i'm poppy harlow. the house getting ready to vote on two immigration bills, the path to passing, either of them looking ominous. neither has the supported needs to make it through. these votes today are crucial and they're crucial for thousands of immigrant children who were separated from their parents crossing the border, and despite the president's executive order reversing his own policy, the fate of those children being held. some of the children you see here is not any clearer this morning. we wish we could show you more of the edgesen side the shelters where the children are being held, but we can't because the government has restricted access for journalists inside. all we have are these images and photos provided by the government. but nick valencia is outside one of those shelters. he joins me from brownsville, texas. what are you hearing? >> our question is if the conditions are so good inside, why not allow journalists to see it for themselves? we first started with southwest key, which is

in all, the sheriff's deputies cut down 17 tons of poppies making this the biggest poppy bust in california history and one of the biggest ever in the u.s. >> we want to make sure the openium product is getting on the streets and into the hands of number one kids and remember, number 2, we have an opioid epidemic in the united states. >> the cut poppies were buried in a landfill. normal operations continue in one of the fields that now has a large bear dirt patch in the middle. so far no one has been arrested. the investigators are trying to track down who planted the poppies and why. the grower says he can make $40,000 to $50,000 an acre through the market. 5 times as much as legal cut flowers. >> going for 100 years. difficult to say i did not know. >> u.s. drug officials say illegal poppy grows are actually rare in the united states because they are so difficult to hide. they say it is much cheaper and easier for drug cartels to simply import the openium from other countries. >>> doing damage control and apologizing for calling the president's daughter a four letter word. >> reporter: sa

i'm poppy harlow in new york. we're minutes away from a bail hearing for the maryland man charged with unleashing that massacre at the "capital gazette" newspaper. it ended with the murder of five newspaper staffers there doing their job reporting the news for their community. and this morning we remember them and the lives that they led. long time writer wendi winters, editorial page editor gerald fischm fischman, sports reporter john mcnamara, sales assistant rebecca smith and rob hiassen. through it all, survivors reported on their all tragedy this morning. the paper rolled off the presses and on to stoops all around town. and this morning the "capital gazette" intern talked about leaving the newsroom when it was over. >> unfortunately we saw we had to pass two bodies of our colleagues, which was something that nobody should ever have to stomach. just unfortunate that somebody would come into a place that only reports truthful stories that are fact-based and unleash hell on the office. it was -- we tried to kee

i'm poppy harlow in new york. "at this hour" with kate bolduan starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. let's begin with the breaking news out of the supreme court, a case that put religious liberty up against gay rights. the justices, for all of this, i want to get to the supreme court, cnn's jessica schneider is there. it was a decisive majority ruling in favor of the baker ruling narrowly though on the facts of the case. lay it out for us. >> reporter: that's right. a 7-2 ruling,poppy, in favor of the baker, but in

they cut down 17 tons of poppies, the biggest poppy bust in california history and one of the biggest ever in the u.s. >> we want to make sure that the opium product isn't on the streets and into the hands of, number one, kids, and, number two, you know, we have an opioid epidemic in the united states. >> reporter: the cut poppies were buried in a landfill. meantime, normal farming operations appeared to be continuing in at least one of the fields which now has a large bare dirt patch in the middle. so far, no one has been arrested. investigators are trying to track down who planted the poppies and why. they say a grower can make $40,000 to $50,000 per acre through the illicit market five times as much as legal cut flowers. >> it's been illegal for 100 years. it's difficult to say i didn't know. >> reporter: drug officials say that illegal poppy grows are rare in the united states because they are so difficult to hide. they say it's cheaper and easier for drug cartels to import the opium from other countries. in aromas, len ramirez, kpix 5. >>> in the case against the alleged golden s

they say those growers were farmers trying to settle poppy -- to sell the poppies as fresh cut flowersnot for drugs. >> i think they are not doing anything illegal. they are innocent, just growers trying to growing flowers to make a living. >> reporter: about 160,000 opium poppy plants were destroyed. the monterey county sheriff's department says it's working closely with the district attorney's office which plans to prosecute those responsible. in monterey county, maureen naylor, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> we are trending the other way. we were cooling down the last couple of days. and now tomorrow, and saturday and sunday, we'll begin to warm up. temperatures will get back into the upper 80s and low 90s. take a look at the way it worked. the way it started out monday we had a very warm day. inland valleys were in the 90s. we are heading the other way now with temperatures beginning to basically warm right back up into the 90s. a low pressure center brought cooler temperatures and lower winds. high pressure sets up, if you look outside, you can see that. you can see the fog and haze and tem

poppy?rting and thank you for being on the ground to show us outside of it. we appreciate it. >>> tech ceos, big company ceos condemning this publicly and our chief correspondent christine romans is here. you're talking about uber and huge names. >> apple, the chamber of commerce coming out saying this is not who we are as a country. this should stop immediately and tim cook, the apple ceo saying it's heartbreaking to hear the images and hear the sounds of these kids and it's inhumane and needs to stop. jamie dimon, that's the big business lobby and these are influential voices. he calls this cruel to do this to parents and it's contrary to american values. one after another, you're seeing tech companies and some of them offering money for legal advice for some of these immigrants at the border and it will give free rides to any of the groups that are providing relief to these folks at the border. >> microsoft? >> microsoft, about a hundred employees at microsoft wrote this impassioned lette

this isn't the first opium poppy bust in the area.multiple fields around the moss landing area. maureen naylor traveled to rural monterey county today to where those poppies were growing. >>> reporter: around watsonville fields of flowers grow in a microclimate best for blossoms. but these pink ones in monterey county launched a criminal investigation. the opium poppies which can be used in the production of heroin are illegal under federal law. >> we think probably headed towards some illegal activity potentially. that's what we have to discern. >> reporter: the monterey county sheriff's department says last week with the help of the california national guard it removed and destroyed 17 tons of mature opium poppies in seven different fields across five acres. the sheriff's office calls it the largest known seizure of opium poppies in california state history. >> it seems like for every acre we cut down, another one turns up. >> reporter: another field of opium poppies was discovered in moss landing earlier this month. while the opium

poppy. >> exactly. is it clear, barbara, if this were to happen whether these are bases that are equipped to hold families, meaning hold parents together with their children? >> it is always a possibility because hhs brings in contractors to run these facilities on the bases, again, to keep the military completely out of it. the notification was made, we believe, before the president's executive order, so it's another case of not being very clear how it's all going to work. but look, the pentagon is, you know, getting more involved. of course 21 military lawyers now have been earmarked to go run some of these immigration cases on the border. >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you so much. >>> andrew cuomo says 700 children separated from their parents at the border are living in new york state, in this state in shelters. he says he doesn't know how many or where -- how many have gone where because the federal government won't tell him. just listen to a bit of him. >> it's in violation of the law. t

i'm poppy harlow in new york. from the president this morning as he marks 500 days in office, he claims that he has the, quote, absolute right to pardon himself. he goes on to write, but why would i when i have done nothing wrong. this comes after a weekend of extraordinary disclosures, debates and admissions about presidential powers versus the power of the special counsel. let's go to the white house and begin our coverage with kaitlyn collins who joins us there. this came moments ago. what else can you tell us? >> reporter: a stunning statement from the president openly declaring that he believes he is above the law. the president saying that he is quoting numerous legal scholars. he doesn't say which ones. then he says i have the absolute right to pardon myself, but then he adds the caveat, why would i do that when i have done nothing wrong. he goes on to say, this is a never ending witch hunt by 13 democrats -- robert mueller is a republican. the president declaring that he has the power to pardon himself if

poppy? >> also, you have a message that is radically different from western media's message on the summit within n korea. north korea's television downplaying denuclearization as part of the summit, right? >> sure. what you're seeing in north korea is the sort of flip side, you know. president trump has raised the potential and the possibilities and the hopes and the aspirations of what he thi that the deal is, but what they're hearing in north korea is how well their leader kim jong-un has done. they're saying they're praising the summit and they're praising president trump, as well, but not as much praise as they're putting on their leader. they're hyping what they see a the gains out of this, and the sort of strategy going forward that they are no longer under threat. of course, this is inconceivable a few days ago. thestes and north korea has been the great demon. so to hear them praise president trump is something new. not so new, of course, hearing them hype their leader's position ove

i'm poppy harlow in new york. peter welch, a democrat from vermont, went to the southern border in texas to see firsthand what the children are experiencing. the children being held away from their parents. he described the troubling conditions that he saw firsthand in an op-ed this morning and he joins me now. thank you for being here, congressman. >> thank you. >> can you walk me through what you were allowed to see? >> well, quite a bit. this is led by senator merkley. he was turned away two weeks earlier. this time we were allowed in to several locations. and basically where people were being held is in warehouses, they're clean. but there is no windows. and when you go inside, there are chain link fences that in effect are cages. the kids, all the people that are segregated by age, by gender, and what we saw was a lot of kids in cages. we weren't allowed to talk to them, but, you know, the real issue here is these kids are removed from their parents. they're bewildered and scared. one incident really stood ou

i'm poppy harlow in new york. this morning we start on capitol hill where at any moment we do expect to hear from republican leadership as they scramble to find votes on an immigration compromise. moments ago president trump weighed in once again on twitter blaming democrats for the lack of progress on a border bill. he also writes he's working on something. no specifics on that yet, but there is still no clear path forward to fixing the humanitarian crisis on our southern border, one that the president decries, but can also stop with a single phone call. right now children still being separated from their undocumented immigrant parents as they try to enter the united states. sunlen s sunlen serfaty joins us from capitol hill. we know something can come as early as tomorrow morning, but do we have clear answers after the meeting the president had with republican lawmakers yesterday? >> reporter: as of now no. there are many competing, legislative proposals and many lawmakers wanting to do something on this, but as

>> poppy, it is his administration. it's his border patrol agents who are separating families, mothers and their babies at the borders. he can issue a directive right now and stop that from happening. on immigration, he has benefitted from making imaginary decisions. he says, you know what, you pass the immigration bill, i'll take the heat. he knows that the republicans in congress do not have the courage to bring that bill so he benefits from those imaginary decisions. we need a democratic majority in congress to put on his desk all the things that he has said he would sign and see if he's serious, because right now he just benefits from a congress that's not going to step up and stand for these families. >> let me ask you about the i.g. report and some of the findings in here, because the president this morning tweeted, quote, it doesn't get any lower than that. he's talking about the text messages exchanged between two fbi agents that worked on the hillary clinton e-mail probe and on the mueller probe for a period of

yesterday the dow was down 350 points, poppy. this positive sentiment was helped by the jobs report which came out at 8:30 this morning. it was a strong jobs report, about 223,000 jobs added, unemployment was at a record low, an 18-year low of about 3.8%, poppy. so that's helping this positive sentiment. we're going to see how this plays out through the rest of the day, but the president will likely take credit for this rahal rally. we've already seen him tease to the jobs report this morning before it came out. this is a goldielocks report. this is why the business community and to your point about your interview with that ceo, this is why the community doesn't understand why the administration would want to muck things up right now by picking a trade dispute, war, with our biggest allies at a time when things seem to be going along just fine, poppy. >> it's a head scratcher for sure. but thank you for the opening bell. you'll be there all day keeping an eye on what the markets do. appreciate it. >> bri. >> this morning, poppy,

compelling question, poppy. and i've got to tell you, being a former cop, i understand the visceral pain you feel when someone has taken one of your own and just walking around the newsroom here today and seeing some of your colleagues, i get it. it's a palpable, visceral sense of loss. i was very strengthened last night to see the chief from the anne arundel police department talk about the close relationship the police had with that particular newspaper and media. >> yeah. >> those two things are critical for a democracy. now, to your question about social media. again, you and i have talked about this before -- where do we end up on the continuum? we want free speech. we value the first amendment, especially in journalism, but how far is that speech allowed to go before it becomes threatening and dangerous? >> i mean, so, just talk about some of the threats that he made. >> sure. >> and how you as an officer would respond to those. >> a lot of the things he said, as i read through some of his social media pos

poppy's great. to be mistaken for poppy, i'm down with it, evan perez. i like giving he ining him a ha too, poppy. >> i was, like, does he think he's sitting next to me? we love you, evan. thank you for the reporting. >>> joining me now, robby mook, alice stewart, cnn political commentator and former ted cruz communications director and susan hennessey, our cnn national security and legal analyst, thank you, one and all for being here and susan, i have to begin with you on what is going on here with manafort and the fact that mueller's team is trying to throw him in jail before his trial because of these serious allegations with trying to tamper with two here is what congressman adam shift said last night to chris cuomo, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. >> special counsel team is not going to do thishey haretty darn clad evidence that manafort is trying to essentially corrupt or co-opt these witnesses. it is a big development and i think a sign that manafort is willing to try anything, do anything and he's facing some serious tim

i'm poppy harlow.ior fbi agent who sent anti-trump text messages during the campaign is about to get grilled on capitol hill. peter struck is facing lawmakers behind closed doors just days after losing his security clearance any being escorted out of the fbi building. he once worked on the russia investigation and the hillary clinton e-mail probe. he sent anti-trump text messages to a fellow

tens of thousands of colorful *illegal poppies.. hiding in plain sight. >>> we begin with the largest opium bust, poppies hiding in plain sight. good evening. i'm juliette goodrich. >> and i'm allen martin. two weeks ago, 25,000 poppy plants were pulled from this field in moss landing. a huge bust, but only the beginning. it led to the discovery of seven more fields in monterey county. all combined, enough to cover more than five acres. kpix 5 reporter len ramirez. this could be the biggest opium bust of its kind ever. >> that's right, this open field here behind me is one of the fields where these illegal opium poppies were found to be growing. it's not the kind of place where you expect to find this operation because it's right next to a major highway, a neighborhood, and a raspberry field. >> reporter: the acres of illegal poppies were hiding in plain sight, mixed in with other flower varieties in this open field. the poppies are pretty pink flower, but inside the controlled substance which is used to produce opium, morphine, and

in seven different poppy fields.es. the sheriff's office called it the largest known seizures of opium poppies in california state history. >> it seems like every acre we cut down another acre turns up. >> this comes r field of opium poppiewas discovered earlier this month. the d.a. says what the opium poppies are used to make heroin, that doesn't happen in the u.s. the heroin in the u.s. largely comes from mexico. >> the typical way the opium poppy is abused is the part itself is used in the making of the tea. and the city can be very dangerous and individuals can overdose. >> reporter: this is the first time the fire has been found in the area since 2003. the opium flowers are grown in a region where there are many legitimate flower growing and wholesale businesses. >> i think the guys are innocent myself. >> reporter: employees here see those growers were simply farmers trying to sell the opium poppies as fresh cut flowers, not for drugs. >> i think they are innocent people. growers trying to make a living. >> abo

poppy? >> nick valencia, thank you very much for that reporting. so a bipartisan group of more than 70 former u.s. attorneys have written an open letter to attorney general jeff sessions this morning, condemning this practice of separating parents from children at the southern border. they write in part, quote, your zero tolerance policy produced a tragic and unsustainable result. it goes on to say, until now, no republican or democratic administration nor any prior attorney general has endangered children in order to deter illegal entry. also listen to two border state republican lawmakers condemning the practice. >> it is very clear that it is within department of justice, it is within dhs' ability to not separate kids from their parents. and so acting as if this is something that congress is preventing from happening is just incorrect. and it is something that this administration could change right away. >> all of us who are seeing these images of children being pulled away from moms and

i'm poppy har in new york.ntil president trump's historic summit with north korea's lead and yet here at home an escalating battle with america's closest allies continues. let's bring in ron brownstein and reed wilson, national correspondent for "the hill." let me get your take on what lakudlow, the president's closest economice adviser said about what made the president so upset about justin trudeau's comments about canada don't be pushed around as he heads to singapore. listen to this. >> he can't put trump in a position of being weak, going into the north korean talks with kim. can't do that. by the way, president trump is not weak. he will be very strong as he always is. >> and let's just listen if we have it to what trudeau said gry. made this administration so >> i have made it very clear to the president that it is not something we relish doing,ut it is something that we absolutely will do because canadians are polite, we're reasonable, but we also will not be pushed around. >> reed, does the reaction of

the poppy appeal began in 1921.erfirst poppy on year, a young rosemary powell sold her first poppy on richmond year, a young rosemary powell sold herfirst poppy on richmond bridge. they ran out so quickly that her mother had to make more using red crepe paper. rosemary recalls, ever since the age of six, i have been selling poppies and i remember it all so well. collecting has kept me going all these years. it certainly has. 97 years later, rosemary, now aged 103, is set to retire.|j couldn't aged 103, is set to retire.” couldn't even begin to estimate how much she has raised. more importantly, it's that devotion of our volunteers, the way they go out at all times of year in all weather to support us. a second world war nurse, rosemary is no stranger to the cost of conflict. in world war i. the cost of conflict. in world war i, herfather the cost of conflict. in world war i, her father charles astonjames, was wounded. she would later lose her first fiancee and younger brother. she says she sells copies in memory of

poppy?> they won't get as many fees, i can tell you that, talking to union members in the midwest about this issue. thank you very much. >> jeffrey toobin, back to you. my reporting across the rust belt, so many union workers and folks that work in these factories have told me that they don't think it's fair that they have to pay in to these fees if they are not supportive of it or part of the union, et cetera, but they were mandated, how significant is it for the time when we've already seen the decline of unions in this country? >> it's a real blow. this has been a long, long-running fight at the supreme court. the union's argument has always been, look, you as an employee of this company are the beneficiary of the contracts we negotiate. we are doing your bidding. you are obligated to pay in. that argument was rejected, but remember, poppy, this is another 5-4 conservatives winning decision like the travel ban case yesterday, like the abortion free speech yesterday. three opinions in two

i'm poppy harlow in new york. this morning, president trump throwing another roadblock in immigration negotiations as thousands of children sit in shelters, still separated from their undocumented parents. moments ago, the president saying the u.s. should not hire more judges to help process these immigration cases on the southern border, despite some key members of his own party pushing exactly that. meanwhile, more than 2,000 kids are still being held away from their parents and despite the administration's newly released plan to reunite the families there are no clear details of how that will happen. what else is he saying? >> reporter: the president doubling down on his hard-line immigration rhetoric days after signing an executive order he said was intended to show heart by allowing families to be reunited and now seems to be fixated on this issue of immigration judges, saying the only solution to the problem at the border is to allow people to be deported immediately without any due process whatsoever. he sa

in seven different poppy fields. scattered across five acres. the sheriff's office called it the largest known seizure of opium poppies in california state history. >> it seems like every -- for every acre we cut down. another acre turns up. >> reporter: another field was discovered earlier this month. the d.a. says while the opium poppies are used to make heroin, that doesn't happen in the u.s. the heroin in the u.s. largely comes from mexico. >> the typical way the opium copy is abused is the heart itself is used in the making of tea. and the city can be very -- this tea can be very dangerous. >> reporter: this is the first time the fire has been found in the area since 2003. the opium flowers are grown in a region where there are many legitimate power going -- flower growing and wholesale businesses. employees here's a those growers were simply farmers trying to sell the opium poppies as fresh cut flowers, not for drugs. >> i think they are innocent people. growers trying to make a living. >> reporter: 150,000 opi

opium poppies are used to make opium, morhine and heroin. kron four's rob fladeboe shows us where it's happening and what sheriff's deputies are doing about it. rob fladeboe/moss landing "...the opium poppies were more or less hiding in plain site, they were growing among other cut flowers like this, they were spotted from the road. so far the sheriff's office has taken down eight different sites spread across north monterey county.."over the past ten days deputies have been searching out and uprooting tens of thousands of the bright pink poppies. this field alone contained 25,000 plants.commander john thornburg/monterey county sheriffs office "...we have a total of eight grows we've taken down, approximately 160,000 plants, almost 17 tons of plants and we've destroyed a majority of them..."deputies raided plots of opium poppies off dolan road in moss landing, along blohm road in aromas and also along elkhorn and johnson roads in the community of royal oaks. the area is known for strawberries, until now. commander john thornburg "....somebod

i'm poppy harlow in new york. a lot of news this morning and we're following two fast moving stories. u.s. markets bracing as the president threatens to slap $200 billion in additional tariffs on chinese goods. china this morning vows to strike back. dow futures down triple digits right now. >>> also, the president taking the immigration crisis to capitol hill today despite this family separation practice being solely of the trump administration's doing. the white house says it's up to congress to fix this mess. the president is head to go meet with republican lawmakers on the hill that are proposing these possible fixes. but this goes far beyond politics. this is about families being torn apart since april. more than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at the border of the that number continues to climb and take a moment and listen to this. this is heartbreaking sound regardless of your political beliefs, heartbreaking sound of children begging for their parents at a border protection facility l

poppy?ed a little bit more about what the department of homeland security is asking from the pentagon in terms of housing these migrants. what can you tell us? >> reporter: this seems to be what the administration is moving to. rather than letting the parents go as previous administrations have done, a so-called catch and release program where they are adjudicated and released as a family pending a court date down the road. rather than do that, they are asking the department of defense to prepare shelters so these kids can be reunited with their parents and then kept in custody pending those court dates. the government's not said that, lawyers don't quite know that, but that appears to be where all of this is headed and we're talking about tens of thousands of people. people now scattered across the country, hundreds of thousands of miles apart. poppy? >> thank you very much. >>> we're waiting for this hearing to begin before the house judiciary committee will hear from the head of the fbi c

poppy? is an important point, barbara starr in all of that at the pentagon, thank you very much. >>> just moments ago, china announced how it will retaliate against new u.s. tariffs on $50 billion worth of chinese goods. what does it actually mean for you and your pocketbook? that's next. ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. and it works 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes, or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, you're allergic to trulicity, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have sympt

i'm poppy harlow.ion bills, the path to passing, either of them looking ominous. neither has the supported needs to make it through. these votes today are crucial and they're crucial for thousands of immigrant children who were separated from their parents crossing the border, and despite the president's executive order reversing his own policy, the fate of those children being held. some of the children you see here is not any clearer this morning. we wish we could show you more of the edgesen side the shelters where the children are being held, but we can't because the government has restricted a

i'm poppy harlow in new york and president trump is back home on u.s. soil this morning and making a big and bold promise writing that we can all sleep well tonight and also asserting, quote, there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. that is what the president declared shortly after air force one touched down and now he says north korea's no longer, quote, our biggest and most dangerous problem. quite a bold statement. f that assumes and hopes that the pledged laid out in that joint statement saying that pyongyang will work towards denuclearization of the korean peninsula succeeds where all past agreements with the north korean regime have failed. in the meantime, the secretary of state mike pompeo is stram bling to bring his south korean counterparts up to speed especially on the president's snap decisions to halt what he calls provocative war games also known as joint military exercises with south korea's military. let's go to joe joins at the wh quite a statement from the president this morning. >> reporter: several statements i would say

different poppy fields destroyed, scattered across five acres.wn seizure of poppies in california state history. >> for every acre we cut down, another acre turns up. >> another field was discovered earlier this month. they are used to make heroin but it does not happen in the united states. typically heroin comes from mexico. >> the pod itself is using in the - - it is used in the making of tea that can be dangerous and individuals can overdose. >> this is the first time the flower has been found in the area since 2003. the opium flowers were grown in a region where there were legitimate flower growing and wholesale businesses. one of those was not far from lake shower - - lake flower shippers were trying to sell them as fresh-cut flowers and not for drugs. >> they were not trying to do anything illegal. these are just local flower growers trying to make a living. >> the sheriff department is working closely with the district attorney's office. they plan to prosecute those responsible here. >>> not as much wind out there today. it was windy and

i'm poppy harlow in new york. so glad you're with us this morning many questions still unanswered in the wake of president trump's historic meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un. today it is more clear the president is the defender of the autocratic leader he called little rocket man. listen to this exchange on air force one. >> you know, you call people sometimes killers, he is a killer. clearly he's executing people. >> tough guy. hey, when you take over a country, tough country, tough people, and you take it over from your father, i don't care who you are, what you are, how much of an advantage you have, if you can do that at 27 years old, you -- that's one in 10,000 that could do that. so he's a very smart guy. a great negotiator. but i think we understand each other. >> but he's still done some really bad things. >> yeah. but so have a lot of other people done some really bad things. i mean, i could go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad things were done. now, look, with all of that being said,

poppy, i talked abouty times on the show. very much in favor of donald trump getting very tough with china because i think china is a biroblemorld stage, you're goin trade dispute with china, you want your allies behind you and germany, and i worry that this is a distraction from the big dispute which is with china, and by the way, you are poppythat t going to make american products more expensive and this is actlre moving against and away from over the last 20 years. >> just remind people, you workedpresident's team and you advised him on allings . you're a liberal economist saying these things. i know you don't want to use the word trade war, but isn't this exactly what a trade war looks like, steve moore? >> well, it's t beginning of the stages of trade war. >> isn't tha >> maybe it is, but look, i believe donald trump -- when i've talked to him about this, he's always said, steve, i'm in favor of free trade. we just need a better deal. we need fairer trade with these co to extent he's right and a lot of coun hig tarif on

opium poppies are used to make opium, morhine and heroin. kron four's rob fladeboe shows us where it's happening and what sheriff's deputies are doing about it. rob fladeboe/moss landing "...the opium poppies were more or less hiding in plain site, they were growing among other cut flowers like this, they were spotted from the road. so far the sheriff's office has taken down eight different sites spread across north monterey county.."over the past ten days deputies have been searching out and uprooting tens of thousands of the bright pink poppies. this field alone contained 25,000 plants.commander john thornburg/monterey county sheriffs office "...we have a total of eight grows we've taken down, approximately 160,000 plants, almost 17 tons of plants and we've destroyed a majority of them..."deputies raided plots of opium poppies off dolan road in moss landing, along blohm road in aromas and also along elkhorn and johnson roads in the community of royal oaks. the area is known for strawberries, until now. commander john thornburg "....somebod

how the fields of poppy were discovered. ((lawrence tease))i'm kron 4 chief meteorologist lawrence karnow.coming up, i will take a look at your 7 day forecast. details are right after the break. (vicki) what's being called the biggest take-down of illegal opium poppies in state history is unfolding in monterey county. (pam) opium poppies are used to make opium, morhine and heroin. kron four's rob fladeboe shows us where it is happening locally .. and what sheriff's deputies are doing about it. rob fladeboe/moss landing "...the opium poppies were more or less hiding in plain site, they were growing among other cut flowers like this, they were spotted from the road. so far the sheriff's office has taken down eight different sites spread across north monterey county.."over the past ten days deputies have been searching out and uprooting tens of thousands of the bright pink poppies. this field alone contained 25,000 plants.commander john thornburg/monterey county sheriffs office "...we have a total of eight grows we've taken dow

reporter: the cut poppies were buried in a landfill. mean tile, normal farm -- meantime, normal farming operations appeared to be continuing in one field. so far, no one has been arrested. investigators are trying to track down who planted the poppies and why. they say a grower can make 40 to $50,000 per acre through the illicit market. five times as much as legal cut flowers. >> because it's been illegal for a hundred years, it's going to be difficult to say i didn't know. >> u.s. drug officials say that illegal poppy grows are common in the united states because they say it's -- aren't common in the united states because they say it's hard to hide. >> in orfrankie montes dealing again for the a's and a roster shuffle as the giants return home to at&t park. panic makes an impact in his return from the dl. my name is tony thurmond. education isn't the goal, - it's the gateway. hold the key... to every child's opportunity. we reject trump's attacks on our public schools. and invest in the teachers dreamers. modernize our curriculum and e

i'm poppy harlow. the presidential bromance with harley-davidson is officially over this morning the president is venting over harley's plans to move some of its production out of the united states to avoid paying sharply higher tariffs slapped on their bikes in europe. tariffs imposed in response to these sharply higher u.s. tariffs on european steel and aluminum. the president wrote, quote, a harley-davidson should never be built in another country. they're employees and customers are already very angry at them. if they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end. they ser rendered, they quit. what a difference a year can make. abby phillips is at the white house. a year ago the president wrote, great meeting with harley-davidson executives from milwaukee, wisconsin at the white house. that has certainly changed. what else is the president saying this morning? >> reporter: that's right. the president's clearly agitated by what is a direct result of his policy of initiating a trade war with europ

i'm poppy harlow in new york.ternoon the justice department will release the results of its own investigation into one of its own largest, most consequential, most controversial decisions and investigations in decades. it is the inspector general report on the hillary clinton email probe as overseen by then fbi director james comey. our shimon prokupecz is here to bring us up to speed. look, we don't even know if the president has seen this report yet. he has been very vocal about the fact he thinks it's too slow in coming. he even questioned whether it was being changed. what can you tell us about this report and its significance? >> reporter: he has mentioned that -- it's taken this report more than a year. this is something that the inspector general has been probing, certainly the fbi's handling of the hillary clinton email investigation. the key issue is, how the inspector general addresses the question of whether the decisions by the fbi at the time, by the justice department were motivated by politics? trum

poppy? >> we'll get to that in a moment. thank you, abby, at the white house for us this morning. more on this trump/putin summit. michelle kosinski is here with more details. we know the location, the date, and the president's frame of mind heading into this. >> we have been hearing a couple of different things. we heard from john bolton who said there aren't any real big goals or consequences that we expect to come out of this. it is a meeting, there is lots to talk about. he said having the summit itself is a deliverable. then we heard the secretary of state who was grilled on capitol hill by lawmakers asking about whether trump is going to bring up the election meddling and he said he was confident that the president would make it very clear to putin that any meddling in the u.s. election would be absolutely unacceptable. well, that's not exactly what we heard from the presidents' tweet this morning. however, we're also hearing from our diplomatic sources that president trump is back on

i'm poppy harlow in new york. this morning i wish that i could tell you that all children separated from their parents have been reunited with them. right now more than 2,000 are being held away from their parents, some thousands of miles away. despite the administration's newly released plan to bring the families back together there is no clear guidance on how or when that will happen. the government acknowledges it could be months for some. this as the president escalates rhetoric about immigrants calling them invaders arguing their cases should not be heard in a court of law. more immigration protests are expected after emotions and anger boils over at the u.s./mexico border. at one point protesters shouting let the children go and blocking a bus from leaving a detention center. let's go to the white house. more messa ages from the presidt saying we should just turn everyone away at the border that tries to cross illegally. that will solve the immigration crisis. what else are you learning in. >> the president

. >> and i'm poppy harlow in new york. if you listen really hard you can hear dem breatng a sigh of races still n final but in california so-called jungle primary it looks as if democrats will finish in the top two in each of the house races. the party most hopes to win in november. that's important to note that in california, the top two primary finishers face-off in the general election regardless of party. >>> republicans voided a big shutout of their own. john cox winning the right to face democratic lieutenant governor gavin newsome in the governor's race. miguel marquez has been following all the action. >> reporter: the big question is who is number two in california under this jungle primary as they call it. so gavin newsome, the republicans were worry that had they were not going to have any candidates at the top of the ticket to cross the state, and they wouldn't have many voters come november. republican forgovernor. ace a that isery good n republicans out here in california. they may also have a republican in t

deputies raided plots of opium poppies off dolan road in moss landing, along blohm road in aromas andlso along elkhorn and johnson roads in the community of royal oaks. the area is known for strawberries, until now. commander john thornburg "....somebody is taking care of this, somebody put this here, this plant is not normal in monterey county and it's 100 percent illegal...."no one has been arrested but it's obvious the tall, pink poppies, which can make for nice cut flowers, were more than likely being grown for the resin used to make opium, morphine and heroin.commander john thornburg/sheriff's office "....some people think it's a very pretty flower and i cant disagree but the problem is it's illegal and it's being used for illegal purposes..." it's possible farm workers might not even know what they're doing is illegal but someone does. deputies are contacting property owners. rob fladboe/moss landing "....again, no arrests so far but the sheriff's office suspects there may be more poppy gardens out there still to be discovered. in moss landing rob fladeboe kron4 news am) a warni

the poppy appeal began in 1921. years". it certainly has. 97 years later, rosemary, now aged 103, is set to retire. i couldn't even begin to estimate how much money she's raised. more importantly, it's that devotion of our volunteers, the way they go out at all times of year in all weather to support our work. a second world war nurse, rosemary is no stranger to the cost of conflict. in world war i, her father, charles astonjames, was wounded. she would later lose her first fiance and younger brother. she says she sells poppies in memory of those men who were killed for their sacrifice. and while few people will manage to give quite so much time to the cause as rosemary, it is hoped that her story will serve to inspire others. jessica parker, bbc news. amazing story. 97 years selling poppies for the british legion. now the weather with phil. thank you for joining me, let's get you through the next hours and the forthcoming weekend. a mishmash at the moment, glorious in some places, no complaints and temperatures mat

poppy? >> the president is pledging to end what he calls those war games, along the korean peninsula. just listen to the president this morning. >> we will b stopping the war games, which will save us a tremendous amount of money unless and until we see the negotiation is not going along like it should. >> those so-called war games are u.s. military drills with south korean forces. pyongyang has long considered them a dress rehearsal for ot a. pentagon correspondent barbara star joins me now. this is a huge concession from the united es, something that north korea really wanted, something that china likes to see. so what is the pentagon saying about it this morning? >> reporter: well, poppy, from the pentagon point of view, anything tt reduces tensions with north korea is a good thing. i think everyone agrees onthat. but as for these training exercises that the president calls provocations and war games, let's remember where they came from. these have been developed over decades to help trai

two weeks ago, 25,000 poppy plants were pulled from this field in moss landing.t only the beginning. it led to the discovery of seven more fields in monterey county. all combined, enough to cover more than five acres. kpix 5 reporter len ramirez. this could be the biggest opium bust of its kind ever. >> that's right, this open field here behind me is one of the fields where these illegal opium poppies were found to be growing. it's not the kind

i'm poppy harlow. anderson cooper joins us again this morning from singapore which is 48 minutes of history was made and the president did what his predecessors have not sitting down with the north korean leader and wrapping up a whirlwind press conference more than an hour long after that much anticipated summit hammering out vague but potentially historic agreement with kim jong-un. >> the president is on his way home this hour having won a pledge that north korea will, quote, work toward the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. details to be determined, though in an hourong news conference after five hours of meeting, the presidt declared this, quote, a very great moment in the history of the world. >> there is no limit to what north korea can achieve when it gives up its nuclear weapons. this is complete denuclearization of north korea and it will be verified. >> the president insisted all he gave u was his time but he also announced he's ending decades of joint military exercises wit

poppy? >>> so to the ongoing russia investigation this morning, the president is blaming his attorney general jeff sessions for recusing himself and going as far as to say he would have quote, quickly picked a different attorney general had he known. this tweet comes just hours afteert mur has moved to jail the former campaign paul manafort for allegedly tampering with witnesses. really serious, serious charges here, allegations against manafort. >> reporter: that's right, prt a judge to consider revoking paul manafort's bail for what they witnesses to lie in this to case. he's awaiting trial in washington and in virginia in federal court on financial crime charges. the special counsel robert mueller said in court filingsn manafort used encrypted what's app t to encourage witness tosz purger themselves. prosecutors cited contacts that manafort allegedly made including one in late february when manafort, quote, repeatedly contacted two unnamed people who may be witnesses against him. those tw