it is a law that voting rights advocates say overtly targets minority residents in georgia, making it harder for them to vote. remember, voters in georgia not only flipped their state from red to blue in november's presidential election, they also voted out their two gop senators and replaced them with democrats in a january runoff election. critics of georgia's governor accuse him of creating this law to restrict voting. president biden does not disagree. >> it's an atrocity. the idea -- if you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness or decency, they pass a law saying you can't provide water for people standing in line while they're waiting to vote? you don't need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. you can't provide water for people about to vote. give me a break. president biden is referring to one part of this new voter access law that makes it a crime to provide food or water to people waiting in voting lines. a crime for anybody to provide that food and water to those voters. some people waited up to 11 hours in line to cast a vote. natasha, these sweeping changes are now law, so tell us more about what you are hearing from georgia voters today. >> reporter: yeah, ana, the crowd here just dispersed in the last few minutes. they went on for about 2 1/2 hours, different speakers not only talking about their deep concerns over this law, but also in support of georgia state representative park cannon, who was arrested when she knocked on the door of the governor's office to try to witness him signing this bill. instead he did so behind closed doors. there was a photo of him standing next to other white men, and of course there was also a painting in the room seemingly depicting a plantation. i spoke to one voter who came here today, who actually recognized that plantation as a place where her own family has worked for generations. what an emotional moment that she said really symbolized everything that was going wrong here in georgia. we also spoke to another voter who described to me her experience voting in the june primary last year, something that happened then will not be allowed in the future. here's what she said. >> i had to wait four hours to vole. i go the in line at 6:00, and the polls closed at 7:00. i was in line until about 10:00, 10:30. i was in line so long so a local company donated pizza and drinks. they were only use seven machines that were in the building and under the new laws, that could have been illegal form. >> reporter: of course, that is the one aspect of this bill, just one example that people are very troubled by, that, you know, they're asking why is it a problem to give water to someone who is thirsty, whether they're voting or not. also we spoke to one who was present at the capitol when representative cannon was arrested. she said that was very triggering as a black woman, seeing her taken away from handcuffs for politely knocking on a door. >> natasha chen, thank you. this voting bill in georgia is a direct result of the big lie, that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from the former president. it's that big lie that drove a violent mob of trump supporters to the capitol on january 6th, where a deadly insurrection ensued. five people died. more than 100 capitol police officers were injured and the country was shaken to its core. despite those being the facts, former president trump is attempting to rewrite history. >> it was zero threat. loo look, they went in, they shouldn't have done it. some went in hugging and kissing the plea and the guard. they great relationships. a lot of the people were waved in, they walked in and walked out. >> with us now juliet kayyem, ands phil mudd. juliette, hugging and kissing? that's not what we a saw with our own eyes. are trump's continued lies making america less safe? >> they are. i mean, this is not only what we didn't see with our own eyes. there's hundreds of indictments going on. the truth is the only way forward is to answer, who cares? he has to be so isolated at this stage, the fact that news organizations are not having him on air, all of those things matter to isolate him. he does have the potential to continue to radicalize. the good news is these prosecutions are disrupting what was or may have been an organized element that would have used violent to deter people from voting. the real test is going to be those cases, and also what happens in 2022, when people return to the polls. >> phil, i want to remind you and our viewers what an officer who was there that day experienced. >> i was trying to phi as best i can't. guys were stripping my gear, pulling my badge off my chest, they ripped my radio off my vest, started pulling like ammunition magazines from their holder on my belt. some guy started getting ahold of my gun, and they were screaming out, um, kill him with his own gun. >> first, as a former law enforcement official yourself, what do you think as you hear this officer recall what happened to him and the former commander in chief essentially defend terrorists? >> let me put a few stories together. the president told us not to trust the government on the virus. we've seen in reports from dr. sanjay gupta, for example, that now government scientists are were saying hundreds of thousands of people died, because american people believed politicians. the president told us not to trust immigrants, so we have a spike in violence. the president has told us something else that people will believe, that that was actually a propro-american, a democratic force that moved on the capitol. the concern i have is we are now months later and people continue to believe this. if you had told me five years ago there would be a violent insurrectionist attack on the capitol and people would believe the president that he said it was peaceful, i would have said it was a hollywood movie. my concern is people continue to believe the lie. it's not just this, but the virus, immigration, everything. >> we are learning more and more details about who was there and what went on leading up to this capitol attack. according to new court filings, the far-ris extremist group known as the oath keepers had discussed taking refuge in the kentucky mountains if they could not prevail on january 6th. they also went through some military-style training leading up to this insurrection. how concerning is it to you, juliette, that there was this level of preparation? >> it is concerning and not surprising given that the president of the united states at the time was nurturing it for at least five weeks -- sometime in december he started mentioning january 6th, then telling people there was going to be a fight, you know, to join, and remember the day of he instigated, so the fact that people were getting organized for it were not surprised or that they had an exit strategy. that's why they prosecutions are so essential at this stage. we want them to turn on each other, we want their families to turn on them. we want them to know that donald trump will not save them. for the most part, you know, a lot of them will go away, right? it's hard for them to recruit future radicals if they're not a winning team, but we will continue to have threats of violence. your lead-in story is georgia for a reason. the ties between the racism and the white supremacy and the violence to undermine a democratic election is a straight line to the gop strategy to undermine the vote, in particular of minority voters. that's not two different stories. that's a single narrative, to not trust democracy, and in particular not trust democracy when african-americans and hispanic americans get to vote. that's where the gop is called out. they are endorsing that violence through these voting or anti-voting rules. >> as we talk about some of the extremist elements that are perhaps emboldened because of the actions and the rhetoric, phil, we learned also in court documents this week that the leaders of both the oath keepers and the proud boys were coordinating with each other prior to the attack on the capitol. how common is it for two extremist groups to work together in tandem? >> boy, i thought that was really curious. it gives you a sense -- that's not common in my experience. it gives you a sense how complex the federal case is. you're talking about several hundred cases, looking at things like financial records, text messaging between people like this, and looking back months. you have to figure out how every one of those people are communicating weeks or months beforehand to determine the level of conspiracy. let me give you a different perspective for a second. as a former intel guy, i see an opportunity. on january 5th if you haddic at the fbi or the department of justice and said we want to be more aggressive about groups, i would have said as an intel guy, you've got to be kidding me. now fast forward a couple months, if you look at the conspiracy you just talked about, i think the feds say we can be far more aggressive. look what happens. they're not just exercising first amendment rights. they're actually terrorists who invaded the capitol. i guess i would say, believe it or not, there's an opportunity here to collect more intelligence, because a judge is going to say, okay, you can do it. phil mudd, juliette kayyem, thank you. >> and congratulations. >> good luck. we'll have lunch dates on weekdays. >> we'll have to make plans now on saturday. that's a lot of pressure. appreciate you guys. thank you. up next,u to the crisis on the border. immigration families are over -- the facilities, i should say, as migrant families are crowding in, and the biden administration is struggle to make room. the reality on the ground is more unaccompanied minors are arriving every day. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." ♪ ♪ like an echo in the forest ♪ ♪ (singing in korean) ♪ ♪ like an arrow in the blue sky ♪ ♪ (singing in korean) ♪ ♪ on my pillow, on my table ♪ ♪ yeah life goes on ♪ ♪ like this again ♪ tonight...i'll be eating loaded tots for march madness. 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pregnant and crime describing her pain everly journey from hon during. ronny said his family fled honduras due to destruction from two hurricanes. and more lines, their sell oy wets behind the trees, the sign that america's immigration system is overwhelmed. president biden said -- >> i will commit to transparency. >> reporter: while one pool camera was allowed in an hhs facility this week, it was a sanitized version of reality, far removed from the bottleneck of this border processing facility. u.s. customs and border protection releasing their own video this week everyone cnn's repeated request for access to immigration processing facilities have been denied. the day we captured this, texas state troopers were our guides. >> as soon as they make landfall that's considered the u.s. side for us. >> reporter: send here by governor greg abbott earlier this morning to thwart smu smugglers. >> it's way to put a lot of pressure on the car tells. >> as border patrol gets tied up with processing migrants that come across. they'll leave miles at times open on the river. >> reporter: that's where texas steps in, by water, air, and by ground, to fill the gaps of the security on the rio grande. according to state troopers, if you look closely, you'll see a camp, some sort of staging area on the mexican side and on the u.s. side. this is one of the hot spots they described, a trail that is used by migrants. can you clearly see the path. the landscape is peppered with evidence it is used by migrants. we see clothes, documents, masks, all leading to these dirt trals with arrows pointing migrants to the processing center under the bridge. nancy says feeling hungry for two was the worth part of the journey. while most thele migrants i met say they made the trek because they were poor, this little girl was rich in faith. ending our conversation by saying, thanks and god bless you. that was rosa flores reporting. just today the biden administration said today it could need upwards of 35,000 additional beds to keep up with the projected number of unaexceed children arriving at the u.s.-mexico border through september. joining us now have congressman gonzalez. i want to show you a video posted by senator james lankford after a trip he made to the border. it shows people crammed together on the floor inside pods, covered with mylar blank either. do you feel can have they have a plan? >> i feel confident they a plan, but more needs to be done. this group of senators who came down yesterday, where were they when families were being divided during the trump administration? did they have the heart to come down and look at it? what i say is we need real solutions, and i say that to both sides of the aisles. we need to stop playing politics. for us on the border, this isn't political or ideological. we need to be making investmented in three central americans countries. we need to be slowing this migration in southern mexico and helping the people there. if we want to be humane and helpful, let's help them there, make sure there's a safe zone, where they can process their asylum claim and help them improve conditions in their country. the children are special to me. obviously we need to treat them differently, and find ways for them to reunite with their family from their home country. if they have relatives or families up here. they should have a path to fly in and reunite. i think the biden administration re-implanted the program that had been dropped during the trump administration. that's a good first start, but there's many ideas i've been trying to express that i think would be helpful. i've lost over 3,000 people in my congressional district during this pandemic. i don't need people from the med west from the east or contest coast to my border to tell us how things should be done. we have proven ideas, and i hope the biden administration listens and starts implementing these pl plans. s we know there are a number of different reasons for why there is a surge right now at the southern border. there's obviously vile position we talked about. also hurricanes. take a listen to president biden reacting to claims more migrants are coming to the southern border, because he has a reputation of being a nice guy. >> does anybody suggest that there was a 31% increase under trump because he was a nice guy in and he was doing good things at the border? that's not the reason they're coming. reason they're coming is it's the time they can travel with the least likelihood of dying on the way because of the heat in the desert, number one. number two, they're dumbing because of the circumstancings in country. in country. in country. >> facts first here. it is true there is a cyclical nature to these numbers. they tend to go up between january and may because of the weather, and the current numbers president biden are dealing with are much higher than this time last we're with trump. but even with trump and his zero-tolerance policy, there was a surge during the same time frame. is it just unavoidable? >> if we try to create processing centers on the southern border of mexico, and work with the other countries, a lot more can be done. the billions we're expending here on our borders could be spent there and create real humane solutions. i'm not going to say they showed up just because biden became president. clearly there's a message he's not as hateful as president trump. he won't cage or divide families, so there was an unintended event, i think, by the have i nature that biden is a humane human being, but at the end of the day i can tell you that the process is not acceptable. we need to find better ways to deal with it. i think the biden administration is doing just that. i looked at the immigration blueprint, it's full the great ideas. it has refugee center, places for people to request asylum in their country. it has better messaging. telling people how dangerous this road is, we're enriching car tells in mexico when we allow this migration do come across. people pay an average of $6,000 per head to get to our southern border. women are being raped. children are in insecure conditions, so let's do more further south. don't come back to my district and take photographs and do press conferences, and i'm talking republicans and democrats. don't show up here to do videos and audios and talk to the press and talk about either how good it is or how good of a job you're doing or how bad it is. let's talk about long-term solutions. i don't need people to come down here for that. >> thank you for taking the time and talking with us today. >> thank you. they are the number one ticket out of the this pandemic -- vaccines. while the race to get more vaccines into americans' arms accelerates, so too is the antivaccination movement. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i always dreamed of having kids of my own. ♪ ♪ now i'm ready for someone to call me mom. at northwestern mutual, our version of 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o'sullivan talked to a mother who got pulled in, to learn about how she ultimately got pulled out. >> i thought, my gosh, we're not vaccinating our kid. she'll just die, that's all there is to it. >> reporter: you thought if your daughter took the vaccine that she might die. >> not might, just would. >> reporter: heather simpson was somewhat of an influencer, now she's changed her tune, though her husband has not. you're going to get the vaccine when you can get it? >> right. >> reporter: and you? >> probably not. i've had covid and i have antibodies. >> reporter: the cdc suggests everyone gets the vaccine. she blames herself for the information she haired online and with her husband. >> when you went online you became part of the antivac community. >> when charlotte was 15, 16 months old, i decided to make a post, thinking i was so brave about my vaccine hesitancy and my views. it got shared like 600 times. i was like, holy crud, and i got a following of people. >> reporter: you got the validation? >> yeah. i'm not an idiot. a lot of people believe this. >> reporter: and then you got pulled in. >> yes. i feel like a lot of anti-vax moms found each other all at once. >> reporter: the stakes of online misinformation are even higher. renay, an expert at stanford, explaining how negative, but not representative stories go viral online. >> when i was a new mom, i joined a couple groups on facebook where people were saying, i have a friend, she vaccinated and this terrible thing happened. it was a concept of a friend of a friend narrative. the power of the personal story is what social media brings home. we may live in a world of stats and statistics in the ago great get, but what we feel comes from people who are like us. that's what people are sharing. >> v is for vaccine. that protects you in getting sick. >> reporter: heather says her views on vaccines and on medicine began to change when she needed surgery. >> i posted about it. my friends were like, this is the lazy way out. you need to be eating this food and taking this silver, doing this to heal yourself. getting surgery is lazy. >> reporter: so was it overnight? >> no, it took months. i friends who poured into me, listened to my fears, talked me through it. it really helped to know that they were scared, even though their pro-vax. they're scared give their kids shots. that's normal parental anxiety. >> reporter: your intent was to inspire a parent from getting a child vaccinated? do you think you did that? >> yeah. i've had people tell me they're not vaccinating because of my posts. >> reporter: how does it make you feel? >> really bad. i'm sure that's not just those few. my main way of posting was fear based and emotional based. i can't take it back. >> reporter: are you afraid you might have harmed children? >> i would hope not. i'm hoping if they still follow me, they'll see that i changed, and maybe i can reverse the damage. i know that's a long shot. >> reporter: have you sought to 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it. he was cleared to buy it. six days later we have this tragedy. you know, the issue of the gun, how he got the gun, gun laws, certainly on the mind of many behind me here today. this has been a site of the memorial here in boulder since the night of the shooting. we spoke to one of the people here, a woman whose daughter knew one of the victims here rikki olds. her data is not here, she's in paris, so she came here in honor of her data and share moments with other people who rob gathered here. take a listen to what she said. >> it is a shared emotion. you know, we're all in pain. our nation, our world is in pain about every time this kind of thing happens. it just feels especially painful, because this is our town, you know. it was hard when we lost people at the a aurora shooting. my son was at the same movie at a different theater at the exact same time. nothing has changed since then. i don't know what it will take for people to feel safe. i no longer feel safe. >> reporter: we walked through this area, through all these people who are standing here. most are so emotional, laying flowers, a lot saying prayers, holding hands, gathering together. it's incredible to see the outpouring from this community as they stand here together, trying to figure out how to heal. really the next weeks and days will be some of the toughest. officer talley's funeral is expected to take place on tuesday. certainly many of the people in the community are getting ready for that, for the emotion in the days and weeks to come. >> my heart is just broken for that community. sending them strength. thank you, shimon. smack in the middle of a war zone, cnn has found a refuge for children with down's syndrome. we will take you to syria's province, next. you're live in "cnn newsroom." ♪ ♪ ♪like an echo in the forest♪ [singing in korean] ♪another day will return♪ [singing in korean] ♪like nothing ever happened♪ ♪ ♪ the harry's razor is not the same ♪ because some of us are not the same ♪ 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here. as the other children sway and dance to the music, sada keeps her head down. it is her first day. she is shy and scared. the other children were like this as well when they first started. learning tools are shared. it is all they can afford at this center for children with downs syndrome, the only one of its kind in war-torn idlib. all of the staff here are volunteers, drawn to the center because while syria's war has eradicated childhood, it has been especially cruel for the most vulnerable. they finally manage to coax sarah outside. the isolation brought on by war, the lack of specific resources meant many children with downs syndrome regressed while others never learned the basics, like walking, feeding themselves and speaking. one of the boys plays with our microphone. the children may not be able to articulate what they have been through, but they are all well aware of the violence of their surroundings. this is a 6 year old who is a total charmer. apparently he used to be so shy, he would never come up to people. hi! >> yellow. >> yellow, bravo. >> reporter: he wasn't even able to say any, any words. he had lost all of his speech before he came here. the center was started by abdullah mohamed seven months ago. he is a pediatric nurse who did a year in a clinic for special needs children before the war. he pays the rent for this tiny space out of his own pocket. we're struggling to stay open, his wife and the center's director says, but at the same time we can't let go of the kids. especially not now, now that they are seen the impact they can have and knowing that hundreds more need their help. downs syndrome is a genetic condition in which a child has a full or partial extra chromosome. this affects the way that the child's brain and body develop. early intervention can mitigate the majority of the developmental challenges, but even before the war that was a struggle. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: one of the many problems is weak muscle development. the physical therapist has told us. she says that he should have sprints to help his knee joints, but she has to work with the little she has. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> this is incredible. i mean if we had been here two months ago, he wasn't able to walk on his own. they had to carry him through everything, and now intense physical therapy and he is doing so well. >> reporter: years ago sada's parents put her in school but she was severely bullied. her mother tried to help her at home and she was doing well until a rocket landed on their house. she was pulled out from under the rubble and hospitalized. her parents tell us that after the strike she stopped talking. one of the teachers keeps gently urging sara to play, comforting her, making her feel safe. just two hours after sara arrived, she's already making friends. she's not alone anymore. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: this is the first time that we're seeing her interacting with other kid, bonding, her father says, clearly emotional. she is still shy with us, but he says he's happy, and runs off to play outside. if they were just given the opportunity, these children can grow up to fulfill their potential. war won't stop them. it is what the adults here dream of. it is what they see children with downs syndrome do in more developed parts of the world. but at least they have created a space where there is no stigma, a space where there is joy and hope. arwa damon, cnn, idlib city, syria. perspective. and then there's this. over the past several months hundreds of school children in northern nigeria have been kidnapped, and while some have been released many remain captives. this week cnn hero has made it his mission to give thousands of children caught up in the conflict a brighter future. meet zana mustaffa. >> these are children who don't even know what's their second name, what's their tribe, their religion. children who are in this world, they are confused and in a helpless state. you need to give them courage. you have to give them hope. good morning, good morning, good morning. we are in a community where everything in society is ravaged. >> good morning. >> what keeps you going is the resilience of these children. whenever i see their faces, it gives me hope. it keeps my dream alive. >> so much resilience. so many reasons to smile and so many good people in this world. to learn more about this story or to nominate someone you think should be a cnn hero, go to cnnheroes.com right now. that does it for me on this saturday. imau ana cabrera. i will see you back here tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern for my final weekend show. i hope you will join me. the news continues in just a moment with my colleague, pamela brown. have a great night. ♪ ♪ air wick our essential mist transforms fragrance infused with natural essential oils into a mist. to awaken your home with an experience you can see, smell, and feel. it's air care, redefined. air wick essential mist. connect to nature. let's meet the defending champs. kim kietz, investor. i invested in invesco qqq a fund that invests in the innovations of the nasdaq-100. like 3d rendering software. become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq. ♪ ♪ for those who've found themselves without health insurance during these challenging times, sign up now at healthcare.gov. ♪ 3 out of 4 healthcare.gov customers can find a plan with a monthly premium of $50 or less thanks to financial help. these are quality plans that include coverage for doctor visits, preventive services and prescription drugs. sign up at healthcare.gov now through may 15. ♪ it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last two hours? ...delegating? oh, good one. move your xfinity services without breaking a sweat. xfinity makes moving easy. go online to transfer your services in about a minute. get started today. ♪ ♪ i think that this is a wake-up call to which side of america do you stand on. >> the only two things that are missing for this bill is the question of how many bubbles in a bar of soap and how many jelly beans in the jar. >> simply find out what's in the bill versus just this blank stat