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Justice Department Watchdog To Investigate Handling Of Leak Probes; G7 Day Two Agenda: Global Economy, Foreign Policy, Pandemic; Protesters Calling For Stronger Action On Climate Change; "Sedition Hunters" Help FBI Track Wanted Insurrectionists; Vaccines Offered To 18,000 Olympic Workers Next Week; Queen Elizabeth Marks Official Birthday At Summit. Aired 5-6a ET

Aired June 12, 2021 - 05:00   ET

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CYRIL VANIER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): This hour on CNN NEWSROOM, taking on China. President Biden sits down with world leaders for a strategy session aimed at competing with Beijing. Hello, I'm Cyril Vanier, I'm live where the G7 summit is underway.

KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): I'm Kim Brunhuber in Atlanta.

The Justice Department watchdog set to investigate the seizure of the Capitol under the Trump administration.

Plus how amateur online investigators are targeting those involved in the Capitol Hill riot.

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VANIER: It is a beautiful day today here in our little southwestern corner of England in Cornwall. This is the scene today. That is roughly the view the leaders will have this morning waking up. They are down a little bit that way. They will soon resume their work sessions as part of the G7, resuming their face-to-face deliberations today.

It is their first such meeting in two years. The agenda for the second day of this G7 summit focuses on rebuilding the global economy. And Downing Street says the leaders are expected to sign a health declaration that aims to avoid any future pandemic. Here is what Boris Johnson said on Friday.

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BORIS JOHNSON, U.K. PRIME MINISTER: We need to make sure that we learn the lessons from the pandemic. We need to make sure that we don't repeat some of the errors that we doubtless made in the course of the last 18 months or so. And we need to make sure that we now allow our economies to recover.

(END VIDEO CLIP) VANIER: The G7 marks the first time for Joe Biden to be on the global stage as president. If other leaders don't see eye-to-eye with President Biden on everything, they seem to appreciate his presence. Phil Mattingly has those details.

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BORIS JOHNSON, U.K. PRIME MINISTER: Here we go, everybody.

PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the world's most powerful democracies, a show of unity on the world stage.

JOHNSON: It is genuinely wonderful to see everybody in person.

MATTINGLY (voice-over): Smiles and warmth at the start of the G7 summit, a notable departure from the prior four years, driven by one clear difference -- the U.S. president. President Biden for decades a key figure in U.S. foreign policy now leading it himself.

JOHNSON: He's a breath of fresh air. A lot of things they want to do together.

ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (through translator): I am of course happy the American president is present here. Being able to meet Joe Biden is obviously important because he stands for the commitment to multilateralism which we were missing in recent years.

MATTINGLY (voice-over): With a clearly stated goal to leverage the strength of the seven largest economies to face down challenges around the globe and reinvigorate alliances that faced severe tests. From the real time challenge of the pandemic, where Biden's pledge to donate 500 million vaccine doses to low and middle-income countries turned today to a pledge of 1 billion doses from the entire G7...

JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We're going to help lead the world out of this pandemic working alongside our global partners.

MATTINGLY (voice-over): -- to laying out the economic road map for a post-pandemic world, a driving force for Biden's sweeping domestic agenda.

BIDEN: Not just to build back but build back better.

MATTINGLY (voice-over): That all-too familiar phrase echoing across the Atlantic.

JOHNSON: We need to make sure, as we recover, we level up across our societies and we build back better.

MATTINGLY (voice-over): A sign of unity that underscores the embrace of the new U.S. leader, something Biden's top advisors view as a crucial element just days before a critical sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The two now not scheduled to hold a joint conference, officials say, but Biden advisers have been clear, they expect the president to deliver his own clear and firm message.

As to what will that be exactly?

BIDEN: I'll tell you after I deliver it.

MATTINGLY: And obviously despite more meetings with international leaders at least from the West, all eyes are most certainly going to be on Geneva in a couple of days, when President Biden does meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

It's important to know everything's not happening in isolation.

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MATTINGLY (voice-over): The G7 meeting, the U.S.-E.U. meeting, the NATO summit, all of these are very, very consciously planned in advance of that meeting for President Biden to really, at least in the words of his advisers, show the strength of the Western democracies as he heads into that meeting with President Putin.

Now when his officials are clear at this point, they don't expect any major deliverables or outcomes from that meeting with President Putin. You've seen both leaders kind of ramp up the stakes rhetorically over the course of the last several days.

But what White House officials do want, they say it repeatedly, they want some level of stability, some level of predictability.

Essentially, while they're certainly going to raise issues that President Putin won't like and probably vice versa as well, what they most want to come out of the meeting with is some level of understanding about where the relationship is and where it can go from here and potentially where they can actually work together on areas of mutual interest.

Whether that happens, well, that obviously is an open question -- Phil Mattingly, CNN, Falmouth, England.

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VANIER: After President Biden attends the NATO summit in Brussels he will meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader says relations are the worst they have been in years. So a summit is probably necessary to clear the air. He spoke highly of president former president Trump.

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VLADIMIR PUTIN, PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA (through translator): Even now, I believe that former U.S. president, Mr. Trump, is an extraordinary individual, talented individual. Otherwise he would not have become U.S. president.

He's a colorful individual. You may like him or not. And he did not come from the U.S. establishment. He had not been part of big-time politics before. Some like it, some don't like it, but that is a fact. President Biden, of course, is radically different from Trump because President Biden is a career man. He's spent virtually his entire adulthood in politics. Just think of the number of years he spent in the Senate. A different kind of person.

It is my great hope that, yes, there is some advantages, some disadvantages. But there will not be any impulse-based movements on behalf of the sitting U.S. President.

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VANIER: It's not clear if they will hold a meeting after the meeting. Here is Matthew Chance.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The Russians are going there, they say, to explain the situation, not to negotiate it, not to discuss it.

I put it to Dmitry Peskov, who's Vladimir Putin's spokesman, that the fact that there wasn't going to be a joint news conference at the end of the summit, which would be usual and which is something the Russians say that they wanted initially, when they set out on this journey toward developing this summit.

It was a major setback for Russia because one of the reasons the Russians wanted this summit was to show Vladimir Putin on the international stage, sharing a platform with the U.S. President. But the Kremlin pushed back on that, saying that was not the reason that they were having this summit at all.

Take a listen to what Dmitry Peskov had to say.

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DMITRY PESKOV, PUTIN SPOKESPERSON: The main reason for him is a poor state relationship between our two countries and a critical level of this relationship that demands -- that demands a summit between our two countries because this is the only way to -- this is the only way to arrange an evaluation of the situation in our relationship to prevent further, further degradation.

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CHANCE: Meanwhile, Dmitry Peskov saying that, basically, the relationship is bad and the summit is the only way really to start the process of addressing that. There is a list as long as your arm when it comes to full issues between the United States and Russia.

Whether it's the military (ph) (INAUDIBLE) in Ukraine, cyberattacks against the United States; whether it's the crackdown on democracy here and the crackdown on dissidents here.

But on none of those issues, the sense I got from Dmitry Peskov there, is Vladimir Putin going to the summit, prepared to back down. In his words, don't expect any breakthroughs in this summit.

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VANIER: That was Matthew Chance reporting. Thank you.

CNN international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is joining us from the summit site.

I want to delve into what you were explaining earlier. For Joe Biden of the U.S. this is an opportunity to frame or shape the global stage with team democracy, team West on the one hand and unify those allies against autocracy, whether it's China, whether it's Russia.

One of the challenges for these rich democracies is to show that democracy works and that democracy delivers in concrete measurable ways.

How do they do that this weekend?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Well, one of the ways that Justin Trudeau framed it was that, you know, when governments sort of go into, you know, tightening their spending, then that allows the space for populists to grow in the space, the sort of pathway to autocracies.

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ROBERTSON: One way the G7 is making sure their values is not eroded in that way is by continuing to spend heavily to sort of get their way out of this global pandemic and not making the mistakes, as one of the leaders put it, of what happened, I think Boris Johnson said after coming out of the financial shock to the world in 2008 by spending more.

Governments, in essence, keep their people happier. The people don't look to populist leaders and that sort of cuts down a pathway to autocracy. That is way oversimplification.

What President Biden is going to frame this is try to sort of level up and bring up the poorer nations of the world to, you know, to have a better standard of living and that should show those nations that democracies work well for them, they are not ignored, that they don't become less citizens of the globe and, therefore, you know, those countries, developing nations, they develop along the path of autocracies rather than democracies.

So it's sort of selling a positive message of what democracies can do. The leaders here understand this already. But it is not necessarily an easy order thing to do to put it into practice. So that is the challenge.

They are up against Russia and China who have sort of engaged what is seen as vaccine diplomacy and offering their vaccines to different countries around the world. On the back of that and in the case of China or in some cases with the road initiative is sort of bringing countries into a state of debt, into a state of acquiring China's involved political involvement into a path toward autocracies.

So it's a big, heavy sell for autocracies to convince their populations that it's worthwhile their government's spending to help poorer nations, something Boris Johnson knows all about because he has cut the foreign development aid for the U.K.

VANIER: You've covered so many of these summits. There are the headlines that come out of summit -- and you're good at reading between the lines there.

What is the other stuff that you look at when you are covering these?

And you have to kind of read the signals, you know, the smoke coming out of Carbis Bay.

ROBERTSON: Yes, I think this is harder since the pandemic. I covered the G20 in Saudi Arabia late last year, which was a virtual summit. What you find in the COVID-controlled environment -- and particularly in the virtual summit environment, there are lesser opportunities for journalists to ask questions of their leaders directly.

That is just not happening. It does fall into a pattern here and I think we are seeing at the G7, that you're getting a lot of sort of presummit messaging and messages that give you the ideas in bones that the White House or Downing Street want you to have as the takeaways from the final communication.

I think a few days after a summit like this, you dig into it deeper and you can see the holes and where things have been glossed over.

When I look at it, I'm trying to sort of look beyond this, sort of, and try to sort of engage in analysis of what is really going to come at the end that is really different. And just one point on that. There has been this talk of a billion doses of vaccine to help vaccinate everyone on the planet. The critics already saying that is way, way short of what is required.

VANIER: Nic, I want to thank you for your candid answer. We are facing a huge amount of spin from richest countries in the world but we have little opportunity to cut through that. We will be doing that on CNN and we have interviews coming up. Clarissa Ward will be interviewing Boris Johnson. Nic Robertson, thank you very much.

Mr. Biden is receiving a warm welcome from his fellow group of G7 leaders in part because his policy is vastly different than his predecessor, Trump.

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VANIER: Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton spoke with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

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JOHN BOLTON, FORMER TRUMP NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: I think Trump looked at Germany, France, others and saw U.S. trade deficits. He saw that is -- that's how he saw international relations and he didn't frankly see what much Donald Trump got out of G7 meetings.

And that is the fundamental measure for him of nearly everything. So I think Biden has done and will continue to do here what is necessary to show to the world that Donald Trump is an anomaly.

But let's not let the champagne flow too freely here. This is process and pats on the back and good feeling; it's not substance yet.

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VANIER: There is a lot more to cover from this G7 and lots more angles to get into. It's just after 10:00 am local time here. For now, I'll hand it back to Kim Brunhuber in Atlanta and we will back with you later this hour.

BRUNHUBER: Thanks so much for that. Great analysis there.

Still ahead, growing calls for hearings into Donald Trump's Justice Department after stunning allegations of abuse of power by the former president and his administration. We will have the latest from Washington next. Stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: Here in the U.S., we are learning more about former attorney general William Barr's role in the Trump administration. Now lawmakers want to hear directly from Barr and his predecessor, Jeff Sessions. CNN's Jessica Schneider has details.

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JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tonight, Democrats are demanding former attorneys general Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr testify under oath after revelations of secret FBI subpoenas served on apple to obtain metadata for more 100 accounts, according to a source.

The Justice Department's inspector general is initiating its own review of what amount to a roundup of non-content records from at least two of former President Trump's most outspoken adversaries, now chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, and committee member Eric Swalwell.

REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA), CHAIR, HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: I can't go into who received these subpoenas or whose records were sought.

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SCHIFF: I can't say that it was extraordinarily broad, people having nothing to do with the intelligence matters that are at least being reported on. It just shows what a broad fishing expedition it was.

SCHNEIDER: CNN has learned members of the committee plus staff were part of the dragnet but also family members, even one minor. People who had no connection to the Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation, like Schiff's personal office staff, were also caught up in the collection.

"The New York Times" reported the investigation was part of a leak hunt for whomever divulged information about contacts between Trump associates and Russia at the height of the Russia probe.

A source tells CNN officials thought the leak investigation would likely end without charges. But when attorney general Bill Barr took over at the Justice Department, Barr pushed to complete leak probes, even bringing in a prosecutor from New Jersey.

REP. ERIC SWALWELL (D-CA), MEMBER, INTELLIGENCE AND JUDICIARY COMMITTEES: I hope Trump supporters who fear Big Brother see that Donald Trump was the biggest brother we've ever seen in our country, who did weaponize this to go all the way down the stack into the private communications of people he perceived as political opponents.

SCHNEIDER: President Trump repeatedly made it clear he wanted the DOJ to investigate leaks and Congressman Schiff.

TRUMP: I've actually called the Justice Department to look into the leaks. Those are criminal leaks.

I think it was leaks from the Intelligence Committee, House version, and I think that they leaked it. I think probably Schiff leaked it.

SCHNEIDER (voice-over): Attorney General Barr notably evaded questions about Trump's push from then Senator Kamala Harris during a hearing in May 2019.

KAMALA HARRIS, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Attorney General Barr, has the president or anyone at the White House ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone?

WILLIAM BARR, FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL: I wouldn't -- I wouldn't --

HARRIS: Yes or no?

BARR: Could you repeat that question?

HARRIS: I will repeat it.

Has the president or anyone at the White House ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone, yes or no, please, sir?

BARR: The president or anybody else?

HARRIS: Seems you would remember something like that and be able to tell us.

BARR: Yes. But I'm trying to grapple with the word, suggest. SCHNEIDER: Still, today Barr told "Politico" that, while he was attorney general beginning in 2019, he was, quote, "not aware of any congressman's records being sought in a leak case," and added that he was never encouraged to target Democratic lawmakers, saying, "Trump was not aware of who we were looking at in any of the cases."

SCHNEIDER: Barr did not become attorney general until 2019. That is after those secret subpoenas for data from Congressmen Schiff and Swalwell were issued. These subpoenas were issued when Jeff Sessions was attorney general.

But we were told by a source that Sessions was not involved in any subpoenas related to the House committee since he had broadly recused himself from any matters involving Russia -- Jessica Schneider, CNN, Washington.

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BRUNHUBER: The White House is calling out the Trump administration's abuse of power. On Friday, communications director Kate Bedingfield said President Joe Biden had a very different relationship with the DOJ than his predecessor and he respects the department's independence. The White House press secretary told Jake Tapper is appalled by the news.

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JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Let me be absolutely clear -- the behavior, these actions, the President finds them absolutely appalling.

He ran for president in part because of the abuse of power by the last president and by the last attorney general.

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BRUNHUBER: He added that such, quote, "atrocious behavior" won't be a model for how the Biden administration will govern.

U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland plans to aggressively fight Republican-led efforts to restrict voting rights. On Friday, he outlined a number of steps the Justice Department will take, including doubling the enforcement staff in the department's civil rights division.

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BRUNHUBER: The move comes as Republicans enact new restrictions on voting after the party's presidential election loss. Garland insists the right to vote is nonnegotiable.

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MERRICK GARLAND, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: We will use all existing provisions in the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act and the Uniform and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to ensure that we protect every qualified American seeking to participate in our democracy.

There are many things that are open to debate in America. But the right of all eligible citizens to vote is not one of them.

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BRUNHUBER: Garland also said the Justice Department will examine restrictive voting laws and take action against any violations.

A major vaccine pledge from G7 leaders, they are committing to donate 1 billion COVID vaccines.

But is it too little too late?

We go back to Cornwall to discuss next. Stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Kim Brunhuber, live in Atlanta with U.S. and global headlines.

VANIER: I'm in Cyril Vanier live in Falmouth, England. Day two of the G7 summit gets underway.

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VANIER: Topping the list, foreign policy, the global economy and the ongoing COVID crisis.

Biden administration officials say a main focus will be on how to strategically compete with China. And after nearly two years without meeting face-to-face because of the pandemic, the group is already showing signs of progress in the fight against the virus.

The leaders are expected to sign an agreement that is being called the Carbis Bay Declaration, a couple of bays down from here to the West, where the leaders of these democracies are working today. They will be vowing to take steps to prevent future pandemics.

The leaders have also pledged to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to low-income countries. But some activists are demanding more action be taken. A group of protesters dressed up in big head costumes on the Cornish beach. The cartoonish G7 leaders were shown tossing over a giant COVID vaccine dose.

Other activists launched giant blimps depicting Biden and Johnson as part of an effort to demand more vaccines to poorer countries.

Joining me now is Joanna Rea.

You are the director of advocacy for UNICEF U.K. I'm going to pull up part of your statement and I think this is going to save us some time here.

You say you welcome the donations. Let me call it a pledge. The volume and speed, I'm quoting here, "The volume and speed of vaccine donations needs to accelerate to ensure that they get to the countries that need them most."

So it's not enough?

JOANNA REA, DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY, UNICEF U.K.: In essence, yes, it's not enough. We need more and we need it faster. We know the route out of this pandemic is vaccines. We know it's the only way to put an end to the pandemic for good.

So we won't have new variants or future lockdowns so we need G7 leaders to commit to share vaccines with the world.

VANIER: They pledged 1 billion doses. It is not nothing.

REA: It is a significant amount but what we would like to see is delivering a billion by the end of this year.

VANIER: So 1 billion, you're OK with that?

You feel that is sufficient generosity?

That is what we are really talking about.

Where do you put this marker?

What is generous enough from the world's richest countries?

REA: Ultimately, we are all in this together and the way to get out of this is sharing vaccines. UNICEF show the richest countries in the world have a huge amount of vaccines and are delivering successful domestic vaccine programs and are now at a point where they can start sharing their vaccines with the world and continuing their own domestic rollout.

And it won't stop that or slow it down in any way.

VANIER: So this is where the politics get into it because even if they are successful, you can understand, can't you, that the populations here in the U.K., who have had a long, brutal, confined winter, as I'm sure you've experienced, they want to get vaccinated. People in their 20s and young 30s have not been vaccinated yet would want to be vaccinated.

But doesn't stop them from wanting to be generous.

Where do you set that marker?

REA: I think what our analysis is showing is, right now, particularly in the U.K., we have had a really successful vaccine rollout. If we continue that and continue to deliver it -- but if we don't start sharing vaccines now with the rest of the world, we will see examples like India and see new variants and a real risk that will damage the progress we have made.

There's also a risk that some of these variants might be resistant to the vaccines which would undo all of the work we have done. The public are supportive of the idea of sharing vaccines now. I think because they understand that, unless this virus is over everywhere, unless we tackle it everywhere, it's not going to be over.

And we are going to continue to see variants and we are going to continue to see examples like India or Uganda. Ultimately, we need to tackle this as quickly as we can and that through is sharing vaccines.

VANIER: How do they share the vaccines faster?

REA: There is a facility called COVAX that was established to help get vaccines to low and middle-income countries, to the people that need it the most in those countries. Many G7 countries have donated money and vaccines to COVAX, which is also welcome. But right now COVAX is short about 200 million vaccines. So there are the numbers we are talking about.

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REA: And that is the type of number we want to see the G7 meeting right now.

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VANIER: When you say short of 200 million, compared to their target?

REA: Compared what they were planning to roll out and compared to the conversations they are having with middle and low-income countries about what they can absorb or deliver.

It's not just about vaccines but people being able to administer vaccines and health workers who can go to work and administer the vaccines. So it has to be a comprehensive approach.

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VANIER: The rich countries just down the coastline from where we are, they can get together, as they have been, and pledge 1 billion but you say the infrastructure needs to be in place behind us that so those get delivered.

REA: A lot is through COVAX that is set up to get these vaccines off the paper into airplanes and onto the tarmac and into people's arms. And that facility is set up to do that but at the moment it doesn't have the vaccines to deliver as much as it wants to.

VANIER: We have seen so many times when an there's international crisis and rich countries or not so rich countries get together and pledge money or, in this case, vaccines as well. Two years down the road, you read something that breaks your heart, that half the money that was pledged was never given or made it to the people that needed it.

Do you see that happening here, is that a danger?

REA: It is always a danger that the words on paper don't turn into action and we need that to turn into action. Ultimately, like we will pay the highest price if we don't deliver on the commitments we make, not in just the places around the world but at home.

We will have other variants and it means we will be in lockdowns so much longer and more people will die ultimately. We know how to -- we have manufactured a vaccine at an incredible time. What a major achievement.

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REA: We need to get it around the world now. The G7, they know how to do that and it's in everybody's interest to do it. We are all in this together. Either we go through it together and we get out of it faster or we have another year like we have had before. And the route out of this, the clear pathway out of this pandemic is sharing vaccines.

VANIER: Yes, get it done. No one is safe until we are all safe. You're right. I think there's a level of understanding with that. Just in this country, we are seeing now the Indian variant and case numbers are going up, even though there was a successful vaccine rollout.

So we are understanding first-hand the importance of stemming the pandemic worldwide. Joanna Rea, thank you so much. We need to do the catch-up six months from now and see whether this has actually happened and whether it's materialized. Thank you so much.

REA: Thank you.

VANIER: The climate and the environments are other key issues around the G7 table this weekend. Near the summit site, two artists are using an unusual method to send their message. Anna Stewart explains the meaning of Mt. Recyclemore.

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ANNA STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From old telephones and tablets, to computer keyboards and circuit boards, this is Mt. Recyclemore, a take on the Mt. Rushmore National Memorial in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

Instead of former U.S. presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, this sculpture depicts the G7 leaders attending this year's summit.

Erected near the site of the summit in Cornwall, England, for leaders to see. Artists Joe Rush and Alex Wreckage created the artwork from discarded electronics to send a clear message to world leaders about the environmental problems of electronic waste.

JOE RUSH, ARTIST: Thankfully, it is too late to say you've got to work together on this one. You've got to build it into the way we do things so we can recycle things that we can repair things and we don't just waste things. STEWART (voice-over): More than 53 millions tons of electronic waste

were produced globally in 2019. And that number is expected to more than double by the year 2050 according to the U.N., making it the fastest growing type of waste polluting our planet.

When it's not recycled, ewaste can lead to toxic chemicals seeping into the Earth's soil and water. These organizers say it's about time something is done about the problem on the global scale.

RUSH: What I'd like them to do, the leaders, the G7 conference, is I'd like them all to talk to each other and work out a plan that isn't just shifting the problem from one country to another, you know, but actually use a plan that we all work on together, which is how to deal with this waste.

STEWART (voice-over): It may be cool to look at it's not just art or a tourist attraction; it is a pile of junk that is a threat to the environment.

ALEX WRECKAGE, ARTIST: This is just the perfect opportunity. And it's the perfect place as well to just shove it in their face.

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WRECKAGE: You know, the world leaders, you know, you need to get your act together, you know. We all do.

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STEWART (voice-over): Anna Stewart, CNN.

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VANIER: Mt. Recyclemore. Thank you for that, Anna Stewart.

Back to my friend, Kim Brunhuber, for more news.

BRUNHUBER: Thanks so much, Cyril.

How some anonymous sleuths are helping FBI track down Capitol rioters from their homes. That is next. Stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: A Chicago police officer has been arrested in connection with the U.S. Capitol insurrection back in January. The charges include violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Right now, the FBI is trying to track down more than 256 January 6th rioters and the investigators are getting unusual help who have joined the search. Sara Murray reports they scour the internet for clues who may have been involved in the deadly assault. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I got one.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From the mob, a seemingly unidentifiable hand reaches out with a Taser, in an attack that would leave Officer Michael Fanone for known begging for his life.

OFFICER MICHAEL FANONE, METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT: I just remember yelling out that I have kids.

MURRAY (voice-over): Forrest Rogers and the internet sleuth known as Deep State Dogs got to work.

FORREST ROGERS, SPOKESMAN, DEEP STATE DOGS: Well it was one of the more violent scenes at the Capitol.

MURRAY (voice-over): Within days, they compiled video tracing the Taser and the man holding it through the crowd on January 6th. Others on social media pitched in to determine the man's identity.

ROGERS: You can see him reaching out, the suspect reaching out, putting the Taser on Officer Fanone's neck.

MURRAY (voice-over): They delivered it to the FBI and a "Huffington Post" reporter, who further confirmed the alleged attacker, Daniel Rodriguez. Rodriguez now faces eight charges, including assaulting Officer Fanone and has pleaded not guilty.

It's not clear from the court documents whether their work helped the FBI's case against Rodriguez. The Deep State Dogs are one group in a sprawling social media community so-called Sedition Hunters.

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MURRAY (voice-over): Rooting out insurrectionists in the wake of January 6th.

John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto Citizen Lab, says it's a diverse, diffuse group united by a common goal.

JOHN SCOTT-RAILTON, SENIOR RESEARCHER, CITIZEN LAB: What they are working for is accountability. And they're going about that in different ways. Whether it means publishing information, in collaboration with journalists or whether it means making tips to law enforcement.

MURRAY (voice-over): But their efforts are also a rebuttal to Republicans looking to whitewash the horrifying events of January 6th.

SCOTT-RAILTON: Every time I hear a lawmaker try to downplay what happened, I think of the fear on their faces and the pictures and footage we have of them fleeing from what was going on. And I know that they remember it too. This was a trauma for them. MURRAY (voice-over): Sedition Hunters often crowdsource information. They assign hashtags to rioters to stay organized as new images emerge. Other times they build files on suspects in closed groups before sharing their findings.

Their handiwork is sprinkled throughout core documents. Certain internet sites assign this individual the #boyinthehood. The second tipster was a member of #SeditionHunters. Unknown Twitter users created the #Scallops to track photographs. The zeal from an amateur sleuth led to some misfires early on.

SCOTT-RAILTON: There was a tremendous amount of desire and eagerness on the part of people who'd never done this kind of digging before to get involved and to help out. And that resulted in some over- enthusiastic people making some misidentifications.

MURRAY (voice-over): Now a set of best practices has emerged. Among the most important rules, don't go tossing out names on social media. The FBI has arrested nearly 500 suspects related to the Capitol riots. They're still looking for the public's help in identifying more than 250 others.

ROGERS: The 400, that's a small number. This will continue. What we've seen now, in my opinion, is only a drop in the bucket.

MURRAY: The FBI wants to see the tips continue to come in. A spokesperson said tips matter and the public has been of tremendous assistance in this investigation -- Sara Murray, CNN, Washington.

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BRUNHUBER: Many may not know Queen Elizabeth has a sense of humor. We will bring you that ahead. Stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: This just in to CNN. At least 13 people are in a hospital after a shooting in the entertainment district of Austin, Texas, this morning. No fatalities are recorded. But two victims are in critical condition. Police say it appears to be an isolated incident.

The motive is not known but authorities have a general description of the shooter. We will keep you updated as we get more information.

Tokyo's Olympic committee says they will offer vaccines to 18,000 people but not everyone will be getting one and many volunteers say they haven't been given enough support from Olympic officials. Selina Wang joins me from Tokyo.

You spent time talking to volunteers, listening to their concerns. Do you think this latest move will make a difference and stem the tide

of volunteers quitting?

SELINA WANG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: For the ones that are eligible, this would definitely give them some peace of mind. Many of the volunteers I've spoken to said they have given little more than cloth masks and hand sanitizer and social distancing pamphlets for their protection.

But it's not clear how many volunteers are eligible for this. At best it seems like a small proportion, given there are 70,000 Olympic volunteers, even though 10,000 have already quit. Take a listen to what the president of Tokyo 2020 had to say about this plan to vaccinate 18,000 Olympic volunteers.

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SEIKO HASHIMOTO, TOKYO 2020 PRESIDENT (through translator): We expect those with frequent contact with athletes to be Olympic Village staff, national Olympic and national Paralympic committee staff, assistants, operation staff, airport staff, antidoping staff and others.

Volunteers and contractors will be eligible. They will get their first dose by the end of June and, after 3 weeks, get their second dose before the games.

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WANG: There are other reasons why volunteers quit. I spoke to one student, who said he is not quitting to protect his own health but he's quitting to make a statement he is against these games going ahead this summer.

He feels disillusioned after he saw cost overruns, public opposition and sexist comments from the former head of the Tokyo 2020. Organizers are still trying to make the public comfortable with precautions. Athletes are already being vaccinated. Officials have said they expect more than 80 percent of the Olympic Village to be vaccinated.

Participants are going to be contact traced by GPS and social distanced and regularly tested.

Given these restrictions, still you have Tokyo 2020's expert coronavirus adviser saying it is impossible to shut out COVID-19. We are talking about as many mitigation steps as possible. Foreign spectators have been banned and we still don't know how many local fans will be in the stands, if any.

BRUNHUBER: Thank you so much for that, Selina Wang in Tokyo for us. Appreciate it.

Queen Elizabeth's official birthday celebration is today. Her real birthday is actually in April. The 95-year-old is spending it entertaining some high profile guests. She will meet tomorrow with U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden but she was already in a festive mood on Friday.

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ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND: (INAUDIBLE).

BORIS JOHNSON, U.K. PRIME MINISTER: (INAUDIBLE) We have been enjoying ourselves in spite of the crisis. (INAUDIBLE) just over there.

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BRUNHUBER: Later, the royal family greeted the leaders at a reception and dinner. The queen was presented with a cake and a sword and, again, she showed off some sharp comic timing.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH: Is this going to work?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Two hands.

QUEEN ELIZABETH: What?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There is a knife. You can --

QUEEN ELIZABETH: I know there is.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH: This is something that is more unusual.

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BRUNHUBER: No one got knighted but they all got the point, excuse all of the puns there. Let's bring in Cyril Vanier to rescue me here.

The first thing that comes to my mind, when I see that is, how clean is a sword?

I'm not sure I would want to eat that cake.

VANIER: You don't need any rescuing, my friend. Great job. Look, I think a lot of world leaders, if they were able to say so in public, would probably tell you they have found themselves on the cutting edge of one of the queen's quips.

All these things remain private so we will never know. That is just my impression. You know, Kim, there was a lot of royal muscle at the G7 yesterday.

It is a serious note here. I'm not how much of a precedent for the queen attending the G7. Yes, I'm sure we have seen that but in addition, Prince Charles, heir to the throne, and her grandson, second in line to the throne, a lot of royal muscle.

I wonder how much of that may or may not have been to Downing Street's requests. I know historically Downing Street hasn't been above asking the queen to come and lend a hand. So I'm not sure if that was the case. Interesting.

BRUNHUBER: Yes, fascinating stuff. And we will watch her Trooping the Colour for her official birthday today. Thank you, Cyril, for all of your excellent interviews there in Falmouth, England.

I'm Kim Brunhuber in Atlanta. For viewers in the U.S. and Canada, "NEW DAY" is ahead and, for everyone else, it's "CONNECTING AFRICA."