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>> reporter: pamela, i've been hearing a wide range of accounts. it's so tragic to hear the side of these concert goers who say all they wanted to do was take a breath. they describe how difficult it was for them to just breathe because the crowd was so tight. they describe being packed like sardines and their survival instincts kicking in because they just wanted to get out of there and take a breath. then i talked to another concert goer today who said the concert ended and he didn't realize this was a tragedy. he thought it was weird that it ended early. he looked at his watch and it was 10:13, 10:14. now investigators want to talk to everybody who will talk to them to try to piece itthe puzz as this turns into a criminal investigation. >> it was a death trap, basically. >> reporter: more witnesses are coming forward to share their experiences at houston's astroworld thursday night where people were killed. >> i checked his pulse but there was nothing i could do. i had to keep going. >> reporter: concert goers said the mood shifted just before travis scott took the stage. >> people became more rowdy and antsy and just more standoffish, is the vibe that i got. >> reporter: police also say that a security guard was pricked in the neck with a needle, prompting more questions about what was happening in the crowd. >> he went unconscious. they administered narcan. he was revived and the medical staff did notice a prick that was similar to a prick that you would get if somebody is trying to inject. >> reporter: but scott maintains he had no idea about the severity of what was happening in the crowd as he continued to rap, telling the fans in a video saturday night that he is devastated by what happened. >> any time that i can make out anything that's going on, i stop the show and help them get the help they need. >> reporter: it isn't the first time crowd control issues have come up for scott, who sells out concerts across the globe and is known for his high hif -energy . a member of travis' team tells security guards about the anticipated rowdy fans ahead of one of his shows. >> the pressure becomes very great up against the barricade. you'll see a lot of crowd surfers in general but you'll also see kids trying to get out to safety because they can't breathe. we don't know how violent our crowd will be until we turn on. >> reporter: in the past, scott has faced legal trouble for egging on fans in his shows. in 2015, he pled guilty to disorganized conduct in arkansas after police say he encouraged people to rush the stage at one of his shows. two other misdemeanor charges, including inciting a riot were dismissed. in 2015, scott pleaded guilty to a misconduct charge after encouraging fans to rush the stage, according to the chicago tribune. he was sentenced to a year of court supervision. police are urging concert goers to contact them if they have information to share. the medical examiner's office also seeking help identifying this man, one of the victims in this tragedy. as for the latest in the investigation, at last check, police say they were going to be scouring through video, looking for clues and also for any criminal activity. pamela? >> rosa flores, thank you for that on the ground in houston. i want to show you now a very frightening part of that festival scene in houston. it is not the deadly crush of the crowd but a few hours before as people started to enter the park. this is a mob of people crushing and crashing their way through the entrances. destroying the metal detectors, destroying the barricades. totally ignoring people posted there. >> we were heading in through the vip security area, and we saw the crowds running across the pedestrian bridge from nlt rg stadium parking lot to the other side of kirby. the security guards who were checking our bags knew what was coming and pulled all of us to the side. seconds later you see in this video what happened. hundreds of people rushed through the checkpoint, t trampling one another. they tore down the metal detectors, they were stomping each other. one told the security officer that he really just wanted to be inside this festival so bad, which led me to believe that many of those people did not have tickets. tickets to astroworld sold out within an hour of going on sale several months ago, and that's before people even knew what the lineup was. >> one young person detained by security told reporters they, quote, just really wanted to be inside the festival so bad. i want to bring in paul wartheimer. he is a crowd safety expert and founder of the group crowd management strategies. paul, you just watched that video with me, that mob of young people tearing down the entrance to the music festival, and of course the horrible images of the concert itself where those eight people were crushed to death. what is your reaction? do you think that this was a red flag of what could come later in the evening? >> they're two different incidents, of course, but yes, it does speak to a mood of the portion of the crowd. what i wonder about when i see that is where were the 500 or so police officers that the mayor said? and where were the hundreds of security people that promoters were on the site? they weren't on and around the stage or at the entrances, so where were they? >> that's really what i mean, too, by red flag. they're just pouring in, this mob of young people, and you don't see the security reinforcement there to keep them at bay, keep them under control, so then that raises questions about the actual concert when we know this chaos ensued. the panic went on for 70 minutes in which travis scott performed his set. 70 minutes. how could this have gone on for so long without coming to a stop to address the issue? first of all, let's not call it a panic. that indicts the victims. it was not a panic, they were caught in a crowd craze, a common occurrence in front of a stage when people move forward to something of perceived value. it's the opposite of a stampede. this happened over time. the question is who was monitoring and looking after the crowd? and i'm not sure anyone was because there were many opportunities to stop this disaster from unfolding. >> that's what i want to dive a little more into. i used the word "panic" because that was the word of people at the concert. that's how they felt. they felt panicked. they were trying to flag down help. this was ongoing for 70 minutes. what do you do in this case, because you have performers who say, look, people pass out all the time at concerts, so how do you decipher between just typical passing out at a concert and really see that this is a horrible situation that's taking place and we need to stop the music and take care of these folks? >> you nailed it right on the head when they say "people pass out at concerts all the time." they pass out in festival seating, crowd-crushing environments which i have been in for nearly two decades. they pass out because they're getting crushed. and yet that seems to be acceptable. it seems to be that fans should accept this. that's the warning sign right there that problems -- that there are problems with the crowd. but it's russian roulette often for the artists and the promoter and the operators of the event. they take the chance. they groom the fans to accept this kind of dangerous and deadly crowd environment of standing room festival seating overcrowding with no management and people pass out. that's the canary in the coal mine right there. that should not occur, literally, at any event if it's run properly. >> right. and it sounds like from your experience and everything you have researched, it was essentially a matter of time until something like this happened. and it is just so tragic, and a lot to be learned from what happened here. paul wertheimer, thank you. >> my pleasure. thank you. for president biden and democrats, no rest for the weary. after months of obstruction, the democrats finally passed the infrastructure bill. now they can focus on the other half of his agenda, the massive build back better package. the plan to pass both bills failed when they demanded concrete numbers on its costs. arlette saenz is at the white house. arlette, that number crunching could take up to a couple of weeks. how will the white house capitalize on that time? >> reporter: well, pamela, the white house is hoping to build off the momentum of passing that bipartisan infrastructure proposal to get that larger social safety net spending bill across the finish line. one of the issues at hand is that upcoming cbo report that moderate democrats have demanded. they want to see this nonpartisan analysis of the pay-fors for that larger spending package before they have a vote. now, they have agreed to have a vote no later than the week of november 15th. once it does pass the house, if it passes the house, it still needs to move on to the senate where senator joe manchin and others have said they want to see changes made to the bill. one of the things in the house bill he takes issue with are paid family leave. these are all issues that need to be ironed out over the course of the next several weeks. manchin has been a key holdout senator that they have been courting this entire time, so expect them to continue that outreach and try to persuade him to move this bill forward. now, as for that bipartisan infrastructure bill, the president is expected to sign it into law at some point soon. he's going to host a signing ceremony here at the white house with both the republicans and democrats who work together on this bill to get it passed. he will be traveling to baltimore to promote this bill on friday, visiting some ports while he is in the area. certainly while the white house is taking a victory lap on the infrastructure plan, they still have a long road ahead in the coming weeks on that larger spending bill they're hoping to get passed. pamela? 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>> that's so far out in the future. there will abebe a lot of peopl that run. it will be an open primary system. here we're about to have a race in a few weeks and obviously 2022 elections. i believe you said it correctly that integrity counts. that's really a foundational stone for trust. if you don't have integrity, you can't have trust and nothing happens. i give my republican friends three data points. 23,000 people in georgia skipped the election, they didn't vote for anyone. and president biden received more votes than president trump. and in other areas, the republicanrep democrats received 23,000 more votes than trump. >> if former president trump were to run in 2024, would you vote for him? >> that's so far out in the future. >> you were a trump supporter in the past, you voted for trump. >> i'm a conservative. yes. >> you are a conservative. but trump was undermining election integrity before the election. he was saying before the election the only way he would lose is if the election was rigged. so as someone who cares so much about integrity, as you say, why did you vote for him? why did you support him? >> well, at the end of the day, that was all after i supported him. this is post election. but when we took office in 2019, i had nine lawsuits from stacey abrams and all her ally groups, and she talked about voter suppression. she undermined the legitimacy of our elections here in georgia and we pushed back on that. likewise in 2020 president trump talked about voter fraud and we pushed back on that. we have won every single case. with both cases we have pushed back on facts. that's what you need when you get to a court of law. that's why my book is very fact-based. the history of stacey abrams with her myth of voter suppression. neither one are supported by truth and both parties need to knock it off, because it undermines voter confidence. >> the question was about trump, so i don't want to get into everything with stacey abrams. she did lose and she has talked about the voter suppression there. but, you know, you supported trump but he was touting all of these lies about what would happen in the election if he lost. like, beforehand, he was putting it out there into the bloodstream, into the mainstream. so did that concern you then before the election? because he basically did what he said he was going to do. >> that's why before the election, i talk about it in my book "integrity counts," i stood up to the task force. one of the people on the task force was an attorney from the southern district, bobby christine, who ended up becoming the northern u.s. attorney for atlanta when b.j. pak resigned. i understand it's an area of concern. we had been sued by both the republican party and the democratic party saying it was subjective, and i agree. that's why three years ago i said when i ran, we need to move to a driver's license number and photo i.d. they've been using it in minnesota for ten years. it's an objective measure and objectivity is always better than subjectivity. i understood that. that's why i stood up in front of the absentee ballot fraud course saying we would be prepared for any contingency in a voting pandemic. >> i see what you're saying there and that you were trying to push back on the misinformation and the flat-out lies beforehand, but just given your book being about integrity, saying if you don't have integrity, you don't have trust, that is why i raise the question about trump clearly demonstrating he didn't care about integrity election before the election. but i do want to ask you, because you have been on the receiving end of threats. fulton county elections chief richard baron just resigned, one of many election officials quitting because of the stress in the wake of the last election. like you, he was getting death threats. your wife has been threatened. it's just horrible. are you still dealing with that? is your family still going through that? >> not like it was post-election. there we were getting multiple threats per hour. the last major one was in the book that i put in there that trisha had received about two weeks after easter, but it has tapered off. every once in a while, you write a book and you start getting a few nasty-grams and things like that. we put our head down and do the work of the people and that's what's really important. it is concerning that when poll workers, we have low-level poll workers showing up last year. just imagine if you vote in person and there's no one there because the poll workers quit. we have to understand the people working these polls are your neighbors. you see them at the grocery store, at rotary, at your church. they're your neighbors. if you trust your neighbors, and i do, you know you can really trust the system. we have a lot of checks and balances. we check, check and double check to make sure the results are accurate. >> absolutely. the results were accurate. there were several audits in georgia, and you make an excellent point. these election workers are nonpartisan workers that could be your neighbor that are working long hours, maybe not sleeping around the election, and now they are receiving death threats, and you have your own personal story in that regard. brad raffensperger, thank you so much for coming on the show and talking about your book as well. we appreciate it. >> thank you, pamela. well, now that infrastructure is heading to the president's desk, democrats are shifting their focus to the spending bill. and it's a standoff in the democratic party between moderates and progressives. congressman ricky torres is part of that, and he joins me next. ♪ ♪ people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ you are my sunshine ♪ ♪ my only sunshine... ♪ rybelsus® is a pill that lowers blood sugar in three ways. increases insulin when you need it... decreases sugar... and slows food. the majority of people taking rybelsus® lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop rybelsus® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. tell your provider about vision problems or changes. taking rybelsus® with a sulfonylurea or insulin increases low blood sugar risk. side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, which may worsen kidney problems. wake up to what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ please don't take my sunshine away ♪ you may pay as little as $10 per prescription. ask your healthcare provider about rybelsus® today. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. it's another day. and anything could happen. it could be the day you welcome 1,200 guests and all their devices. or it could be the day there's a cyberthreat. only comcast business' secure network solutions give you the power of sd-wan and advanced security integrated on our activecore platform so you can control your network from anywhere, anytime. it's network management redefined. every day in business is a big day. we'll keep you ready for what's next. comcast business powering possibilities. with the stroke of a pen, president biden will sign into law his infrastructure plan. now the white house and congressional democrats can focus on the larger spending climate bill. now congressman ricky torres, thank you for joining the show. the president's win on infrastructure came after intense fighting between the progressive and moderate wings. the passage is a big win for democrats, that is for certain. but it was the longest house vote in recent history, and there was a lot of friction and dysfunction leading up to its passage. as a progressive democrat, are you concerned that could hurt democrats in the midterms? >> what matters is delivering for the american people. there is a long line of president who have spoken about infrastructure, but president biden has succeeded where others have failed. he has actually delivered historic investments in infrastructure for the 21st century for american people. in my view we're governing effectively. >> you feel that whaet's in thi bill will overshadow what led to the passage? >> we made history, and we're on the verge of making even more history. in the grand scheme of history, people are not going to remember the messiness of the process, people are going to remember the magnitude of what we've accomplished. the bipartisan infrastructure investment and jobs act includes historic investments in public transit, the largest investments in roads and bridges since the increase in the highway system, the largest passenger rail since amtrak, historic investments in clean water and lead safety. this bill will do an enormous amount of good for an enormous number of americans. >> i believe we also have a graphic. hopefully we can put it up on the screen because we have been telling our viewers what exactly is in this bill, and much of it is what you mentioned. your party suffered a blow in virginia. there is the graphic on the screen, a state that joe biden won by 10 percentage points electing a republican governor tuesday. a long-time government strategist says he knows why your party lost. take a listen. >> it's just stupid. defund the police, take abraham lincoln's name off of schools. some people need to go to a woke detox center or something. there is an expression of language that people just don't use and there is a backlash and frustration over that. >> do you think the party has moved too far to the left, or are you concerned there is a perception of that on issues like what james carville just laid out, like on police and government funding? 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>> i mean, as you can imagine, it was tremendously difficult. we had a planned pregnancy, is to i, you know, started saving from the get-go. i had to save money from every single paycheck and put it away to make sure we could have this time, and now that my 12 weeks is about over, so is my savings. it's about gone because i used it to spend 12 weeks at home with my son. >> so you're having to deal with recovering from the birth of a child, which, i know, is a lot. it's not just physical, it's emotional, it's mental. there is a lot that goes into that. here's a picture of you with your sweet baby, but also finding out about your mom, too. what was that like when you found out about your mom who, sadly, just passed away, right? >> yeah. it was extremely difficult. i was actually nine months pregnant when we found out that my mom had stage 4 lung cancer. she said she never smoked. and the diagnosis itself was so shocking and crushing because it's something you never imagine happening, and yet it did. so i suddenly had to go into the mindset of being able to recover from birth so that i could go see my mom and take my son with me to see her. >> and also you don't have the layer during all this of comfort of i don't have to worry about going through my savings. that's all taken care of. because you were having to go through your savings. how frustrating is it to hear congress squabbling over paid family leave, because to you it's personal. >> it's very frustrating. what i went through, and from the caregiving side as well, i had family members who wanted to visit my mom, wanted to care for her, and they also very much struggled to get out to see her. i have friends, i have coworkers who really struggled to stay home with their children because they had no paid leave. i had a supervisor in my former job who returned after three weeks of giving birth and she had been with the company for ten years. we need paid family leave and we can't wait another day. americans are really struggling. >> three weeks, wow. i recently shared that after i gave birth to my second child, i was diagnosed with postpartum anxiety, which means i had fear and worry every second of the day, but i had paid leave, i had the 12 weeks through my work to recover. three weeks is just such a little amount of time, and what nancy pelosi put in the bill is four weeks. joe manchin in the senate has said he wants it out of the bill before he signs on to it. i think you made a good point because i had this personal experience and i also had to care for my mom who died shortly after i gave birth. i gave birth in february, she died in may, and during the maternity leave, you know, i was caring for her and she sadly passed away. but i think that's an important point. because it's not just for new moms, it's beyond that. and did you feel -- were you worried throughout your experience that you may have to cut it short because you wouldn't be able to afford paying for the time you needed to care for your loved ones? 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