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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST: Here we go. Russian drones violate Polish airspace and NATO jets scramble to shoot them down. It is yet another test for the alliance and for President Trump as he faces this new provocation on the world stage.

BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN HOST: Plus: expiration day. President Trump's federal takeover of D.C. police is about to expire. So what happens next? Will anything change on the streets of the nation's capital? And where is he setting his sights on now?

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KEILAR: President Trump now facing two escalating foreign policy crises. His full statement on Israel's unprecedented strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar is expected today. And we're also expecting the president to call his Polish counterpart after NATO fighter jets shot down Russian drones in Polish airspace.

In his first reaction to that incursion, Trump posted: "What's with Russia violating Poland's airspace with drones? Here we go!"

This is the scene in Poland today, the roof of this home completely demolished by one of the drones that was shot down.

I want to bring in CNN chief international security correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.

Nick, Russia's aggression once again entering uncharted territory here.

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Yes, I mean, extraordinary,. Just worth pausing and imagining how hard it was to imagine getting here when Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Now we have their drones in 19 separate incursions, say the Polish authorities, heading inside the airspace of a NATO member. Now, we understand from some of the initial investigations, there seems to have been the remains of seven separate locations where drone components were found, three possibly, maybe more, shot down.

Three of these apparently, according to investigators, did not contain explosives, but some were of the Shahed type, which is ultimately an Iranian-designed attack drone, some of which do not contain explosive devices or are decoys. We don't quite know the full picture here, but clearly from what you're seeing there, those images show damage done to Polish homes.

So, elements of luck really that there weren't actually Polish casualties here. There were Dutch and Polish F-35 jets scrambled to intercept these drones, some of them shot down. That in itself is, European officials have been saying, the first time in NATO's history, or possibly at least since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, that NATO's had to act in this defensive way over its own territory.

Polish airspace shot a key Warsaw airport closed as they scrambled to deal with this particular threat. A Russian ally, Belarus, hinting maybe this was all a navigational error, that the electronic warfare had jammed the navigation of these drones, causing them to stray, but Polish officials clear, a supposition really here, that you don't make that kind of mistake 19 separate times, that this must have been intentional.

Add to that too the Russian Defense Ministry's statements saying that they did not intentionally plan to destroy Polish sites. That's not a denial that these were their drones or that the incursion happened.

So we're into remarkable territory here, Putin clearly very emboldened, possibly because of his recent summit with the Chinese and Indians at the beginning of this month. And President Trump at the weekend, after another escalation, the remarkable strikes against Kyiv government buildings, and then yesterday 24 pensioners killed by a single aerial bomb in Donetsk, we have heard talk that Trump could potentially invite European leaders to D.C. to discuss this.

That hasn't happened. That he'd call President Putin. That hasn't happened. And indeed that the next wave of sanctions against Russia were ready and he would implement them. That hasn't happened either. He's due to call his Polish counterpart today, but really many looking I think here to the White House to provide the sort of cast-iron guarantees you might expect in the heart of the NATO alliance, and that TRUTH Social post not quite that.

KEILAR: All right, Nick Paton Walsh, thank you so much for that.

Let's dig into the magnitude now of all of this.

We have CNN chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto with us. Jim, first off, your reaction to the timing here, because it's

important.

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: It is, no question.

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And I reached out to European officials. They don't see this as an accident. They see this deliberate. They say maybe one or two drones might stray over the border. But in this case, as Nick was saying, it's multiple drones crossing into Polish territory, which is, of course, a NATO ally. So keep in mind, we, the U.S., and other countries have an explicit defense commitment to Poland if it were to be attacked.

And they see this as, in effect, a probing exercise, testing the defenses. How far can they get in before they're noticed, but, also, crucially, how does Poland respond? How does NATO respond, and maybe even more so, how does the U.S. respond? What are the red lines? Are dropping drones into Polish territory a red line for President Trump? We will see.

KEILAR: And that's very important.

And sounding this Article 4 alarm, how significant is that?

SCIUTTO: Well, so it's not, of course, Article 5. It's not saying we have been attacked. This is an act of war. NATO allies, join together to help defend us.

But it's still significant because it's part of that same treaty. And it says that, in effect, they're called to convene to get together to discuss their response, a joint response. Now, that doesn't mean, to be clear, that we're -- NATO is suddenly at war with Russia. But they are going to discuss some sort of response here.

And to note how significant this is, they have only done this seven times since 1949, since the founding of the alliance. Of course, the big question, what does that response look like? And we know it's been on the table for months now from President Trump himself would be increased U.S. sanctions. But we haven't seen those yet.

KEILAR: What does this mean for Ukraine in all of this?

SCIUTTO: So Ukraine -- listen, I mean, Ukraine has been getting attacked every day multiple times, right? Keep in mind, these were hundreds of Russian drones that hit Ukrainian territory. Just a dozen or so went into Poland. And they're frequently deadly.

For Ukraine, I think it gives them a sense that we're in this together with you, Europe, because Zelenskyy has been saying for some time, we're the front lines of Russia's aggression in Europe. We're fighting kind of the first battle for you to help defend you. And I think this helps give him some backing for that. And I was just going to note this, that it's not the first time Russia

has hit European targets. Last month, in Kyiv, a Russian strike hit the offices of the E.U. and the British Council. It was a deadly strike. Not E.U. officials, but people died in that strike. And European officials did not see that one as accidental either.

KEILAR: Yes, it certainly makes Zelenskyy's warning more salient, right?

SCIUTTO: A hundred percent.

KEILAR: And Polish officials have worried about this as well. Does it make their fears a little more salient?

SCIUTTO: A hundred percent.

The Eastern-facing European allies for years have been sounding the alarm more to some degree than the West. And it makes sense, right? They're closer to Russia. Two -- one. And, two, they were under Russian domination just 25 years ago or so, Warsaw Pact, Soviet Union.

And they believe that it is quite plausible, maybe even realistic, that Russia's next target is NATO. They have been saying this for some time. Some in the West disagree with that. But they believe the threat is real.

KEILAR: Jim, thank you so much for taking us through all of that.

SCIUTTO: Thank you.

KEILAR: Really appreciate it -- Boris.

SANCHEZ: Keeping our eyes overseas, we turn now to Israel and the growing backlash over its strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar.

President Trump has said that he is going to be issuing a full statement today after he acknowledged that he was -- quote -- "very unhappy" with the strike. Israeli officials say that, since then, he has spoken with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, twice.

CNN's Nic Robertson is closely following all of this for us.

Nic, what more are you learning?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, look, a real coming together of Doha's Gulf partners, the UAE president here, Mohammed bin Zayed, in Qatar today using very, very strong language about Israel's attack here, calling it treacherous, calling it criminal.

The response given by the UAE so far has been very strong. We've heard today that they banned the Israeli representatives going from a military arms fair there later in the year. The Saudi crown prince, he's expected to visit Doha, as well as other senior regional Arab figures. The language coming from the crown prince in Saudi Arabia has been very strongly in support of Qatar. And the sense is that President Trump risks alienating his key and

important allies here. Qatar hosts a huge air base for the United States. The UAE hosts a huge Naval base facility for the United States, Saudi Arabia a key partner for President Trump in this region. Yet they now look at the U.S. president and wonder two things.

Can he prevent, as he has said he can going forward for Qatar, Israeli strikes on their sovereign territory? And can he control further Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans for Gaza? And that question, the hostage deal, the negotiations over a cease-fire in Gaza, they seem to be in the air more than ever at the moment.

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Hamas officials saying a cease-fire is not even under discussion now.

SANCHEZ: Nic Robertson live for us in Doha, thank you very much.

CNN chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny joins the conversation now.

President, the president has been for a long time now playing into this idea that he is a dealmaker and that the world was in chaos under the previous administration and that was part of the reason that he should be elected president. He talked about ending the war in Ukraine on day one.

And yet now, as we face both a conflict in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East, it appears that we're not close to peace on either of those fronts.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: No, not either of the fronts and a deepening crisis.

So let's start with Russia. I mean, we are nearly a month between that meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin and President Trump, and look what has happened in that month. Yes, the U.S. is likely getting closer to the threat of more sanctions, but how many times have we heard that before?

So clearly one thing is certain here. The relationships that President Trump thought he had that would end these conflicts with Vladimir Putin and his strong relationships in the Middle East that would simply solve these really age-old problems are not going to work.

So he is obviously upset about this, as we heard him say last evening, I'm not thrilled about this. And that is true because it's clear his administration with this, Steve Witkoff, and others back to the Middle East have been trying to negotiate a hostage deal here.

And this shattered that. It blew it up. And I'm thinking back to what Nic was saying there. The reason that this attack is so important because so many U.S. troops are just outside of Doha. The president spoke at the Al Udeid Air Base Air Force Base in May. I was there with him. And this is something that is so clear. The partnership has been damaged here. So the president has been

focusing on so many domestic matters. It's actually the world crises that are really raging hot that he is trying to deal with, and not doing a great job of.

SANCHEZ: When the president says that we should expect a full statement on the Doha strike later today, this would be I think the third one that he's put out, because you had an initial one come from Karoline Leavitt at the podium yesterday.

ZELENY: Right.

SANCHEZ: Then he revised it a tad before he posted it on TRUTH Social, adding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shoulders the burden of this strike essentially alone. How is this third one expected to be different?

ZELENY: That's a great question.

I mean, the president clearly has been distancing himself from this by saying -- the White House has said that, look, the U.S. military advised the president of this, effectively, they detected the strike was happening, but Netanyahu did not. That's unclear if it's true.

If it is true, the president clearly does not want his fingerprints on this. But he is not happy with Netanyahu. There's no doubt about this. They talked twice on the phone in the aftermath of that yesterday, perhaps more since then. So we will see what that third statement is going to be like. I mean, what else can he say? That's kind of limited.

SANCHEZ: Yes.

ZELENY: But, look, the reality here, as to your earlier question, all of the foreign policy challenges, those test presidents. Those are things that presidents can't prepare for. And the presidency -- Trump is being tested in ways that -- on a variety of parts of the globe that I can't really recall.

I mean, it's many, many challenges.

SANCHEZ: To use his phrase, here we go. We will see what comes next.

ZELENY: Right.

SANCHEZ: Jeff Zeleny, thank you so much for the reporting.

Coming up: a potential royal reconciliation. We just learned that Prince Harry has stopped, arriving at King Charles' London home. We're live in the U.K.

Plus, former Vice President Kamala Harris gets pretty candid about what went on behind the scenes as questions swirled about President Biden's candidacy. Ahead, hear what she's calling recklessness today, as the first excerpts of her new book come out. And as concerns build over rising prices and job growth, we're going

to speak with the CEO of the online trading platform Robinhood for his take on investing in the U.S. economy.

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SANCHEZ: Breaking news to CNN, Prince Harry, the duke of Sussex, was spotted arriving at Clarence House, the London home of King Charles III. This comes after reports that the estranged father and son could be having their first face-to-face meeting in a year-and-a-half since February 2024.

CNN's Max Foster joins us now live from London.

Max, do we know what they're meeting about?

MAX FOSTER, CNN ROYAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, speculation rife that something would happen this week, because Prince Harry has been here all week carrying out some charity engagements.

King Charles, though, was in Scotland, but we did see him flying back to London today, so everyone talking about this. Neither side, Harry's side nor Charles' side, willing to comment on it or speculate about it themselves, but they weren't dismissing it either. Then we see King Charles arriving back at Clarence House, which is his London residence, and then shortly afterwards we see Prince Harry getting into the same building.

We don't know how it's going. We don't know what's going on, because neither side will confirm the meeting's even taking place. But we do know that they're in the same building together. And this is obviously something that royal fans have been holding out for. As you say, they haven't seen each other since last year.

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And Prince Harry said to the BBC earlier this year that he hadn't even spoken to the king because of some differing views really about the way Harry had conducted his public life, in a case he had taken against the British government about his security as well.

But it does seem as though they're both happy to be in the same building at least, and we can assume that they are meeting and the meeting is going on. It might be a sign that it's going well in that Harry's meant to be another engagement tonight, and he's clearly going to be late for that and is carrying on with this meeting.

But I think a lot of hope this could be the beginning of a reconciliation.

SANCHEZ: Max Foster, please keep us posted with what you're hearing -- Brianna. KEILAR: Now to some of the other headlines that we're watching this hour.

The release of hundreds of South Korean workers detained in Georgia appears to be delayed. The workers were scheduled to be flown from Atlanta back to their home country today, but the flight is now on hold. It's unclear what is behind the delay or when it will take off. The workers were detained last week when ICE agents raided a battery plant near Savannah. Their detention sparked widespread outrage from South Korean officials.

Also, the Trump administration is appealing the decision to block the president's unprecedented effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The judge ruled that Trump has not identified anything related to Cook's conduct or job performance to prove that she is performing her duties unfaithfully or ineffectively. That means Cook keeps her job for now and is expected at the Fed's upcoming meeting on interest rates next week.

And the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the legality of President Trump's wide-ranging tariffs. Trump wants the justices to overturn a lower court ruling that said his administration acted illegally by imposing the tariffs, though an appeals court ruled they can stay in place for now. Arguments before the Supreme Court are planned for the first week of November.

And still ahead: a lot of concern about inflation and a weak jobs market. We're going to talk with the CEO of online trading platform Robinhood for how he's creating a social network so you can jump right in on all the chat about the economy.

Plus, why the U.S. government is putting a mega-yacht on sale with a deep discount -- those stories and more coming up on CNN NEWS CENTRAL.

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SANCHEZ: Today, a new report shows a welcome drop in wholesale inflation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that producer prices fell in August, President Trump touting the numbers, insisting that Fed Chair Jerome Powell now must cut interest rates at the Fed's upcoming meeting.

So far, there has been a mixed reaction on Wall Street, the Dow slightly down, Nasdaq and S&P up.

Here with us is someone who connects everyday investors to the world of high finance, Vlad Tenev, the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, coming to us from his company's Hood Summit in Las Vegas.

Vlad, thank you so much for sharing your afternoon with us.

There is a key consumer inflation report that comes out tomorrow. Some experts believe that it's going to show prices slowly creeping up. I wonder if you're hearing from investors there at the conference that they're concerned at all about inflation.

VLADIMIR TENEV, CEO, ROBINHOOD: Yes, well, thank you for having me.

One of the amazing things is we have a new product that we have recently rolled out called Prediction Markets. And so our active traders can trade contracts on many of these things that you mentioned, Consumer Price Index print, which is coming up, also the likelihood of a Fed rate cut and also how many rate cuts we expect throughout the rest of the year.

So, right now, the way it looks to be shaking out is a slight, slightly higher chance for three rate cuts, as opposed to two, and I think, last I checked, 81 percent chance of a 25 B.P. rate cut at the next Fed meeting.

So I think, in addition to active traders being able to trade this asset class, it's a useful source of information about the macro environment and something that's increasingly relevant. And that's one of a number of things that we have rolled out for our active traders over the past few months.

SANCHEZ: Yes, it gives you an indication of where investors' heads are at. And, on that point, I wonder what you're hearing from traders at the summit regarding tariffs and President Trump's trade war, if you sense any apprehension to get deeper into markets, given some of the uncertainty.

TENEV: When we started the year, there was definitely a lot of apprehension. I mean, you saw it everywhere, from the IPO market grinding to a sudden stop, to investors protecting their portfolios, maybe being a little bit hesitant.

But I would say, since April, the environment has become much more conducive. So, investors are keeping tabs on it, making sure that there's no major changes. But I would describe it as an optimistic environment.

Our customers here who are at the summit are several hundred, close to 1,000 of our active traders. So, these are sophisticated customers. They have been investing for a while.