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[08:00:00] KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to News Stream.

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LU STOUT: A deadline for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to resign passes and the long-time ruler continues to defy expectations and hand on

to power.

Argentina steps up in search for a missing submarine, lost since Wednesday with 44 on board. And a CNN Freedom Project investigation into a little-

known form of trafficking, parents tricked into sending their children to orphanages in Haiti.

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LU STOUT: There is still no word from Robert Mugabe and whether he will resign as Zimbabwe's president but the pressure is mounting. Hundreds of

students are gathered at the University of Zimbabwe, calling for Mr. Mugabe's exit.

The said party had given him 24 hours to quit. That deadline has now passed. Just a day ago, the president indicated that he was going nowhere.

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ROBERT MUGABE, PRESIDENT OF ZIMBABWE: I as the president of Zimbabwe and as the commander-in-chief do acknowledge the issue that have drawn my

attention to and do believe that has underscored beneath trust to collectivity -- collectively start processes that return our nation to

normalcy.

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LU STOUT: Let's get the latest to our David McKenzie who is in the capital in Harare. And, David, we have been reporting that Mugabe had agreed to

the terms of his resignation. The deadline to announce that passed hours ago. What's going on?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well what we know is from a source that he had agreed to the terms, including immunity for himself and his wife,

Grace Mugabe -- now that is what our source very close to the negotiations said.

But now we're in a situation that the deadline imposed by the ruling party has passed and they said they will start the process of impeaching Robert

Mugabe because he has not yet resigned.

He had that bizarre statement on -- speech on national television that the entire Zimbabwe I'm sure was trying watch and watching, and in that, he did

not resign. And he did say though that what has happened from what he called the command center, the commander control, meaning the military.

He said that it had been constitutional which is a very important fact because it appears that the generals are trying to negotiate with Robert

Mugabe to continue this venire of a peaceful or if not peaceful, a smooth transition that is under the Zimbabwean constitution.

For the very beginning they've been pay to say that this is not a coup despite the fact that the military is still on the ground. They are

calling the shots and everyone waiting to see whether Robert Mugabe will resign or he will be pushed out by the ruling party in the coming days.

So, must people believe, it's a question of not if, but when. But certainly it appears that every time it seems like Mugabe will exit the

stage, he somehow finds a way to dig in. Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes, but the pressure, as you point out, is certainly mounting on Robert Mugabe. We have also seen those massive street rallies demanding

Mr. Mugabe to resign. I mean how much support does he have left?

MCKENZIE: Very little. And I don't think anyone would really be willing to publicly show their support right now, given the fact that the military

is in charge. And you did see tens of thousands at the very least screaming onto the capital here and other cities and towns in Zimbabwe.

We were out with the crowds, none of them wanting president Mugabe to stay and you really have this moment with -- even if some people are somewhat

uncomfortable with the military being in charge.

All of them gathered together there peacefully at times, fist bumping, high fiving the military and saying that it's time for Robert Mugabe to leave

now. This country is suffering through an economic crisis and the president in that rambling speech did allude to that.

[08:05:00] But I think very few people in Zimbabwe think that Robert Mugabe is the man to fix that situation. So the first step, says Zimbabweans is

for him to leave. The next step will be trying to figure out the economic mess this country is in. Kristie.

LU STOUT: David McKenzie reporting live from the capital Zimbabwe, thank you, David. Now the man replacing Robert Mugabe is head of the Zanu-PF

Party was once his top ally.

And Mr. Mnangagwa was his vice president until Mr. Mugabe sacked him earlier this month. Now the island has this look at the man who could be

Zimbabwe's next leader.

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NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: It's the end of an era in Zimbabwe. The country's ruling party sacked its long-time president and replaces him with

what used to be his right-hand man. His name, Emmerson Mnangagwa, AKA, The Crocodile, a nickname he earned for his tough political game.

The 75-year-old politician has been for years thought to be biding his time, ready to take over for the world's oldest leader. He was a strong

following among the country's elite and was a key strategist for Mugabe in past elections.

But earlier this month Mugabe accused his closest aide of disloyalty, a move some considered to be a plan for his wife, Grace, to succeed his

presidency.

Instead, it set the stage for a historical political shake-up. The military stepped in placing Mugabe under house arrest. The ruling Zanu-PF

party demanded for his resignation, calling for Mnangagwa to take over.

But some say the man poised to take Zimbabwe into its new future is a shrewd reminder of its past. Mnangagwa has been part of Zimbabwe's

authoritarian regime for almost three decades.

He's implicated in a massacre of thousands of Zimbabwe civilians in the mid '80s and was described in the late 2000 by a U.S. diplomat stationed in

Harare as a, quote, widely feared and potentially even more repressive leader than Mugabe. Now with the military in control, the former vice

president is well placed to claim Zimbabwe's tough job.

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LU STOUT: CNN's Natalie Allen there. Now Emmerson Mnangagwa has not appeared publicly since he was fired by President Mugabe some two weeks

ago.

Now the U.S. president is lashing out on Twitter yet again. Donald Trump said that he should have left three UCLA basketball players in a Chinese

jail. The three players were arrecst on suspicion of shop lifting while the team was in China last week.

Mr. Trump is apparently upset because one of the players' fathers does not appear sufficiently grateful. LiAngelo Ball thanked President Trump for

helping to secure their release but his father, Lavar Ball, downplayed Trump's role in comments that he made to ESPN.

Now meanwhile President Trump also took to Twitter to blast Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake. Flake was caught on a hot mike saying,

quote, if the Republican Party becomes the party of Roy Moore and Donald Trump, we are toast, unquote. Mr. Trump called the senator Flakey and said

the only thing that is toast is Flake's political career.

Now the lawyer for President Trump's son-in-law, the White House senior adviser, accuses Senate investigators of playing games and his client is a

hero for saying that there should not be any contact with foreign officials.

This comes after the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Jared Kushner saying he failed to hand over key documents involving the

campaign's contacts with Russia.

Our U.S. justice correspondent Evan Perez joins us with the latest from Washington. Evan, thank you so much for joining us. The U.S. Senate panel

-- they say that Jared Kushner did not disclose key documents. But what is Kushner's attorney telling you?

EVAN PEREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's right. We've seen this before. When it comes to contacts involving Russians during the 2016

campaign, Jared Kushner has been forgetful.

He's been slow to acknowledge over the last few months from his failure to list the Russian contacts in his security clearance application earlier

this year to this past week when the Senate Judiciary Committee sent him a bipartisan and public letter, saying he hadn't turned over documents that

the committee knew existed.

The documents we're talking about include Kushner's communications with the fired national security adviser Michael Flynn, Kushner's security clearance

forms, campaign contacts with WikiLeaks.

And there is this curious Russian backdoor proposal to connect Russian President Vladimir Putin with the campaign, an idea that Kushner actually

rejected. But in an interview with me, Abbe Lowell Kushner's attorney, pushes back against those accusations. Take a listen.

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ABBE LOWELL, JARED KUSHNER'S ATTORNEY: In my communications with the Senate Judiciary Committee, I said take these documents and let's talk

about what else is relevant.

They jumped the gun to make the media this. And any perception that Mr. Kushner has been anything but not only cooperative, but if you look at the

contents of these e-mails, he is the hero.

He's the one who is saying there shouldn't be any contacts with foreign officials or foreign entities -- that's what the Senate Judiciary Committee

should pay attention to and not create some sort of partisan got you game.

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[08:10:00] PEREZ: So the bottom-line here is of Kushner not promising to do an interview with this Senate Judiciary Committee, the documents in

dispute, while many of these were turned over by other witnesses which is how the committee actually knows that they exist. Kristie.

LU STOUT: And, Evan, what about the criminal investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, is Jared Kushner cooperating with that one?

PEREZ: Right, that's the bigger, frankly more important investigation. Kushner -- you know, that's the one that he has to keep in mind. The

criminal investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Now these same documents of Kushner to have turned over to Congress are those that he provided to Mueller's investigators. Kushner is representing

this by the way so that they are cooperating, they voluntary turned over these documents without even being asked.

And right now we know that Mueller is going through the list of White House officials who are coming in for interviews and Jared Kushner is going to be

one of those.

LU STOUT: All right, Evan Perez, reporting live for us from Washington, thank you. You're watching News Stream. And just ahead, a race against

the clock as crews search for a submarine that's missing for days. Forty- four crew members are on board. We've got the latest on the search, next.

Also ahead, CNN's Freedom Project goes to Haiti to expose human trafficking in orphanages -- the story of one 12-year-old boy and his incredible story

of survival.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, welcome back. You are watching News Stream. Now the Argentine Navy says a search team is

tripling its efforts to find a missing submarine with 44 crew members on board.

Planes and ships for seven countries are scouring the southern Atlantic for the ARA San Juan. It was last spotted on Wednesday. And on Saturday the

submarine may have attempted to make contact using an emergency beacon or satellite communications.

But authorities now say that there is no clear evidence that detected signals were actually from the missing sub. Now CNN's Patrick Oppmann is

following this investigation and he joins us from Havana, Cuba. And, Patrick, I mean there are raising fears and concerns about the fate of the

44 crew members on board the submarine. What's the latest on the search?

PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. Now it's day five since the ARA San Juan disappeared. And of course, with each hour that goes by

the search becomes more frantic because it is a race against time.

The Argentine Navy, as you said -- said they are tripling the number of assets they have out there, everything from planes overhead that have

specialized submarine tachyon equipment to ships that have sonar that are retracing the path of this missing submarine. And so far the weather has

not cooperated very much, very strong winds and high seas.

[08:15:00] And no signs yet of this missing submarine. Over the weekend, they did have what they thought was a break in the search and rescue

operation that the seven calls -- initially thought had come from the submarine.

And they thought would allow them to track down the last location of the submarine, allow them to hone in and narrow down the search. But then late

last night, the disappointing news that the -- apparently that the satellite telephone equipment on board the submarine was not used.

So, they are frantically searching. They do believe that the submarine crew at the moment has enough air, enough food and water to last days more.

But it is a race against time and still no sign of the submarine, day five, Kristie. So, hope is still high that the submarine will be find -- found

but it is a race against time.

LU STOUT: Yes, it is a race against time and this has turned into an immense international effort to find the lost vehicle and the crew on

board. Give us an idea of all the assets involved in the search.

OPPMANN: Well, you have planes from the NASA Space Agency that have capabilities of finding submarines. Of course, they're looking for

something that is designed not to be found. You have boats that have sonar equipment.

And then the United States has sent specialized rescue equipment, so as soon as this submarine is found, if it is on the ocean floor, that they

would have submersible -- submersible vehicles that would be able to go down. It had been very short order to begin pulling the sailors out.

But they have to find the submarine first. And the protocol here is if the submarine has any kind of problem, that it is supposed to go to the surface

immediately. There it can replenish its air and, of course, it will be more visible.

But the Argentine Navy says they've searched most of the search area and have come up with nothing. So, at least at this point, no indications that

it is on the surface of the water. They continue to search and say they will not give up until they find the crew and the missing submarine.

LU STOUT: Yes, and may there be a break through in the underwater search and may it be fast. Patrick Oppmann, reporting live for us from Havana,

thank you so much and take care.

Alabama's three largest newspapers are coming out against Senate candidate Roy Moore, editorials in all three papers on Sunday said this, quote, stand

for decency, reject Roy Moore.

So far President Trump has not commented publicly on the sexual abuse allegations against the Alabama Republican. But the White House

legislative director said the administration is uncomfortable with Moore's denial so far.

Now Moore has repeatedly denied the allegations. Kaitlan Collins is in Gadsden, Alabama with the very latest. Kaitlan, thank you for joining us.

These are disturbing allegations against Roy Moore and yet he refuses to stand down. How is he defending himself?

KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Roy Moore is denying these across the board and you're right, he is refusing to drop out of this race

despite several calls for him to do so. And in fact, this morning we heard from the first woman who started all of this.

Leigh Corfman said she was only 14-years-old when she was sitting with her mother out of court room here in Gadsden where Roy Moore is from, when she

was approached by Moore, who was then in his 30's.

Now he offered to watch Leigh as her mother went into the courtroom for a custody hearing, and she said he tried to seduce her. Listen to what she

had to say this morning.

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LEIGH CORFMAN, ACCUSED ROY MOORE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT: On the second occasion that I went with him, he basically laid out some blankets on the floor of

his living room and proceeded to seduce me, I guess you would say.

And during the course of that, he removed my clothing, he left the room and came back in wearing his white underwear. And he touched me over my

clothing, what was left of it. And he tried to get me to touch him as well.

And at that point, I pulled back and said that I was not comfortable. And I got dressed. And he took me home but I was a 14-year-old child, trying

to play in an adult's world and he was 32-years-old.

It took years for me to regain a sense of confidence in myself. And I felt guilty. And I felt like I was the one that was to blame. And it was

decades before I was able to let that go.

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COLLINS: Now Moore has said these accusations are part of a conspiracy with the media and Republican establishment. But Corfman said this morning

she was not paid to make these accusations against Moore.

And that she has voted Republican for several years, but she felt she needed to come out with these accusations at this time because it was

personal.

[08:20:00] And Alabama Governor Kay Ivey despite calls to move this election said the special election will still happen in Alabama on December

12th. And that she intends to vote for the Republican nominee.

LU STOUT: And, Kaitlan, you know, every woman who steps forward and who hear these accusations, so disturbing, so vivid and yet President Trump has

yet to publicly comment. There have been some comments from the Trump White House but is it an adequate response?

COLLINS: Well, there has not been -- they've not called for him to drop out. They put out a statement during the one when he was in his trip to

Asia saying that if these allegations prove to be true, then they believe Roy Moore should step aside.

But the White House hasn't said what proof they need to show that these accusations are true. Now we have heard from several members of the White

House saying this, but we have not heard from the president directly on this which is odd because this is a race he's been very invested in.

He came down and campaigned during the Republican primary between candidate Luther Strange and Roy Moore. And he said that if Luther Strange lost to

Moore, that he would then put his support behind Moore and he tweeted, congratulating him on his win and telling him to win here in December

against the Democrat, Doug Jones but nothing from him on this accusations.

However we have heard from him in regard to those accusations against Democratic Senator Al Franken, but nothing so far on the Republican front.

And surely, a lot of voters in Alabama are waiting to see what the president has to say about this because this is a state where he won

overwhelmingly and his opinion truly does matter here, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Absolutely. Kaitlan Collins, thank you so much for your reporting. Kaitlan reporting live from Gadsden, Alabama. Now Jeffrey

Tambour is the latest Hollywood actor to be accused of sexual harassment.

According to the website Deadline, two of Tambour's transgender colleagues have come forward with allegations. The Transparent star has denied all

accusations and signaled that he may not return to the show for his golden globe winning role. Reports say Amazon has opened a formal investigation

into the accusations.

All this week, CNN's Freedom Project is shedding light on modern day slavery in Haiti, most notably, underreported and widespread form of human

trafficking. Children being sent to orphanages where they often suffer horrible abuse. Michael Holmes says one child's story of survival.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Twelve-year-old Sondy celebrates every day of his freedom. He is a survivor of a little-known form of human

trafficking that is widespread in Haiti, trafficking to orphanages.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through a translator): When I was in the orphanage, the man beat us, my hands were swollen, he says. I didn't like it there at

all.

HOLMES: Sondy's nightmare began in 2010 when his family lost their home in Haiti's devastating earthquake. They were still living in a shelter four

years later when his father died.

His mother says she was left struggling to provide for Sondy and his two younger brothers. That's when a so-called child finder offered free food,

shelter and a better life for her children in an orphanage.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through a translator): I thought it was a good place, she says. He told me, he would put them in school. They were lies.

HOLMES: Sondy and his brothers lived there for two years before it was cited as one of the worst orphanages in the country and shut down by the

government agency thatt oversees Haiti's orphanages.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through a translator): I thought they were living well, she says, yet they were living under horrible conditions.

HOLMES: It is common in Haiti for parents who can't afford to care for their children to place them in institutions. There are an estimate,

30,000 children in orphanages in Haiti and most of them are not actually orphans.

GEORGETTE MULHEIR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LUMOS: More than 80 percent of the children orphanage in Haiti have at least one living parent.

HOLMES: Georgette Mulheir is executive director of Lumos, a nonprofit that works alongside the Haitian government to investigate abuse in the

country's orphanage. She says many of them are trafficking in children.

MULHEIR: Entrepreneurial people have seen an opportunity. They have seen that foreign volunteers and donors love to give to orphanages and lots of

volunteer in orphanages. So they paid people called child finders who go out into the community and essentially put pressure on parents to give them

their children.

HOLMES: The government created an anti-trafficking committee in 2015 to fight human trafficking in Haiti. Committee leaders acknowledge

trafficking to orphanages is a big part of the problem and they rely on support from nonprofits like Lumos. When Sondy's orphanage was shut down

in 2016, Lumos helped reunite the children with their parents.

[08:25:00] A year later, Mulheir went back to visit the site.

MULHEIR: So the first time that we walked into this place last year, it was one of the worst I had ever seen. There were 41 children in here and

not one adult. They were emaciated. Many of them were naked.

HOLMES: Mulheir wanted to make sure it was not back in business. She was surprised to find the owner, (Inaudible) still living on the premises. He

invited CNN's crew in and spoke candidly about the closure of his orphanage. He admitted that he hit the children with a whip. But he says

it was discipline, not abuse.

MULHEIR: This is basically the toilets.

HOLMES: He also agreed the conditions in his orphanage were bad but he blames American donors who came to visit the children and brought small

amount of food and water but didn't offer sustained financial support. He even acknowledged lying to parents that says it was all part of the game.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I give them sweet talk and sweet talk, and OK, (Inaudible), my kids going to school? Yes. My kids -- yes. They lied to

me, too. No father? No. I'm not the mother. Not my kids. They lied to me. I take them.

MULHEIR: I see.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They lied to me, too. I lie to them, too.

MULHEIR: If you lie to parents in order to bring a child into an orphanage, OK, and if you then get some money or help, or goods from

foreigners, OK, according to international law and according to Haitian law, that is trafficking. You have trafficked those children.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I know it's not as you say.

HOLMES: (Inaudible) doesn't see it that way at all and Haiti's anti- trafficking officials say his response is very common.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through a translator): Some people don't even realize that they're committing a crime. So we have a vigorous campaign of

awareness to start to change attitudes.

HOLMES: He says the practice is so normalized often times the traffickers don't know they are traffickers and the victims don't know they're victims.

But Sondy knows that what happened to him was wrong.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through a translator): When I'm with my mom, I have everything, he says. When I was in the orphanage, I didn't have anything.

HOLMES: Today, Sondy is back in school. He dreams of a bright future as a school teacher so he can be a mentor to younger children.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through a translator): I want to be somebody, he says, simply.

HOLMES: And now he has that chance. Michael Holmes, CNN.

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LU STOUT: Imagine experiencing such misery at such a tender young age. Now coming up on Tuesday in our latest CNN Freedom Project series, we're

going to take a look at a pastor in Haiti who is making strides to stop trafficking in the country's orphanages. Just take a look.

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HOLMES: Pastor Reginald Celestin, runs a ministry in a poor community outside Port-au-Prince. He used to support orphanages but today he's on a

mission to close them. It's not been easy.

PASTOR REGINALD CELESTIN, HAITI: You cannot just -- I came from orphanage and bring them back to the parent if you don't provide some sort of

financial support to that parent in order to not send those kids back to another orphanage.

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LU STOUT: And join us on Tuesday to find out what progress the pastor has made reuniting children with their families. It's part of CNN's Freedom

Project series all this week on CNN. Now a political crisis has been gripping Zimbabwe.

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LU STOUT: Calls are growing for President Robert Mugabe to go, but will he? Plus one of the most notorious murder masterminds in history has died.

Look back at how the 1969 killing spree ordered By Charles Manson shook America to its core.

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN NEWS STREAM SHOW HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching "News Stream" and these are your world headlines.

Hundreds of students at University of Zimbabwe were calling fro President Robert Mugabe to resign. A deadline for him to step down passed with no

announcement. He now faces impeachment. Mr. Mugabe has been under pressure to quit since last week's military takeover.

U.S. President Donald Trump is lashing out at the father of a UCLA basketball player, calling him ungrateful. LaVar Ball suggested Mr. Trump

didn't have much to do with the release of his son and two other players after they were arrested in China on suspicion of shoplifting. Mr. Trump

called LaVar Ball ungrateful and said that he should have left the players in jail.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a political crisis. Three Democrats unexpectedly pulled out on negotiations following weeks of talks. And now

the head of the social Democrats said that his party would not be available for coalition either. He also says, quote, "we won't shy away from an

election."

Calls are growing for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to resign, but we haven't heard from him for a day and the deadline for him to step down has

passed. David McKenzie joins us again from the capital of Harare with more. David, again, the deadline has passed for Mugabe to step down. What

happened and what happens next?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: What happened is that he came on state television widely anticipated that he would give that

resignation speech. He did not. Our source telling us that that deal had been made, that it included immunity for the president. But until a letter

is signed and announced by the speaker of the House, this isn't official.

And certainly given the fact that this deadline, that the party imposed on him to resign has come and gone, it raises questions as to whether he, in

fact, has put pen to paper and officially resigned. So, those are the two options for the president at this moment. He is under detention. He will

either have to resign or the party says it will impeach him and throw him out.

I would think that if he resigned, the military rulers or military in charge would potentially give him some sweeteners to do so, but I'm sure

that isn't guaranteed if he has had to be forced out of power by the party. Kristie?

LU STOUT: Got it. David McKenzie reporting live from Harare monitoring the political crisis there. Thank you, David.

Now tuning now to the U.S. where one of the most notorious murder masterminds in the country's history has died. Charles Manson, the wild-

eyed cult leader from the 60s who is serving nine life terms for a killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles.

Stephanie Elam is in Hollywood Hills, California, where some of those gruesome murders took place. She joins us now live. Stephanie, Charles

Manson, I mean, he was this notorious killer. He also had the significant cult following for decades. How did he become such an influential figure

there in America?

STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, Kristie, this is exactly what Charles Manson wanted. The whole point of these murders was to shock the

world, he said. He wanted them to not believe that someone could do anything with such depravity, such gruesomeness, and that's exactly what

happened here in the Hollywood Hills in 1969.

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[08:35:00] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Manson may be the most famous notorious mass murderer ever.

ELAM (voice-over): The summer of '69 was marred by gruesome murders that shook the nation. Five people killed at the home of Hollywood star Sharon

Tate and another couple murdered the following night. Manson was the mastermind behind the brutal killings, the leader of the clan that carried

out the unthinkable. He was convicted of conspiracy and murder in 1971, and infamously went down in history.

CHARLES MANSON, CRIMINAL AND CULT LEADER: I do a lot of things under world that you guys don't see.

ELAM (voice-over): Manson was born in Cincinnati in 1934 to a single teenaged mother.

MANSON: She got out of my life early. I spent the best part of life in boys' schools, prisons, and reform schools because I had nobody.

ELAM (voice-over): After marrying twice and spending half his life in prison, 32-year-old Manson made his way to Berkeley in 1967. He established

himself as a guru in the Summer of Love and was quickly sharing a home with 18 women.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You get these kids, these children coming in to Haight- Ashbury, and here is Charlie Manson, saying how much he loves them and he wants to take care of them. He took full advantage.

ELAM (voice-over): Manson's passion for music translated into an obsession with the Beatles' 1968 song "Helter Skelter."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To Manson it meant that the Beatles wanted to have a worldwide revolution, blacks against whites.

ELAM (voice-over): Aiming to launch the fabricated war, Manson directed his disillusion clan to kill. On August 9th, 1969, four Manson followers

invaded the Hollywood Hills home of actress Sharon Tate, where they massacred five people. The 26-year-old starlet was 8-1/2 months pregnant.

The next night, the clan brutally murdered Los Angeles couple Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. At both homes, they left behind shocking murder scenes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When those words "Helter Skelter" were found printed in blood at the murder scene, that was tantamount to Manson's fingerprints

being found at the murder scene.

ELAM (voice-over): After evidence and the cases mounted in a high-profile trial, Manson and four followers were convicted of nine murders and

sentenced to death in 1971, which was downgraded to life in prison when California banned the death penalty.

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ELAM: And Charles Manson did try to get out of jail but he was denied parole 12 times, Kristie. If you take a look at the families who have been

dealing with this loss of their loved ones so unexpected, so shockingly and so horrifically, the sister of Sharon Tate telling People magazine that she

prayed for his soul, for Charles Manson's soul, when she got word from the prison that he had passed on.

LU STOUT: Yes, incredible (INAUDIBLE), but, you know, on the back of this news about his death, you have to think about the family members of the

victims and how they've been suffering for such a long time. Stephanie Elam reporting live for us from Hollywood Hills, take care.

You're watching "News Stream." Coming up, these photos of the U.S. Treasury Secretary that gone viral, but apparently Steven Mnuchin was surprised that

the photos were made public in the first place.

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[08:40:00] LU STOUT: All right. Broadcasting live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. This is "News Stream."

The U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he wasn't expecting to go viral on social media over this photo. He and his wife in those black

leather gloves, posed next to a sheet of new $1 bills. The notes are the first to feature Mnuchin's signature. The photo took off on social media

where the couple compared the couple to movie villains. Brian Stelter spoke to the AP photographer, Jacquelyn Martin, who took the photo.

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BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Let's take a look at what Steven Mnuchin said about your photos just a little while ago.

STEVEN MNUCHIN, UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: I never thought I would be quoted as looking like villains from the James Bond. I guess I

should take that as a compliment. I didn't realize that the pictures were public and going on the internet and viral.

STELTER: Jacquelyn, how would he not know the pictures were going to be public?

JACQUELYN MARTIN, PHOTOGRAPHER: I don't know, Brian. I'm there as Associated Press photographer and certainly the photos are released on the

AP wire which goes to the entire world. So I'm not really sure how they didn't think that. There was another still photographer and several videos

as well. So I think it was pretty obvious that was a media photo op.

STELTER: When you were there in the moment, did you think this was going to be a viral hit?

MARTIN: Well, I mean, when I got the assignment, it's a pretty routine assignment. Treasury secretary goes to check to see their signature on the

new notes at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It's a pretty standard assignment for D.C. --

STELTER: Right.

MARTIN: -- expected for that thing to happen. I just didn't expect his wife to end up in the photo. What happened actually is the secretary went up

with the treasurer to take a look at the sheets of bills coming off the press. And they took a look and when he he held it up and showed it for a

photo. And then he actually just shared for his wife to come over and join him in the photo, which I was not expecting. But I do have to say I did

think the photo might get more play once she joins him for that photo-op.

STELTER: Trump administration detractors, it shows the billionaires running the government is like this iconic image, that I think will end up in

history books. Must be kind of a good feeling.

MARTIN: I mean, as a photojournalist, we show up and photograph what's in front of us. I mean, it is up to the public to look and interpret that

reality for themselves. So although it is great for the photos to get longevity, it certainly not something I expected to happen.

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LU STOUT: She captured quite a moment. That was our Brian Stelter speaking to the AP photographer Jacquelyn Martin about Mnuchin's viral photo.

And that is "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout. Don't go anywhere. "World Sport" with Alex Thomas is next.

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