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Aired November 14, 2016 - 02:00 ET
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[02:00:54] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, and welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. This is CNN NEWSROOM.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has revealed the two men who were will be closest to him when he takes office in January. Steve Bannon, who was CEO of Trump's campaign, will be his chief strategist and senior counselor, and Reince Priebus, head of the Republican National Committee, was named White House chief of staff. Priebus was a strategic choice. He has close ties with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill. Those relationships may prove critical in getting Trump's legislative agenda before Congress.
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CHURCH: Trump's election victory is still causing protest. Several hundred people marched through St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday, voicing their opposition to the Trump presidency. And there have been similar scenes in New York, Washington and San Francisco, among other cities.
Trump has now publicly disavowed any hostility by his supporters towards Muslims, immigrants, minorities and others. Here is what he told CBS's "60 Minutes."
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TRUMP: I am very surprised to hear that.
LESLEY STAHL, CO-HOST, 60 MINUTES: Telling Muslims --
TRUMP: I hate to hear that.
STAHL: But you do hear it.
TRUMP: I don't hear it.
STAHL: You're not seeing this?
TRUMP: I saw one or two instances.
STAHL: On social media?
TRUMP: I think it's a very small amount.
STAHL: Do you want to say anything to those people?
TRUMP: I would say don't do it, that's terrible. Because I'm going to bring this country together.
STAHL: They're harassing Latinos, Muslims.
TRUMP: I am so saddened to hear that. And I say stop it. If it helps. I will say this, and I'll say it right to the cameras, stop it.
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CHURCH: Trump also addressed the centerpiece of his campaign, deporting undocumented immigrants and building a wall along the Mexican borders.
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TRUMP: For certain areas I would. For certain areas, the wall is appropriate. I'm very good at this. It's called construction.
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STAHL: Part wall, part fence?
TRUMP: It could be some fencing.
STAHL: What about the pledge to deport millions and millions of undocumented immigrants.
TRUMP: What we are going to do is get the people that are criminals and criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, a lot of these people, we're getting them out of our country or we're going to incarcerate. After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we'll make a determination on the people that you're talking about, who are terrific people.
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CHURCH: The U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan says there are no plans for mass deportations. Listen.
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REP. PAUL RYAN, (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: I think we should put people's minds at ease. That's not where our focus is. We're focused on securing the border. We think that's first and foremost before we get into any other immigration issue. We've got to secure the border. We believe, we believe that's the first priority.
JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR, STATE OF THE UNION: So it's not a top priority mass deportation but --
RYAN: Securing is our top priority.
TAPPER: In year, two, three, four --
RYAN: We're not focused -- we are not planning on erecting a deportation force. Donald Trump is not planning on that.
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CHURCH: Big question, how will this unusual dynamic between Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon play out in the House, a Washington insider versus the man who wanted to bring down the Republican establishment.
Here's CNN's Chris Frates with that.
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[02:04:57] CHRIS FRATES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President-elect Donald Trump has named Renice Priebus as his chief of staff and Steve Bannon has his chief strategist and senior counselor. By naming Priebus, he has put the head of RNC in one of the most powerful positions in Washington, but Priebus's insider cred is balanced out by Bannon's anti-establishment world view. In the statement, Trump says this, "They'll continue the effective leadership team they formed during the campaign, working as equal partners to transform the government making it more efficient and much more productive."
Priebus is known inside the Beltway and he's got good working relationships with the Republicans who are running Congress. These are people like Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has been a long-time friend of Priebus both from the home state of Wisconsin. Priebus's knowledge could be key in helping pass the agenda through Congress. Bannon, also ran "Breitbart News." It's been accused of catering to racist, sexist, and anti- Semitic audiences. Bannon has also been critical of the GOP establishment.
Now both men will advise the next president.
Chris Frates, CNN, Washington.
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CHURCH: Reince Priebus is chairman of the Republican National Committee. He became a close confidence of Donald Trump. The 44- year-old is an experienced Washington figure. He previously served as the RNC general counsel and as chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.
Now, Steve Bannon is a controversial figure in the GOP. Jake Tapper reports on the concerns of the Trump's pick for chief strategist.
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ANA NAVARRO, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTTOR: Do you have a match somewhere so I can set my hair on fire?
TAPPER (voice-over): Steve Bannon came to the Trump campaign from "Breitbart News" a bomb-throwing site favored by the Alt-Right, a mixture of conservatives, populists, anti-Semites. His appointment to the Trump campaign immediately raised flags at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
RICHARD COHEN, PRESIDENT, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: I don't think people realize just how far outside of the mainstream some of the ideas are that the "Breitbart" web site under Mr. Bannon has been promoted. It's been racist, homophobic, antiimmigrant.
TAPPER: Many Republicans found themselves agreeing with Hillary Clinton when she took on Bannon on and "Breitbart" in August.
HILLARY CLINTON, (D), FOREMR PRESIDENTIAL CDANDIDATE: Here are a few headlines they published. I'm not making this up. "Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy." "Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?" "Gabby Giffords, The Gun Control Movement's Human Shield."
TAPPER: Another problem in terms of day-to-day governing, Bannon and "Breitbart" have a long record of taking on establishment Republicans who they felt betrayed the conservative cause.
STEVE BANNON, NEWLY APPOINTED TRUMP CHIEF STRATEGIST & COUNSELOR: We don't really believe there's a functional conservative party in this country. We don't think the Republican party is that.
TAPPER: One prime target, House Speaker Paul Ryan, who Bannon complained, "was rubbing his social justice Catholicism in my nose every second".
Weeks after Paul Ryan had been named speaker of the House, Bannon said he had plans for the Republican, "long game is him gone by spring."
BANNON: What we need to do is bitch slap the Republican Party, and get those guys heathing, too. And if we have to, we'll take it over.
TAPPER: Bannon guided Trump to take his campaign and American politics into places that establishment Republicans found uncomfortable. He was a major source with women who would appear to cause Bill Clinton with sexual assault, regardless of that "Access Hollywood" tape that come out days before.
For Trump, a can dad who dispensed with many of the political and general societal niceties.
TRUMP: And you can go to tell them to go -- themselves.
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TAPPER: Bannon was a good fit. In 2007, Bannon's ex-wife accused him of making anti-sematic remarks trying to keep his daughters from attending a school with a sizable Jewish population. "He said he doesn't like Jews and he doesn't like they raise their kids to be whiny brats," his wife said in court documents.
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT: Steve Bannon has denied those charges. I know he enjoys a very strong relationship with his ex- wife.
COHEN: Bannon created a home for white supremacy, white nationally online. The danger now he's going to provide a home for it in the White House.
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[02:09:57] CHURCH: Critics are blasting the appointment of Steve Bannon in the White House. A spokesman for U.S. Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, issued this statement, "It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when he appoints one of the foremost peddlers of white supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide." The Anti-Defamation League released this statement. "It is a sad day when a man who presided over the premier website of the Alt-Right is slated to be a single member in the people's House. The Council on American Islamic Relations says this, "The appointment of Steve Bannon as a top Trump administration strategist sends the disturbing message that anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and white nationalist ideology will be welcome in the White House."
Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Trump on his victory on the phone call Sunday night. He hopes to meet Trump in person soon. Trump railed against U.S. trade deals with China for much of his campaign. But both leaders say they hope to establish a close working relationship going forward.
Tom Switzer is a senior fellow of the United States Study Center at the University of Sydney in Australia and joins us by phone.
Thank you very much for talking with us.
TOM SWITZER, SENIOR FELLOW, U.S. STUDY CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY: Hello, Rosemary.
CHURCH: So president elect Donald Trump's choice of Reince Priebus of his chief of staff keep the Republicans happy, the same can't be said of Bannon. This has, of course, unnerved, as we say, many, what does the choice of the signal to you.
SWITZER: Well, Donald Trump recognizes he needs to merge populace instant and they're all too often on display during the last 18 months of the campaign. He needs to merge those populace instincts with a more reform into the agenda in the U.S. Congress and by pointing, you know, the RNC chair, Reince Priebus, he recognizes he needs to reach out to -- the legislative reform, but he obviously feels the need to keep with those folks who were impressed with his nativist appeal. That's where Bannon comes in. It's going to be balancing act over the next two to four years.
CHURCH: But it's -- for a lot of people, it's very uncomfortable, the thought of the likes of Steve Bannon being in a position like that. We're talking about strategy here. What sort of input is he likely to have. These two men presumably of equal standing when it comes to the administration there at the White House once Donald Trump takes office. But you'd understand whose people throughout the world very uncomfortable with Steve and what he represents.
SWITZER: No question he is a flame thrower and he is to be incapable of the statement. But you have to remember, you know, one of the reasons why Trump won this election was because of characters like Steve Bannon. They'll have the red meat and they appeal to a lot of the white working class folks especially in those battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. By hiring his chief campaign strategist, Trump is recognizing he keeps those folks who helped him win the White House in the Republican nomination. They are badly split. The convention of wisdom they'll win the White House and the Senate maybe even the House. Now they're badly divided and they have, at least until recently, been on the cusp of splintering into fractions. Trump is trying to find balance between the establishment and reformists in the party and more populace wing represented by the likes of Bannon.
CHURCH: It's going to be a tough one.
Tom, I wanted to talk to you about his first televised sit down interview since becoming president elect. Donald Trump told his supporters to stop harassing minorities when "60 Minutes" told him that Latinos and Muslims are being harassed by Trump supporters. What more does he have to do to lay the fears of many minorities, since his surprise election win? I think for what it's worth, it tried to strike the right tone in his interview on CBS's "60 Minutes."
But the other point is, he's a very changed political parties from 2009 to -- he changed political parties five times.
[02:15:37] CHURCH: Oh, sounds like we have lost --
SWITZER: -- the best international standard.
CHURCH: Tom Switzer joining us there.
We're watching to see what type of Donald Trump takes office. People trying to figure that out.
We want to check some other news right now. And Julian Assange will be interviewed in the coming hours over a rape accusation pending against him in Sweden. The WikiLeaks founder will be questioned in Ecuador's embassy in London where he has lived the since 2012 to avoid extradition. Sweden says two of its prosecutors will be at the interview, but an Ecuadorian prosecutor will ask the questions. Assange denies the rape allegations.
A landmark resettlement deal will move hundreds of refugees in Australian off-shore detention centers to the United States. Hundreds, who are mostly from the Middle East and south Asia, are currently being held in camps on the island nation and Nauru (ph) and on Menace Island (ph). Amnesty International has called them an open- end prison, citing alleged human rights abuses.
A powerful earthquake has killed at least two people in New Zealand, cities throughout the country are feeling after the shock. The epicenter was a about 90 kilometers from Christchurch. A devastating quake hit near the same city in 2011 killing almost 200 people.
For more on the this, we go to Pedram Javaheri.
Pedram, tell us about the impact of this earthquake, 7.8 magnitude that's very high.
PEDRAM JAVAHERI: AMS METEOROLOGIST: Correct. You think about how many places on our planet, about two million of felt it. Only 15 reach this magnitude. In the past almost 24 hours since this quake struck. You notice 38 aftershocks of 4.0 or greater. It's known as zipper effect since you think of opening or splitting what's happening here is earth rupture as you begin see damage across the area of this case. Some of the images coming outlooking like this and officials there say the infrastructural damage that has taken place can certainly tally upwards of $7 billion, potential certainly in place. You notice with 7.8 you'll typically see one magnitude 6.8le or greater. We've had 6.0 or greater or you'll get into the tens or hundreds of thousands of aftershocks that will be in smaller scale. That tis -- statistically speaking r you'll see the highest likelihood of stronger shaking of these aftershocks. You'll see them in the next couple of days and work your way towards the lateral portion of the week, the aftershock numbers stay rather high. It's the intensity that drops off into the threes and twos. We're watching carefully as the storm system beginning to come in. Not what you want to see devastating quake strikes the region, you notice an area where we have the most intense area of shaking in place there. We zoom it in, that's one of the loan dry spots, so not often you see weather and storms come in but leave the one particularly hard-hit region clear of rain fall that looks to potentially be the base that's one piece of good news - Rosemary?
CHURCH: We need a little bit of good news.
Pedram, thanks.
JAVAHERI: Thank you.
CHURCH: Brexit leader, Nigel Farage, has met with Donald Trump. We will have details on that and why he says he fully supports a Trump presidency.
Plus, Iraqi civilians are fleeing Mosul as government forces battle to retake the city from ISIS. Some are just narrowly escaping. Their stories, still to come.
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[02:23:41] CHURCH: Welcome back everyone. One of the leading Brexit campaigners in the U.K. has met face to face with the U.S. president- elect. Nigel Farage sat down with Donald Trump on Saturday in New York. He said they had a very productive meeting. Farage is the head of U.K. Independence Party and a long-time Trump supporter. Here is what he told Richard Quest on Thursday.
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NIGEL FARAGE, UKIP LEADER: I think the big battle of 2016, which has come to a head, and the debate has been there for years -- what's happened in 2016, we've seen two of them, we've seen the Brexit event, and now this huge event of Trump winning the presidential campaign. What it's all about is, do you believe in nation-state democracy or are you happy with bigger forms of government when decisions get elsewhere. I believe in controlling borders. I believe we've got to confront the threat of Islamic terror. And President-elect Trump believes in very much the same thing.
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CHURCH: The leader of the French National Front Party, is praising the U.S. presidential elect in an interview broadcast Saturday. And Marine Le Pen said Trump's win may be a good omen for own presidential ambitions for party elections next year.
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[02:25:10] MARINE LE PEN, FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT PARTY LEADER (through translation): Made possible what has been previously presented as impossible. So, it's really the victory of the people. If I can draw a parallel with France, yes, I wish in France also the people to take them in which the elite are dividing what should go to the French people.
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CHURCH: Marine Le Pen was asked about French migration policy. She said France, quote, "is full up and shouldn't take in any more migrants."
Le Pen's broadcast was broadcast on a somber day, marking one year since the terror attacks. They remembered the 130 people killed. And make-shift memorials have popped up throughout the city, earlier Sunday. Markers were unveiled where each of the attacked happened with signs with the names of the victims.
Melissa Bell has the details from Paris.
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MELISSA BELL, CNN PARIS CORRSEPONDENT: It was in keeping with its mood, Sting opened the concert here tonight. In perfect French, he asked the crowd to observe a minute of silence.
STING, SINGER: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
BELL: And that's exactly what they did. A thousand people who held perfectly still to remember those who died one year ago. Among them, some survivors or some family of those who are killed, many people who just came to hear Sting and celebrate the fact that life could go on once again, have a listen.
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MATTHEW HOLLANDER, ATTENDED STING CONCERT: He started with fragile, which everybody thinks about in this situation, after that, you forgot totally that you were on a sad part because it was a party, it was incredible. It was awesome.
UNIDENTIFIED STING CONCERT ATTENDEE: Nobody wanted to leave and it was great, a lot of emotion.
UNIDENTIFIED STING CONCERT ATTENDEE: I needed to feel it to be there. That's it. I wanted to be there because it's Sting. Because it's the reopening. It was incredible and it was the best show ever. It's not just about what happened one year ago. It's about life goes on.
BELL: As well as those who come to hear Sting's music, some of the families of those who were killed, including one man who lost his 28- year-old daughter. He explained to us, it has been a difficult decision to make. He wanted them to come to celebrate life once again. He explained he had not anticipated how hard it would be to listen to the music once IT began.
Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.
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CHURCH: Coming up, we will take a closer look at Donald Trump's choice for chief strategist, why Steve Bannon is such a controversial figure, and why there's so much concern about him taking on one of the most powerful positions in the Trump White House.
We're back in a moment with more.
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[02:01:25] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: A warm welcome back to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.
I want to update you now the main stories we've been following this hour.
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CHURCH: Let's go back now to Donald Trump and why there's so much concern over his chief strategist, Steve Bannon. CNN's Poppy Harlow spoke with CNN's senor media correspondent, Brian Stelter and former Trump adviser, Jack Kingston, about that very topic.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT GANGEL CNN HOST, RELIABLE SOURCES: A lot of our viewers at home, this is frightening to them, and we should acknowledge that. This may feel like a national emergency. Why? Because Steve Bannon has been described as someone who has been described as a white supremacist, as someone who is an anti-Semite. He would completely reject that. But these are not random people on twitter saying this. These are people like Ana Navarro saying these sort of things. There was a 2007 case between Bannon and his ex-wife alleged in court documents that Bannon said he did not like Jews. He completely denied that. And there are friends of his who say they've known him for years and have never heard a racist word or action from his mouth.
All that said, Bannon is uniquely controversial. It was said, the racist, fascist, extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office.
POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: Congressman Kingston, why do you disagree with those comments about Steve Bannon?
JACK KINGSTON, FORMER ADVISOR, DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: When someone quotes an ex-spouse, I think it's hardly worth responding to. Ex-spouses very rarely say complimentary things. I've worked with --
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HARLOW: If you were to put them aside, respond to --
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STELTER: Ana Navarro is calling him a white supremacist Neanderthal.
KINGSTON: Ana is a friend of mine but she is also somebody who didn't support Donald Trump. And I understand why people want to continue this campaign. But I can say this. As someone who has been involved with this campaign and worked somewhat with Steve Bannon, I found him to be an honorable guy, a hard-working guy. I understand why the left fears him and why they want to label him and continue to stir the pot.
HARLOW: Sir, this isn't the left. Brian just pointed out, Todd Weaver, a strategist for Kasich and Ana Navarro. Those are two conservatives.
KINGSTON: A strategist for Kasich is hardly an objective party. Kasich voted for John McCain. He's a never-Trumper. I know John Kasich. I like John Kasich. But he's a never Trumper. I can say this, as somebody who worked with Steve Bannon. I do not see any of these horrible charges that keep coming up. And, remember, this is what we heard in early August when he got on board. Oh, the campaign is going to turn into a racist outfit and a horrible organization. But the rhetoric, which the left loves to refer to, all happened pre- Steve Bannon.
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[02:35:22] CHURCH: CNN's Poppy Harlow talking with senior media correspondent, Brian Stelter, and former Trump advisor, Jack Kingston.
Donald Trump recently spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping on the phone. Trump says, the two countries' relations will be stronger than ever under his leadership, even though he repeatedly criticized China throughout his campaign.
Matt Rivers joins us now from Beijing.
Matt, what all do you know about what they talked about?
MATT RIVERS, CNN ASIA-PACIFIC EDITOR: Oh, rosemary, this was an introductory phone call along the lines of lots of other phone calls that president elect Trump has had with other world leaders since his victory on election day. In terms of what we're hearing, we have received statements from both sides, Chinese media saying the president told president elect Trump that it has proved to cooperate is the only correct choice between China and the United States. He released a statement where it said president elect Trump stated he believes the two leader wills have one of the strongest relationships for both countries moving forward. Both sides really saying the same thing, introductory phone call they're looking forward to working with one another. As you said, China was one of the president elect's favorite targets during the campaign. So, you can imagine that while this was an introductory phone call, it might have felt a little bit awkward as well.
CHURCH: It's now Donald Trump will be the new president next year, how different does China think its relationship is likely to be with the United States, given the criticism that he directed at China throughout his campaign, do they assume that will change?
RIVERS: That's where all of this is starting from, right, Donald Trump is new to politics. He doesn't have the track record that Hillary did about China. There is a lot of uncertainty about what President Trump will do in regards to China. You can only look at what he has said so far. When it comes to the economy, the president elect was extremely strong in his negative rhetoric against China saying at one point that China was raping the U.S. economy and he would be in favor of imposing a tariff on Chinese import. That's something China will keep its eye on. On the flip side, in terms of aggression, what you're hear sg that because President Trump has said that president elect Trump he wants to focus on more domestic issues, they're exerting its will without having to worry about United States interference as much if he does what he says he wants to do and focus on more internal problems in the economy.
Economy and politics certainly two different sides, but there will be a lot to watch moving forward with this new relationship between these two countries.
CHURCH: We know you'll be watching it closely.
Matt Rivers joining us live from Beijing where it's 3:38 in the afternoon. Matt, thanks.
Iraqi forces have declared another victory over ISIS as they push deeper into the key city of Mosul. But civilians are just barely escaping from the group. Their next steps.
Stay with us.
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[02:42:02] CHURCH: Welcome back everyone. We turn to Iraq where a suicide bomber has killed six people and injured six others in a town southwest of Kabul, in northern Iraq. And government troops have recaptured an ancient village from ISIS. Nimrud is south of Mosul, which Iraqi forces are trying to take back. ISIS militants destroyed much of the historic ruins last year.
Meanwhile, witnesses tell CNN ISIS is fortifying its positions in eastern Mosul, digging new trenches and building barriers off major roads. Residents say clashes between ISIS militants and Iraqi forces lasted for several hours on Sunday. Much needed food supplies arrived in parts of Mosul the same day.
CNN Phil Black joins me live in Iraq.
As it continues, ISIS is pushing back hard and civilians are fleeing the city or trying to. What are you seeing on the ground there?
PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, rosemary, what we're talking about here is brutal warfare in populated city. Iraqi forces are desperately trying to advance and as the is fighters really fight very strongly to stop that advance, there are civilians trapped in the middle as the fighting goes street to street it is taking place around homes with families inside.
Now, what we are hearing is that many of the people are hunkering down trying to endure the rage around them. Every day more and more families are deciding they can't wait there any longer. They're fleeing the city.
We've been speaking to families that have been making their way out throughout eastern gate to the city and they have extraordinary stories to tell. Take a listen.
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BLACK (voice-over): This man and his family are being searched for weapons on Mosul's eastern out skirts just where the they've decided to flee the city.
UNIDENTIFEID MALE: (SPEAKING FOREING LANGUAGE)
BLACK: He sways the left laughed because started falling close to them.
They're among the people now following this road every day away from the violence and terror of urban war, they don't know where it's taking them.
This girl said she hid in her home with her family, enduring nearby explosions for eight days until one of them destroyed the house, so she ran.
"I was running among bullets," she says, "walking and crying, running and crying."
They're escaping war and ISIS as well after living under the group's ideas for morality for more than two years.
This 11-year-old boy witnessed justice according to ISIS.
He says they slaughtered three men and called us to watch. One of them, the poor guy wasn't beheaded properly. So, another man came with a knife and finished the job.
[02:45:15] (on camera): This is the start of the screening process. The women and children have been taken away first in a truck. Husbands, brothers, they have to wait. They will be taken somewhere else. Their names checked against the database just to ensure they're not one of the ISIS members that may be trying to flee the city with all the other others.
(voice-over): The moments that follow end in heartbreak.
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BLACK: Especially for the children.
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BLACK: There is little dignity in this, but they'll be safe.
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BLACDK: The rest are ordered to sit quietly in row. Somehow, this boy has been left behind with the men. His hands can't hide his anxiety.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY: (SPEAKING FORFEING LANGUAGE)
BLACK: He tells us he's thinking about the camp, living in a tent under rain in the mud.
This is a life-changing day, the first without ISIS for a long time. There's relief, nervous smiles, but war, uncertainty and loss ensure there is no feeling of celebration.
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BLACK: A short distance from Mosul, a short drive huge camps are being built to House the people that are being displaced. The latest figures put around 50,000 people that have been driven from their homes because of this military operation. That's really just the beginning. We're only in the early days for this battle to retake Mosul, particularly in the urban center itself. Aid groups estimate it could still be somewhere in the order of one million people displaces because of the fighting by the time this operation is finished - Rosemary?
CHURCH: Phil Black, joining us live in Iraq, 10:46 in the morning. Phil, thanks.
People in eastern Aleppo received text messages early Sunday morning urging them to evacuate the city. The messages warned residents to leave within 24 hours before a heavy government assault gets underway. They also ordered rebels in the city to stop fighting and to announce the "collapsed leadership abroad." Now, the U.N. says more than 250,000 people still live in the rebel-held eastern areas of Aleppo.
Jomana Karadsheh joins us now from Aman, Jordan.
Jomana, so, we're learning that people in Aleppo are running out of food and the situation is more bleak than it has already been, which is hard to believe. What are you learning about the circumstances and what lies ahead, here?
JOMANA KARADSHEH: Well, Rosemary, we've been speaking to people in eastern Aleppo neighborhoods. They say the host text messages that you mentioned, this is not the first time they've had these warnings. They say messages like this address to the rebels in the eastern part of the city have been dropped in the past on this city and that they've been broadcasts through state media. People feel that this is part of psychological war fair trying to scare the people. But there's also this real sense of apprehension amongst the people that we have spoken to, they're terrified of what they feel is an imminent military assault that could be launched on eastern Aleppo. They're really concerned about that and then you also have that humanitarian situation, as you mentioned, we heard from the united nations just a few days ago warning of mass starvation scenario in eastern Aleppo. The last time that significant amount of aid was allowed was back in July. Now, the U.N. says that right now the last of the rations, the food rations are being distributed to the people. This is something that we've also heard from people on the ground that we've spoken to, activists and also just ordinary citizens in eastern Aleppo. One family, rosemary, that I spoke to yesterday said they have very little rice left in their house, they say there's no fruit, no vegetables on the markets. There's no medicine that is really available in eastern Aleppo and they say that they are really running low. But they still feel they're luckier than other family who is may have already run out by now. Whatever is available on the markets, rosemary, people say they cannot afford, one kilo of meat is an example we heard from people costs about 40 U.S. dollars, something that most, the majority of people in eastern Aleppo cannot afford, so people are really terrified, all that they have been through, the civilians of eastern Aleppo, more than 250 people is the estimate. They fear, rosemary, the worst is yet to come.
[02:50:09] CHURCH: It is shocking to consider what these people, these families are having to endure at this time.
Jomana Karadsheh joining us live from Jordan, where it is nearly 10:00 in the morning. Jomana, thanks.
Up next, an emotional musical tribute and a somber message on "Saturday Night Live's" first show after the U.S. presidential race. And what Comedian David Chappelle is saying to Donald Trump when we return.
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CHURCH: The U.S. comedy show "Saturday Night Live" took on a somber tone its first episode since the election. David Chappelle made his hosting debut on the show, he began his monologue poking and things got serious. Chappelle mentioned his recent visit to the Obama White House and African-American and Muslim, he had this message for president elect.
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DAVID CHAPPELLE, COMEDIAN: And I saw how happy everybody was. These people have been historically disenfranchised and it made me feel hopeful and proud to be an American and it made me very happy about the prospects of our country. So, in that spirit, I'm wishing Donald Trump well. And I'm going to give him a chance. And we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one, too.
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[02:55:42] CHURCH: And the start of the show struck a similar cord "Saturday Night Live" cast member, Kate McKinnon, played Hillary Clinton throughout the campaign, as you know, she stayed in character to tell the world she wasn't giving up all while performing the song "Hallelujah" in tribute to musician Leonard Cohen who died last week.
I'm Rosemary Church. I'll be back after the short break after another edition of CNN NEWSROOM. Don't go anywhere.
[03:00:09] CHURCH: Don't be afraid. Donald Trump tries to ease the concerns of a divided nation.
