and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with a closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly on his entire adult life on behalf of his his country and his community and he is someone that he can defend himself. there's also this argument that the president has launched a this attack on congressman cummings and on his district of baltimore maryland in order to distract from a couple of other issues that have been dominating the political conversation foley and includes the conditions in the detention camps along the us mexico border conditions which those who have visited it say are simply appalling and perhaps constitute human rights violations as well as the ongoing investigation into a man who is said to have been a longtime acquaintance of the president and who is now being accused of running a child sex trafficking ring jeffrey epstein there are critics who say that the president is trying to distract from both of these situations because they both are connected to him the president thank

cummings leads the committee investigating the president's political and financial toddies he's also criticized the president's immigration policy called cummings corrupt and quote a brutal bully there is nothing racist and stating plainly what most people already know that alija cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself. he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office and said it's better to have a few rats and to be one the mayor also weighed in we're not going to ignore anyone degrading. and this is like in the kitchen no one even the house is only black republican condemned trump's attack allies are cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly on his entire adult life on behalf of his his country and his community and he is someone that he can

our detention facilities as a nation are not living up to standards congressman cummings, charmen cummings, it's his job to chaenge the administration what they are and are not doing and it's that office of inspector general report, those are the facts of the case. >> woodruff: why aren't there more pitures, more videf these facilities? >> well, this administration, to a large degree the previous admistration, the oba administration did open the facilities eventually. this administration is holding close what's happening in its facilities. you see reports of children being moved froy m facilo facility, being lost. you know, the lack of transparency leads to a lot of questions in vots' minds as toics okay, what is going on uallyagain, who is act solving this problem. >> what about conditions right now. here we are the end of the month of july.s much of this timony came about a month, month and a half ago. have things gotn better, has it changed? >> because of two factors, we're starting to see numbers plateau of individuals crossing the border to apply for asylum.f the firstor is nearly the

our detention facilities as a nation are not living up to standards congressman cummings, charmen cummings, it's his job to chaenge the administration what they are and are not doing and it's that office of inspector general report, those are the facts of the case. >> woodruff: why aren't there more pitures, more videf these facilities? >> well, this administration, to a large degree the previous administration, the obama administration did open the facilities eventually. this administration is holding close what's happening in its facilities. you see reports of children being moved froy m facilo facility, being lost. you know, the lack of transparency leads to a lot of questions in vots' minds as toics okay, what is going on uallyagain, who is act solving this problem. >> what about conditions right now. here we are e end of theonth of july. much of this testimony came about a month, month and a half ago. have things gotten better, has it changed? >> because of two factors, we're starting to see numbers plateau of individuals crossing the border to apply for asylum.f the firstor is nearly

racist and stating plainly what most people already know that a larger cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office and said it's quote better to have a few rats and to be one the mayor also weighed in. we're not going to ignore anyone degrading almost like the leadership no one even the house is only black republican condemned trump's attack allies are cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly his entire adult life on behalf of his his country and his community and he is someone that he can defend himself a senior white house official defended the president's attack on cummings i understand why but that doesn't mean that it's racist the president is pushing back against what he sees as wrong it's ho

the president's immigration policy called cummings corrupt and quote a brutal bully there is nothing racist and stating plainly what most people already know that a larger cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office and said it's quote better to have a few rats and to be one the mayor also weighed in. we're not going to ignore anyone degrading. and this is like in the no one even the house is only black republican condemned trump's attack allies are cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with a closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly on his entire adult life on behalf of his his country and his community and he is someone that he can defend himself a senior white house official defended the president's attack on cummings i understand why but

composed titian and that's a strictly represents trump so mine tirades came along to cummings criticize the u.s. president's mexican border policies which calls cummings a brutal belief saying his baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous than the boards are described in baltimore as a discussing rats and would since infested mance the congressman responds and say mr president i go home to my district daily each morning i wake up and i go and fights for my neighbors will pass equal hane brings us all the leases from washington d.c. . another norm broken this is a us president denigrating a major american city that has happens to be mostly african-american and it's african-american congressman but the larger cummings is not an ordinary congressman he is an icon of the civil rights movement he has huge respect not only in his district but in the halls of congress the president has made it clear this is his strategy to get reelected he believes if you fires up his base core supporters of white supporters that they will come out in droves and they will get him another term there ar

that has happens to be mostly african-american and it's african-american congressman but the larger cummings is not an ordinary congressman he is an icon of the civil rights movement he has huge respect not only in his district but in the halls of congress the president has made it clear this is his strategy to get reelected he believes if he fires up his base core supporters of white supporters that they will come out in droves they will get him another term there are a lot of analysts who are sending a warning message though about that strategy they look back to 216 and one of the reasons that trump won in this incredibly close election was because the vote was down in african-american communities and hispanic communities polls show that his racist tweets and comments are hurting his support among african-americans and hispanics so what some analysts are warning while the president is firing up his own base is core support has it moved he's also fired up the base on the other side . the 2 people who died after about the need to in the ninety's in south korea and the 17 others were injured

is defending his criticism of the city of baltimore the congressman that represents in the lives of cummings his latest tweet now attacking civil rights leader reverend al sharpton in the city of baltimore as well as bernie sanders a democratic presidential candidate who the president claims has also criticized baltimore in the past the question becomes why is the president doing this now well it's no secret that democrats have been criticizing donald trump since day one of his presidency alija cummings the congressman is share of a very powerful committee investigating the president as it times been participating in discussions about potential impeachment it appears the president is swinging back as part of a political strategy in order to try and win the 2020 alexion he already knows that cities like baltimore other cities he's criticized in the past like chicago are typically liberal strongholds they do not for the most part like donald trump they do not support his platform so he has in terms of political strategy donald trump has nothing to lose and everything to gain by criticizing the

president called cummings a brutal bully and described baltimore as a quartz discussing rodents infested mess. i have been aftershocks in the philippines where our earth quakes killed at least 8 people on saturday many were asleep when the 1st quake hits near the baton of silence when 60 people were injured and there's been significant damage to homes and other buildings while that's you updates to stay with us here and i'll just share these continue after soapbox mexico in south korea around 2000000 dogs are eaten every year but now animal rights groups want the engine tradition taken off the menu when no one is investigated korean dog friend. just iraq. that would. be for almost. a sweat. people you get most of these days and. they come in a meeting. with the cast. and. then go out and nobody let me go out to the sunnis. continue to. hold it up car to. go out on tottenham a job on love all over. men are our. goal oh isn't this never heard of sumi dotted most of all. corners and i would order the boy. good i.r. . it's honest i will stand or they don't understand what. is the way i see.

cummings, who is african american and represents parts of baltimore, a majority black city, chairs the house oversight committee and has been one of pe harshest voices against the president's bordicies and previous racist comments. one of the president's tweets used the word "infested," a word he has often used in previous critiques, usually aimed atop of color. yesterday's proclamations were deemed racist by citizens ofe baltimd beyond. today "the baltimore sun" newspaper's editial board said, "mr. trump sees attacking african american membersgof congress a politics, as it both warms the cockles of the e white supremacists who lm and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don't to scream." police in hong kong clashed with protesters again today as onviolence in the semi-automous chinese territory escalates. pro-democracy demonstrators blocked a road near chinese governmentuildings and threw eggs at police in riot gear who responded with tear gas. this was the second straight day that protesters gathered without first obtaining permission from the government. for nearly two months

and president trump takes aim at the african-american congressman elijah cummings branding his baltimore district disgusting and rat infested. times on peta stand in doha with all the day's sport as columbia mo is virtually guaranteed to become the 1st man from his country to win the tour de france. warm welcome to the program our top story protesters are back on the streets in sudan expressing their anger at an investigation into last month's brutal crackdown on the sit in and hard to saddam's military council is blaming a few rogue officers for the violence which the opposition says killed at least $100.00 people about morgan has more now from neighboring ethiopia. a few officers diverting from their orders and no blame on sudan's military to intone that was the core of the report from the investigation committee set up by the military to look into what happened on june 3rd when security forces attacked a pro-democracy sit in at army headquarters in hope to wear them. and i mean one of the bridget. yours was warned that he's not responsible for the operation yet he disobeyed orders and

follow democrat elijah cummings criticizing the president's mexico border policies well those are the headlines on al-jazeera to stay with us al-jazeera world continues next. of al-jazeera arabic has investigated allegations that the government in bahrain secretly conspired against the shia community joining the popular unrest of 2011. he viewed video testimonies from alleged members of al-qaeda containing these accusations and one of the videos a man with known links to al qaeda in bahrain mohammed. claims that officers from bahraini intelligence recruited al-qaeda members to form a cell tasked with the murder of bahraini opposition activists these allegations have been strenuously denied by the bahraini government. john kerry arco worked for the american central intelligence agency the cia in bahrain where his role was to catch al-qaeda leaders in the middle east and pakistan this included the capture of a saudi citizen known as abu zubaida you know. i think underestimate it when i say battery's i mean the back really government i believe underestimated the importance of the problem

michael gove apparently forgiven by boris johnson he's code lead in the leave campaign he's in dominick cummings the genius brains behind breaks it is said to be preparing to mastermind an election campaign it's about unity of purpose this it's about delivering breakfast with a deal boris johnson says that's his priority old although in the harshest possible terms and you could live around pretty much rejecting them all or boris johnson said so reluctantly but to accept the remote possibility of a no deal if brussels don't negotiate it will be their fault in other words not his and jenna bush johnson due to address parliament for the 1st time today as prime minister what do you expect to hear from him. i imagine that his address to parliament will largely echo the comments he made at the podium outside downing street taking aim in parliament among employees or the doubters the doomsdayers in the gloom says as he put it decrying 3 years of unfounded self-doubt and indecision he'll lay out his program duders he's dubbed it that's yet to catch on let's see delivering bricks at uniting the country d

suspension of bill because hong kong government could easily reactivated to be you inside good legislative cum soda butin being stalled by protester 2 days ago that's the reason for youngster to took action i understand it's hard for everyone to a step or busy the behaviors of protesters so just i mean i hear that and also i want to point people to your twitter feed because you clarify you put into context what it is that you did and why you did it let me just show people here so they can actually look at it and you say to a world i want to say a few words about what happened yesterday but in a word because people are going look at that threat because it's a very impressive in a word what is the healthy state or what is the state of the movement in hong kong . state of movement is we will continue with our with spirit and determination of the world the long term goal is to fight for free election but in a short while here we're still have peaceful s. just go along with draw down you so much for joining us nicking mixing lad and also andrew thomas as well we appreciate you being with us more on

to push back against what the president sees as accuracies lies about what mr cummings said this week in the oversight committee about the border if you go on the internet you can find the exchange where laci coming said the children were sitting in their own feces at the border that's wrong in fact it's misleadingly wrong it's the type of thing that really breaks down a civilized debate about how to address the the crisis at the border and the president didn't like it because the president speak hyperbolically absolutely and we've seen this type of of reaction from him before yes and you will again because he pushes back he fights back when he feels like he's attacked or what mr coming said this week was wrong. well we've also now heard from some residents of baltimore who were interviewed while shopping at an outdoor market on sunday morning almost to a person these residents are saying that the rhetoric coming from the white house is unhelpful at best and is disgusting out worst one person has told reporters that she found the language not just offensive but that she believes the p

mr cummings mind call me understood as to be a direction because of the president's coming to mind call me understood as to be a direction because of the president's position and the circumstances of the $1.00 to $1.00 meeting 40 volume 2 i understand it's in the report and i have supported as being in there as being in the report thank you sir even though the pub the president publicly denied telling call me to drop the investigation you found open quote substantial evidence corroborating commies account over the president's is this correct correct the president fired call me on may 9th that corrects or i believe that he accurate day that's page 77 volume 2 you found substantial evidence that the catalyst for the president's firing of call me was. open quote unwillingness to publicly state that the president was not personally under investigation i'm not more of the details of what happened if it's in the report that i'm supportive because it's already been reviewed appropriately appears in the report and that's page 75 volume thank you you and in fact the very next day the president t

minnesota senator amy klobuchar sponded to president trump's recent attacks on congressman elijah cummings and baltimore. >> little kids literally woke up this weekend, turned on the tv and saw their president calling their city, the town of baltimore, nothing more than a home for rats. and i can tell you, as your president, that will stop.>> awaz: while author and spiritual adviser marianne williamson focused on the water conditions in nearby flint michigan. >> it's bigger than ovint-- it's al this country, it's particularly people of color-- it's particularly people who do not have the money to fight back. and if the democrats don't start saying it, then why would leose peeel that they're there for us and if those people don't feel it, they won't vote for us, and donald trump will win. >> naw: expect race to come up again tonight, as ten more candidates prepare to take the stage... among them, former vice president joe biden and california senator kala harris, who clashed over desegregating schools during the first debate last month. >> do you agree today thatou were wrong to oppose buss

he defthe trump administration's efforts, but the committee chair, democrat ejah cummings, rejected it out of hand. >> you feel like you're doing a ob, is that right? >> we're doing our best, under trying... >> what does that mean? what does it mean when a child is sitting in his ows! can't take a shower! come on, man! what's that about?!f none would have our children in that position! they are human beings! >> woodruff: mcaleenan said conditions improved greatly after congress recently approved emergency funding. and, he said, the numbers of children being separated from families has dropped sharply since last year. the u.s. house voted today to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade. majority democrats pushed through a bill to raise the wage to $15 an hour, over six years. it is now set at $7.25. the measure is given little chance in the republican-run senate. the national weather service today warned of dangerous eratures in nearly half the lower 48 states, in a scorching heat wave. in washington d.c., families stocked up on water bottles on the national mall,

that came today, as he defended his attacks on elijah cummings, the baltimore congressman leading investigations of mr. trump. the president befo an event in virginia that black lawmakers boycotted. as his helopter roared, he sisted it's voters that count. >> they are hay as hell. so you may have a couple of politicians boycott but it's all a fix. it's all a fix. anthe fact is african amer people love the job i'm doing cause i'm working for them, i'mo working for the politicians. >> woodruff: in fact, a recent "gallup" poll found only 8% of african americans support mr. trump. meanwhile, he was briefly heckled in jamestown today, at the event marking the start of self-government in ameri in 1619. the first african slaves arrived that same year. for their part, black virginia state legislators gathered in richmond, where a slave jail once stood. one tearfully urged spectators to reclaim the nation's soul. the number of central americangr ts crossing mexico to the u.s. border has dropped nearlye 40% siy. the mexican government announced today the nuer fell to 87,000 in july. ud, the american civil

he defended the trump administration's efforts but the committee chair, democrat elijah cummings, rejeed it out of hand. >> you feel like you're doing a good job, is that right? >> we're doing our best, under trying... >>hat does that mean? what does it mean when a child is sitting in his own feces! can't take shower! come on, man! what's that about?! none of us would have our children in that positn! they are human beings! >> woodruff: mcaleenan said conditions improved greatly after congress recently approved emergency funding. d, he said, the numbers of children being separated from families has dropped sharply since last year.s. the ouse voted today to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade.i ma democrats pushed through a bill to raise the wage to $15 an hour, over six years. it is now set at $7.25. the measure is given little i chanthe republican-run senate. the naonal weather service today warned of dangerous temperatures in nearly half of the lower 48 states, in a scorching heat wave. in washington d.c., families stocked up on water bottles onti the al mall,

that cday, as he defended his attacks on elijah cummings, the baltimore congressman leading investigations of mr. trump. the president before an event in srginia that black lawmak boycotted. as his helicopter roared, he insisted it's voters that count. >> they are happy as hell. so you may have a couple ofbo politicianott but it's all a fix. it's all a fix. the fact is african american people love the job i'm doing cause i'm working for them, i'm not working for the politicians. >> woodruff: in fact, a recent "gallup" poll found only 8% of african americans support mr. trump. meanwhile, he was briefly heckled in jamestown today, at the event marking the start of self-government in america in 1619 the first african slaves arrived that same year. for their part, black virgia state legislators gathered in richmond, where a slave jail once stood. one tearfully urged spectators to reclaim the nation's soul. the number of central american migrants crossing mexico to the u.s. border has dropped nearly 40% since may. the mexican government announced today the number fell to 87,000 in july. and, th