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Trump Says, Very Unhappy Over Israel's Strike on Qatar; Harris' Book Says, Reckless to Let Biden Make Reelection Decision on His Own; Poland Shoots Down Russian Drones, Accuses Moscow of Aggression. Aired 7-7:30a ET

Aired September 10, 2025 - 07:00   ET

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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: New this morning, President Trump says he is very unhappy with the unprecedented Israeli strike on Qatar. We are standing by to learn what he might do about it.

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: It was recklessness. That is the take now from the former vice president, Kamala Harris, on how she and others in the White House let Biden alone make the decision about running for reelection. Excerpts from her new book are out, and there's a lot in there.

And unreal video really of a violent jewelry store robbery, a dozen robbers breaking in, smashing the whole place up. The attack ending almost as suddenly as they began, and all of them still on the run.

Sara is out. I'm Kate Bolduan with John Berman. This is CNN News Central.

BERMAN: New, this morning, President Trump says he is, quote, not thrilled and very unhappy about the unprecedented Israeli striking cutter targeting Hamas leaders. The president claims he will issue a full statement today. We'll see. He made what he -- he said what he said before dining out in Washington for the first time since his inauguration, he was met by pro-Palestinian protesters who got within a few feet of him.

In terms of the strike itself, Qatar, of course, is a U.S. ally and a key mediator in the Gaza talks. One diplomat tells CNN that Hamas was expected to respond to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal, but the Israeli strike disrupted those plans. A senior Hamas official says, no one is talking about a ceasefire at the moment.

Let's get to CNN's Alayna Treene at the White House for where the White House is, what -- where the administration is right now on all of this?

ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Well, John, I mean, I think it's clear there's a lot of frustration in the building behind me about what had happened with these Israeli strikes on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar. Part of that is because the White House was not, and the president himself was not informed about this until shortly before it happened. And it wasn't even the president himself who was informed by Israel. We're told by U.S. official that actually the president learned about this through the joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine.

And when they told Qatar, I know that Trump had told Witkoff, who's very close with the Qatari, when they had told them about the attack, it was too late to stop it. And we've seen the president now say this publicly, say it on social media that he is unhappy with this. And that is what he told reporters when he was walking into Joe's Seafood, that restaurant you mentioned that he went to last night. Listen to how he put it.

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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: I am not thrilled about the whole situation. It's not a good situation. But I will say this, we want the hostages back, but we are not thrilled about the way that went down today.

So, I was very unhappy about it, very unhappy about every aspect and we got to get the hostages back. But I was very unhappy about the way that went down.

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TREENE: So, a few things I think are really important to note here, including with what the president said there, the reason they are taking pains to make clear that he is unhappy with it. We saw the president also say yesterday that it was Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, who was the one who green lit this attack, is because the timing of this. When I talked to some of White House officials here, they say that they're also frustrated by the timing of this coming just days after the United States laid out, you know, plans for a potential ceasefire proposal that they had said the Israelis had accepted. Part of that deal or that ceasefire proposal was to have Hamas release 48 of the remaining hostages in Israel, and then they would have a ceasefire while negotiations continued.

Of course, this coming during all of that, I know it's very significant, the White House has not been involved in some of these ceasefire talks since they exited them back in July, really raises questions about where this could go from here and whether or not Hamas is actually going to come to the table now for that proposal.

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John?

BERMAN: And, again, the president said he would put out a more comprehensive statement on it today. We will see if we get that.

Alayna Treene at the White House, thank you very much. Kate?

BOLDUAN: And this morning Kamala Harris is having her say, just coming out, they are first excerpts being released of her new book this morning. Harris getting very candid about what went on behind the scenes as questions swirled about Joe Biden's candidacy, calling it recklessness on all of their part to allow President Biden to decide on his own whether he should run for reelection.

Harris explains why she did not go to the president to convince him not to run. She's quite a bit to say also about how she thought the Biden staff was working against her.

CNN's Edward-Isaac Dovere joining us now with more on this. What are you learning here?

EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: Kate, this is the first excerpt of Harris' book. It's out in two weeks, but a chapter of it running in The Atlantic this morning. And in that chapter, she addresses some of the most pressing questions that were on her about how she reflected on what happened in her campaign and in her vice presidency that led to that. And as you said, she starts out by talking in this chapter, by writing about the decision that everybody left to Joe Biden to run for reelection.

She writes, it's Joe and Jill's decision. We all said that like a mantra as if we'd all been hypnotized. Was it grace or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn't a choice. It should have been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.

And what you see there, Kate, is Harris now being very forthright about feelings that were there over her entire vice president. That feeling ignored and overlooked. But really in the heat of things last year after that disastrous debate performance by Biden that left Harris with just a short amount of time to run for president and this feeling like Biden had waited too long and should have decided not to run.

She, after years of being loyal, and she writes about this in the book too, is making a real, clear statement that she blames a lot of what happened on Joe Biden.

BOLDUAN: And also there's a lot to just in this excerpt that she has to say about the Biden staff. She does not seem to be holding back in blaming them or her anger it seems, towards them on how she thinks she was treated.

DOVERE: Yes, that's right, Kate. Look, I reported a lot about Harris when she was vice president, when she was running for president. There was a constant feeling from the Harris team that she was being undercut, that she was being put in bad positions. A lot of that is pretty accurate. There were also things that Harris stumbled about and made mistakes on that caused some of her issues.

But the White House staff for Biden, especially the people close around the president, did not do what a lot of people expected them to do, which was to try to elevate Harris over the course of her vice presidency to get ready to run for president, and that left her then when she took over in an even deeper hold than she would've been already.

And she addresses that in some length of, again, all we have is this one chapter so far, but she says that they felt like anything that did well for her was at Biden's expense, and she writes, they didn't get it.

BOLDUAN: They didn't get it. All right, much more to come very clearly. That book coming out in a book tour planned with many stops ahead. So, the rollout begins.

Isaac, thank you. Thank you so much. It's great to see you.

Breaking overnight for us, it's being called a major violation. For the first time, Poland is forced to shoot down Russian drones in its own airspace. What NATO allies are saying now just this morning about it all and about what should happen now in response.

Plus, a violent attack on a California jewelry store. The surveillance video is just straight up insane, capturing the moments more than a dozen armed men crashed through the windows of the store, they ransacked the place, they even attacked the store's elderly owner. Today, the search is on for those suspects.

And we're going to show you a video released by the Department of Homeland Security showing the Coast Guard -- what the Coast Guard says sinking a suspected drug boat, you see that video right there, and seizing nearly 13,000 pounds of cocaine.

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BERMAN: All right. Breaking overnight, a major development overseas, for the first time, Poland says it shot down Russian drones that entered its airspace. The drones were apparently part of a sweeping air attack on Ukraine. Now, Poland is invoking Article 4 of the NATO charter, which calls for a meeting of NATO allies to face what it calls an active aggression.

At least one NATO ally sent F-35 fighter just to assist Poland overnight. The NATO secretary general just moments ago said that the Russian violation is reckless.

Let's get right to CNN's Nick Paton Walsh for the latest. Nick?

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Worth pausing here and just thinking about how significant, an unprecedented moment we're seeing here and what kind of escalation has happened.

For the first time I can recall in my lifetime, we are seeing Russian aircraft violating NATO airspace and it seems being shot at by NATO aircraft, scrambled Dutch jets as part of Poland's extraordinary moves overnight to try and shore off what they say was 19 intrusions of their airspace.

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Unclear how many Russian drones that necessarily amounts to. There appear to have been four shot down, although Polish investigations ongoing, they're finding debris near the border. There appears to have been damage to civilian homes in that area. And also too just to give you some context as to how shocking this would've been to ordinary Poles overnight, the Chopin Airport of Warsaw was closed, airspace closed entirely as Poland tried to stop this extraordinary incursion.

Now, it appears to have been at the same time in which there was an enormous their assault against Kyiv too, over 400 drones used -- sorry, I should say, against Ukraine, over 400 drones used there. There have been suggestions from Russia's ally, Belarus, this may have been some drones that lost their way. We've not heard that officially from Russia yet, the Kremlin referring queries to the Ministry of Defense. It is possible that maybe GPS spoofing or some kind of navigational jamming error caused this to happen. But that number of intrusions is going to take an awful lot of explaining.

And so now we are consistently hearing angry reaction from European leaders calling this in the words of NATO Chief Mark Rutte absolutely reckless. We've heard from other European leaders' condemnation two. The question really is what is NATO's response to this? We have seen an extraordinary overnight launching of aircraft to intercept these drones. But at some point, there may be a need to restore a deterrent value against Russia to remind Vladimir Putin, who clearly feels emboldened after a summit in China over the last weeks with real assistance there from China and even India clearly by his side that he can push the envelope a little more here.

What indeed, too, do we hear from the White House about this? They still want a peace deal. Putin clearly wants to try and push NATO as far as he can. This is all about really trying to make that alliance look weak, and I think we have to see in the hours ahead if they're able to conjure a response, that means something like this doesn't happen with greater frequency. John?

BERMAN: I think you illustrated exactly what the big issue here is and embolden Vladimir Putin acting in a way that seems like he can behave with impunity.

Nick Paton Walsh for us, thank you very much. Kate?

BOLDUAN: There's some wild video coming in and out of California, surveillance footage capturing an armed robbery of a jewelry store there. Watch this.

After that SUV rams into the stores smashing the store's windows, several other crawlers pull up, about a dozen masked men get out, run inside, and it's just chaos, smashing displays, grabbing whatever they can, as it seems. We just look as it was playing out, and you see the store's owner right there. The 88-year-old owner was shoved to the ground in this mayhem. His family says that he suffered a stroke in this, and also injuries from broken glass.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My heart is pounding, mad, angry, worried.

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BOLDUAN: The owner has now been released from the hospital, we are told. And as of now, all of those suspects remain unidentified and on the run.

Also new this morning, President Trump's tariffs are starting to show up more in the supply chain, and many of them. A new inflation report coming out today could give some insight, important insight into just how much prices are rising for businesses and eventually that would mean for consumers. Economists are expecting August producer price index will show wholesale inflation slowed last month and remain unchanged on an annual basis.

Coming up still for us, a manhunt underway in New York for a suspect accused of brutally killing an elderly couple. Investigators say that he got into their home by asking to charge his phone.

And if you have a cool $100 million laying around, well, congrats. But also we've got a deal for you, a mega yacht for sale, and why it's being listed by the U.S. government.

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BERMAN: This morning, new images of a suspect on the run after the murder of an elderly couple inside their home. New York police released Ring doorbell footage of 42-year-old Jamel McGriff taken moments before the couple let him inside their home in the Queens section of New York. He allegedly beat them, robbed them, then set the house on fire before fleeing. Authorities say he is armed and dangerous.

Let's get right to CNN's Mark Morales for the latest on this. Good morning, Mark.

MARK MORALES, CNN REPORTER: Good morning. And, as you've said, this is really one of the more violent crimes that we've seen in the city recently, and we're talking about a double homicide inside of a home. As we've said, the NYPD is out in full force looking for him. Also looking for him is the regional fugitive task force. They're made up of local and federal law enforcement. They go after the worst of the worst.

And this is who they're going after. His name is Jamel McGriff, 42 years old. He's been on parole for a robbery he did 16 years ago. He's got an extensive criminal history over the last 30 years. And this all started on Monday when McGriff was seen on surveillance camera, going to different homes in that Queens neighborhood, asking if he could go inside to charge his phone. It was the victims who ultimately let him in through a back door, and you see him just around 10:00 in the morning going in through that door.

He's spotted again five hours later walking around the neighborhood after he left the home. And then a short time after that, that home catches on fire. [07:25:03]

Firefighters and police rushed to the home. And once the fire was out, they went inside, and that's when they found the victims, Frank and Maureen Olton, dead inside the home. Take a listen.

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JESSICA TISCH, NYPD POLICE COMMISSIONER: Mr. Olton was found in the basement tied to a pole with multiple stab wounds. Mrs. Olton was found on the first floor severely burned. At this time, there is no known connection between Mr. McGriff, our suspect, and our victims beyond this chance encounter.

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MORALES: Now, this comes as the White House has been honing in on Democratically-run cities saying that crime is out of control. Leaders here in New York, from Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, insist that crime is not out of control. Crime is down and they actually don't need the National Guard here in that capacity. John?

BERMAN: All right. Mark Morales for us, a pretty chilling video there, thank you very much for that report.

All right, a stunning mea culpa from former Vice President Kamala Harris and excerpts of a new book just released, she calls the failure to question Joe Biden's reelection decision recklessness.

And is this a case of driving with a load not properly tied down? Yikes. Shipping containers spill off a cargo ship.

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