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World Headlines; U.S. Defense Secretary Meets With Chinese President; Desperate Search; Police Raid Najib's Properties; Botched Statue Restoration In Spain; U.S. Federal Judge Orders Reunification Of Families At Border; U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Ban; White House Decides Against Outright Limits On Chinese Investment; U.N. Fight For Port City Puts 250,000 Lives At Risk; Sudan Spares Life On Teen Who Killed Rapist Husband. Aired 8-9a ET

Aired June 27, 2018 - 08:00   ET

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong, and welcome to News Stream.

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LU STOUT: Calling out his neighbors, Italy's tough talking interior minister puts the pressure on European countries to step it up on

immigration. A desperate search, bad weather in Thailand hampers rescue efforts for students trapped in a flooded cave. A shocking upset, a young

newcomer takes down a U.S. Democratic heavyweight in a primary race in what may be a signal for the future of the party.

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LU STOUT: Those stories in just a moment, but first, this coming into CNN. The Trump administration has decided against imposing outright limits on

Chinese investment in the United States. Now, CNN, we reported earlier this week that the administration was considering a rule to bar firms with

at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying any American companies involved in technology that the White House considers strategically

important.

Now instead, it will rely on Congress to strengthen an existing governing body. Its just is to evaluate corporate deals for national security risks.

The U.S. has long accused China of stealing trade secrets. We're going to have more on this developing story a little bit later in the program.

Turning now to the immigration issue, front and center on two different continents, and the deep divisions it is causing. Now, in the United

States, a big win for Donald Trump after the Supreme Court upheld a third version of his travel ban, but the President is facing a legal setback over

another.

Now a federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to stop separating families at the border and reunite those who have already

been split apart. And he set a hard deadline.

Now meanwhile in Europe, Malta's Prime Minister says a humanitarian vessel carrying more than 200 migrants will be granted entry into one of its

ports. The migrants on board will be distributed among seven E.U. countries.

In a CNN exclusive, Melissa Bell sat down with Italy's radical new interior minister. She joins us live from Rome. And, Melissa, what did you learn

about Matteo Salvini, and his brand of populist politics?

MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, all eyes here in Europe, Kristie, are very much on Italy's new interior minister. He told us that he

believed that he had achieved more in his month in office than previous Italian administrations had achieved on the questions of the migrants.

Of course, by this policy of closing Italian ports to ships like the Lifeline, and before it the Aquarius. He said that he intended to

continue. He had hoped that the solution could be found, but what he believes, Kristie, it is now countries like Italy with the populist

government in charge that are essentially calling the shots within the E.U.

It isn't so much that Italy is now at odds with the E.U. and its values, it is he believes that the E.U., and we're coming up to this summit at the end

of the week when migration is going to have to be resolved by the 28 members.

He now believes that his type of policy, his view of the world is in a sense the one calling the shots. And this as you quite rightly pointed

out, remember, Kristie, it's something that is reflected in what is happening politically on both sides of the Atlantic.

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MATTEO SALVINI, ITALIAN INTERIOR MINISTER (through a translator): We are witnessing a beautiful reaction of the people against the dictatorship of

finance who wanted immigration out of control. Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values themselves, and therefore they have no

lessons to give to Italy.

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BELL: I put to him that given the values of the E.U. to do with migration so far, and I'm talking about the liberal values of the traditional

countries of the E.U., not the ones in which populists have taken over, I put to him that it seems untenable that Italy should stay within it.

Not at all, he said he believe that it was those other countries that have forgotten the European values. He, as the head of the leagues said look,

we believe that Europe has Judeo-Christian history, it has its language, and it has its identity, and those are what need to be protected.

LU STOUT: There have been a lot of comparisons between Matteo Salvini and Donald Trump. You know, Salvini has this anti-migrant stance. He has this

Italian spurs ideology. He also has a huge following on social media, on Facebook. Is he inspired by Donald Trump?

BELL: I did put that to him, Kristie.

[08:05:00] I asked whether he believes he was Europe's answer to Donald Trump. He said not at all. Different countries have different priorities,

different problems, and different solutions, but clearly he admires him.

And clearly he believes that he is part of the wider change that is going on in the world, sort of new access that is emerging of populists who are

there to represent and to listen to the people rather than standing up for values, or institutions, or international organizations.

And there are clear parallels to be drawn between what he is trying to have Europe do, the direction in which he's trying to take the rest of the

European Union, and the direction in which he believes that Italy can take the rest of the European Union, and what is happening in the United States.

Kristie.

LU STOUT: Melissa Bell reporting live from Rome with that exclusive interview for us. Thank you so much, Melissa, and take care. Let's turn

now to the immigration crisis in the United States. A federal judge says all families that have been separated at the border must be reunited within

30 days.

In the court order, he referred to the separations as reaching a crisis level. U.S. President Trump signed an executive order last week, putting

an end to the separations brought on by his administration.

But it didn't address what to do with about more than 2,000 children who were already taken from their families. For more on this as well as the

Supreme Court ruling, Laura Jarrett joins me from Washington. Laura, thank you for joining us. What does this court order mean for thousands of

migrant children still separated from their families?

LAURA JARRETT, CNN U.S. JUSTICE REPORTER: Well, Kristie, the clock is now ticking for the Trump administration to come up with some sort of plan for

reunification, and to do it very quickly. Just to look at some of the details from the order from that federal judge in California.

He now says that for families that are being detained, they cannot be separated in detention, even if they're being prosecuted, they have to stay

together. And he said that children under the age of five have to be reunified with their parents within 14 days.

Children over five have to be unified within 30 days, and parents have to be able to get a hold of their children by phone within 10 days. And the

language in this opinion, Kristie, is blunt and remarkable.

I just want to read one small part of the lengthy opinion where it's just incredible language which was used here. He said the government readily

keeps track of personal property of detainees in criminal and immigration proceedings.

And then he goes on to say the unfortunate reality is that under the president's system, migrant children are not accounted for with the same

efficiency, and accuracy as property. And he goes on to note, that this is really just a chaotic circumstance of the government's own making.

They had no plan for reunification. As we reported, there are over 2,000 children who have been separated from their parents at the southwest border

since the implementation of President Trump's zero tolerance policy. And so at this point, the question is, what does the Trump Administration do?

Do they try to challenge this order and appeal it to the higher court?

LU STOUT: Yes, this court order from California is a major rebuke of Trump immigration policy. But then at the same time, we also have the U.S.

Supreme Court upholding the Trump travel ban. So what does that say about Donald Trump's power to control immigration?

JARRETT: Yes, it was interesting both of those decisions coming down on the same day. I think there's no question that the Supreme Court is

crystal clear. The President's powers in the area of immigration are expansive. They are wide ranging.

He is the ultimate decision maker on who can come into the country. Now, the five justices on the Supreme Court made clear you're not allowed to

discriminate. You're not allowed to be biased against a group.

And they said because the travel ban executive order was at least neutral on its face on the question of religion despite all of the statements that

President Trump made on the campaign trail, and as president against Islam.

As long as the order was neutral on its face, it passed constitutional muster, but we'll have to wait and see how an lower -- an upper court, I

should say, an appellate court deals with this latest executive order.

LU STOUT: Laura Jarrett reporting live in Washington, thank you. Now President Trump is hailing the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his

travel ban as a, quote, tremendous victory. But those countries singled out on the list don't agree. Sam Kiley reports.

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SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Across the Middle East, I think, there will be broad indifference and frustration really to this

Supreme Court decision that endorses the Trump ban on people coming from five mainly Muslim nations. The Iranians though have hit back fairly

strongly.

They have said among other things, no citizen of Iran has ever committed a terrorist attack in America, and the notion that this is a national

security based decision is completely baseless. Now, that could be taken with a pinch of salt in the United States, and their allies consider Iran a

state that responses terrorism as indeed does it consider the asset regime in Syria in the same category.

[08:10:00] In both, cases they may not have conducted operations on American soil, but they certainly backed terrorist groups in the past that

have killed, and maimed Americans, and citizens from around the world. Nonetheless, for ordinary people though in the Middle East, it's already so

difficult to get a visa for the United States that this is just the final blow. Sam Kiley, CNN, Istanbul.

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LU STOUT: As the Supreme Court debated the travel ban the infamous Korematsu decision on Japanese-American internment came up in her decent of

the travel ban really, Justice Sonia Sotomayor compare the travel ban decision to the Korematsu versus U.S. case saying quote, as here the

exclusion order was rooted in dangerous stereotypes about a particular group's supposed inability to assimilate, and desire to harm the United

States, unquote.

During World War II the U.S. military used a presidential executive order on espionage to remove all people of Japanese ancestry including U.S.

citizens from the west coast, and put them into internment camps.

Fred Korematsu was convicted of disobeying a military order for defying that move, but the Supreme Court ruled that the internment policy was

justified for national security. After Sotomayor made the comparison, Chief Justice John Roberts said that 1944 case had nothing to do with the

travel ban case.

But he did announce that the Supreme Court was overruling Korematsu, saying this, quote, Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided. It has

been overruled in the court of history, and to be clear, it has no place in law under the constitution.

The battle for one of Yemen's key cities could put 250,000 lives at risk. We will take you inside the front lines of Hodeida. And a horrendous case

has shined the light on some of the world's darkest practices. Stay with us for new a new update from Sudan where issue of child marriage, and

marital rape are being forced back into the headlines.

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LU STOUT: Now let's get back to the story mentioned at the top of the hour. The White House has decided against imposing outright limits on

Chinese investment in the U.S. That is according to senior Trump officials, the speculation over possible investment restrictions that

embark the text sector big time earlier this week.

Let's get more now with Christine Romans, she joins us live now. And, Christine, again, the White House has decided against imposing these limits

on Chinese investment there in the U.S., but instead, it's deferring to Congress, is that right?

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: That's right. And Congress has already been toughening up legislation relevant to something called the Committee on

Foreign Investment in the U.S. or CFIUS for those of you who may know what that is.

That is the body that is comprised of nine different investment heads, where they look over foreign investment deals into the United States to

find out if it is going to be a national security risk.

[08:15:00] So they're sort of expanding and modernizing they say the function of that body, and that's going to be the vehicle through which any

kind of Chinese investment, or investment from any foreign country, or foreign government in to United States is going to be -- is going to be

vetted.

Now it's interesting because we had been getting guidance from May -- official guidance from May, and then background briefings in recent weeks

that there was going to be new, tough, specific export technology limits, right?

Investment limits into the United States from China in particular. And it looks as though this administration has softened that a bit. Instead using

this 30-year-old vehicle, something that's been around about 30 years, the CFIUS vehicle, to do the vetting instead of any kinds of new, tough

investment restrictions, and that's something clearly that the markets are happy about.

You saw futures bounce off the lows here. We have now about an hour and 15 minutes before the markets open in the United States, but clearly that was

something investors were more happy. It seems as though the Trump campaign is taking a little bit of softer tone in terms of those investment

restrictions specifically with China. Kristie Lu.

LU STOUT: Yes, a softer tone for now, because there's been this interesting back and forth between U.S.-China. The trade tension is very

real, but there has been this, is he going to slap additional tariffs or not, is he going to do these investment restrictions or not? But at the

end of the day, the Trump administration, they do want to punish China on trade, is that right?

ROMANS: That's right. And the White House really trying to make the case that what they're doing here this morning is getting tough on China,

getting tough on anyone who they say is playing unfairly in trade, quite frankly.

But they're careful -- you know, I'll tell you a month ago, it was all about getting tough on China specifically. Now you have got the treasury

secretary on the cable news shows this morning talking about getting tough with anybody who's trying to do business with the United States.

So I think that -- there's a question also to -- on the phone call with senior administration official about, you know, is this an olive branch

maybe in other negotiations that are happening with China? That's just what we don't know in particular.

Also there are some commentators who have said, you know, what is -- what is the bark, and what is the bite here? Is the bark worse than the bite in

terms of China trade, and is there really a straight line here on China trade?

Is the President sort of changing -- you know, changing strategy as he goes? What we know is that a couple of weeks ago, it was much tougher talk

about investment restrictions from Chinese firms into the U.S., and now they're talking about using an existing structure, but enhanced to vet

those, softening of that tone for sure.

LU STOUT: Got it. Christine Romans live from New York for us, thank you.

ROMANS: You're welcome.

LU STOUT: And we turn now to Yemen, where gulf-backed forces, they have been locked in a battle for nation's vital port city of Hodeida. Victory

there, it would cut off an essential life line for the Iran-backed Houthi rebel.

But Hodeida is also a crucial hub for humanitarian aid. The United Nations said as many as 250,000 civilians are caught in the cross fire. And they

are at risk of losing their lives, and fighting will only worsen what it's already calling the world's most dire humanitarian crisis. CNN's Nick

Paton Walsh joins me now from London with rare footage from the front lines of Hodeida. Nick.

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, Yemen, a war that's rumbled on now for three years, a devastating toll

taking over 10,000 lives, and becoming the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

So much is at stake there because this frankly, like so many of the wars in the Middle East right now is a proxy war. It is between the ousted Yemeni

government backed by gulf allies, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and quite a lot of American firepower assistance making sure that

the Saudi air force often hits what it tries to hit, versus the Houthi rebels that control the capital that are backed by Iran many accuse.

And so the issue really is who prevails in this regional conflict. But most importantly and immediately, what becomes of the 20 million or so

Yemenis who are dependent on the food aid from aid agencies, and might find that cut off as the battle for this key port city of Hodeida escalates.

Here's what we saw.

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WALSH: This is the race to the front of the least visible yet most vital war in the world now. The port down the road here is part of what could be

the deadliest chapter yet in the battle for Yemen. Powerful gulf armies are trying to put the ousted Yemeni government back in power, and defeat

the rebel militia the Houthis backed by Iran.

The airport down the road here, and the port city of Hodeida was the latest prize. And the Houthis were kicked out just hours earlier, and face a huge

blow, if they lose Hodeida all together to this rag tag gulf back army.

[08:20:00] The biggest losers though remain ordinary Yemenis, 20 million relying on aid shipments that come mostly through the Hodeida port, and

could be cut off as the fight intensifies. There were previous warnings, he says, to civilians. And the clashes are just on the outskirts of the

city, so people can stay in their homes, and remain safe.

This war is part of Yemeni chaos, and part high-tech. The U.S. military has helped its gulf allies with fuel and intelligence for air strikes, and

top-end U.S. designed armored vehicles are driven by Emirati troops here. But the Pentagon public backed out of the Hodeida fight, because so many

civilians were at risk.

Regardless, this is already the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Killing a child under five needlessly every 10 minutes, says the U.N. Amid the

impish innocence is the fact food is a weapon of war, haunting every childhood. Markey (ph) fled Hodeida with his family, two days ago.

I am a fisherman, he says, we can't go and do our jobs. At any moment, a rocket or mortar can strike, and our homes are made of simple material.

Our escape from Hodeida should have taken two hours, but it took two days through the mountains and valleys, because the direct road was full of

mines.

Paula (ph) led her family to safety, but homelessness, five days ago. It's been three days, she says, without any sleep, because of the constant sound

of explosions over the house. When the fighting stops, we'll go back. But that isn't close, and even if Hodeida is a closing chapter, it is one which

the U.N. has warned could kill 250,000 people.

Yet the numbers right here are smaller. One mother must prepare one meal in the dust with one tomato, and nine mouths to feed. The tomato serves as

a sauce to make the old bread appetizing before milk is added. Every mouthful here is a struggle. One that is barely seen by the world despite

the huge powers, and consequence involved. Every child on the line as the war rumbles through their lives.

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WALSH: Now the U.N. and other diplomats have done all they can really to try and stop that offensive, where the Emirati forces and the Saudis are

moving towards Hodeida, the city. It hasn't been successful. You saw that some progress has been made. And the beginning there were optimistic

statements I heard from Yemeni officials saying it might take a matter of days.

But clearly it's going to be weeks until Hodeida is taken if it indeed is even possible. This war has been extraordinarily untractable in terms of

neither side really being able to show total domination over the other.

But that simply exasperates the crisis for those inside Yemen. It is the world's -- let's say, the world's worst humanitarian crisis now. Millions

of people desperately in need of food aid for the basic daily survival, and that is simply going to be accentuated by the fight for the main life line,

for much of the country, the port city of Hodeida itself. Kristie.

LU STOUT: Nick, a humanitarian crisis already dire is going to get much, much worse. Nick Paton Walsh reporting live for us, thank you. To Sudan

now where in the face of horror itself, one face is being seen as a symbol of defiance against forced marriage and marital rape.

And that is Noura Hussein, a teenager who killed her husband after he raped her, and members of his family held her down. A court has now spared

Noura's life, but she still faces a huge punishment. Nima Elbagir is in London for us. She joins now. And, Nima, the death sentence has

thankfully been overturned, but for Noura, her ordeal is far from over. Tell us what's next.

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, it continues. She is facing a five year jail sentence, and the possibility of having to pay the

equivalent of $18,000 in blood money, in compensation for the family of her rapist. Her lawyers though tell us -- advocates say that this isn't over,

that they will continue to fight for Noura, because of the message that it sends.

They are pushing for a judgment of self-defense, which would allow her to walk away, not of course unscathed, but at least without the horror of

having a manslaughter conviction hanging over her. And that's without going into what her family are suffering here, Kristie.

We understand that members of her family have had to go into hiding because of threats that they continue to receive. It is not just about Noura,

although Noura luckily -- what passes for lucky in a situation like this has at least attracted international attention.

We spoke to an 11-year-old girl who is seeking divorce when I was in Sudan. Just today, Sudan's newspapers are reporting on a case of a 17-year-old who

is in hospital because she was stabbed repeatedly by her husband for daring to ask for divorce.

[08:25:06] For advocates and for Noura's supporters, what they want is for the entire law to be changed, so that legal aid of consent to be raised 10,

lowest in Africa, but also for girls and women to be afforded to protection of having marital rape enshrined in law as being illegal.

LU STOUT: As you point out, it's not justice for Noura, it's justice for other women, girls that are being forced into marrying older men. What

about if there's sort of a glimmer of hope here, the facts that this sentence was overturned for Noura, you know, just the result of activism,

of journalism, is that a sign of getting the word out there, and pushing for change that it can work?

ELBAGIR: There's no doubt that this is -- this is a huge victory for all of that, in a country where the Sudanese government doesn't even allow

newspapers to operate without a censor. This message went out, and rippled, and resonated way beyond even just Sudan's diaspora.

And Noura's bravery in fighting back, and saying enough is enough, that that struck a chord with people around the world. And Sudan's government,

this is a climb down. There is no doubt about that. But it's turning that climb down into something bigger, and actually enshrining what one activist

really movingly described to me as a right to a childhood.

That girls can have that basic human right without fearing that their family, or their guardians can barter them into marriage for a dowry.

That's what this is about now. And that's what the community of activists in Sudan is continuing to push for in the face of a pretty recalcitrant

government that has yet, Kristie, to publicly comment on any of this.

LU STOUT: Now, there needs to be justice -- real justice for Noura, and others like her in Sudan. Nima Elbagir, we thank you for your reporting.

You're watching News Stream.

Still to come on the program, shock in New York as a 28-year-old newcomer defeats a 10-term Democratic incumbent. We are live in Washington for more

on that, and other significant primary election results. Keep it here.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream, and these are your world headlines.

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LU STOUT: A federal judge in California has ordered the reunification of all families that were separated at the U.S. border. Right now the Health

and Human Services Department is looking after over 2,000 children despite President Trump's signing that executive order to keep families together a

week ago.

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Dozens of people in Northern England have evacuated their homes due to a major fire near Manchester. The blaze first broke out on Sunday night in a

rural area but has now spread due to extremely hot weather. The residents are advised to stay inside and keep doors and windows closed.

Prince William is making his second historic trip this week as the first British royal to officially visit the West Bank. On Wednesday, he met

Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas and visited a refugee camp. And one day earlier, he became the first British royal to make an official

visit to Israel where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A shock upset in the New York primary is reverberating throughout the U.S. Democratic establishment. Ten-term incumbent Joe Crowley seen as a

potential leader of the House was defeated by 28-year-old Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted

that Crowley should have been nicer to his president.

Mr. Trump's endorsement paid off in another New York House race and for South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster. Former Republican presidential

nominee Mitt Romney, he won the Senate primary in Utah, where he is heavily favored to win in November.

Now, joining me to break down all these results, we got CNN politics digital director Zachary Wolf. Zachary, thank you so much for joining us

here in the program. Let's talk about New York. You know, it may have just been a primary race, but it's pinging on the international radar because of

what it is revealing about the state and health of the Democratic Party. What did it reveal?

ZACHARY WOLF, CNN POLITICS DIGITAL DIRECTOR: I think what it showed us is that there is still very much a lot of tension in the Democratic Party

about how to proceed and how to battle President Trump, how liberal and what kind of progressive policies the party should be pursuing, and really

what kind of strategy they should have going forward. How the resistance, if you will, should present itself.

LU STOUT: And while that race in New York underscored the resistance, the tension inside the Democratic Party, a very different story for the

Republican Party on primary night. You know, Republicans, they were kind of rewarded for loyalty to the White House. Does that explain essentially the

victory for Henry McMaster in South Carolina in the GOP runoff there?

WOLF: I think it really does. President Trump had gone down there to lobby on his behalf when he was seemed to be in trouble. Vice President Pence had

gone down there. And it's not just the South Carolina victory. In a couple of races, it seems like Trump's -- his endorsement has really helped some

of these struggling candidates.

And that's something. In New York, in a House race last night, there was a guy who a lot of people viewed as the more Trumpian of the two candidates,

but President Trump had weighed in on behalf of someone else and that other person actually won. So, he is -- it's really his party now and this is a

lot of evidence of that.

LU STOUT: Yeah. You're referring to Dan Donovan who beat out his primary challenger because of among all other reasons, his support for Donald

Trump. And then we have Mitt Romney, who is kind of like friend and foe of Donald Trump. He won the GOP Senate nomination in Utah, but, you know, he's

kind of an outsider in terms of Washington. So, how would you explain his appeal?

WOLF: It's very hard to explain Mitt Romney as a person. He basically tried to throw his body across the Donald Trump's path to the nomination in

2016, but then after Trump was elected, he was OK with maybe being secretary of state. That didn't work out. Now, he's going to try and be in

the Senate.

There is kind of an anti-Trump, you know, theme in Utah or a vein in Utah and Romney can certainly tap into that. But he was saying that he is going

to support Trump where it makes sense and not where it doesn't. So I think we can look for him to be sort of a, you know, a voice of anti-Trumpism

within the Republican Party, but still probably vote with him most of the time.

LU STOUT: Yeah, such a variety of political dynamics at play here in the midterms are quickly approaching. Zachary Wolf, thank you so much. We'll

talk again soon.

WOLF: Thanks.

LU STOUT: Now, the U.S. defense secretary, James Mattis, he has been in China and he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing today. His

visit comes at a time of rising tension as the these two nations are locked in the trade dispute.

At today's meeting which also included talks with Chinese defense minister, is part of an Asian tour for General Mattis. After Beijing, he is going to

visit military leaders in Seoul as well as Tokyo.

Now, the U.S. is sending experts to help search for a group of 12 boys and the man, their coach, thought to be trapped in a cave in Thailand. The

group made up of 11 to 16-year-old football players and their 25-year-old coach, they went missing in Northern Thailand near the border with Myanmar.

Their bags, their shoes and bicycles were found at the entrance of this cave system on Saturday.

Tulip Naksompop Blauw (ph) from our affiliate Spring T.V. is on the scene.

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TULIP NAKSOMPOP BLAUW, REPORTER, SPRING T.V.: So latest situation I have for you is that all 13 people are still missing.

[08:35:01] And the search (ph) team is still unable to go further than the point they went yesterday which is one kilometer away from the dry area,

the last dry area in the cave. But officials were able to find opening holes which -- six of them actually, and a third one they found yesterday

will give them the best chance that they might be able to lift up all 13 people out from the cave.

And also U.K., we have experts flying in from the U.K. today that will help in the search and rescue operation. They are all technical divers and they

helped in this kind of operation before. The U.S. government also just announced that they will send in an expert on the cave search as well.

And the big question everybody asks why Thailand still so hopeful about all of this 12 kids and their coach is because they have been in the cave

before so many times. Actually, one of the friends able to draw the cave map for the media just to show how well they know the place.

And for the families, of course it's a very, very stressful situation. They wait patiently and anxiously. They are so stressful that they have to be

closely monitored by psychiatrist. That's the latest situation for now.

I am Tulip Naksompop Blauw (ph), Mae Sai, Thailand.

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LU STOUT: Malaysian police, they have found a treasure trove of luxury goods when they raided the properties of former Malaysian prime minister,

Najib Razak. Here is the list of what they found. They found 35 bags containing up to $29 million in 26 different foreign currencies. Also, 72

bags of jewelry with total value of over $100 million, 423 pieces of watches seized worth over $19 million, and 567 designer bags, valued at

nearly $13 million.

That haul was part of the 1MDB investigation. He was accused of siphoning billions from the state fund. He has denied any wrongdoing, but the

investigators said Najib will be called for questioning soon.

You're watching "News Stream." Still ahead, arts attack. The restoration of a 16th century statue gives people the chills for all the wrong reasons.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back. CNN has learned that President Trump may meet with Russian President Vladlir Putin before the NATO summit next month. U.S.

officials have proceeded as if that summit would happen after the NATO talks in Brussels but sources say the two leaders could meet as soon as

July the 10th in Helsinki.

Donald Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton, is in Moscow today to work out details for the potential Trump-Putin talks.

A fake Donald Trump takes center stage in the racy video courtesy of a Russian who has the ties to the real Mr. Trump. Here is Sara Murray to

explain.

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EMIN AGALAROV, RUSSIAN POP STAR, SON OF RUSSIAN OLIGARCH: I don't want to wake up.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Russian pop star who helped facilitate the 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and

the Russians at Trump Tower is taking a cheeky jab at President Trump.

AGALAROV: I wish you at least could be honest. I wish that you told me the truth.

MURRAY (voice-over): Emin Agalarov's new music video titled "Got Me Good" features a risque roundup of encounters with Trump family lookalikes.

[08:40:03] From Agalarov and a Trump impersonator partying in a hotel room with bikini-clad woman to a fake Ivanka Trump accepting a mysterious

briefcase from Agalarov.

AGALAROV: You really got me so good. You really got me --

MURRAY (voice-over): Agalarov, the son of a billionaire Russian real estate developer, came under scrutiny for encouraging his publicist, Rob

Goldstone, to contact Trump Jr. about a meeting with a Russian lawyer offering up dirt on Hillary Clinton.

If it's what you say, I love it, Trump Jr. replied. It culminated in a June 2016 meeting including top Trump officials like Jared Kushner and Paul

Manafort.

One year later after the meeting came to light, it sparked a deeper dive into Trump's years long relationship with the Agalarovs. Back in 2013, the

real Trump partied with the Agalarovs when they helped Trump bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow.

The music video nags to the salacious but unproven claims about Trump's activities on the trip, documented in the dossier that is (INAUDIBLE) to

president.

The images of a Trump impersonator alongside the scantily-dressed women in the hotel room particularly suggested after Trump's long-time bodyguard,

Keith Schiller, testified to lawmakers that he rejected an offer from Agalarov's circle to send women to Trump's Moscow hotel room during the

trip.

At the time, Trump declared the Russia trip a success, tweeting at the elder Agalarov, I had a great weekend with you and your family. You have

done a fantastic job. Trump Tower Moscow is next. Emin was wow.

The project never came to fruition but has emerged as another area of interest in the Mueller probe. Crammed with raking (ph) references, the

three-minute music video features full (ph) appearances from Hillary Clinton, porn star Stormy Daniels, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

As a shadowy figure of Trump's encounters apparently all under surveillance, he edits Trump out of the footage. All of this under the

watchful eye of none other than a look-alike of North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.

(on camera): Now this latest pop song probably will not be the hit of the summer but it does give you a sense of how the Russia investigation, the

one President Trump has called a witch-hunt, continues to haunt him.

Sara Murray, CNN, Washington.

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local mayor and it drew inevitable comparison to this. The infamous Ecce Homo fresco of Jesus. On the plus side, the so-called "monkey Jesus" is now

yes, a popular tourist attraction.

And that is "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere. "World Sport" with Christina Macfarlane is next.

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