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Officials Gathering Evidence from Crash Site; U.S. Prosecutor: Prince Andrew Has Not Cooperated; Auschwitz Liberation Anniversary; Several Countries Seek To Evacuate Citizens From Wuhan; Bolton Manuscripts Stirs Impeachment Witness Debate; Trump To Announce Administration's Plan Tuesday. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired January 28, 2020 - 01:00   ET

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm John Vause. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from CNN's World Headquarters in Atlanta. Ahead this hour, escape from Wuhan. The foreign nationals being air-lifted from ground zero of China's coronavirus outbreak.

Just don't mention the Bolton story. The Trump's legal team ignores the elephant not in the room but revelations from the former National Security Adviser might be enough to see him testified before the Senate. The deal of the century which is anything but. We'll explain why Donald Trump's long-awaited peace plan has more to do with helping his buddy Bibi win an election in March.

We'll begin with Wuhan coronavirus. And China taking extreme measures to contain the outbreak, now warning the virus can spread via water droplets and simple contact and patients could be contagious before displaying any symptoms.

Here's the latest. China confirmed another 24 people have died from the virus for total deaths of 106 there, and the number of those infected has jumped to more than 4,500. At least 15 cities in China are facing full or partial lockdown affecting close to 60 million people, roughly the population of Italy or those of Canada and Australia combined.

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department has raised its travel warning urging Americans to reconsider going anywhere, anywhere in China, not just Wuhan. The U.S. is also among countries trying to evacuate citizens from Wuhan. For the very latest, CNN's David Culver live in Beijing. So what is the latest on this airlift for the foreign nationals? Right now, it seems to be limited to a small number of countries with the resources to do this, but is that expected to change?

DAVID CULVER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, certainly a growing number of countries interested in doing it. But to your point, yes. It's about the resources of trying to get those individuals out of the lockdown zone, out of the city of Wuhan in particular. Now, in addition to the United States, we've learned that Japan is working on getting a flight chartered out of Wuhan later on today, and that's expected to have 200 people on board.

But we've heard there's about 650 people who are interested in getting out. So Japanese officials have said they're going to work on coordinating later flights perhaps even tomorrow. South Korean officials likewise saying that they're trying to get some 700 people who are eager to get out of Wuhan and the Hubei province as a whole. And they're still trying to figure out how exactly to coordinate that. And the U.K., France, likewise in similar positions of trying to get their individuals out of the region.

Meantime, we did catch up via video chat with an American mother and her young daughter who are determined to get out.

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CULVER: At the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, Priscilla Dickey and her eight-year-old daughter Hermione are preparing for a flight back to the U.S.

PRISCILLA DICKEY, U.S. CITIZEN STRANDED IN WUHAN: I signed up and then I get the call at four and now I kind of scramble my way to get into a car at 2:00 in the morning to get to the -- to the airport but like at least six, five or six.

CULVER: The pair live in Wuhan, China. The city has been on lockdown since Thursday. No one is to leave without special permission. The U.S. State Department arranged a charter flight for American diplomats and a select number of civilians including Priscilla and Hermione scheduled to depart Wuhan on Tuesday, destination California. Priscilla's reason, well sitting right next to her.

DICKEY: Just her. Just having her with me. Because if I was by myself, I'd probably be like, whatever. I'm just going to ride it out.

CULVER: They're leaving as Chinese military medical teams are arriving. The personnel brought with them a batch of much-needed supplies, including 10,000 protective suits. But the demand for facemask and other protective gear far outnumbers the current supply, which is why assembly lines were ordered to power backup during the holiday, employees working overtime.

This as a swarm of construction crews work to build not one but two hospitals within two weeks' time. They will be dedicated to treating those infected with the virus. Meantime on the eve of their evacuation from Wuhan, Priscilla and Hermione know the long flight back to the U.S. is only the beginning of a long journey.

DICKEY: What I heard is that they're going to quarantine us for anywhere from 72 hours to 14 days.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 14 days?

DICKEY: And then after that, we are free to travel back to our destinations.

CULVER: The unfiltered innocence there of young Hermione realizing it would be a potentially two-week quarantine. But that's the reality that only for the Americans who would likely be evacuated, but really anyone who's going to be going back to their home countries would potentially have to be quarantined for up to two weeks' time, given the concern that it could still spread in the midst of somebody not showing symptoms of that incubation period.

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What's interesting, John, about the Japanese efforts to evacuate their citizens is that not only are they planning to send a plane tonight, but they're also going to be sending along with it protective gear. They're bringing in the mask and the hazmat suit much-needed supplies for the resources that are quickly depleting on the ground to be restocked.

And we know that Chinese officials have updated as of today. They've got some 6,000 military and civilian medical personnel currently on the ground in Hubei province working on this. You saw the two hospitals there that are under construction. They're estimating, altogether they'll have about 13,000 beds dedicated to infected patients within the city of Wuhan alone. John.

VAUSE: Wow, that's a lot. A lot of resources being put into this especially given the tension to tie between Japan and China. It's good to bring that to one side in this emergency. But David, thank you. David Culver live for us there in Beijing.

On the second day of defending the U.S. President, Donald Trump's legal team spent almost the entire day ignoring stunning new revelations from his former National Security Advisor John Bolton. The New York Times reports the manuscript of an upcoming book written by Bolton contains allegations the president told him directly military aid for Ukraine would be on hold until the Ukrainian president announced investigations were underway into Vice President Joe Biden.

For almost eight hours, Trump's lawyers detailed corruption allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden that were not real, defended the President's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and argued about the constitutional basis for the articles of impeachment. But then when within that final hour, celebrity T.V. lawyer Alan Dershowitz addresses the elephant not in the room.

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ALAN DERSHOWITZ, DEFENSE LAWYER: If a president, any president were to have done with the Times reported about the context of the Bolton manuscript, that would not constitute an impeachable offense. Let me repeat nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense.

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VAUSE: The question now is, will the new revelations be enough to persuade at least four Republicans to vote with Democrats and call John Bolton to testify before the Senate trial? House Democrats say that's why the White House doesn't want to hear from John Bolton.

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REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA): 1Look, I can understand the reasons why, and I think we knew this already, why the President and his allies have wanted to suppress John Bolton's testimony. They evidently had this manuscript. They understood what John Bolton had to say, and they were definitely afraid the American people would find out.

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VAUSE: Joining me now live from Los Angeles, former Assistant U.S. Attorney David Katz. David, good to see you.

DAVID KATZ, FORMER ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY: Great to be with you.

VAUSE: It seems incredible that you know, just shy of seven hours of Trump defense team pretending that this story, "Trump tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says," with the opening line, President Trump told his National Security Advisor in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there help with investigations into Democrats, including the Biden's according to an unpublished manuscript by the former Advisor John Bolton.

And then when Dershowitz actually took up this whole Bolton issue, he was brief, he didn't offer log details, and you know, he didn't talk about why this was not a game-changer, why Bolton should not be called as a witness. He didn't have much of an argument.

KATZ: Well, no. Professor Dershowitz didn't have much of an argument at all. And you know, you can call him Professor Flip Flop because CNN unearths a tape from him in 1998. And what he said there was very cogent. That's before he drank the Trump Kool-Aid and got on T.V. all the time defending President Trump.

But what he said then was that if a president corruptly misuses the office, that's number one, what Trump did. Dershowitz said that number two, if he abused his trust, that's also what happened here. And number three, it presented a threat to the wellbeing of the nation, which certainly is the problem with the elections with the holding back $400 million for a hot war that our ally was fighting after Russian invasion and incursion, that that President could be removed in that situation, notwithstanding there was not a technical crime committed.

So this whole argument, all of this draws about it can't be an abuse of power, that's just not true. Both as to Clinton and as to Nixon, both them had articles of impeachment precisely for abuse of power, not just technical crimes.

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VAUSE: There's a couple of options here I guess for Democrats. They could have -- the House could subpoena the manuscript, they can put it into records, they can release it publicly, whatever. But whatever they do, it seems that this could be a game-changer for a small number of Republican senators. Listen to this.

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SEN. MITT ROMNEY (R-UT): I think it's increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton.

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VAUSE: So if Romney and three others join with the Democrats and vote for witnesses, in particular, John Bolton, this Senate trial becomes a whole new ballgame. It goes on for longer, it goes past the State of the Union. What else are we looking at?

KATZ: Well, I've said for a while that trials have their own momentum, and with someone as good as Adam Schiff, who I used to work with presenting the case as the lead impeachment manager, and with a couple of conscientious senators, both Democrats and Republicans who are retiring, there's no reason why the Republicans shouldn't call this bombshell witness.

I mean, basically, the president confessed to his own handpicked National Security Advisor, that this was a quid pro quo, and that what Trump was doing with them was withhold the money authorized by Congress until and unless he got the commitment to announce a criminal probe of the Biden's. We have it right out of Bolton's mouth.

I don't see how these senators could retire and not be disgraced if they didn't vote for this witness, Bolton. And I don't see how people running in district. This woman is running an Iowa, Republican, all the Republican senators who are running this time around, Collins, I don't see how they could possibly vote against this witness Bolton.

So, I think today, John, they tried to trade something for something. The Republican senators are now trying to make their own quid pro quo. But why should the Democrats agree to Hunter Biden who doesn't know anything that's relevant to the probe of 2019? He last was it on the scene in 2016. He knows nothing about this quid pro quo in 2019. Why should the Democrats trade, John? They should just take Bolton and they're going to get both and as a witness, I believe.

VAUSE: We'll hold that to -- hold you to that. The President though, has been conducting his own defense via Twitter. "I never told John Bolton that aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including the Biden's. In fact, he never complained about this at the very time of his very public termination. If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book."

We had the White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham on the Trump- friendly Fox Network to get out there and trash Bolton's character. Here she is.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) STEPHANIE GRISHAM, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: It's really unfortunate. Here's a man who purports to care about the national security of this country. And to leave the White House and immediately go write a book, it's really disappointing. We don't even know what's in the book is going to be true. You know, the President has made clear that none of the things that are being claimed right now are true.

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VAUSE: Well, you know, there are two men who can clear this up, Donald Trump and John Bolton. So, it seems like maybe a good idea if one of them testifies, right?

KATZ: Right. Donald Trump will never testify. He'll talk --

VAUSE: This leads to John Bolton.

KATZ: -- say how much he wants to testify, just like -- remember how much he wanted to testify in front of the special counsel, but that he never did. Bolton will testify, and it'll be compelling, John.

VAUSE: Let me interrupt you with this, though. Is the problem here for Republicans, the more they question Bolton's story, or the honesty of Bolton, or whatever, the more compelling they build a case for him to appear before the Senate?

KATZ: Well, yes. And he's going -- I think he's going to appear -- I think it will push the State of the Union back. I think that they'll first take his testimony in depositions. And so even if the president claims executive privilege as to certain questions, he'll have to do it at the deposition. I don't think any federal judge will give him a restraining order to stop the Senate from taking a deposition of the former National Security Advisor. Think about that. No federal judge is going to do that.

And so, they'll take his deposition, it'll be in closed session, and then they'll see what he has to say. And if there is an object question by question as to a particular executive privilege matter, that can be asserted in camera out of the public eye. And then only what's allowed to be disclosed, notwithstanding executive privilege will be disclosed, but committing a crime does not executive privilege. We found that out of the Nixon case. You cannot commit a crime and then try to cover it up by asserting executive privilege. Nixon tried and he was ousted.

VAUSE: Very quickly. We saw kitten saw reemerge as a star lawyer for the defense for Donald Trump. The general consensus seems to be that he punched himself in the face with his arguments. It doesn't make any sense. How did you see it?

KATZ: Starr's argument didn't make any sense. He acted -- everybody was in denial today. The Republican speechmakers, they were in denial about what Bolton was doing and the whole world knew and except them, it seemed like. And Starr acts like how did we ever get into this age of impeachment? How do we ever get this device of this when, of course, he is the person who launched the age of impeachment?

He and Brett Kavanaugh who's now on the U.S. Supreme Court. They were the one to launch this age of impeachment. And although they couldn't get Clinton for anything that was their mandate, they opened up their (INAUDIBLE), right, their purview, and they went after Monica gate. And of course, the rest was a debacle.

Clinton's popularity actually went up because people realized that was not an impeachable offense. But what President Trump did is clearly, John, an impeachable offense. And they can make all the arguments in the world, and they can call all the husbands in the world, and it's not going to help them save what Humpty Dumpty from this fall. I really believe that this thing is getting more dramatic than people realize.

VAUSE: Yes, I mean, maybe you could be right and we're out of time. Again, you know, we're not done yet. This is still got a lot of -- got a lot of life in it, and we'll see what happens. It was good to see you, David. Thank you so much for all the analysis and over the last couple of days as well. I appreciate it.

KATZ: Great to be with you.

VAUSE: We'll take a short break. In the coming hours, the Trump administration will unveil its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. But only one side is really, really happy, the other one isn't, so was it really a peace plan? Also ahead, what investigators have found so far in the wreckage of the helicopter crash which killed Kobe Bryant and eight other people including his daughter.

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PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGIST: Let's talk weather. We're watching patterns across areas of the United States where a couple of systems, one across the state of Texas, another one into the northeastern United States, and a third one entering the northwestern United States. It's kind of keeping the areas unsettled the next couple of days and wet weather prevails as we go into the next two to three days into portions of say Texas, Louisiana, on into the Gulf Coast region.

And little farther towards the North we go, we do have snow showers in place in and around say, parts of Kansas. Chicago looking at one with cloudy conditions. In Vancouver B.C. eight degrees with a few showers, and New York City, not too bad, six degrees there with partly cloudy conditions and remains that way with a little bit of cooler trend there on Thursday afternoon. But you notice, as you kind of wrap up the month of January, and sure in February, coming in on a quieter note there at least for now, but long-range models do look like a significant blast of cold air is potentially in store within the next say 10 days. So enjoy the relatively milder air in place.

Down in Mexico City where certainly it is mild 23 degrees, they're looking at sunny skies. In Cuba, enjoying a few evening showers but not too bad at 27. And in Guatemala City, also a comfortable afternoon shaping up, looking like mostly sunny skies there and 25 degrees, and always appreciate your viewership down in Rio. A pair of three is expected across the region. Thunderstorms should pop up generally after say 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. across that region. I'll leave you with the south Puerto Montt 17 degrees.

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VAUSE: A deal by most standard definitions is an agreement or arrangement especially in business. We'll use it in a sentence. They bargained with each other but finally agreed to deal. Thank you, Cambridge Dictionary.

When the U.S. President unveils his plan for Mideast peace on Tuesday, what's been called the deal of the century it's actually anything but. It's more imperial edict showering the Israelis with more concessions than they could ever dreamed of, or on the other side of that non- deal, the Palestinians had no say in the final agreement and have already rejected the whole thing. Still, the U.S. President seemed upbeat on Monday. He seemed thrilled the Israelis thought it was great.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And that's a plan that Bibi and his opponent, I must say, have to like very much. And I can say in terms of Bibi, he does. And I think in terms of his opponents, he does too. I'll be meeting with him in a little while. But this is a plan that's very important to peace in the Middle East. No matter where it went, they say, Israel and the Palestinians, they have to make peace before you can really have peace in the Middle East.

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VAUSE: Jon Alterman joins us now from Bethesda, Maryland. He's the Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It's great to have you with us, Jon.

JON ALTERMAN, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: Good to be with you.

VAUSE: OK. We just heard from the U.S. President talking about how Benjamin Netanyahu will love this deal. Here's the response now from the Israeli Prime Minister.

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, PRIME MINISTER, ISREAL: The deal of the century is the opportunity of the century and we're not going to pass it by. And we'll talk about that tomorrow. Today, I repeat, I just want to say thank you for everything that you've done for the State of Israel. You've been the greatest friend that Israel have in the White House. And I think tomorrow we can continue making history.

(END VIDEO CLIP) VAUSE: Netanyahu is right when he says this is the opportunity but -- of the century, but for Netanyahu not so much for Israel. And the same thing he said when he talks about Trump being the greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House, more accurate to say Trump is the greatest friend Benjamin Netanyahu ever had of the White House, right?

ALTERMAN: Well, as politicians, they both found tremendous use in each other. Donald Trump is very popular in Israel and as Bibi Netanyahu faces a third round of very, very tough elections, having the sense that he's very close to President Trump helps him. It also helps him as he tries to shift the attention from the current parliamentary debate over immunity from corruption charges. It helps him to be seen with President Trump having important diplomatic statesmanlike work to do instead of dealing with political distractions, and the President, of course, gets a relief from the impeachment inquiry.

Looking forward to elections, both the Netanyahu election in March and the Trump election in November, there's a sense that there's a substantial part of each politicians base that likes to see the two of them together.

VAUSE: Evangelical Christian leader Dr. Mike Evans, who is a faith Advisor to President Trump is quoted by the Jerusalem Post talking about this deal of the century. And he says the plan does not take away the major biblical sites from Israel. A likely reference to allowing the Israeli access to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem.

And also, for Evangelical Christians, he went to say, the plan he said is everything we were hoping for. Well, the Times of Israel is reporting, the timing of the release of the plan which according to media reports is unprecedented in its concessions towards Israel, has led many politicians and commentators to say it appears to be an effort by the U.S. leader to boost Netanyahu's prospects ahead of March 2nd election. This is basically to your point.

So on the one hand, the U.S. point is sort of using foreign policy in meddling with the outcome of Israel's election in March in the hopes that come November, those efforts will not be forgotten especially among Evangelical Christians, and you know, maybe a newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can come and help him be reelected.

ALTERMAN: I think there's something else going on, which is this isn't a peace plan, this is a plan to move on. This isn't about getting the Palestinians to agree. It's about putting aside Palestinian objections. And one of the big questions tomorrow is whether -- is what the Arab states will do? There is a sense that a lot of people have that the Gulf Arab states who have been very reluctant to abandoning the Palestinian cause because they don't want to show a split with President Trump are going to acquiesce to the President's plan.

And there will be an effort to demonstrate certainly, by the Trump administration, I think by many Israelis, that the Arab world has moved on, the Israelis talk about how the Chinese and the Russians and the Indians and major powers in the world don't know problems. The problems is the Democratic Party in the United States and Western Europeans, but for much of the world, Israel says the world has moved on. The world accepts us. And why are we still based in this 71-year- old inconclusive discussion? Let's just move on. And the Trump plan is not a peace plan. It's a plan to agree with the Israelis. It's time to move on.

VAUSE: It's an exit note, I guess. Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, she's been doing the rounds in Israel. For some reason she's there, and she has been defending this not really a plan plan. Here she is.

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NIKKI HALEY, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.: They have worked on this plan for so long. And people were saying a year ago, two years ago, where's the peace plan? Why haven't you released it? And they were thoughtful in the approach. They took their time. They made sure they talked to everyone to make sure all the bases were covered. So it doesn't matter when the plan would roll out.

There would be some people who are saying it was too soon or too late and so you can't win in that situation.

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VAUSE: The thing which I found surprising, though, is it she says what, it took years to draw this up? How hard is it if it's everything the Israelis has ever wanted, but we're too afraid to ask, and put it in a so-called peace deal?

ALTERMAN: I think look, there's a lot of work that went into it. I don't disagree with that. What I disagree with is it's a lot of work to normal people, but to people who work on Arab-Israeli peace issues, this is an afternoon's worth of work. During the Clinton administration, there were literally thousands of people in the U.S. government. Every day, the most important thing they had to do every single day was advanced Arab-Israeli peace.

In this administration, it was the priority of two or three people who work some were full time, some were part-time, that the scale of effort is simply not comparable. And you can make an argument that what even thousands of people are unable to do it, and you can either argue you need more than thousand -- their issue argue it doesn't really matter. Let's just put a few people. Let's move on. I think the argument is let's move on.

VAUSE: You know, good point in on there, Jon, because you know, the level of sophistication and detail in other peace plans which are being put forward is incredible. In this one, I guess we'll find out but already doesn't seem to be a whole lot of there there, but we'll find out. Jon, thank you. Good to see you.

ALTERMAN: Thank you.

VAUSE: The future of this plan, not a plan, will be determined in no small part by the reaction from Arab states. To find out more, CNN's International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson sat down with Saudi Arabia's Minister of Foreign Affairs for an exclusive interview.

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FAISAL BIN FARHAN AL-SAUD, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SAUDI ARABIA: We've always supported all genuine efforts towards pushing for a piece of agreement between the Palestinians and Israelis. We supported the Arab Peace initiative of that call for a settlement of the issue and we're going to continue to support all genuine efforts towards a just settlement.

It's very important for us, of course, that this issue will be resolved, but it must be in the context of a for the Palestinians receiving also their rights. And we will support any efforts that works towards that end.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: And President Trump announcing that Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel, moving the embassy there. What impact has that had on the possibility of getting a positive result from this deal?

AL-SAUD: I think in the end, it's important. We expressed, of course, our opinion about that move very publicly that it's not helpful. But the important thing is that we try and find the areas where there is agreement and build on those and work towards a settlement that can accommodate the rights of the Palestinians and ensure a long-lasting peace.

ROBERTSON: What areas would you say the sort of those areas of commonality, common interest?

AL-SAUD: I think there's a broad agreement that there needs to be a two-state solution on the 1964 borders and that, you know, the issue of Jerusalem needs to be settled in a way that ensures the rights of all peoples. And we are going to work towards pushing that forward.

ROBERTSON: The Israeli government has announced recently that Israeli citizens can visit Saudi Arabia for tourism and for business. Is this the beginning of a new relationship? How significant is it?

AL-SAUD: I don't know if that affects anything because our policy remains the same. We do not have relations with the State of Israel and Israeli's passport holders cannot at this time visit the kingdom.

ROBERTSON: If from the Israeli perspective, they're opening a door but -- on their side, but the door is not open on your side, is that going to change anytime soon?

AL-SAUD: We are very supportive of a peaceful resolution to the conflict. And once there is a peace deal between the Palestinians and the Israelis, I think the integration of Israel into the regional context is very much on the table. And of course, we will -- you know, in our proposal for the Arab Peace Treaty that was included in that, complete normalization with the State of Israel once peace is achieved. (END VIDEOTAPE)

VAUSE: CNN's Nic Robertson speaking exclusively with Saudi Arabia's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Still to come, new details about what may have caused a helicopter to crash killing Kobe Bryant. When we come back, what happened to the final moment of that doomed flight.

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks for staying with us, everybody. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM.

I'm John Vause with the headlines this hour.

China is sending more medical teams to Hubei Province and to the city of Wuhan, the heart of the coronavirus outbreak. The death toll in China now stands at 106 with more than 4,500 infected. The U.S. is now urging Americas to reconsider travel to all of China.

U.S. President Donald Trump's impeachment attorney argued on Monday that John Bolton's accusations do not amount to an impeachable offense. But revelations from the former national security adviser's book may persuade some Senate Republicans to compel his testimony in Donald Trump's impeachment trial.

In that book, Bolton reportedly claims the President tied aid to Ukraine to investigations into Democratic rival Joe Biden.

And President Trump says he expects to unveil his administration's long delayed Mideast peace plan on Tuesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be on hand for the announcement but Palestinian leaders have rejected the plan saying they were not included in the negotiations.

To California where an investigation is underway to determine the cause of a helicopter crash which killed Kobe Bryant. The focus right now seems to be the weather and foggy conditions. They say the pilot had been granted clearance to fly under what is called special visual flight rules meaning he could operate in lower than normal visibility. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter were among the people killed when the aircraft went down on Sunday.

We have more now from CNN's Nick Watt.

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NICK WATT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: NTSB investigators will be on the ground here in California for a number of days primarily gathering information. And later they will determine the how and the why.

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WATT: There was no black box aboard this helicopter. There is not required to be a black box but the pilot did have an iPad which will be analyzed by investigators.

Now, we were also taken through the final moments of this flight by Jennifer Homendy, a board member of the NTSB. She said that the final radio contact with the pilot telling air traffic that he was going to climb to avoid a cloud.

helicopter climbed to about 2,300 feet and took a left descending turn, crashing into the hillside about 1,200 feet below at a high speed because that crash scene is -- that debris field is large.

Now, the coroner's office is still working to gather human remains and then to identify those human remains. Jennifer Homendy said, "We will find an answer." Listen, it might take some time but she is absolutely 100 percent confident that they will find out why this aircraft crashed.

As she puts it, they look into man, machine and environment to figure out what went wrong so they can try and stop a similar accident happening in the future.

Meanwhile, the sheriff's department say they have been forced to now patrol 24 hours the area on horseback and on ATV because there are people trying to access the scene.

All this, of course, as the family, as the Lakers organization, as Los Angeles continues to mourn. The Clippers and the Lakers were supposed to be playing at Staples Center Tuesday evening. That game has been postponed.

Nick Watt, CNN -- Calabasas.

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VAUSE: A lot more on the story including the first public comments from Lakers star LeBron James coming up in just a few moments from now on "WORLD SPORT".

Meantime, U.S. authorities want to speak with Britain's Prince Andrew about his relationship with the now deceased accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The Prince has said he is willing to talk with any appropriate law enforcement agency if required. So far though, he seems difficult to reach.

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GEOFFREY BERMAN, U.S. ATTORNEY, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK: The southern district of New York and the FBI have contacted Prince Andrew's attorneys and requested to interview Prince Andrew. And to date, Prince Andrew has provided zero cooperation.

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VAUSE: One of Epstein's accusers says she was forced into sexual encounters with Prince Andrew while she was underage. The Duke of York has denied the allegations. Epstein died by apparent suicide in prison last August before standing trial. A short break. When we come back a solemn day at a notorious death camp. The emotional pleas from Holocaust survivors to remember. The ceremonies at Auschwitz in a moment.

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VAUSE: For years, the call has been "never again". Never again will the world sit by and allow state-sponsored genocide of Jews or other minorities. Never again will the world turn its back and allow mass murder on an industrial scale.

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VAUSE: Never again ignore the labor camps, the death camps like Auschwitz -- the most notorious and most deadly of all the Nazi camps.

And 75 years after its liberation, as the world sees anti-Semitism once again on the rise, the dwindling number of Auschwitz survivors are warning it's happening again.

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ANDRZEJ DUDA, POLISH PRESIDENT (through translator): We are standing in front of the gate leading to the camp that claimed lives of the largest number of victims.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die, the memory of Auschwitz must last so that such extermination is never repeated again.

BATSHEVA DAGAN, AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR (through translator): One of the worst things I went through at the very beginning, well, it's hard to say actually what was more painful to me -- whether it was the process of tattooing a number on my arm or something else.

My belief though that was what was the most hurtful for me was the loss of hair, because the hair gave me a sense of belonging to womanhood, and they were smooth. This hair was my own, and this criminal hand touched my hair. This crown of mine was taken away from me, and I was turned into this pitiful, sad creature.

STANISLAW ZALEWSKI, AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR (through translator): I remember, naked women driven in trucks from the barracks to the gas chamber. I can hear them screaming. I can hear it in my subconscious. I saw the suicide of prisoners who threw themselves on this electrified barbed wire fence.

MARIAN TURSKI, AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR (through translator): People who learned that I had been an inmate of Auschwitz would tell me, how do you think it must have been all in Germany. Or do you think it could happened somewhere else?

And then I told them, it can also happen in your country, in this land when the civil rights are broken, when people do not obey the laws of minorities. (END VIDEO CLIP)

VAUSE: Never again.

Thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM.

I'm John Vause.

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