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Lasting Impact Of Trump's Attempted Assassination; Trump Teases "Major Statement" On Russia To Come Monday; Some Texas Ground Searches Pause Amid New Storms; Andrew Cuomo To Run As Independent In New York City Mayor Race; Report Finds "Severe Shortage" Of Local News Across The U.S.; Back In Asheville Nearly One Year Later After Hurricane Helene; Barbie Introduces First Doll With Type 1 Diabetes; Inside Live Aid 40 Years Later. Aired 8-9p ET

Aired July 13, 2025 - 20:00   ET

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JESSICA DEAN, CNN HOST: You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Jessica Dean in New York.

And tonight, President Donald Trump appearing in front of cheering crowds at the FIFA Club Cup -- World Cup in New Jersey. Tonight's image such a difference from one year ago, when then candidate Trump was campaigning for his second term at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and was the target of an assassination attempt.

To mark a year since the shooting a Senate committee released a scathing report detailing failures by the Secret Service, and it argues there's not been enough accountability since that assassination attempt.

CNN White House reporter Alayna Treene was in Butler that day covering Trump. She looks back at the defining moment one year later.

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ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: A year ago today, I watched as an attempted assassin opened fire on then-candidate Donald Trump, and the scene was, it was chaotic. There was so much fear. You could hear people screaming. It was so unclear in the moment if, one, Donald Trump was safe. That was one of the first questions I, of course, had. But also, you know, how that was going to impact the rest of the campaign and the president's ambitions of becoming president yet again.

And the answer to both of those questions was yes, you know, the campaign completely changed after that day in Butler. I would argue it's actually the most defining, pivotal moment of the entire general election campaign. And the days that followed, that following week was the most important week of the entire 2024 year. I mean, less than 48 hours after the shooting had happened, you saw Donald Trump announce then-Senator JD Vance was going to be his vice presidential running mate.

Just three days after that, Donald Trump triumphantly took the stage in Milwaukee at the Republican National Convention. He was wearing a bandage on his ear, something that has really become a symbol after that bullet had hit his ear. And he talked about Butler and really went into detail about how he felt like he was changed because of that day. Days after that, then the former president, then President Joe Biden, announced that he was withdrawing from the race. All of that really creating an entirely new dynamic that had not existed in the campaign thus far.

Now, I've actually talked with some people, including one White House official who's currently serving in Trump's second administration, but he was also an adviser on the campaign in 2024 to Donald Trump as well. And he told me that after Butler, it became so much more personal, the campaign, not only for his team but for the president himself, that the sense that if someone was going to try to do this was going to try and attempt to assassinate Donald Trump, the election became so much bigger and that they were going to be even more dug in on ensuring that he won in November.

And one thing that really strikes me still a year later is how that powerful image of Donald Trump. You know, he raised his fist in the air. He had blood on his cheek. His clothing was rumpled, and he screamed, fight, fight, fight. That image is one that has really become a symbol in the MAGA movement, but also a symbol of strength and defiance for the president himself. It's currently hanging in both the East and West Wings of the White House, and it's also something that is still hung up at many of the president's private events. One that he looks back on often.

And I think, you know, something that was really interesting about that photo as well, in the weeks after Butler, I caught up with a lot of, of course, the president's closest allies and some of his team, and they told me that that was all Trump. He decided in that moment that he needed to project this potent image to show that he wasn't weak, that he wasn't vulnerable, despite what that attempted assassin had tried to do. And I do really think it speaks to Trump's mindset.

Another important thing I think as well is particularly after what had happened on that fateful Saturday, July 13th, 2024, is the president felt like there was divine intervention at play. He felt that God really had a hand in saving his life. And it's not just something that he felt in the immediate aftermath of what happened in Butler, but it's something he still talks about I know privately. And you heard him as well at his inauguration in his address, he said that God saved his life and put him there.

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And so it's something that has continued to really shape not only how he views his role in the White House, but also how many of his team views his role as well. Just recently, Susie Wiles, the president's White House chief of staff, on the campaign, she was Trump's 2024 campaign manager, she said the same thing.

She believed that God had a hand in saving his life. And so a year on out, I think what -- when you look back on what happened in Butler, it has completely shaped the way that Donald Trump views his role as commander-in-chief and how many of the people around him have really looked back on Butler as something that has strengthened the movement and his supporters in a way that never really had previously.

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DEAN: All right, Alayna Treene, thank you so much.

Former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow is joining us now.

Jonathan, thanks for being here on a Sunday night. I want to start first with what we're hearing today from former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheadle's response. She said, quote, this was to everything that happened and also to these reports that were released, "While I agree that mistakes were made and reform is needed, that fateful day was literally a perfect storm of events."

Do you agree with that, that it was just a perfect storm of events?

JONATHAN WACKROW, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: It was a perfect storm of events, but you know, it -- the problems persisted for a long time within the Secret Service and metastasized, and then did come together on that day. So it wasn't just a perfect storm on one day. It was a storm front that was coming, you know, across the land and inevitably was going to hit the Secret Service.

And it all came together on that day, and it really centered around, you know, accountability and oversight of how the protective site was being operated. It came down to communication structure, how we engage with law enforcement officials. So the Secret Service, you know, it wasn't just one failure. It was multiple failures on that day. But then broadly, there were systemic failures within the structure of the Secret Service that were identified, all of which over the last year have been identified and are in the process of being reformed on right now.

DEAN: And so, as someone who has worked as a Secret Service agent, is well-versed in the service, do you think there's been proper accountability?

WACKROW: Well, listen, I think that, you know, in my opinion, accountability drives reform. And that's actually what we're seeing right now with the Secret Service today. It's about accepting and learning from the failures of the past and ensuring that those mistakes aren't repeated. And those failures were clearly identified in multiple, I think it was up to five independent individual investigations that highlighted what went wrong on that day.

But then all of the precipitating events that or failures that had occurred within the Secret Service structure, that also contributed to the events of that day. So recently, the Secret Service provided an update on their reforms, and listen, while significant improvements over the last year have been made, there are several high impact issues, particularly around communications, aerial threat mitigation, and ongoing accountability that required, you know, oversight and continuous improvement. But, you know, Jessica, I just want to say, it's important to note

this. The Secret Service cannot undertake all of these reforms in isolation. We heard a lot of criticism from Congress and, you know, other officials across the government spectrum, you know, in the aftermath of Butler. So thus it takes a continued support today of DHS and Congress to ensure that sustained cultural and operational changes, you know, are moving forward and everybody from the leadership to the line agent and officer are held accountable for their actions.

DEAN: And you're confident that that can happen?

WACKROW: I am confident that that can happen. Why? Because you have had over the last, you know, you know, six months, you had a complete overhaul of the leadership structure of the Secret Service with, you know, Director Curran now in place. He is instituting those reforms. But those reforms don't come overnight. And I think that is, you know, in some instances, that is what is, you know, frustrating individuals is that they want to see immediate results.

There has been a significant amount of action over the last year since the assassination attempt on President Trump, of changes within the Secret Service. Really prioritizing what are the most immediate needs that need to be addressed, and then what are the structural and, you know, the structural changes that need to, you know, be put into place or wholesale changes that need to be made to ensure that the Secret Service has the agility to react to a changing threat environment, that they have the resources and personnel that they can quickly pivot into, you know, scaling up protective operations in the moment of, you know, criticality.

DEAN: Yes. All right. Jonathan, thanks so much. Good to see you.

WACKROW: Thanks, Jessica.

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DEAN: Meanwhile, President Trump is promising a major statement on Russia tomorrow.

CNN's Kevin Liptak is joining us now from the White House with more on this.

Kevin, the president just speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews just a short time ago. What more do you know about this potential announcement?

KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yes. And what the president is describing is a new way to get defensive weapons to Ukraine, specifically those Patriot missiles, which, as Russia increases its assault of missiles and drones towards Ukraine, many of those missiles can only be intercepted by the U.S. made Patriot missiles. Ukraine is in dire need of those interceptors, and President Trump is essentially agreeing with the Ukrainian case here, saying that Ukraine continues to need these Patriot weapons and describing a system whereby European countries will buy them from the United States and then transfer them to Ukraine.

This is essentially a way to insulate the president from criticism that he's going back on his campaign promises to cut back on American aid to Ukraine, he says, making very clear here that it will be Europe paying for these systems, but saying that they will be delivered. And the president clearly very frustrated with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, essentially accusing him of duplicity.

Listen to more of what the president said about Putin.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I am very disappointed with President Putin. I thought he was somebody that meant what he said and he'll talk so beautifully, and then he'll bomb people at night. We don't like that.

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LIPTAK: Now the president stopped short tonight of saying that he would apply new sanctions on Russia. He didn't close the door to that, although the senators who are bringing up a bipartisan bill that would apply new sanctions on Moscow sounding very confident that the president will eventually get on board.

DEAN: Yes. And then separately, the president was also asked about reporting that FBI deputy director Dan Bongino is considering resigning over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. This is reporting CNN has had. What did he say, Kevin?

LIPTAK: Yes. And the president essentially trying to tamp down on any sort of view of discord within his own administration. We saw him earlier today with Pam Bondi in his box at the FIFA World Cup in New Jersey. Bongino has been, you know, very upset that Bondi had released this memo related to Jeffrey Epstein, essentially saying that the Justice Department was closing its case into the late pedophile.

Now, the president saying that he has actually spoken to his deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino, and that things seem to be smoothed over. Listen to what the president said there.

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TRUMP: Oh, I think so. I did, I spoke to him today. Dan Bongino, very good guy. I've known him a long time. I've done his show many, many times. And he sounded terrific, actually. No, I think he's in good shape.

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LIPTAK: Now, we've also learned that the president has been on the phone today calling some critics of Bondi trying to convey that he remains very staunchly behind his attorney general. So we hear the president really trying to gloss over what has essentially become a political crisis for him. One person we haven't heard directly from recently is Bongino himself. And I think there is an open question of whether he will actually show up to work tomorrow morning after threatening to resign over this entire matter -- Jessica.

DEAN: OK, more to come. Kevin Liptak at the White House. Thank you for your reporting.

Still to come, some Texas ground crews taking a pause in their search as new storms move in, complicating what is already a tedious and very painful process. We're going to have a new look at what crews are facing there on the ground in Texas. And later, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo has a plan to stay in the New York City mayoral race despite his stunning loss to Zohran Mamdani. Those details and more all coming up this hour in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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DEAN: Central Texas is awash in even more heavy rain just a week, of course, after people there had to endure deadly flash flooding. People in areas of San Saba County, about two hours northeast of Kerrville, are now under mandatory evacuation orders as more rain threatens that area. And it all comes as Texas Hill Country is still trying to recover and clean up after the deadly July 4th storms.

Search and rescue teams from across the country tell CNN FEMA did not deploy them until at least Monday evening. Officials tell CNN they blame the delay partly on new cost cutting measures. But Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem denies that.

CNN's Julia Vargas Jones is in Kerr County, where at least 140 people are still missing, a week later.

Julia, and the reality on the ground right now just has to continue to be one of absolute heartbreak.

JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is, Jessica, and it's heartbreaking because all of today was a day that those search and rescue teams could not get out there. I know it looks sunny behind me now, but rain is still expected later today and we have been talking to those good folks from the Cajun Navy and firefighters here from Kerr County and Center Point, Texas, who are saying that it just -- it was just too dangerous to continue those operations today to go looking for those folks who are still missing.

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But just to give you a sense of how difficult it has been, I'm going to show you this photo of a vehicle that is completely submerged not just in water, but also debris, mud, gravel. That photo, one of the Cajun Navy commanders told me, is just one of many of these vehicles that they've encountered over the past week. It just gives you a sense of how much work it is to take that vehicle out, to look for people who are inside or under or around of this is just a very, very painstaking task that requires many people at once working together.

Now, today, they said that the rain in this area has complicated things. They said the landscape here will be rearranged, and what that means for those search and rescue crews, Jessica, is that now they will have to research areas that they have already searched. Just adding to all of that labor here.

I'm sure you can see this memorial behind me. This is where people all throughout the day have been coming to drop flowers, to drop teddy bears, signs to those people who lost their lives on the July 4th floods. And we caught a scene earlier today that was quite touching of some of those search and rescue teams here paying their respects. You know, they haven't had time to breathe or really think over the past few days.

And today was the first day where they weren't out there, but they could come here and be part of this community that is still grieving after this unspeakable tragedy -- Jessica.

DEAN: All right. Julia Vargas Jones there in Texas.

We'll be right back.

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DEAN: New tonight, sources telling CNN Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, is now planning to run as an independent in the New York City mayor's race. It's a way for Cuomo to stay in the race after his stunning loss to Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary a few weeks ago. And just a reminder, New York City's current Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, also running as an independent as he tries to get reelected.

CNN's Gloria Pazmino is joining us now.

Gloria, Cuomo is going to stay in this race despite having already lost once. Why is he staying in?

GLORIA PAZMINO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, if you were asking Andrew Cuomo, Jessica, I think he would tell you that he believes Zohran Mamdani doesn't have the experience to lead a city like New York City, that he doesn't have the long time in government, that he doesn't know how to deal with Donald Trump. In fact, those were all the points that Cuomo tried to make during the Democratic primary.

But as we know, Zohran Mamdani resoundingly defeated him in that primary just a few weeks ago. In fact, Cuomo lost in that race by 12 points. Now, there is a quirk of election here in New York City, which is that Cuomo said he would be running as an independent instead of as a Democrat. And because of that, he is able to essentially stay in this race looking forward to the general election, which will be held in November.

And two sources close to the Cuomo campaign tell me that there will be an announcement from the former governor next week where he will be announcing that he plans to stay in the race. The question now is, what is Cuomo going to do differently between now and November that he did not do in the past few months? Because, as we saw in the June primary, New Yorkers overwhelmingly voted for Zohran Mamdani. They connected with his message and that they did not come out and support Cuomo.

Of course, Cuomo is hoping to target a much larger electorate in the general election. He is likely going to appeal to moderate Democrats and maybe even some Republicans who are going to want to have a chance to make sure that Zohran Mamdani does not get elected. This is very complicated math, but here in New York City, Democrats outnumber Republicans significantly 7 to 1. So it is very, very difficult to beat the Democratic nominee.

And there is the Eric Adams factor, which, as you said, he is also running in this race. Cuomo and Adams are expected to essentially split that moderate electorate that could deliver them a win. So that's what makes the numbers complicated for them looking to November -- Jessica.

DEAN: Yes. That will be an interesting one. Gloria Pazmino, thanks so much. We appreciate it.

A new report finds an alarming and widespread shortage of local news. Since the start of the century, there has been more than a 75 percent drop in the number of journalists working in the U.S. and it's not just rural areas being impacted by this. Also, highly populated parts of the country.

CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter is joining us now.

Brian, you wrote a piece about this earlier this week that really caught my eye. I come from local news. I really believe in it. It's important for people to know what's going on in their local communities. What is this shortage mean and what's the -- what's at stake here?

BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA ANALYST: Yes, when I was writing about this, I was thinking about my father-in-law. It happens to be his birthday today. He is the kind of guy that still reliably reads his local newspaper, the "Philadelphia Inquirer." The problem in America these days is there are fewer readers like Neil, and there are fewer papers to read in the first place.

Many are going out of print, squeezed out by a changing marketplace, by digital ad giants like Google and by private equity vulture funds. So this new report by Muck Rack and Rebuild Local News, people can Google it, ironically. They can look it up for themselves online. It shows that a county by county level, how about eight out of 10 local journalists in America have been lost in the last 25 years, some to other businesses, some to other sectors.

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The point is that there's a lot less reporting happening on the local level, at the city and town council level, at the school board level, and as a result, we don't know what we don't know. So that is the real core problem and the solution. Well, it's multifaceted, but the biggest part of the solution involves people paying for news. Right? Looking for new sources and old school sources.

The print papers that still exist and being willing to chip in and pay for them because there's less and less advertiser support for local news. So there has to be more and more reader support. Some of the biggest success stories in local news are nonprofit outlets that are being born on the internet, that are getting lots and lots of reader donations. So the path forward for local news increasingly is about reader and listener support.

DEAN: Yes. I also want to ask you about a deadline coming up this week for Congress to approve a recessions package, which targets funding for NPR and PBS. What would that mean for public broadcasting?

STELTER: Right. Five days on the clock. The Senate has to either pass this DOGE cuts package by Friday, or the cuts will not happen. And in this case, that means PBS and NPR will be spared. But President Trump is pressuring the Senate, including moderate Senate Republicans, to get this done. This is a package of about $10 billion in cuts that he wants to be achieved. About $1 billion of that goes to PBS and NPR stations, mostly actually to local stations, relating back to local news. Most of this money goes to local TV and radio stations across the country.

The argument from Republicans is that they don't actually need the money, that most of these stations would be OK without it. The argument from Senate Democrats is that this network also provides emergency broadcasting, provides children's programing, and lots of other essential content.

So five days on the clock and I think people are going to hear a lot more about this so-called rescissions package in the next few days because the pressure is on the Senate to either approve it and claw back those funds that have already been allocated for PBS and NPR and other projects, or to leave it alone, leave the money alone. In which case Donald Trump has promised he will punish those senators who don't get it done.

So the deadline is Friday, and we'll see what happens.

DEAN: Yes, we will. Brian Stelter, always good to see you. Thanks for stopping by.

STELTER: Thanks.

DEAN: Up next, before Kerrville, there was Asheville, the deadly 2024 flooding there, and the federal response under President Biden became a focal point of the presidential election. How does the region look today? We traveled there to find out. You'll see it for yourself next, live in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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DEAN: Before Kerrville, there was Asheville. It has been nearly a year since Hurricane Helene ravaged Western North Carolina, causing catastrophic flooding and landslides that claimed more than 100 lives. The promise of federal help became a focal point in the presidential election last fall, and CNN's John King visited those still rebuilding in North Carolina.

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KOREY HAMPTON, NORTH CAROLINA VOTER: You hear that sound? That's the sound of excitement. Focus on the fun.

JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is Korey Hampton's office, her source of income and of joy. But seeing the French Broad River is much more complicated now. The floodwaters nine months ago changed everything.

HAMPTON: We pulled people out of second-story windows in a river that just the day before had been calmer even than it is today. Yes, I'm going to watch whole houses come down this river.

KING (voice-over): Hampton and her husband Mitch run French Broad Adventures, but they also volunteer for the local raft rescue team. Days of exhausting rescues after the flooding. Then, weeks of worse.

HAMPTON: Doing recovery work, and what that means is --

KING: Looking for bodies.

HAMPTON: Yes. It painted the river in a new light for me where I kind of, normally we're taking tourists out. For that amount of time I was here doing -- we were all here doing gruesome work. I still see piles, and I wonder if there's somebody in it.

KING: So --

HAMPTON: I still smell and think I should go look at that pile. And I -- it's hard to, it's hard to kind of switch back to the, like, oh, everything is fun, no big deal.

KING (voice-over): Tiny Hot Springs flooded when debris turned this bridge into a dam. Most of downtown is still a mess.

Hot Springs Mayor Abby Norton puts the build back at 40 percent.

MAYOR ABBY NORTON, HOT SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA: What I thought Washington would do would be to immediately come in and either fix everything or supply the funds for us to fix everything, but that's not how it worked.

KING (voice-over): Mayor Norton says she voted third party for president just weeks after the flood.

Is there a Biden difference or a Trump difference in what you have experienced?

NORTON: First of all, I'm not a politician. I never have been. But it has been better under the Trump administration than it was under Biden, my opinion. KING: Is that because they're more receptive and responsive?

NORTON: Yes.

KING: Or is it because, you know, Biden was president when it was hell or?

NORTON: Things are getting done faster. They're more -- they are more responsive. We're getting a lot more help than we did.

KING (voice-over): But the mayor is quick to say things still take too long, like waiting for federal help to rebuild the town offices.

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Now troubled when she hears the president talk of big FEMA changes.

NORTON: FEMA doesn't need to be eliminated. It just -- the processes need to be easier, more user-friendly. No, I don't think it needs to be eliminated at all.

KING: Or shifted to the states or?

NORTON: No.

KING (voice-over): The postcard views bring the tourists here. The Appalachian trail and the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Atlantic Ocean is nearly 500 miles away. So when Josh Copus saw the rain and the winds, his first thought was the old Marshall jail he converted into a hotel might need some sandbags.

JOSH COPUS, CERAMIC ARTIST: At 9:00, the water went over the railroad tracks, which hadn't happened since '77. In an hour there was four feet of water in the town, and you could just immediately know that this was a different kind of event. And I sat at the courthouse, which is the highest point in downtown. And watched it all happen for about two hours.

KING: This is that spot Josh is talking about, the steps of the Madison County Courthouse in Marshall, North Carolina. Just imagine that, that's your hotel. That's your restaurant. That's your life's work. That's your savings, spent renovating that building. And you had to come up here because the water is coming up over the bridge and it's creeping toward your business.

You're watching this horror unfold, and then you realize, I can't even stay here because here comes the water. I got to go.

Did you think you were done?

COPUS: In that moment 100 percent. We were alone. There was no cell phone service. You know, I didn't even talk to my mom for days. And when you're in that space and you're looking at the destruction, it feels like you are done.

KING (voice-over): Day after day, shoveling mud with a brief break to vote.

COPUS: I remember standing in a line and this woman, you know, from our community was like I heard they FEMA condemned Marshall, and I was like, I just came from there. No, we're coming back. And she was like, I saw it on the internet. I mean, that stuff is hard, but it's the world we live in.

KING: But it is different here. No one shoveling mud asked anyone who they were voting for. No one celebrating the hotel's reopening is here to debate national politics and lost on no one is the sparkling backdrop for dinner and music on the patio. The same river that changed everything.

COPUS: It's not like everyone is walking around with a blue hat or a red hat. It's just, we're just people down here and some of the beauty of the flood was like how it really taught us that, again, we have more in common than we have that separates us. We're all Appalachian Americans. Like that's something that we all connect with. So regardless of your political affiliation, like our culture unifies us.

KING: John King, CNN, Marshall, North Carolina.

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DEAN: John King, thank you for that.

And still to come tonight, there's a new Barbie in town. The details about the new doll and her very inclusive gadget.

You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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DEAN: Mattel just launched its newest Barbie. She comes dolled up in a cute top, mini skirt and an insulin pump.

CNN's health reporter Jacqueline Howard is following this story for us.

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JACQUELINE HOWARD, CNN HEALTH CORRESPONDENT: This new Barbie has her own continuous glucose monitor, her own insulin pump, and she carries snacks to help manage her blood sugar levels because she has type one diabetes. And we know there are so many children out there who may see themselves in this Barbie because more than 300,000 children in the United States have been diagnosed with type one diabetes. And type one diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the pancreas does not make enough insulin for the body. That's why many children with type one diabetes may carry an insulin pump because they need that insulin.

So when they see Barbie carrying an insulin pump as well, that can help normalize this type of medical device for them. And this new Barbie is one of more than 175 Barbies that Mattel has launched. They previously have launched a Barbie with hearing aids, and they've launched a blind doll that uses a cane. They've launched a Barbie with a prosthetic leg and a Barbie with a wheelchair.

And they now say this new Barbie with type one diabetes represents, quote, "an important step in our commitment to inclusivity and representation," end quote. And Mattel partnered with the nonprofit Breakthrough T1D when it created this new doll. And the nonprofit is now using the doll's launch as a moment to ask Congress to renew funding for the National Institutes of Health's special diabetes program.

This is a program that is a special funding program for research on the prevention and cure of type one diabetes.

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The program's current funding ends after September, and we know with recent federal funding cuts when it comes to research, it's unclear whether that funding will be renewed. But the nonprofit Breakthrough T1D is using this moment to ask for that funding to be renewed.

And the Barbie herself is also making a splash. We hear that not only children are excited about this new doll, but some adults with type one diabetes are also excited about the doll as well.

Back to you.

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DEAN: Jacqueline, thank you.

And a quick look now at some of the major stories we're going to be following for you this week.

On Monday, President Trump expected to make a, quote, "major statement on Russia." It could involve new sanctions. Trump spoke about the upcoming announcement just last hour, telling reporters, "Putin likes to talk so beautifully in his words and then bomb people at night," adding, "We don't like that." President Trump has very publicly turned his back on Putin in recent days, while striking a deal with NATO to send weapons to Ukraine, including highly sought after U.S. Patriot missiles.

We're also going to be watching for any possible trade deals after the president issued a slew of new tariff threats last week. Trump sending letters to dozens of countries promising to enact tariffs on August 1st unless a trade deal could be reached and today, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said the talks were ongoing.

And finally, opening arguments in the murder trial of James Craig, scheduled to begin Tuesday. The Colorado dentist is accused of lacing his wife's protein shakes with cyanide. Prosecutors say Craig used a secret e-mail account to not only order a multitude of poisons, but to carry on an extramarital affair.

We'll be right back.

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DEAN: Forty years ago today, rock stars Bob Geldof, Bono, Sting and many others performed at Live Aid, a landmark music event to raise money for famine relief in Africa.

And CNN's Bill Weir sat down with Bob Geldof, the musician who co- founded Band Aid Trust to talk about how the legendary concert came together and how it changed the world four decades later.

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BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Music fans had never seen anything like it. A mega concert on two continents with the world's biggest acts singing to save the world's hungriest children.

DAVID BOWIE, MUSICIAN: Please send your money in.

WEIR (voice-over): David Bowie refused to play Live Aid unless his set included a news clip of African famine. And as stadiums watched in stunned silence, the phone lines exploded.

BOB GELDOF, CO-FOUNDER, BAND AID TRUST: After Live Aid, we got the, in today's money, the equivalent of about $480 million within a week.

WEIR (voice-over): And none of it would have happened without Bob Geldof.

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WEIR (voice-over): The biggest hit of his Irish band, "The Boomtown Rats," is a song about an American school shooting. But the images out of Ethiopia shook him deep.

GELDOF: I was just watching that Ethiopian thing. This, I think, this is gross.

WEIR (voice-over): And since he was so plugged into the London scene, his urge to do something became Band Aid.

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WEIR (voice-over): This inspired USA for Africa and "We are the World," which inspired Live Aid. And through it all, Geldof remained the profane conscience of rock n' roll.

GELDOF: Don't go to the pub tonight. Please stay in and give us the money. There are people dying now, so give me the money.

WEIR (voice-over): Twenty years later, Live Aid had megastars on 11 stages and their fans in the streets all pressuring G8 leaders to relieve African debt.

It worked. And today, his mission continues. GELDOF: I said, I swear to you, every penny you give will go to

someone who needs it in Africa. 40 years later, not a single cup of coffee, not a single phone call has come out of any of the monies that come to us through Band Aid, Live Aid or Live Aid. Not a penny.

WEIR (voice-over): But he tells me that all nostalgia died the day the United States announced the end of USAID.

ELON MUSK, TESLA CEO: This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Chainsaw.

GELDOF: Elon Musk cackling with his stupid (EXPLETIVE DELETED) hedge trimmer. The richest individual ever seen in history declared war on the weakest and most vulnerable people of our world. That's what a bully does. That's what a coward does.

WEIR: You know, the moments in this documentary that made me the most emotional was remembering a country that could rally around starving children on the other side of the world.

GELDOF: Yes.

WEIR: And that was cool and was part of the MTV generation and it was easy to get swept up in this. And how far we seem from that today.

GELDOF: Yes. Musk said that the great weakness of Western civilization is empathy. No, dude. Empathy is the glue of humanity. We cannot exist in isolation. We cannot. Literally, we die. We require the function of society. That's what we need. He's wrong in every case.

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DEAN: All right. Bill Weir, our thanks to you. And be sure to tune in to "Live Aid, When Rock and Roll Took on the World." It premieres next right here on CNN.