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Not All Happy About IOC Decision on Russian Athletes; Obama Responds to Iran Money Transfer, ISIS Fight, Trump; Humanitarian Crisis in Aleppo; Clinton Tops Trump in Polls; Lake-Enhanced Tornado Hits New Orleans; Rio's Security Plan During Olympics Opening Ceremony; London's Mayor Tries to Reassure After Knife Attack; Clinton Faces Criticism over Comments on FBI E-mail Probe; Questions Rise on Melania Trump's Immigration History; "The Girl from Ipanema" Now a Grandmother. Aired 2-3a ET
Aired August 05, 2016 - 02:00 ET
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[01:59:54] SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead this hour --
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SIDNER: Hello, and welcome to our viewers from around the world. I'm Sara Sidner.
VAUSE: I'm John Vause. The third hour of NEWSROOM L.A. starts mow.
Final preparations are under way for the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. It kicks off about 17 hours from now.
SIDNER: And here is a look at the fireworks rehearsal. Beautiful details of the ceremony are tightly guarded secret secrets as they always are. It's expected to be viewed by three billion people around the world.
VAUSE: Celebrating are the thousands of athletes who have spent years training for this one event for a chance at Olympic gold. We're keeping an eye on the Olympic torch relay. A Brazilian surfing legend can thrill crowds with his water delivery of the torch on to Rio Beach. That was Thursday. The final stop is Maracana stadium. The torch will be lite at the opening ceremonies and that means the games begin.
SIDNER: The road to Rio in a moment.
But first, the other big Olympic headline, nearly three-quarters of Russia's team now cleared to compete. Russia entered 389 athletes and officials have approved 271 of them.
VAUSE: Do the math. The other 118 have been banned over allegations of state-sponsored doping.
The International Olympic Committee says this is a clear message cheating won't be tolerated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
THOMAS BECK, PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: I can look into the eyes of these athletes because I have very clean conscious. I know that not only I, but also the executive board members all have weighed all these arguments very carefully.
The message is clear. We want to keep the cheaters away from the Olympic Games. The message is clear. There is no place to hide for cheats. And dopers can never feel safe anywhere.
We can also send a very clear message to the clean athletes and in particular to the clean athletes in Russia, and this message is you can be successful outside such a system.
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VAUSE: Now, in the wake of the doping scandal, Russians are happy their athletes will be able to compete over the next couple of weeks.
SIDNER: But as CNN's Matthew Chance reports, not every country is pleased with the IOC's decision.
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was a proud moment for Russia with its national anthem playing and its Olympic team on parade. The country's flag was finally raised in Rio.
A reporter for Russian state television gave the vision. Viewers back home had hoped it wouldn't be the last time Russia would hear its anthem at these games. Amid a spectacular doping scam, Russia's hunger for medals is un-dibbed.
It was left to the country's Olympic chief to announce Russia's real victory. But the weeks of uncertainty and even calls for a blanket ban, most Russian athletes would be allowed to compete.
ALEXANDER ZHUKOV, CHIEF, OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (through translation): There is no team in these Olympic games in Rio that has been checked so thoroughly as Russia has. Each and every sports person was checked and tested and the international federation has made the decision that they were negative. The huge amount of negative test results indicate that a huge amount of athletes are completely clean.
CHANCE: But it's been difficult trying to convince its critics. Russia even opened up its secretive sports labs to us earlier this year from where it's accused of orchestrating the state-sponsored doping campaign. They set up a commission to battle drug abuse in sport. But it was only at the 11th hour on the eve of the Rio games that Russians could breathe a sigh of relief.
"This victory shows Russia is respected," says this man in Moscow. "I'm sure we'll win lots of gold medals," says this woman.
(on camera): Russia, so far, has refused to comment on the latest developments, but there will undoubtedly be relief among these walls, too. It sees the Olympics as a way of projecting Russian power and prestige and has criticized the doping allegations as a deliberate campaign to make Russia look bad.
(voice-over): Now Russia's athletes, at least, have that shadow of uncertainty lifted and can focus on preparing to compete in the knowledge they've reached the first Russian victory of these Rio Games has already been won.
Matthew Chance, CNN, Moscow.
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[02:05:09] VAUSE: CNN's "World Sport's" Christina McFarland joins us now live from Rio de Janeiro.
Christina, at the end of the day, more than 70 percent of the Russian team will compete. That's a pretty big victory for a country facing an entire blanket ban just a few weeks ago. Could that number go up at this point because of legal had appeals?
CHRISTINA MCFARLAND, CNN WORLD SPORT CORRESPONDENT: Well, there are some comments coming out in the hours that passed since that announcement from the IOC, John, which indicate that there are still athletes who are set to appeal that ban through the court of arbitration for sport who have, as you know, set up a temporary base here in Rio, the first time in Olympic history that that has happened. But I think what we've seen today is something that could, you know, damage the integrity of the games going forward and certainly for the Rio Olympic Games it's going to have quite the bearing on the medal count for Russia and for other countries who come here to the games to compete.
I just want to bring you up to date on a lot of numbers, because at London 2012, four years ago, Russia took 436 athletes to the game and they came away with 82 medals, the third highest tally at the Olympic Games in London. This gives you some indication as to what the numbers are going to be this year, significantly down on that. In fact, with 118 athletes banned today, Russia now has fewer athletes than 11 other countries competing here in the Rio Olympic Games. It is a better picture, though, than they were facing some 12 days ago when the president, Thomas Bach, rejected that blanket ban.
But I think the sense now, here, at the Olympic games is that even now, if the Russian athletes are to make the podium during the Olympics, there will still be a question mark over the credibility of what they've achieved, which is unfortunate given everything we've seen them go through in the build up to these games and it is potentially something that is going to cast a long shadow over the weeks to come.
SIDNER: As the excitement builds, even for the opening ceremony, which spectators and athletes and coaches, what is happening in Rio? Because we have seen some real pushback, protesters very upset about what has been going on there in their country and how much money is being spent on that. Are we expecting to see anything more from protesters?
MCFARLAND: That's right, Sara. I think you're alluding to the scenes two days ago when the Olympic torch arrived behind me here in had Rio and it was paraded through the streets and met by violent protests, unfortunately. There was a peaceful protest being held on the streets by teachers, by health care workers who were protesting the infrastructure or the lack thereof in Rio de Janeiro and they were met by actual riot police who were accompanying the torch. That was the first time that we had seen those types of police, those riot police here in hero and they are now set to accompany that torch right up to the Maracana stadium later tonight. We have some 200 torchbearers to go in the hours today and, is behind me, I think we've noticed a higher stepping up of the presence of both the military and the police here. And we've seen today that a combination of those police, military and fire fireman presence has been -- they've been testing all the facilities in preparation for this opening ceremony tonight. So everyone here on high alert.
VAUSE: Could be a new Olympic event, try and grab the torch without being arrested by the police. It has been going on for quite some time, those protests.
Christina, thanks for being with us again. Appreciate it.
SIDNER: Now to the U.S. president and his response to criticism. He says a payment for $400 million sent to Iran was not for a ransom and release of prisoners. President Obama says it was for a decades-old arms deal that was never completed and that the details were made public months ago.
VAUSE: On Thursday, President Obama also spoke out about the fight against ISIS and Donald Trump.
Michelle Kosinski has the details.
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MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President Obama defended his is strategy.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: ISIL has not had a major successful operation in Syria or Iraq in a full year. Even ISIL's leaders know they're going to keep losing. In their message to followers, they're increasingly acknowledging that they may lose Mosul and Raqqa. And ISIL is right, they will lose them. And we'll keep hitting them and pushing them back and driving them out until they do. In other words, ISIL turns out not to be invincible. They are, in fact, inevitably going to be defeated.
KOSINSKI: He pushed back against critics who called a $400 million cash payment to Iran a ransom payment. [02:10:00] OBAMA: We have a policy that we don't pay ransom. And
the notion that we would somehow start now, in this high profile way and announce it to the world, even as we're looking into the faces of other hostage families -- families whose loved ones are being held hostage and say to them that we don't pay ransom defies logic.
The reason that we had to give them cash is precisely because we are so strict in maintaining sanctions and we do not have a banking relationship with Iran that we couldn't send them a check. And we could not wire the money. And it is not at all clear to me why it is that cash, as opposed to a check or a wire transfer, has made this into a new story.
KOSINSKI: The president weighing in once again on the 2016 presidential race, and calling out Donald Trump.
OBAMA: I've made this point already, multiple times. Just listen to what Mr. Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear Triad.
BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: With respect, sir, it's suggests that you're not confident.
OBAMA: I obviously have a very strong opinion about the two candidates who are running here. One is very positive and one is not so much.
This is serious business and the person who is in the Oval Office and who our secretary of defense and our Joint Chiefs of Staff and our outstanding men and women in uniform report to, they are counting on somebody who has the temperament and good judgment to be able to make decisions to keep America safe. And that should be very much on the minds of voters when they go into the voting booth in November.
KOSINSKI (on camera): The president took on Donald Trump's recent statements that he's worried the upcoming election could be rigged. At times, the president seemed to mock this assertion, using words like "ridiculous" and "conspiracy theories."
And in that statement that you just heard, the president, in response to Barbara Starr's question over whether the president has worries that Donald Trump is not fit to handle America's nuclear weapons if he was president, President Obama kept referring back to what he had said two days ago when he said that Donald Trump was unfit to be president and was woefully unprepared for the job. So even though he didn't technically answer Barbara's question, he made his intent very clear.
Michelle Kosinski, CNN, the White House.
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VAUSE: And Donald Trump's missteps seem to be hurting him in the latest national polls. Just ahead, how his running mate, Mike Pence, is trying to smooth things over.
SIDNER: Plus, wicked weather hits a major U.S. city. We'll show you the damage from this funnel cloud, next on NEWSROOM L.A.
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[02:17:08] VAUSE: Turkey has issued a new arrest warrant for the exiled cleric, Fethullah Gulen. The government accuses the 75-year- old imam who lives in the U.S. or organizing last month's military coup. The brutal crackdown that followed led to the arrest of thousands of soldiers, judges and teachers.
SIDNER: Gulen is dismissing the warrant, saying, quote, "I have repeated condemned the coup attempt in Turkey and denied any knowledge or involvement. This warrant is another example of President Erdogan's drive for authoritarianism and away from democracy."
VAUSE: Residents in the Syrian city of Aleppo says food is scarce and bombs keep falling.
SIDNER: The government has stepped up its campaign against rebels for control of that city.
Senior international correspondent, Arwa Damon, has the story.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What you see, that's all that's left in what was one of Aleppo's busiest markets. Children, somehow still managing to smile, peddle bags of salt. But gone are the brightly colored stacks of fruits and vegetables. Most basic food staples hard to find.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): For 11 days, we haven't had bread in the house. We come to the market and there is nothing to buy.
DAMON: The cost of tomatoes, if found, has quadrupled. Gasoline is a small fortune. Aleppo is being suffocated as the world watches.
The Syrian regime says it has opened humanitarian corridors to allow people to flee. State TV airing these images. But only a minute fraction of the 200 to 300,000 people living under siege are reported to have left and no aide has come in.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): These are imaginary corridors, false corridors, only to show the international community they are work on humanitarian issues with the Russian side. Everyone who went there found out that they are very dangerous for crossing.
DAMON: The vast majority would rather risk the bombs than take a chance on trusting the government. And for many, fleeing their lands would be the ultimate defeat.
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DAMON: Attempts by rubble fighters to break the siege have resulted in some of the fiercest clashes to date. Even children are joining in, helping to burn tires to obscure the view of aircraft circling overhead.
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DAMON: But this is a war with no boundaries, no mercy or ways to hide. Dark echoes of past atrocities the world swore never to allow again.
Aleppo is a test for humanity, the head of the U.N.-backed humanitarian task force for Syria told CNN. So far, it's a test humanity is failing.
Arwa Damon, CNN, Istanbul.
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[02:20:08] SIDNER: Two new polls for the U.S. presidential race are giving Hillary Clinton very good news. The Democrat's lead over Republican rival, Donald Trump is growing.
VAUSE: Clinton has 15 points over Trump in the latest Maris survey. It was taken after Trump's verbal war with the Muslim parents of a dead American war hero.
SIDNER: Clinton's lead is slightly less in an NBC News/"Wall Street Journal" poll but is still nine points ahead of Trump in a CNN/ORC survey earlier in the week.
And Trump's refusal endorse top Republicans running for re-election is not acknowledge Republicans running is not helping, either.
His running mate, Mike Pence, has given his support to those candidates while playing the role of chief apologizer to counter Trump's behavior.
Jason Carroll has the story.
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JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump looking to steady his campaign after several rocky days by taking aim at Hillary Clinton.
DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Hillary Clinton, furthermore, can never be trusted with national security.
CARROLL: And attacking the Obama administration's $400 million payment to Iran but still repeating the false claim that he saw video of the transfer taking place. TRUMP: The tape was made, right? You saw that with the airplane coming in? Nice plane. And the airplane coming in and the money coming off, I guess, right? That was given to us, has to be, by the Iranians. And do you know why the tape was given to us? Because they want to embarrass our country. They want to embarrass our county. And they want to embarrass our president.
CARROLL: This, as the GOP nominee tries to reassure voters and Republican leads weary of his recent series of missteps that his campaign is moving in the right direction. Helping him make the case? A big July fundraising haul.
TRUMP: $80 or $82 million. We're raising a lot of money for the Republicans Party. But small contributions, I think it was $61.
CARROLL: Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, broke ranks with him when he strongly endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday, a day after Trump said he was not ready to do so.
Ryan shrugged off Trump's non-endorsement.
REP. PAUL RYAN, (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE (voice-over): The only endorsements that I want are those of my own employers here in the first congressional district.
CARROLL: Ryan also opening the door of potentially not backing Trump in the future.
RYAN: None of these things are ever a blank check. That goes with any situation in any kind of race.
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CARROLL: There was also new evidence of frustration with Trump's candidacy among Republicans. Colorado Congressman Mike Kaufman, who is facing a tough re-election, released a TV ad vowing to take on Trump.
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REP. MIKE KAUFMAN, (R), COLORADO: So if Donald Trump is the president, I'll stand up to him.
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CARROLL: A fresh round of poll numbers shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump in three key states. Up nine points in Michigan, 13 points in Pennsylvania and 15 points in New Hampshire. Where that deficit could also spell trouble for Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte's re-election bid. But Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, says the dip is no surprise.
PAUL MANAFORT, DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN MANGER: We had a bounce. We knew the Democrats would have a bounce.
CARROLL (on camera): At one point, protesters stood up during the rally, all of them holding up pocket versions of the U.S. Constitution. This, a reference to Khizr Khan, who held up his pocket version of the Constitution during the DNC asking Trump if he's ever read it. But once again, these people were escorted out of the rally. And Trump just moved on, continued to focus on the issues, continued to hammer away at Hillary Clinton. And this is the version of Donald Trump people say they need to see going forward. They say he was much more presidential today. This is the Trump that they want to see going forward in the campaign.
Jason Carroll, CNN, Portland, Maine.
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SIDNER: A lake-enhanced tornado damaged buildings near the city of New Orleans today.
VAUSE: OK. Meteorologist Derek Van Dam here to explain how that happened.
What is a lake-enhanced tornado?
DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: That's a good question, John, and I'll do my best to answer that.
VAUSE: I always ask good questions. Thank you.
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VAN DAM: Let me try and impress you here.
But first, take a look at the footage of the tornado itself. Scary moments for residents and tourists visiting New Orleans because this had was taken a few blocks from bourbon street or the French quarter. Take a look, flattening some buildings. This area looks familiar if you've visited New Orleans. Unfortunately, that damage did cause a few injuries. You can see some of the familiar side streets just outside the city center. It's interesting to see what can happen when you get the cool ocean and lake waters interacting with the warm surf temperatures. It can create all kinds of weather patterns, including tornadoes.
This is what happened on Wednesday alone. We had seven reports of tornadoes across the United States. One of them happened to be in New Orleans. You guessed it, you saw just a moment ago. And some interesting microclimates took place on this particular day, being Wednesday, that is he had set up for the perfect conditions for a tornado to drop down from that thunderstorm cloud. What happened was we have Lake Pontchartrain to the north of New Orleans and to the south of the city center, we have the Gulf of Mexico. So we've got the cool ocean and lake waters interacting with the relatively warm land that let's up during the surface heath from the day, from the sunshine. And basically that creates a spin in the atmosphere. We get those temperature variations and that gives us a gradient, allowing for wind to occur. Thunderstorms or convention develop and eventually a tornado drops from one of those super cells just like what took place a few blocks outside the French Quarter, downtown New Orleans, scaring those residents and tourists. There's the tornado itself.
Keep in mind this phenomenon can happen all over the world from the Adriatic Sea, Italy, Croatia, from the Sea of Japan back towards the United States near the Great Lakes. It is something people need to watch out for if they live near a body of water -- John, Sara?
[02:26:23] SIDNER: All right. Thank you so much.
Coming up next for our viewers in Asia, "State of the Race" with Kate Baldwin.
VAUSE: For everyone else, we'll take a short break. When we come back, eyes of the world on Rio right now. The security plans to keep the opening ceremonies safe. Details in a moment.
SIDNER: Plus, London's mayor wants to reassure the city after Wednesday's random knife attack. An interview with the mayor, coming up.
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[02:30:14] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back, everybody. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause.
SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Sara Sidner.
The headlines for you at this hour --
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VAUSE: Tight security in Rio right now in the lead up to the Olympic opening ceremony.
SIDNER: It's just hours now before the Olympic cauldron is lit.
Our Rosa Flores has more on how Rio has been preparing.
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ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Military firefighters are called to duty for the final rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. It's the last opportunity to test protocols before the main event. And the fire brigade colonel in charge of safety invites CNN to put them to the test.
The first, he says arriving at Maracana stadium from the fire station in five minutes.
UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY FIRE BRIDGE COLONEL: It's a good way to check if everything is OK.
FLORES: A few minutes in, military soldiers are alone the route just as planned. The dozens of firefighters roll into Maracana stadium just in time. But -- UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY FIRE BRIDGE COLONEL: There are some stuff that
I would like to see better.
FLORES (on camera): Like what?
UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY FIRE BRIDGE COLONEL: I think we need to have our motorcycles inside of the caravan.
FLORES (voice-over): He says motorcycles are key in the case of a road block because they can weed through traffic to provide first aid.
But this is an interagency effort involving military, the police and the city of Rio.
(on camera): So you're waiting for the city to close the road?
UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY FIRE BRIDGE COLONEL: Yes. In two minutes.
FLORES (voice-over): The clock ticks away and the road is not blocked as planned.
(on camera): The firefighters communicated with the city of Rio, which is in the protocol, and asked them, can we step in and do the job for you? And that's exactly what happened.
(voice-over): With the roads blocked, the colonel makes his way around the stadium and points out one more thing.
UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY FIRE BRIDGE COLONEL: Emergency vehicles, it's on the left, not on the right.
FLORES: Emergency vehicles, he says, need to be parked on the left lane. As he completes the walk through, the ambulances and soldiers supporting the effort are in the right place.
UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY FIRE BRIDGE COLONEL: So far so good. But as I told you, there is a possibility to get this better.
FLORES: A satisfactory safety drill on the outside. As for the rehearsal on the inside, that is a guarded secret.
Rose Flores, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
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SIDNER: London police have now identified the American woman killed in Wednesday's stabbing attack. 64-year-old Darlene Horton was traveling, along what her husband, who is a university professor. She was just hours away from returning to the United States.
VAUSE: The 19-year-old man is being held on suspicion of murder. Police say mental health issues may have triggered the attack.
SIDNER: Earlier, our Michael Holmes talked with the London mayor, Sadiq Khan.
VAUSE: Khan discussed threats to the city and discussed the media's response.
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SADIQ KHAN, MAYOR OF LONDON: The aim of the bad people is to terrorize them and to change the way we lead our lives. So we stop using public transport. We stop mingling and befriending people from different backgrounds, people who are Muslims or Christians or Jews, or those who are members of an organized faith. They don't want us to mix and be friends and to marry into each other's families and to work for each other. They want to stay at home and be cowards. But what's important is we don't let them succeed. But at the same time, we have a responsibility to keep ourselves safe. We mustn't be complacent or reckless. And it's a fine line to walk.
You know, I joined the Met police commissioner in sending out the message that when you look at Nice, Paris, Brussels, Munich, other parts of the world, it is a question of, I'm afraid, because I wouldn't want anyone to think we're complacent or we're smug. I announced to the commissioner earlier this week the good news -- and it is good news -- that there will be more armed teams in London making sure they're working with many, many unarmed officers to keep them safe.
But we police by concern. But the police service in London, the security services, can only do their job if the public has the confidence to come forward and report things. That's why it's important that I'm here reassuring people who come to London or business people who come to do business in London or students that we are still one of the safest cities in the world.
[02:35:31] MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And we did see the new police set you, the new kits they've got, their quick reaction. They're tooled up like you never see police in a place like London. But when we saw this attack last night, which was not a terror attack, but I suppose that went to show it's so difficult to stop an attack like that, despite the quick response, isn't it? It's a low-tech sort of tactic.
KHAN: Well, just like these terrorists, the bad guys are evolving in what they do in relation to causing terror, we've got evolved in a relation to keep ourselves safe. So the phone call is made about a man brandishing a knife and going berserk. We have to assume the worst. That's why it's right and proper, our response teams are on the scene as soon as possible. They're armed, as the name suggests, but also they have the opportunity to use taser guns or there are other options obviously, as well. We want the bad people to know there are response teams across London. We want Londoners and tourists and visitors to know that there are these people in London to keep us all safe.
But, you know, I'm afraid the reality in 2016 is the job of people like me as the mayor and politicians to work with the police services and security services, work with them as a public, to keep our cities and our people safe. But also to send a message loud and clear to anybody wishing to cause terror and may have been to try sow division, to try and sow the seeds of hatred across other communities, we won't let you.
HOLMES: When it comes to walking that line, as we were discussing before, what do us to the media? How do you see that? In this type of attack, the police are always going to rightly say they're looking at all possible motives, including terror. But that's short of saying terror is the main avenue of inquiry. Do you think the media needs to be a bit more measured, circumspect when things like this happen?
KHAN: Well, over the last four hours, I've been impressed. The police service and security service and the media, they're talking about the fact that the situation made the point early on, all options are open. They made the point early on once we send the inquiries that this had man appears to have had mental health issue. But it's not improper to ask the obvious questions you're asking. The reason why you're asking the question, is because the public are asking these questions. We can't have either politicians or the media asking adding to the flames. And I think the response is very important. We're showing terrorists that we aren't going to change an open press. But secondly, is to make sure we're held to account. I'm all about being held to account as the mayor of London. One of the reasons why I came back to London was to on reassure Londoners, that security is very important to me, but also to make sure the police and security service knows I'm supporting them.
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SIDNER: Our Michael Holmes speaking earlier with the London mayor on that knife attack.
VAUSE: Still to come here on NEWSROOM L.A., there are new questions about how Melania Trump, Donald Trump's wife, immigrated to the United States.
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[02:42:11] SIDNER: And it's not just Donald Trump facing controversy. Controversy has been following Hillary Clinton this week as well.
VAUSE: The U.S. presidential candidate has been repeating a rather dubious claim that the FBI said she was truthful when discussing her e-mails.
Jake Tapper checks the facts.
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JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR, STATE OF THE UNION: Hey, everybody. I'm Jake Tapper, from CNN's "State of the Union" and factcheck.org.
Today, we're going to take a look at comments Hillary Clinton made a few days ago when she was confronted with comments she made on the campaign trail repeatedly, telling the American people she had never sent or received any classified material on her private e-mail server. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHRIS WALLACE, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: After a long investigation, FBI Director James Comey said none of those things that you told the American public were true.
HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Chris, that's not what I heard Director Comey say. And I thank you for giving me the opportunity to, in my view, clarify. Director Comey said that my answers were truthful and what I said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the e-mails.
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TAPPER: Is that true? Did FBI Director James Comey testify that the repeated comments Hillary Clinton has made to the public about her private e-mail server, quote, "were truthful?" No. That is not true.
According to her campaign aides, what Hillary Clinton was referring to was Director Comey testifying, quote, "We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI."
But Clinton's comments to the FBI are different from what Chris Wallace was asking about with, which were Clinton answers comments to the American people.
Congressman Trey Gowdy had asked Director Comey about a number of the on comments Hillary Clinton has made to the American people, and here is how some of that went.
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REP. TREY GOWDY, (R-SC), CHAIRMAN, HOUSE COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI: Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e- mails either sent or received. Was that true?
JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: That's not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
GOWDY: Secretary Clinton said, "I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. There is no classified material." Was that true?
COMEY: No, there was classified material e-mailed.
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TAPPER: Here is what we know about Hillary Clinton's e-mails. More than 2,000 of the 30,490 e-mails Clinton gave to the State Department in December 2014 did contain classified information. Now, most of it was classified retroactively, but 110 e-mails and 52 different e-mail chains contained classified information that was clad classified at the time the e-mails sent or received. Three of the e-mails included classified markings, but they were not marked properly. Here is the bottom line. Although Comey did testify that of the e-
mails contained information that was classified only retroactively, he did say some of the e-mails contained information that was classified at the time. And Hillary Clinton had repeatedly told the public that none of the e-mails contained information that was classified in any way.
A reminder to all you politicians out there, you are perfectly entitled to your own opinions, not to your own facts.
I'm Jake Tapper, for CNN's "State of the Union" and factcheck.org.
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[02:45:28] VAUSE: Let's go to the Republican side now. Donald Trump and one of his big promises, a big part of his campaign speech, is to crack down on illegal immigration.
SIDNER: But in light of the publication of some old racy photos of his Slovenian-born wife, questions are now being raised about how she came to the United States.
Our Jessica Schneider explains.
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JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The photos fanned across the cover of the "New York Post." A 25-year-old Melania Trump posing provocatively for a French magazine. But the photos that raised a few eyebrows are now raising questions about Melania's immigration history.
MELANIA TRUMP, WIFE OF DONALD TRUMP: And I came to United States, to New York, in 1996.
SCHNEIDER: 1996 is the year she stands by, telling CNN's Anderson Cooper and numerous other publications, that's when she came to the U.S. But these photos were snapped in New York City in 1995, according to the author of her recent biography.
So what difference does a year make? Possibly the difference between Mrs. Trump breaking immigration law or not.
To understand why, listen to Melania Trump's own words.
MELANIA TRUMP: I came here on visa. I flew to Slovenia every few months to stamp it, and came back. I applied for green card, and then after few years, for citizenship. I obeyed the law. I did it the right way. I didn't just sneak in and stay here. So I think that's what people should do.
SCHNEIDER: Trump insists she got her visa stamped every few months. If that's accurate, it would mean she had a type of visa, possibly a tourist visa, that needs to be updated periodically. But that type of visa does not allow working in the United States. The type of visa that does allow work is called H1B. And the man who discovered Melania tells CNN he didn't sponsor her for an H1B until 1996, a year after the photo shoot.
But there's a caveat. The photographer behind the camera at the shoot, Yar Ala da Vocvil (ph), says Melania was a young model waiting for a big break so she didn't get paid which mean she didn't violate any immigration laws.
YAR ALA DE VOCVIL (ph), PHOTOGRAPHER: You are making this kind of magazine to have exposure. And this exposure was bringing you to the next level to have catalog campaign and everything.
SCHNEIDER: So Melania was not paid for this photo shoot, you say?
ALA DE VOCVIL (ph): No, no, no. Nobody's paying. Nobody's paying.
SCHNEIDER: If that nonpaid photo shoot was the only work she did before getting the H1B visa she wouldn't have broken any laws.
Melania Trump isn't directly answering whether she was first in New York in 1995 instead of 1996, like she's previously stated, but could it be an honest error. She wrote this on Twitter: "Let me set the record straight. I have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country, period. Any allegation to the contrary is simply untrue. In July 1996, I proudly became a U.S. citizen. Over the past 20 years I have been fortunate to live, work and raise a family in this great nation. And I share my husband's love for this country."
It's a sentiment she expressed in her Cleveland convention speech.
MELANIA TRUMP: I was very proud to become citizen of the United States.
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VAUSE: Our thanks to Jessica Schneider for that report.
SIDNER: And she sparked the imagination of song writers 50 years ago, the real girl from Ipanema. What is she doing now? And why she loves the Olympics.
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[02:52:58] SIDNER: "She was tall and tan and lovely." I know you remember the line, it's not mine. But "The Girl from Ipanema" was not just a smash hit in the 1960s. She was based on a real Brazilian woman.
VAUSE: And when she carries the Olympic torch just a few hours from now, each one she passes will surely go, ahh.
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Shasta Darlington explains.
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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: "The Girl from Ipanema" is now the grandmother from Ipanema.
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DARLINGTON: Heloisa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto was the inspiration for the iconic Brazilian hit.
(voice-over): When you hear that song, what does it make you feel?
ENEIDA MENEZES PAES: I'm still so happy to call -- I remember my past. I remember when I was young, because now I am a grandmother. No more the girl.
DARLINGTON (voice-over): Back in the 60s, she caught the eye of the songwriter, Tom Jobim, and poet, Vinicius de Moreas, as she walked by on the way to the beach.
(on camera): The reason you were the inspiration of this song, can you show us how you used to walk to the beach every day?
ENEIDA MENEZES PAES: Oh, I think because the Samba, the swing that all the Brazilian people had.
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DARLINGTON (voice-over): On Friday, she'll carry the Olympic torch through her childhood neighborhood.
ENEIDA MENEZES PAES: The people are so unhappy, so sad. And now, they're linked. I figure we are more anxious with, more happy, more --
DARLINGTON: And at night, Gisele Bundchen will play her in the opening ceremony.
ENEIDA MENEZES PAES: Oh, I think she's beautiful. She's young. And for me, it's so nice. When she walks through the sea
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DARLINGTON: The awe-inspiring walk popularized in English by Frank Sinatra.
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Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
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VAUSE: The lady from Ipanema still has the moves.
SIDNER: She does, a little samba there. I love it.
[02:55:17] Before we go, a dog has a new spring in his step thanks to two prosthetic legs.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Let's see you walk.
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VAUSE: The video from a dog foundation says it shows Paulo taking his first steps. So happy.
SIDNER: I love dogs. Happy, no matter what.
VAUSE: No matter what. That dog went through a lot.
SIDNER: It's been viewed more than seven million times on Facebook. When he was a puppy, his owner's neighbor hacked off his legs with a sword after he chewed a pair of shoes, as dogs sometimes do. But he was rescued in May and nursed back to health at a specialist clinic. Ah.
VAUSE: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.
SIDNER: And I'm Sara Sidner.
The news continues with Rosemary Church.
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[03:00:10] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Countdown to the games. The hours tick away to the start of the Olympic --
