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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Some of the great pundits, they said, well, 50,000 would be impossible during the four years, but

sometime after we hit it in the first year, but now we're really hitting it. And think of it, it's up to 50,702. And S&P likewise set a new record

today. They both set new records today. And, boy, that's something good.

But you're going to bring it to a much different level. Believe me, it's good, but it can go much better. And that's what I think you're going to

do.

In my first year, we passed the largest tax cuts in American history, the largest regulation cuts in American history, and the largest spending cuts

in American history. All things that are so important to greatness. And last year, we slashed the budget by almost $500 billion. At the same time,

our military was at $1.2 trillion. And we'll go -- be doing -- the one thing we are going to be doing is -- and we build everything in America, we

build it here.

It's jobs, jobs, jobs. But it's also strength, strength, strength. We're going to be submitting a military budget for $1.5 trillion.

We have the greatest military in the world. I built it during my first term. I didn't know we'd be using it so much in my second term. But they

gave away a little bit of it during somebody else's term, foolishly, but it's a very small part relative to the whole. But we have the greatest

military in the world.

I was with President Xi and I said to him, we have the greatest military in the world. And he actually didn't agree. We had a great meeting. He

actually didn't disagree with me on that very much. I will tell you.

But we really do what we've done in Venezuela. You see what we've done to Iran. Iran is dying to make a deal. We'll see what happens. But we hit them

hard, and we had no choice because Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

They cannot have it.

So I promised to cut 10 old regulations, as you know, in my first term, for every new regulation. If you put a new regulation, and that's fine, but you

had to do -- you had to cut at least 10. And so far this -- and I did that. I -- it was actually one to 12. So I did a little bit better.

So far, we're blowing it away this year. So far, it's one for 129. In other words, we're cutting 129 regulations that we put in. So that -- that's

music to yours. You know, we don't even have to go through Congress for that, you know.

It's a lot easier if I do it. It's a lot easier. But all of these actions are aimed at lowering costs, creating jobs, and driving economic growth.

Jobless claims recently hit the lowest level since 1969. Under our leadership, 5 million people have been lifted off of the food stamps.

Think of that. Under just in a short period of time, more Americans are working today, as I said, than ever -- than ever before. And very

importantly, 100 percent of the net new jobs under this administration have been created in the private sector, which is a number that nobody has ever

achieved. Think of that. They're all in the private sector.

And we did get rid of a lot of government jobs. You had jobs where there were 10 people for every single job and every single event. And they were

doing all the same thing, or they weren't doing very much and they didn't like me for a while. And now they're all working at private sector jobs and

they're making double, triple, quadruple the pay. And they're loving life and they're loving going to work.

And it was a painful experience cutting that many people from the federal government, but it's been amazing. And you know, you just can't have that.

You can never make a country, as I say, great again if you're going to have all government jobs. We're all private jobs, and the jobs are coming. We're

building more plants, more equipment than anybody has ever -- any president has ever done, any administration has ever done.

And the number I like the best is we have $18 trillion being invested in the United States for 11 months, not 12. We haven't gotten the results from

12 yet. We're pretty new. But in 11 months, we have $18 trillion being invested with a T being invested in the United States. And the record was

$3 trillion many years ago by a different country that I actually just left, starts with a C, but we have -- and that was three, and we're at 18

trillion.

We're building factories, car plants, everything, AI, everything, all over the country. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And I have to say, I have

to give the credit to what used to, I used to say it was my favorite word my favorite word of all but I got in such trouble because when I said

tariff is my favorite word, the media went crazy. They said, what about your wife, your family? What about God?

What about religion? So I said, OK, good. I'll make it my fifth favorite word, right? But because of tariffs, we have tremendous amounts of -- I

mean, the car companies are all coming back. They left us for 35, 40 years.

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They left us. Chip -- we will have 50 percent of the chip making capability of who that man right there is. Stand up, will you, please? But is that

right? We're going to have 50 percent by the time I leave office, and maybe more than that. They're moving in from Taiwan, they're moving in from other

places.

And they're building in Arizona in particular, in that particular case. But between the auto plants, we have more auto plants under construction now

than we've ever had before. We went many years and there was no plant built. And it's all due to what we did with tariffs, I guess, November 5th,

but all because of the tariffs and what they've done, used properly, used judiciously, so it's really something special. So we have all this -- all

these plants under construction.

They'll be completed over the next year and a half. And you're going to see numbers like we've never seen in this country before. No country has ever

seen the kind of numbers you're going to see. And we have some of the people in this room, I look at them, some of the geniuses that are building

those plants.

You know, a plant used to cost -- if you built a shopping center, it would cost 50 million is a nice center, but 500 million is a giant, beautiful

center. These people are investing. You're going to have to look in $50 billion on a building for AI. Fifty Billion.

It's -- I say, how big is it? Well, it goes three miles by five miles. Let you drive three miles, five miles. But it means jobs. And it's got

tremendous potential for a lot of things.

But when you talk about growth, no country will see, and you'll start to see that very soon, no country will see the growth that we're going to

experience and that we're already experiencing, but that we're going to experience. And one of the things that you see early on is we have the

highest number of construction jobs we've ever had. And that's because they're building all of these plants, auto plants, all of these plants are

being built, including medical. Medical is pouring back in. Eli Lilly, so many of the -- they're building six major plants.

They're going to make almost all of their medicines here. We learned during COVID it's not good to be held hostage by foreign countries. We're building

all of these plants here, Lilly, Pfizer, all of them. They're all building tens of billions of dollars worth of medical plants. We're going to have

almost all of our medicines made in our country, which is a really good thing to have.

During four years of Biden, our country secured less than $1 trillion. Think of that, though. And we're doing $18 trillion. And everyone is

talking about that because nobody has ever seen anything like it in a short time ago.

And I say this often, the King of Saudi Arabia said to me two years ago, he said, I was over there, and by the way, they invested $2 trillion, but I

was over talking to him, getting them to invest a lot of money in our country, and he said, you know, President, two years ago you were a dead

country and today you're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're the hottest country anywhere in the world. And we're going to need

guidance, and you're going to give us that guidance. But all of the things that we've done, numbers that have tripled and quadrupled, and we do need.

We need a really steady hand at probably, maybe in many ways, the most -- I don't know.

I have two great justices of the Supreme Court here, so I have to say, I don't know which is more important, being a Justice of the Supreme Court or

your job? I'm not sure about that. I'm not sure. I think I'd rather be a justice between you and I, it might be easier. You're going to find out.

You'll be saying that -- well, that's a very easy job.

With the support and strong and wise chairmanship at the Federal Reserve, so important, America's future will truly be unlimited with Kevin. With

Kevin at the helm, and he's off to an incredible start with his family, with his education, with his background, with all of the things he's done.

He's respected by everybody. So important is to have that level of respect where you can walk into a room and people will listen to you, as opposed to

walking into a room and not having that kind of persona. He has a persona like nobody else.

So I just want to say congratulations, Chairman Warsh. You are really a special person in getting this job. The people that wanted this job, the

most highly trained, highly educated, some of the greatest credentials I've ever seen, and as far as I'm concerned, nobody was even close. And I just

want to congratulate you.

And I'd like to ask, if I might, Jane, to step forward. And our very highly respected Justice Clarence Thomas to come up and swear in -- give him a

good oath, if you would care. Because we -- Clarence, we need a really good oath delivered here. OK?

Thank you very much. Thank you.

CLARENCE THOMAS, U.S. SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE: I do solemnly swear --

KEVIN WARSH, U.S. FED CHAIR: I Kevin Warsh do solemnly swear --

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THOMAS: -- that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States --

WARSH: -- that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States --

THOMAS: -- against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

WARSH: -- against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

THOMAS: That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.

WARSH: That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.

THOMAS: That I take this obligation freely --

WARSH: that I take this obligation freely --

THOMAS: -- without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.

WARSH: -- without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.

THOMAS: And that I will well and faithfully discharge --

WARSH: And that I will well and faithfully discharge --

THOMAS: -- the duties of the office on which I'm about to enter.

WARSH: -- the duties on the office upon which I'm about to enter.

THOMAS: So help me God.

WARSH: So help me God.

Thank you, Mr. President. This is above and beyond. It is such an honor for Jane and me to have this ceremony here in the East Room with you, sir. I

couldn't ask for a more beautiful setting or more gracious welcome, and I am grateful. I recognize, as the President said, that ours is a time of

great consequence.

It's also a great honor for me to have the oath office administered by one of the great and longest serving public servants, a brilliant and

independent thinker, a man dedicated to our Constitution, and no less important, a joyful and collegial presence on our highest court, my

esteemed friend, Justice Clarence Thomas.

Now Justice Kavanaugh is here as well. We served as young staffers a full generation ago in this building, and I shouldn't be speaking for another

justice, but I will tell you something that I always felt that Justice Kavanaugh and I felt the majesty of this place where we're now sitting. And

we counted ourselves blessed and grateful to serve the nation we love and to do it in your building, sir.

And, of course, I must thank Leader Thune, Chairman Tim Scott, and his fellow members of the Banking Committee who saw me through the Senate

confirmation.

My whole family and I are joined by many others here today whom I'm honored to call friends and colleagues, mentors, confidants. Their presence means a

lot to me, and I think it means a lot to the President, too. It's the honor of a lifetime to be called back into public service. And with this oath,

I've accepted a high and solemn responsibility.

At the swearing of Alan Greenspan at this very place in 1987, President Ronald Reagan called the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve a quote,

"great role in American life." I've known five of my predecessors in this job, some of them quite well, but Chairman Greenspan was the first to tell

me and show me what this role demands. He recently marked his 100th birthday, and although he can't be here, I'm thinking about him today, too.

Like Alan, I intended to fill -- I intend to fill the role of Chairman with energy and purpose, just the way Chairman Greenspan did. Faithful to the

mission and the very best traditions of the Fed.

As you demonstrate, Mr. President, every day, energy and purpose are how big obstacles are overcome. Your greatest ambitions are for America, for

what free people can achieve when they have the chance. And while I'm not naive about the challenges we face, I believe, Mr. President, these years

can bring unmatched prosperity that will raise living standards for Americans from all walks of life. And the Fed has something to do with it.

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Our mandate at the Fed is to promote price stability and maximum employment. When we pursue those aims with wisdom and clarity, independence

and resolve, inflation can be lower, growth stronger, real take home pay higher, and America can be more prosperous and no less important, America's

place in the world more secure.

To fulfill this mission, I will lead a reform oriented Federal Reserve. Learning from past successes and mistakes, both escaping static frameworks

and models and upholding clear standards of integrity and performance.

Today marks a return to an institution that I do, in fact, cherish. It was nearly a generation ago, at another time of great consequence, that I

worked with some outstanding public servants at the Fed, both here in Washington and at the Reserve Banks. My goal now is to create an

environment in which the best people can do their life's best work and to face every challenge in the spirit of common purpose and devotion to the

national interest in a word, to excellence.

These duties are now mine, Mr. President, because of the trust you have placed in me. I accept them with gratitude and will strive every day to

serve our fellow citizens well.

And in final, I'll just say I'm going to look around and try to hold on to this special moment. But after we leave this stage, the real work begins.

So let's begin that work. It's an honor. Thank you again, Mr. President.

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, CNN ANCHOR: All right, you're just watching. Kevin Warsh officially sworn in the White House today as the 17th Federal Reserve

Chairman of the United States. Notably, President Trump, who relentlessly pressured outgoing chair Jay Powell to slash borrowing costs and interest

rates, told Warsh that he wanted him to be, quote, "totally independent." That independence, it's safe to say, will be tested immediately.

Kevin Warsh noting in his acceptance speech there that he will lead a reform oriented Federal Reserve, also noting that he is not naive about

challenges that the economy is currently facing. Inflation now creeping up to nearly 4 percent. Wall Street anticipating interest rate cuts by the end

of the year. The President and it appears Kevin Warsh, seem to believe economic growth can continue without inflation, without the need to

increase rates. Instead, the President had been long espousing his views of supporting interest rate cuts.

We're going to take a short break now and we'll come back after the break with more news.

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GOLODRYGA: NATO's foreign ministers met in Sweden today amid growing uncertainty over the war in Iran and confusion surrounding U.S. troop

levels in Europe. America's top diplomat called the changes to the U.S. troop presence an ongoing process rather than a direct response to

President Trump's frustrations with ally -- with the alliance.

And on the issue of Iran, Marco Rubios of the White House is still waiting for Tehran to reply to its latest peace proposal, but he added there has

been slight progress while also acknowledging some key sticking points remain.

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MARCO RUBIO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: We all would love to see an agreement with Iran in which the straits are open and they abandon their nuclear

ambitions and so forth, their nuclear weapons ambitions. That's what we would all hope for and that's what we're going to continue to work on. And

that's what work is ongoing even as I speak to you now in that regard.

But we also have to have a Plan B. And plan B is what if Iran refuses to open the straits? What if Iran decides we refuse to open the straits, we're

going to own the straits and we're going to charge tolls for it. OK? At that point, something has to be done about it.

And I would argue that there are countries represented here today that are more deeply impacted by this than even the United States is.

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GOLODRYGA: CNN's Jennifer Hansler joins me now live from the State Department with more.

So Jennifer, a lot that was unfolding there during this visit, a lot of news made as well, in particular the United States President Trump

specifically seeming to reverse course and ordering more troops, not fewer, to be deployed to Poland. Just talk to us about that change in plan and why

it happened.

JENNIFER HANSLER, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER: Well, Bianna, we - - what we saw here from Secretary Rubio was him trying to reassure the allies that this is being done in a thoughtful way despite, you know, this

sudden reversal by President Trump in that announcement last night to send 5,000 troops to Poland. This, of course, comes roughly a week after the

Pentagon said they were canceling the deployment of a battlegroup battalion that was supposed to go to Poland. There was a lot of confusion around that

decision when it came out last week. A lot of scrambling between the Polish officials and the United States to level set, to reassure that this was not

being done in a punitive way. And what we saw last night, of course, from the president saying that they are in fact going to deploy these 5,000

troops to Poland in light of the election of his ally as president there.

Now, there are not a lot of details on this particular deployment of these troops. And this is something that Secretary Rubio punted questions to the

Pentagon. However, he is trying to cast this as not a punitive thing that is being done by the president despite his frustrations, as Rubio called

it, with the alliance. But he said that this was an ongoing process.

Now, Bianna, this is not the first time he has sought to downplay these massive changes in U.S. force posture in Europe that have left European

allies increasingly concerned about the reliability of the United States in this defensive alliance. Now, despite Rubio saying that this of course, is

being done, he said it wasn't being done on the back of a napkin, that this was a well thought out process, he did acknowledge that any decision that's

announced or made is viewed through the broader context of some of the frictions that we've had in recent months. And of course, it's hard not to

view it in that context when you see President Trump announcing this Poland deployment connected to the election of his political ally, when you see

him saying that they will pull troops from Germany after German Chancellor Merz criticized the U.S. war against Iran. So it is hard not to see that

within this context.

Another notable thing that Rubio said today, Bianna, was that there may be announcements related to a broader NATO framework in which all of the

countries give capabilities or troops that would be available for the collective defense. There's been some reporting that the U.S. is going to

to diminish how many capabilities they will have available for that collective group. He said that he was expecting announcements on that today

or in the coming days, but again claimed as this is being done in coordination with the broader alliance.

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The other major issue on the agenda today was Iran. So there was a lot to talk about among these foreign ministers in Sweden there. Bianna.

GOLODRYGA: Yes. And Secretary of State Rubio setting up what he describes as one of the most critical NATO summits to take place next month in Turkey

as well. Jennifer Hansler, the secretary of state on his way now to India. Thank you so much for that. Appreciate it.

All right, ahead for us on One World, level raised, the World Health Organization says the threat of Ebola and the DRC is now very high. How

health workers are trying to stop the spread without a vaccine in sight. That's next.

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GOLODRYGA: The Ebola outbreak in Central Africa is getting worse. The World Health Organization earlier today raised the Ebola threat level in their

Democratic Republic of Congo to very high. However, they add that the global risk is low. Officials blame 177 deaths on the outbreak and suspect

another 750 cases. One World Health Organization official says even though we know how to contain the virus, we need a vaccine now.

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DR. MOHAMED YAKUB JANABI, W.H.O. REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF AFRICA: It will be a big mistake to underestimate, especially with this strain, Bundibugyo,

which we don't have the vaccine. So I would really encourage everyone, let's help each other.

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GOLODRYGA: The Ebola situation in neighboring Uganda has stabilized according to the W.H.O. This as Uganda has suspended all public transport

between the two countries.

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CNN Medical Correspondent Meg Tirrell joins us now with a closer look.

So, Meg, how much closer are health officials to developing a vaccine for this specific strain?

MEG TIRRELL, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, so there is a vaccine for the more common strain of Ebola, the Zaire strain, of course, vaccines called

ERVEBO, and it was developed during that last giant outbreak in West Africa in 2014. It's made by Merck.

Now, W.H.O. said this morning that there is a similar vaccine based on the same technology, but targeted toward this Bundibugyo strain. That does look

promising based on animal data. But it would take six to nine months to get doses ready for a potential human clinical trial of that vaccine. So that's

obviously quite a long timeframe. It is possible this outbreak goes on that long.

But everyone of course hopes that it is contained before that point. There's a second vaccine that they have been looking at using the same

technology that AstraZeneca's vaccine during COVID used, developed at Oxford University, they are ramping that up as we speak in terms of

manufacturing doses for potential clinical trials that they say could be ready within two to three months. But there are no animal data showing us

how well that would work. And so they are generating those data now as they manufacture that as a potential solution as well.

But Bianna, we also heard on the briefing this morning from the World Health Organization, they're looking at medicines for this and those will

be deployed more quickly in clinical trials. They're planning a clinical trial of two different monoclonal antibody drugs, one from Regeneron and

one from a company called Mapp Biopharmaceutical, which both made antibodies in the previous Ebola outbreaks. So they're going to be trialing

those.

They're also looking at antiviral drug made by Gilead Sciences called obeldesivir as post exposure prophylaxis. So after people have been

exposed, they could take this and it's a pill, importantly, it's an oral drug, not an IV infusion, to try to prevent them from actually developing

Ebola. So that could be used in a similar way that we've seen vaccines used in previous Ebola outbreaks, what they call a ring vaccination strategy,

where essentially you identify contacts of cases and protect them either with a vaccine, if we had one, or here maybe with this pill. So there are

things they have in their toolkit, but of course they would like them to be further along than they already are.

Bianna, we should also say that the CDC just had its own briefing with reporters. We learned a little bit more about the CDC's response on top of

course, the travel restrictions and screening that they're doing here in the United States, they said that they are sending seven additional subject

matter experts from the headquarters in Atlanta to the DRC and Uganda to help with the response there. Bianna.

GOLODRYGA: All right. Meg Tirrell, always wonderful to have you and your expertise on the program. Thank you. Appreciate it.

And still to come for us, some lucky people will get the chance to attend the World Cup for just 50 bucks. Yes, you heard me. What city announced a

new lottery just for its residents, up next.

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GOLODRYGA: AI is having a massive impact on the U.S. job sector. The technology is already reducing monthly payroll growth by roughly 16,000,

according to Goldman Sachs. And when layoffs are announced, AI is often cited as the cause. Many people are questioning just how they can AI proof

their jobs. CNN's Hadas Gold has been speaking to the experts and joins us now from New York.

When I heard that you were covering this particular topic, Hadas, I mean, I can imagine all eyes, all ears are focused on what you have to say and what

you've learned.

HADAS GOLD, CNN AI CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it's seemingly every day we're hearing about a new company. It was Meta this week. We've heard of Intuit,

Nike, UPS laying off thousands of workers and often pointing to AI as one of the reasons that they can do that. So we wanted to talk to the experts,

to talk to them about this technology and how it's not only changing the job industry, but how regular people whose jobs might be affected, what, if

anything, they could do. Because whether we like it or not, this technology is coming.

Companies are going to be integrating it. So what can you do to try as much as you can to AI proof your job? So the very first step is to audit your

job. Think of your job in terms of tasks. What tasks do you do?

And of those tasks, which of those are done at a computer? And they're predictable and they're repeatable and they're rule based because those

types of jobs, things like taking raw data and turning it into something else, those are the ones that are most vulnerable to AI. And this is where

people who work in things like healthcare and hospitality and the skilled trades, they have less to worry about because we are far away from robots

being able to, for example, you know, fix your pipes in your house.

The next thing to do is to invest in your skills. Now that you have your audit, look at those skills and think about the ones that you don't do at a

computer that are not repeatable and predictable and about, you know, taking data and turning it into one thing or another. Think about something

like a sales job, the relationships that you build, how you're able to just pick up the phone, start talking to somebody and maybe convince them to buy

a contract and try to invest in those skills, because those are skills that AI cannot do. AI is not good at things of like emotional connection and

social awareness. Sitting in a meeting and getting the vibes of the meeting and knowing sort of which way to push, which way to nudge.

Another thing to think about is your reputation, because people will hire people based off of their reputations. Especially in an age where AI could

do a lot of these repeatable tasks.

And the last thing to do is to embrace AI. Again, this technology is coming whether you like it or not. So learn how to use it. Go to AI and go to a

chatbot and tell it some of your tasks that you have to do in your day to day and see how it does at those tasks. Get familiar with these.

And don't just get familiar with a chatbot, get familiar with an AI agent. AI agents are AI systems that run autonomously by themselves. They complete

tasks, multi-step tasks. They can make decisions, they can take actions for you. You can actually go to any chatbot today.

Go to ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude and type in, hey, I want to learn more about an AI agent. Walk me through, step by step how to build an AI agent

that will do whatever task. Maybe it's monitor gas prices for your trucking company and it will help walk you through step by step how to build that.

So learn how to embrace AI and start incorporating it as part of your job. Because one thing we are hearing from these experts is that even though AI

is coming into the workplace, they will still always need humans.

It might be that instead of a team of five, it is a team of one who is managing multiple AI agents. But there will always most likely be a human

involved in the process. Hopefully for now. Bianna.

GOLODRYGA: And your goal is to be that team of one to maintain that job and really useful tools and advice there. AI may have the IQ, but not the EQ

that we still possess.

GOLD: Exactly.

GOLODRYGA: Hadas Gold in New York for us. Thank you.

Well, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced that football fans there will be able to buy FIFA World Cup tickets for just $50 each. One

thousand tickets will be made available in a lottery just for New York City residents. The announcement comes as FIFA face growing criticism over sky

high ticket prices and transportation concerns.

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ZOHRAN MAMDANI, NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: As we prepare to host the World Cup right outside of New York City, we know that ticket prices for this

tournament have soared into the thousands of dollars. There are countless New Yorkers desperate to attend a World Cup match, but who simply cannot

afford to go. This is an opportunity to bring the next generation into the game. And as someone who grew up playing soccer in this city, we know that

too often there are too many cost barriers, not just to watching soccer, but even playing soccer. And we want to make it as easy as possible for the

world's game to be enjoyed by everyone across the five boroughs.

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GOLODRYGA: Well, just weeks before the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off, U.S. football teams are focusing on more than what happens on the field. They're

also hoping the World Cup craze will spark a new football boom in the U.S. CNN's Paula Newton looks at a lot -- takes a look at the push to build

football's legacy across the country. Country.

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PAULA NEWTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For Major League Soccer, the World Cup on home turf is supposed to be, as they say in

the game, a give and go. An effective passing tactic that will enable the league to score. Score what you ask.

JULIAN DE GUZMAN, HEAD OF SPORT, NEW YORK RED BULLS: Seeing it at a very high level in Europe, I want soccer to get to that level here in North

America. In America especially.

LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS, AUTHOR, "THE LONG GAME": You want a World Cup to leave a legacy. The last World Cup that was here in 1994 kind of changed

everything for the sport. It started Major League Soccer. It brought in tons of new fans. Lots of people got exposed to the sport.

NEWTON (voice-over): So far, so successful. The MLS final drew in a record 4.6 million viewers last year across all platforms. Drawing in those

eyeballs global stars like Lionel Messi. No doubt he brought his fans to the U.S. when he signed with Inter Miami in 2023.

SCHAERLAECKENS: They have grown and grown, built stadiums, added teams, and now the question is, how do they truly break into the big time?

NEWTON (voice-over): Here in Whippany, New Jersey, the New York Red Bulls are hoping to make their own mark on the game. We are just steps away from

the World Cup stage here at New York New Jersey Stadium. The team's head of sport tells me the key to lasting success is building soccer icons from the

ground up.

DE GUZMAN: It's not just about bringing in stars, past stars, it's about now creating your own stars. And that's when you become now a more

fulfilled country soccer nation.

NEWTON (voice-over): But creating stars at just the club level may not be enough to retain fans. This sports analyst and author says MLS also needs a

presence at the national level.

SCHAERLAECKENS: You need to develop a ton of players in order for the national team to start to look like it was fully produced by MLS. And that

takes a lot of time and it takes a lot of money.

NEWTON: Now remember, the MLS is no longer a stone with the World Cup on home soil. This is supposed to usher in a whole new era of soccer on this

continent.

NEWTON (voice-over): And young players like Julian Hall already know exactly what's at stake.

JULIAN HALL, PLAYER, NEW YORK RED BULLS: The World Cup is probably the biggest tournament in the whole world and that being in America is just a

huge chance for the U.S. and the MLS.

NEWTON (voice-over): His veteran teammate Emil Forsberg honed his footy in both Sweden and Germany. It's coming to play here, he's already seen soccer

climbing the ranks.

EMIL FORSBERG, PLAYER, NEW YORK RED BULLS: The stadiums, the people who come to support, I think it's been growing more and more every year. The

interest is getting bigger. And with this World Cup coming, I think it's going to do even more.

NEWTON (voice-over): Sustaining this popularity once the World Cup is over won't be easy, especially with the U.S. devotion to its other sports.

Data platform, SponsorUnited says MLS brought in an estimated $716 million from team sponsorship revenue in 2024, still far off its competition.

DE GUZMAN: Will it ever become number one in America? It's hard to say.

NEWTON: But it takes money.

DE GUZMAN: It takes money.

NEWTON (voice-over): The legacy the World Cup leaves here will put that to the test. The beautiful game on North American soil is a winning

opportunity for MLS. Now it's time to convert.

Paula Newton, CNN, Whippany, New Jersey.

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GOLODRYGA: As a soccer mom, I love that story. Thank you so much, Paula, for bringing it to us.

All right. Live from New York, Stephen Colbert took his final bow as "The Late Show" host at the Ed Sullivan Theatre Thursday night.

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STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, "THE LATE SHOW": On Night one of the Colbert report back in the day I said, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel

the news at you. I realized pretty soon in this job that our job over here was different. We were here to feel the news with you. And I don't know

about you, but I sure have felt it.

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GOLODRYGA: It has been quite the run. In a controversial move, "The Late Show" was canceled by CBS's parent company Paramount in July of last year.

Officially, it was put down to financial pressures, but some believe it was political pressure from President Trump as well. Colbert chose not to dwell

on this side, instead welcoming a star studded lineup of friends from Paul Rudd to Tim Meadows, vying to be his final guest.

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In the end, pop legend Paul McCartney was selected for the last interview and performance, joining Colbert on stage for a rendition of the Beatles

track "Hello, Goodbye" before the pair ceremonially tuned off or turned off theater's light.

Wow. Well, "The Late Show" was on the air for 33 years. We'll be right back with more.

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GOLODRYGA: Well, it's Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S. which also means it's the unofficial start of summer and as parents know all too well,

many kids will be glued to their devices over the summer break.

It's more than just concerned parents raising the alarm. The amount of time kids and teens are spending looking at screens is now a public health

concern. That's according to a new surgeon general's advisory.

Joining me is Erica Komisar. She is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst and parent coach and well known author on the topic of parenting. Her

latest book is the Parent's Guide to Divorce.

Erica, great to have you on. Let's pick up there where I just introduced the segment and that is concern over scrutiny screen time. The surgeon

general just declaring that this is a public health concern and they've suggested a two hour a day limit for older kids. You actually think that's

too much? Explain why?

ERICA KOMISAR, CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER & AUTHOR, "THE PARENT'S GUIDE TO DIVORCE": Well, I mean, social media in particular, but even just the

smartphone, more than an hour a day is overstimulating for adults and children. But we know that children's brains are developing in such a way

that it's not only overstimulating, but it also puts the brain into sort of what we call a survival mode. It's stressful for the brain. And so I advise

parents who come to see me to not allow their children, other than just for school use, to not allow their children to use technology more than an hour

a day.

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And we know that at 16, really according to Jonathan Haidt and everyone at this point, including the government of Australia, that 16 is really the

age that we want to think about giving children social media not really before.

GOLODRYGA: It's such a juggle for parents. I mean, I'm going through it myself with a 14-year-old. You know, they get a phone, but then the next

thing they want is app time, right? They want to have certain apps, they want to have social media, they see that their friends have it. They don't

want to be excluded, you don't want to exclude them.

But at the same time, you know the concerns of social media, especially for developing kids. What do you advise parents to have to make the choice

between not wanting your kids to be excluded but at the same time not wanting them to spend too much time on social media either?

KOMISAR: Well, it's always best to have a community as a parent, so I always advise parents to make sure they have a community of other parents

that they're working with to make sure that there's a common value system amongst the friends of your child if possible. You know, not every parent

will cooperate, but as much as possible getting the parents in your children's friend group on board with some limits. So that helps a lot. But

in the end, setting the limits early also helps. So, you know, if you have young children still starting to set those limits very early helps with the

limits later on.

And if you haven't set the limits, for instance, the summer is coming now and children are going to want to spend more time on devices. So before the

summer starts, really, as a parent, setting those limits early and setting them firmly so you're not really dealing with arguing with your child.

You're going to argue with them anyway because these devices are addictive and they're meant --

GOLODRYGA: Yes.

KOMISAR: -- to be addictive.

GOLODRYGA: You know what's interesting is my daughter, who is 10, her soccer group, the parents sent out a link to this tin can. I don't know if

you've heard that, but it's a phone, sort of an old school phone, bringing us back to how we grew up, where it's not a smartphone --

KOMISAR: Yes.

GOLODRYGA: -- there's no text, it's literally opportunity for friends to talk to each other on a -- over a Wi-Fi landline and that's all you need.

And so I'm wondering, are you --

KOMISAR: Yes.

GOLODRYGA: -- seeing a comeback of the sort of old school communication models and do you endorse that?

KOMISAR: I do. I mean the old fashioned flip phone is best for young children and in fact all children. I mean really when we talk about

technology being bad for children, we have to go back to the invention of the smartphone because it was really the smartphone, not the flip phone. I

mean, you know, a phone where you could call people and talk to them really was never an issue. It really became the smartphone.

You know, even Jean Twenge when she talked about this, she talked about the smartphone being the issue. And the social media debate came out of the

smartphone. So yes, you don't need to give your child a smartphone until they're over 16. And I actually advise parents not to. And there's lots of

good choices.

Google had a phone for children. There's lots of good choices that are really -- you'd say are not regressive but are in a way going back to

something very sort of basic and wholesome.

GOLODRYGA: I love that idea. Let's talk about your new book out this year, "The Parent's Guide to Divorce." Because we know that consistency is

critical for setting rules, but that's incredibly tough in two separate households, perhaps with two separate rules. So how do you advise parents

to find, you know, what happens at their house is unique to that. And you can support parents them having their own rules, but at the same time you

don't want that to impact how your child develops if the rules are completely different at the other parent's home.

KOMISAR: Well I mean that is a problem. And so I always encourage parents to be on the same page and to have the same value system and co parent

together. The problem is if you're divorcing, you probably don't have the same value system. And so what you're doing with your children is not being

manipulated by them to change your rules based on the other parent's rules.

You know, you want parents who are separating or breaking up or divorcing to really have a good working relationship, a good communication. But we

never assume that because there are so many really divorces today that are rather belligerent and where parents don't communicate. So it's really

important that you stick to your guns and in your household make it clear what the rules are, make it clear what your values are, whether or not your

ex-partner is on board. Because I think what happens is children can easily manipulate parents into changing their rules because the other parent has a

different set of rules. And at least you want to be stable and consistent and show your child that you have a certain set of values and rules and you

stick to them.

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GOLODRYGA: That's really good advice. I also love that you argue that boredom is where resilience is built. I'm going to use that because if I

hear my kids say that they're bored one more time, you know, you want to light your hair on fire, figure something out, go play outside, do

something. You don't need a device. That should not be the go to solution.

Erica Komisar, thank you so much for joining us. Wishing you a great Memorial Day weekend. Thank you.

KOMISAR: Thank you, You too. And thank you for having me.

GOLODRYGA: Well, that does it for this hour of One World. I'm Bianna Golodryga. Thanks so much for watching. "Amanpour" is up next.

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