platforms, including instagram and whatsapp as the company comes under fire over whistleblower allegations that it allows hate and misinformation to proliferate. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." let's get straight to the white house. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is standing by. president biden said he can't guarantee that the debt ceiling will be raised in the next two weeks. so what's at stake right now? >> wolf, the president also described it as this self-inflicted wound that would send the u.s. economy off a cliff if this happens. two weeks from today when the u.s. is set to run out of money essentially to pay its bills. that would affect things like social security checks, payments for u.s. military members, those child tax credits, all of these financial obligations that the u.s. has. that would all be at stake if democrats and republicans do not come to an agreement on how to proceed here. of course whether or not to increase that limit or at least suspend it as they've done many times in the past. something the white house has pointed out several times this week. and the president today was talking about the reputation of the u.s. government, of its credit and how important this is and what really is at stake. and he also went after those republicans who, so far, wolf, have been blocking all these efforts by democrats to try to raise that debt limit. >> not only are republicans refusing to do their job but they're threatening to use the power, their power, to prevent us from doing our job. saving the economy from a catastrophic event. i think, quite frankly, it's hypocritical, dangerous and disgraceful. as soon as this week, your savings in your pocketbook could be directly impacted by this republican stunt. it's as simple as that. >> the president calling it hypocritical there, wolf. that's because republicans did vote to raise the debt limit when donald trump was in office. they got the support of democrats at that time. now that is what they are asking republicans to do here. help democrats do that. but senate -- former senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, now senate minority leader said in a letter to the president today that no republicans are going to vote for that saying that democrats are going to have to do it on their own. they are saying they need to use that process known as reconciliation. that's where only democrats would vote to support it but democratic leaders are saying that's a long, complicated process. they don't have time for that and they are trying to up the pressure on republicans to help them vote to increase the nation's borrowing limit. >> so what happens between now and two weeks from now, october 18th? that's the deadline. >> it's two weeks from today. the president is warning that you are going to see effects before that because technically the u.s. reached its limit back in july. they've been shifting money around. but the treasury secretary says starting two weeks from today the u.s. will run out of money and it's really not clear what it would look like after that. but economists have said it would be potentially catastrophic. and so that is why you are seeing chuck schumer say they need to get legislation on this on biden's desk by this friday. >> we will need to get a bill extending the debt ceiling to the president's desk by the end of this week. we aren't asking republicans to vote yes even though it's debt they incurred. we are simply asking that they get out of the way. >> he's saying they need to get out of the way so the democrats can pass it with a simple majority to get the debt ceiling increased. that is not likely from what we're hearing now from republicans. just how serious this is the president was asked earlier if he could guarantee that this isn't actually going to happen, that they will find a solution between democrats and republicans before two weeks from today. he said he could not guarantee that, wolf, and that really what happens here, in his mind, is up to mitch mcconnell. >> we're also hearing that the president, i think right now, kaitlan, has been meeting with progressives, members of the house. obviously a critical contingent in the house. what are you hearing? >> figuring out what to do with the nation's credit is the most immediate issue facing the president. he's also trying to get support for his domestic agenda. he's having these virtual meetings with those progressives. those are the ones who want to keep this big reconciliation package on social spending, on climate change big. they don't want to limit that price tag on it. but, of course, they have acknowledged they'll have to come down some from that $3.5 trillion price tag, but they are still trying come to an agreement with those two moderate democratic senators. senator joe manchin and kyrsten sinema who have said they do not want that larger price tag. they've thrown out numbers like $1.5 trillion. but some of these progressives, including pramila jayapal have said $1.5 trillion is much too small for them. they are not anywhere near an agreement on that. they're also trying to get to that by the end of the month. that's something they'd like to do sooner rather than later. >> stand by. we'll get back to you in a few minutes. i want to go to capitol hill now. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us. i understand you just had a chance to speak to senator joe manchin. what path does he see, first of all, to raising the debt ceiling which is so critical right now? >> he's breaking with democratic leaders. there are three viable options to raise the debt ceiling. one is to get 60 votes to overcome a republican filibuster. ten republicans voting with 50 democrats. republicans say that's not going to happen. they'll not give them those votes. the other is to get 51 votes with the vice president breaking the tie. that's if republicans agree not to filibuster. but they say they will filibuster. that last option, the budget reconciliation process. that takes about two weeks to go through the process and it would open up democrats to a flurry of politically charged amendments on the floor of the senate. democratic leaders say they'll not go that route because they're concerned also it would not get done in time to avoid a default. moments ago when i talked to joe manchin he made clear democratic leadership reconsider that and go down that budget reconciliation route even though they have rejected it. >> schumer has ruled out using reconciliation to -- >> we can't rule anything. we can't let the debt ceiling lapse. >> does that mean you're open to killing the filibuster to -- >> basically we have other tools we can use. and if we have to use them, we should use them. >> that last point critical. joe manchin is also rejecting calls to gut the senate's filibuster rules to lower the threshold from 60 to 51 votes to overcome any stalling tactic. he made clear he still is holding firm to that position. he will not agree to change those senate filibuster rules to avoid debt default so all which points to major questions with less than two weeks left before the u.s. hits that deadline. how do they resolve it? not clear yet because the two sides still in a staring contest. >> the dow jones on wall street very nervous about what's going on right now. down considerably once again today. the president, meanwhile, as you know, singled out senators manchin and sinema today for holding up his overall economic agenda. what did senator manchin tell you about the state of those critically important negotiations for infrastructure and the bigger economic health package? >> that bigger economic package is still a ways to go based on what joe manchin told me saying that $1.5 trillion price tag that he has held firm to, he wants to continue to hold firm to that, even though progressives want him to go up more than $2 trillion. even the president himself has made that call and manchin also made clear that he does not necessarily believe that october 31st is that new deadline. that they need to meet that deadline, suggesting they need to take time. >> jayapal said 1.5 is not high enough. >> you have to make those decisions. we have to work together and basically they understand where i am. i've been very clear about this for many, many days. many, many weeks and even months. >> do you think it's possible to get this done by october 31st? >> there's no time. there's no rush on timing. >> the last point he made. he said it's a red line. the issue of the hyde amendment. he opposes abortion rights. the hyde amendment referring to the federal law that restricts federal funding of abortion services. he believes that language needs to be included in a final economic package here. prifg progressives say it cannot be included in there. so many things they need to deal with in a matter of weeks. >> i want to bring back chief political analyst gloria borger, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. gloria, the president is accusing republicans of, in his words, playing russian roulette with the u.s. economy. what do you make of this standoff? >> well, i think honestly, the american public should be outraged by the standoff. it is something we seem to go through time and time again. this is about money that has already been spent. this is not about what's going down the pike in the future. this is not about joe biden's spending plan, joe biden's infrastructure plan. this is about the full faith and credit of the united states. most people when they spend money, bill comes and then they decide they ought to pay the bill. if they want to play games, they'll get in trouble. and what's going on now is that the same old, same old political games are being played with republicans saying, i don't want any part of this. i am not going to be nice and say let's just get this done. i am going to put this on the democrats' back. even though they're talking about spending that they had approved in the past. and even though when donald trump was president the debt ceiling was raised, i believe, three times. so, you know, it's a game. you can only hope they don't go over the fiscal cliff because there will be suffer if they do. people's social security checks will not come, military benefits will not come. the stock market could tank. and on and on and on. so, you know, i think they just need to get on with it in whatever way they can and hold their noses and do it. >> for all practical purposes, president biden's entire domestic agenda is still very much on the line after all the chaos of last week. are democrats any closer to bridging the huge divides within the democratic party? >> it doesn't sound like it from all of manu's reporting on the hill. it sounds like, you know, priscilla jayapal is saying this isn't enough money for us, 1.5 is not enough. and so she's -- look, i think they are far apart. nancy pelosi is saying, look, we need to come together because the president of the united states is telling us to come together. and the point that joe biden made to the caucus last week is that if you fail to do this, i fail. and if i fail, democrats fail. and they all know that if they go back to their districts empty handed, it's not going to look good for 2022. so they have to get something done. and in the end, i don't know what that number is going to be, but i think the reason we see the president out on the trail this week is that he needs to explain to the american public what is in these spending bills and how that will affect their lives in a positive way instead of talking about just the general price tag. you want to know about child care tax credits, for example. you want to know how it's going to affect prescription drug benefits. and on and on and on. and they need to do more of that. >> kaitlan, go in depth a little bit and tell our viewers how damaging it would be for the american people, for the biden presidency, if the u.s. hits the debt ceiling and defaults. >> i think one of the biggest concerns we've heard from white house officials on this is not just what we were talking about, which is that if you get a social security check in the mail you may not receive that. a member of the military, you may not get your paycheck. if you have a child tax credit you may not receive that. it's also the concerns about pandemic relief. about the u.s. credit rating. but also it's the unpredictability, wolf, because it's not something that has ever happened before. so that is the concern that we hear from top treasury officials is that, yes, you heard the treasury secretary say october 18th. that's the date when they believe the u.s. government is going to run out of the money to pay its bills. but it's not a firm date. there's a lot of fluidity around it. could happen before then. they're not sure what that's going to look like and how much it would affect things. that's one of the big concerns the white house has here is what it would actually mean because they can't really tell you, here's what's at stake. here are the pluses, here are the minuses. obviously, no pluses. all minuses. that is one of the concerns you've seen. that's likely why you saw president biden come out and try to apply this public pressure on republicans so they will eventually vote with democrats on this. that's the ramp the white house has been taking so far. whether or not it gets farther down the road and they feel the need to take that more complicated process that manu was talking about, it could come to that. >> bipartisan cooperation on such a critical issue as this which could affect millions of americans. it's an awful situation. guys, thank you very, very much. there's more breaking news we're following here in the situation room. facebook now suffering a major outage along with its platform's 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instagram pages the algorithm suggests an account registered to a 13-year-old girl should follow. >> what we did was to create a 13-year-old who expressed interest in weight loss and dieting and within a day, she was flooded with recommendations for accounts concerning eating disorders and personal injury. >> and what's super tragic is facebook's own research says, as these young women begin to consume this eating disorder content, they get more and more depressed and it actually makes them use the app more. and so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. facebook's own research says, it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers. that it harms teenagers. it's that it is distinctly worse than other forms of social media. >> reporter: that's whistleblower frances haugen who leaked thousands of documents from facebook, including the company's own research, like this. a presentation about the dangers of instagram for teenagers. we make body issues worse for 1 in 3 girls, reads one slide. teens who struggle with mental health say instagram make it worse, reads another. instagram said eternally starved, i have to be thin, skin and bone. the accounts it promoted through its algorithm broke the company's rules encouraging eating disorders but they only removed the accounts after being contacted by cnn. senator richard blumenthal of connecticut is a leading lawmaker calling for change. >> this experience shows very grafically how these claims to protect children or take down accounts that may be dangerous are absolute hogwash. it was not taken down until cnn brought it to their attention. >> reporter: a spokesperson for instagram's parent company facebook said it uses technology and reports from users to remove content that violates its rules on eating disorders as quickly as it can, adding they are always working to improve. >> with eating disorders and social media, we do know that there is this social comparison component. and so the more time people spend on social media and they are looking at accounts that may be inspiration or there's a term that's called thinspiration or fit-spiration. that can increase social comparison and result in negative body image, negative mental health. >> and people impacted by the issues discussed in that report can contact the national eating disorder help line at 800-931-2237. they set up this account as a teenage girl. followed some accounts about dieting, eating disorders and the instagram algorithm started recommending more and more accounts that was encouraging this teenager to follow more eating disorder accounts. >> for the last several hours, all of a sudden facebook is down. instagram is down. can't go on instagram. whatsapp is down. what's going on? >> right now we dont know. facebook doesn't seem to know at the moment, which is quite concerning. the platform has been down about six hours at this point which is unheard of. this hasn't happened in a very, very long time. and it's more than just people posting photos on facebook and instagram like you and i might. in certain parts of the world, whatsapp is the primary means of communication for millions of people. >> i use whatsapp, instagram. everybody almost does. if it's a coincidence, that's a major development. if it's not a coincidence, that's also a development. excellent reporting. thank you very, very much. up next, is the u.s. finally turning the corner on covid? new cases, hospitalizations and deaths. they're all trending down. stay with us. we have new information for you. you're in the situation room. 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>> you know, wolf, i would love to say yes, but i do not have a cristical ball. and if you look at what's going on on across the world, some countries are seeing a sustained decrease, while others like the uk have up and down bumps in cases, hospitalizations and deaths. what's going to determine whether this is the end of this surge or not really is up to us. it's how many of us show up and get vaccinated over the next few weeks as the weather continues to get colder across the united states. how many of us get our kids vaccinated to stop community spread and how many of us are willing to show up and get tested or wear masks indoors, if we still are in a community with high spread of this disease. so hopeful but too soon to say. >> speaking of kids, children under 12 remain unvaccinated and potentially at risk. can you walk us through, dr. ranney, the steps that still need to happen for child vaccine approval and how quickly could this come together? >> so the fda is seeing that they're going to be reviewing the data on the 5 to 11-year-olds in just a couple of weeks. once they review that data they'll then make decisions, recommendations, and that will then go to the advisory council on immunization practices. that same council that we watched just a couple of weeks ago for booster recommendations. at that point, once acip makes recommendations, then the cdc director, dr. walensky, gets to make her decisions. there's a bunch of steps still to come. most of us in the public health community are expecting we'll see approvals of vaccines for this younger age group some time in early november in a best case scenario. >> parents are anxious for that. the new antiviral pill from merck is showing lots of promise right now but dr. fauci is reminding people that the best bet is still avoiding infection and that means getting vaccinated, right? 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>> thank you. thank you, wolf, for having me. this is just a terrible ecological disaster for our beautiful orange county beaches. california, we love our beaches, and the marine life, the ecosystem and the tourism. it's all been impacted. and so we just came from a briefing. it's about 127,000 gallons of oil that's leaked out into our entire coastal community here. it's invading our wetlands and impacting our wildlife, as well as all the wetland ecosystems. and it's gone from huntington beach now all the way down to dana point. >> the ceo of the company that owns this pipeline says a ship's anchor may have caused this damage, but do you trust amplify energy, the company to be involved in this investigation, if they could potentially be at fault? >> look, i don't know that that's true, and we have an independent investigation that's going on that's headed by the u.s. coast guard and our california fish and wildlife and the law enforcement arm of that agency. and i'm going to trust those investigators before i trust the self-serving comments of the responsible party. i am concerned that they are saying that they didn't learn about this until saturday when i have had reports to my office that they knew about it as early as friday evening, early evening, right before dark. so i think we have to just keep investigating. keep asking questions, and make sure that there isn't some way to get out of being responsible. >> that's an important issue. cnn has learned that the company operating the pipeline for amplify, beta operating company, has a record of more than 100 violations of federal regulations over the past decade. how concerning is that to you? 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>> translator: yes. everyone uses different methods. >> reporter: for years, stories of arbitrary arrests, unspeakable cruelty and mass internment camps have been trickling out of china's xinjiang region. testimony from people like abdueli. when you were detained, what was your main job? >> kuindergarten teacher. >> reporter: police took him from his uighur language kindergarten. >> black hood on my face. the interrogation room. and inside there's a -- you are shackled there and like your feet are shackled. >> reporter: he says police accused him of espionage, plotting against the chinese government and the crime of separatism. and they demanded a confession. >> you just confess. you just admit what you have done. it's good for you. >> reporter: now for the very first time, cnn has spoken to a former chinese police officer who claims his job was to arrest and extract confessions from ethnic uighurs in xinjiang. >> translator: some cops would play the good cops and some would play the bad cops. after we beat them, we'd offer them a cigarette. >> reporter: did you have to be the bad cop sometimes? >> translator: of course. >> reporter: the man who asks to be called jang says he worked more than ten years as a cop before fleeing china after growing disillusioned with the ruling communist party. i met him in a junior country. he wore his police uniform to authenticate his story but does not want to be identified to protect himself and relatives who >> to prove that he was a chinese police officer, jang is showing me many photos of different police badges and training certificates and even portraits of his graduating class at police academy. images that we cannot show on television because they would reveal his identity he said he was sent from his home to work in shin jang three times during which he was ordered to arrest hundreds of suspects, all of them ethnic uyghurs. >> how were the interrogations being conducted. >> beat them, kick them. beat them bruised and swollen. knock their heads on the radiator. >> some were as young as 14 and all detainees were beaten. >> were the suspects all men? >> men and women. >> did you witness women being beaten? >> yes. >> cnn cannot independently confirm the allegations nor those of the kindergarten teacher who said in addition to beat eggs, he was raped on his first night of detention by chinese prisoners who followed the orders of prison guards. >> this was prisoners who sexually assaulted you? >> yes. >> prisoners? more than one. >> just first of all, they surrounded me and the police there ordered me to take off my underwear and let me -- >> and bend over. >> and bend over. don't do this. i cried. please don't do this. and then like one -- i don't know held my hand like this. >> reporter: the police officer who fled china described in detail method of sexual torture that he said police officers used. >> translator: if you want people to confess, you use the electric electric bat on and set the wires on the genitals while the person is tied up. the result is better. >> reporter: and police sometimes ordered prisoners to sexually assault detainees. >> we call it an in prison investigation. >> reporter: they are battling violent extremism in shing jang and they deny that anything is happening there. >> and the genocide is a rumor backed by ulterior motives and an outright lie. >> but the cop said he got double his normal salary to join tens of thousands sent there as part of the government crackdown. >> how many of the people that you arrest do you think were actually violent extremists? >> none. >> none. >> shin jang is not a war zone and those people are our fellow citizens, not foreign enemies. >> if you didn't carry out the arrest, what would happen to you? >> then i would be arrested as well because i'm too am part of a terrorist organization. i become their enemy. >> reporter: after 15 months in detention he confessed to illegal fundraising and was released and later fled china. since then several of his relatives have been detained including his niece. >> where was your niece held? >> the same facility i stayed. i don't know how she died. i don't even know. she is the first one, first baby that i hope. she's just like my daughter. zbrfrmt. >> reporter: sp tons to written questions they deny that she died in detention saying the 30-year-old woman instead died of organ failure due to severe anemia after being treated in a hospital. after suffering from an unknown illness. the chinese government did not respond to written questions concerning allegations made by the former police officer. ab deli lives in norway and published children's books written uyghur. he insists he could forgive the man who jailed and tortured him. >> i don't hate them. because all of them victim of this system. >> if you met one of these prisoners, what would you say to them? >> i'm scared. i would leave immediately. >> why? >> how do i face these people? you'd feel guilty even if you're just a soldier. you're still responsible for what happened. yes, you need to execute orders, but so many people did this thing together. we are responsible for this. >> reporter: wolf, i want to stress that this report is just part of a much larger body of work that cnn has done for years now investigating the scale of the abuses in shin jang. we have published leak chinese government files that have revealed the nature of the detentions there. we have interviewed dozens of camp survivors as well as people who have lost their loved ones in the camps. everywhere from shin jang to kazakhstan and europe and the u.s. china consistently denies any abuses whatsoever and state media goes so far as to victim shame the people describing the traumatic sexual assault, calling them paid actors. >> excellent reporting. thank you so, so much. very disturbing indeed. up next, the debt ceiling and congressional chaos as the clock ticks toward a financial catastrophe for the united states. r vending machines. and now, putting you in control of your financing. at carvana, get personalized terms, browse for cars that fit your budget, then customize your down payment and monthly payment. and these aren't made-up numbers. it's what you'll really pay, right down to the penny. whether you're shopping or just looking. it only takes a few seconds, and it won't affect your credit score. finally! a totally different way to finance your ride. only from carvana. the new way to buy a car. some things are good to know. like where to find the cheapest gas in town, and which supermarket gives you the most bang for your buck. something else that's good to know? 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