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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Zero tolerance for criminal aliens. Zero. Zero.

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: Donald Trump makes his long awaited speech on immigration after a hasty visit with the President of Mexico. But the weighty matter of a wall cast a shadow over both events.

No reprieve for Dilma Rousseff. Brazil's Senate votes overwhelmingly to impeach the former president.

Plus, history in the skies as the U.S. and Cuba are connected by the first commercial flight between them in more than 80 years.

Hello, everyone. A warm welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church at CNN headquarters in Atlanta. And this is CNN Newsroom.

U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump has tried to put to rest any idea he's softening his stance on illegal immigration. He met with Mexico's President on Wednesday just hours before laying out a hard line 10-point policy.

Trump says the U.S. has the right to choose immigrants who are good for the country and will get rid of those who are not.

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TRUMP: Zero tolerance for illegal immigrants, zero, zero. Zero.

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They don't come in here. They don't come in here. According to federal data, there are at least two million, two million, think of it, criminal aliens now inside our country. Two million people, criminal aliens. (CROWD BOOING)

We will begin moving them out, day one, as soon as I take office, day one.

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In joint operation with local, state and federal law enforcement. We will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall.

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CHURCH: Those tough words seemed at odds with Trump's approach earlier in Mexico City. He told reporters there that he and President Enrique Pena Nieto did not go into details on the controversial wall.

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TRUMP: We did discuss the wall. We didn't discuss payment of the wall. That will be for a later date. This was a very preliminary meeting. I think it was an excellent meeting. And we are -- I think we're very well on our way. A lot of the things I said are very strong. But we have to be strong. We say what's happening. There is crime, as you know.

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CHURCH: The Mexican President later tweeted he told Trump early in their conversation that his country has no intention of paying for the wall. Then in a TV interview Wednesday night, Mr. Pena Nieto said some of Trump's policies are a threat to Mexico. Again, a slightly different tone from earlier in the day.

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ENRIQUE PENA NIETO, MEXICAN PRESIDENT (TRANSLATED): Mexican people have been hurt by the comments that have been made. But I am sure that his genuine interest is to build a relationship that will give both of our societies a better welfare.

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CHURCH: You've seen both sides of Trump's tone, but no matter how you look at it, Wednesday was a big day for the presidential hopeful.

Sara Murray has more now from the campaign trail.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: Anyone who thought Donald Trump was softening on his immigration policy certainly got their answer as he campaigned Wednesday in Phoenix, Arizona. Now earlier in the day, he took a jaunt in Mexico for a cordial meeting with the Mexican president. But by the time he got to Arizona, he was ready to serve up some red

meat for his republican base. He's also adding 5,000 new border patrol agents, for tripling the number of ICE deportation officers. And as for those 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., he said they are not his main priority, that that's border security.

But instead when it comes to them, if they ever hope to have a legal status, they first would have to leave the country, return to their home countries and apply to the proper channel. Now we saw many sides of Donald Trump on Wednesday, on Thursday, he's back on the campaign trail in the pivotal battleground State of Ohio. We'll see if he continues to talk to his republican base or if he aims to expand it.

Sara Murray, CNN, Phoenix, Arizona.

[03:05:01] CHURCH: Hillary Clinton pounced on Trump's last minute trip to Mexico sending out a tweet saying this. "Trump just failed his first foreign test. Diplomacy isn't as easy as it looks."

In Ohio, the democratic presidential candidate had more to say at the American legion convention.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. And it certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again. That is not how it works.

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CHURCH: Joining me now to talk more about Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix and his earlier meeting with Mexico's president is Gabriel Guerra, a Mexico City based communications expert, and John Philips, a Trump supporter and talk radio host out of L.A.

Thank you, gentlemen, for being with us. Gabriel Guerra, let's start with the immigration speech where Donald Trump said he will build a wall along the southern border and Mexico will pay for it. Your reaction to that given Trump says he didn't even discuss the issue of the wall with Mexico's President and who would pay for it.

GABRIEL GUERRA, COMMUNICATIONS EXPERT: Well, Rosemary, thanks for having me on first of all. I think everybody was very surprised in Mexico that Mr. Trump was coming here at all, especially on such short notice. And we were all looking forward to the moment where Mr. Nice guy would devout back to his traditional personality.

And I think we saw that very clearly in the space of the two hours today where, you know, he really behave the shape like the perfect guest today during his visit to Los Pinos and to President Pena. He was very courteous. He was very polite. He said all the right things about Mexicans -- Mexican-Americans.

But as was to be expected and as many of us were cynics and pessimists back here in Mexico, which is sort of a national trait, as soon as he got back to his home crowd, he went back to his traditional stump speech, which I guess should be no surprise to anyone. Build the wall, have somebody else pay for it and deport the heck out of undocumented migrants in the U.S.

CHURCH: John Philips, your response to the speech and tell us why you think Trump didn't even discuss the wall and who would pay for it when he met with Mexico's President. A point disputed by the president has to be said. A different versions of the same meeting. What are people supposed to make of these mixed messages from Trump?

JOHN PHILLIPS, KABC TALK RADIO HOST: Well, when you meet with the President of Mexico, you don't want to start negotiating on the first time. I mean, you go there, it's a meet and greet, you say hello. You get to know each other. And I thought it worked out very well for Trump.

It showed to people that he can meet with foreign leaders. He -- I guess the bar was set so low by his critics that the fact that he went there and was able to do it and not drop the "f" bomb, everyone is saying it's a huge success.

But look, this I think is causing a lot f people in the United States who had been less than receptive to Trump to look at him in a different way. We now see him on stage with world leaders. We saw him in that diplomatic sort of role. And I think that that's going to be a net positive.

The Mexican president said Trump is a guy I can work with. They found common ground on any number of issues, immigration, trade, those sorts of things. So, for him to, for him to do that I think shows a different side of Trump that we haven't seen before.

And we've seen in recent polls Trump is starting to bounce back. There's a Fox News poll out today showing Trump only down by two points. I think this will continue that momentum.

CHURCH: But no sooner have the meeting ended you had two different versions of it. And one we hear from saying there was no discussion of the matter. And then we heard from Mexico's president saying "I said from the start that Mexico wouldn't be paying for this wall." How is that presidential? A lot of people are saying somebody lied here.

PHILLIPS: No, I don't think he lied. I think that the Mexican president brought it up at the beginning of the meeting. Trump never really responded to it or negotiated it, so it was brought up but it wasn't discussed. So, I guess it depends on what your definition of discuss is. And it certainly something that he didn't back away from the speech in Phoenix, he gave a tough speech that was enforcement first.

CHURCH: And Gabriel Guerra, of course a lot of people also asking why would the Mexican president even invite Trump to talk with him? That wouldn't have done him any good. He's already suffering as far as the polls go in his own country. A lot of people despise Trump in Mexico. [03:10:03] So, why would you invite Trump and really come out of it with very little. And now of course, we hear in the speech that the wall is still on and Mexico is paying for it.

GUERRA: And not only that, but we heard tonight, Rosemary, probably one of the most emotional and I might say the most vindictive tones that Trump has ever used when referring to undocumented migrants, and especially at the end with the lineup of parents who have lost a loved one to illegal immigrants.

That is clearly playing to emotions. I was grinning a moment ago because John had brought to my memory two famous faces. One by former U.S. president saying about Mr. Putin that he could work with that man, and the other one is about passing the definition of -- I think it was another former president who said that depends on what your definition of east is.

And in this case, it is the definition of discussion. It's really not well, I think, at least not in Mexico, who pays for the wall because, obviously, if this were to happen, which I presume I think it would be a mistake, and very harmful to both countries.

Look, this is, if it were to happen this would be a piece of public government work on American soil ordered by the Mexican government -- by the American government. I'm sorry. So, I don't really see how payment would even be a topic.

CHURCH: All right. John Philips, last word to you. What was the motivation here for Donald Trump? Was this all about looking presidential and getting a photo opportunity? And overall, give us your assessment of how that immigration speech went over.

PHILLIPS: Well, I think the motivation is the same motivation that any politician running for president has where they haven't been in some sort of position dealing with foreign policy. If you're a vice president you've been dealing with foreign policy. If you're a member of the Senate intelligence committee or foreign affairs committee, you deal with foreign policy.

If you're a governor or a businessman and you come from outside that world, that's one of the hurdles that you have to leap over. And that was the motivation I think that Trump had for going down there. I think it was a hugely missed opportunity for Hillary Clinton, by the way not to go down there.

Invitations were sent to both of them. I think everyone expected Trump to say no and Hillary to say yes. As it turned out, the opposite occurred. And Trump went down there and I think overall, it's a very good day for him.

CHURCH: I guess the polls would tell us very soon. Talking there with John Phillips and Gabriel Guerra. Thank you, gentlemen for talking with us. I appreciate it.

PHILLIPS: Thank you. CHURCH: And as John Phillips mentioned in that interview, a new Fox News poll shows Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump evaporating. The survey shows Clinton with 41 percent to Trump's 39 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson polls in 9 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein gets 4 percent. In a head to head matchup, Clinton leads Trump by six points.

We'll take a short break here, but still to come, France's burkini battle isn't going away. Several mayors are refusing to obey a ban on the swimwear despite a court ruling ordering them to do so.

And it was once a transit point for ISIS fighters. What one Syrian town looks like now. We're back in a moment.

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KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley with your CNN World Sport headlines.

Transfer deadline day is now over with the window shut for the next few months. As always, many of the big deals were involving clubs in the English Premier League. Perhaps the most hair rising involves Chelsea re-signing there former defender David Luiz.

The Brazilian center moved back to Stamford Bridge from Paris St- Germain for a fee of around $40 million. He'll be joined in West London by left-back Marcos Alonso from Fiorentina for a reported $30 million.

Well, Chelsea's EPL rivals, Manchester City have been busy, but in the opposite way to the blue as they've been loaning out players for the rest of the season. Wilfried Bony left a Stoke, Simon Nasri goes to Sevilla,Eliaquim Mangala to Valencia, and Joe Hart to Torino.

And speaking of loaning out players for the rest of season perhaps the most surprising of the last was Arsenal shipping out midfielder Jack Wilshire to Bournemouth for the rest of the campaign. It's a massive transfer coup for the cherries.

And a spotlight on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick will likely get hotter. The 49ers travel down the California Coast to San Diego on Thursday where the chargers are planning to celebrate their 28th annual salute to the military. At halftime, an active member of the military will perform God Bless America.

And that's a look at all your sports headlines. I'm Kate Riley.

CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.

A U.S. official says Russia's claim that one of its air strikes killed ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani is preposterous. Officials say a drone carried out the attack and the Pentagon is assessing the results of the strike.

The U.S. says al-Adnani coordinated the movement of ISIS fighters and carries lone wolves attacks on civilians and actively recruited new ISIS members.

The Syrian town of Jarablus is now free of ISIS. Syrian rebels captured the town last week with Turkey's backing. The offensive is part of Turkey's incursion into Syria, which is raising U.S. concerns that Ankara will target Kurdish militias, as well. But now there is calm.

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh has this look inside Jarablus.

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We're headed inside yet another new chapter in Syria's endless war. Turkey's officials wants us to see the Syrian rebel control of a Syrian border town of Jarablus that their military enabled. They kick ISIS out of here a week ago and we are the first western TV they'll let in.

ISIS had enough time to remodel the town and their image get into the minds of children, some of whom they tried to recruit as soldiers.

"My neighbor blew himself up in a car," says this boys, Hamza, he says he's 13 and carries water for the rebels. He says some of his friends became suicide bombers for ISIS. "They tortured and beat people, everything here. It was just down there," he says.

He shows us the square where ISIS gruesomely filmed their murders. Some very strange game for these children to play with new commerce. They're showing us exactly where it was that ISIS would display the heads of those they decapitated in punishment.

But, yet, again, another central square in yet another town cleansed of ISIS's dark world. Yet there is another key building here. The recruitment center where they found a torn up ledger of names near the basement jail.

They're showing us further inside this building which is the first point people would have cross in from Turkey to join ISIS would have sought to register with the group.

[03:20:02] No longer here, can ISIS welcome outsiders to their twisted world. But others problems have arisen as these men's fight isn't simply against ISIS. It is also against America's allies against ISIS, the Syrian Kurds, the Turkey consists terrorists.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): We don't want to fight all the Kurds, just the Syrian Kurdish PKK. Just those who want to break up Syria.

WALSH: There is optimism here. Early signs of a new project Turkey has undertaken to flood this area with moderate sympathetic rebels who will then tackle the Kurds but also create a safe zone free of ISIS.

Only the second half of that is what Washington has wanted. To some degree, this is what American policy has yearned for years. Moderate Sunni Arab rebels here, having cleaned the town out of ISIS extremists, now controlling what with many have sought, a kind of buffer zone for Syrians fleeing the regime.

Smiles. Calm. Busy streets. We've seen this before in Syria's intractable war and watched it turn sour again.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Jarablus, Syria.

CHURCH: Mayors in 22 French towns are ignoring a high court ruling to lift the burkini ban.

Erin McLaughlin spoke to one French mayor along with members of the Muslim community about their conflicting definitions of the word "freedom."

ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The glistening beaches of the south of France normally the most desired holiday destinations in Europe, ground zero for the battle over the so-called burkini ban. It's now to the point that Muslim women such as Morgan Galawi say they just don't want to go to the beach.

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MORGAN GALAWI, NICE FRANCE RESIDENT (TRANSLATED): We feel excluded and we have the impression that we aren't at home. I was born in Nice and this should not happen and it's my choice to wear the head scarf.

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MCLAUGHLIN: But many in France disagree with that choice. A recent poll suggest 64 percent are opposed to women wearing burkinis. And so the city of Nice and others banned the swimwear. The ban on one of the towns was soon overturned by France's high court.

But local Mayors such as Marc Etienne-Lansdale vow to keep their bans in place.

On some beaches, a woman caught wearing a burkini is still fined and asked to leave.

Officials say this has to do with concerns over Islamic terrorism. Others say it is Islamophobia.

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MARC ETIENNE-LANSDALE, COGOLIN MAYOR: Stay where you're from. Stay where you were. If you don't want to live the way we do, don't come. You are accepted if we said that in Rome, do like Roman do.

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MCLAUGHLIN: So far, that message has been heard loud and clear. CNN scoured the beaches of the south of France, and not a single burkini to be found.

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ETIENNE-LANSDALE: We are building a county that allows you to be free here. And we don't want people to change this. You're more than welcome if you behave the way we do. This is it. And for the one who don't want that, we will have to take ban laws and everything to make them accept that this is a free country.

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MCLAUGHLIN: But Galawi said her definition of freedom is different.

GALAWI (TRANSLATED): In a democracy, there should be liberty. We should not ban things like this.

MCLAUGHLIN: Even if it is overturned in a local court, Etienne- Lansdale said his ban will continue. He plans to create a new law in its place. He insists there will be no burkinis, even if he has to declare his beaches for nudists only, in this bitter battle of competing values.

Erin McLaughlin, CNN.

CHURCH: All right. Let's turn to the weather now and a hurricane warning has been issued for parts of the Florida Panhandle as Tropical Storm Hermine gathers steam in the Gulf of Mexico.

Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us now with the details on this. So, what's the story, how bad this is going to be?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: So, you said hurricane warning. This is actually the first hurricane warning, Rosie, we've had in the Gulf of Mexico since 2012. So it's been a long time coming. We hope people are not, you know, complacent with the storm coming in across this region. Even though it is very common but it has been a few years.

And it is a sparsely populated area where it's going to make landfall. But there are few areas that we're concerned about. Look at this map, Rosemary. I'm not kidding when I put this up here.

We're talking about seven areas of tropical disturbed weather. Three of which they are named. We have Lester, Madeline near Hawaii, Hermine of course. Gaston now sitting into the Atlantic. So, four names. Tropical Depression Eight, a couple of other areas of interest south of Mexico.

And you show this to me as a meteorologist, if you showed me this anytime of year, I would tell you it's in the first couple of weeks of September and, of course, it's officially September 1st because this is peak season. The summer sun has been baking and warming the water and now all the energies there for the storms to really blast. And Hermine sitting there as a Tropical Storm.

[03:24:59] The forecast indications are this storm system will track to the north already tracking that hurricane warning, Rosie, I told you about.

And notice this, even on the Atlantic Ocean side from Charleston south towards Jacksonville a tropical storm watch should as we think of the storm system not only will cross over to the other base end but also remain a tropical storm as it cross a lower land into the other side of the United States. So that could really produce some flooding concerns upwards of say, 4

to 6 inches which should be north of 150 or so millimeters or rainfall possible across this region.

And just look at the density. Atlanta just gets a drizzle out of this, while place Macon, Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, could get up to 200 millimeters out of this with the storm system.

So, here's what it looks like near the Hawaiian Islands. There's Madeline. It is a Tropical Storm. It will move away from the islands just kind of side swipe and made an indirect landfall there across this region and produce a lot of rainfall.

The concern is for Lester as it sits in place, it was a major hurricane a category 3, this will also weaken. But we think some time Saturday morning into Saturday afternoon, some of those islands across say Maui, into Oahu, Kauai as well could get a very, very heavy rainfall out of this this weekend.

Also watching else. Remember we told you we had four tropical storms and typhoons impact Japan in the last four weeks. This is number five in the works, my friend. We're talking about Namtheun. This particular tropical depression Poised (Ph) have become a tropical storm. It could make landfall in the southern prefectures of Japan late this coming weekend.

And, again, we're going on five consecutive weeks. All of them, Rosemary, have been across northern Japan, north of Tokyo. Now this one comes in south in the southern portion of Japan. An incredible, incredible five weeks in Japan to see five consecutive tropical disturbances. Yes.

CHURCH: Wow. All of that activity, and then of course, all of the activity around the U.S.

JAVAHERI: They are teaming up.

CHURCH: There is a lot happening and you are on top of it. Thank you so much, Pedram. I appreciate it.

JAVAHERI: Thank you. Yes.

CHURCH: All right. Well, let's take a very short break now. Still to come, a short hop across the water between two countries that were, until recently, oceans apart. We will take you on board the first commercial flight from the U.S. to Cuba in five decades.

Plus, highlights of Donald Trump's new immigration proposal and what we're learning after CNN fact checked his arguments. Back in a moment with that.

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CHURCH: A warm welcome back to our viewers all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church here at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.

Time to update you on the stories we've been following this hour.

Donald Trump is talking tough on immigration again after his meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

In Arizona Wednesday night, he said undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. would have to return home and apply for legal re-entry. Trump also promised to triple the number of officers assigned to deportations.

Brazilian police clash with supporters of ousted President Rousseff in Sao Paulo. The Senate impeached her Wednesday convicting her of breaking budget laws.

The interim President Michel Temer has been sworn in to finish Rousseff's term.

Iran just announced that construction will begin on two new nuclear reactors at the Bruce Nuclear Plant. The country's atomic energy chief told state media that Russian contractors will build the new reactors which are expected to cost $10 billion and be completed in 10 years.

Donald Trump's immigration speech Wednesday night focused a lot on his plans for a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico. Trump and Mexico's president don't agree on who should pay for the proposed wall. However, Trump told his supporters that Mexico will come around to his way of thinking.

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TRUMP: On day one, we will again working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall.

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We will use the best technology, including above and below ground sensors, that's the tunnels. Remember that, above and below. Above and below ground sensors -- towers, aerial surveillance and manpower to supplement. Find and dislocate tunnels and keep out criminal cartels and Mexico, you know that, will work with us. I really believe it. Mexico will work with us. I slight absolutely believe it.

And especially after meeting with their wonderful, wonderful president today. I really believe they want to solve this problem along with us and I'm sure they will.

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CHURCH: Critics say Trump's ever changing position on immigration leave voters wondering where he really stands. And the two different Trumps on display Wednesday not likely to help.

Our Gustavo Valdes explains.

GUSTAVO VALDES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Donald Trump we saw finished was a different Trump than the one we saw earlier in the day from Mexico City, whereas earlier in the day, when he met Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Donald Trump seemed calm, he seemed respectful. He read his notes at a tone that shows some respect to the Mexican president, answer questions in a calm matter.

In Phoenix, his passion came through when he talk about immigration. He made a point of showcasing victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants he said that had already been deported but came back to the United States, you know, committed these crimes against these families.

That was the platform from which he started the speech. A very different tone. Again, he took advantage of the invitation, President Pena Nieto made to him and Hillary Clinton. He went to Mexico; he showed one side of perhaps a diplomat Donald Trump.

But when he came back to the United States in front of this cheerful crowd, his passion came through again in an issue that helped him become the republican the candidate to the presidency of the United States.

Gustavo Valdes, CNN, Phoenix.

CHURCH: And while in phoenix, Donald Trump promised to tell the truth about immigration in the United States.

[03:35:01] And as we regularly do CNN fact check team took a closer look at some of his arguments.

Here's our Tom Foreman with that.

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump says among all those people who have come to this country illegally there are a great many dangerous criminals.

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TRUMP: There are at least two million, think of it, two million criminal aliens now inside of our country. We will begin moving them out, day one, as soon as I take office. Day one.

(CROWD CHEERING)

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FOREMAN: That is a whooping number. But analysts say to get to this number of criminals, you have to count every possible in fraction including traffic tickets. Maybe it's more realistic to look at this 1.4 people on the priority for apprehension for more serious crimes or maybe even this number, 690,000, that's how many are believed to be convicted of felonies or serious misdemeanors out there. Still a big number but only about a third of what Trump has named here.

Nonetheless, he says he wants to have a special task force to go after these people. The search is scooping them up. The problem is, it really exists. It was started last year. The priority enforcement program began and it is has been aggressively trying to track down the worst criminals out there. It's a tough job. Maybe he can make it more effective, maybe he will add more officers as he says, and maybe he will start on day one as promised. We don't know until he does it so we will say that claim is true, but this is such a big problem. It is misleading to say he'll produce any results in any short order.

Now, Trump also went after Hillary Clinton over some of the things that she said about immigration.

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TRUMP: Her plan will provide ObamaCare, social security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants. Breaking the federal budget.

(CROWD BOOING)

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FOREMAN: Hillary Clinton does want to let people who are here in an undocumented status buying into ObamaCare. She says I will keep them into emergency rooms that will spread out the risk full, these things that makes physical sense. Social security and Medicare, they might wind up in that under her plan to make them gradually transition into being full citizens of the country.

But no ad hoc program is planned this way under Clinton, at least not that we know of. So the first part of this claim, yes, that's true. The second part is false. You can find out a whole more with that all of this by going to our website, cnn.com/realitycheck.

CHURCH: Tom Foreman reporting there.

Well, Hillary Clinton's campaign slammed Trump's speech as hateful and filled with anti-immigrant rhetoric. But she's also got other things to worry about right now. The FBI is getting ready to release its report on her e-mail use.

And here is senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns with that.

JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Hillary Clinton dismissing Donald Trump's meeting with the President of Mexico.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And it certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a hours and then flying home again. That is not how it works.

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JOHNS: Clinton's remarks today comes after she spent much of the last week focusing on fundraising and debate preparations.

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CLINTON: The stakes this fall are as high as any election in our lifetimes.

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JOHNS: But Trump was her focused today. In a speech to the American legion in Cincinnati.

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CLINTON: You don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon.

(CROWD CHEERING)

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JOHNS: The democratic nominee hammered her rival on veteran's issue calling out Trump for insulting the Khan and Senator John McCain.

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CLINTON: I will never, ever disrespect Gold Star families who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. Or prisoners of war who endured so much in our name.

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To insult them is just so wrong. And it says a lot about the person doing the insulting.

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JOHNS: Meanwhile, team Clinton is braising for the FBI's public release of its report investigating Clinton's use of a private e-mail server as more uncovered e-mails are making headlines and giving Trump fresh lines of attacks.

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TRUMP: Hillary Clinton said under oath that she turned over all of her work-related e-mails. But we now know that is just one more Clinton lie.

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JOHNS: The State Department announcing Tuesday it may have uncovered additional e-mails related to the Benghazi attack. The 30 e-mails in question could include duplicates and are now being examined.

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TRUMP: These were e-mails about Benghazi.

(CROWD BOOING)

It just never ends with the Clintons.

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[03:40:01] JOHNS: Amid the ongoing questions about Clinton's e-mail practices during her time as Secretary of State, a new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows her unpopularity reaching an all-time high in that survey. Among registered voters 59 percent say they have an unfavorable view of Clinton while 60 percent say the same about Trump.

Joe Johns, CNN, Washington.

CHURCH: Let's take a short break here. Still to come, Brazil's Senate pushes the country's first female president out of office while her supporters say it is a power grab.

Plus, welcome to Cuba. U.S. Airlines chart a course for the island nation, but beware, some restrictions still apply.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Well, competing demonstrations in Brazil after the Senate voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. Some are calling for new President Michel Temer to be removed. Others celebrated Ms. Rousseff's downfall chanting "good-bye, darling."

Shasta Darlington looks at what's next for Brazil.

SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The rupture is now complete. Dilma Rousseff impeached by the Senate accused of doctoring the budget to hide the sourly state of the economy. Brazil's first female president defiant to the last.

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DILMA ROUSSEFF, IMPEACHED BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT (TRANSLATED): This is the second coup that I have confronted in my life. The first, the military coup supported by the arms of repression and torture when I was young militant. The second, the parliamentary coup today, a judicial first that removes me from the post I was elected to.

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DARLINGTON: Bringing an end to 13 years of Workers' Party governments that started like this, but in Rousseff's second term looks more like this.

[03:45:02] Sworn in in a hasty ceremony, her former vice president, now political foe, Michel Temer. Then rushing to catch a plane to China for the G20 meeting.

Temer assumed the post on an interim basis in May, appointing the first all-male Cabinet since the 1970s.

Markets have rallied with the investors hopeful the more conservative Temer will use his ally here in the Senate and in Congress to pass austerity measures. I'm talking about pension reform and easing labor laws.

Also expect privatizations and the sales of concessions for infrastructure projects as he tackles a 2-year-old recession.

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PAULO KRAMER, UNIVERSITYOF BRASILIA POLITICAL ANALYST: He has to be quick because the window of opportunity, the so-called honeymoon, will be very, very short. If it's to exist at all.

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DARLINGTON: But Temer may be dogged by the massive corruption investigation known as Lava Jato or car wash, which has engulfed several politicians across the political spectrum.

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CRISTOVAM BUARQUE, BRAZILIAN SENATOR: Lava Jato can comprehend (Ph) those, if that will happen, we will have to start again an impeachment.

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DARLINGTON: And expect plenty of political jockeying ahead of the 2018 elections. Rousseff's predecessor, mentor and two-time President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva still leads the polls, but federal police have now recommended he be charged in the corruption probe.

Temer, down in the polls, he's already barred from running after violating campaign spending laws. But still posing for the pictures here with Olympic athletes, trying to win over Brazilian hearts and minds.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Brasilia.

CHURCH: For the first time in more than half a century, a U.S. commercial flight has landed in Cuba. JetBlue flight 387 took off Wednesday from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara in Cuba. Very soon, eight other airlines will be operating up to 110 daily flights between the two countries.

Rene Marsh reports.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Once again, flight 387 service to Santa Clara, Cuba.

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RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: It was a flight unlike any other. Celebrations and raw emotion on board. Passenger Lisette Gonzalez has not visited her family in Cuba for 16 years.

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MARSH: Why was it so important for you to be on this first flight?

LISETTE GONZALEZ, ONBOARD TO CUBA: It's emotional to me because I've been battling cancer for about a year and a half now. And I'm still getting treatments monthly. And -- but I'm healthy enough to go on this, such a special flight.

MARSH: After one hour, the flight from Fort Lauderdale touched down in Santa Clara. Several people lined up along the tarmac to welcome the first U.S. commercial flight to land in the country in more than 50 years. Cuban-American pilot Francisco Barreras was at the controls.

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FRANCISCO BARRERAS, JETBLUE PILOT: My dad was on that, on one of those last flights. I don't know which one it was. But it was August of '61; '61 was when the flights ended. That's pretty close to the end, so he had been one of the last fights. And me doing this for a flight in, it's full circle.

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MARSH: But back in the U.S., there are some concerns about Cuban airport security.

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JOHN KATKO, U.S. REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN: An Australia continuing safety and security of our nation's aviation system.

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MARSH: Republican Congressman John Katko says the country is not equipped to prevent terrorists from targeting U.S.-bound planes.

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KATKO: TSA has not come anywhere close to doing a thorough security assessment of the airports in Cuba.

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MARSH: TSA has inspected security procedures for 8 of the 10 Cuban airports approved for direct flights to the U.S. But airport screening will be up to the workers hired by the Cuban government.

We're here at Santa Clara airport in Cuba and we just went through security. You can see the metal detectors behind me. They also have wands to physically wand down passengers if they need to. They have conveyer belts where they screen individuals' luggage, as well.

On this day, the focus for those on board JetBlue flight 387 was history.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a huge milestone to now make commercial service available to the American public.

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MARSH: On Wednesday, the Department of Transportation announced even more flights between the United States and Cuba. Several airlines received final approval for direct flights from various U.S. cities to Havana, the most ought to off destination on the island.

But it is important to remember, you cannot simply travel to Cuba just for tourism. You have to fall into one of those 12 categories, things like visiting family or for educational purposes.

Reporting from Santa Clara, Cuba, Renee Marsh, CNN.

CHURCH: Twitter wars erupted when Donald Trump met the Mexican president. The online fallout from a controversial visit, that's still to come. Do stay with us.

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DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Latest information from the National Hurricane Center on Tropical Storm Hermine, rotating about the Gulf of Mexico, it has intensified current sustained winds, 95 kilometers per hour. And it is forecast to reach hurricane strength before making landfall on Thursday across the Florida Panhandle.

In fact, we have our first hurricane warnings across the Gulf Coast States since 2012 throughout this region. They are along the Florida Panhandle. But what's also interesting to note is that tropical storm watches and warnings extend inland all the way into South Central Georgia and the coast of South Carolina, believe it or not.

Here is the forecast path going forward by a day and a half out. We will see winds of 110 kilometers per hour sustained. And then as the storm system moves along the East Coast of the United States, we'll monitor it very closely as it heads through the mid-Atlantic through the New England coastline.

Significant amount of precipitation associated with this localized flooding, storm surge certainly a possibility as we work away along the Gulf Coast. Tornados, heavy rain and lightning the possibility in those areas that we've highlighted in yellow.

We're watching two tropical systems across the Pacific Ocean threatening Hawaii. Tropical Storm Madeline, and also hurricane Lester. We still have tropical storm warnings and hurricane warnings for the Big Island.

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CHURCH: When Donald Trump met Wednesday with the Mexican president, the republican candidate for the White House spoke in what some are calling a presidential tone. But that didn't stop critics of the Donald from launch some pointed attacks on Twitter.

Here is Jeanne Moos with that. JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump and the President of

Mexico were diplomatic.

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TRUMP: I called you a friend.

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MOOS: But this hash tag wasn't. Hash tag Trumps Mexico trip sayings. Saying like "please, don't let him back in our country till he gives us his taxes." Or this one from director Rob Reiner, "Clearly we're not sending our best to Mexico. We're sending liars. We're sending narcissists. We're sending sociopaths."

A send up of the Donald's own words.

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TRUMP: When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.

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MOOS: There are gifts of an immigrant cleaning woman canning Trump and the Donald brick lying. Now they're going to want to build the wall to keep me out me out.

[03:55:02] It was the favorite topic.

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TRUMP: Powerful wall.

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MOOS: No, I said I would build a mall, read one tweet. "Please pick a color for your side of the wall. By the way, you're paying for the paint, also."

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TRUMP: Who's going to pay for the wall?

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MOOS: That's not what Mexico's former President Vicente Fox says.

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VICENTE FOX, FORMER MEXICAN PRESIDENT: I'm not going to pay for that (muted) wall.

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MOOS: Tell Mr. Fox his "f" bomb missed its target. Tweeted a Trump supporter. "Think I can't get Mexico to fund the wall? Well, I got the media to fund my campaign."

The hash tag attracted random images. Like the sign advertising "Mexican food so good Donald Trump wants to build a wall around it."

Cartoonist Ed Hall drew two Mexican wall builders gazing at Trump's plane saying "We're going to need to make this wall extra tall."

Mexico's president met Trump for about an hour. Oh, to be a fly on the wall at that meeting. Actually, there was once a fly on the Donald as he talked about the wall.

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TRUMP: We're going to have the wall -- we're going to have the wall.

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MOOS: Even a wall wouldn't stop this fly from crossing the Donald's hairline.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

CHURCH: And thanks for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. You can connect with me anytime on Twitter @rosemarycnn. I love to hear from you.

Stay tuned now for more news with Max Foster in London. Have yourself a great day.

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