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130 Plus Dead After Devastating Earthquake Hits Colombia; WAPO: Trump Boarded Secret Flight In Turkey Amid Iran Threat; Trump Endorsed Darline Graham For Senate In South Carolina; Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Childhood Vaccines; Doctors, Scientists Denounce Trump Executive Order on Vaccines; Jury Selection Begins 30 Years after Rapper's Death; Defense Questions Clancy's Psychiatric Care before Killings; Trump: If There's Damages to be Paid, Iran Should Pay; Interview with New York Knicks Jalen Brunson and His Mother Sandra Brunson. Aired 1-2a ET
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Los Angeles, The Story Is with Elex Michaelson.
MICHAELSON Thanks for watching The Story Is. I'm Elex Michaelson. Coming up, The Story Is in Colombia, where search and rescue operations are happening now after a deadly magnitude 7.4 earthquake devastated part of that country. The story in the Midwest, voters heading to the polls in critical races that could signal who has the momentum heading into November.
And The Story Is childhood vaccines. President Trump reigniting a fierce debate, signing an executive order that changes immunization recommendations nationwide. Our medical expert live to weigh in.
But we start in Colombia, where the devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake is still being responded to at this hour. At least 132 people have been killed after the quake toppled buildings, damaged hospitals, shut down airports and several cities. Colombia's new president, who just took office on Friday, has declared a state of national disaster. The move will help mobilize extra resources to the hardest hit areas as rescue crews search for victims trapped beneath the rubble.
CNN's Stefano Pozzebon has the latest on the disaster.
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STEFANO POZZEBON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): It's a scene of complete chaos as travelers in Matecana International Airport in Pereira seek cover and run for their lives as a deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit much of western Colombia on Monday. It is the strongest quake to hit the country in over a decade, according to the Colombian Geological Survey, and was followed by two aftershocks. The epicenter hit in the northwestern Department of Choco, less than 200 miles west of the capital Bogota. The area known as the country's coffee region was heavily damaged and multiple people were killed.
In the city of Manizales, a cathedral tilted after the ground shook for almost a minute. Extensive damage has also been reported in Bogota, where debris from this building plunged to the ground, an early crisis for the government of President Abelardo de la Espriella, the self-styled Colombian tiger who entered office just on Friday, the new head of state cancelling all commitments and calling an emergency cabinet meeting to declare a national disaster.
ABELARDO DE LA ESPRIELLA, PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA (through translator): Colombia has a president who cares deeply about its people and who will do everything in its power to help them during this most difficult time.
POZZEBON (voice-over): Governments around the world have offered support, including Ecuador, El Salvador and the United States. The U.S. geological Survey estimates at least 2 million people have been impacted by the tremors. This comes less than two months after a devastating double earthquake hit neighbor in Venezuela, with the death toll only destined to rise in the upcoming hours and days.
Stefano Pozzebon, CNN.
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MICHAELSON: Joining me now is the president of Plan International Colombia, Angela Anzola, live from Bogota. Thank you for being with us and thank you for the work that you're doing on the ground.
ANGELA ANZOLA DE TORO, PRESIDENT, PLAN INTERNATIONAL COLOMBIA: Thank you so much for having me and for paying attention to this terrible situation that we're facing in Colombia, the worst earthquake we've had in this century.
MICHAELSON: Yes, I mean, that is really a startling stat. Talk to us just on a personal level, what this experience of the earthquake itself felt like for you and what it's been like being out on the ground today.
ANZOLA DE TORO: Well, of course, it's a bit terrifying. It was just 7:00 in the morning, 7:34 in the morning when it happened. And definitely a 7.4 earthquake just really scares you. So we managed to quickly evacuate.
But I was in Bogota, which is the capital city, where the structures are quite safe, where we didn't have most damages. But in other parts of the country, the situation is devastating. We're talking about more than 1,500 people who have been severely injured. More than 1,500 houses have been completely destroyed. Already now the number of the collapsed building is 61.
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We're talking 387 houses collapsed. We have more than 20 health facilities and hospitals that were damaged, as well as more than 557 schools that have been damaged. So it is really quite devastating. And as you mentioned before in the report, six airports are closed, 18 roads have been damaged. So it's also very difficult to respond to a catastrophe like this when some of the parts that we need to get to are isolated.
MICHAELSON: Talk about what is happening right now in terms of really focused on people that may be trapped in the rubble. Sort of the urgency of what's happening right now and what's going to be happening in the hours ahead.
ANZOLA DE TORO: Well, since very early, we have had rescue -- search and rescue teams in different parts of Colombia. In the hardest hit cities, like Choco, Department of Choco, the capital, Quibdo, was very hardly hit as well as, for example, Pereira, Armenia, but also Manizales were hit. Even Medellin was hit as well.
But Cali, Cali is one that is particularly worrying. So as a lot of these search and rescue operations are ongoing, we are still finding people under the rubble. Even people who work with us at the Fundacion Plan, Plan International in Colombia have been rescued under the rubble. But of course, this is still a very difficult situation.
We are ascending from the city mayor of Bogota sent some rescue teams as well. Other cities who were less severely affected are sending experts, engineers and firefighters and other rescue personnel to the hardest hits areas of the country. So we are able to help.
But also, if it is amazing and astonishing and very touching to see the amount of effort by just citizens, just normal people who have taken up the task upon themselves and they have been fighting people and saving. We just saw a baby and a very elderly woman being saved. So really quite touching. And we are very grateful to all the society and also the private sector who is gathering, as well as the local and of course, the national government very quickly replying to this situation.
MICHAELSON: Well, Angela Anzola from Plan International Colombia. I know there are people watching us in 200 countries right now around the world, and all of them looking at those images and wanting to help. They can reach out to your organization and other organizations on the ground who are going to be doing the important work not only in the hours and days ahead, but weeks and months ahead as Colombia recovers from this devastating earthquake. Thank you so much for being with us.
ANZOLA DE TORO: Thank you so much for all the support. And the children are specifically our biggest worry. MICHAELSON: Yes.
ANZOLA DE TORO: No schools, no safe space, they need shelter. So we're really looking forward for -- to your help and we're going to try and do everything in our power to make this a little less terrible experience for the children.
MICHAELSON: Thank you for that work.
Onto this, President Trump is stoking fears ahead of the midterm elections. Reporters asked Monday if he had any advice for Republican lawmakers as they fight to keep control of Congress. Instead of answering that question, he made this false claim in an attack on Democrats.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Jihadists being elected all over the place. We have this, whether it's communism, jihadism, it's a lot of friend of mine called up, he said, you know, really, you should use the word jihadist because that's what's happening.
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MICHAELSON: Now to Wisconsin, the upper Midwestern swing state that will hold its primaries for Senate and governor in the hours ahead. And the Democratic frontrunner for governor is causing some anxiety within the party.
CNN's Jeff Zeleny in Wisconsin.
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MIKE CONNELL, WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC VOTER: When you say somebody's a democratic socialist, what the hell does that mean?
JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On the eve of the primary election in a wild Wisconsin governor's race, Democrats are having a contentious debate.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What they're calling socialist policies aren't necessarily socialist. It's working for people in our movement.
FRANCESCA HONG, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR WISCONSIN GOVERNOR: And our movement were taking --
ZELENY (voice-over): Over the direction of their party and more.
KAREN NEFF, WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC VOTER: I don't think there's anything wrong with being a democratic socialist, but she's come up so strong that I think she's going to scare people.
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ZELENY (voice-over): A summertime surge for progressives will be tested anew. As Francesca Hong, a Democratic socialist state lawmaker --
HONG: I want you to know that I'm going to keep showing up for you. Let's win this.
ZELENY (voice-over): -- faces David Crowley, the Milwaukee county executive backed by outgoing Governor Tony Evers.
DAVID CROWLEY, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR WISCONSIN GOVERNOR: We need a governor who doesn't just talk about problems. We need someone who's going to solve them. And that's what I've done my entire career.
ZELENY (voice-over): Hong is working to capitalize on deep voter discontent, calling for a one year moratorium on data centers.
HONG: Taxing the ultra-rich.
ZELENY (voice-over): And new taxes on some of the wealthiest Wisconsinites.
ZELENY: What have you tapped into during this race?
HONG: I think it's a frustration and an exhaustion that Wisconsinites feel left behind.
ZELENY (voice-over): The campaign has divided Wisconsin Democrats with one chaotic turn after another. Three candidates dropped out, including Crowley, who later jumped back into the race. Hong emerged as a frontrunner, but along the way walked back her previous views of defunding the police, abolishing the U.S. Senate and even canceling Thanksgiving.
HONG: Had some bad takes and some hot takes on Twitter. But like all everyday Wisconsinites, I had to express my frustrations that the system wasn't working for us.
TIM EICHINGER, WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC VOTER: There are times to be more establishment, but I don't think this is the time.
ZELENY (voice-over): Tim Eichinger, a lifelong Democrat, has watched the primary play out from his Milwaukee brewery.
ZELENY: Is there an appetite for change here? Is that what's driving some of this as well?
EICHINGER: Certainly. And it's not just change overall. It's change with how the Democrats are doing things. The Democrats seem to be soft and aren't willing to fight as much. And I think that's why you're seeing maybe somebody who maybe has some bigger ideas, some bold ideas that might seem a little bit crazy.
But it's like, hey, let's give it a shot.
ZELENY (voice-over): Progressive politics have a long history in Wisconsin, but Evers warned Democrats they could lose the seat in November to Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany.
TONY EVERS, WISCONSIN GOVERNOR: Wisconsinites, we have worked too damn hard and we have waited too damn long to have it all squandered now.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
ZELENY (voice-over): Crowley argues that he too represents change.
ZELENY: So you're not the establishment, in your view?
CROWLEY: I may be established, but I'm not the establishment. Just being able to put out different types of rhetoric doesn't mean you're a progressive. What makes you a progressive is actually making progress for those that you represent and looking to represent.
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MICHAELSON: Thanks to Jeff Zeleny. Jeff will be with us for election night coverage tomorrow here on The Story Is.
Turning now to a stunning revelation on how President Trump hid in a catering cart to board a secret flight due to an Iranian assassination threat. The Washington Post reports it happened when he was leaving a NATO summit in Turkey last month. He was seen boarding Air Force One, but minutes later, he and several aides secretly exited the plane via an airport catering truck. That truck, which we'll show you circled on the screen, there it is, then transported them to a smaller military aircraft.
Meanwhile, Air Force One took off with journalists and White House staff on board, serving as a decoy. They thought the president was on board.
Once both planes arrived in England, President Trump was secretly transported back onto Air Force One so they could get this image of him disembarking as he normally would. Nobody would know anything different. Here's what the Washington Post reporter who broke this story told CNN's Kaitlan Collins about the incident earlier.
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DAN LAMOTHE, NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER, WASHINGTON POST: For weeks now, the American public talking about the two Air Force One jets, the newer one from Qatar and the older one from the last couple decades of operations. And in reality, the president was on neither plane. You have the newer jet from Qatar that landed a relatively nondescript call sign a couple hours in advance in Britain. The C-32 simply did not show up in flight tracker data at all, at least in the publicly available information we had. And the Air Force One jet landed with the Air Force One call sign despite the president not being aboard.
That -- there's a serious shell game of sorts that occurred there, you know, to keep the president safe.
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MICHAELSON: Our political panel is back. Former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former Wisconsin Senate candidate Steven Olikara.
Gentlemen, welcome back. Steven, what a story.
STEVEN OLIKARA, FMR. DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE FOR WISCONSIN: Yes, totally wild. I'm seeing people arguing about planes all day today and glad obviously that the president is safe. These are very serious times that we're living in. But I also think we're living in an election season right now.
And I think the voters, they're not really thinking about planes, they're thinking about corruption. They think about this Qatari plane that was donated by the government of Qatar. And I think that's really what people often respond to when they see a story like this, that, you know, why is the president accepting these gifts?
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And when you add that to the ballroom and so many of the president's inauguration, a lot of these major companies, foreign governments, you have the Trump coin. Obviously --
MICHAELSON: Yes.
OLIKARA: -- this corruption story I think adds up over time and I think it undermines his political prospects.
MICHAELSON: But this particular story also, really, Mr. Mayor, is about Iran wanting to kill the president in the middle of the Iran war. And the Secret Service being so concerned about that that they had to create this whole elaborate decoy situation where the press and a lot of the staff are flying, thinking the president's on board and he's actually over here on a different plane.
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, FORMER MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES: And then speaking to corruption, got back on the Qatari plane from Britain --
MICHAELSON: Yes.
VILLARAIGOSA: -- to the U.S. notwithstanding all of these threats, it just boggles the mind. And of course, nobody wants something to happen to the president. It's insane that we're in a war, the -- an illegal war, by the way, war that's costing us billions and a war that doesn't seem to end.
MICHAELSON: Well, and -- in -- you know, there are several Democrats that are saying this is something of the president looking weak, sort of hiding in a beverage cart. But last hour we spoke to Robert McDonald, who worked for the United States Secret Service for years, and he has a different view of that. Watch.
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ROBERT MCDONALD, RETIRED SECRET SERVICE AGENT: Well, respectfully, I don't -- I don't think I would say that he was hiding in the beverage cart. I think that he would -- they were using that vehicle to transport him in a clandestine fashion. But the main thing here is that the president got home safe. It may not have looked pretty, it may have been a little bit ugly and a little bit non transparent, but the president got home safe, especially in this very high threat environment which we're seeing right now.
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MICHAELSON: Which is a good thing. We know tensions are obviously very high with Iran. The United States killed the leader of Iran and Iran wants to kill the United States' leader. And we've seen that back and forth.
In terms of where the war is actually at right now, tough place for the United States. The Wall Street Journal has this headline, "Gulf States accept a new normal in Strait of Hormuz: Iran is in control."
VILLARAIGOSA: There's no question about it. Look, he always talks about the hour of the deal and that he's the best negotiator in the history of humankind. The fact is he doesn't know what he's doing. He had no endgame, that's clear. They have an advantage currently, and they're exploiting that advantage.
And that's why we're in a war that doesn't seem to have an end and may not for a long time.
MICHAELSON: Is that hurting, Steven, the president, with his own voters, with the Republican base who really wanted to have no new foreign wars?
OLIKARA: Yes. Talking with a lot of Republican voters myself, I think that on one hand, you see fewer and fewer of those voters still supporting the president on Iran. But when you look at the holistic suite of issues, they still support the president. He's still the number one force in Republican politics.
And so that's where I think his stranglehold on the party is so impressive, because Iran is a huge issue. Voters of all stripes are connecting that to the affordability and cost of living issues that Democrats and Republicans care about. And yet Trump is still a major, undeniable force in Republican politics.
MICHAELSON: Well, we talked about Wisconsin in the hours ahead, what's going to be happening there. Also in the hours ahead, there's an election in South Carolina. Republicans to try to figure out who they want to replace Lindsey Graham in the Senate. President Trump wants Lindsey Graham's little sister to replace him in the Senate, Darline Graham. He'd held a telephone town hall for her.
Here's some of that.
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TRUMP: The polls open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m. so go vote for Senator Darline Graham. She's really great. She was the most -- I tell you, Lindsey was never more proud of anybody than Darline. So I just want to tell you that she has my complete and total endorsement, had right from the beginning.
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MICHAELSON: Mr. Mayor, can you talk about President Trump's hold on the Republican Party base and sort of put that in historical context?
VILLARAIGOSA: Certainly in my lifetime, I've never seen any president, head of a party, have the kind of control over their party that he does. But really, when you look back over the two centuries, I'm not sure there's anyone, with the exception of George Washington --
MICHAELSON: When there was no parties.
VILLARAIGOSA: Yes, when there were no parties, that had control in the way that he does.
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MICHAELSON: So you're saying that he has more power and influence over his party than any other president in American history.
VILLARAIGOSA: I'm no expert, but that's my sense. I've never seen anything like this. When he said he could shoot somebody walking down Fifth Avenue, I think it's pretty clear he could.
MICHAELSON: Why -- real quickly, why do you think that is?
VILLARAIGOSA: They're afraid of him. That's pure and simple. They're afraid of him. The support he has among the base is so strong. He's taken out a number of incumbents.
They're afraid of him.
MICHAELSON: And real quickly, Steven, every single time he's taken somebody on, he's basically ended their career.
OLIKARA: Yes, on the Republican side. And so that works in South Carolina, won't work necessarily in Midwestern swing states like Wisconsin. The MAGA brand, according to the latest poll, is underwater by about 15 to 20 percent. And so people also have to remember that primary elections are a third to a half of the general election electorate. They're whiter, they're wealthier and they're more partisan.
So that works in the primary, not in a swing state for a general.
MICHAELSON: Which is why some moderate Democrats might say we shouldn't elect somebody who is anti-Thanksgiving --
OLIKARA: Exactly. Exactly.
MICHAELSON: -- in that situation.
All right, Antonio Villaraigosa, Steven Olikara, thank you both for being with us.
VILLARAIGOSA: Thank you.
MICHAELSON: The science is clear, vaccines save lives and are safe for kids. But the Trump administration is pushing ahead with new policies that contradict the facts. We'll speak to a doctor about the president's new executive order and how you should think about it next.
Plus, jury selection begins in the trial of the man accused of killing rapper Tupac Shakur. Why prosecutors believe his own words can prove his own guilt.
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MICHAELSON: Scientists and doctors are denouncing President Trump's latest executive order targeting childhood vaccines. Some of its goals are to reduce the number of vaccine recommendations for very young children and to divide the mumps, measles and rubella vaccinations into separate shots. The wide ranging changes go against broad scientific consensus, but follow the president's personal opinion about vaccines.
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TRUMP: Very simply, large amounts of vaccine, large amounts of like vats of vaccine are currently pumped into your child's body and we're doing 20 percent of that at each visit. And we'll let time elapse between visits so the body can handle this massive amount of fluid being pumped in. I think it's going to make a big difference.
You know, there are some groups that have virtually no problem with autism.
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MICHAELSON: Studies have shown that there is zero evidence of a connection to autism. But President Trump has been pushing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to seek confirmation of some of these debunked theories.
Let's talk now with an expert. Dr. Anne Rimoin is a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Welcome back to The Story Is.
ANNE RIMOIN, EPIDEMIOLOGY PROFESSOR, UCLA FIELDING SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Thanks for having me.
MICHAELSON: All right, Anne, so if you are a parent or a grandparent who's got young kids or a baby maybe that was just born, how should you think about this?
RIMOIN: Well, Elex, thanks for having me. And I think that what we're seeing here is a lot of opinion, a lot of discussion about intuition and not a lot of discussion about science and evidence here.
And what concerns me the most is that we're considering making major changes to childhood vaccination policy without evidence that those changes are going to improve health. So to answer your question, very specifically, if I were a parent, what I would want is to follow the science and follow the data that is actually out there. And I would talk to my pediatrician, I would look at the medical associations like the academy -- the American Academy of Pediatrics, were very clear on this topic. And I would -- I would really follow the data and, and not intuition or feelings.
MICHAELSON: I mean, this idea of spreading out the vaccine, the president said this about what happens to babies.
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TRUMP: I saw this early on and I've seen proof of it where they have a vaccination thing looks like the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child's body.
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MICHAELSON: Has there ever been a bottle of soda sized vaccine poured into a child's body? And what do you make of this idea of spreading them out? Is that -- is that helpful in any way?
RIMOIN: OK. So the first point, this is -- this is just rhetorically vivid kind of a statement, but it's biologically meaningless. We measure vaccines in fractions of a milliliter, not in terms of big doses like he's discussing. And I think that what the -- the bigger question here is, what is the evidence? I'm an epidemiologist, I like data.
I'm a scientist.
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So I'm asking if we're going to be making changes to policy, where are the data? There are no data that suggest that spacing vaccines out will be safer for children. If those data exist, we should study them. But are no data that suggest that.
What data do exist are the data that are showing that if you are going to separate these vaccines, right now it's a two-dose vaccine. If you separate it, now you're getting six doses total, right, three vaccines, two doses of them. That means that parents are going to have to go to the doctor more frequently.
And while these vaccines are covered in principle, you know, time is not free. Parents have to take time off of work. Children have to be pulled out of school. Sometimes people have to have more child care. How are they going to get to wherever the vaccines are going to be distributed? You know, that's all important.
And there are data suggesting that the more vaccine visits you have, the less likely a child is going to be able to finish their vaccine schedule. And that means that children may, with this new schedule be less protected overall.
ELEX MICHAELSON, CNN ANCHOR: And to that point, Bill Cassidy, who is a senator from Louisiana, Republican, who voted to confirm RFK Jr. now putting this on to X.
Quote, "I'm a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The president does not have the expertise to make these changes.
Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines do not cause autism. Breaking up vaccines will mean children have to get the shots, the same protection, not fewer shots, will increase hesitancy and make children less safe.
Parents should listen to their child's pediatrician about vaccines, rather than listening to inaccurate executive order. This is so wrong."
Bill Cassidy, of course, was not endorsed by President Trump and will not be returning to the United States Senate.
But in terms of the autism link, there's been so much said about that for years, especially by the current HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Break down the data in terms of what you've seen -- vaccines and autism.
DR. RIMOIN: Well, I think the thing that's really important here is to understand how these studies are done. There are many, many studies done over decades in multiple countries, you know, hundreds of thousands, millions of children studied. You look at what the exposure is and what the outcome is.
So you look at -- have children been vaccinated? Are those children -- or have they not been vaccinated? Have those children who have been vaccinated -- do those children have a greater risk of having autism? Are the rates of autism higher in children who have been vaccinated versus those who have not been vaccinated?
There are no -- studies do not indicate that there is any link between vaccines and autism. There are no -- the studies do not demonstrate that children who are vaccinated are more likely to be autistic than children who are not vaccinated. And that is where the data stand.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask questions and to do studies, but when the studies that are done show you over and over again that there is no link, then you know, the job is to accept the evidence and make policy based on evidence, not based on intuition or feeling.
MICHAELSON: Yes. This -- this whole thing today sort of feels like a solution in search of a problem.
Anne Rimoin, thank you so much for sharing your expertise. Really appreciate it.
DR. RIMOIN: My pleasure. Thanks for having me.
MICHAELSON: Mental health has become a central focus in the murder trial of Massachusetts mother, Nancy (SIC) Clancy. Ahead, the latest testimony from a psychiatrist who was treating Clancy in the months before she's accused of killing her three children.
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MICHAELSON: In just a few hours, jury selection will resume in the murder trial of Duane Davis, the man accused of killing rapper, Tupac Shakur, nearly 30 years ago.
Davis is the first and only person ever charged in the rapper's fatal shooting. He's pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors say Davis' own words may be just the evidence they need to prove him guilty. They say he implicated himself in the murder after releasing a memoir and discussing the events of that night in media interviews. Tupac's killing has remained one of the most high-profile unsolved mysteries for decades.
Opening statements are expected to begin on Monday. Davis could face life in prison if convicted.
The murder trial of Massachusetts mother, Lindsay Clancy continued Monday with new testimony about the mental health treatment she received in the months leading up to the killings of their three young children.
Sera Congi from CNN affiliate WCVB, has the latest.
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DR. JENNIFER TUFTS, PSYCHIATRIST: She did not have pressured speech.
SERA CONGI, WCVB: A tense day in the Lindsay Clancy trial, as her primary psychiatrist took the stand for a second day of testimony. Clancy is accused of killing her three children in their Duxbury home in January of 2023.
Her defense claims she suffered from postpartum psychosis and overmedication.
KEVIN REDDINGTON, LINDSAY CLANCY'S DEFENSE ATTORNEY: She was scared of the drugs right?
DR. TUFTS: She was afraid to take a medication.
REDDINGTON: She wasn't doctor-shopping and asking you to give her drugs so she could get high. She was asking you for help.
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CONGI: Dr. Jennifer Tufts treated Clancy for 14 telehealth visits over a four-month period. Clancy's defense pressing Tufts on whether she did enough.
REDDINGTON: What did you do? You got a woman that's telling you that she -- she's hopeless. She doesn't care if she dies. She can't sleep. What did you do to validate on your therapy?
DR. TUFTS: Well, I told her that this was -- this was something that we could address. That there was hope. That there were treatments.
CONGI: But Tufts also testified about never seeing any signs of psychosis.
DR. TUFTS: So there were no serious signs that her safety or that anyone else's safety was at risk
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MICHAELSON: Thanks to our affiliate WCVB for that report.
The U.S. and Iran appear no closer to reaching an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump has responded to Tehran's list of demands to reopen the critical waterway.
He said, in part, "I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran for all the people that they have killed and gravely wounded.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You said this last round of talks was Iran's last chance before decapitation. So what now? What's coming next?
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You'll find out. You'll find out.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you still -- a massive escalation, is that still on the table?
TRUMP: Well, we have that -- certainly that ability if we want to do that. Yes. You'll find out.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You said you're low-keying it with them.
TRUMP: I didn't say that.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Semi-negotiating. What exactly does that mean?
TRUMP: They asked for. They asked for reparations, you might say, or they asked for money for the damage that we've done.
I said, that's a good idea. Well, we're going to ask for money for the damage they've done over a 50-year-period. If there's damages to be paid, I think Iran should pay those damages.
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MICHAELSON: Thanks for watching THE STORY IS.
For international viewers, WORLD SPORT is next. For our viewers in North America, I'll be right back with a new interview with Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks.
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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) MICHAELSON: New York Knicks guard, Jalen Brunson, is getting candid about his feelings on being overlooked early in his basketball career and how he's trying to help others through his foundation.
The finals MVP and his mom sat down to discuss with CNN's Omar Jimenez.
OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, he says it's been a hectic summer after winning the NBA championship. Even still, he's been able to find some good downtime with family, which obviously would have been difficult to find in that championship run.
We met up at his annual golf charity event for his foundation, the Second-Round Foundation, which is essentially taking the story of him being drafted in the second round, largely overlooked. And they aim to try and provide opportunities for kids who also might be being overlooked and to level the playing field on that front.
So we sat with him alongside his mom and co-founder of the foundation. But for basketball fans, there was a big change in the Eastern Conference this offseason. So I started there and I asked him about it.
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JIMENEZ: Lebron going to Philly. What did you think about that?
JALEN BRONSON, NEW YORK KNICKS: Honestly, I've been enjoying this as much as I could. And so there's been a lot on my plate since obviously we won. When it comes time to get back with my team and we'll focus on that.
But just to experience this with my teammates and my family and everything like that, that's all been really focused on right now.
JIMENEZ: I mean, that's what the offseason is really for. And you know, I was looking at just the mission statement of your foundation, how it was born out of the idea that success doesn't always look like a first round pick. Just talk to me about being overlooked.
BRUNSON: You can go down so many different roads with that -- with that term. I feel like I was overlooked in sport, but there are a lot of kids and people who are overlooked just in life.
JIMENEZ: Tell me about how this started.
BRUNSON: It was definitely my parents idea.
SANDRA BRUNSON, MOTHER OF JALEN BRUNSON: Pretty much the day after the draft to not have a pity party in my eyes.
JIMENEZ: That's how I know you're a competitor, by the way, because.
S. BRUNSON: Overlooked is a term that I think many people can associate with. But when it comes to children, it's as if everyone needs to start on the same playing field. JIMENEZ: You would send Jalen texts before games, right, to just help
with perspective.
S. BRUNSON: Yes.
JIMENEZ: Do you remember what you sent him either before game four or the game clinching or the finals clinching game?
S. BRUNSON: I typically send him a message about an hour or two before the game --
J. BRUNSON: Sometimes --
S. BRUNSON: -- 30 minutes before he takes the court.
J. BRUNSON: There you go.
JIMENEZ: Ok. All right.
S. BRUNSON: I have my traditional opening emojis and things like that. But I told him that he needed to -- he and his team had an opportunity to create history.
JIMENEZ: I bring that up because I saw a picture of you. I believe it was at the end of game four where you're like slumped in the seats. You wrote on LinkedIn that you don't remember much of what happened, but also that you were so proud not just of the comeback, but of the character it takes to keep fighting when the odds say otherwise.
S. BRUNSON: I was just trying to will myself into believing that they could do it. And I've been through a lot of games with Jalen on every level. But that one in particular, it was tremendous.
And I hope that game and maybe that picture just kind of symbolizes what every parent thinks when they're watching their child play sports. You kind of melt and you want the best for them.
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MICHAELSON: Love that from Omar Jimenez.
Some Republicans seeking office insist the U.S. is at risk for voter fraud. But their concerns may just be trickling down from the top office in Washington. Tom Foreman reports next.
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MICHAELSON: U.S. elections rank as some of the most secure in the world, according to independent analysts. But President Trump continues to falsely claim he should have won the 2020 election, but lost due to fraud. Now a new crop of Republican candidates are perpetuating that claim.
CNN's Tom Foreman has more on the troubling trend. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's like 2020 all over again for some Republican candidates.
TOM TIFFANY (R-WI), GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: How's everybody?
FOREMAN: In Wisconsin where Congressman Tom Tiffany wants voters to make him governor.
TIFFANY: They want election integrity. Let's make it easy to vote, hard to cheat.
REP. MIKE ROGERS (R-MI), SENATE CANDIDATE: Mr. President --
FOREMAN: In Michigan, where Senate candidate Mike Rogers posted, "If our nation does not have security and confidence of our elections, then we do not have much of a nation at all."
And in Minnesota, where Mike Lindell wants a governor's chair, too.
MIKE LINDELL (R), MINNESOTA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: And you all know that I have been relentless in making people aware of the fraud in our elections.
TRUMP: This is a great Republican and a great person.
FOREMAN: What do they all have in common? The backing of President Donald Trump, who has relentlessly claimed he was cheated in the presidential election six years ago.
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TRUMP: The rigged election.
They just rigged the election.
The election was rigged.
They rigged the election.
FOREMAN: Despite a brutal attack on the Capitol, scores of court challenges and investigations, evidence has persistently shown Joe Biden won that election.
And at the time, Rogers, then a CNN contributor, said Trump's falsehoods were to blame for the violence.
ROGERS: Well, you're damn right you had responsibility for this.
FOREMAN: As for claims of election fraud.
ROGERS: You have to go home and say listen, we lost. The president of the United States lost.
FOREMAN: The vast majority of voters have agreed all along -- Trump lost fair and square.
HARRY ENTEN, CNN CHIEF DATA ANALYST: The American people do not buy the case that Donald Trump has been making no matter how obsessive he is.
FOREMAN: But Republican voters overwhelmingly think that election was corrupt, and Trump's suspicions are right.
TRUMP: Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen.
FOREMAN: So after Trump warned about possible voting shenanigans in the Michigan primary, the formerly skeptical congressman has posted this. "I am thankful for President Trump's commitment to transparency."
For many Republicans, this clearly comes down to a simple test of loyalty. If you don't buy into Donald Trump's belief about what happened in 2020 no matter how false it is, he may not let you stay in his party.
Tom Foreman, CNN -- Washington.
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MICHAELSON: Tomorrow, I'll talk with Housing Secretary Scott Turner, congressional candidate Sam Forstadt. Plus an election special with Katie Porter, Ron Brownstein and Matt Klink.
We'll see you then.
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