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Trump Announces U.S. And E.U. Reached Framework For Trade Deal; U.S., China Officials To Meet In Sweden To Extend Trade Truce; Israel Insists There Is No Starvation in Gaza; Thai, Cambodian Leaders to Attend Peace Talks In Malaysia; Trump Denies Using E.U. Meeting To Distract From Epstein Saga; Bystanders Take Down Michigan Walmart Stabbing Suspect; Thousands Evacuate As Wildfires Engulf Southern Europe; Trump Calls to Prosecute Beyonce For Alleged Harris Payment; England Victorious After Beating Spain 3-1 On Penalties. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired July 28, 2025 - 01:00   ET

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BEN HUNTE, CNN HOST: Hello wherever you are in the world. You are now in the CNN Newsroom with me, Ben Hunte in Atlanta. And it is so good to have you with me. Coming up on the show, we have a deal. The U.S. and European Union agreeing to the framework of a trade deal. But was that a winner and a loser? An economic expert breaks down the details.

Israel pausing some military operations to get much needed aid into Gaza. As President Trump says, it's time for Israel to make a decision. We'll explain more.

And wildfires tearing a path of destruction across parts of Southern Europe and beyond.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Atlanta. This is CNN Newsroom with Ben Hunte.

HUNTE: Welcome. The U.S. and European Union reached a framework for a trade deal on Sunday, skipping a bigger trade war. President Donald Trump announced a 15 percent across the board levy on imports from the E.U. after prolonged negotiations with America's largest trading partner.

The deal includes $600 billion of E.U. investments in the US. The E.U. will also increase its purchases of U.S. energy and military equipment. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the U.S. president praised the deal.

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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: I think it's great that we made a deal today instead of playing games and maybe not making a deal at all. I think it's -- I'm going to let you say, but I think it's the biggest deal ever made. Thank you very much. URSULA VON DER LEYEN, EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT: I think we hit

exactly the point we wanted to find, rebalance, but enable trade on both sides, which means good jobs on both sides of the Atlantic means prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic. And that was important for us.

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HUNTE: CNN's Jenn Sullivan has details of the trade deal.

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JENN SULLIVAN, CNN REPORTER (voice-over): The U.S. and European Union have struck a trade deal. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announcing the deal Sunday in Scotland.

TRUMP: I think it's going to be great for both parties.

SULLIVAN (voice-over): Heading into the negotiations, President Trump criticized the US's relationship with the EU sanctuary, saying their current trade agreement was one sided and unfair to the US.

VON DER LEYEN: We wanted to rebalance the trade relation and we wanted to do it in a way that trade goes on.

SULLIVAN (voice-over): Under the new trade deal, the E.U. has agreed to purchase $750 billion worth of energy from the U.S. and invest an additional $600 billion into the U.S. economy.

TRUMP: It's the biggest of all the deals.

SULLIVAN (voice-over): President Trump had given the E.U. until August 1 to strike a deal or face 30 percent tariffs. Instead, this new deal puts a 15 percent tariff on imports. The E.U., which is made up of 27 countries, is one of the US's top trading blocs. The U.S. imported more than $600 billion worth of products last year from the EU.

VON DER LEYEN: The two biggest economies should have a good trade flow between us.

SULILVAN (voice-over): Since tariffs were first implemented in the spring, inflation has ticked up in the US. Prices in June rose by 0.3 percent, according to the Consumer Price Index Report, which measures the price change for a variety of items month to month.

DAVID SANGER, CNN POLITICAL AND NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: Well, I think it's a win domestically because he's obviously gotten something that previous presidents had not.

SULLIVAN (voice-over): The Trump administration says the 15 percent tariff will take effect August 1st. I'm Jenn Sullivan reporting.

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HUNTE: Well, reaction to President Trump's trade deal with the E.U. has been mixed. Here's more from Democratic Senator Mark Kelly.

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MARK KELLY, U.S. SENATE DEMOCRAT: I think what's important for the American people to know is that Donald Trump's tariff policy is very likely to increase costs. Going to take some time because of supply chains, stuff from coming from, you know, in some cases, from all over the planet. I've spoken to the Secretary of Commerce about some of these tariffs, and we haven't gotten the response that we need.

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HUNTE: Republicans are more upbeat about the deal. A former U.S. ambassador to the European Union believes the deal will benefit both the U.S. and EU.

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GORDON SONDLAND, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE EUROPEAN UNION: There's a lot of crocodile tears for the cameras, but at the end of the day, the E.U. knew they had to do something like this. They realized that now President Trump has the mandate to push it. He did not have the mandate in his first term because he was fighting a lot of impeachments and other things that didn't give him the, you know, the power to do what he's done now.

So, I think all the whining and complaining is for public consumption. But at the end of the day, we're very close to the EU. We do a lot of things together, both public and classified.

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And, you know, this is whatever, you know, sore feelings there are over this negotiation or small bump in the road, and now we can move forward. I think this is a tremendous day for the United States, and I have to credit President Trump.

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HUNTE: Josh Lipsky is the senior director of the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center, and he's joining us from Washington. How are you doing? Thanks for joining us.

JOSH LIPSKY, SENIOR DIRECTOR, ATLANTIC COUNCIL'S GEOECONOMICS CENTER: I'm good. Thanks for having me.

HUNTE: You're so welcome. Let's get into this. President Trump said he thinks this is a good deal for everybody, based on what we know so far. Do you agree with that?

LIPSKY: Well, I think it's the best deal the U.S. could have possibly imagined with the European Union. I'm not sure it's the best deal the European Union imagined. When they started out in these negotiations on April, when we had Liberation Day, in the beginning, there was this talk of zero for zero tariffs. That's what the European Union wanted. We heard that from the Germans, we heard that from the Italians, and they ended up with a 15 percent rate. And then they have to open up their markets. Then there's the investment commitments.

So I don't think it's the best deal for everyone. And I do think it sets a new floor around the world of 15 percent. And that's before you calculate in things like pharmaceuticals, steel, some more auto tariffs coming. So the best deal for everyone? No. But the best case scenario for President Trump, probably that's great right now.

HUNTE: Does this deal give us any insights into what the rest of President Trump's future trade deals could look like? Are there any red flags or patterns that have been emerging yet?

LIPSKY: So there's a few things we've learned now. If you think of what's happened with Japan and now with the E.U. and compared to some of the other negotiations. The first is that those who thought he was simply bluffing with tariffs have been in for a rude awakening. He was serious about tariffs from the start. No, it was not going to be the level of Liberation Day. 30 and 35 percent on some countries.

But a 15 percent tariff on the U.S. major trading partner, the E.U., has significant effects on both sides of the Atlantic. And every other country is now thinking to themselves, can I even get 15 or will it be higher?

So if you're in Brazil right now and you're staring on the prospect of a 50 percent tariff, you have to think that's a realistic possibility come the end of this week, the August 1st deadline, I think countries are recalibrating accordingly. That doesn't mean there isn't pain to the U.S. this is going to be inflationary for us here as well. So there's pain all the way around, but the tariffs are here to stay. I think that's what we've learned over the past few months.

HUNTE: The E.U. clearly avoided the worst case scenario though, of either higher tariffs or a spiraling trade war. But were there any actual wins for Europe in this deal?

LIPSKY: Well, the biggest win for Europe are the dogs that didn't bark the things, as you said, that could have gotten worse. A spiraling tit for tat. And what they really didn't want to have happen and they avoided was opening up the tech sector, right? Google, Amazon, we think of all the investments in Europe and the companies that operate in Europe, they didn't want to have to get into a whole back and forth about the services side of transatlantic trade. So that was avoided. It was contained to goods, but it was painful on the good side.

HUNTE: And what are E.U. leaders saying about this deal so far? Are there any countries that are likely to be either more relieved or maybe more frustrated by what's happened?

LIPSKY: Well, I think the Germans seem particularly pleased in the early hours after the announcement of the deal. And we should say we only have the framework and it's going to be very important to get the details going forward. We've seen this with other deals, misinterpretation on the back end.

But it makes sense to me that the Germans are pleased because if you think of the big auto exporters, Mercedes and BMW and otherwise, they've now dropped their tariffs from 25 to 15 percent. And if you think about comparative to the U.S. automakers have to still pay a 25 percent tariff right now on car parts.

That means, in theory, it could be more expensive to produce a car under these tariffs in the United States than produce one in Europe and import it. Now, maybe that will change. But for the moment, you can understand why Germany in particular is pleased with the outcome.

HUNTE: And what about everyday people? How will we in the U.S. or viewers in Europe actually feel this deal? What will its impact look like for us?

LIPSKY: So the important thing to understand about this deal and the wave of trade deals that are happening is that the effective tariff rate in the United States has jumped from around 2 percent in January to about 15 percent now. And that translates for every American, something around the lines of two or $3,000 more over the course of your annual spending, depending on what you purchase. And it's only beginning to bite.

We saw GM profits, for example, go down by a billion dollars. Last quarter, we saw Hershey say that chocolate's going to be more expensive. Expect to see more of that. Toy companies. Halloween is going to get more pricey when we get into the fall. So you're going to experience it in everyday life, and it's going to be on a rolling basis.

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So the bottom line is tariffs are attacks. The importers pay the cost. They don't pass all of it on to consumers. They do eat some of it, but some of it gets passed on to us.

HUNTE: So yay, more expensive things. Can't wait. Josh Lipsky, thank you so much for your time and your expertise. We appreciate it.

LIPSKY: Thanks so much.

HUNTE: In the hours ahead, envoys from the U.S. and China will hold their third round of trade talks as we wait to see how much longer the truce between the world's two largest economies hold. The American delegation, led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, will be meeting in Stockholm with Chinese Vice Premier Harley Fung and his team.

The 90-day pause in the country's trade war will expire on August 12 if the two sides fail to strike a deal or agree to an extension. China is expected to enter the talks with fresh confidence after delivering better than expected growth in the second quarter. And the U.S. of course, has sealed a flurry of recent trade deals. President Trump also appears to have somewhat softened his tone toward China and has spoken enthusiastically about visiting President Xi Jinping in the not too distant future.

Let's get a quick look now at the Asia Pacific markets. The markets are showing a real mixed reaction at the moment as investors wait for more details on those U.S. trade talks. Israel's prime minister claims there's no starvation in Gaza, but

horrific images of children suffering and Palestinians fighting over food tells a different story. That's next.

Plus, thousands of residents are fleeing as flames threaten the fourth largest city in Turkey. Still ahead, the latest on the wildfires raging across southern Europe.

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HUNTE: Welcome back. The World Health Organization is warning that malnutrition rates in Gaza have reached alarming levels as the hunger crisis gripping the enclave continues to get worse. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies that Palestinians are facing starvation.

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza. What a bold face lie. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza and there is no starvation in Gaza.

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HUNTE: 74 deaths related to malnutrition have been reported in Gaza so far this year and 63 of those have happened this month, according to the WHO. Even though Israel is now allowing more aid to flow, Hamas says there's no point in continuing cease fire talks while this crisis gets worse.

President Trump is again blaming the militant group for last week's breakdown in negotiations. He says Hamas does not want to give up more hostages because then it will lose its leverage.

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TRUMP: Israel is going to have to make a decision. I know what I do, but I don't think it's appropriate that I say but Israel is going to have to make a decision.

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HUNTE: For more on the dire situation in Gaza, let's go to CNN's Nic Robertson.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DILOMATIC EDITOR: It's not really clear if President Trump there is pushing Prime Minister Netanyahu to make a deal or do what the president said a couple of days ago, which is go in and finish it off.

But for right now, the aid is beginning to flow a little more freely than it was. Jordanian and Emirati aircraft dropped 25 tons of food and humanitarian supplies airdropped it into Gaza. Today, 100 trucks were on the move from Egypt with 840 tons of flour, 60 trucks on the move from Jordan, all headed for Gaza for these new humanitarian corridors that the IDF is putting in place and those tactical pauses.

Now, the IDF says that they're still fighting Gaza, that still fighting Hamas, that Gaza is still an active conflict zone. But these temporary tactical pauses of 6 to 8 to 10 hours in certain areas are designed to allow the U.N. and other organizations to get those aid trucks in safely and disperse the aid.

And this really looks like something of a climb down by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow this greater amount of aid coming in. And he's taking a lot of heat for it politically from ministers in his own government who are saying the only thing we should be sending into Gaza right now is bombs. So the prime minister does seem to have walked back from a very tough position.

That said, he is saying that it's the U.N. that's been lying about the aid situation, that it's Hamas is responsible for the shortages of food, and that Israel is doing nothing more, nothing different than what it's been doing over the recent months. These are, these aid corridors, if you will, have always been available to the UN. That doesn't seem to correlate with what U.N. understands. But bottom line, it does appear to mean that more aid will get in. For how long? It's not clear.

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HUNTE: Let's bring in Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and she's joining us now from Deir al-Balah in Gaza. Olga, thanks so much for being with me.

We heard earlier from Israel's Prime Minister claiming there's no starvation in Gaza at all. What is your reaction to that and does that correspond with what you're seeing?

OLGA CHEREVKO, SPOKESPERSON, UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS: Thanks, Ben, for having me. Absolutely not. It does not correspond with it in any, on any level. You know, I've been away for a few days, and yesterday were driving into Gaza and the first thing you see is obviously the desolution and the destitute place that is, have been destroyed and people who are desperately searching for something to eat.

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And those are the two very stark things that you see entering Gaza from any direction. And I can tell you I have seen this with my own eyes and of course, the world has seen it now, these very shocking images of children and adults dying of hunger and infants literally dying in their mother's arms.

HUNTE: Israel has begun daily tactical pauses in fighting, including where you are to allow humanitarian aid through corridors. Now, it's very early days, but how has that affected a delivery so far? And do you think that these pauses will make a meaningful difference?

CHEREVKO: Well, we certainly hope so. This was a welcome decision and long overdue. And yesterday it seems like some of the restrictions were indeed eased. But of course, we are realistic and we are -- we know that a lot more needs to be done and this has to continue over a sustained period of time. And there has to be a scaled up level of assistance entering so that we can even scratch the surface to meet the needs of the people.

HUNTE: And while people have been lining up for aid, we've also reported on deaths that have occurred at distribution sites. What urgent protections need to be put in place to prevent civilians from being killed or injured while they're simply trying to survive?

CHEREVKO: Well, this is certainly one of the things that needs to happen besides the restrictions that need to be eased and allowing us to deliver aid to all areas of Gaza and allowing us to run multiple convoys a day like we used to be able to do during the seas -- the last ceasefire.

Of course, people must not be shot and killed and injured while trying to feed their family. This is an absolutely unacceptable element of all of this. So absolutely, this must happen.

HUNTE: It has felt like there's been a shift international attention toward the humanitarian situation in Gaza, especially here in the West. Why do you think that shift has occurred and why did it take so long to happen?

CHEREVKO: Well, it's certainly also long overdue and we've been appealing to everyone with influence and anyone who will listen. And we -- our hope is that this is happening and we will continue, of course, appealing to the member states and to anyone with influence to change the situation on the ground because the conditions are now at a level, you know, the deterioration is actually accelerating and it's -- it will continue to accelerate unless these conditions are in place for us to be able to address this catastrophe.

HUNTE: I just wonder if you can just tell us what you've seen with your own eyes in terms of the suffering on the ground.

CHEREVKO: Of course, you know, it just takes me to go out of my guest house and to go out in the street. And you will see children, women, men, elderly people rummaging through the trash looking for scraps of food, people looking very, very thin, very gaunt. Of course, I've seen being in hospitals, people being admitted for extreme exhaustion.

I myself don't recognize my friends because they look so thin. And when they come to see me, I'm aghast and I have no words to even say to them because they are in such a desperate state now.

HUNTE: So not to put you in an awkward situation, but what does it mean to you that this fact that people are being starved and they are going through this is being denied on such a big scale?

CHEREVKO: Well, we are looking at the lives of over 2 million people at scale. And this is what we've been calling for all these months. The fact that this starvation and this hunger crisis is now so obvious in people's bodies and that we can see it and it's now all over the media, it just means that it's been in place for all these months that we've been saying it's in place. So it's now manifesting itself, which means it's going to deteriorate faster and faster.

HUNTE: And just quickly looking ahead, if these pauses and aid corridors do continue, what do you think needs to happen next? What would full humanitarian access to Gaza look like from your perspective?

CHEREVKO: Well, if we go back to the last ceasefire, for example, what we are always asking for is unrestricted and unfettered supply of aid into Gaza.

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And that means not just food and medicine and nutrition and things like this, but other things like shelter, supplies like fuel, like cooking gas to allow people to actually have some semblance of normality and try to restart their lives once again as they have done, to have had to do over these 21 months. And this has to be over a sustained period of time. And of course, ultimately, and to echo the emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher, this has to be a permanent ceasefire, not just a pause.

HUNTE: OK, we'll leave it there. Olga Cherevko, thank you so much for your work. We appreciate it.

CHEREVKO: Thanks Ben.

HUNTE: Thailand and Cambodia say they are ready to negotiate peace after a decades old border dispute erupted into deadly violence this week. We'll bring you the latest just ahead.

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HUNTE: Welcome back. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Ben Hunte.

In the coming hours, Thai and Cambodian leaders are set to attend peace talks in Malaysia. It's is their first major attempt at calming the deadly clashes that erupted last week, the worst cross-border violence there in more than a decade. At least 35 people have been killed and more than 200,000 displaced, most of them civilians.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says State Department officials are in Malaysia to assist in the negotiations. And U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threats to withhold trade deals with Thailand and Cambodia unless they end the fighting.

CNN's Kristie Lu Stout joins me now from Hong Kong.

Kristie, thanks for being with me. Will these talks in Malaysia finally bring some much-needed peace to the border? KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, much-needed indeed,

especially as fighting rages on today for the fifth day in a row. We know that the leaders of Thailand, Cambodia are currently en route to these mediation talks in Malaysia.

They're due to take place in the prime minister's office in Kuala Lumpur later today at 3:00 p.m. local time. And yes, we have confirmed with the Thai Royal Army that the fighting has continued this day.

It has resulted in the deaths of over 35 people. 200,000 people have been displaced. And there have been rising calls for peace from the international community, including from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Now, earlier we heard from the Cambodian prime minister who said that, look, these upcoming talks are co-organized with the United States and with the participation of China.

He took to Facebook to issue this statement. This, again from the Cambodian leader who said this. Quote, "The purpose of this meeting is to achieve an immediate ceasefire, which was initiated by President Donald Trump and agreed to by both prime ministers of Cambodia and Thailand.

I'd like to thank Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim for his initiative and coordination to organize and host this special meeting," unquote.

Now, the Thai government says that its acting prime minister will be attending this meeting. The acting prime minister again en route to Kuala Lumpur. And within the last hour or so, he issued fresh comments to the media.

This is what the Thai acting leader said. He said this, quote, "The first thing to discuss will be an immediate cease fire and this needs to be discussed in a bit more detail. The main point today," he adds, "is that we will meet with Hun Manet." This is the Cambodian leader. "This elevates the discussion to the leader level."

This is interesting. Thailand has repeated again, it wants a bilat, a bilateral meeting with Cambodia. It is not clear if this is going to happen when these mediation talks kick off later today, 3:00 p.m. local time in Malaysia.

Thailand and Cambodia have had a long and complicated relationship. They share this 800-kilometer-long border that has seen several military clashes over the years.

The latest round of tension flared up in May, when a Cambodian soldier was killed, and then the tension just ratcheted up even further after the leak of that controversial phone call between the now suspended prime minister of Thailand, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, and Hun Sen, the former but nevertheless still powerful leader of Cambodia.

Fighting has continued. This is the fifth day of fighting since those deadly clashes broke out on Thursday. And peace at this hour still remains hard to secure.

Back to you.

HUNTE: And the border fighting has also affected an ancient temple in Cambodia, right. What damage has been done there?

STOUT: Yes, we have some photos to share with our audience about this. This is according to the Cambodian ministry of defense. They said that Thai projectiles were launched and fired and landed near an ancient temple, incurring this damage.

These photos show the damage near the Preah Vihear Temple in Cambodia, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is considered to be a masterpiece of Khmer architecture, dates back to the ninth century.

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STOUT: Cambodia's minister of culture told CNN that he has reached out and made an appeal to UNESCO and the world community, saying this quote, "Please help demand the ceasefire," unquote.

I should add that this temple site has seen violence before. It has been the center -- the center, in fact, of previous clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, Ben.

HUNTE: Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong, thank you for now. Appreciate it.

STOUT: Thank you.

HUNTE: at least three people are dead and several others are seriously injured after a passenger train derailed in southwestern Germany.

About 100 people were on board when at least two carriages left the tracks in a wooded area near the French and Swiss borders on Sunday.

Germany's national rail operator says the cause of the accident is unclear, and that it would support the authorities in their investigation.

At least six people have been killed in northern India after a large crowd at a Hindu temple erupted into a stampede. A local official says there were rumors of an electric current, which caused people to panic on Sunday.

This is the latest in a series of crowd accidents in India this year. At least 30 people died at a Hindu festival in January, as tens of millions flocked to bathe in sacred waters. And in June, 11 people died in a crowd outside an Indian cricket stadium.

As Syria recovers from recent sectarian violence, its fledgling government is getting ready for parliamentary elections. This marks the first major vote since the reign of former President Bashar Al- Assad, whose regime fell during a lightning rebel advance last year.

State media reports elections will be held between September 15th and 20th. One-third of the 210 seats will be appointed by the interim president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, and the rest elected. A regional news site reports an electoral college will be set up in each province to vote on the elected seats.

The U.S. President denies Sunday's meeting with the European Commission president was an attempt to distract from his most recent political drama. President Trump is facing bipartisan scrutiny over his administration's handling of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein, an accused sex trafficker and former friend of the president.

CNN's Julia Benbrook has the latest from Washington.

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JULIA BENBROOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Despite President Donald Trump's calls for his supporters to shift their focus to other topics, the conversation surrounding the Epstein investigation still continues. And some of the loudest calls for more information, more transparency are coming from within the president's own MAGA base.

Let's take a look back at the timeline, some of the comments made by members of the administration that are causing confusion.

Back in February, Attorney General Pam Bondi hyped up some soon-to-be released documents, even suggesting that she had the so-called client list sitting on her desk.

A couple of months later, Trump himself was asked about when the Epstein files would be released, and he said this 100 percent of all these documents are being delivered.

New reporting shows that sometime in May, Bondi informed Trump that his name does appear in some documents related to Epstein. It's important to note that that does not mean there is evidence of wrongdoing, or that Trump had any knowledge of Epstein's criminal activities.

Fast forward to July, that's when the Department of Justice released an unsigned memo announcing it had not found a so-called client list and that it would not be releasing more documents. All of this creates a delicate situation for Republicans, and each of them are navigating it a little bit differently.

GOP Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri spoke with CNN's Manu Raju over the weekend. Burlison is a member of the House Oversight committee and has called for more documents to be released.

He said that he believes it was a political mistake to have raised expectations about new findings. Take a listen.

REP. ERIC BURLISON, (R-MO): Part of this problem is that there were some false expectations that are created and that's a political mistake. I think that, you know, saying that you're going to be able to deliver when you when you haven't even looked at all of the files and what's available was probably a misstep.

BENBROOK: Now, before the House members went home for August recess, we did see some movement when it comes to the calls for more information. A House Oversight subcommittee voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for more documents related to Epstein. That was a bipartisan vote.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has emphasized that members of his committee in recent weeks have been very interested in this topic.

Julia Benbrook, CNN -- Washington.

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HUNTE: Ok. Still to come, a man stabbed nearly a dozen people in a Walmart in Michigan. Ahead, how bystanders were able to stop him.

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HUNTE: Nearly a dozen people were injured on Saturday after a man began stabbing people at a Walmart in Michigan. However, a couple of bystanders jumped in and were able to stop the alleged attacker from hurting anyone else.

CNN's Rafael Romo has more for us.

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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Officials say it appears the lone attacker, identified by authorities as Bradford James Gilley of Afton, Michigan, chose his victims at random. He has been charged with one count of terrorism and 11 counts of assault with intent to murder.

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ROMO: He will be in court this week. And it's unclear if he has an attorney.

It all started at about 4:45 in the afternoon inside a Walmart store in Traverse City, a small community on the shore of Lake Michigan. According to Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea, the 42-year- old suspect entered a Walmart in Garfield Township and suddenly attacked people in the stores checkout area. The sheriff said the attacker stabbed a total of 11 people with a folding knife.

Sheriff Shea also said other people shopping at Walmart took it upon themselves to stop the suspect and force him to drop the knife once he got out of the store, as we will see in the following video obtained by CNN.

Among those who successfully subdued the assailant were Matt Kulikowski and his brother-in-law, Chris O'Brien, who were in Traverse City for a family vacation. Kulikowski said he first rammed the attacker in the ankle with a shopping cart, and then tossed it at him until another man pulled out a gun on the suspect, forcing him to drop the knife. Kulikowski served in the U.S. marines in active duty in Iraq nearly 20

years ago, and he said the man who pulled out a gun on the suspect also served in the marines.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff Shea said one of his deputies arrived at the scene within one minute and took the suspect into custody.

SHERIFF MICHAEL SHEA, GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY: At the time of the deputy's arrival, multiple citizens, including one who was armed with a pistol were confronting the male suspect in the parking lot and preventing him from harming further people and leaving. The deputy took the suspect into custody without further incident.

ROMO: After helping subdue the attacker, the marine veteran then helped take care of the wounded. Realizing he was a marine veteran, an officer handed Kulikowski a couple of med packs and asked him to help treat those injured applying a tourniquets to stabbing victims who were still in shock.

Rafael Romo, CNN -- Atlanta.

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HUNTE: Torrential rainfall is disrupting daily life in western India after flooding hit areas across the district of Banaskantha on Sunday. You can see video here of commuters stuck in traffic along submerged roadways.

Nearly half of India's cropland lacks irrigation, and many rural communities depend on annual monsoon season for farming. But experts warn excessive rain could worsen flood episodes, trigger landslides, and widen the spread of water-borne diseases.

Strong winds, dry conditions and unusually high temperatures are fueling a growing outbreak of wildfires across southern Europe. Thousands are evacuating Turkey's fourth largest city after the country has battled the spread of flames for weeks now. And disastrous blazes have also engulfed parts of Greece, Bulgaria and Albania.

Let's take a closer look at firefighting efforts in the region.

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HUNTE: By night, wildfires in Turkey look straight from a horror movie, an onslaught of fiery red flames with an appetite for destruction that's fed by extreme conditions on the ground.

The full dangers of the fires are exposed in the daylight. Thousands of people are evacuating the north and northwest of the country because of the massive fires as thousands of firefighters try to battle back the flames.

Temperatures are surging in the region, often topping 40 degrees Celsius or 104 degrees Fahrenheit, which is drying out the ground. That's making it even more difficult for firefighters to contain the blazes. In Greece, volunteers are pitching in to help. Like in this town north

of Athens, where the flames have been turbocharged by more than just the heat.

PETROS AVRAMOPOULOS, LOCAL RESIDENT: The wind is terrible. You see what's happening here? The speed. One moment the fire is here, the next it's across. Everything is very fast.

HUNTE: Fires have also been raging in nearby countries like Kosovo and Albania. Thermal drones have been deployed in some places to identify hotspots and help helicopter pilots coordinate their missions.

In Bulgaria, it's a team effort on the ground to put out one fire with firefighters using shovels to smother the burning brush. But it wasn't enough to save some houses from being consumed by the smoke and flames.

ZVEZDELIN VLAYKOV, EMERGENCY VOLUNTEER: There will be quite a few houses burned down. It's a merciless moment, a tragedy. I haven't seen anything like this. In all my years of fighting fires. I haven't seen anything like this. And it will burn for another month.

HUNTE: A month that could look and feel like hell as firefighters across southern Europe fight wildfires in their peak season.

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President Trump says Beyonce needs to be prosecuted for something that didn't actually happen. Daniel Dale fact checks the claim next.

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HUNTE: The U.S. President has put the spotlight on Beyonce in a new way. On Saturday, President Trump accused the superstar performer of breaking the law by supposedly being paid $11 million to endorse Kamala Harris.

Here's CNN's Daniel Dale with the fact check.

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DANIEL DALE, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: This is the president calling for the prosecution of a music superstar based on something that simply did not happen.

There is no basis for this claim that Beyonce received $11 million to endorse then Vice President Harris in 2024. This claim has been circulating among Trump supporters on social media since the fall of 2024, and nobody has produced even a shred of evidence for it.

And multiple fact check outlets have looked into it, have not found anything at all. The White House did not respond to my request for comment this time.

Now, federal election spending records do show that the Harris campaign made a $165,000 payment to Beyonce's production company in the wake of the October 2024 endorsement event they held in Houston.

But two things to know about that. First of all, there's no evidence this was payment for an endorsement. The Harris campaign said last year that they're required by law to cover the ancillary costs related to celebrities' appearances at their events.

And second of all, obviously $165,000 is far from $11 million, a figure that seems to be conjured out of thin air.

Now, I did reach out to a Harris spokesperson about this. They referred me to a post last year from Beyonce's mom, Tina Knowles, who called this claim a lie and noted it had been flagged as false information and taken down by Instagram. A spokesperson for Beyonce herself last year called the claim, quote, "beyond ridiculous".

Now, the president has not explained where he got this $11 million number, but he did offer some indication about his source when he spoke of this figure in a February interview. And he said, somebody just showed me something. So not very specific there.

Now, one more thing the president said in this social media post was that it is totally illegal to pay someone for a candidate endorsement. I looked into that claim as well. Turns out that's also not true. Again, no evidence that Beyonce was paid by the Harris campaign. But if a hypothetical candidate campaign were to pay a hypothetical celebrity or influencer for their endorsement, there is no federal law prohibiting that. So the more you know.

Daniel Dale, CNN.

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HUNTE: Those are English football fans losing their minds after the women's national team snagged their second straight European championship. Their triumph over the defending World Cup champion Spain was incredibly hard fought going into extra time, only to be decided by penalty kicks.

World Sport's Patrick Snell brings us the highlights from the Euro 2025 championship.

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: Well, scenes of joy in Switzerland, where England are celebrating victory, the Women's European Football championships after beating world champs Spain in an absolutely thrilling contest that would ultimately be decided by one of those nerve-jangling penalty shootouts. A blockbuster clash between these two superpowers of the modern game as the Lionesses, the defending European champs, look for revenge against their great rivals following that 2023 World Cup final defeat in Sydney. 25 minutes in and its La Roja ahead and it's the header from Mariona Caldentey, really powerful header for the opening goal of the match. The world champions take the lead.

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SNELL: But the spirit of the Lionesses should never, ever be doubted. And early in the second half, England would draw level as Chloe Kelly delivers for Alessia Russo. And it's another outstanding header that powers its way into the back of the net for one-all.

The teams couldn't be separated. It goes to the penalty shootout. England's hero, their goalie Hannah Hampton, who made not one but two vital saves to shatter Spain's hearts and hopes.

First, she denies Caldentey. And then there was more to come from her. A terrific stop to keep Aitana Bonmati's well-struck penalty out. It's a great save as tensions really start to rise now, big time.

And so it comes down to England's Chloe Kelly to win it and she makes no mistake, smashes the ball into the back of the net. She got the winner three years ago as well against Germany. And now she's making history again.

England win the shootout 3-1. The Lionesses, champions of Europe again. And just look what it means to their players. Scenes of joy there at the trophy lift. This group of players rewriting the history books.

They're also the first English team ever to win a major tournament on foreign soil. Let's hear now from a couple of their all-conquering stars.

CHLOE KELLY, ENGLAND WOMEN'S FOOTBALL: I'm so proud. So proud of this team so grateful to wear this badge. And I'm so proud to be English.

HANNA HAMPTON, ENGLAND WOMEN'S FOOTBALL: This team is just unbelievable, incredible. We've shown throughout this tournament we can come back when we got a goal down and we have that grit where we've got English blood in us.

So we're never -- we never say die and we just keep going. And we did that today.

SNELL: Just an incredible achievement. And our congrats to England. And on that note, I'll send it right back to you.

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HUNTE: It was a dog day afternoon in Bolivia's capital on Sunday. Hundreds of pooches and their owners were on the starting line of Perroton. It's an annual race organized by the Bolivian police that promotes responsible pet ownership.

The race was divided into three categories -- small, medium and large breeds. And after finishing the nearly one-kilometer route, you can bet that some of them were dog-tired.

I miss my dog.

Thanks for joining me and the team. That's all I've got for you. I'm Ben Hunte in Atlanta.

CNN NEWSROOM continues with Lynda Kinkade after a short break. See you next weekend.

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