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Trump on Gaza: "We're Going to be Getting Some Good, Strong Food"; Thailand & Cambodia Agree to an Unconditional Ceasefire; Israel Eases Restrictions on Gaza Aid after Global Outcry; Epstein Controversy Hangs Over Trump's Visit to the UK; 150 Million Plus People Across the U.S. Under Heat Risk; Ichiro Makes History, Jokes at Hall of Fame Induction. Aired 11a-12p ET
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ELENI GIOKOS, CNN HOST, ONE WORLD: President Trump talks trade and global conflicts with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland. "One World"
starts right now. Donald Trump says the U.S. will set up food centers in Gaza as the World Health Organization warns that malnutrition rates are at
alarming levels.
And the U.S. and the European Union come to terms on trade. But the deal is not without its critics. Plus, England's football is basked in the glory of
yet another European Championship. CNN's Sports Coy Wire joins me live to break down their triumphant whip. Live from London I'm Eleni Giokos, this
is "One World". Welcome to the show.
Now Donald Trump is on the third full day of his trip to Scotland, where he's set to visit one of his golf resorts within -- with the British Prime
Minister within the hour. Earlier, the U.S. President met for talks with Keir Starmer at another one of his golf courses. The humanitarian
catastrophe in Gaza was high on the agenda.
The prime minister slammed the conditions there as absolutely intolerable, and said the British public is revolted by the images of starving
Palestinian children. The president, meanwhile, said the U.S. would begin setting up food centers in Gaza, but he didn't offer any details, and he
described the situation as, quote, real salvation stuff, promising to deliver what he's calling good, strong food.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We also discussed, obviously, Gaza. And I think before we get to phase two, which is, you
know, what's going to happen afterwards, we want to get the children fed. We made a contribution a week ago of $60 million all going into food.
We only hope the food goes to the people that need it, because so much as you know, when you do something there, it gets taken by Hamas or somebody,
but it gets taken. But -- and we're prepared to help. You know, we want to help. It's a terrible situation.
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GIOKOS: CNN's Alayna Treene joins us now live at the White House. And Alayna, I mean, listening to President Trump, it sounds like he's hardening
his position and say there is starvation. That's contradicting Prime Minister's Netanyahu statement. Tell us about the plan to open food
centers. We didn't get much detail, but this is definitely a shift coming through from the United States.
ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: That's exactly right, Eleni, a very notable shift, I'd argue, and you could tell just the -- you know,
seeing both President Donald Trump and the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer next to each other, they were kind of speaking Eleni with one
voice, and shared a unified message on this.
With the president, saying that he thought these images were terrible. He said, that's real starvation. You can't fake that when referring to some of
the photos coming out of the scenes in Gaza. And then he spoke about wanting the United States to help sent -- set up food centers in Gaza. As
you mentioned, not offering specifics.
But you also heard the Prime Minister of the UK, Keir Starmer, saying -- you know that there was revulsion among the British people about what they
were seeing. Both of them really sharing very critical and tough words for what was happening.
And I think one of the most notable moments of that was when you heard the president saying that he spoke with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin
Netanyahu, and saying that he had communicated to him that the scene was bad and then also be given where they are in the current state of the war
between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Saying that he's communicated to Prime Minister Netanyahu that essentially, he may have to start going about the war in a different way. Again, not
offering specifics of what that would look like, but a shift in tone from President Donald Trump.
And I think when you go back to the president talking at length about these photos that he's seeing of the starvation in Gaza, it's notable, because
the president is someone who has looked at these types of photos before. He's very moved by images like this. And you can tell that that is exactly
what he was reflecting in his comments today.
And I also thought it notable. And you made this point Eleni, that what he was saying about the starvation, about these images, saying you can't fake
that, that it's real starvation. It does stand in contrast with what we heard from Netanyahu over the weekend, who seemed to question -- you know
whether or not those, those -- the actual starvation was going on in Gaza, and whether these photos were actually real.
So, kind of taking a different position there, but it was very clear that the discussion over this and the desire to do more to help the people of
Gaza and help get food to them and much needed supplies was an overriding theme of that press conference today, and a lot of the remarks that they
share.
GIOKOS: Absolutely. OK, so what the other sort of big piece of news that we heard is putting pressure on Vladimir Putin and issuing a new ceasefire
deadline.
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Also, notable that he was basically lamenting the fact that he speaks to Vladimir Putin, gets one message from him, and then the next day, he was
talking about -- you know seeing these airstrikes in Ukraine. What does that ultimately mean for the trajectory of the war?
TREENE: Yeah. I mean, this was a notable announcement from President Donald Trump, and it's very clear that he is growing increasingly frustrated. He
has been for some time, but he's starting to hit a breaking point with his patients in waiting for Vladimir Putin to finally come to the table.
So initially, it was two weeks ago, when the president had set that 50-day deadline for Russia to either make a deal or that he was going to be
imposing very sharp sanctions and tariffs on Russia. And then today, he said that he was going to be moving that deadline up, Eleni to about 10 or
12 days from now. I want you to take a listen to what he said.
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TRUMP: I'm going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today. There's no reason in waiting. There's no reason in waiting. It's 50
days. I want to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made.
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TREENE: I think the way and the tone, the way he said that, and the tone he used Eleni, is also notable. You can see he's almost resigned to the fact
that his initial goal, I mean, this was one of his goals he talked about repeatedly on the campaign trail, even before he entered office for his
second term.
That he had hoped his relationship with Vladimir Putin that if he could actually get him on the phone and speak with him one-on-one, which we know
he has now done multiple times throughout his six months in office, that that would lead to a major breakthrough, and finally, have these two sides
come together.
You could see he's almost resigned to the fact that Russia is not willing to do that. He's done waiting, and so we could very likely see that
deadline that he has put on Moscow come much sooner than he had initially said. And I also want to note that we had just heard from the Ukrainians
Andrea Yermack, the Chief of Staff to Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, welcoming this announcement.
He said essentially that the president was standing firm and delivering a clear message of peace through strength, saying that when America leads
through strength, others will think twice so clearly, Ukrainians celebrating this, but still unclear what the specifics of this may look
like, and whether or not that 10 to 12 days timeframe the president laid out today will actually hold.
GIOKOS: All right. Alayna Treene, thank you so much for that, and we'll have much more on this later in the show when we take you live to Tel Aviv.
Meanwhile, President Trump has announced a framework agreement with America's largest trading partner averting a transatlantic trade war.
The deal sets a 15 percent across the board tariff on most EU goods, and it includes an additional $600 billion of investments in the United States.
But a lot of the details remain unclear, and it is important to note that even under the deal, tariffs are higher now than before Trump took office,
still, both sides praised the agreement.
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TRUMP: I think it's great that we made a deal today, instead of playing games and maybe not making a deal at all. I think it's -- I'm going to let
you say, but I think it's the biggest deal ever made. Thank you very much. Congratulations.
URSULA VON DER LEYEN, EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT: I think we hit exactly the point we wanted to find rebalance, but enable trade on both sides,
which means good jobs on both sides of the Atlantic, means prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic, and that was important for us.
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GIOKOS: All right. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury Secretary is meeting with Chinese negotiators in Stockholm today for talks to reach a deal with
Beijing. We've got CNN's Matt Egan in New York standing by with all the numbers and what the 15 percent tariffs on European goods entering the U.S.
ultimately means.
I mean, the big question is, how does it ultimately benefit the U.S. consumer, if at all. And how's the market responding to what Ursula Von Der
Leyen and President Trump are calling a huge and significant deal?
MATT EGAN, CNN REPORTER: Well, Eleni, it is very significant that both sides have avoided what would have been a destructive and bruising trade
war between two of the biggest economies on the planet. And it does add some level of clarity, more clarity than we had 24 hours ago or so.
And I do think that's why we are seeing a positive reaction from U.S. markets, the S&P 500 on track for its sixth record high in a row. The
NASDAQ up as well, and the DOW is only about 100 points away from its first record high since December.
But look, as you mentioned, a lot of the details here, they do remain murky. This is not a legally binding agreement. That means that things
could change. I haven't even seen a White House fact sheet on this agreement, but one thing we do know is where the tariffs on EU imports
stand.
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And according to both sides, this framework calls for a 15 percent tariff on U.S. imports from the EU, and that is below the 30 percent tariff that
the president had threatened would kick in starting on Friday. However, let's make no mistake here. We're not talking about a cut to tariffs. This
is an increase to tariffs, right?
Tariffs are currently at 10 percent charged by the United States on imports from the EU. And coming into this year, tariffs were only around 1.2
percent. So, this is much, much higher than that. And look, this is no small matters. A lot at stake.
The EU is the biggest source of U.S. imports. The U.S. importing more than $600 billion of goods from the EU last year alone, everything from
pharmaceuticals and cars to car parts, aircraft, machinery and alcohol and now a lot of these goods are going to be facing significantly higher
tariffs.
Now, as far as what else is in this deal, again, a lot of the specifics are not clear. It seems like some of them may actually still be getting worked
out. EU, according to the president, going to buy $750 billion of U.S. energy. EU also expected to invest an extra $600 billion in the U.S. It's
hard to know how much of this is really new, how much of it would have happened without a trade agreement.
Also is notable, and is a win for U.S. businesses and European consumers, is that U.S. exports to the EU, will face a 0 percent tariff. Also
significant is what we're seeing with autos, because the 15 percent tariff will include autos that may not sit well with Detroit automakers, because
cars that are made in Canada, cars that are made in Mexico, they face a higher tariff of 25 percent.
And that's not to mention all the tariffs on steel and aluminum that are required to build these cars. And at the end of the day, the one constant
here is higher tariffs, right? Countries that reach a deal with the United States, they face higher tariffs than they did a year ago. Countries that
don't reach a deal, they also face a higher tariff than a year ago.
Mary Lovely, a trade expert, she told me that U.S. businesses and consumers still remain the biggest losers from these deals, because Eleni at the end
of the day, economists and trade experts, they do expect that U.S. consumers and businesses are going to take most of the pain from these
higher tariffs back to you.
GIOKOS: Right. You've got to just follow the money. Matt Egan, thank you so much for breaking that down for us. All right, Gillian Tett joins us now.
She's a Columnist at "The Financial Times" and Provost at King's College Cambridge. Great to have you with us.
We were trying to break down this 15 percent tariffs for EU goods going into the United States, and I wonder if it's a victory for both sides,
because clearly any imports into the European Union from the United States still has no tariffs. So, what do you make of this?
GILLIAN TETT, FINANCIAL TIMES COLUMNIST: Well, listen, 15 percent is better 30 percent as far as the EU is concerned. But it's obviously a lot worse.
You just heard them 1 percent or 2 percent which is what they had before. And essentially what you've got a situation where a number of the European
Union governments feel like they've been screwed.
You're already seeing some protests and cracks emerging in the European Union for American exporters is a pretty good deal, particularly for energy
exporters. I mean, the whole commitment for the EU to buy a lot of LNG and things like that is obviously fantastic for LNG producers from the U.S.
But the interesting question is whether this is going to hold over the longer term, because what we've seen over and over again is that deals get
announced, and then the devil really is in the detail, and a number of times the country's concerned start trying to wriggle around this, and even
the U.S. feels able to rip up some elements of this.
So at least it's not a full-on trade war right now, but we certainly can't crack the champagne open right now, whether it's California champagne or
French champagne.
GIOKOS: Very true. OK, so here's the thing, I mean, looking at these trade deals, and frankly, when you get into any kind of deal, usually there's a
sweetener for both sides and an incentive for both sides. You've got massive spending links, right? $750 billion of buying of energy by the EU.
Another $600 billion in investments, which we don't know what they'll be.
But what do you think the incentive is for the EU right now? Was it just trying to stay away from that 30 percent tariff? All right, I think we've
lost Gillian. All right, we've lost Gillian Tett but thank you for joining us, Gillian. Hopefully we can get you back on at another time to talk
through these tariffs.
And of course, keeping in mind that the U.S. and Chinese officials are meeting in Stockholm to try and ease some of the tensions that we're seeing
on the trading front. So, we'll be covering that story as well. All right in less than an hour the guns along the Thailand Cambodia border are set to
fall silent this after the two countries agreed to an unconditional ceasefire.
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The two sides have battled at the border for days now. At least 35 people have been killed and dozens wounded. The Thai and Cambodian prime minister
met earlier in Malaysia, which mediated the peace talks. Will Ripley shows us what comes next.
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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With smoke still rising on the border from Thailand military drones dropping bombs on Cambodian military
positions both nations leaders flew to nearby Malaysia, hoping diplomacy can succeed where fighting has failed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For immediate ceasefire, immediate ceasefire.
RIPLEY (voice-over): In Putrajaya, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim stepped in to break the deadlock, announcing an immediate and unconditional
ceasefire from midnight local time. He's also bringing in field commanders from both sides for face-to-face talks.
On the ground, cautious hope so many families forced to flee, abandoning their livelihoods, we should take precautions no matter what this Thai
farmer says, if there's a ceasefire, that's great. It would be better so my family can come back to keep farming. Dozens are dead, hundreds hurt.
Both governments say more than 200,000 people displaced. This is one of the region's worst flare ups in years. Even U.S. President Donald Trump is
getting involved, speaking during a Summit in Scotland.
TRUMP: And I spoke to both of the prime ministers, and I think by the time I got it off, I think they want to settle now.
RIPLEY (voice-over): If they did not settle, he said trade deals would be at risk. But even warnings from the U.S. President won't easily erase
decades of distrust, tensions growing since May. First a Cambodian soldier died in a border skirmish, then a leaked phone call led to bitter fallout
between Thailand and Cambodia's powerful elder statesman, deepening the diplomatic crisis, plunging both sides into deadly violence.
Now Malaysia is playing peacemaker, but with trust in short supply nobody knows how long this truce will last. Will Ripley, CNN, Taipei.
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GIOKOS: I want them to get every ounce of food that declaration from Donald Trump on Gaza as he meets with the British Prime Minister in Scotland, what
the U.S. President is saying about setting up food centers in Gaza, that story coming up just ahead.
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GIOKOS: Gaza front and center in those talks between the U.S. President and the British Prime Minister that we've been telling you about. Now, Donald
Trump, letting reporters know a short time ago that he's been telling Israel's leader to rethink his approach to the war against Hamas.
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TRUMP: And now, possibly the fight will have to be a little bit different. But they have totally changed now. They don't want to give hostages. Very
unfair. You have 20 living people, in this case, living you have many dead people too, that they're wanting a long time as well. Yeah, they've wanting
living people. And I told Israel; I told Bibi that you're going to have to know maybe do it a different way.
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GIOKOS: Well, this comes as outrage mounts over the escalating hunger crisis in Gaza. Israel says it has started what it calls tactical pauses in
military activity in parts of the besieged enclave. The World Health Organization says malnutrition has reached alarming levels, with 63 hunger
related deaths occurring this month alone.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting back against criticism of the war in Gaza, denying there is any starvation there.
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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: Israel, is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza. What a bold-faced lie.
There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza.
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GIOKOS: Well, as you can see from this video, Jordan and the UAE have started air drops in the besieged enclave. CNN's Jeremy Diamond joins us
now from Jerusalem. And Jeremy, we're seeing those air drops on the back of those tactical military pauses.
In the meantime, President Trump saying you cannot make this stuff up. There is starvation in Gaza. We just heard from Prime Minister Netanyahu
saying it's a bold-faced lie. What is your sense on, sort of the overall contradicting statements from these two leaders?
JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think it's clear that President Trump is seeing the images that everybody else around the world
has been seeing over the course of the last few days, and that is images of starving Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip, including children, some of
whom have died as a result of malnutrition.
You cannot deny the images that have been on our screens for the last week or so of those children and of the clear effects, not just of starvation in
Gaza, but of Israeli policies that have restricted the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip. And the best evidence of the fact that Israel did restrict the
flow of aid into Gaza is perhaps in the fact that they are now loosening many of those restrictions right now.
We have seen Israel, over the course of the last week, open new crossings, for example, into the Gaza Strip, like the northern crossing of Zikim. And
in the last 24 hours, we've seen Israel implementing these tactical pauses, allowing air drops of food to go into Gaza. All of these are things that
Israel did not allow in Gaza for the last several months.
And that ultimately, the United Nations and hundreds of other humanitarian organizations have said, ultimately led to these dire circumstances in
which Gaza now finds itself. Now we are seeing some of the impacts of the loosening of those restrictions already, with about 120 truckloads of aid
getting into Gaza just yesterday.
However, it is far short of the numbers that are ultimately going to be needed to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. And what is clear is
that even as more aid is getting into Gaza, that doesn't mean that the starvation ends immediately. It doesn't mean that we are going to suddenly
see these numbers of people who are dying of malnutrition drop off of a cliff.
We have seen that in just the last 24 hours, 14 people have died of starvation, and we expect that more will continue to die unfortunately in
the coming days, one of the realities of what we are seeing on the ground is that it will only be once a larger amount of humanitarian aid gets into
Gaza that those most vulnerable and most in need of that aid will actually get access to it.
Some of that stems from the fact that many of these trucks are being looted by crowds of thousands of hungry Palestinians who are being driven by the
dire circumstances in which they are facing. But that often means that those elderly Palestinians, those with pre-existing conditions, may not be
able to get that aid immediately.
And so, it will take some time, and that is why the United Nations is calling for these tactical pauses to be extended, for this to be sustained
and for more of the restriction that still exist to be loosened in a comprehensive and sustained manner to ensure that thousands of trucks of
aid that are ultimately needed in Gaza actually do get in there in the coming days and weeks, Eleni.
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GIOKOS: I mean, and Jeremy, I mean, we've seen these images even -- you know, echoed by the British Prime Minister saying that -- you know these
images are harrowing. You mentioned we've got an issue on logistics and getting all these the aid through. We know for a fact, and this has been
mentioned before, the air drops are not sufficient, and they're not the most efficient way to get food to people on the ground.
Given that the Israeli Prime Minister is saying there isn't starvation in Gaza, is there a fear that these tactical pauses are not going to be in
place for a long time. What's your sense?
DIAMOND: It's really not clear how long they will last. I will say that it is clear that there is a change of policy from the Israeli government right
now, and it follows the international outcry that we have been seeing over the course of the last few days, including from some of closes Israel's
closest allies.
Even just listening to President Trump, I think it's quite clear that that you know that was not what was happening on the ground in Gaza was not
sustainable, even for the U.S. Israel relationship. And so even as the Israeli Prime Minister is publicly denying that starvation is happening in
Gaza, he has directed his government to take steps to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Clearly, because of that international pressure, the key question now is, how long will that last, and will it ultimately be enough to get Gaza back
to a state where food is no longer something that is uncertain for Palestinians in Gaza? I mean, the latest numbers Eleni are truly startling.
When you look at this, the World Food Programme has now assessed that a quarter of Gaza's population of more than 2 million is now facing famine
like conditions, and that's going to require enormous quantities of aid to get in before the situation is even stabilized, let alone for it to be in a
place where there is enough food for Palestinians going forward for weeks and months ahead.
And so, you know, we'll be monitoring to see what the Israeli government's actions are in the coming days. But for the moment, it's clear that there
is a shift in the Israeli government's approach. We'll just have to wait and see how long that lasts?
GIOKOS: Yeah, and importantly, for the most vulnerable, and that's babies, and that means baby formula. So yes, watching that very closely. Jeremy
Diamond, thank you so much for your reporting. So up next on "One World", Gaza golf courses and a whole lot of hosts of other topics, as Donald Trump
visits Scotland. But he cannot escape questions about the Epstein files. We will dive into that after the break, stay with CNN.
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GIOKOS: Welcome back to "One World". I'm Eleni Giokos, live in London. Here are some headlines we are watching today. Thailand and Cambodia have agreed
to ceasefire after days of cross border battles, the leaders of both countries met in Malaysia, which mediated the peace talks.
At least 35 people have been killed in this latest flare up. The dispute over the border goes back decades. Beach goers are forced to run after
Russia fired several long-range missiles at Ukraine. Poland's armed forces say they scrambled NATO fighter jets to protect the country's airspace.
Ukraine says four civilians were killed in the past 24 hours, and that it disabled two of the seven missiles and nearly all of the 324 drones
launched by Russia. The United Nations Aid Chief says the next few days will be make or break for getting aid to starving civilians in Gaza.
Israel's military announced a daytime tactical pause to allow aid in. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there is no starvation in
Gaza and denies the U.N.'s claims that Israel has been restricting aid routes into the Enclave. The situation in Gaza was top of mind as Donald
Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer sat down for talks in Scotland.
Starmer stressed that Hamas cannot play a role in any future Palestinian government, while Trump said the U.S. would set up food centers to address
the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
All right, I want to bring in CNN's Jeff Zeleny, who is traveling with the president. Jeff, I have to say, when President Trump was talking about Gaza
and saying there is starvation, there's no denying the stuff. It's clear that the images and the news flow out of Gaza has been affecting him, and
he's now contradicting what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is saying. Take us through what we heard.
JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF U.S. NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Eleni, that was clear President Trump joining with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in
really expressing a sense of revulsion of what they have seen, what the world has seen about the images coming from Gaza, the starvation, the
persecution and the children.
And President Trump repeatedly says we have to feed the kids, and that was the central point of a very more than an hour-long public display. Was
supposed to be just a short to give and take with reporters, but President Trump kept it going for more than an hour talking about Gaza, Russia and
other domestic matters in the back in the U.S.
But it was the Gaza. Image that was one of the top priorities of Starmer traveling to Scotland here to meet with the American President, trying to
urge him to apply some pressure to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to press for a more permanent ceasefire. But President Trump
made clear he does not like what he sees in Gaza.
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TRUMP: But we're going to be getting some good, strong food. We can save a lot of people. I mean, some of those kids are that's real starvation stuff.
I see it, and you can't fake that. So, we're going to be even more involved.
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ZELENY: So that was a direct rebuke, as you said to Netanyahu, who has really raised the question of, is starvation actually a crisis? Is it
existing as we all have seen through our own reporting and images there?
So, what the next steps are a bit unclear, but the U.S., the President said, is pledging to create food centers and how -- and has already
committed some $60 million in food aid. We will see how effective these food centers are. But one thing is clear again, the British Prime Minister
wanting to get to the American president on the record for the world to hear his disgust and real revulsion at what the world is seeing in Gaza as
well.
GIOKOS: Jeff Zeleny, great to have you with us. Thank you so much. I want to get a bit more perspective on the president's visit to Scotland. We've
got CNN Politics Senior Reporter Stephen Collinson joining us. Stephen great to see you as always. And of course, your latest column talks about
how calls to open up the Epstein files are casting a cloud over everything Trump is doing right now.
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But I also want to just start off with what Jeff Zeleny was talking about. And you know this contradictory statement by President Trump about you
cannot fake this there is starvation in Gaza versus what we heard from Netanyahu, and then juxtaposing this image against what we've seen over the
weekend of President Trump at golf courses with all the domestic and international crises that he's dealing with. How are you characterizing
what you're seeing?
STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: I thought it was very interesting, the power dynamic on display. It's not often you see the
leader of a country welcomed to a meeting by a foreign leader on the territory of the leader's country, if you like.
So, Trump was clearly the dominant figure in this conversation. It was almost like the British Prime Minister and Ursula Von Der Leyen yesterday
from the EU were summoned into Trump's presence. So that was a real inversion of how diplomacy and protocol normally works, and I think it was
a demonstration of Trump's personal power.
It's interesting that the EU agreement, the trade agreement was signed or agreed the framework for it anyway, yesterday. Today, the president moved
in the direction of Europe's position on two issues, the Gaza situation, as you were discussing with Jeff, and also hardened his position somewhat on
the need for Russia to come to the negotiating table over Ukraine.
And I think what that illustrates is that the Europeans were not just playing a trade game against the Americans, and there are some discordant
sounds among some European politicians that they got played a little bit by Trump in this trade deal, but they were also worried about further
alienating the president away from Europe on positions on Ukraine and the Middle East.
So, I think if you take it as a whole, you can understand a little bit more why the Europeans did that deal, even though some constituencies in Europe
believe that, you know, a tariff of 15 percent on baseline European goods going to the United States will actually hurt one of Europe's biggest
problems, which is trying to unleash economic growth.
GIOKOS: Yeah, and also the commitment to buy energy, I think, $750 billion worth. You mentioned Russia, and you know, President Trump was talking
about how he has great conversations with President Putin, but sort of lamenting the fact that -- you know after great conversations, come the air
strikes, and he is -- you know not keeping to what he's promised.
What do you think? What kind of pressure do you think that President Trump is going to assert on President Putin, now that it's clear that he's
infuriated with Putin, the way Russia is handling this?
COLLINSON: Yeah, it's interesting. It does seem to be getting more and more frustrated that the Russians haven't signed up to what is pretty much a
pretty pro-Russian U.S. position on how to end the war in Ukraine. He said originally that he was going to give Putin a couple of weeks ago, 50 days
to come to the table now he says that it's between 10 and 12 days trying to increase pressure.
I would say that Trump's timelines are often quite fungible and are imprecise and often lapse. So, it's unclear how seriously the Russians will
take that? You could see perhaps Trump try to increase sanctions on Russia after that period, although he admitted today that the links between the
U.S. and Russian economies aren't that great.
The problem here is that he is threatening to levy secondary sanctions on Russia, which means he would put sanctions on countries that continue to
buy Russian energy. That's countries like India and China; I remain pretty skeptical that he wants to go ahead and actually do that. Especially since
today in Sweden, United States, is having talks with China on trying to conclude a trade deal --
GIOKOS: Yeah.
COLLINSON: -- with them, and this would really put a spanner in those works. So, I think while Trump is increasingly irritated by the Russian
position. I think there's good reasons for the Russians to think, well, he's not going to follow through on threats against us if we don't do
exactly as he wants right now.
GIOKOS: So, Stephen, another thing that is, I guess, bothering the president, and it's not going away anytime soon, as soon as the Epstein
files. And that's according to what you've written for cnn.com today is you're talking about, it's casting a cloud over everything to what extent,
and you know, do we -- do we have any sense of where this could be going?
COLLINSON: So, the president today made yet another attempt to clear up this issue about his past relationship with the accused sex trafficker
Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 while he was awaiting trial.
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The problem he's got is that he and other members of his administration families conspiracy theories that Trump that Epstein left a list of clients
and that he was murdered and didn't take his own life in prison that has set Trump against his base. So, it's fine for him to come out and say today
that he got rid of Epstein from his club, that he thought he was a creep, that there's nothing to hide here.
But he doesn't really have to convince people in Europe or journalists. It's people inside his own base who now believe that Trump has the power to
release all the files on the Epstein case, and is not doing so. So, it's not clear what he said today would make this go away.
What is very interesting is that Trump's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, spent two days last week in conversations with Ghislaine Maxwell,
who is serving 20 years in prison for being Epstein's associate. She has an incentive to help the president politically, because he has the power to
grant a pardon, which he didn't rule out during his media appearance there in Scotland.
So, a lot of people are worried that what is going to happen is that Trump politicizes the Justice Department to get a political way out of this
political situation that he and his administration are in and that somehow, you know, hurts the course of justice.
So, I think there's a lot that we don't know about this situation. We're not saying that Donald Trump did anything wrong. There's no tangible sign
of that, but this is a political crisis that he's really trying hard to shift. And during that news conference today, he expressed frustration
that, OK, I want to talk about trade deals, but you guys want to talk about this, but that's the way the politics work, and it's unusually being driven
from discontent among the president's own supporters and not outside factors.
GIOKOS: Stephen Collinson, great to have you with us. Thanks so much. Well, it's sizzling hots across parts of the United States. Coming up, we'll take
you to Atlanta weather center for the latest on the heat dome covering the U.S. plains to the East Coast. Plus, days of scorching heat are sparking
wildfires in Southern Europe. Firefighters in Turkey are trying to contain the blazes report just ahead.
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GIOKOS: More than 150 million people across the United States are reeling under a dangerous heat wave. The temperatures in some places like Boston
and New York could soar past 100 degrees fahrenheit, or 38 degrees celsius. It will also feel as hot as 46 degrees celsius in cities from Savannah,
Georgia to St. Louis, Missouri.
The National Weather Service says the extreme heat is expected to persist for several more days. It's advising people to take precautions. CNN's
Meteorologist Derek Van Dam joins us now with fantastic graphics showing just how hot it is going to be. And we keep having this conversation
because the planet is overheating, and you're documenting it for us Derek, tell us.
DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: A lot of red on this map, right Eleni?
GIOKOS: Right.
DAM: We want to see in the dog days of summer, the peak of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, some places like Tampa reaching their highest ever
recorded temperature of 100 degrees, or 38 degrees celsius yesterday afternoon, over 100 years of record keeping in that particular city, and it
reached that temperature yesterday.
And of course, when we start talking about 46 degrees, that's the apparent temperature that people will feel on their skin as they step outside. That
factors in the heat, the actual air temperature, but also the humidity values, which makes it feel so oppressive.
So, we've got this heat dome really suppressing and locking in the heat across this area, suppressing the cloud cover on the outer periphery
though, we've had a line of thunderstorms that have rolled over some of the same locations, across the northern plains and throughout the upper
Midwest, and once again, expected today.
But we're focusing on heat now, and this is the 150 million Americans that are under these heat alerts. You can see the extreme heat warnings that
line the coastline of Southeastern U.S., also across the Mississippi River Valley and portions of the plains. Some records could be tied or broken
today, long standing records as well.
I mean, check Savannah, Georgia, 102 was the previous record. We are forecast at 101 so we are going to be flirting with record or tie breaking
territory. Now this is not just dangerous heat, it's it is extreme, and this, of course, can impact vulnerable communities.
So, heat risk map, according to NOAA, has these locations where you see that shading of purple across the low country of the Carolinas into central
Georgia, the coastal belt of Florida and the Florida Peninsula. This is an area that could have that factor of heat and humidity. So, people who do
not have the adequate way to cool themselves off, you need to double check on the elderly children, of course, people with chronic health disorders.
Now look at these forecast heat indices for the day today. We're talking triple digit heat. Again, that's the apparent temperature what it feels
like on your skin tomorrow continues into the East Coast, but the good news is Eleni is that there's actually some relief on the way.
So, a cold front will move eastward. This is kind of abnormal for this time of year. It will drop the humidity levels and cool the mercury in the
thermometer. So, we get to below average temperatures by the end of the week, something that we can all look forward to.
GIOKOS: Derek Van Dam, great to see you. Thank you.
DAM: You too.
GIOKOS: Well, Southern Europe is also sweltering amid a scorching heat wave, high temperatures, strong winds and dry conditions are fueling an
outbreak of wildfires. Turkey's fourth largest city is now under threat. More than 1700 people have been safely evacuated from villages near bursa.
CNN's Ben Hunt has the latest on firefighting efforts across the region.
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BEN HUNT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): By night, wildfires in Turkey look straight from a horror movie, an onslaught of fiery red flames with an
appetite for destruction that's fed by extreme conditions on the ground.
The four dangers of the fires are exposed in the daylight. Thousands of people are evacuating the north and northwest of the country because of the
massive fires, as thousands of firefighters try to battle back the flames. Temperatures are surging in the region, often topping 40 degrees celsius,
or 104 degrees fahrenheit, which is drying out the ground.
That's making it even more difficult for firefighters to contain the blazes. In Greece, volunteers are pitching in to help, like in this town
north of Athens, where the flames have been turbo charged by more than just the heat.
PETROS AVRAMOPOULOS, LOCAL RESIDENT: The wind is terrible. You see what's happening here, the speed. One moment the fire is here, the next, it's
across. Everything is very fast.
HUNT (voice-over): Fires have also been raging in nearby countries like Kosovo and Albania. Thermal drones have been deployed in some places to
identify hotspots and help helicopter pilots coordinate their missions.
In Bulgaria, it's a team effort on the ground to put out one fire, with firefighters using shovels to smother the burning brush, but it wasn't
enough to save some houses from being consumed by the smoke and flames.
ZVEZDELIN VLAYKOV, EMERGENCY VOLUNTEER: There will be quite a few houses burned down. It's a merciless moment. A tragedy I haven't seen anything
like this. In all my years of fighting fires, I haven't seen anything like this, and it will burn for another month.
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HUNT (voice-over): A month that could look and feel like hell as firefighters across southern Europe fight wildfires in their peak season.
Ben Hunt, CNN.
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GIOKOS: All right, still ahead on "One World" beers, pizzas and medals as England's footballers bask in the glory of yet another European
Championship. I'll be back after this.
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GIOKOS: Very awesome. All right, fans of the lionesses are celebrating off England's win in the European Championship and bringing the trophy home
again, as they're putting it, the triumphant team successfully defended their title with a victory over world champion Spain on Sunday. Penalties
were how the lionesses won Sunday's final in Switzerland.
I want to bring in Coy Wire for the details on the excitement. I want to play that video clip again, because that looks really cool. We should have
been there.
COY WIRE, CNN WORLD SPORT: That's cool.
GIOKOS: Fantastic. We're missing out on a party. Look at that.
WIRE: I'm sure it's still going on. Rest of the show is canceled. We're heading over there to the party.
GIOKOS: I'm in London. I should totally go figure out where I can party tonight. There we go.
WIRE: No doubt about. What a clash Eleni and unfortunately, there can only be one winner. These two teams met in the World Cup Final two years ago,
Spain emerged victorious. So, it is a resplendent bit of redemption for the Lionesses. England had led for just four minutes and 52 seconds in the
knockout stage of this tournament.
Spain went up windmill after 25 minutes. Mariona Cal Dente's first half, header, right there, putting La Roja in control, but as they showed
throughout this tournament, England refused to be beaten. Chloe Kelly coming up huge again, delivering the cross that Alicia Russo for the
equalizer in the 57th minute.
Look at that now. It stayed 1-1 to full time and through to extra time, where we would go to a nail-biting penalty shootout. And who else but Chloe
Kelly, kicking the air out of the ball, taking the wind out of Spaniard sails. Kelly plays hero again, as she did when they beat Germany to win
this tournament in 2022.
And with this, Eleni, England avenged the memory of their defeat to Spain in the 2023 World Cup Final. The Lionesses hear them roar.
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CHLOE KELLY, ENGLAND FORWARD: I'm so proud, so proud of this team, so grateful to wear this badge. And I'm so proud to be English.
HANNAH HAMPTON, ENGLAND GOALKEEPER: This team's just unbelievable, incredible. We've shown throughout this tournament. We can come back when
we go a goal down, and we have that grit. We're here. We've got English blood in us. So, we're never -- we never say die, and we just keep going.
And we did that today.
SANNA WIEGMAN, COACH HAS LED TO 2 EURO TITLES 1 WC RUNNER-UP SINCE 2021: I can't believe it. Well, yeah, the word team really describes who we are a
team. So, we say we can win by any means. That's what we showed again today. I'm so proud of them, so proud of the team and the stall, it's
incredible.
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WIRE: And we cut off the part where it said we can't wait to party with Eleni Giokos after this win, so you better get there. Now listen, we had a
bit of baseball history on Sunday as well. Ichiro Suzuki becoming the first Japanese born player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Seattle Mariners Marvel famously said that going into the Hall of Fame was not his goal, because he didn't even know it existed until he first
visited in '01. Ichiroz's combined 4367 professional hits in MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball would make him the all-time hits King ahead of the
Late Pete Rose.
Now listen to this. Mariano Rivera is still the only player to be elected into the hall with 100 percent of the vote, but Ichiroz received 99.7
percent every enigmatic entertainer delivered a poignant and playful speech, part of which was directed at a particular voter. Listen to this.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People often measure me by my records. 3000 hits or 262 hits in one season are achievements recognized by the Riders well all but
one view. And by the way, the offer for that Rider to have dinner at my home has now expired.
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WIRE: Say it ain't so each year outside. Eleni, what a great memory to be had there to have that moment. I would not want to have that memory if I'm
that particular voter and thinking like, will my name get out who was the one that did not select him? Incredible player incredible career.
GIOKOS: But Coy, next time you and I realign our schedule so we can go celebrate some kind of some kind of party.
WIRE: Yes.
GIOKOS: We'll make a plan.
WIRE: I'm down.
GIOKOS: OK.
WIRE: So, it's happening. You put it out there in the universe.
GIOKOS: It will happen.
WIRE: Let's do it.
GIOKOS: All right Coy Wire, thank you.
WIRE: You got it.
GIOKOS: Bianna Golodryga picks up after the break. Stay with CNN.
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