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Theresa May's First Full Day as British Prime Minister; Human Error Responsible for Italian Train Crash; Obama Hosts Meeting on Race, Policing; Trump to Pick V.P. by Friday; Clinton: Trump Dividing U.S.; David Cameron's Last Question Time; Venezuelan Pediatric Hospital Lacks Resources, Medicine; "White Boy Privilege" Poem Goes Viral. Aired 2-3a ET
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[02:00:13] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles.
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SESAY: Hello, and welcome to our viewers around the world. I'm Isha Sesay. NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.
Theresa May has wasted no time getting right down to business as Britain's new prime minister. Not long after taking the job on Wednesday, she quickly started putting her new government together.
Our Nic Robertson, international diplomatic editor, has more from London.
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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR (voice-over): At this moment with the queen, Theresa May became Britain's 76th prime minister. From the get-go, under intense scrutiny, tracked by news cameras as she drove to begin her new job. Pausing at the doors to Number 10, the new P.M promising continuity, praising her predecessor.
THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: David's true legacy is not about the economy, but about social justice. From the introduction of same- sex marriage to taking people on low wages out of income tax altogether, David Cameron has led a one-nation government and it is in that spirit that I also plan to lead.
ROBERTSON: But with the soft, there was the stern. May already living up to her reputation as a tough negotiator, warning Scotts against aspirations of independence.
MAY: The full title of my party is the Conservative and Unionist Party. And that word, "unionist," is very important to me. It means we believe in the union, the precious, precious bond between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. ROBERTSON: And barely had the doors shut behind her than the new
cabinet began arriving. First, Phillip Hammond going in as foreign secretary, exiting with the top job, Chancellor of Exchequer, the finance minister.
Next up, Boris Johnson, flamboyant former London mayor, a leader of the Brexit campaign, now, unexpectedly for many, May's pick for foreign secretary.
The new P.M. living up to another reputation, too, a hard worker. The appointments kept coming. Amber Rudd, a Remain campaigner, filling May's old shoes as home secretary. Remembering Rudd and Johnson, on opposite sides, fought viciously in the referendum dumb campaign, May's appointments seeking to unify her country.
And for the key new job, negotiating Britain's exit from the E.U., a Brexiteer, David Davis, an appointment to respect the Brexit mandate and head off concerns she might not deliver.
How fast the change had come. Only hours earlier, David Cameron saying farewell at the same door.
DAVID CAMERON, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: And as we leave for the last time, my only wish is continued success for this great country that I love so very much.
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SESAY: Nic Robertson reporting there.
An Italian prosecutor says human error may be to blame for a train crash in southern Italy. 23 people were killed and more injured in Tuesday's collision.
CNN's Will Ripley has more on the investigation.
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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is where the passengers were sitting on two trains heading in the opposite direction at more than 100 kilometers or more than 60 miles per hour when they collided. And you could see train car shredded apart. These are the cars more intact. You can see the piles of twisted metal. Those were the front of both trains.
And the police here on the scene say the passengers in those cars didn't have a chance and may not have even known what happened.
We met Giuseppe Castillano, who identified his father's body because of a cigar cutter he just brought back with him he just brought back from a vacation in Cuba.
GIUSEPPE CASTILLANO (ph), IDENTIFIED FATHER'S BODY: That morning, he was supposed to get on the train with my daughter. Fortunately, my daughter woke up and wasn't feeling well. It saved her life. [02:05:05] RIPLEY (on camera): Investigators are still working out
here on the scene tonight. Some of them have been awake for more than 24 hours. They have already uncovered some crucial pieces of evidence.
(voice-over): The head of the Regional Railway Police says there are significant elements coming out of the two black boxes. But he says they're not the only elements. He says they've seized documents and video that will help to clarify what happened.
(on camera): The key question for investigators, was this a technical problem or human error? We know these trains are relatively new and modern, but they were on an old part of train track that relied on an antiquated phone system. We know 23 people have died.
(voice-over): For the firefighters who have been out here, first, looking for survivors and then for the bodies, it's been grueling, it's been exhausting and very painful. They found a mother who was holding her young child, both of them died. But they also found a 6- year-old boy who was wedged behind a piece of metal and they were able to rescue him.
The national firefighter spokesman says, "When we found him, he was alone, he was scared, he was asking for his grandparents. We had to care for him physically, but also emotionally."
That boy's grandparents did not survive. They were killed along with almost two dozen others in this mangled mess of a train. That little boy's name is Sam Well. We're told today is his birthday.
Just one life, so many that are forever changed because of what happened here.
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SESAY: Truly, truly awful.
Let's bring in Will Ripley, joining us near the site of the train crash in southern Italy.
Will, what's the latest you're hearing on the investigation now? Are investigators leaning towards one theory or another, this of possible technical issues or human error? Where do things stand?
RIPLEY: Hi, Isha. They're not saying publicly yet which they are leaning towards, but they said they've been closely analyzing particularly some documents that they recovered. And some brand new information is that this team of five magistrates that is investigating, there are multiple manslaughter charges involved in this investigation, and the managers of the train stations. So these are the two train stations that would have had to call each other to authorize the trains to go on this single line section of track. They have been suspended. They are under investigation. There could be more people that are under investigation, we're told, more people who could be suspended. That is standard procedure, by the way. Also, they're investigating why a project to improve this section of
railway -- there was actually funding eight years ago that was approved to widen these tracks, to add new technology, and the project, according to Italian media, has been repeatedly delayed for eight years. They're looking into why it took so long because, obviously, many people here are saying that had those improvements been made, this tragedy wouldn't have happened.
SESAY: Yes. With that being said, what's your sense of the changes that will result from this train crash? What are we getting a sense of in terms of implications here? What could we be looking at greater oversight of the rail network?
RIPLEY: Well, certainly, here in had southern Italy, the rail infrastructure is far less developed than what you would find in northern Italy. So there are a number of sections of track that are single rail lines such as this. That is a national concern at this point because Italy doesn't want to see another repeat of an accident like this, certainly. So a whole review of the infrastructure nationwide is under way.
And then, of course, the president will be coming here today. He'll be speaking with the survivors, the families of those who died, offering his condolences. They have a lot of questions. He may not have the answers right now, but he's certainly going to try and give them some comfort at this time.
Funerals begin here on Saturday. Even out here, as the work slows, the sadness lingers in this olive grove where so many people died and so many lives were changed.
SESAY: So, so very sad.
Will Ripley joining us there. Appreciate it, will. Thank you so much.
Well, in Texas, family and friends said their good-byes to three of the five officers killed in that police ambush in Dallas. The six children of the transit Officer Brent Thompson said their dad will always be their hero. The sister of Michael Smith said he worked hard to give his two daughters more than he ever had. And Officer Lorne Ahrens was remembered for his big heart and personality. He leaves behind two children.
[02:09:39] The U.S. president says he was encouraged by a meeting he hosted on race and policing. For about four hours, Barack Obama met with activists from the Black Lives Matter movement, law enforcement officials and other community leaders. The forum came after a wave of violence between black communities and police across the country. After the meeting, Obama said the problem is not going to be solved overnight. That progress might feel slow for some, but that respectful dialogue will help.
CNN got some of that dialogue going with a town hall meeting.
Our own Don Lemon hosted "Black, White and Blue" a few hours ago. Alton Sterling was killed by a police officer in Louisiana last week.
His 15-year-old son is trying to calm tensions there.
Don spoke to his mother.
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Some people may think you're on different sides, but all pain is the same. There were protesters out in Dallas. They were protesting the death of the killing of your son's father by Baton Rouge police when all of this happened. Your son spoke out today and said he wanted Americans to come together, to unite and come together as a family.
SESAY: Let's listen to this young man and then we'll discuss.
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CAMERON STERLING, SON OF ALTON STERLING: I feel people in general, no matter what the race is, should come together as one united family. There should be no more arguments, disagreements, violence, crimes. Everyone should come together as one united family. I want everyone's protesting the right way. Protest in peace, not guns, no drugs, not alcohol, not violence. Everyone needs to protest in the right way, with peace. No violence. None whatsoever.
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LEMON: You OK? I see you wiping tears away. You and Alton must have been -- you are proud of him.
QUINYETTA MCMILLON, MOTHER OF CAMERON STERLING: I'm very proud of him. Just to know that my son is only 15 and some people look at him as if he's a lot wiser than what he is. And he really is. He knows right from wrong. He -- he knows that what is going on right now in America is not right. And he just want, justice for both sides.
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SESAY: Well, Cameron Sterling is scheduled to meet with Barack Obama later Thursday. He's scheduled to ask the president a question during the town hall meeting on the recent shootings.
Time for a break now. Hillary Clinton talks about racial healing on the campaign trail and takes a shot at Donald Trump.
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HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Even this, the killing of people, is somehow all about him.
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SESAY: Why she says her Republican rival is dangerous for America.
Plus, a day of head-spinning melodrama and last-minute interviews as Trump prepares to announce his pick for vice president. Who is still in the running, next on NEWSROOM L.A.
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[02:16:45] SESAY: New polls show the race to the White House is getting tighter, especially in several key battleground states. Surveys from Quinnipiac University show Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton in Florida, tied in Ohio, and ahead in Pennsylvania. Those leads are within the poll's margin of error. It's a different story in the "Wall Street Journal" polls. They show Clinton ahead of Trump in Iowa, tied in Ohio, and with a sixty lead over Trump in Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump says he will announce his running mate Friday in New York. The presumptive Republican nominee has been meeting with the finalists and getting input from his family.
CNN's Sunlen Serfaty has more.
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SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump is nearing his choice of a running mate.
DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: I'm narrowing it down. I'm at three, potentially four, but in my own mind, I probably am thinking about two.
SERFATY: The presumptive Republican nominee and his family having a private breakfast with Mike Pence at governor's mansion in Indianapolis.
MIKE PENCE, (R), INDIANA GOVERNOR: It was very warm ask one family meeting with another. We were honored to have not only Mr. Trump, but with a number of his children.
SERFATY: A Trump campaign source tells CNN that Trump ask Pence and their families are getting along fabulously during the Indiana trip.
Trump's Hoosier State visit included a rally Tuesday night with Pence getting the chance to audition or the role.
PENCE: To paraphrase the director of the FBI, I think it would be extremely careless to elect Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States.
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SERFATY: But Trump is not tipping his hand.
TRUMP: I don't know whether he's going to be a governor or a vice president, who the hell knows.
SERFATY: With a final decision looming, Trump holding a flurry of meetings with other V.P. contenders today in Indianapolis, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who has support among some Trump family members.
NEWT GINGRICH, (R), FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER: It's a little bit like "The Apprentice." You find out sooner or later who the last one standing is.
SERFATY: Trump also talking by phone with Chris Christie, who is in Washington to participate in transition meetings. The two also had a face-to-face meeting Tuesday. Sources tell CNN that Christie remains a finalist with Trump looking for a fighter, a role the New Jersey governor has shown he can play.
CHRIS CHRISTIE, (R), NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR: The Democratic nominee for president put her own political convenience ahead of the safety and security of the American people.
SERFATY: Trump also taking a meeting with trusted adviser, Jeff Sessions. The Alabama Senator flying from Washington, D.C., to Indiana to help the billionaire through the decision process.
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SESAY: CNN's Sunlen Serfaty reporting there.
I spoke earlier about Trump's selection process with CNN senior political analyst, Ron Brownstein.
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SESAY: My goodness, my goodness, my goodness, the spectacle of the choice of V.P. for Trump. Have you ever seen anything like it?
[02:19:50] RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Nothing like it. Walter Mondale held publicly interviews tore people. It was a way of -- but this rolling audition, particularly with this lasted minute web has an extra day to kill in Indiana and suddenly, it's Trumpian, in that it's unlike anything else.
SESAY: And everyone has been saying it all day, but it is worth repeating. It is very much in the reality show place, doing it for the cameras.
BROWNSTEIN: Yeah. And I love also that you end up if, in fact, everyone seems to believe that it's down to Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich. A range of the most to the least conventional pick. Gingrich last held office in 1998. He did resurface to run in 2012. He's a long-time provocatory. He's fundamentally changed the way Congress works, changed the Republican Party, but he also be way outside of the box. Pence is the most conventional, a former House member, current governor, close to religious conservatives, although they soured on him after he backed off of that religion liberty bill. And then you've got Christie, who is kind of in the middle, you know? Who has been sort of an outsider, but is a current elected official. Is viewed with some suspicion by religious conservatives, which makes me wonder if Trump will go there.
SESAY: And to that point, what is the criteria for this? Is it personality, is it policy? What's the thinking?
BROWNSTEIN: Policy would require there to be a lot of policy to adhere to. There hasn't been that much of that. Look, I think it's obviously compatibility. It seems, again, like almost everything else in this campaign, very personal to Trump. Look who flew out today to try and influence the decision.
SESAY: The kids.
BROWNSTEIN: It was the kids, it wasn't the campaign manager. So I think it's going to be someone -- I think the important thing for Trump is I think finding a current elected official. We've never seen anything like the kind of criticism he has faced from the Republican speaker of the House, the Republican Senate majority leader, the number of Senator leaders not attending the convention. Virtually, every Senator in a competitive race isn't going. He needs to find someone who says that the Republican Party as it stands to use him as a plausible president. Because, I mean, there certainly has been mix dollars signals of a kind who have never seen before. That's why I think you would be better off with Pence or Christie than Gingrich.
SESAY: While it goes on, we see these surveys. What do you put -- how do you explain the tightening of the race? How do you explain this tightening of the race?
BROWNSTEIN: James Comey, FBI, right? There's no question, Hillary Clinton has taken a significant hit from the beginning about this e- mail story and public perceptions of her honesty. This one, I think, went further. But it is worth noting that even in the polls, in the national poll that came out yesterday, Hillary Clinton has come down, clearly, in the wake of the FBI report. Donald Trump hasn't really gone up, O.K.? Donald Trump, there's not a serious national poll that had him above 42 percent support since mid-May. Hillary Clinton has been higher. She is now descending, but he is now rising. He faces significant headwinds. Each point gets exponentially harder as he tries to drive towards 50. Either he is going to be able to convert some of those voters or he will need those third-party candidates to pull away the votes. For all the difficulty Clinton is facing, and it is real, Trump's ceiling looks pretty solid somewhere in the mid to low 40s.
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SESAY: That was CNN senior political analyst, Ron Brownstein.
Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump is dividing the U.S. She campaigned in Illinois Wednesday, appealing for racial unity in a venue with historical significance.
CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports.
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JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hillary Clinton excoriated Donald Trump today.
CLINTON: I believe Donald Trump is so dangerous. His campaign is as divisive as any we have seen in our lifetimes. It is built on stoking mistrust and pitting American against American.
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ZELENY: In the same hall Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided" speech against slavery, Clinton said Trump is dividing America.
CLINTON: The challenges we face today do not approach those of Lincoln's time. But recent events have left people across America asking hard questions about whether we are still a house divided.
ZELENY: Facing tight polls in battleground states, Clinton is trying yet again to raise doubts about her rival.
CLINTON: This man is the nominee of the party of Lincoln. We are watching it become the party of Trump. And that's not just a huge loss for our democracy. It is a threat to it.
ZELENY: She called for healing in the wake of deepening rational tensions.
[02:25:08] CLINTON: Let's put ourselves in the shoes of police officers, kissing their kids and spouses good-bye every day and heading off to a dangerous job we need them to do.
ZELENY: And she asked white Americans to be more understanding of the real fear families experience in cities across the country.
CLINTON: Let's put ourselves in the shoes of African-Americans and Latinos and try as best as we can to imagine what it would be like if we had to have "the talk" with our kids about how carefully they need to act.
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TRUMP: Thank you.
ZELENY: Calling himself the law-and-order candidate, Trump is taking aim at the Black Lives Matter movement.
TRUMP: I think the term is very divisive. The first time I heard it, I said, you have to be kidding.
ZELENY: When asked if the American justice system is biased against African-Americans, Trump replied --
TRUMP: Well, I've been saying even against me the system is rigged. I can relate it really very much to myself.
ZELENY: Ask Clinton seized on the moment.
CLINTON: Even this, the killing of people, is somehow all about him.
ZELENY: Her speech at the old statehouse in Springfield, Illinois, the same place Barack Obama announced his presidential bid nine years ago, was also an effort to improve her had own political standing.
CLINTON: I cannot stand here and claim that my words and actions haven't sometimes fueled the partisanship that often stands in the way of progress. So I recognize I have to do better, too.
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SESAY: Jeff Zeleny there.
We'll have more politics coming up for our viewers in Asia on "State of the Race" with Kate Bolduan.
Coming up for everyone, Theresa May faces more challenges as Britain's prime minister. What we might expect for her and the direction of the nation.
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The headlines this hour --
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SESAY: Theresa May isn't wasting time as Britain's new prime minister. She had a packed scheduled on Thursday. Mrs. May has named several cabinet members. She says her government will not be driven by the interests of the privileged few.
For more on the changes and what lies ahead, let's go to "Politico's" chief U.K.'s political correspondent, Tom McTague, in London.
Tom, apologies for mangling your name just there.
So let me ask you this. How do you square the centrist conciliatory remarks Theresa May made outside 10 Downing Street with the cabinet pick she's made so far, Liam Fox, David Davis, veteran right wingers.
TOM MCTAGUE, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, POLITICO, U.K.: Absolutely. Theresa May came into Downing Street yesterday promise ago one-nation approach, which is a very centrist policy platform to help those with the least in society. And, yet, in her first picks, she promoted hard right -- well, not hard right, but members of her party. But the key to remember is what she was doing here was trying to nod to the Brexiteers, the wing of her party which fought for Britain to leave the European Union. And that was the main goal yesterday. It was to try to convince them that she really wanted and she really was going to pull out of the European Union.
SESAY: Well, the appointment of Johnson as foreign secretary has sent some into the state of shock. My last guest said it was a decision she didn't have to make. Why did she bring him back into the fold?
MCTAGUE: Look, it's quite a clever move. Boris Johnson, while he was a Brexiteer, he was seen as a moderate Brexiteer. He wants close ties with Europe. He wants to maintain the city of London's place in the single market. So she has somebody that she can deal with. The other thing to note, though, is Boris Johnson in the foreign office, is a rival that she keeps close but sends around the world on extremely entire -- it's a tactic some use to keep their enemies as close as they can. And to a certain extent in the U.S., Barack Obama did it with Hillary Clinton.
SESAY: Incredibly shrewd, some would say. What signal is she sending to Europe with her choice of David Davis as a cabinet member?
MCTAGUE: She's saying to them, Brexit is going to happen. None of this second referendums or getting back into the European Union through the side door or something like that. No, Brexit is going to happen. She has three hard-line Brexit secretaries of state now in her cabinet. And David Davis, who only few days ago, wrote an article setting out how he wanted Brexit to happen. So that is very clear. Liam Fox, again, is a hard-line Brexiteer. He's been brought back as international trade minister. His job will be to fly around the world trying to replace any deals that the U.K. loses in Europe with new deals with the U.S. and China and India. And then Boris Johnson overseeing it all and making sure that the Brexit M.P.s are on side.
SESAY: Theresa May has such a full place, so many challenges. She has the issues of economy. She's got the Scots, and their feelings about Brexit. How much is her authority weakened by her lack of a popular mandate and how much does that handicap her ability to actually get things done?
[02:34:50] MCTAGUE: I think at the moment, it doesn't, really. I mean, the mandate to leave the European Union is there from the referendum. So she doesn't have a problem -- she doesn't have a problem there, to be frank. She also has a Labour Party opposition, which is in disarray and is in no position to fight a general election. So, you know, Labour M.P.s privately say, please, do not give us a general election because we'll get wiped out. So she's OK for certainly this year. I think the country is also looking for a period of calm after what has been quite a tumultuous three months or so. So I think she's OK for now. However, she may start to come up against quite big hurdles, quite soon in her premiership. If the Brexit renegotiation or the Brexit negotiation is going badly, if she's not getting the kind of concessions that her Tory M.P.s want, then they may start to rebel against her leadership and at that point she has a wafer-thin majority in the House of Commons and her authority -- May suffer at that point.
SESAY: Yeah. It's going to be very interesting to watch this all play out.
Tom McTague, with the "Politico, U.K.," thank you so much for the great natural sits. Thank you.
Well, David Cameron held his last question time as prime minister before parliament on Wednesday. There were some serious moments and jabs at his rivals and some laughter.
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UNIDENTIFIED BRITISH M.P.: Questions to the prime minister.
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DAVID CAMERON, OUT-GOING PRIME MINISTER: Mr. Speaker, this morning, I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. Other than one meeting this afternoon with her majesty the queen, the diary for the rest of my day is remarkably light.
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Let me say something about the Democratic process of leadership elections because I did say a couple of weeks ago that -- I have to say I'm beginning to admire his tenacity.
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CAMERON: He reminds me of the Black Knight in the Monty Python's "Holy Grail."
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He's been kicked so many times, but he says, keep going, it's only a flesh wound. I admire that.
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The rumor that somehow I don't love Larry, I do. And I have photographic evidence to prove it.
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Sadly, I can't take Larry with me. He belongs to the House. And the staff love him very much, as do I.
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CAMERON: This session does have this some admirers around the world. I remember when I did his job and I met Mayor Bloomberg in New York and we walked down the street. Everyone knew Mike Bloomberg and everyone came up and said, Mayor, you're doing a great job. No one had a clue who I was until eventually someone said, hey, Cameron, prime minister's questions, we love your show.
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I will watch these exchanges from the back benches. I will miss the roar of the crowd. I will miss the barbs from the opposition. But I will be willing you on. And when I say willing you on, I don't just mean the prime minister at the scratch both and I don't just mean willing on the front bench defending the manifesto that I helped to put together, but I mean willing all of you on, because people come here with huge passion for the issues they care about. They come here with great love for the constituents that they represent. And also willing on this place, because, yes, we can be pretty tough and test and challenge our leaders. Perhaps more than the other countries, but that is something we should be proud of, and we should keep at it. And I hope you all will keep at it. And I will you on as we do.
The last thing I would say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a lot of things done. And that, in the end, the public service, the national interest, that is what it is all about. Nothing is really possible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said, I was the future once.
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SESAY: David Cameron bows out.
Now Hollywood with actress, Jennifer Aniston, says she's fed up about gossip with her personal life and wants the world to know she is not regular. In a piece for "The Huffington Post," the actress also wrote she's fed up with how celebrity news objectifies women and how it perpetuates a culture where woman's value is determined by her physical appearance and her marital and maternal status. Aniston wrote, "I used to tell myself that tabloids were like comic books, not to be taken seriously, just a soap opera for people to follow when they need a distraction. But I really can't tell myself that any more because the reality is the stalking and objectification I've experienced firsthand going on for decades now reflects the warped way we calculate a woman's worth."
Time for a quick break. A white teenager breaks it down. His life is privilege because of his skin color. His poem that went viral. I'm talking to him, next.
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[02:49:51] ROYCE MANN, 14-YEAR-OLD POET: Dear white boys, I'm not sorry. I don't care if you think the feminists are taking over the world, and the Black Lives Matter movement has gotten a little too strong because that's (EXPLETIVE DELETED).
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SESAY: Hello, everyone. Venezuela is dealing with a deep crisis. And for some of the country's youngest, it's becoming life threatening. The pediatric hospital in Caracas is decaying because of a lack of resources and, more importantly, medicine.
Paula Newton has the story.
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PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Like any mother, Lucedo Rodriguez is anxious to be with her son in had intensive care. You can see it how her touch so comforts Dillon. Yet this mother says it is agony knowing there's much more he needs that she can't give him.
LUCEDO RODRIGUEZ, SON IN INTENSIVE CARE (through translation): At this point, things are getting worse and worse. We can't get medical supplies for the baby. We can't even find the formula he needs to grow. Now we're making sacrifices.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've been in this hospital for 15 days and I've witnessed how children are tying every day.
NEWTON: And, doctors tell us that's a real risk for Dillon. He has cystic fibrosis. It damages the lungs and digestive system. Right now, the medical team works hard to expunge dangerous mucus. But here in Venezuela, Dillon can't get any of the specialized medicine he needs to help him survive.
But Dillon is not alone, Dr. Niada Robina (ph) says, standing by his side.
70 percent to 80 percent of the medicines children need in Venezuela haven't arrived at the pediatric hospital or anywhere else for months. Even cancer patient are left untreated.
(on camera): The sad truth is, pediatric oncology has been separately shut down at this hospital. Chemo is being done here, but the doctors tell us that the medicines are completely inadequate.
[02:45:11] (voice-over): 6-year-old Gustavo has leukemia. Instead of intensive therapy His therapy is sporadic. His mother, Gabriella Mota (ph), worries with about when he'll have his next chemo treatment, having already seen four children die without it.
"I don't know whose fault it is," she explains, "if it's the government or opposition, I don't know. It's sad for us to suffer for whoever did this to our children."
(on camera): Do you have any doubt that children are dying because of these medicines --
DR. NIADA ROBINA (ph), PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGIST: Yes, of course, totally. We have intensive care unit. There's about 10 beds and we are only working with four.
NEWTON: Why?
ROBINA: Because we don't have enough medical supplies. We don't have enough nurses.
NEWTON (voice-over): After Robina (ph) takes us to ICU and shows us the leaks, the mold, the derelict conditions. ROBINA (ph): And you will see this area. Four years ago, there was a
fire.
NEWTON: Four years, still this wing hasn't been rebuilt. You can see why Dr. Robina (ph) says most days he and his clothes feel they are practicing wartime medicine, shuddered wards, broken equipment, festering toilets.
ROBINA (ph): We have to deal with that because we love our children, we love our hospital, we love Venezuela. And even though this you are looking at, we have to work.
NEWTON: Parents carry on, to. This is an intimate moment as Lucedo showers Dillon with all the love she can, still burdened by what is not in short supply here, despair.
Paula Newton, CNN, Caracas.
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[02:50:43] SESAY: It's been a tough week for race relations in the United States. Two African-American men killed by police, both caught on tape, each causing an uproar. Days later, a sniper gunned down five officers in Dallas. It's been one bad week, but the root of the problem dates back generations.
A 14-year-old white boy from Atlanta breaks it down.
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MANN: Dear everyone who isn't a middling or upper class white boy, I'm sorry. I have started life in the top of a ladder while you were born on the first rung. I say now that I would change places with you in an instant, but if given the opportunity, would I? Probably not, because, to be honest, being privileged is awesome. I'm not saying that you and me on different rungs of the ladder is how I want it to stay. I'm not saying any part of me at this very moment even liked it that way. I'm just saying that I (EXPLETIVE DELETED) love being privileged and I'm not ready to give that away.
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SESAY: That impressive young man, that impressive slam poet is Royce Mann. He joins us live from Atlanta.
Thank you so much for joining us.
The man of your poem is "White Boy Privilege." It has gone viral on social media. And you see you consider yourself lucky because of the color of your skin and the money in your parents' wallets. Why do you feel the need to apologize for that?
MANN: I'm not apologizing because I think it's my fault, because I was born only four years ago. I'm just apologizing because I think it's sad what some people have to go through because of the color of their skin or their gender and things that they were born with that. They didn't choose.
SESAY: And you have a message for other white boys. Let's listen to that.
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MANN: Dear white boys, I'm not sorry. I don't care if you think the feminists are taking over the world, the Black Lives Matter movement has gotten a little too strong because that's (EXPLETIVE DELETED). I get that change can be scary, but equality shouldn't be. Hey, white boys, it's time to act like a woman, to be strong and make a difference. It's time to let go of that fear. It's time to take that ladder and turn it into a bridge.
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SESAY: Royce, what's been the reaction from your friends to that, to that call, the reaction from your other white friends?
MANN: It's been very positive. A lot of people who said that it inspired them to do more and it's made them realize how privileged they are compared to many other people.
SESAY: Well, I want to share with you the reaction on social media because people have been reacting really passionately to what you had to say there.
Tracy Ellis Ross of the ABC show "Blackish," she tweeted this. "If you watch nothing else the today, please watch this. Golden Globe- winning actress Henson tweeted, "God bless this brave angel." And this person wrote, "Re-tweet this far and wide. If this 14-year-old white boy gets it, what excuse do others have?"
What do you make to the reaction of this by celebrities and other people outside of your circle?
MANN: I'm just glad that I'm hopefully helping to start a discussion about these issues that are very prevalent, as we saw with the killings of Alton Sterling and the Philando Castile and the killings that followed of the five police officers in Dallas. And I think that these discussions really need to happen now because it seems like in our society we let tragedies happen and then we talk about the issue for maybe a few months ago. You know, then we sort of forget about it. And we really need to get some change to happen now. We can't stop talking about these issues because it's going the take a lot of change for everybody to be equal. People don't realize how far we have away from that. We've come a long way, though, and I think we shouldn't forget what's already been done, like in the civil rights movement, for LGBT rights, for women's rights. We also need to realize there's a lot more that has to be done.
[02:55:10] SESAY: Yeah. And where does this come from? You're such a worldly young man at just 14. How difficult was it to sum up this emotion that you have, all this awareness that you have? How difficult was it to write this poem?
MANN: It was a little bit difficult to get it started because, you know, you have all of these and it's sometimes hard to get them on to paper. But once I got started, I think I really knew what I wanted to say. And then it was pretty easy after that.
SESAY: We were pleased that you were able to capture it and put it down on paper and start a really, really important conversation.
Royce Mann, you are very special.
MANN: Thank you.
SESAY: Thank you so much for speaking to us tonight.
MANN: Thank you for having me.
SESAY: A special man, indeed.
You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.
The news continues next with Rosemary Church. Do stay with us.
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