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coming week now. and boris johnson's next challenge, now that his party has a majority, can he push brexit through? these stories are all ahead here this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. coming to you live from atlanta it's 5:00 in the morning. appreciate you joining us. i'm natalie allen and this is "cnn newsroom." thanks again for joining us. let's get straight to breaking news approximate north korea. state media announcing another crucial test it says was successively conducted at the sohae launching site saturday. south korea says it is closely monitoring the activity along with the united states. but did not give specifics. this would be the second test at
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the same site in the past week. paula hancock joins us now live from seoul, south korea. what more are you learning about what just happened? >> well, we are hearing from the south korean side that the intelligence agencies of the u.s. and south korea are looking into it. north korea has not told us exactly what they have tested. except to say that this was a crucial test. it was a successful test. also, saying that it helps a reliable strategic deterrent. this isn't likely to be the gift itself but certainly feels as though it is in preparation for that. now, what happened just a week ago last weekend at the same launching site, we had a test again from north korea which they said was crucial and
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successful. experts and south korean officials believe that was an engine test which could have been used in icbm, an intercontinent intercontinental ballistic missile. what this christmas gift could be. what this end of year deadline means and what this new path north korea it suggests it will take. a satellite launch could be a possibility. but some suggest that could be too provocative a move. but we are speculating on what exactly north korea is going to do after it comes out with some cryptic messages. officials around the world really struggling and trying to decipher what they will do next. >> paula hancocks following it in there seoul.
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in washington, there is a very real possibility donald trump could become the third u.s. president to ever be impeached. the house judiciary committee approved two articles of impeachment. the white house is reportedly stricting access to president trump's calls with foreign leaders now. remember, his phone call with the ukrainian president is the centerpiece of the impeachment process. and on another matter, the supreme court has agreed to rule on the release of donald trump's financial records. something he has been fighting since he became president. well, let's begin with the house vote on impeachment. it comes after a lengthy and contentious hearing. >> history in the making. for only the fourth time in u.s. history, a vote by a house panel to approve articles of
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impeachment against a sitting president. >> the question now is on article one of the resolution. impeaching president donald j. trump for apibusing his powers. in an otherwise methodical process, republicans making their anger known. >> mr. gohmert, you are recorded as no. >> i want to make sure. >> in just minutes, the two articles of impeachment, obstructi obstruction of congress and abuse of power agreed along party lines. the result predictable but causing the republican ranking member doug collins to storm off. no joycing among democrats who emphasized itse emphasized it was a solemn and dad say. >> we are defending the constitution. >> republicans knowing their efforts would fail argued that for democrats it's only ever been about impeaching a president who they don't like. >> impeachment is their drug.
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it is their obsession. it is their total focus. >> next up, the full house vote is expected on wednesday. meaning that by christmas, president trump will almost certainly be impeached. then early in the new year, the senate trial where it's republican turf. leader mitch mcconnell insists that's where impeachment stops. >> there is no chance the president's going to be removed from office. >> even though democrats agree they were outraged after mcconnell told fox news he is in lockstep with the white house despite being on the jury. >> everything i do, i'm coordinating with white house counsel. >> telling cnn mcconnell should recuse himself. another calling it outrageous. >> the foreman of the jury, mitch mcconnell, the guy that decide all the rules is actually going to coordinate with the defendant. that makes no sense whatsoever. it is an outrage. >> mitch mcconnell and the white house legal team are pushing for short, fast trial that will
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almost certainly result in the president's acquittal. -let president, sources say, wanted a bigger skeptical. now, the details of the senate trial are still being hashed out, inchluding how it's actualy going to work. al al alex mark. >> with the ukrainian president as a result, the white house is now cracking down on who has access to calls with foreign leaders. multiple sources say only the most senior, politically-appointed officials can now listen in. we are also learning transcripts of those calls will now be shared with a smaller group of people. president trump is also keen to deny access to his tax records. but the u.s. supreme court has agreed to decide whether he can continue to block their release. america's highest court has set the stage for a blockbuster ruling on the power of
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presidents. at issue, whether they can resist demands for information from prosecutors and congress while in office. cnn's arian devogue has more on this from washington. >> the supreme court will decide by june three major cases concerning whether the house and a new york prosecutor can subpoena trump's long-time accounting firm and two of his banks for financial documents. the cases will be decided in the heat of the election campaign. no documents are going to go forward for now, while the justices consider the cases. trump has shield his documents on multiple fronts since before the election. and the case has implications far beyond impeachment and the trump era. the house subpoenas in two of the cases go to congress's power to investigate. the house wants the documents as it looks into trump's finances, foreign interference in elections, and hush money. trump says that the house has exceeded its authority when asking for these documents.
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in a separate case, that goes to trump's claims of absolute immunity from state criminal proceedings. lower courts ruled against the president citing cases concerning president nixon and president clinton. after the proceedings are over, what the supreme court grants mean today. that president trump's legal problems are far from over. they will continue. ariane devogue, cnn washington. >> let's go back to mr. trump's most imminent problem, and that would be possible impeachment. natasha, professor of government at the university of ethics joining me from london. natasha, good to see you. >> nice to see you. >> good morning. well, republicans are furious over this decision to move on with impeachment. democrats call this time somber and sad. what are your thoughts as the house prepares to vote to impeach next week? >> no, i think it's not a good time for the u.s. i mean, we're seeing that u.s. politics is
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more polarized than ever. and that's the way things went in the big vote. it was 23 to 17. very predictable along partisan lines. democrats weren't able to convince the republicans with the basic facts that there was an abuse of power that took place. and there was an obstruction of congress. and so we're going to move on to the senate trial and we already know that it's pretty much a pre-ordained or foregone conclusion here because the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, made it clear that he's going to coordinate with the president and there's not going to be a fair trial. so all our democratic institutions seem to be really under attack at the moment because politics has become so partisan. >> right. we know that we've heard from people there in the house that say they used could at least talk with people from the other side the aisle. but that's not happening. i mean, this polarization in washington is very real. and as you say, mitch mcconnell
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is being questioned for aligning himself with the white house in what is supposed to be a trial. i want to ask you about that trial, though. what do you expect from donald trump when this gets there? as it's expected. he apparently wants more of a show than a trial. >> right. i think he may want to give off the appearance that he wants a show. but i think he's actually going to want this to move really, really quickly. you know, he's had a lot of lawsuits that he's faced and he's always settled them out of court. and this is really going to be an instance on a global stage where he's facing a real trial. and i think that he -- he feels ashamed by it. i think he's more embarrassed by it than we may really understand. i mean, he was on twitter tweeting 123 times on wednesday. so i think he is really worried about it. and he wants this to move quickly. and that looks to be what mitch
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mcconnell going to do. he isn't going to engage in having tons of witnesses. i don't think it's going to be a circus. i think they want to move on, get this over quickly, then acquit donald trump and try to move on to whatever is next. >> how do you think history will record what we assume is going to happen? and the fact that there doesn't seem to be one republican that will even question some of the testimony brought up that points toward impeachment? >> i mean, i'm very worried about our knock democracy at th moment because we are so polarized and sometimes polarization leads to complete paralysis. but it's also very dangerous for democracy because when people have really strong convictions, even when they are faced with facts, they want to reject those facts because doesn't confirm their convictions. and that becomes dangerous. so it could mean that, you know, for the republican side, a democratic leader could arise that starts to commit certain
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wrongdoings and abuses power. and the democrats could react the same way. they could decide that they don't want to face the facts. it becomes really, really problematic in a democracy when polarization is at this extent that we can't convince any -- any side to find some kind of common ground. what we do know is about 70% of the public did think that trump committed something that was wrong. that whatever he did with the ukraine call was improper. but we're having trouble convincing our elites, who are supposed to lead and supposed to help teach and socialize about democracy, we're having trouble convincing our elites that what trump did was wrong. in the face of a lot of evidence that seem to be the case. >> right. so washington, the leaders there are polarized. the american people are polarized. it seems during this impeachment process, the needle has not moved substantially on what people think about it. either are for it or you're
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against it. and so let's look at 2020 in the election, who could benefit or be at risk? there are democrats who support impeachment who come from swing states. there are, of course, republicans who won't even consider it. >> right. i think there will be some democrats in the house that won some really tight races that may be vulnerable because they may end up supporting impeachment. but the same could happen for some republicans in the senate. i mean, there's some tight races in the senate. there are four races that republicans are very, very vulnerable in. and that they could lose if they decide to be incredibly loyal to trump, which is what the republicans have decided to do. so i think there are some vulnerabilities on both sides here. but, you were asking me the question about history. history is going to judge people pretty badly who decided to side with trump because all the evidence was so overwhelming. we see it in the way that
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republicans were regarded who sided with nixon. this was part of their obituaries. so it's dangerous to be on the wrong side of history. but some of these republicans seem to be willing to do that. >> it seems so. all right. we march on till next week. natasha, we'll talk with you again. thanks so much for your time. >> thanks for having me. on another story involving the trump administration, a former news editor at breitbart is calling a senior trump advisor a white supremacist and says she has e-mails to prove it. what the white house has to say about that coming up. also, the uk election is over. the votes are counted. now, the hard work begins for britain's prime minister. we talk about what's next for boris johnson and brexit. ♪ there's no one else i'd choose ♪ ♪ this may not completely rhyme, but ♪
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defy the laws of human nature. at the season of audi sales event. overwhelming mandate to get brexit done and we will honor that mandate by january the 31st. >> he did get his mandate. britain prime minister vowing full speed ahead on brexit. he makes it sound easy but there is much hard work ahead if mr. johnson wants to be successful. cnn joins us this morning from london and good morning to you, hadas. yes, his phrase let's get brexit done. it's there now. now, he has to get it done. what's next? >> yeah. he did win a commanding majority.
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but it's just the beginning of what will be still a long process to go for brexit. what we're likely to see next in the next coming days here in the uk is we might see a cabinet reshuffle. so boris johnson might take out some cabinet ministers, replace them with some new people. then it's possible by the end of the week, we will have the brexit withdrawal bill back on the table. it will start to be reintroduced to get that process started so they can get the bill voted on and approved by that january 31st deadline that boris johnson was talking about because that is a promise he made. and a huge part of the reason why conservatives won a majority. get brexit done. that is it not mean this whole process is over come january 31st. it starts the transition period. then there is the negotiations of what the future relationship between uk and eu. that could really change what the uk business community looks
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like. and what it looks like for people here who want to work abroad. then of course a selection had other consequences beyond just brexit. scottish nationals party did very, very well and part of their campaign was a second independence referendum. that means scotland could potentially break off with the united kingdom. he does not want another independence referendum. but the s&p is saying this is what we campaigned on. and as i said, that could lead potentially it may not happen but it could lead to the breakup of the united kingdom. >> certainly could. and haddas, of course labor took a beating. how does the labor party regroup from this? >> i mean, it's very clear that the labor party did just so badly in this. i don't think anybody's really expecting the results. there was a lot of long-held labor seats that switched.
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really interesting to see the parallels for example in the u.s. places that have long been democratically held seats. the real question here is jeremy corbyn. and actually one of the exit polls showed one of the concerns for voters about voting for labor party was jeremy corbyn, the leader of the labor party. he has said he will not continue leading the party. then of course the question will be who will replace him and what will the labor party look like going forward? because jeremy corbyn was from the much more radical left wing side of the party. it's a big reckoning for them. it's a big moment of reflection for the labor party because they need to regroup and build themselves back up. >> we'll talk more about it with our guest next. thanks so much. now joining us, tom brooks, dean of the durham law school in durham, england, and an advisor to the labor party on immigration. good morning to you, tom. thanks for joining us. >> great pleasure. thanks. >> well, we just heard our
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reporter there talking about the labor party. will it stay to the left? or will it become more centrist? what are you thinking after? >> well, it certainly was a very bruising election for the parties and a disastrous result. i think that there's a tension here. the tension is between the party membership, which has been very strongly supportive of jeremy corbyn and his move to the left in recent years. versus where much of the electorate seems to go. and not in the same ideological space. whereas i think a lot of jeremy corbyn's policies, the policies the labor party, did have some traction. clearly, they didn't resonate strongly enough with voters. and so i think it'll be a ch challenge to -- for a membership that will not want to move from
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its position. bul probab but will probably have to. >> right. a resounding victory by boris johnson. want to talk about how he did that with you. he had a singular goal. get brexit done. and many people are comparing that singular goal to that we heard from donald trump when he was elected. his was build the wall and america first. do you see the similarities in these men? and how they kept it simple and how, like, in the uk, the working class responded. middle america responded in the u.s. >> there's a number of similarities. of course, they also extend to their personal lives. but there is a number of similarities between donald trump and boris johnson. i think the messaging was enormously effective. that, you know, boris had a simple message by getting brexit done. people had a sense about what the first month would be of a johnson government.
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that it would pass this withdrawal agreement. and a sense had what would happen in the first year. that there would be this trade deal. he was going to attempt to solve. not much sense about anything else. but then again, parliament's been pretty much in a -- in a paralyzed for the last few years. so you had a sense about what was going on, as you say, a simple message. versus say the remainder parties. 54% of the british public voted for parties that supported remain, not leave. but the remain side was divided between labor, the scottish nationalists, and old democrats. so i think that boris johnson was able to kind of coalesce folks on the leave side. though, they were not a majority. on that simple message. whereas he had a very fractured opposition. i think what also hurt the labor party was that it had a kind of tiss -- lacked that clarity of message about what would be happening in the first month or
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two or three of a labor government. lots of different proposals. lots of different ideas. but not a very clear sense about how it would be achieve understand that time scale. and i think ultimately did a lot of damage. correspondingly, i think i boris johnson had that clear message. brexit is not going to be happy by the end of january. so i think there's going to be some reckoning despite a very big majority. making very big promises i think were not accurate. >> do you think the uk and the question of whether it will stay the united kingdom now will be able to weather brexit as it unfolds? >> i think so. two reasons. one, you had a massive success of the scottish nationalists in scotland. they did make the election about an independence pool. and contesting the scottish seats said, you know, to vote for them to reject an independence poll. so it was very independence of
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scotland was very much on the cards. that was one of the things that galvanized support around that issue in scotland is scotland was so fully for remaining in the european union. the other is northern island. they were giving some support to theresa may's government and boris johnson, as a party that was for brexit in northern ireland. and now, the nationalists in northern ireland outnumber mps for the union. when boris johnson's deal set up a little customs border in the irish sea. it will divide northern ireland from the rest of the united kingdom. it will keep northern ireland effectively as part of the european union while the rest of britain moves out. i think this is going to cause immense tension and will be a challenge for whatever leader and whatever happens next. >> all right. that's the big question. whatever happens next. now, tom brooks of durham law
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school in england. thank you. we appreciate it. want to update you. a story we are following from sudan. a court has convicted former president omar bashir of corruption and money laundering. he's been sentenced to two years in what is being described as a reform facility. bashir, you may recall was ousted from office and arrested back in april following months of mass protests against his very long authoritarian rule. he is also charged with insightme incitement and involvement in killing of demonstrators. the international criminal court in the hague issued warrants back in 2009 and 2010 on charges of war crimes related to the uprising in sudan's darfur region. that is him sitting right there as this verdict has been handed down. u.s. democratic presidential
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candidates are fighting for every vote. but fighting each other. how the candidates are differentiating themselves in hopes of securing the democratic nomination. we'll look into that next. also, a former "breitbart" editor is speaking out. accusing a senior trump advisor of being a white supremacist. next, we look at the leaked e-mails that link him to anti-immigration views. and aged. it's the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. dewar's. double aged for extra smoothness. ♪
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around the world. i'm natalie alan. this is cnn "newsroom." our top stories new. new zealand police say another person has died following the volcanic eruption on white island bringing the official death toll to 15. the person who died was being treated in the hospital. this comes as divers searched on saturday for the bodies of two people who remain unaccounted for. we turn now to sudan. a court has convicted the former president omar al bashir of corruption and money laundering. that is him sitting in the courtroom. he's been sentenced to two years in what's being described as a reform facility. we hope to have a live update for you on this in just a moment. al bashir was arrested earlier this year following months of anti-government protests. north korea says it successfully conducted what it calls another crucial test a short time ago.
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state media said the test happened at the sohae satellite launching ground. that is the same site where the regime conducted another test last week. it's not clear exactly what was tested. u.s. president donald trump is one step away from impeachment. on friday, the house judiciary committee approved two articles that accuse mr. trump of abusing his power and obstructing the investigation. the full house is set to vote on impeachment next week. the u.s. democratic presidential candidates are not missing an opportunity to take a jab at one another ahead of the iowa caucuses. cnn's abby phillips reports it's not just a fight for votes but a fight for what the democratic party stands for. >> they can't bring the country together, we're in real, real, real trouble. >> reporter: in the 2020 race, some democrats are pitching themselves as healers. >> i am running to be the
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president who can do that. who can gather up those pieces and bring the american people together. >> reporter: while others present themselves as fighters. >> when i got into the race for president, i know what i'd be fighting for. i knew who i'd be fighting for. >> reporter: with just 52 days to go before voting starts, candidates are in a fierce debate about what america will need in a post-trump world. >> what we need to do right now is galvanize, not polarize. >> butt jeej takiigieg taking a elizabeth warren. >> we will fight when we must fit but i will never allow us to get so wrapped up in the fighting that we start to think fighting is the point. >> reporter: biden echoing that message, criticizing the progressive candidate's approach on healthcare. >> these guys are saying, no, no, my way or the highway. >> warren hit back in a major speech in new hampshire. and without naming them, targeted biden. >> unlike some dem -- some
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candidates for the democratic nomination, i am not counting on republican politicians having an epiphany. >> and buttigieg. >> we know that another polls people who raised a quarter million dollars for him his, quote, national investors circle. and he offers them regular phone calls and special access. >> as elizabeth warren has stalled in the polls, she's upped her criticism of her more moderate rivals. >> i'm not betting my agenda on the naive hope that if democrats adopt republican critiques of progress policies or make vague calls for unity, that somehow the wealthy and well-connected will stand down. >> biden insists warren is wrong. telling donors at a fundraiser that if we can't unify the country, you all ought to go home now because nothing is going to happen except by executive order. and despite their very different approaches, voters do tell me
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that they are deciding between elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg, a progressive and a more moderate candidate. that's one of the reasons why we've seen the attacks between these two heating up in recent weeks. pete buttigieg also said in a recent interview that elizabeth warren is offering purity tests to other candidates like him on the issue of fundraiser -- fundraisers. that's a reference to the fact that as a senator, elizabeth warren raised money in a traditional way from big-dollar donors. and then transferred some of that money to her presidential account. abby phillips. cnn washington. >> senator warren is picking up a big endorsement from a international sports star, megan rapino says she's joining team warren. besides helping team usa win the women's world cup in july, the soccer star has emerged as a fierce advocate for women's rights, equal pay, and other social issues. announcing her endorsement in a twitter video on friday. the pair spoke on a variety of topics, including impeachment.
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rapinoe says she trusts warren and will help her campaign in any way. a former news editor at the right-wing news site breitbart is accusing a senior white house aide of being a white supremacist. reports leaked e-mails suggest steven miller was promoting stories with an anti-immigration narrative. >> reporter: we sat down with a former breitbart editor who says she knows all too well that steven biller is a white nationalist. former breitbart news editor says she is doing her first television interview for one reason. she wants to expose a white supremacist in the white house. >> you think steven miller is a white nationalist. >> a white supremacist i would say because i believe his ideology is one of domination and control over people of color. >> steven miller is a senior aide to president donald trump. he did not respond to our
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request for comment. a white house spokesperson has said that miller is not a racist and is being attacked because he's jewish. mccue says that's laughable. she says on his rise to the white house, while working for senator jeff sessions. >> are you ready to send donald j. trump to the white house? >> and later on trump's campaign, miller was in constant contact with her pushing stories that fit an anti-immigration narrative. stories she wrote for breitbart without question. >> were you a white nationalist? >> i think i would call myself that. whatever you want to call it. >> that's what you were. >> yes but that part is dead. >> do you think this was solely political to let his star rise because he could manipulate you? >> i believe he wanted access to power because he is a white supremacist and wanted to impose his policies. those e-mails, you know, you can read his own words. >> mccue says these are some of his own words in e-mails to her.
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she saved 900 or so exchanges between miller and breitbart staffers from 2015 to 2016. in 2015, not long after a white supremacist slaughtered nine black americans praying inside their charleston church, mccue says miller called and e-mailed not with sympathy for the victims. but instead a focus on changing the narrative of outrage over the move of confederate statues and retailers removing confederate merchandise. have you thought about going to amazon and finding the commy flag and doing a story on that? yes, definitely, she replies. this is the story mccue wrote. >> did he ever once mention that he was sorry that nine african-americans were slaughtered while praying at church? >> never. no. it never occurred to him it seemed. >> but mccue says immigration was his favorite subject. in 2015, he also sent mccue an e-mail. subject line, for your islam story. in it, a link to the conspiracy website info wars. the headline?
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reverend graham, we are under attack. stop all immigration of muslims to the u.s. a few months later? >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> reporter: in another e-mail exchange, miller suggests coverage of immigration and the pope. you see the pope saying we must, in effect, get rid of borders. someone should point out the parallels to camp of the saints. >> vile, vile disgusting racist novel. >> the camp of the saints is a book beloved by white supremacists. a breitbart editor published the content miller suggested. and just before miller heads off to work for the trump campaign in 2016, he tells what he saw as the danger of allowing hurricane victims from mexico to come to the u.s. they will all get tps. that's temporary protection status. that needs to be the weekend's big story. tps is everything, he says, and sends mccue an article on the
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dangers of tps from a white nationalist website. >> did he want you to parrot a white nationalist website? >> yes, he did. it was understood that miller had editorial control over the political section of breitbart news. >> the u.s. ended tps status for several countries. mccue is ashamed in her role in all of this. she was fired by breitbart for an islamophobic tweet. >> another crusade would do a lot of good. end muslim migration. >> that's a quote from miller. >> that paraphrases a conversation that we had. >> this is the tweet that ended up you getting fired over. there would be no deadly terror attacks in the uk if muslims did not live there. did you believe all these hateful, racist, islamaphobic
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things you were putting out there? >> i did because i believe in publicly confessing your sins. and i also believe that, you know, working very hard to expose these networks that i was a part of. and show how dangerous they are. how evil they are and how many people they hurt. >> she says steven miller should do the same. and resign. but so far, miller is showing no indication of resigning. and as for the white house, while they did not comment on this particular story, they have done nothing but support him. sara sidner, cnn los angeles. >> this hour, we have heard the verdict in the corruption trial of sudan's ousted long-time authoritarian president. we'll bring that to you next. also, greta thunberg trolled donald trump after he mocked her. we'll have the report.
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corruption case against former sudanese president bashir. he was ousted from office and arrested back in april following months of mass protests against his authoritarian rule. let's get more on what has transpir transpired. following this case for us, hello, farai. >> hi, natalie. it's been a day of drama. obviously, a much-anticipated verdict in mr. al bashir's trial. for corruption remember back on april 11th just after he was
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overthrown rather, police, authorities said they found up to $135 million in various currencies. euros. u.s. dollars. and, of course, sudanese pounds. and the aim really was -- this was a corruption case. and for receiving gifts illegally. what we know now is that he's been sentenced to two years in a correctional facility for those crimes. our man inside the courtroom tells us. but, of course, there are other nuances to the -- to these law practices. if a man is over 70 years old, he cannot serve in prison. that's why we're hearing talk of this community kind of correctional facility. but there are other things to remember, natalie. you remember that he has also been hold before the courts to explain his part in a 1989 coo. the coo that made him president of sudan for 30 years. in which he was then able to do so many things. but of course other people are
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asking, is this corruption trial a distraction? what about all those charges, war crimes, genocide, inferred on him by the international criminal court? at the moment, this verdict is sending some kind of signal that he does not have the judges in his pocket. and now, he is going to have to wait to go back to the notorious jail to wait for the verdict that will come out. our man in the court says that there was no mention. remember back in may, he was also told that he's going to face charges for the death of protestors. those reports have been reported since december last year. of how many sudanese people were dying on the streets to try and remove him. that charge hasn't been mentioned by the judge. for now, we know al bashir, in charge of a dan for 30 years is going to serve two years, at least, for this story over the millions found in his house. >> all right. we'll wait and see what the reaction there is to this news.
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well, we have a lot of trash here on earth. apparently, we do in space, as well. look at that. the european space agency wants to clean up decades of orbiting space junk. it's from things like dead satellites and discarded rockets. the agency plans to send a multiarmed robot into space in 2025 to latch on to the debris. then the machine and its trash will dive back to earth and burn up in the atmosphere. there are about, get this, 170 million pieces of junk in earth orbit right now. but no international rules hold space agencies accountable for it. back on earth, international negotiations to battle climate change will resume in the coming hours. right now, countries are deadlocked after working well into the overnight hours, past a friday deadline, to wrap up the
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two-week cop25 summit in madrid. countries cannot agree on how to set regulations and targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. a key part of the paris climate accord. one person at the center of it all is teenageage activist greta thunberg. she's made a name for herself by calling out world leaders for inaction on issues. in madrid, she slammed participants calling their response to the crisis clever accounting and creative pr. she kept up the pressure in italy in one of her usual friday protests with more harsh words for world leaders attending the climate talks. >> world leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities. but we have to make sure that they cannot do that. we will make sure they -- that we put them against the wall. and that they will have to do
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their job and to protect our futures. >> greta, who was named "time magazine" person of the year this week also urged activists to make sure next year is a year of action. not only is greta fighting for climate change, she took time out to fire a shot of sorts in a war of words with u.s. president donald trump. you may remember trump mocked her after she was honored by "time magazine." but many came to her defense, including former u.s. first lady michelle obama. genie moss has the story. >> reporter: global warming aside, it must be heartwarming for a 16-year-old climate activist to be defended by a former first lady when attacked by the current president. michelle obama tweeted, don't let anyone dim your light. ignore the doubters. after president trump said this about greta thunberg.
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"time magazine" person of the year. >> so ridiculous. greta must work on her anger management problem. hello. look in the mirror. >> the president continued then go to a good old-fashioned movie with a friend. chill, greta, chill. reaction wasn't chill. what kind of president bullies a teenager, thunder joe biden. one cartoonists pictured them as greta and regreta. thunberg herself responded by changing her twitter bio to a teenager working on her anger management problem, currently chilling and watching a good, old-fashioned movie with a friend. one fan compared greta to shooting fish in a barrel. but republican representative mike johnson defended trump's tweet mocking the teen with asperger's syndrome. >> the president communicates in a unique way. >> after greta communicated her thoughts on climate change at the u.n. in september. >> you have stolen my dreams and
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my childhood with your empty words. >> president trump tweeted she seems like a very happy, young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. she then made that her bio. things came to a head when president trump's campaign war room literally used his head, leaving critics shaking their heads. over this, the president's head photo shopped on greta's body. president trump used to like to ask the question. >> would you rather see person of the year? man of the year? >> just call greta man-eater of the year. genie moss. cnn new york. >> she definitely fights back. she is not afraid of adults. so go greta. that's cnn "newsroom." i'm natalie alan. for u.s. viewers, "new day" is just ahead. for everyone else, i'll be right
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