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President Trump Threatens War In Chicago, Walks Back Vowing To Clean Up Cities; South Korean Officials Travel To U.S. To Resolve Fallout From Immigration Raid; Mushroom Murderer Sentenced To Life; President Trump To Speak To President Putin Soon, Threatens New Sanctions On Russia; U.S. Sends New Ceasefire Proposal For Hamas; Japan Preps For A New Leader After PM Announces Resignation; Memorabilia Up For Auction As Last Chapter Hits Theaters; Trump Primed To Cash In On Crypto Gold Rush He's Helping Create; Carlos Alcaraz Defeats Jannik Sinner In Men's Final; Pope Leo Raises Carlo Acutis To Sainthood. Aired 2-3a ET
Aired September 08, 2025 - 02:00 ET
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN HOST: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. Just ahead. --
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our city.
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CHURCH: Donald Trump walks back comments about waging war on Chicago saying he'll announce plans to clean up the city in the coming days. The president also hinting at potential new punishments for Russia following the biggest attack on Ukraine so far.
An Australian woman convicted of killing three people with toxic mushrooms learns her fate in court. And later, a beloved British period drama is hitting the big screen for its final chapter.
Good to have you with us. Donald Trump says he will make a decision in the next couple of days about deploying troops and ICE agents to Chicago. While speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump claimed that Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is not addressing crime in Chicago.
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TRUMP: Chicago is a very dangerous place and we have a governor that doesn't care about crime. I guess we could solve Chicago very quickly, but we're going to make a decision as to where we go over the next day or two.
(END VIDEO CLIP) CHURCH: Chicago isn't the only democratic-led city facing action from the federal government. The Trump administration over the weekend launched a new federal immigration enforcement program in Boston aimed at arresting undocumented migrants. CNN's Lee Waldman has the latest.
LEIGH WALDMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The federal immigration crackdown happening in Massachusetts comes just a few weeks after the Trump administration started hinting at a major operation taking place in Boston. A DHS spokesperson telling CNN on Sunday, ICE launched Patriot 2.0 to target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens living in the state of Massachusetts following the success of Operation Patriot in May.
Operation Patriot resulted in nearly 1,500 arrests. throughout all of Massachusetts. Now, Boston's Mayor Michelle Wu issuing her own statement following this action happening in Boston Sunday saying, "For months, ICE has refused to provide any information about their activities in Boston and refuses to issue warrants while we hear reports of ICE agents taking parents as they are dropping off their kids at school. This does not make our community safer."
She also added that the Boston police and local resources will not be assisting federal operations. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts governor, Maura Healy, is saying that there are not a criminal arrest happening, that these arrests are targeting everyday people. Take a listen.
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MAURA HEALEY, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS: We've seen construction workers, nannies, landscapers, now health care aides. These are the people who are being taken in these huge numbers, taken away from their families. And it is not the kind of effort that Donald Trump said it was about. But again, this is about show. It's about a show of force. It's about political theater.
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WALDMAN: All this is coming in the middle of Boston's mayoral race. Voters are heading to the primary polls on Tuesday. It's also important to keep in mind that this increased ICE enforcement happening in Boston comes just a few days after Wu, the city, and the police department was sued by the Department of Justice. In New York, Leigh Waldman, CNN.
CHURCH: In the coming hours, South Korea's Foreign Minister will head to the U.S. as the two countries deal with the fallout of last week's massive immigration raid in Georgia. The U.S. and South Korea have struck a deal to send roughly 300 workers home after they were detained by federal agents. The workers were among 475 people detained on Thursday during a large-scale raid at a plant jointly operated by South Korea-based companies Hyundai and LG Energy Solutions.
CNN's Mike Valerio joins me now from Seoul with more on this. Good to see you, Mike. So what's been the reaction to all of this in South Korea?
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MIKE VALERIO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Rosemary, I think the best way to capture the reaction is to describe people being astonished. Astonished to see the treatment of their citizens. And really, I think that there is, from the people we talk to on the streets of Seoul when we're looking at social media and opinion columns in the newspapers, there certainly is the understanding that every country needs to uphold its immigration laws.
But what people don't seem to understand when we're doing interviews is why couldn't ICE, from their point of view, go to this mega facility and say, you know what, I think there was a problem with XYZ section of your visa for this person and that person. The way that this was handled, showing up without warning and putting chains around people's waists, leading them out with handcuffs, and then leading them out to detention.
That certainly has struck an emotional chord with people and describing that emotional chord, it's certainly an undercurrent of unease. America is such a friend to South Korea with nearly 30,000 troops who are stationed here on the Korean peninsula as a counter to China and North Korea. Trade and cultural ties, very strong. And then you have this that certainly is leading people in business to question how will investments go forward? How exactly will they position their people going forward?
And case in point, we had LG Energy Solution, the company that is partnering with Hyundai, at least in the EV battery part of this mega facility in Georgia, suspending most business trips until further notice and telling their people, Rosemary, that if they are in the United States, they either need to remain in their accommodations or come home immediately.
And as we wrap up here, the broader context of this, this all happened fewer than two weeks after South Korea's President, Lee Jae-myung, was in the White House, in the Oval Office, having a good meeting with President Trump, touting all of the investment possibilities of how South Korea could help make American manufacturing and industry great again. So when you have this unfolding, certainly officials here in Seoul are trying to resolve this as quickly as possible.
We do see President Trump posting on Truth a few hours ago saying that all foreign international investment is welcome. He wants people to be in the United States legally. So in sum, it's just the manner that this was done. Again, striking a chord with people and we're waiting to see when exactly the more than 300 people are set to return to South Korea. It could be towards the middle of this week, but we're still firming up our reporting on that front, Rosemary.
CHURCH: I know you'll be watching that closely. Mike Valerio joining us there. Many thanks. Appreciate it. Well, joining me now is Ron Brownstein, a senior CNN political analyst and opinion columnist for "Bloomberg." Appreciate you being with us.
RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Hey, Rosemary. CHURCH: Good to see you. So, two new polls are showing that most
Americans don't approve of Donald Trump's presidency with both NBC and CBS revealing he's underwater on all the key issues including crime, immigration, foreign policy, the economy and trade. What have these latest numbers signaled to you and what might Trump need to do before the 2026 midterms?
BROWNSTEIN: Well, first, I mean, I think the key here are the ratings on the economy. They are the most important. You know, in his first term his approval rating economy really went under 50 percent at any point and his rating on the economy was almost always higher than his overall approval rating, but now his ratings on the economy are often under 47 or under 40 percent and on inflation it's usually even a few points lower.
And you know, as we saw in 2024, the last few points of voters that put he over the top and elected him were people who felt that Joe Biden had failed on the economy, who had failed to keep their cost of living under control. And Trump is not receiving any better verdict at this point from those swing voters.
The bottom line for 2026 is that if these are his numbers indeed a year from now, the election will be very tough for Republicans, which is probably, you know, helps explain why he is going to such lengths to try to have red states tilt more districts toward Republicans through gerrymandering and why he is also trying to shift the focus of the debate to crime wherever he can.
CHURCH: And Ron, meantime, President Trump said Sunday that a decision on a crackdown on crime in Chicago will come in the next day or two. But the Illinois government is vowing to fight this in court if the National Guard is deployed in Chicago. How will this likely play out in the days ahead with Trump being accused of waging war on his own citizens as he also pointedly renames the Department of Defense the Department of War?
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BROWNSTEIN: And his first tweet about it was, you know, did Chicago is going to learn why it's called the Department of War, not some foreign adversary? You know, I wrote in his first term, and I still believe it's true, he governs as a wartime president with blue America rather than any foreign adversary as the enemy. You know, he has arrested -- the administration has arrested several municipal officials from Democratic-run cities, as well as a U.S. representative.
He is threatening cities with a cutoff of various kinds of aids unless they adopt conservative policies on an array of issues, as you saw he talked about in Boston. He has targeted blue cities for aggressive forms of immigration enforcement, conspicuously aggressive. And now he is, you know, continuing to threaten sending the National Guard into Democratic-run cities ostensibly to fight crime.
I think the debate is going to be whether this is really about fighting crime or is this trying to numb Americans to the sight of something that is much more common in authoritarian countries, which is heavily armored military forces patrolling the streets of the cities. There will be a legal fight over this. California won a district court decision last week saying that the use of the guard exceeded in L.A. what was permissible under our 19th century law called the Posse Comitatus Act, but that's gonna have to be fought out in state after state.
The administration is taking the position that there is no civil remedy or a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, meaning no court can order him to stop a deployment in effect that he can send military anywhere, anytime to do anything.
CHURCH: And Ron, on another top issue, I want to talk about health because we know that at this point you wrote an article for CNN.com --
BROWNSTEIN: Yeah.
CHURCH: -- about Health Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. and you were questioning whether his approach to vaccines and public health will lead Trump onto thin political eyes. How bad could it get for Trump and the country if we see a rise in measles and even polio --
BROWNSTEIN: Yeah.
CHURCH: -- as states like Florida drop immunization requirements for kids in schools spearheaded by the views of Kennedy?
BROWNSTEIN: Yeah. Well, as viewers may know, Kennedy had a very fiery and mostly rocky hearing before the Senate Finance Committee this week. And I think that is going to be something of a turning point in his tenure, whether he survives as HHS secretary, most likely or not. I think the leash is going to get shorter because we have seen several things come together in the last few weeks as he has fired the head of our Centers for Disease Control and taken other steps that kind of have let loose his hostility to vaccination.
You know, at that hearing, we saw several Republican senators, including John Barrasso of Wyoming, who rarely if ever has publicly dissented from Trump, raise serious questions about Kennedy. We have seen in the last few weeks the leading medical professional associations, which mostly tried to keep a low profile in the first months of the Trump administration not really fighting the appointment of Kennedy or even the Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
We've seen then become much sterner in their opposition to the direction he's going. We've seen new polling that 80 percent of American parents, including three quarters of Republicans, do support the mandate on kids to receive vaccination before attending schools. You know, and even Trump himself on Friday raised and comments to reporters some cautions about the direction that Florida is going, which could double, I think, as a warning to Kennedy about how far he is willing to let him go with his ultimately fringe crusade to discredit vaccines that resulted in an enormous reduction in suffering and disease.
I am not sure the President wants to go as far down this road as Kennedy seems to be signaling and I wouldn't be surprised if the leash does get a little tighter in the weeks and months ahead.
CHURCH: All right, we'll be watching very closely as will you. Ron Brownstein, appreciate you being with us.
BROWNSTEIN: Thanks for having me.
CHURCH: Police in New Zealand say they have found two missing children after the man believed to be their father died in a shootout with police. Officials presume the man to be Tom Phillips, although a formal identification has not yet taken place. Phillips and his three children vanished in December of 2021. Those children are now thought to be ages 9, 10 and 12. Police say one child was found with the deceased man.
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Despite several sightings like this one in 2023 and widespread efforts to locate them, the family remained elusive while likely living off the grid. Now that appears to have come to an end when police responded to a break-in at a farm shop in a tiny rural town. An officer was wounded in the confrontation that followed.
Well, a court in Australia has handed down three life sentences to Erin Patterson, convicted of murdering three people with a meal that included death cap mushrooms. In addition, Patterson won't be eligible for parole for at least 33 years. The case has gripped attention around the world and the sentencing was broadcast live from Melbourne.
With me now from Melbourne is Nine News reporter Amber Johnston. Thank you so much for talking with us. So what's been the reaction across Australia to the sentencing of Aaron Patterson for the murder of three lunch guests with these poisonous mushrooms?
AMBER JOHNSTON, NINE NEWS REPORTER: I've never really seen anything quite like this in all my years as being a journalist and a court reporter. This case has really been quite extraordinary from start to finish and I think that's the case for so many different reasons. Firstly, it's just the heinous nature of this crime. The fact that this woman used beef wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms to deliberately murder her in-laws. So that's her children's grandparents and her estranged husband's parents.
She deliberately set out to murder them. It's almost Shakespearean in a way and I think that's drawn a whole lot of attention towards the case. Even today before the sentencing there was a long line of about 60 members of the public who were waiting here at the front of court to get one of the very few seats inside and I don't think there are many cases here where we would ever see scenes like that. But it's also just who Erin Patterson is as a person.
She's become are quite the enigma throughout all of this. She's maintained her innocence. She's never given any sort of confession. We've learned that she really is quite an intelligent woman, but there's still so much about her that remains a secret and I think that has just drawn so much fascination towards this case. CHURCH: And Amber, Patterson has until midnight, October 6th, to lodge
an appeal against her sentence or conviction. How likely is it that she will do just that?
JOHNSTON: That is the million dollar question. And speaking to a number of different experts today, I've been getting mixed reactions like, yes, there are some people who have said it is an absolute no- brainer that Erin Patterson will launch an appeal. That's because she is a woman who comes from a whole lot of money and really, she has nothing to lose. She is staring down the barrel of at least 33 years behind bars and she has an incredibly good defense barrister. One of the best defense barristers in the country so why would she not give an appeal and go.
But on the other hand, the judge in this case, Justice Christopher Beale, he was so meticulous and so careful in how he ran this trial. He made sure every T was crossed and every I was dotted and he left no stone unturned. So there was a lot of commentary about this case being appeal proof, but as you just mentioned, Erin Patterson has 28 days from today to formally lodge that appeal. So whether that's something she does or not we would just have to wait and see.
CHURCH: Indeed we will. Amber Johnston reporting from Melbourne. Thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate it.
So Russia may soon face new sanctions from the U.S. as President Trump prepares to speak with Putin in the days ahead. The latest on efforts to end the war on Ukraine when we return.
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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone. U.S. President Donald Trump says he will speak with Russia's Vladimir Putin very soon. It comes as the President grows more and more frustrated with the lack of progress toward peace in Ukraine. He is now signaling that the U.S. is ready to move to the second phase of sanctions against Russia. That's after Moscow launched its largest aerial assault of the war early on Sunday. It deployed more than 800 drones, striking a government building in Kyiv for the first time. CNN's Alayna Treene has more from the White House.
ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: President Donald Trump spoke with reporters Sunday evening and said that he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming days. He said he plans to call him very soon and added that he has confidence he would be able to get the war settled between Russia and Ukraine, but added that he's still very disappointed with the pace and progress of negotiations. Listen.
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TRUMP: It's such a horrible waste of humanity. So no, I am not thrilled with what's happening there, I will tell you. I think it's going to get settled. So I settled seven wars. This, I would have said, would have been maybe the easiest one to settle of all. But with war, you never know what you're getting. But we're going to get it. I believe we're going to get it settled. But I am not happy with them. I'm not happy with anything having to do with that war. It's just such a waste of great humanity.
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TREENE: Now those comments there mirror what I've been told in my conversations with people here at the White House and throughout the Trump administration that Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with how Putin has been handling this. You heard that he said in those remarks there that he thought this might be one of the easiest wars that he could try to settle and it's proving to be the hardest and that's in part because he had been hoping particularly at the beginning of his second term that he would be able to sit down with Putin or at least get him on the phone and be able to find a way to resolve the war.
Clearly, that has not happened. Now those comments also follow what the president told reporters earlier Sunday that he's planning to move forward with a new phase of sanctions on Russia. I would remind you that we've actually heard this threat from the president in the past, over the past several months really, but each time he's pushed that back.
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And part of that, I'm told, from White House officials is because he's worried that inflicting economic pain on Russia could end up blowing up these negotiations.
But all of this comes as we've seen Russia continue their relentless bombing campaign on Ukraine, something we've heard from other officials today on Sunday, including Keith Kellogg, his special envoy for Ukraine, that it shows that Russia has no signs of stopping this war or wanting to find a peace deal at the end of this. All to say, we're waiting to see whether the president actually gets on the phone with Putin in the coming days. He also mentioned he might see some European leaders coming to the White House to further discuss this. Stay tuned for all of that. Alayna Treene, CNN, the White House.
CHURCH: Two Israeli officials say the U.S. has put forward new ceasefire principles in a renewed effort to bring an end to the war in Gaza. One Israeli official says the principles call for Hamas to release all hostages being held in Gaza on day one of a ceasefire and for Israel to halt its assault on Gaza City. If accepted, President Trump would ensure a ceasefire holds as long as negotiations continue. Mr. Trump had this to say about the prospect of a deal.
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TRUMP: I think we're going to have a deal on Gaza very soon. It's a hell of a problem. Again, it's a problem we want to solve for the Middle East, for Israel, for everybody. But it's a problem we're going to get done.
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CHURCH: The renewed push for a deal comes as Israeli strikes hit several sites in Gaza City on Sunday. Health officials say at least 41 people were killed. CNN's Jeremy Diamond is following developments and has more now from Tel Aviv.
JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, a new American ceasefire and hostage release proposal aims to get all of the hostages back home and ultimately end the war in Gaza. The United States has put a new proposal on the table calling on Hamas to release all of the 48 remaining hostages held in Gaza on day one of this proposal in exchange for a ceasefire in Israel halting its latest assault on Gaza City.
Both sides would then enter into negotiations to end the war and President Trump would guarantee that a ceasefire would hold as long as negotiations to end the war continue. Now, this is significant because this is the first U.S. proposal since the United States withdrew from the ceasefire and hostage release negotiations in late July. And on social media President Trump has posted saying, "The Israelis have accepted my terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well. I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This is my last warning. There will not be another one."
Now, the Israelis, for their part, have not confirmed that they have actually agreed to this proposal. But we did hear from the Israeli Prime Minister's office and they said that Israel is, quote, "seriously considering President Trump's proposal and that they said that it appears that Hamas will continue in its refusal."
It is important to note here that this proposal, under this proposal, Hamas would essentially be giving up all of its leverage up front, relying only on assurances from the United States that a ceasefire would hold as long as these negotiations to end the war actually continue, but Israel would not have to commit to an end of the war up front, which could ultimately become somewhat of an impasse here. These negotiations to end the war in Gaza will likely be extremely contentious.
Israel is insisting on maximalist terms to end the war, including of course the release of all of the hostages. But beyond that, they want to see Hamas out of power in Gaza, and they also critically want to see Hamas completely disarmed, which has been a red line for Hamas, the militant group uh inside of the Gaza Strip.
It's important to note that previously we were talking about temporary deals for only some of the hostages. And even under those terms, Hamas would be getting the withdrawal of Israeli troops from certain parts of the Gaza Strip. That is not something that we're seeing here yet, but there are a lot more details still to be revealed. And also clearly, that this proposal would likely be subject to negotiation itself. We will see whether it can jumpstart the process once again of trying to get some of those hostages home and ultimately ending this war in Gaza. Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Tel Aviv.
CHURCH: Hamas issued a statement late Sunday saying it received, through mediators, some ideas from the U.S. administration. It said it welcomes any move that helps end the fighting and expressed its immediate readiness to sit at the negotiating table to discuss the release of all Israeli hostages.
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Hamas said it wants a clear Israeli commitment to end the war in exchange.
Japan prepares for a different future after its prime minister says he's stepping down after less than a year in office. Details on his resignation and a look at how the markets are reacting. That's next here on CNN.
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CHURCH: Japan's Nikkei is surging one day after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced he would resign as leader of the world's fourth largest economy. The move came less than a year after Ishiba took office.
CNN's Hanako Montgomery has more now from Tokyo.
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HANAKO MONTGOMERY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Japanese prime minister has resigned, and the timing of his decision, he said, has to do with the United States. For months, Japan and the United States have been locked in trade talks after the U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on Japanese goods, a shocking blow to a key ally. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba called the tariffs a, quote, national crisis. But last week, the two countries finally inked a deal. Japan pledged to invest US$550 billion in America. And in return, Washington agreed to cut the tariff rate to 15 percent.
Ishiba also said he was stepping down to take responsibility for his party's bruising defeat in July's parliamentary elections. The Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority in the upper house of parliament, meaning a party that has dominated Japanese politics for nearly seven decades now finds itself in the minority in both chambers. That loss crippled the LDP's ability to pass legislation and shattered its once iron grip on power.
So, Ishiba's exit was expected. Pressure had been mounting inside his own party.
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And just this week, lawmakers were preparing to test support for replacing him.
Now, in terms of what's next for Japan, the LDP will hold a leadership race soon, which Ishiba said he would not run in. But with the party in turmoil and no clear successor in sight, Japan is entering one of its most turbulent political chapters in decades.
Hanako Montgomery, CNN, Tokyo.
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CHURCH: "Downton Abbey" is taking its final bow 15 years after it began. The beloved period drama is returning for one last film. We'll take you inside the grand finale. That's next.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.
"Downton Abbey" is taking its final bow. The beloved British period drama is hitting the big screen for one last chapter, and thanks to Bonhams Auction House, fans of the show can snag their own piece of Downton history for a good cause.
CNN's Lynda Kinkade takes a look at the grand finale.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But the future of Downton Abbey is now in Mary's hands.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He will be a sensation.
LYNDA KINKADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's a fun farewell to "Downton Abbey". The period drama about the lives, loves and losses of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants.
HUGH BONNEVILLE, DOWNTON ABBEY: I think those who follow the show will find it a very moving and, I think, appropriate way to wind up all the stories.
KINKADE: It's been nearly 15 years since our introduction to the characters.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning, Carson.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning, my lord.
KINKADE: Now the beloved franchise created by Julian Fellowes is taking a bow after six seasons as a television series, followed by three films with "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale" serving as the last installment.
JOANNE FROGGATT, DOWNTON ABBEY: It is the end of a chapter, the end of an era.
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And you know, all good things must come to an end. And it's -- what a ride. I mean, what a ride it's been.
KINKADE: But for fans who aren't ready to let the series go, Bonhams Auction House in London is running an exhibition and sale of some of the show's most famous memorabilia, like the famous bell wall, part of the show's opening credits, which bonhams had expected to sell for up to $10,000 already with a bid of more than double that.
Also featured is Lady Mary's wedding dress and other memorable looks, which one member of the cast says were both historic and glamorous to wear.
PENELOPE WILTON, DOWNTON ABBEY: All this beading is probably the original, and then they put a new back, back on it.
KINKADE: Likely one of the most expensive items up for auction is the Grantham family car, a 1925 Sunbeam. That's expected to fetch for around $34,000 to $47,000.
CHARLIE THOMAS, BONHAMS UK GROUP DIRECTORY: So you'd have your chauffeur at the front. So, Brandon would be in the front and Grantham would be sitting here in the back. It really feels like I'm traveling first class.
KINKADE: The proceeds of the auction will go to a children's charity. The movie opens in theaters September 12th, for one last glimpse of life at "Downton Abbey".
Lynda Kinkade, CNN.
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CHURCH: Look forward to that.
Thanks so much for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. For our international viewers, "WORLD SPORT" is up next.
And for those of you here in the United States and in Canada, I'll be back with more CNN NEWSROOM after a short break. Stick around.
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CHURCH: Welcome back to our viewers in North America. I'm Rosemary Church.
Someone's bank account is about to get a massive deposit. At least two people in two U.S. states are now Powerball jackpot winners. Winning tickets for Saturday's nearly $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot was sold in Missouri and Texas. The Texas ticket was sold at a convenience store near San Antonio. The location of the Missouri ticket has not been announced yet.
So here's a look at the winning numbers. If you want to check your ticket, 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 with a red Powerball of 17, and a power play multiplier of two.
Well, Donald Trump and his family operate a company with diverse interests ranging from real estate to tequila. But now, they're earning big bucks with cryptocurrency. The U.S. president and his sons, along with a few others, founded the cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial last year. Since then, legislation passed under the Trump administration has helped the family rake in crypto dollars.
Is it a conflict of interest?
CNN's Nick Watt takes a look.
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NICK WATT, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Trump family amasses $5 billion fortune after crypto launch, read "The Wall Street Journal" headline.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Crypto is likely now the Trump family's primary business interests.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is the crypto president.
WATT: A Fox Business host, usually a Donald Trump apologist, explained it like this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's crypto-friendly legislation coming from the president of the United States --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Uh-huh.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- who is in turn cashing in on the crypto phase personally, his family.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Conflict of interest.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They say no, but that's how it appears.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's true.
WATT: Back in 2021, Trump was not a crypto guy.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Bitcoin, I -- just seems like a scam.
WATT: Then he changed his mind.
TRUMP: I'm laying out my plan to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet.
WATT: On the eve of his inauguration, the Trumps launched two meme coins, Trump and Melania. In May, the biggest Trump coin buyers were rewarded dinner with the president. In June, Trump declared $57 million in earnings from so-called token sales, digital assets. That's some of the cashing in the Fox Business guy was talking about.
Now, the legislation/regulation. Week one in office, Trump signed a crypto focused executive order that, among other things, called for a reevaluation of regulations.
TRUMP: They're going to make a lot of money for the country. WATT: The crypto weary chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission
had already been eased out.
J.D. VANCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We reject regulators, and we fired Gary Gensler, and we're going to fire everybody like him.
WATT: The SEC soon dropped cases against a handful of major crypto trading platforms.
This summer, Trump signed the GENIUS Act, designed to make crypto trading safer, which increases public confidence, which makes it more valuable.
Meanwhile, Trump Media, owner of the flagging Truth Social, is pivoting into more crypto trading.
ERIC TRUMP, SON OF PRESIDENT TRUMP: Our family loves you.
WATT: This week, Eric Trump was in Asia promoting American Bitcoin, a company he founded. He and his brother reportedly hold a stake worth north of a billion bucks.
Finally, the backstory to that "Journal" $5 billion headline. Last year, Trump and sons and others founded World Liberty Financial. This week, it launched a digital currency onto the market, landing the Trumps that $5 billion on paper.
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WATT (on camera): President Trump, since he retook office, is listed as a co-founder emeritus at World Liberty Financial and the White House press secretary told CNN about all this. Neither the president nor his family have ever engaged or will ever engage in conflicts of interest.
Back to you.
CHURCH: Well, Donald Trump was at the U.S. Open Men's final in New York on Sunday. The president was cheered, jeered and booed as he stood with guests outside his suite. He waved and pumped his fist a few times to the crowd in the stadium, which was about 20 percent full at the time.
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Then he went back into the suite where the U.S. Open trophy was kept. Enhanced security measures for the president caused delays for fans entering the stadium and pushed back the start of the match by 30 minutes.
Well, Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner to win his second U.S. Open men's singles title. With the victory, Alcaraz also takes over the world number one spot in tennis from Sinner.
CNN's Andy Scholes caught up with the champion after the match.
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ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Carlos, congratulations.
You only dropped one set on your way to your second U.S. Open title. And now, the number one ranked player in the world once again. How does it feel to make to get this win?
CARLOS ALCARAZ, MEN'S SINGLES CHAMPION: Well, it was a -- it was a great feeling. And it is a great feeling. You know, my -- my goal, my goal, you know, since I got chance, he was almost at the beginning of the year, and I -- and I achieved that. For me, it's great. So I just did something that -- that I'm working for, and I'm really happy to be able to leave with this trophy today.
SCHOLES: You and Yannick have won the last eight grand slam titles. Do these kind of wins have a little more meaning when you -- when you win against your biggest rival?
ALCARAZ: Yeah. Absolutely. When you're I think it's -- it's a better taste when you win a grand slam or a tournament when you beat the best player in the world. So, for me, it's great to play as much as I can with Jannik in the biggest tournaments, in the -- in the biggest stages. So for me, yeah, it's a better feeling when I -- when I beat him, I can, I can say -- I can say all the things about it.
SCHOLES: Yeah. Second youngest in the open air to get a six grand slam titles. Only 22 years old. What -- what are we thinking when you're all said and done, 20, 25, 30?
ALCARAZ: Well, I don't know. I mean, I can't -- I can't stop here, to be honest, I can't take anything for granted, so I just have to keep it going. She wanted to keep improving, to keep giving my 100 percent. If I want you to win more, more of this trophy. So, it's a long journey, but I'm ready to take it.
SCHOLES: Can you use the golf swing celebration with the trophy?
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ROSEMARY: Well, Italy is bidding a final farewell to fashion giant Giorgio Armani. A hearse carrying the late Italian designer left the Armani Theater on Sunday, where his body had been lying in state over the weekend. Mourners and staff gathered to say their last goodbyes, applauding as the coffin was driven away. Armani died on Thursday at the age of 91 after a five-decade career that turned his name into a global fashion empire and symbol of elegance. His private funeral will be held later today in a village near Milan.
The pope canonized the first millennial saint on Sunday.
CNN Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb has the story from Rome well.
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CHRISTOPHER LAMB, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carlo Acutis has just been declared the first millennial saint in the history of the Catholic Church. Carlo Acutis died in 2006 at the age of 15 of leukemia. During his life, he was something of a computer whiz kid and he used his computer skills to set up a Web site to document Eucharistic miracles and awareness of the Catholic faith. He's seen as something of a patron saint of the Internet to guide young people through the digital world.
And since he died in 2006, a huge following has grown up to Carlo Acutis, to his memory and to what he stood for. And there was huge numbers here in St. Peter's Square for the moment when Pope Leo declared him a saint. A spontaneous eruption of applause broke out in the square when that happened.
Now people from across the globe are here for this event. And I spoke to some of those from Pennsylvania where there is a shrine to Carlo Acutis. There's a big following to this new saint in the United States. Here's what they had to say.
FIONA LAWLOR, PILGRIM FROM PHILADELPHIA: I felt like he related to me because he found a way to use technology and love God at the same time, and use them in a way, and I feel like I kind of need to do that. And this generation needs to learn how to do that.
MARK GRIMALDI, PILGRIM FROM PENNSYLVANIA: He used the Internet for positive things. He used the internet to share his information on the Eucharist with other children, with adults. He's touched my life like as an older man.
LAMB: Now, Carlo Acutis was declared a saint after a long investigation into his life, and after two miracles were attributed to his intercession, which is a necessary requirement normally for saints to be declared in the Catholic Church. The two miracles of Carlo Acutis, one, a young Brazilian boy who had a birth defect and was reportedly cured of that after prayers were said to Carlo Acutis, and a young Costa Rican woman, 21-year-old, who had a bicycle accident in Florence, and her mother reportedly prayed to Carlo Acutis and she was cured, too.
So it was after that investigation into his life, the declaration of the miracles, that Pope Leo today was able to declare him a saint. Also of note is the fact that Carlo Acutis' family were here in St. Peter's to witness this moment. His mother and father and his brother and sister. They were mentioned by Pope Leo in his remarks during the canonization ceremony.
So a historic moment here in St. Peter's with the declaration of the first millennial saint in the history of the church.
Christopher Lamb, CNN, Rome.
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CHURCH: People in Bolivia swapped engines for sneakers and exhaust fumes for bike pedals on Sunday, shutting down traffic for the country's annual Pedestrian Day. For 18 hours, streets were transformed into open spaces for cycling, dancing, exercise classes and outdoor fairs.
Bolivia's pedestrian day, held every September, has been going strong since 2011. It's designed to reduce pollution while raising environmental awareness.
Skywatchers around the world gathered to view a total lunar eclipse, also called a blood moon. Here we can see the stunning display over Switzerland. This phenomenon occurs when sunlight is refracted and filtered as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere during a total eclipse, covering the moon's surface in a coppery red glow. Beautiful.
I want to thank you so much for your company this hour. I'm Rosemary Church. I will be back with more CNN NEWSROOM after a short break. Do stay with us.
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