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On the World Stage: World Leaders Arriving in Rome for the G20 Summit; UN Climate Summit: COP26 Faces Daunting Task as Climate Crisis Deepens; Coronavirus Pandemic in Europe; Facebook Changes Company Name to "Meta" Amid Backlash; France Ups the Ante in Cross-Channel Fishing Dispute; Military Takeover; Threat to Russian Journalists; House Democrats Delay Crucial Infrastructure Vote Again; U.S. President Arrives in G20 with Domestic Agenda Stalled; Sheriff: Trying to Determine how Live Round ended up in Gun; Jurors in the Trial for George Floyd's Murder Speak to CNN; Chauvin Juror's Message to George Floyd's Family. Aired 2-3a ET
Aired October 29, 2021 - 02:00 ET
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KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR: Live from CNN world headquarters in Atlanta, welcome to all of you watching us here in the United States, Canada and around the world. I'm Kim Brunhuber. This is "CNN Newsroom."
Ahead this hour, U.S. President Joe Biden is in Rome for the G20 summit and will meet with Pope Francis in a matter of hours.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will join the G20 via video link. He plans to skip COP26 despite China being a key player in climate change.
Plus, the fish fight between the U.K. and France.
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BRUNHUBER (on camera): World leaders are arriving in Rome for the annual G20 summit with the climate crisis, energy prices and disruptions in the global supply chain on the agenda, but there is much more for the world's wealthiest countries to discuss.
French President Emmanuel Macron is demanding tangible action to restore its relationship with Australia. He says their trust was broken when Australia canceled a multibillion-dollar contract to buy French submarines.
And U.S. President Joe Biden could have tough few days ahead. Lawmakers back in Washington have postponed a vote on his huge infrastructure bill. Democrats in the House can't agree on the specifics of a social spending plan. The president had hoped to have a deal in hand in time for the summit, announcing the framework of an agreement before he left for Rome.
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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: This framework also makes the most in significant investment to deal with the climate crisis ever, ever happened, beyond any other advanced nation in the world, over a billion metric tons of emission reductions, at least 10 times bigger on climate than any bill that has ever passed before and enough to position us for a 50% to 52% emission reduction by the year 2030.
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BRUNHUBER (on camera): President Biden will meet with French and Italian leaders in the coming hours, but not before a visit with Pope Francis.
CNN senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman is live in Rome. So, Ben, Joe Biden, the second Catholic president, meeting a pope whose views on many social issues seem to mirror his own.
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, they do seem to be -- they see eye-to-eye on many of the issues in facing the globe at the moment even though there are severe divisions within the U.S. Catholic community. Many are opposed to Joe Biden's support -- political support for abortion, for instance, even though he personally opposes it.
So, it is going to be a somewhat fraught meeting with the pope even though these two men agree on many things. But the pope has also been quite pointed in his criticism of armament industries, the United States hosts many of them, the fact that pharmaceutical companies, including American pharmaceuticals, have not shared the formula for the vaccine with the developing world.
So, there will be many issues that they will not necessarily see eye- to-eye on, but certainly, when it comes to the divisions within the Catholic church in the United States, certainly, Pope Francis and Joe Biden seemed to be on the same page. Kim?
BRUNHUBER: All right. After visiting with the pope, Biden will be meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. Are we expecting sparks to fly here?
WEDEMAN: It is possible. They have spoken on the telephone, I think, last Friday, so they're on speaking terms again. But certainly, there is continued French unhappiness over the canceled deal over those -- that $60 billion deal over sale of submarines to Australia. The United States suddenly got that deal. So, the French are unhappy.
Reportedly, President Biden is trying to sort of make it up in other ways. He has expressed a willingness to support France's anti- counterterrorism activities in Africa, providing more facilities and perhaps even funds for the French effort. So, it does appear that they are going to try to mend fences to the extent that it is possible. Kim?
BRUNHUBER: All right. We will continue to follow the fallout of that meeting and keep checking in with you there in Rome.
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BRUNHUBER: Ben Wedeman, thank you so much.
China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin are skipping the G20 summit and the COP26 climate meetings, but Xi will join the G20 this weekend by video link.
CNN's Selina Wang is following developments live from Tokyo. Selina, so, a he glaring absence there. Is it just a symbolic blow or do you think it might affect the outcome here?
SELINA WANG, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Well, Kim, Beijing does not publicly say why Xi Jinping is not going to be attending these meetings in person, but at home, Xi is dealing with yet another surge in COVID-19 cases.
China has reported more than 200 COVID-19 cases since October 17th which, Kim, sounds low by international standards, but in China, where they are still pursuing, this is zero tolerance COVID-19 policy, even a few COVID cases can lead to drastic actions like mass lockdowns and mass testing.
So, perhaps, optics wise, Beijing decided it was best if Xi did not leave the country. The country also has strict quarantine and border control rules that are still in place.
But, Kim, one of the most productive parts of the G20 is these leaders meeting face-to-face on the sidelines and that just isn't going to be possible, but we do know that Xi is going to be giving a virtual speech and likely holding these bilateral meetings virtually as well.
Take a listen to what U.S. National Security advisor, Jake Sullivan, had to say.
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JAKE SULLIVAN, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR: President Xi has chosen not to attend these summits. He has chosen not to leave China at all in calendar year 2021 to see any leader. That's, of course, his choice. So, we are -- I'm not going to characterize the decision- making he is making. All I can say is from the U.S. president's perspective. President Biden does believe it's important that he have the opportunity to have a face-to-face engagement with Xi Jinping.
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WANG (on camera): The White House has said earlier this month that Xi and Biden have agreed in principle for a virtual meeting sometime before the end of the year. The White House has been emphasizing that lines of communication are critical to avoid any accidental conflict and to responsibly manage this relationship. But the absence of Xi at the G20 certainly lowers expectations that this is a chance to repair U.S.-China relations as tensions are running high around Hong Kong, Taiwan, the South China Sea, and Chinese human rights record. And beyond this geopolitical dynamic, the absence of Xi also raises concerns that this undermines any transformational outcome around climate at the G20. Xi is also going to likely be skipping out of COP26 and some climate watchers say this may be an indication that the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter does not have any more concessions to make. Kim?
BRUNHUBER (on camera): All right. Thanks so much, Selina Wang, in Tokyo.
U.N. climate summit in Glasgow kicks off just as the G20 ends. President Biden is expected to go there straight from Rome to deliver an urgent call for global action.
CNN's Phil Black has more on what's at stake.
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PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): These are just some of the biblical events the world has seen and experienced in 2021. Extreme floods, fires, droughts, and record temperatures across the U.S. and around the world. Proof, scientists say, we are already living in a climate crisis.
TODD STERN, FORMER WHITE HOUSE STAFF SECRETARY: It's here. I mean, it's upon us. People see that. People feel that.
BLACK (voice-over): Todd Stern led U.S. climate negotiations through the Obama administration and helped forged 2015's Paris agreement.
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BLACK (voice-over): That breakthrough document includes a critical promise. All countries will work to keep the global average temperature increase within 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius.
STERN: We've got a long way to go.
BLACK (on camera): Because the reality is, at the moment, we are nowhere near to being on track to keeping things below two, let alone 1.5.
STERN: We are not near being on track, but we are getting better.
BLACK (voice-over): Better ultimately isn't good enough. At the Glasgow climate conference, each country will be judged on whether it is cutting emission sufficiently to ensure that crucial 1.5 degree- target is still achievable.
The scientific consensus says the goal is now slipping beyond reach and the consequences will be disastrous.
BOB WARD, GRANTHAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON CLIMATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, LSE: Without action to curb greenhouse gas emissions, we could see temperatures go well beyond three degrees of warming by the end of the century, something that the earth has not experienced for three million years, long before humans were on the planet. It would be a very, very different world.
BLACK (voice-over): U.S. leadership, through example, is vital at Glasgow to boost other countries' ambitions.
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BLACK (voice-over): The Biden administration's plan is bold, have U.S. emissions by 2030 hit net zero carbon by 2050.
WARD: That is fantastic, but it needs to demonstrate that they can deliver that. And the lack of agreement at federal level and indeed in many states, to the outside world, it looks like that will be a major challenge.
BLACK (voice-over): Success also depends on big, new commitments from China. The world's biggest polluter is responsible for more than a quarter of global emissions. China's long-term goal is becoming carbon neutral by 2060.
STERN: So, it is quite important that China move much more than they have. Again, that long-term goal is pretty good, but between now and 2030, they haven't pledged really anything.
BLACK (voice-over): The urgent challenge for China and many developing countries is to stop burning coal for electricity while still rapidly growing their economies and lifting populations out of poverty.
The issue is going to be a key focus at Glasgow along with finance from rich countries to help poorer countries make that change. But even before the conference opens, it is clear, there are tensions over some countries' unwillingness to offer detailed, ambitious commitments.
JOHN KERRY, U.S. CLIMATE ENVOY: We are behind. We have to stop the B.S. that is being thrown at us by a number of countries that have not been willing to sign up to what Great Britain has signed up to, we have signed up to, Japan, Canada, the E.U., that is to keep 1.5 degrees alive.
BLACK (voice-over): It's expected Glasgow will deliver progress, but will it be enough? As frequent extreme events demonstrate the growing dangers of failure, scientists assure there is now very little time left to prevent climate change on a devastating scale.
Phil Black, CNN, London.
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BRUNHUBER (on camera): And one quick programming note, we will have extensive coverage of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, November 1st through 12th. Tune in to CNN each day for that. And for all the latest climate news and COP26 developments, head to cnn.com/climate.
Some troubling signs in the global fight against the coronavirus. The World Health Organization says new infections and deaths are up around the world for the first time in two months. It is being driven by rising cases across Europe. The WHO chief blames the continued spread of the virus on inequity.
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TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, DIRECTOR GENERAL, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: It is another reminder that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. The pandemic persists in large part because inequitable access to tools persists.
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BRUNHUBER: Europe accounted for 57% of new cases worldwide last week and it is the only WHO region to report increases in infections.
New Zealand says it will soon begin to ease border restrictions that have been in place since the early days of the pandemic last year. Beginning in November, fully vaccinated travelers entering the country will have to spend seven days in state quarantine facilities. That is half the current requirement. They are planning to move to a system of home isolation next year.
Travelers from Pacific nations like Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu will no longer be required to quarantine upon arrival.
A major re-brand for Facebook as the social media site faces scathing scrutiny over misinformation and its harmful impact on society. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company will now be known as Meta during a virtual reality event on Thursday. But will this name change be enough to get the tech giant through its current crisis?
CNN's Paula Newton reports.
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PAULA NEWTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In a corporate event that seemed to have the vibe of a budget (INAUDIBLE) flick --
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NEWTON (voice-over): Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and head of all things Facebook, introduced the metaverse.
MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO, FACEBOOK: Together, we can finally put people at the center of our technology and deliver an experience where we are present with each other.
NEWTON (voice-over): What is it? Put simply an immersive way to connect online for both business and pleasure using virtual and augmented reality. And Zuckerberg is all in, re-branding Facebook's corporate name to Meta from the Greek word "beyond," he says.
ZUCKBERBEG: Your devices won't be the focal point of your attention anymore. NEWTON (voice-over): Now, if Meta is the future, in the present, the Facebook brand on the site and the app won't change. What Zuckerberg is trying to pull off is more profound than that.
SHEERA FRENKEL, TECH REPORTER, NEW YORK TIMES: He is trying to take control of what he thinks is going to be the big next wave of technology.
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FRENKEL: And the question is going to be whether the world accepts that, whether people in spite of all of the controversy and in spite of all the crises that have hit Facebook in the last month are going to want to put their trust in Facebook.
NEWTON (voice-over): Despite accusations of a toxic business model and dangerous fallout to match, Zuckerberg's strategy of plowing ahead with ambitious market domination has worked.
ZUCKERBERG: Our mission remains the same.
NEWTON (voice-over): And in re-branding, Zuckerberg has nothing substantive to say on how Facebook can become a safer social media space, especially for teenagers and young people.
ZUCKERBERG: I know that some people will say that this isn't a time to focus on the future. I want to acknowledge that there are important issues to work on in the present. There always will be.
FRANCES HAUGEN, FACEBOOK WHISTLEBLOWER: During my time at Facebook --
NEWTON (voice-over): In recent months, former Facebook employees have provided evidence that Facebook was aware of its role in disseminating the misinformation that breeds and spreads on its social media platforms.
In a statement, Zuckerberg said the documents released were cherrypicked to present a misleading narrative about the company.
HAUGEN: There is pattern --
NEWTON (voice-over): Frances Haugen says she fears the same problems will occur in Facebook's new metaverse.
HAUGEN: I was shocked to hear recently that Facebook wants to double down on the metaverse and that they are going to hire 10,000 engineers in Europe to work on the metaverse. I think there is a view inside the company that safety is a cost, a cost center. It's not a growth center, which I think is very short-term in thinking.
NEWTON (voice-over): What is not short-term, the insidious effects of Facebook social media platforms worldwide. Regulators have so far failed to create and enforce laws that prevent the worst abuses online, those powered by algorithms and AI, that can efficiently disperse misinformation and hate.
To that, Zuckerberg has added a new challenge, the potentially even more invasive metaverse.
Paula Newton, CNN.
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BRUNHUBER (on camera): Earlier, my colleague John Vause spoke to the head of Content for the venture capital fund SignalFire about Facebook's big news. Josh Constine says unlike Google's re-branding a few years ago, Facebook's announcement won't bring much change to the company. Here it is.
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JOSH CONSTINE, PRINCIPAL INVESTOR AND HEAD OF CONTENT, SIGNALFIRE: Facebook by any other name will still try to collect all of your data. Nothing here is really changing. When Alphabet made its name change, it was trying to hide massive cost centers of its moonshot division.
But with Facebook, it's trying to disconnect itself from its toxic brand. It knows that if it wants to have a chance at appealing to gen Z and the users of tomorrow, it can't be tied to its parent social network name. It has to be something new and fresh. And by using the name Meta, it makes us think about the company every time we think of the metaverse.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: If this happens, in some way, will it just end up being kind of like a zoom conference call but with better graphics?
CONSTINE: No. What the metaverse is going to be isn't embodied internet. Imagine an internet of apps and websites that you could actually walk inside of a 3D, much more similar to the virtual games and worlds (ph) that we use today on council (ph) platforms like the play station or Xbox.
But instead, you're going to be able to buy goods, create a virtual identity, and take it with you from site to site, the same way that you might bring your credit card data from one app to another today on the internet.
And Facebook was smart to use this very basic name that so connected to the metaverse. Facebook is very shrewd with how it colonizes name space, using names like pages, groups, marketplace and messenger to take over those concepts. Now, it wants to do the same with metaverse, knowing that this is going to be an explosive new area of business that will create a bloom of new companies, similar to the way that we saw a huge new wave of apps arrive when the mobile internet became mainstream.
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BRUNHUBER (on camera): That was principal investor and head of Content for SignalFire Josh Constine.
France is raising the stakes in its cross-channel fishing dispute with Britain. Next, Paris announces new retaliatory measures that may affect much more than the fishing industry.
Plus, an exclusive interview with a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Renowned journalist tells CNN the threat to Russia's press is mutating. We have details ahead. Stay with us.
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BRUNHUBER (on camera): Fishing is an economic lifeline for coastal communities on both sides of the English Channel, but after Brexit, rights to harvest the sea have become a bone of contention between Britain and France. The reason? Fishing boats on both sides now need new permits to operate in the other's country's waters.
However, France says some of its fishermen got the short end of the stick because Britain is withholding their licenses, and because of that, France is now starting to play hardball over the issue.
Melissa Bell explains.
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MELISSA BELL, CNN PARIS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the British fishing boat seized by the French on Wednesday. One of two that was stopped and fined as part of tightened controls by the French in the English Channel amid a war of words over fishing rights that has lasted for months.
CLEMENT BEAUNE, FRENCH MINISTER OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS (through translator): We need to use the language of force since that seems to be the only thing the British government understands.
BELL (voice-over): Back in May, French fishermen protested just off the Channel Islands. Many angry at not being given the licenses they need to fish in British waters. The U.K. government says it has granted 98% of European license applications, but according to the French government, French boats fishing in coastal waters have been disproportionately affected.
GABRIEL ATTAL, FRENCH GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN (through translator): What we see today is almost 50% of the licenses to which we are entitled are missing. The situation is unacceptable. And I'm saying, clearly, our patience is reaching its limits today.
BELL (voice-over): The retaliatory measures announced by the French government on Thursday will come into effect next week, preventing British fishing boats from offloading produce in nearly all French ports, but also seeing extra customs checks on all goods heading to or from the United Kingdom, and that could mean the sorts of freight congestion that we last saw just before Brexit came into effect.
GEORGE EUSTICE, U.K. ENVIRONMENT SECRETARY: The measures being threatened may not appear to be compatible with the trade and cooperation agreement or wider international law. And if carried through, will be met with an appropriate and calibrated response.
BELL (voice-over): Brexit may be a done deal, but the fallout means there is no sign of calm waters on the horizon.
Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.
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BRUNHUBER (on camera): International pressure against Sudan is ramping up in the wake of this week's military coup. The U.N. Security Council and other world leaders are calling on the Sudanese military to free prisoners and return to civilian rule. At least 11 people have been killed in confrontations between soldiers and protesters, and those protests are expected to grow.
CNN's Larry Madowo has the latest.
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LARRY MADOWO, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Friday is day five of the military takeover of Sudan. It is the largest round of civil disobedience against that ton of events expected on Saturday when huge protests are planned across the country.
They're organized by some of the same organizations, activist groups, the Sudanese Professionals Association, that was behind the popular protest that led to the ouster of Omar al-Bashir from power after 30 years back in April of 2019.
And some of the same local resistance committees, they also forced the military into power sharing agreement with civilians in what was called the Sovereign Council. That is part of what has been dissolved on Monday with the rest of the government.
So, what is happening now? The Friends of Sudan, group of countries that supported the power sharing agreement, they have condemned the coup and demand release of the many ministers who were arrested on Monday and whose status was still not sure of. Those countries include the U.S., the U.K., the United Nations, the European Union. Arab nations did not sign on to that Friends of Sudan statement.
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MADOWO: The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar have not gone all the way to condemn that coup.
On the other hand, the military ruler of Sudan, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has now appointed a new foreign minister. (INAUDIBLE) is a former ambassador and he is met in Khartoum with other western ambassadors in the city and gave them -- quote -- "his assurances and commitment of a full return to civilian rule, election in 2023, and the long-delayed parliament." Whether that will happen, people are skeptical.
Larry Madowo, CNN, Nairobi.
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BRUNHUBER (on camera): It is a basic tenet of journalism, hold the powerful accountable. But, too often, that comes with a deadly price. Some journalists in Russia warned that President Vladimir Putin is strangling the media.
CNN's Sam Kiley spoke with the newest Nobel Peace Prize winner who is worried about what is left of the free press.
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SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is an act of defiance. Novaya Gazeta is printed three times a week. But all day, every day, it's a stark fear that Russia's government will stop its process (ph). The newspaper's editor, Dmitry Muratov, won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The fight for free speech has already cost six of the paper's writers their lives.
The kremlin denies any attacks on journalists. Many other Russians have died mysteriously in the years since the killing of one of the nation's most celebrated correspondents.
(On camera): It's been 15 years since Anna Politkovskaya, who is a scourge of the Putin administration, was murdered. Now, it seems the threat against journalists is mutating.
(Voice-over): An old school summons to the paper's daily planning meeting held under the threat of new legislation that has designated more than 80 publications and individuals as so-called foreign agents who must declare their foreign funding.
DMITRY MURATOV, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER (through translator): While in the 1990s and the early 2000s, journalists were killed by hired assassins. Now, it's a policy of soft strangling that is happening with the help of the foreign agent's law when a media outlet is declared undesirable or has to declare oneself a public enemy, which means it effectively stops operating. Many journalists now have to leave Russia.
KILEY (voice-over): They even raised the issue with Russia's president.
MURATOV (through translator): For many, this status undoubtedly means they are an enemy of the motherland.
VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIA PRESIDENT (through translator): This law does not ban anyone from having one's own opinion on an issue. It is about receiving financial aid from abroad.
KILEY (voice-over): Designated a foreign agent, TV Rain, a holdout independent channel, has to put this red warning sign up ahead of every segment and every tweet.
TIKHON DZYADKO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, TV RAIN: We are being called traitors. We are being called someone's agents. We are agents of our viewers.
KILEY (voice-over): Police raids like this in the home of the editor of the new site, The Insider, have become routine. Now, the publication has labeled a foreign agent. He is now in exile and fears being abducted or worse.
ROMAN DOBROKHOTOV, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, THE INSIDER: (INAUDIBLE) this is the toughest time for Russian journalists since the Soviet Union given -- since (INAUDIBLE) Europe.
KILEY (voice-over): Sam Kiley, CNN, Moscow.
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BRUNHUBER (on camera): Democrats desperate to get their ducks in a row and deliver on President Biden's agenda that still don't have the votes. Sticking points on spending. We'll explain.
Plus, we go to New Mexico where police say they've narrowed in on key individuals in the investigation into the fatal shooting on the "Rust" movie set.
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KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN HOST: Welcome back. You'll be watching us here in the United States, Canada and around the world. I'm Kim Brunhuber this is "CNN Newsroom".
U.S. President Joe Biden has arrived in Rome ahead of the G20 Summit of the world's wealthiest countries, but he's coming without an agreement from lawmakers back in Washington on a sweeping social agenda, including plans to fight climate change.
The president will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in just a few hours. After the G20 he travels to Glasgow, Scotland for the COP26 Climate Summit. In Washington House Democrats are still in a standoff over President Biden's trillion dollar infrastructure bill once again pushed back the vote. CNN's Phil Mattingly lays out the sticking points and what's at stake.
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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I think we have a story - I know historic economic framework.
PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice over): President Biden rolling the dice on his entire presidency.
BIDEN: No one got everything they wanted, including me. But that's what compromises.
MATTINGLY (voice over): With no sign yet it's a bet that will pay off.
REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D-WA): There are too many members for the bet to pass too many no votes for the bet to pass today.
MATTINGLY (voice over): In a coordinated push to jumpstart his two part multi trillion dollar agenda Biden traveling to Capitol Hill this morning to lay out the key elements of a $1.75 trillion economic and climate package and not hedging on his view of the stakes of the moment as you prepare to travel to Europe for two summits with world leaders.
Biden according to sources in the room telling Democrats it's not "Hyperbole to say that the House and Senate majorities in my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week".
REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): Let's do it in a timely fashion. Let's not just keep having postponements and leaving any doubt as to when this will happen?
MATTINGLY (voice over): An unequivocal challenge to progressives who have refused to support that bill until the economic and climate package is not just an outline, but a full proposal.
REP. ILHAN OMAR (D-MN): And our members are still in the same position they were they need to see legislation and they need to see that pass.
MATTINGLY (voice over): Biden publicly and privately urging Democrats to focus on what's in the proposal, not what's been left out or the mechanics.
BIDEN: Any single on this framework, would fundamentally viewed - view be - viewed as a fundamental change in America, taking together there truly consequential.
MATTINGLY (voice over): And includes hundreds of billions of dollars for child care and Universal Pre-K, health care and affordable housing and just days before he arrives at the UN Climate Change Conference.
BIDEN: This framework also makes the most significant investment to deal with the climate crisis ever, ever happened.
MATTINGLY (voice over): But it's a proposal that also drops some of the most coveted pieces of Biden's agenda, from paid family and medical leave to Medicare expansion for vision and dental coverage to free community college and a proposal to lower prescription drug prices.
BIDEN: I know it's hard. I know how deeply people feel about the things that they fight for.
MATTINGLY (voice over): All in an effort to secure the support of centrist Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona two Senators who after days on end of negotiations still haven't explicitly endorsed the framework with Biden boarding Air Force One for Rome without a clear path forward with Pelosi unrelenting in a singular focus. The time for action is now.
PELOSI: For those who said I want to see text, the text is there for you to review for you to complain about for you to add to subtract from whatever it is, and we'll see what consensus emerges from that.
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MATTINGLY: Despite hours of negotiation pressing by Speaker Nancy Pelosi by White House officials by top Democratic leaders there simply was no pathway to having the votes or a full agreement in hand within the day.
It was a disappointment for White House officials a disappointment for Democratic leaders who thought hope to some degree even though they didn't have a full deal, even though they didn't have the votes lined up they could muscle something through that clearly is not the case.
Progressives once again standing in the way pushing things further off into the future but U.S. officials taking some solace in the fact that progressives did line up behind the framework but still significant details left to go and clear urgency still for a White House, particularly as the president arrives in Rome.
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MATTINGLY: Phil Mattingly, CNN, Vatican City.
BRUNHUBER: For the first time ever big oil executives got grilled over what Democrats called their disinformation campaign on climate change. But the bosses of Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP America, and Shell didn't provide convincing enough answers to get lawmakers to back off and now the oil giants are expecting subpoenas. CNN's Rene Marsh explains.
RENE MARSH, CNN U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The Democratic Chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee Carolyn Maloney announced on Thursday that she will subpoena all six major oil companies and their trade organizations for internal documents that the committee has been requesting.
That includes detailed funding information to understand the industries financial payments to so called "Shadow Groups" and documents outlining their corporate strategy on climate change. Take a listen.
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REP. CAROLYN MALONEY (D-NY): Unfortunately, none of the six entities have produced a substantial portion of the key documents the committee requested. Instead, they produced reams of other documents, many of which were publicly available.
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MARSH: Well, this is the first time we've ever seen these major companies be held accountable to this extent for their role in climate change and the misinformation campaign surrounding it. Now there were some other key moments during this six hour hearing all the companies acknowledged climate change.
They all denied spreading climate misinformation. At one point Shell CEO she acknowledged climate change. But she refused to answer whether or not climate change is an existential threat. They all told Congress that they support policies that curb emissions.
But all of these companies continue to fund trade organizations like the American Petroleum Institute, or API, which is the most powerful lobby for the industry. And API has been hard at works by spending millions of dollars to undercut clean energy solutions, like electric vehicles and methane gas regulation.
So although the companies are saying they support these sorts of green policies, the trade organization that they fund is actually actively working to undercut those policies. Rene Marsh, CNN, Washington.
BRUNHUBER: Still to the come, the latest on the investigation into the deadly shooting on the "Rust" movie said. Police have narrowed their focus significantly, but say no one has been cleared yet. We'll have details after the break.
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BRUNHUBER: Queen Elizabeth is still resting at Windsor Castle but that's not stopping her from conducting virtual audiences and she's clearly in good humor have a look at this.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II: I don't know what you do with it? What do you do in a cupboard?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Someone staying.
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BRUNHUBER: The 95 year old monarch cracked a joke because she presented British Poet David Constantine with the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry during an online audience on Thursday. She stayed overnight in hospital last week for what was called preliminary investigations. She's cancelled in person appearances including a reception at the COP26 Climate Conference.
Well, authorities say the investigation into last week's fatal shooting on the "Rust" movie set is now focused on just a few people including Actor Alec Baldwin who fired the shot that killed a crew member and injured the film's director CNN's Stephanie Elam as the latest from New Mexico.
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STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The investigation into the fatal shooting on the set of "Rust" zeroing in on key individuals.
ADAN MENDOZA, SHERIFF, SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: There are three people that handled the firearm prior to the death of Ms. Hutchins. So those people will be interviewed are the focus of the investigation and so nobody's been cleared as of yet.
ELAM (voice over): After Alec Baldwin who fired the gun that killed the film's Director of Photography, Halyna, Hutchins and injure Director Joel Souza, recently seen in these TMZ photos with his family, keeping a low profile in Vermont.
Assistant Director Dave halls who told authorities he handed Baldwin the gun during that rehearsal and Armorer Hannah Gutierrez, who was in charge of weapons on the set, according to investigators, all key to determining how a live round got on set?
MENDOZA: That's going to be the million dollar question is how a live round ended up in the revolver that Mr. Baldwin fired?
ELAM (voice over): An affidavit for a search warrant for the prop truck where the guns was stored on set revealed that Assistant Director Halls acknowledged he failed to fully check the firearm when Gutierrez handed it to him, saying Halls could only remember seeing three rounds. He advised he should have checked all of them, but he didn't.
MENDOZA: We're going to continue the investigation. We'd like to do some follow up interviews with Mr. Halls and get some clarification and exactly what he meant by that statement.
ELAM (voice over): The warrant also shows that Gutierrez told investigators no live ammo is ever kept on set.
MENDOZA: That was a live round that struck and killed Ms. Hutchins. So that is not an accurate statement as far as I'm concerned.
ELAM (voice over): And according to two crew members on the set of a previous film production with Nicolas Cage, Gutierrez mishandled weapons, and one crew member said she discharged a weapon on set. CNN has reached out to Halls and Gutierrez for comment, but has not gotten a response.
MENDOZA: I think there was some complacency on this set.
ELAM (voice over): The actions of Halls and Gutierrez are key to investigators determining how and why live rounds were present and whether anyone will ultimately face criminal charges?
MARY CARMACK-ALTWIES, SANTA FE DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Can we get to that bar of somehow proving that reckless standard that willful disregard? And it is - it's just simply far too early to say.
ELAM (voice over): The Sheriff also noting that there were some 100 people on the set at the time of the shooting so they have plenty more interviews yet to complete Stephanie Elam, CNN, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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BRUNHUBER: I'm Kim Brunhuber. Thanks for watching our coverage from the G20 Summit continues at the top of the hour with Wolf Blitzer in Rome. But for us "World Sport" is next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
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SHERRI BELTON HARDEMAN, JUROR: It's part of who I am now. I have a very supportive family and I'm thankful for them. I have done some therapy and probably need to do some more so that I can learn how to cope and go with this. In my everyday life I try to push this to the back of my thoughts.
And you know go about my daily tasks, taking care of grandkids taking care of house taking care of family, then like someone said, there's a trigger, there's something on the news, or there's an email or there's something that brings it all back. And then I feel like I start to kind of hyperventilate or breath, you know, a little bit differently.
So I have to calm myself down. It's been a life changing experience. And I just hope that I represented my community, and all the parents, all the mothers who have lost someone like Valerie Castile, and there's so many to be named, I just hope that I have done my due diligence and my civic duty and I represent it.
BRANDON MITCHELL, CHAUVIN TRIAL JUROR: I mean, know, there's so much stuff going on within the media, and you just see so many things. And it's just like; it just brings back those emotions. It's really like those emotions of how you felt when you're watching the video and just finding different ways to deal with it. Just find a different way to deal with that trauma of seeing this and being a part of this.
DON LEMON, CNN HOST: Are you sure you're OK? Are you guys sure that you're OK?
NICOLE DETERS, JUROR: I think we're the best we can be. Or we're doing the best we can be at this moment.
LEMON: Did you - did it change anything for you any of your perspectives on policing on community on race on anything? Did anybody have any sort of epiphany or I'm sure it was learning experience anyone you Nichole?
NICHOLE WILLIAMS, CHUAVIN TRIAL ALTERNATIVE JUROR: Definitely learning experience? There's no way to wrap your head around all of it. So yes, I had my opinions on things. But I think this really did shine a light on a lot of other things that I didn't know about, which helped me for sure.
LEMOM: What's the most important thing that the country or the world can get from this, Lisa?
LISA CHRISTENSEN, CHAUVIN TRIAL ALTERNATE JUROR: Well, I know in Minnesota, they passed a police reform which deals with excessive force. So some no knock warrants where they just come into your house retraining use of force that did pass I know we do have a question on the ballot now about whether we should disband the police department and replace it with a public safety department?
So I guess that's the area that I'm more interested in becoming more involved with actually see what I can do to make any of this right or change for the better to get more involved.
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LEMON: When we come back, the message doors from the Derek Chauvin trial have for the family of George Floyd and for Derek's children.
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LEMON: There are a lot of people out there; we're going to find out who you are now. And your names are going to be released and now your faces are going to be out there. How do you feel about that?
JODI DOUD, CHAUVIN TRIAL JUROR: Nervous.
LEMON: You're nervous why?
DOUD: I don't - I don't want to talk anymore. This is my one and done. Don't - I don't want the media at my door. I don't want - I want to go on with my life.
LEMON: You're nervous?
DETERS: Yes.
LEMON: Why?
DETERS: I think there's - you know there's a divide in the country on people I think the majority support our verdict. But then there's a portion that don't. And we know that people can be extreme and emotional. And so that makes me worried.
I also have, you know, a kid that's still in high school and we know kids can be really cruel sometimes to other kids. And so I worry about the effects for my children, as well. And what they'll help people?
LEMON: Are you nervous about it? You're concerned?
HARDEMAN: I was nervous and concerned but now I'm feeling like this is my story. I've shared a little bit with you. The media can come and find me but I don't have to share any more. I don't have to say anymore. This is - this is very personal and private and the public part I feel like I've done my due diligence with the decision that me and my fellow jurors made.
LEMON: Are you -- are there people in your life now who were going to find out who had no idea yes? HARDEMAN: Oh yes. Yes, relatives. Relatives close friends --
LEMON: They have no idea?
HARDEMAN: They have no idea.
LEMON: And --?
HARDEMAN: Now they will.
LEMON: Nichole?
WILLIAMS: Now they will.
LEMON: Anything you guys would like to - anybody would like to say to the Floyd family?
DOUD: We feel for you we're sorry. We hope as a group, we did the right thing.
LEMON: Is there anything that you any one of you would like to say to Derek Chauvin, anybody?
DOUD: Why, what were you thinking why? Why? Why did you do this? Why didn't you get up? That's been the question on everybody's mind. Why did you stay there so long?
LEMON: Why? Thank you so much.
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LEMON: A lot of people still asking that question why? Why did George Floyd have to die? Why did Derek Chauvin do what he did? As I said, right after that verdict was rendered, the jury has spoken. They spoke when they render the verdict.
Now they have spoken out publicly for the first time and most of them, many of them, if not all, wanted to be there only time to speak out. They don't want the media at their door. In this moment, it is tough for them because they're concerned about their safety. They're concerned about their families.
They're concerned about living in that community. And they're even concerned about the law enforcement in that community protecting them or not protecting them and I think they deserve to be protected and they deserved to be - deserved to be respected in this moment. They did their duty as American citizens, and they served their country in a moment of crisis.
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