when you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money? every dollar of it. why not? the man is entitled to it. who is? yes. who gets it? absolutely. sometimes his wife comes down and collects it. whose wife? yes. i pick up the ball and throw it to first base and who gets it? naturally. a rally that many thought would glorify a deadly day epds up being a bust. we'll explain what happened on the anniversary of the charlottesville clashes ahead. plus before they made headlines as victims of a devastating attack they were just four boys on a bus in yemen. cnn has now video of their final moments. and turkey's president fires back at the united states as his country's economy buckles under u.s. sanctions. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and from all around the world. i'm rosemary church.

>> and i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin this hour with the breaking news, this into cnn. the leaders of north and south korea have agreed to meet in september in pyeongyang. south korean president moon jae-in and the north korean leader kim jong-un have met twice this year. >> the summit next month comes as experts doubt whether the north is committed to getting rid of its nuclear weapons. but pyeongyang is putting pressure on western countries to start lifting those sanctions. cnn's paula hancocks is following this story from seoul in south korea. so paula, bring us up-to-date, all the information you have on this summit now expected in september. >> reporter: well, rosemary, this has just been decided at a

meeting between north and south korea, the equivalent in the north as well. and this was at the dmz at that truce village where a number of meetings between the north and south have been carried out in recent months. so what they have decided is they will have this korean summit within september in pyeongyang. there isn't an exact date at this point. this isn't something we were expecting. it's what we heard after the first inter-korean summit. president moon jae-in said he would go in the autumn, in the fall, and clearly this would be when they would meet. it's been the first time a south korean leader has gone to pyeongyang in a decade, since we've seen a number over the

past few months at the same time that north korea is criticizing washington and the united states for what it believes is washington keeping its end of the deal. but certainly from the north south korean point of view it appears relations have improven and of course this confirmation that moon jae-in will be going to pyeongyang. >> and of course, paula, the timing is interesting because at this point the u.s. and other western nations are very concerned that there doesn't appear to be this commitment anymore on the part of north korea, if there ever was to denuclearize. so how likely is it that this would be the top talking point between the two leaders from the north and south? >> well, there have been a number of comments from u.s. officials including the secretary of state mike pompeo recently that there is a continuation of the nuclear and missile program in north korea,

that there hasn't been any palpable steps to show that they are moving towards denuclearization. what from north korea's point of view they believe that they have given concessions and that in return they want to see some of the sanctions against them lifted, which is something that washington has said they won't do. rosemary? >> all right, our paula hancocks bringing us to date from that story where it's just after 3:00 in the afternoon. many thanks to you. washington is getting a loud message from thousands of people. the u.s. is no place for white nationalism, bigotry and racism. on sunday dozens of anti-hate groups gathered near the white house to drown out a white nationalist rally for unite the right 2. it was held on the first anniversary of the racist riots in charlottesville, virginia. >> the violence in 2017 led to the death of heather heyer, a young activist who was protesting the white nationalists in charlottesville. but on sunday the white

nationals made a lackluster showing in the nation's capital. organizers had expected hundreds of them to march but only about two dozen showed up and they were easily outnumbered, shouted down by anti-hate group as cnn's brian todd was on the ground and had this report for us. >> reporter: this was a day of passion and high energy here in wash and just about all of it was on the side of the anti-racist protesters who vastly outnumbered the white supremacist protesters. there were several thousand anti-racist coalition from several different groups from black lives matter to antifa to other group opposeding the white supremacist message. this was just a bit of a flare-up towards the end of the day here, where a few counterprotesters who may have been white supremacists we don't

know showed up and was encountered here. there was a flare up, a bit of jostling, some skreerming cream them. they quickly took refuge behind the line of police and that's what led to this confrontation here over my shoulder. they've gotten those few counterprotesters out to safety. while you can say most of the protesters were peaceful and dispersed earlier in the day thanimented the anger has not dissipated. some of those people are still hanging around. but the security measures police have put up have continued. the counter racist protesters, the anti-racist protesters were not allowed to get really within about 100 yards of where the white supremacists were and that

prevented what could have been a confrontation of what happened in charlottesville. that didn't happen in any large measure. what did happen is the white supremacist were so drowned out that they left, they didn't even finish their speaking program. now to a reality star and one time white house aide now stepping up attacks on her former boss. we're talking about omarosa manigault-newman. she's now promoting her new and mostly unverifiable book recounting her time in the white house. >> and now she's releasing what she says is a secret recording of white house chief of staff john kelly firing her. she says the recording was made in the situation room, which you know is supposed to be one of the most secure places on earth. here is portion of that report. >> can i ask you a couple of questions, is the president

aware? >> nets not go down this road. this is nonnegotiable discussion. >> i've never had a chance to talk to you, so if this is my departure i'd like have to an opportunity to understand. >> we can talk anytime. this has to do with some pretty serious integrity violations. everybody on the staff works for me, not the president. >> the white house says the recording shows a disregard for national security, but omarosa told nbc news here in the united states she did it to protect herself. listen. >> as you'll see i protected myself because this is white house where everybody lies. the president lies to the american people. sarah huckabee stands in front of the country and lies every single day. you be to have your own back because otherwise you'll look back and see 17 knives in your back. >> in the meantime there's another u-turn to tell you about

by the president's attorney, rudy giuliani. >> yeah, he is now telling cnn that the president never asked former fbi director james comey to drop the investigation into mr. trump's then national security advisor michael flynn. cnn's boris sanchez has more now. >> reporter: rudy giuliani is trying to make the case this is not a contradiction but rather a misunderstanding. back in july when he spoke to abc news he said that the president asked james comey to cut a break for michael flynn, to take it easy on him. something he says he was asked to do many times as a prosecutor. and he makes the argument that the president did not intend to obstruct justice. i want you to listen now to exactly what rudy giuliani said during that abc interview just a few weeks ago. >> how is he good witness for the president when he says the president was asking him or

directing him in his words to let the flynn investigation go? >> he didn't direct him to do that. >> reporter: rudy giuliani here saying this was simply a miscommunication. hepologizing for the confusion that was created that he said was the use of a devise and legal argument which was arguing in the alternative to try to prove a point. he suggested this was not a contradiction and the president never had any conversation with the former fbi director about michael flynn. now the president's legal team is continuing to make the case that the president should not testify before special counsel robert mueller. they say robert mueller is trying to set a perjury trap for the president by asking him questions he had about james comey and specifically why the president ultimately fired the fbi director. the white house is also responding to another explosive story. that of omarosa manigault-newman and the release of her secret

recording she made of chief of staff john kelly as he was dismissing her at the white house which is supposed to be a secure area where recording devices are not allowed. writing, quote, a very idea a staff member would sneak a recording device into the white house situation room shows a blatant disregard for national security, and to brag about it on national television further proves the lack of character and integrity of this disgruntled former employee. there are still other aspects of this that have yet to be answered by the white house, namely why the chief of staff felt it was necessary to take omarosa into the situation room to fire her and what he was talking about in that recording regarding omarosa's integrity infractions and the reasoning behind his wanting her to have a so-called friendy exit from the white house. again, i asked the white house

press team. they have not responded. cnn, traveling with the president near bedminster, new jersey. >> boris, thank you for the reporting. and now let's context with scott lucas, a professor of politics at the university of birmingham joining us live this hour. let's start by talking about this statement from the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani. that statement claiming mr. trump never had a conversation with james comey. last year telling him to ease up on the former national security advisor michael flynn. that statement, scott, in and of itself directly contradicts comey's memo and even contradicts giuliani, what he said before on nbc news before here in the united states. what do you make of this new information? >> first of all, it's rudy giuliani's tactic. first it's like wait, it never happened and then if it happened it's normal. he did this only last week when

he was talking about how it never happened that there was a meeting with the russians with a level of adviseders including donald trump into 2016, but if that meeting happened it's collusion and collusion's legal. he's done the same thing here. we know that james comey is on the record as saying that he was asked by donald trump for his loyalty. we know that that loyalty included donald trump asking, maybe not demanding but asking if he would end the investigation into michae flynn. the fact of the matter is that, you know, james comey is going to testify under oath if he is called upon by the special counsel mueller. he's already done so to congress if that conversation took place. so if rudy giuliani is denying it, well, they better bring something to the table which would be for example donald trump speaking to the special counsel robert mueller. >> for many people following this closely it feels like the three shells game where you shovel the shell around and guess where the ball is, so

let's ask about that strategy behind these confusing contradictions. is it more about clouding public sentiment, throw the investigation in some way, scott, or a little of both? >> it's both. both steps take place at the same time. one is you just throw up so much smoke in the eyes of not only of everyone, you know, all of us watching but in the eyes of you folks trying to cover this story you're not sure where you stand. and at the same time trying to undermine the investigation. i've got no doubt today donald trump as he comes back off vacation is going to have at least one tweet talking about witch hunt, talking about robert mueller and his team being all democrats. they aren't, by the way. the idea is when you confuse people you try to erode confidence in mueller and you try to make the special counsel the target of what's happening here and not donald trump. >> all right, the white house also fuming about these secretly

recorded audio clips by omarosa manigault-newman, being fired by the white house chief of staff john kelly, what is your take on what we've heard so far and the implications of it? >> well, i mean there's a specific issue here which is that about recording someone in a sensitive area, which is the top secret situation room. but the problem with the white house lying on this is if you're going to slander ms. manigault-newman for doing this, this is huge breach of zusecuri, folks who hired her, who praised her in 2017? you guys did. own this, first of all. and the second is what would bring her to record that conversation, and she felt she would be setup in the media, she would take the fall and indeed she had been the target of stories and being fed by white house staff she was being

disruptive. remember more than half of donald trump's staff had left since the start of the administration. and many of them have not left on good terms. this is just another example that this white house is not functional and indeed one might say dysfunctional is more of the default term we look at day to day. >> scott lucas live for us in birmingham, england. thank you for your perspective. we'll take a short break here, but still to come, investigators began piecing together how an airline employee was able to steal a commercial plane from the u.s. airport and then crash it. we're back in just a moment. now t-mobile has unlimited for the rest of us. unlimited ways to be you. unlimited ways share with others. unlimited ways to live for the moment. all for as low as 30 bucks a line. unlimited for you.

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cnn has obtained cellphone footage showing the final moments when a group of schoolboys in yemen before many of them were killed in an air strike by the u.s. backed saudi led coalition. it was filmed by one of the students. it shows the classmates jostling and yelling on the bus and playing chase with friends. >> the trip was reward for the

religious school's graduating summer class. the teacher told cnn the boys had been sleepless with excitement for days. less than an hour after the video ends many of the children seen in the video, they were killed. some of the scenes in this report, the scenes are graphic. they are distressing, but they reflect the reality, the very grim reality of this horrible tragedy taking place. >> reporter: this is a tay we're told the students had been excitingly awaiting for weeks. the little boy filming swings the cellphone around to capture all his friends. they're due to graduate today. first stop is a shrine. it may not seem like a fun day out but ravaged by war this

cemetery is one of the few remaining green spaces. the children scatter in a game of chase. less than an hour later most of the children you see in this video were dead. osoma was found in the wreckage of the wus and with it the children's last moments. cnn obtained footage from the local officials. this has drawn condemnation. the coalition maintains the attack hit a legitimate target, trainers and recruiters of child soldiers. still, the coalition is investigating and says it is fighting to reinstate yemen's legitimate president after his overthrow by the iranian backed houthi militias.

three years of unknown and the devastation in yemen continues. the surviving children struggle to piece together what happened. the scope of the tragedy still too difficult to absorb. a medic, the first at the scene. many of the bodies found after

the attack are so mutilated that the process of identifying them has been drawn out and torturous. while the men busy themselves digging little graves waiting to be filled one by one. you can hear the joy in his voice, ali, ahmed, he calls out chasing behind them, wait, let's take a picture and the camera goes dead. cnn, london. >> the images of these children, the sounds, the screams, that is the reality of what's happening there in yemen. and we are hearing from the u.s. defense secretary james matting, he's come out in support of an investigation into the air strikes. listen. >> i have dispatched a three-star general into riyadh to look into what happened here,

and if there is anything we can do to preclude this from the future even while we support state department's call for an investigation. >> and mattis added that the u.s. is concerned about the humanitarian crisis in yemen and supports a u.n. brokered negotiation. the saudi coalition said it launched the air strikes on missile launchers and it was, quote, a legitimate military operation. it accused the houthi rebels of using children as human shields. switching over now to the state of washington here in the united states investigators there trying to understand how an airline employee was able to steal a passenger plane. russell -- richard russell, i should say, he took an empty horizon airplane from the sea tag airport, the main airport in the seattle area on friday. >> he flew it for about an hour before the plane went down and russell died in that crash. investigators have now found the flight data recorder, and they are hoping it will provide some

answers. our kyung lah has the very latest. >> reporter: the ntsb says the flight data recorder is on its way to washington, d.c. for analysis. they hope to begin that some time this week. it was recovered by investigators. they say very little is left of the plane but the data recorder is intact. the investigation shifting now to 29-year-old richard russell. he is the man, the horizon air employee who worked there for 3 1/2 years, a ground service employee, stole the plane, flew it in the sky for an hour here. many people recording this, seeing the students that he took in the plane before crashing it into a remote island. he had security clearance. he is described by his family as having no outward signs of mental illness, also described that way by his friends at work. to hear his voice on these

recordings say the people who know him is heart breaking. >> i've got a lot of people who care about me, and it's going to disappointment them that to hear that i did this. i would like to apologize to each and every one of them. just a broken guy, got a few screws loose, i guess. never really knew it until now. >> may seem difficult for those watching at home to believe but he was a warm and compassionate man. as the voice recordings show his intent was not to harm anyone. he was right in saying there are so many people who loved him. >> bebo is the family name for russell. kyung lah, cnn, washington. outnumbered and

overshadowed, how thousands of americans are showing up and speaking up so racism won't have its day in the sun. plus many say the way to answer hate is through knowledge. still ahead the story of a man who hopes his friendship with a kkk member will lead the klan leader out of the hate group. a look behind the scenes. you're watching cnn live, stay with us.

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of course all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm george howell with the headlines we're following for you. this hour turkey's lira plunges to a new record low in early trading. it had already plummeted more than 20% last week rattling investors. president erdogan said the free fall is a result of an economic attack on turkey. the leaders of south and north korea have agreed to meet next month in pyeongyang. this will be the third meeting this year between south korean president moon jae-in and north korean leader kim jong-un. the summit next month comes as experts doubt whether the north is committed to getting rid of its nuclear weapons. in washington thousands of anti-racist protesters are cheering after a much hyped racist rally fizzled out. >> around two dozen white nationalists and neo-nazis, they came together near the white house on sunday for what was to

be the unite the right 2 rally. >> but they were easily outnumbered by thousands of counterprotesters who shouted shame, shame and nazis go home. >> cnn's sarah snider spoke to a member of the ku klux klan who was there in charlottesville at a rally last year, and he took an active and violent role. we do warn you some of the language in this report, it is offensive. >> i shot a gun. >> reporter: richard preston admitting what he did during the deadly white nationalist unite the right rally last year in charlottesville, virginia. that's preston yelling the n-word, aiming and firing in the direction of a black counterprotester wielding a blowtorch. preston spoke to cnn for the first time since he pleaded no contest in the case against him. are you sorry for shooting a

gun? >> no, there were protected people and that's all i was doing. >> but you were shotting tuting n-word. >> how do you get one black man's attention in the crowd full of black people? >> say, hey, with the torch. >> he didn't care. >> reporter: he said he went to protect the statue of, but also wears the hat of that a member of ku klux klan member. do you hate black people in. >> i have friends that are black. >> reporter: but you're an imperial wizard of a ku klux klan group and the klan has a history of terrorizing black folks. how can you say that? >> some klans did have a history, but not all klans did,

and i've never terrorized a black person in my life. >> reporter: he referenced this, the second rising of the klan when thousands marched to washington in 1925. >> at that time that march was about the fact our country is allowing immigrants to come here, change their names with no documentation. if your name was schwartz coffee, you'd call yourself schwartz, and nobody cared. >> reporter: and he said it was about keeping blacks and immigrants from socially rising but he says now it's different. >> it's about red, white or blue. >> reporter: he's still awaiting sentencing in charlottesville. while he waits something remarkable is happening because of this man. r & b musician has engaged in

decades, and suddenly davis was standing up for preston in court. what do you say to the judge? >> i testified on his behalf and also paid part of his bail money to get him out. >> is he taking you for a fool using you? >> not at all. >> how do you know? >> because he and i were already friends. i said he's agreed to go to this museum with me and take a tour of it and learn something. >> reporter: he's referring to the national museum of african-american history. >> seeing what he's going to see there, the seed may not blossom today or tomorrow or the next day but eventually it'll come out because the truth can never be squashed. >> reporter: two men bonding over history and returning to davis' home to find another shared passion.

his track record speaks volumes. davis says 200 of the klansman he's defended over the years have left the group, relinquishing their klan robes to him. >> i'll be burr odd in it, it's already set in stone. >> you sure? >> reporter: but then this happened. richard preston who had never been married had darryl davis at his wedding. this time it was davis giving something away, the bride. >> this friendship has been special to me. she wanted me to be a part of this wedding. that's beautiful. that's a seed planted. >> jason joins me now from washington where these rallies took place. he is a reformed white supremacist and works with a group called life after hate. that organization helps people who want to leave racist groups. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. >> so knowing what you do now

about these extreme hate groups, how surprised were you to find out that only a very small number, about 24 or so white supremacists turned up for this washington, d.c. rally, and what did that signal to you? >> it was very shocking in my surprise, to be honest. because when we did our rallies back in the day we had a lot of numbers of all types of mandatory to be in these rallies. and so seeing the number that happened today was shocking. so it makes you wonder what's really going on and if they have a backup plan, if they're up to something else. so i mean it's hard to say and there was more antifa in the counterprotesters than there was in the neo-nazis and white supremacist movement in the far right. >> do you think it signals some dropping off of support or signals there's some strategy

there? >> there's some strategy there, a lot of people were under law enforcement right now. they've got watchamacall it, pending charges and nobody showed up and nobody did the speaking or anything. >> as we said before you are a reformed white supremacist. can you explain to us what makes a person hate another person just because they look a different to them? what's the fear behind that hatred? >> well, what happened to me is, you know, i was 19 years old and i went to prison and you stick with your own people. and they pulled me up and showed me family and brother hood and everything else. so a lot of these people that find these organizations they're missing something in their childhood. you know, a lot of people are trying to fill these potholes that they're missing, so they cling to these organizations and stuff like that, and you're starting to see this in the

social media, that's how they're recruiting everybody nowadays. and so it's -- they're angry at themselves and, you know, they're taking it out on other people, and that's what is going on in society and the world today. >> right. so you were in prison. you were exposed to this group. you were staying with those people who looked like you, but what was it do you think that initially made you identify with white supremacists? >> part of it, what pulled me up was, you know, they showed a support system. they showed me love and support at the time, and stuck with that. but what people are driven to hate about is they show you a small piece of how other cultures act and they sit there and say, well, we don't want that happening in our neighborhood. we want an all white nation and the whites be with the whites, blacks be with the blacks,

hispanics and same thing. and they feed all this stuff, and you start to believe all these ideology thoughts and stuff. it's like training a dog how to hate. and that's what a lot of us were trained to do, how to hate. and now we overcome those barriers and everything else and learning how -- we learned how to love other people of color and stuff like that. we got to know their stories. and so -- they opened our hearts, that's what we're trying to do is open the hearts of who are actually nazis right now and understand what's their potholes, what's missing in their lives and maybe we can help fill that. >> and obviously not everyone gets to that point. what was it that made you think i don't want be a part of this racist group. what was it that made you change your mind? >> part of it that changed my mind i was fighting for a lost cause, i wasn't going anywhere.

and i was fighting 100% with my people. and when i needed them the most they were never there. yeah, they were there for me in prison but when it came to the streets no one was there. and what really changed my mind i spent almost eight years in prison going in and out, and i got tired of it. i have a nephew that's half black and that's what changed the heart and everything with me. and so i like seen it tortured him, and my family's more important than what i was fighting for. >> and your group life after hates helps other people like yourself realize that being a white supremacist is not the way to go. thank you for joining us and explaining to us what is this hate behind some of these groups. we appreciate you. >> thank you. amazing to see that shift, isn't it? and he's helping so many other people, doing the same,

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together, we're building a better california. in afghanistan there are reports of sporadic clashes in the city of gazni. taliban militants launched a fierce attack there on friday. >> a hospital official says more than 100 people have been killed since the fighting between the militants and government forces began. a u.s. military spokesman says afghan force said are in control of government centers, american planes conducted five air

strikes saturday and four more on sunday. women and children are among the dead in an explosion in a rebel held syrian town near the turkish border. a syrian volunteer force says at least 36 people are dead and dozens more are wounded. the group said the explosion went off in a building that had been housing ammunition. >> volunteers rescued ten people from all the rubble that you see there. idlib province is the last strip of territory still held by rebels opposed to president bashar al assad. the trump administration says it is working on a plan to bring s israelis and palestinians together. >> however, the bombastic style is pushing palestinians away. a look how the divergent views on the u.s. president may hinder or halt the peace process. >> reporter: these would be some

of president donald trump's most loyal voters. >> today we officially open the united states embassy in jerusalem. >> reporter: if they could only vote in the u.s. no country has been so open and so loud about supporting trump as israel. led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu who has hailed those ties in every meeting with american officials. >> you have no greater ally than the united states, that's clear. but i think you have no better ally than him. >> reporter: trump has cemented his status in the minds of many israelis following his visit to the western wall, his recognizing that jerusalem is the capital of israel. the political bromance looks set to continue with both leaders touting the best relations ever with israel and america. >> if president trump eliminates

a president obama legacy probably the next democrat president, doesn't matter who it's going to be, will eliminate trump heritage and maybe legacy and maybe we're a part of it. >> reporter: palestinians have had an equally strong if very different reaction to trump. rallies against trump have become increasingly common. at first they showed signs of cooperation, but those soon faded as the palestinians froze contact. >> translator: we have cut all contacts of the american administration with trump's occupation of jerusalem. and those who do not like it should hit their heads against the wall. >> reporter: abass has shown little if any flexibility in

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six, five, four, three, two, one, zero. liftoff. >> and with that launch nasa aims to make history starting its first ever mission to explore the atmosphere of the sun. >> we watched it in the newsroom, just so excited about less than 24 hours ago this unmanned probe called the solar probe will fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft has done ever before. our lynda kinkade has more. >> reporter: the journey by a robotic probe about the size of a small car is literally one of

the hottest in science. >> we can have you very, very close, actually touching the particles of the sun. >> reporter: it's a seven year mission with a price tag of a billion and a half-dollars. the that will bring nasa about 6 billion -- from the surface. >> not only do we be go flying very fast entering the sun's atmosphere, but reaching millions of degree temperatures. we have a special heat shield, about 5 inches thick and that thing is made of special materials. >> reporter: the probe will eventually sweep into the outer most part of the sun's atmosphere known for its magnetic charges and solar winds. there energized particles are mixed into space.

>> when we get a massive storm happening on the sun it may interfere with our own power grid here. >> reporter: it's the first time nasa has named a mission after a person, one who pioneered the study of solar winds. >> very impressive. and back on earth golfer brooke koepka is on a major role winning the 100th pga championship. he led wire to wire sunday with a final score of 16 under par. >> what makes it even more impressive tiger woods was hot on his trail. woods shot a final round and finished in second, just shy of what would have been his 15th major title. thank you so much for being with us this hour for "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. we'll be right back with another hour of "cnn newsroom." don't go anywhere.

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