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Abrego Garcia Returned to U.S., Will Face Criminal Charges; Trump-Musk Feud Still Brewing; Russia-Ukraine Peace Effort in Limbo as Fighting Escalates; Body of Thai Hostage Recovered in Gaza; Cubans Seek U.S. Visas amid Trump's Partial Travel Ban; S&P Hits Highest Level Since February; UFO Buffs Hope Trump Will Reveal Secret Alien Files. Aired 5-6a ET

Aired June 07, 2025 - 05:00   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.

Ahead on CNN NEWSROOM, protests erupt in Los Angeles over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. This as the man at the center of a deportation battle returns to the U.S. We'll have details on both.

Republicans weigh in on how the Trump Musk feud could impact their big, beautiful bill. Meanwhile, one country is reveling in the very public falling out.

Ukraine's second biggest city withstands a brutal assault from Russia. We'll have the latest in a live report.

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ABEL: We begin this hour focused on the immigration crackdown currently rocking the United States. From a courtroom in Tennessee to the streets of Los Angeles, the controversy is heating up by the day.

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ABEL (voice-over): You are looking here at video of clashes over migrant detentions that erupted in Los Angeles a few hours ago. People confronting federal immigration authorities who were conducting raids in several locations.

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ABEL (voice-over): Officers in riot gear deployed flashbang grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowds. Demonstrations continued into the evening and police declared all protests downtown to be unlawful.

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

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ABEL: Meanwhile, a man wrongly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison is back in the U.S. but far from free. A court in Tennessee ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be held in custody until at least Friday, as he now faces federal criminal charges of unlawfully transporting undocumented immigrants.

Here's U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi take on the case.

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PAM BONDI, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: On May 21st, a grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment, charging Abrego Garcia with alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling.

We're grateful to President Bukele for agreeing to return him to our country to face these very serious charges.

This is what American justice looks like.

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ABEL: You may remember these images from when Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Van Hollen says he's hopeful Garcia will finally get due process in the U.S.

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SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN (D-MD): I've said I'm not vouching for the man, Abrego Garcia. This is not about him. It is about his constitutional rights.

And I think we all recognize that, if the Trump administration can trample over his constitutional rights, it's a very short road to tyranny, when they can essentially put all of our constitutional rights in jeopardy.

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ABEL: The decision to prosecute Garcia prompted the chief of the national Justice Department's criminal division to resign. 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.

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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: Raul Reyes, attorney and immigration analyst, joins us live now from New York.

And Raul, you just heard there a minute ago, Pam Bondi, they're saying this is what American justice looks like.

Is this what justice is supposed to look like in the United States?

RAUL REYES, ATTORNEY AND IMMIGRATION ANALYST: Well, it's a bit ironic, as we hear the attorney general say that this is what American justice looks like. I believe she is correct.

But the question is, why did it take so long to get here?

What is so striking about Mr. Abrego Garcia's case is that the government, the U.S. government, sent him off to El Salvador, imprisoned him, defied court orders and then, only now, retroactively came up with a criminal case against him.

That's really the backwards way of doing things. It is encouraging that he will get his day in court and his due process rights now.

But we have heard so many reasons, rationales from the Trump administration that why they could not do this or would not do this or had no power to bring him back, that it's startling that he is here again in the United States.

ABEL: You touched on this a little bit, Raul. But we did hear from president Trump, from Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem, from the AG and others in the White House, that what just happened, Abrego Garcia back on U.S. soil, was something that would never happen.

After the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Abrego Garcia's removal was illegal, Trump said it was out of his control. A diplomatic issue and Bondi said this about what's changed.

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BONDI: What has changed is Donald Trump is now President of the United States and our borders are again secure. And thanks to the bright light that has been shined on Abrego Garcia, this investigation continued with actually amazing police work and we were able to track this case and stop this international smuggling ring.

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ABEL: So Raul, is that what's changed?

Because president Trump was the president when the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. needed to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.

So what has changed?

REYES: Right. And president Trump was in office when Mr. Abrego Garcia was deported, by the government's own admission, in error. I think what has changed is the political climate around this case. It has generated an international outcry. He has become something of a cause celebre.

CNN's own polling from April showed that 56 percent of Americans wanted Mr. Abrego Garcia to be brought back to the United States. So I think, right where we are right now, this has got to be, in some ways, an off ramp for the Trump administration.

Because we were looking at a potential clash between the executive branch and the judiciary. Three different courts, including the Supreme Court, told the administration that they had to facilitate Mr. Abrego Garcia's return. They were resisting these efforts.

So now they have finally complied. And although the allegations against him of smuggling and trafficking, they're very serious, right. But that was just an indictment. We will see, as this case proceeds, whether or not the government can establish his criminality in a court beyond a reasonable doubt.

So these are serious charges but this is a long process ahead in terms of what Mr. Abrego Garcia is looking at.

ABEL: Let's talk a little bit about these new charges. They come after a grand jury indictment. Some viewers may be aware of how a grand jury works and how it doesn't. A grand jury, for example, doesn't have to hear cross-examination of evidence.

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There are some things a grand jury is presented with that would be considered inadmissible in a trial. All of that to say the indictment and the charges are, at this point, just that, charges, accusations. The government now has to prove the case.

So what happens next for Garcia?

And can his current situation be considered a win here?

REYES: Yes. His current situation, I think by most standards, at least for now, can be considered a win because he is no longer in a notorious prison in El Salvador, indefinitely cut off from the world.

At least being in the United States, he is under the jurisdiction of our criminal justice system, where there are basic standards that must be met in terms of medical care, recreation, providing health and wellness for prisoners. He will have his day in court.

And I mean, let's be honest, we don't know if he is guilty. We don't know if he is not guilty. The important thing is that, going forward, a court, a federal judge or a jury will decide that. And in the meantime, he's looking at potentially decades in prison if he's convicted.

And he -- and if he were to serve a sentence in the United States, he could still be deported. But just being back in the U.S. for him, for Mr. Abrego Garcia, is an encouraging development, although this is not directly related to any of the other deportees still in El Salvador, in the prison there.

This is an important precedent because now we know the government, the administration can bring people back. So lawyers for these other deportees can now make the -- have a stronger case that this precedent can be set, that maybe other people wrongly imprisoned or imprisoned in by mistake can be brought back.

And just for context, remember a report earlier this year from CBS News found that 90 percent of the men deported to El Salvador had no criminal record in the U.S. So for them, certainly as well, it's a positive development in that this, Mr. Abrego Garcia is being returned to the U.S., could have an impact on their own cases.

ABEL: And we'll see if they get due process as well. Raul Reyes in New York. Raul, thank you.

REYES: Thank you.

ABEL: Well, the very public feud that erupted on Thursday between U.S. president Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk is still brewing, despite efforts by the White House to focus on other issues,

Mr. Trump told CNN's Dana Bash, quote, "I'm not even thinking about him."

But sources tell CNN he has asked aides whether Musk's behavior could be related to alleged drug use, which was recently reported by "The New York Times." The president also said he'd look at Musk's federal contracts.

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DONALD TRUMP (R) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We'll take a look at everything. Everything -- it's a lot of money. There's a lot of subsidy. So we'll take a look at that -- only if it's fair. Only if it's fair for him, only if it's fair for him and for the country but it has to be fair.

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ABEL: Republicans are calling on the two men to patch things up. GOP officials worry that the spat could impact passage of Mr. Trump's spending bill, currently in the Senate, and other conservative priorities.

Late Friday, the president said he plans to get rid of the red Tesla he purchased last March. A White House official told CNN it may be sold or possibly given away.

Last hour I spoke with Leslie Vinjamuri, the head of the U.S. and the Americas Programme at Chatham House. I asked if any punitive actions the two men take against each other could have an impact on average Americans or the country at large.

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LESLIE VINJAMURI, CHATHAM HOUSE: 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.

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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.

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ABEL: The feud between the two men began with a disagreement over the so-called big beautiful bill. Musk called it a disgusting abomination because it adds to America's staggering mountain of debt.

The Congressional Budget Office confirms it would raise the deficit by $2.4 trillion. Now congressional Republicans fear the quarrel will tank the bill. Lauren Fox has that.

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LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: While most Republicans do not want to touch this disagreement between Donald Trump and Elon Musk with a 10-foot pole, there are other conservatives who are arguing that this potentially could open up negotiations over more spending cuts in the president's huge agenda bill.

That's moving through Congress right now. Now this bill already passed the House of Representatives. It's laying right now in the United States Senate, where lawmakers are expected to make significant changes to the legislation.

But here were a number of conservatives on what this Musk-Trump feud means for the future of his agenda on Capitol Hill.

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REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): I hope this gets worked out but I will tell you right now that, people are going to be focused on making sure that we get the agenda that we voted for and that's president Trump's agenda.

REP. CHIP ROY (R-TX): Elon is not wrong that we need to spend. We need to cut more and find better ways to get the balance. And then, you know, look and we're working the president hard to do that. And so I'll let those guys toss it out.

REP. THOMAS MASSIE (R-KY): I think Elon probably did change the trajectory of this bill two or three days ago when he came out against it, because people trust the guy who can land rockets backwards more with the math than they do the politicians.

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FOX: On Friday, speaker Mike Johnson also said that he hoped and he does believe in redemption. He hopes the relationship between Trump and Musk can be fixed in the upcoming days. But he said he doesn't think that this is going to have an impact on Trump's agenda moving forward on Capitol Hill.

He said that he believes that that is going to continue going forward and he made clear that he's continuing having conversations with senators.

He wants to make sure that Trump is able to get this through the United States Senate, back through the House and signed on his desk by that 4th of July recess.

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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.

Ukraine's second largest city has been a regular target for Russia since its full-scale invasion began. But this morning, the city saw an attack its mayor says has never happened before. We'll explain.

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ABEL: Ukraine's second largest city is reeling from what its mayor calls outright terror. He says Kharkiv has just seen its worst attack since the full-scale war with Russia began. Sebastian Shukla joins us from Berlin with more -- Sebastian.

SEBASTIAN SHUKLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, good morning, Brian. What we've seen in Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv overnight is a massive attack as the -- as the mayor of that city has now said.

Well, he described it as the largest since the war began. The updated figures coming out of the city are that three people have died, with the 21 people have been injured.

And that this marks the second successive night of major attacks that have taken place on Ukraine, which comes on the hot on the heels of Friday morning's attack, too, which saw some 400 drones and 40 cruise and ballistic missiles launched toward all of Ukraine.

All of it seeming to be in response to that audacious attack by Ukrainian intelligence services launched last Sunday at various military bases, deep, deep inside the Russian Federation.

And this seems to now be President Putin's response to that attack, something which the U.S. president said to reporters aboard Air Force One today. Take a listen to what he had to say.

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TRUMP: As well they gave they gave Putin a reason to go in and bomb the hell out of him last night. That's the thing I didn't like about it. When I saw it, I said, here we go. Now it's going to be a strike.

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SHUKLA: And so we can hear there the U.S. president not condemning the attacks,, which is surprising or particularly irksome to the Ukrainian side, because obviously they feel that there is a degree of leniency which the White House is giving toward President Putin.

It would have been very easy for president Trump to condemn these attacks and reprisal attacks from the Kremlin.

And it comes in a week, of course, Brian, that the president held a phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, where a similar notion was echoed by the president, where he said President Putin told him frankly that he doesn't have any other options left here other than Moscow to retaliate.

But we shouldn't forget as well that, within all of this, the president is mulling the possibility of sanctions against -- sanctions against Russia should these attacks keep happening.

And that the Russian side continues to show very little engagement or willingness to come to the table when it comes to ceasefire and ending -- and talks to ending this war -- Brian.

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ABEL: Sebastian Shukla in Berlin for us, Sebastian, thank you.

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ABEL: The United Nations issuing a dire new report on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. It says more than 2,700 children under the age of 5 were diagnosed with acute malnutrition in the second half of May.

Hunger is spreading 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 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.

President Trump is implementing a new wave of international travel bans. Coming up, we take a closer look at how the restrictions will impact Cubans and their ability to obtain U.S. visas.

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ABEL: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Brian Abel in Atlanta. Let's check some of today's top stories.

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ABEL (voice-over): Protest over migrant detentions erupted in Los Angeles Friday. Crowds surrounding federal immigration authorities as they conducted raids in several locations.

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Police deployed tear gas and flashbang grenades to disperse crowds. Demonstrations continued outside a detention facility in downtown LA.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly 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 appear in immigration court, not criminal court.

No resolution so far in the feud between the president and billionaire Elon Musk after their quarrel on Thursday, Donald Trump telling reporters Friday he doesn't think he will speak to Musk, quote, "for a while."

He also says he plans to take a look at Musk's federal contracts. Russia is watching that feud play out and reaction in some quarters has been outright mockery. CNN chief global affairs correspondent Matthew Chance now with that.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: On Russian state media, of course, the big beautiful break is being ridiculed. It's only one stop from love to hate, says this pro-Kremlin TV host.

President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are now at war. This amid countless memes depicting U.S. rivals Russia and China watching with glee as the world's most powerful man and its richest fall out in spectacular fashion.

Officials in Moscow are openly mocking the chaos, like Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian Security Council, joking that the Kremlin will help broker peace between Trump and Musk. We're ready to facilitate the conclusion of a peace deal for a reasonable fee and to accept Starlink shares as payment, Medvedev wrote on X.

Don't fight, guys, he added.

His post comes after tensions between Trump and Musk erupted on Thursday, with Musk accusing Trump of having connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And Trump, who denies any wrongdoing, threatening to cancel federal contracts for Musk's companies.

One Russian lawmaker, Dmitry Novikov, sarcastically suggested Russia could offer Musk political asylum if he needs it, while the Kremlin itself dismisses the falling-out as an internal U.S. matter. Watching its old adversary being thoroughly ridiculed plays into the Kremlin's hands -- Matthew Chance, CNN, London.

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ABEL: 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.

Trump also said Xi has agreed to restart the flow of critical rare earth minerals, a topic that's been a sticking point in trade talks between the two nations. China controls 90 percent of the global processing of rare earth materials, which are essential to everything from cars to fighter jets.

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro spoke out about Donald Trump's travel ban, telling the U.S. president he shouldn't allow himself to be further poisoned against Venezuela.

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NICOLAS MADURO, PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA (through translator): I send a message to you, do not allow yourself to be poisoned against Venezuela anymore. They poison him every day with lies. Yesterday they issued a decree lying and that Venezuela does not accept migrants.

If we are going to look for them with our planes, how can we not accept them?

President Donald Trump, I talk to you face to face so that the message reaches you because they are deceiving you.

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ABEL: The travel ban would fully restrict entry by nationals from 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Myanmar, Iran and Yemen. People from seven other countries, including Cuba, Sierra Leone and Venezuela, will be restricted.

The White House says the president's ban fulfills a campaign promise to, quote, "protect Americans" from dangerous foreign actors who want to come to the U.S. and cause harm.

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

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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. 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: And we'll be right back.

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ABEL: Wall Street finished out the week on an up note amidst cautious optimism over Donald Trump's trade war. The S&P 500 closed at its highest level since February. And all three of the major indices finished out the week with strong closes.

Investors were comforted by new figures from the U.S. Labor Department showing the economy added a better than anticipated 139,000 jobs last month.

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All of this good news. It had Donald Trump outraged at the Federal Reserve. The president calling the Fed a disaster for not moving to lower interest rates. Fed officials have said they want to hold off on rate changes until they see how the U.S. economy ultimately responds to president Trump's massive policy shifts.

And president Trump is looking to make some big cuts of his own with a budget proposal that decimates global health spending. The plan, given to Congress last week, calls for the elimination of the CDC's global health unit.

It would shutter the agency's international immunization program that's trying to eradicate diseases like measles and polio.

The budget is the fiscal embodiment of Trump's America First policy as it looks to eliminate U.S. support for health programs that, according to the administration, do not make Americans safer.

It's a stance many public health experts say is extremely shortsighted because, as the world has seen, infectious diseases do not stop at the border.

Thomas Bollyky is the Bloomberg chair in global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directs the global health program. He is also the founding editor of the "Think Global Health," an online magazine that examines how health shapes economies, societies and everyday lives around the world.

So Thomas, thank you for joining us. Let's take a closer look at the cuts in this budget proposal and the consequences.

If approved, if U.S. funds are slashed for global health programs, are Americans more safe as the proposal suggests?

THOMAS BOLLYKY, BLOOMBERG CHAIR IN GLOBAL HEALTH, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: They are certainly not. This budget request, if implemented, would eliminate the Center for Disease Control Global Health Center, including most of its international programs.

That includes on HIV/AIDS, on TB, vaccinations, polio. It would eliminate all funding for family and reproductive health, maternal and child health and nutrition. It would eliminate our support for Gavi, the vaccine alliance, and all U.N. health agencies.

It's hard to imagine how limiting those programs, which allow us to track diseases abroad and control their spread, would make us safer.

ABEL: So my mind, when thinking about the what ifs of this proposal, went first to what we all experienced over the last few years with the pandemic.

But I also think further back to the U.S. Ebola cases in 2014, for example, and SARS before that. So I'm going to ask you to speculate a bit here. Forgive me.

But if these programs were not in place when those viruses jumped borders, what would that have looked like?

And what could future outbreaks look like?

BOLLYKY: Well, let's take the horrible example, which is a great one. Ebola started in West Africa but in some relatively rural countries.

A case appeared in Lagos, Nigeria, and was able to be tracked and stopped from spreading in that very populous, very crowded city because of the infrastructure set up by the polio campaign both to distribute vaccines and to track the spread of disease.

That's what allowed us to catch that case and to be able to stop that from spreading there. And Lagos, of course, is a city that's very well connected to the rest of the world and stop cases from spreading abroad. That's the risk here, that we lose that infrastructure that helps keep us safe. ABEL: A spokesperson for the World Health Organization recently said

the scale, scope and abrupt nature of the U.S. cuts will lead to more disease and death and countries have not been able to plan a sufficient transition, then added, "We hope the U.S. will reconsider and continue their legacy of leadership in global health."

What other dangers are there with this U.S. policy of isolationism?

BOLLYKY: Well, for two decades, the U.S. has been the leading funder of international initiatives against diseases that poor countries cannot fight alone with medical solutions, that require scale and infrastructure, that only an international coalition can provide.

The global vaccine alliance, Gavi, which the U.S. helped create, immunizes nearly 70 million children each year against pediatric diseases. That has had a transformative effect over the last two decades. The returns from these investments have been spectacular.

In 2000, there were 42 countries, including most of sub-Saharan Africa, where at least one out of 10 children would die before his or her birthday. Today, there are only such four such countries. That's the progress that we've gone through these programs. That's what we stand to lose.

ABEL: Thomas Bollyky, Bloomberg chair in global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, we thank you for joining us for your time.

BOLLYKY: Thank you.

ABEL: 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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ABEL: Euromillions' biggest-ever jackpot is up for grabs. The lottery payout has reached a record 250 million euros or $285 million. The lottery sells tickets in nine European countries.

The odds of winning that top prize only about 1 in 140 million. Drawings happen every Tuesday and Friday. And if there is no winner after the next four draws, the jackpot will be distributed among lower-tier prize winners.

Well, Americans may be one step closer to living like the Jetsons. U.S. President Donald Trump signed new executive orders Friday aimed at expanding the use of flying cars. The orders call for new public private partnerships for electric air taxis.

The new orders also address national security threats caused by drones and they also call for increased use of supersonic aircraft.

The FAA said it appreciates president Trump's executive orders, prioritizing the safety and security of our national airspace, while accelerating American innovation in drones' electric vertical takeoff and landing and supersonic technology.

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"We will review the executive orders and determine how to best implement them."

And 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 --

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

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ABEL: I thought I saw UFOs the other day. It was just Starlink satellite streams. Darn.

Well, U.S. college sports are about to experience the biggest change in their history.

A federal judge has approved a $2.8 billion settlement, allowing schools to pay athletes directly. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed five years ago by an Arizona State swimmer.

Grant House sued to lift revenue sharing restrictions. College sports generate billions of dollars in revenue but, until now, it was not allowed to be shared with athletes. This settlement means each school can share up to $20.5 million with current athletes over the next year.

Schools will also pay former athletes $2.7 billion over the next decade.

The Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers are now tied at one game apiece in the Stanley Cup final. Game two was last night in Edmonton. The Oilers tied it with just 17 seconds left, so they go to overtime.

Scoreless after the first overtime, they went to two. That's when Brad Marchand right here scoring his second goal of the game. The Panthers winning 5-4, tying the series at one game apiece. Game three is set for Monday in Florida.

A blockbuster upset at the French Open Friday. Italy's Jannik Sinner defeating 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 the clay courts. Sinner now goes on to face defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the final tomorrow.

Thanks for joining us on CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Brian Abel. For our viewers in North America, "CNN THIS MORNING" is up next. For the rest of the world. It's "AFRICAN VOICES: CHANGEMAKERS."