they want now to be out and to help to support other persons who allege they are victims and also to tell what they say is their truth. so i know that you have a challenge for bill cosby s attorney. let s just be clear bill cosby has said almost nothing to so many of these allegations time and time again as they come out, but he has dispatched his representatives and you have something you want them to do. what is it? yeah. his recently newly hired person who is going on television, monique presley, who has been on cnn and other outlets, i challenge her to debate me. let s say right here on your program or right here on cnn, come on with me anytime anywhere. a lot of the victims feel you ve been attacking them, have been filibustering reporters questions, avoiding and evading and giving bill cosby-like evasive answers.
ideological reason is wrong. if you re willing babies and taking the tissue, that s a very different thing than taking a dead specimen and keeping a record of it. carson is among many republicans calling for planned parenthood to lose its federal funding. but he told the post he doesn t believe fetal tissue research is wrong or should be banned. he is in second place in the new cnn poll. take a look. donald trump still out ahead at 22%. ben carson right behind him at 14%. you can see the others in single digits playing out behind the doctor. well, donald trump leads in the republican polls. most voters don t know a whole lot about his third and current wife melania, a former fashion model, and also the mother to trump s fifth child. she s a businesswoman herself and likely his closest confidante. randy kaye introduces us to a
christie. a lot of people are betting on new hampshire. so it s not exactly a surprise he s not doing so well in iowa, much more socially conservative, a lot of home schoolers there, sort of the culture issues are much more important to both there. and if you look at kasich s record, it s very different in terms of expanding medicaid. he s done things that don t sit well with the kind of voters that will be caucusing in iowa. we ll have the same conversation only entirely different next week. thank you. i always love having you. cnn will host three republican debates, the first one taking place in september. then in october cnn will host the first democratic presidential debate, so stay with us here on cnn for the latest on the race for the white house. coming up next, a chemical explosion so massive, this thing was visible from space. how much damage did it do to a city where 1 3 million people live and can they even get close
containers that caught fire and then exploded last night in the port city of tianjin. the shock waves blew out windows and doors, get this, a mile and a half away from the site of the explosion. 12 of the people now registered as dead were firefighters. more than 500 people are hurt at this most early count and are being treated in hospitals there. officials have called off the efforts, though, to stop the fire. this happening just a couple hours ago. they just don t know what it is that s burning. and how dangerous it is to be close by that inferno. cnn s will rippley is there and has more. reporter: when you look around at all the devastation here, it s really remarkable. one, just all of the damage that was done to this convention center building, the windows smashed in, the doors smashed in as well. take a look at this car. it clearly caught fire. the windows smashed. it s crumpled to bits. and we are standing two
that should not be funded by the government and i feel strongly about that. and that s my biggest problem with planned parenthood because it really, if you look at it and you look at the work they do, it really has become so heavily centered on abortion and you can t have that. i am the most fabulous whiner. i do whine because i want to win. are whiners winners? i keep winnihining and whini until i win. and i ll whine for the country and mare our country great again. that s very interesting but you need to fact check when you get those comments, especially the one about planned parenthood because there is a fact that was misstated. planned parenthood cannot and does not use any federal funds for abortion. let s be clear. cannot, does not use federal funds for abortion. that s against the law. with that said, cnn s going to host three republican debates. in october cnn will host the first democratic presidential debate. stay with cnn for the latest on