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Berman. Welcome to our viewers around the state. Allison is on assignment. Bianna golodryga joins me. Polls are open in North Carolina on an election that will tell us an awful lot about the state of the trump presidency. No, the president s name isnt on the ballot, but it might as well be. The outcome of todays race between republican dan bishop and democrat dan mccready is being seen as something of a bellwether. The polls show the race in a dead heat down there, but this is a race that donald trump won easily in 2016 by 12 points, and the fact that its even close is sending something of a chilling message to republicans. This comes as a new National Poll finds the president s Approval Rating has dropped to 38 , down six points in this poll since july. That is a significant drop for the president. We also have new information this morning about the informant who was extracted from russia in 2017 in a secret Mission First reported by cnn. We can now report that the spy had direct access to Vladimir Putin and could even provide images of government documents on the russian leaders desk. The decision to remove the informant was driven in part by concerns that President Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence that could expose the informant and risk his life. And this morning, the kremlin is responding for the first time. Jim sciutto broke this story. It was a cnn exclusive, and he will join us again shortly with brand new reporting on this subject. Were going to gbegin with this special election in North Carolina. Joining me now is cnn political director david chalian. Just to show how important this race is, david, both the president and the Vice President have campaigned in this district in the last 24 hours, so what does that tell you . Yeah, that doesnt happen by accident, john. One of the most valuable resources would be the president s time and the Vice President s time for a republican candidate anywhere in this country and sending them both in. To me it just shows that the Trump Administration, the republican apparatus in terms of the party is all in on this race, a race that we have no business talking about whatsoever. As you mentioned, donald trump won this district in 2016 by 12 points, john. This should not be a competitive race and what we are looking to see this evening as the returns come in is where is the political narrative in the country right now . Is this a continuation of what we saw in 2018, or is there a new sort of political temperature in the country as we turn the corner to 2020 . I think that is what were going to be able to assess tonight from this race. Ron brownstein suggests that North Carolina nine, this district is in the outer bands of the type of Congressional District that republicans should be vulnerable in. Theyve held this seat since the 1960s. So if they are in trouble here, david, what does that say nationally . Yeah, and we saw in 2018 when democrats won 40 seats, we saw some of those outer band seats come into play in a way that republicans were hoping they wouldnt, but to your point, if indeed the democrats somehow win this race that they have no business in, i think it is a warning sign of a couple of things. One, this whole notion of what is happening in the suburbs across america, we saw it in the 2018 midterms. If this race goes to the democrats and we see that backlash against President Trump in the suburbs and among independent voters, john, that is going to be a very troubling sign for the trump reelection effort next year. I will say on the other side, i think we saw something last night with the president on the stump about the message that he will send in 2020, and weve also heard it from the republican dan bishop in that race trying to tie the democrat not just to nancy pelosi but also to the squad, broadly speaking to suggest that these candidates are way too left for most of the electorate. So what will we learn about that message tonight, david . Yeah, i think President Trump called it the america hating left. It just shows you where the strategy is for President Trump. We saw him early in the summer lean in to the attacks against the squad, talk about socialism as the Democratic Party continues to battle out its own ideological differences in the president ial race. Donald trump is trying to make use of that. He wants to paint it as a party so far outside the mainstream that he doesnt believe the independent voters, that his party did in 2018 and that his team is concerned about in 2020. John, i will just note, though, that line of attack is not new for donald trump. This has been tried before, and it didnt work. The immigration line of attack, the socialism line of attack was not enough to prevent the democrats from winning the house majority. Thats what i mean, well see if theres a shift in the reception to that messaging this time around. Last question, the washington post, abc news put out their president ial Approval Rating this morning, part of their new poll, and if we have that, id love to throw it up on the screen because hes at 38 now, down from 44 in july. This mirrors what weve seen in other polling. The president s Approval Rating is at the lower end of that band that hes been in in this presidency. You and i talk all the time about what a narrow band that is he operates in. No doubt this is the lower end and we have seen it all summer long. This confirms what weve seen in our own polling and other polls throughout the summer. The president is on a decarolindecline. We dont know if this is his rock bottom or not. Yes, this is a low point for him, and yes, he is in a really precarious position. Two things President Trump has, hes got more than a year before reelection, and hes got a lot of money while the democrats are going to fight amongst themselves for a while. So he has time and he has money, two very precious resources in american politics. Theyre two of the main things you want to have in politics, and hes got them both. This could be an interesting night for him. David chalian, thanks so much for being with us. Also interesting and should be a concern for the president is that six in ten americans believe we may see a recession next year. That is something this president would clearly like to avoid happening. I think its directly tied to the low Approval Rating. Also new this morning, the kremlin is responding to a big exclusive interview from cnns jim sciutto. He broke the story yesterday about a secret u. S. Mission in 2017 to extract a top informant from russia. That spy cnn has learned had access to Vladimir Putin, and could even photograph russian government documents on the russian leaders desk. Jim sciutto joins us with the latest. We know that the kremlin is now responding to this breaking news as well. Thats right. The russian president spokesman this morning calling discussions about a high level source pulp fiction in his words. There has been some speculation in the Russian Media about a particular person theyve been speculating about. Were not going anywhere close to identifying a person or name or a location where they live and saying that that person did serve in the president ial administration but did not have access to the russian president. The kremlin in a position where they have to respond because the story says the u. S. Have a high level informant in the russian government, which identify been told by multiple Trump Administration officials. As you mentioned, we can report new details about just how high level this person was. Its my understanding that this person had been a cia informant for more than a decade, had access to the russian president including the ability to photograph president ial documents. Which is incredible, by the way. Yes, its almost stolen out of a john lacaray novel here. Whats key about that is this person because of that access was able to give u. S. Intelligence an understanding of the russian president s thinking, plans, direction, and that was a key factor in the Intelligence Communitys assessment about russian interference in the 2016 election, specifically that putin directed that interference and why did he do so . Not just to upset things here in the u. S. But to advantage donald trump over Hillary Clinton, which was a key part of that assessment youll remember. And spies and informants are compromised all the time in this industry. Why was the administration and why was the government particularly concerned about any relationship his extraction may have had to donald trump himself . Heres the thing, my understanding and i spoke to multiple officials, including Trump Administration officials about this. These concerns about the safety of this source and the exposure of this source developed over many months. They started actually in the Obama Administration before trump took office. They were concerned about the length of time, the length of service, a natural concern. You figure over time someone might get exposed but the inclusion of intel from this source in the Intelligence Communitys assessment in 2017, early 2017 about russian interference added to those concerns because, listen, if youre describing how putin is thinking about something, you might expect that russia starts to think, hey, wait a second how do they know this. They offered extraction to the source at the time, he refused. But in the early months of the Trump Administration those concerns grew because of im told the president s mishandling of classified information, and the decision to pull this asset out finally took place immediately after that famous may 2017 Oval Office Meeting in which the president discussed improperly classified intelligence with russian officials. Youve been pressing the administration for a long time on this story, jim, what is the current administrations response . So the administration is saying this from a cia spokesperson that cnns narrative that the Central Intelligence agency makes life or death decisions base ond anything other than octobbjecti analysis and thats not our story misguided speculation that the president s handling of our nations most sensitive intelligence which he has access to each day drove an alleged ini infiltration operation is inaccurate. We asked secretary of state mike pompeos office for comment, they declined. Stephanie grisham said cnns reporting is not only incorrect it has the potential to put lives in danger. One, we held back on a number of details about this person, which other outlets have reported to help prevent identification. This is key. Cia, white house saying this had nothing to do with trump. I spoke to five officials who served in the Trump Administration, who served in intelligence agencies and served object hill handling classified intelligence, they tell me that the concerns in the Intelligence Community about trumps handling of intelligence are widespread. They were not confined to this period of time, and there were other instances as well, one final one before i go ill mention. Two months after that Oval Office Meeting in may 2017, the president famously met with Vladimir Putin, g20, hamburg, germany confiscates the interpret interpreters notes after that private meeting. The Intelligence Community became concerned that the president again improperly discussed classified intelligence with russians. Fascinating, jim, thank you. Thank you. Joining us now is democratic congressman jim hines. He is a member of the house intelligence committee. Thank you so much for being with us. I know there are restrictions on what you can say, but broadly speaking, can you confirm the existence of this high level source and the story behind the extraction . John, of course i cant comment on the specifics of this case that cnn has broken. Our sources and our methods are the most closely guarded secrets we have. I can offer a couple of points of perspective including starting with, again, the notion that five government officials are actually talking to jim sciutto. And look, i respect the press a lot, but what the heck . I mean, i remember a moment in time when we were all atwitter because Hillary Clinton might have had classified emails on her laptop and here five government officials apparently are talking about something far one of the most guarded things, if its true, that we have. The other point i would make, john, unable as i am to talk about the specifics of this case is a point of context, which is that this president has always been loose with the use of classified information. Just i think two weeks ago he tweeted out a satellite photograph of the destroyed the destroyed Iranian Missile on its launch pad. If you looked at that picture, you saw that it had a classification marker that had been blacked out. The problem with that, and of course theres other examples, theres the con fi skags of the notes. Theres the discussion of the accident that occurred in russia. The reason that thats important, of course, is that when you put up a satellite photograph on twitter, people who are expert at these things in places like russia, and china and elsewhere can see our capabilities and they can counter those capabilities. So being loose with this kind of information, which this president regularly does, is actually a direct assault on our security. What concerns have you heard from within the Intelligence Community about the president s handling of classified information . Well, john, just about every day i spend time with some member of the intelligence chunt, ochunthe community, one of the agencies. These are consummate professionals. Theyre very careful about staying out of politics. Even when you ask them the question directly its pretty hard to get an answer that would touch on the political, but i will tell you from conversations i have had in less formal environments that tyes, there i worry. How could there not be . If you think about it two things, and let me put a little bit of a finer point on that. Number one, we need to recruit sources. We need to go into very dangerous places and say hey, if you help us we will protect you. If you give us secrets, we will protect you. If we dont do that, if we cant keep those secrets it makes it very hard to recruit those sources that keep us safe. Secondarily, this was from the first moment of President Trumps presidency, when he went to the cia and went off about his crowd size in front of the wall in which the names of the cia officers who have lost their lives, we need to recruit good people into these agencies and to the cia, and nsa and fbi, and when the president is constantly attacking or weakening the work that they do, when hes devaluing the work that they do, it makes it very, very hard to look a young person in the eye and say hey, you ought to consider a career, not making a lot of money, taking on a lot of risk, serving your country it makes it hard to recruit those people. Theres a story in the New York Times that Congress Secretary wilbur ross threatened to fire any noaa officials who basically didnt back up the president s false version of events during hurricane dorian. What do you think the ramifications should be for wilbur ross . Well, if this story is true, wilbur ross needs to resign. Theres no gray area here. If he is threatening professionals, if they contradict the lie of the president of the united states, he needs to resign flat out. Look, noaa is made up of scientists who deal in fact. The commerce department, by the way, is the department charged with keeping and maintaining and promulgating all of the economic data, job growth and all the stuff that businesses rely on. There is no room in any agency, but certainly not in that agency for falsehood. And you know, theres a connection, john tor, to what w were just talking about, we are seeing everywhere at a dramatically accelerated pace, the president and the white house using people to advance the president s political goals. The department of justice going after the automakers who made a deal for better mileage with the state of california, the possible air force scandal in scotland where the air force may have been and now they are investigating themselves using a trump property. Over and over and over again we see this president using the federal government as his personal play thing to advance his interests and to enrich himself and his businesses. If wilbur ross to answer your question threatened people for doing their job, he needs to resign and he needs to do it yesterday. Were just about out of time here, congressman. Should all of this be part of the impeachment investigation which you now support . Well, i think, you know, theres at least three grounds for impeachment, by the way, all of which have sort of moved to a volume in excess of the charges against Richard Nixon back in the early 70s. One is obstruction of justice, one is a refusal to answer congressional subpoenas and the third is using the federal government as your personal play thing. Whether thats the department of commerce or noaa or the air force or any other agency, i believe and know that to be an impeachable offense. Congressman jim himes from connecticut. I need to hear the congressman say wilbur ross needs to resign. If we hear from more members of congress, particularly republicans, well see whether wilbur ross has a future in this government. The voice would have to come from the other side of the aisle. Whats next for the trump family whenever they leave washington . Will they leave washington . Inside the sibling rivalry to inherit the Family Dynasty is up next. My skin. It was embarrassing. My joints. They hurt. The pain and swelling. The tenderness. The psoriasis. I had to find something that worked on all of this. I found cosentyx. Now, watch me. Real people with active Psoriatic Arthritis are getting real relief with cosentyx. Its a different kind of targeted biologic. Cosentyx treats more than just the joint pain of Psoriatic Arthritis. It even helps stop further joint damage. Dont use if youre allergic to cosentyx. Before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. 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At xfinity, were here to make life simple. Easy. Awesome. So come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. A new cover story in the atlantic gives a look at the fight amongst the trump children to succeed their father. The report reveals ivanka trump has always been the president s favorite child, but donald trump jr. Has emerged as the Family Dynastys heir. Joining me now the author of the piece in the atlantic. Great to have you here with us. It is a fantastic read. What you were able to do is weave together different narratives. Weve heard about the Family Dynamics over the years of this one piece and give us a Bigger Picture of whats going on inside the family right now. They dont seem to be as cohesive as they would like to appear. The trumps do try to project an image of unity, but what i found in reporting this piece is that behind the scenes there is a lot of sibling rivalry. It plays out on a much bigger stage with much higher stakes. And you write, while the president writes his chapter in history, the next generation waits in the wings, jockeying for position, feuding over status knowing only one of them can be the heir. So who stands to be that heir right now . Ivanka was always the favorite. When they were in business, trump always saw ivanka as the person who would be the face of the trump organization, would be the face of the business. In november of 2016 the Family Business changed. Its now about politics, and as it turned out in politics, don jr. Was the more natural successor. Ivanka, you know, went into the white house and quickly found that she was somewhat out of her depth in policy making and the political process whereas don jr. Kind of went out and built his own grass roots fan base. You see him out on the campaign trail now, the crowds love him. Hes like a mini trump out there beating the maga drum, and it looks now like hes going to be the one to inherit that mantle whether the president likes it or not. You talk about the fact that the president rates how they are performing, given how they perform in interviews on television. For the most part hes always thought ivanka trump had outperformed her brothers, in particular don jr. Now things are changing a bit in the president s mind, why . Ivankas source of status in the family was largely pegged to her ability to be a good surrogate for her father. She generated a lot of positive coverage for trump and the trump organization. As her Media Coverage has curdled while shes been in the white house, trump has started to reassess things, and now even he can kind of see that don jr. Is more talented on the campaign trail, has more of a natural connection to his base and kind of begrudgingly has started to come around to the idea that don jr. Is closer to where the trump empire is now than ivanka. We all think bank to ivanka trumps appearance in osaka japan for the g20 summit where the french released a video where it appeared she was standing among other leaders and heads of state and trying to get in on the conversation, a bit of an embarrassment for ivanka trump and for the president. He also felt that that was a sleight against ivanka and may question whether she has the gravitas in leadership. Donald trump will sometimes watch cable news from the white house and offer a running commentary to whoevers around on how his children are performing in the news cycle that day. And you know, as you know in osaka after that summit, there was a round of international Media Coverage that was really embarrassing for ivanka, and for trump when that kind of thing happens, it really does tarnish the way he thinks about his children. So is there an internal battle that the president is facing when it comes to who he personally favors and who he personally saw succeeding him as opposed to who he sees really getting more accustomed and familiar with his base and becoming more and more popular, and thats between don jr. Obviously and ivanka. I ask that because you say if theres any doubt about which child trump favors, his twitter feed told the story. In the first two years of his presidency, he tweeted about ivanka 16 times while don received just four mentions. All of them about the trump tower scandal. Right. What are you trying to convey there . Right, well, President Trump has done his best, frankly, to boost ivanka. Hes floated her name for various high profile important jobs, head of the world bank, u. N. Ambassador, and tweets about her all the time in often kind of doting, fawning way. But as i said, don jr. Is the one who kind of went out and boot strapped it and ended up building his own base, and unlike in business when a patriarch can kind of install their chosen heir as ceo of the company after they step down, in politics the patriarch doesnt have as much authority over who succeeds him. A lot of that is left up to the voters and the electorate, and in trumps base, don jr. Is seen as kind of a folk hero where ivanka is seen as more distant and maybe a little elitist. In your opinion and in your research, obviously what the president has been able to capture is something we havent seen in decades, if not ever in this country, can that be replicated, and if it can, which of the children is best suited to do that . Thats the key question. I think if it can be replicated, don jr. Is going to be the one who can do it. One thing i will say is this Republican Party is very different than it was a few years ago. I quote a lot of high profile republicans who say that don jr. 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Hes heading into this new term, President Trumps first nominee on the bench, and he sat down to discuss this book, and john, the timing is interesting here because of course the court is about to start this blockbuster term. Theyre going to hear immigration cases, second amendment, lgbt rights, maybe Even Health Care and abortion, and i asked him, i said look, many people are thrilled that youre on the bench, but there are a lot of people who are concerned. Theyre seeing now a solid fivemember conservative majority, and theyre worried about the direction of the court. And john, he chafed a little bit about my characterization. Take a listen. I think all a judge can do is fulfill his or her oath as best they can, putting all the other stuff aside, right . Politics, your personal points of view. You leave that over there. When you put on the robe, you put that stuff aside and you open your mind, and you listen, and thats all a judge can ever promise. Cant promise outcomes. Can only promise their best efforts in the process. So do the people who say this court is going to move . Theyre going to overturn precedent, and now there are five solid members, we could see a hard right turn . I just dont view judges that way. I reject that idea of how judges operate. As we talked about earlier about half 40 of our cases are decided unanimously. We talked about the fivefour cases. They make up a quarter of our docket, maybe a third. Those numbers have been consistent since the second world war. The only thing thats new is that nothing is new. Some people do think things have changed. When you say nothing has changed, now there are solid five conservative members on the court, something has changed . I just again, to my mind, it hasnt. The wonder of the rule of law in this country is its consistency over time, and as troublesome as sometimes our times may seem and as difficult as they may appear to us, this country has been through a lot of challenges and always risen resiliently to them, whether its the civil rights movement, surviving through our civil war, or todays challenges, whatever they may be, ive got great confidence in america, and i say to those who dont, look elsewhere. Where else would you rather be . You see hes a solid conservative. He allowed the travel ban to go into effect. He would have allowed a Citizenship Question on the census. Some ways hes carrying on the torch of justice antonin scalia. He looks to the original meaning of the constitution. He doesnt believe that judges should invent new rights and of course thats where he comes under criticism because many people, his critics say that thats an outdated way to look at the constitution. A lot has changed since 1787. There was slavery there. Women didnt have the right to vote, and they say that look, his view rights certain individuals out of the constitution. He comes back strong, and he says he rejects that. He says if you want to change the constitution, then youve got to amend it. It was a really interesting honest philosophy on the eve of this huge turn thats coming up. Its so interesting to hear ever from a Supreme Court justice, what a revealing interview. Up next, the last frontier on the front lines of the Climate Crisis. See how a brutally hot summer is transforming alaska and what that could mean for the rest of the planet. A lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher doesnt get everything clean. I tell them, it may be your detergent. Thats why more dishwasher brands recommend cascade platinum. Its speciallydesigned with the soaking, scrubbing and rinsing built right in. Cascade platinums unique actionpacs dissolve quickly. To remove stuckon food. For sparklingclean dishes, the first time. 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The arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, so it seems like the extreme changes are twice as dramatic. The permafrost aint so perma anymore. Some of those changes are obvious, some are harder to see, and all of them are a warning for everybody. Take a trip across alaska this summer from the iceless north to the smoky south, and youll see that when it comes to alarming changes, the last frontier feels like the first in line. This is insane. Reporter fire season used to end on august 1st, like rainy clock work, but it is so hot and dry, the swan lake fire has been burning for three months, and the most populous part of the state is swallowing more smoke than ever before. If you look at the actual observations, weve had more than twice as many smoky hours in 2019 than any other season, in fact, almost as many as all other years combined. Reporter when anchorage is hotter than key west on the 4th of july, it can turn the steady drip of a glacier into something much more dramatic. That was an event last month at the spencer glacier, just one of dozens of melting red flags. This whole lake was there was no lake in the early 1950s. Really . Right. So the ice went all the way down to the end of the lake. To the end of the lake down there . Right. Reporter a recent study finds that since the 60s melting alaskan glaciers have contributed more to Sea Level Rise than greenland, antarctica or any other part of the world. Since every one of these molecules goes into the ocean, goes everywhere, this is not just a changing alaskan landscape story, this is a miami story. Is this a charleston and San Francisco bay story. You know, once this water melts off and goes into the ocean, you know, as long as we have all this Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, its not coming back here. Reporter Health Scientists like mica hahn are worried about changes harder to see, like new kinds of ticks bringing new kinds of disease north, and when dr. Jeffrey domain studied insect bite trends since the 90s he found in the arctic circle, stings from Yellow Jacket wasps jumped 600 in five years. The queens are under snow pack, so more queens, the more colonie colonies, the more colonies, the more Yellow Jackets. Reporter and then there are the fish, so vital to this economy. While bristol bay saw another epic salmon run, more and more streams are just too hot for the fish to spawn. The temperatures we saw this summer were what we expected for 2069. Really . Were 50 years ahead of where we thought we would be for stream temperatures. Oh, my gosh. So thats very alarming. Reporter meanwhile, out at sea, this Research Team from noaa is spending the summer measuring all kinds of arctic change, including those at the bottom of the food chain. We are looking at harmful algae blooms, so theyre taking samples for toxins in the waters for harmful algas. Warmer theyre coming up farther north. And sooner maybe, yeah. Thats a big concern for the communities. Thats food safety. Reporter this state is such a gorgeous reminder of how earths goldilocks climate held so many forms of life together in harmony, but in a too hot future with more fire than ice, what comes next is anyones guess. What an amazing view, bill, and as you said this isnt just an alaska story. Its a florida story. Its a charleston story. Youve been to alaska quite a bt over the last few years, and i remember last time you were there the people in that state have a different relationship with their environment. They do. And politically its a fairly conservative libertarian state, has this summer changed anything . Thats a great question. Its a petrol state, you know . All the million residents of alaska get a check thanks to that pipeline. Oil prices went down, so the budgets are starving, and theyre bankrupt, and so its this weird tension where the fishermen can see it. They can see the changes and worry about the changes, but at the same time the libertarian ideal is there. They voted down a Ballot Initiative last year that would have protected salmon streams and made it harder for mines and logging companies, but now the governor, mike dun levy, every time air force one lands there to refuel, he and the president get together and talking about opening alaska for business, big controversial mine projects, roads. Today im working on the next part of this, which is the last great old growth rain forest left in the world is in alaska, and they want to start clear cutting that again much to the dismay of even conservative supporters. So who knows where the politics goes from here. It is mind boggling, though, when you hear 4th of july in anchorage, alaska, is higher than in key west. That one stat is why i went there. 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Two out of three bankruptcies in the u. S. Are tied to medical illnesses according to a study published earlier this year. Sometimes hospitals go after patients who dont pay by hounding them with collections calls. We went to a new mexico facility and visited with a hospital thats going even further. Reporter bianna, these patients say it was the last thing they expected to be sued by the hospital that cared for them. But then, it got worse. Carlsbad, new mexico, where the picos river winds its way through the desert and the valley. Stunning and remote. Some restaurants and shops and one hospital. Carlsbad Medical Center. When you have an emergency in carlsbad, new mexico, heart attack, a broken bone. Is there any choice about where you go . No. Uhuh. How many hospitals in town . One. Reporter patients here at its mercy forced to pay whatever it charges. Patients like Donna Hernandez who manages a local hotel here. Last year, when she had the flu and went to the emergency room, she received a bill for 6,000. And it was 6,000, 2 1 2 hours in that hospital. What did you think when you got a 6,000 bill for two hours of care . I was shocked. Reporter and when patients like donna cant pay, the hospital will sometimes sue them to collect the money. A cnn investigation of Court Records shows in the past ten years, Carlsbad Medical Center has sued more than 3,000 people to collect debts. Everyone here, donna, victoria pena, misty price and her husband a. J. Price, have all been sued by the hospital. Sometimes as part of the lawsuit, Carlsbad Medical Center takes money right out of their paychecks. It happened to victoria, a teachers aide. Like why would the hospital do that . You know, youre not just hurting me or making me pay. Youre hurting my husband and my kids. And our livelihood. So how many of you have had your wages garnished or are about to your wages garnished . Everybody. So they go right into your paycheck and take out the they contact your employer. They go straight to your hr department. You cant do anything about it. Misty was a single mom when she was sued raising three kids. She saves stacks of bills and legal papers. I had my car repossessed. Almost lost my house. I didnt know how i was going to support my kids. It makes you not want to get medical care because they have to come after you. And i have insurance. Ive had insurance the entire time. You were working at the time. Three jobs. Reporter karlsbad Medical Center says it sues as a last resort. In a statement, the hospitals ceo told us we sue less than 1 of the patients who receive care at our hospital. Before initiating a collections suit against anyone, we make multiple attempts, usually trying to contact our patients 10 to 12 times to offer manageable payment plans and additional discounts off of already discounted charges. In many cases, patients do not respond to our calls or letters. Most other hospitals in the area make a different choice. Artesia general and Lincoln County Medical Center over the past ten years, none of them have sued patients for debt collection. Its not known how many hospitals in the u. S. Garnish patients wages like Carlsbad Medical Center does. A study in one state, virginia, found that in 2017, 36 of hospitals garnished wages. Dr. Marty mccarry, a physician at johns hop cakins university, one of the studys authors. Tell me about carlsbad, new mexico. A wonderful small town of about 28,000. Classic americana town. Reporter in his new book the price we pay he has a whole chapter on Carlsbad Medical Center. We met misty price. Shes been sued and had her wages garnished. Her husband was sued. Her sister was sued. Her sisters husband was sued. Her best friend and best friends husband was sued. Thats a disgrace. How does one local Community Hospital create all this terror and Financial Hardship to so many people . We talked to a lot of people whose lives have really been ruined financially. Some may say, look, they incurred the bills. They need to pay their bills. Doctors and hospitals should be paid firmly. I believe that. But often time these patients are being shaken down with the most aggressive and predatory practices weve ever seen in the history of medicine. Reporter Carlsbad Medical Centers ceo told us absolutely no patient pays the full price of our services. We provide charity care for anyone who qualifies, for those who struggle to pay their hospital bills, we offer additional discounts and reasonable extremely low payment plans. Donna, who is uninsured, eventually got one of those discounts. Her bill was cut in half to a little over 3,000. Still steep, she says, for a simple visit for the flu. It makes me mad. It angers me that youd take advantage of people in a situation where they need medical care. Do you feel like Carlsbad Medical Center is taking advantage of the fact theyre the only game in town . Big time. Oh, definitely. They are going to get every case, every injury, every accident is going to come right here. And i think they prey on that. Reporter after being contacted by cnn, the hospital told us it has a new policy. Theyll stop suing patients whose income is below a certain level. For example, if a patient is single, the hospital wont sue if they earn less than about 19,000. But for many other patients, the lawsuits will continue. Leaving them here at the eddie county courthouse. This hospital has a big law firm working for it. Do you have lawyers working for you . No. Could you afford to hire lawyers to work for you . No. Without legal help, patients often lose these lawsuits from Carlsbad Medical Center. Putting them in good company with so many others living in this valley. Donna says she expects to find out very soon whether her wages will also be garnished. Thank you. So important to remember that paying down medical debt is a huge problem and burden. Those with and without insurance. Thanks to our International Viewers for watching. For you, cnn newsroom with max foster is next. And for our u. S. Viewers, a special election that could reveal clues about 2020. New day starts right now. The doover election in North Carolinas 9th district offering a glimpse into the future. Weve got a chance to change this country, and thats why were here today. The polling indicates a very tight race. Its possible democrats will turn out in force. Trump is hugely worried. The u. S. Successfully extracted one of its highest level covert sources inside the russian government. We know that trump has made a habit of giving classified information when he shouldnt. Its going to become even harder to collect human intelligence in russia. It takes years to recruit and develop a source like this. This is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to your new day, tuesday, september 10th. 8 00 in the east. Biana golodryga here for hour three. Now i can say two hours down. Election day. The polls are open. Voters heading to the polls in North Carolina for a special election that could tell us a let about the trump presidency. This is a doover of a house election from 2018. The results of which were thrown out because of evidence of Election Fraud by the republican candidates campaign. Now donald trump won this longtime republican district by double digits in 2016. The fact that its even close spells huge problems for republicans. And right now the polls do show