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Trump Says He's Considering Selling F-35 Jets to Turkey; Trump and Erdogan Meet Ahead of NATO Summit; Farage Makes Statement About His Future in UK Public Life; Farage Resigns, Puts Himself Forward for by-election; Prince Harry Loses Newspaper Privacy Court Case. Aired 9-9:45a ET
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- Zelenskyy --
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Is that for me? Are you asking me or are you asking the president?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- I --
TRUMP: The president.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, TURKISH PRESIDENT: Yes --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- I --
ERDOGAN: -- they --
TRUMP: -- I might add that Turkey bought planes. It's the best plane, but they bought planes from the United States, and when you buy a plane from
the United States, if there's engine rehab and other things that are done to engines, is various things that happen, including just maintenance.
I think we have an obligation to maintain engines and help them maintain engines when you buy a plane from us. What are we going to say? You're
buying a plane if the engine needs work, or if the engine has to be rehabilitated, or even upgraded somewhat. But I think we have an obligation
to do it.
What are you going to do say, I'm not going to do that. Look, Turkey has been, I know you know a lot of people don't agree, although I think with
time they're starting to Turkey has been a great ally for us. Turkey has been -- Turkey could have gone on the side, they know Iran very well and
they know the problems with Iran, but they've been very instrumental, along with a couple of other countries, of helping.
They could have gotten into the fight, you know. Here's some people saying about their relationship with Israel. They could have gotten into the
fight. They're a very powerful military nation. They didn't do that, maybe they didn't do that because of me, but they could have gotten into this --
into the fight.
On the other side, they are a nation that's been very, very good, and I can only, I can speak for myself as president. They've been extraordinary in
many ways with respect to our relationship, including trying to end the war with Iran, or whatever you call it, not even a war, it's a military
operation.
It's a denuclearization that's really what it is of Iran, because I don't think he wants to see them have a nuclear weapon either. I'm pretty sure
that, in fact, I'm totally sure of that. So, but when they buy a product from us, whether it's a plane or anything else, when it's time for
maintenance, I think we have -- don't we have an obligation to help them?
What are we going to do say, we're not going to let you use the product that you spent a lot of money in buying, and especially when it's been
somebody that frankly has been more helpful to the United States than many other more traditional countries.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- meet President Zelenskyy tomorrow --
TRUMP: I do. I do. I had a very good talk with President Putin, who, by the way, has a lot of respect for President Erdogan, a lot of respect for him.
We had a long talk yesterday, less than a long time, and I also spoke with President Zelenskyy, right after that. I think they both want to make a
deal.
It's too bad it took so long, but I think there's going to be something's going to come out, and the president is also helping us with that. But I
think there's something you and I settled eight wars, and I think we're going to be settling a night. It doesn't seem likely now, but sometimes
when with war I see when it's least likely, that's when it happens.
At a very good talk with President Putin, I had a very good talk with, I would say, as a combination, a lot of times I'd do well with Putin and
Zelenskyy would be a problem, or vice versa. Zelenskyy would be great, and Putin would be. They both want to get it settled now, more than that's all
I do in my life, is deals.
I know deals. And I think they are going to -- I think we're going to get it settled, hopefully soon. Last month, 35,000 mostly soldiers died. The
month before that, it was 24,000. The month before that, it was 27,000 and the month before that, it was 29,000. But last month, it was 35,000 young
soldiers, mostly soldiers, died, and that's crazy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- how --
TRUMP: I can tell you we're going to be taking the sanctions off. OK?
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I don't want him to waste his time answering that question, because we're working very closely with Marco Rubio, very famous man, great Secretary of
State, and with Scott Bessent and with Pete and everybody else, we're going to be taking the sanctions off. It's time to do that. OK?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President --
TRUMP: We don't want to sanction friends. It's very simple. There's plenty of people we can sanction, and we are sanctioned. We don't want to sanction
friends, and because of the president, you know, we have a very good relationship with the new leader of Syria, and he's done an amazing job.
In a year and a half, he's pulled the whole country together, and I have a very great relationship with him. And somebody said, well, he's pretty
rough to put him there. I approved him, along with the president. We were the two that really wanted him, and he's done a great job.
He's done a great job. He's pulled it together, not an easy job.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- social media -- yesterday with respect to Prime Minister Meloni --
TRUMP: Oh, I don't know. I think she's a nice person, actually. We've had a good week. We had a bad relationship. It became a little bad because she
refused to help us again. I didn't put a heavy press on her, but she refused to get involved with the Hormuz strait, or you could also say just
Iran.
She refused to get involved. So, it soured my relationship with her a little bit, but I like her. I think she's a nice person, actually. But I
think she made a mistake, you know, they get a lot of their oil from -- we don't get any of our -- we have a lot of oil. The United States has more
oil than anybody, and when you add Venezuela to it, it's like we have far more oil than any -- we don't need the straits.
We do this because we think it's an important thing to do, but she just wasn't there for us, and I wasn't happy about that. You can imagine, I
wasn't happy about that.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. President -- Why do you think that? What conditions have changed? Did Putin seem --
TRUMP: About with what?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Russia, Ukraine. Did Putin seem open to any concessions that he --
TRUMP: Never changed. I just don't want him killing people, you know, does it affect the United States? When Biden was here, he gave them hundreds of
billions of dollars' worth of equipment. Now I sell the equipment for, you know, fair price, full price, and I sell it, not to Ukraine, I sell it to
the European Union.
They pay us, but with me it's not anything to do other than I'd like to save lives. You have 25, 35, 30, one time it hit 41,000 a month, souls.
They're dead, they leave their mother in Ukraine, they leave their mother and father in Russia, Ukraine. They wave goodbye, and a week later they're
dead.
It's crazy, and I would like to see it. Doesn't affect us. It's really, you know, it's far away. It affects Europe much more. We're there to help
Europe, but it doesn't affect the United States. We have an ocean in between, but you know it's just I can't stand watching what's happening.
I've seen the pictures of those battlefields, and it's a drone war. It's a war of drones. It's a whole new technology, and we're actually the leader
in drones now. We have the most sophisticated drones, but people wouldn't believe how violent it is. And I've seen the battlefields they send me
pictures.
I actually want to say, don't send them to me. Pete, this man right here sends me pictures. Pete Hegseth, and I said, Pete, you know what doesn't
help to look. I've never seen anything like it. It's carnage, and it should stop.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- against --
TRUMP: I get along very well with both, and we're going to get it settled, and President Erdogan is helping us get it settled, as he's helping with
Iran.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- respect --
TRUMP: With respect to what?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Greenland.
TRUMP: Well, that's what hurt my relationship with NATO, because Greenland doesn't help Denmark. Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland,
but it's an important part for the United States, and it's surrounded by China ships and Russian ships, and that's not going to happen.
The ships are not going to happen. It was Greenland that, in my -- and it continues to be that should be controlled by the United States, not by
Denmark. And when they wouldn't go along with it, and with all the money we spend to help them with Russia, and we don't have to spend any money.
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We could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe, because, as you probably noticed, Europe's a very different place than it was 20 years ago, lot
different, much different -- much different, and they better be careful with immigration and energy. If they're not careful with those two things,
you're not going to have a Europe anymore. OK. Thank you very much, everybody -- It's amazing.
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: -- been listening -- Right, you've been watching the presidents of the U.S. and Turkey in their meeting
as the NATO summit gets underway in Ankara. Several points to note during this event on possible U.S. troop drawdowns, of course, in Europe.
Mr. Trump said we are going to see Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcoming Mr. Trump in a lavish ceremony in Ankara last hour, before a
bilateral meeting. Later, President Trump will meet with other European counterparts after months of complaining about what he says is the outsized
U.S. role in funding NATO and fellow members' refusal to join the U.S. military operation in Iran.
Some of which he covered in that Q&A with reporters there, the allies concerned about the possibility of future U.S. troop reductions on the
continent, all as the war in Ukraine rages on. Just before we join that event, the president talked about the possibility of selling F-35 fighter
jets to Turkey, despite a congressional ban. Have a listen.
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TRUMP: -- relationship --I would think that many people, I can tell you, many people, including the people sitting right here, thinks why wouldn't
we do that? We have a better relationship with Turkey, and Turkey has been in many ways much more loyal than other countries that we think would be
loyal, so -- something certainly we would consider.
It's a great plane, it's the best, currently, the best plane by far, and certainly something we will consider.
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ANDERSON: Brett Bruen was a National Security Council Official in the White House. The Obama White House joins me now live. You were listening into
that bilateral with Trump and Erdogan. We mostly heard from Donald Trump there, taking questions from journalists. So, what was your key takeaway,
Brett?
BRETT BRUEN, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL & U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Well, Trump brought back up Greenland, and the prospect that the
U.S. is entitled to Greenland, he interestingly once again described Russian, Chinese jets, or both, rather circulating Greenland, you know,
interestingly, Becky, he hasn't brought up that issue on his discussions with Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping, and yet somehow when he goes to Europe,
this is always the threat that's top of mind for him.
So that's going to irk NATO allies, the fact that he is going back to those claims, but also, I think you know the lack of reliability, quite frankly,
the lack of any planning or seeming schedule when it comes to some of these shifting troop commitments. But look at the end of the day, Becky, if NATO
allies can get through this summit without a big blow up, without, you know, some unraveling of Article Five, they will consider it a relatively
successful engagement.
And you see Recep Tayyip Erdogan out there right now lavishing Trump with the pomp and circumstance, the flattery in an effort to diffuse some of
that potential tension.
ANDERSON: Just -- I am going to just stop you for a moment. Please do stand by. It is an extremely busy day of news, and while we want to concentrate
on NATO, I also want to get to the UK, where Nigel Farage, who is the Leader of the Reform Party, which polls in the UK suggest is the leading
party at the moment, is making a statement about his future. I just want to listen in.
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NIGEL FARAGE, LEADER OF THE REFORM UK: The first two years of being an MP, my personal MP expenses are zero. Not, of course, that you'll read about
that in mainstream media, and yes, of course, Parliament has its rules about how members ought to behave.
And I believe I've absolutely obeyed those rules and done so under getting good legal advice.
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The standard rules are clear. This is what they say. The code applies to members in all aspects of their public life. It does not seek to regulate
what members do in their purely personal lives. Though it would seem, from the last couple of years, from the way I have been treated, that the press
would rather our Members of Parliament had no assets and no wealth at all.
They seem to fundamentally object to any MP that has outside income. Indeed, they view those that have continuing business interests with
severe, severe skepticism. Making money is not a crime. Now, going back to the 90s, I was in the commodity markets. I had a very, very good high-
earning career.
I gave that up at a huge cost. Being a member of the European Parliament for 20 years cost me a huge amount of money, but I did it because I had a
goal. I had a goal and a belief that we should leave the European Union, get back to being a self-regulating nation that makes its own laws, charts
its own destiny, and among other things, of course, controls its own borders.
We might not yet, 10 years on, have reaped as many of the benefits as we ought, but one day I believe we will, and let's be frank, if I hadn't done
what I'd done, there would have been no referendum, there would have been no Brexit. I came out at the end of that with very little money indeed.
But over the last 10 years I've been writing, I've been lecturing, I've been broadcasting, I've been investing, I promoted one or two financial
products, and for those that followed me into them, they've more than doubled their money, which I'm pleased about. I also worked extensively in
those years of 2021 to 2024 as an influencer with over 7 million followers on social media.
So yes, over the last 10 years I have financially done well, but that of itself should not be looked upon as a crime. And yes, I had the equivalent
of a lottery win, a large personal gift, and I'll come to that and the details of that in just a second. The really big question that I want to
pose is, do we want leaders that know how to make money?
Do we want leaders that have run businesses, employed people, and understand how the world works? Well, I am going to argue today we
absolutely need successful people from all walks of life, but particularly from business and industry. We need them not just in parliament, we need
them in government.
If we're even going to have half a chance of turning around the dire economic state this country now finds itself in. Contrast that with the
cabinet, 24 men and women, not one of whom has any serious experience of private business, who frankly haven't got a clue. So don't be surprised
that in economic terms we are going down the drain.
Now standards investigating me over the gift has now reared its head again as a result of a lot of copy in this week's "Sunday Times", incidentally
written by a journalist who publicly says that he despises me. And despite the fact that many of the things that were written in the article were
wholly inaccurate or indeed irrelevant, yet another standards investigation is underway.
Standards are now being used as a political tool. On the gift, it was given to me on an unconditional basis. I can do with that money exactly as I
wish. But there is a much bigger reason why I am going to need that money, and it is simply this. For over 20 years now I have been subject to
constant demonization by the press.
For daring to be outside the consensual view on many issues, I have been attacked again and again. And I am the most physically and verbally
attacked public figure or politician of modern times. Yes, you will know of some of the incidents, milkshakes thrown in my face, placards bashed over
my head, but let me promise you, you only know about a fraction of the number of times that I've been assaulted.
One little example you've probably never heard of, it was a Sunday afternoon a few years ago in the local village pub, in come the mob, about
50 of them. We decided the safest thing to do was as quickly as possible to get into the car and to drive away, but the mob surrounded the car, banging
on the bonnet and the windscreen, kicking the side of the doors.
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It was a genuinely dangerous and terrifying situation to be in. The car was written off. I didn't even bother with an insurance claim, and did
everything I could not to make it public. But these are the kind of things that I've had to put up with over many, many years. And over the last year
it's got worse with an attack on my home, very similar to the one that the prime minister suffered.
And literally daily online calls for me to be murdered, for some reason that doesn't seem to worry the police. Repeatedly over the years, I asked
the home secretary for help. I was rejected again and again, and in that period, when I was not in elected politics, between 2021 and 2024, I ran up
personally very, very substantial bills to make sure that I was safe.
When I became an MP, Parliament said yes, we will help you with security, but almost unbelievably, just a couple of days after the murder of Charlie
Kirk, 70 percent of that security funding was withdrawn.
I am going to need security for the rest of my life, and I cannot even tell you how grateful I am to Christopher Harborne, because now I will never
ever need to worry about whether I've got the resource. Well, the new attack from the media is that somehow, I am a crook. I am dishonest.
He has another reason to hate me. Commentators over the weekend have said, oh, look at the interviews Nigel is doing. He is not himself. He is getting
angry. Well, here is why. For some reason, last week the Editor of "The Times" newspaper decided to publish a picture of where my daughter lives.
There is no public interest in my daughter whatsoever she is not involved in current affairs, does not seek to be involved in current affairs and has
never been used by me once at any point in my political career, no photographs on election addresses or anything like that.
I have always done my absolute best to protect the privacy and safety of my family. By publishing that photograph, the Editor of "The Times" has
directly threatened her security. I wonder what happened to the Leveson Inquiry of years ago, an inquiry that sought to bring better balance
between what the press could do and families of those in public life, worse still, she now has broadcasters haranguing her.
Sky News were one of them, and when I questioned them on it, they willfully and deliberately lied and said on their channel that they hadn't contacted
the family. Well, let me be clear, I will not tolerate intimidation of my family. I will not tolerate the location of where they live being revealed.
I will not tolerate any of my family being endangered because of what I choose to do in public life. So, yes, you can ask, am I angry? Well, I've
never been angrier in my life. I'm also pretty upset with the behavior of this Labor government. They began in 2025 and then tried again into 2026 to
cancel elections for taxpayers and to do so on a vast and epic scale, albeit with the connivance of the Conservative Party, why?
Well, of course, fear of Reform. I'm proud of the fact that we fought a legal action that got nearly 5 million council tax voters the right to go
out on May the seventh and give their view. Now, of course, they want to reduce the voting age down to 16, again they think that will help damage
Reform.
And just a couple of weeks ago, following the Makerfield by-election, they changed the voting rules for the Manchester mayoral by-election. They got
away from first past the post again, for fear that Reform might win and now they've come after our money.
Now to be clear in the early days after the last general election it was the huge increase in our membership at 25 pounds a time that actually got
us into a position where we could build a proper party. Over the last year some big donors have been attracted to us. Extraordinary, these are men who
have gone off as entrepreneurs around the world and succeeded, the sort of people we used to admire over centuries.
Now, government ministers refer to them in parliament as malign actors.
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And so, they keep changing all the rules again and again, just to stop Reform. Frankly, it is like living in a communist country. I could never
have believed such a thing would happen here. Ignore the fact, of course, that over decades peerages have been given to donors, and that Labor's
donors in the run-up to the 2024 general election now seem to have been awarded the most extraordinary government contracts.
Perhaps Dominic Cummings was right last year when he said Whitehall will break the law to stop Reform winning power. And we have been subject in the
last few months to the use of illegally obtained information, firm evidence of computer hacking, and now leaks from government agencies, and this is
all, of course, a great distraction, because we're about to get a prime minister who's coming in with no mandate whatsoever.
He didn't even stand on the 2024 manifesto. This country needs a general election, even if Labor, the Conservatives, and the media don't want it,
and whilst this piles on against Reform happens, the boats continue to cross the English Channel. Our fractured defenses make us look weaker and
weaker against what I think is now an increasingly dangerous Vladimir Putin.
Business confidence is the lowest it's now been for 16 years. And I speak to you from a capital city where men cannot wear watches and women cannot
wear jewelry on the street. Britain is broken, and the public know it, and we need change. Now the issue with my daughter was the final straw, enough
is enough.
And I thought over the weekend, what shall I do? I could go out and try and make some real big money. I could go to the USA, where I've got plenty of
offers. And then I thought, why should I be judged today or in history in the future by Sky News and their ilk? Why should they be the people that
decide my fate when, as I repeat, I have done nothing wrong.
I thought about it hard, and I have decided today, today I will resign as a Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, thereby forcing a by-election,
which would happen, I hope, in short order. Now, I have decided that the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions.
This will be a people versus the establishment by-election. It is a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment to, frankly, tell them
where to go, and that is why I will be putting my name forward to stand in this by-election. I will fight to win. I will fight to continue the
political revolution that Reform has started.
And I would say this to you, the voters of Clacton, if I win, you win, because if I lose, they win, and we will never, with the two old parties,
get the type of fundamental change that we need to fix broken Britain. Thank you.
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ANDERSON: All right. Well, Nigel Farage, the Leader of the Populist Reform UK Party, which polls show is the most popular party in Britain, declaring
that he will resign as a Member of Parliament and will stand in the by- election, as it's known that his resignation will trigger, he says, to stick two fingers up to the establishment.
Why do we care? Well, I've got Clare Sebastian standing by for you. Clare, there is a big for our international viewers, a big so what? Why do we
care? Why was it that CNN sat on that announcement? So, let's just put this into context for our viewers across the world, just what a seismic shock to
British politics we might have expected from Nigel Farage, that being his resignation?
CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah.
ANDERSON: And what we got, which was his announcement that he will stand in the by-election that his resignation has just triggered. Just work this out
for us, will you?
SEBASTIAN: Yeah, look, I think the question is very good, Becky, because Farage is not from the two main parties in the UK, from the Labor Party,
which is currently in power, or the Conservatives, but he presides over the Reform Party, which is the current leader in pretty much any national
opinion poll that you look at, has been significantly gaining in momentum, even back in 2024.
In the last general election, they won, albeit only 8 out of 2 out of 650 seats, but about 14 percent of the popular vote.
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Fast forward to May this year, and they swept much of the country at some 1500 or so seats in local council elections, a huge win, almost from a
standing start. They have, though, and this is critical to understand with what he's done today, been seeing a little bit of a loss of momentum.
They lost two crucial by-elections this year, the last one being, of course, the Makerfield by-election that brought Andy Burnham back into
parliament. He is the man widely expected to take over from Keir Starmer as prime minister in July, and there was another election back in the winter
that they lost to the Green Party.
They've been seeing, obviously, issues surrounding the scandals around the disclosure rules that Farage is now being investigated for gifts that he
has said that he's done nothing wrong that he got unconditionally, and things like that. And they faced, and we saw it quite clearly up in
Makerfield in that recent by-election, a threat from even further to the right, the Restore UK party.
So, they have been seeing a little bit of slippage, he says. The final straw was, press coverage relating to his daughter, but instead of stepping
down, what he's doing now, I think, is really trying to give himself a renewed mandate. He's stepping down, not as Leader of the Reform Party, but
as Member of Parliament, triggering a by-election, what in the U.S. they call a special election.
He will run in it, he says. This is a chance, essentially, to refresh his mandate to come back and to prove that this is where the zeitgeist is. He
hopes for the British public. I think what this means in terms of the landscape for British politics overall is that Reform is likely perhaps to
remain a threat to the two major parties.
And if, as there is speculation, Andy Burnham comes in as prime minister and then calls a general election before he has to in 2029. Reform is going
to make sure that it is still a key player there.
ANDERSON: He did talk about the fact that he is the focus of a parliamentary investigation into an undisclosed 5 million pound or 6.5-
million-dollar donation that he received from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. He talked about it, he alluded to it, and he said
he'd come back to it, and then he didn't, so effectively he didn't address it.
That is what the controversy at present is all about. And as I say, not something that he addressed specifically when he made this announcement.
It's good to have you, Clare. Thank you. More breaking news from the United Kingdom now. Britain's Prince Harry has lost his privacy case against one
of the UK's biggest newspapers.
Together with other high-profile names, including singer Elton John, Prince Harry had brought a lawsuit against the publishers of the "Daily Mail",
claiming that they had used unlawful methods to get information for their stories. The newspaper denied those allegations, and the High Court has
dismissed the claim.
Anna Stewart, standing by in London. The verdict just in. Just explain what we've got at this point.
ANNA STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, at this point, and there is a huge, huge legal document to read, but essentially the judge has said that the
claimants, including Prince Harry, but also Elton John, and others, have failed to prove their pleaded allegations of what was phone hacking and
bugging, and just essentially unlawful information gathering.
He says the claimants could not rely on suspicion, even where understandable. They didn't have the evidence to prove this case, and this
will be a huge disappointment for Prince Harry. Let's give this some context. This is the case against the publisher of the "Daily Mail" and the
"Mail on Sunday".
But of course, in the past, Prince Harry has also taken other publishers to court. He took the publisher of the Mirror to court, and he won. He took
the publisher of the Sun to court. They settled, but they released an apology and substantial damages. So, this is really the final chapter of a
trilogy, if you will and he has lost this case.
Now, what happens next? Who pays, for instance, for the legal costs, which are estimated to run at above $50 million at this point, that remains to be
seen. We will absorb the rest of this huge legal document. This is hugely disappointing for Prince Harry, certainly not how he wanted to start his
trip here in the UK.
He's here for a week of engagements, including, of course, an appearance at the Invictus Games. Perhaps we will hear from him on this case, given
there'll be lots of cameras around him. And it caps off, Becky, a really tricky 24 hours, or a weekend, if you will, over so much mixed messaging
about who is his security, where is he staying, and of course the general tensions within the royal family.
ANDERSON: Absolutely, well, let's see if we do hear from him later, stay on it for us, Anna. Thank you. You are watching "Connect the World". Wherever
you are watching, you are more than welcome. There is a lot more news ahead. It is a very busy day. Do stay with us.
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ANDERSON: Welcome back, I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi from our Middle East programming headquarters, you are watching "Connect the World". These
are your headlines this hour. U.S. President Donald Trump met the Turkish President in Ankara earlier ahead of a high-stakes NATO summit.
He said he's considering selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, despite a current congressional ban. Mr. Trump called Turkey a great U.S. ally. The
French appeals court has upheld far-right leader Marine Le Pen's conviction for misusing EU funds, but reduced her ban from running for office, keeping
her presidential ambitions alive.
The court also ordered Le Pen to wear an electronic monitor for a year, a limitation that could complicate her presidential campaign plans. Well
Britain's Prince Harry has lost his privacy case against one of the UK's biggest newspapers. He accused the publishers of the "Daily Mail" of using
unlawful methods, such as intersecting voice mails, to obtain information about him.
Associated newspapers denied the allegations, and the high court has dismissed the claim. I'll be back with more news in just a minute.
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ANDERSON: Well, I want to get you to CNN's "Seasons" now. This is our series exploring the shifting trends that shape global culture. Today,
"Seasons" host Laura Jackson sits down with Sarah Jessica Parker. Her character, Carrie Bradshaw, on "Sex and the City" made luxury fashion a
cultural obsession for a generation.
She talks to Laura about her involvement today in a lab-grown diamond brand that emphasizes a more conscious approach to luxury. Have a look at this.
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LAURA JACKSON, CNN HOST (voice-over): New York City, a place that has inspired some of the most memorable characters in pop culture, none more so
than Carrie Bradshaw, the iconic "Sex and the City" protagonist who famously chose Vogue over dinner because it fed her more.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I spent $40,000 on shoes and I have no place to live.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER, ACTOR & PRODUCER: The writing room was extraordinary. I feel hugely lucky to be part of any work that connected with so many
people in a whole new generation now.
JACKSON: Yeah.
PARKER: It's so crazy, it's so crazy.
JACKSON: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know, it's like a heart.
JACKSON (voice-over): Today, Parker is bringing her creative spark to Astrea London, the lab-grown diamond brand founded by her friend Nathalie
Morrison.
NATHALIE MORRISON, FOUNDER & CEO OF ASTREA LONDON: We don't need water. We use much less electricity. There are no human damages as I call it, or no
deforestation, no explosive use. So, I think we can now wear modern luxury without hurting the planet.
PARKER: I really understood the virtues of lab-grown diamonds versus mine diamonds, the ways in which potentially we can invent the way stones look
and feel in terms of color and cut. The innovation around it is pretty thrilling.
JACKSON (voice-over): Lab-grown diamonds are chemically, physically, and optically identical to mine stones, but they are created in a laboratory
using the same carbon structure found in nature.
JACKSON: Creatively, what did you want to bring to the brand?
PARKER: I think a lot of the jewelry that I have worn thus far are vintage pieces, so what could I do that was to try to recreate some of these pieces
that I've had forever that don't exist in the world really anymore.
JACKSON (voice-over): It's a world away from "Sex and the City". Whilst Carrie bought on impulse, Parker takes a more enduring view of luxury.
PARKER: When I think of luxury, I tend not to think of possessions so much. I'm not a shopper. If I buy one thing, it's with the idea that it will last
me for the next 20, 30, 40, 50, years of my life.
JACKSON: I have always loved how you've talked about beauty standards, especially for women, and I just love how you talk to the fact it's a
luxury, and I think that it's really compelling in a world where not everyone thinks that.
PARKER: The passage of time is sincerely nothing you can do anything about. I have my creams not complicated, one or two or three steps at most, that's
all I could take. Other than that, what are you going to do?
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ANDERSON: "Seasons" for you. "World Sport" with Patrick Snell is after this short break.
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