy, a 3-year-old son named carlitos. it's stunning to see him here because the day before i spotted him playing inside the mexican gate. the little boy was fascinated by the riot gear and helmets. one member of the federales displayed touching humanity. i assumed his family was among the lucky few but they were separate frd cd from candy in tr gas panic. she went back to find her and another way north. what made you decide to climb onto that ladder? >> to complete the dream that i have. >> reporter: this bridge, this riv

bill weir was on the bridge taking a look. here is the story. >> reporter: at high noon, the bridge over the border was empty. but then for some reason guatemalan police throw open the gates. the first try to form an order early line, but it lasts seconds as thousands more pour across, all with a mixture of exuberance, frustration and determination. the crowd has managed to shove the padlocked gates open. but waiting on the other side are hundreds of mexican federales in rye iot gear. they manage to hold back the tide with a single tear gas canist canister. after a half hour of chaos, the crowd calls itself even turning on the few troublemakers in the crowd convincing them to climb back down off the fence. but some can't take the heat and the crowd, so they jump into the river. >> message is we are not criminals. we want to work. we need a job, we need a better life. that's why we're here. >> reporter: you understand that president trump is going to use the pictures of thousands of people surging to the gates against you. he w

. >> bill weir, thank you very much. >>> former trump campaign advisor steve cortez and dan jones host of van jones show. does it make any sense that the democrats love these kier a advances? just from a political standpoint a caravan for a mid term election seems to serve the president's benefit more than the democrat. >> i think it's more that donald trump is paying for this. this is the worst kind of thing. what it does, it gives another talking point and donald trump look at these invading boards, et cetera, et cetera. just because someone is middle eastern, there are no middle eastern people there, but that doesn't mean they're bad. doesn't mean i can make this. most of the terrorist incidents we've had in the united states are not being committed by low income. this is lie on top of lies on top of lies. >> there are clearly people from other parts of the world who would try to come through the second door. according to the people who know. i don't want the word middle eastern to continue to be used by the media as a synonym for terrorists. that's just -- i -- >> vin, that's not w

cnn's bill weir shows us what they've gone through. >> reporter: after 24 hours, stuck on a bridge between nations, the caravan finds another way. most go back to the guatemala side and pay a few pesos for an inner tube ride. others jump. while the stress is too much for the sick and the weak, a few skac scavenge a ladder. they cheer as she is lowered to the raft. "yes, we can." after a splash of relief from the heat and the thirst, she looks up anxiously for her babies. a 5-year-old daughter named candy, a 3-year-old son named carlitos. it is stunning to see him here because the day before i spotted him playing inside the mexican gate. the little boy was fascinated by the riot gear and helmets. and one member of the federalis display touching humanity amid all the chaos. i assumed his family was among the lucky few allowed through for processing, but they were actually separated from candy in the teargas panic. so she went back to find her, and another way north. >>> what made you decide to climb onto that ladder? >> translator: to complete the dream that i have. >> reporter: this bridge,

bill weir has been covering this caravan and filed this report. >> reporter: after 24 hours stuck onravan finds another way. most go back to the guatemala side and pay a few pesos while others pry a hole in fence jaumpband jump. a few of the strongest manage to get a ladder and rope and help others get down. including a mother and her child. the migrants gasp and cheer as she is lowered to the rafts. yes, we can. after a slash

<bill weir> "what made you decide to climb onto that ladder?" "this bridge, this river, they can't stop me, i am an all-terrain woman."most of the migrants began their journey nine days ago in the honduran port of san pedro sula...traveling through guatemala to the mexican frontier.last friday, they were allowed through by guatemalan border guards ... nat only to be met with tear gas on the mexican side.natbut thousands did make it across, perched on makeshift raft, swimming or wading ... the sick and weak had to be carried ashore.the migrants say they are fleeing violence in their homeland.this mother says her son was killed by a honduran drug gang"i don't want my kids in the middle of crime. i don't want to have the lives of my children further destroyed."according to president trump, the asylum seekers are the criminals ... gang members and possible terrorists. "you're gonna find ms-13. you're gonna find middle eastern. you're going to find everything. and guess what? we're not allowing th

bill weir, who is traveling with the caravan, scott, is reporting about many of the migrants saying they are telling him they're not actually headed for the u.s. so i'm wondering if that pokes holes in trump's argument that this is a security issue for our country. >> no, i don't think it does. because i think the point you made is just right. you have these images on television that the president can point to that makes his point, that you have all these immigrants who are trying to flood into the united states. look, there are very good reason why's these people leave. many of them don't have jobs. the ones that do have jobs have very low wages. and many of them live in place that's are extremely violent. so they have good reasons for leaving their homes to go somewhere else. i think the political point though which is what we were discussing originally, you made it perfectly. this plays into the president's core message. we do not have adequate border security. i want to give it to you and the democrats don't. it's a simple message -- >> you're right. >> -- in the midterm where you're

bill weir has been traveling with the caravan on its slow, dangerous journey north. he joined me from southern mexico near the border of guatemala. president trump said to bring your cameras to the caravan and find out what's going on. so bill, what have you found? what are people telling you? >> well, we can walk through here. we're in huixtla where people are going to spend the day actually honoring one of their caravan members who fell off a truck and perished yesterday. a bit of respect there. but we have been playing spot the middle easterner for a couple days now, and have yet to turn up any. you know, these are folks from mostly honduras, fleeing both political and criminal violence there. and now, as they gain strength, a lot of folks, you know, from guatemala and now in mexico are seeing this as an opportunity to follow a dream north. so there's strength in numbers, they say. but yeah, we all know the dog whistle implied in the middle easterner line. and you know, not to argue with vice president mike pence, he may believe what he says, but what seems inconc

bill weir, cnn, mexico. >>> lets to break down there.ere's the thing -- at meetings, rallies, and tweets, president trump is taking aim at this migrant caravan that is making its way north. >> these are some bad people coming through. these aren't babies. these aren't little angels coming into our country. these some hardened criminals coming in. and we're not letting them in. >> that is president trump's take. obviously this is a very, very complicated issue. so let's talk about this caravan. it actually started here in honduras. that's where they started days ago. they walked into guatemala, into the area, made their way to where they are right now, that is tapachula. they are heading north if they can get into mexico. here's the thing -- this is not the first of its kind. care veins of migrant -- cara n caravans of migrants form for safety. these are sometimes annual events with religious roots. not a new thing. what is few new -- what is new is president trump anticipation attention to them. i joined a caravan in april as they moved

. >> bill weir sat down with them, talked about their plans. story as well. >> one woman, self-described drunk and angry on election night, drowning her sorrows. but then in the harsh light of hangover day, the days after, she saw motivation. she reached out to other women. we obviously saw the big marches that took place, but they have taken that to a new level of activism. >> hello. >> hi. how are you. >> heads up, virginia lovers. if you get a knock in the next few weeks, there's a good chance you'll meet the liberal women of chesterfield county and beyond. how many of you were politically active before? >> nope. >> i don't even like politics. >> when is this going to end? >> proudly branding herself liberal is a bold move around these parts, but a mom named kim found you tend to get bold when you get mad. >> tell me the origins story of the liberal women of chesterfield. >> i was drunk and angry. >> so many great ideas start that way. a few days into donald trump's presidency, she poured some wine, opened facebook, and called out to other w

<bill weir> "what made you decide to climb onto that ladder?"in guillermo, honduran migrant> "this bridge, this river, they can't stop me, i am an all-terrain woman."most of the migrants began their journey nine days ago in the honduran port of san pedro sula...traveling through guatemala to the mexican frontier.last friday, they were allowed through by guatemalan border guards ... nat only to be met with tear gas on the mexican side.natbut thousands did make it across, perched on makeshift raft, swimming or wading ... the sick and weak had to be carried ashore.the migrants say they are fleeing violence in their homeland.this mother says her son was killed by a honduran drug gang"i don't want my kids in the middle of crime. i don't want to have the lives of my children further destroyed."according to president trump, the asylum seekers are the criminals ... trump> "you're gonna find ms-13. you're gonna find middle eastern. you're going to find everything. and guess what? we're not allowing them in our country."with midterms approaching, the pres

. >> one thing -- one, our reporters on the ground, bill we' weir, he's hearing they're fleeing theirituation in honduras. >> i'm not saying that you're not trying to come for a better life. >> one other thing that i think is also worthy of pointing out is that they're also -- this is not all of them because there are a lot of them. bill hasn't talked to all of them but some of them have told bill they don't want to come to the united states. they're trying to get into mexico to get a better life there so there's a -- >> then mexico -- if mexico wants to allow this to happen, then mexico should allow this to happen but i think you and i both know statistically and we've seen this from other caravans, that the ultimate goal is to come to the united states of america and if you want to come into this country, you don't break into this country. you don't breakthrough fences. >> seeking lum asylum is not breaking into the country. >> one thing we don't know is -- they haven't yet made it to the u.s. border. we have no idea if there will be attempts to come in illegally or if this is simpl

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