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making america smaller. live world cnn head quarters in atlanta. >> i'm natalie allen and "newsroom" begins right now. >> 5:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and victory against isis could be just days away and that is the word from u.s. backed forces squeezing the terror group in the last enclave in the country. holding out in the handful of tents near the iraqi border. the u.s. president donald trump sent out a series of tweets that read a lot like threats. he writes this. the united states is asking britain, france, germany and other european allies to take back isis fighters we captured in syria and put them on trial. the caliphate is ready to fall.

we will be forced to release it. >> it went on to say the isis fighters where they're expected to go. we do so much and spend so much time for others to putting so much effort. we're falling back ann after 100% caliphate victory. cnn senior correspondent. you've been reporting on this final battle with your team there. want to start with the u.s. president, threatening to release hundreds of captured isis fighters. do you understand what the president means by this? >> well, we can understand what he's trying to say but it's said in such a way that has left american's friends on the ground somewhat confused to say the least. what is he asking is for the

european powers take back those nationals that have been captured. they weren't captured just by the u.s. it's important to note that there are british spells forces, french special forces, the syrian democratic forces. tha they've all played a part in this. he wants the european countries to take these people back. the uk has said they're going to do that. they don't want people to come back to a country that these individuals had sworn through their allegiance to isis to destroy. but the problem is that there are more than 800 foreign fighters, a large number of which do in fact come from western europe. but there are thousands of family members, many children, who also carry or hold the nationality of these countries.

they are straining the capacity of the -- this part of syria, which is run by this coalition of kurds and arabs. they don't have the capacity. there's a camp north of here that has almost 40,000 of these people who have fled the areas that have been freed from isis. the camp is crammed to the gills. more than 50 children have died as a result of cold and illness in these camps and the european powers don't really seem be to taking decisive action to deal with this problem. in addition to that, yes, the united states, given that most -- only a handful of the foreign fighters actually come from the u.s. is saying that this is a european problem and the europeans should deal with it. at this point. the job of defeating isis is almost done.

we keep hearing in the next few days but time is passing quickly, even though they only control a piece of land 700 meters by 700 meters with about 1,000 people inside, most of them civilians, some of them fighters from isis. >> they are boxed in but they don't go down without a due date. >> the munichb security conference is wrapping up. it's not over yet. here's what the u.s. vice president mike pence had to saw on saturday. >> the time has come for our european partners to stand with us and the iranian people. the time has come to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and

join us as we bring the diplomatic pressure necessary to give the region and the world the peace, security and freedom they deserve. >> now iran's foreign minister has been pushing back at that today. here's what he said moments ago about the u.s. and israel. >> is it iran that threatens the annihilation of others? or is it mr. netanyahu, the chief who openly threatens my country's obliteration by standing next to his nuclear weapon pack? no theatrics here. including the show put on by mr. pence yesterday cannot skew these realities. indeed more and more nations are become canning explicit about the pact that the united states is the single biggest source of

destabilization in our neighborhood. >> but talk more about this now with our diplomatic editor following it all live in munich, germany. the vice president, mike pence keep up pressure on european alus to back out of the iran nuclear deal but a short time ago we saw the iranian foreign minister on stage with that strong rebuttal. what more can you tell us about his message? >> reporter: well, his message is plain is sumpal. he essentially called trump a bully. the demands that they should pull out is outrages. a bully will get bullier. he spoke about the iranian people and the -- their views on the international nuclear agreement. and most of the people still support it. 80% of people in the country don't feel they've gotten anything for it.

his message was support uniran is wavering and this has been essentially the message from the iranian people that europe's got to do more to support us. he said that they've done that politically but they urge his implication being that they need do more economically to support iran and so that the message here from sharif that iranian people tinker on the brink of whether or not they support this deal and the iranian government would reflect the will of the iranian people. what the defense minister has talked about the ballistic missiles, callingth them unfair and unjust. and he said the international agreement that iran had struck with the international community said that ban on developing those were for those capable of carrying nuclear weapons.

to which he said we don't have nuclear weapons, so we're not breaking any agreement. so a strong push back on a number of fruntsz. >> iran's foreign minister. how is the current vice president's message received in comparison to former vice president joe biden who was also on stage at that conference? >> reporter: it was kind of a ying and yang having the current and former vice president speaking. it grows in stater and is gathering every year. was interesting as well when nancy pelosi was introduced to the stage. that she got huge round of applause. pence didn't. and i think that indicated the sentiment here. angela merkel pushing back on a number of the messages from the current president trump's administration on the inf, on north stream two, on the supply

of gas being developed from russia to germany by passing pipelines that go through the ukrain. united states critical of that. but on the fundamental issue of president trump's dislike for the international bodies that proper and hold up international peace and stability and security since world war ii. angela merkel pushes back hard on that. you get the clear impression that joe biden went down well and the current administration not so well. >> live in munich. we'll stay in touch with you. thank you. related to the current administration, fox news host has taken herself out of the running to the be the united states ambassador to the united states. >> many question qualifications for such a high post. now the state department spokesperson has little if any foreign policy experience.

she was a journalist and at one time she hired a nanny that was not authorized to work in the united states. >> she said this in a statement. the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it's in the best interest of my family that i withdraw my name from consid ragsz. serving for the past two years has been one of the highest honors of my life new questions around the alleged attack of jussie smollett. police believe the actor paid two men to orchestrate the alleged hate crime against himself. >> late saturday night his attorneys say as a victim of a hate crime, jesse smollett is angered and devastated by recent reports that perpetrators are individuals he's floor with. he has now been further

victimized by claims that jussie played a role in his own attack. nothing this statement says is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise with is lying. >> for views around the world, smollett appears in the tv drama in the united states called "empire" but the story he told in chicago last month may be unraveling. >> reporter: two law enforcement sources with knowledge to the investigation tell cnn that chicago police believe jussie smollett paid two nene orchestrate the assault. the two men who are the two brothers were released without charges friday after they sited discovery of new evidence. they tell cnn that the two men are cooperating fully with law enforcement. smollett told authorities he was attacked by two men yelling out racial and homophobic slurs.

says one put a rope around his neck and poured an unknown chemical substance on him. he gave his first detailed account on what he says was a hate crime against him in an interview with "good morning america" that will air thursday. >> i see the attacker masked and he said this maga country. punches me right in the face. so i punch him back. i notice a rope around my neck and i started screaming and i said there's a [ bleep] rope around my neck. i want them to see that i fought back. >> reporter: there are records that show the two brothers purchased the neck around smollett's neck. >> jussie smollett is standing by his story that he was attacked.

i spoke with cnn legal analyst about that and what jeopardy he could be in if his story is found not to be true. >> from the beginning has been really outrage said by folks who have been pretty clear about the fact they didn't believe him from the time the story broke january 29th or so. there have been people in the mead kw media who have raised questions about the validity of the attack. one was there wasn't any video. and others were suspicious of the fact that he was walking alone at 2:00 in the morning on what appeared to be a pretty deserted street. for lots of reasons some people were never convinced that this story made a lot of sense. but i've always questioned. this is a young man who has what, from all accounts inan incredibly successful career.

he has a very successful singing career. for those who say he did this to gain sympathy because maybe the show was going to write his character off and this was a way to curry favor with the network, that doesn't add up to me and i would like to believe that this young man who's been very act sk in the lgbt community as well as the african-american community as a leader would not orchestrate such a heinous event all for the sake of publicity. >> that would be so unfortunate. if he is found to be 2involved n some way, what kind of legal trouble could he be in? >> obviously ewhen you make a report to the police of a crime, you do so ewith -- you should do so because a crime has been committed and you are telling the truth. if it turns out that you have made a false or misleading report to the police, you can

actually be charged with a crime. it is a crime to make a false report to the police. think about all the time, all the effort, all the investigation work, all the resources that have been deployed by the chicago police department investigating you know the crime. so if it turns out that there was no crime, that this was all orchestrated as a publicity stunt for this actor to gain more publicity or curry favor with the network or some other purpose, he could be facing jail time. >> so i guess the next step will be that police want to talk with him again. >> but reports are that they've reached out to his asterny, as well as suggesting himself and the goal at this point is to bring him in and question him now based on the information they've obtained from the two men who were brought into the

police department and released friday night. i suspect the police have a lot of questions for jussie as it relates to the information they learned from the people who were persons of interest. >> all right. cnn legal analyst on that case earlier today. >> still ahead here on "newsroom." the united states sends more tide venezuela at the border. it's meant for people in need. rifrlts not reached them yet. plus haiti's prime minister is trying to stop the violent unrest with demonstrations want to start with fand for them tha means a new leader altogether. we're missing. tg the ceramides in cerave. they help restore my natural barrier, so i can lock in moisture... and keep us protected. we've got to have each other's backs... and fronts.

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military to bring those supplies to the country. >> translator: and once again seven days for humanitarian aid to enter. a week for you to do the right thing. puts yourselves not only on the side of the kaunconstitution, n only of humanitarian aid but humanity. >> in venezuela. now let's bring in nick valencia following the story where aid is being stock piled. >> reporter: these supplies are part of the u.s.-led humanitarian mission. these items for the most part are still sitting here on the bord of venezuela prepositioned in columbia. maduro is not allowing them in. and on saturday teams carrying basic goods that could feed up to 2500 children and 25,000 adults arrived on the border here and things like rice,

beans, lentils, basic goods you could find in an every day supermarket but not right now in the current conditions of venezuela. these are high energy biscuits to help the children. sanitary napkins hygiene kits to help those currently suffering. this aid has been called pliticized by the maduro regime. saying they contain car singens. i asked if there's any concern this might provoke nicolas maduro from doing anything drastic? she said that's on the maduro regime. the prime minister of haiti is calling for calm after more than a week of deadly protests there. speaking for the first time since the riots broke out, prime minister condemned the violence.

he promised to investigate the corruption allegations plaguing him and the president. for more than a week the protesters have it demanded the country's leader resign. >> they blame the administration for high fuel prices and corruption. haiti's president is refusing to step down. and meantime, more than 100 canadian citizens who have been stranded for days have finally arrived home and their faces and words, you can see the joy of getting home safely. >> it was extremely difficult but i would like to thank god because that gave me a chance. >> it was organized and exciting and stressful but we're home. we're home. so there's a lot of relief right now. >> i can understand that. the haitian people are stuck in that country.

gather much needed food and water and fuel. our miguel marquez has the latest. >> reporter: for nine days, haitians took to the streets fighting with police, lighting fires, tires on fire creating road blocks across the city, essentially shutting down the main city for nine days. in the last 24 hours there has been a lull. a very tense lull at the very best. people basically looking for the very basebics of life. food, gas, and water. all of them in short supply throughout the city. large crowds of haitians gathered looking for water. gas stations were frr, for the part, shut across the city. the ones open were heavily trafficked by both those in motorcycles and cars. people just looking for the

ability to fill up their tank so they can get to work. assuming things he get back to normal in the city in the next couple of days. protesters want the president to resign. they say they will not accept anything else. they say that he is implicated in a broad corruption scheme that has engulfed the country. they say that not only must the president resign but that the country itselves to the go back to the kaunconstitution and sta oall over again. >> miguel marquez will be continuing to follow developments there and get back to it. the battle for the border wall now a national emergency by president trump and he wants the u.s. military to pay for it, not mexico. we'll explain why private land owners along the southern border feel r fear they'll be the big losers.

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says the fighters could permeate europe. >> another shipment from venezuela. part of washington's efforts to help the people of venezuela and to undermine sitting president and president guaido is urging them to bring in somehow. he spoke for the first time since violence broke out and promised to carry out an investigation. protesters have been demanding that the president and prime minister both resign, blaming them for widespread corruption. and soaring inflation. president trump is saying -- fox news host sesz it's not in her family's best interest on top of questions on qu

qualifications and lack thereof, she wunsz employed a nanny who was not authorized to work in the united states. and the u.s. president has beens for 758 days and still has not built a single inch of promised border wall that he said that mexico would pay for. congress turned him down on that and now he's trying to take from the pentagon. again saying it's a national mrnlancy. >> this graphic shows where he's going to get 8 billion for his wall. 6 billion belongs to the u.s. military. >> and in between a boat load of legal challenges that could block for a very long him to building of this wall. and decides what he's willing to

give up for the border wall. >> we always anticipated that this will create a lot of attention and since money's potentially could be redirected, it's going to -- you can imagine that the concern this generates. so very deliberately we have not made any decisions. we've identified the steps we would take to make those decisions. this is the important part of that. we laid it out so we could do it quickly. we don't want to fumble through this process. private land owners who could get caught in the middle of this have been losing sleep. that's because tgovernment is already moving ahead. >> it's a big deal for texans. many americans there fear the government will take over their land through a process called imminent domain or they'll be

cut off and isolated by giant wall. >> reporter: along a quiet stretch of the rio grand in south texas there's a place home to butterflies. hundreds of different species and mariana wright has spent inlast two years from keeping the border wall from cutting through the 100 acres in the national butterfly center in texas. >> they'll be starting on it this federal piece of land. >> reporter: last year congress approved the construction of new border barrier in the rio grand valley. part of the wall was supposed to cut right through the butterfly, leaving some of the property south of the border wall and some north. government used eminent domain to seize the necessary land to build the wall, much to the dismay of the center's director. >> they're seizing the land of

tax paying citizens and pushing the boundaries of mexico north of the rio grand river. something general santa ana was never able to do. trump is making america smaller, not greater. >> reporter: but the c congressional spending bill offered a reprieve to the butter fly center. for now no wall but wall will come up to their property line and leave a quarter mile stretch open. but butterfly officials say they're worried the trump administration will use the national emergency declaration to finish the gap and worried about the other land owners who haven't been spared. >> this is a shame. this is a national disgrace. and the idea that it's going to happen and produce none of the purported benefit, i mean that's like going and buying a new car

and driving it into a building. why would you do that? >> paints poignant picture of what lies ahead. 1.4 billion to consdruktstruct another 55 miles in various places in the rio grand valley. >> we're go tag get rid of drugs and people and gangs. it's an invasion that we stop and it's very hard to stop. a wall, it would be very easy. >> reporter: the federal government will likely have to stew land owner tootds finish the wall. >> we've had this property for all our lives. >> reporter: they own 70 acres that will be left south of the border barrier in a no man's land. they've been tied up in eminent

domain litigation but losing hope they'll stop it from being built in the next few weeks. >> we stop and stall a little. we can stop the government. they'll do what they want to do. >> so the rio grand valley braces for what most residents say is the open wall. cnn, mission, texas. let's talk more about thnow with leslie at chatham house think tank from our london bureau. always a pleasure to have you on the show. >> thank you, george. >> as a texan myself, land ownership is a big deal. so it will be interesting to see how the process of eminent domain might play out if it

doesn't get caught up in the courts first. but first americans who wanted to do this toor, declare a national emergency. show as resounding no. 66% of respondent said no they not want him to declare a national emergency to build the wall. it really comes down to the president's base here, leslie and the question if this doesn't happen. if it gets held up in the courts, is it a win simply because he tried and went this far? >> if we're talking about his base, that segment of the population that trump thinks is essential to his approval and his future presidential campaign, then the idea that america, liberal america is pushing back against a segment that's not been protected, that

will probably serve to sdhur support of the base for the president. but whether or not that will be enough to take the president through another election and there's going to be tremendous division. the courts will push back and the pentagon's going to be brought into that and that's a potentially very problematic and americans who might have otherwise supported the president will probably peal away their support. >> it seems without delay this process has started to find the money and make plans for this wall. at the same time lawsuits are coming to challenge the president's national emergency. how do you see that playing out over the next several weeks? >> i think it will take quite a long time. the aclu has made it very clear that they will be pursuing this through the courts. i think there's one court case

that's been filed. there will be many more. and remember if we're talking about the national emergencies act, it's there so the president can act quickly when there's an emergency, not so it can circumvent the authority of congress, which congress has the athoort decide on moneys that there necessary not in emergency situations. and if you go back to trump's own words on friday, he said himself he didn't need to do this. but he wants to move quickly. he's indicating it's optional. that's going to come up that the president himself has eluded to the fact this isn't actually an emergency. >> house democrats are sure challenge this emergency declaration and it triggers an automatic vote in the senate as well. many who spoke out as uneasy or against the president din

clairing the national emergency stwriel stand by their word or twist their position. so if feet push to fire, do you see them standing firm or flip-flopping to stand in line? >> i think it's been what we've seen so far. very few people who indicated they will stand against the president if they actively have to. but it's going to certainly raise that question, especially if we go back to where we started, which is the vast majority of americans do not want to see a national emergency justification, especially military construction bundlets diverted for an emergency that simply doesn't exist. this is going to really put republicans in a difficult position. >> always appreciate having you on the show. thank you.

>> thank you. president trump's emergency declaration was criticized for factual errors, talking a little long and getting off track. >> and "saturday night live" mocking the speech this weekend with a little help from the actor, alec baldwin. >> i'm going to sign these papers for emergency and the ruling will not go in my favor and then i'll call my buddy kavanaugh and i'll say it's time to repay the dawn squeaonny. and he'll say who's this? >> look, folks, we need major immigration reform. translation, wall. in conclugsz this is a total emergency, a five alarm blaze

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>> reporter: the world of football has paid an emotional fare well to emiliano sala who died after completing his move to the premier club. he had been repatriated to santa fe province where he grew up. a day later family, friends and former teammate paying their respects. his friend of his previous club is behind him, emiliano's brother. his parents who travelled to europe in the aftermath of the crash. progresseso is a town of just over 3,000 people. it's where it all began in the local club san martin. where he shown as a teen age footballer. one message stood out, simply

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iranian and -- counterparts. he told them syria's government will be taking over. they both agreed. casting putin as a tough guy, man of action has become a staple of the kremlin propaganda machine. who could forget these images of the russian leader bare chested on horse back and fishing in a siberian river. many russians are extremely proud their 66-year-old president is so fit and youthful. and although putin's popularity may have dipped from its all-time high, most russians still see him as their champion. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. on march 14th, cnn and young people around the world are joining forces for a student-led

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