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Kharkiv Hit by Worst Attack since Putin's War Began; Russia- Ukraine Peace Effort in Limbo as Fighting Escalates; Israel Confirms It's Arming Hamas Rivals in Gaza; Abrego Garcia Returned to U.S., Will Face Criminal Charges; Trump-Musk Feud Still Brewing; UFO Buffs Hope Trump Will Reveal Secret Alien Files; Maurice Sendak's Work to Be Auctioned. Aired 3-3:45a ET

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SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Welcome to all of you watching around the world and streaming on CNN Max, I'm Salma Abdelaziz in London.

And coming up on CNN NEWSROOM, Russia strikes Ukraine for a second night in a row. Kharkiv mayor says the city has endured the largest attack against it since the war began.

And the man mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran prison has been returned to the U.S. to face charges for human trafficking. How the Trump administration is justifying the move and the case.

Plus an extraordinary admission by Israel's prime minister. Why Israel says it is arming groups inside Gaza.

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ABDELAZIZ: Let's begin with what the mayor of Ukraine's second largest city calls "outright terror" conducted by the Kremlin. He says Kharkiv has just seen its worst attack since the full-scale war with Russia began. At least 40 explosions rattled the city in recent hours, which left at least two people dead and more than a dozen wounded.

Rescue workers have been searching for more victims and all that is happening a day after Russia launched a separate barrage that targeted cities across Ukraine. Moscow had threatened to retaliate for Ukraine's recent attack on nuclear-capable planes deep inside Russia.

In an apparent reference to the attack, U.S. president Donald Trump said Friday that Ukraine gave Russia the reason to, quote, "Bomb the hell out of them."

For more reaction, we're joined by Irina Sovsun, a member of the Ukrainian parliament. She is speaking to us from Kyiv.

Thank you so much for being on with us. First of all, I want to ask you how your night passed, because I know on Friday there was one of the largest attacks by Russia on Kyiv. I believe it was 400 drones and missiles fired at the city.

How did your night pass?

How is your family this morning?

IRINA SOVSUN, UKRAINIAN MP: Well, this night was actually relatively quiet. There was only one air raid alert at around 2:00 something in the morning and I didn't hear any blasts or any explosions in the city.

So that was a relatively good night unlike, indeed, the night before, where majority of Ukrainians spent in the shelters or in the corridors. And, of course, there were multiple explosions the night before. But this night, that was -- that was a good night.

ABDELAZIZ: And Ukrainians have been bracing for some form of retaliation.

Do you believe that retaliation has now been carried out with these attacks we're seeing in Kharkiv this morning, with the massive attack we saw on Kyiv yesterday?

Or are people still afraid, still worried?

SOVSUN: Well, first of all, yes, people knew that there would be something after the Operation Spidernet (sic), which took place last week. However, everybody here in Ukraine was extremely happy about what has happened over there because we knew that Putin will attack after that.

But the thing is that he would have attacked anyways because he had the same attack in Kyiv three weeks before during the negotiations process. There were three nights of terrifying attacks in Kyiv and there was nothing happening before that, as there was no Ukrainian drones blowing up Russian fighter jets before that.

But he still attacked. So you cannot say that he attacked because of that operation. He has been attacking for the last 3.5 years. We have been waking up from those nightly missile and drone attacks.

And now he says that this is the retaliation. But he could have attacked without that operation as well. So more can come as well. But we're still very happy about what has happened and that we undermined their ability to attack more.

ABDELAZIZ: And I want to ask you, of course, as a member of parliament, you are working directly with the governments that are trying to help Kyiv in its fight against Russia.

You've seen, of course, president Trump's most recent comments, saying that Ukraine gave Russia reason to "bomb the hell out of them." You also know, of course, that he held a phone call with President Putin on Wednesday, in which he did not seem to ask him to hold back in the form of any retaliation.

How do you read this? How do you perceive this?

SOVSUN: Well, it seems to me that president Trump sees the two sides of the war as morally equal, which is, of course, wrong on so many levels. The war is being held on the Ukrainian territory. It was started by Russia only without any provocation from the Ukrainian side.

And there is no way that that anyone who understands the conflict would claim that the two sides are morally equal.

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But that is unfortunately what president Trump is doing. He pretends that the both sides wants to continue the war because just for the sake of it. And he never acknowledges that it's actually the Ukrainian side that is carrying most of the suffering in this war.

Even in his recent statement, he said that the both sides are suffering equally, which is, of course, not true because Russian children are not sleeping in the bomb shelters like my son is doing almost every night for the last 3.5 years.

So this is very painful for us that he's reading it this way, that this lack of empathy for what Ukrainians are going through is very telling. And it is, of course, very dangerous because Ukraine continues to see United States as a big partner.

We rely on weapons supply, on the United States on military aid, on economic aid from the United States. And the fact that that his reading of the situation is what it is, is, of course, not just not just painful for us to see but also dangerous.

So we are working together with the government, with the parliament, with the civil society to continue working with other agents inside American politics to explain to them the situation and to try to change how president Trump sees this situation. Unfortunately, not with too much success. But we have to continue trying.

ABDELAZIZ: And when it comes to this perception, you said that president Trump sees both these sides as morally equal, even though your son, as you mentioned, is spending so many of his nights in bomb shelters.

How does that affect peace negotiations or at least the effort to start these peace negotiations, which president Trump had promised would wrap up in 24 hours?

SOVSUN: Well, because he sees both sides as equal, he's saying that he's not taking sides. So instead of putting real pressure on Russia, instead of saying the sanctions will come up on, let's say, July 1st, if there is no negotiation success, we will provide more weapons to Ukraine if there is no success in negotiations.

So instead of putting pressure on Russia, what do we have seen over the last couple of months? Is President of the United States, the biggest democracy in the world, is putting pressure on the country that is the victim of that aggression?

And luckily we came around the deal that was being proposed on rather good terms as we're seeing it now.

But the very fact that he refuses to put pressure on Russia is undermining the whole negotiations process, because then Russia has nothing to fear of. Then Russia has no reason to actually succeed in this negotiations to make peace happen because Russian leaders, President Putin doesn't see any threat from the United States.

So without that pressure from the United States, it's very difficult to see how the negotiations will end up in some peace agreement.

ABDELAZIZ: Thank you so much for your time and for joining us this morning, Irina.

SOVSUN: Thank you.

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ABDELAZIZ: Weapons to local groups in Gaza that oppose Hamas, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defending this plan to support these groups. But critics warn that it could endanger Israel's national security. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports from Tel Aviv.

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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, for the first time during the war in Gaza, Israeli officials are confirming that

the Israeli government has been arming local Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip in what's being described as an effort to counter Hamas. The

Israeli Prime Minister himself saying that this is a good thing, that these are clans which oppose Hamas and that all of this was being done under the

quote, "advice of security elements." But this is creating an enormous uproar among figures in the Israeli opposition including figures on both

the left and the right side of the spectrum.

The former Israeli defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, saying that this is complete madness. He actually was the first to reveal that this was

happening uh this past Wednesday. We are also hearing from Yair Lapid, the leader of the opposition, saying that all of this will lead to more

disasters. And Yair Golan, another prominent left-wing opposition member, who says that this is creating a "new ticking time bomb" in the Gaza Strip.

Now the main argument from these opposition figures is that no one can guarantee that these weapons won't ultimately be pointed toward Israeli

soldiers in Gaza or toward Israel in the long run. Two Israeli officials also telling us that this operation was authorized by the Israeli Prime

Minister without the approval of Israel's Security Cabinet.

Hamas is also weighing in, saying that Israel is aiming to create a "state of insecurity and social chaos" by sending these weapons in.

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We also understand that one of the groups that's being armed is led by the a man named Yasser Abu Shabab who leads a local militia in the eastern part of

Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. He has been accused in the past of looting and reselling trucks of humanitarian aid, quite a notorious

figure inside of Gaza.

And so, ultimately the question is how does this fit into the long- term plan?

Because the Israeli Prime Minister has also been criticized for not

having a long-term plan for the end of the war in Gaza, for the day after the war and not enabling a sufficient alternative governing structure in

Gaza to Hamas' leadership. It's not clear that this fits into that long- term plan or whether it could be something aimed more at opposing Hamas at the moment and perhaps creating that increased instability and challenges

to Hamas' leadership -- Jeremy Diamond, CNN Tel Aviv.

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ABDELAZIZ: Now you may remember Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March. He has been returned to the U.S. but now faces federal criminal charges in Tennessee.

The decision to prosecute Garcia on charges of unlawfully transporting undocumented immigrants prompted backlash and the resignation of the chief of the Nashville Justice Department's criminal division.

Abrego Garcia's lawyer said his client should appear in an immigration court, not a criminal court. But U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi sees it differently. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PAM BONDI, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Our government presented El Salvador with an arrest warrant and they agreed to return him to our country.

Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring. They found this was his full-time job, not a contractor. He was a smuggler of humans and children and women.

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ABDELAZIZ: Now the Trump administration has been in a standoff with federal judges over this case for months.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: He should have been returned. He should have never -- he should have never had to be returned. But you take a look at what's happened with him. You take a look at what they found in the grand jury and everywhere else, I thought Pam Bondi did a great job today.

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ABDELAZIZ: CNN's Priscilla Alvarez breaks down the situation for us from Washington.

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PRISCILLA ALVAREZ, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yet another extraordinary development in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man, who the administration said they had mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March.

Well, on Friday, attorney general Pam Bondi announced that he was returned to the United States to now face criminal charges in what was an about-face for the Trump administration, which had dug in its heels over the last several weeks, saying that he would not be returned to the United States.

But now the administration says that he will face these charges, that he has been indicted on two criminal counts in the middle district of Tennessee, one of which includes conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain.

Now this stems from a traffic stop back in 2022 in Tennessee, that there had been footage of and has now been at the center of this ongoing investigation that is culminating in these charges.

But the Trump administration, up until this point, had been in an intense standoff with the federal judge in Maryland that had ordered the return of Abrego Garcia.

The Supreme Court ultimately saying that the administration had to facilitate his return, though leaving open some room for the administration to sort what that looked like and if it was possible.

But it was also the subject of an Oval Office meeting between Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and president Donald Trump, where the two of them similarly said that they were not going to return Abrego Garcia.

But on Friday, that changed and the Salvadoran president weighed in, saying that if the U.S. were to request the return of a gang member to face charges, that, of course, El Salvador, which is an ally of the Trump administration, wouldn't refuse.

His family, however, and his attorneys have mixed emotions. Abrego Garcia's attorney saying, quote, "The government disappeared Kilmar to a foreign prison in violation of a court order. Now after months of delay and secrecy, they are bringing him back, not to correct their error but to prosecute him."

And the administration saying on Friday, are telegraphing that that is what will happen here as he faces criminal charges, potentially a prison sentence and then to be deported again.

But again, all of this still an extraordinary development in a case that, up until this point, the Trump administration had maintained would result in Abrego Garcia remaining in El Salvador.

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Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, Washington.

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ABDELAZIZ: Clashes broke out in Los Angeles on Friday as protesters confronted federal immigration authorities who were conducting raids. At one location, officers threw flashbang grenades. You can see them there. To disperse marchers so official vehicles could leave.

Demonstrators also gathered at a federal detention center, where they believe some of the 44 detained people had been taken.

Immigration authorities have been ramping up arrests as part of president Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. But protests against the detentions have broken out in multiple cities.

There is much more still to come on CNN, including the latest on the very public spat between U.S. president Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. Stay with us.

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ABDELAZIZ: The public spat between the president of the world's most powerful nation and the world's richest man showed no signs of cooling down on Friday. Donald Trump told reporters he wasn't even thinking about Elon Musk but also floated the idea of looking at some of Musk's federal contracts.

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Republican officials are calling on the two men to patch things up before the argument, which erupted Thursday, harms the president's agenda. CNN's chief U.S. national affairs correspondent, Jeff Zeleny, has more from Washington.

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JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: President Donald Trump on Friday headed off to his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort for the weekend without one of his best companions in tow.

That, of course, is Elon Musk. We have seen so many weekends throughout the first several months of this administration, where Elon Musk, in fact, traveled with the president down to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Well, of course, now Elon Musk is no longer in the administration and he is no longer in the good graces of this president. We've seen an extraordinary break in their relationship.

It really escalated throughout the week, particularly on Thursday and Friday, with Elon Musk calling into question the very heart of the Trump administration's agenda, really questioning the Trump policy bill, saying it's too expensive, it adds too much money to the national debt and deficit.

He questioned the administration's tariff policies and just also agreed with the fact that Donald Trump should be impeached. It was an extraordinary back-and-forth that -- the likes of which we've really never witnessed.

But president Trump on Friday really tried to change the story line, if you will. He called CNN's Dana Bash and said that he's not thinking about Elon Musk at all. He called him a poor guy. He said he's someone who has a real problem.

So clearly, this is one of the biggest breaks with one of the president's closest supporters, obviously, but also advisers. So where this goes from here is very much an open question.

But we do know that Elon Musk and the U.S. president have not spoken at all. The White House officials say that there's no immediate interest for the president to speak with him. We shall see.

But a question is, will Elon Musk turn his firepower on the president's agenda?

Will he try and derail it or will he simply move on?

It was an extraordinary week with a big break between Trump and Elon Musk -- Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE) ABDELAZIZ: Now here with us is Natasha Lindstaedt. She is a professor of government at the University of Essex. She is with us from Colchester, England.

Thank you, first of all, for joining us to break down.

What is this very public drama playing out?

When I first saw those messages on social media from Elon Musk, I braced myself for impact because we've seen how president Trump behaves publicly when someone crosses him. But we haven't seen that here. The response has been muted.

Why?

NATASHA LINDSTAEDT, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX: I mean, that's a really good question. And every time that that Trump faces someone who tries to criticize him, he goes on the attack. He's incredibly aggressive.

And he -- and he hasn't in this case, because he knows that Elon Musk is so powerful. He's the wealthiest man in the world and he has the potential to be a real chaos agent. He has the potential to really disrupt things.

If we just even look at the fact that Elon Musk has 220 million followers on X, so he can spread conspiracy theories, he can try to derail any part of Trump's agenda. And he can also bankroll opposition candidates. It could be within the Republican Party.

So candidates who are just not pro-Trump but are Republican, he could support independent candidates. So with just endless supply of money, you can see that Musk could pose a lot of damage to Trump. And I think Trump knows that.

ABDELAZIZ: So you're speaking there about just the influence he holds over the Republican Party.

So how are officials inside the Republican Party reacting?

I know there may be efforts to try to patch things up. People are concerned about the long-term impact of this. Tell me how it's being received within the GOP.

LINDSTAEDT: So I think this is a huge concern within the Republican Party. They do not want this to blow up even more than it has before, for the reasons that I already outlined. They don't want Elon Musk starting some third party.

He put this out on X and more than 5 million people were in support of this. They don't want the Republican Party to become more divided. So they're hoping that things can blow over as quickly as possible because Musk is actually more popular within the Republican Party than I had originally thought.

He's not that popular with the entire country. His approval rating is somewhere around 39 percent. But he's the third most popular person within the Republican Party, with approval ratings almost at 80 percent.

That's similar to JD Vance. And it's only really Donald Trump, with an approval rating higher at somewhere between 87 and 90 percent. So he has a lot of support within the Republican Party.

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And there are a lot of Republicans that like Elon Musk's idea of trying to make the government more efficient, trying to cut the deficit and that don't want to just obey whatever Trump wants them to do.

And so if Elon Musk creates a following that's large enough, this could create much bigger problems and headaches for the Republicans coming in the 2026 midterms.

ABDELAZIZ: So he wields a great deal of popularity, a great deal of power within the Republican Party.

But what does Elon Musk actually want out of this conflict?

LINDSTAEDT: I mean, that is a question I really don't know the answer to. I was thinking maybe he just wants to support legislation that is in line with his ideological views and that's why he was getting so angry about the big, beautiful bill, that it was going to add trillions to the debt.

It was undermining his DOGE, his government efficiency agency; that he was upset about the cuts to the electric vehicle mandate that he -- that -- he didn't like that. But there were also some personal things that were happening that he really didn't like.

The deals that Trump made in the Middle East, particularly with Abu Dhabi and OpenAI, to create some artificial intelligence collaboration with Elon Musk's rival, Sam Altman. So I mean, he has like a personal vendetta here. He might have ideological reasons to try to disrupt the Republican Party.

But maybe he's just a risk taker. And we've seen that with him before, that he's willing to take on huge risks just to get attention. And he has a lot of power because he has the ear to so many different people.

ABDELAZIZ: Maybe a risk taker, maybe just seeking his own political gain. Thank you for outlining all of those potential scenarios for us, Natasha. Thank you.

LINDSTAEDT: Thanks for having me.

ABDELAZIZ: UFO buffs gathered in the California desert to search for extraterrestrial life just ahead.

Why?

Some of them believe that president Trump will reveal the truth about life on other planets.

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ABDELAZIZ (voice-over): Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Salma Abdelaziz. Let's check today's top stories.

Ukraine's second largest city is reeling from what its mayor calls the worst Russian attack since the war began. He says at least 40 explosions rattled the city in recent hours, leaving at least two people dead and more than a dozen injured.

Russia also struck Ukraine on Friday after pledging to retaliate for an attack on its air bases.

And Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the U.S. to face federal criminal charges. The Trump administration has been at odds with federal judges for months over his case. His lawyer says he should go to an immigration court, not a criminal court.

And Donald Trump says a new round of trade talks between the U.S. and China will happen Monday in London. The U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce will meet with Chinese officials to discuss the key issues.

The announcement came after Trump and China's Xi Jinping spoke by phone for 90 minutes on Thursday.

Now president Trump is giving hope to UFO enthusiasts. Some of them think he'll reveal long-secret files on unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial life. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan has more from the world's largest gathering of people who believe we are not alone.

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DONIE O'SULLIVAN, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: Greetings. Do you all come in peace. We're all fellow earthlings here.

We're out here because we're looking for UFOs. We're also looking for what is not a UFO.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just put it right over it and then.

O'SULLIVAN: Oh, see that one?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That was a bird, I think.

O'SULLIVAN: Oh.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I knew I was going to be an astronomer when I was nine years old. OK? I actually had a missing time event. I lost a whole day and it put me in the hospital. And I thought, boy, this universe is something crazy up there. I have to -- I have to keep looking up.

O'SULLIVAN: We are here in the California desert on our way to contact in the desert. The biggest gathering of ufologists in the world.

Here we are, light years past the question whether we are alone in the universe. Instead, people share stories of encounters.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was like light, light, light, light, light, light, light.

O'SULLIVAN: Abductions.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two very tall Nordic looking beings and had a couple of little short grays on each side.

O'SULLIVAN: And things they just can't explain.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you see orbs dancing in the sky like they're skipping across water, that's not military.

O'SULLIVAN: But there is still one debate to be had. Everybody's talking about what the Trump administration is going to tell the world about UFOs.

Stephen, you say we're on the cusp of a major disclosure event.

STEVE BASSETT, UFO LOBBYIST: The disclosure event.

O'SULLIVAN: The disclosure event.

BASSETT: Right.

O'SULLIVAN: Brought about by --

BASSETT: The disclosure president is going to be Donald Trump. And the reason for that is he is the president who got the last year when the music stopped, the first head of state that confirms that we're not alone gets one of the greatest political legacies of all time.

O'SULLIVAN: Do you think he's the kind of president we might enjoy having an incredible legacy like that?

BASSETT: And I think so.

O'SULLIVAN: Trump didn't make this massive announcement in his first term.

BASSETT: Right.

O'SULLIVAN: What gives you confidence that he'll do it this time around? BASSETT: Second time around, right. This time not with a lot of carryovers that are in there to kind of keep them, you know, guardrails and crap. Now this is maybe the most important thing I can tell you right now.

Anna Paulina Luna, she says the UAP issue is the most bipartisan investigation in the history of the United States.

REP. ANNA PAULINA LUNA (R-FL): We'll be conducting investigations into the following.

O'SULLIVAN: As part of Trump's promises for greater transparency from JFK to Epstein to UFOs, he created a task force chaired by Representative Luna, on the declassification of federal secrets. It's a promise Jeremy Corbell has dedicated his life to helping fulfill.

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You are responsible for bringing people to Congress to testify on this, something now that people are taking seriously.

JEREMY CORBELL, INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST: You're going to blame me for that?

O'SULLIVAN: I'm going to blame you.

CORBELL: Look, yes, it was ingrained in our kind of society that this is not something to be taken seriously. I'd say the interest is now surging a little bit, because people that are serious can come forward and seriously talk about it.

O'SULLIVAN: Say some of the most optimistic people we've spoken to here this week have said they think Trump is going to come out an Oval Office address and say, here it is.

CORBELL: So I just -- I don't feel the same way. I haven't seen evidence that the new administration, new-ish administration is actually going to make good on that promise.

O'SULLIVAN: For many here, what are Trump's government discloses?

What it really knows is of lesser importance. The truth is coming anyway.

BASSETT: So the public's awareness on all fronts is just growing, growing, growing. But the Internet sealed its fate. That's the world we live in. You want to put out a piece of disinformation by the government?

Fine. The Internet will shred it in a day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you told someone this 20 years ago, how do you think they would have reacted?

O'SULLIVAN: They say you're crazy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you. That's why.

O'SULLIVAN: So what's changed?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This community.

O'SULLIVAN: Community.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yep. Our community. This community. That's what changed. People waking up and going, we need to talk about this.

Yes, we do. We need to talk about it a lot because it's coming whether we are ready or not. So --

O'SULLIVAN: Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, Planet Earth.

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ABDELAZIZ: If you were lucky, you were introduced to books by Maurice Sendak as a child. The beloved children's author is best known for "Where the Wild Things Are." More than 100 original pieces by Sendak and other items are being sold at auction this month.

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His books have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. The sales curator says that's because his work treats children differently.

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RICHARD LLOYD, HEAD OF PRINTS, CHRISTIE'S: I think his main claim to fame is that he introduced the idea of emotional complexity to the world of children's books. Up until that point, I think a children's book was seen as something that was innocent. Only good things happened. All the children were happy and it all had a happy ending.

I think his contribution was that he saw that he recognized what we all know, that being a child is filled with some dark as well as light and he addressed that in his stories.

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ABDELAZIZ: The online auction is underway now. A live auction is set for June 10th at Christie's in New York.

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ABDELAZIZ (voice-over): A piece of '80s pop culture can be yours; 40 years after hitting the big screen, the iconic sweater vest worn by Matthew Broderick in the cult classic film, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," is now on the auction block. The vest is expected to fetch up to $600,000 at Sotheby's but the

current bid of $130,000 has not hit the reserve price. So there's still time if you want this piece of fashion history in your closet. Bidding ends on June 24th.

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ABDELAZIZ: Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Salma Abdelaziz in London. "WORLD SPORT" is next.