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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Live from CNN Abu Dhabi, this is CONNECT THE WORLD.
ELENI GIOKOS, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Welcome to the show from our Middle East programming headquarters. I'm Eleni Giokos, live
in Abu Dhabi. I'm standing in for Becky Anderson.
Now we begin in France at the G7 summit, where some of the world's most powerful leaders have been striking a pose and asking about the Iran
agreement. U.S. president Donald Trump is vowing to go public with a full text, he says, soon. And he told reporters today he may even recite the
document in front of cameras.
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QUESTION: There's so much interest in the text of the document.
Why not?
Why not release the --
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TRUMP: Oh, I will.
QUESTION: Why not release it?
TRUMP: Well, because I'd like to get a formal setting first before we do that.
I'll not only release it, I'll probably have a press conference and read it to you word by word so that the press covers it accurately. Because it's a
-- it's a very important document.
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GIOKOS: Well, the U.S. press is also telling the world the next phase of talks with Iran would be easier than the initial round. I want to bring in
CNN's international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson.
Nic, really good to see you. Look, until the document is released or read out loud to the press, it is on us to piece together what's going on.
So what has come out of this summit when it comes to the U.S.-Iran agreement?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, I think the tone we've had -- and that's probably given us some of the best inkling of how the
United States intends this memorandum of understanding to work -- that came from JD Vance.
And essentially, you know, when it comes to the issue of Iran wanting tolls or thinking about a way to make money out of the Strait of Hormuz or
wanting to get those frozen assets, the $12 billion of frozen assets, JD Vance framed the picture this way, that this deal is all about Iran.
If Iran does what it's expected to do, then there will be financial reward. If it behaves like a -- like a proper country -- I think these were his
words then -- then it would be treated as such.
And I think president Trump has given us some of his additional insights on it. And, of course, for him, it's much more to be defined by, if you will,
what it's not doing or what is achieved in persuading, as he would say it, Iran not to do. And that is about a nuclear weapon. This is how he framed
it.
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TRUMP: We appreciate the relationship we've had over this short period of time with Iran. And the primary thing is, you know, we can talk about the
Iran deal all day long and we're not investing any money.
But the one thing that's happening that's of note, frankly, the only thing that really matters to me is Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
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ROBERTSON: So it's the details of how you get to that point that, I think, that is getting a lot of discussion right now, how easy it would be, how
hard it would be, how much lift it would take, remembering that it took Iran on that issue of nuclear weapons before that were being negotiated
before the war began.
There was back to square one on that. When that happened in 2015, it took about 1.5 years of negotiation to produce a very detailed document under
President Obama, the JCPOA, as it was called. So I think the focus is going to be -- but it can't be too intense a focus or studied a focus, if you
will, until we get the text.
But it's really going to be about how do you get to -- Iran to commit to these things like handing over or diluting the highly enriched uranium?
Who gets to oversee it for how long?
How long can they be in the country for all those detailed sorts of things?
That comes as part of the phase two process. But the more little, little nuggets that we get about this, of course, that's going to produce a lot of
discussion.
GIOKOS: Yes. And you're right to say, I mean, look, this is a memorandum of understanding. It is a framework that opens the door for deeper
discussions over a 60-day period. So we'll wait to see on that.
But I also want to talk about today's schedule and I want to do a bit of a recap. So first up, there was a bilateral meeting with the emir of Qatar.
The U.S. president called Qatar strong and brave in the face of Iranian attacks over the past few months.
The emir then praised the U.S. agreement with Iran, saying it shows great momentum. And next we had a working lunch with G7 and Middle Eastern
leaders.
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Mr. Trump greeted Egyptian president al-Sisi before sitting down. And then just a short time ago, he sat down with UAE president Mohammed bin Zayed al
Nahyan. Both men had high praise for each other, with al-Nahyan saying Trump's actions show the U.S. is a real ally.
I want you to give me a sense of how important this region has been to these negotiations and how, in contrast, how much the Europeans have been
sidelined up to this point.
Does this look like a new regional order emerging?
ROBERTSON: I think there is a new regional order emerging but it's perhaps not the one that president Trump might have envisaged a couple of months
ago.
You know, for all those Gulf countries you just mentioned, for Qatar and for the UAE, who've relied heavily on the United States to provide a
security umbrella and a deterrence effect for the Iran war that president Trump decided to go into, proved that that umbrella was only effective to a
degree.
Meaning there their technologies, their equipment, their oil, their liquefied natural gas was not only blocked because it couldn't get out of
the Strait of Hormuz but actually they were getting serious infrastructure damage that will take some time to repair.
So I think the reality is that, while there's a lot of praise being shown here and although Egypt wasn't in the front line of that of the war very
much, it's seen as in partnership, potential stronger partnership with countries like Saudi Arabia that have a military alliance with a treaty
with Pakistan, you know, Turkiye in that framework.
So I think all those countries are going to be looking to shore up their bilateral relationships with Iran. There will be, I think, it will
exacerbate potential tensions amongst some of the Gulf countries, particularly here between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, potentially going
forward.
But while president Trump is still the main supplier of weapons to the region and, in principle, the main supplier of security, what Iran set out
to prove was having U.S. security only makes you liable for attack. So there is going to be a lot of rethinking done here about how to move
forward, how to make sure Iran doesn't attack again.
And the Iranians, of course, have said that they they're not going to discuss their ballistic missile program. The -- JD Vance, the vice
president, has spoken about, you know, if, again, if Iran acts as a normal country, contributes to stability in the region, all of these things --
there are different languages to describe this.
The hard reality for those Gulf states so close to Iran is having the United States as your only umbrella of security. Perhaps doesn't seem as
tenable as it did several months ago.
GIOKOS: Yes, that's a really important point. Nic Robertson, really great to have you with us. Thank you so much for those insights.
Well, as Nic said earlier, while the U.S. president has been a bit vague on what is in the new tentative agreement with Iran, it is the vice president
who has fleshed out some of the key details we know so far.
JD Vance taking center stage, not only offering a glimpse of what's in the framework but defending it from criticism. Here's part of what he told my
colleague, Jake Tapper.
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J.D. VANCE (R-OH), VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Fundamentally, the way the president has set up this deal is that the benefits of the bargain
only accrue again if Iran actually complies. We're not talking about rewarding words. We're talking about changing the way that we deal with
Iran based on their actions.
And number two, fundamentally, it is a much different group of people. The president of the United States has said this before.
But let me just -- let me just give some detail to that. If you think of like the last 47 years of American relations with Iran, we have never had
this level of direct or indirect coordination.
We've never had this level of direct communication between the highest levels of their society and the highest levels of our political leadership.
So something has fundamentally transformed.
Can I say with 100 percent certainty that they're going to meet every obligation to this bargain?
No, of course, not, because I can't predict the future. What I can say is that we've structured this deal in such a way where their benefits only
accrue if our benefits accrue as well.
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GIOKOS: Well, senior U.S. officials tell CNN U.S. president Trump urged his vice president to take the lead on negotiations with Iran. CNN Politics
senior reporter Stephen Collinson joins us now live from Washington for more.
Stephen, really good to have you with us. OK. So JD Vance's profile is rising to an almost unprecedented extent. And he's becoming the face of
this agreement. He's also been doing constant interviews. He's going to sign this agreement in Trump's place. And he's also coming as he's just
released a book today about his spiritual journey to Catholicism.
What do you make of all of this?
Is this going to mint JD Vance as Trump's 2028 successor?
Or could this backfire on him?
STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think there are big political risks for Vance.
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Obviously, a lot of the MAGA political base was against this war. So if he ends up becoming the face of the peace deal and it doesn't work, that could
be politically dangerous for him.
When you look to 2028 -- and he's also on a tightrope, it's pretty clear, given the positions that Vance has articulated in the past, that he would
have been against this kind of foreign adventurism that the war represents. But now he's being forced by Trump to sell it.
And any time you talk about 2028, if you're a Republican, that risk getting on the wrong side of a president whose support Vance would need if he
emerged as the nominee. But at the same time, I think Vance is doing something quite interesting.
He's trying to build a post-Trump MAGA coalition. Last week, he intervened in that race row to the fury of the British government in the U.K. But that
was a base play on immigration this week.
His book about his religious journey is out. And it's not really the kind of normal book you see from a politician who's thinking of running for
president. It really is a self-examination.
And as part of that book, he talks about several incidents which he regrets, including one notorious comment which he made in 2021, which came
up in the '24 campaign when he referred to Democratic politicians like Kamala Harris as "childless cat ladies." Listen to what he said back then.
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VANCE: We're effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable
at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.
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COLLINSON: That was a comment by Vance, which was disastrous for Republican standing among women voters, something he'd need to repair.
So now, as he's pushing this book, he says he regrets the wording of that. But he also says, again, that he believes that some Democratic policies are
against families. That is a reference to the belief in a lot of conservative circles, that Republicans are the party of the family and
Democrats are not.
That's a big cultural war argument he's making. So it's really interesting the way that Vance is positioning himself.
GIOKOS: Yes, it really is.
And as you say, as he pushes himself forward as the face of this potential peace deal, if it doesn't work, does that backfire?
You know, it's quite interesting because president Trump earlier said at the G7 meeting that he's even open to sending the eventual Iran agreement
to Congress for review. Congress has been very skeptical about what's in the agreement.
So what kind of reception would it get there?
COLLINSON: This failure of the administration to release the agreement -- it says it will do so only after a signing formal ceremony in Switzerland
on Friday -- is now really backfiring because everyone, of course, is arguing, well, why won't you stand for what this agreement actually says?
That's caused real concern among many Republican senators on Capitol Hill as well as Democrats. The -- this is dangerous for Trump politically.
Inside the Republican Party, which is split over Iran and over foreign wars, as we were talking about with Vance, ultimately, I don't think it
could stop the deal.
Congress would be important if the agreement eventually leads to a desire to lift some sanctions on Iran. It could pass bills that make it more
difficult to implement the agreement.
But ultimately, Trump controls the Republican Party. And even if Congress revolts, he still has his presidential veto. So while it's unlikely to kill
the deal, I think it could be very complicated for Trump as a negotiation with Iran moved forward, both in terms of those talks and domestically in
terms of his own political standing.
GIOKOS: Stephen Collinson, good to see you. Thank you.
Well, U.S. president Donald Trump is voicing increasing frustration with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
He told reporters earlier today that Israel's leader needs to be, quote, "more responsible" with respect to Lebanon.
Trump has publicly clashed with Mr. Netanyahu several times in recent months, arguing that Israel's military actions against Hezbollah in Lebanon
are complicating U.S. efforts to secure a broader agreement with Iran
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TRUMP: Without me, there would be no Israel because no other president was willing to do what I did. I've had a great relationship with Bibi.
But now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon. No, I'm not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with
Hezbollah. They should have been able to do the job faster.
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It just goes on forever. And when that happens, it throws a negative light on the big deal. And that's the deal with Iran.
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GIOKOS: Netanyahu has refrained from publicly challenging Trump.
But on Monday, he said there are instances when he and president Trump, quote, "do not see eye to eye."
We've got CNN's Jeremy Diamond following the story for us.
Jeremy, good to have you with us. I mean, interesting comments there from president Trump today.
But what does it tell us about the Israel-Trump relationship right now?
And where does this leave Lebanon?
JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Yes, I mean, there's no question that there is enormous strain right now between president Trump
and Israeli prime minister and their broader relationship. And it is affecting the two countries and, in particular, Israel.
That is part of why we have seen so much criticism in the last 48 hours or so, directed here in Israel at the Israeli prime minister.
You know, people to his right, people to his left, all of them piling on the prime minister for effectively failing to manage that relationship, for
failing to influence the contents of this U.S.-Iran deal, which is, of course, something that the Israeli prime minister has, throughout his
decades of political life, prided himself on.
His ability to have a voice at the table for U.S. foreign policymaking, particularly here in the Middle East -- and it's become clear to all that
the prime minister had no say in this deal. And now there's extraordinary concern in Israel about what it means as it relates to Iran but also as it
relates to the war against Hezbollah.
And there are major questions about how Israel will actually handle this going forward. I mean, president Trump, you know, said that he hopes Israel
will be more responsible going forward, that Netanyahu specifically will be more responsible going forward in Lebanon.
But it's not clear that the prime minister has decided exactly how he's going to act. We've seen certainly a major decrease in any Israeli attacks
in Lebanon since this deal was digitally signed between the United States and Iran on Sunday night but not a stop altogether.
There have been some Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah has also fired on Israeli forces as well. So that conflict has not stopped
altogether, which is, of course, the intention of this broader ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran.
So it's going to come down to what how Israel will calibrate or recalibrate going forward or not and also how seriously Iran will view any kind of
minor skirmishes that continue to occur in Lebanon.
And, of course, there's the broader threat of Israel enforcing what is now a very bright red line going forward, which is any Hezbollah attacks on
northern Israel will draw Israeli strikes to the Lebanese capital of Beirut. If that happens, that will certainly shake things up.
GIOKOS: You know, another surprising comment -- and frankly, it's raised eyebrows -- Trump saying and suggesting that Syria should fight Hezbollah
and would do a better job than Israel. Take me through that.
DIAMOND: Yes. These were some fairly stunning comments from president Trump, not only because of how it kind of casts Israel aside and puts Syria
as the party better positioned to take care of Hezbollah, to do so faster.
And also, seemingly, the president suggesting, with fewer civilian casualties. When he lamented the fact that Israel has carried out attacks
where they're trying to kill one person in Hezbollah and they take down an entire building, that's kind of what the president said there.
You know, what President Trump's comments seem to ignore, though, is the history of decades of Syrian military occupation of parts of Lebanon, an
occupation that is still poorly viewed inside of Lebanon by many, although it was by a very different Syrian regime.
And more broadly, the notion of sending in Syrian forces to Lebanon to -- you know, the Syrian government is represented by a kind of Sunni majority
government -- to fight a Shia paramilitary force in Lebanon would have disastrous, potentially, implications regionally.
So there's a lot of questions about where president Trump got this idea. He said that he had brought it up to Israel as well. It's very hard to imagine
that that will actually take place.
And also, from an Israeli perspective, the Israelis are certainly still very skeptical of a government that is run by a former jihadist leader.
Israel has engaged in some talks with Syria through the United States. But still, on the whole, remains very skeptical of Syria's long-term intentions
in the region.
GIOKOS: Yes. OK. So, Jeremy, let's take a listen to what president Trump said at the G7 on and making the suggestion that Syria would do a better
job at fighting Hezbollah. Let's take a listen.
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TRUMP: I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because, to be honest with you, I think they'll do a better job of doing it.
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TRUMP: And I didn't like Syria. I didn't like where, two hours before we're signing the agreement, that there was an attack in Lebanon, in
Beirut. It was right -- it wasn't like in the southern side, and, you know. It was in Beirut. I did not like that. If Israel can't do the job without
killing everyone else, he'll do the job. Syria will do the job.
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GIOKOS: All right. Well, Jeremy, as you can hear there, I mean, as you say and pointed out, there's a deep history there. So we wait to see how, you
know, the response to these comments. Appreciate your time. Jeremy Diamond for us.
Now on U.S. president Trump's trip to the G7 summit in France, he's telling world leaders the next phase of talks with Iran would be easier than the
initial round. Those leaders are looking for more clarity about the memorandum of understanding.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy says his top priority at the G7 summit is securing more air defense capabilities. CNN's Melissa Bell has
more on Mr. Zelenskyy's meeting with Mr. Trump on the sidelines of this summit.
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MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We saw president Macron really go out of his way to go and meet president Zelenskyy, showing
lots of warmth toward him on their way back. We kind of overheard snippets of their conversation.
It seemed to be that they were suggesting and trying to find and hoping that this bilateral meeting with president Trump might be arranged.
You'll remember that the bilateral that was organized on the edges of the pope's funeral last year had been a crucial turnaround moment in the
president's relationship between president Zelenskyy and Trump after that catastrophic meeting we all remember from the Oval Office.
So a lot of hopes were hanging on that, because the Ukrainian president believes that the United States needs to be involved in any peace
negotiations. Europeans really looking to kind of ensure they get a place at the table if any of these negotiations get kickstarted.
Again, unlike what they had at the last round. And it did seem to go about as positively as the French president, who's hosting all this, could have
hoped, not only the moment when the G7 leaders were with president Zelenskyy and what was discussed, we understand, was the need.
We heard this from the American president himself. He suggested that Moscow needed now to work toward peace. The idea that G7 countries might look at
further ways of pressuring him. Europeans are looking at their 21st round of sanctions on -- against Russia.
And so there was a fairly united message of the need to put whatever pressure could be brought to bear on Russia at this stage. How that will
translate into actual peace talks is yet unclear. But there is an understanding that president Zelenskyy and president Trump will yet have
another meeting later today -- Eleni.
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GIOKOS: And still to come, why a source says the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating people connected to California governor Gavin
Newsom. That's coming up after this.
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GIOKOS: Multiple people have been arrested for discussing plans to attack the UFC fight night event at the White House, which took place Sunday to
celebrate America's 250th birthday.
A federal official told CNN the plans included using drones and a gunman and that the Secret Service and FBI uncovered messages between multiple
people discussing the alleged plot. Brian Todd is tracking developments for us.
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This comes from a federal law enforcement official who spoke to CNN. This official says that federal officials have
arrested multiple people who they say discussed plots to attack that UFC event at the White House on Sunday, including by using drones and by using
gunmen.
The official says a law enforcement team, including Secret Service and FBI personnel, uncovered messages, messages discussing this plot between
multiple individuals.
The FBI director, Kash Patel, confirmed the arrests in a post on X this morning, Patel saying that law that the law enforcement effort to actually
disrupt to thwart this allegedly planned plot was a, quote, "multi-state operation" and involved actors from outside the Washington, D.C., area.
Our source, our law enforcement source, said that this group of people discussed in messages attaching deadly payloads to drones in order to cause
panic at the UFC event and then to use gunmen to shoot at the crowds.
But it is not clear. This is an important detail here. It is not clear right now how far this group was in the planning before law enforcement
became aware of these messages, allegedly sent between these people.
Another person familiar with the situation says charges are expected to be revealed or -- excuse me -- unsealed sometime this morning. So hopefully
we'll be learning some more details about this alleged plot. No arrests have been made across four federal districts.
And, you know, that's what we can tell you so far. The FBI has declined to provide additional details to CNN about this alleged plot. FOX News was
first to report on this plot. And, you know, we -- I've covered the event this weekend on Saturday.
And on Sunday, there was a massive security presence there on Sunday, Sara, for this, with multiple law enforcement agencies. Not clear how far this
alleged plot may have gotten, had it really unfolded the way these people allegedly planned it.
This event drew about 100,000 people to the grounds of the Ellipse next to the White House and about 4,000 people inside the event itself. So you can
imagine the scene that could have unfolded there had this alleged plot really unfolded the way we're learning some of the details of it.
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GIOKOS: All right. Brian Todd there for us.
Now, the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating people connected to California governor Gavin Newsom over possible tax related offenses.
According to a source, now in a social media video, the Democrat says the probe is politically motivated, claiming that president Donald Trump is
targeting people in Newsom's orbit because the governor is considering running for president in 2028.
One of the Justice Department's targets in the probe is Newsom's wife, Jennifer Newsom.
All right, when we come back, how this tiny African nation defied the odds for a shocking result in the World Cup debut. We'll have the details right
after this.
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GIOKOS (voice-over): Welcome back to CONNECT THE WORLD. Here are your headlines.
Donald Trump is at the G7 summit in France, telling world leaders the next phase of talks with Iran would be easier than the initial round. Those
leaders are looking for more clarity about what's being called the memorandum of understanding. The U.S. president says he'll release the text
of the Iran agreement soon.
U.S. vice president JD Vance, meanwhile, offering some details on the tentative framework. Vance told CNN's Jake Tapper that the agreement runs
about 1.5 pages and is designed to set the parameters for the next stage of talks. Vance is expected to attend a signing ceremony in Switzerland on
Friday.
Cape Verde delivered one of the most shocking results so far in this year's World Cup. In their first-ever World Cup appearance, the tiny African
nation managed to hold off the heavily favored Spain for a 0-0 draw.
That's in large part thanks to their 40-year-old keeper, Vozinha.
GIOKOS: Cape Verde's fans were ecstatic over their national team securing their first-ever point in a World Cup and some never doubted they could
hold their ground against Spain. Take a listen.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm ecstatic. I mean, we made -- we made history. First game in the World Cup. First clean sheet. First point. First everything.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody thought we were going to get blown out. I didn't. I knew he was going to hold our own.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are third world country, right?
First game on. First time in the World Cup. We tie against Spain. Give me Saudi. Give me anybody. We doing that, bro?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Double, double. Anybody?
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GIOKOS: All right, so you can just hear the excitement, the elation. We've got CNN's Amanda Davies across the latest from the World Cup and all the
thrills.
What an exciting time. I mean and what an amazing performance from Cape Verde. I have to say, I mean, this is, you know, taking -- standing their
ground against European champions Spain, 0-0 draw with some impressive saves from a 40-year-old goalie.
I mean, was anyone expecting this?
AMANDA DAVIES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I mean, I don't want to say, you know, we told you so. But I have to say people who have been watching and
studying African football over recent years will know that Cape Verde have pulled off some pretty fantastic shock results in recent times.
They might be the second-ranked African team at this tournament. But at the last couple editions of AFCON, the one at the start of this year, excepting
they finished a quarterfinalist. They finished the round of 16. And there's been a very strategic, deliberate attempt to try and develop football in
the tiny African island nation.
But let's not take anything away from this as a story. It is epic. It is David versus Goliath. They have a population of 500,000 people up against a
footballing powerhouse of the likes of Spain, the 2010 world champions, the reigning European champions.
And yes, this their World Cup debut. You don't know how people are going to react on this, the biggest footballing stage. And you are right to focus on
40-year-old Vozinha, the goalkeeper who is the second oldest World Cup debutant in the history of the tournament, a real journeyman of a player.
He only turned professional at the age of 25, has played his football in the likes of Moldova and in Cyprus, now currently playing in the second
tier of the Portuguese game. And he was unstoppable.
You talked about thrills and spills. There were no spills from him. There were acrobatic saves galore, seven epic saves in particular against the
might of the Spanish attacking threat, the likes of Mikel Oyarzabal, Ferran Torres.
I mean Spain had to bring Lamine Yamal off the bench. They didn't want to do that because he's been on his way back from injury. They thought they
could make their way through this game without him.
You could see the emotion and what it meant for Vozinha afterwards. I don't know whether we've got some sound from him. I think we do have. Afterwards,
he talked about just what it meant to him.
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And what it would have meant to him for his mum to be there.
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VOZINHA, CAPE VERDE GOALKEEPER: My mum, she didn't manage to be here because of the visa and the -- how to say the -- I forget now. It's because
of the money. You have to pay for the visa. We didn't manage on time. And I would like she to be here but I'm very happy also and I'm very happy for
all the Cabo Verdean (ph) people.
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DAVIES: You can see the reality of what he'd achieved and what he'd done very much sinking in there as he was confronted with the media, unlike he's
ever seen before.
The tariff, the visa prices, he's talking about those tariffs that president Trump has brought in on a number of visas from people from
different countries around the world. Cape Verde are one of them.
But just to put into context what a life-changing moment that is for him, he started that game last night with tens of thousands of followers on
Instagram. He currently has 7 million and counting, Eleni.
GIOKOS: Wow.
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GIOKOS: Wow. I mean and just a shout out to all the fans, the Cape Verde fans. I mean, just so much energy and excitement.
Also, I just want to shout out to the African groups as well. Africa making history, 10 nations joining the tournament. I just want to mention that.
But let's go on to what we're expecting later today. We're seeing some major star power on the football pitch. We've got Messi, Argentina; Kylian
Mbappe for France; Erling Haaland for Norway.
What's in store for today's matches?
DAVIES: And I mean another one of those African nations, one of the top- ranked, Senegal, of course. The Africa Cup of Nations, champions or not after that ruling was overturned. They are up against France, the runners-
up from Qatar in 2022.
The likes of Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele, the current Ballon d'Or winner Didier Deschamps, the French coach -- France coach, interestingly very much
trying to play down his side's chances, saying we are not the most talented squad in this tournament.
He is saying that very much goes for Spain. You wonder whether the mind games are up at stake there.
But Lionel Scaloni, the Argentina boss, ahead of their opening game against Algeria, has very much referred to what he's seen in this tournament so
far, remembering the lessons of what happened to Argentina in their opening game in Qatar four years ago.
Do -- you might remember that they were beaten, that massive shock defeat to Saudi Arabia. And for all the excitement about the fact Lionel Messi
will be lining up for this, his sixth men's World Cup, as Scaloni put it, it's not just Argentina wanting to see him get that 200th cap. The planet
wants to see Messi.
I think there's a lot of caution from a lot of these managers because there's so much talent on display at this tournament. Nobody wants to get
too carried away too early.
And Erling Haaland and Norway, another one of those big names we need to be keeping an eye out for, for everything Haaland has won and done in his
career, a Premier League titles, the Champions League crown with Manchester City.
This is a stage he has never been able to compete on because Norway haven't been at football's biggest tournament for 28 years, since France '98.
His coach, Stale Solbakken, on the other hand, is putting a whole lot of pressure on Haaland, saying, you know, we know what he can do. As long as
he does it, we will be fine. Some players, you might worry about that as a buildup. Erling Haaland is not one of those players.
GIOKOS: All right. Well, Amanda, what a great assignment for you to be on and covering all of this excitement. So good to have you with us, taking us
through all, you know, all that's happening with the World Cup.
All right. We're going to a very short break. We'll be right back after this. Stick with CNN.
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GIOKOS: Far right populist politics has been on the rise in Britain in recent years. Nigel Farage's Reform Party made big gains in local elections
last month in the U.K., reshaping the political landscape.
That momentum has been reflected on the streets, with marches organized by far right activists fueling anger and division on a range of issues. CNN's
Jomana Karadsheh reports.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Leftie scum, off our streets.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's take our country back.
JOE MULHALL, DIRECTOR OR RESEARCH, HOPE NOT HATE: There is a magma chamber of anger sat underneath British society right now.
JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Britain's been shifting to the right.
I've spent the past few months trying to understand what's happening in this country, attending far-right protests, including "Unite the Kingdom,"
one of the biggest far-right rallies ever on the streets of the U.K.
Where tens of thousands responded to the call of this man, anti-Islam activist, Tommy Robinson, a convicted criminal turned anti-establishment
figure.
TOMMY ROBINSON, POLITICAL ACTIVIST: Are you ready for the battle of Britain?
KARADSHEH (voice-over): But it's not just on the streets and it's not just the extreme right that's on the up. The populist right-wing party Reform
U.K. led by long-time Trump ally, Nigel Farage, made massive gains in local elections in May.
This rightward shift isn't one single movement. The different groups represent different shades of right-wing politics but they all seem to be
feeding off of a divided Britain. At the heart of those divisions is the issue of migration.
Just last week, a horrific attack by a Sudanese man on the streets of Belfast almost immediately turned into the latest I-told-you-so moment for
the far-right, transforming a local tragedy into a national rallying cry. Powerful allies amplifying the message and fanning the flames of hate.
MULHALL: People in Britain are angry.
KARADSHEH (voice-over): Joe Mulhall infiltrated far-right groups undercover here in the U.K. and in the U.S. He's one of the U.K.'s top
experts on these movements.
MULHALL: You know, if you look at the way that people's lives have been, you know, lack of jobs, houses, schools, hospitals, stagnated wages, living
standards going down or stagnating for years and years and they feel that mainstream political parties have not met their material needs.
What the far-right are really good at is going to those people and they turn up and they say, you're right to be angry and they give them a
scapegoat and they say it's because someone has come to this country and taken it from you. They're really good at redirecting people's anger from
where it should be directed.
KARADSHEH (voice-over): I've seen exactly what Joe is talking about. There have been hundreds of protests across the country over the past year,
according to activists tracking far-right movements. It's mostly been about migration and how consecutive governments have dealt with this issue.
And with the center-left Labour Party back in power for the first time in two decades, the far-right senses conditions are ripe for a resurgence.
It's in tight-knit communities like this one, in the sleepy market town of Faversham, outside London, where we saw it all play out late last year.
Walking through town with a protest organized by a far-right activist, you see those divisions and feel the anger.
KARADSHEH: Right now, they're marching toward this facility where unaccompanied minors, asylum seekers, have been housed in this town.
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KARADSHEH (voice-over): They're a loud crowd but it's clear they are more noise than numbers. And you do see locals coming out to confront them.
The main event kicks off with a rambling mix of racist rhetoric, fear- mongering and white supremacist conspiracy theories.
HARRY HILDEN, ANTI-IMMIGRATION ACTIVIST: They are teaching about Mohammad and Allah. We will not tolerate our children to be taught about LGBTQ and
what pronouns or beliefs, what they can identify as. We will tolerate that around here.
PAUL GOLDING, LEADER, BRITAIN FIRST: Keep up the pressure and one day, you will be victorious.
KARADSHEH (voice-over): At this one tiny town's protest, we find one of the leaders of the U.K.'s extreme right.
GOLDING: Our country is being taken over by mass immigration. We are fed up. This is not the future that our granddad, grandparents and great-
grandparents fought for in two world wars. They didn't fight for this to be done to our country.
KARADSHEH: So you want a white Britain?
GOLDING: We want our country to be like it was before this immigration invasion was foisted on us. Yes. You mentioned far-right, neo-Nazi, all
that a minute ago, as if that kind of stuff -- that doesn't hold any power anymore. You must have learned this from Trump's victory. No one cares if
they're called a racist anymore. Those terms are just used to silence people.
KARADSHEH (voice-over): The reelection of Donald Trump is not only an inspiration for this one extreme right figure. At every far-right event
I've been to, it is a constant theme. Trump's Make America Great Again has come to the U.K.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is MEGA -- Make England Great Again.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is a man, Trump is the man.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have so much respect for President Trump. He is saving not just America, he is saving the West and he's saving the world.
KARADSHEH: You're wearing this because?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because I'm a Donald fan.
KARADSHEH: What is it that's going on?
How much of this is really influence from the U.S.?
MULHALL: There's no question they're a huge influence. When the far- right is small, little, fringe political parties, that sounds fanciful. When
you've got Donald Trump in the White House, the most powerful man in the world, they can then point to someone and say, look, it's happening there.
If it can happen there, it can happen here.
KARADSHEH: Are we headed into a direction where the far-right is turning into a significant political force in Britain?
MULHALL: I think there's no doubt about it, right?
The far-right is no longer something that sits on the very margins of our politics in Britain, an annoyance to the right. It is increasingly
something that actually has the real chance of taking power in Britain.
KARADSHEH (voice-over): The once-fringe voices seem to be moving into the mainstream. It's a small but vocal minority that's threatening to change
the face of Britain. Now they believe their moment has arrived -- Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, London.
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GIOKOS: All right. Great reporting there by Jomana. We're going to a very short break. We'll be back after this.
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GIOKOS: It's only the second full day of public trading and SpaceX is making history again. The company is now bigger than Amazon and its shares
more popular than all other stock on the market combined.
And today, Elon Musk announced the company is acquiring the software firm behind Cursor. It is a popular AI coding tool. The price, a cool $60
billion. SpaceX right now is up 8.5 percent; actually almost 9 percent.
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There you go. Our very real artificial intelligence correspondent, Hadas Gold, joins us now live with more.
Wow, I mean, just looking at the share price and seeing that it's bigger than Amazon, who would have thought. But anyway, talk to me about the AI
coding market. And for those of us that don't know what exactly is AI assisted coding and why SpaceX is interested in this company in particular.
HADAS GOLD, CNN AI CORRESPONDENT: So when you think about coding, it's very -- it used to be a very painstaking process. You're literally writing
out kind of the code, line by line. Obviously, that has changed over time.
But few industries have been rocked by the AI development than software coding. It's really the way that software developers work now. Some
software developers say that they don't actually write a single line of code, they just manage AI agents that write the code for them.
And then they check them that they essentially managers now of different AI agents who write the code. And it's one of the industries that has really
been changed by AI. And AI has proven to be very, very good at coding.
It's also one of the most lucrative areas of enterprise AI right now. In some areas, let's say like finance, AI power tools haven't necessarily
proven to be so lucrative. They haven't been able to bring in the revenue.
But that's not the case when it comes to coding. Coding is one of the few places where AI has really turned it into a real revenue for these
businesses. When it comes to xAI, they do have Grok, which does have some of its own coding tools. But it's nowhere near the level of some of the big
names in the business.
And Cursor has always been one of the early leaders and favorites among coders. Back in April, SpaceX announced this deal to either buy Cursor for
$60 billion -- it was like a partnership then -- or pay $10 billion for a partnership. So obviously they've now chosen that $60 billion option.
GIOKOS: Well, we're one minute into this conversation. I think SpaceX share price has now increased, I think it's closer to 10 percent higher.
And frankly, the numbers here for SpaceX are mind-boggling.
For example, take Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire. That is 12 zeros. And if you were here to spend $1 million an hour, an hour every day, it would
still take him more than a century to spend that. I mean, as of right now, this stock obviously has quite a lot of momentum.
I just wonder, you know, how long it can keep this up for because we've seen some pressure coming through on tech IPOs.
Is this just the excitement or is this fundamentally based?
GOLD: I think there's a lot of excitement. We've seen record numbers of retail investors. So everyday people wanting to get involved with SpaceX.
And there is some concern that it's just hype.
But there's also others who say this is a legitimate business. It's one of the few fully vertically-integrated AI companies because especially now
that they have Cursor, you know, they've got the models, they've got this AI agentic building.
They want to put, they have data centers, they have Colossus, which is the biggest supercomputer in the world. They want to put data centers into
space and they have all the materials needed to do that. They have the rockets to get them up into space.
They have the Starlink satellite system that will be used to help communicate the data from those data centers in space, back down to Earth
through their AI models. So look at any other company out there.
No other company right now owns that entire stack of products that can, you know, from the model all the way up to the satellites up in space, data
centers up there. And I think that's why you're seeing this.
And this is why this Cursor deal is an important aspect of SpaceX living up to that price, because they need to show value, especially when it comes to
AI. And when it came to their AI portion of the business, Grok is just weaker than the other AI companies out there.
GIOKOS: Yes, I mean, it's very interesting. There's, you know, who knows how much speculation is baked into this number, how much excitement, what's
based on fundamentals?
Time will tell. But that, I mean, as we were talking, I mean, it just keeps on ticking up. In the meantime, Hadas, I mean, you know, all right. So I
can't carry on talking to you. But I mean, food for thought.
What would you do with $1 million an hour to spend?
Food for thought, for you and for everyone else. Hadas Gold, thanks for joining us.
All right. It has been a busy year for NASA and space exploration. Just last week, NASA unveiled the primary crew for the Artemis III mission.
CNN's Michael Yoshida has more on the new space age and NASA's push to inspire the next generation.
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MICHAEL YOSHIDA, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A historic launch, moon base unveiling and new crew announcement.
KJELL LINDGREN, ASTRONAUT: We are in a golden age of exploration.
YOSHIDA (voice-over): Astronaut Kjell Lindgren says just as his imagination was captured by watching the Apollo astronauts, decades later,
a new generation is seeing what's possible.
LINDGREN: It is the human and human spaceflight that makes the endeavor so challenging but it is also the human and human spaceflight that makes it so
compelling.
YOSHIDA (voice-over): Helping make that connection, NASA is embracing digital media.
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In 2025, the agency overhauled its social media strategy to better connect with audiences, an effort evident during Artemis II, bringing people along
for the ride in ways prior moon missions couldn't.
NUJOUD MERANCY, DEPUTY ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR STRATEGY & ARCHITECTURE, NASA: How cool is that?
We get their playlists. We get to see their videos. We get to follow along. You know, the little things that happen during the mission make it real.
YOSHIDA (voice-over): NASA's Nujoud Merancy says going beyond polished, perfectly curated, influencer-type content and sharing real organic moments
and emotions is key.
MERANCY: It's the crew being excited about seeing flashes of micrometeoroids on the moon. The bottle of Nutella floating through the
cabin. It's those little things that I think have the most impact.
YOSHIDA (voice-over): And for those inspired but aren't sure where they might fit in this new world of space exploration --
MERANCY: I hope they just keep following along and then let their curiosity guide them. There are so many avenues to supporting this and it's
not just the traditional engineering and scientist roles.
YOSHIDA (voice-over): I'm Michael Yoshida reporting.
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GIOKOS: Well, thanks so much for joining us for CONNECT THE WORLD. Stay with CNN. "ONE WORLD" is up next. From me, Eleni Giokos, I'll see you next
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