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Donald Trump Vents Anger Toward Vladimir Putin Amid Stalled Peace Efforts; Hamas Demands Israel's Full Withdrawal During Ceasefire; Texas Officials Twice Rejected Flood Warning System Funding For Kerr County Nearly Decade Ago; Emmanuel Macron Meets With King Charles, Says U.K. And France Must "Save Europe"; Keeping The Spirit Of Camp Mystic Alive After The Floods; High Temperatures and Seasonal Winds Are Fueling New Wildfires in Southern Europe; 5.7-Magnitude Quake in Guatemala Kills At Least Two People. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired July 09, 2025 - 02:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world, and to everyone streaming us on CNN Max, I'm Rosemary Church.

Just ahead, Donald Trump's frustration with Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine spills over in an expletive laced Cabinet meeting.

And the U.S. president is also focused on ending the war in Gaza after a second day of meetings with Israel's Prime Minister.

Plus, the number of missing and the deadly floods in Texas skyrockets as officials reassess the scope of the devastation.

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

CHURCH: Thanks for joining us. Donald Trump is once again venting his anger at Russian president Vladimir Putin as the U.S. president's efforts to broker a peace deal with Ukraine continue to fall short.

At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Trump said the Russian leader throws a lot of B.S. at the United States, offering very nice words that turn out to be meaningless. Those remarks appear to be the clearest sign yet of the U.S. president's growing frustration with Moscow, which has shown no willingness to end its war in Ukraine.

Mr. Trump says he plans to press U.S. defense contractors to step up their production of weapons and munitions to help Ukraine defend itself.

And U.S. security officials were set to discuss resuming shipments of military aid to Ukraine, including Patriot air defense systems, after the Trump administration paused some deliveries last week.

More now from CNN's Kevin Liptak in Washington.

KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: President Trump's comments about his Russian counterpart at that Cabinet meeting on Tuesday were really so striking for a president who has spent really most of the last 10 years or so offering much more conciliatory tone towards his counterpart in Russia. And I think it does show the frustration that has developing on the part of President Trump over the last several days that Putin has so far resisted his overtures to try and end the war in Russia.

And you really have seen it bubbling up since his phone call that he held with Putin last Thursday. He said that was disappointing that he had essentially made no progress with Putin to try and bring the fighting in Ukraine to an end.

And so, you really do see the president taking this markedly new harsh tone towards his counterpart. But the real question now, of course, is how he plans to channel that anger.

Does, for example, the president decide to put in new sanctions on Russia. He was asked today whether he would support that bipartisan bill in the Senate that would apply new sanctions towards Moscow. The president stopped short of saying that he endorsed that bill, but he did say that he left open the option.

The other thing that the president does seem more willing to do is to send new defensive weapons to Ukraine, and this is something that the president has been sort of thinking about for the last week or so.

Remember, last week the administration said it would put a pause on those weapons as it conducted essentially an inventory of U.S. stockpiles. But the president saying today he didn't actually know who ordered that pause in place, and saying that he would approve of these new weapons to Ukraine, which will be essential.

You know, as Russia ramps up its drone and missile strikes on Ukraine, some of those missiles can only be intercepted by the U.S. made Patriot missile system.

And so, President Trump clearly indicating that he does want to help Ukraine defend itself against this Russian onslaught, which I do think is notable. And it was something that the president said today that was, I think, so noteworthy in this cabinet meeting, essentially saying, no matter how you feel about how much the U.S. has supported Ukraine, or whether you think the U.S. has spent too much there, which at the end of the day is President Trump's position. He has said that on the campaign trail, but he said, no matter how you feel about that, you can't deny that the Ukrainians have been brave in this fight, staving off a full Russian aggression.

And I do think that that does indicate that the president is evolving in his viewpoint on this war. And you know, he also spoke last week to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyyy.

[02:05:03] Zelenskyy said afterwards that that was their best conversation today. The president today saying that he would order U.S. contractors to speed up their production of some of these defensive weapons.

Clearly, President Trump now of the belief that it's essential to help Ukraine defend itself going forward, as it becomes clear that Putin is no more interested in trying to strike a cease fire than he was when President Trump took office.

Kevin Liptak, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: The White House is zeroing in on a possible cease fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli prime minister met again with his American counterpart to discuss, in President Trump's own words, almost exclusively Gaza.

And just before that meeting, a source tells CNN a Qatari delegation and senior Trump officials also discussed a cease fire. Our Jeremy Diamond reports on the latest developments from the negotiations in Doha and the White House.

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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Progress is being made in the cease fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, but all of my sources are also cautioning me right now that a deal isn't done until it is done.

Indeed, officials involved in these negotiations say that there has been progress over the course of the last three days of these proximity talks between Israel and Hamas, what is typically the last round of negotiations where someone is going between the two delegations trying to reach quick agreements on the final sticking points.

And indeed, Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy to the region, saying that he believes they've now reached agreements on some of those major remaining issues. Listen.

STEVE WITKOFF, U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY TO THE MIDDLE EAST: We're in proximity talks now, and we had four issues, and now we're down to one after two days of proximity talks.

So, we are hopeful that by the end of this week, we will have an agreement that will bring us into a 60-day cease fire. 10 live hostages will be released. Nine deceased will be released. We're meeting at the president's direction with all the hostage families to let them know, and we think that this will lead to a lasting peace.

DIAMOND: And indeed, I'm told that one of the major sticking points has been Israel's partial withdrawal from the Gaza Strip over the course of this 60-day cease fire, both the locations to which those Israeli troops would withdraw to, but also the timetable for that withdrawal over the course of that two month cease fire. And one of the major issues has been the Philadelphi Corridor, which we have seen pop up time and again as something that Israel does not want to withdraw from. That is that strip of land very strategic inside of Gaza along the Egyptian border, which Israel says Hamas has used to smuggle weapons into Gaza.

So, that will be one of the issues that still does indeed need to be resolved. If this cease fire agreement does go through, however, we could see the release of 10 living hostages, about half of the remaining deceased hostages.

And perhaps most critically, if the United States gets its way here, this temporary cease fire will ultimately lead to an end of the war in Gaza, those are the assurances that President Trump and the United States are providing in this latest version of this cease fire agreement in order to try and get Hamas on board, providing assurances that Israel will remain at the negotiating table and negotiate an end to the war, either during that 60-day cease fire or afterwards, if necessary.

And so, we'll have to see whether Hamas decides to trust those assurances, as they have been insisting from the start of these negotiations on an end to the war in Gaza and not simply some temporary cease fire.

But President Trump has made clear he wants to get this deal done this week. Steve Witkoff, President Trump's Special Envoy expected to travel to Doha, Qatar this week to try and finalize that deal.

Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Tel Aviv.

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CHURCH: We go live now to Los Angeles, and Benjamin Radd, who is a political scientist and senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. Appreciate you joining us.

BENJAMIN RADD, POLITICAL SCIENTIST, UCLA BURKLE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Thank you for having me back.

CHURCH: So, pressure is building on Israel and Hamas to reach a cease fire deal in talks underway in Doha as a private meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu on that very topic at the White House, ended Tuesday evening with an Israeli official saying up to 90 percent of the cease fire hostage deal with Hamas has already been agreed upon. So, how close do you think this deal might be?

RADD: I think we're very close. I think President Trump has some leverage over Netanyahu in this deal, primarily because of the U.S. contribution to Israel's attack against Iran and its involvement in the war.

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I think what's going to remain a sticking point for Israel that remaining 10 percent will be whether or not Netanyahu will agree to end the conflict and withdraw entirely, or at least not resume attacks against Hamas, and will accept a very crippled Hamas in Gaza, or whether Netanyahu is going to insist on full removal and continue operations until that happens, I think that remains the one outstanding point.

CHURCH: Right. As you mentioned, U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff saying Tuesday, and I'm quoting here, we have an opportunity to finally get a peace deal. And he suggested it could be done by week's end.

That's incredibly positive language, isn't it, after many failed previous attempts. What would be let's focus in on those remaining challenges at this juncture and why is this happening now, but not previously? What has changed this?

RADD: Well, again, we're now in the sort of post Iran conflict landscape where we've seen Hamas's patron Iran weakened, destabilized, at least from a military standpoint, unable really to resupply Hamas with what it needs. We're seeing now a beyond a humanitarian crisis in Gaza into just a disaster at this point, and the sense of urgency that comes from the international community with regards to the plight of the civilians in Gaza, and that simply is not sustainable, that Israel sort of police force mentality and control of Gaza is not sustainable for Israel, definitely, and not for the Palestinians.

So, I think we've very much hit a breaking point in that process.

CHURCH: And of course, while this optimism grows over a potential cease fire and hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas, dozens were reportedly killed in Gaza Tuesday in the most recent Israeli air strikes, and we have learned evacuation orders were issued for Khan Yunis.

So, this war rages on, even as these negotiations continue with this rare sense of optimism, adding more pressure, of course, to get a deal done.

And President Trump and Steve Witkoff, they think this can happen by the end of the week. Let's look again at how realistic that deadline is as this war continues and adds that pressure.

RADD: Yes, precisely, it's the attacks like that that make it difficult. That's the remaining 10 percent that Israel can get a limited release of hostages, and close to the remaining hostages, both living and deceased released. The question is, can it or will it be willing to refrain from attacks like what we've seen recently that are devastating the civilian population, and we're uncertain whether they're meeting Israel's military objectives with regards to weakening Hamas any further, and that, again, remains the outstanding issue.

CHURCH: Benjamin Radd, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it.

RADD: Thank you.

CHURCH: CNN has now learned that Texas officials twice rejected funding applications from Kerr County for a flood warning system.

Kerr County, which has been hard hit by the catastrophic flash floods this weekend, applied in 2016 and 2017 but was not granted the money. Texas officials are facing questions about why evacuation orders were not issued ahead of the floods, and about the overall breakdown in communication systems. At least 111 people have died in the floods, and more than 170 are missing.

CNN's Marybel Gonzalez has the latest.

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MARYBEL GONZALEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Texas state leaders, including Governor Greg Abbott touring the flood ravaged areas Tuesday afternoon, entire communities decimated by ferocious flooding.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What I saw was miles and miles of massive devastation.

GONZALEZ (voice over): This video captured by David Fry (ph), who was vacationing with his family in Kerr County, when the storms hit and the flood waters began to rise.

DAVID FRY, SURVIVOR: We just went into, you know, alert mode.

GONZALEZ (voice over): Officials say the Guadalupe River rose more than 20 feet in less than two hours. Daylight revealing the mass destruction where Fry was staying, rooms filled with mangled furniture, windows blown out.

FRY: There was no advance warning.

GONZALEZ (voice over): More than 100 people have lost their lives, including 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic, which is located next to the Guadalupe River, dozens are still missing.

GOV. GREG ABBOTT (R-TX): Nothing is as heart wrenching is hearing the stories of what the girls around here, especially the girls at Camp Mystic went through.

GONZALEZ (voice over): Mexico rescue workers are now joining Texas and federal agencies to scour for survivors. Other states sending help as well, but it's a harrowing and dangerous task.

MIKKI HASTINGS, PRESIDENT, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE: Conditions along the river are pretty strenuous for searchers. Whenever the water comes up, it takes all the debris down with it.

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GONZALEZ (voice over): Governor Abbott saying lawmakers will begin to address the statewide alert system during their upcoming special session.

In Kerrville, Texas. I'm Marybel Gonzalez.

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CHURCH: On an historic state visit to the U.K., French president Emmanuel Macron says the time has come for Britain and France to work together to save Europe. We'll have that and more after short break, stay with us.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. The U.S. president is unveiling plans for even more tariffs. He now says copper imports will be hit with a 50 percent levy, but did not reveal when it would take effect.

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The threat caused prices of the metal to hit an all-time high. Last year, the U.S. imported $17 billion worth of copper, a crucial component in electronics machinery and cars. President Trump also revived his threat to slap 200 percent tariffs on pharmaceuticals, saying an announcement is coming very soon. He has argued that the U.S. needs more domestic drug manufacturing, but acknowledged that that could take a while.

This all comes a day after the White House pushed back its so called reciprocal tariffs against these 14 countries to next month.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The big money will start coming in on August 1st, I think it was made clear today by the letters that were sent out yesterday and today. Go ahead, Bessent.

SCOTT BESSENT, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: Yes, sir, we will take it in about $100 billion in tariff income thus far this year, and that's with the tariffs, the major tariffs not having started until the second quarter. So, we could expect that that could be well over 300 billion by the end of the year.

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CHURCH: During his historic state visit to Britain, French President Emmanuel Macron has talked of a shared responsibility with the United Kingdom to protect Europe from the world's many destabilizing threats. Macron is the first European leader to make a state visit to the U.K. since Brexit.

CNN's Melissa Bell has more.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A royal welcome for French President Emmanuel Macron. The first state visit by a European leader since Brexit, with no pomp and circumstance spared, welcomed first by the Prince and Princess of Wales, then greeted by King Charles and Queen Camilla, onto a procession through the streets of Windsor, along with the French First Lady Brigitte Macron. The pageantry and the tone are stark contrast from the Brexit fallout that so tested the U.K.'s relations with its European neighbors.

EMMANUEL MACRON, FRENCH PRESIDENT: Amid these upheavals, the alliance between France and the United Kingdom has not faltered. It has even become stronger. Yes, during the past few years, this alliance became stronger.

NEWTON: Speaking to parliament at the palace of Westminster's royal gallery, the French president vowed that together they would bring an end to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Over the three-day visit, President Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer are also expected to address U.S. tariff wars, post-Brexit trade and migration.

MACRON: We love monarchy, but especially when it's not at home.

NEWTON: Whilst much still divides them, there was also a reminder of their shared past and the suggestion from the French president that it might just be time to lay their differences to rest.

Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.

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CHURCH: Still to come, a look at nearly a century of history of the all-girls camp hit by flash flooding in Texas. What former campers and staff remember about Camp Mystic. Just ahead.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. We are learning more about Camp Mystic, the all-girls summer camp in Texas, where at least 27 people were killed in the flash flooding over the weekend. The camp had passed a state safety inspection just days before the floods, showing they had an emergency plan in place.

But a CNN investigation found those records don't show how flood zones may have been taken into account. The flooding has damaged nearly 100 years of history and memories at the camp, as our Jason Carroll reports.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): This special place, sprawling more than 700 acres in an area known as Texas Hill Country has been home away from home for young girls for nearly a century. Camp Mystic video showing a caring place where lifelong friendships have been built for generations.

CLAUDIA SULLIVAN (ph), CAMP MYSTIC ALUM: I loved every moment of it and never wanted to leave.

CARROLL (voice over): Claudia Sullivan still remembers her first day of camp some 60 years ago in 1964 when she was just 14 years old, and she still remembers the cabin mate she almost had.

SULLIVAN: I was actually supposed to be a cabin mate with Luci Johnson, but her father had become president just a few months before, and she didn't get to go to camp because there was no place for the Secret Service to stay.

CARROLL (voice over): By attending Camp Mystic, Sullivan joined a long legacy of young girls who spent summers in Kerr County, Texas since the camp was formed back in 1926 including Lyndon B. Johnson's daughter, Luci.

LUCI BAINES JOHNSON, CAMP MYSTIC ALUM: It's a place where you came to love and be loved.

CARROLL (voice over): Johnson paid tribute to Dick Eastland, the camp owner and director who perished while trying to save campers. His family has run Camp Mystic for three generations.

JOHNSON: One of the things that was so magical about Dick Eastland is that he would find even the little girls like myself, whose skills were not necessarily athletic and who had yet to kind of find themselves. He would -- he would find whatever talent you had and make you feel he believed in you.

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CARROLL: Jenna Bush Hager also spoke about her ties to the camp. Her mother, former First Lady Laura Bush once worked there.

JENNA BUSH HAGER, HOST, TODAY WITH JENNA & FRIENDS: My mom was a counselor there, but also so many of my friends were raised at this camp.

CARROLL: Claudia Sullivan felt such a strong connection to Camp Mystic, she became a counselor and then a program director. She left in 1979, but she says Camp Mystic always stays with you.

SULLIVAN: We had a saying at Mystic. God is first, my neighbor is second, and I am third. And you know, from seven-years-old on up, you learn that and you try to practice it, and it feels so easy. That was the other thing. It's so easy to be good at camp.

CARROLL: Sullivan wrote a book about Mystic called, "Since We Were There." One passage in particular now feels especially heartfelt.

SULLIVAN: That special place, the land, the rolling hills, the earth waits to be enlivened again. It waits for new stories and memories. It waits to breathe again with the laughter and delight of innocence.

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CHURCH: High temperatures and seasonal winds are fueling new wildfires in southern Europe. The Marseille Airport in southern France has reopened after a fire forced it to close on Tuesday. Officials say the blaze is still burning, but is under control. In Spain, an emergency military unit and hundreds of firefighters are trying to contain a massive wildfire in Catalonia, in a remote mountain community, more than 18,000 people in the region were told to stay indoors.

And across the Mediterranean, emergency crews in northern Syria are also working to contain fires there. Turkey and Jordan have sent crews and equipment to help.

A deadly 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Guatemala on Tuesday, along with at least 38 aftershocks. Emergency officials say two people were killed. This video posted online is said to show the moment one of the quakes begins, shaking computer screens and desks at the country seismology center. But CNN cannot confirm that. The quake led to evacuations, roadblocks, landslides, and collapsed homes and buildings.

Working the night shift can wreck your sleep. Coming up, how one nurse survived working overnights for eight years. That's still to come. Stay with us.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Well, millions of Americans, including our show team, work the night shift, but the overnight hours disrupt the body's normal sleeping patterns and can lead to several health issues. CNN's Cameron Grasslet (ph) tells us how one nurse did it for eight years.

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JESS KLINE, NURSE: Usually, my bedtime routine looks like getting home at about 8:30. Unfortunately, I would be missing my kids because they would already be at school.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): This is Jess, a registered nurse and mother of two, who spent eight years working the night shift. She's one of an estimated 30.7 million Americans who work irregular rotating hours. Sleep scientist, Dr. Ann Rogers, says research shows their unnatural hours can worsen health outcomes over time.

KLINE: All the studies show that you really don't adapt to night shift and night shift workers have a greater risk of obesity, have a greater risk of heart disease, and a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): Still, Rogers says there are ways to mitigate the effects of shift work and try to get some rest. That's something Jess has figured out and wants to demo for others.

KLINE: So with the blackout curtains, it's fooling my body, telling me, hey, it's dark outside.

DR. ANN ROGERS, PROFESSOR OF NURSING, EMORY UNIVERSITY: Light is what drives our circadian rhythms, and that also relates to our rhythm of alertness.

KLINE: The sound machine just really helps to kind of block out any noises or distractions.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): Rogers also recommends keeping a consistent sleep schedule, but many shift workers don't have that option. At one point, Jess was regularly working three days on the night shift and four days off, flipping her sleep back and forth, so she could spend time with her family.

KLINE: I would force myself to wake up so that I could be reintroduced into daytime again. I felt drunk on my days off. I felt jet lagged. Here we are trying to save lives, staying up all nights. I think just more awareness, discussion of self care can set yourself up for success.

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CHURCH: We can totally relate. Thanks so much for joining us. I'm Rosewood Church. "World Sport" is coming up next. Then, I'll be back at the top of the hour with more "CNN Newsroom." Do stay with us.

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