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Kharkiv Hit by Worst Attack since Putin's War Began; Colorado Firebombing Suspect Charged with Federal Hate Crime; Trump-Musk Feud Still Brewing; Largest Single-Day Drop Ever for Tesla Stock on Thursday; Cubans Seek U.S. Visas amid Trump's Partial Travel Ban; Sean Diddy Combs Trial; Live Performance of George Clooney in "Good Night and Good Luck" to Air Tonight on CNN; French Open Highlights. Aired 4- 5a ET

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BRIAN ABEL, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Welcome to all of you watching around the world and streaming on CNN Max, I'm Brian Abel in Atlanta.

Coming up on CNN NEWSROOM, another night of strikes in Ukraine. This time Russia hits Kharkiv, where the mayor says it's the largest attack on the city since the war began.

The richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world are still in their separate corners. U.S. President Trump says he's not even thinking about his former adviser.

And the man the U.S. mistakenly deported to El Salvador is back in the U.S. But he's facing new legal troubles.

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ABEL: We 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, leaving at least two people dead and more than a dozen wounded.

Moscow has threatened to retaliate for Ukraine's recent strikes on nuclear-capable planes deep inside Russia. U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Ukraine gave Moscow the reason to, quote, "Bomb the hell out of them."

Without mentioning anyone, specifically, Ukraine's president said a refusal to condemn Russian attacks is a gift to the Kremlin.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): Unfortunately, not everyone in the world condemns such strikes. And this is exactly what Putin is taking advantage of. He is buying himself time to continue the war. The Russians are constantly trying to divide the world to prevent pressure from mounting over the war.

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ABEL: Sebastian Shukla is monitoring those developments from Berlin and he joins us live with the very latest -- Sebastian.

SEBASTIAN SHUKLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Good morning, guys. The Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, which is just some 19 miles from the Russian border, has come under this massive barrage of attacks again for what would now be the second night of intense attacks by Russia launched against Ukraine.

Since that audacious attack took place deep inside Russia by Ukrainian intelligence services last weekend, what we're learning about tonight's or the most recent night's attack in Kharkiv is that now three people have died and at least 21 people have been injured.

In what the mayor of the city has described as hearing some 40 explosions happening and has marked it, as you said, as the most powerful attack the city has seen since the war began. And this all of this comes in the wake of other attacks.

Now that seems to be a coordinated response by Moscow to that Ukrainian intelligence services' attack deep inside Russia. Some of those attacks happening 4,000 miles away from Ukraine, 4,000 kilometers, rather, from Ukraine, deep inside Siberia.

And so this is just another sign that the Kremlin is looking to retaliate against that major attack here, guys, and that the previous night's attack saw huge swarms as well. We're talking about 400 drones being launched across all of Ukraine. That was on Friday morning with launching some 40 cruise and ballistic missiles, too.

So this now seems, guys, what we're seeing here is a pattern. Now this is the response we're seeing from Moscow to that Ukrainian intelligence services attack.

ABEL: Sebastian, the United States seems to be giving the Kremlin some legitimacy, with the president on Air Force One saying that Russia had a reason to bomb Ukraine.

What's the context around that?

And is there any response so far?

SHUKLA: Yes. So the president, Trump, had conversations this week following that audacious attack with President Putin. They spoke on the phone on Wednesday where the president already outlined in the statement.

And the readout that was released at the time that President Putin told him he would -- he's been left with no other choice than to retaliate. But that was then followed up last night. I want you guys to take a listen to what he told reporters aboard Air Force One.

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SHUKLA: And so they -- we see again, the president not seeming to discuss or seem to be able to pressure Russia in any way to stop these abhorrent attacks that are happening across Ukraine.

In fact, he seems to be almost giving the Kremlin an out here, saying, well, OK. Well, the Ukrainians started it. So therefore the Russians have to reply in a tit-for-tat measure.

And as we have outlined, that is something that is irking the Ukrainians and has irked them for some time as well. It should be said they feel that perhaps without saying it openly, that the U.S. often gives the -- that the U.S. is giving Moscow a pass when it comes to retaliating.

And obviously this is all at the time we should be negotiating -- sides should be negotiating peace in this war rather than launching volleys of attacks and reprisals against one another.

ABEL: Yes, those words do not seem to be uttered whenever Russia attacks Ukraine with those massive drone attacks, for example. So we'll see where this goes next. Sebastian Shukla, thank you.

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ABEL: We go now to the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The United Nations says more than 2,700 children under the age of 5 were diagnosed with acute malnutrition in the second half of May.

That dire report, issued as the U.N. calls for investigations into the killings of dozens of Palestinians trying to get food at new distribution hubs.

Two of those sites, run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, opened in southern Gaza on Friday. That's despite an earlier announcement that all aid sites would be closed, warning Palestinians to stay away for their own safety.

Israel says it's sending weapons to local militias in Gaza that oppose Hamas. Several Israeli politicians are lashing out against the ongoing operation, with one calling it "complete madness." 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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ABEL: The Egyptian man accused of an anti-Semitic firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, was charged on Friday with a federal hate crime.

Mohamed Soliman is also charged in Colorado state court with 118 criminal counts, including 28 counts of attempted murder. He is accused of using a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to set people on fire last Sunday.

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They were at an event supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza. Soliman is being held in the Boulder County Jail. He has a preliminary hearing set for June 18th.

No makeup yet after Thursday's very public argument between the president of the world's most powerful nation and the world's wealthiest man. We'll discuss the fallout with a political expert.

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ABEL: The very public feud between U.S. president Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk is still brewing, despite calls from Republicans to patch things up. GOP officials worry that the spats could impact passage of Mr. Trump's spending bill currently in the Senate and other conservative priorities.

Senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes has more.

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KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: President Trump and White House officials spent the day trying to downplay the feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Trump himself telling our Dana Bash that he wasn't even thinking about Elon Musk, that he had other things on his mind.

But when asked about this on Air Force One on his way to his Bedminster Golf Club, Donald Trump had a lot to say. He said that he didn't have any plans to reconcile anytime soon with Elon Musk.

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But he also said that he planned on looking at the government contracts that the federal government has with Elon Musk. That would be the tune of billions of dollars.

Now he did refuse to comment on several things. And he said his land -- his head was in faraway lands, not on Elon Musk.

But I've talked to a number of sources who say, of course, Donald Trump has been talking about this. He has speculated why this is happening. He has speculated what's going on with Elon Musk to create this environment where Musk is attacking Donald Trump on social media.

And as much as the White House wants to downplay this, it is impossible for people to take their eyes off because you just saw two of the world's most powerful men get into a brawl on social media and much of it was incredibly public.

Now Donald Trump's team says again, they have no desire to get in touch with Elon Musk or to reconcile the two. We will, of course, see what happens in the end, because with Donald Trump, you never say never.

We have reported time and time again of people losing their cool with Donald Trump, being on the outs with Trump's inner circle, only to have them show up and be a part of the second Trump administration.

But as for now, we are told fairly, definitively that there is nothing on the horizon for the two of them to come together and that Donald Trump and his team have no interest in that -- Kristen Holmes, CNN, the White House.

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ABEL: Days after Elon Musk left the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court has handed a pair of significant wins to his pet agency, the Department of Government Efficiency.

One ruling allows DOGE to access sensitive Social Security data for millions of Americans. The Trump administration says it needs the information to root out fraud and modernize outdated systems.

Critics and lower courts say DOGE is conducting a fishing expedition through troves of extremely sensitive data. The court also paused a lower court's effort to determine if DOGE should be subjected to federal records requests like other government agencies.

Let's bring in now Leslie Vinjamuri. She is the head of the U.S. and Americas Programme at Chatham House and she joins us from London.

Leslie, thank you for the time. We have this very public mudslinging this week between these two very powerful men in both politics and tech.

Through your expertise, how do you think this is being perceived by both American friends and foes around the globe from an international affairs lens?

LESLIE VINJAMURI, CHATHAM HOUSE: Well, I think, first of all, that many people anticipated some people -- and I confess I was not one of them -- some people saw it as inevitable, in part, in large part, not only personalities and to, you know, very prominent, successful people with, I would say, large egos.

But more importantly, more fundamentally, because Elon Musk and Donald Trump are really leading with two different visions. And so, as we know, Trump has been balancing a very precarious coalition with the MAGA wing.

But then, you know, you've got Elon Musk, who's a capitalist leader of America's, you know, economics. And really somebody who, from the beginning, Donald Trump had to balance within his coalition with a much harder MAGA wing.

If you go back to the feud over H-1b visas for high-tech workers, that tore apart Trump's coalition. And Trump sided with Elon Musk, clearly, signaling that that relationship was crucial.

Now you've got a situation, I think. And people are watching it for what it signals about the broader relationship and about Donald Trump's likely future steps when it comes to the U.S. economy and the global economy.

And, you know, they can see that we have two men, both of whom are, in some senses, failing. Donald Trump's approval ratings aren't what he would wish them to be. He's not delivering on those big deals to end the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine.

And he is doubling down on a very hard agenda at home, cracking down on the universities. And now really wants to see that big, beautiful bill go through.

And Musk has a, you know, Musk is also suffering. His business is suffering. The DOGE effort, you know, wasn't as spectacular as he wished and brought a huge amount of pushback across the United States.

And so I think that both men need to succeed. But for those of us watching from beyond the United States, there is a question.

Does this suggest that Donald Trump wants to, you know, go further on an agenda that is ultimately not good for the global economy, that will raise America's debt?

And that, you know, the tariffs that everybody are watching, that Elon Musk, quite frankly, hasn't really been behind, will Donald Trump just double down on this agenda?

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Or will they both take steps to reconcile, which, for the rest of the world, could mean a softening of that harder agenda that Trump has been pursuing.

ABEL: And, Leslie, there were some threats back and forth in this feud, canceling contracts, et cetera.

With Musk being so intertwined with this administration, with so much of his business, can you see any punitive action by either Musk or Trump against each other that could have any serious significant implications in the United States?

VINJAMURI: You know, absolutely. But I tend to think that president Trump will be restrained by the -- any very significant negative consequences, whether it's, you know, pushing back on government contracts that are actually vital to the things like Golden Dome, that he would like to pursue.

We have seen, even though, you know, many of Trump's measures, especially on the tariffs, have seemed and are very extreme, we've also seen him watch the impact on the markets and from abroad and dial those back.

Usually that's taken the form of a pause to negotiate more. But he is watching. He is calibrating, not in the way that most people would like him to but he is still calibrating. And I expect that it's not to the advantage of president Trump to have this go beyond a certain point.

After all, he does hold the power. He is the elected President of the United States of America. He can set regulation. He is now facing a difficult position, getting his big, beautiful bill through the Senate.

And Musk's attacks might make that even harder. But ultimately, I think that president Trump will want this to stay managed. And, you know, he is continuing to pursue a significant agenda.

We all forget, in the headlines of these two men's feud, that there was a phone call between the U.S. president and the leader of China on Thursday, a very significant, very important moment that that gets a bit buried.

But it does signal that Trump is still moving ahead, recognizes that he cannot afford to have an economic fallout beyond a certain level. So I think there will be some measure introduced into what looks like a very disastrous fallout.

ABEL: Well, let's talk a little bit more about the agenda.

Now that we've all witnessed the big, beautiful breakup, what does it mean for the big beautiful bill?

Are on-the-fence Republican senators listening to their party's president or the richest man in the world?

VINJAMURI: Well, I think that many Republicans in the Senate already have their views. And as we know, several of them don't like this bill because they see it, those who are fiscal hawks see this as increasing the U.S. debt, which it will largely because of the tax cuts.

Some others are concerned about the cuts to social benefits, to Medicaid in particular. And that will, you know, put them in a difficult position with their constituencies. So if president Trump gets this bill through the Senate, he will be squeaking through. There are likely to be revisions.

And really, Musk's attacks on the bill, which, you know, I'm sure, are partly personally motivated, they don't help his own position with Tesla, that sort of boost for electric vehicles is no longer there.

But he's also not one to wish to see the debt go up. So I think it's precarious. I think that Trump's, you know, sitting on a knife edge. Really desperately wants this bill to go through. He's been talking about it since the beginning.

It's -- he sees it as, you know, a victory. But it is going to be precarious. And I don't think that the spat will radically alter anybody's views.

But it gives license to those who already oppose the bill to say, look, those, you know, those who are really thinking hard, who are playing primarily in the economic space, can also see the disadvantage of this for the stability, not only of the U.S. economy but of the global economy.

ABEL: And we saw just how hard it was for president Trump to get House Republicans on board with the original bill. We'll see what happens when it comes back to the lower chamber. Leslie Vinjamuri in London, thank you.

VINJAMURI: Thank you so much.

ABEL: Well, Tesla's stock rebounded Friday after a steep drop on Thursday, gaining nearly 4 percent by the close of the trading day. Experts say the stock is a popular choice among retail investors who like to buy when the price falls. But Friday's rise follows one of the stock's worst weeks ever. Vanessa Yurkevich has that.

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VANESSA YURKEVICH, CNN BUSINESS AND POLITICS CORRESPONDENT: Tesla shares fell 11.1 percent in the last two days, wiping out $119 billion off the EV company's market value. Thursday was the biggest single-day drop in market value of all time for the stock.

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And JPMorgan also reduced Tesla's target price, meaning they expect the stock to perform worse than previously expected. So overall, expecting the company to be worth less.

And according to Bloomberg, Musk personally lost $34 billion from Wednesday to Thursday. But he's still worth $335 billion, still the richest person in the world.

Musk has a bevy of businesses, including SpaceX, which has received $15.2 billion in contracts from NASA and $5.8 billion from the Department of Defense, along with a few million more from other agencies.

President Trump on Thursday suggested terminating those contracts; however, replacing SpaceX on those contracts is not realistic because there's really no other company readily available to replace it.

And a $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicle buyers that allows Tesla and other automakers to raise prices is not in the tax bill the president is trying to push through Congress. JPMorgan estimates the loss of the EV tax credit to Tesla could be $1.2 billion a year and the loss of regulatory credit sales another $2 billion -- back to you.

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ABEL: Vanessa, thank you.

Donald Trump says a new round of trade talks between the U.S. and China will happen on Monday in London. The announcement came after Trump and Chinese president Xi spoke by phone for 1.5 hours on Thursday.

The U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce will meet with Chinese officials to discuss the key issues. Mr. Trump says he is encouraged that trade tensions between the two countries, which have been growing for several months, could soon be resolved.

The Trump administration has changed course and decided to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador. The justification for the U-turn when we come back.

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ABEL: Just in to CNN, Israel says the body of Thai hostage Nattapong Pinta has been recovered from the Rafah area in Gaza. He was captured from kibbutz Nir Oz when Hamas launched its attack on October 7th, nearly two years ago.

A joint statement from the Israeli military and Israeli security agency says he was murdered while in captivity. A joint force of ISA personnel and IDF troops carried out the recovery operation.

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ABEL (voice-over): You are looking at clashes that erupted Friday over migrant detentions in Los Angeles. People confronted federal immigration authorities, who were conducting raids in several locations.

Demonstrations continued into the evening and police declared all protests downtown to be unlawful. Officers deployed tear gas and flashbang grenades to disperse the crowds.

Authorities have ramped up migrant arrests as part of the president's immigration crackdown but protests against the detentions have broken out in multiple cities.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the U.S. and now faces federal criminal charges in Tennessee. CNN's Priscilla Alvarez has more 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 -- Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, Washington.

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ABEL: Cuba's foreign minister says the partial travel ban president Trump imposed on the Caribbean Island has, quote, "racist undertones." He also believes it will damage future exchanges with the U.S. CNN's Patrick Oppmann has more on how Cuban communities are grappling with the new restrictions.

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PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): As dawn breaks at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cubans get in line for increasingly scarce visas. Already for Cubans to travel to the U.S. under the Trump administration was becoming difficult.

Soon, it may be all but impossible. Starting on Monday, the U.S. is banning travel from 12 countries and implementing a partial ban on an additional seven countries, including Cuba. Zoila received her visa just hours after new restrictions were announced.

I was lucky, very lucky, she tells me but I will be nervous until I can get onto the plane. The partial ban on Cubans impacts both immigrant and non-immigrant visas. It's still unclear if Cubans who already have been granted visas will be allowed to travel.

MARIA JOSE ESPINOSA, EXEC. DIR. CENTER FOR ADVOCACY AND ENGAGEMENT IN THE AMERICA'S: This is hundreds of thousands of American citizens who won't be able to see their grandparents, who won't be able to see their uncles, no exceptions.

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Even if it's confusing, it's going to impact families.

OPPMANN (voice-over): The partial ban deals another blow to Cuba's crumbling economy.

OPPMANN: Many Cubans go to the United States to bring back items that are increasingly hard to find in communist-run Cuba, food, medicine, even car parts. It's a vital lifeline that would be endangered if visas are greatly reduced or even cut off.

OPPMANN (voice-over): The Trump administration says this slashing the number of visas issued to Cubans to force the island's government to accept more deportees and cooperate with U.S. law enforcement. But Emerio, who has applied for a visa to reunite with his son in Miami, tells me people like him could pay the price.

Family is everything in life, he says. Some go this way, some go that way but God created families to be together. These Cubans hoping to obtain a visa to the U.S. aren't giving up. Some have waited months, even years, for an appointment. And this should be the final step. But time may have already run out -- Patrick Oppmann, CNN, Havana.

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ABEL: One of Sean Diddy Combs' ex-girlfriends is revealing more about what she calls "hotel nights." Coming up, her testimony about drug- fueled trips.

Plus, climate experts are predicting a bleak future for glaciers around the globe. Still to come for us, we explain the ripple effect of irreversible ice loss.

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ABEL: One of Sean Diddy Combs' ex-girlfriends testified that the music mogul arranged trips where the pair did drugs and she had sex with other men. CNN's Kara Scannell has more on Friday's testimony.

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KARA SCANNELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sean Combs' former girlfriend was testifying under the pseudonym, Jane, was on the stand all day Friday.

In emotional testimony, she told the jury about how she'd taken several trips to New York, Miami, Turks and Caicos under the promise of romantic weekends with Combs.

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She said she thought they might go shopping and out to dinner.

But she said, in every one of those trips, it turned into those hotel nights where they used drugs and she had sex with other men. She told the prosecutor that she never would have gone on the trip to Turks and Caicos if she knew that that was going to happen.

This all fits into the prosecution's theory of the case that she was sex trafficked by fraud, by these promises, that they say were never meant to happen. They were just intended to lure her into having sex with these men in the hotels.

They also showed the jury a text message that she sent Combs in 2023, where she said she didn't want to have these hotel nights anymore.

She texted Combs, "I feel like it's the only reason why you have me around and why you pay for the house," because Combs was paying $10,000 a month for the home she lives in and he's still currently paying that rent. Jane also testified about drugs. She said she had used drugs only

twice before she met Combs. But now, in these hotel nights, she said that she was taking ecstasy multiple times in these nights.

She said also to the jury that Combs had asked her to travel with drugs, that she'd arranged with his security and his personal assistant to bring a package to Miami. And that was her traveling with those drugs for Combs.

Another part of this case is the transportation for prostitution. That's one of the counts in the charges. She testified that she helped arrange travel with one of Combs' travel agents to move some of these men to meet up with them for these hotel nights.

Now Jane is expected to be on the witness stand for most of next week and testimony resumes on Monday -- Kara Scannell, CNN, New York.

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ABEL: As global temperatures continue to rise, the world's glaciers are now expected to lose roughly 40 percent of their total mass, according to climate researchers. There is no longer a way to reverse this damage. But there's still a chance countries can stop the trend from worsening.

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ABEL: The iconic black on yellow logo has been part of the Broadway theater-going experience for more than 100 years. We go behind the scenes of Playbill as CNN gets ready to take a blockbuster Broadway performance live to air. That's ahead on NEWSROOM.

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ABEL: CNN is where viewers come to see news headlines and analysis of what's happening in the world. But on Saturday, we are doing something unprecedented.

CNN is airing a complete live performance of a Broadway play, "Good Night and Good Luck," starring George Clooney. The blockbuster hit transports viewers back to the 1950s, during the time of Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare.

The show proves its timeliness with themes of unrestrained political power, corporate nervousness and journalistic integrity. Clooney plays Edward R. Murrow, the iconic CBS journalist, described as, quote, "the man who put a spine in broadcasting."

Clooney gave our Anderson Cooper a look behind the scenes of the play's set. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GEORGE CLOONEY, ACTOR AND FILMMAKER: So you know, here's what we do. This is a total bluff. We put this here but these are all made of wood.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: Wow. Oh, wow.

CLOONEY: That one's fake. There's no lenses on it but we have a real one hidden over here.

COOPER: Oh, that's how you do it.

CLOONEY: Yes, that's interesting.

COOPER: But it is so, I mean, there's so much video.

CLOONEY: Yes.

COOPER: It's so interesting, the staging of it, because at times, you know, depending where you're sitting, you can't necessarily see your face --

CLOONEY: Yes.

COOPER: -- but you see it on this monitor.

CLOONEY: Yes, that giant, those monitors that come down. And then we have that camera is an actual real working camera. You see it's hooked up.

But it's working not as a actual old-fashioned camera. You know, these cameras, when you see them like this, these had four lenses on them and they would have a handle right here and you would turn it.

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And the thing would turn depending on how close you wanted to be.

So we didn't do that but inside here, we just have a video camera like you're using here that we use. And then we shoot all of that stuff live. So it's pretty fun along the way.

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ABEL: Looking forward to that.

A key part of going to any Broadway show is getting your hands on a program. Playbill has been a staple on the Great White Way for more than a century. Our Harry Enten takes you inside the company that creates these iconic mementos.

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HARRY ENTEN, CNN CHIEF DATA ANALYST: What is the magic of Broadway?

ANNABEL MCCONACHIE, WAITING IN LINE FOR BROADWAY TICKETS: I just think there's like nothing like seeing performers live in a room.

ENTEN (voice-over): If there's anyone who knows about Broadway, its father- son duo, Philip and Alex Birsh, the CEO and CEO of Playbill. That's the company that creates the programs you see at every Broadway show.

It's been around for over 140 years but run by the Birsh family since 1973.

BIRSH: Broadway, all of it, is all live. It is all right in front of you. It is a primal thing that we need is to be entertained by others in front

of us in full.

ENTEN: And when you go to Broadway, there is one memento that every theatergoer gets to hold onto.

PHILIP BIRSH, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, PLAYBILL: It's a time capsule that people really appreciate because there's so much change in the world. Yet, we

remain staunch in our devotion to giving people an accurate Playbill that is their souvenir and is their time capsule and celebrates the -- the work

that the people are doing on the stage and who created it.

A. BIRSH: And what makes Playbill itself so great is that it is almost always completely tied with joy.

ENTEN: We have this tremendous plant around us. How the heck does this work?

P. BIRSH: So the first thing we do is we use this Heidelberg press to print the insides of the Playbill and it changes every week.

Once we print the inside of the Playbill, we also have printed the outside of the Playbill, which is the cover of the show. So now we have both ends

of it.

And then we have a comment section called the Wrap where we have articles about all things going on in Broadway and then we take it over to the

bindery and we bind all those pieces together to have a finished Playbill.

ENTEN (voice-over): In a given month, the factory can make more than 300 different editions of Playbills because they can change so much. And fans,

Well, they gobble them up.

ENTEN: And do you hold on to your Playbills, keep your Playbills once you get them?

DEBBIE LEBEL, WAITING IN LINE FOR BROADWAY TICKETS: I frame them because I have an antique shop and there's where they go.

KAYDE MASON, WAITING IN LINE FOR BROADWAY TICKETS: I have every Playbill of every show I've ever been to because it's a memory. It's frozen in time. It

takes you right back to that moment where you experience something new and saw something amazing on stage.

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ABEL: And be sure to join us as CNN airs the full performance of "Good Night and Good Luck," starring George Clooney, live from Broadway. It happens at 7 pm Eastern time on Saturday. That's 1 am Sunday in central Europe, 8 am Sunday in Tokyo. You can also catch it streaming live on Max.

A blockbuster upset at the French Open Friday. Italy's Jannik Sinner defeated Serbia's 24-time grand slam winner Novak Djokovic in a wildly entertaining match on day 13 of the French Open.

The game went a match high of 12 points but Sinner's quick and relentless moves had Djokovic scrambling left and right on those iconic clay courts. Ultimately, it was a down-the-line backhand that clinched the match for Sinner, who now goes on to face defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the final.

And we are just hours away from the French Open women's final. Number one ranked Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus faces number two ranked Coco Gauff of the U.S. Sabalenka has three grand slam titles, while Gauff has one. But neither has won the French Open. Former tennis champs Corretja and Mats Wilander break down the match for us.

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MATS WILANDER, FORMER TENNIS CHAMPION: In this year's women's final at the French Open, we have number one in the world Aryna Sabalenka, facing up against number two Coco Gauff.

And Alex, first of all, what do we think of number one in the world Sabalenka's game at the moment?

ALEX CORRETJA, FORMER TENNIS CHAMPION: Well, she is playing her best tennis. I believe she's more consistent than before. She's very powerful. She's moving extremely well, which, before, maybe it was something she was a bit weak on that side.

And I think right now she also believes much more on herself, especially on clay. The other hand, we have Coco, which she gets here. She's such a tough player, very solid. And I'm expecting like a very, very difficult match for both because they have totally contrast of styles.

WILANDER: They do have contrast of style. And what I like about Coco's game is that she's really good in defense and she plays a little bit further behind the baseline than someone like Iga Swiatek. So she has a little bit more time when Aryna Sabalenka goes for her shots.

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The only thing I worry about with Coco, Alex, is the second serve. The second serve could be a problem, especially in the big moments. And then, of course, her forehand.

Is her forehand a weakness or is it pretty good to you, Coco Gauff's?

CORRETJA: I think it's a good point. I think, when she has time, it can be something very dangerous for the opponents because she plays with a lot of height compared to other players on tour.

I feel like her second serve, as you mentioned, she's been double faulting like so many times during this tournament. The good thing for her, like usually she just deletes (ph) and she just keeps on going.

But she needs to be aware to try to put a lot of first steps in otherwise Aryna, which she's going to step in. She's going to make her feel like a little bit like useless from the back of the court, you know.

I think Coco needs like a, let's say, a little bit of a dirty match, like, you know, mixed variation, maybe some backhands down the line, you know, also different heights. Maybe do some drop shots from time to time.

Because I think Aryna feels like she's got like the feeling, like it depends on her. And that, in a grand slam final, you know better than me, it's such a good feeling.

WILANDER: Alex, it's going to be a great match between the two best players in the world -- Sabalenka and Coco Gauff.

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ABEL: Should be a great match indeed.

Thank you for joining us. I'm Brian Abel in Atlanta. I'll be right back with more CNN NEWSROOM right after this break.