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First Responders Say 18 Killed in Israeli Strike in Gaza City ahead of Takeover; U.N.-Backed Group Declares "Manmade" Famine in Parts of Gaza; Russia Puts on a Show of Patriotism on Flag Day Holiday; Ghislaine Maxwell, Seeking Pardon, Praises Trump in Interview; Dow Soars to First Record High of the Year; FBI Searches Home of Former Trump Adviser John Bolton; Pickett Fire Burning in California's Napa Valley. Aired 3-3:45a ET
Aired August 23, 2025 - 03:00 ET
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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hello and welcome to our viewers watching in the United States and around the world. I'm Lynda Kinkade, live from Atlanta. Ahead on CNN NEWSROOM --
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Currently, famine IPC phase five exists in Gaza governorate.
KINKADE (voice-over): It's official. The U.N. says parts of Gaza are experiencing a manmade famine and warns it could spread to other cities.
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KINKADE (voice-over): The Ukrainian president says he's ready to meet with the Russian leader to end the war. But the prospects for peace may be fading.
Plus, the Epstein files: the U.S. Justice Department releases the long awaited transcript of the Ghislaine Maxwell interview.
Do they shed light on the issue haunting the Trump presidency?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Live from Atlanta, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Lynda Kinkade.
KINKADE: Palestinian first responders say a series of Israeli strikes killed at least 18 people sheltering at a school in Gaza City on Friday. Emergency services tell CNN that the school-turned-shelter was hit by artillery fire.
The schoolyard was packed with tents of displaced people. Many were women and children. The Israeli military told CNN it was not aware of any incident there at the time of those strikes.
The strikes came on the same day a U.N.-backed monitoring group officially declared parts of Gaza, including Gaza City, as a man -- as experiencing a manmade famine. The report warns that the crisis is expected to worsen in the coming weeks and months.
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REIN PAULSEN, U.N. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION: The cost the Gaza Strip as a whole over half a million people are facing catastrophic conditions and another just over 1 million people, some 54 percent of the population, are facing what's classified as IPC emergency phase four.
By the end of September this year, September 2025, famine is projected to further expand to the governorates of Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis.
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KINKADE (voice-over): The Israeli government is rejecting the report's findings, calling it biased and one-sided. The U.N., though, says the evidence is irrefutable. It's urging everyone to read the report, quote, "not as words and numbers but as names and lives."
Our Paula Hancocks shows us some of the lives affected by starvation in Gaza. And a warning: her report contains graphic images that may be distressing to some viewers.
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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Confirmation of what residents of Gaza already knew. This is famine.
FLETCHER: It is a famine. The Gaza famine. It is a famine that we could have prevented if we had been allowed. Yet, food stacks up at borders
because of systematic obstruction by Israel.
HANCOCKS: The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC, says famine is confirmed in parts of Gaza including Gaza city, the site of a
major new Israeli offensive. The report says quote, "malnutrition threatens the lives of 132,000 children under five through June 2026."
The Israeli agency tasked with distributing aid into Gaza rejects the report as, quote, "false and biased," accusing it of relying on data from
Hamas. This family in Gaza city currently lives on the outskirts of a tent city. Confirmation of famine will come as no surprise to them.
Ali Salam al-Jidi(ph) is injured and cannot move easily. He fears the expected evacuation orders from Israel. "Where am I supposed to go?" He says, "I don't even have a tent. I'm in the street. My son has to beg for a piece of bread to feed his siblings."
"There's nothing to eat," his daughter says. "When we go to the charity kitchen, they tell us the food is only for camp residents. My sisters cry
from hunger." Salam al-Jidi(ph) says her husband cannot walk without the help of her eldest daughter. They do not want to be forced to move yet
again. She says it is impossible for things to get worse than this.
The Israeli military is intensifying strikes on Gaza city ahead of its planned takeover. This strike, on a school filled with displaced, Friday.
The head of the emergency services in northern Gaza says at least a dozen were killed, many of them children.
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We have asked the IDF for comment.
Israel's Prime Minister says Gaza city is one of the last strongholds of Hamas and occupying the city is the fastest way to end this war. But this
is one of the areas hundreds of thousands from Gaza city will be forced to move to. An Israeli airstrike hits a displacement camp in central Gaza just
30 minutes after the military issued an evacuation order.
As emergency crews rush in, people are still packing up, trying to escape. Mohamed al-Kahlout(ph) pulls a bag of flour from the debris of where his
tent once stood. "I have to start all over again," he says. In one or two months, the same will happen. You live somewhere, you think you are safe
and you get struck again.
A rare protest in Gaza city called for Israel to abandon its planned takeover. This man called on the U.S. president to intervene. "We say to
Donald Trump," he says, "if you care about the Nobel Peace Prize, you must stop all the wars, starting with the war on Gaza, which has claimed
thousands of our lives."
SAMI ABU SALEM, JOURNALIST: We are ordinary people. We are facing several wars, war of rockets, war of bombs, war of hunger, war of thirst and war of
displacement.
HANCOCKS: A desperate appeal to the world to wake up and break their silence. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Abu Dhabi.
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KINKADE: For more on the crisis in Gaza, I want to welcome Janti Soeripto, the CEO of the group Save the Children. She joins us from Fairfield, Connecticut.
We appreciate your time and for staying up so late. Thanks very much.
JANTI SOERIPTO, CEO, SAVE THE CHILDREN: Thank you for having me.
KINKADE: So you've said all of Gaza is being systematically starved by design and that children are paying the highest price. And you've described this as a manmade famine.
What is your organization seeing and who bears responsibility for this crisis?
SOERIPTO: Thank you. Yes. Look what we're seeing, we have over 170 colleagues there, mostly Palestinians in Gaza on the ground. Save the Children is operating to health clinics, health care clinics as well.
And our staff are first and foremost saying that they are now also hungry themselves. And we see children and pregnant women presenting in our clinics with malnourished -- malnourishment symptoms. And those numbers have been rising incredibly fast over these past couple of weeks and months.
KINKADE: And we know Israel blocked aid for months and some is getting through now. It's only a trickle. And Save the Children, like many organizations, has trucks full of lifesaving supplies waiting at the border.
Can you tell us specifically what's ready to go and why is it still being blocked?
SOERIPTO: We have 50 trucks or so waiting, literally physically waiting at the border and we have many more supplies in the pipeline. If we were allowed to get in, yes, we have lifesaving aid in those trucks -- medicine, hygiene kits for women, clothes for children, et cetera. et cetera; malnutrition treatment, supplies.
But we haven't been able to get anything in since March 2nd. And that is leading to a dire situation. We're running out of malnutrition treatment. Over the coming few weeks, if that situation doesn't change, the supplies are available. It is incomprehensible to us that those supplies are not being let in.
This famine is manmade. And long before it was declared a famine, which is this rather technical term that people will then start to focus on, children were already dying of starvation. They were already suffering from malnourishment symptoms but also
diarrhea and other diseases that, because you are that weak, your body is less able to withstand.
KINKADE: And what is -- what are Israeli officials telling you about why those trucks are not being allowed to cross through that corridor?
SOERIPTO: We often actually don't really get any feedback. We're asking the authorities to -- we follow all the procedures that we need to follow in order to let trucks in. It is very precise. We give all the details. We give them a bill of lading; so, what's in the trucks.
And so far, none of that has been let in. Whatever we've been able to still get in Gaza has come through some of the U.N. agencies, where there has been some aid now dripping in over these past couple of weeks.
KINKADE: And according to the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics, over 17,000 children in Gaza have lost both parents. It's the largest orphan crisis in modern history. I just want to show some footage of a graduation that happened earlier this week at the Al-Wafa orphanage in Khan Yunis.
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Where these children, you know, stood there, obviously no parents there to cheer them on, to celebrate the fact that they've completed some education.
What can be done beyond the lack of food and medicine?
What can be done to address their emotional and mental health needs, both now and long-term?
SOERIPTO: Yes, this crisis is breaking all the wrong records. And again, entirely manmade and preventable as well.
What can be done?
Look, aside from our health clinics, we're also running what we call child-friendly spaces where children, like the ones you've just shown, are being cared for. We have trauma informed -- informed care there. We let children be children.
We are starting to help them overcome trauma. But, of course, it's very difficult to run those clinics and those spaces safely if there is no ceasefire, if there is still a risk that children can die when you bring them together in a particular location.
And we cannot be guaranteed that nothing will happen to them.
KINKADE: Janti Soeripto from Save the Children, we appreciate all the work you and your team are doing on the ground. Hopefully your trucks can get into Gaza soon. Thanks so much for joining us and staying up this hour. SOERIPTO: Thank you.
KINKADE: Well, U.S. president Donald Trump is giving his Russian counterpart a couple more weeks to spell out if he'll meet with the Ukrainian president. But Mr. Trump says Russia may or may not face consequences if there's no meeting.
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: And it's going to be -- it's going to be a very important decision. And that's whether or not it's massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both. Or do we do nothing and say it's your fight.
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KINKADE: President Zelenskyy says his country needs security guarantees similar to NATO's Article V to end the conflict. He spoke as he met NATO's secretary general, Mark Rutte, in Kyiv on Friday. Mr. Zelenskyy also said he's ready for a face-to-face with Vladimir Putin, with or without Mr. Trump.
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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): I'd like to have a trilateral format right away but if president Trump says that the format in which we can continue to talk is a bilateral track, then we are ready to support this.
And then we can have a trilateral track. Let's talk about the date and let's talk about the place. That's all I have for now.
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KINKADE: Vladimir Putin seems confident that diplomacy is going his way. Russian state news outlet Tass reports that he expects a full- scale restoration of relations with the U.S. under Donald Trump.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN, PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA (through translator): With the arrival of president Trump, I think that a light at the end of the tunnel has finally loomed.
The next steps now depend on the leadership of the United States. But I am confident that the leadership qualities of the current president, president Trump, are a good guarantee that relations will be restored.
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KINKADE: He also talked about possible joint U.S.-Russian projects in Alaska but he made no mention of president Trump's peace initiative or meeting with the Ukrainian president about ending the war.
Moscow is putting on a nationwide show of patriotism as the fighting in Ukraine grinds on. Russia celebrated its flag day Friday, a holiday marking the restoration of its traditional white, blue and red banner. As Fred Pleitgen reports, many events were centered on what's happening in Ukraine.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Russia continues to bring out the patriotism, for instance, on Russian flag day, where, as the name says, Russians celebrate their flag.
But they also have festivals like this one, which is all about patriotism. What you see behind me is a stand from the so-called Narodny Front, which means the People's Front, an organization founded by Vladimir Putin.
And right now, those folks there are making trench candles, which they say are very important for participants of what Russia calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We are the very youth who promote these values that our country so needs to defend. The volunteers' job is to make trench candles. That is a whole tin can with cardboard folded in it. It's filled with paraffin. These candles will be sent directly to the special military operation zone.
PLEITGEN: Now, of course, in all of this, there's always a military aspect to it. You can see their stands here, for instance, where people can learn how to take apart guns, how to generally deal with weapons.
All of this to show also what's going on the front lines but also because, of course, the Russians are trying to create that feeling of defending the country to their people.
There's actually a lot of people who came here and a lot of people who are also volunteering, actually, of all ages. And if we look over in the other direction, we can see people who are making camouflage nets for the front lines. Those, of course, right now, very important.
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Especially as drones are being used by both sides, which, of course, are a threat to soldiers on the front lines. You see a lot of folks there who are making nets but also some who are actually knitting socks for soldiers, to keep warm in the cold months.
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KINKADE: Well, the transcript of a Justice Department interview with Ghislaine Maxwell is out. What the convicted sex trafficker said about Jeffrey Epstein, the president and much more after the break.
Plus, the Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador has been released from criminal custody and reunited with his family. Those stories are much more when we come back.
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KINKADE: Well, new questions and few reliable answers after the U.S. Justice Department released the transcript of its recent interview with Jeffrey Epstein's coconspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. She's serving a 20-year sentence for helping Epstein groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
But during her meetings with the deputy attorney general, she appeared to be treated as a credible witness. Maxwell, who wants a pardon, praised president Trump, saying she never saw him, quote, "in any inappropriate setting." Take a listen to her response to this question about Epstein's client list.
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TODD BLANCHE, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL, DOJ: During the time that you were with Mr. Epstein and even in the 2000s when you were around less frequently, you never observed or you never saw any list or black book or a list of individuals who, you know, linked to certain masseuses or anything like that?
GHISLAINE MAXWELL, JEFFREY EPSTEIN ACCOMPLICE: Absolutely no. There is no list.
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KINKADE: Dozens of times Maxwell claimed to have difficulty remembering key details from her relationship with Epstein.
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MAXWELL: I just don't remember what it's called. I don't remember that. I don't remember him doing either. I want to tell you that I don't remember. I don't remember ever seeing anybody that I would characterize as a child. I don't remember the letter. I don't remember it at all.
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KINKADE: Maxwell also denies claims that underpinned her conviction. She said Epstein did not pay her millions of dollars to recruit girls and women for him. She insisted that he preferred their company because they were invigorating and up to date on music.
Significantly, Maxwell stated that she does not believe Epstein died by suicide but also does not think his death was related to blackmail. CNN correspondent Kara Scannell is in New York with more details.
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KARA SCANNELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: During the nine-hour interview, Ghislaine Maxwell said she witnessed no inappropriate behavior by any of Jeffrey Epstein's powerful friends, including president Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton.
Maxwell said she never saw either man receive massages by anyone and she said there is no client list. Maxwell called Trump a gentleman while distancing the president from Epstein.
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MAXWELL: I think they were friendly like people are in social settings.
I don't -- I don't think they were close friends or I certainly never witnessed the president in any of -- I don't recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance. I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting.
I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.
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SCANNELL: Maxwell said President Clinton was her friend, not Epstein's. And while he traveled on Epstein's plane, she said Clinton never visited any of Epstein's properties, including his private island.
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MAXWELL: So they spent time on the plane together and I don't believe there was ever a massage on the plane. So that would've been the only time that I think that President Clinton could have even received a massage and he didn't because I was there.
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SCANNELL: During the interview, Maxwell categorically denied any wrongdoing. She admitted she recruited women to massage Epstein but said none of them were underage.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking of minors for recruiting, grooming and at times sexually abusing underage girls with Epstein. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence. Maxwell was not promised anything as part of the interview but she is hoping for a pardon -- Kara Scannell, CNN, New York.
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KINKADE: Andrew McCabe is a former deputy director of the FBI and currently a CNN senior law enforcement analyst. He told our Dana Bash that Maxwell's statements lined up neatly with what the White House wanted to hear.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANDREW MCCABE, CNN SENIOR LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Is it a coincidence that the testimony she delivered, which we've now heard and what you -- which you quoted there, was essentially exactly what the White House was looking for, right?
They needed someone to say there is no client list. And they needed someone to say president Trump has never done anything wrong. Immediately after the interview, she receives a benefit.
She hasn't cooperated. There's no deal. She hasn't helped put anybody else in jail. But she gets a rather significant benefit. Her status in the system is reclassified that, inexplicably, sex offenders are not allowed traditionally to go to minimum security facilities.
She is reclassified in the system and transferred to a minimum security facility that is infinitely, you know, better than the place where she was.
And my final point here, Dana, is -- as if you need another weird point -- is that, under no circumstances, if you were thinking about cooperating someone, using their information because you believed it, you would never, ever release a transcript or much less a tape of the interview.
Because that could then be used to discredit them later if you needed to use them, if you intended to use them in trial, in a prosecution of someone else.
So there's been no -- there was never any intent to use her as a traditional cooperator, to put other people in jail, to advance the interests of justice. There was a different agenda here. And the fact that the biggest beneficiary of these interviews so far seems to be president Trump, I think that tells us a lot.
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KINKADE: Well, U.S. stocks and bonds are looking up.
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Investors showed renewed optimism after a speech by the Federal Reserve chairman. What he had to say when we come back.
Plus, after months of battling it out over trade, Canada announces that it's easing some retaliatory tariffs on American goods. What prompted that decision -- next.
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KINKADE (voice-over): Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Lynda Kinkade. Let's check today's top stories. A U.N.-backed monitoring group officially declared parts of Gaza are
experiencing a manmade famine. The report warns that the crisis is expected to worsen and spread in the coming months. The Israeli government rejected the findings, calling the report biased and one- sided.
U.S. President Trump is extending his deadline for Vladimir Putin yet again. Mr. Trump is now giving the Russian leader a couple more weeks to say if he'll meet with his Ukrainian counterpart to talk peace. Trump says Russia may or may not face consequences if there's no meeting.
The U.S. Justice Department has released the transcript of a recent interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's coconspirator in child sex crimes.
She praised president Trump and insisted that she'd never seen him behave inappropriately, quote, "in any context." Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for helping Epstein groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
U.S. markets were up significantly at the close on Friday, with the Dow soaring by more than 800 points to a record high. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite also fared well, with the S&P snapping a five-day losing streak.
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Investors were encouraged by the prospect of an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. And the Fed chairman, Jerome Powell, signaled the possibility of a softened stance on rate cuts at his annual speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Bond markets also rallied sharply. Wall Street had seemed cautious about what Powell would say but optimism rose rapidly after his speech.
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JEROME POWELL, CHAIR, FEDERAL RESERVE: This year, the economy has faced new challenges. Significantly higher tariffs across our trading partners are remaking the global trading system.
Tighter immigration policy has led to an abrupt slowdown in labor force growth. There is significant uncertainty about where all of these policies will eventually settle and what their lasting effects on the economy will be.
Nonetheless, with policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance.
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KINKADE: U.S. president Donald Trump is threatening higher tariffs, this time on furniture products. On Friday, the president announced that he directed his administration to investigate furniture being imported into the U.S.
It comes as furniture prices have already been on the rise after Trump hit China and Vietnam with high tariffs. Those countries are the two top sources of imported furniture. Following Trump's announcement, stocks in furniture retailers, like Wayfair and Williams-Sonoma, tanked in after-hours trading.
And trade between Canada and the U.S. has been contentious for months ever since Donald Trump imposed tariffs. There's been sharp rhetoric and retaliation but now Canada says it's time to move on.
It's lifting some of its tariffs on certain American goods. Prime minister Mark Carney said that move would kickstart trade talks with the U.S. CNN's Paula Newton reports.
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PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: So Canada removing really most of its retaliatory tariffs; the ones that stay in place are to do with steel, American cars.
But again, the prime minister making clear that he believes that this will restart trade negotiations. And he also went to great lengths to point out that it was time now to really start to work on a trade deal involving the United States and Mexico.
That big trade deal that needs to be renegotiated in 2026. He also pointed out to Canadians that, right now, they have a fairly good deal from the United States. Listen.
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MARK CARNEY, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: Canada currently has the best trade deal with the United States. And while it is different from what we had before, it is still better than that of any other country.
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NEWTON: Now the prime minister making it clear that, when he looks at the trade deals that Europe received, that Japan received, that it is clear that there is a certain level of baseline tariff that Canada will still have to fall under.
And they are really setting their sights on renegotiating a larger trade deal in 2026. Now one thing is clear: even though the retaliatory tariffs are not going to be applied to those American goods coming into Canada any longer, the Canadians themselves have already done significant damage as much as they can, really, to the American economy.
Canadians, really their trips to the United States for tourism and other things, way down. And American alcohol, sales plummeting of wine and spirits, of American wine and spirits in Canada.
And that has gotten the attention even of Republican politicians in the United States but has still not motivated the Trump administration to act on renegotiating any of those trade deals -- Paula Newton, CNN, New York.
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KINKADE: Well, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongfully deported to El Salvador, has been released from criminal custody ahead of his trial.
The Maryland resident was arrested on human smuggling charges after being returned to the United States in June. Abrego Garcia held an emotional reunion with his family at an undisclosed location. It's the first time he's not been in prison since the Trump administration deported him in March.
But his attorneys say he is far from safe. U.S. officials could deport him again.
FBI agents spent hours Friday searching the home and office of president Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton. Sources telling CNN it's part of a renewed investigation into whether Bolton shared classified information in his 2020 book. CNN's Evan Perez reports.
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EVAN PEREZ, CNN SR. JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: The FBI conducted searches at the home and office of John Bolton, who served as national security advisor to president Trump in his first term and has since become a staunch critic of the president.
The sources tell us that the searches were part of a national security investigation into whether he disclosed classified information in his 2020 book.
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FBI agents spent about 7.5 hours at Bolton's home in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday. We watch agents bring out boxes from the home before they left. Bolton wasn't home when the agents arrived and he met agents hours later at his office when they arrived there.
Bolton and his lawyer declined to comment. We know from sources that the probe is related to possible retention of national security information. Bolton last served in the government in 2019, when president Trump fired him during the first administration.
The book included material that initially was given conditional clearance for publication by career officials at the White House but Trump political appointees later decided to withhold final approval.
The Justice Department investigated him then but the probe and a civil lawsuit were both dropped early in the Biden administration.
Now we don't know this, if the FBI has obtained new information, new evidence that has given rise to this new investigation and also whether there are any charges that will be coming from this in the coming weeks -- Evan Perez, CNN, Washington. (END VIDEOTAPE)
KINKADE: Five people have been killed and dozens injured in a tour bus crash in New York state. The bus was heading back to New York City from Niagara Falls.
At least 30 people were taken to hospital for treatment. Police say some people were thrown from the vehicle. Most of the passengers were from India, China and the Philippines. The Chinese consul general says one of its nationals was seriously injured and undergoing surgery.
Well, still to come, life on Mars not quite yet but NASA is putting a crew to test it here on Earth. Stay for us -- for that story next.
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KINKADE: Well, a wildfire burning in northern California is spreading quickly. These images are from the Pickett Fire in Napa County.
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Cal Fire reports the blaze covers nearly 4,000 acres and is just 7 percent contained. Several parts of the area are under evacuation warnings and the fire crews -- the fire grew quickly Thursday night but there were no new threats to structures on Friday. Crews from several areas have moved into the area to fight the blaze.
One of the world's most active volcanoes is reminding us that Hawaii's landscape is alive and ever-changing. Kilauea's name means "spewing" in Hawaiian and it lived up to its reputation, sending spectacular fountains of lava nearly 30 meters into the night sky.
There is no threat to the surrounding communities, thankfully. That's according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This is its 31st eruption since December.
Well, NASA is preparing for its second Mars simulation mission in October. A four-person -- four-person crew will spend a year inside a 3D printed habitat in Houston, Texas.
The structure can't mimic the weakened Martian gravity but the team will participate in the same kinds of exercises and daily life as a future Mars crew. They'll be isolated from loved ones and make do with limited resources.
They'll even deal with a 45-minute communications delay, talking with the outside world, just as they would on the Red Planet. The mission brings NASA a step closer to its goal of sending a crew to Mars in the 2030s.
Well, thanks so much for joining us. I'm Lynda Kinkade in Atlanta. Great to have you with us. "WORLD SPORT" is coming up next, followed by CNN NEWSROOM at the top of the hour.
