Transcripts For CNNW Wolf 20180618

Migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility. It wont be. You look at whats happening in europe, you look at what he s happening in other places. We cant allow that to happen in the United States, not on my watch. We have the worst immigration laws in the entire world. Nobody has such sad, such bad and actually, in many cases, such horrible and tough. You see about child separation, you see whats going on there. But just remember, a country without borders is not a country at all. Clearly the president putting the blame on the democrats, not taking any responsibility for the practice being carried out right now by the u. S. Justice department and the department of Homeland Security. A day ago the secretary of Homeland Security, kirstjen nielsen, tweeted this, quote, we do not have a policy of separating families at the border, period, closed quote. Today she defended that practice. To a select few in the media, congress, and the advocacy community, i would like to start with a message for you. This department will no longer stand by and watch you attack Law Enforcement for enforcing the laws passed by congress. We will not apologize. For those who have explained about this administrations vigorous enforcement of the law and the results of that enforcement, this is your opportunity to work with us to fix the incentives and encourage and even reward people who violate our laws, and even worse, put themselves and their families at risk of harm. Attorney general Jeff Sessions is the one who actually announced this new no tolerance policy last month, and that has led to family separations, little kids being taken away from their mothers and fathers. Today sessions defended his and the president s reasoning. When we ignore our laws at the border, we obviously encourage hundreds of thousands of people a year to likewise ignore our laws and illegally enter our country, creating an enormous burden on our Law Enforcement, on our schools, our hospitals and our social programs. President trump has said this lawlessness cannot continue. We do not want to separate parents from their children, you can be sure of that. Then theres president trumps senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, who told the new york times, and im quoting now. It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. The message is that no one is exempt from immigration law, closed quote. Lets go to our Senior Correspondent jeff zeleny who is joining us right now. Jeff, what more are you hearing from officials today on this decision to go ahead and separate children from their parents . Reporter wolf, there is no question, even though Stephen Miller there, Senior Adviser to the president , called it a simple decision. It is being viewed as anything but a simple decision, largely because of the images that are coming in from the border, those images of the children, the images of the parents and families. The reality here, wolf, is the white house realizes it hasnt done a good job of explaining this policy. It realizes it has not done a good job of communicating this policy. Theyre hearing a variety of criticism across the board, from people on the hill, evangelical groups and democrats as well. Theyve also heard from former first lady laura bush. They have not backed down, something we do not see this administration doing often, if at all. They are trying to explain it and call it more of a Law Enforcement issue. The reality here, wolf, this is at the heart of the broader immigration issue. There is no end in sight to that necessarily. This was being viewed as a bit of a bargaining chip, if you will. The president and other Administration Officials hope it will bring democrats to the table here to get more wall funding, to do stronger immigration proposals. But that isnt necessarily happening. Now there is a fullblown crisis on their hand here at the white house, but most particularly, those images, wolf. The white house was scheduled to have a briefing this hour. Actually, it was pushed basketball a couple hours. Assuming theyre still trying to find answers here. In fact, the president is on capitol hill tomorrow trying to convince republicans on the way forward on immigration. This is not ending any time soon, and again, its those images that the president watching doesnt like them but not backing away from any of this, still blaming democrats. He could clearly end it. I understand comprehensive Immigration Reform, thats a major ordeal legislatively, you got to get the president to sign legislation, but to simply stop removing kids from their parents, he could pick up the phone and say dont do it anymore, right . He could, indeed. He could make that directive right now that could stop immediately. Thats what previous administrations have done. But you can see just the push and the pull, and in fact, the disagreements inside this administration, inside this west wing just because of on the record comments weve heard from Stephen Miller on immigration. The attorney general also made this policy decision weeks and months ago. The president could overturn that. The white house is saying its a law, its not true. Its policy he could return, but hes showing no signs hell do it immediately. It certainly now has become rolled into the immigration debate. Wolf . It certainly has. Well stand have you stand by ft white house briefing. Some of the words being used to describe this immigration practice of separating children from their parents. Adding to the outrage, picture from inside a Detention Center showing some of those children housed in chainlike cages. Our correspondent Polo Sandoval is joining us from outside a facility in brownsville, texas. Polo, what can you tell us about whats going on inside in that huge structure behind you . Reporter wolf, its an old walmart thats been repurposed. Answering that question really is quite difficult, too, wolf. We have to rely heavily on the accounts of a handful of lawmakers who have had the opportunity to tour that facility and also a handful of reporters who have had the opportunity to document whats happening inside. We have seen very similar scenes play out in Detention Centers throughout the country. 24 hours ago i was standing outside one in new jersey, and today here we are in texas, and you see some of the pictures that have been released by the department of Homeland Security in the last 24 hours that are leading to that outrage. And also, of course, many questions about the trumps current implementation of its policies here and its practices. We have heard just recently here, the head of Homeland Department security, to offer some kind of clarity, this idea that all families are being criminally prosecuted and all their children are being separated is, quote, misinformation, but at the same time there is a lack of explanation from the administration as to who exactly is subject to this kind of practice here. We have seen some families get taken into custody here in south texas and later released with a court date, and then we have also seen several of the others who have been subjectively prosecuted and children separated from their parents while mom and dad go through the judicial process. Thats what were seeing here on the ground, outrage leading to questions, while the president tries to offer some form of clarity for whats happening across the country right now. Wolf . Polo, thank you. Polo sandoval in brownsville, texas. The president falsely blames democrats for the children being separated from their parents. John sandwig was acting as enforcement under president obama. He joins us from new york. John, thank you for joining us. Whats your response to the president blaming the democrats . Im just confused, wolf. I dont know where thats coming from. He said the democrats could change it by going along with what he wants, comprehensive Immigration Reform, and then you could end this policy. But thats a complicated, long ordeal. Who knows if thats ever going to take, if it takes. Theyve been trying for comprehensive Immigration Reform for years and years, as you already know. He says the democrats are to blame for this Current Situation where kids are being taken away from their moms and dads. Wolf, there is no law on on the books that separates children from their parents. No solution is offered to end this practice. As you indicated earlier, the president could just pick up the phone and end this. Unfortunately, as i think youre right as well, congress has proven incapable, as badly as we need Immigration Reform, of passing a comprehensive Immigration Reform. Im sorry if this president says that action here hinges on action from congress. When you were in the obama administration, what was the policy if, say, a mother came into the United States with one kid or a few kids and sought asylum. Whe listen, the federal government is not equipped to be the caretaker. You saw those images. Border patrol is not equipped to be the caretaker for thousands of children. They dont want to be the caretaker. They want to do their job which is to take care of the bad guys trying to enter the United States. We would enforce the law against those individuals. We had a zero tolerance policy at the border where we would enforce the law to anyone who entered unlawfully unless they had a valid claim. One thing that scares me, though, when you separate families, not only do you end up with images like we saw of kids in cages, but years from now you run the likelihood that these kids will never be reunited with their parents. We already heard about hhs losing track of 1,500 kids. Now weve increased the problem dramatically, and by my own experience, i will tell you its very difficult for the government to reunite those families once the children are separated. I had a chance to interview in march of last year, in 2017, more than a year ago, john kelly who was then the secretary of Homeland Security, hes now the white house chief of staff. He told me then and im going to play the clip for you he told me then this is what the administration wanted to do, a new policy of separating kids from their parents. Listen to this exchange i had with him march 2017. Are you, the department of Homeland Security, considering a new initiative that would separate children from their parents if they tried to enter the United States illegally . Let me start by saying i would do almost anything to deter the people from Central America to getting on this very, very Dangerous Network that brings them up through mexico into the United States. Let me be precise. If you get some young kids who manage to sneak into the United States with their parents, are department of Homeland Security personnel going to separate the children from their moms and dads . We have tremendous experience of dealing with unaccompanied minors. We turn them over to hhs and they do a very, very good job of either putting them in kind of foster care or linking them up with parents or family members in the United States. Yes, i am considering an audit to deter more movement along this terribly Dangerous Network. I am considering exactly that. They will be well cared for as we deal with their parents. But you understand how that looks to the average person . Its more important to me, wolf, than try to keep people off this awful network. You can see there, john, he was thinking about it, separating kids from their moms and dads, in march of last year. And now the last few weeks, this policy has actually been implemented. I want to get your reaction to that. Well, you heard the thensecretary talk about deterrence. I think what concerns me is, far too often we under estimate our ability to deter people fleeing poverty and violence. In my experience working at dhs, i found that there is very little we can do that is worse than what the people are going through. They take a very dangerous route from mexico to the u. S. Border. But the risk is so great, i find there is very little we can do on this side to stop them from making that journey. Thank you for joining us. Just a short time later, the white house will be holding a briefing. Sarah sanders will likely be grilled about parents being separated from their children as they try to enter the United States. Plus, yet another meeting between the Trump Campaign and a russian. This time trump associate roger stone now admitting he actually met with a russian who was offering, quote, dirt from Hillary Clinton for 2 million. We have new details. Thats next. You might take something for your heart. Or joints. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brainhealth supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. Allow you to take advantage of growth opportunities. With a level of protection in down markets. So you can be less concerned about your retirement savings. Talk with your advisor about shield annuities from Brighthouse Financial established by metlife. You might be missing something. Y healthy. Your eyes. Thats why theres ocuvite. Ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. It has lutein, zeaxanthin and omega3. Ocuvite. Be good to your eyes. Captured lightning in a bottle. Over 260 years later as the nations leader in Energy Storage were ensuring americans have the energy they need, whenever they need it nextera energy. Roger stone, the longtime unofficial adviser who met with the russian offered clinton dirt for 2 million. A letter obtained by cnn said caputo was actually the one who arranged the meeting between stone and the russian who called himz henry greenberg. Neither of them disclosed the meeting to russian probe investigators when they were asked months ago. President trumps personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, also wondered about any role the fbi may have had in setting up that meeting. The most extraordinary thing is, on some document he described himself as an informant. Every informant i ever had tried to keep that secret. You dont, like, say, oh, im an informant, i can come to the United States. It sounds like a very strange guy. Was he an fbi informant or not . We know from the probe by the Inspector General, the fbi at the highest levels here were doing very, very unorthodox things, if not out and out illegal and unethical. So would they be using a guy like this . I doubt it because you dont just say youre an informant. I want to bring in our crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz who has been reporting on these developments. So roger stone and Michael Caputo, shimon, they both are saying they forgot about this meeting when they were questioned by members of the congressional committee, and thats why they didnt tell the investigators about this meeting when they were questioned. Thats exactly right, wolf. A meeting where roger stone, as you pointed out, was offered dirt on Hillary Clinton for exchange of 2 million. Now, as you said, all of this comes to light after the questioning by the special counsel of Michael Caputo. It was during questioning that this russian came up. Michael caputo was asked about the russian, about his contacts with this russian, and it was at that point that Michael Caputo said he became surprised at all of the information that the special counsel had about this russian. That information eventually wound up Michael Caputo wound up relaying that information to roger stone, and now the lawyers for both roger stone and Michael Caputo sent these letters to congress saying quite simply that the men had forgotten and that they had recalled this meeting had occurred after the special counsel brought it up. But its really something thats hard to believe, obviously, wolf, that they would forget a mee meeting where someone was asking for so much money. And keep in mind this is the third instance, at leiast, thata russian had some contact with People Associated with the Trump Campaign offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. It was obviously the don jr. Meeting at trump tower, that was one of the big ones, where a russian lawyer had offered dirt on Hillary Clinton. Then there was the George Papadopoulos Campaign Adviser turned fbi informant who was also offered dirt on Hillary Clinton. Obviously all of this still under investigation by the special counsel, wolf. All right, shimon, thank you. Very intriguing, indeed. I want to bring in our panel for a little bit more on this. Gloria boringger, our chief political analyst. Whats your reaction, glar oria that a meeting like this with a russian for 2 million was offered for dirt on Hillary Clinton, but they forgot about it because they knew trump would never pay 2 million. This is a russia investigation, wolf, and it would seem to me that when youre being asked questions in the intelligence committees about contacts with russians, that if someone offers you 2 million for dirt and says you pay me 2 million and ill give you dirt on Hillary Clinton that you just might remember that. Clearly, what occurred was that the special counsel was interviewing mr. Caputo on may 2nd and reminded him of these texts that he and roger stone sent back and forth, and then they had to correct the record. I think the reason theyre coming out with it now, of course, is to make the case that this was yet another spy that was trying to trap them for the special counsels investigation or whatever else, and i think they want to get ahead of the story, and so thats what theyre doing. How do you see it, ross . Wolf, i think what youre going to hear from the trump folks is, number one, this never went anywhere. Nothing ever hopped as a result happened as a result of this meeting. No money got taken, number one. Two, there is no information this meeting ever got communicated to senior officials in the Trump Campaign. I think youll hear that, too. But as gloria points out, its problematic because of the testimony. Its also problematic for another reason we havent discussed. What defense lawyers will normally tell people interviewed by prosecutors is do not talk about this with others who might be involved in the investigation. The fact that roger stone and caputo are now talking about this after caputo has been interviewed, i think, may be troubling to the special counsel, it may be troubling to all the lawyers involved. In a statement, adam schiff, the Ranking Member of the intelligence committee, both of them testified before this committee. Among other things, schiff said, in multiple respects now, the testimony of roger stone appears inaccurate or deliberately misleading. Similarly Michael Caputos testimony mentioned this interaction of a russian offering dirt on Hillary Clinton, something which could not plausibly have escaped his recollection. Yeah, i think schiff is saying they lied to us and they lied to us intentionally. Now, theyre going to be probably called back. The attorney sent a clarifying letter. Attorneys for both of these witnesses sent letters clarifying that. And the question and whether theyll be called before mueller to discuss this and to discuss the question about whether they were improperly talking with each other about arranging their explanations for all of this. So, you know, i do think youre a lawyer, right . If youre their lawyers, arent you concerned that they look like they are not necessarily colluding with the russians but colluding with each other over this . I would be very worried about it. Its another area where this investigation spin and Communications May interfere with legal strategy. Theres an issue of perjury. They testified under oath before this committee. Is it possible they could be charged with perjury . It is possible, but its very difficult to prove that someone actually didnt remember when they say they didnt remember. And congress has limited tools to actually enforce perjury issues. So that is an issue. But if it were me, the bigger issue would be what mueller does with this information. We dont know what mueller has. He may have he had information on this. He had information on this, and he may have other information about what occurred before anybody went to see them about talking about this interaction. And now, you know, i think, look, you heard Rudy Giuliani there. He said, well, he called himself an informant so maybe hes not an informant. But i think the narratives were seeing from the trump side here is that theyve effectively been set up by a lot of people and that this was just another setup. It does seem as if this guy may have actually at one point been an fbi informant of some kind. Whats unclear is whether he was working for the fbi in this regard. And whats clear is they didnt follow up because there was no way donald trump was going to spend 2 million for, quote, dirt on Hillary Clinton. They made that clear to mr. Greenberg or whatever his name is. Thats right. Thank you, guys. Gloria, dont go too far away. The former first lady and the current first lady both weighing in on the practice of separating children at the u. S. Mexico border. But the response is getting very different reaction. Im a small business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. So how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. Feel like 50 . How can i share new plans virtually . How can i download an efile . Virtual tours . Zipfile . Really big files . In seconds, not minutes. Just like that. Like everything. The answer is simple. Ill do what ive always done. Dream more, dream faster, and above all. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Its not often we hear from first ladies over major policy issues, but the outrage of children being separated from their families at the u. S. Mexico border has the current and former first lady speaking out. A statement was issued in response to a question from our White House Reporter kate bennett from the press secretary to the current first lady, melania trump, and it says this. Quote, mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful Immigration Reform. We need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart, closed quote. Gloria is still with us along with our White House Reporter kate bennett who got that statement from the first lady. Gloria, what do you make, first of all, of the statement from the current first lady . Well, im glad kate asked the question of the first ladys office, and i think the fact that there actually was a response in and of itself is important. And that the first lady came out and effectively said she wasnt taking on her husband, i dont think so, but she effectively said this has to stop. Which is, you know, getting in there in policy because she cares about children. Thats one of her issues. Its so heartbreaking to see these everybody has seen that photo of that little twoyearold girl standing there crying as her mother is being taken away. Anybody who sees that has to be sick. I think that the first lady, you know, you cant champion children and say my whole platform is about helping kids and not weigh in on this. Its not something she does often, as you said. But i think also she tends to be the more compassionate voice of this administration where his tweets are all caps and brusque and she puts in emotion, saying we have to govern with heart. How did you see the statement they gave you . Again, i didnt think they broke from the presidency. Shes calling for a swift bipartisan, both side of the aisle, solution to Immigration Reform. Shes certainly not break ing i that sense, saying its a political issue, a congress issue. But shes moved by it, shes seen it, she acknowledges what people are feeling. Thats the compassionate side. The former first lady, laura bush, wrote an oped in the washington post. Quote, i support the need for policy, but these are mean and it breaks my heart. These images are eerily reminiscent of the japanese american internment camps of world war ii, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in u. S. History. What do you think of this, gloria . She doesnt do this, ever. To write an oped like this, calling this policy cruel and immoral, was really taking aim at donald trump. Dont forget, donald trump has been blaming previous administrations for this. And, in fact, i think in doing this, she is saying dont blame my husband. She didnt come out and say it, but its very clear that she was taking on donald trump, saying, you know, this is reminiscent of internment camps which was shameful, and im sure donald trump didnt react to this kindly. What do you think . She also talked about america at large in the sort of spirit of the country, and welcoming. She made reference to former first lady barbara bush, her motherinlaw and another first lady who changed the perception of aids and hiv by holding a small child. Laura bush said, how can we see these small children and not want to hold them . Heres something my motherinlaw did that was able to change the whole concept of something, cant we do that here, arent we a country that can do that . It was really, really strong, scathing, and i think it was right for her to speak up. She wasnt a very vocal first lady, i dont recall her being that way, but again, children another part of her platform. And when a former first lady chooses not to just send out a statement but to write an oped, to write a long piece about this, thats also a distinction. And this zero tolerance policy of taking kids away from their parents continues. I suspect the outrage here in the United States, indeed, around the world, is going to intensify big time. Theyll need to stop this very, very quickly. Thank you very much. At outrage grows, what is congress doing . Youre going to hear the proposals on the board right now and which ones the president may actually support. Ou love me applebees 2 for 20, now with steak. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Their eyelids so heavy, theyre drooping and. Even heroes need incredible sleep. Closing introducing the new sleep number 360 smart bed. The only bed that actually senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. And snoring . Does your bed do that . Experience the new sleep number 360 smart bed today and unleash your incredible, only at a sleep number store. Disney pixars incredibles 2, now playing heartburn and gas . Now fight both fast new tums chewy bites with gas relief all in one relief of heartburn and gas tum tum tum tums new tums chewy bites with gas relief immigration and the family border separations clearly at the forefront this week in the house of representatives. Members are expected to vote on two immigration bills, both of of them authored by house republicans. Lets bring in cnn political analyst rachel bader. Rachel, walk us through these two bills and do they talk extremely about the issue of family separation . These are both democratic bills, so republicans arent going to vote for either of them. One of them is a more conservative bill that the far right has been pushing for a long time. It cracks down on illegal immigration and also legal immigration. It gives daca, dreamers, who are in this sort of the uncertain situation, they can choose to renew a status that reserves deportation, but they dont really have a path to citizenship. Speaker paul ryan has been bringing in the moderates, republicans from swing districts to talk with the conservatives, to come up with some sort of compromise. They came up with this bill that includes hard line issues for conservatives but it also includes a pathway to citizenship for dreamers. Thats the difference between these two bills. How do the two bills deal with the issue of children being separated from their moms and dads . This issue has really caught republicans off guard. They didnt see it coming just a week ago and now it really is sucking up all the headlines and could potentially even bigfoot any success they have in these bills should one of them pass. What they did was they tucked into actually both bills, to my understanding, provisions that would keep Families Together at the border, but im not sure that this is going to be a solution everybody likes because what it basically does is allow kids to be held in Detention Centers with their parents, and theres already democrats and. Aclu have said youre basically dealing with migrant kids. This is not a solution people are comfortable with. Well see if it passes. Again, no democrats are going to vote for this. They really need the president to lean in on either of these bills if they have a prayer of getting it over the finish line. Remember, the president said he wants full funding, 25 billion, for that border wall if hes going to sign anything into law. Rachel, thank you very much for that explanation. Just ahead, a man who took this picture of a little girl crying in the dead of night on the border. Youre going to hear the story behind it. Plus, moments from now, lawmakers set to drill the head of the fbi and the department of justice Inspector General on the issue of the handling of Hillary Clintons email investigation. Thats coming up. Stand by. S. So you can be less concerned about your retirement savings. Talk with your advisor about shield annuities from Brighthouse Financial established by metlife. Your plaques are always there at the worst times. Constantly interrupting you with itching, burning and stinging. Being this uncomfortable is unacceptable. Im ready. Tremfya® works differently for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. With tremfya®, you can get clearer and stay clearer. In fact, most patients who saw 90 clearer skin at 28 weeks. Stayed clearer through 48 weeks. Tremfya® works better than humira® at providing clearer skin and more patients were symptom free with tremfya®. Tremfya® may lower your ability to fight infections, and may increase your risk of infections. Before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or have symptoms such as fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. Before starting tremfya®, tell your doctor if you plan to or have recently received a vaccine. Ask your doctor about tremfya®. Tremfya®, because you deserve to stay clearer. Janssen wants to help you explore cost support options for tremfya®. All week were telling stories of truly Extraordinary People and organizations that are making a difference. This special series called champions for change gives us an opportunity to highlight issues that are important to us. And that took our Brooke Baldwin back to camp, space camp, where she saw a group of girls who could lead the next generation to space explorers. Youre about to feel like youre walking on the moon. Yeah. Which is possible in your lifetime, by the way. Yes. Are you ready . Yes. Le lets walk on the moon. How is it . I feel like im flying. The goal is to get communications turned on, construct the middle of the super structure and be sure we can communicate from mars back to earth. When i see these kids, especially young girls on the floor, im so excited for them because i know their possibilities have just explode and had theyre going to do great things. I was a space camp kid in 1983. I begged and begged my parents to send me here to huntsville, alabama, and i got to live my dream. I think at the end of the day, its about these kids and belief. Space camp believes this them. What has this place taught you about you . I think its taught me that i can do a lot more than i thought i could. Because before i got here, the idea of doing a mission where you, like, essentially simulate landings on the moon or mars or whatever was really scary because i didnt think that was possible for someone like im a 16yearold girl. How can i possibly do that . One of our amazing women, andrea johnson, shes now at the space center and she prepares astronauts for the physical rigors of space. I didnt know there was a job called the astronaut specialist that i could learn. I find andrea to be a total rock star. I love coming home to space camp. It is home. It changed the trajectory of my professional career. Why do you think there are fewer girls interested in space before women were prevented and Nasa Department accept women. Now its more accepted but its still like a transition. Gender norms have contributed to just really less amount of girls in science. To actually have conversations with these fifth and sixth graders talking to me about, you know, gender norms and telling me stories behind the constellations, im so encouraged that we have young girls that are interested in science and space. Being here and working as a camp counselor, giving the brief sessions on the physiological adaptations that the body goes through when living and working in space just changed the way i thought about the world around me. Reporter what do you think that we will see in not only our lifetimes but the lifetimes of these space camp kids . With the proper national backing and the funding, we will land on the surface of the moon. We have landed on the red planet. Will we get to mars in these kids lifetimes . Im going to say yes. Im going to put my money on yes. Reporter how does that force you to tackle issues in a new way . We are really rethinking the way we design our medical system. We are making real trades that would suggest that theres a serious medical emergency and were not going to turn around and come back home. Were going to have to deal with it as we go. Brooke, welcome back to space camp. First lesson of the day, the multiaxis trainer or the m. A. T. Were going to have you practice an a no, ma a no, maam louse where your capsule is tumbling back to earth. Reporter oh, my gosh. Nasa is going back to the moon so its time to train how to walk in 1 6 gravity. Reporter flying through space. For me its a bit surreal. Flying over this place that i came to when i was 12. What is it like for you . It does feel like im a kid again except i get to do it in real life every day. Its a family here. We take care of each other. We put a lot of energy into a tremendous mission and that is inspiring the next generation of engineers, scientists, teachers and astronauts. Brook is with us right here now. Mars and the moon. Tell us a little bit more. Take us behind the scenes. Clearly this had a great impression on you. Well, when i was a kid i didnt always my first dream was not becoming a journalist. I, spoiler alert, wanted to become an astronaut. That didnt actually work out for me. Sally ride was my hero. I begged and begged my parents. In huntsville, alabama, they had space camp. The two people from australia came in. And they wanted to go to space camp. What a place for me to take my role and voice and highlight these young women specifically because we need more women not only up in space but bolstering whats happening go with space and nasa, like andrea whos essentially in charge of all of the space gyms in the i. S. S. And so i just wanted to show these young women what other, you know, girls are capable of. It clearly gave you a lot of selfconfidence, too. I mean, i credit my parents a little bit for that but, yeah, absolutely. Going to space camp for me as a 12yearold, it was something that i had never done before. I mean, they take you through it. It is hard core stuff. You know, you wake up and you take all these tests and you study and you learn about everything out there, and at the end of the week you perform a mission and, you know, naturally i became the commander of my Space Mission many years ago, wolf. Of course. Those are things ill never forget. Its leadership, communication, camaraderie. Realizing maybe i wont become an astronaut but im going to go back 20, 25 years and tell the stories of other girls. You were twirling there, too. Did you like that . Did you get nauseous . No, i did all right. Could have been an astronaut. Welcome to washington again. Thank you. Were going to continue to share these truly inspirational stories all week. Watch the champions for change, one hour special by the way this coming saturday, 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Well be back in a moment. Liberty mutual saved us almost 800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. Liberty did what . Yeah, they saved us a ton, which gave us a little wiggle room in our budget. I wish our insurance did that. Then we could get a real babysitter instead of your brother. Hey, welcome back. This guy, right . laughs yes. Ellen. Thats my robe. You could save 782 when liberty stands with you. Liberty mutual insurance. Im a small business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. So how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. Feel like 50 . How can i share new plans virtually . How can i download an efile . Virtual tours . Zipfile . Really big files . In seconds, not minutes. Just like that. Like everything. The answer is simple. Ill do what ive always done. Dream more, dream faster, and above all. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Hi there, im Brooke Baldwin. You are watching cnn here. Live pictures of this rare tv event involving the fbi for the First Time Since his scathing 500 page report was released to the public. The justice departments Inspector General, michael who are row wits, will speak before the senate panel on the series of mistakes made by james comey in his handling of the clinton administration. These are live pictures obviously from capitol hill for this hearing here. After the play by play is this, after he testifies current fbi director Christopher Wray is also expected to speak before the Senate Judiciary committee. As we wait for that hearing to get underway, we have new developments surrounding the desperate situation unfolding along the u. S. mexico border. Hundreds of undocumented immigrants and Asylum Seekers are waiting to be processed at this facility in texas. Many of them are children, some just infants, who will soon be separated from their parents as their parents are essentially taken to jail under