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KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Welcome to all of you watching us in the United States, Canada and around the world. I'm Kim Brunhuber.
Ahead, the U.S. Justice Department releases the document that led to the FBI search of former president Donald Trump's private home. What it's revealing the classified files he was keeping there.
Plus there are more questions about who is paying for the White House's new student loan forgiveness plan.
And the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant is reconnected to Ukraine's power grid. How Ukraine may have avoided a disaster in a live report.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Live from CNN Center, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Kim Brunhuber.
BRUNHUBER: We are getting our clearest look yet into the U.S. Justice Department's investigation into classified documents kept at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. A redacted version of the affidavit the FBI submitted to obtain the search warrant details what federal investigators expected to find.
That includes improperly taking classified national security materials, as well as evidence of obstruction. Donald Trump insists he did nothing wrong and calls the release of the affidavit "total public relations subterfuge" by the FBI and Justice Department.
Meanwhile, President Biden is mocking his claims about declassifying documents. Here he is.
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QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) he declassified all the documents.
(INAUDIBLE) declassified them all? JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, I just want to know if you can declassify everything in the world?
I'm president. I can do it all. Come on.
QUESTION: Without a specialized area (INAUDIBLE)?
BIDEN: It depends on the document and it depends on how secure (INAUDIBLE).
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BRUNHUBER: Jessica Schneider has more on what the affidavit reveals.
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JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former President Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago for months as the National Archives tried to get them back.
HARRY LITMAN, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY: The top secret stuff and compartmental can get people killed. It is completely alarming.
SCHNEIDER: The now unsealed affidavit revealing 14 of the 15 boxes the Archives revealed in January of 2022 contained classified information, 184 unique documents in all, 67 marked confidential, 92 marked secret and 25 marked top secret.
Prosecutors said of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records and otherwise improperly identified. Plus, some documents had HCS markings, particularly alarming to intelligence experts.
STEVE HALL, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: The HCS stuff basically means that there's information in those boxes in the basement of Mar- a-Lago that pertain to or possibly came from human sources. They usually get imprisoned. And if it's in a place like Russia or any other authoritarian society, were oftentimes simply executed. That type of information is just incredibly sensitive.
SCHNEIDER: The Justice Department redacting pages of information from the affidavit in order to protect witness information and other key details from the ongoing criminal investigation into classified material at Mar-a-Lago.
In particular, prosecutors writing in their legal memo to the judge, information in the affidavit could be used to identify many if not all of these witnesses. If witnesses' identities are exposed, they could be subjected to harms, including retaliation, intimidation or harassment and even threats to their physical safety.
ROBERT LITT, FORMER GENERAL COUNSEL, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: At the end of the day, this is probably a net plus for the government. The judges found that they have excised all information that would compromise sources and methods or that the Justice Department would be concerned about.
SCHNEIDER: But left unredacted is an email Trump Attorney Evan Corcoran sent to the National Archives in May claiming that Trump had the authority to keep the papers at his Florida home after he left office, saying Trump has absolute authority to declassify documents and presidential actions involving classified documents are not subject to criminal sanction.
But DOJ investigators weren't deterred. There was probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified NDI or national defense information or that are presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at Mar-a-Lago.
And there is probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.
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HALL: What is a good explanation for why really anybody but certainly a former president included in that group would want that stuff or have this stuff stored in the basement?
SCHNEIDER: And about half of that 38-page affidavit is redacted. That's because the Justice Department's criminal investigation is still moving forward.
Prosecutors have revealed they're looking into violations of the Espionage Act, concealment of government records, also obstruction.
So the next question is, will anyone ultimately be charged and, if so, who?
Jessica Schneider, CNN, Washington.
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BRUNHUBER: I spoke with CNN legal analyst Areva Martin earlier. Here's what she says the affidavit tells us about Donald Trump.
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AREVA MARTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Donald Trump is both petulant and dishonest. Petulant, because he refused to turn over documents that the National Archives repeatedly asked him to turn over; and dishonest because he told them in January, when he delivered boxes to the National Archives, that was all he had, that he turned over all of the classified documents that he took to Mar-a-Lago.
Now we know that to be a complete falsehood. So even though the affidavit was heavily redacted, names and other key pieces were not made available to the public, there was enough there to determine that he acted in a way that potentially could cause him to be in a great deal of legal trouble.
BRUNHUBER: That talks to the mention of unlawful concealment in the first line of this. How significant is that?
MARTIN: Incredibly significant. The whole case that the Department of Justice based this affidavit on, was that he had documents that he was unauthorized to have removed from the White House.
He continued to retain those documents. He was in possession of documents that he was not authorized to have in his possession, documents that should have been nowhere near his private beachfront, unsecured property.
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BRUNHUBER: You can head over to cnn.com for a deeper dive to what the affidavit does and does not say. We have a page by page annotation that breaks it down into easy to understand language.
U.S. stock markets ended the week in negative territory after investors got a warning about inflation from the Federal Reserve chairman. The Dow Jones closed down more than 1,000 points, 3 percent. The S&P 500 fell more than 3 percent and the Nasdaq closed nearly 4 percent lower. All three were down about 4 percent for the week.
Friday's speech from Fed chair Jerome Powell clearly weighing heavily on investors. He said the fight against inflation will not be quick or easy. Rahel Solomon has more.
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RAHEL SOLOMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jerome Powell delivering a blunt, no-nonsense message during the much anticipated policy speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday.
The Fed chair warning the U.S. central bank is nowhere near the point where it can begin slowing the pace of severity of interest rate hikes as it attempts to get inflation under control.
The Fed chair clearly trying to tamp down speculation in financial markets that the central bank might be nearing a more market friendly, less aggressive interest rate policy.
He is saying, instead, the Fed will need to see sustained drops in inflation before easing up on rate hikes. Higher interest rates will be needed for some time until the central bank is, quote, "confident the job is done." Powell admitting that his get-tough policy could cause hardship for many Americans.
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JEROME POWELL, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL RESERVE: While higher interest rates, slower growth and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses. These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation. But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.
(END VIDEO CLIP) SOLOMON: Pain in the form of higher borrowing costs, which could slow both consumer spending and business investment. That could lead to a less robust jobs market.
The fear is that the Fed could so much pain that the U.S. economy could fall into a recession. We are not there yet but Friday's action on Wall Street clearly shows that investors are worried.
Powell's message putting pressure both on Wall Street and Main Street -- Rahel Solomon, CNN, New York.
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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): Ukraine's largest nuclear plant is back online after being disconnected from the power grid. But Ukraine's president says the plant is still one step away from having the same problem again.
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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): We will explain. Stay with us.
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BRUNHUBER: Ukraine appears to have dodged a bullet in the latest incident involving its Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant. The facility is now back online and reconnected to Ukraine's power grid. The plant lost connection on Thursday after fires damaged a key power line.
That created fears of a potential nuclear incident because plants need external power to cool their reactors to prevent them from melting down. President Zelenskyy warned the situation will be back to square one if the plant is disconnected again.
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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): I want to emphasize that the situation remains very risky and dangerous. Any repeat of yesterday's event; that is any disconnection of the plant from the grid, any actions by Russia that could trigger the shutdown of the reactors, will again put the plant one step away from disaster.
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BRUNHUBER: For more, Nada Bashir joins us from London.
What is the latest?
NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The nuclear power plant may be reconnected to Ukraine's electricity grid, the second power unit, yesterday evening. But there is still real concern over the safety and security of the power plant and the situation on the ground.
We heard the former Ukrainian armed forces, Ukrainian government warning it's the Russian armed forces putting the power plant at risk, putting Ukraine and the entire European continent at risk of a potential nuclear accident.
They've accused the Russian government of holding the power plant hostage, even storing military hardware at the power plant. This hasn't been verified. It has been suggested this is the case, knowing that the Ukrainian armed forces would be unable to target the plant for fear of a potential nuclear accident.
Russia has in turn accused the Ukrainian armed forces of shelling the nuclear power plant. But it is increasingly difficult to verify the situation on the ground. The power plant itself located on a precarious front line, falling under Russian occupied control. There have been repeated calls for a U.N. watchdog to gain access to assess what's going on, on the ground.
BRUNHUBER: Also on the grain exports, what can you tell us?
BASHIR: This is a milestone. The grain deal did get off to a rocky start. We saw that attack on the port of Odessa just a day after the deal was signed. But now a month on, since it was put to the test, according to President Zelenskyy, 1 million tons of grain and other agricultural goods have been exported from Ukraine's ports through the safe corridors established onto the global market.
This is hugely welcome news after months of debate and discussions around ways to alleviate the global food security crisis, not least for the nations most vulnerable and dependent on the grain experts.
Yesterday, another maritime corridor was established and opened by the joint coordination center established in Istanbul by the Turkish government and the U.N.
BRUNHUBER: Literally a life-saving development. Nada Bashir, thank you so much.
Fighting rages in Ukraine's battle zones. People are needed to do tough but essential work behind the front lines, delivering food or clearing debris after Russian strikes or driving a bus places where it is not safe.
Some volunteers do that in Odessa, the target of Russian missile strikes. Anna Bondarenko is the head of the Ukrainian Volunteer Service.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Before we talk about the volunteers, give us a sense of life in Odessa right now.
How close to normal are things at the moment? ANNA BONDARENKO, UKRAINIAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE: Hi, Kim. Thank you for hosting us today. It's really weird to talk about (INAUDIBLE) on the other hand, it's a bit safer than in different parts south of Ukraine.
On the other hand, every day we have our alarms, missile attacks every week. On one hand, we do feel a bit safer. On the other hand, we still feel pressure and the need to always hide and look for shelter when you hear the alarm in the morning or at night.
BRUNHUBER: It must be incredibly stressful. You are a volunteer among the army of volunteers who are helping both civilians and the military there in Ukraine. Your organization and your volunteers, they seem to do just about everything. Explain how it works and some of the things they do.
BONDARENKO: The idea of the Ukrainian Volunteer Service is to unite people, different types of people, around the idea of helping on a local level. Basically, during the first hours of the (INAUDIBLE) invasion, we have been able to mobilize more than 100,000 people to help people in need.
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BONDARENKO: So volunteers do a lot of things. They help people with some food packages, medicine. We can drive those who are traveling around the country, who are traveling inside the occupied territory to deliver food and medicine.
Teenagers are volunteering online, (INAUDIBLE) humanitarian assistance, how to get some additional funding for families who do not have any money, all this type of stuff. Basically, most of Ukrainians are volunteering right now, doing something to support people in their communities.
Our goal is to coordinate the people and match those in need with the people who are going to help them.
BRUNHUBER: Sometimes these volunteers, they take incredible risks to help others.
How dangerous can it be?
BONDARENKO: Of course they do. That's something that's very important about Ukraine. It's not easy to be a volunteer. We have volunteers working on the front lines, working in the occupied territory of the south and eastern parts of the country.
It is dangerous just to be a person that buys groceries and takes them to people. Unfortunately, right now, we have some volunteers who are being kidnapped by Russians. We have some volunteers who we do not have any contact with.
But still people understand there are risks. And we are taking measures to lower and mitigate those risks. But people say, OK, we do know that we can get kidnapped. We can get tortured. But we cannot let those people die from hunger. So we need to be there. We just need to help.
BRUNHUBER: Unbelievable to hear how far people are willing to go to help their fellow Ukrainians.
You have spent time in the U.S. I know you got a very good sense of how volunteer groups operate here.
What did you take away from your experience here?
BONDARENKO: For me, volunteering in the United States, it was my first volunteer job in my life. I barely spoke English. I was afraid of almost everything in my life. But it seemed like a way to integrate into the community, to exchange all of those ideas that I had about living in Ukraine and to share with my friends in California.
Right now, a lot of the things we are doing in Ukraine are inspired by what I saw in America, the sense of community, the sense of support, of being there for the person that you don't know. It's really important.
Right now in Ukraine, our movement is really great. We see how brave our 16- or 20- year olds are that are volunteering. We also have volunteers who are 80. They are supporting the people in their community. We do feel that we have so much to share.
BRUNHUBER: Well, let's hope for the safety and security of all of the volunteers that you are working with. It's amazing work that you are doing. And it is very brave for all of the people participating, that are taking the risks to help their fellow Ukrainians. I have to leave it there. But thank you. I really appreciate you joining us.
French president Emmanuel Macron says the burden is on Iran to get the nuclear deal going again. During a visit to Algeria, Macron told reporters he recently held, quote, "important discussions" with other leaders about the nuclear deal and the commitment to the work done by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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EMMANUEL MACRON, PRESIDENT OF FRANCE (through translator): Now the ball is in Iran's court. I was able to reassure the director-general of the IAEA with our commitment to the independence of the agency and the need for France to stand behind it so all technical issues that fall under its jurisdiction are not subject to political pressure.
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BRUNHUBER: Earlier this week the head of the IAEA said the agency has no plans to drop its investigation into unexplained traces of uranium at sites in Iran, despite Iran's accusations the probe is motivated by politics.
U.S. Republican senator Marsha Blackburn is winding up her recent trip to Taiwan, which has been met from criticism by China. While there, she met with the President Tsai Ing-wen.
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BRUNHUBER: Beijing responded saying, quote, "The visit to the Taiwan region violates the One China principle and the provisions of the three China U.S. joint communiques. It goes against the U.S. commitment of maintaining only nonofficial ties with the Taiwan region.
"The Chinese side deplores and rejects this."
Blackburn does not represent the Biden administration on her trip and her comments don't change the longstanding One China policy.
We will take a quick break. I have more news.
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BRUNHUBER: Welcome back to all of you watching us here in the United States and Canada. I'm Kim Brunhuber. This is CNN NEWSROOM. More on our top story.
The release of the affidavit that led to the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. It says the FBI requested the search after finding 184 classified documents in boxes recovered from Trump in January.
The affidavit goes on to say that the FBI believed highly sensitive national defense materials hadn't been turned over yet. The investigators also expected to find evidence of obstruction.
A few hours ago Trump's legal team filed paperwork supporting his request that a special master be appointed to oversee the evidence because, quote, "it raises more questions than answers"
Sources tell CNN Trump has been struggling with his hunt for a high profile Florida lawyer. Randi Kaye looks at the lawyers that defended him in the past.
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CHRISTINA BOBB, TRUMP ATTORNEY: When you want to do something shady, you get your shady friends to help you.
RANDI KAYE, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): That's Christina Bobb, the former host of the right-wing One American News network, talking about the search at Mar-a-Lago. She also worked for then President Trump in Homeland Security but is now one of the faces of Trump's legal team. In the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago search..
BOBB: I'm a little bit befuddled as to why they would do such a drastic thing. So disrespecting and dishonoring, other than the fact that it's a political tool. KAYE (voice-over): Throughout his presidency and after, Trump has used the ever-changing cast of characters on his legal team to operate as his own personal PR machine. And the outlandish claims have known no bounds.
Listen to lawyer Sidney Powell, who, for years, has been pushing the false narrative of massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
SIDNEY POWELL, FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY: It's been organized and conducted with the help of Silicon Valley people, the big tech companies, the social media companies and even the media companies. And I'm going to release the Kraken.
KAYE (voice-over): Powell was part of the self proclaimed Elite Strike Force a team of lawyers who claimed to be rooting out election fraud.
They falsely accused voting technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic have helping orchestrate the alleged fraud by using an algorithm in their machines to flip votes from then President Trump to Joe Biden. Powell was pressed to provide proof during this tense interview with the Australian Broadcast Corporation.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What do you have in your case?
You have a bunch of dodgy affidavits that don't add up. You have a group of people with dubious credentials.
POWELL: That's your characterization. That's all your characterization.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So far, you've provided no evidence --
POWELL: You might as well be working for Dominion and Smartmatic.
KAYE (voice-over): Dominion is now suing Powell and Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani made so many false claims about voting in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY: Dead people voted over three 300,000 ballots were counted in secret.
KAYE (voice-over): That a New York court suspended his law license.
GIULIANI: If we're wrong, we will be made fools up. But if we're right, a lot of them will go to jail. So let's have trial by combat.
KAYE (voice-over): Another attorney Jenna Ellis had also signed on as part of the so-called Elite Strike Force. Listen to how she danced around the fact there was no evidence of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election.
JENNA ELLIS, FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY: I think it depends on your definition of mass that if I mean, so even if there is any instance of fraud, you know, it doesn't have to be millions and millions of ballots. It only has to be enough to tip the scales. KAYE (voice-over): But there wasn't enough to tip the scales not even close. So it's no surprise the competency of Trump's legal team has come into question, along with advice they've given him over the years.
Take for example, the advice of Trump lawyer Alina Habba, who recently has suggested the former president wants the DOJ to release the names of the witnesses who helped secure the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. That raises all kinds of serious security concerns.
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ALINA HABBA, TRUMP ATTORNEY: What I would advise him is to ask them to uncover everything so that we can see what is going on. I understand the witness protection issue.
KAYE (voice-over): Legal advice, seemingly for an audience of one -- Randi Kaye, CNN.
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BRUNHUBER: "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" correspondent and CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman has reported extensively on Donald Trump. Friday she spoke with Wolf Blitzer. He asked her if she was surprised to learn that these highly classified records were mixed in with documents taken to Mar-a-Lago and not identified.
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MAGGIE HABERMAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: What you saw was the Trump people have been sort of painting this picture of, we've been cooperating. They've been saying this over and over again.
The Justice Department laid out in no uncertain terms that that is not their experience and that their experience is that there was a year- and-a-half of trying to get information of the Trump team asking for delays and the FBI reviewing material.
And so it's as if you are dealing with two different universes. You have the Trump folks saying one thing but you have the DOJ saying absolutely none of what they're saying is accurate.
I do think it's important to note, Wolf, that a lot of what is now made public, I think, about witnesses, is really important, because Trump has a history of talking about people who are witnesses in investigations and DOJ is obviously very concerned about that.
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BRUNHUBER: That was Maggie Haberman speaking to Wolf Blitzer.
President Biden made a big step to fulfill a campaign promise. Student Loan borrowers will get between $10,000 and $20,000 in relief. The unanswered questions are when will they start to see the relief and how will the U.S. pay for it? CNN's MJ Lee has the latest.
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MJ LEE, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: The White House is starting to offer more details on how much exactly the student loan forgiveness program is going to cost.
According to their early estimate, that comes out to around $24 billion a year, which is less than some other estimates that we have seen, including an updated Penn Wharton estimate, which said that it could cost upwards of $1 trillion over 10 years.
When we asked the White House about the discrepancy between the two estimates, they said they are certain this is not in the ballpark of how much their plan is going to cost. That is in part because their model is based on just 75 percent of eligible borrowers taking advantage of their new program.
The White House also said that they are obviously wanting as many as possible to take advantage of this program. But the president himself saying, even if a fraction of people who are eligible to have their loans forgiven as a part of this program participated, he would be pretty happy with the outcome -- MJ Lee, CNN, the White House.
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BRUNHUBER: There's been no shortage of extreme weather. Mississippi included, where officials are urging Jackson residents to get ready for more flooding. More details, after the break.
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BRUNHUBER: Mississippi officials are urging Jackson residents to get ready to leave ahead of more heavy rain and flooding.
The National Weather Service says the Pearl River, which runs through the heart of Jackson, is expected to crest at 36 feet, well above flood stage. The mayor says those in flood prone areas should be ready to evacuate within 48 hours.
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BRUNHUBER: So the U.S. is once again going on a mission to the moon. We're having a live look at the Artemis rocket on the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center. Weather permitting, it will blast off on Monday. This comes as modern-day space exploration is increasingly privatized. CNN's Kristin Fisher takes us inside the mission. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KRISTIN FISHER, CNN SPACE & DEFENSE CORRESPONDENT: It has been such a long time since NASA has had one of its own rockets designed to carry astronauts into space. It's been 11 years since the last space shuttle launch; 50 years since the last launch of the Apollo program.
But now Apollo's mythological twin sister, Artemis, is sitting at the Kennedy Space Center days away from making its first flight. Part of the reason NASA wants to go back to the moon is because, this time around, they want to leave a lot more than just flags and footprints. Here is NASA administrator, Bill Nelson.
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BILL NELSON, NASA ADMINISTRATOR: Fifty years ago, we went to the moon for a day, a few hours, three days max. Now we are going back to the moon to stay, to live, to learn, to build.
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FISHER: When he says "build," he is referring to building lunar bases on the moon. Part of the reason that NASA and United States want to do that is because China has plans to do that, too.
But first the Artemis rocket has to pass this critical test flight. It will launch Monday morning. If all goes to plan, the rocket will separate from the capsule. The capsule will then head to the moon on its own. It will orbit the moon for about 2.5 weeks, at times getting within 60 miles from the surface.
Then it will return to Earth, test out the all-important heat shield before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. The reason the heat shield is so important is because it's designed to protect astronauts, who will be inside that capsule hopefully on future flights.
If all goes well, those first astronauts will be on Artemis II. That will likely be in 2024. It will orbit the moon and then the big one, Artemis III, that's when NASA intends to return American astronauts to the moon. This time they want to land the first woman and the first person of color -- Kristin Fisher, CNN, Washington.
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BRUNHUBER: Princess Diana's personal automobile is going up for sale this weekend. The black Ford Escort that she drove between 1985 and 1988 is been auctioned this weekend. Auctioneers say it may be the only car of its kind.
They normally come in white but the royal family's police guard asked for hers to be painted black for discretion. It is expected to cost about $120,000. This Wednesday marks 25 years since the Princess of Wales died.
Two days from the start of the U.S. Open, this could be a last hurrah for a tennis legend. How her younger rivals are viewing the looming end of the Serena Williams era. Stay with us.
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BRUNHUBER: U.S. cable network HBO is renewing one of its most anticipated offerings, "House of the Dragon," for a second season after showing a single episode.
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BRUNHUBER: The "Game of Thrones" prequel premiered to record ratings last Sunday; 20 million viewers watched the first episode on various HBO platforms in the U.S. CNN and HBO are part of the same parent, Warner Brothers Discovery.
American pop star Britney Spears is making a comeback after a six-year break.
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BRUNHUBER: Listen to this.
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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): She teamed up with music legend, Elton John on a dance track called, "Hold Me Closer," a reimagining of his hit, "Tiny Dancer." Elton John says he believes their duet will give her a much-needed confidence boost after over a decade of conservatorship that controlled her career and private life.
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BRUNHUBER: I'm Kim Brunhuber I will be back in just a moment with more CNN NEWSROOM, please stay with us.
