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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Iraq Bombing; Suicide Bombings in 3 Saudi Arabian Cities; Bodies of Japanese Victims in Bangladesh Return Home; Super Bacteria Lurking in Rio Waters; Vietnam Fisherman Caught in South China Sea Dispute; ISIS Linked to Tel Aviv Market Attack; Top E.U. Contenders Stake Out Brexit Positions; Trump Says Media Fueling Anti-Semitism Charges; Clinton Campaign Still dogged by E-mail Probe. Aired 2-3a ET
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[02:00:11] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles.
Ahead this hour --
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SESAY: Hello. Welcome to our viewers around the world. I'm Isha Sesay. NEWSROOM, L.A., starts right now.
We're getting a new look at how devastating Saturday's bombing in Baghdad was. Look at the damage from above a bustling shopping district. Charred and reduced to rubble. There were 215 people killed, the deadliest attack in Iraq in 13 years. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the suicide truck bombing. It was the latest during Ramadan that ISIS claims or was suspecting of carrying out. Searchers are still looking for more possible victims in the rubble. One official says 81 bodies are so badly burned they will need to do DNA testing to identify them.
Ben Wedeman reports on a community coping with grief and anger.
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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Body after body the toll from Saturday's truck bombing in Baghdad mounts. Over the years, Iraqis and seen and suffered through bloodshed, but familiarity with death doesn't make it any easier.
This woman is searching for her 29-year-old son who came here to buy clothing at the end of Ramadan.
"I looked in the hospitals. Nothing," she says. "I looked in the morgues. Nothing."
The still-warm ashes yield body parts collected in bags in sheets. Closure, however eludes those seeking misses loved ones.
Sammy is locking for five relatives.
"There are only charred pieces of flesh," he says. "We can't recognize anyone."
The truck bomb claimed by ISIS represents the deadliest single attack in Iraq since 2003.
Yet again, the fresh, young faces of the dead adorned the walls.
While grief mixes with anger in a government many accuse of letting down its guard again.
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"Where is interior minister," asked this woman? "Where is the defense minister? Are they asleep?"
After Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi was being driven away by an angry crowd, officials have stayed away.
Once more, the people of Iraq mourn alone.
Ben Wedeman, CNN, Baghdad.
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SESAY: Suicide bombers have attacked three cities across Saudi Arabia in 24 hours. One of those blasts killed four people. The country's interior ministry has now identified one of the bombers as a 34-year- old resident who moved from Pakistan 12 years ago.
Nic Robertson has the latest.
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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Three suicide attacks in one day in Saudi Arabia. Highly unusual. The deadliest coming in Medina when a suicide bomber targeted a Saudi security checkpoint. Several security officers killed and more injured. Flames are seen billowing out of the vehicle. Right around the same time, just as dusk was falling to the east of the country in the city of Karrada, a suicide bomber tried to get into a Shia mosque and he was stopped before he got in. He detonated his explosives. No one injured there. In the early hours of the day, a suicide bomber was spotted by police at about 3:00 a.m. in the morning in Jeddah just outside the U.S. consulate there in a car park in a local hospital. Police saw the man behaving in a strange way, approached him, and he detonated his explosives there killing himself, injuring lightly two other police officers. When the police there investigated further, they found the vehicle of the suicide bomber, and it had three more explosives in it. A bomb disposal team was called in and they remotely detonated them. It could have been far worse if the car exploded, that didn't happened. What this is concerning for is a number of reasons. There were three
blasts in one day and also that indicates Western targets may become more on the target list of terrorists inside Saudi Arabia. No claim of responsibility so far, but we know in the past that ISIS has targeted Saudi security forces and they have targeted Shias and their mosques as well. So far, no claim of responsibility for the three attacks in Saudi Arabia.
Nic Robertson, CNN, London.
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[02:05:45] SESAY: Several countries are mourning their dead after the terror attack in Bangladesh. The bodies of seven Japanese victims are returned home. A memorial was set up and the Japanese foreign minister and the Bangladeshi ambassador laid flowers next to the coffins. The body of Indian national, Tarishi Jain, has also returned home.
Let's bring in Sumnima Udas for the very latest. She joins me from New Delhi.
Sumnima, heart-breaking images from the funeral of Tarishi Jain.
SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. We were there for the funeral, actually. A sophomore at the University of California, Berkley. She just started her internship in Dhaka at a bank and she was visiting her father, who lived in Dhaka, a textile merchant. And the images were heart breaking because her mother just wouldn't leave the coffin. She was just holding on to this glass coffin for what seemed like hours. She was inconsolable really. And, you know, understandably none of her family members wanted to talk, but you could overhear them talking amongst themselves and you could hear them saying, she was hiding inside with her friend and she had called her father who was outside the restaurant, and said, "They are killing everyone. I don't think I'm going to survive this." And he was just outside, waiting, helplessly, and everybody is just talking about what a wonderful person she was, and she had so much going for her. And that's something that you keep hearing about all the victims, really. Another person who was with her, her friend, and he was told that he could leave because he was a Bangladeshi Muslim and he said, what about my friends? He said, they can't leave, and he decided to stay back and be with them. And he died as well as 20 other people in that restaurant. Such a tragic stories emerging from Dhaka yesterday and today -- Isha?
SESAY: Yes. He is being hailed as a hero by many.
What is a latest we're hearing about the investigation, Sumnima? Have they begun questioning that sole surviving suspect?
UDAS: Well, he is actually critically injured. So the authorities say they haven't been able to ask him anything. There's also another suspect they say who was also injured during that siege. We don't know at the moment who that person is and whether the authorities have been able to question him. What they are focusing on is trying to focus on everything they can.
Questioning the 13 people who were rescued and going through the forensic evidence, combing through the restaurant site.
Right now, the authorities maintain that ISIS is not behind this, even though ISIS has claimed responsibility. They say they haven't found any evidence to prove that. And they say, most likely, this is the work of a homegrown militant jihadist group called JMB that was banned. Analysts say it was kind of the same thing because JMB, even though they are not directly linked to is, but logically, it's kind of the same thing and authorities maintain there is no foreign hand or group, terrorist group involved in this situation and this horrible massacre -- Isha?
SESAY: We shall see what emerges in the days ahead.
Sumnima Udas, joining us from New Delhi, thank you.
The Rio Olympics are fast approaching. Just one month from the opening ceremony. CNN will be following this every step of the way as Rio tries to overcome a number of challenges to make these games a success. Here's what you can expect. Brazil will host more than 10,000 athletes from 206 countries and compete in more than 300 events across 42 sports and nearly 5,000 medals will be awarded.
No matter how impressive those numbers are, the world's attention has been focused on shortcomings, problems with crime, poor infrastructure and the Zika Virus. Now there's a new concern about what might be lurking in the city's water.
CNN's Shasta Darlington reports.
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[02:10:26] SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The marvelous city, stunning views and golden beaches, but you might think twice before you splash in. Lurking under Rio's waters, raw sewage and now what scientists describe as super bacteria.
Researchers at the Rio Federal University tested the city's beaches for a year and discovered high levels of the dreaded superbug, drug resistant bacteria that have been turning up in hospitals.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We believe that true hospital sewage it goes and gets to the bay or through other rivers and it finally gets to the beach.
DARLINGTON: The highest levels of super bacteria found on the shores of the bay, site of the Olympic sailing event a month from now.
This Germany sailor says you can't be overcautious.
UNIDENTIFIED GERMAN SAILOR: It's a nice sailing area, but every time you have got some water in your face, it feels like there is some alien enemy entering your face. I keep my nose and lips closed.
DARLINGTON: His colleague blamed the waters for a skin infection he got while training.
Authorities say athletes and visitors will be safe and the sailing arena has internationally acceptable levels of bacteria.
According to Rio's water utility, half the homes in Rio state are connected to the sewage system, up from 11 percent.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Of course, the water treatment plants, they are not prepared for the super bacterias, because it's brand new.
DARLINGTON: And something the water utility says they will look into further.
But scientists say the superbug is washing up on Rio's most touristy beaches, which are deemed too polluted to swim in by authorities a good third of the year.
(on camera): This water isn't treated. It's supposed to be for rain runoff. It often fills with garbage and it stinks of raw sewage. And it dumps right here on the beach.
(voice-over): Another cloud overshadowing the Olympics.
Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
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SESAY: Even under the best circumstances, hosting the Olympics is a big commitment. Canada learned that lesson with the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Some people say those were the worst ever.
CNN's Don Riddell tells us why.
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DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: Everyone wants the Olympics until they have to pay for it. It greatest show on earth doesn't come cheap if you are putting on the show.
Just ask Montreal. The host city for the 1976 Summer Olympics thought the budget for the stadium complex would be $134 million but the costs spiraled out of control and the debt wasn't paid off for three decades.
The circular stadium was nicknamed the "Big O" and it was the big owe. The retractable roof never worked during the games. The iconic leaning tower wasn't completed until more than a decade afterwards. And in all, the final bill was almost 12 times the original estimate.
That's why some call the Montreal games one of the worst ever Olympics. But it wasn't all their own fault. It's not Montreal's fault that the African nations boycotted because of the inclusion of New Zealand team, a protest connected to South Africa's apartheid government.
And then there was the East German women's swimming team. They didn't win a race in '72 but then won 11 of 13 events in Montreal. They were proved to have been doping. They, at the time, defended their muscular stature and deep voices with the immortal line, "We are here to swim not sing."
But here in Montreal some will tell you a different story. The mayor, a former Canadian sports minister, Denis Coderre, says it was all worth it no matter the cost.
DENIS CODERRE, MONTREAL MAYOR: It's not about concrete. It's about people. And this is -- everybody -- I still have goose bump. I remember the people when they were cheering. And you forget about the infrastructure. You just felt that, hey, this is something special. This is about the world. Is in Montreal.
RIDDELL: For the fans in attendance, the games were inspirational, putting Montreal on the world map, and kick starting a sporting and cultural revolution in Quebec.
The star of the games, the Romanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, also inspired a spike in newborn baby girls bearing her name the following year.
40 years later, those involved in the games return here to celebrate the anniversary.
Meanwhile the next Olympics in Rio is dealing with a multitude of problems. Montreal's mayor says the future games need to be transparent, authentic and sensible to avoid the mistakes of the past. It's sound advice but it may be too late for Rio.
Don Riddell, CNN, Montreal.
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[02:15:33] SESAY: Another story we're following this hour, NASA's Juno spacecraft has entered orbit around Jupiter, getting closer to our solar system's largest planet than ever before. It will circumstance isle the planet 37 times over the next month. A big challenge will be dodging Jupiter's intense radiation field. We'll have more on Juno's journey later in the program.
Coming up on CNN NEWSROOM, he is on the defensive over his use of a controversial symbol while she is on the defensive over her e-mails. How the U.S. presidential candidates are coping with controversy.
Plus, dozens killed and thousands left homeless. We'll see if there is relief in site for the devastating rain in China. Stay with us.
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[02:20:12] SESAY: This is the scene in China over the weekend. Rain caused water and mud to sweep through city streets carrying everything in their path as you see there. At least 186 people have been killed by the flooding since Thursday and thousands more are homeless.
Let's get the very latest on the situation. Our Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us live from the scene.
It's hard to take in the images, Pedram. How much longer will this go on for?
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: For the immediate future, Isha, it looks like at least a couple of more weeks. This is a pattern we have seen continue for at least the last three to four weeks. This is a combination of the past. This is the East Asia rainy season. It means the plum rains because the ancient Chinese will tell you beginning in late May, early June, rain would begin and they would see that persist for about 40 or so days to the north and that would mean it's time to harvest the plums and the persistent rainfall has been so much that the fatalities have been approaching 200 and the next two days, it's not going anywhere. Plenty of rain to the south and plenty of rain where they have been impacted and just west to have Shanghai and did peninsula. It's not that we're concerned about. It's the amount of rainfall. In places like just west of Shanghai, 450 or so millimeters has come down. That's equivalent to what Paris would see in a month and Barcelona would see in 9 to 10 months. Notice there is something we're watching carefully. That's our first typhoon of 2016. It has the potential of strengthen very quickly. It's equivalent to a category one. But follow the track and notice 160 kilometers per hour and this could approach Taiwan at 215 kilometers per hour and then China would be in the cross hairs for the rainfall in the storm system.
I want to show you Taiwan's landscape. Take a look. We know Taiwan is surrounded by mountains with the buildings in place. Mountains protect the area across this region. You think of the building up to five of eight meters. It's designed to withstand winds up to 216 kilometers per hour. You see winds get close to that if that does come to close proximity. You know one of the reasons, but the waves on the immediate coastline. Those are 12 meters high and some of the islands are south, and that's about area we have to watch later the week with the storm system -- Isha?
SESAY: Great deal to keep an eye on.
Pedram, thank you.
JAVAHERI: Thank you.
SESAY: Now China will hold military drills near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea starting Tuesday.
As Saima Mohsin reports, Vietnam's fishermen are finding themselves caught up in the territorial dispute.
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SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Like his father before him, he makes his living in the sea. He has fished for 31 years, but lately, his job has become a lot more dangerous. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): First, they took our fish
and then the equipment. If they liked it, they took it. If they didn't, they threw it away.
MOHSIN: He remembers the day when Chinese boarded his boat, stole his equipment and threatened him and his sons. This happened last year but he says his boat has been targeted four or five times over the past decades.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Once they tased my son three times in his spine.
MOHSIN: He says he's been targeted because he fishes in the Paracels, the chain of islands claimed by Vietnam China and Taiwan. Vietnamese authorities say hundreds of fishermen from the small island off the east coast of Vietnam reports being intimidated, beaten or robbed by men on Chinese flagged boats within the Paracels.
Yet, despite the danger, the local government says it's encouraging men to keep fishing these waters, calling them defenders of the Vietnamese territory.
The Chinese foreign ministry says it has no knowledge about Vietnamese fisherman being beaten or chased away, and the Paracel Islands are its sovereign territory, along with most of the South China Sea.
China is building man-made islands, laying down air stripes, deploying surface-to-air missiles in defiance of competing claims by other regional players.
And the U.S. has weighed into the fight, challenging China by running freedom of navigation operations in the region and calling for an end to the militarization of the area. Washington's message seems to have done little to sway local opinion.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): Concerning America's idea of a peaceful solution between Vietnam and China, even with this peaceful solution, the right to Vietnam to these islands are undeniable.
MOHSIN: CNN wasn't allowed to speak to the fisherman without a government minder present. But Vietnamese officials are keen to show them off as victims of China's aggression.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): We protect our country for the next generation.
MOHSIN: It's an elevated calling for the fishermen of a remote island in a nightly song. In its ongoing dispute with China, Vietnam is mustering defenders wherever they can find them.
Saima Mohsin, CNN.
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SESAY: Time for a quick break now. And we're learning more details about last month's deadly shooting at the Tel Aviv market. Who inspired the gunmen who carried out the attack, coming up.
Plus, one of the hardest parts is over for NASA's Juno space probe. More about its mission to Jupiter now that's it's finally entered orbit.
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[02:30:02] SESAY: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.
The headlines this hour.
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SESAY: There was a truck bombing in Baghdad and the death toll has risen to 215. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks on a crowded shopping area in the Karrada neighborhood. It's a latest in a series of terror attacks during Ramadan and the worst bombing in Iraq since 2003.
The attack in Baghdad is latest in a string of the assaults during the holy month of Ramadan. While ISIS has claimed responsibility for some of the attacks, officials say they may have inspired others.
Our Barbara Starr has more.
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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The fires, massive and horrifying. At least 215 people killed in a suicide bombing that ripped through a nighttime crowded Baghdad shopping area.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the worst attack in Iraq since 2003.
Drone footage shows the devastation.
Two days later, the search for victims goes on.
MAJ. GEN. JAMES "SPIDER" MARKS, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: The government in Baghdad for the country of Iraq has failed the citizens of Baghdad. That's troubling.
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STARR: Furious Iraqis desperate for security surround Prime Minister Haider Abadi when he visits the site --
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STARR: -- then throw objects at his convoy.
The coalition says this and other recent attacks suggest ISIS is lashing out because it's losing ground in Iraq and Syria.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As they attract crazies and sickos from across the globe, they are trying to show they're a viable threat and force.
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STARR: Turkish authorities are still unraveling ISIS links to attacks at Istanbul airport --
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STARR: -- that killed 45.
In Bangladesh, the government is working to determine what links the attackers at the cafe in Dhaka had to ISIS where more than two dozen died.
Israel now believes a June 8th attack at a Tel Aviv market was also inspired by ISIS.
MARKS: ISIS has been able to take advantage of time. They have increased their message and training. They have been able to bring folks in to the Levant join ISIS and train them up and export them out.
STARR: Even if ISIS is squeezed for territory on the battlefield, military officials say they have been making the case --
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STARR: -- ISIS and its ideology cannot be kids off willed off with bombs and bullets.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We can kill the people leaders and the person who is in charge of sending out the messages to the various subgroups, the ISIL crooks and criminals, and they will move somebody up in the ranks to take their place.
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SESAY: Barbara Starr reporting there.
As you heard Barbara mention, Israel is now linking ISIS to last month's deadly shooting at a Tel Aviv market. The country's security agency said Monday the gunmen were inspired by the terror group.
Oren Liebermann reports from Jerusalem.
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OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The two gunmen who carried out the terror attack at Tel Aviv's market in early June were inspired by ISIS the Israel security agency, the ISA, said after its investigation into the shooting. Though the ISA stressed the two were not official members of the organization. Four Israelis were killed. More than a dozen others injured.
According to the investigation, Mohammad Mohamna (ph), a 21-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, became a supporter of ISIS while he was in Jordan and he returned to his home in January and he convinced his cousin, 21-year-old Hali Mohamna (ph), to plan an attack. The two crossed into Israel with homemade weapons. Initially, the ISA says, they wanted to attack a railway passenger car but then they chose the market, an open market in the heart of Tel Aviv, randomly on the day of the attack, investigators said. They opened fire inside a restaurant of the market, surprising diners who were enjoying an evening at the quiet market. The two were arrested a short time after the terror attack.
The Israel security agency also arrested 10 other residents of the West Bank under suspicion they were involved in producing weapons or helping attackers get into Israel.
Oren Liebermann, CNN, Jerusalem.
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[02:35:09] SESAY: Just ahead on CNN NEWSROOM, she spent a good part of her weekend talking to the FBI. Why Hillary Clinton may soon be able to put the e-mail controversy behind her and pick a running mate.
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SESAY: For more than 20 years, Nigel Farage campaigned for the U.K. to leave the European Union, and now he that he's got what he wanted, he said he is leaving, too. Farage is resigning as head of the U.K. Independence Party, the second top Leave campaigner after Boris Johnson to step away after the Brexit vote. Farage says he has achieved his goal so there is no longer any reason to stick around.
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NIGEL FARAGE, UNITED KINGDOM INDEPENDENCE PARTY LEADER: I now feel that I have done my bit, that I couldn't possibly achieve more than we managed to get in that referendum, and so I feel it's right that I should now stand aside as leader of UKIP.
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SESAY: Britain's next prime minister will be at the table as the U.K. negotiates its exit from the European Union. And the top contenders are staking out their positions on just how they'll bargain.
As Isa Soares reports from London, Britains living in the E.U. and E.U. nationals living in Britain are caught in the middle.
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[02:40:00] ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Another week in Westminster with another ambitious contender emerging.
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SOARES: From the Leave campaign, Andrea Leadsom, set out her intentions today. Her message, let's get on with it and leave. ANDREA LEADSOM, U.K. ENERGY MINISTER: Not everything needs to be
negotiated before Article 50 is triggered and the exit process is concluded.
SOARES: One of her key policies, new restrictions in the rise of E.U.s nationals who live and work in the U.K., insisting they will not be bargaining chips in negotiations.
LEADSOM: The United Kingdom will leave the European Union. Freedom of movement will end. And the British parliament will decide how many people enter our country each year to live, work, and contribute to our natural life.
SOARES: Meanwhile, her rival, front runner, Theresa May, has suggested that those nationals could be used in bargaining over British trade agreements with the E.U. Britian's foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, a May ally, unwilling to table a plan of action in a radio interview.
PHILIP HAMMOND, U.K. FOREIGN SECRETARY: When you go into a negotiation, all the parts are moving, all the parts are on the table, and it would be absurd to make a unilateral commitment about E.U. nationals living in the U.K. without at the very least getting a similar commitment from the European Union about British nationals living until E.U.
SOARES: The U.K. Conservative Party split due to Brexit, with each contender jockeying for position. Theresa May, currently out front as favorite, Andrea Leadsom running second. Justice Secretary Michael Gove has been licking his wounds bloodied after his battle with former mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Meanwhile, Stephen Crab (ph) and Ian Fox struggling to build support for their big.
(on camera): Members of Parliament will vote on Tuesday on who they should lead the party's negotiations in Brussels. And what is becoming increasingly likely is that Britain could have its second female prime minister sitting at that table.
Isa Soares, CNN, London.
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SESAY: Australia's slow suspenseful vote count is dragging on after no winner emerged in Saturday's federal election. Independents are wheeling and dealing with the main parties in hopes of playing king maker, knowing the Liberal national coalition risks losing its majority. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who called for the vote, is now facing a power vacuum and a possible hung parliament. His rival says it is time to step down.
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BILL SHORTEN, AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY LEADER: Mr. Turnbull doesn't know what he is doing. Quite frankly, I think he should quit. He has taken this nation to an election on the basis of stability. He's delivered instability. He's knows he's not up to the job. The Australian people know he is out of touch. And he has given a Senate reform which involves two or three (INAUDIBLE). The bloke is not up to the job.
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SESAY: Mr. Turnbull, who has been in charge less than a year, had little to say on Monday. We're keeping a close eye on this as the votes are counted. And we'll bring you the results as soon as they are in.
A twitter post harshly criticizing Hillary Clinton has backfired on the Donald Trump campaign. It set off of a flurry of anti-Semitic charges against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Trump, I turn, is now accusing the media of fueling the accusations.
CNN's Sara Murray reports.
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SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Today, Donald Trump is standing by this tweet that has ignited a fire storm. On Saturday, Trump blasted out the graphic declaring Hillary Clinton the most corrupt candidate ever over a six-pointed star and dollar bills. The imagery invoking anti-Semitic stereotypes, and it appeared 10 days earlier on a white supremacist message board.
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MURRAY: But the presumptive GOP nominee is making no move to apologize. Today, tweeting, "Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a sheriff star or plain star."
But that doesn't explain why amid the brewing backlash the campaign deleted the tweet, replacing it with this image, trying to cover the star with a circle.
Some are seizing on it as a sign of a troubling pattern.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's hard to call it anything other than a pattern. And it's a pattern that, to us, is perplexing, troubling, and we think wrong.
HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Hey. Nice to see you.
MURRAY: Today, the Clinton's campaign director of Jewish outreach piled on, saying, "Donald Trump's use of an blatantly anti-Semitic image from a racist website to promote his campaign would be disturbing enough, but the fact that it's part of a pattern should give voters major cause for concern.
Trump's allies quickly sprung to his defense. ED BROOKOVER, SENIOR ADVISOR, DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: Who knows how this came to our attention? And I don't know. What I do know is there is nothing anti-Semitic about our campaign, certainly nothing anti-Semitic about Mr. Trump.
COREY LEWANDOWSKI, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR & FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER: It's the same star sheriff's departments use all over the place to represent law enforcement.
MURRAY: But it's not the first time Trump fired off tweet with nefarious undertones. He previously re-tweeted apparent Neo-Nazi supporters. In another case, he blasted out inaccurate and racially charged crime statistics. And he faced an avalanche of criticism after failing to denounce white nationalist, David Duke, in this interview with Jake Tapper.
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[02:45:21] JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: OK, I'm talking about the Klu Klux Klan here, but.
DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: I don't know David Duke. I don't believe I have ever met him and I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him. And I just don't know anything about him.
MURRAY: Now Trump is looking to change the conversation and ginning up speculation about the veep-stakes, tweeting his pleasure at meeting Indiana Governor Mike Pence this weekend and announcing his meeting with Iowa Senator Joni Ernst today.
(on camera): Now Donald Trump eventually did disavow David Duke and the KKK, he is still not disavowing that tweet. He put out a statement clarifying a little bit but he's also trying to turn things around on Hillary Clinton, saying, "These false attacks by Hillary Clinton, trying to link the Star of David with a basic star often used by sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behavior, showing an inscription that says, 'Crooked Hillary is the most corrupt candidate ever,' with anti-Semitism is ridiculous. Clinton, through her surrogates, is just trying to divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband."
Of course, that still doesn't answer the question of how an image that appears to have originated on a white supremacist website eventually ended up on Donald Trump's Twitter feed.
Sara Murray, CNN, Washington.
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SESAY: Hillary Clinton has her own controversy to deal with. The investigation of her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state has caused a cloud over her campaign, but the long ordeal nearing an end.
Here's CNN's senior Washington correspondent, Joe Johns. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state may soon be nearing an end.
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JOHNS: The presumptive Democratic nominee met with the agency for three and a half hours at FBI headquarters in Washington on Saturday. Afterwards, she was mum on the status of the investigation.
CLINTON (voice-over): I'm not going to comment on the process. I have no knowledge of any timelines. This is entirely up to the department.
JOHNS: Sources tell CNN that no charges against Clinton are anticipated so long as no evidence of wrong doing emerges from the weekend interview. The inquiry has cast a long shadow over Clinton's presidential bid and helped fuel Donald Trump's attacks against her. The presumptive GOP nominee tweeting today, "Crooked Hillary is guilty as hell, but the system is totally rigged and corrupt. Where are the 33,000 missing e-mails?"
Clinton is facing a fresh round of scrutiny in the aftermath of an unplanned meeting between her husband and attorney general, Loretta Lynch, which raised questions about the impartiality of the investigation. Clinton said over the weekend that the encounter was purely social but acknowledged it would have been better to avoid the situation.
CLINTON (voice-over): Hindsight's 20/20. Both my husband and the attorney journal said that they wouldn't do it again, even though it was, from all accounts, an exchange of pleasantries.
JOHNS: Donald Trump is seizing on the meeting to hammer Clinton, tweeting, "I believe that Crooked Hillary sent Bill to have the meeting with U.S. A.G. so Bill is not in trouble with H., except that he got caught."
Clinton is hoping to get the e-mail issue behind her and focus on the next steps for her campaign, including selecting a running mate.
SEN. CORY BOOKER, (D), NEW JERSEY: This is Jersey, baby!
JOHNS: One potential contender, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, is deflecting questions about whether he is being vetted the Clinton campaign. He denied being under consideration.
BOOKER: At this point, I'm just referring questions to the woman that's going to have to make this decision. Talk to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
JOHNS (on camera): On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton will appear on the campaign for the first time in this election cycle with President Obama in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the same day that Donald Trump will be campaigning in Raleigh, the state capitol. Dueling events that underscore how important the Tar Heel State will be for the White House aspirations of both parties.
Joe Johns, CNN, Washington.
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SESAY: The folks at NASA are celebrating with one big message: Welcome to Jupiter. We'll look at the incredible feat putting a space probe closer than ever to the massive planet.
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[02:53:33] SESAY: NASA's Juno space probe has begun its tour of Jupiter. Mission control cheered and hugged as Juno pulled off a tricky maneuver to enter Jupiter's orbit a few hours ago. The spacecraft was launched nearly five years ago to study Jupiter's composition and evolution. Juno will circle the planet 37 times over the next month.
But now, NASA is touting Monday night's success.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First, we have to take care of some business. We prepared a contingency communications procedure, and guess what? We don't need that anymore.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: History.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So tonight, through tones, Juno sang to us, and it was a song of perfection.
Do you realize that after a $1.7 billion mile journey? They are going to kill me.
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After a $1.7 billion mile journey, we hit our burn targeting within one second on a target that was just tens of kilometers large. Isn't that incredible? That's how good our team is.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And that's how well the Juno spacecraft performed tonight.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You see a handful of team up here, but what we represent is a team of almost 900 people that built and launched Juno and roughly 300 people that operated and got us all through way through into Jupiter's orbit tonight.
[02:55:12] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a saying, it's not rocket science. Well, today, it was rocket science.
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So to put it in orbit around the most intense planet in the solar system, you have to fire the main engine at the right time at the right place. That's not easy. It may look easy when you watch it, but behind the scenes, there's a tremendous amount of work that goes on. There's a tremendous amount of pride and dedication and passion that this team has put into this.
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SESAY: They have every right to be proud. And Google also celebrated Juno's arrival with an animation on its home page.
You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay. Keep in touch with me on Twitter, @IshaSesayCNN.
The news continues with Rosemary Church at CNN Center after this show break.
We leave you with a look at the Fourth of July fireworks on the National Mall in Washington. Enjoy.
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