Judge Turns Trump Deportation Plane Around
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now, the Trump administration squaring off against a federal judge once again, |
| 0:07.0 | this time over the removal of Guatemalan children. |
| 0:10.0 | The judge's order forcing at least one flight carrying them to turn around. |
| 0:14.0 | And scathing rebuke, nine former CDC leaders slam HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saying his actions, quote, should alarm every American. Plus, fiery collision. Two small planes crash into each other over Colorado, killing one person and injuring three others. We have some new details that we're learning from the emergency responders. |
| 0:39.5 | And jaw dropping video. |
| 0:40.6 | Have you seen this? |
| 0:46.1 | A child walking along a monorail track high above a Pennsylvania theme park. When another park guest says this, saw this, he says his dad instincts kicked him. |
| 0:52.6 | And later, college football bonanza, the Seminoles stunned the tide and the Buckeyes beat |
| 0:57.6 | the longhorns. |
| 0:58.7 | Plus, Bill Belichick is making his college coaching debut at my alma mater, North Carolina. |
| 1:04.3 | Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. |
| 1:06.9 | I'm Pamela Brown. |
| 1:07.8 | We'll flitzer as ops today and you're in the situation room. |
| 1:23.8 | And new this morning, hundreds of children are in legal limbo after a judge blocked the Trump administration from returning them to Guatemala in the middle of the night. All of the children arrived in the U.S. by themselves, and it's not believed that they have a parent in this country. |
| 1:33.3 | Some were already on planes to head back to Guatemala when the judge ordered them to turn around. |
| 1:38.3 | One lawyer tells CNN many of the children were awakened in the middle of the night, terrified and confused. |
| 1:44.7 | The judge says she got the emergency call around 2.30 a.m. on Sunday, quote, |
| 1:50.2 | I have the government attempting to remove unaccompanied minors from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend, which is surprising, but here we are. |
| 2:00.3 | CNN's Priscilla Alvarez joins us. |
| 2:01.9 | So Priscilla, where are the children now and what happens next? |
| 2:05.4 | Well, Pamela, we have learned from the Justice Department that they have returned 74 children |
| 2:11.3 | to U.S. government custody. |
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