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Justice Department Opposes Trump's Plea For Special Master; Trump Adds Former Florida Solicitor General To Legal Team; Biden Condemns Attacks On FBI, Slams MAGA Republicans; Interview with Political Analyst and President Global Policy Institute, Loyola Marymount University Michael Genovese; Trump's Request for Special Master Rejected by Justice Department; Relocation of Migrants, Texas Spends More Than $12.7 million; Biden Requests FEMA Assistance with Mississippi Water Problem; After City's Supply System Collapses, Jackson Residents Struggle to Locate Safe Water; Building collapse in Nigeria claims one life; Extreme Flooding in Pakistan killed More Than 1,100 People and Impacted 33 Million Others; After Violent Clashes, Green Zone in Baghdad was Cleared; IAEA Inspectors Traveling to Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant; Ukraine's Offensive in Occupied South has Early Success; November 9, 1989, Fall of Berlin Wall. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired August 31, 2022 - 02:00   ET

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ANNOUNCER: Live from CNN Center. This is CNN NEWSROOM with Rosemary Church.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM and I'm Rosemary Church. We begin with startling new revelations from the U.S. Justice Department search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. They come in a court filing opposing Trump's request for a special master to review all the materials seized by the FBI.

The Department reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from Mar-a- Lago. Prosecutors say some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The court filing cause serious doubts on a statement by Trump's attorneys that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that Trump lacks legal standing to request a special master since the documents belong to the government, not to him.

The court filing came with this photo showing documents taken by the FBI from Trump's office. More now from CNN's Sara Murray.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: The Justice Department weighing in with its side of the story of what happened in the run up and in the aftermath of the search at Mar-a-Lago. This is all part of the core battle that's playing out over whether there should be a special master and independent third party appointed to review the documents that the FBI seized when they searched Mar-a-Lago.

Now the Trump team has argued they want this special master. The Justice Department in a late night filing said they didn't believe it was necessary. They said the government has already completed its work and going through these documents. It's segregated any attorney-client privilege information. And they also said that Donald Trump doesn't have the standing to intervene in this. These are not his documents.

These are the property of the government. But they also laid out their clear rebuttal to what the Trump team has been saying. The Trump team has been saying the former president was cooperative with the Justice Department. They suggested that this search at Mar-a-Lago was over the top. In this filing, the Justice Department lays out what they found in this August search. They say there were over 100 unique documents with classified markings.

And this is important because they say this is twice as many documents as what the Trump team produced after they had been subpoenaed. So they had an opportunity. They said that they handed over everything as a result of this subpoena. And what the Justice Department is saying is no, we found 100 unique documents with classified markings. They also included a photo that showed the cover sheets, the classification sort of a sample what -- of what they found.

And in this filing, they also said that there were documents that were likely concealed and removed from Mar-a-Lago from a storage room there in an attempt to obstruct the Justice Department's investigation. Now this court fight is going to continue. Donald Trump's side has until Wednesday evening to respond and there is going to be a hearing on this matter on Thursday.

Sara Murray, CNN, Washington.

CHURCH: The Justice Department argues that appointing a special master would harm the intelligence community's review of material scenes from Mar-a-Lago. And we asked CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem for her take on this.

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JULIETTE KAYYEM, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: The national security implications are huge because what it shows, this is just one picture is at Mar-a-Lago essentially was just sort of an open book to anyone who was willing to come in. I mean, those documents are not secure, not simply for anyone who's randomly passing by, but of course for foreign intelligence agents or foreigners who might have interest in it.

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CHURCH: Joining me now from Washington, former U.S. federal prosecutor and host of the podcast That Said with Michael Zeldin is Michael Zeldin himself. Good to have you with us.

MICHAEL ZELDIN, HOST, THAT SAID WITH MICHAEL ZELDIN: Thanks for having me. CHURCH: So, just a short time ago, the Department of Justice filed its 40-page response opposing Donald Trump's plea for a special master to review that classified information. Those documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago home.

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The DOJ essentially saying that review has already been done. So it would be unnecessary to do it again. So what is your response to this? And what decision do you think the judge will likely make on Thursday?

ZELDIN: I agree with the Justice Department that especially master is not needed in this case. Even if the review hadn't been done. Special masters typically are appointed when there's a seizure from an attorney's office so they can check attorney-client privilege issues, that wasn't the case here. And additionally, the search has been completed pursuant to the procedures that the judge who issued the search warrant laid out.

So they have a team that reviewed all these documents, called out the executive privilege or the attorney-client privilege stuff, put it in one basket and then proceeded to give or want to give the other documents to the review team so they can get going with the criminal investigation and the national security review. So I think the Justice Department has it correct here and I don't think there's a good response that will be forthcoming from the Trump team.

CHURCH: And Michael, the DOJ court filing also states there's evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from a Mar- a-Lago storage room to obstruct the investigation. What are the legal ramifications of this?

ZELDIN: Well, this is the most brutal part of the Justice Department filing for Trump and his attorneys because they represented to the Justice Department in response to a grand jury subpoena a little bit earlier in the process in June, that they had done a comprehensive search, then there was nothing else found other than this red wealth of documents that they turned over.

Well, the Justice Department got additional information from confidential sources that there was actually additional stuff. They got the search warrant, and they found not only the stuff in the storage facility that they said was comprehensively, previously search. But they also found stuff in Donald Trump's personal office, giving the Justice Department a reason to argue that not only was untrue, that they did a comprehensive search, but true.

They move stuff from that storage locker to another location to obstruct the investigation. Very telling stuff. Very damaging legally and from a P.R. matter, it's hard to defend the president.

CHURCH: Right. And the DOJ also says the August search of Mar-a-Lago casts serious doubt on the statement made by Trump lawyers, a classified material had already been returned. In fact, a top Justice Department official contends the federal investigators were limited in what they could look through when visiting the resort in June contrary to the Trump team's narrative of total cooperation. So, what are the possible legal consequences of that?

ZELDIN: Well, there are two statutes that are in play here. One is obstruction of justice. And the other one is criminal concealment of documents. The Justice Department filing raises the very clear possibility that there is both an obstruction charge, and it can criminal concealment charge that is waiting for somebody. Who that is, we're not sure because we don't know who gave what orders to hide these documents. But that surely is, first and foremost on the Justice Department's mind.

CHURCH: And Michael, the DOJ filing also includes a damning photographic evidence of top secret and secret documents that the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago perhaps we could bring that up. What did you think when you saw this image? Just extraordinary. I mean, of course, we don't know whether that's how they found the documents all over the floor. They may have laid them out. We don't know that. Do we?

ZELDIN: No. But the important part is that these documents in big letters said top secret classified and everyone knows that has worked with the government, what precautions need to be taken around those documents. Also, interestingly, in the DOJ filing, they point out that which was requested was not for classified documents per se, but rather documents that had classified markings on them.

So, Trump's argument that he declassified is irrelevant in the face of a search warrant or a grand jury subpoena says, give us all documents that are marked as classified irrespective of whether declassified now or not. So again, the Trump response to the DOJ is not really likely to be very compelling to the judge that I think she should now at this point, not appoint a special master and let the Justice Department go forward with its investigation and national security risk assessment.

CHURCH: And why do you think it took Trump's legal team so long to request that a special master be appointed?

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Is this more about delaying tactics? Buying times the DOJ appears to be saying because at -- on the other side of this Trump's team and his allies keep saying, oh, this is political. This is right near the November midterms. But this could have been resolved many months ago, couldn't it? If the Trump team had wanted to?

ZELDIN: Absolutely. This case is the creation of Donald Trump and company. They -- one, didn't have to take these documents with them. And two, when requested of them, they could have given them all back and said, we're very sorry, we took them inadvertently. And this would have been all done but they didn't. They held on to these documents, they appear to have hidden these documents.

And the big question now is why? What was it that was behind all of this secrecy and concealment and obstruction? What is it that is in these documents that they were trying to cover up in some sense or potentially in most seriously use for other purposes?

CHURCH: Yes. We certainly want that question answered. And Meantime, Donald Trump has expanded his legal team adding a former Florida Solicitor General Chris Kise who's also a former adviser to Governor Ron DeSantis. Does this signal just how concerned Trump must be about being indicted in this Mar-a-Lago probe do you think?

ZELDIN: I would think so you asked the question previously, why did it take so long to file this motion for a special master? And the answer is, I think his counsel we're not very experienced. Now I think they realize that they need more experienced counsel, but I don't know that a solicitor general from the state of Florida is actually what they need. I think they need experienced national security.

Former federal prosecutors with top secret clearances start working on this case. I think that his legal team at the moment is not up to the standard that Justice Department legal team is.

CHURCH: Michael Zeldin, always great to get your legal analysis, particularly on a day like this. Many thanks.

ZELDIN: Thank you.

CHURCH: Well, meantime, U.S. President Joe Biden is condemning what he calls sickening attacks on the FBI and slamming MAGA Republicans. The U.S. president is ramping up his political message ahead of the November midterms. Speaking Tuesday in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Biden says Republicans in Congress can't claim to support law enforcement but not condemned the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I want to say as clear as I can. There's no place in this country, no place, for endangering the lives of law enforcement, no place. No, never, period. I'm opposed to defunding the police. I'm also opposed to defunding the FBI.

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CHURCH: U.S. President Joe Biden went on to lay out his plan to combat crime and increase funding for police.

One of the most important figures of the late 20th century has died. Just ahead we will find out what other world leaders are saying about the man who drew back the Iron Curtain.

And later, 180,000 people in Mississippi's capital are suffering through a water crisis.

Still ahead, why Jackson is now being described as the next Flint, Michigan.

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CHURCH: The last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91. At home he was known for policies like glasnost and perestroika meant to reform the Soviet government and economy. And abroad, he engaged with us and Western leaders calling for nuclear disarmament and bringing an end to the Cold War. His relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin was at times complex, but a spokesperson says Mr. Putin expresses his condolences over the death of the former Soviet leader.

He added that the Russian president would send a message to Gorbachev's family and friends. State media report Gorbachev will be laid to rest next to his wife Raisa in Moscow.

And CNN's Matthew Chance has more on the transformative Soviet leader.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): With that port stain birthmark on his forehead. Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most recognizable figures in 20th century politics. His attempts to reform the Soviet Union and his role in ending the Cold War made him one of its most influential too.

As a young man, Gorbachev studied law at Moscow State University. It's there he met and married fellow student Raisa Gorbacheva. He went on to forge a career in the Communist Party. Eventually, age 54 becoming its general secretary, the leader of the Soviet Union. It was in this role that Gorbachev and his wife broke the mold. He for his outgoing, charismatic nature, Raisa for her stylish outfits, and for the unheard of elegance she brought to the role of Soviet First Lady.

But the vast communist nation they ruled was on the brink of crisis. Amid shortages of food and consumer goods, the Soviet command economy was grinding to a halt. There was also alarm at the apparently slow response of the Soviet authorities to the nuclear disaster Chernobyl. Gorbachev tried to fix things with what he called Perestroika and Glasnost. Reforms that were to revolutionize the Soviet system.

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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE SOVIET UNION (through translator): I began these reforms and my guiding stars were freedom and democracy without bloodshed. So the people would cease to be heard led by a shepherd, it would become citizens.

CHANCE: There was revolution top in relations with the West, face to face with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Gorbachev made a stunning proposal to eliminate all nuclear missiles held by the two superpowers. It was the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Soon the Berlin wall would fall. And after a failed coup by hardliners in Moscow, the Soviet Union itself was dissolved and Gorbachev resigned.

GORBACHEV: I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of president of the USSR.

CHANCE: In 1999, he lost the love of his life. His wife for 46 years, Raisa who died of leukemia. But there was no love lost between many Russians and Gorbachev to many of his countrymen. He would always be the man who allowed the great Soviet empire to collapse, exposing millions to hardship and humiliation. Even Gorbachev himself expressed regret.

GORBACHEV: I fought the best I could to defend the Soviet Union. But I failed.

CHANCE: But in the West, he was revered and celebrated as a great statesman, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who played a decisive role in ending the Cold War, peacefully defusing the most dangerous standoff of the 20th century.

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CHURCH: And for more on reaction pouring in from all around the world, I'm joined now by CNN's Nada Bashir. She joins us live from London. Good morning to you, Nada. So, what are world leaders saying about the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev and his legacy?

NADA BASHIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL REPORTER: Look, Rosemary, as you heard there in Matthew's report and this is a man who leaves behind a towering legacy and we have seen reaction rippling across the globe to his death overnight. It is of course a somewhat polarizing figure, as you heard there at home is often castigated for bringing rather the end of the Soviet Union's position as a global superpower to rival the West but abroad.

He is often and continues to be hailed for his efforts to defuse those nuclear tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union back in the 1980s. And of course for pursuing reforms, from bringing Eastern Europe back out from behind the Iron Curtain and we have seen that reaction from world leaders far and wide. U.S. President Joe Biden saying as leader of the USSR, he worked with President Reagan to reduce our two country's nuclear arsenals to the relief of people worldwide praying for an end to the nuclear arms race.

He went on to say that Gorbachev believed in glasnost and perestroika openness and restructuring, not as mere slogans but as the path forward for the people of the Soviet Union after so many years of isolation and deprivation. We also heard from the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres overnight, he described Gorbachev as a one of a kind statesman who changed the course of history.

Saying that he did more than any other individual to bring about the peaceful end of the Cold War. The world has lost a towering global leader, committed multilateralist and tireless advocate for peace. And here in the United Kingdom, we have seen reaction from the Prime Minister Boris Johnson also saying that he always admired the courage and integrity. Gorbachev showed in bringing the Cold War to a peaceful conclusion.

In a time of Putin's aggression in Ukraine his tireless commitment to opening up Soviet society remains an example to us all. And of course, Gorbachev's death comes at a particularly poignant time as we continue to see the rift between the West and now the Russian Federation growing ever more cavernous as the war in Ukraine rages on. Rosemary?

CHURCH: Indeed. Nada Bashir joining us live from London with that global reaction. Many thanks. And do stay with CNN. We will have more on the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev later this hour.

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RONALD REAGAN, FORME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

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CHURCH: We look back on one of his most defining moments. The fall of the Berlin Wall.

Also ahead, CNN uncovers the staggering cost the state of Texas has paid to bust migrants to Washington and New York in what's becoming a growing political showdown.

We're back with that and more in just a moment.

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CHURCH: Back to our top story this hour. In a blockbuster court filing, the U.S. Justice Department is opposing a request by Donald Trump to appoint a special master to review documents taken from Mar- a-Lago. DOJ lawyers say government documents were likely concealed and removed from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago to obstruct the investigation into Trump's potential mishandling of classified materials.

The DOJ says the FBI search cast serious doubt on his lawyer's claims that there had been a diligent search to return classified material in response to a grand jury subpoena. And they argued Trump lacks standing over presidential records because the material belongs to the government and not to him.

The court filing came with this photo showing documents taken by the FBI from Trump's office.

And for more on this we want to bring in political analyst Michael Genovese. He joins us live from Los Angeles. Good to have you with us.

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MICHAEL GENOVESE, POLITICAL ANALYST AND PRESIDENT GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE, LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: Thank you, Rosemary.

CHURCH: So, the Justice Department's court filing opposes Donald Trump's plea for a special master, saying that a review of the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago has already been done. But for the sake of optics and, of course, to counter claims coming from Trump allies that the process has not been fair, should a third-party special master be appointed, but given a limited time to get the review done? Is that a must in the current divisive political climate do you think?

GENOVESE: It's a possibility but not a must. The Department of Justice has done the review that a special master would already be asked to do. And they've done -- and they said, we've gone through everything. We've got a few small things that may be covered by client -- attorney-client privilege, of those we've taken out. They've already looked at all the documents. So, it would be redundant.

The only reason why you would do this is to give a greater appearance of fairness in the process -- it's already fairly open and quite fair.

CHURCH: So, the DOJ filing also said that U.S. government documents were likely concealed and removed from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago, as part of an effort to obstruct the FBI's investigation. How damning is this?

GENOVESE: That's one of the big takeaways. Donald Trump's lawyers, Corcoran and Bobb, and the president had to sign off on the saying that we've gone through it all. There are no more classified documents. We have given everything to you. They have certified that. That was not true. It was a lie.

And so, that is why the Justice Department is looking at the question of, did they obstruct justice? It's very hard to prove intent. But when you say what they said, we looked at everything. Nothing else is there. There's no there there. Certified it. They obstructed. And that is a very clear sign of intent.

CHURCH: We also learned that in total, 320 classified documents were recovered from Mar-a-Lago. What do you think he was planning to do with these documents and how damaging is this for Trump politically as people start to learn more and more about this? And certainly, those images we see of documents strewn across the floor?

GENOVESE: You know, 18 months after leaving office, you still wonder, what do you want with them? What are you doing with them? What do you need them for? And I think it's just a matter of Donald Trump being very proprietary and feeling that he's above the law. That these are mine. He's used that phrase a number of times. They're not his. They don't belong to him. He knew they weren't his.

And so, what's happened is then, things like that picture, the picture that we've all seen of the documents strewn across the floor with top secret all over them, that picture is incredibly damning to Donald Trump. Because a picture like that is about us welcome as hair on a biscuit. It just doesn't belong to him. You don't want to see it. And it's something every voter can see and identify with in gray of pictures can be worth 1,000 words. This one is damning Donald Trump.

CHURCH: And, the DOJ filing also says that the August search cast serious doubt on a statement made by Trump lawyers that classified materials had already been returned. What does that reveal about Donald Trump and his team? His legal team?

GENOVESE: You know, it's the carelessness that they implied to this. They didn't take it seriously. If they did, they would have behaved very differently. It's true that Donald Trump had lawyers that were not qualified to do what they were asked to do. But that's the fault of Donald Trump. He hired these people. And he has a history of hiring lawyers who tell them what he wants them to tell him. Not what the law is. Not what he needs to hear. And so, this fits a pattern with Donald Trump. The pattern is, I hired you to confirm what I say. To do what I say. Not to tell me what the law says. Don't tell me what I can't do. Just tell me it's OK for me to do it because it's mine. And that is coming back to haunt him right now.

CHURCH: Michael Genovese, offering some political analysis there. Many thanks, as always, appreciate it.

GENOVESE: Thank you, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Well, the Texas governor's political showdown with the Biden administration over immigration policies is proving costly. So far this year, Governor Greg Abbott has bussed as many as 9,000 migrants from his State to New York City and Washington D.C.

Now, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, CNN has learned that that effort is costing Texas taxpayers millions of dollars. The details now from CNN's Polo Sandoval.

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's taken us weeks to get to this point, to get an answer from state officials as far as how much this controversial border busing plan that Governor Abbott announced back in April is costing taxpayers. And now, these documents showing these numbers here, just under $13 million.

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And the numbers are fairly conflicting in terms of how many migrants have actually been sent from the southern border to the northeast in the cities of Washington and New York. But if you do the math, that still calculated at about $1,400 a person.

I'm from the -- from a border region myself. I even looked at flights and what it would cost me to fly from South Texas to New York tomorrow, it's costing about $500. So, it certainly raises some serious questions about the practicality, the cost-effectiveness. Greg Abbott, when he made this announcement, that he planned to basically take the border to the doorstep of lawmakers in Washington, and to Eric Adams's doorstep here in New York, made it very clear that he knew that this was not going to come cheap. But at the same time, it will be interesting to find out.

Once we do get a response, if we get a response, from Greg Abbott, if he expected this. Because again, if you do the math, it just does not add up when it comes to the amount of money that the State of Texas is spending. These are figures that were provided to me by the Texas Division of Emergency Management. And this was in response to a request for information that I filed weeks ago.

And again, laying out that clear number, and it's important to point out that likely continues to grow. As critics continue to say that this is simply the cost of making a political point. As governor Abbott seeks reelection, he maintains, however, from the start that this is meant to provide some relief to some of those communities across along the border that have been burdened with this increased number of migrants.

And we should also mention that Texas is not alone. Arizona, also implementing a similar program. And we're in the process and hopefully obtaining similar documents and similar figures from Arizona as well.

CHURCH: U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help with disaster relief efforts in Mississippi. About 180,000 people in the State's capital are waiting for clean water. There's not enough water for drinking, for sanitation, or to fight fires, or even send their kids to school.

Instead, they spent Tuesday in lines for hours in the heat to get one case of bottled water until officials ran out of supplies earlier than expected. Many were turned away with nothing. The director of the State Emergency Management says seven distribution sites will be set up by Thursday. In the meantime, people turned to stores hoping to find water before the shelves emptied.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's very frustrating. It's very frustrating to have to fight for some water. You know what I'm saying? You got to mess around and buy five cases of water just to stay hydrated.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's just kind of scary because we don't know if anything is going to get done or when it is going to get done.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: After work, I get off late. And you come in the store, and it's empty.

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CHURCH: The reason for this mess, torrential rain led to flooding and overwhelmed the city's largest water facility. National Guard troops trained for the devastation of hurricanes have been deployed, but the storm was just the final straw. The disaster is the culmination of decades of failure, depicts a system that dates back to the 1950s. And sadly, Jackson, Mississippi has been here before.

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MAYOR CHOKWE ANTAR LUMUMBA, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI: We were here two Februarys ago, where we had systemwide failures and the world was watching us. And the world is watching us again. And so, we must continue to elevate our voices and say that the residents of Jackson are worthy. They are worthy of a dependable system. And we look forward to a coalition of the willing that will join us in the fight to improve this system that has been failing for decades. For the City of Jackson, and the process of this we crisis, we have committed every dollar that we could find.

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CHURCH: Relief is expected in the coming hours. Mississippi's governor says there is a plan to install a rented pump today that will allow at least four million gallons of water. And still to come, Ukraine takes aim at Russian forces, as it pushes forward with its counteroffensive in the occupied south. We will have a look at where things stand right now.

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KELLY OLSON, TEACHER, NORTH SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL: Five years ago, we decided that we wanted to have a freshman academy community service project. And we decided part of that was going to be working with spreading awareness of modern-day slavery.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At the end of your presentation, you need to tell me how that issue connects to your poem.

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OLSON: There is probably 300, 400 kids in the freshman academy. We had all of their core teachers make sure that on My Freedom Day that they were teaching about that topic. And now, we've got not just our core classes doing it, but also our elective classes.

OK. Guys, so, this is what we are going to do today as far as packing. You are going to grab a Ziploc bag and then you are going to start here.

So, when we first started this, this was exclusively for the freshman class. But it was such a hit with all of the classes that every year we have grown and added the classes in. So, now, it's a schoolwide event.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And who are you helping?

OLSON: So, we have two groups. And both of those organizations work towards ending human trafficking or helping those that are in need.

It's been amazing because our students have really embraced the idea of more learning about modern slavery and embrace the idea of what is human trafficking. How it has impacted them. And it's been a very popular topic to learn about and to participate in.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Well. at least one person is dead, another critically injured after a three-story building collapsed in Nigeria. Six others were treated in hospital and released. The building is located at a popular market. Authorities are still searching throughout -- through the rubble in case anyone else remains trapped.

The U.N. Secretary-General is making an urgent appeal for aid as Pakistan struggles with what he's calling a monsoon on steroids. Pakistani officials say extreme flooding has killed more than 1,100 people, including 384 children, and impacted about 33 million others. The U.N. chief is asking for $160 million in aid for Pakistan.

Well, supporters of powerful Iraqi Shia Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have left Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone after some of the deadliest violence the city has seen in years.

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At least 21 people were killed and more than 250 injured in clashes that erupted after al-Sadr announced his final retirement from politics on Monday.

But on Tuesday, al-Sadr ordered his supporters to disperse. The violence has not solved the ongoing political crisis. Iraq has not had a functioning government 10 ten months and the political parties are deadlocked on who should lead the next cabinet.

And inspectors -- inspectors with the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog are now on their way -- excuse me, from Kyiv to Zaporizhzhia to assess the situation at Europe's largest nuclear power plant which remains under Russian control. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said their mission is urgent, as he met Tuesday with the head of the International Atomic Agency in Kyiv. But Mr. Zelenskyy doesn't just want the plant inspected, he's calling for the immediate withdrawal of all Russian troops from the facility.

Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for the shelling around the plant in recent weeks. But the Ukrainian president says Russian forces pose the greatest risk. The Ukraine is claiming early success as it ramps up a counteroffensive to retake Russian-occupied territory in the south. Ukrainian officials say troops have broken through Russian defenses in several areas in the Kherson region. CNN's Sam Kiley has the details.

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SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voiceover): A lightning advance by Ukraine against Russia leaves a winded landscape almost emptied of people. Ukraine claims to have broken through Russian frontlines close to here, capturing several villages in a new counter-offensive.

KILEY (on camera): We've been stopped at a roadblock about a kilometer short of where they say there have been incoming fire in the last 24 hours. But we can see very clearly here that in these tree lines, these tree lines were all occupied by Ukrainian forces until 24 hours ago with the beginning of this counteroffensive.

This has clearly been a location where there's been pretty heavy fighting. The fighting is now concentrated, we understand, from soldiers we've spoken to here, close to the front line, five or six kilometers beyond. And beyond that lies the ultimate goal of Kherson.

KILEY (voiceover): The regional capital, captured by Russia in March, was rocked by fighting, Russia said today. Its forces claimed to have wiped out a Ukrainian partisan cell in a firefight. Who actually won this skirmish is unclear. But the city has been the center of Ukrainian resistance for months. Ukraine says that it has damaged the bridges connecting it to the Russian-held left bank of the Dnipro River. Cutting off key supply lines for the Russians. NATALIA HUMENIUK, SECURITY AND DEFENSE FORCES OF SOUTHERN UKRAINE (through translator): They may continue to try to set up a ferry opportune (ph) crossing, but the whole area where it can be deployed is also under our fire control and will be hit.

KILEY (voiceover): Russia's claim to have held off an offensive in which it lost at least four villages in 48 hours, according to Ukrainian military sources. Maria and her husband, Kostya (ph), stayed on her farm in Ukraine's front line throughout the war to feed their livestock.

The months of shelling have left her shaking. This week, she's endured jets streaming overhead as Ukrainian fighters attacked Russian targets.

MARIA POKUSAEVA, FARMER (through translator): I hid inside the house. My heart was jumping out every time. I was screaming so loud when the planes were flying over. I was so scared. God save us.

KILEY (voiceover): For now, though, survival means getting the harvest in. This may be a long war and winter is close at hand. Sam Kiley, CNN, in Southern Ukraine.

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CHURCH: And we'll be back in just a moment.

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CHARLIE BURRELL, KNEPP ESTATE OWNER: You've seen the explosion of life. And life has come back because of a new habitat that's been created with a whole lot of big animals. So, we went from this very intensive conventional farming system to a free-roaming animal-based habitat creation project, Rewilding.

ISABELLA TREE, KNEPP ESTATE OWNER: One of the things you can do is introduce free roaming herbivores. And all of them, the way that they disturb the land, the way they trample and rattle. Everything they do has a hugely important knock-on effect, a sub-domino effect (INAUDIBLE). We've seen here some of the rarest species in Britain. An amazing species that we never had here before is the turtledove. And we're probably the only piece of land in the U.K. where turtledove numbers are actually rising.

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BURRELL: This butterfly is an incredibly rare butterfly. Here you can see it in their hundreds.

TREE: It's about kicking off natural processes again in the system. And as human beings trying to stand back from it as much as possible and let nature perform.

BURRELL: To see a landscape in your own country and what you've been missing suddenly come to life, has been this extraordinary revelation. This surprise. This feeling of, you know, just joy that we can do it. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PEGGY CALLAHAN, CEO, VOICES4FREEDOM: We all know that freedom is priceless. But a school for freedom is one hell of a deal. I'm Peggy Callahan. I am the co-founder and CEO of Voices4Freedom.

Voices for freedom is an antislavery organization. We are working in India and we help people to freedom through our project called Schools for Freedom. That it turns out that between 110 and 190 people can come to sustainable freedom, over three years, with their children being educated for a little less than $13,000 a year.

In 2017, we took CNN to one of the villages we were working in Uttar Pradesh, India. And they got to see with their own eyes how the system works. How the schools work to help free people. What the conditions people are living in. They got to meet people and know them for themselves. And it really helped that they told the story. It has helped the organization and explained it to lots of other people. And today, every single person they met in that village is free.

RONALD REAGAN, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

CHURCH: And just over two years later, that wall would indeed come down. And it ushered in a new era for the former soviet socialist republics that had long been part of the USSR. In 1999, CNN's Christiane Amanpour sat down with the late soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to get his thoughts on that pivotal moment in history.

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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Mr. President, 10 years ago, for us westerners, it was a triumph to see that will come down. The end of tyranny. The end of communism. But you were a committed communist. How did you feel, personally, when you saw them tear down that wall?

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, FORMER SOVIET PRESIDENT (through translator): By that time, I had changed my mind about many things. And in 1988, I came to the conclusion that the system could not be improved. We needed political reform and more freedom. Freedom of choice. Political parties. Give people some oxygen.

AMANPOUR: How did you feel yourself, watching that wall come down?

GORBACHEV (through translator): You know, there's a lot of talk about the wall. But for me, as a politician, it's just a moment. It's a sign. A symbolic event. The wall had been built when confrontation reached the very acute stage and we began abandoning the confrontation. By that time, we were meeting with President Reagan, he said, he was not claiming the Soviet Union was an evil empire anymore.

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Since we gave freedom of choice to the Soviet Union to countries of Eastern Europe, how could we deny the same right to the Germans? They proved they learned hard from the terrible war. They became a truly democratic nation.

AMANPOUR: Did you realize that it would so hugely, so massively, capture the western imagination?

GORBACHEV (through translator): In the east and around the world, the impressions were also profound. After that, I met with President Bush in Malta and we told each that we do not consider each other adversaries anymore. That also was a significant event. It showed that the Cold War was over.

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CHURCH: And thank you so much for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church, I'll be right back with more news. Do stay with us.

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