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U.S. Court Blocks Trump From Imposing The Bulk Of His Tariffs; Two Dead After People Break Into WFP Warehouse In Search Of Food; Germany And Ukraine Reach Deal For Long-Range Weapons Production; U.S. Announces Visa Curbs Targeting Social Media Censorship; 7M New Jobs Will Vanish Due to Economic Slowdown; Anthropic CEO Warns of Imminent Widespread Job Losses Due to A.I.; The European Bison Returns to the U.K.; CNN Examines Backup Systems for Ground Control Failures Aired 1- 2a ET
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Those sweeping U.S. tariffs which have upended global trade ruled illegal. Ahead on CNN Newsroom.
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KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR AND CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: The president claimed he could impose the tariffs without Congress by declaring a national economic emergency.
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VAUSE: But the U.S. Court of International Trade said no and found the president exceeded his authority, putting the brakes potentially on Trump's global trade war.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That haunts me daily.
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VAUSE: Free from Gaza, but not from the trauma of being held hostage by Hamas. And after 600 days of war, protesters in Tel Aviv demand the Israeli government bring home the last of the hostages.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN Newsroom with John Vause.
VAUSE: For months, Donald Trump has waged a global trade war from the White House, imposing tariffs on friend and foe alike almost will never before the actions of one president had such a profound and significant impact, not just at home, but around the world. But just hours ago, a federal court in Manhattan effectively blocked
almost all of the tariffs announced by President Trump since taking office in January.
In a three-judge unanimous opinion, the U.S. Court of International Trade rule the president exceeded his authority by declaring a national economic emergency to issue executive orders imposing those tariffs without approval from Congress.
The White House has appealed the ruling and again lashed out of the courts, writing in a statement, it is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency. This is just one of at least seven lawsuits challenging the president's tariffs. CNN's Marc Stewart joins us now live from Beijing.
So, Marc, what impact will this have on China, which has been locked in this trade dispute for quite a while with Donald Trump and also the rest of the world?
MARC STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right, John, this is far reaching. And what's so interesting is that we've heard so much outcry recently from Wall Street about the impact of these tariffs. Yet it's a lawsuit that was brought upon by small businesses, including a wine company that led to this injunction. So, so much back and forth. Let me show you on your screen where things stand.
Let's first talk about a tariff, a 30 percent tariff on China that was in place even during a trade truce that has now been halted along 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada, as well as a 10 percent tariff halted on most goods coming into the United States. What is not on the list? What's still in place is a 25 percent tariff on automobiles, steel or aluminum.
That obviously has a big impact on Europe as well as in Asia, including South Korea and Japan, which are such big automotive giants in this part of the world.
I want you to take a quick listen to one of the attorneys who brought this case to fruition. Let's listen to what he had to say.
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JEFFREY SCHWAB, LEAD COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFFS IN V.O.S. SELECTIONS, INC. V TRUMP: The Constitution gives the power to tariff to Congress, not to the president. So that means there's got to be some limit when Congress delegates that authority to the president.
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STEWART: And the White House says it will appeal or it's now in the process of appealing this ruling. As far as reaction from China and the rest of the world, well, markets like what they are seeing. We are seeing gains across the board in South Korea, in Japan and as well as here in mainland China. We have seen markets be very sensitive when it comes to these trade issues. The mere mention of tariffs can cause them to sink. Now this apparent reversal is causing them to rise. John, as far as what the government in China is thinking, what will
Beijing's tactics moving forward in these ongoing trade disputes between the United States and China? We may get some clarity in just about two hours from now. That's where when China's Ministry of Foreign affairs will hold its daily briefing. No question.
I think it's safe to say this will come up for conversation. John.
VAUSE: Marc, thank you. Marc Stewart live for us in Beijing. With that, we appreciate it.
Another day of desperation in Gaza with hundreds of Palestinians storming a U.N. warehouse storing food supplies. According to the World Food Programme, at least two people were killed. Several others were injured. Images from inside the warehouse show many were grabbing whatever they could well outside, hundreds were sent running as gunfire echoed in the background.
And the controversial Israeli-U.S. backed Gaza humanitarian foundation has now suspended operations after a distribution point was overrun on Tuesday. Palestinian health officials say one person was shot and killed. Amid the chaos, humanitarian aid has resumed at a fraction of what is needed after Israel's 80-day long blockade.
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Here's the Palestinian representative to the U.N. on this very real impact of a critical shortage of food.
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RIYAD MANSOUR, U.N. AMBASSADOR OF THE PALESTINIAN TERRETORIES: Dozen of children are dying of starvation. The images of mothers embracing their motionless bodies, caressing their hair, talking to them, apologizing to them. How could anyone this world, excuse me, Mr. President, I have grandchildren. I know what they mean to their families. And to see the situation of the Palestinians without us having hearts to do something is beyond the ability of any normal human being tolerate.
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VAUSE: Dozens of protesters have been arrested during a demonstration demanding the Israeli government do more to secure the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza. The group stormed the headquarters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. They were part of mass demonstrations marking the 600th day of the war in Gaza. 600 days of captivity for the hostages still being held there.
Officials from the conservative Likud Party called the protesters far left anarchists demanded an investigation as well as prosecutions. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports out on the families and the former captives working to bring the last of the hostages home.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DIAMOND (voice-over): LISHAY MIRAN has been fighting this fight for 600 days. 600 days since Hamas militants broke into her house and shattered her world. 600 days since they took this father from his home.
LISHAY MIRAN-LAVI, WIFE OF HOSTAGE OMRI MIRAN: At the moment that the terrorists get inside our home, Ronnie was sleeping here. I was here with Alma. And Omri stand here next to the door with two knives in his head.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Now visits to the home they once shared are interrupted by the sounds of war. Joltingly shy to her husband's dangerous reality.
DIAMOND: What goes through your mind when you hear that?
MIRAN-LAVI: I think about them. I think about Omri what's going on over there when they hear this. Yes, no, I really scared. I really scared. And I thought all the time what they think right now.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Keith Siegel knows exactly what the hostages are going through.
KEITH SIEGEL, FORMER HAMAS HOSTAGE: It haunts me daily.
DIAMOND (voice-over): He survived 484 days in Hamas captivity, enduring abuse.
SIEGEL: I was beaten by terrorists. I experienced physical abuse, psychological, emotional abuse.
DIAMOND (voice-over): And Israeli bombing.
SIEGEL: I spent most of my time in captivity above ground. And I can tell you that it's scary. I can remember that I was sitting on a chair next to a window in an apartment on the fifth floor. A house right next to the apartment that were staying in was bombed. I was blown off the chair onto the floor. The windows obviously were all shattered, broken.
DIAMOND: And so as these bombardments are now intensifying as the Israeli military is threatening to further expand this military offensive. What's going through your mind?
SIEGEL: I worry. I worry about the dangers that the hostages are in. Again, they're in a life threatening situation.
DIAMOND: It seems like what you're saying is that expanding military operations in Gaza increases the threat to the hostages lives.
SIEGEL: Yes, I believe so.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Omri Miran is among the hostages he is worried about. They spent nearly six months together in captivity bonding over music and family. SIEGEL: Omri talked a lot about Lishay and his daughters Roni and Alma
who are now aged four and two. It was very difficult for Omri to think about his daughters growing up without their dad.
DIAMOND (voice-over): After Siegel broke down while filming a hostage video, it was Omri who comforted him.
SIEGEL: He helped me very much. He really calmed me down.
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DIAMOND (voice-ver): Siegel also spent 67 days with Matan Angrest, a now 22-year-old Israeli soldier.
DIAMOND: It sounds like you carry Omri and Matan with you every day.
SIEGEL: Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. I think about them every day, many times a day. I worry about them and I miss them.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Omri cried out to Siegel and his family last month in this hostage video. His wife saw a different man.
MIRAN-LEVI: His eyes was really like, it's not him.
DIAMOND (voice-over): But she is convinced their daughters will get their father back.
DIAMOND: When they ask you --
MIRAN-LEVI: Yes.
DIAMOND: -- will he come home, do you tell them that he will?
MIRAN-LEVI: Yes, all the time. You know, I don't know if it's going to be tomorrow and I don't know if it's going to be in one year from now. But I know in my heart I know that he's going to come back.
DIAMOND (voice-over): Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Nachal Oz, Israel.
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VAUSE: Another round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine set for Monday in Istanbul. And there Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the delegation will present a memorandum to the Ukrainian side outlining Moscow's position on overcoming the root causes of the crisis.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he'll know in about two weeks if Vladimir Putin is in fact serious about ending the war. Two weeks is a recurring timeline for the U.S. President who often gives that response when asked about pending decisions. In the meantime, Ukraine's president has agreed to a new arms deal with Germany. CNN's Fred Pleitgen has details reporting in now from Berlin.
(BEGIHN VIDEOTAPE) FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Germany appears to be drastically stepping up its military aid for Ukraine, announcing a 5 billion euros aid package that covers not just giving Ukraine weapons and munition, but also combined production of weapons.
Now, all this comes as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine was here in Berlin to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. And during that meeting and after that meeting, it was thought that maybe Friedrich Merz would announce that the Germans would give cruise missiles to the Ukrainians.
However, that was not the case. Instead, the German chancellor announced that there would be combined weapons productions by Germany and Ukraine for longer range weapons. Here's what he said.
FRIEDRICH MERZ, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (through translator): We are financing a considerable part of the country's Starlink cover. And our defense ministers will today sign a memorandum of understanding on procurement of long range weapons systems from Ukrainian production, so called long range fires. There will be no range restrictions. Ukraine will thus be able to defend itself fully even against military targets outside its own territory.
PLEITGEN: Now, a little bit more nuance about that was given by the German Defense Ministry. They said that the first batch of these weapons would be in Ukrainian hands within the next couple of weeks. Also, that no additional training would be necessary for the Ukrainian forces that are set to use these weapons. And at the same time the Germans saying that they believe that a significant number of these munitions could be in Ukrainian hands before the end of the year.
So certainly that could drastically enhance Ukraine's capabilities of attacking targets deep inside Russian territory, which of course the Russians have said could potentially escalate the war in Ukraine.
And the Russians also coming out and heavily criticizing this new measure by the German government, saying that the Germans and the French were, as the Kremlin spokesman said, in a race to escalate the war in Ukraine. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Berlin.
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VAUSE: Getting a U.S. visa may have got just a little harder for some, with new restrictions on countries which limit free speech and impose censorship on Americans and American companies. Details in a moment.
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VAUSE: New restrictions on U.S. visas will directly impact officials from countries which limit free speech and impose censorship on Americans. Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims some foreign officials have taken, quote, flagrant censorship actions against U.S. tech companies, citizens and residents goes on in a statement to say the U.S. will not tolerate encroachments upon American sovereignty, especially when such encroachments undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech.
Still not clear how the new policy will be applied and who will decide what actually is censorship.
Well, for more on this, CNN opinion writer and immigration analyst Raul Reyes is with us now from New York. Welcome back.
RAUL REYES, CNN OPINION WRITER: Hello, sir.
VAUSE: Good to see you. Now, two separate moves here. There's where there's one where the State Department is specifically targeting foreign students from China. Here's part of the announcement. The U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
The criteria there is incredibly broad. Any student from China studying in the U.S. will almost certainly have a connection, either directly or most likely indirectly, through family, their parents with the Communist Party. So is the bottom line here that, you know, almost 275,000 Chinese students will be forced to leave the US?
REYES: Right. That's what's potentially at stake here. China is the number two country behind India in terms of the foreign student population at U.S. colleges and universities.
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So the thing people need to know here is that foreign students go through already a very robust, very rigorous vetting process. Background checks, they have to pass security checks, they have to fight all financial checks before their visa is even processed.
So for the Trump administration to implement, inject this new level of uncertainty and confusion into people have already been admitted into the country lawfully. It's really hard to see who that benefits. It certainly doesn't benefit American students at universities because foreign students, because they're not eligible for any type of foreign financial aid, they in a sense, subsidize scholarships given to U.S. students, to our own students here.
So it's very difficult to see how this, who this benefits other than the U.S. what is taking what appears to be a xenophobic action directed solely at one nation, at the students from one nation.
VAUSE: And the second announcement from the State Department targeting foreign nationals from countries who censor Americans. Again, this seems very broad and not one country is named in particular. So who's the target here?
REYES: Right. Right. What the target is here. Although the administration is saying they're seeking to potentially ban officials from coming to the U.S. from issuing visas to officials from countries that suppress the free speech of Americans. What they really mean is countries that suppress the free speech of
American corporations. For example, companies like Facebook, Meta, X, these companies are subjected to laws and in the E.U., the Digital Services Act laws in countries like Brazil that provide for content moderation, that discourage and outlaw this -- the spread of disinformation.
VAUSE: Yes. And as far as these visas are concerned, here's a little more on why this is all happening from the spokesperson for the State Department. Listen to this.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It is a goal, as stated by the President and Secretary Rubio, to make sure that people who are here and understand what the law is, that they don't have criminal intent, that they are going to be contributors to the experience here, whether however short or long their stay is.
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VAUSE: You know, it should be noted the administration isn't just targeting unlawful activity, if you like it's demanding records of students, these foreign students who've been involved in political rallies or been writing op-eds which have been critical of Israel and the United States. This is exercising constitutional rights, freedom of speech, freedom of expression. It's not unlawful.
REYES: Right, right. Well, in this case, because these students are not yet in the United States, it would be difficult say for them to mount any type of legal challenge to the administration. But the spokesperson says that she wants to see that these students are contributing to the U.S. that one of the associations of international educators -- educates estimates.
Foreign students actually contribute 44 billion to the U.S. annually in their tuition, in their fees, and all the monies that go into local communities. So there's no doubt that they already contribute. As I said, they already undergo this vetting. And many of these foreign students, especially in the sciences, they, you know, they are very involved in academic research, laboratory work. They've helped, you know, they have helped achieve different medical breakthroughs, engineering breakthroughs here.
And that's why generally, you know, the American university system, well, it's not perfect. It's the best in the world, in part because we have international students. We have students from every state of the union at the most selective colleges.
VAUSE: With that, we'll wrap it up there. A good point to finish on. Thank you so much for being with us. We really appreciate you.
REYES: Thank you.
VAUSE: Thank you, sir. All of this comes yesterday after the State Department announced a hold on issuing new visas to foreign students. The delay is needed, apparently. While officials in the White House establish new guidelines for searching social media postings by visa applicants. CNN's Nada Bashir has more on the reaction from international students.
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NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Students across the globe hoping to study in the United States are now in limbo after the U.S. State Department issued a bombshell decision instructing embassies and consulates around the world to pause all new student visa appointments as it moves to expand social media vetting for applicants. That's according to a diplomatic cable seen by CNN.
ADEFERMOLA AKINTADE, REPORTER, PEOPLES GAZETTE: I don't have any backup. You know, I put all my eggs in one basket Columbia.
BASHIR: Nigerian journalist Adefemola Akintade was accepted to Columbia Journalism School for a master's degree on a scholarship and is due to start in August after paying a hefty enrollment fee. She was on the verge of applying for her visa when the news broke.
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AKINTADE: I was blank for some seconds. I didn't know what to think. And then it's so close, like palpable. I can almost feel it. And then it's. Yet so far, I don't know what to do. This something I always wanted for the longest of time.
BASHIR: For now, it's unclear what kind of social media posts could pose problem for a student's visa application. As a result, many students were reluctant to speak to CNN on came. One Canadian student hoping to study at Columbia in the fall told CNN it feels like a really scary and unsettling time for international students studying in the US. A lot of us chose to study in the U.S. for its freedoms. But now knowing that innocent social media posts could cost an education feels like censorship.
The White House has also recently attempted to stop foreign students from studying at Harvard University, though that decision has since been halted by a judge for the time being. But plans to further restrict the flow of international students to the U.S. will deal a significant blow not only to prospective students, but also to U.S. colleges.
DAVID HAWKINS, FOUNDER, THE UNIVERSITY GUYS: I think this is going to be a concern and perhaps threaten some of the financial stability of many US Universities is those floating voters, those consumers of education who might be looking at the U.S. but also other destinations like Canada, like Europe, like the U.K. where that lack of certainty is at the very least meaning they're going to have to apply to more than one destination.
BASHIR: According to a report from the Institute of International Education, more than 1.1 million international students studied at U.S. higher education institutions in the 2023-24 school year, meaning many U.S. colleges reliant on foreign tuition could be severely impacted. Nada Bashir, CNN in London.
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VAUSE: Still to come this hour, the high cost of Trump's tariffs, with a new report finding millions of jobs will be lost worldwide. And we'll explain how in a moment.
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back everyone. I'm John Vause and you're watching CNN NEWSROOM.
A federal court in New York has blocked most of Donald Trump's global tariffs. The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday the president does not have the authority to impose tariffs by declaring a national economic emergency.
The order halts his 10 percent universal tariffs, 30 percent tariffs on China, 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
But the 25 percent tariff on cars, as well as auto parts, steel and aluminum will stay in place. The Trump administration is now appealing the verdict.
The U.N. agency expects 7 million new jobs will likely disappear this year due to the economic slowdown caused by Donald Trump's trade war. The International Labor Organization says almost 84 million jobs around the world are tied to U.S. consumer demand, making them vulnerable to the impact of tariffs.
The agency says if geopolitical tensions and trade disruptions continue, the negative ripple effects will be felt in labor markets around the world.
Christopher Clarke is an assistant professor of economics at Washington State University. He joins us live from Amsterdam and up quite early. Thank you for being with us, Christopher.
CHRISTOPHER CLARKE, ASST. ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: Pleasure to be here. Yes.
VAUSE: Ok. So there is this expectation that once the dust has settled and countries have adjusted to the higher tariffs, some of these 7 million jobs, which is the prediction that will be lost, will actually return so too some of the economic growth as well, but not all.
But then on Wednesday, we had this late ruling by a U.S. court blocking almost all of Trump's tariffs, ruling the worldwide and retaliatory tariff orders exceeded any authority granted to the president by the International Emergency Economic Powers to regulate importation by means of tariffs. In other words, he overstepped his mark.
The White House is appealing this. But this is just the latest sort of unexpected turn in how Trump's tariffs policy is being been implemented.
So the question is I know it got took a while, what happens if the dust never settles, if this just keeps going on and on and on and on?
CLARKE: A tremendous amount of uncertainty. When you impose -- 50 percent tariffs were threatened on Europe and then those got lifted literally 2 to 3 days later. And these large -- these large Liberation Day tariffs are now being challenged, successfully challenged so far in court, this level of uncertainty decreases businesses investment.
How are you going to start up a business? How are you going to expand your existing operations if you don't have more certainty for the future?
VAUSE: Yes. And what we're seeing also is the uncertainty is coming up in the minutes from the last meeting of the Federal Reserve with "concern over the ongoing resilience of the labor market, especially if Trump continues with his haphazard, on again, off again tariff regime". Their words.
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VAUSE: So what's doing more damage here though? The tariff policy which restricts economic trade, or the chaotic way the policy is being implemented.
CLARKE: The chaotic way, no doubt. If you want to do any policy change ever, no matter what it is, good or bad, you want to gradually implement it and you want to have it be very clear what's going on so the entire economy can adjust, make plans.
But if you do this chaotic on and off, on again and off again, it's just going to slow down economic activity all on its own.
VAUSE: What is truly interesting here is that when you look at the disruption which is being caused by simply one president from the White House, which is impacting not just the United States --
CLARKE: Yes.
VAUSE: -- but the global economy, it seems unprecedented that something like this has ever happened.
CLARKE: Absolutely. I mean, good governance, what we have learned literally over centuries, requires checks and balances, requires a distribution of power. And when one man with one pen can entirely disrupt the global economy, clearly the balance of power is off.
VAUSE: And then there's the ultimate goal that Trump says of trying to bring back the glory days of manufacturing to the United States. All of those jobs and all those great jobs and factories and stuff are studied by Wells Fargo, actually did the math here. They found that $2.9 trillion is needed in capital investment, that's new capital investment, to create 6.7 million new manufacturing jobs. That would be for a return to the good old days of U.S. manufacturing. As of April, there's 7.2 million unemployed people in the United
States, and I'm pretty sure that not all of them want to have a job working at Foxconn.
So, you know, in terms of being realistic, is this policy even possible to begin with?
CLARKE: No. One of the reasons why, I mean, 7.2 million unemployed people -- remember, people go unemployed and then find a job over the next few weeks. It's rolling 7.2. It's not -- it's not just 7.2 who just sit there unemployed.
And some people, half of them are just unemployed because they moved to a new city and they just haven't found a job yet, or they just graduated and they're just looking and then they find one.
They're not desperately sitting back waiting for some manufacturing jobs.
And let me ask, how are you going to get 2 million, $2 trillion of investment if you keep these things -- this uncertain, who's going to want to build right now?
VAUSE: That's -- I just want to follow up on the -- on who actually wants these jobs. Because if you look at, you know, generation --
CLARKE: Yes.
VAUSE: -- the Millennials and the Generation X, all these kids, all these younger people who are coming through, they're very choosy about what they want to do -- and they're not actually looking forward to a new bright future in the world of manufacturing washing machines.
CLARKE: Right. All work is noble work. I don't think that's the issue. I think the reason is because they have better opportunities. There's better jobs out there. We're a growing, prosperous economy with comfortable jobs. Folks want the best that they can find.
VAUSE: So when we look at the sort of the end result here of what we've had for the last what, five months or six months, five months of tariff chaos, what are we looking at here as the --
CLARKE: Yes.
VAUSE: -- is there a payoff? Is there only negative outcomes from all of this? What do you see as, you know, how this all ends up?
CLARKE: Not good. There's no light at the end of the tunnel.
VAUSE: Could you be a little more specific?
CLARKE: Well, that's the hope, right? That you implement some policy that has a short-term pain and there's long-term gain, but there's no long-term gain here. What we know about how long-term economic growth works, is it requires specialization, trade, exchange. Weve been knowing this for -- since Adam Smith 250 years ago, that
when we increase the size of our markets, when global international trade is larger, more specialization, more economic growth, there will be permanent economic scars from these productivity disruptions.
VAUSE: Christopher Clarke, thank you so. We appreciate your time and your insights. Good to have you with us.
CLARKE: Yes. Thanks for having me to talk about it.
VAUSE: Always a pleasure. Thank you.
Well, ominous warning now about a surge in unemployment caused by A.I. and it comes from the CEO of an artificial intelligence startup.
In an interview with Axios, the head of Anthropic believes A.I. could lead to the elimination of thousands, or a tremendous number rather, of white-collar jobs.
CNN's Anna Stewart has details.
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ANNA STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's been a while since we've had a big warning from an A.I. pioneer. You may remember a number of the biggest names in the technology signing an open letter two years ago, including Elon Musk, calling for a six-month pause on the development of A.I. large language models more powerful than GPT 4.
Well, that pause didn't happen, and global regulation around A.I. development is patchy, to say the least.
Now, the founder and CEO of A.I. company Anthropic, Dario Amodei has refocused attention on the potential risks of A.I. in an interview with Axios.
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STEWART: He says the technology could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs, causing unemployment to rise between 10 and 20 percent in the U.S. over the next 1 to 5 years.
It comes at a time where a number of big U.S. companies are cutting jobs. Microsoft is reportedly laying off 3 percent of its workforce, Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, and cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has announced it will lose about 500, which is 5 percent of its workforce.
Dario Amodei says lawmakers either don't understand the risks or they don't believe in them, but they need to act now, he thinks, to ensure a better transition to an A.I. future.
He suggests policy solutions could involve job retraining, a tax on A.I. companies like his own, or even some sort of token tax for users of A.I. Axios calls Amodei more of a truth-seeker than a doomsayer, and also
mentions the huge potential the technology has, from curing cancer to maybe growing the U.S. economy at 10 percent a year.
But the caution is there. White-collar workers, be warned. Will A.I. augment your job or automate it? It may be time to consider retraining.
Anna Stewart, CNN -- London.
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VAUSE: Thank you Anna.
The beauty brand Rhode, created by model and TV personality Hailey Bieber, has been sold to Elf Cosmetics for $1 billion, the largest acquisition for Elf to date.
Rhode capitalized on digital marketing, resulting in long lines for pop up events and frequent sell outs of their limited product line.
Bieber, who is married to Justin Bieber, will stay at Rhode as the company's chief creative officer and head of innovation.
Elf dominates the skincare and makeup market for teens and younger consumers, says they'll expand Rhode's retail presence as well.
Coming up here on CNN, a pioneering project in the U.K. hoping the reintroduction of Europe's largest land mammal could help restore the woodlands.
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VAUSE: According to a 2023 report titled "The State of Nature", the United Kingdom is one of the planet's most nature-depleted countries, with habitat loss and climate change taking its toll on biodiversity.
Today, on Call to Earth, we see how a pioneering project is working to counteract those trends with the help of a long-lost wooly giant.
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STEWART: In this unassuming patch of forest known as West Blean and Thornden Woods, a unique and unexpected conservation project is underway.
CRISTINA JUAN, RESERVE MANAGER, WILDER BLEAN: So in Kent right now in the southeast of England and most people probably wouldn't expect a bison in the southeast of England. But just over here through the fence, this is where we have eight bison roaming around.
STEWART: The European bison, the continent's largest land mammal, once roamed in vast herds across much of Europe. But much like its American relative, hunting and habitat loss decimated their population. PAUL WHITFIELD, DIRECTOR GENERAL, WILDWOOD TRUST: Bison came this
close to complete extinction at the end of the First World War. And all that was left was a tiny population in zoos and private collections.
STEWART: Reintroduction programs have since helped their numbers rebound, with multiple reports estimating around 7,000 are now roaming free in countries like Spain, Poland and Romania.
But here in the U.K., bison hadn't been seen in the wild for 6,000 years.
In July 2022, as part of a project called Wilder Blean, that all changed.
WHITFIELD: I've had a dream about having bison out here in the Blean for more than ten years now, acting as ecosystems engineers and changing the habitat.
STEWART: Three females from Scotland and Ireland were the first to be released here.
WHITFIELD: Since then we brought in a bull from Germany and they've been doing exactly what we wanted them to do, which is breed naturally and create this very strong family herd.
STEWART: But it wasn't as simple as releasing the bison into the woods and off they go. The organizations involved had to first install 14 kilometers of fencing to adhere to the U.K.'s Dangerous Wild Animals Act.
WHITFIELD: Bison are gentle giants. They're big, powerful, majestic animals. But actually they're not dangerous. Legally, they're classified as dangerous wild animals. But a bison is no more dangerous than a cow.
STEWART: The hope is that the reintroduction of this keystone species will not only help boost their numbers, but equally help to revitalize this landscape.
PAUL HADAWAY, DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION AND ENGAGEMENT, KENT WILDLIFE TRUST: So all of our habitats in the U.K. would have had grazing animals on them at some time in their past history. That's what's shaped the landscape that we live in.
JUAN: In a dynamic woodland where bison are coming in and they're smashing up the place and they create that bare ground, which means new stuff can grow.
That's really when the magic happens. You get lots of new young trees growing, and they secrete (ph) much more carbon.
STEWART: Other habits, like stripping bark from a tree, may seem harmful, but it's these types of actions that benefit other species as well. HADAWAY: But what this does is it creates a deadwood component within
the ecosystem here, which is really, again, hard to replicate with human activity. And what you get then is massively good invertebrate habitat, things like lesser spotted woodpeckers, which this is a national stronghold for.
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WHITFIELD: They create niches and complexity that all the other species need to thrive. They'll create these little dust bowls where they dustbathe to get parasites off them. And just that one little dust bowl will create a microhabitat for 100 other species.
Suddenly, the Blean is full of thousands of dung beetles, that again, it's food for other creatures and insects and reptiles. But also those dung beetles are literally taking the dung, full of carbon and burying it in the ground.
STEWART: For all involved, the pioneering project has so far proven successful. And they hope to inspire similar initiatives across the U.K. and beyond.
HADAWAY: I think sometimes you've got to push the boundaries. We need to make people care and to be a bit more audacious, you've got to try new things.
JUAN: The Wilder Blean project is really about showing we can do something about habitat. Fragmentations and all these issues and pressures that we have that there is a solution for it, a nature-based solution.
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VAUSE: One person is missing after a wave of ice, rock and mud buried part of a village in the Swiss Alps. Officials say it happened after a huge chunk of a nearby glacier broke off Wednesday, sending debris down the mountain.
Roughly 300 residents of the village were evacuated last week because of fears of an avalanche.
U.S. aviation officials have replaced a piece of hardware partly blamed for the recent meltdown at Newark International Airport. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says a new fiber optic cable is in place to improve air traffic control communications at the facility which handles flights in and out of Newark. It's expected to be fully up and running by July.
Air traffic controllers briefly lost radar and radio communications with pilots a number of times since late April. Sources blamed outdated copper wires for the outage, hence the new fiber optics.
The problems at Newark Airport are seen as a red flag for the entire aviation system in the U.S., and while losing radar and radio communication with the tower is never a good thing, pilots in the air still have options.
As Pete Muntean reports, he has the view now inside the cockpit.
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PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: Ready to go.
I'm at the controls of a Boeing 737 Max simulator here at United Airlines Flight Training Center in Denver, to see what pilots experience when air traffic control goes dark. It's the latest challenge for them after flights in and out of Newark faced repeat failures of radar and radio earlier this month.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We don't have a radar, so I don't know where you are.
MUNTEAN: Along with me is Capt. Miles Morgan, who heads training for United.
Would you say that these issues at Newark have caused any sort of degradation of safety?
CAPT. MILES MORGAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR FLIGHT TRAINING, UNITED AIRLINES: Not at all. Safety for us, if you've got pilots that are operating into the airspace, it is safe for us to do so. We are 100 percent confident of that.
MUNTEAN: This is some of the busiest airspace in the country. If air traffic controllers lose their radar scopes --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Traffic, traffic.
MUNTEAN: -- morgan says pilots can fall back on the planes Traffic Collision Avoidance System, or TCAS. It calls out collisions in the making and can even issue instructions to climb or descend.
MORGAN: That was traffic. So now, ok, I've stopped doing what I'm doing. I look, I see it on the screen 700 feet above. I acquire it visually and now I'm monitoring. I'm making sure, hey, this is good. I'm -- we're at a good airspace. We're safe.
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MUNTEAN: The reason you're showing me this is to show that there are other layers here. There are other systems.
MORGAN: Exactly correct. We have a lot of different layers, and a lot of them rely on the external world. But we all have this internal system that our airplanes will talk to each other.
MUNTEAN: But when controllers can't reach flights via radio, Morgan says pilots would try a previously used radio frequency.
MORGAN: Push this button. The previous frequency pops back up.
MUNTEAN: Try the emergency backup frequency.
MORGAN: This would be a backup if we couldn't raise it any other way.
MUNTEAN: Use data link text messaging to communicate with the airline.
MORGAN: And I can say "need frequency".
MUNTEAN: And dial in a transponder code that signals the communication has been lost. Decades old redundancies that air traffic controllers are trained for too.
NICK DANIELS, PRESIDENT, U.S. NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION: We're always prepared for it. The pilots are always prepared for it. Unfortunately, we're having to use those safety nets.
MORGAN: So I'm going to start putting some flaps in for you.
MUNTEAN: Maybe to prove that flying is safe, Morgan, even let me do the landing.
MORGAN: A little flair. Perfect. Boom.
MUNTEAN: Not my worst.
As airlines insist, the worst will not happen when air traffic control fails.
MORGAN: I don't really worry when something is a little abnormal. We're trained for all these abnormalities. It's not just this. It's -- we're constantly training for whatever could be going wrong and how to make a decision to rectify that.
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VAUSE: Finally this hour, they never did this at Catholic school.
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VAUSE: In Brazil, nun Maricel Castellano left viewers stunned by her beatbox performance during a Catholic TV show. Her fellow sister quickly switched up her dance routine, matching the new beat. The deacon then joined in the fun. Why not with the same dance moves? There he is.
The women went on the program "Family of Love", promoting a women's vocation retreat. They went on to steal the show. Bust a move.
Thank you for watching. I'm John Vause.
CNN NEWSROOM continues with Polo Sandoval in New York after a quick break.
See you right back here tomorrow.
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