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Bush, Trump Hold Simultaneous Events; Another Night of Unrest in St Louis; Interview with Donald Trump; Palestinian Prisoner's Hunger Strike, Detention in Israel Ends; State Department Defends Iran Deal, Worries of Russia Selling Missile Defense to Iran; People Fleeing Syria Often Start in Turkey; Oscar Pistorius' Parole Delayed. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired August 19, 2015 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:15] ERROL BARNETT, CNN HOST: Donald Trump pressed on everything from immigration to military strategy. The CNN interview with the Republican presidential front-runner coming up.

Plus, protests and tear gas after another police shooting. This not far from Ferguson, Missouri. We will get the latest on this.

And in Cairo a powerful car bomb targets a government building.

Want to welcome to our viewers in the U.S. and those of you who tuned from all around the world. I'm Errol Barnett with you the next two hours.

This is CNN NEWSROOM.

Now, we begin this hour with a look at the hotly contested political race for U.S. president. The top two Republican presidential contenders took jabs at one another as they hosted dueling town hall meetings in New Hampshire on Wednesday. Donald Trump and Jeb Bush's events were held at the same time and just a few kilometers apart. But it was almost as if they were in the same room. Listen.

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JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think what people are eventually going to vote for is a proven conservative leader that's done it, not talked about it, but actually done it. And I have a proven conservative record. Consistent proven conservative record when no one was watching. Long-time proven conservative record. Mr. Trump doesn't have a proven conservative record. He was a Democrat longer in the last decade than he was a Republican. He's given more money to Democrats than to Republicans.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'd say his other dumb statement is an act of love. That they come here for an act of love. And I would say between common core, his act of love on immigration and skin in the game with Iraq. That's the third one we have now added, I don't see how he is electable. And then on top of that he talks about women's health issues and against he's women's health. Now, he then comes back a few hours later and says he misspoke, but he's bad on women's health issues. Nobody's going to be better on women's health issues than Donald Trump.

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BARNETT: Meantime, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is still holding on to her front runner status. However, her lead is dramatically shrinking.

Take a look at this. In the new CNN/ORC poll, Democratic front runner is 51 percent and Donald Trump there, 45 percent. This is a hypothetic head-to-head matchup. But consider that last month Clinton was ahead by 16 points.

CNN's Chris Cuomo had a chance to interview Donald Trump before his town hall meeting. The Republican billionaire reacted to the latest CNN poll and slammed democratic front runner Hillary Clinton's campaign. Take a listen.

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TRUMP: Well with, it's not my focus right now. Right now I have 16 other people that I'm looking at and that is not my focus. But indirectly it probably is. And I think that Hillary is going to have a hard time being in the elected based on what is happening with the emails, the servers may be even to speeches. I think it is going to be a very hard thing for her to overcome.

When I look, Chrism at what happened with Petraeus, on a much moral level, great general, wonderful guy, everybody loves him and it destroyed his life over much less. I mean, in terms of confidentiality, in term s of importance, much less and far fewer. And it would seem hard to think that somebody could have a much worse situation than him and escape.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the factual distinction would be that was classified information with Petraeus and he knew and he used it. Here we do not know yet whether Hillary Clinton was doing the wrong thing or mishandling classified information.

TRUMP: But it looks like it was and it certainly looks like it was very high-level information.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BARNETT: Now, during this interview, Trump defended his controversial immigration plan calling it simply the right thing to do even if it is opposed on both sides of the political aisle.

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TRUMP: Look, at some point we have to be honest with ourselves. It's called -- you know, they like the word undocumented because it is more political. I don't use that word. They are illegal immigrants. They came over illegally. Some are wonderful people and they have been here for a while. They got to go out. CUOMO: But how do you do it in a practical way? You really think you

can round up 11 million people?

TRUMP: And you know what? At some point we are going to try getting them back, the good ones. We have a lot of good ones.

CUOMO: You send a mixed message, Mr. Trump. You say you want to get rid of whole families. But then you say you want them back.

TRUMP: You have to. They are illegal.

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BARNETT: Stephen Collinson, our CNN politics senior reporter. He joins us now from Washington, D.C. to digest all of this.

Stephen, thanks for your time. Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican field. But now we are getting specifics about his immigration reform plan, if you can call it that. It does seem impossible. I mean, he suggests rounding up more than 10 million people who may be in the U.S. illegally. That just doesn't work. It can't happen but for his supporters does that matter. Is that what they want to hear?

[01:05:22] STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: Yes. I think Donald Trump is tapping in to a visceral feelings about immigration and illegal immigration in a certain factor of the Republican base.

You are right, rounding up 12 million illegal immigrants is first of all impossible to do. Some people have cost of his immigration plan at around $150 billion. And even the fact of this idea that he has a building, this huge wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and getting Mexico to pay for it, none of it seems plausible. And that's in essence something that kind of runs throughout the Trump candidacy. It is somewhat surreal. None of his policies seem to add up, but he has this style. He has tapped in to this anti-establishment, anti- government feeling. A feeling of palpable anger in fact in the country in the early stages of the election.

So at the moment, details don't seem to matter. It is the aura of Trump and the way he's really obliterated the other candidates at the moment in the media. No one else can get a word in edge wise.

BARNETT: But Stephen, we should mention that big wall, Donald Trump says, will have a big, beautiful door in it for anyone who may feel he is being soon phobic. You say this is surreal. And it certainly is in many way. I mean, a few months ago, he wasn't even polling, he wasn't even announced and now he is literally within with striking distance of Hillary Clinton in the new poll. Just six percentage points behind her in a national head-to-head. That is incredible. But does it say more about Trump's strengths or Hillary Clinton's weaknesses?

COLLINSON: I think the first. Obviously, this is a long way ahead of the election in November 2016. At this stage, polls often sort of reflect name recognition, media coverage when they do a considered judgment by the electorate of who they think will be the next president.

But you are right, there was a big surprise in that CNN poll this morning. Only six percent behind Hillary Clinton in a theoretical matchup. You have to say that if Hillary Clinton won a general election by six percent that would be with almost considered a landslide, but the fact that Donald Trump is the Republican who has the best chance of supposedly beating her is a big surprise.

Part of that reflects the fact that Hillary Clinton has had a tough summer. She's had the scandal over her private email server, her private email server she used when she was secretary of state. That's bringing her numbers down.

On the democratic side, you also have the same anti-government, anti- establishment feeling in the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, who is a socialist senator from Vermont who has been rising in the polls. He is 18 percent behind Hillary Clinton. But his numbers are going up and hers are going down.

So I think at this stage to think that Hillary Clinton could lose a general election to Donald Trump is somewhat possible. But you know, this Trump phenomenon who everybody in Washington thought would go away, it seems to be enduring. It is carrying on. It is quite incredible.

BARNETT: the only thing we know for sure is there will be more surprises.

Stephen Collinson, our CNN politics senior reporter. Thanks for your time today from D.C.

COLLINSON: Thanks.

BARNETT: Now, one more point we want to make, you may recall Donald Trump raised eyebrows when he said he gets his military advice from watching TV. Hopefully this is one of the programs he watches. Chris Cuomo asked him about that in the extended interview. Hear what he said to about it later this hour.

On to some other news we are following for you. It is another night of unrest in St. Louis, Missouri following a fatal police shooting there.

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BARNETT: Police fired smoke and tear gas at protesters to disperse the crowd. They were demonstrating following the police shooting death of an 18-year-old African-American suspect. Police say the suspect pointed a gun at officers as they arrived with a search warrant. The police chief said the protest near the scene began peacefully.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CHIEF SAM DOTSON, ST. LOUIS POLICE: We cleared the intersection, as I said. It was done peacefully. Officers in regular uniform without shields, without sticks went to the area. We made a couple of arrests at that point and peace was restored. Officers left the area and as soon as we left the group came back in the intersection and began to march. It wasn't until later in the evening when they marched through the central west end along kings highway that they took over the intersection as officers approached that time is when glass bottles and bricks were thrown at the police officers so they had to block them with the shields they had.

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BARNETT: Now, we had an image to show you reveals police and firefighters at a burning building in the area. There will be increased police presence at the scene. It is the middle of the night. So we will keep our eyes on this part of the world and keep you posted on any developments.

Now, a wildfire in the U.S. city of Twist. This is in Washington State that has killed three firefighters and injured four others. Authorities have now evacuated that town and nearby Winthrop, 4,000 homes in total. The number of wildfires are raging across central Washington and indeed the region. More than a thousand people have left nearby Chelan county as this wildfire destroys their homes.

Let's get a glance at the weather situation ahead for the region because it's not just Washington State. It is really all the northwestern United States.

Pedram Javaheri joins us with more on that.

[01:10:43] PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And this is such a disheartening story. I grew up in this part of the United States, Winthrop, Twist, I have been there. Chelan, I spent a lot of time in this region. And I was there a month ago and the fires that are you are speaking about right now, they are still burning the same exact fires were occurring a month ago. So it shows you 25, 30 days in to some of these fires and they are still not fully contained because Mother Nature always has the upper hand. If it going to be very windy, sort of very hot. It is almost impossible to try to contain these fires because they keep jumping the line and going to downstream and creating other fires.

So that's the concern. As you take a look at this, the forecast changes dramatically in the coming couple of days. Left corner of the screen is an area of high pressure. Right corner there that is an area of low pressure. The difference is the area massive here cause wind speeds to pick up.

Frontal feature here is cruises by Montana. Temperatures cool off drastically. But unfortunately, the winds pick up dramatically as well. So the temperatures in the 70s the next couple of days in and around Seattle. Work toward eastern Washington. That means that 80s until that lower 90s. But unfortunately, notice what happens on Saturday for a lot of this region, temperatures shoot up above average territory which is in the upper 70s for western Washington. But the fire threat, red flag warn wing, winds 30 to 50 mile an hour gusts possible with these cooler temperatures. So I think really not going to help much as far as the wind picking up the speed we are expecting. Notice with the yellow coloration there, showing 30 to 40 mile an hour winds for the next 24 to 48 hours.

That's the big story here. The humidity will go up a little bit and that's the good news. You see a close to 90 percent at times around Seattle and Portland also picking up a little bit. But of course, the fires are all across some of the areas farther to the east. But the forecast just does not improve. The next five days bone-dry conditions. The heart of the western side of the U.S. remaining that way. Might be some showers for far northern Washington state, but the area in the most severe drought will remain that way looks like for the foreseeable future.

BARNETT: Now, there is that massive El Nino. People (INAUDIBLE) later this year. Maybe more moisture.

JAVAHERI: Maybe more moisture for southern California. Unfortunately, for the northwest that typically doesn't bring more moisture but we will see how it plays out.

BARNETT: All right, Pedram, thanks very much. See you again next hour.

Now we want to get you to Egypt where powerful car bomb exploded a few hours ago outside of the country's capital of Cairo. That massive explosion happened near a security building and a courthouse. This is (INAUDIBLE). Egyptian interior officials say the driver parked the vehicle in front of the building, then was picked up by someone on a motorcycle before fleeing the scene. Six police officers are wounded in the blast that are being treated right now at a local hospital. Last hour, I spoke with (INAUDIBLE), reporter for the "Times of London" who was jolted awake by the force of the blast.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's an enormous explosion that was heard across the capital several kilometers away from the actual blast site shaking people awake and smashing windows and damaging residential buildings near the actual bomb blast which then (INAUDIBLE), which is an area that is about ten kilometers north of the center of the capital in front of the security directors building and the nearby courthouse.

BARNETT: Now, this has just happened in the past few hours. We don't have a claim of responsibility just yet. And we are looking at footage of the devastation as it comes in to us. But what we can obviously see here is that this is an attack on the Egyptian security apparatus. Just detail for us some of the other recent attacks against the military and against the police there in Egypt.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, what we have seen really the last two years since the military overthrow of Muslim brotherhood president Mohammad Morsi has been a massive escalation in attacks on the police and the military by hardline militant groups and by the military back governments said a crackdown on infamous organizations in support of Mr. Morsi. Most recently one of the most high- profile assassination of the state official, the killing of the prosecuting general (INAUDIBLE) in Cairo in June. We have also had massive attacks on check points and buildings in the rest of Sanai Peninsula which for a lot of these jihadi groups are anchored.

Just in July, they started to attack foreigners as well with the bomb blasts against Italian consulates in Cairo. And most recently Islamic state affiliates have claimed responsibility to the alleged beheading of (INAUDIBLE), who was abducted a few months ago but was apparently killed just last week.

So what we are seeing is that, you know, target campaign against the government and now even foreigners.

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[01:15:29] BARNETT: Now, security forces have cordoned off the area around the blast zone. They continue to investigate. When we get new information we will, of course, bring that to you.

Now, the Thai police chief tells Reuters that at least ten people now were involved in Monday's Bangkok bombing. That's new information we received in the past hour or so. And they say that attack had been planned for at least a month. Prior to that announcement, police were only looking for three suspects. Thai police are asking for Interpol's help in the case.

Our Andrew Stevens joins us now live from Bangkok with more on this.

And Andrew, that new information there, the scope of this investigation now widening.

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. It widens and it widens. At the moment, the actual footage, the CCTV footage that I have been looking just has two suspects as well as the bomber himself. But the police are saying they are looking more and more across this as a network, a big network.

Now, they are also as well as saying that they are talking to and be helped and checking CCTV records at the airport to see whether the bomber who they say or the suspect who they say is very sure is the bomber has actually left the country. So that's where they are at the moment.

So the investigation is in full swing at the moment down here at, you probably recognized by now. This is the Erawan shrine. And all morning people have been coming in to pay their respects to both of the shrine and offer their condolences to what happened here just three days ago. You'll see that these crowds of incense burning everywhere. The have to so much incense they have come around and are clearing it.

BARNETT: All right. That was our Andrew Stevens in Bangkok. Unfortunately, we lost the signal. But as he was saying to us last hour, people are coming out to the Erawan shrine just after midday there now. People are showing resilience. But there's not much new information other than has been a widened investigation in to who was behind that bombing.

Now he gained fame by losing weight on a diet of subway sandwiches. Eventually becoming a poster boy for the fast food chain. Now he's admitting he paid for sex with under aged girl. A plea deal and his punishment coming up.

Also, adulteries exposed. Hackers revealed the identity of millions of married people using the dating web site, Ashley Madison. We'll be right back.

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[01:21:58] BARNETT: Welcome back. Former subway spokesman Jared Fogle will spend between five and 12 1/2 years in prison on charges of child pornography and crossing state lines to pay to have sex with minors. Court documents reveal a long and sorted history of behavior involving more than a dozen victims, hidden cameras and possession of child pornography.

Randi Kaye reports.

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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Jared Fogle moments after agreeing to plead guilty to child pornography charges.

JOSH MINKLER, U.S. ATTORNEY: Jared Fogle has been charged and admitted to participating in five year criminal scheme to exploit children.

KAYE: Children as young as six years old, 14 victims in all.

Beginning around 2010, authorities say Fogle traveled to New York City to pay minors for sex. The feds say he paid a 17-year-old girl to have sex with him at the plaza hotel, then offered her a finder's fee to find her another young girl, stating the younger the girl, the better.

The indictment says Fogle convinced that same girl to send three nude images of herself to his email account. Later paying again her to have sex at the Ritz in Manhattan. Authorities say the girl had also told them she had sex with Fogle three times when she was just 16.

MINKLER: This is about using wealth, status and secrecy to illegally exploit children.

KAYE: Investigators began taking a closer look at Fogle when Russell Taylor, the executive director of the Jared foundation was arrested on federal child porn charges. Authorities say Fogle received images and videos from Taylor of partially clothed minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

Investigating this case was no small task. It included search warrants for 16 smartphones, five tablets, six laptops, six hard drives and five cameras including hidden cameras, flash drives, ten memory cards, 46 CDs and 22 DVDs. Investigators looked at nearly 160,000 text messages, more than 47,000 images and more than 3300 videos.

As part of his plea deal, Fogle will go to prison for anywhere from five to 12 1/2 years. He's promised to pay restitution, $100,000 to each victim to cover counseling.

JEREMY MARGOLIS, JARED FOGLE'S ATTORNEY: He knows the restitution can't undo the damage he has done but he will do all in his power to try to make it right.

KAYE: A stunning fall for someone the world came to love as the subway guy.

JARED FOGLE, SUSPECT: Hi. I'm Jared the subway guy.

KAYE: Before Subway, Fogle was an overweight college student.

FOGLE: The straw that broke the Camel's back for me is getting on the scale can and seeing I weighed 425 pounds.

KAYE: Jared dropped weight once he found subway's low-fat menu. A friend wrote about Jared's diet in the campus newspaper. Then Men's health magazine picked it up. Jared got a call from subway shortly after that and by 2000 he was the face of their campaign.

[01:25:12] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is Jared. He weighed 425 pounds. Inspired by subway's low fat sandwiches.

KAYE: Jared claimed to lose 245 pounds in one year.

FOGLE: This is what I used to wear, 60 inches.

KAYE: Jared Fogle made millions as the subway guy. Money he will now use to defend himself and pay his victims.

Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.

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BARNETT: All right. Time is up. That's the message from hackers who followed through on their threat to release a whole lot of daters from cheaters dating Web site Ashley Madison. Searchable databases of names, emails and, yes, sexual preferences of millions of customers have now made their way to mainstream websites. For instance, CNN found nearly 7,000 addresses linked to the Canadian and American governments. The website's owner now says the FBI is investigating this data breach.

Next Donald Trump's interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo. Hear how the presidential candidate says he is learning about U.S. military strategy. His answer will surely surprise you.

And the U.S. government is supposed to depend its nuclear deal with Iran yet again. We'll tell you why after this. Stay with CNN.

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[01:29:52] BARNETT: You are watching with CNN NEWSROOM. Thanks so much for staying with me. I'm Errol Barnett.

Here are updates to our top stories right now.

Nine protesters are under arrest and there is an increased police presence in St. Louis, Missouri after a fatal police shootings.

[01:30:00] Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of demonstrators. Police say protesters threw bricks at officers, a car was set on fire, and businesses were broke into, as well.

A powerful car bomb has exploded in a Cairo suburb wounding six police officers. The blast happened near a national security building and a courthouse. Egyptian officials say just before the exPLOsion the driver of the vehicle jumped out and was picked up by someone on a motorcycle.

The Thai police chief tells Reuters at least 10 people were involved in Monday's Bangkok bombing. The attack has been planned for at least a month, as well. Prior to that announcement, police were looking for three suspects. Police are asking for Interpol's help in the case. 20 were killed and 120 wounded in Monday's bombing.

Six points, that's the number now separating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the race for U.S. president. A new CNN/ORC poll puts the Democratic front runner at 51 percent, the Republican real estate mogul 45 percent. Last month, Clinton was ahead by 16 points.

Now to more of CNN's Chris Cuomo interview with Donald Trump.

The U.S. Republican presidential candidate used their discussion to clarify his earlier remarks that he gets military analysis from watching television. Listen.

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CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR, NEW DAY: So you said something earlier about the poll that you came out ahead on ISIS. That was a surprise to people. What are the reasons --

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DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Not to me because I talk about it a lot.

CUOMO: I understand. One reason it might be surprising is something that you said, that you get a lot of military analysis from watching television.

TRUMP: See, I watch your show. I watch other shows. You have on the best generals --

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CUOMO: We do. The best staff.

TRUMP: Probably better than I could get. In all fairness, what do I know? I'm a man that's made a great fortune and I'm going to make the country rich and great. But get me the right general and I will see four, five, generals, I'll see all sorts of people, stoop down to the colonel stuff, but you have a lot of people, and so do other shows, and they are really good people. I watch that, and I read the "Times," "Wall Street Journal" and lots of other things.

CUOMO: But you need a team.

TRUMP: And I read magazines, especially "Time" magazine, this week, because I'm on the cover.

(LAUGHTER)

But I read magazines. I read other things. Yeah, sure, I need a team. By the time you get to a problem -- we're talking a long ways away -- it will be changed. You will have a different set of -- different countries will be run by different people.

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CUOMO: You will have someone like your opponent Jeb Bush who says, I have a policy team, a staff, he doesn't have one.

TRUMP: He says he does. OK. He can say -- he is a very low energy person, Jeb Bush. He has low energy. It is OK, if you want to lead a long life. He is low energy person. Perhaps he sits down all day with a particular general. But I can get a lot of information in a short time. I have met with numerous people. I was given the biggest award by the Marines the other day, just about one of the biggest civilian awards by the Marines the other day. I was with all the Marines. I was with the new head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He's an impressive guy. At the Waldorf Astoria the other night, I was given one of their most distinguished awards, which was a great honor for me.

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CUOMO: You are saying they respect you?

TRUMP: I think they do. Well, I got the award from them. They presented it to me. So I think they do. But when I say that a lot of people thought it was very smart. I watch all of the shows. You get the best people. Because even the generals want to be on television, right? Or they are retired generals in many cases, but I see a lot of good things by watching your show and other shows. It's really nothing to be laughed or scoffed at.

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CUOMO: If you took it to the next level you would have your own policy advisers. TRUMP: You know what I do, without naming names but when I watch your

different shows -- your show, in particular, you are very much in to this. But when I watch the different shows, there are certain people I think are terrific that I can do better by watching and seeing and reading in the "Time," and then I know who I maybe want to speak to more. You are not going to meet with 400 different people. I do learn a lot by watching and I do learn a lot by reading the various newspapers and magazines and everything else. I really find it to be a fascinating subject. Some people agree with me on ISIS. Many of them agree with me on ISIS.

CUOMO: Probably reflected in the poll.

Today, what do you think your chances of becoming president of the United States are?

TRUMP: I never like to talk about chances. I'm doing well. I'm leading every poll. Your polls have been strong. FOX just came out a couple of days ago, it was similar to your poll. Leading everything. I was most happy with your poll because my daughter, Ivanka, came up to me and my wife came up to me, Melania, and she knows how passionate I am about women, protecting women and taking care -- I cherish women. They are so important. And when I watched Jeb Bush a week ago not wanting to fund the women's health issues, and he wanted to not fund them, he said, well, I don't think we need to spend 500 million. I don't think they need that -- well, I thought it was terrible.

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[01:35:24] CUOMO: He said he only meant Planned Parenthood.

TRUMP: I watched him make the statement, and then he went back and he was rewound up by his pollsters and he said, oh, you made a mistake, so then he said he misspoke. But how do you misspeak about something like that? My wife and daughter, Ivanka, who you know, came up to me and they said, you know, the one thing you should do is talk about women's health issues because you are so good on it, you know about it, and you cherish women, you want to protect women. And protect them in more than one way. I will protect them militarily, too, because we are such a target. This country is such a target. We are considered to be weak. We are a weak country. We are considered to be weak now. And I will protect women more than anybody.

CUOMO: You don't think we are considered the strongest country in the world militarily?

TRUMP: I think we are considered to be a country in decline, serious decline. Look at our education. We're number 25 in the world. We spend far more than anybody else per student.

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BARNETT: Our Chris Cuomo with Donald Trump. Now, international viewers can catch the full interview when we air it a few hours from now. It will be 7:00 p.m. if you are watching in Hong Kong, noon in London. And CNN USA, you will see it all over new day in a few hours. Now to this, a Palestinian prisoner's two-month-long hunger strike is

over. Israel's Supreme Court suspended the administrative detention of Mohammed Allaan. His detention has sparked protests nearly every day outside his hospital as well as in Jerusalem and the West Bank as well as Gaza.

Oren Liebermann reports on a case that raised questions about two of Israel's controversial policies.

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OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Palestinian lawyer, Mohammed Allaan, is no longer a detainee after Israel's high court ordered the detention is, quote, "no longer operative." That doesn't mean he is leaving the hospital yet. The court ruled he should stay in the emergency ward of the hospital where he is treated because of his medical condition after a two-month hunger strike. Doctors worry he may have suffered permanent damage. His condition was deteriorating Wednesday evening so doctors decided to sedate him. He is now in stable condition.

So Allaan isn't free yet. He is ordered to stay in the hospital. The court says his family can visit without restrictions as a regular patient.

Allaan's administrative detention began in November of last year. Israel accused him of terrorist activities and being a member of Islamic jihad. His lawyer and family deny those accusations.

Because of his hunger strike, Allaan went from unknown a few weeks ago to a name that everyone here now knows, Israelis and Palestinians. This hunger strike put a spotlight on Israel's administrative detention law that allows Israel to hold someone without charge or trial for six-month periods. It brought attention to Israel's controversial new force feeding law passed last month, though it wasn't used in this case. In the end, the court ordered the end of Allaan's administrative detention on the 65th day of his hunger strike.

Oren Liebermann, CNN, Jerusalem.

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BARNETT: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is opening up about his cancer diagnosis. The 90-year-old Democrat will hold a news conference in the coming days to discuss his health in detail. It will be the first time Carter has spoken about it since he announced last week that the cancer had spread in his body. Carter has a family history of pancreatic cancer. His father, brother and two sisters died from the disease, and his mother died from breast cancer.

The U.S. State Department is once again defending the nuclear deal the U.S. and five other nations reached with Iran. The latest push-back follows a report by the Associated Press that says the U.N. will let Iran use its own inspectors to investigate, allegedly, nuclear sites. Earlier this month, satellite imagery showed that Iran moved heavy construction equipment to the suspected site.

Here's how the U.S. State Department responded to the report.

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JOHN KIRBY, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: There's not a secret side deal, as it's often been called. The IAEA routinely has confidential arrangements with countries in question that they are going to inspect, as they have set up with Iran. I would tell you two things, one, we are confident -- and we have made it clear in classified briefings to members of Congress. We are confident in the IAEA's ability to address the concerns, to investigate, technically, the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program in the past. And more importantly, the IAEA is comfortable with the arrangements they set. Going forward, the IAEA has in place the most robust set of inspection regime that has been peacefully negotiated with another nation. So I won't talk about the details of these leaked documents or draft documents from the IAEA but we are comfortable, Secretary Kerry is comfortable that the IAEA will have this access and information it needs to make a proper accounting of possible military dimensions for Iran's program.

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[01:40:30] BARNETT: There's also this dimension of play. As the U.S. Congress reviews the nuclear deal, officials say they are concerned that Russia is ready to sell a sophisticated missile defense system to Iran. The S-300 air defense system, for example, would make it more difficult for U.S. or Israeli warplanes to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. An attack would warn Iranians if another attack could be on the way.

Coming up, risking it all for a better life. We take you on one group's journey as they flee violence in their home country. Stay with us.

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BARNETT: The United Nations' top humanitarian official is calling air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen unacceptable, saying they could leave desperate people without access to critical aid.

Stephen O'Brien visited Yemen last week to see firsthand the humanitarian impact of the civil war that erupted there in March.

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STEPHEN O'BRIEN, U.N. UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS: I was shocked by what I saw. The civilian population is bearing the brunt of the conflict. A shocking four out of five Yemenis require humanitarian assistance and the 1.5 million people are displaced. More than 1,000 children have been killed or injured. And the number of young people recruited or used as fighters is increasing.

(END VIDEO CLIP) [01:45:05] BARNETT: On Tuesday, Saudi warplanes struck. They hit a building used by the Ministry of Education trade union. According to UNICEF, 13 teachers and four children were killed, and some of the kids were playing outside when that bomb exploded.

In a few hours, European officials are meeting to discuss the fight against human smuggling. They'll first meet with police at the channel tunnel in France and hold a round table on France and Britain's role in the effort to end illegal immigration. A cruise ship carrying hundreds of migrants is headed to mainland Greece from the island of Kos. They are expected to head further in to Europe.

The journey for people fleeing Syria often begins in Turkey. It's not a far trip but it is a challenging and dangerous one.

CNN's international correspondent, Arwa Damon, follows one group desperate to find a new home.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A rubber dingy packed with migrants takes on the Coast Guard, ignoring the Coast Guard's warning, glaring spotlight and orders to return to shore. Then, lost from view.

Just before dawn, we are on the same waters.

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DAMON (on camera): (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

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DAMON: That's the boat we were filming.

(voice-over): The Turkish Coast Guard asks our captain for help, towing the migrants to shore. They are Syrians, shouting they don't have a motor anymore and want to return to dry land.

"Help us, help us," the men cry out as our captain tosses a rope. The Coast Guard had chased them for two hours and finally, the migrants say, threatened to sink their boat if they did not drop their motor. Then the Coast Guard towed the dingy as close to shore as their ship would allow.

60 migrants crammed together, clutching their life vests and inner tubes, their faces telling of tragedy and dejection, but also the relief of still being alive when so many have perished.

On shore, most disappear in to waiting taxis. One young man bitterly says, "If death wasn't chasing us, we would not be trying this."

All night they had been aiming for the twinkling lights of the Greek's of Kos in the distance, their gateway to Europe, now a dream left for another day.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Turkey.

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BARNETT: The disgraced Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, who was in jail for the murder of girlfriend, has had his parole delayed. We will explain after this short break.

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[01:51:54] BARNETT: Oscar Pistorius will remain in jail now, his parole, which had been set for Friday, is on hold. South Africa's justice minister ordered it to be reviewed, saying the decision for his release came too early. Pistorius served 10 months for the homicide in the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Her family paid tribute to her on Wednesday, marking what would have been her 32nd birthday.

Not much is known about Pistorius' time in jail but our David McKenzie spoke exclusive to prison inspectors who described how the man known once as Blade Runner has been behaving.

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DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A pre soccer matchup of Oscar Pistorius and a Czech mob boss. They shared a prison wing for a time. This cell phone footage, a rare look inside of Pistorius' 10 months locked away until now.

UNIDENTIFIED INDEPENDENT PRISON INSPECTOR: It feels unbelievable.

MCKENZIE: Their job is to listen to prisoner concerns. They talk to more than 40 a day. One of their assigned inmates, Oscar Pistorius.

VIOLET NGOBENI, INDEPENDENT PRISON INSPECTOR: First time I went to see him, he said, I won't want to talk to anyone.

MCKENZIE (on camera): Just a few days ago, they went behind the prison walls to meet with Pistorius for the final time. They say his demeanor has changed.

NGOBENI: Now we can sit down and discuss and laugh at the same time.

MCKENZIE: Their manager, at the Independent Judicial Inspectorate, sees hundreds of prisoner complaints each day. He saw more than a few from Pistorius.

MURASIET MENTOOR, JUDICIAL INSPECTORATE FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICES: He complained about bath.

MCKENZIE (on camera): He wanted a bath.

MENTOOR: Yeah. So the services provided him with a bath. And he couldn't shower. He also had a complaint about his bed.

MCKENZIE (voice-over): A world class athlete, Pistorius complained about gym equipment, too. It was installed. And while most prisoners complain about the food, it is rarely because of fear.

MENTOOR: Oscar was worried the food in the prison might be poisoned.

MCKENZIE: So Pistorius would only buy food from the prison store, he says.

In this overcrowded prison, 50 inmates often squeeze in to a single cell, sharing one toilet and a basin.

NGOBENI: Always fighting. Always fighting for food, for bath.

MCKENZIE: But Pistorius had his own cell for his safety because high- profile prisoners have been attacked here before.

MENTOOR: If you are a high-profile inmate, people will take advantage of the situation.

MCKENZIE (on camera): They will target you?

MENTOOR: They will target you, that's correct.

MCKENZIE (voice-over): Taking every precaution to keep South Africa's disgraced icon safe.

David McKenzie, CNN, South Africa.

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BARNETT: Now to Japan where there was a spectacular night-time rocket launch to the international space station. Check it out.

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NASA ANNOUNCER: Four, three, two, one, engines igniting, the solid rocket boosters, and liftoff.

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[01:55:07] BARNETT: There we go. Four solid rocket boosters fired perfectly propelling the rocket over southern Japan. Minutes later, it released a cargo transport vehicle expected to rendezvous with the ISS on Monday. This ship is carrying food and supplies, including parts for a water recycling system. They were originally supposed to arrive aboard the Falcon Nine rocket back in June but that exploded after launch.

Thank you for watching, everyone. Hope I didn't scare you away.

I'm Errol Barnett. Rosemary Church is joining me for the next hour of CNN NEWSROOM to get the viewers back. So please do stay with us.

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Thailand is asking Interpol to help the find the individuals they believe were behind the deadly Bangkok bombing.

Plus --

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police are driving down the street shooting tear gas where children are.

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BARNETT: Police in St. Louis fire tear gas at crowds protesting the shooting death of an 18-year-old man.

[02:00:01] CHURCH: And Trump versus Bush. The two top presidential candidates hold dueling rallies in the key state of New Hampshire.

BARNETT: Hello, everyone. A big welcome to our viewers in the states and tuned in from all around the world.