BRIGGS: President Trump offering his congratulations to Turkey's President Erdogan for winning a referendum that grants him sweeping new powers. The despite objections from Turkey's opposition and voting irregularities witnessed by election monitors. For the latest, let's bring CNN's Ian Lee live in Istanbul. Ian, good morning to you. What are the irregularities international election observers are seeing there?</s>IAN LEE, CNN REPORTER: Good morning, Dave. These observers from the OSCE, the European monitors say it just wasn't a balanced fair playing field for the yes and no campaign, with yes getting far more support from the government and from the state media. These monitors also talks about 2.5 million ballots that they say has some questionable voting irregularities surrounding them. In a statement, they said, "If there were so many irregular envelopes and irregular votes that are actually not valid concerning to the law, then the referendum may be, may have had a different outcome than we know." So really casting doubt on this whole referendum process that these irregular votes could have swayed the election. Now, we heard from President Trump, he called President Erdogan to congratulate him. But there in Washington, mixed signals as well from the State Department said that they were concerned about these irregularities that were coming from the European monitors, they urged the Turkish president to safeguard the freedoms and liberties of all Turks -- Dave.</s>BRIGGS: It's a difficult situation for the United States. Ian Lee, live in Istanbul for us -- thank you.</s>KOSIK: A tough loss to the Spurs has the coach of the Memphis Grizzlies got a little heated.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My guys dug in that game and earned the right to be in that game. And they did not even give us a chance. Take that for data.</s>KOSIK: Whoa! What's that --</s>COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Coming up, guys, you can see that boiler. We're going to show you more, coming up.
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