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David Cameron to Resign as PM Wednesday; New Details on Weapons of Dallas Shooter; Rudy Giuliani Calls Black Lives Matter Racist; Donald Trump Reacts to Police Shootings; Sanders to Endorse Clinton; Theresa May Next British Prime Minister; Freedom Project: Orphan Scammed by Pastor; "World Sport" Report. Aired 1-2a ET
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[01:00:09] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour, the UK political shakeup. How Teresa May plans to lead the country and a look back at David Cameron's legacy.
Plus the U.S. president heads to Dallas to memorialize five fallen officers as protests over police killings continue across America.
Hello, and welcome to our viewers all around the world. I am Isha Sesay. NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.
Ten Downing Street is about to have a new occupant. Teresa May will replace David Cameron as Britain's prime minister on Wednesday. He is stepping down and May's sole remaining rival for the top job has stepped aside. Energy Minister Andrew Leadsom pulled out of the race Monday following criticism over comments she made that she could run the country better because she, unlike May, has children. May supported remaining in the European Union but Monday she promised she would follow through on Britain's withdrawal from the EU.
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THERESA MAY, INCOMING BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Brexit means Brexit and we're going to make a success of it. There will be no attempts to remain inside the EU.
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MAY: There will be no attempts to rejoin it by the backdoor, no second referendum. The country voted to leave the European Union and as prime minister I will make sure that we will leave the European Union.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SESAY: Well, Cameron has promised to step down by October after he failed to convince Britons to stay in the EU but that timetable quickly changed after Theresa May became the sole candidate for his job.
Max Foster has more now on the end of the Cameron era. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MAX FOSTER, CNN ROYAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): David Cameron's promise of a referendum, ultimately the death knell of his leadership. The argument over Britain's place in Europe bringing his time at 10 Downing Street to a dramatic end.
When Cameron first took office in 2010, it was against an unfamiliar backdrop. A coalition government for the first time in generations.
DAVID CAMERON, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: We are announcing a new politics.
FOSTER: In this new era, Cameron oversaw the country's gradual economic recovery, a shrinking budget deficit and a record number of jobs created, although the process of austerity was painful for some.
Cameron maintains Britain's special relationship with America, joined the international coalition against ISIS and welcomed the world for a highly successful London 2012 Olympics. When it came to reelection last year, even Cameron was taken by surprise when he won a majority. But that win came at a cost.
Pressure from an increasingly disgruntled group of Euroskeptican peace within Cameron's own party forced him to make a pledge.
CAMERON: Yes, we will deliver that in-out referendum on our future in Europe.
FOSTER: The Europe issue has divided Cameron's Conservative Party for decades.
CAMERON: I am not a British isolationist, but I do want a better deal for Britain.
FOSTER: In February, he went to Brussels to renegotiate Britain's position in Europe. He declared it a success, but his critics including high-profile members of his own cabinet said little had changed.
BORIS JOHNSON, FORMER LONDON MAYOR: Explain to the House and to the country exactly in what way this deal returns sovereignty over any field of law making.
FOSTER: Having failed to convince even some of his closest political allies, Cameron's position going into the referendum was vulnerable. And after the ballots were counted, Britain had voted to leave the E.U. and the PM fell on his sword.
CAMERON: We should aim to have a new prime minister in place by the start of the Conservative Party Conference in October. Delivering stability will be important.
FOSTER: After days of political bloodshed to name his successor, a fellow remain campaigner, Theresa May, outlasted the others, forcing Cameron's hand one last time. CAMERON: I would attend the House of Commons for prime minister's
questions and then after that I expect to go to the palace and offer my resignation so we'll have a new prime minister in that building behind me by Wednesday evening. Thank you very much.
FOSTER: A hasty exit for a prime minister who dared to tackle the European question and lost.
Max Foster, CNN, London.
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[01:05:04] SESAY: Well, here in the United States another community is coping with a tragic shooting this time inside a courthouse. Authorities in Michigan said an inmate grabbed an officer's gun outside a holding cell then shot and killed two court bailiffs and wounded two other people Monday. The inmate got into the courtroom area where officers opened fire and killed him. Authorities say he was being held on several felony charges. The two injured people are expected to be OK.
Well, U.S. President Barack Obama and former president George W. Bush will pay tribute to the five officers killed in Dallas at a memorial service there Tuesday. Meanwhile mass protests over the police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile went on for a fifth night in Atlanta, Georgia, Monday evening. Police arrested 16 people.
And a group of young protesters in Chicago staged a sit-in that later turned into a march with about 1,000 people.
Dallas police saying they found bomb-making materials in the gunman's home but it's unclear what he planned to do with them. Investigators are trying to figure out his motive. The shooter's parents say he changed after his military service.
CNN's Ed Lavandera has the details.
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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Dallas police investigators are piecing together more than 170 hours of body cam video and dash cam footage to determine how the deadly attack unfolded. Dallas Police Chief David Brown says investigators are still working to confirm that the killer acted alone.
CHIEF DAVID BROWN, DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT: We're going to follow every lead until it's exhausted, until I'm satisfied, that this was a lone person.
LAVANDERA: Detectives are analyzing Johnson's weapons seized on the scene and in his home. Law enforcement sources tell us the attacker brought two handguns and an assault style rifle to the attack and was wearing a bullet-proof vest. Sources say it appears the weapons were legally purchased, some bought online. But there are still questions about what his plans were for the explosives found in his home. BROWN: There was a large stockpile. One of the bomb techs called me
at home to describe his concern of how large a stockpile of bomb- making materials he had.
LAVANDERA: And there are still questions about the letters "R.B." that the killer wrote in his own blood inside the community college where he was killed.
BROWN: I think that this killer obviously had some delusion. There was quite a bit of rambling in the journal that's hard to decipher.
JAMES JOHNSON, GUNMAN'S FATHER: I love my son with all my heart. I hate what he did.
LAVANDERA: The killer's parents are speaking out for the first time in an interview with "TheBlaze." His mother says her son left the military after six years highly disillusioned, calling him a good son.
DELPHINE JOHNSON, MICAH JOHNSON'S MOTHER: The idea that he thought of our government of what he thought the military represented. It just didn't live up to his expectation.
LAVANDERA: All this as protesters took to the streets across the country this weekend with more than 300 arrests. In Atlanta, thousands shut down major highways. In St. Paul, Minnesota, police say some protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers. In Baton Rouge police in riot gear took on protests and this photo of Ieshia Evans, a mother from Pennsylvania, standing in the street as Baton Rouge officers rushed in to arrest her. That photo has gone viral on social media.
Chief Brown is addressing the protests today.
BROWN: Don't be a part of the problem. We're hiring. We're hiring. Get out of that protest line and put an application in.
LAVANDERA: Ed Lavandera, CNN, Dallas.
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SESAY: Well, joining me now are civil rights attorney Bryan Claypool and retired LAPD police sergeant Cheryl Dorsey.
Welcome to you both. Thank you for staying with us. You heard the Dallas police chief saying get off the protest line and pick up an application and basically join the force. I mean, that's easy for him -- well, it's easier said than done. How about we say that?
Cheryl, what is your sense of the divide between the black community and law enforcement right now after everything that has happened?
CHERYL DORSEY, FORMER LAPD POLICE SERGEANT: Well, you know, it's very real and certainly is very easy for the police chief to say that. And as I'm listening to him, I'm thinking just a couple of days ago here in Los Angeles there was a recruit academy class that graduated from the police department with two black police officers out of a very small class but only two. And so, you know, there are many obstacles in the way of minorities who apply for these police departments.
And while I believe the change will come from within I think the police chiefs and police departments in general have an onus to try to ensure that their recruitment outreach gets to those individuals.
SESAY: And, Brian, what do you? Is that -- is that the case of almost like shifting the responsibility to the black community, saying, you know, if you don't join us then you're part of the problem?
[01:10:06] How do you read that, those comments?
BRIAN CLAYPOOL, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Well, I read that to mean that he is advocating the responsibility of all law enforcement. I'm talking local, city, state law enforcement, nationwide, all of these law enforcement agencies need to start patrolling themselves. This police chief needs to look within his police department.
For example, the LAPD. They have started to gather their own statistics on racial profiling and they will make that information available to the entire community. That is putting your money where your mouth is. That's a good starting point because what we're lacking between the black community and law enforcement is trust and transparency, and we're not seeing a -- the leadership that we need within law enforcement nationwide.
SESAY: Well, as you talk about leadership, let's talk about the president heading to Dallas for that memorial on Tuesday. He has come under fire from some in law enforcement, including William Johnson who is the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, who was quoted in the "Wall Street Journal" as saying this, let's put up what he said.
He said, "The man responsible for the murders in Dallas was Micah Johnson but having said that I do think the president by his inaction has contributed to a climate where these things can happen. This president and his administration absolutely do not have our back and make our jobs more dangerous."
Cheryl, is he right? Is he fair?
DORSEY: That's pretty strong language. You know, but I would like to see the president do is enact some legislation, if you will, or encourage legislators to do that very thing that will make some substantive changes because unless and until we admit that there is a problem, and we know that there is one, and that there is legislation that actually puts some teeth in the enforcement when these officers go rogue and use deadly force as a first resort instead of a last resort, if there is no consequence for that bad behavior, how do we deter it? And so it's going to take legislation to make that happen.
SESAY: Brian, these comments about the president and his hand in things as seen by William Johnson, you say what?
CLAYPOOL: I think it's preposterous. And I'll tell you why. If you look at the last two shootings, you've got Alton Sterling and Mr. Castile. There are three common threads among both of those shootings. Young African-American men. Both of those men had not committed a crime and both of those men were not resisting arrest when they were murdered by police officers.
Now you tell me that that's President Obama's fault? That's not his fault. That is a culture that has been generated and percolating for over the last 20 years within police departments nationwide. And like she just said we -- in fact we did have legislation. Over 12 years ago, the federal government enacted a federal law. U.S. Department of Justice was supposed to monitor and regulate police departments nationwide for racial profiling. It never happened. It was never implemented. So now is the time. Maybe President Obama can push that law forward now.
SESAY: And briefly to you both, what do you want to hear from him in the remarks tomorrow? What's the message? What should that be? What should that sound like, Cheryl?
DORSEY: Well, you know, I think it needs to be calming and reassuring. And so tomorrow is not the time to politicize. Tomorrow is the time to pay particular attention to the needs of the families and those that are hurting. Those that have lost loved ones, and so I don't expect him to do anything other than that tomorrow. But then in the next couple of days we need to really get about the business of having a serious conversation about what reform looks like.
SESAY: And Brian, briefly to you.
CLAYPOOL: Yes, I agree with Cheryl and I would add one other point. He needs to reiterate tomorrow that we have a colossal problem in the United States that needs to be addressed.
SESAY: Well, Brian Claypool, Cheryl Dorsey, such a pleasure. Thank you.
DORSEY: Thank you.
CLAYPOOL: Thank you, Isha.
SESAY: Thank you.
Well, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani says the Black Lives Matter movement is making racial tensions worse by putting a target on police officers.
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RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: It's inherently racist because, number one, it divides us. All lives matter. And when the presidential candidate, a governor of Maryland made the statement that all lives matter they intimidated him into changing it to black lives matter. All lives matter. White lives, black lives, all lives.
Number two, the Black Lives Matter never protests when every 14 hours somebody is killed in Chicago, probably 70 percent, 80 percent of the time, a black person. Where are they then? Where are they when the young black child is killed?
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SESAY: Well, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was quick to criticize Giuliani's comments.
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JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It's just a very broad statement. There are some people in Black Lives Matter who don't want to have talk and have dialogue and others who do. But to make it sound like it's the NAACP or it's a major African-American organization.
[01:15:07] It is an umbrella of all kinds of people who feel like there is discrimination that exists in some police departments in some neighborhoods and they want to talk about it and they want to deal with it.
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SESAY: Well, let's bring in entertainment journalist and social commentator Segun Oduolowu for more on Rudy Giuliani's comments.
Segun, always good to have you with us.
SEGUN ODUOLOWU, ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST: Thank you.
SESAY: I've got to ask you, Giuliani's comments saying basically Black Lives Matter is racist and inciting greater tensions. Is he right?
ODUOLOWU: Unfortunately he is absolutely incorrect. And the comments are -- they border on the ridiculous and here's why. If I say save the whales, I'm not saying it at the expense of all the other animals. So I can say black lives matter and still be pro-law and order, and on the flipside, I can be pro-law and order and still say that there is a problem between police officers and the black community.
It feels like an elitist statement. It feels like someone watching his world that he knew slip away and now is looking at the best way to kind of yank it back and say well, those people over there, they're domestic terrorists, they're wrong. They're inciting riots. But if they weren't really being shot on video on a daily basis we wouldn't be marching in the streets.
SESAY: You know, he does -- again it kind of touches on what the president has said, President Obama himself has said, that you can point out the issues within the criminal justice system without being anti-police. And it would seem that Rudy Giuliani is taking the opposing stand.
ODUOLOWU: Well, this is what I would say to former Mayor Giuliani. If -- as a black man, let's just go through history. In 1991, 25 years ago was the Rodney King video. We were beaten on camera. Now we are getting shot on camera. OK. Cool. So maybe that's too far back. In Katrina when it was poor black people they were called refugees in America but when it's in West Virginia, gosh, let's find a way to take care of them.
Maybe Katrina is too far back. So let's go back to the fact that they are now choking people on TV. We're watching this. We've never seen this type of violence before. Everything was in pictures and stills. Black community and the police have never had a working relationship. And there's reasons for that. And the police are the agents of the justice system. So when we say the Department of Justice should be doing this, that, and the other, the people that we see that represent them are the police.
But when we see a white kid in Stanford get six months for a rape but a black kid get five years for a rape he didn't commit, you don't trust that justice system and by consequence you don't trust the agents of that system.
SESAY: So Rudy Giuliani makes the point -- excuse me, and this is the point that is being made a great deal right now in the public space that there is black-on-black violence in Chicago and people are being killed, multiple people lose their lives every day, and the argument has been made that Black Lives Matter does not take as vehement a position or as strong a position on those issues. What is the truth of that matter in terms of Black Lives Matter?
ODUOLOWU: No, no, he is -- he's absolutely right. Look, I will be the first person to stand with anybody, white, black, blue, indifferent, I don't care, and talk about black-on-black crime but then at the same time let's talk about the socioeconomic situations that cause that crime. Let's talk about the history of slavery. Let's talk about the separation of family. Let's talk about government. Let's talk about Flint, Michigan, where poor people were given faulty water. Let's talk about Tuskegee where people were given syphilis. Let's talk about all those things that have contributed to why the black community is so fractured.
SESAY: So how do you fix this?
ODUOLOWU: You fix it by first looking at some serious numbers. We are, as black men, 6 percent of the population, as a black people in general, 14 percent of the population, but around 40 percent of the prisons. There's got to be some -- there is a disconnect. We lack social economic power. We lack educational power. And you can blame redistricting, we can blame a whole lot of things and they would all be valid. But to solve the problem it has to start with education.
I will be books first always. You have to first get people to understand where they are, where they are coming from, and start dreaming of better. It's going to take education and social economic power. In this country that's how you matter. Black people are disenfranchised because a large group of people with money and power, they don't have to recognize them. Until we start having that type of spending power and that type of educational power and the media, and people start -- like the media, myself included, start covering it. Yes, this --
SESAY: Having that open and honest conversation.
ODUOLOWU: Exactly. I mean, lots of people dying in Chicago, that should be news. That should -- that shouldn't be swept under the rug. It shouldn't just be a couple of rappers talking about it in rap songs. It should be seen and videotaped and there should be marches for that as well as what's going on with the police who are charged to protect and serve.
[01:20:01] See, that's where the issue lies.
SESAY: Yes.
ODUOLOWU: Their job is to protect us. Not to shoot us.
SESAY: Yes. Segun Oduolowu, always good to have you with us. Thank you.
ODUOLOWU: Thank you.
SESAY: I know we're going to continue the conversation.
ODUOLOWU: I'm looking forward to it.
SESAY: Thank you.
Time for a quick break. Donald Trump is sending a strong message in response to the tensions in the U.S. He is telling voters he is a law and order candidate.
Plus, Hillary Clinton hits the campaign trail Tuesday but not alone. Are the Democrats finally coming together?
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SESAY: Well, one of the most anticipated endorsement of the U.S. campaign season could be just hours away. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to throw his support behind Hillary Clinton at an event in New Hampshire Tuesday. The pair came together after the Democratic Platform Committee adopted some of Sanders' key positions.
Meanwhile the investigation into Hillary Clinton's e-mails may not be over. Republicans want the Justice Department to start a new probe into whether she made false statements under oath while testifying before Congress.
And Donald Trump is taking a tough new tone on the campaign trail, calling himself the law and order candidate at a rally in Virginia Monday. The presumptive Republican nominee defended police and called last week's violence in Dallas an attack on our country.
Well, I'm joined now by a CNN senior political analyst and senior editor for the "Atlantic" Ron Brownstein.
Ron, good to have you with us again. Donald Trump always talk of being the law and order candidate. What's going on? Who is he trying to appeal to here? RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: No. The message is --
been a little more nuance that it was earlier in the campaign when he was kind of unreservedly criticizing Black Lives Matter and defending the police. Here he seems to be sending out two messages at once.
The law and order candidate is clearly kind of a signal to his core base. It's echoing language that Richard Nixon used in 1968. He was already echoing by adopting the phrase, the silent majority. It basically says look, I'm going to stand up against these forces that you think are threatening you who always seem to be people who don't look like you, whether it's Muslims or Mexicans, or the Black Lives Matter protesters but it's also, I think, very consciously since last week tried to have a different note as well.
But in the statement that he put out in the immediate aftermath of Dallas was not nearly as confrontational as some of his earlier ones. There is I think an awareness in his campaign that that kind of divisive, polarizing, confrontational language hurts him not only with minorities but also with white-collar whites.
SESAY: You say that but in making the very statement about being a law and order candidate he is effectively -- not discarding those minorities.
BROWNSTEIN: Right. Right.
SESAY: But he's certainly not making them the priority.
BROWNSTEIN: Absolutely. You know, with Donald Trump it never stays in one place for very long and if the initial statement was more kind of balanced and restrained, is the word that people often use to describe it, this today was returning closer to where he was in the primary. The core of the Trump constituency from the outset have been working class whites, whites without a college education who are most -- who are the least likely to be sympathetic to the arguments of the Black Lives Matter movement, least likely to see police as enforcing justice unfairly. And that is what Trump was getting back to today. The problem he's got is that while that was enough to win the nomination it's not enough to win the general election.
[01:25:03] As I said, the kind of polarizing confrontational Trump, what they've learned is that that drives away not only minority voters and but is leaving him in a deficit among whites with a college education. No Republican in the history of polling, going back to 1952, has ever lost most college educated whites. Most national polls Donald Trump is now trailing Hillary Clinton, among them. If that holds he can't win.
SESAY: Well, let's talk about Hillary Clinton and the expected endorsement from Bernie Sanders. What's that worth at this stage of the game?
BROWNSTEIN: You know, Hillary Clinton's I think biggest conspicuous deficit in performance in the Obama coalition is young people. I mean, that's where she is most underperforming President Obama in the general election relevant to 2012. In the primaries, Bernie Sanders won 71 percent of voters in the 30.
A bigger share than even Barack Obama won against her in 2008. So I think on that front, it's where she needs the most help. It's probably where he can top on the most.
SESAY: Will she get it, though?
BROWNSTEIN: Well, that -- it can't hurt. Right? By itself it's not going to be enough. And you see -- you've seen her moving on policy. She has the asset that Donald Trump is extremely unpopular, his cultural views, his views about kind of the changing face of America, very unpopular among young people. But she has a big hill. The risk, I think, that's where the third party, the Gary Johnson campaign, potentially could do the most damage and Sanders is going to be important to her if she's going to bring back that big chunk of young voters, the millennial voters, who were so important to Obama in both of his victories.
SESAY: And they are going to looking for authenticity in this endorsement. They're going to be looking to see that this is -- this is real. He's behind her.
BROWNSTEIN: Yes. And that's what they said about Sanders all the way through. If you talk to young people, they felt that he was real, that he -- he hadn't moved in 30 years. They felt Clinton could be kind of, you know, go with the wind. Look, no single person can transfer the popularity to another but it's better than the alternative.
(LAUGHTER)
SESAY: It seems certainly is.
BROWNSTEIN: Right.
SESAY: Ron Brownstein, thank you so much. Always a pleasure.
Well, be sure to tune in for a special CNN town hall with U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, hosted by Jake Tapper. That's at 2:00 a.m. Wednesday morning in London, 9:00 a.m. if you're in Hong Kong. It is right here on CNN.
We will go back to our top story after a quick break. A new political era is dawning for Britain. A closer look at the woman who will be the next prime minister, just ahead.
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SESAY: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I am Isha Sesay.
The headlines this hour.
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[01:30:30] SESAY: For just it's second time in its history, Britain will have a female prime minister. Theresa May will take over from David Cameron on Wednesday. Her only remaining challenger abruptly stepped aside Monday and Mr. Cameron's exit from 10 Downing Street will happen sooner than planned.
CNN political contributor, Robin Oakley, reports.
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ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR: The battle for the Conservative Party leadership which carries with it the job of prime minister of Britain was supposed to be lasting for nine weeks. Instead, it ended today after just three days. One of the two candidates remaining for the Conservative activists to vote on pulled out of the contest. That meant that Theresa May, the home secretary, the interior minister, was the only one on the ballot paper. It's a coronation instead of a contest.
Prime Minister David Cameron swiftly emerged to announce the arrangements. He will preside over his last cabinets on Tuesday and he will go to the palace on Wednesday to hand in his resignation to the queen. Shortly after that, Theresa May will head to Number 10 Downing Street and will begin forming her government.
Meanwhile, the opposition Labour Party is busy tearing itself to shreds. Jeremy Corbyn, the leader who lost the confidence of his M.P.s, was challenged by Angela Eagle, one of his former ministers. She will run against him in a leadership contest, which he's determined to contest, saying that he still has the support of the party's activists.
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OAKLEY: As for Mrs. May, she now has the most doughty task of any prime minister outside wartime. She has to negotiate Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. She voted to remain, so the Brexiters who wanted exit will be watching her every step of the way.
Robin Oakley, CNN, London.
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SESAY: Sandro Monetti joins me now, the managing editor for the "L.A. Business Journal."
Sandro, what a couple of weeks in the U.K. The Tory leadership battle is over abruptly, and according to one conservative law enforcement he said this, all the other candidates shot each other or themselves. Theresa May is the only one left standing because she is steely and disciplined. A fair summation of the race?
SANDRO MONETTI, MANAGING EDITOR, L.A. BUSINESS JOURNAL: To understand Theresa May, you have to understand who her idol is. Her all time- hero is English Cricketer Jeffrey Boycott, who would famously stay at the crease for days being slow to make the runs, cautious and careful. That is how she has been as a politician. Yes, the others have shot themselves in the foot and now she has the keys to Number 10. And as you say less than three weeks after the bombshell Brexit vote, Britain has a new prime minister.
SESAY: How does Britain feel about this, not being able to weigh in it? It's a bit of a core nation.
MONETTI: All of us Brits, our heads are spinning. We got bad at politics and good at sports. Wimbledon champion and leading the tour de France look good for the Olympics. But the politics is falling apart.
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It used to be the politics were steady and the sports was terrible. The Brits don't know what to think. It's not the most Democratic process. There hasn't been a huge election here. It will be interesting to see, will she go to the country? Does she have a mandate to lead? She has a slim majority in the House of Commons and faces the greatest challenge of all uniting a Tory Party.
SESAY: And negotiating the exit from the European Union. Any indications how she will handle it? How fast will she move?
MONETTI: As she indicated she is going to declare Article 50, you know, it will happen. But as I mentioned, like her favorite cricketer she does take her time. She gets there in the end. So I think that the European bureaucrats will have to move at her pace.
SESAY: Listen, she's known to have not courted the media. She's kept to herself somewhat. She has done her job as home secretary. She's not known as being as a schmoozer and now the Americans need to get to know her.
[01:35:09] MONETTI: She'll handle it better than Andrea Leadsom. To be a leader, you need a thick skin. And Andrea, who was a new political figure, one bit of criticism, and she's out. It takes more than a negative tweet to sideline Theresa May. So I think she'll be fine. She has survived as home secretary for more than six years. It's been years since anyone survived that long in the job. She is competent and careful. She is used to the bright lights. Her neighbor is George Clooney. She lives in the same English village as George and Amal.
And if anything goes wrong she will have a cup of tea. The thing is with Theresa, she carries tea bags everywhere. In case the hotel doesn't have her right tea she is ready there. You can't get more British than this. That's our new prime minister. She loves tea and loves cricket.
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MONETTI: Totally British, Earl Gray.
SESAY: Earl Gray: She is posh.
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Sandro -- MONETTI: That's your favorite.
SESAY: Sandro Monetti, a pleasure. Thank you.
MONETTI: Thank you.
SESAY: We'll see what happens in the days ahead. It's going to be interesting.
A quick break. A young Zambian boy's singing talent brought him to America, who dreamed of earning money for his family, but he was scammed by a pastor. How he rebuilt his life next on NEWSROOM L.A..
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SESAY: The CNN Freedom Project is dedicated to putting an end to modern-day slavery. Today we introduce you to an orphan brought to the U.S. from Zambia with hopes of a better life. Instead, he was scammed by a pastor. Another family took the boy in and years later, he is working in his dream job.
Here's his story.
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SESAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In 1998 his ability to sing brought 11-year-old Given Kachepta (ph) to the United States.
(SINGING)
SESAY: He was approached to be part of a high-profile faith-based mission called TTT, Partners in Education. He was selected to join the Zambian a Capella boys choir. The boys would stay in Texas performing at schools and churches across the south.
GIVEN KACHEPTA (ph), SINGER: I came to the United States without a dollar in my pocket. And the only thing that I had was hope.
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[01:39:57] SESAY: As part of the deal, the singers would go to school while earning money to give to their families and to build a school back home.
KEITH GRIMES, PASTOR WHO SCAMMED SINGER: They're like my children.
SESAY: But the pastor at the center of the operation, Keith Grimes, was keeping a secret from just about everyone. After raising nearly a million dollars from C.D. sales, the deal he struck with the boys, it turned out, was a lie.
KACHEPTA (ph): They never paid us. We were never paid a dime for the work that we did except after the government became involved. They said if you are not going to sing we're not going to feed you or we're going to send you back home to your country.
SANDY SHEPPARD, CHURCH MEMBER: They were performing in some cases three, four, five different concerts a day.
SESAY: Sandy Sheppard attended the church. The mother of three grown girls previously supported TTT's efforts but had grown disillusioned by Grimes' controlling ways. She thought she had put the organization behind her until an immigration officer called.
SHEPPARD: They said we have seven boys can you find a place for them to be? Otherwise they have to go to jail.
SESAY: Kachepta (ph) would stay with the Sheppards while the criminal investigation proceeded. It ended abruptly when Keith Grimes died of natural causes.
In 2001, the Department of Labour ruled that TTT, Partners in Education, was liable for more than $966,000 in back wages and civil penalties for the members of the choir.
As time went on, Kachepta (ph) graduated high school, graduated college, and then decided he wanted to be a dentist, in part because of the struggles his family faced back in Zambia.
CNN was with him the day he enrolled at the dental school back in 2010. Now six years later, here he is.
KACHEPTA (ph): How long have you had your braces?
It gives me chills to know I could be a dentist today.
SESAY: Now he has his sights set on a new goal.
SHEPPARD: Have you decided on a name for the practice?
KACHEPTA (ph): I've decided on a name. It's going to be Kachepta Group Dental.
SESAY: Kachepta (ph) is making plans to start his own practice in the Dallas area with the intention of one day returning home to help his village.
KACHEPTA (ph): I want to be able to go back to my home country of Zambia and hopefully build practices there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're going the Zambia, huh?
KACHEPTA (ph): I am, in July.
SESAY: And the plan is to recruit some of the very people who helped him graduate, starting with a mission trip in the summer.
SHEPPARD: Now that he has graduated, his self confidence has just soared and blossomed.
One of the things I did for graduation is I had to give him the pictures and I said here's your mom and dad. Symbolically they are here with you and I know they are very proud of you.
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SESAY: It's been a long road with a rough beginning but almost two decades later, the joy has finally returned to his voice.
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SESAY: Wonderful, wonderful. On Wednesday, we'll take you to a school where teens are learning how to spot a human trafficker. The group, I Empathize, is teaching the kids how they are manipulated.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is what they think and what they use. The five disguises are pretender, promiser, provider, protector, and the punisher. These are the five disguises that have been reported shown up in sex trafficking cases.
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SESAY: We'll hear what the students think about the program and how it will affect their lives as part of CNN's Freedom Project series on CNN.
Thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.
"World Sport" is up next. I'll be back at the top of the hour with more news from around the world.
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[01:45:23] DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: Welcome to "World Sport."
I don't think they got much done in Portugal on Monday. But that's OK. The Iberian nation has been celebrating victory at the European championships, a most unexpected win for so many reasons.
CNN's Isa Soares was there to see how the team partied back home in Lisbon.
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ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's a moment this nation has long been waiting for as Portugal's football team, so often the bridesmaid but never the bride, finally sealed the deal, bringing home their first major trophy ever. History, as Cristiano Ronaldo simply put it.
(CHEERING) SOARES: The unlikely champions of Europe were greeted by a sea of green and red as they made their way through the streets of the capitol, Lisbon.
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SOARES: Inside the presidential palace the president praised the team for their grit.
MARCELO REBELO DE SOUSA, PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL (through translation): The difference between yesterday and today is that today due to you we have more reasons to believe in Portugal.
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SOARES (on camera): Inside, they have been decorated by the president of Portugal. Meanwhile, outside crowds erupting in festivities and screaming. Many are calling him here an unlikely hero.
(voice-over): Ronaldo a god like figure in this country who has been front and center on and off the pitch leading his team through the celebrations and not to be overshadowed by the coach who described the team as simple as doves but wise as serpents. Praised by fans for his tactics as well as his strategy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I think he's a good manager. He matched our expectations. We were expecting he would get to the final and he did. He promised who he would only get out of there on the 11th and he did. Yes, sir. Congratulations to him.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): I'm young. I'm 30. And my mom is 59. She's going the turn 60 and we have never felt this way to win a trophy like this. In 2004 we cried with Ronaldo and today we cried with him but this time with joy.
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SOARES: It's been a victorious homecoming for a team few expected would today be crowned the kings of Europe.
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Isa Soares, CNN, Lisbon.
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RIDDELL: Terrific scenes there.
A lot have been spoken about whether Portugal deserved to win the European championships. They have been described as negative and boring. They did it the hard way. They drew every group game and finished third squeezing into the knockout stage by the skin of their teeth. They won only one game in 90 minutes against Wales in the semis. When criticized, the manager said he would rather play ugly football in France than being beautiful at home.
This gets back to my original point. Portugal have long been considered one of the better sides in world football but had nothing to show for it. They had great players. Four times they have lost in tournament semifinals and when Portugal hosted the 2004 Euros they lost in the final to the rank outsiders, Greece. They tried playing attractive football without any reward. They deserved this one regardless how they played in France.
But the manner of victory was so unexpected. When it came, it was without Cristiano Ronaldo and the hero was a substitute, Eder, who barely played in this tournament but came off the Bench to smash in the winner. But that's not all his family moved to Portugal when he was 3 years old and they couldn't afford to raise him. So Eder grew up in an institution. Think about that. But he loved football and that might have been his savior. It was not easy. In January, he was on the bench in oxford in the F.A. cup. Swansea lost the game and yet still he wasn't brought on to play. He wasn't scoring goals. He was a Premier League flop and he was loaned out to the French club where he did enough to capture the eye of the manager. But as a striker he wasn't respected. He scored three goals in 28 games for Portugal before Sunday and all in friendlies and before the final he played only 13 minutes in the tournament. Ronaldo told him he would score the winner and this did and he is the toast of the nation. I don't think his life will be the same again.
[01:50:17] Now when one driver or team is dominating in Formula One is not that much fun for the rest of us. But this year's campaign is getting very, very interesting. Mercedes Nico Rosberg won four consecutive racing at the beginning of the season and looked as if he was out of sight of Lewis Hamilton. But now Hamilton is just one point behind. And they really don't seem to like each other very much. Further intrigue came in the British Grand Prix when Rosberg was penalized for taking instructions from his team. Have a listen. This is what happened.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chassis default 01. You are stuck in seventh gear. Avoid seventh gear, Nico, avoid seventh gear.
NICO ROSBERG, FORMULA ONE DRIVER: What does that mean? I have to shift through it.
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RIDDELL: That was a breach of rule 27.1 in the FIA guidelines which states, "The driver must drive the car alone and unaided." The drivers hate the rule by the way and Hamilton had to abide by it when his pit crew said they couldn't help him with his car. It's interesting that on this occasion Mercedes did choose to help Rosberg in a costly way. His second place became a third and his four point lead in the driver standings became just one. But perhaps not that costly. Now the teams know what the penalty is going to be they may prefer to take the 10-second hit if the alternative is if they can't finish the race or race to the finish. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
RIDDELL: It was a special weekend for British sports fans. Lewis Hamilton thrilled the crowds and Andy Murray won at Wimbledon, his third major title. A man who was brash and irritable in his younger days is now one of his country's most successful sports stars and has become a national treasure.
He has been speaking with tennis analyst, James Blake.
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JAMES BLAKE, CNN TENNIS ANALYST: Two highs in 2016. Having a baby and winning Wimbledon. Did having a baby first change the motivation or make it a little sweeter to win Wimbledon this time?
ANDY MURRAY, TENNIS PRO: I think it changed the motivation. You know, a bit. Not so much like just for this tournament but just throughout the whole year, just every day kind of -- I don't know, enjoying life a little bit more is the best thing that's happened to me and my tennis has got better as a result I think.
BLAKE: Do you feel any different this time? You got to play your 11th grand slam final. It's the first time you didn't face Roger or Novak. Did that increase the pressure or take the pressure away?
MURRAY: I saw it as a bigger opportunity to win so I felt a little bit more pressure but I think like in the tight moments and important moments yesterday it helped me having been the more experienced one and knowing sort of how to deal with those moments a little bit better than Milos' first slam final. I know how that felt. It's not easy. And he maybe didn't play so well in the tight moments and that helped me.
BLAKE: How important is it in your career to chase the number one ranking or is that ever a real priority for you?
[01:55:05] MURRAY: Yeah, I mean, the last couple of years it's something I wanted. I'd love to get to number one in the world. It's an incredibly difficult thing to do. Novak losing in the third round people were saying is one of the biggest shocks in Wimbledon history, the amount of consistency she's had has been phenomenal. If I want to get there I have to keep up the form I've had for the last five tournaments, for a whole season. Try my best to do that and see what happens.
BLAKE: I saw a picture of you taking an ice bath after the finals. That's a professional -- even for after the tournament taking the ice bath. Does that professionalism something that has evolved over your career? Have you always brought that attitude toward your career?
MURRAY: I always worked hard in the gym and on the practice court. But away from the court I could have done more to look after my body. And it wasn't until I had problems with my back that I started taking, you know, the recovery stuff more seriously and spending way more time stretching and obviously ice bathing and a lot of time with my physio. That's the biggest change for me over the last few years. I have to do that. My body hurts now. I'm 29. That's quite old for a tennis player. It does hurt.
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RIDDELL: Golf waited more than a century to get back into the Olympics and its inclusion in Rio 2016 is a very big deal for the sport. But when they tee off, one wonders if it will do more harm than good. Hardly any of the top players will actually be there. The world number three, Jordan Spieth, announced he is pulling out. And that came less than 72 hours after the world number two and current U.S. Open champion, Dustin Johnson, said he was withdrawing over fears of the Zika Virus. Other high-profile withdrawals like Jason Day and Rory McIlroy have cited Zika. And just eight of the world's top 20 have said they'll go to Rio.
And that's it for this edition of "World Sport." Thanks for your company. I'm Don Riddell, at CNN Center. Take care. See you soon.
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