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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world and 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 in the deadly floods in Texas skyrockets as officials reassess the scope of the devastation.
UNKNOWN (voice-over): Live from Atlanta, this is "CNN Newsroom" with Rosemary Church.
CHURCH: Good to have you with 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. He expressed his frustration during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: We get a lot of (expletive) thrown at us by Putin, for you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.
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CHURCH: 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. President Trump, who had promised to end the war in Ukraine on day one of his second term, now admits it's tougher than he expected. Still, he has stopped short of endorsing new sanctions on Moscow.
More now on the president's cabinet meeting from CNN's Karin Caifa in Washington.
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KARIN CAIFA, CNN REPORTER: This was the sixth cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump's second term, and he likes to keep the cameras rolling for these. Key members of the administration talking up their trade policy after the President extended a key tariff deadline and defending their responses to the deadly floods in Texas.
This week was supposed to offer more clarity in Trump's global trade war. Initially, the White House set Wednesday, July 9th, as its deadline for countries to negotiate better terms for the so-called reciprocal tariffs Trump has slapped on dozens of countries. Instead, Trump on Monday signed an executive action extending that deadline to August 1st, but he insisted there will be no further extensions.
TRUMP: August 1st, they pay and everybody pays. Everybody has to pay. And the incentive is that they have the right to deal in the United States.
CAIFA: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said tariffs have generated about $100 billion in income for the U.S. so far this year, but said that number could triple by year's end.
Cabinet members are also defending their responses to the devastating floods in Texas amid criticism that federal staffing cuts to the National Weather Service and other agencies impaired forecasting abilities ahead of the tragedy. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said a streamlined disaster relief approach taken by the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been more effective than past disaster responses.
KRISTI NOEM, U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: We're still there in presence and FEMA's been deployed and we're cutting through the paperwork of the old FEMA, streamlining it much like your vision of how FEMA should operate and it's been a much better response to help these families.
CAIFA: Trump also rather bluntly told reporters he's not happy with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid that country's extended war with Ukraine. This as members of Trump's national security team were hashing out details for shipping more weapons to Ukraine.
This was a bit of a turnabout after last week when the White House said there would be a pause in those weapons shipments. Trump said Tuesday he didn't know who ordered that pause.
In Washington, I'm Karin Caifa.
(END VIDEOTAPE) CHURCH: Joining us now is Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and editor of "A Return to Normalcy? The 2020 Election That (Almost) Broke America." Always good to have you with us.
LARRY SABATO, DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA-CENTER FOR POLITICS: Thank you so much, Rosie.
CHURCH: Let's start with Donald Trump's stunning about turn on weapons to Ukraine Tuesday at a cabinet meeting where he was clearly fed up with Russia's President Putin and his quote "BS."
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Not only did he suddenly turn on Putin, he also said he will now send Ukraine the weapons it needs to defend itself, reversing his administration's pause last week on weapons to the war-torn nation, which CNN now finds out was authorized by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who apparently failed to tell Trump about that decision. What's the political fallout from all of this? And what do you make of Trump's altered approach to Putin?
SABATO: Well, it's pretty clear that Putin's approach to Trump has worn thin. And this seems to be typical of President Putin. He's very friendly and very sweet and very nice and very cooperative on the telephone. And then, of course, he hangs up and bombs Ukraine all night.
And so Trump has finally figured out the pattern. Now, I have to say that Trump's predecessors as president and virtually all the senior senators and House members on the Republican side figured this out about Putin a long time ago. So Trump is late to the party, but he is apparently at the party, at least for now. And that's good news for Ukraine.
CHURCH: And Larry, another problem facing the Trump administration, outrage from the MAGA base over the Department of Justice failing to deliver on two Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories, that being Epstein's cause of death and the suggestion he had a client list. Now, some Trump supporters are calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to be fired.
What damage has this done to Trump's support, do you think?
SABATO: Most people would look at this and say, huh? Why is that a major concern? It's been years and years. In fact, Trump mentioned something about this himself in response.
But this ignores the fact that if you go on social media, you will find thousands and thousands of MAGA comments about the Epstein files. They are obsessed with this. They believe there is a client list, of course, they're expecting to see Democratic politicians on the list.
Others think there might be some Republican politicians on the list, including Donald Trump. So I don't know whether there is a client list, have no idea. I really didn't follow the scandal all that closely. It's too unsavory.
But for Trump, it matters because the MAGA base cares and they're angry at Bondi. They're coming after her. They're trying to send a message to Trump that he's actually got to do something.
And Bondi got herself in trouble by suggesting some time ago that she did have a client list of other information about Epstein on her desk. Well, it turns out that what she had had been released a long time ago. There's nothing new or that's what she says.
CHURCH: And Larry, on another issue, President Trump has reportedly flip flopped at least 28 times since announcing his sweeping trade tariffs in April, that's according to Forbes. Now, Trump is threatening to slap a 200 percent tariff on pharmaceutical imports and a 50 percent tariff on copper. What impact has this constant flip flopping had on trust in Trump's economic handling of the country, do you think?
SABATO: Well, it can't have helped that there have been so many flip flops about what percentage applied to which country and whether the penguins in a certain place were going to have to pay tariffs.
Look, the point of it is this has been very poorly managed from the beginning. Many would say it was a bad idea to begin with.
Now we have a new deadline. Trump claims that the deadline hasn't changed, but obviously it has changed since Liberation Day on April 2nd.
So people following this saga will be as confused as those of us who study this system are. It's inexplicable in many ways and it can't end well. It's not going to end well because either consumers are going to be paying a great deal more money for some goods and some small businesses will go out of business or Trump will have to admit this venture has failed completely.
CHURCH: And of course, he says August 1st is the final deadline. We will see whether that is indeed the case once we get to that date.
In the meantime, Tucker Carlson is warning of a revolution over the Trump administration's failure to deliver on those two conspiracy theories linked to Jeffrey Epstein. Will Carlson need to watch his back given what happened to Elon Musk when he started to turn on Trump?
SABATO: Well, Carlson could easily be attacked by Trump on Truth Social. That's Trump's normal way of sending a message to people. He hasn't to this point because Carlson has such a big following.
You know, Musk's following was in another sphere of human existence entirely, not politics. So it was a different situation.
CHURCH: We'll see what happens on all counts. Larry Sabato, always a pleasure to have you with us, I appreciate it.
SABATO: Thank you so much, Rosemary. CHURCH: Turning now to Gaza, where dozens have reportedly been killed
in the most recent Israeli airstrikes, even as talks on a possible ceasefire are ongoing.
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Local emergency responders and hospitals say more than 60 people were killed across the enclave on Tuesday, about half of them were said to be living in tents housing displaced people in southern Gaza. The Israeli military also issued new evacuation orders covering much of Khan Younis. Gaza's health ministry reports hundreds of people have been killed in Israeli strikes within the last two weeks.
And CNN's Paula Hancocks joins us now live from Abu Dhabi. So, Paula, what is the latest on signs of progress in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage release talks underway in Doha and, of course, the meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rosemary, what we're hearing from the American side is very positive and optimistic. We're hearing from the Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff that he believes a deal could be done by the end of the week.
We are hearing a more cautious message, though, from one of the key mediators, Qatar, the foreign ministry spokesperson, saying don't expect swift results at this point.
So somewhere in between is effectively where these two sides are at this point. An Israeli official has admitted and agreed that there has been some progress made, that they have made progress, for example, on humanitarian aid being allowed into Gaza. They've made progress on the hostage-for-prisoner ratio and the swap.
But one of the key sticking points and this has been a sticking point really from day one in these negotiations is where the Israeli military will withdraw to during this 60-day ceasefire.
Now, we understand from an Israeli source that there was going to be a proposal that on day one the military would move from most of northern Gaza. A week later, they would move from most of southern Gaza. But we know that the Israeli military and the government do not want to leave that border between Gaza and Egypt.
The Philadelphi Corridor, they have said, that is where they believe Hamas has been smuggling weapons through over many decades and that is where they want to keep their military presence. So this really has been a hurdle for many months now and it continues to be a hurdle.
But we are hearing, as I say, optimism from Steve Witkoff. He's expected to go to the region later in this week. We don't have an exact timing at this point but his presence will be critical because he will be able to give Hamas what they want as well and that is the U.S. assurance that even if at the end of this 60-day ceasefire there isn't a permanent agreement, that it won't be an automatic return to war, which is what we saw in the previous ceasefire, they want to make sure that this is a permanent end to the war, something the U.S. has said they will give their assurances of.
Now the latest proposal, as we understand it, from Witkoff would be 10 living hostages and nine deceased hostages being released for an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners. Beyond that though, the rest of the critical details, especially where the military will withdraw to, have yet to be hammered out. Rosemary?
CHURCH: Paula Hancocks in Abu Dhabi. Many thanks for that live report.
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.
Governor Greg Abbott says state lawmakers will address the emergency alert system in the coming session but he and other officials are facing questions about why evacuation orders were not issued ahead of the floods and about the overall breakdown in communication.
Meanwhile, search-and-rescue operations are still underway in central Texas as the chances of finding any more survivors fade. At least 111 people have died in the floods and more than 170 are missing. Police say no one in Kerr County has been found alive since Friday.
And CNN's Josh Campbell investigates why efforts to improve Kerr County's early flood warning system were put off.
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MAYOR JOE HERRING JR., KERRVILLE, TEXAS: I think everyone in Kerrville, everyone in Kerr County wishes to God we had some way to warn them.
JOSH CAMPBELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As authorities continue search and rescue efforts in the Texas Hill Country, questions are sharpening over whether more could have been done to avert a tragedy that has claimed more than 100 lives.
Local officials have yet to provide a clear accounting of whether an ominous warning from the National Weather Service early Friday morning was pushed out via cell phone alert to people in the flood path.
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UNKNOWN: It's not that easy when you just push a button. There's a lot more to that.
DALTON RICE, KERRVILLE, TEXAS CITY MANAGER: Well evacuation is a delicate balance.
CAMPBELL (voice-over): Local officials say the decision to order public evacuations is a complex one.
RICE: Because if you evacuate too late, you then risk putting buses or cars or vehicles or campers on roads into low water areas trying to get them out. RICK SPINRAD, FORMER NOAA ADMINISTRATOR: The weather service did their job. The watches and warnings went out. Clearly the heartbreak with respect to this development is that those warnings were not received.
CAMPBELL (voice-over): In addition to text alerts, questions have been raised about the lack of an audible warning system to alert residents of danger.
DAN PATRICK (R), TEXAS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR: It's clear that one thing that could help in the future, it would seem, no matter what other redundancies we have, are sirens that could blast very loudly.
CAMPBELL (voice-over): A CNN investigation found multiple efforts in Kirk County to build a more substantial flood warning system. Former Kirk County Commissioner Tom Moser told CNN the area is perhaps the most flood-prone in the state of Texas, and described the county's early warning system as pretty antiquated and marginal at best.
Moser said he studied how a nearby county installed sirens and suggested Kirk County do the same. But the idea was met with resistance, he said, due to budget concerns and noise.
According to a transcript of one local government meeting in 2016, another county commissioner said, "The thought of our beautiful Kirk County having these damn sirens going off in the middle of the night, I'm going to have to start drinking again to put up with you all."
MARK ROSE, FORMER GENERAL MANAGER, LOWER COLORADO RIVER AUTHORITY: Sirens are important, but a siren, a weather forecast is always going to run the risk of being too late.
CAMPBELL (voice-over): Another area under scrutiny, the number of gauges along the Guadalupe River that can alert officials in real time to rising waters. The Upper Guadalupe River Authority does have at least five gauges on the river in Kirk County, but experts say that number should be doubled or even tripled.
ROSE: How can you have a timely warning when you have no system? How can you have a timely warning when you have no data?
CAMPBELL (voice-over): One major hurdle, cost. Electronic gauge systems can cost tens of millions of dollars, often far beyond what any one county can afford. River management veterans say it's past time for the state of Texas to do its part to cover the price.
ROSE: There's only one lesson that comes out of this, to me, that's worth anything, and that is that the state of Texas steps up, because if they don't, the world's watching us, and what a failure that'll be.
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CHURCH: Flash floods are also tormenting the neighboring state of New Mexico, where three people are missing, and nearly 100 have now been rescued.
(VIDEO PLAYING) Here we see an entire home being swept away by the powerful muddy current in the southern part of the state. There's no word yet on casualties, however, the full extent of the destruction won't be clear until the water recedes.
Still to come, southern Europe battles raging wildfires and rising temperatures, but there's little relief in sight from the hot, dry, windy conditions. We'll take a look.
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CHURCH: High temperatures and seasonal winds are fueling new wildfires in southern Europe. The Marseilles 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 court in the U.K. has convicted three men of arson in an attack on Ukrainian-linked businesses in London. British officials say the attack was ordered by the Russian mercenary group Wagner.
CNN's Clare Sebastian has details.
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CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is a case that has become emblematic of Western fears that Russia is waging an ongoing sabotage campaign by proxy. There are now five men convicted in total, three of them on Tuesday for aggravated arson and another two, including the alleged ringleader, a man named Dylan Earle, had already pleaded guilty to offences under the U.K.'s new National Security Act.
Now all have now been found to have been involved in an arson attack in east London last March targeting Ukrainian-owned businesses coordinating supplies to Ukraine. The most striking parts about this case, firstly, that none of the men convicted are Russian. They were all, according to the police, doing it for money, sabotage by recruiting locals on the rise in recent years, Western intelligence has warned.
And secondly, the Metropolitan Police in London says the attack was coordinated not by Russian state security agencies, but by the Wagner group, the Russian private military organization founded by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin. Now, the police says it made contact with the ringleader Dylan Earle in 2023 and he then recruited the others. Russia has strenuously denied any involvement.
And the damage caused was significant, more than $1.3 million worth, according to the Met Police, which has released CCTV footage of two men appearing to start the fire, as well as video evidence showing the extent of the blaze at the east London industrial state last March.
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But it could have been even worse. The investigation found that there were more arson attacks planned in central London and a possible plan to kidnap a Russian dissident. All of the defendants will be sentenced at a later date.
Clare Sebastian, CNN, London.
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CHURCH: President Trump is threatening to escalate his trade war. The latest tariff targets are valuable metal, an economic alliance and medicine. We will have the details after the short break. Stay with us.
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CHURCH: Welcome back to "CNN Newsroom." I'm Rosemary Church. I want to check today's top stories for you.
Search-and-rescue operations continue in central Texas. More than 170 people are still missing after flash floods devastated the region over the weekend. And there's fear the actual number of those unaccounted for may be even greater than official estimates, at least 111 people have been confirmed killed in the disaster.
Donald Trump is again venting his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over his continued failure to end the war in Ukraine. At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the U.S. President said the Russian leader offers very nice words that turn out to be meaningless. Mr. Trump says U.S. weapons shipments to Ukraine will continue.
All eyes are on the White House as the Israeli Prime Minister and U.S. President met for the second straight day to discuss a possible ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas prior to their meeting. A source tells CNN a Qatari delegation and senior Trump officials also talked about a ceasefire.
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. 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 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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TRUMP: 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, please.
SCOTT BESSENT, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: Yes, sir. We will be taking in about $100 billion in tariff income thus far this year, and that's with the tariff, the major tariff 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 SR. 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.
On to a procession through the streets of Windsor, along with the French First Lady, Brigitte Macron. The pageantry and the tone, a 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.
BELL (voice-over): 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.
BELL (voice-over): 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: Summer weather means more time outside and more chances to cross paths with ticks. When we come back, what to do if you or your loved ones are bitten. We'll take a look.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.
Well, hundreds of thousands of children have type 1 diabetes. Now there is a Barbie who has it too. The doll comes with a polka dot crop top, a miniskirt and an insulin pump.
Toy maker Mattel worked with non-profit Breakthrough T1D on the design; the doll was launched Tuesday in Washington, D.C. at the non- profit event, bringing kids with type 1 diabetes to meet with lawmakers. This year, they asked Congress to extend funding for a program that researches the prevention and cure of the condition.
Well, they are the summer season's most unwelcome guests, ticks. And they could put you and your family at risk for serious diseases. But there are a variety of ways to keep you safe from these small parasites.
And CNN's Louise McLoughlin has more.
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DR. ALLISON HINCKLEY, EPIDEMIOLOGIST, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: Right now is the time to be vigilant.
LOUISE MCLOUGHLIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): Ticks, the bane of outdoor enthusiasts nationwide.
HINCKLEY: We have new numbers that show up to 31 million people in the United States are bitten by them each year.
MCLOUGHLIN (voice-over): And it's not only the creepy factor. These tiny parasites can cause some big-time illnesses.
HINCKLEY: The Lyme disease is one most people have heard of, but depending on where you live, it might be ehrlichiosis, blossom virus disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. And all of these things can be very serious. DR. THOMAS MATHER, DIRECTOR, TICKENCOUNTER.ORG, AND PROF., UNIVERSITY
OF RHODE ISLAND: Different ticks transmit different germs.
MCLOUGHLIN (voice-over): Those different ticks in different parts of the country at different times of year all determine your risk of getting an infection. And that's why Dr. Thomas Mather and his tick encounter team at the University of Rhode Island offer Tick Spotters, where you can submit a picture of the tick to get expert guidance.
MATHER: They send a clear picture of the top side of a tick. I can tell them within 24 hours what kind of tick it is, what the likely risk is.
MCLOUGHLIN (voice-over): Experts say next time you go on a hike or just to play in the yard, take precautions and always do a tick check when you come inside. And if you do get bit --
HINCKLEY: You know, get the tick off as soon as possible. And if in a few days to weeks that you're feeling sick, it's important to remember that tick bite and go to the health care provider and talk about it.
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CHURCH: Very good advice there.
So a rare piece of scientific history will soon hit the auction block in New York as Sotheby's puts a juvenile Ceratosaurus skeleton up for bid as part of its natural history sale. It's the only young skeleton of its kind in the world. The specimen was discovered 29 years ago in Wyoming and had previously been on exhibit at a museum in Utah, Sotheby's expects it will sell for between four and $6 million.
I want to thank you so much for your company this hour, I'm Rosemary Church. Have yourselves a wonderful day. "Marketplace Middle East" is next, followed by "Amanpour," then stay tuned for "Early Start" with M.J. Lee starting at 5 a.m. in New York, 10 a.m. in London.
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