i mean, on this oversight stuff with congress so far, the trump administration is 0 for 2.s of today here comes number three. this time it is the case on which the trump administration honestly would appear to have the worst legal prospects because the law in this case is so clear. this is the federal lawsuit today filed by the ways and means committee in the house against trump's treasury department and the irs demanding that they turn over trump's tax returns. the chairman of the committee have requested the president's tax returns under black letter century-old law that said the returns must be handed over, but the trump administration still refused. the chairmen of the committee then subpoenaed the tax returns but the trump administration still refused. the primary point the committee is now making in its lawsuit today, now that they've decided to take this to the courts, is that the stralgs really doesn't have a leg to stand on in refusing to comply. the text of the law says the treasury secretary shall furnish any tax return the committee chairman requests. the commit

the chairman of the committee then subpoenaed the tax returns but the trump administration still refusedary point the committee is now making in its lawsuit today, now that they've decided to take this to the courts, is that the administration really doesn't have a leg to stand on in refusing to comply. i mean, the text of the law said the treasury secretary shall furnish any tax return the committee chairman requests. the committee says in its lawsuit that in all the decades this law has been on the books, "the committee is not aware of any instance other than its request for president trump's tax return information in which either treasury or the irs has failed to comply with the plain meaning of the law and provide information requested by the committee." and so far, you know, when these congressional oversight battles have made it all the way to court, we have seen two of those instances before, congress has won. this third one is teed up as today -- as of today. as to whether or not democrats' expectations on this are as high as it might seem from their filing, we'll find out next f

trump administration buried that. they even tried to block outside scientists who worked at other institutions, scientists who worked from other institutions with it usda scientists on that study, the trump administration trying to tried to block their outside institutions from putting out any press releases or statements announcing these findings. they want to make sure to keep them quiet. you're only dealing with potential starvation of 600 million people or massive changes in nutritional needs for 600 million people. why would anybody need-torn about that? politico.com interviewed one usda scientist who spoke on the condition anonymity to avoid the possibility of retaliation. that scientist told politico, quote, why the hell is the u.s., which is ostensibly the leader in scientific research, why the hell is the u.s. ignoring this. it's not like we're working on something that's esoter rick. quote, you can only postponement reality for so long. . so i know everybody decries partisanship in washington and two parties

this is what the trump administration is doing on purpose. presumably the reason they sent the vice president there to see it is because they like what they are doing they want you to know this is what they are doing. they think this helps them politically to be seen to be treating immigrants this way in pens. lamented for their smell and how unwashed they are. they are not being allowed to wash themselves and being held in outdoor portals with nothing to lie down on and no way to clean themselves for 40 days at a stretch. trump administration inarguably created this scenario and is maintaining it because they think it works for them politically. now they are showing it off. today the house oversight committee released the report summarizing the information that committee has been able to obtain about the treatment and mistreatment specifically of kids taken away from their parents by the trump administration and that report includes counts of boys and girls as young as four months old who have been taken from their parents by the trump admin

the trump administration started making inquiries at the pentagon about having military equipment at inaugural. about rolling tanks into washington, d.c. as part of the inaugural parade. they required tanks, missile launchers and who else do you got? during the transfer the power, a member of trump's transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the parade. the source said they were legit thinking red square-north korea-style parade. that quote from a trump transition source. this is a source involved in the inaugural planning. sounding the alarm. you have to know this is happening. they want freaking missile launchers and tanks, you guys. they are seriously trying to do that. when the "huffington post" asked about these plans to use military equipment in trump's inaugural, a trump aide refused to address the matter on the record, but offered a vehement offer the record denial. we were never considering that. the reporter stuck with that story. she filed a freedom of information act request, smartly, not with the white house because you can't foil the w

the trump administration started making inquiries at the pentagon about having military equipment at inaugural. about rolling tanks into washington, d.c. as part of the inaugural parade. they required tanks, missile launchers and who else do you got? during the transfer the power, a member of trump's transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the parade. the source said they were legit thinking red square-north korea-style parade. that quote from a trump transition source. this is a source involved in the inaugural planning. sounding the alarm. you have to know this is happening. they want freaking missile launchers and tanks, you guys. they are seriously trying to do that. when the "huffington post" asked about these plans to use military equipment in trump's inaugural, a trump aide refused to address the matter on the record, but offered a vehement offer the record denial. we were never considering that. the reporter stuck with that story. she filed a freedom of information act request, smartly, not with the white house because you can't foil the wh

said the worst cannot be ruled out with regard to the trump administration's possible collusion with the russians or donald trump's collusion with the russians which really bothered me. and so i think at this point we should probably return to diplomacy 101 and try to repair the bridge and try to bring the government of the united kingdom closer to us rather than pushing them away. >> the ambassador -- the enormous national security foreign policy experience and that is why the british government sent him to washington to begin with. let's move on to discuss the president's continued efforts now to include this very sensitive citizenship question on the 2020 u.s. census despite a significant setback from the u.s. supreme court which rejected the administration's rational last month. at this point, do you believe there is any legal pathway that would allow the administration to include this question on the census which is going forward right now. >> no. thanks to the leadership of chairman cummings on the oversight committee, we got to the bottom of why they actually added the citizens

coal miners, members of congress, and the trump administration officials tae s an event this morning at the epa where administrator andrew wheeler unveiled the final affordable clean energy rule. we hear from richard who's in austin, texas. democrats line. >> caller: yes, sir. there's two things. one, the bible, a thousand years ago, over a thousand years, it's about greed. that's all it's about. second, i'm laying here with cancer. my lungs, from agent orange in 1970 when these same bunch of clowns told you that agent orange had no effect on people. i've went through heart -- lungs now, and all because you sprayed me with chemical warfare in 1970 and you've been lying it for 30 years. >> all right. we'll hear from ed next. staten island. republican line. for niina farah. >> caller: yeah, i'd like to ask, why hasn't nuclear power been more embraced in addressing climate change, and also with the rise in methane gases, can that be attributed to fracking or natural gas production? >> sure. the nuclear piece is an incredibly controversial issue. i can't speak to that really specifically.

trump administration buried that. they even tried to block outside scientists who worked at other institutions. scientist who is worked from other institutions with the usda scientists on that study, the trump administration tried to block their outside institutions from putting out any press releases or statements announcing these findings and wanted to make sure to keep them quiet. you are only dealing with potential starvation of 600 million people or massive changes in nutritional needs for 600 million people. why would anyone need to know about that? politico interviewed one scientist who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid the possibility of retaliation and he said why the hell is the u.s. who is the leader in scientific research, why are they ignoring this? it's not like this is something esoteric. this has dire consequences for the entire planet. you can only postpone reality for so long. i know everybody decries partisanship and the two parties on two planets. i know. there is only one earth and here

the moral crisis of the trump administration's border policy ro more evident than ever tonight. members of congress today, including congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, toured >> they took all our phones away from us, something they haven't done in the past, so we've it's more than a lack of resources and funding, it's really a lack of treating people like they're human beings. it's a lack of treating people with dignity and respect that they deserve. before. he doesn't do news conferences, >>> plus, trump's plans to big >>> good evening from chicago. i'm chris hayes. the moral crisis of the trump administration's border policy >> we talked to a group of women detainees who said that they didn't have running water, that one was an epileptic and she couldn't get her medication. they were separated from their children. they'd been there over 50 days. one woman said that the border patrol agent told her to -- if c members of congress today, including congresswoman >> they took all our phones away from us, something they haven'te done in the past, so we've >> we talked to a grou

mcaleenan's leadership, the trump administration failed to track separated children and their families so they could be reunited. mr. mcaleenan has claimed the administration, and i quote, "kept very careful records when the relationships between parents and children." -- of the relationships between parents and children." but that was not accute. our committee has now obtained data under subpoena showing a chaotic system in which children and parents have repeatedly moved to multiple facilities in which parents were repeatedly deported without any idea of where their children were. our findings are corroborated by multiple reports from the independent inspector general and the government accountability office, which concluded that the trump administration made no serious effort to track separated children and had no plan to reunite -- reunify them. finally, while mr. mcaleenan has acknowledged overcrowding at the detention centers, he has claimed publicly that the reports of filthy and dangerous conditions are, quote, "unsubstantiated," end of quote. this is simply not accurate. last

in a very positive way for the trump administration, i am wondering, they must be alerted to, that facebook the rest of them will try to block body from trump campaign from using social media, right? >> we have already seen social media director at white house, facebook took away his account they bought he was a bot, he is a public official all over the place, the fact they suspended his account because they thought he was a bot is problematic, it is now back up and running but you never see these biases from other side, you never see liberals blocked or their accounting suspended only seems tto became at conservatives, the hill is looking at this. cruz, and nunes, nunes has a lawsuit out against twitter, thithissomething we'll see moren future, as this campaign progresses. >> the algorithms and moderators, twitter has these moderators that can take apart decide for themselves, what hate speech is, as we've sieve before -- seen before hate speech to one is not the other. >> marcia blackburn for example, she ran for senate, she had a campaign ad that mentioned planned parenthood, they though

justice department lawyers who had been fighting for this for the trump administration conceded to the court that they had lost it. then trump made them take that back, that devolved into this bizarre comedy of errors where justice department lawyers and their trump-appointed bosses were telling the same judge different stories about what the government intended to do. it was like these officials from the same department had never met each other and nobody knew exactly who their client was anymore and what anybody was supposed to be saying to the court. well today, inevitably, the president announced that they are giving up on this effort to try to rejigger the census this year. he announced he has an amazing new plan which is better than that, which turns out just to be doing the census the same way it has always been done. stomping on trump's decision to give up on his census plan, the aclu, which has been a plaintiff in one of the cases that successfully blocked the white house on this, they put out t s this, shall i say, stark statement from one of their lead attorneys today. the s

i think anecdotally it's probably happening a lot more under the trump administration. but this idea that this is unique to trump, the conditions are absolutely horrid, and again, i'm very happy that people are paying attention. but to assume this didn't happen with the prior administration is, again, lazy thinking. it's a lot of assumptions. a lot of people think about immigration now that we have this president, and it's unfortunate that we weren't thinking about it back in 2014 when it was a blip. there was that particular summer some people did pay attention and it sort of went away until the last year or so. >> well, craig, you wrote a piece today about the sort of opportunity to sketch out a vision of an alternative. what do you see as the role the democrats should be playing here on that front? >> right now democrats are caught up in some big divisions that are driven by the presidential primaries over immigration, with some of the more left-wing candidates pitching things like decriminalized migration and so forth. what i argue is that the asylum crisis actually

has quit after his leaked criticism about the trump administration sparked fear he in washington and kely new borisoreign minister johnson did not offer support. he said the white house is dysfunctional and in chaos, causing president trump to say he would not deal with him anymore. johnson declined to back him and would not commit to keeping him in his job. hong kong's leading broadcaster is under attack for alleged pro-china bias in its coverage of recent street protests. it's accused of favoring beijing urgingmpaigners advertisers to pull their commercials. at least one has done so. after what it calls a review of its advertising budget. news twitter four hours a day on air and at tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. paul: thanks. jay powell left no doubt after three hours of testimony to congress -- the fed is gearing up to cut its key rate for the first time since 2008 in the face of a cooling global economy and consistently low u.s. inflation. kathleen hays is here with a recap of his remarks as well is minutes from the

the trump administration says that it has told russia to, quote, knock it off.ce that russia has complied. >>> the coroner in east baton rouge, louisiana, says a murdered civil rights activist had been strangled. sadie roberts-joseph founded an african-american history museum in her hometown. mireya villarreal spoke to her brother. >> reporter: the discovery of sadie roberts-joseph dead in the trunk of her own car has left her brother joseph armstrong in shock. >> we never seen anything like this in our immediate family, and it is really, really hard. >> reporter: the 75-year-old loca civil rights activist was last seen friday morning after baking cornbread with her sister, according to the family. around 3:45 that afternoon, her car was found on a dead end street several miles from her home. >> popped the trunk, and there she was in the trunk of the car. >> reporter: police have offered little information to explain what happened. an autopsy concluded she died of traumatic asphyxia including suffocation. >> how did it happen? >> reporter: or why -- >> why does

they are destroying the trump administration in what has just been a debacle with the trump administration trying to recast and rejigger the census in a way that bluntly appears to be designed to under cut immigrants and latino communities specifically. they lost this and took it to the supreme court and lost it there, too. justice department lawyers who had been fighting for the trump administration conceded to the table that they lost it and trump made them take that back? that was in a bizarre comedy of errors and the trump-appointed bosses and the higher ups at the justice department were telling different stories about what they descend intended to do. they never 34e9 each other and no one knew who the client was and what they were supposed to be saying to the south. today inevitably, they announced they are giving up on the effort so rejigger the census. he announced he has an amazing new plan which is better than that which turns out to be doing the census the same way it has always been done. the aclu which has been a plaintiff that blocked the white house on this put out this star

on secret cables from their top diplomat in america privately telling his government trump is inept, his administration is incompetent and he radiated insecurity. the paper headlining part of their report, and this might be pretty sweet for people who are a little tired of the way donald trump uses this term, but this is the daily mail telling your president, sorry, mr. president, here's proof it's not fake news. and they quote the secret cables, as i mention. all of this about how the other diplomats around the world privately view donald trump. they adhere for good measure, quote, for a man who has risen to the highest office on the planet president trump radiates insecurity. on all of the above i'm joined by richard stengel who knows about diplomatic cables. he's the former managing editor of time magazine. kristen leads the group united we dream. she came to the u.s. from ecuador at the age of 13 as an undocumented immigrant and democratic state representative mary gonzalez who represents a district in the texas house that deals with clint, as we mentioned, a big part of this exhaustive report and

many say in a large measure, it's a self-created crisis by the trump administration. donald trump has done all sorts of things. because of the pressure from democrats in congress and journalists and people who have been visiting these sites, we're now seeing with new depth what is happening inside some of these detention centers. they reported a widespread overcrowding has increased government investigators. in the rio grande valley, a senior manager of one of the facilities, says the situation is now a ticking timebomb. take this photograph, june 10th, mcallen texas, the families you see packed behind this fence. this is this area they have labelled pod 2 with little room for anyone to do anything. they also have families experiencing government induced over crowding behind fences. people wrapped in blankets that are similar to the aluminum foil reports we've seen previously. take the pictures out of texas, detainees of kids lying on the floor. sharing a single water cooler from what we can tell. some wearing masks over their mouth. then take a look at the ft. brown s

the trump administration saying it's targeted roundup is underway, though it seems a far cry from the major blitz the administration had promised. >>> and birthright has brought millions of young jews to visit israel, but it's also faced major backlash from a one-sided perspective. now one organization is offering a different view. >>> we are live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta and we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. >> and i'm paula newton. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> now, the u.s. president escalated his anti-immigration rhetoric sunday with an attack on four minority congress women using language widely condemned as racist. now, it came on the same day donald trump's administration says it launched raids targeting thousands of undocumented immigrants. >> a series of tweets. here's what he said. "so interesting to see progressive democrat congress women who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe. rememb " remember, again, these are americans, but the presiden

he reportedly was part of multiple pitches made to the trump administration involving elliott broidy under federal investigation for his role in the inaugural and influence peddling in part through his great connections with this guy george nader who had so many ins with the trump campaign and the transition and the trump white house. he was a perfect conduit for a guy like broidy. last month as george nader was flying in from dubai into new york city, he was arrested yet again on yet another round of child pornography charges and today in federal court in the eastern district of virginia, he was formally indicted on the charges. he had a tentative trial date set for september. prosecutors have added that charge of child sex trafficking dating back to the year 2000. that allegation of nader bringing a 14-year-old boy to the country to abuse him that year. in today's court hearing, nader's defense team signalled they would challenge that charge, the sex trafficking charge on the grounds that the statute of limitations expired. it was in the year 2000 and to go for him to be charged wit

however, all of this could be stopped by the trump administration.wei's equipment could be used for espionage. these are accusations that the company has strongly denied. two weeks ago, the us announced significant relaxation of its restrictions. the trade was starting to lay off people, 600 at its us research firm and this was after the company was added to the list. thanks for filling after the company was added to the list. thanks forfilling us in. we will be waiting to see what those results are. in other news making business headlines. borisjohnson's government toughened its rhetoric on exit. they said britain is currently working on the assumption of that outcome. japan's industrial out fell ahead of interest—rate decision at the country's central bank later today. how much is this japanese slowdown that we are seeing due to the us china trade war. how much is due to japan's going domestic issues. they are very interconnected. as you been reporting saha ——so far. the worldwide leaning towards conservatism is having a result. two—thirds of the m

. >>> now to washington where house democrats say multiple investigations into the trump administration will continue. this all comes after special counsel robert mueller's congressional testimony yesterday failed to produce any bombshells on the russia investigation. as fox's lauren blanchard tells us republicans are eager to turn the page. >> democrats were hoping for a bombshell moment out of former special counsel robert mule anywhere's hearing yesterday. mueller stuck to his public report, the testimony still shows the president need to be investigated. >> don't know the report and don't know mr. mueller i don't think any should expect that. >> we closed the book of this investigation. it is time that america turns the page. it is time to america to move forward. >> house democrats not backing down on their criticism of president trump, and they say the hearings did not exonerate the president. >> we have nothing in there about money laundering from the russian oligarchs,. >> when it comes to impeachment the hearings did little to sway on the fence democrats as the house gets ready

under the trump administration,t ill be the last u.s. ship to dock in the island in the near future. it is in stark contrast to the jubilant scenes three years ago. in may 2016 i traveled amid the assignment and celebration one rst cruise ship in 50 years to make the short trip across the florida straits. now it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of tickets to cuba will go unused, hittinnd the i's tourism industry hard, particularly tour guides and taxi drivers. >> i think it is a pretty unjuse ure, because the problems the u.s. government have with the government of cuba should not mean we the people have to suffer the consequences. >> i' policy. against this people should be free to visit whatever country they like. will: restaurant owners will be hurt, too, not just by t cancellation of cruise ships. this restaurant once entertained presiden times.atring happier >> we ar0% capacity at the moment. there were just six tables occupied yesterday. and i am one of the fortunate ones.w people k because we were lucky to host president ob

trump cables leaked. in them he was frank about what he was seeing and hearing calling the administration inept among otherngs. trump responded angrily and nasayly not just toward the ambassador by the prime minister as well. joining me david miliband, the former secretary. david, you knew kim darroch. >> i still know him and he's alive and well i'm pleased to say. >> what did you think of him when you dealt with him professionally. >> he was an outstanding ambassador. the president called him pompous and stupid and those are the last words you would use for kim darroch. he was a worldly man. he is a worldly man. he was very inciteful about america, having talked to him during his time here, he made a point of knowing the washington game but also getting out into the country. so he wasn't completely surprised by the victory of president trump. he's a very astute watcher of the american scene. i think we now have a really unprecedented situation. the last time the united states government asked an ambassador to leave was in 1856. so this really is -- you called it a low point and i think you're right. it's

he also reportedly was part of multiple perspectives made to the trump administration involving elliot broidy, who's under criminal investigation in part with george nader who had so many ins with the trump campaign, the trump transition, the trump white house. he was the perfect conduit. last month george nader was arrested yet again on yet another round of child pornography charges and today in federal court in the eastern district of virginia he was formally indicted on those charges. he had a tent tiff trial date set. we learned prosecutor haves now added that charge of child sex trafficking dating back to the year 2000, that allegation of nader bringing in a 14-year-old boy to abuse him. in today's hearing nader's team -- it was in the year 2000, it was therefore too long ago to be charged with that crime. the prosecution signalled they have some sort of work around in terms of why they still think they can charge george nader with that everyone though it happened so long ago. the prosecution signalled today in court that at least one of their witnesses who they'll call to provide

was a series of events pieced together by cnn that shows a developer with connections to the trump administrationh his project forward despite environmental concerns. it was just seven months into the new administration, steve spangle received an unusual phone call. >> it was one of our solicitors, one of our attorneys from washington, and she told me that she had gotten a call from a high level political appointee within the department of interior who informed her that our position out here in arizona was not the position of the administration. >> spangle says the lawyer from the interior department told him he needed to reverse his earlier decision on that environmental assessment for the project. >> i felt i had a duty. i worked for the administration, i have to do what i'm told, and so i did. i felt pressured to reverse my decision. in its simplest terms, i was rolled. >> he followed orders, reversed his decision, and four months later, retired. environmentalists are livid. >> we're supposed to work under the laws and science, and science was overridden here. >> this is the developer, mike in

for decades, not just the trump administration but predating the trump administration is enforcement first, border security first. in many ways you can sum up the democratic and republican approach since really the '90s as deterrence. i think it's fair to say that hasn't worked. and i think that was one of the interesting things that you talked about in the bipartisan policy center, in their solutions to this, the enforcement only approach hasn't worked. but you still emphasize that border security is necessary. a question that the ambassador asked that i want to ask you now, what does border security look like? if it is not defined, how can you possibly achieve it? what is border security? >> i think this is one of the conundrums of the immigration debate writ large. everybody has sort of terminologies or catchphrases or short things that are meant to describe again a complicated thing. but border security at its core should be about securing the territory of a country from threats that come from outside the country. in this case, the can be criminal gangs, smuggling, terrorism, any

so how is the trump administration planning to add it?ip question post-it note on all the printed census forms? i mean, there's a lot of ineptitude on display here from the trump administration, for sure, but there could be serious consequences ahead, even if they continue to lose in court. for one thing, if the goal of the citizenship question is to depress latino participation in the census then trump and barr at all may accomplish that goal just by sowing confusion about whether the question is included. and second, there is the real possibility here that we could be rolling toward an event that has never happened in 243 years of american history. the president of the united states simply defying a supreme court order. if this case by simply going ahead with a citizenship question regardless. possibly through an executive order. and that is real constitutional crisis territory. joining us now is jess braven, "wall street journal" correspondent. thanks so much for being here tonight. >> you bet. >> so let's talk about that last bit. wil

the consequences of what happens within the trump administration. itical comments by the ambassador that were leaked and donald trump reacted in the way that only he can. but many americans are used to that and those initial comments criticising the dysfunctional white house, americans have heard those before. analysts have heard those before. analysts have talked and written books about it and those sentiments are well—known. we have not heard from donald trump since the ambassador‘s resignation did we have heard from the vice president, mike hence who said that, to paraphrase him, said that it was probably the right decision to go because he had become ineffectual in the role. and what about the united states mending fences with the uk? that is the bigger question. a hugely important question because of that special relationship between the two countries and moving forward, of course, there will be a different tea m course, there will be a different team from the british side in a couple of weeks time when we have a new prime minister. operably bor

in the case where the trump administration is trying to change the census and they keep getting stopped by the courts in their efforts to do so, tonight there was a very dramatic move by a federal judge in new york city who blocked efforts by the justice department to swap out the whole legal team that's been working on that census case. there had been speculation that the career justice department lawyers working on the census case either wanted out because they didn't feel like they could responsibly keep working on it or alternatively that the trump administration was trying to force those career lawyers off the case in order to replace them with more pliable trump appointees. but whichever it was, the justice department was trying to swap out all the lawyers in the census case and a federal district court judge in new york tonight blocked that effort to switch out all the lawyers in that case. so that is a big new dramatic turn. there is also dramatic developments today in the case of mike flynn, president trump's first national security adviser. very interesting developments involv

they are thinking the trump administration will not do anything. they of mistaken. we're building up the whole infrastructure, that will put a lot of pressure on the iranians, something else did tehran, they are fiscal katein kateing -- miscalculates on their own people, million rose against the regime in 2009. and obama administration let it go, this time in washington you have the trump administration they the not let go. lou: dr. walid phares thank you. >> thank you. lou: up next, department of justice, puts a severe dent in the radical dimms' hopes for quote, unquote blockbuster testimony from robert mueller. you thought that was over? no. geralded ijere nadler, adam schd radical dimms want to play more, we take that up and much more after these quick messages, stay with us. i switched to liberty mutual, because they let me customize my insurance. and as a fitness junkie, i customize everything, like my bike, and my calves. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ lou: breaking news,

not one single so-called cage has been constructed by the trump administration. not one. during the presidency of barack obama, we didn't see outrage then. president trump has not built a single cage. the cages you see in the news were constructed by president obama's administration. the only thing the trump administration used chain linked fence for is one temporary facility through which immigrants pass when they are getting screened. the detention facilities are all care conditioned, have fresh water and supplies and folks trained to administer health care and those supplies. you would never know that listening to the democrats. after months of making urgent calls for more funding, it wasn't until just before july 4 that house democrats agreed to pass the funding bill to provide some funding resources. despite the size and scope, some democrats choose not to support this bill choosing instead to play politics with the border rather than work on the solutions that we all know need to happen. fabricating stories of cruelty and providing humanitarian assistance does nothin

if the trump administration can choose not to defend the aca, citizens like me understand that future administrations can do that with any law. i put my health at great risk to travel here and share these stories. i never know if this is the last time i'm healthy enough to come to dc. i would be remiss if i did not mention my friend and advocate of medically fragile children, natalie weaver, whose own daughter, sofia weaver, passed away in may. sofia suffered from rhett syndrome and many other pre- existing conditions and endured 30 surgeries in her short 10 years of life. natalie spent precious time away from her daughter for the betterment of healthcare access for all children. she will never get that time back. these are the sacrifices that we make as advocates. that is why i am here today, to ask you to protect the affordable care act and to hold the trump administration accountable for not defending health insurance for all americans. thank you for allowing me the opportunity to testify and i'm happy to answer your questions. >> thank you very much. passion, purpose. i will now y

. >> a flatout rejection of the trump administration's plans to strip the state of the right to fight global warping by setting its own standards. i'm eric thomas. >> i'm ama daetz. thank you for joining us. dion lim joins us with more on the deal. dion. >> reporter: yeah, today's announce" is supposed to be a cop pro mize between obama era emission standards and the more lax ones set forth by the trump administration. however, while environmentalists call this a win that could save you mobe, energy cans republicans are calling this a political move. bucking the trump administration's attempts to relax emissions regulations, california and four of the world's largest automakers making up 30% of new cars sold in the u.s. have entered a pact to reduce gas emissions from vehicles. >> this country is moving in this direction. th vast majority of governors, democrats and many republicans, as well get it and they want to see this kind of optimizationing. > california's deal is with the following automakers, bmw, volkswagen, honda and ford. governor newsom got them to agree to boost the fuel

as rachel explained on the show, on friday the trump administration told the court it was busy coming a new rational for changing the census, which is impressive, because the administration changed the rational for the census at least 10 times in the last four months. this weekend donald trump himself went ahead and gave away the game, saying they need the question to draw congressional districts which the doj lawyers had been arguing for months is not the rational. now today the lawyers arguing the census case who had been vying to come up with a reason the courts would believe is real and valid for changing the census have been replaced. "the washington post" was first to report it could signal career attorneys's real or ethical concerns over the maneuvering ordered by the president. attorney general william barr acknowledged number of people who litigated the case have been told not to continue. oddly enough if anything happens could be called odd, the doj lawyer who is specialize in cases like this are being replaced with lawyers from completely different sections of the justice d

the ninth circuit court of appeals ruling 2-1 that the trump administration was within its rights in instance. this is taking place against the backdrop of upcoming raids said to take place by trump's i.c.e. it's creating fear in the nine cities that these are expected to take place, sparking protests around the country. martin and christi? >> all right. sarah west woods, we appreciate the update. thank you, ma'am. >>> so our top story this hour, tropical storm barry, now just off the gulf coast. threatening to pack hurricane-force winds when it makes landfall and unload up to two feet of rain on this area. look at this thing. we'll talk about where it's going, what's ahead, and we have people all in the region, all of our reporters, bringing that to you next. wit looks like jill heading offe on an adventure. jill has entresto, a heart failure medicine that helps her heart so she can keep on doing what she loves. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. it helps improve your heart's ability to pump blo

. >>> breaking news, a federal appeals court wraps up a hearing on a trump administration backed challenge to obamacare and two of the three judges suggest they may favor striking down the entire health care law. that could be millions of americans could lose coverage. >>> also tonight, president trump is defending labor secretary alex acosta whose facing the demands that he step down. acosta was a u.s. attorney a decade ago when he cut a secret plea deal for multi-millionaire jeffrey epstein who faced sex charges and now with epstein facing new charges for allegedly running a sex trafficking network and abusing underage girls, joe biden is the latest to demand that acosta resign. president trump says acosta is doing a great and fantastic job. but said the matter must be looked at closely. i'll speak with democratic candidate amy klobuchar and congressman john garamendi and our correspondents will have full coverage. let's begin with our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. a member of the trump cabinet is under fire for his controversial actions in a previous job. what is the lates

>>trump administration was a blank check to engage in more of the same the trump administration has made it clear it will continue to crack down. >>immigration and customs enforcement agents are preparing to launch raids and round up undocumented immigrants. they're absolutely going to happen there's. >>approximately a million people in this country with removal orders, democratic lawmakers fear families and children will be caught up in the rates. >>which are expected in large cities, including san francisco, los angeles new york and miami. in washington. alexandra the mound. we have continuing coverage on the ice raids on our. >>website there you can find when and where the rains are expected. what to do if they happen and how lawmakers are responding it's all happening at kron 4 dot com. >>another big story we are following tonight, president trump abandoning the effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 senses, instead, he will pursue other ways to get that data. >>i joining us right now is julie and mark she is the staff attorney for. groups it's called advancing justice asia