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[01:00:09] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour, new claims of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump. One accuser says the republican candidate was on her like an octopus. Back to diplomacy, the U.S. and Russia say they're willing to give the Syrian ceasefire another chance. And later, Janet Jackson expecting her first child at 50. Hello, everybody, thank you for being with us. I'm John Vause. The second hour of NEWSROOM L.A. starts now.

Donald Trump is firing back against explosive new claims that he touched women inappropriately. Two women tell The New York Times, Trump groped and kissed them without their permission. Trump's campaign says the entire article is a work of fiction. His attorneys are drafting a lawsuit. A short time ago, they sent a letter to the Times demanding a retraction. CNN has not independently confirmed the claims reported by The New York Times.

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JESSICA LEEDS, CLAIMS DONALD TRUMP GROPED HER: I started telling my story about a year and a half ago when it became apparent that Trump was actually running for president. And I started telling my friends, "Let me tell you what this guy is all about." I would like to think that sharing this story would make a difference both in the election and the society's view of women to change some of the behavior, the sexual behavior between men and women in both directions.

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VAUSE: Joining me now, Mo'Kelly, host of the Mo'Kelly Show, the Mo'Kelly Experience radio show. Also, Lisa Bloom, a victim's right attorney and legal analyst. And in San Diego, Gina Loudoun, a Trump supporter, and a behavioral and psychology expert and host of America Trends with Dr. Gina. Thank you all for being with us and sticking around for another hour. The latest news that we have is this demand coming from Trump's attorneys that they want this retraction, they've written to the New York Times, this is what they've said, "Your article was reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se. It is apparent from the timing of the article that it is nothing more than a politically motivated effort to defeat Mr. Trump's candidacy. We hereby demand that you immediately cease any further publication of this article and remove it from your website and issue a full and immediate retraction and apology." Lisa, from a legal standpoint, do they have much of a chance of making this happen, and where does this go from here?

LISA BLOOM, NBC LEGAL ANALYST: So, I handle a lot of defamation cases, including a case against Bill Cosby right now in behalf of Janice Dickinson. That's defamation case. And this is a prerequisite to filing the case, the demand for the retraction. So, that's what they're doing. Anybody can file a lawsuit. They certainly can file it if they want against the New York Times, but this is an unwinnable case for Donald Trump.

VAUSE: Why?

BLOOM: And that's because he's a public figure, which means that he would have to show malice, he would have to show that The New York Times knew that this was a false story and they published it anyway. In fact, The New York Times says that for each of these women, there are several people who corroborates the story that is that these women told in the past, years ago in some cases, that Donald Trump had groped them. That's clearly enough for them to get past any defamation case.

VAUSE: OK. Let's hear a little bit more from Jessica Leeds who is one of the women who spoke to The New York Times about her experience with Donald Trump. This happened about 30-something years ago.

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LEEDS: It was a real shock when all of a sudden his hands were all over me. He started encroaching on my space. And I hesitate to use this expression, but I'm going to. And that is, he was like an octopus. It was like he had six arms. He was all over the place. If he had stocked with the upper part of the body, I might not have gotten - I might not have gotten that upset. So, when he started putting his hand up my skirt, and that was it.

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VAUSE: So, Gina, to you on this, when you - when you hear her story and you read the other accounts, and it's not just New York Times, it's something like eight separate stories which have emerged just today alone of women accusing Donald Trump of some kind of sexual misconduct. Do you start thinking twice about the man that you support for the presidency?

GINA LOUDON, BEHAVIORAL & PSYCHOLOGY EXPERT: I tell you, I can't get past her saying that if he would have just - if whoever this person was on the plane next to her would have just groped the top part of her, she'd have been hunky-dory with that.

VAUSE: Yeah.

LOUDON: But I guess I - this is weird, mixed messages for whoever the guy was, and the (INAUDIBLE) ever even happen, but again, I trained in counseling to find holes in stories. I've heard horrible accounts of things that have happened to women, and I hate to hear accounts like this. It grieves me truly, but I also hate to hear of men falsely accused. And when I hear the holes in this story like that bizarre statement from her, like the fact that arms don't raise in first class and they never have, not on any plane. And especially 30 years ago, they didn't. It makes me think maybe we should be talking about - and I appreciate that you have talked about this on your show - that maybe we should be talking about things that happened more recently that are proven like the WikiLeaks and the missing 33,000 e-mails and the collusion of the FBI with the Clinton campaign and on and on. So, I just don't see a story that's 30 years old that has not been proven in any way, shape or form as something that I'm going to get particularly upset about unless more details or facts are released.

VAUSE: OK. Mo, that's obviously the opinion of Gina and a lot of other Trump supporters who say they weren't swayed by the "Access Hollywood" tape. And obviously Gina isn't too concerned about this.

MO'KELLY, HOST OF THE MO'KELLY SHOW: Yeah. But this is not about right or left, this is about right and wrong. And these women are answering Donald Trump. When Donald Trump said to Anderson Cooper, "No, I did not kiss any women without their consent," that was a call out for other women to say, "Yes, you did, Donald Trump." And these women are answering that call specifically. So, if you ask, why didn't this happen a year ago? We weren't here a year ago, and that's why you're hearing from them now.

VAUSE: And to the question of timing, there's a lot of people are saying why now? One reason is because of the debate on Sunday. But these allegations have been out there for a while made by other women, and you represent one.

BLOOM: Right. Yes, I represent Jill Harth who filed a lawsuit in 1997 for sexual harassment and sexual assault, Donald Trump immediately wanted to settle that lawsuit with her, and did settle it with her. She laid low all these years, she was -- turned the page, you know, put it behind her, moved on with her life. She didn't want to think about it. He was running for president, and 2015 news organizations started calling her, she still didn't want to talk about it. Ultimately, they ran pieces about her lawsuit anyway, and then he called her a liar. And that was a point where she said, "You know what, I was willing to keep my mouth shut, but when you call me a liar, all bets are off," and she has given interviews and talked publicly about her allegations which are completely corroborated by the tape. And I ask people who don't believe these allegations, what more do you need than a taped confession from the perpetrator, because we all heard it.

KELLY: And John, this is about power or lack thereof. If you're a woman and you're trying to take on Donald Trump in the public forum a year ago, no one is going to listen to you, much less believe you. But a month before election when people are going to listen, pay attention, willing to take your viewpoint and what happened, then you have a little more leverage and there's also strength in numbers. You'll see more women coming out, tomorrow and the next day.

VAUSE: OK. Gina's response to that, essentially with the timing, Gina, you know?

LOUDON: Yeah. We're 26 days from an election. This is when a smear campaign starts. Mr. Trump has taken on the entire establishment, the entire elite, and you know, he whiffed the side of public opinion here. There are a lot of people that don't like the republicans or the democrats, and a lot of them unfortunately for us, perhaps don't like the media. And so, the fact that Mr. Trump has taken on all three, he's going to get attack 26 days out. This is no surprise. This is an attempt at a smear campaign and an attempt by Clintons to capitalize on a smear campaign 26 days before an election. It's a distraction of things that they're really serious off, that has proven that it's factual that Hillary Clinton has done, such as all the WikiLeaks stuff and the 33,000 missing e-mails and all the rest of it.

VAUSE: Well, as we've been saying, this all came out from the "Access Hollywood" tape which was recorded 11 years ago where Trump admitted that he, you know, groped and kissed women because he's a star. And I want to play that bit when Anderson Cooper specifically asked him about that during Sunday's Presidential Debate.

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COOPER: So, for the record, you're saying you've never did that.

TRUMP: I said - I said things that frankly you hear these things are said. And I was embarrassed by it, but I have tremendous respect to women.

COOPER: Have you ever done those things?

TRUMP: And the women have respect for me. And I will tell you, no, I have not.

VAUSE: OK. So, with that in mind, the Clinton campaign put out a statement tonight, "This disturbing story sadly fits everything we know about the way Donald Trump has treated women. These reports suggest that he lied on the debate stage, and that the disgusting behavior he bragged about in the tape is more than just words. Liza, this is the question. This has now gone beyond locker-room talk.

BLOOM: Yeah, it never was locker-room talk, unless we're talking about what he said about going into the locker room where teenage girls are naked or half naked, and that's what the real Donald Trump locker-room talk bragging about ogling under aged girls as they're changing clothes. This has always been about actions, and he was talking about actions even on the Access Hollywood tape. Remember, he's putting a Tic Tac in his mouth, because he's thinking there's a realistic chance that he's going to go kiss some woman who has - he hasn't even met yet, right? So, he's talking about actions, my client Jill Harth has been talking about actions that he took against her allegedly since 1997. There's eight women today, there may be eight more tomorrow and the day after. And at what point do we just decide to believe women. How many women have to come forward?

[01:10:00] I mean, do you believe Bill Cosby for example, now that 60 women have come forward, and if so, how many - how did you come forward before you did believe the accusers against Bill Cosby.

VAUSE: Gina?

LOUDON: But Bill Cosby wasn't running for president. And I'll tell you what I do believe, I believe for women like Juanita Broaddrick -

KELLY: I agree.

LOUDON: -- that were victimized by Hillary Clinton when she spent $100,000 on private investigators just to smear her. When Hillary Clinton called the victims of her husband, "bimbos" -

BLOOM: She never did that.

LOUDON: She has never - she has never come - yes, she did - she has never come to their defense, not ever. And when Hillary Clinton blamed a 12-year-old rape victim, saying that she probably did something to bring it on herself, a 12-year-old rape victim when Hillary Clinton defended a child sexual predator against that little girl who's still damaged today.

BLOOM: That didn't happen either. She was assigned as a young lawyer to represent a point.

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LOUDON: Have you not heard the tape? I have all the sympathy in the world -

VAUSE: We had the little tape and (INAUDIBLE) actually checked it and said the delegations against Hillary Clinton in that instance actually came up false. So, we need to be on - because we don't - we will report on Hillary Clinton and WikiLeaks a little later this hour, but we need to get the focus right now on Donald Trump, because this was a day which began with allegations against Donald Trump and they came from a former Miss Arizona. This is what she said.

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TASHA DIXON, FORMER MISS ARIZONA: He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless, other girls were naked. To have to owner come waltzing in when we're naked or half naked in a very physically vulnerable position, and then to have the pressure of the, you know, the people that worked for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him, get his attention.

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VAUSE: And this is a story from Miss Arizona which appears to be supported by Donald Trump himself. Listen to this.

TRUMP: I'll go backstage before a show, and everyone is getting dressed and ready, and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere, and I'm allowed to go in, because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know, I'm inspecting. I want to make sure that everything is good.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're like the doctor. You're there.

TRUMP: Yeah, the dresses. Is everyone OK? You know, they're standing there with no clothes. Is everybody OK? And you see these incredible-looking women. And so, I sort of get away with things like that.

VAUSE: So, Gina, regardless if you want to believe in that, Donald Trump would fall on Miss Arizona, would you say that appropriate -- that that behavior rather, is appropriate?

LOUDON: I think what's really important about the tape with Miss Arizona is that just prior to the part where you started the video, she actually said it was announced over a loudspeaker that Mr. Trump was going to come in. And so, that was people's cue, I'm assuming, to get dressed, which I would have thought she did. If she didn't, I don't know why she wouldn't. Again, I think that we -- if Mr. Trump were really this monster that the Clinton campaign and the media are trying to make him out to be, don't you think that somewhere, there would be some actual evidence more than words, more than allegations, more than - more than hearsay. In that moment, I think a lot of opinions would change. But right now, the only real evidence we have is about Hillary Clinton victimizing women, and I don't understand why we're not having that conversation simultaneously.

VAUSE: I want to get to the legal point, because that's actually a good point (INAUDIBLE) from an evidentiary point of view, what do we have here?

BLOOM: Well, in the case of Jill Harth who I represent, we have her now ex-husband who corroborates all the important parts of her story that he was there for some of the incidents of sexual harassment and assault. And other times, she told him about it immediately. And the fact, they got out of Mar-a-Lago even though they're supposed to stay longer after one of the incidents. Some of the women in the New York - or the two women in the New York Times today, both have people that they told contemporaneously, Donald Trump admits to bragging about sexual assaults on the "Access Hollywood" tape. That's about as good evidence that you're going to get in court.

KELLY: I mean, you know, we just heard the audio of what he will want to do or does do when he goes backstage. Can't we just go ahead and believe Donald Trump?

VAUSE: OK. OK. One last point which I want to raise because a lot of people are talking about the timing, because it was - it was curiously almost simultaneously the New York Times story broke, there was a report which came out on Bloomberg, according to Trump advisors who say, campaign CEO Steven Bannon had told staffers, they're about to ramp up the attacks on Bill Cosby - oh, Bill Clinton, sorry, former president Bill Clinton. They're going to make him into Bill Cosby. This is what they said, this is what Steve Bannon reportedly said to staffers, "This has nothing to do with consensual sexual affairs and infidelities. This is Bill, we're going to turn him into Bill Cosby. He's a violent sexual predator who physically abuses women who he assaults. And she takes the lead on the intimidation of the victims. That she, of course, is being Hillary Clinton. So, Mo, when you look at the timing of this story with all the New York Time story, we are -

KELLY: You can't have it both ways. If you want to say that we - that unsubstantiated allegations are insufficient and a dirty-pool type way of playing, then you can't try to bring in Bill Clinton who is not running for president, and then tried to introduce his history as somehow sort of shaming element of Hillary Clinton who is the actually candidate for president.

VAUSE: Gina, what's your take on that? How do you respond?

LOUDON: But you can win Hillary Clinton then followed up by shaming these women by hiring a private investigators, spending $100,000 to try and defame these women, who'd already been hurt by her husband. I would love to see Hillary Clinton today come out and apologize for the things she did to these women, for the things she called these women, for vowing to take them down, for going into their home and threatening their livelihood, their homes, their children, even their pets.

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BLOOM: She didn't threaten anyone's pets. That's ridiculous.

LOUDON: Yes, she absolutely did.

BLOOM: I mean, I hate to - I hate to interrupt you with the facts, but this is not sure, and as somebody who's been a litigator for 30 years, we hire private investigators in every case, the mere hiring of a private investigator is not anywhere close to defamation. Certainly, there's no facts that Hillary Clinton threatened anyone's pets -

LOUDON: But it was supposed to believed -

BLOOM: -- or anything else. I mean --

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BLOOM: And by the way, she is not responsible for everything that her husband ever did. This is why we need more women in office.

LOUDON: Why - women make an accusation and why does (INAUDIBLE) appeal.

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BLOOM: Apply also to Hillary.

VAUSE: OK. OK. We'll leave it there. Thanks.

LOUDON: If it were supposed to be all allegations, then why doesn't that apply to Hillary, too? Especially --

BLOOM: Nobody said that -- (CROSSTALK)

BLOOM: But when you've got somebody's taped confession, we tend to believe them.

VAUSE: OK. And we'll leave it at that. Gina London there in -- Loudon in San Diego. Thank you so much, Mo'Kelly.

KELLY: Thank you.

VAUSE: Lisa Bloom, we appreciate it. To leave this, you know, 20 - what, 6, 7 days to go, God help us. OK.

BLOOM: Just a little bit - just less than a month now.

VAUSE: Thank you. OK. Well, we go to democrats' side of politics now. Hillary Clinton's campaign is scrambling to deal with WikiLeaks, the site released more stolen e-mails and is promising to release more. Jeff Zeleny explains the impact on the presidential race.

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JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: Tonight, Hillary Clinton heading west, trying to keep democrats fired up and focused on the finish line.

HILLARY CLINTON, DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Now, I want to give you something to vote for, not just something to vote against.

ZELENY: The Clinton campaign directly accusing Donald Trump of trying to turn off democrats with the scorched-earth campaign.

CLINTON: That's all they have left, pure negativity, pessimism, and we're not going to let Donald Trump get away with it, are we?

ZELENY: But as she rallied, supporters in Colorado, another batch of stolen e-mails published today by WikiLeaks, offering an even deeper look at the calibrations of the Clinton campaign. It's a drip, drip, drip of distraction with Campaign Chair John Podesta's hacked e-mails now being released on a daily schedule by Julian Assange, trying to meddle with the U.S. Election. No bombshells but a revealing look at Clinton's strategy. Top aid Huma Abedin, trying to keep reporters away from Clinton, prompting the review glass chair from Podesta, he wrote, "If she thinks we can get to Labor Day without taking press questions, I think that's suicidal. We have to find some mechanism to let the steam out of the pressure cooker." Podesta is accusing Donald Trump of trying to turn off voters into press democratic turnout.

JOHN PODESTA, CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN: I think that this seems to be their strategy to disgust everyone with - you know, sort of democratic dialogues, so they won't come out to the polls.

ZELENY: Another top Clinton aid, Jennifer Palmieri, under fire from some Catholic groups for how she responded to another Clinton-allied mocking Catholics for being severly backwards. Palmieri wrote, "Their rich friends won't understand if they become evangelicals." Palmieri dismissed the criticism today, telling reporters, she is Catholic. As the Republican Civil War intensifies, the Clinton campaign is pushing to keep democrats engaged. One of the biggest worries, a false sense of complacency in the wake of Trump's spiral. So, Clinton visiting Colorado for the first time since August, she's leading in most polls but trying to remind democrats she's still needs them.

CLINTON: To reject the dark and divisive and hateful campaign that is being run by my opponent.

ZELENY: Now, there are 27 days left before Election Day, democrats are increasingly growing confident but some Clinton advisers are also worried about complacency in the ranks of democrats. One of the reasons Secretary Clinton campaigning in places like Pueblo, Colorado right here, trying to urge voters to vote early. This is the first year that voters in Colorado can vote entirely by mail. She said simply today, "Send them in now." Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Pueblo, Colorado.

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VAUSE: We'll take a short break. When we come back, the U.S. says it has retaliated in self-defense, after American warship is targeted for the second time this week in the Red Sea. Also, pressure building on Moscow to end the offensive in Aleppo, coming up, what Russia's foreign minister had to say with Christiane Amanpour.

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[01:20:01] CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Mr. Lavrov, I want to show you this picture.

SERGEY LAVROV, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: Sure.

AMANPOUR: This went viral in August. This is a little boy, he's got a name, he's called Omran Daqneesh, he's five years old, this is not a terrorist. This is a boy who is surrounded --

LAVROV: Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.

AMANPOUR: -- in besieged and bombarded Aleppo.

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORTS HEADLINES ANCHOR: Hi there, I'm Patrick Snell with the World Sport Headlines. The head of the Russia's Olympic Committee stepping down from his post, as the considerable fallout following all those allegations the state- sponsored doping continues. Alex Zhukov officially leaving his position so he can concentrate on his other job as first Deputy Speaker in the Russian Parliament. Earlier this year, the country's track and field athletes banned from the Rio Summer games in Brazil, Zhukov oversaw the 2014 winter games staged in the nation's Black Sea resort of Sochi. The NBA's pre-season global games continue this week in Beijing, with fans packing out the Beijing LeSports Center to watch the New England - New Orleans Pelicans and the Houston Rockets, but a scary moment for New Orleans Star Player Anthony Davis, the 6'10" forward spraining his ankle but thankfully, it wasn't serious, the game itself wasn't close. Houston building a lead as much as 28 points before winning by 12. And former UFC Champion Ronda Rousey will make her long awaited comeback on December the 30th more than a year, after being knocked out by Holly Holm, the 29-year-old from California will try to reclaim her Bantamweight crown against the current holder, the Brazilian Amanda Nunez in Las Vegas. Rousey's the longest reigning UFC Champion in Women's Mixed Martial Arts history, holding the 135-pound crown for three years between November 2012 and November of last year. That's a look at your sports headlines, thanks for watching, I'm Patrick Snell.

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VAUSE: The U.S. has retaliated after an American warship in the red sea was targeted twice this week. The Pentagon says it launched at least three cruise missiles into Yemen, destroying three radar sites in territory controlled by Houthi rebels. The U.S. says those radar sites were activated when the USS Mason was fired upon. The Houti's denied targeting the ship, Washington is backing the Saudi coalition fighting Houthi rebels who is supported by Iran.

Syrian ceasefire talks will resume Saturday, top diplomats from the United States, Russia, and other countries, will meet in Switzerland. The talks come as conditions in Aleppo get worse, a volunteer group says another day of airstrikes killed at least 25 people. It's the second day of bombing after lull of nearly a week. The Russian-backed Syrian army insists it's targeting terrorists, not civilians.

[01:25:03] VAUSE: Russia's Foreign Minister blames the U.S. for the collapse of the ceasefire last month in particular, Sergey Lavrov points to a U.S. coalition airstrike on a Syrian army post that killed dozens of troops. He spoke with CNN Christiane Amanpour.

AMANPOUR: Mr. Lavrov, I want to show you this picture.

LAVROV: Sure.

AMANPOUR: This went viral in August. This is a little boy, he's got a name, he's called Omran Daqneesh, he's five years old, this is not a terrorist. This is a boy who is surrounded --

LAVROV: Absolutely.

AMANPOUR: -- in besieged and bombarded Aleppo. What do you say to the civilians who is simply asking for the right to not be bombed? That is a war crime, Sir.

LAVROV: It's really a tragedy and they must insist that the moderates who want to protect them, they must separate themselves from the strike.

VAUSE: Pope Francis is making his strongest appeal yet for a ceasefire in Syria. He spoke to thousands of people in his weekly address in St. Peter's Square.

POPE FRANCIS, 266TH ROMAN CATHOLIC POPE (through translator): I want to underline and repeat my closeness to all the victims of the inhumane conflict in Syria. It is with a sense of urgency that I renew my appeal, and implore with all my strength, those responsible that an immediate ceasefire is put in place, and that this imposed and respected at least to allow the evacuation of civilians, especially children, who are still trapped by cruel bombardments.

VAUSE: Barbara Walter joins us now, she's an authority on International Security and a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Barbara, thank you for being with us. How sincere are the Russians in restarting the ceasefire talks and were you surprised that they're actually happening at all?

BARBARA WALTER, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO PROFESSOR: I wasn't surprised, you know, I would say they're sincere only in so far as they get a good deal, the last ceasefire that was decided a few weeks ago was actually very beneficial to the Assad regime. So, I do think they're sincere in wanting to negotiate the same type of deal, I don't think that deal is actually going to happen.

VAUSE: So, when we say they're looking at a deal that benefits Assad, are we looking at short periods of time where Assad consolidate his position against the rebels or maybe launch offenses?

WALTER: Yes, absolutely. The previous ceasefire deal, which is the one that Putin would like to have again, basically said that if a ceasefire lasted for seven days, the United States in conjunction with the Russians would begin to bomb both ISIS and Al-Nusra. Al-Nusra's really the sticking point. Al-Nusra is fighting against Assad and Al- Nusra is critical to shoring up moderate opposition groups who are also fighting Assad. So, if the ceasefire deal actually went through and the United States actually begin to operate in conjunction with Russia against Al-Nusra, it would actually harm the moderate opposition that the United States is supporting and help Assad, and that's something ultimately the United States does not want, and it's certainly is not something the moderate opposition wants.

VAUSE: Well, with that, Sergey Lavrov did make a point here about the Al-Nusra front which was once affiliated with al-Qaeda. It no longer is, they've in fact changed their name. Lavrov accused the Al-Nusra front of using civilians in Aleppo as human shields. This is also what he had to say.

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LAVROV: The key problem is the total inability of the United States and those who are also members of the coalition led by the Americans to separate the moderates from Nusra.

VAUSE: Is that the key to all of this? Is it that simple to separate you know, the moderate opposition from Al-Nusra front?

WALTER: No, absolutely not. The Russians are going to say whatever they need to say to weaken any group -- any group that is operating against Assad. And when they say they're targeting terrorists, that's also not true. They are targeting civilians, they are blocking exits for civilians to leave eastern Aleppo, they are exterminating civilians, they are attacking the moderate opposition and they are attacking Al-Nusra which is - which they claim are terrorists, that again, you can - you can debate.

VAUSE: OK. Barbara Walter there in San Diego. Thanks again for being with us Barbara, I appreciate it.

WALTER: My pleasure.

VAUSE: Up next here, see how people in Mosul in Iraq are preparing for a brutal battle against ISIS. We'll talk with a resistance fighter inside that key city.

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[01:33:29] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.

Time to check the headlines this hour.

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VAUSE: To Iraq now, where the United States says it has all the pieces in place to try to retake Mosul from ISIS. The coalition could launch a military assault as early as this month. And we're now seeing how those inside Mosul are preparing for what is expected to be a tough battle.

Our Nick Paton Walsh has more from Irbil, Iraq.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mosul is a distant prize, masked by dust, this TV mast barely visible here. The outskirts are alive with ISIS presumably digging in and readying for the fight coming down the main road in the days ahead. Motorcycles, trucks but no civilians to be seen. What life there was here has been purged by ISIS, airstrikes in their wake.

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[01:35:16] PATON WALSH: Inside the city, streets are empty. These are rare pictures filmed by activists inside the city comfortable enough now the end may be near to send out video that could get them killed if caught. The date of October 9th on the paper and nobody on the streets.

An ISIS leaflet with a letter "M" in Arabic on it, which has never looked mores sinister. "M" is for resistance.

At first a rag-tag group of locals but now behind this ISIS truck being torched they claim in the video.

A resistance fighter arranged a rare call getting to the outskirts to get network reception and explains to us what happens when the assault on the city starts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello.

PATON WALSH (on camera): What signal are you waiting for, for the zero hour attack against ISIS?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): We do have a signal. God willing, with the advancement of the security force, we will start when they are at the outskirts of the Mosul suburbs. We cannot announce or talk about the targets at the moment. We have the simple weapons with we have under our hands.

PATON WALSH (voice-over): ISIS have released images of life as normal, but even their propaganda shows how the coalition and its huge air power are closing in.

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PATON WALSH (on camera): Are ISIS acting differently like they think they are under siege?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): They are scared and devastated. We know from their behavior, their movements, moving from one house to another. They move from one side of the city to another. They only move at night. At their check points, they cover their faces now, the way they used to when they first entered Mosul. There are female detachments that go in the houses now. They are looking for phone SIM cards.

PATON WALSH (voice-over): Up on the ramparts, you can see the screws are tightening but the days ahead for those trapped in the city will be darker, indeed.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Irbil, northern Iraq.

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VAUSE: Australia federal police have arrested two teenagers with plotting a terror attack and with links with ISIS. The two 16-years- olds were arrested Wednesday near Sydney. They were denied bail and are due to appear in children's court.

A Syrian refugee suspected of planning a terror attack in Germany has committed suicide in jail, according to German media. Authorities say he was planning an attack similar to those in Paris and Brussels. On Saturday, authorities found dangerous explosions in his apartment. He was arrested two days later after a massive manhunt.

Still to come here, pop star Janet Jackson confirming she is pregnant at 50 years of age. How did she do it? We'll talk to a reproduction specialist about the risks and the challenges of getting pregnant at that age.

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[01:41:26] VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. The CEO of Wells Fargo, taking an early retirement over the scandal of the bank's sales practices. He sold as much as $41 million in stock awards. He got a brutal dressing down at a congressional hearing last month. The government accused them of creating fake accounts without customer permission.

More recalls from Samsung, and now it's the Chinese version of the Galaxy Note 7, which were initially considered safe. The electronics giant halted all production and sales of other versions of the Smartphones earlier this week after many of them caught fire while charging.

Matt Rivers reports now from Beijing.

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MATT RIVERS, CNN ASIA-PACIFIC EDITOR: The bad news now front and center on Samsung's Chinese website, a global recall of the Galaxy Note 7 will now include China. That means 190,000 phones will have to be replaced with new ones, according to government regulators, eroding confidence with Chinese consumers.

"I don't trust Samsung," says Jon Chong Jin (ph), "With the problems and the recall, the company has lost credibility with me."

Initially, the Chinese versions of the Note 7 weren't recalled. They used a different battery and many Chinese consumers were skeptical though after seeing things like this.

Qua Ran Jus (ph) says his phone, seen here, caught fire the same way others had, despite Samsung's claims.

In total, the Chinese government says at least 20 Chinese version Note 7s burned up.

In the second quarter of 2013, Samsung phones accounted for 18 percent 2 percent of China's cell phone market. Last year, it was 9.9 percent. And today was 6.5 percent. That is the same way over other companies.

(on camera): Both Apple and Samsung have seen falling sales here in China, recently battling each other and domestic producers.

But one analyst says with this latest recall, Samsung's loss is likely to be Apple's gain. The company will try to snap up the high-end customers that want a foreign-made phone but are wary or distrustful of Samsung products.

(voice-over): But China is the largest market in the world with a half billion potential customers. It's a market that Samsung cannot ignore if they want to rebound in a significant way. But winning back the trust of the Chinese consumer will be an uphill battle.

"I used to use a Samsung phone because it was user friendly, says Chung Jae Shin (ph), "But after this catching fire thing, there's no way I'm going back it to."

That sentiment is Samsung's new reality in China.

Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.

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VAUSE: A British film production company has been fined $2 million involving an accident involving "Star Wars" actor, Harrison Ford. His leg was crushed by a hydraulic door on a movie set. The Disney owned company admitted to health and safety breaches. Harrison Ford is OK.

American singer Janet Jackson is confirming she is pregnant, expecting her first baby when other women at her age are becoming grand moms. The 50-year-old pop star told "People" magazine, quote, "We thank god for our blessings." In April, Jackson postponed a tour to focus on planning a family with her husband.

Dr. John Jain joins us now, a fertility specialist, to talk more about this.

When I heard this story when it came out I kept looking for all the reports to find out how she got pregnant. There are reports that IVF was involved. But there is no mention of whether this is a donor egg or frozen embryo or frozen egg. With the fact that she's 50, what are the chances she fell pregnant without the donor egg or embryo?

[01:45:43] DR. JOHN JAIN, FERTILITY SPECIALIST: It's exceptionally rare, so as to be unprecedented. In my 20 years, I've never seen one. We see pregnancies in late 40s and early 50s but all with egg donation.

VAUSE: Without egg donation, the chances of falling pregnant in your 40s is under 2 percent?

JAIN: Under 44, it's in the low single digits, and after 45, it drops off to zero.

VAUSE: People have a right to privacy. We get that.

JAIN: Yeah.

VAUSE: But then you have celebrities and Janet who is 50. And Halle Berry who was 47. Gina Davis when she was 46. And people read this in magazines and gets publicity. What impact does that have on couples who are struggling to have kids or women who think, I can delay a pregnancy, Janet Jackson had a kid at age 50?

JAIN: John, it's a real problem. I've met many, intelligent, accomplished women, who come to me in their late 40s wanting to have a baby and referring to a celebrity who was successful in her 40s, and telling them it is from an egg donor is devastating. And the celebrity mother or any mother carrying an egg donor baby is trying to protect her child, the welfare of her child, and disclosing the information to the child when that child is age appropriate for that.

#; But the general advice here is if you read on the tabloid shelves or hear about it on the pop shows, that celebrity is pregnant and in her late 40s, the assumption has to be that nine times out of 10 it's a donated egg? JAIN: More than that, absolutely.

VAUSE: One think I found interesting, I always thought that frozen eggs was also a possibility for women for pregnancy in later years, but you say that's not the case.

JAIN: Yeah, so frozen eggs and embryos have to be created when the egg is viable. Once frozen, they remain viable for as many years as that patient wants. They can transfer the embryo derived from a frozen embryo or frozen egg up to age 45. They can have their own buy logic child at a later age, so long as they froze the egg or embryo when they were viable.

VAUSE: For women who are looking at their life and planning everything ahead, what is the best advice right now?

JAIN: Education, number one. Doctors need to do a better job educating women that age related fertility and decline is real. Women in their 30s might want to consider freezing their eggs if they're single. If they're a couple, freezing embryos is a good option for preserving fertility.

VAUSE: One of the complications for a woman essentially carrying a child at age 50, are there greater complications or dangerous than for a younger woman?

JAIN: That's a good question. There's now a lot of data on carrying babies up to 55. In properly screened women who are healthy, they do well with low adverse outcomes.

VAUSE: But they have to be careful.

JAIN: Absolutely.

VAUSE: And we have seen cases in India with 70-year-old women, fall pregnant with a donated egg and there's a lot complications with that.

JAIN: Absolutely.

VAUSE: OK, Doctor, thanks so much.

JAIN: My pleasure.

VAUSE: Dr. Jain, good to speak with you. Thank you.

We'll take a short break. When we come back, Donald Trump says he has big plans for America's future. We'll see what the fortune telling Donald Trump has to say.

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[01:53:03] VAUSE: Donald Trump has been making big predictions during this election season, like it will be the end of the United States if Hillary Clinton is elected. But what does the fortune telling Donald Trump machine have to say?

Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The candidate who is always talking about his fortune --

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm getting a terrific vision.

MOOS: -- is now telling fortunes.

ALL-SEEING TRUMP DOLL: Stare into my crystal ball.

MOOS: The all-seeing Trump is being seen all around New York City. With his red eyes and his intentionally small hands, he is predicting the future.

ALL-SEEING TRUMP DOLL: Everybody loves me. The people at the soup kitchen love me.

MOOS: And attracting crowds.

ALL-SEEING TRUMP DOLL: We're going to make America sexy again.

MOOS: He is modeled after Zoltar in the movie "Big."

And now fortune telling Trump has gone big. When he was placed by Trump Tower, security didn't know what to do with it. Police finally turned off the sound to shut him up.

He is the brain child of an anonymous anti-Trump artist who paid $9,000 to Characters Unlimited to create him.

Those pursed lips were the tricky part.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The lips were kind of sticking out. When we pulled it out of the mold, it was hard to not rip his lips off.

MOOS: Hit the button and he talks. Moving on from President Obama's birth certificate to --

ALL-SEEING TRUMP DOLL: Is Elvis Presley still alive?

MOOS: At one point, outside Trump International Hotel, all-seeing Trump died.

(on camera): This is historic. Donald is silent.

(LAUGHTER)

Repair man to the rescue.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I like this better than the real one.

ALL-SEEING TRUMP DOLL: I'm voting for Trump.

MOOS: He's the guy who made all-seeing Trump who spits out what they call misfortunes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He who expects nothing will be pleasantly surprised when I'm president.

ALL-SEEING TRUMP DOLL: Excuse me.

MOOS: Occasionally, even the real Donald Trump projects a little too hard in the future.

TRUMP: Make sure you get out and vote November 28th.

MOOS (voice-over): But the all-seeing Trump is no dummy. He knows that Election Day is November 8th.

Jeanne Moos, CNN --

ALL-SEEING TRUMP DOLL: Of the two of you, I only want the attractive one to come up to the booth.

MOOS: -- New York.

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[01:55:19] VAUSE: The hair was especially well done.

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