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Trump says decision on Chicago coming in the "next day or two"
President Donald Trump said Sunday that a decision on a crackdown on crime in Chicago will come in the “next day or two.”
“Chicago is a very dangerous place, and we have a governor that doesn’t care about crime. I guess we could solve Chicago very quickly, but we’re going to make a decision as to where we go over the next day or two,” he told reporters after arriving back in Washington.
He went on to tout reduced crime in Washington, DC, after the federal law enforcement takeover in the district, saying, “When you look at what happened to DC in a short period of time, honestly, it’s amazing. Over a period of 12 days. In other words, on the 12th day, we had the crime just about solved.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed in recent days that there is no crime in DC since his crackdown. As CNN has fact-checked, crime is down since Trump took over the city’s police force and deployed the National Guard last month, but it does continue to exist.
Trump has been threatening for weeks to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and he posted a meme on social media Saturday saying that the city “will find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
In recent days, personnel from Immigration and Border Protection as well as Customs and Border Protection have begun trickling into the city, White House officials told CNN. The Trump administration has also reserved the right to call in the National Guard if there is a reaction to the operation that warrants it, the officials said.
Trump calls for foreign experts to train US workers after Georgia raid
President Donald Trump on Sunday addressed the fallout of a massive immigration raid in Georgia that left hundreds of South Korean workers detained, saying that his administration has to “work something out” to bring in foreign experts to train American workers.
“We’re going to look at that whole situation,” Trump told reporters. “We do have to work something out where we bring in experts so that our people can be trained, so that they can do it themselves.”
Officials detained roughly 300 South Korean workers in the raid at the Hyundai Metaplant in Georgia last week. A South Korean official said Sunday that they would be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight following negotiations.
When asked whether the raid has strained the relationship between South Korea and the United States, Trump touted a trade deal with the country his administration announced last month.
“We have a great relationship with South Korea. Really good relationship, you know, we just made a trade deal,” he said. When asked about plans to travel to South Korea and Japan this fall, Trump said, “something very interesting could come of that.”
CNN reported Saturday that Trump and his top advisers are quietly preparing to travel to South Korea in October for the gathering of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministers. It’s unclear whether the president may add other stops on the trip.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social shortly after his remarks to reporters Sunday evening, encouraged foreign companies “to LEGALLY bring your very smart people, with great technical talent, to build World Class products, and we will make it quickly and legally possible for you to do so.”
Trump says he will speak to Putin "very soon"
President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday that he will speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin “very soon.”
“Very soon. Over the next couple of days. Look, we’re going to get it done. The Russia-Ukraine situation. We’re going to get it done,” the president said.
Russia launched its largest aerial assault of the Ukraine war overnight into Sunday, deploying more than 800 drones and striking a government building in Kyiv for the first time.
“I am not thrilled with what’s happening there,” the president said of Russia’s attacks. “I believe we’re going to get it settled. But I am not happy with them. I’m not happy with anything having to do with that war.”
The president also appeared to indicate that some European leaders will visit the White House early this week.
“Certain European leaders are coming over to our country on Monday or Tuesday and individually, and I think we’re going to get that settled,” the president told reporters after stepping off Air Force One.
The president’s comments come after he signaled to reporters earlier Sunday that his administration is ready to move to the second phase of sanctions against Russia.
Trump: "We're going to have a deal on Gaza very soon"
President Donald Trump said Sunday that he thinks “we’re going to have a deal on Gaza very soon.”
“I meant to go back and see you in the plane, but some things came up having to do with Hamas, etc., and we’re working on a solution that maybe could be very good,” Trump told reporters after arriving back in Washington from attending the US Open in New York.
When asked for more details, Trump said, “You’ll be hearing about it very soon. We’re trying to get it ended, get the hostages back.” He added that “we had some very good discussions.”
Trump said he was confident the remaining Israeli hostages being held in Gaza, and the bodies of those who died, will be released.
“It could be a little bit less than 20 because some, you know, they tend to die, right? They tend to die even though they’re young people, largely they’re dying. … But with this whole thing, they tend to die. But we have, let’s say, 20 people and we have about 38 bodies,” he said.
Ceasefire principles: CNN reported earlier Sunday that the US put forward new Mideast ceasefire principles that call for the immediate release of all hostages and the start of negotiations for a comprehensive end to the war, according to two Israeli officials familiar with the discussions.
The principles were conveyed to Hamas, the officials said. Hamas on Sunday confirmed it had received through mediators “some ideas” from the US administration, aimed at reaching a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal with Israel.
“Everyone wants the Hostages HOME. Everyone wants this War to end!” Trump posted on social media earlier Sunday. “The Israelis have accepted my Terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well.” Trump said this would be his “last warning.”
Trump departs US Open after signing hats, talking to aides and applauding champion
President Donald Trump departed Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York just after the championship trophy was given to Spanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz in the US Open men’s final.
As the match concluded, the president signed hats that were thrown in his direction from spectators. He stayed and applauded Alcaraz during the post-game ceremony but departed the stadium soon after.
The president was accompanied by a number of aides as he attended the Open for the first time since 2015. He spent much of the match sitting next to his Middle East envoy and friend Steve Witkoff.
Also sitting in the box with the president were press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Some of the president’s family members also attended, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his granddaughter Arabella Kushner.
Trump says he is issuing his "last warning" to Hamas to accept hostage and ceasefire deal
President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social today that he is issuing his “last warning” to Hamas to accept a hostage and ceasefire deal.
Trump’s comments on social media come just days after he told reporters that the White House is “in very deep negotiations with Hamas” to secure the release of the remaining Israeli hostages and warned of a “tough situation” ahead.
“It’s going to be nasty – that’s my opinion, Israel’s choice, but that’s my opinion,” Trump said. “They gotta let them out.
President Donald Trump arrives at the men's US Open final to boos
President Donald Trump arrived at Arthur Ashe Stadium and was booed by the crowd.
The crowd is still sparse at this point, and there were definitely some cheers, but the overwhelming response to his fist pumps to the crowd were jeers.
Trump stood outside of the suite that’s hosting the US Open trophy and waved to the crowd that’s here, pumping his first a few times before heading back into the suite.
Enhanced security measures for the president’s arrival have resulted in delays in fans entering the stadium and the match’s start has been pushed back 30 minutes.
Democratic lawmaker says Florida surgeon general's defense of vaccine mandate removal is "flat wrong"
Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier of Washington state said today that Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is “flat wrong” after he defended his decision to remove vaccine mandates in the state.
“I think he is flat wrong. Public schools should absolutely require children to be vaccinated,” said Schrier, a former physician, after Ladapo said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that the issue is a matter of parental control over what happens to their children’s bodies.
Florida announced last week that it will be the first state to move to end immunization requirements for everyone, including schoolchildren, that have been in place since the 1980s. The American Medical Association “strongly opposes” this change, a member of the association’s board of trustees told CNN in a statement.
Ladapo claimed his decision was “based on data and common sense,” yet in the interview with CNN, said his state has not done any data analysis on the impact of ending vaccine mandate.
Trump administration launches immigration enforcement surge in Massachusetts
The Trump administration launched a new federal immigration enforcement effort in Massachusetts focused on deporting criminals who entered the country illegally, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The statement blamed Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu for so-called sanctuary city policies that it said “not only attract and harbor criminals but also place these public safety threats above the interests of law-abiding American citizens,” vowing that DHS will arrest criminals released by local authorities.
“Under President Trump and (DHS Secretary Kristi) Noem, nowhere is a safe haven for criminal illegal aliens. If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, we will hunt you down, arrest you, deport you, and you will never return,” the statement continued.
Wu responded with the following statement:
The Justice Department sued Wu earlier this month over Boston’s sanctuary policy, which limits cooperation with federal immigration efforts.
“What we have seen from ICE and from the administration really isn’t about public safety, it’s about political theater. It’s about a political power grab and an attempt to intimidate,” Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said today in an interview with MSNBC.
This post has been updated with comments from Boston’s mayor.
CNN’s Lauren Mascarenhas contributed to this report.
Trump signals he’s ready to move to second phase of sanctions against Russia
President Donald Trump signaled on Sunday that his administration is ready to move to the second phase of sanctions against Russia.
“Are you ready to move to the second phase of sanctions against Russia?” a reporter asked the president as he left the White House to head to the US Open in New York.
“Yeah, I am,” the president responded.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday stressed the importance of ratcheting up pressure on Moscow and on “all countries who trade with Russia.”
“The Russian economy is pressured and all the countries who trade with Russia are pressured, and we will continue with this,” Zelensky said, adding that “secondary sanctions and special trade tariffs” can help.
CNN has previously reported that Trump was growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress on peace and was contemplating how involved he should be in brokering a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian leaders.
Russian attack: Meanwhile, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine said Sunday that Russia is “escalating” following its largest air attack of the war overnight.
Russia launched its largest aerial assault of the Ukraine war overnight into Sunday, deploying more than 800 drones and striking a government building in Kyiv for the first time.
An infant was among at least two people killed in drone strikes on several residential buildings in the capital, Kyiv’s city office said.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth says Trump is "essentially declaring war" on Chicago with meme post
Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois said she hasn’t seen any indication the Trump administration is preparing to imminently send National Guard troops into Chicago, as she accused President Donald Trump of “essentially declaring war on a major city in his own nation.”
Duckworth, a Democrat, told CBS’ “Face the Nation” she was at the Great Lakes naval base, the facility being used as a command center for immigration agents, on Saturday. She said personnel there told her they’ve only been asked to provide “office space for ICE” as Chicago braces for a federal immigration crackdown.
“No barracks, no detention facilities, none of that is being requested or prepared to in order to support troops into Chicago,” Duckworth said today.
She called Trump’s social media post on Saturday saying Chicago will find out why “it’s called the Department of WAR” as “not normal.”
Duckworth said she and her Democratic colleagues in Illinois, Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Brad Schneider, who represents part of the Chicago suburbs, asked the Department of Homeland Security for more information about what they were preparing, but did not hear back.
She added that DHS denied the lawmakers a visit to the base at Great Lakes, and “gave their staff the day off on the day that we went to go look at the facilities and locked the doors and left the base.”
Trump administration moves forward with crime and immigration crackdown. Catch up on the latest
The Trump administration is moving full steam ahead with its crime and immigration efforts, focusing their attention on Chicago.
If you’re just joining, these are the latest headlines:
- Hyundai raid: South Korean workers detained during a massive immigration raid in Georgia Thursday will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight following negotiations, an official announced today.
- Eyes on Chicago: Mexican Independence Day celebrations in Chicago usually draw hundreds of thousands of attendees to more than a week of celebrations across the Windy City that began Saturday. But in response to the anticipated ramp-up of immigration enforcement, streets are quieter as events have been muted.
- Lawsuits: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday against Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu over the city’s so-called sanctuary policy, which limits cooperation with federal immigration efforts. Meanwhile, Washington, DC, officials are suing the Trump administration, accusing the president of violating the Constitution and federal law by sending thousands of National Guard troops into the city without consent from local leaders.
- Cities pushback: Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott pushed back against Trump’s threats to send the National Guard to crack down on crime in the city, telling CNN’s Manu Raju this morning, “We don’t need an occupation.”
Sen. Roger Marshall, a physician, defends RFK Jr. after tense hearing
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, a doctor, defended Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a tense hearing leading to criticism from other Republican senators who are also physicians.
Marshall also sits on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which oversee HHS and worked on Kennedy’s confirmation.
“President Trump chose Robert F Kennedy Jr., to be a disrupter to the CDC, and that’s exactly what he’s doing,” Marshall said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Marshall, who is an OBGYN, also commented on an upcoming report from HHS linking people taking Tylenol during pregnancy to increased autism in children.
Marshall said he recommends patients to not take anything during pregnancy because “we don’t know what we don’t know” and said he wants “gold standard studies to help us figure this out.” He, however, did add “as far as I know, Tylenol is OK in pregnancy.”
“There is no clear evidence that proves a direct relationship between the prudent use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and fetal developmental issues,” Dr. Christopher Zahn, chief of clinical practice for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said in a statement Friday.
"We don’t need an occupation," Baltimore mayor says in pushing back on Trump’s National Guard threat
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott told CNN’s Manu Raju that the city doesn’t need federal troops after former President Donald Trump threatened to send the National Guard. Scott and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore instead announced a surge of state law enforcement to fight crime.
The US CDC "must be protected," World Health Organization says
The World Health Organization made a public show of support for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today, with its leader saying in posts across social media feeds that the American agency’s work is “invaluable and must be protected.”
Florida surgeon general says state hasn't done data analysis on impact of lifting vaccine mandates
Florida’s surgeon general said today his state has not done any data analysis on the impact of ending vaccine mandates and defended the state’s decision to do so, saying,“it’s really about ethics.”
Last week, Florida announced that it will be the first state to seek to remove immunization requirements for everyone, including school children, which have been in place since the 1980s. The American Medical Association “strongly opposes” this change, a member of the Association’s board of trustees told CNN in a statement.
Florida, like all US states, grants exemptions from immunizations for medical and religious reasons. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around about 5% of kindergartners in the state were exempt from at least one vaccine last year — higher than the national average. The vast majority of these children were exempt for non-medical reasons.
Pressed about whether the state had commissioned any medical research to back this move, the surgeon general responded, “The way you’re portraying it is nonsense.”
Additionally, the surgeon general pointed to other countries without vaccine mandates, such as the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden, saying, “The sky isn’t falling over there.”
If SCOTUS rules against Trump's tariff policy, the US will issue a refund on "about half" them, Bessent says
Meanwhile, the Treasury Department will issue rebates if the Supreme Court upholds a ruling that President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs were an overstep of power, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today.
A federal appeals court ruled on August 29 that Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs were among the imposed duties that breach the president’s authority, saying that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize the emergency tariffs Trump imposed earlier this year.
The fresh slate of the Trump administration’s so-called “reciprocal” tariffs, which went into effect in early August, will remain in place after the court delayed implementation of its order until October 14.
The court ruling has put into question the Trump administration’s ability to continue trade negotiations. The Trump administration appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, warning of a “poor nation” without tariffs.
Bessent said he is “confident” the Trump administration will win at the Supreme Court.
Read more on Bessent’s comments.
CNN’s Alicia Wallace contributed to this report.
Border czar defends Trump’s "WAR" post aimed at Chicago
Tom Homan, White House border czar, defended President Donald Trump’s “Chipocalypse Now” social media post from a day earlier, which said Chicago “will find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
Democratic officials in Chicago and Illinois condemned the post Saturday, with Gov. JB Pritzker calling it “not normal.” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and US Rep. Mike Quigley, who represents part of the city, described the post as an example of authoritarianism.
CNN previously reported the Trump administration’s plans to conduct a major immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, and that officials there were bracing for it to begin as early as Friday.
Pressed on whether the administration will send the National Guard in to Chicago this week, Homan told CNN that the option is “always on the table.”
“We used them in Los Angeles, and we use them in Washington, DC. They’re a force multiplier,” he said.
Asked how many National Guard troops would be in Chicago, Homan declined to respond, saying that it was “law enforcement sensitive information.”
Asked whether there will be any action in Chicago this week, Homan responded “absolutely,” adding, “you can expect action in most sanctuary cities across the country.”
Hyundai immigration raid: He was also asked by CNN whether there will be more extensive immigration raids, like the one at a Hyundai manufacturing plant in Georgia that led to 475 arrests.
“The short answer is, yes, we’re going to do more worksite enforcement operations,” Homan said.
Trump’s former surgeon general calls for RFK Jr. to be fired
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr defended his leadership earlier in an interview on “Fox and Friends,” as we just reported.
Jerome Adams, who served as US surgeon general during President Donald Trump’s first administration, called for Kennedy to be fired as controversy continues to swirl over his handling of vaccine approvals.
When asked by CNN’s Victor Blackwell yesterday if Trump should remove Kennedy, Adams said, “I absolutely believe that he should for the sake of the nation and the sake of his legacy.”
Adams’ comments came after a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill last week, where Kennedy was grilled by both Democrats and Republicans about his views on vaccines and the recent exodus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including the resignation of its director, over tighter vaccine policies Kennedy was pushing.
“I’m deeply concerned about the health and safety of our nation under RFK’s current leadership,” Adams told Blackwell, later adding: “I absolutely believe he is uniquely damaging the credibility of federal agencies like the CDC, (National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration) and he’s putting us at risk.”
Read here for more on the RFK Jr. hearing and Adams’ remarks.
CNN’s Adam Cancryn contributed to this report.
