We have to oppose so so love from that layer of the next president of the European Commission. And slowly date that kristin that comes with a president of the central but it turned out before they were able parliament to close for the law and for the Commission President if elected she would be deferred storeman to the today you of the commission and would be happy about it after all you have as a woman. Also coming up tonight u. S. Lawmakers are shocked and angry after seeing for themselves how migrants at the border with mexico are being treated. These women were being told by c. B. P. Officers to drink out of the toilet they were Drinking Water out of the toilet and that was them knowing with a congressional visit was coming that was this is c. D. P. On their best behavior telling people to drink out of the toilet. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all the around the world welcome we begin the day with history in the making here in europe for the 1st time ever a woman has been nominated for the top job in the European Union tonight a new leaders after days of exhausting negotiations agreed to support ursula funda lion as the new european Commission President for the lion is currently germanys defense minister and is a member of german chancellor Angela Merkels conservative c. D. U. Party of her nomination now goes before the European Parliament for final approval but there is no guarantee of that approval and it is important to note that fund was not a candidate and she was not the 1st she was not the 2nd choice here is what the german chancellor Angela Merkel said this evening about the nomination. Of the office of the president to the commission we have nominated for the very 1st time a woman tied to a select funday line comments placing one abstention the others who are in unanimity from young to sound the extension came from germany from me and we agreed amongst the german governing coalition it if you dont Reach Agreement amongst the coalition you abstain if we have been able to pass this without any negative vote. That was the german chancellor Angela Merkel speaking earlier this evening we have Team Coverage of history in the making here this history making nomination a european politics im joined now by correspondent Terry Scholtz from the European Council in brussels and our Political Correspondent thomas ferro he is at our Parliamentary Bureau here in berlin to both of you good evening terry let me start with you we have to history making nominations to women for the jobs of european Commission President and president of the European Central bank 1st and foremost to remind everyone why are these jobs so crucial and so coveted. The president of the European Commission is the most visible person in all of the blocks of jobs not only that but the person in this position gets to decide which countries get which Commission Jobs so if its are still of underlying will be handing out you know whos in charge of agriculture or whos in charge of the digital agenda whos in charge of energy and for some countries these are very very crucial positions because their interests are tied up in what policy is being made for the next 5 years that this commission will preside so this is a very influential job and everybody wanted it thats why it took 33. 00 different summits to come to agreement on this no one was willing to back down on their candidate and president of the European Central bank youve got 19 of the 28 countries using the euro the president of the European Central bank has a huge influence over what kind of policy is made mario draghi in that job at the moment they get to decide on inflation rates whether to raise or lower them this is a really key position and i think that Christine Lagarde is is really a strong candidate people have a lot of confidence in her having seen her as head of the i. M. F. For all these years until now is the German Defense minister and if the world is not familiar with her that could soon change. And do we know why she was nominated. She was essentially nominated because she pleased most if not all european leaders obvious the merkel she also pleased to call my own sort of funny and i am speaks french she was born in belgium grew up in belgium so is also staunchly european she also pleased some of the Eastern European countries mr obamas Spokes Person specifically said that earlier today so thats what probably the reason why she was nominated for these very important posts and when you ask who she is shes obviously germanys defense minister and that is a very difficult position a very controversial position here as well because the German Forces have been criticized time and time again for its for their readiness for their capability and those that are funded i know the German Defense minister has had to deal with that problem they were not a problem she created it was a problem she inherited but depending on how you view what she has done you would consider whether she did a good job or not a or not but no it was not a good job as well that essentially depends on what view you have on her role but she someone who is seen as a very close ally of im going to merkel in fact shes described as the only minister that has been with. All along since on them a cold became german chancellor in 2005 the important point to bring up there and what will come back to be in just a moment let me pick up with christine the guard whos head of the argument for you know nominated to be head of the European Central bank her nomination is less of a surprise would you agree. Well i think some people may have been surprised by it because Christine Legarde has never been the head of a central bank and i think that most people who would have been considered for the position in the 1st place for example vitamin a the german head of the German Central Bank would have been would have held this job in the past that said having steered the i. M. F. Through some very rocky waters i dont think anybodys really worried about her or worried that she will face opposition in the European Parliament when when the nominations come up for a vote in a couple of weeks time you know i said teary that these nominations are a balancing act or maybe because even discovered as a juggling act to me what factors went into these nominations. Yeah i think of it more like like a chess board brant because every time you move one piece youve got to look at where the other pieces are going to move when the leaders are looking at who theyre going to name to these jobs theyre trying to balance not only gender which has been done very successfully now but also geography the north and the south east and the west all of them want to hold these jobs youve got to balance political idiology and the European Parliamentary elections in may caused a lot of complications because it used to be that the center right in the center left the p. P. And the social democrats got to together to to basically choose who would get these jobs they had enough votes thats no longer the case with some of the other parties becoming stronger with the last election so things have gotten a lot more complicated and there are a lot of factors that need to be balanced and you might notice there hasnt been an east european nominated to any of the top jobs so we may see that coming up in the European Parliament election for its president it is a very good point as well. On the line we understand she was not the 1st or the 2nd choice put forward by germany in fact we understand that it was the french president mr mccrone who suggested or so from the line for this position how do you read that. That it may have been proposed somewhat differently but the fact that. The lion as you say was not the 1st not the 2nd not the 3rd choice does indicate to what extent european leaders actually struggled with this decision and it also reveals to what extent or sort of on the line may be a good candidate for this job after all as i said earlier she did please not only germany and france but some of the Eastern European countries as well and that has to do probably with the fact that shes one of the most well known german ministers of all internally here in germany she may have had to deal with all these problems but she has also been someone who in Different International venues has called for a bigger role for germany internationally for a big european role in terms of security and defense someone who has called for germany to lead from the center something she mentioned also a few years ago so windows are probably reasons why was it on the line was also well known well known not to european level there not only here in germany where her role is extremely controversial there are those who say she has done a very good job considering how difficult it was there are others who have criticized outright who have criticized her a lot and in fact the social democrats of course Coalition Partners have said outright that theyre not going to vote for that they dont support her nomination or at a political response to the spirit here in berlin and are very willing to results in brussels to both of you thank you. In the United States democratic members of congress who visited centers in texas housing migrants say they were shocked by what they saw all they were not allowed to take pictures inside but congressman you walk in castro was able to secretly film these images which he posted to twitter he says they show women some of them grandmothers sitting on concrete floors crammed into a cell with just one toilet and no Running Water to drink or water for washing their hands castro said the women asked lawmakers for help but that they feared it retribution. When new york democrat alexandria cortez also visited Detention Centers in texas on monday and said that the conditions were horrified. Theres accused societies theres abuse this is them on their best behavior and they put them in room with no Running Water and these women were being told by c. B. P. Officers to drink out of the toilet they were Drinking Water out of the toilet and that was them knowing with a congressional visit was coming that was this is their best behavior telling people to drink out of the toilet. Well this comes as the u. S. A nonprofit news site pro publica has published a report exposing what it says is a secret Facebook Group for current and former Border Patrol agents now according to probe publica the secret group has more than 9000. 00 members whose posts include the recent photo of the bodies of a father and his 23 month old daughter floating in the rio grande you remember that image we have blurred the image of the person who posted the photo in the group asked if it could have been faked because the bodies were so quote clean of the picture was taken by an Associated Press photographer and there is no indication that it was staged or manipulated the u. S. Customs and Border Protection agency has opened an investigation into that Facebook Group well today Amnesty International released a report accusing the u. S. Government of a campaign of intimidation and harassment against people who defend the rights of migrants on the Us Mexico Border brian griffy is the author of that report hes the north american regional researcher and advisor at Amnesty International he joins us tonight he is and the Us Mexico Border of the san diego side brian its good to have you on the show. You may have just heard in our in our Program Representative alexandria kasi of cortez saying that she did not feel safe in the presence of u. S. Border guards when she was visiting those detention facilities does that fit with the findings in your report what we found in our report which we released today right here at the Us Mexico Border. As across this border wall behind me is that the u. S. Government has waged a deliberate and Concerted Campaign of intimidation threats harassment and in some cases criminal investigations and prosecutions to target exactly the human rights defenders and by that we mean activists and journalists lawyers humanitarian volunteers. In order to deter them prevent them and punish them for defending the human rights of migrants and Asylum Seekers on the Us Mexico Border that includes those who are in detention facilities like you were talking about just now as well as those who are stranded by the thousands on the mexico side of the border behind me who are seeking to exercise their human rights to claim asylum protections from u. S. Authorities in order to flee persecution or other targeted serious Human Rights Violations against them for it taught me a little bit about how you put this report together me how many people did you talk to it can you how representative is is you know the interviews that you conducted how representative is it of the entire situation. Right well you know in the cover of darkness a lot of is where a lot of this abuse is happening and we spoke with about 2 dozen human rights defenders primarily humanitarian aid providers immigration lawyers in some cases some journalists and others about their experiences and what we saw was that customs and Border Protection the same border officials who were featured in your in a previous part of the segment have been essentially utilizing the Us Mexico Border as a criminal dragnet the try to entrap activists and lawyers among others with serious criminal allegations of human smuggling sometimes for doing as little as informing Asylum Seekers of their rights to seek asylum under u. S. Law the Us Mexico Border what we saw today also today at the same time as our News Conference just a couple of hours ago here we learned that u. S. Federal prosecutors are going to be. Retrying under smuggling laws a humanitarian volunteer with the organization no more deaths in arizona who was looking at 20 years for in federal prison for providing. Migrants in the desert with water food and medical attention. As well as a place to stay for a couple of nights now they dropped the conspiracy charges against them and want to retry him for 2 of those charges where he would still face 10 years in prison so this is the type of high stakes that were looking at and not just in order to deter people from assisting him i think when you know the border but also this is at a moment when President Trump in the last of the last 2 weeks has been threatening to sue a rest detain and a 4th millions of people residing in the United States let me let you know the status of here let me ask you this that what youre saying that what youre saying here i mean youre describing entrapment youre also describing a legal system that that sounds like its in cahoots with with this can. Pain of intimidation but certainly if he if it gets to the point that youre sitting in front of a judge certainly the judge is going to see that this is entrapment and that these people were just trying to be you know human beings in and offer someone water to drink but are you saying in your report that the legal system that the judges are also culpable in this campaign. Well theres 2 problems here one is that the Law Enforcement agents who are in the border thorins far misuse in the criminal Justice System in order to charge people in violation of the civil rights that are protected under the u. S. Constitution u. S. Law a federal court last december already struck down the main provision being applied by u. S. Authorities which is now on its way to the Supreme Court but in the interim the u. S. Government has ramped up its application of those very same provisions that a federal court found were unconstitutional and made her bones from court in addition to that the case against dr scott warren and we mentioned the humanitarian volunteer who was face intent and continues to face than 20 years if convict them are all charges against him this was heard by a jury of his own peers in open court and his trial ended in a mistrial just a few weeks ago with 2 thirds of the jurors finding him innocent and wanting to acquit him on all charges nonetheless the federal prosecutors are seeking to apply those charges again and finally the last thing which is true both in the United States and in europe ok is that the human smuggling charges are overly broad and are being applied in situations that do not represent special interest no money exchanged and center its a limitation of peoples freedom of expression and it has to stop now all right dr griffin north american regional researcher and advisor at Amnesty International for joining us giving us the latest with this report that just came out today and we appreciate you sharing your story with us tonight thank you thanks for having me. 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