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Downtown L.A. Curfew In Effect For Second Night Amid Unrest; Protests Over ICE Raids In More Than A Dozen U.S. Cities; Immigration Raid On Nebraska Meatpacking Plant Stirs Protest; U.S. To Move Some Diplomats Out Of The Middle East; Downtown L.A. Curfew in Effect for Second Night Amid Unrest; Spokane, Washington Declares State of Emergency; Trump Says Trade Deal With China is Done; Scott Bessent Says It is Highly Likely Some Tariffs to Be Delayed Again; Cheers, Boos as Trump Attends Performance of "Les Miz"; Weinstein Convicted on Top Sex Crimes Charge in Retrial; Beach Boys Co-Founder Brian Wilson Dead at 82. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired June 12, 2025 - 02:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

Los Angeles is now a few hours into its latest curfew, following a sixth day of mostly peaceful protests against immigration raids and the Trump administrations use of the U.S. military on American soil.

At last check, the situation in L.A. appeared relatively calm, but police had been dealing with flare ups and occasional skirmishes earlier.

At one point, police declared an unlawful assembly outside City Hall, and they've been arresting demonstrators who refuse to leave the one square mile of downtown that's temporarily off limits.

More than 200 demonstrators were detained for curfew violations a day earlier, and according to the U.S. military, some 700 Marines training near L.A. are expected to deploy sometime in the next two days and will conduct the same mission as the National Guard.

In the hours ahead, a federal judge will hear California's bid for an emergency restraining order to block what the governor calls the unwarranted and illegal militarization of L.A.

The Trump administration is urging the court to reject this state challenge, appearing at the Kennedy Center, Donald Trump once again defended his deployments.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm very proud to have helped Los Angeles survived. Los Angeles right now, if we didn't do what we did, we'd be burning to the ground, and that's not over yet.

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CHURCH: The Los Angeles Mayor has been pushing back on exaggerations about the scale of the unrest, and she accused the Trump administration of causing unnecessary alarm.

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KAREN BASS, MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES: We started off by hearing the administration wanted to go after violent felons, gang members, drug dealers. But when you raid Home Depots and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you're not trying to keep anyone safe, you're trying to cause fear and panic.

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CHURCH: CNN's Michael Yoshida is following all this live from Los Angeles. Good to see you again, Michael. So, what is the situation on the streets of downtown L.A. on this second night of curfew?

MICHAEL YOSHIDA, CNN REPORTER: Good morning, Rosemary. We're about three hours into this second night of the curfew, and it's very calm here in this part of downtown L.A. You can see we still have some law enforcement here. They've been here at these on and off ramps to the 101 Highway in this part of downtown during the day and the night. So, that's nothing new.

But if we look over, you can see the streets are open, no protesters, no law enforcement out there, just things appearing normal, and we've seen throughout the day. Obviously, we did have protests, especially around that federal detention facility right there, but as we moved closer to the second night of curfew, we saw a lot of the protesters, honestly, just start to leave on their own.

You mentioned some of those activities we saw near City Hall. Our crew did make it over to City Hall, and it was about maybe 30 minutes, 40 minutes after this curfew had started, where even that group of maybe three or four dozen protesters, they ended up starting to walk in different directions as well. They never had any real interactions with the police that were staged there.

So, again, second night of this curfew, it goes from 8:00 in the evening local time to 6:00 in the morning local time, covering about a one mile square area. And as you can see, things are calm here. They're calm a few blocks from here where we were.

So, it remains to be seen whether we'll continue to see this curfew in the coming nights as this week goes on.

CHURCH: And Michael, what more can you tell us about the U.S. Marines now deployed in L.A. and, of course, the role that they'll be taking on?

YOSHIDA: So, a lot of attention obviously be given to the 700 or so Marines that were moved out to this area. Our last reporting, we know they were around outside of L.A. going through some more of their training and preparation for this role, although it's still a little bit unclear exactly how they'll be used. That training, including use of non-lethal weapons, going over de-escalation skills, techniques, also detainment training.

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So, a lot of that training ongoing and again, needs to be done, and obviously will be done before we then see them potentially deployed in and around this area. Obviously a lot of questions about how quickly that can happen. And then what it may look like if it does become a reality.

CHURCH: Michael Yoshida in Los Angeles, many thanks for that live report. Stay safe.

Juliette Kayyem is a CNN senior national security analyst. She's also a former assistant secretary with the Department of Homeland Security. Appreciate you being with us.

JULIETTE KAYYEM, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: Of course, thanks for having me.

CHURCH: So, as we watch these protests spread beyond Los Angeles to other cities across the country. Let's just step back for a moment and look at the ICE raids that triggered all these demonstrations. Donald Trump initially promised to go after the worst of the worst undocumented criminals, but instead, we are seeing men, women and children rounded up in raids, seized in restaurants, stores, schools, graduations and churches. What is going on here, and why has the focus shifted from hardened criminals?

KAYYEM: So, it's very important that this -- that this point be made, which is that the protests are against the shift by the Trump administration from the promise that they're going to get hardened criminals, people who commit crimes, people who are not members of society, which has shifted, by their own admission, to just simply viewing anyone who is here unlawfully as illegal and or criminal, and therefore justifying getting out of the country.

Part of this is just their vibe. I mean, I have to be honest with you, it is just the leadership at the White House, Stephen Miller, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Tom Homan, the border czar. These are people who really don't make that distinction in their mind between the criminal, unlawful immigrants and unlawful immigrants who may have been here a long time committed to society.

And that's why you're seeing this pushback, because it's not -- it is -- it is not what the expectation was by the Trump administration, which has numbers it wants to satisfy in terms of deportation, to satisfy their base. CHURCH: And Julia on -- Juliette, on Tuesday, ICE posted images of National Guard troops providing perimeter security to their agents on a raid, integrating the military into the enforcement of immigration law. And Major General Scott Sherman confirmed Wednesday that the National Guard will be accompanying ICE agents on raids and arrests. What's your response to members of the military being used in this way?

KAYYEM: Yes, so there -- I mean, it depends on what their status is. This is not just a technical issue. I mean, in the past, governors have utilized the National Guard for essentially, force protection. Essentially you need to protect forces.

We know in the past, however, we now know that when governors have sought to federalize the National Guard, sort of put their own National Guard under a president, they have always done so -- it's always been done by the request of the governor. This is a different situation when it's sort of a one force under the president now being sort of put into a very dynamic situation without the appropriate training, without clear command and control, without clear mission, without preparation, and you're seeing that sort of disconnect between what Trump is saying that the military is doing, and what worse -- what they are essentially doing, which is protecting ICE agents on raids.

It's unnecessary. It likely is inciting a lot of the response, and it looks sort of like a -- like a foolish use of the military. In some ways I think he's denigrated them in many ways, by just sort of throwing them into this mission.

CHURCH: Right. And of course, when we look at the protests, we can't emphasize enough that these L.A. protests have been mostly peaceful, and Americans are free to protest peacefully, but in a post on Truth Social Wednesday morning, the president referred to the L.A. protesters as insurrectionists.

Now, how likely is it that this is the president trying to leave open the door to invoke the Insurrection Act? And if he does that, what will that mean?

KAYYEM: Yes, so I think it's absolutely true. He's promised it for a long time. I think we have to anticipate it. And I think we have to anticipate it outside of immigration, in some ways, this sort of third rail issue in American politics where, you know, the parties are divided, but they're also confused, in many ways.

I mean, in other words, a lot of Republicans and independents do not like some of this -- some of these enforcement efforts.

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So, you sort of have a complicated political environment and -- but Donald Trump is not likely to confine the militarization of the National Guard, let alone the Insurrection Act and the use of the active military, because his definition of what insurrection, what unrest is, is so low. And I don't mean to say to, you know, apologize for real violence

that's out there, threats against federal law enforcement. But what's being delayed is like, what is happening on the geographic area that's 0.2 percent of Los Angeles geographic area. And 0.2 percent of all of Los Angeles County.

But Donald Trump's reaction, you would think, you know, the city is on fire. And I think he does that purposefully, because he wants to lower the standards for the use of the military, and I think we have to anticipate his use of it in areas outside of immigration.

I will say the American public is pushing back. The polling is not good. This has not been a great week for the White House in that regard, we don't know what the courts are going to do, but he's -- you know, the normalization of this is the worrisome aspect of it.

CHURCH: Juliette Kayyem, always appreciate having you on. Thank you.

KAYYEM: Thank you.

CHURCH: A state of emergency is in effect in Spokane, Washington, the mayor has announced a curfew in parts of the city from 9:30 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. local time as protests got out of hand late Wednesday. Police deployed smoke devices to try to disperse the crowds which were blocking streets. The city's police chief says more than 30 people have been arrested so far.

Those protests have spread to other states as well. The National Guard has been activated in two states so far, the first being the controversial deployment in California, and Tuesday's activation in Texas, ahead of planned protests this week.

New video out of Seattle shows protesters burning debris near a federal building, and you can see the clouds of smoke grow bigger as they add items to burn.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he told the state's governor the National Guard is not needed to respond to protests there. About 2,500 protesters marched through the city on Tuesday. The NYPD says they've made several arrests.

And this was the scene in Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday, where crowds marched through the city. Protesters told CNN affiliate WRAL, they felt it was their duty to speak up after seeing people being oppressed in parts of the country.

Well, the mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, says immigration operations are causing the city, "Unnecessary fear." That's after officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a meat packing plant on Tuesday, prompting protests outside the facility. The company that was raided says it had followed the law. CNN's Dianne Gallagher has more.

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DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Intense scenes outside a Nebraska meat packing plant, as protesters throw rocks at government SUVs. Dozens of workers crammed into white buses. A surprise immigration rate at Glenn Valley Meat Packing Plant in South Omaha, as seen on this edited video provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. CNN has not reviewed the raw footage, but this does show a coordinated effort that employees say happen during a morning meeting.

ESTEFANIA FAVILA, SUPERVISOR, GLENN VALLEY FOODS: Well, they just came in and said that it was a raid and we had to get everybody out of production, and I just went inside production and told everybody, hey, immigration is here, stop running. So, they just started hiding everywhere and then they found everyone.

GALLAGHER (voice over): Scanning faces, checking fingerprints and demanding I.D.

FAVILA: So, they guarded me to my car and I showed them my I.D. and that's when they were putting these bracelets to identify you if you were a U.S. citizen or not. And then they did let me go.

GALLAGHER (voice over): ICE telling CNN it was, quote, executing a federal search warrant at Glenn Valley Foods into the large scale employment of aliens without legal work authorization, adding that during the raid, an undocumented man from Honduras, quote, brandished a weapon and assaulted federal agents and officers.

More than 70 people in total were detained. The state's Republican governor issuing a statement supporting federal partners while local officials tried to ease the community's concern.

MAYOR JOHN EWING JR., OMAHA: This does impact our community and it does create fear.

ROGER GARCIA, BOARD OF COMMISSIONER CHAIRMAN, DOUGLAS COUNTY, NEBRASKA: My community is being terrorized by immigration raids at this moment.

GALLAGHER (voice over): Douglas County Commissioner Roger Garcia says the human impact is wide-reaching.

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GARCIA: It's a tight-knit community here in South Omaha, specifically.

GALLAGHER (voice over): Touching even his own family, his wife's aunt is detained.

GARCIA: She's been here for at least a couple decades, if not longer. She's raised family here.

GALLAGHER (voice over): Republican Congressman Don Bacon's office says ICE verified that Glenn Valley Foods complied with E-Verify 100 percent and is a victim in this as well.

DHS says this was the largest work site immigration operation in Nebraska under this Trump administration.

CROWD: The people united will never be defeated.

GALLAGHER (voice over): The chilling effect of one big raid and rumors of more already being felt in Omaha.

GARCIA: A typical normal day with thriving culture and people is now in fear. And many have closed down shop for now.

GALLAGHER (voice over): Dianne Gallagher, CNN.

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CHURCH: Still to come, the U.S. is preparing to pull non-essential personnel from the Middle East. We will explain what's behind the move, back in just a moment.

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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone. The State Department is preparing to order the departure of non-essential personnel from U.S. embassies in Iraq, Bahrain and other parts of the Middle East. An official tells CNN, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also authorized the voluntary departure of military dependents. CNN's Kylie Atwood explains what's behind the move.

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KYLIE ATWOOD, CNN U.S. SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: The State Department and the Department of Defense moving to draw down non-essential U.S. diplomats in the Middle East and the families of U.S. military officials in the Middle East. This comes due to heightened security concerns in the region with U.S. Central Command saying that they are monitoring developing tensions in the Middle East, not specifically citing what those tensions are.

But CNN has reported on the increased tensions over recent weeks and months between Israel and Iran. With U.S. officials concerned about Israel drawing up plans, preparing for a strike on Iran's nuclear program.

And this also comes as the Trump administration has been trying to reach an Iran nuclear deal with the country. They have been engaged in five rounds of nuclear talks with Iran. They are expected to have their sixth round of talks this coming weekend.

A senior Administration official said that for now, those talks remain scheduled, but earlier today, President Trump said that he is less confident about the possibility of reaching that deal. The Iranians have said that they will be presenting a response to what the U.S. put on the table, and it wouldn't be a distinctive no, but we'll have to watch and see where that goes as the security concerns are on the top of the U.S. officials' minds.

Kylie Atwood, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: Tehran is warning there will be a price to pay for the U.S. if Iran becomes the target of any military action. A source familiar with the discussion, says President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop talking about possible strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. It reportedly happened during their phone call on Monday.

But President Trump himself has in the past threatened military action if nuclear talks with Iran were to fail. The Iranian defense minister issued this warning.

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AZIZ NASIRZADEH, IRANIAN DEFENSE MINISTER (through translator): God willing it won't come to that, and the talks will yield results, but if they don't, and conflict is imposed upon us, the enemy's losses will undoubtedly be greater than ours. In that case, America will have to leave the region because all its bases are within our reach. We have access to them, and without hesitation, we will target all of them in the host countries.

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CHURCH: Israel says it has recovered the remains of two more hostages from Gaza in a military operation by the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet Security Agency.

Officials say Yair Yaakov was killed in the October 7th, 2023 attacks and his body taken to Gaza. The name of the second hostage has not been released at the request of their family.

According to The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, 53 hostages are still being held in Gaza. Of these, at least 20 are still believed to be alive. The death toll from 20 months of fighting in Gaza has grown to more than 55,000 people. That is according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Meanwhile, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says at least five of its aid workers were killed after a bus was attacked in Gaza on Wednesday night, they say Hamas carried out the assault. Hamas has yet to respond to the allegations.

President Trump says he is starting to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not care about the human cost of the war in Ukraine, the U.S. president set himself a two week deadline to determine whether his Russian counterpart is serious about ending the war. That deadline has now passed with little progress toward peace. But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov downplayed the lack of progress.

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DMITRY PESKOV, KREMLIN SPOKESMAN (through translator): As you can see, the dialog continues. It is being carried out by the diplomatic departments as part of the understandings that have been reached between President Putin and President Trump. Well, let's just say that there are a lot of blockages in bilateral

relations. Of course, we can hardly hope for any quick results, but this is exactly the kind of complex, step by step work that has begun and will be continued.

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CHURCH: Ukraine is reeling from another massive drone attack on its second largest city. Officials say Russian drones hit apartment blocks in Kharkiv Wednesday night with 17 explosions in just nine minutes, at least three people were killed and 59 others injured.

Authorities in Austria say they are still searching for a motive after a gunman shot and killed 10 people at his former high school. The suspect then shot and killed himself.

Tuesday's rampage was one of the worst school shootings in a country's history. The Austrian president visited the city of Graz, where the shooting took place, and vowed to work to prevent a crime like this in the future.

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ALEXANDER VAN DER BELLEN, AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): It is the task of politics to fully and equivocally clarify the circumstances of this crime so that we can do everything humanly possible to avert such an immeasurable suffering in the future, or at least minimize the probability to understand everything that can be understood in order to prevent what can be prevented in the future.

And yes, if we come to the conclusion that the Austrian weapons law needs to be changed to make it safer, then we will do so.

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CHURCH: Authorities say they searched the gunman's home and found a nonfunctional makeshift bomb, a suicide note and a video message.

Just ahead, more on the protests against ICE raids here in the United States and the fear that the immigration crackdown is causing in schools and even at graduation ceremonies.

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CHURCH: The streets have cleared after another nighttime curfew in downtown Los Angeles. Earlier, police declared an unlawful assembly outside City Hall where a CNN crew saw officers using rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. Police said people had thrown fireworks and rocks at officers during a march through downtown to the steps of City Hall. But officials are also making it clear the protest against immigration raids are taking place in a small section of the city.

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NATHAN HOCHMAN, LOS ANGELES COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: If you only saw the social media and the media reports of what has gone on over the last five days, you would think that Los Angeles is on the verge of war. 99.99 percent of people who live in Los Angeles City or live in Los Angeles County, have not committed any illegal acts.

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CHURCH: And protests are spreading beyond California. The Mayor of Spokane, Washington has declared a state of emergency and announced a curfew in certain parts of the city. Large groups of protesters filled the streets, carrying signs and blocking roads. The protests are being fueled by anger over stepped up ICE raids taking place at businesses, factories, and farms across the United States. That's put communities on edge with fear spreading to schools.

Some in Los Angeles now say they're planning to skip graduations out of fear of deportation. The superintendent of the L.A. Unified School District explains what he's hearing from those in his area.

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ALBERTO CARVALHO, SUPERINTENDENT, L.A. UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: A lot of our kids belong to families where a father, a mother, or both may have an undocumented immigration status, putting them in a position of deep fear. Students themselves have spoken with me, families have reported to me that their conversations at the dinner table are about who's going to leave, who's going to take care of our children if either one of us is picked up and deported.

So there is concern, there is fear, and we have a constitutional responsibility to protect our kids. As an immigrant, former undocumented teenager to this country, I would be the biggest hypocrite if I did not fight for the rights of the kids who, today, are facing circumstances that I faced over 40 years ago.

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CHURCH: David Goldberg is the President of the California Teachers Association. He joins me now from Los Angeles. Thank you so much for talking with us.

DAVID GOLDBERG, PRESIDENT, CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: My pleasure to join you tonight.

CHURCH: So, you and your organization have been calling for the immediate release of children, families, and David Huerta, the President of SEIU California, all detained during ICE raids in your community. What feedback have you received on those calls for their release?

GOLDBERG: From our members, first and foremost, from our members, we've had near universal support, and that's members, even members who voted for President Trump across the board. Our members have dedicated our lives to our students and are terrified and heartbroken when students are being picked up. Many of these students, by the way, who are now detained, are detained going to their own court appointments and detained when their parents are now, instead of finishing their year with their students and their friends, are now sitting in detention facilities. So, our members want us to get out there.

They're -- we are -- they're ordering materials on how to share information with parents about their legal rights. They want to support parents. The people we dedicate -- and the students who we dedicate our lives to. This is not a Republican or Democratic issue and a red or blue thing in our in -- for educators.

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This is about standing up for the students and supporting the students. Every student, no matter the legal status, should be welcome in our classrooms.

CHURCH: And David, you have also been taking part in peaceful protests against these ICE raids in L.A. What message are you trying to convey each day when you get out on the streets, and to have your voice heard, of course, and what sort of feedback are you getting out there? What's the experience like?

GOLDBERG: Sure. When I get out there, when I join others and being out there, and for me, it's part of the more obligation I have. And as part of almost a redefining what it means to be an educator right now. I signed up to be -- commit my life not for the pay, believe it or not, for being an educator, but for dedicating my life and so do my colleagues, dedicate our lives to our students.

And when they're under attack, it's up to us to also make sure that everyone, like I said before, everyone feels safe in our schools. That's the kind of society, that's the kind -- that's how schools thrive. That's how our society thrives. So when we non-violently protest, we are protesting in solidarity, in solidarity with our communities who right now are under attack. The communities again, that we live in, that we dedicate our lives to serving. This is part of service to that community, is being an ally and being in solidarity with them when they're being under attack.

CHURCH: And David, what are you able to tell us about how these ICE raids are being conducted and the children being caught up in these raids and arrests?

GOLDBERG: Yeah. For me, the way the ICE raids are being conducted are being meant to cause maximum intimidation, maximum fear in communities. That's what they're doing. That's why they're going after very public places. This is -- and that's something that, frankly, in a society like ours. And then by the way, I'm about a mile and a half from downtown Los Angeles. You probably hear the helicopters.

The way now the federal government is trying to weaponize this. And by the way, one other thing that should be made very apparent, this has happened at the same time that President Trump and Republicans in Congress are trying to cut $16 billion in financial aid to California to serve our students in public education. Our most vulnerable students, our special aid kids, our kids in rural communities, our kids who need food to eat at school.

So for us, this is part of a broader attack on public education and on the communities we serve. So when we're out there non-violently protesting, it is about standing up for our students and it's also standing up for public education in society that takes care of everybody.

CHURCH: And David, what more can you share with us about the children who have been locked up in detention centers as a result of these raids?

GOLDBERG: Yeah. I mean, what I could share is their lives are now totally disrupted. A kid who was getting ready for the end of school, kids as young as three-years-old. We had a kid here in Torrance, a third grader, detained. We have kids who are just taking the -- and by the way, for most families who are immigrant families and have undocumented -- most of them are mixed families. So if you detain, so the kids are here legally very often, but their parents are being taken away right in front of them.

It causes -- that is something that kids do not recover from for a long time. It's something that we need to make sure never happens. That devastates students. You can't learn and thrive under that kind of fear. And so, the more we can, the more our job as educators is to help our school kids to feel safe at schools. That's why the weaponization right now of President Trump of school sites, and we saw today, a church, by the way, sanctuary places, places that should be safe from this kind of fear and attacks. That's what's going on right now. It's a tax -- it is a deliberate attempt to sow fear in our communities. And right now, as educators, it's our job to stand with them and make them help them to feel as safe as can be.

CHURCH: David Goldberg, thank you so much for talking with us. We appreciate it.

GOLDBERG: Thank you. I appreciate it.

CHURCH: Donald Trump says, A U.S. trade deal with China is done. The president posted on social media. The deal gives the U.S. access to China's valuable rare earth minerals, and Chinese students will be able to keep attending U.S. universities. Mr. Trump claimed the U.S. is getting 55 percent tariffs, but that's only for certain products like steel and cars. Most Chinese goods will get a 30 percent tariff.

Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says it's highly likely that tariffs will be delayed again for certain countries. President Trump unveiled massive tariffs on many countries back in April. He's repeatedly threatened and delayed tariffs over the course of his second term.

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I want to thank you for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. "World Sport" is coming up next for our international viewers. And for those of you in North America, I will be back with more "CNN Newsroom" after short break. Stay with us. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. A curfew is in effect in parts of downtown Los Angeles for the second night in a row until 6:00 a.m. local time. Police have been arresting demonstrators who refused to clear out. More than 200 people were taken into custody a day earlier for failure to disperse. The mayor says the curfew aims to stop bad actors who are taking advantage of President Trump's chaotic escalation.

Demonstrators are rallying against his immigration raids as well as his decision to deploy the National Guard and Marines. Anti-ICE protests are not limited to Los Angeles. People across the U.S. have taken to the streets this week, voicing their opposition to the Trump administration's immigration raids. And CNN's Gustavo Valdes finds that growing tensions with authorities are making the immigrant community here in Atlanta very nervous.

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GUSTAVO VALDES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Here on the Buford Highway corridor, which is a long stretch of highway in the metropolitan area where migrants from Latin America and Asia live and work, the fear, it's -- you can feel the fear. The protests were peaceful across the street. At some point, they escalated, people attacked police vehicles. Six people were arrested because they damaged three police vehicles.

I've been surveying the businesses in the area, how they feel. And this salon, also the workers here have told me that even before the protest, they've seen a decrease in customers. Yes, it is the middle of the afternoon. There are a lot of empty chairs, but they said that regularly, they would be having people in and out. But now, it has slowed down significantly. Jackie (ph) here tells me that not only the clients, but the workers are afraid. [Foreign Language] How is the community feeling?

[Foreign Language]

They say they're very afraid.

[Foreign Language]

They say, typically at this time, there would be people already here getting a haircut.

Is there also fear from the workers, do you think? Are you seeing that fewer people are also going to work because they're afraid?

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She said that, usually, they would've had up to 50 or 60 people at this time of day. They've only had half of those on a day like today. And something else, Mark (ph), that I've noticed, the taxi services that are popular in this area because many migrants, sometimes they fear driving themselves without a license. They could be stopped and we've seen how people will get arrested and eventually deported.

Typically, when there's a situation like what we've seen recently, the taxi services also see an increase in customers. They say even them are seeing a huge decrease in demand. They are saying that people are just afraid to go out, and they're just going out when they need to shop something they really need.

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CHURCH: Donald Trump was greeted with cheers and boos as he attended a performance of "Les Miserables" at the Kennedy Center in Washington. It was just a few months ago that the president launched a conservative takeover of the performing arts facility, calling it too liberal. His appearance was part of a fundraiser for the center. Trump said donors had raised $10 million. Before the show, President Trump said he's a big fan of "Les Miz." Ironically, while protesters are in the streets of some U.S. cities, the legendary musical tells the story of French citizens rising up against their government. He told Fox News Digital, he loves the songs and the musical. Kristen Holmes has more on his night at the Kennedy Center.

KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: President Donald Trump going to see a performance of "Les Miz" at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday. This is the first time he's seen a performance at the cultural center since he effectively took it over. He got rid of most of the board members, replaced them with Trump loyalists, who then in turn voted him to be the president of the board.

Now, he's been pretty fixated on the Kennedy Center for some time. We know he has visited there. He has tried to talk about rebuilding it. We know he has tried to put $250 million into that spending bill that's currently in front of the Senate.

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Now, tonight was billed as partly a fundraiser. There were tickets for $2 million, $1 million, $100,000. We heard from the Head of the Kennedy Center, Rick Grenell, who said that they believed that they had raised around $10 million. Now for $2 million, we reported earlier, you could essentially get a seat in the box next to the president. We also know that a lot of members of the administration and supporters were buying some of those tickets.

Now, there had been some concern because last month, CNN reported that several members of the cast of "Les Miz" were planning on boycotting the president's performance. The Director, Grenell was asked about that as well. He said that was a long time ago, and there has been a lot of pushback to Donald Trump's takeover of the cultural center, which has been really an iconic piece of Washington, D.C. for decades.

Kristen Holmes, CNN, the White House.

CHURCH: Former movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein, was convicted Wednesday in a mixed verdict after the landmark Me Too Movement retrial. A jury found Weinstein guilty of one of the top charges in the sex crimes retrial, but he was acquitted on another, and jurors have yet to reach a verdict on the third charge. Weinstein once one of Hollywood's most powerful players was initially convicted five years ago, but the ruling was overturned last year.

One of his accusers, Miriam Haley, a former production assistant at the Weinstein Company, spoke out after the verdict.

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MIRIAM HALEY, WEINSTEIN ACCUSER: Today's verdict gives me hope. Hope that there is new awareness around sexual violence, and that the myth of the perfect victim is fading. And I hope that these results empowers others to speak out.

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CHURCH: The 73-year-old Weinstein denies sexually assaulting or raping anyone.

Brian Wilson, a co-founder and creative force of the rock group, The Beach Boys, has died at the age of 82. Wilson formed the Beach Boys with their surf sound in the 1960s, becoming America's answer to The Beatles. He wrote timeless songs such as Surfer Girl, Good Vibrations, and God Only Knows. His work was so groundbreaking that singer Tom Petty compared him to Beethoven. Wilson called his music and his children the greatest loves of his life.

CNN's Stephanie Elam looks back at the legendary musician's life and legacy.

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STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He was the mastermind behind The Beach Boys chart topping success. Brian Wilson was one of the most influential composers in modern music. The Beach Boys' joyful pop emerged at the Vanguard of the California sound in the early '60s. It was Wilson's creative genius that layered the band's five distinct voices into one perfect harmony.

BRIAN WILSON, LEADER OF THE BEACH BOYS BAND: I would describe it as ethereal and masculine -- masculine and feminine put together.

ELAM (voice-over): Wilson and the other Beach Boys rode their signature sound wave through a string of hits. Surfin' U.S.A.; I Get Around; Fun fun, fun; and Help Me Rhonda. By the mid-'60s, Wilson experimented with new music and with drugs. He said an LSD experience helped him write The Beach Boys 1966 magnum opus Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds is widely considered one of the greatest albums of all time.

During its studio sessions, the Beach Boys recorded Good Vibrations, later released as a single. It became one of the most influential tracks in rock history.

WILSON: The night we cut the vocals at RCA (ph) was one of the highlights of my life, teaching the guys the parts and it was just a departure from anything we'd ever, ever done before. It was probably our masterpiece.

ELAM (voice-over): For seven months, Wilson experimented with multiple layers of track, echoes and reverb, using the studio as his instrument. Good Vibrations produced at a cost of more than $400,000 in today's dollars was dubbed a pocket symphony. But the drug-fueled creative blaze came at a cost. Wilson said he began hearing voices around the time he used LSD.

By the '70s, his life had spiraled into an abyss of drug abuse, depression, and seclusion. He disappeared from public view and fell under the sway of discredited psychologist, Eugene Landy. The 2015 biopic "Love & Mercy" dramatized Wilson's decline, his struggles with Landy, and his redemption with the help of second wife, Melinda.

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Wilson returned to the studio in the late '80s. He released over a dozen solo albums in the decades that followed. In 2012, he joined The Beach Boys for their 50-year reunion tour. Four years later, they toured again to commemorate 50 years since Pet Sounds released. Brian Wilson, a musical master, who faced personal discord and wrote enduring harmonies.

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CHURCH: Thank you for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. I will be back with more "CNN Newsroom" in just a moment. Do stay with us.

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