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A Picture That Shook Lawmakers; All Sides Prepares for Big Day on July 17th; Some Democrats Rise, Some Don't on Their First Debate; World Watches as Leaders Meet at the G20 Summit; World Leaders Arrive In Osaka, Japan; New Flaw Found In Boeing 737 Max Aircraft; Despite Emotional Photo Congress Stalls On Aid; Crisis At The U.S. Border; Standoff At Sea; Trump And North Korea Relationship; Iran-U.S. Tensions; On The Hook For U.S. Tariffs; World Cup Quarterfinals In Extreme Heat; Trumpeting An Old Technology. Aired 3-4a ET
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: A heart wrenching image. Americans react after the deaths of a migrant father and his young daughter.
World leaders gathered for the G20. The summit could be stormy as trade wars and the prospect of actual war are set to dominate the agenda.
And the 2020 U.S. presidential debate season begins. The first batch of 10 Democratic candidates took to the stage. We will look at who stood out in a crowded field.
Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN Newsroom.
The harrowing image of the bodies of the Salvadoran father and his toddler daughter is now a powerful symbol to the crisis at the southern U.S. border. Their deaths became a focus in the political debate in Congress over President Donald Trump's immigration policies. But for the family it is a tragedy that transcends politics.
Michael Holmes begins our coverage.
MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR & CORRESPONDENT: Sometimes when human tragedy is lost amid politics and rhetoric and statistics, a simple photograph can mark a sea change in how a crisis is viewed.
The deaths of Oscar Alberto Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Angie Valeria could be such a moment. Like so many others, Oscar his wife and little Valeria left their home country El Salvador and headed to the U.S. in search of a better life, traveling through Mexico for weeks. But the family wasn't able to claim asylum on Sunday. The crossing was closed.
Mexican newspaper La Jornada spoke to Oscar's wife. She told the paper, Oscar became frustrated, impatient, and decided to take his family a few hundred yards away and cross the Rio Grande River to enter the U.S. that way.
According to Oscar Ramirez his wife, Tania Vanessa, here is what happened. Her husband goes over to the other bank, that's the U.S. over there with their child, puts the child on the bank, comes back to help her come over. The child panics, gets in the water, dad goes back to save the child, and they both ended up getting carried downstream.
And this is where their bodies were found in that photograph was taken.
Tania Vanessa's agony palpable. Oscar's mother in El Salvador wishing her son had never left.
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ROSA RAMIREZ, OSCAR ALBERTO RAMIREZ'S MOTHER (through translator): He was looking for a better future for his family without knowing he would find death.
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HOLMES: Oscars mother is bereft showing little Valeria's toys left behind when her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter left to begin their journey in April.
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RAMIREZ (through translator): Nothing can fill this void. For the family, it's difficult to comprehend what has happened.
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HOLMES: The current outrage over what happened to this father and daughter wouldn't be happening without photographer Julia Le Duc who took that gut-wrenching frame. She knows well the impact it had but says it can't stop there.
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JULIA LE DUC, MEXICAN JOURNALIST & PHOTOGRAPHER (through translator): I hope the impact goes beyond just the viral photo. There should be an invitation to debate and to consider changes on the migratory policies. And for the two governments to ask themselves, what are we doing for the immigrants?
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HOLMES: Today the bodies of Oscar and little Valeria began their journeys back to El Salvador to be laid to rest in the country they fled, seeking a dream but leaving behind a family shattered.
Michael Holmes, CNN, Matamoros, Mexico.
CHURCH: And President Trump reacted to that photo then blamed Democrats for refusing to make changes to asylum laws.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I hate it. And I know it could stop immediately if the Democrats changed the law. They have to change the laws. And then that father who probably was this wonderful guy, with his daughter, things like that wouldn't happen. Because that journey across that river, that journey across that river is a very dangerous journey.
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CHURCH: On Capitol Hill the reaction to the photo was emotional. The U.S. and its top Democrat displayed it during the debate over emergency funding for the border crisis.
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SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), SENATE MINORITY LEADER: President Trump, I want you to look at this photo. These are not drug dealers or vagrants or criminals. They are people simply fleeing a horrible situation in their home country for a better life.
SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): I didn't have time to have a picture blown up we've all seen it, of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his 23- month-old daughter Valeria.
[03:05:03] I realize tragedies occur all over this country, all over the world. I don't want to see another picture like that on the U.S. border. I hope that picture alone will catalyze this this Congress, this Senate, this committee, to do something.
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CHURCH: After the Senate passed a funding bill, President Trump tweeted, "The Republican Senate just passed bipartisan humanitarian assistance for our southern border, 84 to eight. In addition to aid, Congress must close the catastrophic loopholes that are driving the crisis. We must end incentives for smuggling children, trafficking women, and selling drugs."
But the funding debate is not over yet. The Democratic controlled House has its own version of the bill and there is no sign yet of any compromise. So, let's take a look now at the number of people in recent years who died while trying to cross into the United States.
And according to the U.N. International Organization for Migration, there were 412 migrant deaths at the southwestern U.S. border in 2017 compared to 398 deaths in 2016.
The U.S. border patrol says 283 migrants lost their lives in 2018. Human rights activists say the number of deaths could be far higher, noting that the remains of many migrants are never found. They also note that official data does not include all deaths registered by local authorities.
Well, world leaders are converging on Osaka, Japan right now gathering for the G20 summit. The leaders of China, France and Canada are among those already there. Britain's Theresa May is expected next hour and U.S. President Donald Trump is about three hours away.
There are a number of storylines to watch of course, especially meetings between the U.S. and Chinese leaders and what effect it will have on world trade.
CNN international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is in Osaka and he joins me now live. Good to see you, Nic. So, it's those bilateral meetings of course on the sidelines that will be attracting a lot of attention. And the main event for the world will be the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping. But Iran and the dear of war will also be top of the agenda. What are the expectations here of this G20 summit?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: I think the expectations are that President Trump will get a bumpy ride. It's not -- these G20 meetings are not to his liking, his, you know, his America first policies are seen as isolationist and the vast majority of the leaders here believe in multilateralism.
And one of the issues on the agenda for them is to reform organizations like the World Trade Organization. So there really is a stark contrast between their position of what they believe about free trade and what President Trump believes about trade, vastly different.
And of course, capping it all is the concern about the trade wars that are escalating with China at the moment. And President Trump from the get-go is going to hear about that. They'll be having dinner this evening with the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison who is going to tell him, you know, that in Australia's view the trade wars are damaging this. Escalation is damaging.
But undoubtedly as you say, Iran is going to be a big topic here. Why, because President Trump is really, is taking on Iran. And again, that puts him out of step with most of the nations here.
In Osaka, President Trump will be busy. His overseas entanglements are troubled, threatening global markets. He will have pressed meetings with President Xi of China. Tariffs and the elusive trade deal on the menu.
With President Putin of Russia, topics a mystery, but likely Mideast, missiles and maybe election meddling. And with Turkey's populist president, Erdogan, not so popular now, weaker, a troublesome ally, buying weapons from Russia.
Then there will be time with Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, MBS giving Saudis a hand up in their post-Khashoggi murder rehabilitation.
Running through all these conversations, Iran. Tensions rising, ships attacked, a U.S. drone shot down, Trump threatening Iran with oblivion, slapping on sanctions but holding back from missile strikes.
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TRUMP: I decided not to strike. They shot down unmanned, as you know, an unmanned drone.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Should they shouldn't take your threats seriously now, Mr. Trump?
TRUMP: I think everybody does.
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ROBERTSON: Not so much according to Iran's president.
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HASSAN ROUHANI, PRESIDENT OF IRAN (through translator): The White House is suffering from mental disability.
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[03:10:04] ROBERTSON: Trump's Osaka challenge proved Rouhani wrong and win over G20 leaders. But President Xi buys a lot of Iranian oil, Putin backs Iran in Syria, Erdogan is a quiet ally of Iran, but MBS should be easy. He wants Iran contained or crushed.
Trump won't meet the Iranians, they're not here not a G20 nation. But host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will talk a lot about them. He's trying to defuse tensions.
He went to Tehran recently, met the leaders. He buys a lot of oil from them too. If Trump is to avoid war with Iran, Abe could well fix the formula to make it happen.
In the space of two days, there's much else for Trump and his elite club of the world's wealthiest nations to discuss. Much of it not to Trump's liking.
Here's America first clashes with a multilateralism. On trade, specifically the reform of the World Trade Organization, and sustainable development, meaning climate issues. As for Iranian tensions, if the door to diplomacy opens, despite Iran's threat to shut it, then that will be a success of sorts.
There's a forerun of meetings, bilateral meetings that is on Saturday, but of course as you are saying before, Rosemary, everyone is really waiting to see that most important of the bilateral with Xi Jinping of China, and that will be Sunday morning here.
CHURCH: Absolutely. Our Nic Robertson bringing us a preview there from Osaka. Many thanks to you.
So Andrew Collier is managing director of Orient Capital Research and joins us now live from Hong Kong. Good to see you.
ANDREW COLLIER, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ORIENT CAPITAL RESEARCH: Hello. Good to see you. CHURCH: So, as we've been discussing, the world will be watching very
closely to see what comes out of this upcoming bilateral meeting that will take place on the sidelines between U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping.
How likely is it do you think that these two leaders can find a workable solution to the trade war between their two nations? Or is it unlikely in a setting like this?
COLLIER: It's very unlikely in and setting like this. It is possible that Trump will back away from his demands on a new set of sanctions on the Chinese, which is what he did before. There's a three-month hiatus. Or he could, he's been hinting at the idea of lowering his tariffs. So, he wouldn't hurt the Chinese trade as much as he originally had said.
However, that would only be a short-term change, long term I think it's difficult for the two nations to come to an agreement because the United States demands are some things that the Chinese really can't do. So, I'm not terribly optimistic of that much coming out, except there is a short-term hiatus that market will appreciate that. So, it could be good for some of the markets globally.
CHURCH: OK. And of course, the other meeting that will garner a lot of global attention will be the one between President Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Most analysts will be watching the body language between the two leaders as well as of course listening to see with the two men have to say. What would you be looking out for?
COLLIER: Well, I mean, that bigger theme in all these meetings is whether Trump's presidency is going to occur for a second term. And the other one, important question is whether America has now completely changed its fundamental attitude towards the global ward world order or is Trump just a flash in the pan.
So, the meeting with Putin will be seen in the light of, is this sort of buddy-buddy kind of way Trump has of personalizing everything, is that the way that America is going to function in the future? Or is America going to use multilateral institutions?
So, since he is, Trump is very private with his meetings in Putin, in fact, in 2017 he actually took the notes away from the translator. It's not clear we're going to get too much clarity out any of this. And the body language is likely to be quite positive no matter what. So, I don't expect to learn too much from that.
CHURCH: You did suggest at one point that he might let some of the journalists listen in but, we'll see if that happens of course. And of course, there's another high stakes meeting that will be monitored very closely, and that's the one between President Trump and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose new Russian missile system is expected to arrive very soon.
A purchase viewed as a slap in the face of both the U.S. and NATO. So, what might come out of that meeting on the sidelines do you think?
COLLIER: Well, that's very interesting. As far as I know, that there is a pretty good relationship between the two because Trump tends to like unilateral leaders. But the S-400 purchased from Russia certainly rattle nerves in Congress.
[03:15:00] And there is talk of sanctions against Turkey. Erdogan himself in an interview recently is fairly calm about the whole thing and things that he can sue the Trump's ego. But that's going to be an interesting meeting, particularly since there are also the F-35 jets that Turkey is buying from the United States.
So, I will be curious to see how Trump handles that one. That will be kind of tricky.
CHURCH: Yes. And of course, the other overriding issue that will dominate will be this fear of war with Iran. SO, would you expect that to be discussed at any depth? And there will be clearly some leaders who are very worried about this possibility.
COLLIER: That, yes. That could be the most important issue because that's easily multilateral issue, it affects everybody in the globe of course because Iran in the Middle East. And so, I'm sure a lot of leaders, Merkel and other leaders in Europe are going to be bending Trump's ear on that one.
His meeting with Putin will be important because Putin is relatively supportive of Iran. So badly language on there would be useful to know. But since we probably won't know what their discussion is going to be, I don't know how helpful that's going to be for everybody.
CHURCH: Yes. But whatever the case, we should all be watching and listening very carefully. Andrew Collier, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your analysis. I appreciate it.
COLLIER: Thank you.
CHURCH: Well round one is in the books for Democrats hoping to win back to the White House. Who stood out and who fell flat? We'll take a look at that.
Plus, U.S. lawmakers can finally ask Robert Mueller their burning questions when he testifies before Congress in public. But President Trump says he already has all the answers he needs. We're back with that and more in just a moment.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.
Well, the U.S. president is tearing into Robert Mueller and the Russia investigation ahead of the special counsel's public testimony before Congress in a few weeks. Donald Trump is furious the matter is still ongoing.
Sara Murray reports. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TRUMP: The Mueller thing never stops.
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SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: President Trump reeling against congressional Democrats after learning Robert Mueller will testify publicly for the first time since he started investigating the president and Russian election interference.
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TRUMP: How many times do we have to hear it? It never ends a. It just keeps going on and on. At what point does it end? It's a disgrace.
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MURRAY: Mueller set to appear July 17th before the House judiciary and intelligence committees. Democrats subpoenaed the special counsel who had hoped to avoid testifying publicly.
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[03:19:59] ROBERT MUELLER, SPECIAL COUNSEL, RUSSIA PROBE: I hope and expect this to be the only time that I will speak to you in this matter.
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MURRAY: Mueller's appearance comes at a pivotal moment as Democrats weigh whether to dive into divisive impeachment procedures. Either way, Democrats say will help Americans better understand his report.
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REP. JERROLD NADLER (D-NY): He will be a very compelling witness.
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MURRAY: But they are already managing expectations.
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REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA): Certainly, the outlines of what he's going talk about are in the report. So, many Americans haven't read the report. But again, I think we should be realistic about our expectations.
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MURRAY: The committee is expected to question Mueller in back-to-back hearing followed by a closed-door session with the House intelligence committee and Mueller staff to focus on the counterintelligence issues. Mueller's report concluded there was not enough evidence to charge members of the Trump campaign with conspiring with Russians. He left open the question of whether Trump obstructed justice, writing, "If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state."
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MUELLER: Any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. We chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. And the report is my testimony.
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MURRAY: Republicans are jumping at the chance to question the special counsel's conclusions.
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REP. MARK MEADOWS (R-NC): Bob Mueller better be prepared because I can tell you, he will be cross-examined for the first time and the American people will start to see the flaws in his report.
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MURRAY: Now Bob Mueller has said that if he has called to testify, he will stick within the four corners of that report, but certainly that won't stop lawmakers from asking truly whatever they want in this made-for-TV testimony.
Sara Murray, CNN, Washington.
CHURCH: Ten of the 24 Democrats hoping to win the White House next year met in Miami for the first of two debates.
Elizabeth Warren and her presidential plan set the pace. And Julian Castro had what many thought was the line of the night. Adios, Donald Trump. While many of the early questions focused on Warren and her ambitious ideas, on healthcare she explained how she would address rising healthcare and prescription drug costs.
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SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Medicare for all solves that problem. And I understand, there are a lot of politicians who say, it's just not possible, we just can't do it, we have a lot of political reasons for this. What they are really telling you is they just won't fight for it. Well, health care is a basic human right. And I will fight for basic human rights.
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CHURCH: Immigration was a contentious topic but it gave former Housing Secretary Julian Castro a chance to shine. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JULIAN CASTRO (D), FORMER HUD SECRETARY, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: On day one, I would do that executive order that would address metering. And then I would follow it up in my first hundred days with immigration reform that will honor asylum claims, that would put undocumented immigrants as long as they haven't committed a serious crime on a pathway to citizenship.
And then we go to the root cause of the issue, which is we need a marshal plan for Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador --
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CASTRO: -- so that people can find safety and opportunity at home instead of coming to the United States to seek it.
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CHURCH: And the Democrats -- And the Democrats were clearly looking to appeal to Latino voters with several addressing the audience in Spanish.
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SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I will make sure the number one we end the ICE policies and the customs and Border policies that violates --
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CHURCH: That's New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. He got the most speaking time followed by former Congressman Beto O'Rourke. He also showed off his Spanish speaking skills.
Well, Ron Brownstein is CNN's senior political analyst and the senior editor for the Atlantic, and he joins me now from Aspen, Colorado. Good to see you.
RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Hi, Rosemary.
CHURCH: So, who do you think won this first round of Democratic presidential debate and successfully pulled away from the pack?
BROWNSTEIN: I don't think anybody pulled away from the pack. I think look, they all -- I think they all performed credibly. But to me, the bottom line was, there were more potential cabinet secretaries on that stage than there were potential presidents.
I mean, this was the debate that mostly featured candidates who were lagging in the polls. And I'm not sure anyone really fundamentally shook that up. I thought the candidates who would probably did themselves the most good were Cory Booker and Julian Castro who you have already been highlighting in your clips. I thought Elizabeth Warren was steady as she goes. The beginning of
the debate was largely about her and she kind of delivered her campaign message in a Chris 45 seconds, 62nd sound bites. The other candidates passed on opportunities to challenge her which I thought was interesting. She receded as you saw as the debate went on.
But I think it was, you know, pretty much no harm no foul for her. On the other hand, I thought Amy Klobuchar and Beto O'Rourke who have been two candidates at the periphery of the top tier really had a missed opportunity tonight. I think neither really used this time to more sharply delineate and clarify what their lane is in this race, why they are running.
[03:25:02] And the other five candidates who have been mired at the 1 percent asterisk level, again, I thought they performed credibly but they did not give any kind of performance that would lift them out of that very far, you know, trailing status.
I think they remained after the debate where they started. Jay Inslee seems like a shoe in to be the EPA director for the next Democratic president, but I'm not sure he significantly increased his odds of being the nominee, for example.
CHURCH: Right. And it's interesting because Beto O'Rourke took a little heat on social media.
BROWNSTEIN; Yes.
CHURCH: He was getting a hard time for speaking the Spanish and avoiding answering the question. There seemed to be a sense that he didn't have the depth that some of the other prospective candidates did. Was that your sense?
BROWNSTEIN: Well, I -- look, the problem he's had, he ran a very inspirational campaign for Senate, extraordinary results, best performance by a Democrat in Texas in many years and wanted to come into the presidential race as kind of the young, inspiring RFK-type candidate.
And since he has run -- you know, since he gotten into the presidential race, he has seen not so much inspirational as a little kind of precious at time and canned and trying so hard.
And I think all of that kind of came through tonight, he has certainly, you know, earnest and passionate but it also seemed a little manufactured and the place he was hoping to take in the race, the spot he was hoping to fill has largely been filled by Pete Buttigieg.
And again, there was nothing that happened tonight that would cause you to think he's going to displace Buttigieg. If anything, I think O'Rourke's problems got a little deeper.
CHURCH: Right. Interesting. So how many people do you think are sort of out of the race just as the result of this first round? Because it sounds like as far as you see it, there's only about four or five of them that stood out at all.
BROWNSTEIN: Yes. Right. Well, you know, it's interesting because, you know, as we talked about before, it is striking to me how clearly a tier has pulled away from the rest of the field, even though until before tonight nothing, you know, per se had really happened in this race.
But when you look at both national polling and the polling and all of the states, you have the same top four. I mean, you have Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg. You've had Kamala Harris kind of a half step behind Pete Buttigieg in the high single digits. And then everybody else clustered sometimes at four or five or below.
I think Castro and Booker because of their intrinsic political skills were maybe undervalued stock that had an opportunity for another look. And I think they both performed in a way tonight that might get them that.
I thought Klobuchar and Beto O'Rourke as I said where candidates who needed to get people a reason to get them another look and didn't really do that today. And the rest of them are just facing the reality that, you know, they are one, two or zero percent in the polls with eight or 10 candidates ahead of them. Not only do they have to perform well, someone else has to stumble for them to kind of get a look.
And I think you saw the magnitude of the challenge facing those candidates, you know, very far back at this point on display tonight, even when they did pretty well, it's hard to imagine that it's going to move the needle very much.
CHURCH: Right. And of course, for the Democrats it's all about finding the person who can beat Donald Trump. And if it wasn't in this first debate then perhaps, we'll find that person in the second debate. It will be quite the fight.
Thank you so much, Ron Brownstein joining us from Aspen, Colorado.
BROWNSTEIN: Thank you, Rosemary.
CHURCH: Well, it's fair to say Donald Trump was not impressed with the Democrats. He stopped at an Air Force base in Alaska on his way to Japan where he told troops he would rather shake their hands than watch the debate.
Back on Air Force One, the president tweeted this one word reaction. "Boring." President Trump will be in South Korea in just a few days sparking speculation he may also meet with North Korea's leader. But there are new complications to that.
And grim descriptions of conditions prompt a media tour at U.S. border detention facilities. What our reporter saw there. We are back in a moment with that.
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome, back everyone. I'm Rosemary Church. I want to update you now on the main stories we have been following this hour. World leaders are arriving in Osaka, Japan right now for the G20 summit. The leaders of China, France and Canada are among those already there. Britain's Theresa May is expected next hour and U.S. President Donald Trump is about three hours away. Among the highlights to watch, President Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Well, CNN has learned a new flaw has been discovered in the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The government pilots founded a microprocessor can fail and actually push the nose of the aircraft toward the ground, leading pilots to struggle for control. It is not known if that problem played a role in two deadly crashes that led to the aircraft being grounded.
There were emotional reactions from U.S. lawmakers to the photo of a migrant father and daughter who drowned at the U.S. border. The Senate passed an emergency funding bill, but it is different from the House version and a compromise appears unlikely at this point.
Well, journeys like the one attempted by Oscar Martinez and his young daughter are common and dangerous. Those who make it across the border could end up in detention centers. Monitors have described the conditions of some of them as inhumane. Lawmakers asked the chief of law enforcement operations for the U.S. Border Patrol about the current conditions.
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SEN. MAGGIE HASSAN (D-NH): What are you doing to actually make sure that children are getting the care and the sanitary conditions and the food that they need?
BRIAN HASTINGS, CHIEF, LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS, U.S. BORDER PATROL: With increases I mentioned in my oral statement, the amount of operational funding that were spending on consumables, diapers, food, formula, all of those things, if you walk into many of our locations on the southwest border, including Clint, you will see an area, a store room that frankly looks like Costco with these supplies that are available.
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CHURCH: A media group was taken on a tour of the detention facility in Clint Texas. A customs and border protection agent said the tour was an effort to defend themselves. However, a source told CNN the facility was prep before the tour. Our Nick Valencia was a member of the group on that tour and he describes what he saw.
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NICK VALENCIA, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT: From what I saw inside the Clint border patrol station from my vantage point was not unconscionable, but it is worth pointing out the legal monitors that visited this very same facility last week visited a facility that had about 250 children in it. Today there was 117 and it was well overcapacity. In the processing center, we saw a total of nine cells. Some cells
had between 20 and 24 child migrants in them. Some who would looked like they had been through some very hard days recently. There was one child I saw with red bloodshot eyes. Another who appeared to be sick, with yellow, eyes, but wasn't quarantined. I did see one person who was quarantined, a teenage girl who had the flu and was in a cell by herself.
Perhaps the most heartbreaking thing that we saw where children that were sleeping on mats, one inch think mats, because there was not enough space on the cots inside of these cells. We were also transferred to an area that was an extension of this facility. CBP say Custom and Border protection say they had to extend it, because they are dealing with a historic influx of minors.
One story I do want to relate to you is I heard a teenage girl on the phone with her family, telling them that she was still alive, saying, you estoy vivo, estoy vivo (ph).
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[03:35:00] CHURCH: And that was CNN's Nick Valencia reporting there. In Europe, a different migrant crisis and defiance on the high seas after a two week standoff with authorities, a migrant rescue ship has entered Italian waters despite a banned by the country's anti- immigrant minister. Simon Cullen reports.
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SIMON CULLEN, CNN PRODUCER: Rescued on the Mediterranean with the hope of a new life in Europe. Of the 53 people taken on board the migrant rescue ship, Sea Watch Three, nine where women, three unaccompanied children, and two toddlers. That was two weeks ago. Since then, the rescue ship has been stuck in international waters after Italy refused permission for it to dock.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We are here not because we want to be here. It is because the situation brought us here.
CULLEN: Sea Watch says Libyan authorities try to get him to take the asylum seekers to Tripoli. Not an option for those on board.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): If I have to go back to Libya, I would rather die and give my body to the fish instead of being tortured.
VALENCIA: Eleven migrants have since been medically evacuated to Italy, but the countries interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has refused to budge any further, warning the ship would be sequestered if it entered Italian waters and those who are responsible to be charged. He says it is about upholding Italian laws.
MATTEO SALVINI, LEADER, LEAGUE PARTY (through translator): As far as I'm concerned, the Sea Watch won't arrive in Italy. It can stay there until Christmas or New Year's Day. VALENCIA: Sea Watch ask the European Court of human rights to
intervene and force Italian authority to allow it to disembark those on board, but on Tuesday it refused that request, saying vulnerable individuals had already been removed. Now, Sea Watch says it is taking matters into its own hands.
At midday on Wednesday local time, the rescue ship, citing emergency law provisions, says it entered Italian waters near the island of (Inaudible). It was swiftly met by Italian police while Salvini responded on Facebook.
SALVINI: We will use any means democratically allowed to stop this insult to our laws.
VALENCIA: For now, the standoff continues. This time in Italian waters, but a headache for Europe which is struggle to deal with migrants determined to make the journey across the Mediterranean. Simon Cullen, CNN, London.
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CHURCH: North Korea says talks with the United States will not automatically resume just because the U.S. wants to. President Trump heads to the South Korean capital after the G20 summit and that fuels talk of a third summit with North Korea's leader, but as Brian Todd reports, there is a new complication.
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The North Korean dictator's reputation for ruthlessness and manipulation could again be at play in his dealings with President Trump. There are now reports that Kim Jong-un may have taken another prisoner from a U.S. ally.
Australian officials tells CNN they have got reports that an Australian man has been detained in North Korea, but they are looking for clarification. Analysts say if this is true, Kim could be dangling the Australian detainee in front of President Trump as a bargaining chip, offering Trump the opportunity to be a diplomatic hero, possibly enticing Trump to hold the third summit with Kim.
MARCUS NOLAND, PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIMCS: When President Trump brought home an American, student Otto Warmbier, he was in a coma and died shortly thereafter, so bringing home a healthy hostage, could be touted as a kind of foreign policy accomplishments, and burnished his image as both for the humanitarian and somebody who can get things done.
TODD: The news of a potential prisoner comes at the same time there are new indications that the third Trump Kim summit could be announced soon. South Korea's President Moon Jae-in says U.S. and North Korea negotiators have been engaging in behind the scenes talks about another meeting between the two men. When asked about the prospect of another meeting with the North Korean dictator, Trump suggesting something may happen soon, but not while he is at the G20 summit. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I will be meeting with
a lot of other people. Not with him, but I may be speaking to him at a difference forum.
TODD: Experts say a third Trump/Kim summit will likely happen, but like the Hanoi summit in February, it may not actually work. To really get Kim to give up his nuclear weapons, they say, the people under Trump and Kim, the so-called working level diplomats, have to agree on the details, and those officials have not been able to make much progress lately.
NOLAND: This is not something that the two heads of state are going to go into, over the course of your weekend, and sort of hammer of. That is just not how it work.
TODD: But getting lower level talks moving again may not be easy, despite the president's affection for the ruthless dictator.
TRUMP: And then we fell in love. OK?
TODD: Kim's regime continues to show little love for the president's diplomatic team.
[03:40:03] In a new statement, the North Korean foreign ministry called Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, reckless, because the State Department just issued to new reports naming North Korea as one of the world's worst violators of human rights.
Pyongyang has previously called Pompeo, gangster like, as well as calling Trump's National Security Adviser, John Bolton, human scum and a bloodsucker. Analysts say this may be part of Kim's manipulation, but the dictator is seeking to divide Trump for his top national security aides.
JOSEPH YUN, FORMER U.S. ENVOY FOR NORTH KOREA POLICY: They know the bureaucratic infighting that is going on in Washington, they know what people like Pompeo stand for, what Bolton stand for. I believe for Kim Jong-un, this is all about playing to Donald Trump's vanity, conveying to him that you are the man, you can do the deal that nobody has been able to do before.
TODD: And analysts say, Kim's regime could be trying to manipulate Trump's team in other ways. In its latest statement, North Korea again slammed the U.S. for trying to bring the regime to its knees with economic sanctions. Experts say that is likely Kim's way of trying to pressure Donald Trump to lift some sanctions against North Korea. Because the North Koreans know that China, Russia and even South Korea are getting less and less enthusiastic about enforcing those sanctions. Brian Todd CNN, Washington.
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CHURCH: Iran says it will speed up its enrichment and stockpiling of low grade uranium beyond levels agreed to in the 2015 nuclear agreement. It's a key test for European countries who were hoping Tehran with stick to the deal. Meanwhile, Iran's top diplomat has responded to the latest warning from U.S. President Donald Trump. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports from Tehran.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: After President Trump threatened to obliterate parts of Iran and then followed up saying that a war with Iran would not last very long, he got some pushback from Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif. We caught up with him exclusively at the sidelines of an event in Tehran.
What do you make of President Trump's threats of obliteration and that war with the United States?
MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF, FOREIGN MINISTER OF IRAN: Well, he is certainly wrong, but that statement indicates that the United States intentions are certainly illegal. The United States is not in a position to obliterate Iran, they do not have the capability other than using prohibited weapons to do this.
PLEITGEN: Javad Zarif also said that he believes the United States is in flagrant violation as he put it of international law for putting major sanctions on Iran. He also reiterated that Iran does not want a war with the United States.
One of the other interesting things that he wanted to point out as he said he still believes that President Trump does not want a war with Iran. However he does believe that there are certain people around President Trump which he refers to as the B team, including National Security Adviser, John Bolton, who are trying to push President Trump in that direction, Zarif however saying, he believes Trump is actually trying to walk things back. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Tehran.
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CHURCH: We will take a short break. Still to come, Donald Trump is hoping for a breakthrough in the U.S. trade war with China. How that could get one Chinese industry off the hook. We take a look.
Plus, the heat is on at the Women's World Cup in France. Quite literally. The quarterfinals kickoff later as Europe is in the grip of an extreme heat wave. We will have the forecast.
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CHURCH: We are getting some video in just now that is raising questions. We see German Chancellor Angela Merkel meeting on Thursday with the country's president in Berlin. In that video, you see the chancellor shaking, and we should point out, we do not know why this is happening, but everyone is very concerned about it, clearly.
This is the second time in two weeks that she has experienced this. Back on June 18th, she was also seen shaking while meeting the president of Ukraine, and in that instance, Merkel said she felt better after drinking some water, saying she was dehydrated. A spokesman tells Reuters she feels fine and will head to the G20 in Japan in a matter of hours, as planned. Well, Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the
G20 summit has some predicting progress towards ending their lingering trade war, and that couldn't come soon enough for one industry that is swimming upstream. CNN's Matt Rivers has our report.
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MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Tilapia, it is one of America's favorite fish, because, well, it is good, but also because it is cheap, but the next time you order a meal like this it could be more expensive. To find out why, we are on Hainan Island, in China, a spot known for its seafood.
These fresh Tilapia, now more than 8000 miles away from New York City are likely destined for an American table, this is the Hainan shin foods company, where hundreds of workers farm, fillet and freeze Tilapia, a lot of which goes to the U.S. Big changed like all the Walmart sell their product, 22 million dollars' worth last year, but then trade war.
TRUMP: So I said that is OK. We are going to put tariffs on.
RIVERS: The Trump administration raised tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, including Tilapia. The new 25 percent rate really kicked in this month and this fishery felt it. Orders from America drop by 20 percent.
If the tariffs days, he says, I will have to find business outside the U.S., but Americans really like tilapia, the eat hundreds of thousands of tons of each year and 75 percent of that comes from China and that imported seafood is vital to business owners like Andy Boyle in Minnesota.
ANDY BOYLE, COASTAL SEAFOOD: So, it is really important that we have imports, because there just isn't enough on the domestic market sometimes to keep up with the demand for it. I have a job because of that all of these guys have jobs because of that.
RIVERS: In the U.S. market, Chinese tilapia is already extremely cheap and that was a long established supply chain, and it means importers can't just easily go find another country to buy from. Many will still choose Chinese tilapia even if it is pricier. So, who pays for that?
The biggest victims, he says, will be U.S. consumers because they will be the ones paying for the extra cost.
The importers face a choice, absorb the 25 percent cost or pass it on to consumers in the form of higher prices. And it is not just Tilapia, salmon, tuna, all kinds of seafood face the same tariffs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a lot of jobs at stake here. If we stop seeing those products or if we have seen ourselves in such a high price that people don't buy them, it's going to cost a lot of jobs. RIVERS: The Trump administration argues that the pain of these
tariffs is worth it in order to change what they would called China's unfair trade practices, and look, maybe that works, but the fact remains that the fish we just ate here in Hainan will soon be a lot more expensive in Houston. Matt Rivers, CNN, (Inaudible) City, China.
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CHURCH: The Women's World Cup gets back to business in the next few hours with the first of the quarterfinal clashes, this one between England and Norway, it has been an eventful tournament for both teams.
[03:50:07] Norway dominated in a penalty shootout to defeat Australia while England overwhelmed Cameroon to get through the round of 16. Here is a reminder of the other quarterfinal matches over the next three days. Friday's game between France and the USA is generating plenty of excitement in Paris, as the host meet the reigning champions.
On Saturday, the Italian's take on the Netherlands, then it's Germany versus Sweden, all very exciting and as the Women's World Cup action heats up, so do the temperatures. Let's turn to our meteorologist, Derek Van Dam, who joins us from the International Weather Center with more details on this heat wave. And Derek, I mean, they are getting into the low forties here.
DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, we broke a lot of records across western and central Europe. We will get to that in just a second, but following up on the World Cup, we have our big game tonight. We have got Norway versus England and then of course tomorrow, France versus the United States. .
The good news about tonight's match, 9 p.m. local time, it is a coastal city so we may get a little bit of influence from the Atlantic Ocean helping to keep the temperatures down a touch just for those players, so as the fans approach the stadium, temperatures in the middle twenties, not so bad, kickoff temperature about 24 degrees tomorrow. On the other hand, that is another story, you move the stadium towards the inland part of France that is where we really starting to see those sweltering temperatures.
In Paris, tomorrow for the France versus United States game we will see temperatures in the lower thirties. Not record breaking territory necessarily, but it will certainly be felt on the pitch and off the pitch.
Now, check this out. This is a map of the record maximum temperature set for the month of June across Europe. And pay attention to Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland. And I highlight those three locations, because just yesterday on Wednesday, they set their all- time maximum temperature for the month of June. I mean, this is incredible temperatures. We are talking about the mercury in the thermometer climbing to the upper thirties and just floating with that 40 degree mark which could be broken in some locations. More on that in a second. What's causing all this heat? Well, it is all thanks to high pressure
builds over the Iberian Peninsula as well as the Mediterranean that is driving in warmth from North Africa, allowing for these temperatures to soar and if we're talking about daytime highs for Madrid, Spain, get this. Back in 2017, we climbed all the way to just past 40 degrees.
Here is your maximum temperature predicted for today and tomorrow -- 41 and 42 degrees respectively, so likely we will also see records broken in Spain as well. Heat wave conditions continue until -- what's this? That shade of green heading into the first half of next week, we will have a cold front that will beat back the warmest of temperatures, keep them at bay, brilliantly located across the Mediterranean.
We will finally get a break for some of the major cities like Berlin as well as Paris. So there is some relief in sight, we just have to wait until next week. Maybe, Rosemary, if you're lucky enough, you got to a beach coast life and go cool off.
CHURCH: That is the hope, right? Thank you so much, I appreciate it, Derek. We will take a short break here, coming up, the U.S President Trump, a technology that is not exactly cutting edge. We will explain when we return.
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CHURCH: Well, U.S. President Donald Trump claims he is a whiz when it comes to technology, but lately he's been talking up a system that has been around for 20 years as if it's brand-new. CNN's Jeanne Moos ask, does he know that?
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[03:55:09] JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President Trump sounds like a broken record when he talks about playing things back.
TRUMP: My wife watch, I said, you have to see this, it's a great invention, it's called TIVO. OK, I don't want to be advertising, but you know it's like, better than television. Because television, you never see (inaudible), with TIVO, you play it back, I played it back.
MOOS: Twitter played back the president's word.
TRUMP: It's called TIVO.
MOOS: Trump marvels at two decade old technology. This would be such a good plug for TIVO in 1999, which is when the digital recording device was introduced.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: TIVO, let's you create your own TV network. So you can watch what you want when you want to.
MOOS: Trump has taunted TIVO repeatedly.
TRUMP: I think it's actually better than television, because television is practically useless without TIVO, right.
MOOS: As far back as 2015.
TRUMP: So when we play it, you know, you have this things like TIVO, and that thing is truly great today.
MOOS: 2015 was the same year TIVO tweeted, TIVO cuts ties with Donald Trump, hashtag dump Trump. A different company now owns the brand and told CNN, we do not stand by these past remarks. We are not about politics, but to be honest, we do not have the remotest idea of exactly which system the president uses to watch TV.
Does Trump has a state of the art super TIVO or just regular old direct TV? Ask the verge, after examining an image of the remote spotted at the White House during a 60 Minutes interview. President Trump has a low tech image with his sharpie, his computer free desk, his phone technic, yet he insist --
TRUMP: Yes, I know more about technology than anybody. Nobody knows more about technology than me. I'm a professional technology.
MOOS: 1999 technology, maybe he will use it to play this story back.
TRUMP: One of the great inventions in history, it's called TIVO.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN.
TRUMP: TIVO. TIVO.
MOOS: New York.
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CHURCH: It's time for a reboot. Thanks for joining us this hour. I'm Rosemary Church. Remember to connect with me any time on Twitter. And the news continues with Max Foster in London. You're watching CNN. Do have a great day.
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