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Donald Trump Takes Aim at Hillary Clinton Again; The Most Decorated Olympian Ever Does it Again; An Inside Look into France's So-Called Super Jihadis. Aired 2-3am EST

Aired August 10, 2016 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:10] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN Newsroom live from Los Angeles.

JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead this hour, Donald Trump takes aim at Hillary Clinton again. Critics saying he's gone too far this time. Trump says, "Give me a break."

SESAY: The most decorated Olympian ever, does it again, Michael Phelps, wins his 21st gold medal.

VAUSE: And later, an inside look into France's so-called super jihadis and the network which is recruiting young Europeans to fight for ISIS.

SESAY: Hello and welcome to our viewers around the world, I'm Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: I'm John Vause, great to have you with us, Newsroom L.A. starts right now.

Well, his poll numbers had some good news to Democratic Hillary Clinton in two wing states. First, state of Florida where their race remains tight. Quinnipiac University has Clinton with 46 percent of likely voters to Republican's Donald Trump's 45 percent.

SESAY: She has more of an edge among Ohio voters, leading Trump's 49 to 45 percent there and she's got a solid 10 point lead over Trump in Pennsylvania. Well, those numbers comes as Trump is the center of another controversy. It began when he attacked Clinton's stand on gun control but then took it a step further.

VAUSE: Sara Murray has what he said and the outrage sparked.

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SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump setting off controversy with another off hand comment when some believe amounts to a violent threat against his political opponent.

DONALD TRUMP, U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Hillary wants to essentially abolish the second amendment. If she gets to pick her judges nothing you can do folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is I don't know. MURRAY: Trump suggestion that second amendment voters have the power to stop Clinton instantly raising questions about what the candidate meant, whether he was simply looking to coalesce gun supporters behind him or is he meant something more nefarious.

The Clinton campaign quickly seizing on Trump's comment as a sign that GOP nominee is inciting violence. Saying in a statement, "This is simple, what Trump is saying dangerous. A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way."

The Trump campaign swiped back, billing the issue as a media driven controversy, and insisting Trump was simply trying to rally gun voters. In a statement the Trump camp says "It's called the power of unification. Second amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified which gives them great political power. And this year they will be voting in record numbers and it won't be for Hillary Clinton. It will be for Donald Trump."

But Trump's latest off-the-cuff comment on a week when he was striving to stay on message is exactly the sort of flair up giving members of his own party pawn (ph). The latest defector, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who appended an op-ed saying she will not vote for Trump. The GOP senator even telling Jamie Gangel that Trump poses a risk to the nation.

SUSAN COLLINS, U.S. SENATOR REPUBLICAN: Donald Trump, in my judgment, would make a perilous world even more dangerous.

MURRAY: Her announcement coming soon after a group of 50 GOP national security official said they can't back Trump either. Arguing he would put at risk our country's national security. Trump quickly dismissed the snub.

TRUMP: These are 50 people that have been running our country forever and they said we can't support Donald Trump. The reason they can't. You know why because I'm not going to hire these people. I don't want these people.

MURRAY: But as he struggle, to keep his party in line and logs in the polls, Trump says the key to victory is more the same.

TRUMP: I've always had a good temperament and it's gotten me here. We beat a lot of people in the primaries and I certainly don't think it's appropriate to start changing all of the a sudden when you've been winning.

MURRAY: As well as finding opening to handler his Democratic opponent. Today, mocking Clinton for saying she short circuited her handling of the e-mail issue.

TRUMP: Could you imagine if I said that I short circuited? They would be calling for my execution, electric chair. They'd bring back the electric chair. It's one thing to make bad decisions, it's another thing to be wacky and make bad decisions.

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MURRAY: Now, Donald Trump's second event of the day in North Carolina, he made no mention of the earlier controversy instead just saying the second amendment is under siege.

But in a few interviews, he made it clear that he was talking about the political power of second amendment voters, brushed aside the notion that he was talking about violence towards Hillary Clinton or whatsoever.

Sara Murray, CNN Fayetteville, North Carolina.

[02:05:10] SESAY: Well, two more gold to the most decorated Olympian of all time. U.S. swimming superstar, Michael Phelps, led his team to victory in the 4x200 meters freestyle relay, taking home his 21st Olympic gold medal.

VAUSE: Know the bad holes. The big win came soon after Phelps won gold in the men's 200 meter butterfly that was one of his personal to him. Phelps faced off against Chad le Clos, the South African swimmer who beat him at the same event four years ago in London. This time le Clos finished fourth.

SESAY: Well, Christina Macfarlane joins us now live from Rio. Christina, good to have you with us once again. You know it's hard to actually fathom the success of Michael Phelps, but more gold and -- I mean such a special achievement and this time he came with, with some emotion.

CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN WORLD SPORTCORRESPONDENT: That's absolutely right and just an indication as to what, what such a big night this was. In the stands watching on this race last night was half of the men's U.S. basketball team, some of the biggest athletes in the world, some of the most highest paid athletes in the world, Draymond Green, waving their American flags, taking poses on their camera phones and looking like a bunch of school kids out for the day.

And it was such spectacle Michael Phelps, the redemption race of his life coming back beating Chad le Clos but being such a big moment in the pool because of where he's come from to get here. Remember back in London 2012, he retired from the game, he said he no longer wanted to swim. He hated getting in the pool and then, on the years that passed after that and have a very turbulent time away from the pool, he had two arrests drunk driving and he was in a really bad place. But now he's turned his life around.

He has a new born baby boy and he's back in the pool. And he says when he came here to Rio that he wanted to enjoy it. And that is what we saw last night becoming the oldest individual gold medalist in Olympic swimming history. And when he won that gold in the 200 butterfly last night, he sat up he pointed his finger at the crowd. He indicated that he was number one.

And then he came back 15 minutes later and did it all over again with the men's 4x100 meters relay team a superb performance by all full members of that team. Michael Phelps having a slight scary moment when he snapped his swimming cap just before getting in the pool. He quickly managed to grab another one. By this time he completed his fourth lap, you know, the race was over one the many times so well Phelps was so far ahead that he just had to swim home for glory and then the 21 gold of his career really was an exciting scene.

VAUSE: Yeah. You would imagine it will be a long time before someone beats that record. There is also good news for the U.S. women's gymnastics team. Not only are they still the best in the world but they had a best by country mile.

MACFARLANE: That's absolutely right, John. And the proof of that came last night of course when they obliterated the field in the team event. They actually won clear of by eight points over its nearest rivals Russia who's ended up in silver. That's the biggest margin in open era. And they were faultless. They won every single event, so, so much to say that by the time the star of the team, Simone Biles came out to do her floor teammate, the team that already wraps up gold that Simone Biles of course, looking to become the first gymnast to wins five gold medal in one Olympic games.

And this U.S. team now, they've become the first U.S. gymnastics team to win back to back gold medals since Romania did it in 2000 and 2004. And we're going to see plenty more from them of course, because we got all the individual results events to come later this week. But it was so fun to watch them. The gymnastics is one of the true spectacles of the Olympic Games and these ladies are taking it to another level.

SESAY: Fantastic stuff, and Christina for the U.S. Olympic glory and also Olympic despair, I'm talking about Serena Williams who was wiped out a match against the Ukrainian. What a shocker.

MACFARLANE: Absolutely, there's something strange going on down at the tennis this week. You know, we saw Novak Djokovic the world number one out of the completion yesterday and now Serena Williams out.

This is not the Serena Williams we know as well. She hit 37 unforced errors earlier, just yesterday and five double faults in one game. I can't remember a match where I've seen her do that. So, she did seem to be clutching her shoulder and indicating to her coach that maybe there was something wrong there. She was of course knocked out to the competition by the world number 20 Elina Svitolina.

Svitolina not the type of player who is seen to be causing upsets with many of the women in the top of the game. So Serena Williams is out, that means that she won't become the first player to defend her Olympic gold medal in the Olympic tennis. But Andy Murray is still aiming at the chance of doing that of course, he's still in the competition.

[02:09:58] And it also means that we won't see the golden slam, which is also a grand slams and the Olympic gold hasn't been done since Steffi Graf back in 1988 and it's not going to be done now.

SESAY: Another time maybe.

VAUSE: Yeah. We shall wait. Christina, thank you. SESAY: Thank you.

VAUSE: What's the name of that Ukrainian tennis player again?

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MACFARLANE: Elina Svitolina.

SESAY: Elina.

VAUSE: Oh, there we go, that was the one.

MACFARLANE: Elina Svitolina.

VAUSE: Thank you.

SESAY: There you go.

VAUSE: Yeah, it's difficult for me.

SESAY: Thank you Christina. Let's take a quick look at the medal count after the fourth day of competition. The United States is in first as you see there, with nine gold medals. China is close behind with eight gold, while both Hungary and Australia, John that one is for you.

VAUSE: Yeah, what's that?

SESAY: Was being top 4.

VAUSE: At the early days. Running at the top six Russia and Italy, with three golds each. The U.S. also lead to the eternal number of medals 26 so far.

Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura competes Wednesday in the men's individual all round event, he lead Japan to the gold in the men's team all-around.

SESAY: And he said team gold is what he really wanted and his inspiration sprang from a devastating tragedy that struck his country.

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KOHEI UCHIMURA, ASTISTIC GYMNAST: My name is Kohei Uchimura. And I am an artistic gymnast.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nearly 24 hours after a record earthquake and terrible tsunami, we're getting a closer look at the incredible devastation ...

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: The devastating water up to 30 feet high ...

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a sea of liquid destruction outer devastation, mud and debris ...

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SESAY: We'll have more Olympic news as the games go on. Time for a quick break now.

French jihadists are flocking to Syria and Iraq. And authorities say this man "the super Jihadist" is mostly responsible. Details on his recruitment campaign next.

VAUSE: Also ahead details on yet another sexual harassment claim against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.

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[02:15:50] PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: This is weather watch on CNN. I'm Pedram Javaheri with you watching the Southeastern U.S. yet again is only the predominate area for any sort of when uniform weather pattern a lot of thunderstorms in present and you take a look, the moisture content really spectacular, I can sort them, when we take a look at how much moisture is locked into that region.

There are some storms from the Northeastern corner of the U.S. but it is around the Golf Coast that the most high flood risk remains in place in fact up and down the Penn handle work your way out towards New Orleans and the State of Louisiana there, heavy rainfall expected. And the models indicating the heaviest now could be displaced a little farther back towards the west and that could be again, north of 250 to 300 millimeters by the time this is all said and done later of this week.

Temps into the upper 30s you factoring the humidity about 41-42 degrees across parts of Dallas and now Denver Colorado also a little steamy there at 34, Winnipeg temp there's not a thunderstorm as possible there and temps should be into the upper 20s and low 30s there in.

There's what left of a Javier, now losing a lot of its tropical characteristic the Sierra Madre Mountains across this region of western Mexico. We'll see a lot of thunderstorms begin to flourish into the afternoon hours. Some flooding concerns on those higher elevation communities but temps should be kept a little cooler there into the mid-20s around Mexico City, Chihuahua around 31 degrees and work your way to the south, notice places like La Paz, some morning snow showers could mix in as well.

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VAUSE: Libyan militia commanders say their forces are closing in on ISIS in Sirte. Local militias launch a major offense to retake the city in May forcing ISIS fighters to retreat to the city center.

SESAY: Four hundred Libya militia men have been killed and more than 1300 others wounded since the offense had began. Sirte has been on the ISIS controls since May 2015.

VAUSE: Jihadi recruiters have been successfully luring young French men and women to fight in Syria and Iraq, despite a government crack down.

SESAY: And the authorities say 80 percent of those recruits are made by one person. CNN's spoke to one devastated man whose sister has joined the fight.

Our Nima Elbagir, reports.

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NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A tent in Syria, homes to what French authorities are calling one of the most successful jihadi recruitment campaigns.

Over scene may say by Omar Diaby a.k.a. Omar Omsen dubbed by his followers, "the super jihadist."

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ELBAGIR: And Fouad El Bathy's 15-year-old sister Nora, went missing two years ago. He documented his search for her using hidden cameras, a search that took him across Turkey's border with Syria where he learned Omar Omsen personally recruited her.

FOUAD EL BATHY, BROTHER OF JIHADI RECRUIT (Through Translator): We couldn't stop hugging each other. She kissed me here, here, here, he even kiss me on the mouth by mistake. I told her let's go home.

She said she couldn't. She's banging her head against the wall. She wants to come back but Omar stopped her.

ELBAGIR: Fouad said he found his sister in a Villa where Omsen and his French jihadi brigade were based, an entire fighting force from Omsen's home town of Nice.

This rare footage obtained by French documentary maker show cases Omsen's messianic fervor, preaching as his men listen throughout. Is this charisma that authorities tell us has made him so successful, responsible for an estimated 80 percent of the French speaking jihadists flocking to Iraq and Syria. Fouad says he witnessed Omsen's effect first hand.

EL BATHY (Through Translator): When Omar was speaking all the guys were looking at him like he was God. He made me think to the guru, they were venerating him.

ELBAGIR: And promenades of the Southeast of France feel a world away from Syria and Iraq but Omsen's childhood home of Nice has proved particularly fertile recruiting ground.

[02:20:09] His neighbor Imam, describing it to us as an epidemic.

BOUBAKEUR BEKZI, IMAM (Through Translator): They're transformed in a few weeks. It's like a bomb goes off.

ELBAGIR: You have described the way that estheticism is taking hold in this community as a virus.

BEKZI (Through Translator): When a virus infects a lot of people, it's a pandemic and you can't use regular pills to cure it. You need bigger resources.

ELBAGIR: Few intelligence source, CNN obtained the latest ministry of interior figures for French nationals involved in Jihad. Between May and July, the biggest rose by 67 people to 2,147, this at the height of what authorities have called and all encompassing security response by the French state. CNN reached out the French government for comment but receives no response.

France's president says, his country is at war but what is increasingly apparent is this is as much a war within. French families caught on both sides, family to both victim and perpetrator.

But, even as Fouad and others like him bravely speak out. Authorities say Omsen and his propaganda team continue to lure in French citizens at home and abroad.

Nima Elbagir, CNN, Nice.

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VAUSE: Here's a closer look at the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIS in Syria and Iraq. According to the U.S. National Intelligence Director, more than 36,000 foreign fighters have traveled to Syria since the conflict began in 2012. At least 6600 of the recruits come from western countries.

SESAY: Analyst the super (ph) group saying most foreigners joining the militant group come from North Africa and the Middle East, mostly from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan. Thousands are also coming from European nations including Russia, France, Germany and the U.K.

All Russia and Turkey are working to restore ties after Turkey shot down the Russian jet last November. President Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Russia.

VAUSE: Improving relations come after Turkey's NATO allies criticize Mr. Erdogan that his sweeping crack down following a failed coup. A move that didn't seem to bother Mr. Putin.

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VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT (Through Translator): I'd like to say again it is our principal position. We will always categorically, we're against any attempt of an sticking intuitive constitutional deeds.

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN TURKISH PRESIDENT: After the unfortunate event, it was positive for us to have the meeting so quickly and I'm thanking you for this opportunity. (END VIDEO CLIP)

VAUSE: The two leaders have reportedly agreed to try and end the conflict in Syria.

SESAY: Well, the nightmare hasn't ended quite yet for Delta airlines passengers, though Carol says operations are improving. Delta says it canceled 775 more flights on Tuesday. That's on top of the 1,000 cancellation on Monday. This is all thanks to a global computer system crash.

VAUSE: The airline is slowly getting passengers rebooked as it works to normalize operations. Aviation experts believe the breakdown will probably cost Delta 10's of millions of dollars.

SESAY: Now, another woman at Fox News has come forward accusing former network boss Roger Ailes of sexual harassment. Andrea Tantaros claimed she was repeatedly harassed by Ailes and when she informed other higher ups, she says they ignored her.

VAUSE: At least six current and former Fox News staff stay host and produces feared Ailes had tapped their phones and was monitoring their conversations.

SESAY: CNN Senior Media Correspondent, Brian Stelter joins us now from New York. Brian, good to have you with us.

BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Thanks.

SESAY: So, you said some years ago, you went on a couple of dates with a low level Fox staffer and at some point came to realized these weren't actually dates. What happened?

STELTER: This is all awkward for me. I'm happily married man here talking about my date in life. But yes, about 10 years ago, I had a blog about television news called TV News Service. Very well read within halls of Fox News and among the bosses of the network.

So, they wanted to know all about me and what they did essentially was have this low level staffer act as a spy, as an intelligence gatherer for Boston's. So, we would go to dinner something like that then she would report back in the next day about what I thought, my opinions, my feelings about on Fox News and CNN and MSNBC, basically, she was acting like she's on intelligence gathering missions and I had no idea.

[02:25:01] And I found out a years so later, I pursue a Fox and I didn't think much of it at the time. But now, that Roger Ailes, the boss of Fox News has resigned, we're hearing more and more about the more sinister versions of this behavior.

Old fashioned intelligence gathering by private investigators and detectives, there were cases where other journalists were actually tailed and targeted or followed home and things like that.

So, these stories have been coming out around drip, drip, drip basis. So, I thought it was -- were sharing my kind of smaller version of this as an example of this strange behavior Fox News has engaging over the years.

SESAY: So, Gabe Sherman, who has done a lot of reporting on Fox News and on Roger Ailes now says that there was a so-called black room set up by former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and to keep tabs on reporters and other perceived threats. The questions on the minds of many, what did the Murdoch's know? How far of did this go? I mean, what's your sense?

STELTER: I've been asking that question for weeks to this point and frankly, the company is just refusing to answer it. So, the Murdoch's do not want to get involved in the questions about what they did or did not know about Ailes' behavior.

You know, the more this picture is painted, it seems like Ailes was abusing his power as the chairman and CEO of Fox News. Yes, he's denied all of the harassment allegations against him and but there are number about stories as well about this private investigators, about consultant for they had on payroll. Gabriel Sherman has really written about this in depth in New York's magazine web site this week.

It seems that Ailes was running his own sort of operation within Fox News, according to Sherman, even using Fox's own money for his own private vendettas. With that in mind, the Murdoch's at some point are going to have to come to terms with what they did or did not know. But so far they're staying silent about it.

SESAY: Bryan Stelter, we really appreciate the insight and sneak peek into your former dating life, appreciate it.

STELTER: Thank you.

VAUSE: I think he blushed.

OK, coming up next for our viewers in Asia CNN "State Of The Race" with Kate Bolduan.

SESAY: And for everyone else, Hillary Clinton is reaching across party lines for votes and rejecting a controversial supporter.

VAUSE: Plus, the world's longest hunger strike comes to an end, details in a moment.

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[02:30:31] VAUSE: Welcome back everybody. You're watching CNN Newsroom Live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.

SESAY: And I'm Isha Sesay, the headlines this hour.

A new controversy for Donald Trump as he attacked Hillary Clinton's position on gun control and suggests second amendment gun right supporters could stop her. Critics immediately accuse him of making a veiled threat of violence. Trump's campaign says he was talking about political importance. VAUSE: Brazilian senate sending President Dilma Rousseff to trial for allegedly committing impeachable offenses. She was suspended earlier this year on charges of breaker budget laws. Her impeachment trial will likely take place towards the end of the month, after the Rio's Olympic Games.

SESAY: So, Michael Phelps has won his 20th and 21st Olympic gold medals, The U.S. swimmer beats, South Africa Chad le Clos in the men's 200 meter butterfly in Rio, on Tuesday. Phelps, also lead the American team to the top of podium in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton is battling to win states that usually vote for Republicans.

VAUSE: But for now the campaign is dealing with a blunder on the trail. Senior Washington Correspondent, Jeff Zeleny reports.

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JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: Hillary Clinton is casting a wider net tonight.

HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you for the work you do every day.

ZELENY: Searching for new Republican supporters and newly competitive Red States. Possibly up for grabs in the wake of Donald Trump. The Clinton campaigns concerted effort to recruit some of the Republicans peeling off Trump is paying off at least in small ways.

Two prominent Republican environmentalists who ran the EPA during the Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations announced their support today for Clinton. They said Trump has shown a profound ignorance of science, particularly on climate change.

Yet not all Republicans coming out against Trump or turning toward Clinton, including Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine.

SUSAN COLLINS, U.S. SENATE REPUBLICAN: I have a lot of concerns about Hillary Clinton and I am not going to support her.

ZELENY: CNN has learned that Clinton campaign is also eyeing new investments in Georgia and Arizona. Exploring whether Trump's challenges have created a realistic opening in Republican territory those are two Red States with a high share of Hispanic and black voters. Democrats believed they can flip. It's a delegate dance for Clinton.

In Florida today, blasting GOP congressional leaders for not signing off on Zika funding.

CLINTON: Get a bill passed. Get a bill that is focused on combating Zika passed.

ZELENY: While in South Florida, Clinton visited out the DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. CLINTON: So, please do everything you can to make sure Debbie, has a resounding victory on August 30th.

ZELENY: She's fighting for her seat in congress in a primary this month. It's one of the remaining wars in the Democratic family feud.

Bernie Sanders is supporting Wasserman Schultz's rival.

CLINTON: After you take a few days off. Yes, they got to get back to work on November, right?

ZELENY: All this as Clinton's rally Monday night outside the Orlando focusing on Trump.

CLINTON: He wants to roll back regulations on Wall Street.

ZELENY: Suddenly over shadowed by another man. The father of the Polls night club shooter was sitting just behind Clinton. Russian, as she talked about the Nation's deadliest mass shooting, killing 49 people in June.

CLINTON: And I know how many people, family members, loved ones and friends are still grieving.

ZELENY: Saddique Mateen talk to CNN affiliate WPTE, he's a Democrat and wanted to attend the rally. The Clinton campaign, said it did not know he was in the audience or selected to be on stage.

SEDDIQUE MATEEN, FATHER OF ORLANDO SHOOTER: Why they should be surprised. I love United State and I've been living here for a long time.

ZELENY: He said he supports Clinton.

MATEEN: Clinton is good for United State, versus Donald Trump.

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SESAY: That was CNN Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny reporting there.

A spokesman for the Clinton campaign says Hillary Clinton disagrees with Seddique Mateen views and this disavowed his support.

[02:34:49] VAUSE: Still to come here on CNN, Israel has now used two aid workers of assisting Hamas in Gaza, a live report in just a moment.

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SESAY: For the second time in a week, Israel has charged a humanitarian aid worker of helping Hamas.

VAUSE: The United Nations spokesman says an internal review is underway and the U.N. will cooperate with Israeli authorities.

As he live now our Oren Liebermann in Jerusalem. So Oren, what are the details?

OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, in both of these cases, the latest one against the U.N. worker and the one before that less than a week ago against the world vision worker. It seems the organizations are taking these accusations very seriously, cooperating with authorities and conducting their own internal investigation.

And in both cases, these workers are accused of directing aid, humanitarian aid, financing and supplies to help Hamas.

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LIEBERMANN: The United Nations Development program has poured millions of dollars in the Gaza, helping to rebuild the coastal enclave, after the 2014 Gaza war. A slow and difficult process.

Now, a U.N. worker 38-year-old Waheed al-Borsh has been indicted by an Israeli court with directing U.N. aid to Hamas the militant jihadist organization that runs Gaza. Israel says Borsh directed UNA to benefit Hamas. Claims Hamas says are baseless.

SAMI ABU ZUHRI, HAMAS SPOKESMAN (Through Translator): Its part of the Israeli plan to restrict the work if it's national relief organization operating in Gaza in order to tighten the Gaza blockade.

LIEBERMANN: It's the second time in a week an aid worker has been charged with aiding Hamas.

On Thursday, 38-year-old, Mohamed el-Halabi was charged with siphoning millions of dollars from World's Vision, the U.S. base Humanitarian organization to Hamas. Israel says el-Halabi was a member Hamas' military wing and used his position as the director of World Vision in Gaza to divert money to Hamas.

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[0:05:02] LIEBERMANN: In a video statement, Major General Yoav Mordechai decides spoke directly to the people of Gaza.

MAJ. GEN. YOAV MORDECHAI, ISRAELI COORDINATOR OF ACTIVITIES IN THE TERRITORIES (Through Liebermann): Hamas is bearing you and your hope of living a normal life. I want say clearly, this exploitation of Israel civil policy harms you and we will not stand idly by.

LIEBERMANN: El-Halabi's father says his son had nothing to do with Hamas.

KHALIL EL-HALABI, FATHER OF MOHAMED EL-HALABI (Through Liebermann): We don't know why this media frenzy was created by Israel on this subject. They know and I know and I'm convinced he has nothing to do with all these charges.

LIEBERMANN: In Gaza protesters demonstrated in support of El-Halabi. World Vision said the charges are very serious but they are skeptical. President Kevin Jenkins released a statement saying "If any of these allegations are proven to be true we will take swift and decisive of action. Unfortunately, we still have not seen any of evidence. . World Vision's cumulative operating budget in Gaza for the part 10 years was approximately $22.5 million which makes the alleged amount of up to $50 million being diverted hard to reconcile."

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LIEBERMANN: It was obvious when we look to the Indictment sheet against Mohamed El-Halabi that the investigation from the Shin Bet Israel security agencies had gone on for a long time, years not weeks or months, leaving open the possibility of more humanitarian aid workers being charged.

John and Isha, the indictment he'd even mentions another international humanitarian aid organization save the children, so we'll certainly see if there are more charges filed in the coming weeks with two of these charges files so close together.

VAUSE: And now we're giving the allegations which are out there, what impact is this having on donor countries?

LIEBERMANN: Well, in the case of World Vision the organization itself has set its suspending its Gaza operations until they find out exactly what happened. Australia and Germany meanwhile have both said they will stop funding World Vision projects in Gaza until they also know exactly what's happening. As these investigations keep opening up we'll see if more donor countries take that route.

VAUSE: Oren Liebermann, thank you. Live there in Jerusalem.

SESAY: Yeah, thanks Oren.

VAUSE: Go to it India now where the world's longest hunger strike is over with a small taste of honey.

SESAY: It was the first food the woman called the Iron Lady has eaten often more than a decade and a half. CNN's Isa Soares reports, she say she'll seek change through other means.

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ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: An emotional moment as Irom Sharmila takes her first bite of food in nearly 16 years.

IROM SHARMILA, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST: I broke my fast and now I want to drink something.

SOARES: The human rights activate from the Indian State of Manipur has ended the world longest hunger strike. Forty-four year old Sharmila began her strike in November 2000 after security forces killed 10 civilians in retaliation for a rebel attack. A day Sinam Chandrajini will never forget.

SINAM CHANDRAJINI, MOTHER OF MALOM VICTIM (Through Soares): There was a huge explosion after that day, were bullet shots and my sons and sister were brutally killed. Since then Sharmila known as the "The Iron Lady of Manipur" has refused to eat in protest against India's Armed Forces Special Powers Act an Indian law.

That gives its military the power to such properties, detain suspects without warrants and even shoot on sight. Three days after she began the strike, Sharmila was arrested charged with attempting to commit suicide which is against Indian law. Since then she has been arrested at least 14 times on that charge and has been force-fed through a dripping her nose for over a decade.

It is the lead that a 2005 noble prize nominee will campaign in as an independent candidate in next year's election in Manipur. The people of the poverty stricken Northeastern state say they've been neglected by their federal government.

SHARMILA: I will use everything that I have I feel for the positive change of the society and the foremost (ph) thing will be the removal of this Draconian Law.

SOARES: Although her hunger strike has ended, Sharmila has vowed to never give up fighting for what she believes in.

Isa Soares, CNN.

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VAUSE: OK. This might just be the worst vacation ever. A Chinese tourist had his wallet stolen at an airport in Germany. But then when he tried to fill out the police report apparently he is somehow ended up signing an application for asylum.

SESAY: Turns out he speaks only mandarin and had trouble communicating with German officials, so they processed him as an asylum seeker and shipped him to a refugee shelter hundreds of kilometers away. It took about two weeks to figure out he was not seeking asylum. He is now apparently resumed his tour of Europe.

[02:45:02] VAUSE: Perhaps, this suck.

SESAY: Yeah.

VAUSE: This is awful. OK coming up, Olympic highlight on the fourth day of competition. Also how Brazil's golden girl went from the slums to Olympic champion.

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JAVAHERI: This is weather watch on CNN. I'm Pedram Javaheri with you watching the Southeastern U.S. yet again is only the predominate area for any sort of when uniform weather pattern a lot of thunderstorms in present and you take a look, the moisture content really spectacular, I can sort them, when we take a look at how much moisture is locked into that region.

There are some storms from the Northeastern corner of the U.S. but it is around the Golf Coast that the most high flood risk remains in place in fact up and down the Penn handle work your way out towards New Orleans and the State of Louisiana there, heavy rainfall expected. And the models indicating the heaviest now could be displaced a little farther back towards the west and that could be again, north of 250 to 300 millimeters by the time this is all said and done later of this week.

Temps into the upper 30s you factoring the humidity about 41-42 degrees across parts of Dallas and now Denver Colorado also a little steamy there at 34, Winnipeg temp there's not a thunderstorm as possible there and temps should be into the upper 20s and low 30s there in.

There's what left of a Javier, now losing a lot of its tropical characteristic the Sierra Madre Mountains across this region of western Mexico. We'll see a lot of thunderstorms begin to flourish into the afternoon hours. Some flooding concerns on those higher elevation communities but temps should be kept a little cooler there into the mid-20s around Mexico City, Chihuahua around 31 degrees and work your way to the south, notice places like La Paz, some morning snow showers could mix in as well.

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VAUSE: We are -- this just into CNN at least 11 babies have died in a fire in the maternity ward of a Baghdad hospital.

SESAY: The health official says the baby is way in the pre term birth unit in Yarmouk hospital and died of suffocation early Wednesday. The preliminary report indicates the fire was cause when electrical short circuited.

VAUSE: Day four of Olympic competition is now the record books and so here are the highlights. U.S. superstar Michael Phelps won his 20th and 21st Olympic gold medals in Rio on Tuesday. Phelps beats South African Rival Chad le Clos in the men's 200 meter butterfly. He also lead team USA. to gold in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay.

SESAY: Syrian refugee Rami Anis made his Olympic debut in the 100 meter free style. He didn't make it to the semifinal but he'll be back in the pool on Thursday for the 100 meter butterfly.

[02:50:07] Iranian archer Zahra Nemati competed in the Olympic for the first time in a wheelchair. In 2012 she became the first Iranian women to win gold in the Paralympics. She didn't place in the event Tuesday but said she hoped to inspire other disabled athletes to compete with able bodied people.

VAUSE: And a very strange tale of events. The Olympic diving pool turned an icky color of green. No one really knows ...

SESAY: Looks like Jell-O.

VAUSE: Sort of.

SESAY: Well, OK.

VAUSE: No one knows why it happened. But organizers say the water is safe.

SESAY: Oh yeah.

VAUSE: Yeah, Right.

SESAY: Yeah, enjoy that.

Olympic host country won its first gold medal of the Rio games on Monday when Brazils Rafaela Silva took the top spot in the women Judo 57 kilogram competition.

VAUSE: She rose from one of Rio's notoriously violent slums to become Brazil's golden girl.

CNN's Shasta Darlington spoke to family and neighbors about her Olympic success.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON: We're in city of God, Cidade de Deus the greedy favela on the outskirts of Rio that inspired the film about slum violence. It's also where Rafaela Silva got her start.

The first man we meet knew her when she was a girl. She was a fighter, he says, A warrior like you just saw. They celebrated when their home town hero battled her way to Brazil's first gold medal.

There are people embarrassed to say they're from city of God but now we have her, he says. We find Silva's father and extended family out on the curb after watching her emotional victory in person.

Even if it had been a bronze medal I'd be celebrating, says her father. But it was gold.

This is the house where Rafaela was born. She lived her until she was eight. Now her aunt lives here with four children and she comes back to visit all the time.

Her cousins now planning a giant barbecue.

With every phase we just gotten more nervous he says, it was like we were on the mat with her.

The local hero also celebrated by the kids at the gym down the road where she's been training for years. They say they all watched her win and want to be just like her.

With her bad girl face, she's intimidating, she says. She's the girl from the Favela, now Brazil's golden girl.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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VAUSE: That would be everything.

SESAY: That would be everything.

VAUSE: Everything.

SESAY: Including the latest medal counts competitions, highlights and special profiles. I don't believe you're taking that seriously.

VAUSE: I am it's everything that I ever seen is. It's amazing.

SESAY: Something tells me you're mocking.

VAUSE: Never.

SESAY: Time for a quick break.

SESAY: We've all been there, running late, maybe caught up in airport security, for whatever reason you find yourself staring out the window as your plane taxing away to some exotic destination you are hoping to see. Most people just rebook their flight.

VAUSE: But everybody is not this guy at Madrid International Airport. You can see the ride in passenger actually he hit the tarmac h consults a baggage carriage driver -- carrier driver rather I kind of spoke to that.

SESAY: Well, he doesn't wait long before throwing his two carry on over his shoulders and he starts running across the tarmac. Yep, you see him go there. Astonishingly this man managed to board that flight but here's the down slide. He was detained and he will be tried and his next destination Grand Canadia.

VAUSE: He would have been shot in the U.S. Quite possibly.

SESAY: Quite possibly.

VAUSE: OK, finally a straight argue in Argentina ...

SESAY: Don't do that.

VAUSE: ... new a good thing when he sorts his name is Rubio and when he met a flight attendant by chance, he wouldn't go away.

SESAY: In the end, she couldn't resist to pay his canny k9 friendship. Get that? Canny k9.

VAUSE: That's good.

SESAY: Take a look.

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[02:55:11] VAUSE: Happy dog. Look at those, nice, he's in Germany now.

SESAY: Once again. Not believing your reaction.

VAUSE: OK.

Well, OK, finally here. OK. This is a good one.

SESAY: Yeah, it is.

VAUSE: When Jeni Stepien walked down the isle this weekend, her father was not there but his heart was.

SESAY: Yeah and Jeni's father was murdered 10 years ago. His organs were donated in an emotional ceremony; the man who received her father's heart was the one who gave her away.

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JENI STEPIEN: Thank you so much for coming.

ARTHUR THOMPSON, HEART TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT: Are you kidding?

STEPIEN: So I was just so thankful that my dad could be here with us today in spirit and then a piece of his physical being as well. That was really special for us.

THOMPSON: What greater honor could a person have than walking the daughter of the man who's given his heart to him? I can't imagine a greater honor.

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VAUSE: They'd written letters back and forth over the years but it wasn't until the day before the wedding the two met in person.

SESAY: It's so, so touching.

VAUSE: It is. It's quite so.

SESAY: You're watching CNN Newsroom live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: I'm John Vause. And news continues with Rosemary Church after a break.

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