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Early Start with Rahel Solomon
Immigration Raids Spark Protests Across The U.S.; Fourth Night of L.A. Protests: Law Enforcement In Riot Gear; U.S. & China Resume Trade Negotiations In London; Russia Strikes Kyiv And Odessa In Massive Drone Attack; Greta Thunberg Departs Israel After Detention Aboard Aid Ship; Judge Dismisses Badoni's Suit Against Blake Likely; Apple Update: OS 26 Brings Big Changes to Devices; Police: Several Deaths in Shooting At School in Graz, Austria. Aired 5:30-6a ET
Aired June 10, 2025 - 5:30 ET
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JORGE CASTANEDA GUTMAN, FORMER SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF MEXICO: -- So, yes, they're using a symbol of their heritage, but they are American citizens enjoying American freedoms. And what's, questionable is whether those freedoms are being taken away now by not allowing them to demonstrate with a flag or without a flag.
POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. And I'm so glad you're addressing some of the backlash that we've seen on social media responding to this some of these images. And an important point that you bring up here. Some of these individuals are quite literally waving a flag here. So it's quite obvious or at least that suggests that they do have the status to be in the country since they would feel comfortable enough to go out into -- onto a public street.
I want you to really punctuate on that last point, Professor, but let me play a little bit of what former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger weighed in on last night with our Erin Burnett. We'll play his comments, and then we'll keep discussing right after.
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ADAM KINZINGER, LIEUTENANT COLONEL AND FORMER UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE (via telephone): I honestly think people should be carrying the American flag around. This is a protest about is people wanting to be American or wanting to stay in The United States. I think the visuals of carrying that are terrible, honestly, and this is feeding right into Donald Trump's narrative. People can carry whatever flag they want. They have a right to do it. I just think it would be much stronger if they were carrying American flags only.
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SANDOVAL: Certainly not to put words in your mouth, Professor, but it seems that you would respectfully disagree with the former Congressman.
CASTANEDA GUTMAN: Well, I don't totally disagree in the sense that it would be more effective and less vulnerable to attacks for most of the protesters to carry both Mexican and American flags. But I don't see what is wrong with an American citizen carrying the flag of his heritage, whether it happens to be Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Filipino, whatever.
I think that it's part of the American tradition that people become Americans in this country, but they conserve their heritage, their culture, very often their language, their food, et cetera, et cetera. That's what The United States has been for the last, now it's going to be 250 years pretty soon.
So I think that it would be more politically skillful to carry American and Mexican flags. But if people want to carry a Mexican flags and they're U.S. citizens, I can't see what's wrong with it even if it's not politically expedient.
SANDOVAL: No. And full disclosure, as a Mexican American, I'm a proud owner of both an American and a Mexican flag. Immigration has always been, obviously, a very contentious topic, very polarizing topic here. You know it well from your time in in Mexico's government.
Professor, how do you compare, what it was like, especially around this topic, in the early 2000s versus where we are now? I mean, does it seem that gone are the days of when Presidents Fox and Bush would find common ground?
CASTANEDA GUTMAN: Absolutely. This is a totally different world and totally different situation we're looking at. Twenty five years ago when president Bush was inaugurated, immediately, he began conversations with President Fox who had just been elected to try and reach some sort of immigration agreement between the two countries that would include legalizing the people who are in the United States without papers and allowing for future flows of people from Mexico to come to the United States legally without having to break any U.S. laws, but at the same time to be able to take the jobs in The United States that Americans do not want to do at the wages at which Mexicans are willing to do them. And this move forward very swiftly, very effectively until 09/11.
And it is true that, since then or a little bit later, on the contrary, you may -- the attitudes towards immigration in the United States have been moving backwards, and neither presidents Bush, Obama, or Biden were able to make any real headway on immigration reform, what's now called or was called Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
And President Trump in his term and now in his second term is certainly on the other side of the debate, on the other side of the discussion. He prefers there to be no immigration, and he wants, apparently, to deport everyone in the United States who has no papers, regardless of their contribution to the U.S. economy, to U.S. society, to U.S. culture.
SANDOVAL: Professor Jorge Castaneda, you are very familiar with the politics around immigration. So thank you so much for getting up early for us and sharing your insight.
CASTANEDA GUTMAN: Not at all. Thank you.
SANDOVAL: Still on the way here on "EARLY START" is activist Greta Thunberg has departed Israel after being detained by Israeli forces aboard an aid ship bound for Gaza. Details of the incident after the break.
Plus, protesters in Los Angeles launching fireworks at police trying to clear the streets. We will have the very latest on these ongoing standoffs over ICE detentions.
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SANDOVAL: More now on our top story in this early start, the ongoing protests in Los Angeles. The fourth day of demonstrations seeing a number of protesters being detained and led onto police buses with their hands zip tied, some behind their backs.
Earlier clashes broke out between police in riot gear and protesters in Downtown L.A. Here's what we know so far. About 1,700 National Guard troops are now operating in the Greater Los Angeles area. President Trump has since ordered the deployment of an additional 2,000 troops from the Guard and around 700 Marines to be deployed.
And that's despite California filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration asking a judge to declare these deployments unconstitutional. And immigration protests, they have now spread to other cities, including San Francisco, Dallas, and here in New York.
Of course, we will be keeping a very close eye on the events in Downtown Los Angeles in the day ahead, but now let's get you caught up on some of the other top stories around the world right now, including trade talks between the U.S. and China, they have once again resumed in London.
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Negotiators are going to try to preserve a very fragile 90 day truce after both nations rolled back tariffs last month. However, two key sticking points could complicate the path forward, The US restrictions on semiconductor technology and China's dominant control of rare earth minerals.
CNN's Clare Sebastian is following developments in London very closely. Clare, China has a pretty good card to play today.
CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. Absolutely, Polo. I can tell you there's been a lot of activity here since we last spoke. We've seen, we think members of the Chinese delegation arrive and the U.S. Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick. A lot of blacked out cars have been rolling through the gates of Lancaster House here. We're just about a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace in Central London, and we do expect the talks will be getting underway.
This is the day of talks here in London. We understand from the noises certainly coming out of The U.S. delegation and president Trump that the day was, in the words of Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, fruitful. So there are some hopes going into this that they will be able to reach common ground. But I think it will be considered a win for this round of talks if they can get back to the sort of climate of goodwill that they managed to create when they last met about a month ago in Geneva when both sides agreed to reduce those tariffs on each other.
But as you say there are two key sticking points on the table as of now. On the U.S. side, the issue of rare earth, this is one of the reasons why we've seen the rhetoric step up and the tensions escalate in the month coming up to this, is that the U.S. has accused China of essentially blocking the export of rare earth minerals to the U.S.
These are critical minerals, very expensive to produce. And China has a stranglehold over that supply chain, and they're used by the U.S. in everything from electric car manufacturing to defense. So extremely important, and so the hope is on the U.S. side that they will get China to lift some restrictions and ease the approval process to export those minerals.
And in order to do that, we understand from several sources in the U.S. that President Trump has authorized his delegation here to ease up on some export controls on U.S. high-tech products, things like microchips. But there are limits.
Don't forget, these are two massive economies, the world's largest economies, who are not only interdependent when it comes to their tech industries, but essentially trying to compete for supremacy. So I think we're going to see limitations on how much ground each side is going to give.
But as I said, the idea is to get back to that climate of goodwill and to pave the way for talks to keep going as they move towards the end of that 90-day deadline. Polo.
SANDOVAL: CNN's Clare Sebastian in London closely watching those trade talks as they resume today.
Also, watching those markets very closely, the markets, as you could imagine, want to show you exactly where things stand at this hour starting with U.S. Futures. You could see the Dow slightly in the red there with a more promising outlook ahead of the opening bell for the rest of U.S. Futures.
Asia-Pacific markets, they do seem a bit mixed as some of the, some of those conversations do continue. The trade negotiations continue in London, so we'll keep tracking those futures as well.
Ukraine says at least one person is dead following overnight Russian drone attacks on Kyiv and the southern port city of Odessa. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling the strikes, quote, "One of the largest attacks on his country." Air raid sirens, you can hear them there. They blasted for hours in the Ukrainian capital.
The attack's damaging or destroying a number of civilian targets across both cities, including a maternity ward in Odessa. The barrage came on the heels of Russia's biggest drone strike yet on Ukraine. On Monday, Moscow fired nearly 500 UAVs in an overnight aerial assault, breaking its single day record for the consecutive week.
And Greta Thunberg is on a plane to France from Israel after being released from detention. The Swedish activist was among the crew of the aid ship, Madeline, that was bound for Gaza that was intercepted by Israeli forces on Monday. They've been trying to break Israel's blockade and deliver supplies to the war torn enclave.
At least five of her fellow crew members who were also detained have refused to depart voluntarily and will be deported according to France's foreign minister. The Madeline is part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an organizing -- an organization campaigning against Israel's blockade of Gaza Amnesty International that has been condemned by the -- or at least that organization has condemned the detention of these activists.
Coming up on your "EARLY START," President Trump doubles down on his military response to the protests in Los Angeles, which he's -- what he's doing to increase the pressure on demonstrators ahead.
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SANDOVAL: Welcome back to your "EARLY START." I'm Polo Sandoval in for Rahel Solomon, and here are some of the stories that we were watching today.
Los Angeles preparing for a fifth straight day of confrontations between protesters and law enforcement. On Monday, police filled up buses with detained demonstrators whose hands were zip tied. Crowds have been protesting the Trump administration's deployments of the National Guard troops to LA.
And negotiators from the U.S. and China, they have gathered for a day of trade talks in London. Both nations, they are trying to preserve a tariff truce that was brokered in May. China wants to maintain control over its rare earth materials, and the U.S. is hesitant to loosen its restrictions on advanced semiconductor technology.
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And pioneering funk musician, Sly Stone, has died at 82. His soulful, socially conscious records altered the course of popular music in the late 1960s and 70s. His band, Sly and the Family Stone, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame back in 1993. His family says he died after a long battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other health issues.
I want to take you back to our top story now. The protest in Los Angeles over federal immigration raids and U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to that city. Clashes between protesters and police continued on Monday evening with officers ordering people to clear the streets. CNN team saw officers using flash bangs and rubber bullets for crowd control, protesters also using water bottles against police. President Trump has ordered an additional 2,000 members of the National Guard be deployed to Los Angeles to support immigration agents, and that's in addition to the 2,000 already deployed without the consent of California officials.
Before issuing the new order, the President blamed California's governor for the protests in this city.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We have an incompetent governor. So I talked about governors, but I didn't talk about. He's an incompetent governor. Look at the job he's doing in California. He's destroying one of our great states. And if I didn't get involved, if we didn't bring the Guard in, and we would bring more in, if we needed it, because we have to make sure there's going to be law and order.
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SANDOVAL: And L.A. is not alone. Amy Kiley has more details on how these protests have spread to other parts of the country.
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AMY KILEY, CNN SOURCE (voice-over): Anti ICE demonstrations are happening across the country.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got it. Got it.
KILEY (voice-over): Amid ongoing protests in L.A., recent sites include New York.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm ordering your arrest.
KILEY (voice-over): Chicago.
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KILEY (voice-over): Boston and more.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Come for one.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Free David.
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KILEY (voice-over): Some demonstrators decry the arrest of a California union leader who's out on bail. He's charged with conspiracy to impede an officer, allegedly blocking a gate during an LA protest. Immigration workplace raids in that city are what sparked initial demonstrations last week.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're standing in solidarity right now with thousands of workers across the country in over 20 different cities to demand an end to the ice raids.
KILEY (voice-over): President Donald Trump says he sent National Guard members and marines to L.A. out of concern for public safety. California's governor calls the order inflammatory. Many activists in other states agree.
REP. JESUS G. "CHUY" GARCIA (D-IL): No military tactics need to be, utilized at this time.
KILEY (voice-over): Police in multiple cities say they've arrested rally goers for alleged legal violations. The White House border czar says he, thinks ICE should expand its efforts.
TOM HOMAN, WHITE HOUSE BORDER CZAR: We're in every city in the country, and ICE is going to be out every single day, and we'll continue to be out there be regardless what's happening in L.A.
KILEY (voice-over): I'm Amy Kiley reporting.
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SANDOVAL: A judge has dismissed the $400 million defamation law suit filed by Director Justin Baldoni against Hollywood power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Lively had initially sued Baldoni, claiming that while working on the film, "It Ends With Us," Baldoni sexually harassed her. Well, she claims that when she broke up, Baldoni's team orchestrated a smear campaign to ruin her reputation.
A "Deadline Hollywood" Executive Editor Dominic Patten lays out what the ruling in this case could mean.
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DOMINIC PATTEN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD: This is a huge win for Blake Lively. I mean, a massive win. You know, she made a move to have this suit dismissed back in March. This has been dismissed in its entirety.
Now the judge has said -- Judge Liman has said that the Baldoni team, the defendants, can put in a new amended complaint with much more limited claims that they can make. They have until, I believe, June 23rd to do that. But at this point, for a case that's going to trial on March 09, 2026, Blake Lively holds the upper hand.
Elsewhere, some news for you techies. Apple is rolling out a glossy new look and a new era of AI. At its Annual Developer Conference, Apple unveiled what it's calling liquid glass, which is a translucent design for icons and menus that's coming to all devices.
It's also presented new features for Apple Intelligence, a suite of AI tools that will include real-time language translation, image generation, smarter app searches, and customizable emojis. Apple AI will be able to learn your habits and routines with the goal of anticipating what you need. New software updates will be releasing this fall.
Still to come, more on the California protests over federal immigration raids. Our breaking news coverage continues here on CNN.
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SANDOVAL: An update now to some breaking news that we brought you a moment ago out of Austria. Police now saying that several people are confirmed dead after a shooting at a high school in the City of Graz.
Officers there respond responded to reports of several possible gunshots, but we don't know much more from authorities. The school was evacuated, and the area was secured with no further danger expected according to authorities.
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We will be bringing you more details on this deadly shooting out of a high school in Australia [SIC] as officials confirm more information.
Now to Los Angeles, where demonstrators clashed with police late in the night, some defying orders to clear out of the streets. Protests over President Trump's immigration operations have now extended across the country, including cities like San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Seattle, Dallas, and the list continues to go on.
Thank you for joining us for EARLY START. I'm Polo Sandoval, with CNN THIS MORNING starting right now.
