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Voters Reject Peace Deal between FARC and Colombian Government; Kim Kardashian Robbed at Gunpoint in Paris; Taliban Attacks Kunduz; Philippine President Apologizing for Hitler Comparison; Bracing for Hurrican Matthew; U.S. Wins Ryder Cup. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired October 03, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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[03:00:00] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Rejected, Colombian voters say no to an historic peace deal with FARC rebels.

Also ahead, robbed, Kim Kardashian West held up at gun point in Paris, we have the details.

And reveal some of Donald Trump's old tax records, campaign surrogates try to explain a billion dollars write off.

Hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church, and this is CNN Newsroom.

Colombia's government and FARC rebels have been handed a shocking defeat by voters who said no to their peace deal. Both sides worked on this treaty for years hoping to end decades of war.

Rafael Romo has more on the outcome of the vote.

RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SENIOR LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS EDITOR: The final result goes against all polls and expectations. The peace agreement between the government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia known as FARC was rejected by Colombian voters by less than one percentage points.

The opposition to the deal led by former president Alvaro Uribe was fierce and vocal.

Why the former president questioned that they choose to simplify a 297-page peace agreement by turning it into just one single question? Colombian voters could only say yes or no to the peace agreement and the referendum despite controversy over specifics like a life of jail terms for rebels.

The vote was also seen as referendum on this man, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the main proponent of the agreement.

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JUAN MANUEL SANTOS, COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT (TRANSLATED): The bilateral and defensive ceasefire and end of hostilities are still in effect. I have heard those who said no, and I have heard those who said, yes. Everybody, everybody without exception wants peace.

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ROMO: These people behind me come from different parts of Colombia here to Cartagena to say, no, to the peace agreement. Their main point is that they are not willing to forgive a terrorist group, as they call the FARC that has killed people; that has raped women.

There were multiple protests against the peace agreement leading up to the referendum, just a few days ago we ran into a group demonstrating in Cartagena.

Protesters say a peace agreement without real justice will never last. With this result, they say, the government has a mandate for the people to renegotiate with the rebels.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are convinced that this peace agreement is not going to bring peace. We're convinced that it's going to bring more war to Colombia because injustice brings more war. We -- we -- the only thing we want is justice, that's all we are asking for is justice.

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ROMO: No one wants return to fighting but after four years of negotiations what happens next for this week-old peace deal is, again, an open question.

Rafael Romo, CNN, Cartagena, Colombia.

CHURCH: And journalist Simone Bruno is watching this developing story very closely. He joins me now from Colombia's capital Bogota. And of course, as we've been reporting, this was a surprise, wasn't it? But why was it a surprise. Why didn't they realize that so many people across Colombia were not happy with the actual deal. They want peace but they weren't happy with the detail in this deal.

SIMONE BRUNO, JOURNALIST: Well, yes, you're right. This came like an absolute surprise, nobody was expecting this, neither the Santos government, of course, supporting, yes. Or the opposition of Alvaro Uribe that he didn't that will happen neither.

And this is because the polls in the past weeks, they were really clear that a yes was going to win. Most of the polls were saying 2 to 1. So, actually nobody was expecting this.

And on the other hand you also have a very small margin of difference that's less than one percent difference between the yes and no and the turnout was really low. Thirty seven percent of the people they were able, they were capable. They had the possibility to vote -- show up, actually voting.

So basically, this is like a wheel situation that makes that also with the (Inaudible) there were cheating the Caribbean coast which is an area they voted yes. And decreased extremely, decreased the number of the people that were actually show up voting.

[03:04:58] So, you have real situation as well when you look at the map and you see that all the area that have been affected badly by the conflict voted yes, the rest of the country, mostly the town, and city, they live in peace, away from the country they voted, no.

So, this is kind of a real situation, surely, nobody was actually expecting this to happen.

CHURCH: Right. And this wasn't only a referendum on this particular peace deal. It was also referendum on President Santos, wasn't it? What is likely to happen to him now that this was a no vote even though a slim one.

BRUNO: Yes, this is really unknown what is going to happen. But as you said, President Santos put all his political career, all his future as a politician in this peace agreement. And this is a terrible blow for him.

Just few days before the vote, he was actually one of the most important candidate for the next Nobel Prize, Peace Nobel Prize. So now, what is going to happen is really hard to say.

What we saw, anyway, is that the President, ex-president, former President Uribe changed his speech, first, he said to all his followers, not to show publicly happiness for the result. And then, he suddenly to talk about not a no to the peace agreement, but to a yes vote.

And he actually opened a door that President Santos as well opened, that will probably, hopefully gather all the parties, political parties, Colombian politician parties together to go on with these negotiation. And, FARC, as well, they said that they're ready to start to renegotiate a part of the treaty.

CHURCH: All right. Simone Bruno, thank you so much for talking with us. We appreciate it.

Well, French officials say reality TV star Kim Kardashian West was robbed at gun point in Paris early Monday. They say five armed men stole millions of dollars and jewelry as well as two cell phones. She was staying at a luxury residence in central Paris for the city's fashion week.

And senior international correspondent Jim Bittermann joins us now from Paris. I understand we also have some live pictures from outside of that particular apartment.

But, Jim, you were shedding some light on this. We had understood and reported earlier this was a hotel, it wasn't. It was this apartment. And you were telling us that five men were involved, which is extraordinary a number and they, essentially, walked straight through and made their way to Kim Kardashian's quarters.

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's exactly right, Rosemary. And it wasn't exactly walking straight through but they tied up the concierge, rent the concierge of this kind of apartment residence that's used by stars, according to celebrity bloggers here.

There have been people staying there like Leonardo DiCaprio and Madonna and other people stay there when they come to Paris. And it's a very luxurious sort of apartment set up that stars can rent for a day, or a week, or a month.

And that's apparently, when Kim Kardashian when staying when about 2.30 or so this morning gunmen broke in. They took the concierge and made them, made him open up her suite, entered the suite and tied her up and then stole the jewelry and two cell phones.

The jewelry estimates, by some estimates here up to $10 million in jewelry. There was one ring alone that was supposedly worth four million. So, a great deal. The fact that no one was hurt, Kardashian herself is said to be badly shaken, but not injured in all of this. And there's no word about her body guards, what exactly happen to them. Although some reports this morning that her personal body guard was also tied up by the gunmen.

CHURCH: And, Jim, are there any security cameras, at all, any particular leads that may help authorities capture these five men involved in this robbery?

BITTERMANN: One can assume, yes. But you can't really know until we've had some verification from authorities. It is the kind of place that would be protected, very discrete. One can't enter this hotel particularly. It's called and frankly to say is sort of a mansion without detection.

You can come in a car and be inside the hotel without being seen from the outside. So, it's a quite highly secured area. So, one would assume that there were some security cameras. And I'm sure if there are the authorities are going over these tapes at this point. Rosemary?

CHURCH: And what will this mean in terms of security and establishments like this that do house a number of high-flying actors and various people from Hollywood and elsewhere across the globe, what will it mean in terms of security for them at that particular place?

[03:10:01] BITTERMANN: Well, maybe in broader picture, Rosemary, it's really going to be damaging to Paris's reputation. And already this morning people are talking about that Paris -- or this week going to launch a campaign, a publicity campaign to improve the image of the city after the various terrorist attacks that have taken place over the last 18 months.

So, to have this happen as well, it's going to no doubt damage the reputation of the city. The hotel Ritz have already been planning before this today that in fact, tourism, as often they're seeing far less high rolling clients. So, the fact is it is going to be very hurtful as far as the city is concerned. Rosemary?

CHURCH: One would certainly think so. Our Jim Bittermann reporting there live from Paris where it's just after 9 o'clock, 10 minutes past 9 in fact, in the morning. Many thanks to you, Jim.

Well, Afghan forces are battling the Taliban for control of the northern city of Kunduz, the Taliban launched an attack from four different directions early Monday morning.

A western officials says the Afghan air force is providing support to the counter offensive with newly acquired helicopters.

Senior international correspondent Ivan Watson joins us now with the latest. So, Ivan, what more are you learning about this Taliban attack on Kunduz.

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Rosemary, I just got off the phone with an Afghan lawmaker from Kunduz, she was speaking from Kabul. According to her information says that the Taliban have cut off all of the roads, all of the roads leading out of Kunduz, meaning that terrified civilians trapped inside don't have a means to escape.

Now this is according to Fatima Aziz, the lawmaker from Kunduz speaking by telephone from Kabul. And we don't have that independently conformed yet of that account. What we do know is that the Taliban mounted an assault that began before dawn on Monday morning. And that the Afghan security forces have been fighting back. They say they've used air power including helicopters in this battle.

And this is taking place a little bit more than a year after the Taliban assaulted the same city and actually managed to capture it for several days striking a very serious blow to the morale of the Afghan government and its pledge, to at the very least, ensure safety and security for residence of important Afghan cities. Rosemary?

CHURCH: All right. Ivan Watson joining us live from Hong Kong. Many thanks to you.

And the Philippine president is apologizing for comparing his war on drugs to Adolf Hitler's extermination of Jews during World War II. Rodrigo Duterte says some of his critics actually compared him to Hitler, Friday.

But the president, apparently, responded "All right, I am Duterte, I am a killer." He now says he never meant to offend the Jewish community with the Hitler reference.

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RODRIGO DUTERTE, PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT: I would like to make it now, here and now, that there was never an intention on my part to derogate the memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Germans.

But anyhow, if you -- it's not really actually that I said something wrong, but rather they do not really want to -- you to think of the memory. Well, we know that. So, I apologize profoundly and deeply to the Jewish country.

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CHURCH: We'll take a break here, but still to come, tax documents mailed anonymously to the New York Times takes center stage on the U.S. presidential race. Now, Donald Trump is spinning his financial past, that's next.

And air strikes are hitting the few hospitals that remain in and around Aleppo. Ahead, the growing fears of the humanitarian crisis there.

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CHURCH: U.S. republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is facing renewed criticism over his finances. The New York Times received some of the billionaire's tax records from 1995 showing losses of $916 million.

A reporter says the documents were mail to her anonymously. While CNN cannot independently confirm their authenticity, losses that large could have legally exempted Trump from 18 years of federal income taxes.

Former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's top campaign surrogate appeared on CNN's State of the Union, Sunday, to defend his candidate.

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RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: I mean, the reality is that most Americans take advantage of every deduction available to them.

JAKE TAPPER, STATE OF THE UNION SHOW HOST: Most Americans pay federal income taxes, though, sir. And Donald Trump apparently did not.

GIULIANI: No, just a little bit over most Americans pay federal income tax.

TAPPER: Yes, a majority of the American people pay their income taxes.

GIULIANI: And very -- and very large businesses, very often take advantage of these kinds of losses. Jake -- Jake...

TAPPER: Do you pay federal income taxes? You're a successful businessman, do you pay federal income taxes?

GIULIANI: Well, that's between me and my accountant and the IRS. And the reality is I pay my lawful tax. And he paid his lawful tax.

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TAPPER: Well, let me ask you now the question, sir. Donald Trump is...

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GIULIANI: And the reality -- and, Jake, no, Jake, wait a second, this is really very unfair. If he didn't take advantage of those tax deductions, or tax advantages that he had, he could be sued because he is -- his obligation, as a businessman, is to make money for his enterprise and to save money for his enterprise. It would have been -- it would have been insane for him not to take.

TAPPER: Sued by whom? Who would sue him for his own personal income taxes?

GIULIANI: Investors in his business, people who loan money to his business.

TAPPER: But let me ask you, sir, he's selling himself as a brilliant businessman. He lost almost a billion dollar since 1995.

GIULIANI: Correct.

[03:20:00] TAPPER: That doesn't sound particularly brilliant to me.

GIULIANI: Well, yes it does. Since he came back.

TAPPER: It does?

GIULIANI: Since he came back. And he came all the way back. And isn't that the history of America. I mean, people like Steve Jobs was fired -- was fired by Apple and came all the way -- and came all the way back.

Churchill was thrown out of office twice and came all the way back. It shows what a genius he is. It shows he was able to preserve his enterprise and then he was able to build it. And the idea that he could carry a load for 18 years means that in no time in 18 years did he make $916 million.

And of course, we know last year he made $685 million. We know that from his financial disclose.

TAPPER: He hasn't released his tax returns, the only reason we know anything about this because somebody released this to the New York -- somebody leak this to Americans.

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GIULIANI: No. We know -- we know that he made $680 million last year from his 104-page financial disclose form...

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TAPPER: All right. Mr. Mayor.

GIULIANI: ... which describes considerably more about his finances than the tax return. And the reason... TAPPER: He's the first -- he's the first major party nominee since

1976 to not release his tax returns if you're proud of that, that's great. But I don't think he should be.

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CHURCH: Hillary Clinton's campaign jumped on the tax report calling it a bomb shell. They blasted Trump in a statement saying this, and I'm quoting directly, "Donald Trump lost nearly a billion dollars, a billion. He stiffed small businesses, laid off workers and walked away from hardworking communities. And how did it work out for him? He apparently got to avoid paying taxes for nearly two decades while tens of millions of working families paid theirs." End of quote.

Well, former democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says people like Trump make the working class angry.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), FORMER U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: So, Trump goes around and says, hey, I'm worth billions, I'm a successful businessman. But I don't pay any taxes. But you, you make 15 bucks an hour, you pay the taxes not me. That is why people are angry and want real change in this country.

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CHURCH: Joining me now is Simon Jackman, CEO of U.S. Study Center at the University of Sydney. He is with us via Skype from Sydney, Australia. Thank you so much for being with us.

SIMON JACKMAN, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY U.S. STUDY CENTER CEO: Sure.

CHURCH: So, Donald Trump surrogates are calling him a tax genius for avoiding federal income tax perhaps for nearly two decades. It's perfectly legal, of course. But how is this likely to play out with some U.S. voters who pay more than their fair share of taxes and will fallout from this perhaps force Trump to release his tax returns in the end.

JACKMAN: Well, yes. Those are the questions, aren't they? This comes at an interesting time for Donald Trump. He had -- he had a bad week after the debate and then for this arrive -- to arrive over the weekend doesn't help his cause, particularly.

He's stuck right now in the low 40s, that's where his poll numbers returned to. And a matter of five to seven point gap to Hillary Clinton in the national polls. The issue is this news this weekend, right, doesn't help him win any of that back.

I don't think it takes any more votes away from him, necessarily. But it doesn't -- it's not a momentum changer. It's pushing, it's more bad news at a time when he needs good news to arrest that fall in the polls since he's had -- since that debate.

CHURCH: And some, of course, calling that an October surprise. Another potential October surprise is only days away, perhaps, with WikiLeaks threatening to release damaging information on Hillary Clinton, perhaps as early as Tuesday, we're hearing.

But now we're also hearing that Trump will be targeted as well. What's likely to be released publicly do you think and what impact might these big reveals have on the two presidential candidates?

JACKMAN: Well, we were talking of October surprise earlier in this campaign. I always thought it would be a document about the Clintons, frankly, and perhaps about the Clinton Foundation and the connections to Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State. I've been presuming that that would be the big dramatic moment late in the campaign.

As it turns out, we had one, and it was on Donald Trump's side. We'll see if the shoe falls on the other foot now, with respect to the Clinton campaign. But there may be more than one October surprise, this time around and it's still a month to go.

CHURCH: Yes. And it will be certainly interesting to see how the voters respond to that. And what do you make of the unfounded claim made by Trump, that Hillary Clinton might be cheating on her husband, Bill Clinton.

Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani says attacks about Clinton's marriage, a fair game. How do voters generally respond to unfounded personal accusations like this, particularly, undecided voters?

JACKMAN: Yes. Not well generally, is the way that attacks are handled by regardless. Look there's a small set of undecided voters out there right now. These candidates have very high negatives each.

[03:25:09] And the idea that the Clinton's marriage is a troubled one is hardly news to the American public. And if anything, I think those sorts of attacks, you know, don't help Trump.

Again, when he's in this particular interesting moment, he's got to turn this around after that bad week he had after the debate and he has to go on the offensive. But going after the Clintons in a deeply personal way, certainly, it might help get the attention of him for a news cycle but I'm not sure it's the election changing new story that he needs at this point.

CHURCH: All right. Sir, waiting for another possible October surprise, we're watching in the very few weeks that remain before the November 8 election. We'll see what happens. Simon Jackson, thank you -- Jackman, I should say, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate it.

JACKMAN: My pleasure, thank you.

CHURCH: And you can visit cnn.com/politics to read our six big questions on the fallout from those tax records and all things politics.

Well, there are fears of a drastic humanitarian crisis as the battle for Aleppo intensifies. Still to come, why survival there is becoming more and more difficult.

Plus, Britain's Prime Minister has a plan for the Brexit. We will tell you when the U.K. split from the E.U. will happen. We're back in a moment with that.

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CHURCH: A warm welcome back to you all. I'm Rosemary Church. I want to update you on the stories we've been following this hour.

[03:30:01] A peace deal between FARC rebels and the Colombian government is now up in the air after voters narrowly rejected the agreement on Sunday. A yes vote would have formally ended a 52-year conflict.

The president says the ceasefire will stay in place, but they will now go back to the negotiating table.

French officials say reality TV star Kim Kardashian West was robbed at gun point in Paris early Monday. Five armed men stole millions of dollars' worth of jewelry, as well as two cell phones. She was robbed in the bathroom of a luxury residence in Paris where she was staying for the city's fashion week.

A battle for the northern Afghan city of Kunduz is happening right now. Police say Taliban fighters attacked the city from four directions overnight. Kunduz failed to the Taliban briefly last year and was threatened again in April.

Well, Syrian government forces are gaining ground in their effort to retake Aleppo from rebel groups. More air strikes pounded the city hitting a civilian hospital Sunday.

As of now, there's only one fully functioning hospital in Aleppo. And the U.N. says the health system is on the verge of total collapse.

The Syrian army is urging the rebels to leave, promising them safe passage.

Our Nic Robertson joins us now with the very latest on this. So, Nic, tell us what you know and also any response, if there has been one, from the rebels to this suggestion from Syria that they can leave with a safe passage if they lay down their arms.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, there's been no indication from the rebels so far, they're about to take up that offer from a Syrian government. And Syrian government hasn't made public any details of how they would ensure the safety of the rebels.

So, let's face. They've been fighting the Syria government there for almost five years now and from what they've seen from their perspective, any offer of some kind of amnesty is to be taken with a very large pinch of salt. The reality on the ground according to the U.N. is alarming, as you say, only one major functioning hospital left there. This is an -- this is an area of Aleppo where the U.N. said there

about 275,000 people living in that rebel controlled. They're running out of fuel, which means they can't make bread. The water is off, the electricity is for a major part. And they are being increasingly surrounded and bombed, the hospitals, specifically, being targeted.

It appears certainly that was the case over the weekend. The major hospital, the M10 hospital, hit again for the second time over the weekend, second time in the past couple of days.

Now the Syrian government has taken -- has taken a strategic territory in the north of the rebel controlled area, they have taken a hospital called the al-Kindi hospital that gives some better control over the roots that rebels had used to resupply themselves in and out of the city. That route has been closed for some time now.

But this further tightens that strangle hold on the rebels. The U.N. very worried, and of course, we're also hearing that tensions between the United States and Russia over to what's happening in Syria are escalating -- the Russian foreign ministry has warned the United States not to get involved and directly target Syrian forces that are amassing outside of Aleppo.

They say that this would the situation over the terrorist and create problems not just in Syria but in the wider region a ramping up are the rhetoric in the deterioration of their relationship significantly between the U.S. and Russia over this. Rosemary?

CHURCH: And this is the concern, isn't it, Nic, they seem further away now from any effort to get any humanitarian aid into the area, particularly around Aleppo. And that ceasefire that was in place, seems just a distant memory now.

ROBERTSON: A very distant memory. Over the weekend, Secretary -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov had a phone call, they discussed what was called to jointly work together to normalize the situation inside Aleppo. The U.S. and Russian positions over Aleppo are fundamentally deeply different.

The idea of a cessation of hostilities in the town to bring humanitarian aid was the idea to sort of bring about a possibility therefore to disentangle moderate rebel fighters from terrorist rebel groups, that hasn't happened. That's a big complaint of Russia.

United States wants a seven day cessation, Russia wanted a 48-hour cessation, because they say that if you have any longer than 48 hours then the rebels resupply themselves with weapons.

The opposition groups, the modern oppositions groups say they need that period of stability of cessation to disentangle from the groups like the Al Nusra, the Al Qaeda affiliate inside Syria.

[03:35:01] And that, you know, it continues to be an issue. That's the difference of opinion being voiced between the U.S. and Russia. But the reality is that difference is escalating in rhetoric between Russia, particularly, coming from the Russian foreign ministry. Saying that they don't like the tone that the United States is taking.

Secretary of State John Kerry last week threatened to break off the contacts between Russia and the United States over Syria, that hasn't happened. It seems like an empty threat. But the rhetoric just getting more vociferous by the day, Rosemary.

CHURCH: All right. Many thanks to our Nic Robertson monitoring the situation there in Aleppo, Syria from his vantage point in Istanbul, Turkey. Many thanks again.

Well, Hungarians have voted overwhelmingly to reject the European Union plan to resettle refugees. But voter turnout was too low to make Sunday's referendum legally binding.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban campaigned for voters to reject the plan. He says the E.U. should consider what he calls outstanding referendum results.

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VIKTOR ORBAN, HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER (TRANSLATED): Brussels will have to make an important decision. Now it is their turn to make an important decision. The E.U. is a democratic community today and one of the member state. Ninety two percent of those taking part in the referendum have stated that they did not agree with the intention of Brussels.

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CHURCH: Mr. Orban says the E.U. cannot force migration policy on the country. And in Germany, several hundred demonstrators marched through the city of Dresden on Sunday. They were protesting a planned demonstration by an anti-Islam movement set for Monday, which is also German Unity Day.

The holiday marks 26 years since German unification. Social tensions have increased due to the influx of almost a million migrants last year. The city is tightening security for Unity Day celebrations.

Britain's exit from the European Union could happen in 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May laid out a timeline for the process on Sunday for the first time since the Brexit vote in June. Article 15 of the E.U. Treaty gives the U.K. two years to negotiate the exit.

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THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: It was quite right to wait before triggering article 15. But it is also right that we should not let things drag on too long.

Having voted to leave, I know that the public will soon expect to see on the horizon the point at which Britain does formerly leave the European Union.

So let me be absolutely clear, there will be no unnecessary delays in invoking article 15. We will invoke it when we are ready and we will be ready soon. We will invoke article 15 no later than the end of March next year.

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CHURCH: And CNN Money editor-at-large, Richard Quest, has more now on how British businesses are faring since the Brexit vote.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN MONEY EDITOR-AT-LARGE: A 100 days ago in the forecast were that Britain was about to fall apart. Since then, like my camper van already Brexit, Britain's kept going.

big Ben's still looms large over Westminster, the lions sit proud in Trafalgar Square. And Churchill guard parliament sits as it did in 1973 when Britain entered the E.U.

At the best to present their exhibition this weekend, quality, British goods were on display. Some of the craftsman were gleeful at the post- Brexit move.

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DAVID BRAILSFORD, GARRICK LUXURY WATCH DIRECTOR: It's been brilliant. We know it's literally two to three days after Brexit was announced and the price of -- and the pound went down, basically, we had all this claim that the phone was ringing off the hook. It might sound crazy being these riches from. What we do is that we do export, so all the foreign collectors tend to want to buy our watches.

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QUEST: The exhibition was showcasing what Britain does best, like these wools in from Rosberg.

His business has been clobbered since the vote. But it's only been 100 days.

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ROSS BARR, ROSS BAR FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR: It's completely on SMS. I mean, I had a staff here. This is my first one. And it's not so focused with Berlin (Inaudible) I was in Berlin so I'll be taking and the week after Brexit they cancelled their order because they were not sure that they were would be able to market British pound in Germany.

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QUEST: But it has certain charm to it, doesn't it. Living with that uncertainty for the next two years is something these companies large and small are going to have to get on with.

June Sarpong was a strong remainer.

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JUNE SARPONG, TEEVISION PRESENTER: Beautiful. You've got a good head of hair, by the way.

[03:40:01] QUEST: What do you mean I still -- that's what you read.

SARPONG: I think that at the end of the day, I still don't believe that it's the right decision.

QUEST: Get over it.

SARPONG: It's easier said than done, but we've got to make the most of it. I'm really worried because I think at the end of the day there's no guarantee that we're going to remain in the single market, if we don't, what does that mean?

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QUEST: The British don't need much of an excuse to be eccentric, but the classic car where British and European beauties were on display, there was optimism.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Totally, yes, yes, we're human beings, we're British, of course, you know, and above all -- above that, we're a youthful nation.

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QUEST: The first hundred days of being best described as a phony role Britain and Europe feeling each other out. The next six months is where it starts to get really interesting. And Britain's Brexit battle truly gets underway.

Richard Quest, CNN, London.

CHURCH: The U.S. ends the long drought at the Ryder Cup. The winning golfer tells SNN world sport why it's a dream come true. Coming up.

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CHURCH: Parts of the Caribbean are bracing for hurricane Matthew. Jamaica and Haiti are already getting rain from the category 4 storm, and Cuba and the Bahamas could get hit in the days ahead. People have been urged to evacuate parts of Jamaica but some are staying put.

And here is what they told our colleague Michael Holmes.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I'm from here, so, I'll die here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid. I trust in God.

MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Are you staying here, as well.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

HOLMES: Are you're not going to evacuate?

[03:45:01] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I'm staying here. I'm not afraid.

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CHURCH: All right. Let's get the latest on the storm's track. Our meteorologist Derek van Dam joins us now with that. Before we get to the track, Derek, it is a concern, isn't it, when people make that decision to stay put when others are being evacuated. Talk to us about that and why, it's perhaps not a great idea.

DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Honestly and professionally, Rosemary, it's quite frustrating that people aren't listening to the warnings of officials and meteorologists.

This is a serious storm. And anyone living in Haiti, Jamaica, or the eastern sections of Cuba as well as the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos needs to watch this storm very closely and actually be in their final preparations to save life and property as we speak.

Because we're only about 24 hours away before the major impacts from this storm.

Here are the latest warnings behind me. You can that shading of red that's the areas that are under hurricane warnings as we speak, all of Haiti, all of Jamaica and eastern Cuba as well as parts of the Turks and Caicos.

So, this is what we know right now. Just to kind of summarize some of this situation. Hurricane Matthew sustained winds, 215 kilometers per hour. Higher gusts right around the center of that storm up to 280 kilometers per hour. It is moving very slowly at northerly pace, 8 kilometers per hour and that is significant impact in terms of how much rain could potentially fall from the skies, as slow as the storm is actually moving.

The location is just to the south and east of Kingston, Jamaica. But the latest track does bring the bulk of the heaviest winds just to its east. Category 4, Atlantic hurricane, as we speak, and the big question is where will it go from here. Well, we know Haiti is in the direct line of this storm. Jamaica will also feel the impacts of this particular hurricane.

But as it heads into the Bahamas, and from there, that is still a bit on the questionable side. We need to monitor that very closely and try to get some of our consensus on the latest computer models.

Take a look at this. You can see that storm surge will be a major threat for the extreme southern portions, the south facing beaches and shorelines of Haiti, perhaps, two to three-and-a-half meters above high tide levels there.

And we will start to see wind and deteriorating conditions from Monday evening into Tuesday as the storm continues to move throughout the Caribbean. And look at this, Rosemary, one last thing that's very important to note. That our computer models do have the potential, still, for this to impact parts of the East Coast of the United States by the end of next week, something we'll monitor. Back to you. CHURCH: Absolutely. Derek, thank you so much for keeping a close eye

on that, we really appreciate it.

DAM: You're welcome.

CHURCH: Well, the U.S. has won golf's Ryder's Cup. It is the first win for the Americans since 2008. Ryan Moore clinched the victory on Sunday coming from a losing position to beat Lee Westwood on the final green. The final score 17 to 11. It was a sweet victory for U.S. Captain Davis Love III. He was at home when Europe fought back to win the Ryder Cup in 2012.

CNN world sports Patrick Snell caught up with the team USA after their victory.

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PATRICK REED, TEAM USA GOLFER: It's amazing. It's a dream come true. First Ryder Cup I went out and I felt like I played amazing. You know, I went out and did my job, I got three -- three and a half points for the team. But it felt so empty because I didn't win as the team.

And you know, for me to play as well, they did this week, to them to put me out first to go and, you know, go in, you know, and get the point, get the momentum for the team and to watch the team just play hard like that and to get -- it just means everything. So, I can't wait. Can't wait to go and support, you know, and celebrate. That's a fun.

PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT REPORTER: You do it with Roy, it was epic. But how does the crowd energize you, how do you feed off that?

REED: You know, it's easy. I mean, listen to them now, that's how it was all week, whether you had a good shot or bad shot, they were trying to pick up your team, and you know, that's awesome.

JIMMY WALKER: TEAM USA GOLFER: It's very satisfying, you know, there's a plan put into place. And our captain took advice and listen and he asked all the questions to us and sort of a good leader to us.

Asked smart questions, gets all the information and then puts a plan together just like -- just like you're supposed to. It's been a fabulous year for you personally, what are you most proud of there about this Ryder Cup trying for the American team.

It's just that, you know, we had a lot of pressure on us and then we came through when we need to. We have a great team, and you know, hats off to the other guys. They put on a great show. We put on a good show. I think it was a great week.

RYAN MOORE, TEAM USA GOLFER: It's incredible. I have no words at this point. I still -- I don't think I've been able to digest what just happened in the last week of my life.

[03:50:03] It's been -- it's been so incredible to go from the tour championship. We feel like about a month at this point and so it's only been seven days. So, you know, I couldn't be more proud to be, to play with these guys, to play for this to happen. You know, it's just been amazing.

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CHURCH: Saturday Night Live is back for another season of political jabs as the U.S. presidential election heads to the finish line, just ahead, their comedic tape on last week's debate. We're back in a moment with that.

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DAM: All eyes are monitoring hurricane Matthew still churning across the Caribbean Sea. The latest from the National Hurricane Center has winds sustained at 230 kilometers per hour. This is major Atlantic basin hurricane with a defined eye and you can see what's to its north. We have Haiti and Jamaica that will feel the brunt of the storm.

And then from there it will impact portions of Cuba and into the Bahamas. Now the big question is five days out, will it impact the East Coast of the United States, still a little too early to make that final call just yet.

But in the interim, the immediate future we have the threat for storm surge, flash flooding, landslides and mud slides, as well, downed power lines, as well as downed trees, as significant and very strong gusty winds will move across Hispaniola over the next 24 to 48 hours as the storm continues its northerly track.

Take a look at the rain fall totals for this area, specifically across western Haiti, easily in excess of 500 millimeters, especially across the mountainous regions.

Let's talk about temperatures throughout the United States, 21 for Chicago, 23 near in New York City. We start to warm up once again across the Deep South.

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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone.

Barbara Bush, daughter of former republican President George W. Bush attended a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in Paris on Saturday. She posed for a picture with long-time Clinton aid, Huma Abedin, which then made the rounds online.

Abedin was co-hosting the event with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. A spokesman for former President Bush did not respond to request for comment nor did Clinton's aides. But the sentiment may run in the family.

Former President George H. Bush while with his grandfather was overheard last month saying he was voting for Clinton.

[03:55:07] Well, Saturday Night Live is taking renewed aim at the U.S. presidential race as it kicks off a new season. The satirical sketch comedy show has 16-time host Alec Baldwin to stand in as Donald Trump until the election.

And recent Emmy Award winner Kate McKinnon is reprising her role as Hillary Clinton, but the show did not just lampoon the candidates, everyone was fair game.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Senator Clinton is the prune juice of this election. She might not seem that appetizing, but if you don't take her now, you'll be clogged with crap for a very long time.

KATE MCKINNON, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SHOW CO-HOST: He hasn't really sent tax returns which means he's either not that rich.

ALEC BALDWIN, ACTOR: Wrong.

MCKINNON: Not that charitable.

BALDWIN: Wrong.

MCKINNON: Or he's never paid taxes in his life.

BALDWIN: Warmer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, men, are you sure you're OK with Hillary being president instead of you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I mean, I can't wait. I believe you, man, I freaking love the White House. I mean, you know, I can hang up there, you know, you presidential stuff to do, red phone rings and I say, hey, you take that one, honey, I'll be downstairs watching the Police Academy.

BALDWIN: I'm just picking up somebody sniffing here, I think it's her sniffs. She's been sniffing all night. Testing. Testing. Jina, Jina, huge, Jina.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Secretary Clinton, what do you think about that?

MCKINNON: I think I'm going to be president.

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CHURCH: They're also very clever and talented.

I'm Rosemary Church. The news continues after this short break. Stay with us.

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