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Trump Working on Plan to "Get People Fed" in Gaza; Trump Flexes Nuclear Muscle amid Spat with Medvedev; Life Is Challenge for Ex- Detainee Paul Whelan; African Nations Fail to Strike Trade Deals with U.S.; Collector Pays $10 Million for Birkin Bag at Auction. Aired 3- 3:45a ET
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BEN HUNTE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Hello. Wherever you are in the world, you are now in the CNN NEWSROOM with me, Ben Hunte in Atlanta. It is so good to have you with me.
Coming up on the show, the starvation crisis worsens in Gaza. I'll talk to a humanitarian worker about the challenges of delivering aid.
Stocks slide after U.S. president Donald Trump's new tariff plans. We've got the latest numbers and reactions.
And why Ghislaine Maxwell's latest prison move is being called unprecedented.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Live from Atlanta, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Ben Hunte.
HUNTE: Welcome.
After a visit from top U.S. officials, Israel's prime minister has postponed making a decision on military operations in Gaza until next week; that is, if Hamas does not agree to a deal, a source tells CNN.
There have been disagreements within the Israeli government about what they should do next, as Hamas has reportedly withdrawn from ceasefire and hostage release negotiations.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he's working on a plan to get people fed as starvation grips Gaza, Israel and the U.S. back a controversial group called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
President Trump says he spoke with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff after Witkoff and the U.S. ambassador to Israel visited one of the groups aid sites in Gaza on Friday. CNN's Matthew Chance is in Jerusalem with more on their visit.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Well, the focus of this five-hour Gaza visit by the U.S. Mideast Envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee was a controversial U.S.-backed food distribution center in Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The GHF set up to sideline the United Nations role in distributing aid after Israel complained that U.N. aid was reaching Hamas. Ambassador Huckabee praised the GHF, saying that it distributed more than 100 million meals and prevented Hamas from getting their hands on it.
But that's not as good as it sounds; 100 million meals between 2.1 million Palestinians is about a meal a day for 47 days. And it's been in operation for 70 days. The organization has been criticized for failing to effectively tackle the hunger crisis in Gaza, which has been devastated in Israel's war on Hamas.
It's also unlikely that GHF meals have been unable to reach all Gaza's residents. I mean, you've got three distribution sites in the whole territory compared to the hundreds previously operated by the U.N.
The other issue is that this visit, which Steve Witkoff said was intended to better understand the humanitarian situation in Gaza so it could be relayed to President Trump.
Well, that visit was carefully planned and it was a highly sanitized event, which did not capture the chaotic and deadly scenes that have led to more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza being killed by the Israeli military as they tried to get food in recent months.
Hundreds of them, hundreds of them near GHF distribution points, according to the U.N. The GHF disputes this.
But to illustrate the point, eyewitnesses in Gaza tell CNN that Israeli forces fired on people waiting near the same distribution site visited by Witkoff and Huckabee. Palestinian medical officials say at least three people were killed. The Israeli military says it fired warning shots to prevent the crowd advancing toward its troops.
And so, it's also unclear how much of that grim reality of Gaza that the U.S. envoy or the U.S. ambassador really witnessed -- Matthew Chance, CNN, Jerusalem.
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HUNTE: Russia is warning some of Ukraine's allies that they could become targets of its new intermediate range hypersonic missile.
President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday that a Russian missile has entered production and will be deployed in Belarus. It's the kind of weapon once banned under a defunct Soviet-era treaty.
He also said Moscow could use it against the countries that gave Ukraine their longer range weapons for strikes on Russia. The missile is believed to have the range of up to 5,500 kilometers. Mr. Putin claims it flies 10 times the speed of sound and can carry
multiple warheads. Russia first fired experimental missile against a factory in Ukraine last year.
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The U.S. president and a former Russian president are engaged in some nuclear saber rattling after what Donald Trump called inflammatory statements from Dmitry Medvedev.
On Thursday, Medvedev referred to Russia's Soviet-era automatic nuclear strike capabilities during a spat about Ukraine. Mr. Trump had told the Russian to watch his words and now says he's moving two nuclear submarines to strategic positions near Russia.
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: He was talking about nuclear. When you talk about nuclear, we have to be prepared and we're totally prepared.
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HUNTE: The former Russian president, who is now on Russia's Security Council, has been sparring with Mr. Trump over his deadlines for reaching peace with Ukraine. After giving Russia 50 days to agree to a peace deal with Ukraine, Trump lowered it to 10 to 12 days.
Medvedev called each ultimatum by Trump a step toward war.
Residents are trying to pick up the pieces after Russia's deadliest attack on Ukraine's capital in a year. At least 31 people were killed in Kyiv on Thursday morning, with almost 160 others injured. Most of the casualties came from a residential building that partially collapsed after taking a direct hit from a Russian missile.
Nick Paton Walsh went to the scene.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The night terror was commonplace blasts. The buzz of drones across the capital skyline but the impact on the city's northwestern edges was not.
A Russian missile hit number 12 Juby (ph) Street at about 4:40 am Thursday. Dawn met with devastation and neighbors carrying their pets out. The force of the blast, huge.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): God it is awful.
WALSH (voice-over): This drone shot shows just how. The entire side torn away, floors collapsing on the sleeping. Officials said six dead at first but the gruesome task of unpacking the rubble got underway.
The limp body of a boy carried out. Rescuers cutting through wires, breaking through walls to get this man out about 5 hours later. But if they dug deeper, the numbers of dead shot up.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): Our light just turned on.
WALSH (voice-over): Dozens injured but a total of 28 dead here and the panic came back to another air raid siren. Survivors here running to the shelter again. Some overwhelmed.
Others explaining they thought the air raid all clear was given the night before.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): We woke up because of the explosion. We're on the eight floor and the explosion wave hit us, everything was blown out.
WALSH (voice-over): Over 24 hours later, they could safely clear the rubble away.
WALSH: It's really hard to reconcile the sheer scale of the destruction here. I mean, the whole side of this building just torn off. You can see how so many died. Floor collapsing on floor to reconcile the scale of the damage of the tiny little fragments of personal lives that have just been blown out across the dust here.
People coming back in to the neighboring block, taken out while they can. Hard hats, mandatory. The whole lives here completely upturned in a matter of seconds.
WALSH (voice-over): Killed by the Kremlin here, 6-year old Matvii Marchenko, who loved karate with his elder brothers. I.T. Specialist Vitaliy Raboshchuk with his daughter, Vlada, 18 and Iryna Humeniuk with her two daughters, Anastasiia and Alina.
One miracle here, too, blown out of the ninth floor, was Veronika, aged 23, who landed with only a broken leg.
VERONIKA, MISSILE HIT SURVIVOR (through translation): I was just sleeping, I woke up on the rubble. Most likely I glided down. I don't know what happened. It was a levitation.
WALSH (voice-over): Both her parents died in the attack. No bright spots here, just the hope it might somehow stop -- Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Kyiv, Ukraine.
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HUNTE: It's been one year since a historic prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia. They exchanged two dozen prisoners back then, including American Paul Whelan, who was welcomed home by former President Biden.
Whelan spent 5.5 years in a Russian prison for alleged espionage, which the U.S. considered a wrongful detention. But he's telling CNN his life hasn't been easy since his release. He's struggling to find a job and health insurance and he's working with two U.S. lawmakers to find ways to help people just like him.
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PAUL WHELAN, FORMER RUSSIAN PRISONER: You know, the system really isn't meant to deal with people like me but Congress did pass a five- year health care provision in the Hostage Recovery Act, the Levinson Act. The problem is that Congress didn't fund it, so the State Department doesn't provide those benefits to people like me coming home.
So that's one of the things we're working on. Congress fund that five- year health care piece. You know, there are some other things we're working on with taxes, Social Security, you know, hopefully compensation as well. It's difficult because, you know, we're out there by ourselves trying to do the best we can.
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HUNTE: President Trump heads into the weekend fuming after an alarming new jobs report. It said only 73,000 jobs were added in July and revised numbers for May and June down sharply.
The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, accusing her without evidence of manipulating the report for political purposes. The president also called on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to step down after a member of the Fed's Board of Governors said she's retiring early.
Mr. Trump claimed she's quitting due to disagreements with Powell over interest rates. All of this happened as the administration's new tariff plan shook the U.S. stock market.
The Dow had its worst week since early April and the S&P 500 posted its worst day since May. Some economists and lawmakers are slamming the president for firing the BLS commissioner. CNN's Jeff Zeleny has more on the fallout from Washington.
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JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: As president Trump left the White House on Friday evening to spend a weekend at his Bedminster golf resort, he was defending his decision to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is the office that oversees the monthly jobs report.
This came in the wake of a very weak jobs report for July, showing only 73,000 new jobs were added, about half of what analysts suggested, coming on the waves of the dramatic changes in Trump's tariff program.
He also was clearly offended and angered by the May and June revisions in that jobs report, saying that fewer than 20,000 jobs were created each month, down from about a quarter of a million jobs as initially forecast.
Now those revisions are common. It happens every month in the job report. But the president seized on it and called it rigged.
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QUESTION: You said the jobs report today were rigged?
TRUMP: Oh, yes, I think so. If you look at before the election, the same kind of thing happened. I think you'll see some very interesting information come out.
But we got rid of -- you have to have honest reports. And when you look at those numbers or when you look at just before the election and then after the election, they corrected it by 800,000 or 900,000 jobs -- yes, I would say so.
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ZELENY: The president producing no evidence that the jobs numbers were actually rigged. The beginning of setting up a narrative that we have seen before, trying to create a rationale for doing a decision like this.
But some former officials from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are calling on Congress to investigate this firing. Even former Trump appointees are saying that this could set a bad precedent.
Jobs numbers are always seen as nonpolitical, apolitical. So this is something that certainly could create a ripple effect going forward. But one thing it does not change are the challenges in the economy, the manufacturing sector and actual job creation. Numbers have been weaker than the president would like. So clearly he's trying to fire the messenger here. But that doesn't change the bottom line about the economy -- Jeff Zeleny, CNN, the White House.
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HUNTE: Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned coconspirator met with the Justice Department's second in command last week.
Now Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a less restrictive facility in Texas. Details straight ahead.
And former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe has been sentenced after being convicted of fraud and bribery. His lawyers say he'll fight the decision. Details when we come back.
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HUNTE: Welcome back.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he's working on a plan to get people fed as starvation grips Gaza. He spoke as Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff visited an aid site in Gaza on Friday.
Let's bring in Olga Cherevko, the spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza. And she is joining us live from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
Olga, thank you so much for being with me.
Can I just quickly ask, how are you doing at the moment?
OLGA CHEREVKO, SPOKESPERSON, U.N. OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS IN GAZA: Thanks, Ben.
Yes, we're doing OK here. I'm just taking it day by day.
HUNTE: Day by day. You are on the ground in Gaza at the moment.
Can you just describe to me what you're seeing today?
What is the reality right now for families waiting for food, for water, for medicine?
CHEREVKO: The reality is really horrific. It's difficult to put into words what we are seeing on a daily basis. A couple of days ago, I was on a mission on one of the convoys and we were driving along the road and I saw out the window on the side of the road, there was an elderly man, completely alone.
He was kneeling down and scooping up handsful of lentils that had spilled on the ground and he was putting them into his T-shirt. And this is to me a very stark indication of the fact that the most vulnerable people are, of course, struggling the most.
And this is something that that this man, like many, many others in Gaza, that's the only choice that he has to survive right now.
HUNTE: It's awful.
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff visited a U.S.-backed aid operation on Friday, the same one that the U.N. actually called unsafe.
Did his visit signal anything to you and did it change anything on the ground?
CHEREVKO: Well, I think we need to have a lot more to happen on the ground to really have a significant change to our operations and to the way that were able to deliver aid.
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Ultimately, what needs to happen is that we need to be able to go back to our community-based distribution systems that we had in place before, because, at the moment, it's a very chaotic atmosphere.
And the continued constraints that we're facing, including delays at various checkpoints of the Israeli forces as ground forces as well as Limited routes that are provided to us to be able to take many times these routes remain dangerous, impassable and or very congested.
So much more needs to happen for us to actually reach the people in need.
HUNTE: Can you just tell me how much aid has actually made it into Gaza over the past few days?
And is any of it reaching the people who you think need it most?
CHEREVKO: So we are picking up aid every day and we're able to pick up more every day of food and medicine and nutritional supplies and things that are entering.
But because of these long restrictions and constraints that we had on us, there is a very strong atmosphere of distrust and lack of confidence in the communities within the communities themselves who don't trust that this aid will come or that this aid will reach them.
So what is happening at the moment is most of our supplies, as soon as we hit the road, are taken directly off the backs of the trucks by desperate and starving people. And, of course, amongst these people, they -- they're the strongest, who can make it to these areas to get what they can from the trucks.
The people like the man that I saw on the side of the road are not able to do this. So we -- the only way to address this is, again, through our system that reaches the most vulnerable and is able to identify these vulnerabilities and deliver the aid to them directly.
HUNTE: A recent international report found the worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in Gaza. But the crisis hasn't officially been declared a famine and it's still being heavily debated, as you know.
How important is a famine declaration to you?
CHEREVKO: You know, the famine declaration, once famine is declared, we know that it's too late. And in fact, in many ways, it's already too late because we have been ringing the alarm over all these months, saying that there is a massive food shortage and there's a hunger crisis developing.
And it has now developed to the point that the whole world is seeing these horrifying images of children, of adults, completely emaciated and starving to death. And we are hearing of more and more children and adults dying of starvation.
This means that it has been developing over all these months and it has now reached a very, very dangerous point.
HUNTE: I mean, these pictures and these videos we're seeing are just horrific. They're so, so sad.
I wonder, how are you personally responding to people who argue that there is no starvation in Gaza right now, especially people on social media? CHEREVKO: Well, I think it's very simple. All I need to do is just
open my eyes and go out in the streets and either speak to strangers in the street or see my own friends waste away.
Look at my colleagues who are being admitted to the hospital because they're not eating enough and really just the overall indicators that we have, that continue to worsen; things like malnutrition rates among children, for example.
HUNTE: Gosh, these videos are so, so sad.
Olga Cherevko, thank you for your work. We appreciate it. Speak soon.
CHEREVKO: Thank you. Ben.
HUNTE: The U.S. did not strike a single trade deal with any African country before president Trump's self-imposed deadline. We'll take a look at how tariffs will impact the continent when we return.
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HUNTE: OK. Welcome back. I'm Ben Hunte. Let's take a look at today's top stories.
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HUNTE (voice-over): U.S. President Donald Trump says he spoke with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff after Witkoff and the U.S. ambassador to Israel visited Gaza on Friday. President Trump says he's working on a plan to get people fed as starvation grips the enclave.
Witkoff says he spent five hours in Gaza to better understand the crisis and to relay it to president Trump.
U.S. president Donald Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner after Friday's weak jobs report. The president, without evidence, claiming the report was rigged. It said U.S. job growth stalled in July, with just 73,000 jobs added, while May and June totals were revised down by a combined 258,000.
The U.S. Justice Department and Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney are not explaining why she has been moved from a prison in Florida to a minimum security prison camp in Texas. The transfer comes one week after the accomplice of late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein met with the deputy attorney general.
Countries around the world are reeling from president Trump's newly announced tariffs, set to take effect on August 7th. They're the highest tariffs America has imposed since the 1930s. Switzerland is among the hardest hit nations, facing a 39 percent
levy. The Swiss government expressed, quote, "great regret" after that decision but said it will continue to negotiate with the U.S. president.
Trump is slapping 15 percent tariffs on African countries, which the U.S. has a trade deficit with. But some nations are facing double that rate. CNN's Larry Madowo reports from Nairobi, Kenya.
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LARRY MADOWO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The United States did not sign a single trade deal with any African country before that August 1st deadline and
barring a last-minute change. It means these higher tariffs will come into effect August 7th.
It reflects some say the low priority that Africa is for the White House or a sovereign reality that these African economies are just too small
compared to America's largest trading partners, the European Union or China.
But this will affect some of the world's poorest nations, for instance Lesotho, which was initially given a 50 percent tariff in April 2nd.
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now come down to 15 percent but I was just recently in Lesotho and you see the impact of the fear of these tariffs. Already some companies are
closing, some people are losing jobs.
Lesotho's garment industry, they export everything from Trump branded golf shirts to Levi's jeans to the United States and all that is likely to be
affected.
Take another example, one of Africa's largest economies, South Africa. Officials have been working the phones trying to get a deal speaking to the
U.S. trade representative but they did not get that before the deadline.
And -- and the country which depends on the U.S. as a second largest trade partner, there's some concern about job losses.
KALOMO MUSOKOTWANE, MARKETING AND EVENTS MANAGER: And then 30 percent is drastic, so a lot of people are going to lose jobs. And already the government is struggling to create more jobs as it is. And I don't see them creating any more jobs again.
So it's going to probably be up to the entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are going to have to somehow find a way to bring back the economy. But then at
the end of the day, a lot of people are going to lose.
MADOWO: President Cyril Ramaphosa saying Friday that the government will cushion companies that will be affected hard by the reciprocal tariffs of
South Africa's agriculture and automotive, as well as chemicals industries, especially depend on the U.S. market.
But zooming out here, while the U.S. is raising tariffs on African countries, China is going the opposite direction. China has announced that
it will drop all tariffs for all African countries except for Eswatini, which still recognizes Taiwan. And so China already is Africa's largest
trading partner.
In 2023, Africa exported about $170 billion worth of goods to China. That's four times more than the continent did to the U.S. So these are two
competing narratives here and many Africans suddenly will be warming up economically to China -- Larry Madowo, CNN, Nairobi.
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HUNTE: Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a lower security prison camp in Texas.
The move comes a week after she met privately with the deputy attorney general as the Epstein files fallout intensifies. Neither the Justice Department nor Maxwell's attorney have explained the transfer. CNN's Ed Lavandera visited the facility in Bryan, Texas, and has this report for us.
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ED LAVANDERA, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: One of the first things you notice when you arrive here at the federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, is that much of it is not surrounded by tall fencing with razor wire.
Most of it is surrounded by a simple black metal fence that you would see in many residential neighborhoods across the country. And that kind of gets to the point here, that this is a minimum security facility. We are told that there are more than 600 female inmates at this
facility. And it's also, we should point out, very unusual that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred here. This is a facility, a prison camp, that usually houses inmates that are considered to be low risk, not a flight risk and also be nonviolent.
But there are a number of high-profile inmates at this particular location in Bryan, Texas. One of them, including Jen Shaw, who was a cast member of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" and also Elizabeth Holmes, who was executive in the blood testing company Theranos and part of a high-profile criminal trial just a few years ago.
But this facility has areas for outdoor recreation. There's an area underneath some oak trees in the shade, where inmates can sit in benches and chairs. They're simply surrounded by one chain with signs that say "out of bounds" if you go beyond that area and it literally sits right at the entrance into the prison camp.
Federal prison officials have not explained the details and the specifics of how Maxwell was transferred from a facility, a more secure facility in Tallahassee, to this one here in Texas. They have not explained that. But for the moment, Ghislaine Maxwell is one of the most high-profile inmates here at this prison camp -- Ed Lavandera, CNN, Bryan, Texas.
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HUNTE: Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe was sentenced on Friday to 12 years house arrest. He was found guilty of bribery and procedural fraud. The case began in 2012 when Uribe was accused of having ties to right-wing paramilitary groups.
After years of investigation and legal appeals, he was charged in 2024. Uribe was acquitted of one charge of bribing a prosecutor. He has maintained his innocence and his attorney says they do plan to appeal.
Some luxury items are hard for even the wealthy to obtain. Coming up, a collector shares how he was able to get his hands on a rare original Birkin bag during a record-breaking sale.
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HUNTE: Welcome back.
After a flight lasting almost 16 hours, a multinational crew of four astronauts are docked with the International Space Station. SpaceX Crew 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday morning. The Crew 11 team are set to be on the ISS for six months. You're looking at live pictures there as well. Wow, look at that.
They're expected to perform various science experiments involving moon landing simulations, eyesight testing in 0 g conditions and stem cell research. They'll relieve the four members of Crew 10, who are finishing their deployment and will be returning home.
Want to stay and watch that some more?
A Japanese collector is the envy of fashion enthusiasts and luxury shoppers around the world. Recently, he paid an eye-watering $10 million for the original Birkin bag. Now he's sharing the strategy behind his winning bid. Saskya Vandoorne reports.
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SASKYA VANDOORNE, CNN SENIOR PRODUCER (voice-over): This is the moment a bag made history. The original, Hermes Birkin, designed for a '60s icon,
smashed auction records in July, selling for an eye watering $10 million and this is the mysterious buyer on the other end of the phone.
SHINSUKE SAKIMOTO, CEO OF VALUENCE: I was sitting in this very chair. It was the most expensive purchase I've ever made per item. So to be honest,
it was very exciting but it really made me sick to my stomach.
VANDOORNE (voice-over): Tokyo based Shinsuke Sakimoto is a businessman and collector. In an interview with CNN, he revealed what was really going on
behind the scenes in that dramatic 10 Minute bidding war.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We now come to the Star Lord Mako. Do you want to bid Mako 6 million?
At 6 million euros?
SAKIMOTO: Are there many enemies?
It's a one-on-one match -- Here comes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 7 million euros.
SAKIMOTO: Wow, amazing. For real.
VANDOORNE (voice-over): A former professional soccer player, the auction appeared to bring out Sakimoto's competitive nature.
SAKIMOTO: We were almost at the upper limit in those few minutes.
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We were actually strategizing to inflict a certain psychological damage on our
opponents. And force them to give up by making a bid without delay.
VANDOORNE (voice-over): His company, Valuence, specializes in circular design and the purchase and sale of rare, pre owned luxury items. But this
bag won't be resolved anytime soon.
SAKIMOTO: I think it's a truly artistic piece. We will like to exhibit this at museums and venues to convey this value and background to the next
generation and to inspire people.
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HUNTE: Hip-hop legend Busta Rhymes has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Rhymes has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and has 12 Grammy nominations.
LL Cool J and Chuck D were among those who came to support Busta. Rhymes has also had several memorable TV and film appearances, including a role with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson in "The Naked Gun" reboot, for also opened on Friday.
Fighting back tears, he said he worked hard to get where he is.
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BUSTA RHYMES, LEGENDARY HIP-HOP ARTIST: I never was raised by people or artists or a support system that made it seem OK to try to go around, honestly earning your right to passage.
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HUNTE: Love that.
Thanks for joining me and the team. That's all I've got for you. I'm Ben Hunte in Atlanta. "WORLD SPORT" is next. And then there's more CNN NEWSROOM in around 15 minutes time. See you at the same times tomorrow. 'Bye.
