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Aired April 13, 2019 - 20:00   ET

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ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR, NEWSROOM: It's 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 in the afternoon out west. I'm Ana Cabrera in New York. You're live in the CNN Newsroom.

And we have breaking news on CNN, two children in Texas now confirmed dead after at least two powerful tornadoes touched down there today. This huge line of storms raked east Texas today, devastating several small towns.

On the phone with us now, we're going to go to Ivan Cabrera who is standing by in the CNN Weather Center. We'll come back to someone on the phone from the region that was just affected. Ivan, tell us what is the very latest on these powerful storms moving through?

IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, Ana, we can see, obviously, the worst has come to pass here as we've been tracking this throughout the morning and into the afternoon. A destructive afternoon has now turned deadly. Numerous tornado reports are coming out of Texas.

By the way, seven tornadoes. The National Weather Service will be out there to confirm these reports and see if we, in fact, have seven. That'll happen through the day tomorrow. Some are already confirmed. Fifty-eight severe wind and 38 large hail, which, at times, have been coming down the size of baseballs, right, in Texas. That's how strong and vigorous this storm system is.

I do want to give you some good news, right. Texas is done. This is the last batch of thunderstorm activity. So, Texas is in the clear, at this point. However, Louisiana is not. Mississippi is not. Alabama is not. We still have a very long evening.

In fact, we continue to see a tornado watch that is in effect for portions of Eastern Louisiana and into western Mississippi. I think this will be the worst of it. And this continues, by the way, through 9:00. I'll put the radar on top so that you'll be able to see a cluster of thunderstorm activity. And some of these imbedded out ahead of it could be producing tornadoes. In fact, that a tornado warning just within the last half hour. So, it is not over yet, for portions of Louisiana and into Mississippi.

I want to put this into motion because what will happen tonight is we're going to transition from these super cells that have the possibility of putting down tornadoes to what we call these straight- line wind, right. And so, as we head into Alabama and then into Georgia, we have the potential for severe storms tonight, some isolated tornadoes. And watch the clock here, this is going to happen through the overnight hours.

So, now, we're going to add nighttime as an element to this threat. And that is going to multiply because folks are going to be going to bed. And if you're watching from this area, please keep your phones on, the alerts will come on and tell you if you have to take cover inside your home or if you're in a mobile home, get elsewhere into a sturdy structure.

This is now for tomorrow. So, the threat, Ana, expands east and then spreads up to the north. And so, this is going to be a two-day event here throughout the weekend. We're going to continue to track severe storms in Atlanta tomorrow through Charleston. I think the tornadic threat diminishes somewhat tomorrow, isolated tornadoes, mainly straight-line wind damage. But it is going to be another busy day, unfortunately, through Sunday.

CABRERA: OK, Ivan, thank you for that latest information. Everybody in that region please, please be careful. Heed the warnings and stay safe.

On the phone with us now is Captain Alton Lenderman. He is of the Angelina County Sheriff's Office where these two deaths are now being reported. Captain Lenderman, tell us what happened.

CAPTAIN ALTON LENDERMAN, COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: Well, we received a call, approximately 2:30 p.m., of a family that was driving down one of the residential streets in the northern part of the county. Unfortunately, a tree, as they were driving down the street, fell across their car, fell across the rear passenger car. The driver and passenger in the front, the parents received no injuries, but unfortunately an eight-year-old and three-year-old in the back, and they were killed.

CABRERA: That is so, so heartbreaking. So, you said this tree came down. Do you know, was there a tornado where you are or just heavy winds and hail?

LENDERMAN: Just heavy winds and hail. We feel like this was a straight-line wind. It was just a matter of being at the wrong place at the wrong time, unfortunately, for this family.

CABRERA: What kind of other damage and destruction are you seeing?

LENDERMAN: Mainly power lines down. We're -- we have a lot of power lines down, a lot of power -- a lot of houses are still without power. And trees across the road, that's really all the -- all that we've had, other than this tragic accident.

CABRERA: Now, did you anticipate this storm pushing through? Was there any warning?

LENDERMAN: You know, the normal weather warnings that we had. We knew that it was coming.

CABRERA: Is there anybody still unaccounted for right now?

LENDERMAN: No. Fortunately, now, you know, it's passed through. Everybody, as far as we know, is accounted for. And, in our county, we pretty much have got everything under control.

CABRERA: OK. Well, I'm glad to hear that. Captain Lenderman, we appreciate you joining us with the Angelina County Sheriff's Office in Texas.

[20:05:00] Again, confirming two deaths now after powerful storms moved through that area. A child aged three, another child aged eight, who died in a storm after a tree fell on their car.

But, again, you're looking at pictures from other parts of the southeast right now, after at least a couple of tornadoes ripped through several small towns. We're going to continue to stay on top of this developing weather story, and we'll bring you any new information as we get it.

In the meantime, let's turn to politics. And CNN reporting that President Trump raised the prospect of a pardon to a top border official if he were to break immigration laws. Senior administration officials tell CNN's Jake Tapper that during the president's visit to the border in Calexico, California, a little over a week ago, he told border agents to block asylum seekers from entering the U.S. which is contrary to U.S. law.

But he went even further. Two officials briefed on the exchange say the president told Kevin McAleenan, the then head of Customs and Border Protection and now the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, that he would pardon him if he ever went to jail for denying entry to migrants. So, it's one of the officials paraphrase.

Now, the president is pushing back on this denying this ever happened. But the Department of Homeland Security also denying this report, saying, at no time has the president indicated, asked or pressured the secretary to do anything illegal. And the president tweeting last night denying he offered pardons. There's actually a new tweet today. Let me just read that to you. He wrote, I never offered pardons to Homeland Security officials, never ordered anyone to close our southern border, although I might have the absolute right to do so and may if Mexico does not apprehend illegals coming to our border and am not frustrated. That's the latest tweet from the president on this.

But President Trump's apparent lack of commitment to staying within the bounds of immigration law has been a constant theme. CNN is also learning the president is ignoring legal advice by threatening to release migrants into so-called sanctuary cities as a way to retaliate against Democrats.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And let that particular area take care of it, whether it's a state or whatever it might be. They say we have open arms. They're always saying they have open arms. Let's see if they have open arms.

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CABRERA: With us now, CNN Political Commentators, former Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez and Republican consultant, John Thomas.

John, at least one constitutional law expert and a presidential historian called the pardon idea an impeachable offense. Would it be?

JOHN THOMAS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Impeachable, I doubt it. And this isn't exactly a president who hands out pardons like candy. And he's also denying that he even offered it. So, I don't know exactly why we're going down this road. But I think it does warrant the broader conversation that the asylum system we have is broken right now. I mean, it's easy to claim asylum. We have too many asylum seekers and can't manage them at the border. And it's a crisis that needs to be fixed.

CABRERA: You know, It's not easy to claim asylum or at least to get asylum. We know 90 percent of people who go through the process of seeking asylum are rejected. But going beyond the pardons, for this moment. This whole idea of denying asylum seekers the right to even set foot in the U.S., that's against the law, period.

THOMAS: Well, right. I mean, again, if Trump said it, which it sounds like he didn't, he's frustrated. He's looking at a full-blown crisis at the border. Former Obama DHS secretary, Jeh Johnson, even said that if they saw a thousand people on the border trying to cross, that that would be a crisis. We're at 4,000 just as a, what, a week ago or so per day. So, this is a crisis.

I think that President Trump is going, look, I don't -- there isn't the political will in the Congress to help solve this problem, and he's trying to explore options. It doesn't sound like he's going down that road, Ana, because he's denied that he wants to do it. So, we're talking about hypotheticals here. We might as well be talking about Russian collusion.

CABRERA: All right, Luis, Democrats have watched the president go into overdrive, you could say, for weeks on immigration. Just this week, the Washington Post Editorial Board noted that neither the president nor Democrats have advanced a blue print on the border crisis.

Where are Democrats, in terms of coming up with alternatives on immigration?

LUIS GUTIERREZ, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, first of all, let's be clear. The attorney general is the one that began this fiasco by changing the law and saying, we're going to make sure we separate children from their parents. And that was a change in the process. And So, once that process began, they kept trying to stop and stop and stop legal asylum seekers from entering the United States. Because their plan was, well, if we just separate them, they'll stop coming. Well, that's not really the issue.

[20:10:00] The issue is that there is a crisis, a hemispheric crisis. One in which the United States should lead. In Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, there is a crisis. Remember, people aren't coming from Nicaragua. They're coming from Costa Rica and from Belize. They're really not even coming from Mexico. They're coming from those three Central American countries because of the danger that exists in those countries. So, people are coming, fleeing. And they have an absolute right under the law. And this president should not be able to undermine and undercut the law.

Now, you say, what are Democrats doing? I think Democrats should be opening their hearts, opening their cities, their -- and they should be opening themselves up to saying yes. Just as we went --

CABRERA: What do you mean now -- when you say by saying yes. What do you mean by that? Open borders? Is that what you're suggesting?

GUTIERREZ: What I mean is this. What I mean -- no, no. Ana, please don't put -- no, no. I said, legal asylum seekers which was your question to me which is what I am answering. And you said, what are Democrats doing about it and the crisis? And I think, and I have said this before on CNN. I said, the silence is deafening from Rahm Emanuel who likes to pat himself on the back as being the great immigrant advocate and fighting with the mayor of L.A. and fighting with the mayor of New York about who was the greatest advocate.

Well, guess what, mayors? It's your turn to step up, OK? Starting with the mayor of the Chicago. And saying, if you are a legal asylum seeker, we're not going to let Donald Trump change the very institution and fabric of what has made America the great country that it is.

THOMAS: Luis, I'm speechless. I think you and Donald Trump are in agreement here. Trump is saying that he wants to bring these asylum seekers to these sanctuary cities, and it sounds like you're welcoming them with open arms. So, it sounds like you agree with Trump's plan to send them to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

GUTIERREZ: What I am saying, though -- that's not what I'm saying. I understand -- I understand -- look, look, look, I understand the cynicism of --

THOMAS: Well, you just said, oh, welcome them with open arms.

GUTIERREZ: Well, now, don't put words in my -- this is not Fox News. This is CNN. You don't get to change the facts. And you don't get to change what I say. OK?

THOMAS: You just did a model about (INAUDIBLE.)

GUTIERREZ: This is real, serious news happening right here. So, let me just finish, since you want to obviously change what I had just said. What I said was the following. You have advocates of immigrants who have been touting themselves as advocates of immigrants and they should step up. We stepped up for our Muslim community. We stepped up for our gay community.

THOMAS: OK, Luis, so, let me --

GUTIERREZ: We stepped up for the women. We should step up for --

THOMAS: Hold on, let me be clear.

CABRERA: Let Luis finish and then you can respond, John.

GUTIERREZ: We should step up for immigrants that are fleeing violence and death.

THOMAS: So, let me be clear so I understand. You're saying that you -- I was wrong. You do not want sanctuary cities to welcome these asylum seekers with open arms, so you don't want these immigrants in your backyard. It's OK, they should come through our border because they have a legal right to do it. But not in my town.

GUTIERREZ: This is what you do all of the time.

THOMAS: No, actually, I'm trying to get clarity because you're saying you don't want them in your town.

GUTIERREZ: Instead of having a serious conversation. This is what --

THOMAS: Because you're saying you don't want them in your town.

GUTIERREZ: Yes, but -- look, look, look, let me repeat once again. Let me repeat once again. You cannot be a guest, as I am on Ana Cabrera's show, and a moderator at the same time. OK?

THOMAS: I'm just trying to get clarity.

CABRERA: OK, let me jump back in, guys. Let me jump back in because I think you both (INAUDIBLE) to say your piece.

GUTIERREZ: I know you think this is Fox News but it's not.

CABRERA: No, OK, guys, let me jump in because let's talk about the sanctuary city idea that the president has now said on the record he is looking into. This idea of dropping off immigrants who come across the border, who have been detained and maybe are at one of these overflowing shelters needing to go somewhere else, dropping them off in sanctuary cities. The mayor of Berkeley, California, a sanctuary city, he joined me earlier. He calls the president's threat illegal and immoral but he also thinks his city could handle it. Let's watch.

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MAYOR JESSE ARREGUIN (D), BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: Obviously, we would have to work to provide housing and services. But Berkeley has been a sanctuary city since 1971. We have welcomed with open arms immigrants and refugees to our community. Working with our faith community, working with our community partners.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CABRERA: Luis, do you believe every self-declared sanctuary city could handle it?

GUTIERREZ: Here's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that we have a great tradition in this country, as we've accepted immigrants from Italy and Poland and Russia and refugees from all over the world in our great cities. We can do that again. There is a humanitarian crisis at that border. There are children and families fleeing violence. And they are being preyed upon. And our government is violating the law by not allowing them to enter.

[20:15:00] And if Donald Trump wants to be, how would I say, cynical by saying, oh, don't you worry, my voters. They won't come your way. We're sending them -- which is what he always do, pits one group of Americans against another.

I say, let's be the great America that we always are. Let's look at the Statue of Liberty. Let's welcome those that are weak. Let's welcome those that are fearful of losing their lives. Let's welcome those children and those families.

And I bet in the city of Chicago -- and what I like to say is, look, I'm ready to say, let's challenge my own mayor of the city of Chicago. Let's start welcoming some. We did it for Muslims that came to this country. We did it for Jews that were fleeing Russia. We've done it in the past. That is what makes this country the country that it is today. It should be no different for Latinos that are coming from Guatemala and El Salvador, that are feeling the violence because --

CABRERA: Right.

GUTIERREZ: -- of the drug cartels, all powerful in this -- in those countries.

CABRERA: John, we know sanctuary cities and states aren't just home to Democrats. You live in California. The president says people in California would be happy, so happy, in fact, were his words, for immigrants to be dropped off in California. How happy would you be with the president if he does this?

THOMAS: Well, look, it wouldn't be the first time that I would suffer at the hands of my out of control liberal state government and liberal local city government. So -- but no, look, as much as I don't want --

CABRERA: No, that would be the president's choice, though, to put them there.

THOMAS: No, no. What I'm saying here is, in this case, I think that the state of California and these sanctuary cities should suffer or -- well, in this case, suffer because we have a lot of other problems like homelessness crisis, things we can't --

CABRERA: Why would they be suffering, though. I don't understand, why do you think they would be suffering?

THOMAS: Because we can't handle it, Ana. I mean, I live in L.A. And if you go into downtown L.A. or skid row there's miles of homeless encampments that we can't handle. We don't know what to do. We can't even take care of our own people. The system is financially strained. Crime is up in much of California. And just forget even the fact that I would argue that sanctuary cities have higher crime rates than non- sanctuary cities.

CABRERA: That's not true. That's not true.

THOMAS: Yes, it is. Yes, it is. And if you compare --

CABRERA: There are studies that say the exact opposite. I'm sorry, John, that's not true.

THOMAS: Ana, if you compare equal cities with similar demographics, shapes and sizes, sanctuary cities have almost 20 percent higher crime on average. But that aside, --

CABRERA: That is not true, John.

THOMAS: -- the strain on --

CABRERA: There are multiple studies that show undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a lesser rate than native-born Americans. And, in fact, when they look at areas of higher populations of undocumented immigrants, the crime rate is lower according to several studies.

THOMAS: Because those -- because those studies are not comparing apples to apples, in similar-looking cities. But let me just say this, Ana. There is a reason why, when California compared itself with a sanctuary state, that so many counties and cities within California filed declarations, saying we are unwilling to be a sanctuary city, because it's bad for them.

Look, L.A. I think is a sanctuary city, maybe not officially, but they have sanctuary policies. I don't think it can handle more illegal immigrants. But they should correct their policies, because it's dangerous for me to live here. And, you know, so be it if Trump sends them here, then that's what it is.

CABRERA: John Thomas, Luis Gutierrez, thank you both for being here.

THOMAS: Thank you.

CABRERA: Under recall. Nearly 5 million Fisher-Price Rock and Play Sleepers now considered unusable after 30 infants die. What you should do if you own one.

Plus, frightening scene. A man in Minnesota has been charged with attempted homicide after police say he threw a five-year-old child from a third-floor balcony in a shopping mall. What we're now learning about the suspect.

And photo of the year. This image of a migrant girl that went viral earns the photographer a special honor. We'll explain. You're live in the CNN Newsroom.

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CABRERA: The battle over the president's tax returns taking a dramatic twist today, with fresh sovos (ph) fired on both sides. A top House Democrat setting a new, hard deadline of April 23rd for the IRS to turn over six years of Trump's tax returns. And, yet, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin appears to be in no hurry. Mnuchin, today, firing back, calling the new deadline arbitrary.

CNN's White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez is tracking today's escalation -- Boris.

BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Ana, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Richard Neal, sent a letter to the IRS commissioner today, again requesting six years of the president's tax returns and some tax returns related to some of the president's business interests. This would be the second time that Neal has made this request, and the second deadline that he's set. Keep in mind, the first deadline passed just a few days ago. He had originally set a one-week deadline for the Treasury Department to get those tax returns.

Now, in this second letter, he writes that his request is legitimate and that any concerns about the constitutionality of his request are invalid. Now, the secretary of the Treasury Department, Steve Mnuchin, he's not backing down. He had previously said that he wanted to hear from the Department of Justice, because this was such an unprecedented request.

Now, Mnuchin today, speaking to CNN, said that he had yet to speak to the attorney general about this. And he, essentially, said that he believes that these deadlines being set by Neal are arbitrary. He believes that this request is a constitutional issue that may have to be settled in court. So, he's, basically, just waiting for DOJ to give him instruction on this.

And that's what we've heard from President Trump, that Democrats would, ultimately, have to hear from his lawyers and that they would have to hear from the attorney general, William Barr.

[20:25:00] This is likely going to lead to an unprecedented legal fight, Ana. One that, as we've heard previously from sources within the White House, the president would fight all the way to the Supreme Court -- Ana.

CABRERA: Boris Sanchez, thank you. So, where does the battle over President Trump's tax returns go from here? Earlier today, I had a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, David Cay Johnston. He's the author of "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What The Trump Administration is Doing to America" and another book called "The making of Donald Trump."

Here's what Johnston had to say about Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's recent moves in response to the House Democrats' request for Trump's tax returns. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, AUTHOR: Mnuchin is really sticking his neck out here. There is no wiggle room whatsoever. This is part of the lawlessness of this administration which, again and again and again, does things which violate the law, and federal judges, when brought into it, find you can't do that.

And I've been warning people, as the person who's covered Trump longer than anybody else, for more than 30 years, from before the time he took office. That if Donald got in the White House, he would act like a dictator, because he does not know what's in the Constitution and he doesn't care. He believes, in his own mind, that he should run the country.

And he tells us all the time, he's smarter than all of us. Everyone else who stands in his way is an idiot or a fool or a traitor or something else. That's the language of dictators, not of someone who, under our Constitution, is there to faithfully execute the laws that Congress has passed.

CABRERA: I know you're no Trump fan. I know why, as you've just laid out. But here, Mnuchin is talking about the taxes being a complicated issue. It's not cut and dry, is what he is saying. And that it just needs more time for them to maybe dot the Is and cross the Ts, for lack of a better term.

But you don't believe that --

JOHNSTON: There's nothing to dot the Is or cross the Ts, Ana.

CABRERA: I mean, why would he -- why would he be willing to, potentially, go to jail, potentially be removed from office by rejecting this request from the House Ways and Means Committee?

JOHNSTON: Well, because Donald Trump appoints people who either lack moral character or who are willing to edge personal loyalty to him, which you'll realize Jim Comey was not. That's why he was fired as head of the FBI. We've seen that Donald just had a purge of people at Homeland Security, because the secretary there, who had been willing to do a lot of things, was not willing to violate the law.

And Mnuchin, here, is simply showing his loyalty to Trump. He is not fulfilling the oath he took of office. There is nothing complicated about this. This law was used to get Richard Nixon's tax returns. And it turned out the IRS had missed, when Nixon was president, in his 1969 return, massive tax fraud. Nixon's tax lawyer went to jail. And the only reason Richard Nixon did not is he got a pardon.

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CABRERA: A bizarre scene plays out on a Phoenix-bound flight ending with a passenger jumping out of the plane. You've got to -- you've got to see in here this one. You're live in the CNN Newsroom.

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[20:30:34] ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR: We have an important safety alert now for parents with newborn children. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is now ordering the immediate recall of 4.7 million Fisher- Price Rock 'n Play sleepers.

Take a look at this, this product is linked to the deaths of more than 30 infants in the last 10 years. Officials say the danger comes from infants rolling over while unrestrained and they recommend anyone with this Rock 'n Play immediately stop using it and contact Fisher-Price for a refund.

A passenger on an American Airlines flight is under arrest tonight after displaying some very strange behavior. He allegedly touched the faces of several fellow passengers and sprayed something from a spray bottle at them. The flight crew requested law enforcement meet them at the gate as they landed to deal with this disruptive passenger.

But while waiting for the plane's door to the jet way to open, the man opened the service door on the opposite side of the aircraft and he jumped out. He was caught and taken into custody.

Details are emerging on a suspect who police say threw or pushed a 5- year-old child from a third floor balcony at the Mall of America just outside Minneapolis.

CNN's Kaylee Hartung has details.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have a report over on the south side that someone just fell from the third floor to the first floor.

KAYLEE HARTUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voiceover): Images from the Mall of America just outside Minneapolis where police say a 5-year-old boy was either thrown or pushed from a third floor balcony.

Police and witnesses rushed to help the victim, and emergency crews could be seen performing CPR.

BRIAN JOHNSON, WITNESS: I heard the mother screaming, please pray for my kid, please pray for my son, everyone please pray.

HARTUNG: The unidentified boy was taken to the hospital with life- threatening injuries. Under arrest, 24-year-old Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda. He's been charged with attempted homicide. Police say he did not know the child.

JEFF POTTS, CHIEF, BLOOMINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT: At this time, we do not believe there is a relationship between the suspect and the child or the family of the child. And we are actively investigating as to why this incident occurred.

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CABRERA: That was Kaylee Hartung reporting. And at a press conference this afternoon, police said they feel confident in saying the suspect threw this child off the third floor. But as to why he did it, that's still something they're still trying to figure out.

They also say the suspect was arrested at that same mall in 2015 for throwing objects off higher levels of the mall.

[20:35:57] As Ivanka Trump struggles to be taken seriously in Washington, a new expose says the president calls her "baby" in policy meetings. You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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[20:40:08] CABRERA: Ivanka Trump has the title "Advisor to the President." But many people simply see her as Donald Trump's daughter.

And a new article in The Atlantic Magazine may not help.

CNN White House reporter, Sentence's Kate Bennett looks at the image Ivanka Trump struggles to put forth.

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KATE BENNETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER (voice-over): Ivanka Trump struggling to keep her personal brand intact, as her public persona takes a hit after working in the White House. This according to a story in The Atlantic.

The White House has not always been a friendly place for he, even with her dad as boss.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Whenever Jared had any difficulty with me on a couple of points, he'd send in a real power named Ivanka.

(LAUGHTER) She would call me, she would say, daddy, you don't understand. You must do this, you must -- and I said, all right.

BENNETT: The familiarity didn't go over well with former chief of staff, John Kelly, who said more than once, he felt Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, who never held government or diplomacy jobs prior to the White House, were, quote, "playing government."

Kelly was brutal, according to a source close to Ivanka quoted in The Atlantic, saying, "He kind of walked in and looked at Ivanka like, what the bleep is Barbie doing in the West Wing?"

Trump, who the story says sometimes calls his daughter the nickname "baby" during White House meetings, doesn't share Kelly's feeling, telling The Atlantic, he thinks Ivanka would have been great at leading the World Bank because she is, quote, "good with numbers," or that she could have been U.N. ambassador after Nikki Haley's departure.

D. TRUMP: I think Ivanka would be incredible that -- it doesn't mean I -- I picked her because you'd be accused of nepotism, even though I'm not sure there's anybody more confident in the world, but that's OK. BENNETT: Trump even saying, quote, "If she ever wanted to run for president, I think she'd be very, very hard to beat."

What her qualifications are for that role, again, remain unclear.

But what Ivanka hasn't been is the moderate voice in the White House. Instead, Ivanka has lately channeled her portfolio to important women and family-centric issues.

IVANKA TRUMP, DAUGHTER OF DONALD TRUMP: All parents work.

BENNETT: Like the child tax credit and paid family leave. Most recently, global economic growth for female business owners.

I. TRUMP: Today, the White House is launching an exciting new initiative, the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative.

BENNETT: Atlantic write, Elaina Plott, saying Ivanka believes her father is never in the wrong.

ELAINA PLOT, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, THE ATLANTIC: She, really, as my source said, retains a view that her father is good and only good.

BENNETT: Her father's loyalty to his daughter is just as strong.

D. TRUMP: So I just want to thank you, honey. It's great job. Really great job.

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BENNETT: The likability factor is important to Ivanka Trump because before the White House, her brand was how she ran her business. It'll be up to time to decide whether or not that brand still holds after the White House.

Kate Bennett, CNN, Washington.

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CABRERA: Presidential candidate, Andrew Yang has a fresh idea of what campaigning for 2020 could look like, holograms. The democratic candidate says he wants to use this technology to reach multiple audiences in battleground states at the same time. And he debuted what this could look like on TMZ Live showing a hologram of himself rapping alongside a hologram of Tupac Shakur.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is you sort of performing with a Tupac hologram, a very name famous Tupac hologram, performing "America's Most Wanted." What -- can you explain -- I've been trying to -- I was asking the producers, what's the plan here?

ANDREW YANG, DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, if you look closely at that footage, you'll see that's actually not me performing with hologram Tupac, that's a hologram of me. (END VIDEO CLIP)

CABRERA: If that piqued your interest.

I'll be moderating a town hall with Andrew Yang tomorrow night at 7:00 right here on CNN.

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[20:45:41] CABRERA: What are the secrets to less stress, more happiness, and better health? CNN's chief medical correspondent, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta went searching for answers to these questions around the world in his new CNN Original Series "Chasing Life." Here's a preview.

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SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: My grandfather died very young of a heart attack. And my father had heart surgery when he was very young. My father, my grandfather, I think unwittingly really motivated me.

We know that there's remarkable things happening all over the world that can help us live longer, better, happier, more productive lives.

I felt like the needle is almost to the bone.

I thought I was in pretty good shape. This takes it to a whole different level.

Is this what helps you live long?

I could be arrested in the States for doing what I'm about to do. Can I work here? I can work here.

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"Chasing Life"" is an opportunity for us to travel the world, looking for extraordinary health practices. Experiencing them ourselves, that's my job. That's "Chasing Life," to find those things and bring them back.

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CABRERA: And Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins us now. What an adventure --

[20:50:00] GUPTA: Yes.

CABRERA: -- what an experience. I'm hoping to pick up some tips along the way as we experience that with you.

You start your journey in Japan for this first episode where they're experiencing, apparently, extreme stress, even deadly stress. What's behind that? And what is the impact of the society?

GUPTA: Yes. I mean, it's considered one of the most stressed countries now in the world. And I think -- I think in part what's behind it is that Japan had this incredible period of growth after World War II. They came from that, and became the second largest economy in the world. It was called the miracle economy. Skyscrapers going up every few weeks in places like Tokyo.

And I think the expectation was that that growth would always continue and that the younger generations would continue it. And the expectation that have been placed on those younger generations has just been tremendous.

There's this term now, Ana, in Japan called Karoshi, which means either illness or death from overwork. This is a culture that doesn't even openly talk about mental illness and yet, they have acknowledged that there's a real problem here.

CABRERA: And suicide rates have gone way up, right?

GUPTA: Yes. Among young people, the suicide rates have gone up and people dying by jumping off of their buildings or skyscrapers where they're working because they just -- they can't take it anymore.

So they -- at least in Japan they've started to acknowledge this and are starting to develop all these ways to try and cope with it.

CABRERA: One of the methods has to do with owls.

GUPTA: Right.

CABRERA: Let's watch.

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GUPTA: Against my better judgment, I'm going try the latest trend.

Those are real owls.

This is one of at least 10 owl cafes in Tokyo where customers come to unwind by watching, petting, and holding these of prey.

I'm not really scared of a lot of things but birds creep me out a little bit. These are raptors. These cute little guys will rip your eyes out, if they could.

Somehow, they're supposed to melt away your stress.

Come here. Like this? OK. And he's tied to me, great.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gaia (ph).

GUPTA: Her name is Gaia?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gaia.

Gupta: OK. Gaia. Be nice, Gaia.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CABRERA: You looked a little nervous. Didn't look like that was reducing your stress in there.

GUPTA: Not everything works for everybody.

CABRERA: What other things did you try?

GUPTA: It's interesting in a place that has so much stress and they're cutting edge, they develop all these things. So there's things like adult swaddling, there's these rage rooms, forest bathing. I don't know if this is something you've heard of. But this idea of really being outside in nature.

CABRERA: So like hot springs?

GUPTA: No, no. This is like being outside among trees and plants and bating yourself in the aroma of the forest, which I thought was really interesting.

CABRERA: And, quickly, a preview of what else you have for us?

GUPTA: We're all over -- we go to Bolivia next. Bolivia, I lived at this indigenous tribe in the middle of the Amazon rainforest because they are known to have the healthiest hearts in the world. I worry about heart disease, as you know.

Norway is happiest. Italy is the healthiest. Turkey is a place that deals with pain completely different than we do here in this country. And I was very really interested to learn more about that.

CABRERA: It sounds fascinating. Thank you for bringing it to us.

GUPTA: Absolutely. Thank you.

CABRERA: We look forward to seeing the first episode tonight, "Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta." Premiers next at 9:00 p.m. only on CNN.

Thanks, Sanjay.

GUPTA: Thank you.

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[20:55:51] CABRERA: As all of Washington awaits the release of the Mueller report, former presidential candidate and secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, is making her thoughts on Attorney General William Barr abundantly clear.

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HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: So we're in this -- a bit of a twilight zone, aren't we? There's a report that depending upon which figure you believe is somewhere between maybe 300, 400 pages long, and it's not being delivered to the Congress, which has an absolute right to see it. It is not being presented to the public. So I think that what we saw in Congress with the attorney general's presentation in both the House and the Senate is someone who considers his principle duty to be protecting Donald Trump.

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CABRERA: There, one-on-one tomorrow morning at 10:00 here on CNN.

A heartbreaking image from the migrant crisis on the U.S. border is being singled out as one of the most powerful news photographs ever taken.

This picture. Remember this? A 2-year-old girl from Honduras crying while her mother is being frisked by a U.S. border guard. This image has been chosen as the World press Photo of the Year.

Photographer, John Moore, captured the image last June when the girl's family was picked up after crossing the border in Texas.

They had floated across the Rio Grande in a raft. And I spoke to John Moore shortly after this photo was taken.

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JOHN MOORE, PHOTOGRAPHER: Well, I have photographs families trying to seek asylum many times on different visits to the U.S./Mexico border.

What it looked like in many ways was similar to what I had seen before. And I think the families there, they had no idea that they would soon be separated from their children. I could tell they weren't up on the recent news. They've been traveling in difficult conditions. But I knew what was going to happen next.

And for me to take these pictures scenes that I had seen before, but with the knowledge that these parents and their children would soon be in separate detention facilities, made it hard for me, personally, as a -- as a journalist, as a human being and especially as a father.

CABRERA: Later the same month, the president ended the policy that separated children and parents at the border.

I'm Ana Cabrera in New York. The premiere of CHASING LIFE starts now.

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